Speaker 1: I'm Rett Lewis, and this is NFL inside Report. The
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers have won the NFC North in every
Speaker 1: season with Matt Lafleur as their head coach, earning the
Speaker 1: number one seed in the postseason this year and getting
Speaker 1: set for another match up with the San Francisco Forts. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the rest of the North didn't make the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: now two franchises are starting from scratch new GM's, new
Speaker 1: head coaches coming in Minnesota and Chicago, and our Stacy
Speaker 1: Dale's is here to talk about all of it with us.
Speaker 1: And Stacy, I know you're gonna be covering that forty
Speaker 1: nine Packers game. And look, I know the temps. I
Speaker 1: know you love them. It wouldn't be a Stacy Dale's
Speaker 1: appearance at lambeau Field without some negative degrees or zero
Speaker 1: degree temps. AM. All right, that's exactly correct. Can I
Speaker 1: tell you what I just did, Rett, I literally just
Speaker 1: jumped on Amazon Me yesterday and I bought heaters, infra
Speaker 1: red heaters for my crew because we're gonna be at
Speaker 1: LAMBA on Saturday morning. We're gonna be there from well,
Speaker 1: i'll get there around until ten thirty, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: be reporting until about four in the afternoon. So I
Speaker 1: did buy two heaters for my crew. So for you,
Speaker 1: Dale's right there, Reporter of the Year with that, with
Speaker 1: that move that that's the quickest way to the cruise.
Speaker 1: Heard right there, food and warmth. So that's that's good work. Um. Look,
Speaker 1: this is an interesting matchup for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the fact that it might feature the
Speaker 1: return of some key players for the Green Bay Packers. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we saw David Bactieri come back week A teen. I
Speaker 1: know the Packers are hoping to have JayR Alexander and
Speaker 1: to Darius Smith. How do you judge the potential impact
Speaker 1: of those returns for a team that is actually done
Speaker 1: pretty well without them. They have, which is why mattal
Speaker 1: Fleur has been just so impressive the way he's kept
Speaker 1: this thing together despite some of the adversities along the way.
Speaker 1: I think for me, seeing a player like David Bactier,
Speaker 1: who returned in a week eighteen twenty seven snaps against
Speaker 1: the Lions, they've been trying to like slowly sort of
Speaker 1: coddle him back, if you will. Rhett and I like
Speaker 1: the plan they've had. The guy had an a C.
Speaker 1: L less than a year ago. Um, they've been extremely
Speaker 1: conservative with him. But to get those reps in Week
Speaker 1: eighteen along with Josh Meyers another starter there on that
Speaker 1: offensive line. Billy Turner getting healthy again another knee injury,
Speaker 1: so playing with knee injuries, but they're getting healthy, and gosh,
Speaker 1: this is one of the best left tackles in football.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers loves him. I don't anticipate if he plays
Speaker 1: a lot rhet I don't anticipate any drop off there
Speaker 1: in terms of responsibilities and keys with the offensive line. UM,
Speaker 1: and then defensively, they're also getting extremely healthy. Uh, to
Speaker 1: not see za Darius Smith all year long with the
Speaker 1: back injury. Literally he played one game. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: for him about unleashing the beast, right, because that's what
Speaker 1: he does. He comes off the edge and he hits
Speaker 1: happened second and one fifteen seconds left and Ryan will
Speaker 1: be dropped. Sack buys a Darius Smith. But to add
Speaker 1: Gi here, I think is the big one on the
Speaker 1: back end. He had a he had an interception actually
Speaker 1: against the Niners back in Week three when they played
Speaker 1: and the Packers won that game. Garoppolo going deep on
Speaker 1: first down into double coverage. He just picked off Alexander
Speaker 1: and he's back in the forty nine territory and he's
Speaker 1: inside the courting attacking it about the thirty one yard line.
Speaker 1: Want to play that time by gyre Alexander. There was
Speaker 1: nobody in his zone, so you're gonna see him go
Speaker 1: all the way across the field and make the play
Speaker 1: as soon as the receiver on his side ran that
Speaker 1: did route that input, he freed him up and with
Speaker 1: the kind of speed he has, he just ran it down.
