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Speaker 1: So it's twenty one nothing Green Bay at half, and
Speaker 1: you know the Saints have like thirty five yards passing,
Speaker 1: So I thought, I'm just going to do a fifteen
Speaker 1: minute pod if the Saints come back and win. Screw
Speaker 1: what I said. That's the least competitive football game I
Speaker 1: have watched in the NFL, certainly that I've watched every
Speaker 1: play of this year. And I'm going to get back
Speaker 1: to that game in a second. And it has to
Speaker 1: do with the Packers. But you know, one of the
Speaker 1: things I'm proudest of. I do a segment every Monday
Speaker 1: called Colin Wright and Colin is Wrong, and it's one
Speaker 1: of my higher segments I've ever done. Every week. And
Speaker 1: I do think people appreciate just saying, hey, I whiffed
Speaker 1: on something. And I've said before that I'm I'm willing
Speaker 1: to change my mind if I get no information. And
Speaker 1: I was thinking about watching the Packers tonight about I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example of something I radically changed my
Speaker 1: mind on. So I would say, forty years ago, I
Speaker 1: liked the Olympics far more than the World Cup. And
Speaker 1: the reason was is at forty and forty five years ago,
Speaker 1: when I'm you know, fifteen years old, twenty years old,
Speaker 1: college student, high school student, and as somebody that absolutely
Speaker 1: loved sports, you didn't get three straight weeks of sports.
Speaker 1: You didn't have this proliferation of regional networks and local networks.
Speaker 1: You know, when I was a kid growing up fifteen
Speaker 1: years old, you got an NBC Baseball Game of the week.
Speaker 1: You know, I lived in around Seattle. I couldn't get
Speaker 1: Mariner games except on radio. You couldn't watch Mariner games.
Speaker 1: And I you know, I was a kid from divorce.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the money to go to Mariner games.
Speaker 1: It was a two and a half hour drive. I
Speaker 1: lived on the each in Westport, Washington. So you know,
Speaker 1: like once every five years, I'd go to a Mariner game.
Speaker 1: So the Olympics, you know, for a sports obsessed fifteen
Speaker 1: and twenty year old, was three straight weeks of sports.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter that I didn't care about the sports
Speaker 1: at that point, I'd never skied. It didn't matter. I'd
Speaker 1: watch the Winter Olympics. I wasn't in track, I didn't care.
Speaker 1: I'd watched the Summer Olympics. It didn't matter. I still
Speaker 1: don't care about Olympic sports, most of them. But it
Speaker 1: was three straight weeks of sports. And then you have,
Speaker 1: over the course of the last forty forty five years,
Speaker 1: this proliferation of cable and again all these networks. I
Speaker 1: can turn on my television any day of the week
Speaker 1: and get twenty games. I mean, you can fish around
Speaker 1: on you know, a Tuesday and get you know, during
Speaker 1: the baseball season, I can watch every baseball team. So
Speaker 1: the Olympics now today don't feel as special to me
Speaker 1: because I didn't care about the sports and the Olympics
Speaker 1: then or now. But the fact that you got three
Speaker 1: straight weeks of sports was really unique. Now it's not.
Speaker 1: And so now you could have the Olympics. I'll watch
Speaker 1: the opening ceremonies, maybe a couple events. I just don't care.
Speaker 1: But I love the World Cup. Some of that is
Speaker 1: I worked at two networks with World Cup and soccer
Speaker 1: analysts and experts, so I'm around more soccer people, and frankly,
Speaker 1: you know, I every four years, you know, it's something new,
Speaker 1: it's something fresh. I mean, how many NBA games, how
Speaker 1: many football games? Can I watch? The quality of soccer
Speaker 1: is great. I know more about soccer. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it was the other place or Fox, I'll watch
Speaker 1: more soccer. A lot of my adult friends have given
Speaker 1: up baseball and they're more soccer friends fans. On a
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, they'll watch English Premier League, you know, and
Speaker 1: I have a lot of friends like that. I've also
Speaker 1: gone to Europe more in my life, so I'm just more.
Speaker 1: I'm just more into the World Cup than soccer. I've
Speaker 1: totally changed my opinion on that. And this is where
Speaker 1: I get back to the Packers. I always thought not
Speaker 1: having an owner was a disadvantage to the packers. Is
Speaker 1: that having a stan cronk who can literally as he's
Speaker 1: on the tarmac true story of flying out of the
Speaker 1: country can tell Sean McVay all right, go for it,
Speaker 1: Go get Matt Stafford. Like you know, it's gonna be expensive.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay for Jared Goff in Detroit and Stafford
Speaker 1: in LA. Let's go for it. Big advantage. But I'm
Speaker 1: watching the Packers tonight and think about this. Ten of
Speaker 1: thirty two teams in the NFL, thirty one percent of
Speaker 1: the NFL has five wins or fewer for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks to go. So the Saints have five and
Speaker 1: they'll lose tonight Carolina. The Jets in Chicago have four,
Speaker 1: four and eleven. Vegas, Cleveland, Tennessee, Jacksonville, and New England
Speaker 1: are three and twelve, and the Giants are two and thirteen.
