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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody Happy Tuesday? Heard a little
Speaker 1: some sums going on today, But we're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little football because it's actually Monday night when I'm recording this,
Speaker 1: and I just watched the Kansae Chiefs win again. Thought
Speaker 1: they had won it in regulation. Baker Mayfield drives them
Speaker 1: for the game tying touchdown. Todd Bowles, We'll dive into
Speaker 1: it all for some reason, doesn't go for two. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs scoring overtime and remain undefeated as the only undefeated
Speaker 1: team currently in the NFL and have a nice little
Speaker 1: cushion in the AFC for the number one seed, and yeah,
Speaker 1: who would have saw that coming? The Chiefs. Just it's
Speaker 1: got to be an incredible time to be a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1: Other than that, what a game by Baker Mayfield, Liam
Speaker 1: Cohen missing players that they were awesome. I mean the
Speaker 1: quarterback play tonight was and the coaching in that environment,
Speaker 1: in that weather, what was really fantastic, very very enjoyable
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Speaker 1: lowest prices get. I can't even imagine being a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any better than this. This is the pinnacle,
Speaker 1: the peak of being a sports fan. This is what
Speaker 1: it had to feel like living in Chicago in the
Speaker 1: early and late nineties watching Jordan. If you lived in
Speaker 1: New York in the late nineties early two thousands with
Speaker 1: the Yankees, I saw it when I lived in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, when Kevin Durant showed up, and even the
Speaker 1: couple of years before, you just never thought the Warriors
Speaker 1: were gonna lose ever, And that's what it feels like
Speaker 1: watching the Chiefs. You're like, Yeah, their offense just isn't
Speaker 1: that good. They're relying on Kareem Hunt, who they had
Speaker 1: to sign off the street because they're starting running back
Speaker 1: broke his leg. You're like, God, he doesn't look that good.
Speaker 1: And as the game starts going, You're like, God, he
Speaker 1: actually kind of looks good. You're like, oh, Travis Kelsey's
Speaker 1: kind of old doesn't quite move the same, only runs
Speaker 1: these five and six yard routes, and then as the
Speaker 1: game goes on, he just consistently catches those routes. DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins classic that drive. Honestly, I thought the game was
Speaker 1: over with you know, about a little under thirteen minutes.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs get the ball. It is seventeen to seventeen.
Speaker 1: They have a fifteen play eight and a half minute drive,
Speaker 1: then went seventy five plus to score the touchdown. When
Speaker 1: you know, Mahomes lobs it to p Ryan and I
Speaker 1: guess that was earlier in the game. That's when he
Speaker 1: hit Hopkins and he had already gotten hurt. But then
Speaker 1: he was fine and came back a little scared, but
Speaker 1: obviously everything was alright. He played the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: But he hits Hopkins for a second touchdown of the game,
Speaker 1: and you're like, what an incredible championship drive. Like they
Speaker 1: got it all, even though they don't because their stud
Speaker 1: running back has a broken leg and is out still
Speaker 1: another month. Their best wide receiver is on injured reserve,
Speaker 1: and they're relying on as you saw earlier in the game, Worthy,
Speaker 1: who is a very talented player, a little raw I
Speaker 1: mean Mahomes hit him down the sideline, couldn't get both
Speaker 1: and bounds a little embarrassing. Kelsey, I think it is
Speaker 1: fair to say. I do think he will show up
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. He's not what he once was. And
Speaker 1: then Hopkins, who probably runs a five zho forty, was
Speaker 1: fantastic tonight. I mean that trade the night was like
Speaker 1: an organizational move. It's like, yeah, we made this move
Speaker 1: early for a reason. This guy's gonna help us out.
Speaker 1: And obviously they don't win the game without him and Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, DeAndre Hopkins, Kelsey, they drive him right down
Speaker 1: the field and score a touchdown. I thought the game
Speaker 1: was over. And then the Bucks get the ball back.
Speaker 1: They go three and out. Then the Chiefs get the
Speaker 1: ball back, they go three and out. They're like this
Speaker 1: is nuts. Then the Bucks get the ball back again
Speaker 1: with a little bit under two minutes and twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: You're like, there's no way. And then Baker Mayfield, who listen,
Speaker 1: there are not I don't know, is he's a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback like I obviously he I wouldn't say he's
Speaker 1: a top five guy. With Lamar Allen Stafford, Mahomes Herbert
Speaker 1: like those guys would all get drafted before he did.
Speaker 1: But I think when you start talking obviously Jared Goff
Speaker 1: this season, like there aren't many quarterbacks playing as well
Speaker 1: as this guy, and tonight a lot like Mahomes, he
Speaker 1: ain't really playing with a full deck. His best receiver
Speaker 1: has messed up hamstring, his second best wide receiver, who
Speaker 1: was having an elite contract year, shattered his ankle, and
Speaker 1: he's thrown to Sterling Shepherd and Kate Otten who is
Speaker 1: a good player, and his running backs. At one point
Speaker 1: in time, when the Bucks took the lead in this
Speaker 1: game fourteen to ten, they showed a graphic His wide
Speaker 1: receivers had two catches, his running backs had four, and
Speaker 1: his tight ends all being o had five. So like,
Speaker 1: what a night from Baker Mayfield and his offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: because they had no business given their injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: on paper, competing in this game. But this is what
Speaker 1: makes Monday Night football so fun is that you get
Speaker 1: these fun games because regardless of what your record is.
Speaker 1: And now the Bucks have lost four out of five games.
Speaker 1: This is a kitchen sink game for them. They know
Speaker 1: you're playing on primetime, you're playing on national television against
Speaker 1: the two time defending champs, Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, and
Speaker 1: you give it all you got, and their quarterback, I thought,
Speaker 1: for the most part, was flawless, and Mahomes was excellent too.
Speaker 1: Both those guys, like what a high level quarterback game
Speaker 1: in a driving rainstorm when clearly it was very difficult
Speaker 1: to keep your feet. Obviously, that's why Mahomes is an
Speaker 1: all time great, and why Baker Mayfield has reestablished himself
Speaker 1: or just established himself, because you would say he never
Speaker 1: really was as a top ten quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and honestly, this year is closer to five than he
Speaker 1: is ten. He has been fantastic. But I think if
Speaker 1: you wanted to nitpick the Bucks, they drive that Liam
Speaker 1: Cohens play calling the night because his wide receivers are
Speaker 1: so limited, getting rid of the ball fast, running a
Speaker 1: bunch of quick outs, getting the ball to the running
Speaker 1: backs in the flat, hoping they can make plays. And
Speaker 1: they did pretty consistently, even if it's just gaining five
Speaker 1: or six yards, not having Baker hold it too long,
Speaker 1: especially in a rainstorm, and they drive that the play
Speaker 1: call to get the game tying touchdown was just fantastic.
Speaker 1: Akman crushing Todd Bowles for calling the time out, you know,
Speaker 1: heat of the moment. If you don't have another play call,
Speaker 1: you're coming a long way. I think it's easy to
Speaker 1: be sitting there and saying it. I do think kind
Speaker 1: of a tough spot, but regardless, it worked out fine.
Speaker 1: I think if you do want to nitpick him, it's like, listen,
Speaker 1: you've already lost to Tampa or excuse me, Atlanta twice.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be. You're playing the Chiefs now and
Speaker 1: you got the forty nine ers in six days. You
Speaker 1: probably just want to put all your cards in the
Speaker 1: middle of the table. You just ran two plays that
Speaker 1: could have scored. I mean, if Aughton holds onto the ball,
Speaker 1: that's touchdown. The very next play, easy touchdown. Clearly your
Speaker 1: two point plays and essentially what you're running are pretty good.
Speaker 1: Like Liam Cohen, think about all the negativity, Let's just
Speaker 1: use a guy, Shane Waldron. Everyone thinks he's the village idiot. Rightfully.
Speaker 1: So the Raiders couldn't get rid of their offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: who ironically had come from Chicago, Lukeagetzi fast enough. They
Speaker 1: fired him. The quarterback coach, the offensive line coach, it's clear.
Speaker 1: You watch some offensive coordinators, regardless of quarterback, you're like,
Speaker 1: they have no fuel for play calling. Like, regardless of
Speaker 1: how talented the guys you have running your offense, you
Speaker 1: can feel if they have like a just an innate
Speaker 1: ability and a rhythm to their play calling. And if
Speaker 1: you've watched Liam Cohen all season long, he has been awesome.
Speaker 1: And if you want to argue, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: do with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, Like, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: got a full deck. How about you take those two
Speaker 1: guys away and you go to toe to toe with
Speaker 1: a big time defense, a championship defense, on the road
Speaker 1: in a rainstorm, and him and Baker answered the bell,
Speaker 1: So I think, like, what do you gotta lose? Why
Speaker 1: not just go for it there? Because basically, when you
Speaker 1: kick the field goal, which let's face it now with
Speaker 1: the uh how the extra point whatever, thirty five plus yards,
Speaker 1: it's not a gimme in the rain. And even Aikman,
Speaker 1: as he said, I would have gone for two. You
Speaker 1: start thinking like, is he gonna slip and miss this?