Speaker 1: This was a good look and play. It's a good
Speaker 1: look and throw, but Alexander just beat him there. He
Speaker 1: is just another instinctual, phenomenal player. And their secondary has
Speaker 1: been awesome, turnover laden all season long. They have just
Speaker 1: been a nemesis to deal with. Resul Douglas has been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Pies half again and zone and picked off intercepted by
Speaker 1: Russell Douglas and the Packers are gonna win it. But
Speaker 1: I think right, I mean, you played. You understand when
Speaker 1: you get back to your full strength, it gives you
Speaker 1: a little mental edge too, so I think that could
Speaker 1: be a big part of it as well. And then
Speaker 1: this this matchup, just in general is super intriguing, right,
Speaker 1: the forty Niners go from one of those, you know,
Speaker 1: one of those historic playoff matchups with the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: Round one, they win, and now they get another one
Speaker 1: a little bit more recently, Um, it's been even more interesting,
Speaker 1: specifically for the forty Niners, who have had all the
Speaker 1: success in this matchup in the playoffs recently. Rodgers has
Speaker 1: never beaten befo the Niners in the postseason. Uh. Matt
Speaker 1: Laflour obviously lost the Kyle Shanahan and the championship game
Speaker 1: in nineteen his first year. So I mean, look, they
Speaker 1: all mean a ton at this stage in the game,
Speaker 1: but like it feels like there might be a little
Speaker 1: bit extra when when these two teams get together in
Speaker 1: the postseason. You're spot on your spot on because that
Speaker 1: Week three game was like that. Okay, I had the
Speaker 1: Packers the first two weeks, they're they're they're awful performance,
Speaker 1: three point performance against the Saints and then Detroit on
Speaker 1: Monday Night football, and then they go to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: They beat Detroit, go to San Francisco. After that game,
Speaker 1: Rogers was oddly emphatic at that stage, like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's Week three It's like that was a major growth
Speaker 1: moment for us. It felt like in the locker room
Speaker 1: today that we finally had the energy that I've been
Speaker 1: waiting to see. And uh, before the game, it wasn't
Speaker 1: the type of energy we had in Jacksonville, but I
Speaker 1: knew we needed to spark, and the energy in the
Speaker 1: locker room post game that felt like a win. You know,
Speaker 1: felt like there was such a growth moment for us.
Speaker 1: And I'm really really happy for the guys to feel that,
Speaker 1: and you know, it feels like, Okay, now we're on
Speaker 1: our way. He talked about they beat us twice, they
Speaker 1: beat us up twice in nineteen. Those are tough, tough ones,
Speaker 1: you know, tough. Yeah, the road trip out west from
Speaker 1: Green Bay is always tough, but it feels a lot
Speaker 1: better when you're going back to a win. So he
Speaker 1: remembers everything. His recall is fascinating and listen, I he's
Speaker 1: in a zone unlike I mean. I asked him about
Speaker 1: it this week and he called it a flow state,
Speaker 1: slow state. I think what you want to do is
Speaker 1: have that flow state be a continual thing. The flow
Speaker 1: state is kind of the words that we've used to
Speaker 1: talk about being in the zone whatever whatever that means,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really when you're playing your best in
Speaker 1: the game seems to slow down a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: a flow state for Aaron Rodgers. And there's so many variables.
Speaker 1: I need to, you know, dig into that a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But he's been in a flow state all
Speaker 1: year long. And I don't care about the rivalry. I
Speaker 1: don't care about the matchups. I just think he has
Speaker 1: dialed in and look out because he really has played remarkably.
Speaker 1: You can put all of the things you think about
Speaker 1: the guy on the side, whichever way do you think, listeners,
Speaker 1: but he's been phenomenal on the field, Oh absolutely. And look,
Speaker 1: he's in contention to be an m v P for
Speaker 1: the fourth time in his career, which is which is
Speaker 1: pretty rare are form, you know for players. Obviously you've
Speaker 1: got you know, Peyton Manning up there with five um
Speaker 1: and and you know Rogers certainly in striking distance of
Speaker 1: that mark. But you know what, while that is important,
Speaker 1: and he's he's talked about, you know, the significance of
Speaker 1: those kind of individual accolades. He was asked this week
Speaker 1: about legacy, right, what what what did you take away
Speaker 1: from his answer on legacy. The thing I've enjoyed about
Speaker 1: listening to him is completely everything, and he agreed on
Speaker 1: legacy red especially playoff legacy that he was asked about.
