WEBVTT - Is Lamar Jackson NFL QB1? Herbert Overrated? Fire Tomlin? CA Fires 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.360 Unafraid Show Daily Live, and this is a little bit 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.760 of a departure from what we normally make, which is 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:16.759 the college football content. Unafraid Show Daily is back, people. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.480 We will be here Monday through Thursday in the afternoon 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:25.159 and then on Tuesday nights, Thursday nights and Sundays we 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.400 will have the regularly scheduled college football content. So that's 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.880 not going anywhere. But we did want to make sure 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.159 that Hafter, I'm done with the nightcap and that we 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.319 can talk about all of these sports things going out 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.600 and out in the world. And today we got a 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.120 bunch of good things to talk about. Majority of them 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.960 come from the NFL world, and we have wild Card 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.199 weekend and there were some disappointments and we got to 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.120 ask some very tough questions. Number One, is Lamar Jackson 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.400 QB one in the NFL, Now that's the question, justin 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:03.240 Herbert the social media quarterback? And is Mike Tomlin should 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.280 he be fired in Pittsburgh? Should they part ways move on? 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.520 And everything in between? And we got to talk about 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.320 the California fires that are going on. So that's what 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.160 we got today. So but first before we even get started, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.000 I want to send prayers, thoughts and prayers to everybody 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.440 who has been affected by these fires. I've had friends, family, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.080 all sorts of people impacted by it. Houses burned down 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.039 and everything. My family is safe. We're grateful for it 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.440 and grateful for your prayers and thoughts and everybody who's 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.559 checked in. So we appreciate that. All right. So we'll 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.080 start though with NFL Wildcard weekend cause and it all 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:46.040 started really with Lamar Jackson and company in the Pittsburgh Steelers, 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.680 and how you know, we were gonna view everything that 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.400 happened with them. Lamar finished one hundred and seventy five 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.800 yards two touchdowns, and then he ran for another eighty 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.600 one yards as well, and they're twenty eight to fourteen 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.000 victory over Pittsburgh where I think at one point time 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.600 they're up twenty eight to nothing. And so we're gonna 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.960 start with the Lamar Jackson part of this because the 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.120 question is is Lamar Jackson QB one in the NFL now, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.680 as in the best quarterback in the National Football League 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.400 Because there's a lot of people that want to put 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.480 that on Josh Allen because he was the guy that 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.160 they wanted to be the MVP. Oh, they were pushing. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.000 And but now when you come with Lamar Jackson winning 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.680 the division highest inner touchdown interception ratio in NFL history, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.560 now all of a sudden, the whole MVP race changed. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.880 And I believe that Lamar will win MVP now because 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.040 he was voted first team All Pro, which a lot 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.880 of those voters are saying, people that vote for the MVP. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:46.639 So I'm not sure how you can have a guy 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.320 who is first team All Pro but then not the MVP. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.959 I know we've seen it in the NBA where Lebron 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.880 was first team All NBA Defense, Mark Gasol was second 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.519 team defense, but he won defensive plaarity. I know sometimes 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.160 weird stuff happens, but I'd be willing to bet that 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.880 Lamar Jackson wins. And remember, this is a guy who 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.440 Bill Pollion and other people when he came out of 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.760 Louisville were like, yo, he's not a quarterback, he's a 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.880 running Essentially, what they were saying was is that he's 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.000 a running black. That's what it was. Because so many 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.320 times talent evaluators and everything else they don't know how 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.200 to well, they're getting a better job now of understanding 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:35.360 how to deal with a person's athleticism, because a quarterback's athleticism, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.680 because it used to just be oh, we're gonna throw 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.600 him at wide receiver, put him at running back. He 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.440 could make exposed to plays for us. When in reality 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.000 is if you have that type of dynamic player with 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.480 the ball in his hands every single play and he 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.400 can process and has the arm talent to be able 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.000 to do it, that's the position. Well in the leadership 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.840 ability as well, that's the position that he should be 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.480 playing and not any of those other positions because of 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:04.120 the magnetude of the position. So we've seen Lamar Jackson 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.760 develop as a passer every single year. And I was 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.840 looking at his stats and I was like, wait, hold up. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.240 We all know that this is his best year in 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.480 terms of touchdown passes. His previous high was his first 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.680 MVP year in twenty nineteen, where he thirty six touchdowns 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.560 six interceptions. Well, this year forty one and four, but 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.159 he threw for over four thousand yards for the first 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:33.400 time in his career. So we've watched through his seven 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.280 years in the NFL, We've watched that guy get better 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.320 and better and better as a passer every single year. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.200 Then the narrative was, well, he can't win in the playoffs. Well, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.359 he's winning in the playoffs and winning in a dominant 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:51.360 fashion now, and I believe for this season, Lamar Jackson 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.040 is QB one. He was the best quarterback in the 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.440 NFL in twenty twenty four. I still have Patrick Mahomes 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.520 number one in my overall, but after this this year, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.040 this is something where if Lamar is able to get 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.440 his team past Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs or to 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.800 a super Bowl winner super Bowl, now we may have 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.160 to have a legitimate conversation not just off of one season, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.600 but next year that could really change them overall rankings, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.600 because right now, I got Lamar Jackson number one best 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.240 quarterback in the NFL for twenty twenty four. Pay attention 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.920 to the details. For twenty twenty four, Lamar Jackson was 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.159 the best quarterback is the best quarterback in the NFL. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.200 I got Joe Burrow number two, got Josh Allen number three, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.520 Patrick Mahomes number four, and Jared Goff number five, and 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.840 then after that we got like Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.400 the rest of the crew. Those are the rankings that 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.240 we got for this year, and we got to be 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.279 able to get new information and say, yo, what that 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.640 dude doing is special? And look is wide receiver corps. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.520 He's got Zay Flowers, who's out who's a good player obviously, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:10.800 Rashad Bateman, Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely. He's not playing with 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:16.720 t Higgins and Jamar Chase. He's not playing with that. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.520 He's not playing with Justin Jefferson. He's not playing with 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.479 any of the top, like the top five to ten 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.800 wide receivers in the entire league. That's not what he's 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.200 playing with. I can't even imagine if he had those guys. Now, 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.719 with what he's been able to do, and you look 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:41.479 at the maturation from the original offense that he was 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:46.039 into now what he's done with todp Monkin love it. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.720 But also in that game though the Steelers were playing, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.240 and of course Mike Tomlin around this time of year, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.080 he becomes an absolute lightning rod. People got their hot 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.720 takes and everything that they think about Mike. Well, the 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.599 question is should Mike Tomlin be fired? Should Pittsburgh move 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.479 on from him? Now, one school of thought, if you 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.600 fire Mike Tomlin, he's gonna have a job in ten 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.240 minutes if he wants one. There are a bunch of 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.960 coaches who will fire their coaches to have Mike Tomlin. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.760 Now Here are Mike Tomlin's strengths right, his best strength. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.280 And I know people who coach for him currently, know 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.119 coaches who've coached for him in the past. They all 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:32.040 talk about two things, his leadership and his consistency. And 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.120 to be a head coach in the NFL, you have 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.760 to be a great leader of men. And Mike Tomlins 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.040 has obviously won a super Bowl in the beginning of 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.520 his tenure with Ben Roethlisberger everything else, and at that 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.880 point in time, their defense wasn't as good as it 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.440 is now well, despite how bad they looked against the 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:57.200 Ravens in the playoffs, but he has built a culture 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:02.120 there where people are trusted. People trust him, they believe 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.040 in him, They know his consistency, and I believe that fans. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.360 Of course, you grow tired of being just pretty good, right, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.840 and you want to get to the mountaintop. But I've 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.480 always believed that fans actually have a tougher time with 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.120 their team. Yo yo, and like being good being bad 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.640 and you win a championship, be sorry is held in the 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.120 next few years, and so you have to applaud Mike 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:29.320 Tomlin's consistency, but where I believe, I would not fire 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.120 Mike Tomlin. However, though, I do believe that Mike Tomlin 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.040 needs a reset, and not a reset on his characters, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.480 well on his character, not a reset on his morals, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.160 not a reset on his leadership, not of any of 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.480 those things. I think he needs a reset on his 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.280 offensive philosophy. I never like the hire of Arthur Smith 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.480 as his offensive coordinator, and I do believe that he's 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.800 got a step into the modern age and just the 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.560 whole thinking about offense. He's got to hire one of 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:10.120 these hot shot young Ben Johnson type offensive geniuses on 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.280 offense and let them cook. That's what he's got to do. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.880 And he's done a good job hiring at other positions 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:26.000 and put together a good, loyal, reliable staff. And I 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.080 know he doesn't like to make a lot of changes, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.640 but that's probably the one change that Mike Tomlin needs 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:36.040 to make, is an offensive philosophy change. Say hold up, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.719 hold up. I know that this is my team and 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.960 this is my imprint everywhere, but what I need to 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.000 do is say hold up, hold up. I gotta do 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.680 something like Nick Saban did. And remember Nick Saban was 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.559 stuck in a less miles sec run and punt football 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.439 type of game, and then he woke up one day 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.120 and was like, oh, damn, I need a quarterback. I 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.439 gotta be at a throw to ball. We can line 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.920 up in four wideouts still be able to run the 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.880 football and everything else. He recognized that football was changing 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:10.640 and that he had to change his philosophy and the 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.959 way that he was going to run the team, because 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.360 it's not just getting a good offensive coordinator. It is 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.480 because the head coach rains down in terms of the 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.760 way that the team will operate and the mentality. You 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:30.240 look at a guy like Dan Campbell over in Detroit. Yes, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.360 Ben Johnson is really good at doing his job. But 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.920 if Dan Campbell was being more conservative and was like, 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.400 we're not going for it on fourth downs like it's 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.160 fourth and inches, punt the football and all that stuff, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.440 that then changes the whole mentality of the team. It 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.360 changes the mentality of Ben Johnson as a play caller, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.920 everything in between. So that's where Mike Tomlin has to 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.720 have some sort of growth, right And now, do I 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.680 believe his message is running stale in Pittsburgh? Absolutely not. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.719 His team goes out and plays hard. He finds a way, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.680 no matter what you give him at quarterback, finds a 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.000 way to put together a winning record every single year. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.080 So if number one, you can find him a quarterback, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.679 and truth be told, you don't even need to have 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:24.120 a great quarterback. You need a good quarterback. When you 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.000 look at what a team like the Minnesota Vikings has 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.280 done and Kevin O'Connell, what he's been able to do 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.120 with Sam Darnold, that's what he needs. He needs the 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:41.880 Kevin O'Connell in Pittsburgh. That's what he needs. Because your 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.880 quarterback play can work in the right system, if you 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:51.400 have the right offensive prowess, you can make it work. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.280 Just like a guy like Kyle Shanahan, He's made it 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.520 work with lesser quarterbacks. Brock Thurty's not a top five, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.160 top ten passer in the league, but does he look 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.120 like it a lot of times one hundred percent because 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.240 you're able to run the system and it works and 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.520 everything else. So that's important. So I would not fire 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.040 Mike Tomlin, but there is some consideration that he's got 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.480 to do some things significantly differently. What else is going on? 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:25.160 So over with the Philadelphia egos. This team is clearly good. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.400 They won their playoff game. Everybody is, you know, joyous 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.400 and excited. They beat the Packers twenty two to twenty 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.800 last night, and you're like, hold up, hold up. Jalen 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.079 Hurts threw for one hundred and thirty one yards two touchdowns. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.760 But the male content showed up again, and the mal 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.080 content is aj Brown, who finished the game one catch 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.680 for ten yards. Now, part of this is wide receiver 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:59.240 diva wide receiver because you just won an NFL playoff game. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.480 You dominated the game twenty two to ten, and you're 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:07.960 upset that you only had one catch and visibly upset 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.640 in front of the media to where they know that 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:16.240 there's a problem with something. And yes, I do understand 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.480 as a pass catcher that you want to be involved 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.240 in the offense. You don't want to be out there 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.600 just doing cardio routes. You want to or running for 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.000 the love of the game. You want to be you 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.320 want to feel like you contribute it to the winning. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.679 But sometimes that's not going to happen and it's gotta 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:37.040 be okay. And you pouting in the locker room is lame. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.079 AJ Brown pouting? Oh Man I'm not gonna say anything. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.880 You're actually saying something. Don't do that. You are actually 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.000 to the rest of your teammates. Everybody is looking at 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.440 you like this, dude, bro, I get that you want passes, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.320 but we won in the playoffs. We are one step 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:01.559 closer to winning a Super Bowl. Maybe next game you'll 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.679 have thirteen catches for one hundred and seventy eight yards. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:10.040 Maybe that's the case and it'll all balance out. But 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:16.920 this sort of attitude only brings up, only brings a distraction, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.720 a disturbance in that locker room. And I wonder if 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:27.600 Justin of Justin Jalen Hurts comments about him reading that 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.600 book on the sideline because and if you don't know, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.920 aj Brown brings that book on the sideline, Apparently nobody 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.680 had really paid attention, and everybody just asked him, why 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.400 the hell is he reading the book on the sideline, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.040 and he was like, oh, it helps me with my 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.920 mental game. It's all mental and okay whatever, and they 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.800 asked Jalen Hurst. Jalen Hurts says, I've seen him with 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:52.120 the book. I never seen him read it though, And 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.680 I don't know if that was a shot or not, 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.320 because Jalen Hurst looks like the dude, like the dry eyes, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.560 clear eyes, the yeah, the clear eyes, guy who can 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.720 tell a joke with a straight face, and you know, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.720 and he's telling a joke or was there a little 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.160 bit of seriousness behind it? Because I do not believe 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.360 that the problems that AJ Brown presented this season about 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.320 Jalen Hurts are going to be fixed no matter what. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.440 And if I'm the Eagles, I'm probably shipping AJ Brown 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.440 out after this season, no matter what happens, because I 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.160 don't believe that you can necessarily win a championship with 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:35.560 a guy who is this unhappy sixty seven catches, one 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.480 hundred thousand and seventy nine yards and seven touchdowns, and 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:44.360 I know that he's like, this isn't my usual production. Well, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.720 in twenty twenty four you only played thirteen games, so 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.800 that contributed to it. And last year you had one 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.800 hundred and six catches for fourteen hundred yards, like every 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.240 year is not going to be a career year and 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.800 you but you did go for your third straight thousand 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.800 yard season, and that's got to be the thing. And 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.920 you focus on how do we get better? How do 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.920 I get open better? How can we change the offense 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.120 so it's cleaner for the quarterback, so we can all 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.080 eat better. But for you to be complaining on a 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:20.360 team that has that finished fourteen and three and just 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.640 won a playoff game, those are off season concerns that 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.920 you need to address. Don't be a powder in the 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.320 locker room. Don't do it. It's not good. The next 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.200 thing up that we gotta discuss is Justin Herbert, a 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.240 social media quarterback, is getting way too much praise and 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:41.560 all of this stuff. This is easy target, man. This 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.760 is a dude who is a one hundred percent easy target. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.440 It is easy for people to look at Justin Herbert 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.920 and say, oh my god, he's overrated. Look at his 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.680 playoff wins, Look at the last three must win games. Yeah, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.080 was that Jacksonville game where they lost what a twenty 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.320 seven point lead in the in the play of a 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:05.600 couple years ago? Was that bad? But situations and nuanced matters. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.639 There's a reason why the Chargers fired their most recent 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.080 head coach, Brandon Staley. He was supposed to be a 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.520 defensive genius. Justin Herbert is putting up all type of 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:25.600 crazy stats and you're not surrounding him with a decent defense, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.879 like your overall defense is that his entire over his 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.639 entire career with Brandon Staley, averaged like twenty three to 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.800 twenty four in the league. And you're supposed to be 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.320 a defensive guy. They're like, oh, but the best quarterbacks win. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.639 The best quarterbacks typically have good defenses too. Tom Brady 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.399 never well, actually only two seasons in his entire career 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:54.320 finished with a defense that was not top ten. You 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.760 don't think that that helps with your offense sputters, or 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.440 you have some tough times, or your wideouts are are hurt, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.520 not pay well, anything like that. You don't think that helps. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:08.600 It absolutely does. So Justin Herbert is an easy target. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.200 He is the guy that Emmanuel Acho is pointed out 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.920 like that he's going to go get So he actually 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.480 needs Justin Herbert to make the playoffs every year, have 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.280 some success, so then he can bang this drum. He 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.560 can bang it all year next year. We don't care 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.200 what happens in the regular season. We need to see 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.639 what you're gonna do in the playoffs. Well, he's on 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:36.440 the first season with a brand new coach the Chargers. Inexplicably, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.720 if we're being honest, the Chargers inexplicably went eleven and 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.360 six this year. Nobody thought that that was going on. Nobody, 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.760 And you look at their offensive weapons. They got JK. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.320 Dobbins and Gus Edwards at running back. Those are two 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.160 decent backs, neither one of them special. And your best 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:05.040 wide receiver is a rookie in lab McConkie. Yes he's good, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.760 Yes he had a great game nine for one ninety 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.920 seven and a touchdown. But that's all you got. A 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:18.119 slot guy, that's what you got because Quinton Johnston, former 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.600 first round pick out of TCU, has not been good. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:26.679 DJ Chark has just been okay. Will Disley's been cool, 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.680 Like what are we doing? So, yes, this is Jim 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.639 Harbaugh's first year. They were getting by this year on 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:39.359 playing on, like on being scrappy, like damn near like 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.879 Dan Campbell's second year with the Lions. They pull you 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.920 down and then they beat you. They drag you down 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.320 in the mud and then they beat you. That's exactly 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.680 what this Chargers team did. So the idea that Justin 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.359 Herbert somehow sucks that he's not a good quarterback, social 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.840 media quarterback, all of this stuff in between it is 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:06.359 absolute nonsense. Now, year two when the Chargers re up 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.080 their their wide receiver core because they have to this offseason. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.760 If they go next year and they lose in the 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.960 first round of the playoffs and Justin Herbert has a 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.080 has a you know, a bad game, then then yes, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.840 that's something to talk about. But Herbert finished fourteen for 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.840 thirty two, which is below fifty percent, two hundred and 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.520 forty two yards, one touchdown, four picks. Two of the 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.200 picks were his fault. Twoitte picks were not his fault, 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:38.040 but the quarterback gets charged with all four. But let's 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.840 be nuanced in the situation if you're not putting together 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:43.720 because it number one of it is hard to win 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.520 in the NFL playoffs hard. The better teams almost always 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.200 win because they're well coached. That's how they got to 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:56.040 the playoffs. But the more talented teams typically win playoff games, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:01.320 especially in the earlier rounds. So let's not make a mistake, 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.480 and let's actually judge Justin Herbert on what the dude 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:09.399 has done, Like we did thirty eight hundred yards, twenty 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.360 three touchdowns, three picks with this wide receiver corps. Oh 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.000 and you know, oh my god, I can't believe he's 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.200 doing it. So what did you expect with the playoffs? 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.080 I mean, like, let's be honest, did we expect the 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.680 Chargers to end up in the AFC Championship game after 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:29.280 watching them this season? No? So why then attack a player, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.200 call them a social media quarterback because you're looking for clicks. 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.520 This is engagement bait and we see it for what 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.119 it is. All right. Oh, the last thing that we 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:46.480 got to talk about is the La fires. And I'm 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.040 here in La so obviously I got a first hand 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:54.200 seat at what's going on. And yes, it is rough 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.640 out here, but let's dispel a few myths and narratives. 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.320 Number One, the whole city is not on fire, despite 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.199 what you're seeing on the news. The whole city is 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.439 not on fire. Are there two very significant fires that 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:12.359 have happened. Yes, the Eating fire out in Altadena, Pasadena, 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:17.200 which has destroyed thousands of structures and people's homes, businesses, 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:22.159 everything in between, and the Palisades fire, and both of 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:26.240 them are still raging, so yes, majorly affected. Then there 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.280 was a fire in Hollywood that burned up a couple 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.080 structures too. They were able to get that one under control. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.359 The one that was close by me the Kenneth fire, 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.400 they were able to get that under control. So Number one, 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.399 want to give credit to our fire department. Want to 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:45.480 give credit to the inmates who are out here fighting 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.560 these fires, because there are a large portion of the 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.160 firefighters are inmates working for a dollar a day everything else, 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:56.280 and you know, trying to get time off and have 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.800 a career when they come out and everything else. So 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:03.159 number one, despite what the media tells, you know, the 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.280 city is not on fire. This is an interesting concept 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:13.040 because half the city is operating like normal, like businesses going, 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.560 people are going out to go eat all of this stuff. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.600 But then you have another quarter of the population who 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.640 is impacted by the fire, whether it's close to them, 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.480 whether they have been evacuated where they're constantly feeling the 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:35.040 stress of the evacuation and everything else. And so that's 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:38.439 a quarter of the population, like people who are living 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.199 under this stress with their kids out of school and 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:43.320 everything else. And then you have another quarter of the 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:48.280 population who has directly been impacted by their house burned down, 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.480 that happened to their family, something like that. So the 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:56.639 entire city is not impacted. There are certain pockets of 0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:00.720 areas that have been dramatically impacted and life has come 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:06.040 to a grinding halt there. And it has even moved 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:12.959 the NFL game this Yeah, it also moved an NFL 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.960 playoff game which is gonna happen tonight where you have 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:19.919 the vikings and the rams, which was supposed to happen 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:22.280 at so far, but then they moved it down to Glendale, 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.160 Arizona instead. I probably would have liked to see him 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:28.080 go to Vegas because that probably feels a little bit closer. 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:32.000 But anyways, so the games in Glendale, Arizona instead, and 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:37.399 ironically it's at State Farm of Stadium, where a State 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.320 Farm Stadium where just so happens to be one of 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.840 the companies that has dropped a lot of people's fire 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:46.000 insurance out here in California. But that leads to the 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:51.399 second point. You've had everybody from President Trump to people 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:57.800 who are Democrats, Republicans, everybody in between, criticizing Karen Bass, 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:05.919 criticizing Gavin News everything else. There is fair blame to 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:10.119