Speaker 1: And then you give them a chance. They had twenty
Speaker 1: seven seconds now. Ultimately they ended up punting, but you're
Speaker 1: basically just taking a fifty to fifty coin flip, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm against always going for two as some of
Speaker 1: these teams do. Like I'm cool with kicking field goals
Speaker 1: and just throwing up one point when we score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I think that's a spot that you gotta go for,
Speaker 1: especially with how well your quarterback's playing. Go for the
Speaker 1: jugular right there, and he didn't and ultimately a cost
Speaker 1: him because you give the ball back to you know,
Speaker 1: the mid nineties or the late nineties Yankees like they're
Speaker 1: gonna win because they always win. I was just looking
Speaker 1: at the uh, you know, the conference standings, and it's
Speaker 1: like you watch the Bills and you're like, God, this
Speaker 1: offense is awesome. How good is Josh playing? You watch
Speaker 1: the Ravens when they're on they're just scoring forty with ease.
Speaker 1: And then he watched the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, halfway through the fourth quarter, like,
Speaker 3: are they gonna be able to punch this in to
Speaker 3: get over you know, to get from seventeen to twenty four?
Speaker 1: Like it is a difficult proposition for them to move
Speaker 1: the ball. They are not an explosive offense, and yet
Speaker 1: they're undefeated, and they have a clear cushion over teams
Speaker 1: like the Ravens and the Bills, who are clearly Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contenders, and the Chiefs are just chugging along so
Speaker 1: very entertaining game. It's just you just can't beat this team.
Speaker 1: I mean, you really can't. They just find a way. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the big scare when Mahomes fell a little funny on
Speaker 1: his ankle or hit pointer or something going on. I
Speaker 1: had to be carried for like half the way and
Speaker 1: then he started walking. Obviously, you know, Carson Wentz starts
Speaker 1: warming up your kind of hard drops. You're like, no,
Speaker 1: please be okay. And obviously he shook it off and
Speaker 1: everything was all right. But I thought both those two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks just gutty performances that that is not easy. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a Chief defense that a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago made Kyle Shanahan a brock purty look like scrubs,
Speaker 1: thoroughly embarrass them. And for Liam Cohen, you know, we
Speaker 1: talk a lot about people interviewing and people love throwing
Speaker 1: around names, and obviously that you know, after two weeks
Speaker 1: it was it was Koubiak's kid in New Orleans. Well,
Speaker 1: that train fell off the tracks. Slow X offense has
Speaker 1: been having a lot of issues. I don't care what
Speaker 1: their record ends up being. If you just watch the
Speaker 1: Bucks play offense, like if you watch the Chiefs play offense,
Speaker 1: the Bucks play offense like, those are just two well
Speaker 1: run operations given what they have. Like I defend the Chiefs, like,
Speaker 1: why is their offense not more explosive? I don't know.
Speaker 1: They have a thirty six year old jet center at
Speaker 1: tight end. They have a young kid Worthy who clearly
Speaker 1: swim in a little bit. They have Kareem Hunt, who
Speaker 1: was on the street. I mean, what do you expect
Speaker 1: the ninety nine rams like that? That's not gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: So its same thing with the Bucks. So for both
Speaker 1: those two teams in a rainstorm, how many offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: in the league, given the personnel of those two teams,
Speaker 1: would have been able to get around twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty five points at the end of regulation in that environment.
Speaker 1: I don't know if many could. So very very impressive night.
Speaker 1: From a coaching standpoint, it's funny you watch there's so
Speaker 1: many shitty teams in the league right now, and you
Speaker 1: watch so many poorly coached operations, and then you like,
Speaker 1: if I'm a Bucks fan, I'm holding my head high,
Speaker 1: like this team this year, if it wasn't for some injuries,
Speaker 1: we are right there. We are a playoff team. I
Speaker 1: feel pretty confident about that, obviously, not now that they're
Speaker 1: gonna probably end up being seven or eight wins. And God,
Speaker 1: given their injuries, how many guys have missed games who
Speaker 1: are missing them now and miss games earlier. It's coaching now.
Speaker 1: If you want to like Todd, you gotta be a
Speaker 1: little more aggressive. And I think there's a balance of
Speaker 1: like Sirianni's reckless nature and just like now's the time,
Speaker 1: Like now's the time to pounce, now's the time to
Speaker 1: put your chips in the middle of the table, now's
Speaker 1: the time to take a big swing. And it's just
Speaker 1: clearly not really in his nature. And ultimately, I think
Speaker 1: it's a big reason that they didn't win. And now
Speaker 1: they've got the forty nine ers in six days, who
Speaker 1: are going to bring in Christian McCaffrey and you're really
Speaker 1: leaking oil and it kind of could fall apart here.
Speaker 1: But I was really impressed with just the Bucks effort
Speaker 1: and moxie and just no quit because I think some
Speaker 1: teams might have folded, especially after Mahomes drove them, because
Speaker 1: Andy and Mahomes and that defense who actually you know,
Speaker 1: gave it up at the end. They just they're tough. Man.
Speaker 1: You can't. It's really pretty crazy. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine being a Chiefs fan like my age. Most of
Speaker 1: your life, even the good teams never did shit in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then you guys just had some horrendous teams.
Speaker 1: And now for basically the last five or six years,
Speaker 1: it feels like you're unbeatable. Obviously, you haven't won it.
Speaker 1: Every year, you've lost in a Super Bowl, you've lost
Speaker 1: an AFC Championship game, but like the Patriots for twenty years,
Speaker 1: it honestly feels like you guys never lose. And this
Speaker 1: feeling it doesn't get any better as a sports fan,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get any more enjoyable. You have, over the
Speaker 1: course of the last six years, won it in every
Speaker 1: conceivable way, tight games, blowouts, come from behind, guys injured
Speaker 1: coming back from injury in a game. It's just it's
Speaker 1: been remarkable to watch. There are so many parallels with
Speaker 1: those kind of Patriot dynasty and just the mental toughness,
Speaker 1: finding ways to win in games where you just don't
Speaker 1: have it. Guys get injured and next guy comes up.
Speaker 1: You're like, who you playing with? And the Hopkins trade,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's you to talk about speaking about being aggressive,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowl's not aggressive. Well, the Chiefs for aggressive a
Speaker 1: couple of years weeks ago and traded for this guy.
Speaker 1: And a couple of weeks later, he's catching nine or
Speaker 1: ten balls, a couple of touchdowns and just making huge
Speaker 1: play after huge play. And he's probably as fast as
Speaker 1: me or you, and it does not matter because his
Speaker 1: contested catches are elite. He's still a pretty good route runner,
Speaker 1: and he's excellent in the short and intermediate game. And
Speaker 1: now Mahomes is gonna have more and more trust with him.
Speaker 1: Just throw the ball his way and most of the
Speaker 1: time if he's looking at you, it's not a fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty ball, it's like an eighty twenty ball him.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if the Chiefs are inclined to do
Speaker 1: anything more tomorrow. You know, there were some rumors on
Speaker 1: the interweb about Latimore the corner from from the Saints, like, listen,
Speaker 1: you can never have enough DB's and defenders I mean,
Speaker 1: if they were to do something like that, I would
Speaker 1: imagine they'll still sniff around some offensive weapons, but maybe
Speaker 1: they feel like you get Pachaco back, you let hopkins
Speaker 1: Worthy keeps growing that if our defense is good enough,
Speaker 1: we'll just smother you, as we did last season and
Speaker 1: was a big reason that we were the super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: So Chiefs got eight to zero and the Bucks, you know,
Speaker 1: lose their fourth game in the last five and now
Speaker 1: face the forty nine ers who are coming off a buye.
Speaker 1: So this this season could kind of get away from
Speaker 1: them fast, even though it's not an embarrassment what happened
Speaker 1: to them, right, we'll get into an embarrassment that happened
Speaker 1: to a team in their division. But fun game. That
Speaker 1: game got more entertaining as it went on. Let's do
Speaker 1: a quick penthouse and outhouse because the outhouse is the
Speaker 1: most fun part. I mean the penthouse. Chiefs are on scholarship,
Speaker 1: they ain't moving, they were not going to leave tonight
Speaker 1: even if they had lost that game. They're just this
Speaker 1: team doesn't even fe good as the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: and it's not inconceivable that they go what fifteen and
Speaker 1: two is sixteen and one on the table. I'd be
Speaker 1: stunned if they went undefeated, but someone's gotta beat them.
Speaker 1: They just find ways. I would if I was a
Speaker 1: betting man right now, I'd say fifteen to two, which
Speaker 1: is a problem because the Bills are gonna lose another
Speaker 1: game and they already have two losses in the Ravens
Speaker 1: because they blew that game against the Ravens and lost
Speaker 1: to Jamis Winston already got three losses. So you got
Speaker 1: got a pretty comfortable lead because these other teams fucked
Speaker 1: up early in the season. That like, listen, you watch
Speaker 1: the Ravens when their offense is on, it's incredible. You
Speaker 1: watch how well Josh Allen has played this year, and
Speaker 1: honestly their defense, and I feel like this is a
Speaker 1: pretty good muscle flexier for Sean McDermott. He takes a
Speaker 1: lot of shit. He's made some mistakes in some big moments.