Speaker 1: To your point, um, success he often based on championships one,
Speaker 1: and it starts with the quarterback position. Success is often based,
Speaker 1: you know, for quarterbacks on championships one. A lot of times,
Speaker 1: I think success individually is much more than that, and failure,
Speaker 1: you know, on the on the flip side of that,
Speaker 1: failure is is not, in my opinion, shouldn't be based
Speaker 1: solely on on your losses. So I think he realizes
Speaker 1: this is the moment, right, we've heard about the last dance,
Speaker 1: this and that. I think after what we saw last season,
Speaker 1: as good as they were to lose to Tom Brading
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, I just think he's playing with
Speaker 1: literally nothing to lose. He understands this might be his
Speaker 1: last dance in Green Bay, and he understands and recognizes, yep,
Speaker 1: a quarterback success is going to hinge upon and he
Speaker 1: does have one Super Bowl, how many Super Bowls, how
Speaker 1: many championships they have, So I almost feel like he's
Speaker 1: possessed this year in a way to win, to win
Speaker 1: this one, I don't feel like there's any pressure there.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like they're going to come out flat.
Speaker 1: I feel like he is in a zone, his flow state,
Speaker 1: and he realizes this is my time and I have
Speaker 1: to shine, and I don't. I think he's so extraordinary
Speaker 1: at what he does at the quarterback position and just
Speaker 1: who he is mentally, Like, he's really smart, and I
Speaker 1: just think he's dialed into this thing. Yeah, it certainly
Speaker 1: feels that way. And it does feel like that he's
Speaker 1: had somewhat different temperament um with the media in particular,
Speaker 1: or just maybe a little bit more of an openness
Speaker 1: and accessibility. It feels like, even with the COVID restrictions
Speaker 1: that we've all been dealing with in the last two years. Um.
Speaker 1: And he did talk a little bit today about the
Speaker 1: impact that's some of his teammates and coaches have had
Speaker 1: on his demeanor and the way he interacts with teammates
Speaker 1: and coaches, which of course comes with age two. Right,
Speaker 1: But how did you kind of observe those the experiences
Speaker 1: he was talking about in that fashion. Yeah, Thomas actually
Speaker 1: brought one of them up with Joe Philbin, right, who
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with from a coaching standpoint
Speaker 1: to player standpoint, Um, I think Rogers and many respects
Speaker 1: is misunderstood. And I think that he is at a
Speaker 1: point in the last two years in which he is
Speaker 1: literally guiding this ship with Matt his coach, and so
Speaker 1: much of what happens on the field is because of twelve.
Speaker 1: And I think that he has gratitude that we don't see.
Speaker 1: And I think he's just at a point if I
Speaker 1: were too and I don't like to ever, you know,
Speaker 1: put my words in somebody else and what have you,
Speaker 1: where he's like, this is the truth, this is who
Speaker 1: I am. And even though there was a little misq
Speaker 1: in the truth at some point along the way. We
Speaker 1: won't get into that. But um, I just think that
Speaker 1: he cares about his teammates and I know that because
Speaker 1: I've talked to them. Rhett, Like, if I went and
Speaker 1: I said to everybody at NFL Network, what kind of
Speaker 1: guy is Rhett Lewis? People love you because your person
Speaker 1: yeah right, yeah, person though that that that becomes your
Speaker 1: that becomes who you are. And internally with the Packers
Speaker 1: talked to lots of coaches and lots of players. They
Speaker 1: love their teammates. They think he's a great leader. He
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones talked about it this week, how he may
Speaker 1: have expectations of you, but he's willing to lead you
Speaker 1: and guide you to get to those places. And I
Speaker 1: think A. J. Dillon is a really good example of that.
Speaker 1: How he's developed in past protection and the receiving game.
Speaker 1: A lot of that has to do with Rogers and
Speaker 1: his belief in him and um taking him under his
Speaker 1: wing is here's here's where you need to go with this.
Speaker 1: He does it with his offensive line. Uh. And and
Speaker 1: they played hard for him, that old line plays like
Speaker 1: they go all out for that guy. And to think
Speaker 1: about Billy Turner has been out and you know, Elton,
Speaker 1: all of them, and and to still achieve the results
Speaker 1: they're getting speaks to that position. So I just I
Speaker 1: think to your original question, Um, he's pretty coveted in
Speaker 1: that locker room. Just lastly, because you've talked about the
Speaker 1: last dance here a little bit, do you feel like
Speaker 1: any of this piece, this flow state that he's talking
Speaker 1: about is a result of just kind of understanding and
Speaker 1: being okay with where he is in his relationship with
Speaker 1: the Packers, even if that means it's ending this year.