Speaker 1: No one can dispute that. But we try to promote
Speaker 1: a and hold up high. So many coaches in the NFL,
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott runs circles around what eighty five percent of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just gonna be another thirteen win season
Speaker 1: for the guy. And second or third seed and have
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance. He's gonna be favored in playoff games.
Speaker 1: And it's just like can he beat the Chiefs. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: certain people just couldn't beat Michael Jordan. I trust me.
Speaker 1: I lost a lot of people lose to Tiger Woods
Speaker 1: pretty sure. Not many people beat Tom Brady and if
Speaker 1: you did, you immediately became a legend. So they're beating
Speaker 1: everybody else, and it's really just gonna come down for
Speaker 1: the Ravens and the Bills, like can you take him
Speaker 1: out in this team in that organization, which it feels
Speaker 1: like they are more susceptible this year. But I fell
Speaker 1: for it last year and I got burned financially. That
Speaker 1: says a lot of people did. And this year, even
Speaker 1: if I'm like I don't trust him enough, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: not betting against him. Might just be a stayaway. But
Speaker 1: I think those three teams and we'll see what the
Speaker 1: Steelers coming off the by play the Commanders this week,
Speaker 1: that their record's gonna be really good and can they
Speaker 1: win the division? Is this Russ thing a little smoke
Speaker 1: and mirrors or is this sustainable? But you got TJ.
Speaker 1: Watt I mean, a big reason last year that they
Speaker 1: blimped into the playoffs because the guy got hurt and
Speaker 1: he missed a lot of games. If he plays seventeen
Speaker 1: games and he's healthy, he basically is their quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: by far their best player, and he's one of the
Speaker 1: most impactful players in the league. And you have a
Speaker 1: guy like that. If Russ can just play solid in
Speaker 1: these playoff games, if he can just wreck shop and
Speaker 1: ruin whoever he's playing like, they would have a chance.
Speaker 1: Not because of Russ, but because of TJ. Watt, which
Speaker 1: is the type guy you want. I mean Chris Jones
Speaker 1: that basically won the Chiefs the Super Bowl last year
Speaker 1: in the biggest moment, he was the guy that shoved
Speaker 1: Purty on the ground when Iyuk was wide open. And
Speaker 1: to me, in the NFC, there's only one team that
Speaker 1: deserves it right now. It's Alliance. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: other teams that have a shot, but like Minnesota is
Speaker 1: struggling to beat Joe Flacco. The Packers just got punked.
Speaker 1: The Rams are coming. They're foreign four. The Niners are
Speaker 1: foreign four. I mean the Cardinals. Actually, when you look
Speaker 1: at their losses. Someone sent me this stat like the
Speaker 1: teams they've lost to are combined like twenty seven and eight.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have lost to excellent teams this season,
Speaker 1: but I just I can't put them in that category. Atlanta, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, You're just I'm not taking you that seriously.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be a playoff team. I probably plan on
Speaker 1: betting against you in the first round. We'll have to
Speaker 1: wait for the matchup, but I think I can already
Speaker 1: see it from coming from a mile away, Like that's
Speaker 1: a good underdog spot for the Green Bay Packers, the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings if that's the Rams, or the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers like Hammer time. So yeah, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the AFC's best teams, feel like better than the NFC's
Speaker 1: best teams, which basically just feels like the Lions. And
Speaker 1: then there's a huge group of other teams and we'll
Speaker 1: see how it plays out over the next three or
Speaker 1: four weeks, but I think it's fair to say that
Speaker 1: the Lions have really kind of established themselves, you know,
Speaker 1: alone with those other AFC teams the outhouse listen, a
Speaker 1: lot of you guys like the Porta Potti Panthers, and
Speaker 1: they deserved it. I mean, they had looked like an
Speaker 1: expansion team. But when you are the Porta Potty Panthers
Speaker 1: and your quarterback, who most people view as just a
Speaker 1: major bust and not a very good player, leads essentially
Speaker 1: a game winning drive against the Saints and then less
Speaker 1: than what twelve fifteen hours after, they fired Dennis Allen.
Speaker 1: In the nicest way possible, they're like, we love the guy,
Speaker 1: we love the family. He'll always be a saint, but
Speaker 1: pack up your shit and get out here. You're an
Speaker 1: embarrassment and rightfully so. And now they you know, the
Speaker 1: thing going viral about the quarterbacks with the most losses,
Speaker 1: it's basically just David Carr and Derek Carr. You know,
Speaker 1: after year five, after your six, after your seven, no
Speaker 1: one has more losses after year eleven than Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: He has literally got Dennis Allen. He's been the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback for Dennis Allen being fired twice, first time in
Speaker 1: NFL history. Obviously a bunch of injuries. But you lose
Speaker 1: to the Porta Potty Panthers, you have to fall under
Speaker 1: that category two. And to me, that vault you in
Speaker 1: a category like I watched a little bit on one
Speaker 1: of the four boxes of the Titans, and Drake may like,
Speaker 1: I just they don't have a lot going for them,
Speaker 1: but I take them more seriously than a team that
Speaker 1: just loses at Carolina as a massive favorite, Like I
Speaker 1: can't even put them in the outhouse. You could argue,
Speaker 1: once you lose to the porta potty Panthers, you go
Speaker 1: into your own own category, like you're basically like the
Speaker 1: shit at the bottom of the porta potty that is
Speaker 1: the Saints. They've lost seven straight games. Listen, we can
Speaker 1: make fun of the Giants all we want. They're terrible
Speaker 1: and they are going nowhere fast. But listen, their scores
Speaker 1: might not totally reflect the game you watch, but you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: they're just they're fighting along. They're just not very good.
Speaker 1: No one thought that they were gonna beat the Commanders,
Speaker 1: I would say everyone, especially when Derek plays. You're like, listen,
Speaker 1: the Panthers are loosing this game. And then you look
Speaker 1: up and Derek's looking over at Alvin Kamara and the
Speaker 1: Panthers have the ball back and they're just kneeling it.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait, are the Panthers about to win this
Speaker 1: game and have the same amount of wins as the Giants?
Speaker 1: As the Saints, as the Titans, as the Patriots. You're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, so I for this week's out house,
Speaker 1: I gotta put one NFC. I'm putting the Saints over
Speaker 1: the Panthers as being that shitty. And then the other
Speaker 1: team who fires three coaches? Who fires in right after Halloween?
Speaker 1: Three coaches on the offensive side of the ball with
Speaker 1: a first year head coach. It is crazy. And here's
Speaker 1: the irony here. How connected they are? Dennis Allen, Derek
Speaker 1: Carr former Raiders now in the Saints. Everyone's getting fired.
Speaker 1: Who's interconnected here? It's like, how can you as someone
Speaker 1: send me a textasda a former NFL players? Like who
Speaker 1: cleans house like this in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: What is this gonna do? It's not like you have
Speaker 1: some top twelve quarterback who's underachieving. Your quarterbacks are eight
Speaker 1: and O'Connell, who ninety nine percent of sports fans couldn't
Speaker 1: point out of a lineup. And Gardner Minshew, who is
Speaker 1: the ultimate backup quarterback, and if you put him on
Speaker 1: a good team and he has a right coach, he
Speaker 1: could be kind of competitive like every other game. If
Speaker 1: you put him on an awful team with bad coaching.
Speaker 1: You are fucked. I mean you should bet against that
Speaker 1: team every single week. Angles are in shambles, in absolute shambles.
Speaker 1: And you looked up and Joe Burrow's like, ooh whoop, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's like the Raiders. It is crazy. Listen, years change, presidents,
Speaker 1: change weather changes one thing never one thing never changes,
Speaker 1: always stays the same. Is the Raiders suck? It is insane.
Speaker 1: How crappy this franchise is. Okay, this was a game
Speaker 1: that has been circled on the calendar the last several
Speaker 1: years because it's usually had huge playoff implications. It's had
Speaker 1: huge implications for the division and for home field. But
Speaker 1: now the Cowboys s think and the Eagles are basically
Speaker 1: battling the Commanders and they are currently a massive favorite
Speaker 1: on the road in Dallas. Obviously, Dak Prescott injured his
Speaker 1: handstring out. You have Ceedee Lamb hurt his shoulder week
Speaker 1: to week. Who knows if he's gonna play before we
Speaker 1: get into the Cowboys watching the Eagles. And this is
Speaker 1: why I picked him to start the year. I don't
Speaker 1: think we can. I think people underestimated how much talent
Speaker 1: is on that team. I also think people underestimated how
Speaker 1: good Saquon Barkley is if he's healthy. He is such
Speaker 1: a difference making player. He is just the total package
Speaker 1: as a runner. Can run inside, can break tackles, can
Speaker 1: go off tackle, can go outside, runs, sweeps pitches, you
Speaker 1: get him in space. He's got elite speed. Obviously the
Speaker 1: play that went viral doing the three sixty the backwards
Speaker 1: hurdle like he's an all time athlete and he's got
Speaker 1: elite speed and power like this guy is a game
Speaker 1: changing player to go with DeVante Smith, who's a no
Speaker 1: doubt about it contract extension guy. The Eagles already that
Speaker 1: and aj Brown went healthy, which you know he's battles
Speaker 1: some injuries. Is easily one of the best wide receivers
Speaker 1: in the league. They have a good offensive line, they have,
Speaker 1: you know, a quarterback who's playing at a high level
Speaker 1: and when he's proven, when he runs like he's a
Speaker 1: very very effective player. And they got Vig Fangio on
Speaker 1: defense with a ton of talented players. Linebacker can be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a question mark, but a lot
Speaker 1: of young defensive linemen that this team is oozing with talent.
Speaker 1: Now their coach is like a drunk dude at a
Speaker 1: blackjack table hitting on seventeen and eighteen. It is a
Speaker 1: wild ride, it really is, you know, going forward on
Speaker 1: fourth and shorts going for it on two pointers instead
Speaker 1: of just kicking the field goals. He's very entertaining, he
Speaker 1: really is. And that game, you know against the Jags
Speaker 1: little freakish. It was close. They're up twenty two to nothing.
Speaker 1: The Jags score like the next player or two. Saquon
Speaker 1: does you know a fumble where he just falls on
Speaker 1: the ground by himself, ball hits the ground, You're not
Speaker 1: technically down because no one hits you. Jacks pick it
Speaker 1: up and return it for a touchdown. So and then listen,
Speaker 1: the Jags got two two pointers, so it was twenty
Speaker 1: two to sixteen. You're like, WHOA. I started thinking, if
Speaker 1: Sirianni blows this to Doug Peterson, Joe l Embiid is
Speaker 1: completely off the hook. But he didn't. He handled it.
Speaker 1: Nikobe Dean made a great pick on an awful play
Speaker 1: by one of the most overrated players in like the
Speaker 1: history of America and Trevor Lawrence. But listen, the Eagles,
Speaker 1: like this team is gonna win twelve for thirteen games
Speaker 1: on talent alone. Now do we trust him when they
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. With Sirianni just kind of reckless nature,
Speaker 1: you never quite know what's gonna happen. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a wild ride, must watch television, big win for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: But they go into Dallas and all signs pointing to
Speaker 1: them kicking the shit out of them. I actually think
Speaker 1: if you're a Cowboy fan, this is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Cause listen, it was clear early on, yeah, probably not
Speaker 1: a playoff team. Now it's kind of clear you're headed
Speaker 1: for a disastrous season. Let's use the Chargers last year
Speaker 1: as an example. Their season fell off the rails. It
Speaker 1: ended up twofold. I mean two things happened. Right, landed
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh and landed top picks in every round. Well,
Speaker 1: they found their starting right tackle who's a stud in
Speaker 1: Joe Alt because they drafted fifth. Then they also drafted
Speaker 1: high in the second round, and they got Lad McConkey,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be a high end player in the NFL
Speaker 1: for a long time. And they got other guys in
Speaker 1: the draft. Obviously, they really like when you have an
Speaker 1: awful season and you're not gonna make the playoffs. You
Speaker 1: are much better off going six and eleven and drafting
Speaker 1: eighth then going eight to nine in drafting fifteenth, because
Speaker 1: it's not just about the first round, it's literally about
Speaker 1: every round. So in the second round you are drafting
Speaker 1: thirty ninth or forty first. How often do we see
Speaker 1: guys at the top of the second round become impact
Speaker 1: All Pro players. So clearly the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 1: have a new coach. Mike McCarthy's not going to be extended.
Speaker 1: They're going to blow it all up, rightfully, so, but
Speaker 1: this job, to me becomes way more desirable. Obviously, Jerry's
Speaker 1: a wild card, not an easy environment to work in,
Speaker 1: and they have a ton of high priced players right
Speaker 1: Dak's making two hundred CDs, make it over one hundred.
Speaker 1: Parson has to get paid this offseason. They have three
Speaker 1: guys they're invested in that make as much money as
Speaker 1: any other team's three guys. It's a boatload of cash
Speaker 1: they have invested in this guys. You got to hit
Speaker 1: on draft picks. I think they've drafted pretty well over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, but now gives you an
Speaker 1: opportunity to draft premium players because it is hard to
Speaker 1: draft at twenty five right, because it's not just twenty
Speaker 1: five on Thursday night in round one. Twenty fifth in
Speaker 1: the second round is twenty fifth in the third round.
Speaker 1: You're just picking at the end of the rounds for
Speaker 1: all seven rounds. Now, obviously you can manipulate it and
Speaker 1: trade up, but like, look at the Chargers. The Chargers
Speaker 1: have a long way to go, and we'll get into
Speaker 1: them in a minute, but like, the easiest way to
Speaker 1: just get the train back on the tracks is to
Speaker 1: utilize Once you get a new coach, a new administration
Speaker 1: that you feel comfortable knows what they're doing. Now, part
Speaker 1: of Jerry's job this offseason gonna be to land his
Speaker 1: gym Harbaugh. Is that Bill Belichick? Is that Mike Frable,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But if they get the coach right,
Speaker 1: you can really take advantage of a draft after a
Speaker 1: bad season. Because the Cowboys for three straight years have
Speaker 1: been drafting twelve or excuse me, I mean, have been
Speaker 1: winning twelve games. They haven't been sniffing, drafting in the
Speaker 1: top ten of the rounds. And now, like this season
Speaker 1: clearly is gonna suck, the rest of the year is
Speaker 1: gonna be rough. It is could get uglier. As Dak said,
Speaker 1: we bleep and suck, and he's not wrong. They do.
Speaker 1: They're a tough watch. So the silver lining is the draft,
Speaker 1: and you want to be as crappy the rest of
Speaker 1: the season as possible. I don't think, you know, winning
Speaker 1: one or two more games the rest of season, that
Speaker 1: is not the worst thing. Speaking of chaotic franchises, it
Speaker 1: was last year at this time that the Raiders, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so, fired Josh McDaniels, who, like his previous stop
Speaker 1: in Denver, had become the first head coach in NFL
Speaker 1: history to not make it past year two in either
Speaker 1: spot of his head coaching tenures. Obviously, they fired the
Speaker 1: general manager as well. Well, then they go all in
Speaker 1: on Antonio Pierce and he gets the pick of the litter,
Speaker 1: like you get to hire any staff you want. And
Speaker 1: he hires some guys lou Getzi, which everyone's like, are
Speaker 1: we sure luke Getzy's any good? The iires Rich Skangarello,
Speaker 1: who is kind of a laughingstock within NFL circles, and
Speaker 1: he also hires the assistant offensive line coach from the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Well, last night some people text me,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to fall asleep at like eleven twelve o'clock,
Speaker 1: and it's sometimes hard after football nights, you gotta kind
Speaker 1: of come down. I'm just laying there, wide awake, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to look at my phone because I
Speaker 1: remember these Chip Kelly talked about he brought in these
Speaker 1: Navy seal guys that like, when you put the phone
Speaker 1: close to your eyes late at night, you trigger something
Speaker 1: in your brain. You're just making it worse trying to
Speaker 1: fall asleep. So I try to be careful with that
Speaker 1: phone in my eyes when I'm laying in bed, like
Speaker 1: past like ten thirty eleven o'clock. So people are texting
Speaker 1: me about the Raiders firing somebody, and I'm not really
Speaker 1: paying attention. And when I get up this morning, I
Speaker 1: realized they didn't just fire their offensive coordinator, they fired
Speaker 1: three people. It really is kind of sad how bad
Speaker 1: Mark Davis has been because i'mlike Dan Snyder, which by
Speaker 1: all accounts was like legitimately a bad people hated working
Speaker 1: there and it was just an embarrassment. I do think
Speaker 1: Mark's heart is in the right place. He is really
Speaker 1: trying to do the right thing right. He goes from Gruden,
Speaker 1: who gets fired midseason that was out of his control.
Speaker 1: Then he gets an offseason, he goes, listen, we have
Speaker 1: the special teams coach that everyone likes of the interim,
Speaker 1: but I got the opportunity to hire Josh mc daniels
Speaker 1: and his general manager from Belichick. I think this is
Speaker 1: worth the risk. Blows up in his face. Then he
Speaker 1: kind of goes back to I should have hired the
Speaker 1: interim coach. You got players on your team telling you
Speaker 1: to hire Antonio Piers. He does. Then Cliff Kingsbury won't
Speaker 1: take the job because your organization is a little cheap.