Speaker 1: I think he is. I think he's very comfortable rat
Speaker 1: to your point at where he is in his shoes.
Speaker 1: I think he's so gifted and so good. Now it's
Speaker 1: like going to adjustin Timberlake concert. It's you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get every time you watch him, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like you know you're going to get a performance that's
Speaker 1: gonna blow the joint. And I think Justin knows and
Speaker 1: I'm not staying there the same or whatever. But like
Speaker 1: I think of great musicians, I think of extraordinary musicians.
Speaker 1: What are you going to get when you go to
Speaker 1: the concert? Are you going to get an average performance?
Speaker 1: Are you're gonna get the best? I just they know
Speaker 1: they're the best. Everybody knows they're the best. And they'll
Speaker 1: probably end up doing a world tour when they're finished.
Speaker 1: So you know, last dance world tour, let's say it.
Speaker 1: You never know, that's great. It's a great way to
Speaker 1: put it, uh Stacy and and look, you know the
Speaker 1: dance is going to continue, um, you know, for as
Speaker 1: long as they can keep themselves alive. Here in the
Speaker 1: postseason and March towards Super Bowl fifty six, here in
Speaker 1: l A. We know that three other teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC North didn't have that opportunity. Lines were eliminated with
Speaker 1: first year head coach Dan Campbell, and now the rest
Speaker 1: of the division starting from scratch do gms and new
Speaker 1: head coaches in Chicago in Minnesota still to come, also
Speaker 1: still to come on this episode of Benefit Inside Report
Speaker 1: back here on NFL in Side Report are Stacy Dale's
Speaker 1: back here with us and expertly covers the NFC North
Speaker 1: and so much more throughout the NFL for US, and
Speaker 1: so I felt like you were the perfect person to
Speaker 1: talk to about the half of the division starting over
Speaker 1: with new decision makers in the football operations side of
Speaker 1: the personnel side. Terms of the Bears firing Ryan paces
Speaker 1: GM Matt Naggi is head coach, and then the Viking
Speaker 1: somewhat surprisingly firing GM. Rick Spielman thought maybe Mike zimmer
Speaker 1: might go. He ends up going as well, So completely
Speaker 1: new power structure there for both those franchises. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the Bears, and does the futility at quarterback ultimately
Speaker 1: come back as the origin point for why we're back
Speaker 1: at square one for Chicago? Yeah, Because if you don't
Speaker 1: have the right quarterback head coach combination or coordinator combination,
Speaker 1: and you lose, You don't, you don't last in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's just to cause an effect. And let me clarify,
Speaker 1: that's not to say that Justin Fields is not going
Speaker 1: to be the solution, but all of the people who
Speaker 1: tried and failed before Justin certainly led to this point
Speaker 1: as well. That's correct, that's correct. What's interesting is that
Speaker 1: you know, um, George mccoskey took over his chairman in
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. Four head cotches have been relieved of
Speaker 1: their duties, Three g ms have been relieved of their duties,
Speaker 1: So that's a ten year span. So when you consider that,
Speaker 1: what has the quarterback done right, Jay Cutler, and then
Speaker 1: what you bring in guys like Mike Glennon and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles and Andy Dalton, and now you draft Justin fields
Speaker 1: in Matt Risky. Excuse me, I got a great guy?