Speaker 1: You'll only offer him two year contract. Washington's like, we'll
Speaker 1: give you three, partly because you don't fully trust Antonio
Speaker 1: Piers and you don't want to be obligated for more
Speaker 1: years if you got to end up firing everybody, which
Speaker 1: in a weird way, was the right call by the
Speaker 1: Raiders and also the right call by Cliff. Go their
Speaker 1: separate ways. Clearly he's going to change Cliff's life being
Speaker 1: in Washington. Coach and Jane Daniels. The Raiders just blow
Speaker 1: everyone out who I don't think would have been hired
Speaker 1: as coordinators anywhere, and now you just have this chaotic
Speaker 1: hamster wheel that never ends. And the Raiders were able
Speaker 1: to be much more ruthless in this modern day situation
Speaker 1: of the franchise because the media deals worth more, they
Speaker 1: have more money. Vegas is worth dramatically more than the
Speaker 1: disastrous Oakland situation. He just has money to pay guys.
Speaker 1: A couple million dollars, a couple of million dollars pay
Speaker 1: guys to go away, because even if they only gave
Speaker 1: this offensive coordinator a two year deal, like he's probably
Speaker 1: making one and a half million dollars a year, So
Speaker 1: Mark Davis is probably paying him over two million just
Speaker 1: to not work. Talking about the American Dream. One time,
Speaker 1: I've been paid to go away and it was I
Speaker 1: don't remember. Maybe it was ten grand, maybe it was
Speaker 1: twenty grand. It felt like at the time a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I can't imagine being paid over seven figures
Speaker 1: to not work. It's like, wait, I'm really rich, and
Speaker 1: I don't have you telling me not to come into
Speaker 1: the job. You would be surprised how often I talk
Speaker 1: to people around the NFL that say, person X, who's
Speaker 1: a general manager, who's a coach, who's an assistant coach.
Speaker 1: His fingers are crossed that they fire him. He would
Speaker 1: die to be paid to leave this situation. He is miserable.
Speaker 1: They're humans too, and you get put in these positions
Speaker 1: where you're stuck. Listen, I'm not crying for these guys.
Speaker 1: They are making a boatload of money. We're talking about
Speaker 1: one percenters. Life is good. It's like, what about their children, Well, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe they off the move. They're still going to private
Speaker 1: school and they can still get, you know, a eighty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars car for him on their sixteenth birthday. So
Speaker 1: like their problems are first class problems. Plus they chose
Speaker 1: this profession. Part of coaching is moving. I don't feel
Speaker 1: sorry for you there, pick another job if you don't
Speaker 1: want to move around. It's part of the gig. That's
Speaker 1: why it pays a premium. But I just feel like
Speaker 1: the Raiders are just so poorly run and this is
Speaker 1: never gonna end. And this is not a Dan Snyder
Speaker 1: situation where it's just like he's just a bad guy.
Speaker 1: Everyone likes Mark. He is literally trying to win, but
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna work with him as the owner.
Speaker 1: Like we have enough evidence now it's the same shit
Speaker 1: every year. It literally never ends. They fire coaches in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season more than any franchise. It
Speaker 1: really is nuts. It's always a coordinator here, an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator here, a defensive coordinator there, a head coach there,
Speaker 1: a head coach there. It never ends. Everyone made fun
Speaker 1: of Al Davis at the end of his life, right
Speaker 1: he was going through a coach here, coach there, firing
Speaker 1: people on stop. This is the same situation, just at
Speaker 1: a higher level because they have more and they have
Speaker 1: some good players on the team. Get rid of DeVante.
Speaker 1: Now you got Max Crosby. The owner says, we won't
Speaker 1: trade Max Crosby. You're going nowhere, and you're going nowhere fast.
Speaker 1: Your team is a joke. And to me like this
Speaker 1: is I just think we have enough evidence as long
Speaker 1: as the Davis family owns this team, this is never
Speaker 1: going to change. It really is not, because I think
Speaker 1: we can already see the light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. In this situation, is Antonio Pierce so one
Speaker 1: and done. It's clearly on the table. How could you
Speaker 1: argue otherwise like he is, he's safe. In what world
Speaker 1: would a guy that fires three coaches? November one, essentially
Speaker 1: his first year is the full time head coach safe.
Speaker 1: In any other situation, a coach that blows guys like
Speaker 1: this out in the middle of the season, you'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: his job is next. And this is the thing, Like,
Speaker 1: would anyone be shocked if the day after the season
Speaker 1: Antonio Pierce has fired, Tom tellesco is fired. It never ends.
Speaker 1: And I feel for Raider fans because in a league
Speaker 1: where every team it feels like, has moments, they just
Speaker 1: never do. They not only never win, they always suck.
Speaker 1: They don't even They're at the point now where the
Speaker 1: majority of their games you don't need to watch. They
Speaker 1: are completely irrelevant. And I hear all these people say
Speaker 1: this all the time, these older people around the NFL,
Speaker 1: the league is better when the Raiders are good. And
Speaker 1: the answer is that's just not true, because for the
Speaker 1: last twenty plus years, the league has never ever been
Speaker 1: more popular and made more money, and the Raiders for
Speaker 1: the last fifty years have never been more irrelevant to
Speaker 1: the landscape of winning and losing because they always lose.
Speaker 1: And now they're in a division with Andy Reid and
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. Who is I don't know easily if Belichick
Speaker 1: and Brady because they got six or one A. They
Speaker 1: gotta be one B in my lifetime. You got Jim Harbaugh,
Speaker 1: who are about to dive into is just a winning machine.
Speaker 1: And Sean Payton and Bo Nicks like you can just
Speaker 1: see the trajectory of the franchise. They are dramatically better
Speaker 1: than they were last year, and next year I would
Speaker 1: imagine they'll be dramatically better than they were this year
Speaker 1: as they get more and more money once they get
Speaker 1: rid of that Russell Wilson cap space. I just feel
Speaker 1: sorry for this fan base because what are you supposed
Speaker 1: to do? I mean, you're just stuck and you just
Speaker 1: know the outcome and you try to sell yourself in
Speaker 1: the off season maybe this is the year, maybe we
Speaker 1: can compete, And then it's not even Halloween. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just suck again. How does this happen? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Chargers, and listen, part of football is
Speaker 1: most of these owners, the difference of them all is
Speaker 1: you just hire the right guy or you don't. And
Speaker 1: there is an element of luck and randomness in all this. Right,
Speaker 1: the Chargers have been the better version of the Raiders
Speaker 1: for the last twenty years. But they are synonymous with
Speaker 1: that franchise because they also have just found ways to
Speaker 1: lose on a higher level, and they have made the
Speaker 1: playoffs more consistently, and they have had better teams. But
Speaker 1: like the Raiders, it was always easy to make fun
Speaker 1: of them because they always went cheap on the coach.
Speaker 1: You're like, how is this team not better than it is?
Speaker 1: It's like, well, they have the second lowest paid coach
Speaker 1: in the league. That's what I've always given credit to
Speaker 1: Mark Davis. He has really tried when he does not
Speaker 1: have the money to I mean now he does, but
Speaker 1: at the time when he hired Gruden, it was a
Speaker 1: really aggressive move. They hadn't moved yet, he didn't have
Speaker 1: the influx of cash. He said, I give the guy
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars. Then a couple of years later,
Speaker 1: I'll give Josh McDaniels eighty million dollars. It blew up
Speaker 1: in his face. But I give you credit for being aggressive,
Speaker 1: because you know, if you get that guy right, it
Speaker 1: changes the landscape where you're heading. Dean Spanos has always
Speaker 1: been the opposite. It's like, we could give me Mike
Speaker 1: McCoy for two million dollars, give me Brandon Staley for
Speaker 1: four million dollars, give me Anthony Lynn for three and
Speaker 1: a half million dollars. It's like, Dean, this isn't that complicated.
Speaker 1: Why your team is underachieving because you need a coach
Speaker 1: that is worth three or four x what you're paying
Speaker 1: this guy. And this offseason, the heavens aligned. Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 1: wanted out because the NCAA was coming after his ass
Speaker 1: but I got an asking price. I cost sixteen million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, and the coaches I'm bringing with me,
Speaker 1: Zach Minter, my defensive coordinator, he ain't cheap either. He
Speaker 1: probably he makes close to what Anthony Lynn and Mike
Speaker 1: McCoy were making. Maybe Brandon Staley made a little more
Speaker 1: than him, But my guess is he makes two and
Speaker 1: a half three million dollars and Jim's well over fifteen.
Speaker 1: And guess what happens in Jim Harbaugh's last three stops
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers in twenty ten or
Speaker 1: six and ten his first year in twenty eleven, they
Speaker 1: were thirteen and three. This is why I told everybody
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit what their roster looks like.
Speaker 1: I don't care how limited. Their wide receivers are. I
Speaker 1: don't care. How bad do you think their depth is?
Speaker 1: This fucking guy does one thing, and one thing only.
Speaker 1: He wins everywhere he goes, and the first thing he
Speaker 1: does is turn that thing around immediately. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's gonna win the Super Bowl year one. I wasn't
Speaker 1: say he was gonna win the National Championship year one.
Speaker 1: But he ain't gonna lose his first year at Michigan.
Speaker 1: Remember in twenty fourteen, his last year with the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers, the Mission and Wolverines went five and seven.
Speaker 1: Harbaugh's first year, they went ten and three. Last year
Speaker 1: the Chargers, I think we even forget this because this
Speaker 1: ten months removed, they went five and twelve. Five and twelve.
Speaker 1: They drafted last year ahead of the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Think about that, How shitty we view the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: How bad they have been. The Chargers drafted ahead of
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. The Chargers drafted ahead of the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Think think how many bad teams the Chargers
Speaker 1: drafted ahead of last year? They were that bad five
Speaker 1: and twelve. Jim Harbaud November fourth, currently has five wins.
Speaker 1: His records for the last three spots were sixteen and
Speaker 1: twenty nine. He's out even halfway through this season, he's
Speaker 1: twenty eight and nine, and I would imagine five. I
Speaker 1: mean he's at minimum winning five more games. Bet he
Speaker 1: gets to eleven, so you're talking six, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: thirty four wins. That is almost in three spots year one,
Speaker 1: almost a twenty win difference. Assuming he gets to eleven wins.
Speaker 1: Who knows to me, I go to twelve. Look at
Speaker 1: a schedule. It's crazy. How good this guy is. It
Speaker 1: really is. And yeah, he's a weirdo, and yeah he
Speaker 1: talks sometimes all over the map, and he's just a
Speaker 1: different cat. He's a borderline nut job. But he is
Speaker 1: a football savant and whatever the hell he does, and
Speaker 1: I've heard this forever, well he doesn't call the plays.
Speaker 1: He's got of a meat heead. You can give me
Speaker 1: any fucking excuse you want about the guy. All I
Speaker 1: know is his resume speaks for itself. In this industry
Speaker 1: more than any other, you can quantify a guy is
Speaker 1: a good or bad based on one thing. What's his
Speaker 1: win loss record? And everywhere this guy goes that loss
Speaker 1: to win ratio is always like you're losing way more
Speaker 1: than you're winning. And then you get Jim and that
Speaker 1: pendulum immediately flips, and all of a sudden, within a
Speaker 1: couple of years, you're competing for Super Bowls, you're competing
Speaker 1: for national championships. And once he got that monkey off
Speaker 1: his back, which was a really big deal because I listen,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to be critical, he could never win
Speaker 1: the big one, like history was on your side up
Speaker 1: until twenty twenty three, and the moment he beat Nick
Speaker 1: Saban in the Rose Bowl, it was on like Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1: Clearly he matched up really well against Washington and de
Speaker 1: Boor kicked his ass. National champs. If they do a
Speaker 1: good enough job building this thing. They're not good enough
Speaker 1: this year, they might not even be good enough next year.
Speaker 1: But within a couple of years. He currently has Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: who last year everyone's like, what the hell's going on
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert? Stop comparing him to mahomes Lamar and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He's over sixty five percent with receivers that
Speaker 1: are meh at best. He has ten touchdowns in one interception,
Speaker 1: and I don't think the numbers do him Justice. When
Speaker 1: you watch him play, you go, yeah, there's a big four.
Speaker 1: There's Mahomes, Lamar Allen. There's basically one, one B in
Speaker 1: one C and then there's two because this guy's that good.
Speaker 1: And I told Colin you could throw Matt Stafford in
Speaker 1: there as well. That would probably be the top five
Speaker 1: as we sit here today, just in terms of physical
Speaker 1: gifts and everything. Obviously, Jared Goff's having an incredible season,
Speaker 1: but we all acknowledge, like Jared Geff doesn't have these
Speaker 1: guys physical gifts. Herbert at any moment can run thirty
Speaker 1: yards right, and obviously he can throw it a mile long,
Speaker 1: so can the other guys. Lamar probably has the worst
Speaker 1: arm out of the group, but he's by far the
Speaker 1: best athlete, and he's become so accurate. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying his arms bad, but relative to like Josh Allen, Justin, Herbert,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, it's not quite that, even though it's really good. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, like I just I don't put him in
Speaker 1: that category, even though he's having an elite season. And
Speaker 1: I just think Jim Bak andngrats Man because you are
Speaker 1: a certified ass kicker, Okay, a couple of NFL notes
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey and listen, I'm recording this basically twenty four
Speaker 1: hours before the trade deadline, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But if this guy is healthy by far, unless Miles
Speaker 1: garrettor Max Crosby is traded, the biggest trade acquisition will
Speaker 1: beat Christian McCaffrey, a guy that has not played this season.
Speaker 1: If he comes back and he looks eighty five ninety
Speaker 1: percent of what he was, that is a massive addition.
Speaker 1: And that puts the forty nine ers not just back
Speaker 1: into the playoff conversation, but like into the NFC landscape.
Speaker 1: Remember they beat the Packers in the Lions last year.
Speaker 1: Like this was a team that has owned the Rams.
Speaker 1: This is a team that last year played the Eagles
Speaker 1: and beat the living piss out of them. So they
Speaker 1: are going to be very comfortable playing all these teams. Now,
Speaker 1: you could argue the Lions are better this year, and
Speaker 1: the other thing, the Lions are gonna have his home
Speaker 1: field advantage more than likely. And what I know whether
Speaker 1: like the Eagles only have one game difference, the same
Speaker 1: with Washington. So we'll see how the season plays out.
Speaker 1: But the Niners are not gonna have home field advantage
Speaker 1: like they did last year, so they will have to
Speaker 1: go on the road. Well, I've seen him go to Dallas,
Speaker 1: I've seen him go to Green Bay and win playoff games.
Speaker 1: They have done it before. They're comfortable in that environment,
Speaker 1: and I just think they're a team that if Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey comes back and he looks the part, watch out
Speaker 1: because that is as big of an addition you can
Speaker 1: make during the trade deadline, unless, like I said, Max
Speaker 1: Crosby or Miles Garrett, which all signs point to they
Speaker 1: will not be dealt. Though if I were those teams,
Speaker 1: I would highly entertain trading him both. You know, someone
Speaker 1: texted me today a buddy in the league was like,
Speaker 1: remember when Adam Peters took a bunch of crap during
Speaker 1: the like his quarterback search when he basically went up
Speaker 1: to the last couple of days and he went to
Speaker 1: top Golf and he did a lot of work right
Speaker 1: up until the end on what quarterback he was going
Speaker 1: to draft, right because he knew Caleb Williams, who the
Speaker 1: Bears basically acknowledged they were going to draft six months
Speaker 1: before they even know the draft came about, Like they
Speaker 1: knew they were drafting him in the fall, and Adam
Speaker 1: Peters took a lot of shit. Their story is not written.
Speaker 1: And I said this to Colin, and I said this
Speaker 1: on my podcast. By no means are you putting anything
Speaker 1: in concrete or in sharpie. But as we sit here
Speaker 1: right now, the gap between these two players is a
Speaker 1: mile wide. And the one thing Caleb's gonna have to
Speaker 1: overcome that now, Jaden, it looks like the Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: is gonna be well run. Is not is a franchise
Speaker 1: that just doesn't really know what they're doing for this
Speaker 1: very historic, this huge brand and this massive city that
Speaker 1: has this huge fan base. The Bears historically are kind
Speaker 1: of a joke the last I don't know, fifteen years.
Speaker 1: I mean, their owner feels like she's one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years old. They're very cheap, and it reflects what
Speaker 1: we're watching this season, ever, flews completely over his head
Speaker 1: and the last two weeks are complete embarrassment. And then
Speaker 1: you got Jayden, who just has dominated kind of from
Speaker 1: day one, who has a real coach and now a
Speaker 1: real competitive owner and a GM that has won rings
Speaker 1: with multiple teams, who was the most qualified general manager
Speaker 1: candidate probably the last twenty years. So it is funny
Speaker 1: how things age. Adam Peters taking these guys to top golf,
Speaker 1: does he know what he's doing? Meanwhile, the Bears, it's
Speaker 1: like they zeroed in on Caleb Williams. Should maybe they
Speaker 1: have done a little bit of research on Jayden Daniels
Speaker 1: because you just watch the guys play physically. Part of
Speaker 1: the knock was Caleb's all time physical freak. What the
Speaker 1: hell's the difference, Jaden elite arm, Jaden better athlete, So
Speaker 1: it's easier for him to see he definitely has more touch.
Speaker 1: Now you could argue it's just confidence, right, and Caleb's
Speaker 1: lost his because he's playing for an organization that just
Speaker 1: ruined your confidence, which okay, But how often are we
Speaker 1: gonna make excuses? Is it gonna be like year four
Speaker 1: or five like we're doing with Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 3: Well, if he if he played here, if he had
Speaker 3: this guy coaching for him, if he was throwing it
Speaker 3: to this guy. It's like, guys, we've been watching him
Speaker 3: for long enough, now can we just acknowledgem not very good,
Speaker 3: He's not terrible. He's not like some JaMarcus Russell all
Speaker 3: time scrub. But he's just not that good, especially relative
Speaker 3: to paying a guy two hundred million dollars. If you
Speaker 3: ask the Jags right now, you can get a redo,
Speaker 3: you can do a little take back.