Speaker 1: How could I leave him off the list? But my
Speaker 1: point being was there have been sort of a revolving
Speaker 1: door of quarterbacks and coaches right now. I just think
Speaker 1: the Bears. It's your point right on Justin Fields, like
Speaker 1: this guy has a lot of potential. One way stumbling
Speaker 1: trying to cut it back. Justin magic back touched. And
Speaker 1: that's why the George Murkaski press conference end of season
Speaker 1: exit press conference was so interesting because he never even
Speaker 1: really mentioned Justin's name. I do think that while he's
Speaker 1: going to hire, it'll be his decision on the GM
Speaker 1: and the coach. He's got to give them some freedom here,
Speaker 1: He's got to give them. He admitted, I'm not an evaluator.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of football. I'm just a fan. I'm
Speaker 1: not a football evaluator. Um And as a fan, what
Speaker 1: I see as a dynamic player with a lot of potential,
Speaker 1: a lot of ability, a lot of heart, and a
Speaker 1: strong work ethic. So if he's not evaluating the quarterback,
Speaker 1: who is he wants to know what kind of plan
Speaker 1: they have for Justin fields. So we're looking for a
Speaker 1: general manager and a head coach who would develop not
Speaker 1: just the quarterback position, but the talent around him and
Speaker 1: establishing a strong defense, help the quarterback to bring the
Speaker 1: Bears to success. M Justin will not be an active
Speaker 1: part of the search process, but we'll be very interested
Speaker 1: to hear from both general manager and head coach candidates
Speaker 1: what their plan is to get the most out of
Speaker 1: the quarterback position for us, and I would hope that
Speaker 1: they have a plan for him because I think he's
Speaker 1: tremendously talented. I think with the right system for him,
Speaker 1: I really believe. I mean you would you could speak
Speaker 1: on this. Building a system around the quarterback regardless of
Speaker 1: who that guy is allow you to be successful, right,
Speaker 1: So you know, I just I think that there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be determined with fields, and I think you
Speaker 1: need the perfect pairing head coach and GM and give
Speaker 1: them some freedom. But sure, sure you better hope they
Speaker 1: have some stability because there's been a lot of turnover
Speaker 1: at the coaching and the GM position in Chicago, and
Speaker 1: fans are frankly because I live in this area of
Speaker 1: the country, they're they're tired. Yeah, is there a I
Speaker 1: mean like they've obviously been interviewing a ton of guys
Speaker 1: and requesting a ton of both head coach and GM interviews,
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, like in New York they're gonna hire
Speaker 1: the GM first. In Minnesota, sounds like they're gonna hire
Speaker 1: the GM first and then let the GM make the
Speaker 1: head coaching higher. It seems like in Chicago kind of
Speaker 1: had a bunch of both. Uh, candidates for both positions
Speaker 1: come in a kind of at the same time. Is
Speaker 1: there a formula that they want this thing to look like?
Speaker 1: I mean, like, have you have you gathered anything on
Speaker 1: that front? Well, based upon watching how this process has
Speaker 1: been laid out, when you see a guy like Ed
Speaker 1: Dodds and Matt Eberflews come from Indie or you see
Speaker 1: Joe Shane um and mode models of success but also
Speaker 1: internally linked to that success as a as a team.
Speaker 1: So I'm a I'm almost starting to den know that
Speaker 1: some of what the Bears are doing is they want
Speaker 1: to they wanna a tag team combination that know each other,
Speaker 1: that have a plan together. Um, but it seems counterintuitive
Speaker 1: or counterproductive to you know, hire a head coach without
Speaker 1: first getting the GM because to me, you just you
Speaker 1: start there. Well, you'd like to have a good relationship,
Speaker 1: like like a symbiotic relationship between those two people, since
Speaker 1: they're going to be linked in almost every decision that's made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And also the other interesting wrinkle here is Bill Pollian's involved. Right,
Speaker 1: He's been hired as a consultant. He's obviously had a
Speaker 1: great deal of success, success both with the aforementioned Bills
Speaker 1: and historically and the Colts. Um, he's one super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's hired great head coaches, a Tony
Speaker 1: Dungee like um, But where do you where does that
Speaker 1: lie in terms of your investment? Right? I think Bill
Speaker 1: Pollian is somebody, as I've watched over the years, has integrity,
Speaker 1: and you know, it strikes me as somebody who wants
Speaker 1: to always do the right thing for the team. He's
Speaker 1: not Chicago Bear after this, so you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm cure all be curious to see how much that
Speaker 1: impacts his his presence impacts the decision making process along
Speaker 1: the way. But again, they got a strike. They've got
Speaker 1: a strike gold and uh. The other interesting part of
Speaker 1: it is, you know mc george was asked, are you
Speaker 1: gonna involve you know, justin fields in this? And you
Speaker 1: can laugh at this, you might not, But if this
Speaker 1: is the quarterback of your future, you know, shouldn't you know?