Speaker 1: Hey, I know we handed you two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: We'd like to take that back. What do you think
Speaker 1: they would say? Of course they would say yes, which
Speaker 1: it was moronic at the time, like guys even Tua,
Speaker 1: like at the time, at least Tua had produced for
Speaker 1: multiple years at a much higher level, like Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Like this guy didn't even throw twenty touchdowns last year?
Speaker 1: Are you sure about this one? It's like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: think we are. And then six months later, uh, not
Speaker 1: really well, of course, not awful decision. So I just
Speaker 1: think sometimes it's funny how stories happening around the draft
Speaker 1: where we just give a guy a bunch of credit
Speaker 1: and then we're critical of another guy, and then six
Speaker 1: months later we look back and we're like, eh, that
Speaker 1: was a pretty terrible take. That wasn't one of my takes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have everyone freaking out about top golf.
Speaker 1: It's like, who would have thought six months later the
Speaker 1: Washington has the best quarterback by a pretty wide margin. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do a little mail back, nothing too long. I'll
Speaker 1: get to a lot of mail bags over the course
Speaker 1: of this week. So John Midlcoff is the Instagram. Fire
Speaker 1: in those dms. If you're watching this on YouTube, fire
Speaker 1: in my Instagram dms, you're listening on the podcast, phone
Speaker 1: wide open, Holler at me. I've got this question a lot. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of Bears fans who are very,
Speaker 1: very not just obviously down on the coaching staff, but
Speaker 1: question the quarterback. And basically this question is it looks
Speaker 1: like Caleb Williams is relearning the position. He looks hesitant
Speaker 1: to make decisions. Whenever he bombs it, it looks predetermined.
Speaker 1: He never hits it. He can't sit in the pocket
Speaker 1: and make go through progressions. It doesn't help to play
Speaker 1: for the Bears. Waldron and the coaching staff are idiots,
Speaker 1: but Caleb is flat out missing guys. And this has
Speaker 1: been a theme question we get daily and obviously after
Speaker 1: Sunday when he looks bad, consistently people ask these questions,
Speaker 1: and people thought I was being a hater. And after
Speaker 1: they played Carolina and Jacksonville, like I told Colin, like
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm just not going to anoint them after
Speaker 1: beating those two teams. Jacksonville's defense is a joke, Carolina.
Speaker 1: I mean, unless you're playing Dennis Allen is going to
Speaker 1: lose to everybody. They are not very good either, so
Speaker 1: when they play real teams. They did Houston early in
Speaker 1: the season, he was overmatched because the offensive line's overmatched.
Speaker 1: You see him against Washington, He's hideous. Ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of the game does make He is very talented, but
Speaker 1: just in terms of playing quarterback, there's a difference between
Speaker 1: he has the physical skills. Anthony Richardson has a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, can't play quarterback. Caleb's a better obviously than
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, but he's much closer to that than he
Speaker 1: is to just being a good player. And we can
Speaker 1: blame the coaching. I do think Ryan Poles deserves shit too.
Speaker 1: I love Romadunza. I would want Roma Donsay on my team.
Speaker 1: But if they could do it over again, you cannot
Speaker 1: convince me that they wouldn't have taken an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at number nine. You just can't convince me they got
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, cole Comet Swift, and Dj Moore and you
Speaker 1: could have just, I don't know, signed two or three
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents and let the cream rise. Roam's a
Speaker 1: good player, but that was not what they needed. They
Speaker 1: had a good defense, they needed offensive lineman. So the
Speaker 1: offensive line isn't good and he feels rattled, and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff's bad, and it's all directly tied to each other.
Speaker 1: So do I think the guy's going to be a bust?
Speaker 1: I do not, But he's got a long way before
Speaker 1: we just call him a good player because right now
Speaker 1: he's not a good player. He's just not a good player.
Speaker 1: He's got talent, but he when you watch him, does
Speaker 1: not play well. Are the Panthers having a historically bad
Speaker 1: two seasons? Obviously, in terms of wins, there's not much
Speaker 1: to cheer about. But in my life I can't remember
Speaker 1: someone having back to back number one overall picks, which
Speaker 1: the Panthers are on track to do unless they put
Speaker 1: together a two game win streak. This was before the
Speaker 1: Saints game against the Saints and the Giants, well, they
Speaker 1: won one game. Can you imagine getting up early to
Speaker 1: watch Panthers Giants, which is an international game. I love
Speaker 1: it when there's an international game that is just completely
Speaker 1: irrelevant if you wake up early. Now, if you live
Speaker 1: on the East coast, the game kicks off at nine thirty.
Speaker 1: But if you live on the West coast and you
Speaker 1: get up, you're you're a sicko, a junkie, because even
Speaker 1: myself and I've gotten up early, like the Jets game,
Speaker 1: the Bears game. But this is a game that just
Speaker 1: does not matter. It just does not matter. And if
Speaker 1: someone that does this for a living, I have a
Speaker 1: soft spot for games that just do not matter because
Speaker 1: I just I can focus on other stuff. I just
Speaker 1: don't need to focus. Like there's nothing that can happen
Speaker 1: in this game that matters. So basically the question is
Speaker 1: it's hard to even evaluate the organization at this point.
Speaker 1: Head coach in DC seem like they will be successful,
Speaker 1: but there is almost zero talent on this roster. Where
Speaker 1: do the Panthers go from here? Well, I do think
Speaker 1: I think I heard or read or looked. I definitely looked,
Speaker 1: but I've heard people say this. There are seven teams
Speaker 1: right now with two and seven records, so the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. We'll see how this goes. This is
Speaker 1: actually one of those games that's a huge moment. Neither
Speaker 1: one of these teams is winning five games, so whoever
Speaker 1: loses this is in prime position because the Giants have
Speaker 1: already lost to The Giants lost to the camp Boys,
Speaker 1: They've lost to Washington twice, and Philly beat him, so
Speaker 1: they are currently they're zero to four in the division,
Speaker 1: so I think it's fair to assume they're gonna go
Speaker 1: oh and six. If you're the Giants and you're gonna
Speaker 1: consistently suck this bad, you want that number one or
Speaker 1: two pick, like you don't want to pick seven. What
Speaker 1: the hell is the point we just saw last year.
Speaker 1: It's cool to get my league neighbors, but they would
Speaker 1: have loved to draft Drake may Is the guy they wanted,
Speaker 1: and or Jayden, and they didn't have access to him
Speaker 1: because they were they had won enough pointless games. If
Speaker 1: I was a betting man right now, I would I
Speaker 1: would imagine. Here's a hard part about the NFL is.
Speaker 1: I was talking to UH one our producers yesterday after
Speaker 1: we recorded some stuff, and he's a big Commander's guy,
Speaker 1: lives in the area, and you can't just go win, win, win,
Speaker 1: that's loss because the team's better in the NFL because
Speaker 1: even if you win eleven games, you're gonna have some
Speaker 1: of your eleven wins are gonna be upset wins right
Speaker 1: where you're like an underdog on the road and you
Speaker 1: win the game, and some of your losses will be
Speaker 1: like a home six point favorite in December. It happens
Speaker 1: every single year. So like Carolina, New England, Tennessee, all
Speaker 1: these teams like they're gonna all end up with three
Speaker 1: or four wins, so they are going to win other
Speaker 1: games and not all of them are gonna happen against
Speaker 1: each other. So all of a sudden, you're like, Damn,
Speaker 1: did Tennessee just beat Houston? Did the New York Giants
Speaker 1: just beat the Eagles? It sounds crazy to say out loud,
Speaker 1: but it literally happens every freaking year, that these games
Speaker 1: in December that you never think, especially by then you
Speaker 1: might be like a touchdown favorite at home. Hell, it
Speaker 1: might be a touchdown favorite on the road and loose,
Speaker 1: so that it's really hard to go, Yeah, we know
Speaker 1: all these teams suck, but which one of these teams
Speaker 1: has a massive upset that we don't see coming? Because
Speaker 1: it's it's inevitable. It happens every single year a mini rant.
Speaker 1: The national narrative behind Ar and Flacco is maddening from
Speaker 1: a Colt fan who watches every snap as much as
Speaker 1: I in the world. Like Shane Siken, he has not
Speaker 1: put Ar in positions to succeed this season. Ar has
Speaker 1: an average depth of chart target of thirteen yards. This
Speaker 1: is easily the highest in the league this season. Without question,
Speaker 1: Steikan likes to throw the ball deep Ar and rarely
Speaker 1: gives him easy completions and screens to help sustain drives
Speaker 1: and move the chains, whereas with Flacco he routinely schemes
Speaker 1: up easy completions with downs, Pittman on screens, zig routes, drags, etc.
Speaker 1: All of that is to say, why would the Colts
Speaker 1: ever benj R. To go to Flacco this season? Starting
Speaker 1: Flacco may get us one or two more wins, but
Speaker 1: it's not like Joe is bringing us to Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We have been laughed at the past few seasons for
Speaker 1: constantly having a carousel of quarterbacks, and now people want
Speaker 1: to turn on the future at quarterback. This is my
Speaker 1: issue with that. I hear what you're saying. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to defend Stike in here. I don't know the
Speaker 1: guy personally. You can't throw intermediate in short routes if
Speaker 1: you don't think the guy has any touch to throw them.
Speaker 1: So why don't I throw quick screens or wheel routes
Speaker 1: because the airmails. Part of the reason I throw deep
Speaker 1: is because I think that's the only pass that he
Speaker 1: has the chance to make. Flacco has more touch than
Speaker 1: Anthony Richson obviously, So I think when you look at
Speaker 1: the situation with Anthony Richardson, he's the future. That's all
Speaker 1: we ever hear at this point in time. No, he
Speaker 1: might be the future, but he's currently not the present.
Speaker 1: And as we saw last night, Joe Flacco might not
Speaker 1: be that good either. He's not me. He's thirty nine
Speaker 1: to forty years old, like he has limitations. And this
Speaker 1: is where I think the culture in this awfully weird situation,
Speaker 1: they had no choice after what happened to do what
Speaker 1: they did because of the roster, Because how could Ryan Kelly, Pittman,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, Quintin Nelson. They couldn't operate after you tapped out.
Speaker 1: They could not. It was not possible. Now, maybe after
Speaker 1: a week or two everyone can take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: but they had no choice. So I think that move
Speaker 1: was probably less about the forty four percent completion and
Speaker 1: more like this guy tapped out in the middle of
Speaker 1: a game against our division rival, Like that happened. How
Speaker 1: do I look all my DeForest Buckner in the face?
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, hey, DeForest, listen. I know you've
Speaker 1: played through I don't know seven plus injuries over the
Speaker 1: last five years, laid your heart, soul, and literally your
Speaker 1: body on the line for this franchise. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep rolling with Anthony Richardson who were not winning with
Speaker 1: So I think it was a tough situation. And this
Speaker 1: is when you draft projects and then you find your
Speaker 1: team being pretty competitive. You get yourself in these weird situations,
Speaker 1: and that's where they're at right now, in this weird situation.
Speaker 1: Patriot fan from New England. Why is nobody in the
Speaker 1: media talking about Drake May? Is it just because the
Speaker 1: Pats suck? All I hear about is Caleb Daniels and
Speaker 1: even Nicks. In his first two starts, May has thrown
Speaker 1: for five touchdowns and over five hundred yards. The last
Speaker 1: rookie to do that was Dan Marino. This is all
Speaker 1: behind o line. Yeah, listen, you're not the Red Sox
Speaker 1: or the Celtics. You remove Ballichick and Brady like you
Speaker 1: just aren't that relevant. Now, if this guy is good
Speaker 1: and you start winning, you will be relevant. And again,
Speaker 1: but right now you don't. Just we're not obligated to
Speaker 1: talk about you, and you become much more of a
Speaker 1: local product than you do a national product. And when
Speaker 1: you're looking like you're gonna win three or four games
Speaker 1: on the season, people are not breaking down Drake May
Speaker 1: every game. And for example, you just played the Titans.
Speaker 1: Unless you're a Titans or Patriot fan, you do not
Speaker 1: need to watch that game. You just don't. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, if I want to
Speaker 1: do something like let's break down all the rookie performances,
Speaker 1: you go back and you look at everything. But when
Speaker 1: there are real games being played with playoff implications, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: that might have been the low game on the docket
Speaker 1: in terms of importance of the entire day. And so
Speaker 1: it's just you guys were spoiled because for a long,
Speaker 1: long period of time, you're right there with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: no matter what wind, loser draw. We're talking Pats, Belichick, Brady,
Speaker 1: you were at the top of the food chain. You
Speaker 1: were like the lion in the jungle. Now you're like
Speaker 1: the muskrat, just trying to survive. So like this, this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you suck. Question for the mailbag.
Speaker 1: Do you think because there are so many rules to
Speaker 1: protect the quarterback that they seem to be getting softer
Speaker 1: and are becoming more injury prone. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I think when you look around the NFL, the top guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, Herbert's hurt his ankle, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: he hasn't missed any time. Stafford's, you know, been pretty
Speaker 1: durable given that he's been getting his ass kicked. Mahomes
Speaker 1: never miss his time, Lamar never really misses time, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen never misses games. I would say the top dogs,
Speaker 1: you know, Jared Goss very very durable, Jalen Hurts for
Speaker 1: running quarterbacks durable, Kyler's been durable as of late. So
Speaker 1: I would say most of the top guys pretty I mean,
Speaker 1: it's pretty weird when you see Dak's gonna miss a
Speaker 1: couple games for a hamstring. It's not often that you
Speaker 1: see a quarterback hurt his hamstring. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just think sometimes injuries with quarterbacks gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of random, would be. I guess my first reaction to
Speaker 1: your question, what do you think about the Colts and
Speaker 1: the benching of aar I think it's an organizational failure
Speaker 1: to give up so soon knowing he was always going
Speaker 1: to take longer. If they truly have a team of
Speaker 1: Vets that want to win now, then why draft him fourth? Overall?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. Shane hasn't done a damn thing
Speaker 1: to help him in terms of play. Call it just
Speaker 1: as him. They just have him dropping back like he's
Speaker 1: prime Philip rivers. What where are the bootleg passes? I
Speaker 1: would guess, And this is where what I said earlier
Speaker 1: is it. Shane would say, I'd call bootleg pass and
Speaker 1: I don't have any faith that he hits it because
Speaker 1: we run him in practice and the airmails it. Lorady
Speaker 1: skips it. He's not accurate, So like the accuracy is something,
Speaker 1: it's very real, Like that's a tangible thing. Now, if
Speaker 1: you want to make the argument of like, listen, we're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere with Flacco either, we might as well
Speaker 1: give this guy as many reps as possible so we
Speaker 1: at least know by the end of the year, like
Speaker 1: is this something we want to keep doing or do
Speaker 1: we already need to pivot, which I think would be
Speaker 1: a fair argument. But like I said, the moment that happened,
Speaker 1: your entire team turned on him. This is not this
Speaker 1: is not a guess, this is not an opinion. It
Speaker 1: was clear they turned on them. Ryan Kelly, the heartbeat
Speaker 1: of the team, one of if not their best players,
Speaker 1: said yeah, we had to have a talk with him.
Speaker 1: So like that, this isn't They didn't have a choice.
Speaker 1: It's like sometimes if you're the CEO or a manager
Speaker 1: and it's like your employees are gonna there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a mutiny inside the office, like you gotta do something.
Speaker 1: It's the power is taken out of your hands. You
Speaker 1: either make the change to avoid the mutiny and avoid
Speaker 1: a riot with your employees and in this case, your
Speaker 1: locker room, or you just risk everyone turning on everybody
Speaker 1: in the whole season being a complete waste of time.
Speaker 1: And to me, that's where they were headed. If they
Speaker 1: didn't make Flacco the quarterback because of all the comments
Speaker 1: from the players, Now, could they you know, Flacco was
Speaker 1: pretty bad on Sunday night? Could they just go back
Speaker 1: to them this week and be like, listen, we've talked,
Speaker 1: are everyone's met with them, We've done a lot of
Speaker 1: hard tohearts. But he had multiple comments last week It's
Speaker 1: like I don't even think he quite gets it, which
Speaker 1: is understand a young kid just doesn't quite understand what
Speaker 1: he doesn't even understand, which is a problem because they
Speaker 1: got so many like DeForest Buckner, Ryan Kelly, Quintin Nelson
Speaker 1: like these are pretty Jonathan Taylor, like pretty high level cats,
Speaker 1: you know, and you got this guy, this naive player
Speaker 1: who doesn't even understand what's at stake here and then
Speaker 1: also isn't playing well. It's a powder keg of disaster.
Speaker 1: And that's where I think they're in this weird spot.
Speaker 1: Like if you want to blame the coach and the
Speaker 1: GM have at it, you're not wrong. If you want
Speaker 1: to blame Anthony Richardson, blame him. I mean yet last
Speaker 1: night collins Worth talking about the benching and they show
Speaker 1: him Listen, sometimes we just we yawn, nothing we can do.
Speaker 1: They go to him on the sideline and he yawns.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about the timing. It couldn't have
Speaker 1: been any worse. Anyone that's played pee wee football let
Speaker 1: alone the pros like, you don't you don't want to
Speaker 1: get cut yawning by a coach let alone on television
Speaker 1: now late game tired, he's not playing. I don't even
Speaker 1: think it's that crazy, but the timing of it was like,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for this kid. He can't catch a break,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. And now you got
Speaker 1: this situation where they're kind of up Shit's creek without
Speaker 1: a paddle because there's no way to get a quarterback.
Speaker 1: You invested heavily in this guy, and the only way
Speaker 1: for him truly to get better is eventually. Obviously there
Speaker 1: are things he can do in practice and stuff, but
Speaker 1: like he's got to get more game reps, and to
Speaker 1: give them more game reps, there's a chance that you
Speaker 1: just lose and he just sucks in those games, which
Speaker 1: is a big problem. So I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: feel for you Colts fans because this eas and it
Speaker 1: feels like got away from you really fast. The volume
Speaker 1: mm hmm