Speaker 1: You have an idea of what he likes, at least
Speaker 1: sitting down with him and saying what kind of offense
Speaker 1: do you like? Do you want to be a traditional
Speaker 1: pocket Paszard? Do you want to do you want to
Speaker 1: be more of a Josh Allen do you want to
Speaker 1: be at Kyler Murray? Like what what do you? What
Speaker 1: are you looking for? And how can we marry this
Speaker 1: thing for success? Now? I look at Minnesota right and
Speaker 1: I look at the quarterback situation with Kirk and here's
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback a decade in and what's really interesting
Speaker 1: is his best season of his entire career was in
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen first playoff win. I think, right, um,
Speaker 1: they go ten and five and if that's the best
Speaker 1: season in your career and they don't have success, how
Speaker 1: what are you? How are they going to be looking
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position in terms of the new GM
Speaker 1: and the new head coach because a lot of people are,
Speaker 1: you know, up or down on Kirk Cousins outside of
Speaker 1: his brilliant numbers. I mean, the guy can he can
Speaker 1: dance out there with the football. But you know he's
Speaker 1: got talent. There's a lot of talent in Minnesota. When
Speaker 1: I look at their roster, I'm thinking, like justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: and Westbrook and Delvin Cook and Madison, like they got
Speaker 1: talent for days on that roster. The defense has to
Speaker 1: be way better. But how does Kirk Cousins fit into
Speaker 1: that long term picture of a new GM and head coach, big,
Speaker 1: big part of it. I mean, because it's in some
Speaker 1: shape or form, you're gonna be tied to the decision
Speaker 1: to either keep him or cut him one way or another,
Speaker 1: and for better or worse, like you're you're gonna be
Speaker 1: tied to that decision. And then I'll bring this back
Speaker 1: here as we kind of bring the Packers back into
Speaker 1: the fold. Um. They're the gold standard in the division,
Speaker 1: right and have been for the last you know, two
Speaker 1: decades whatever it is. Um. And so I remember talking
Speaker 1: um when the when the Lions drafted and Dominican Sue
Speaker 1: and the rest of the division saw how dominant Sue was.
Speaker 1: It felt like teams in the division, We're going out
Speaker 1: and drafting to try to stop Sue, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw Kyle Long drafted from the Chicago Bears. That
Speaker 1: will be kind of that nasty force in the interior
Speaker 1: of the offensive line. It feels like, I mean like,
Speaker 1: if I'm the Bears and the Vikings, I gotta be
Speaker 1: thinking what am I doing to beat the Packers? Because
Speaker 1: the quickest way to the playoffs is to win the division, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I love this, but you
Speaker 1: might not even have to worry about it because as
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers going to be that their next well, that's true,
Speaker 1: that's true. Jordan Love is going to be the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And now the conversation is completely different now if he
Speaker 1: stays it's it's like when Tom Brady went to the
Speaker 1: NFC South. Well, Drew Brees retired and Tom has been right.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm going to the South. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get into the sun and the weather and the Florida
Speaker 1: you know scene, and uh, this is my division now.
Speaker 1: And now Josh Allen runs the CS so correct. Correct.
Speaker 1: So I'm but I like what you just said though
Speaker 1: about you know, the you know, as far as inheriting quarterbacks, um,
Speaker 1: because Mitch Drabinsky was inherited in Chicago and that wasn't
Speaker 1: Naggie's guy. So so this is a really complicated, messy,
Speaker 1: dicey thing. And you also can look at the way
Speaker 1: things ended for Mike Zimmer in Minnesota. It was weird,
Speaker 1: you know, doing some sort of a meeting with his
Speaker 1: players about and I've always been a Mike Zimmer fan, um,
Speaker 1: you know, power Point or something on all the misques
Speaker 1: that have happened to him along the way, and the
Speaker 1: reported an alleged discrinal nature between he and Rick's feelman
Speaker 1: and who's also been there for so long. There's just
Speaker 1: a lot of culture to clean up, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: having been an athlete, and I understand having been an athlete,
Speaker 1: culture is everything and until you get your your new
Speaker 1: your new staff better be culturally bound from where they
Speaker 1: come from or where they were at having a reputation
Speaker 1: for good culture. So you think of a guy like
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. Yeah, he declined a little bit when he
Speaker 1: was in Atlanta, but he always had a good culture.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm all about what's the culture? How are
Speaker 1: you going to develop the quarterback? Let's start there. And
Speaker 1: that's what these teams in this division that this NFC
Speaker 1: NFC North need to do. And you look at the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. They hired Dan Campbell to change culture more
Speaker 1: than anything. So we'll see. Well, Stacy, it's been a
Speaker 1: blast getting caught up on the NFC North with you
Speaker 1: and getting set for this fantastic playoff matchup between the
Speaker 1: Packers and the forty Niners. Stay warm, look forward to
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