Speaker 1: So that's ten of thirty two teams. That was only
Speaker 1: five last year. It's doubled. That is a really really
Speaker 1: large bottom and unwatchable part of the NFL feels very
Speaker 1: much like the NBA. It really does. I mean, thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the NBA or more as unwatchable. And I
Speaker 1: think there are two reasons for that number. One more
Speaker 1: and more because a rule changes and culture. Quarterback just
Speaker 1: means more. I mean, there's only one great quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's not going to make the playoffs. Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: cheapest owner in the league, terrible defense, shaky o line,
Speaker 1: and he's still fighting for a playoff spot. They may
Speaker 1: make it. Statistically very little chance, but they may make it.
Speaker 1: He's the only great quarterback that won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: If you have one year in, if you have a
Speaker 1: good rookie quarterback, Jayden Daniels, Boon Nicks, you're in. Michael Pennix,
Speaker 1: my guess now is going to win the remaining games
Speaker 1: for Atlanta, They'll be in. If you just have a
Speaker 1: competent rookie quarterback, a penex down the stretch, Bick, Jaden Daniels,
Speaker 1: You're Inquarterback's more important than ever. And number two is
Speaker 1: billionaire owners now the poorest owners billionaire and it wasn't
Speaker 1: like that ten years ago. And billionaire owners are less patient.
Speaker 1: Firing as staff and having to pay forty five million
Speaker 1: dollars is more of a rounding air, and so you
Speaker 1: have more chaos among coaching staffs and more chaos in
Speaker 1: the coaching community. So between it's more quarterback centric and
Speaker 1: more impulsive owners. You just have more hot messes in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I'm watching tonight. I mean, I'm one
Speaker 1: of these guys that can sit down and watch almost
Speaker 1: any NFL team, Giants, unwatchable, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas, hard
Speaker 1: to watch Carolina. With Bryce Young, I can watch a
Speaker 1: little Jets, Aaron Rodgers, I'll watch Chicago, I'll watch Saints tonight, unwatchable.
Speaker 1: So it's just interesting. It's something I've really changed my
Speaker 1: mine on is that having an owner I always thought
Speaker 1: was a huge advantage, But I think Green Bay going
Speaker 1: forward having no owner because I now believe because of
Speaker 1: the impulsive nature of billionaires, richer owners less patient, more impulsive.
Speaker 1: There's only about four to five great owners. I think
Speaker 1: the Hunt family in Kansas City's excellent. Stan Kronkey with
Speaker 1: the Rams is really excellent. You know Robert Kraft. People
Speaker 1: will argue he's frugal but pretty solid owner. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of average to below average owners right now.
Speaker 1: There's more good quarterbacks and good coaches in the NFL
Speaker 1: than great owners. And I think going forward, you're allowed
Speaker 1: to be much more patient. I mean, you're allowed to
Speaker 1: sit Aaron Rodgers on the bench for three years and grow.
Speaker 1: You couldn't do that if you had an owner. No
Speaker 1: way you could have a first round quarterback and not
Speaker 1: rush him onto the field. The owner would be harping
Speaker 1: every year. There's no way you could have Jordan Love
Speaker 1: sit for three years as Aaron was getting prickly and
Speaker 1: high maintenance and passive aggressive, and owner would have stepped
Speaker 1: in and said, ship him, let's play the kid. Just
Speaker 1: why do you think Green Bay, more than any NFL franchise,
Speaker 1: can keep using this formula, drafting, you know, high end
Speaker 1: quarterbacks first round and not playing him for three years.
Speaker 1: You could not do that. Even with a good owner.
Speaker 1: You couldn't do it. There'd be too much pressure. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you'd be surprised how often owners listen to
Speaker 1: sports talk and listen to fans. Gms are too busy
Speaker 1: to listen, so are coaches. Players don't really care. Billionaire
Speaker 1: owners who have people under them want to get the
Speaker 1: temperature of fans. In the media, and I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no question that New York media is influenced. Woody Johnson
Speaker 1: influenced by the New York media firing Robert Sala. No,
Speaker 1: everybody was banging on him. And if Woody Johnson's not listening,
Speaker 1: his kids are listening. We've heard stories about Woody Johnson's
Speaker 1: kids having influence. So I think it's a real advantage
Speaker 1: for Green Bay going forward. And I believe strongly in this,
Speaker 1: and I never used to think it is that as
Speaker 1: the wealth and the net worth has gone up ten
Speaker 1: times for owners, you don't have to worry about Brian
Speaker 1: Gouden Kunst, Mark Murphy. Who are they answering to the
Speaker 1: Packers board And it's you know, not a lot of
Speaker 1: power there. So you know, Washington Green Bay, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a coincidence that they have been able
Speaker 1: with the last two star quarterbacks to just let him
Speaker 1: sit for three years. No way in the world could
Speaker 1: you do that with an owner, even a good owner.
Speaker 1: So tip of the cat to the Packers. Some more
Speaker 1: thoughts on college football. There was a lot of angry
Speaker 1: reactions to college football, and I really thought the games
Speaker 1: would be more competitive. But in retrospect, you know, college
Speaker 1: teams struggle on the road, and I think you have
Speaker 1: to realize with certain things like as sports fans, especially
Speaker 1: football fans in America, were sort of spoiled, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have the Pacific ten o'clock window, the one o'clock window,
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Monday night. It's very formulaic. In the NFL,
Speaker 1: got to have a quarterback to win. You have four
Speaker 1: or five major broadcast teams. You really know what to
Speaker 1: expect when you roll out of bed on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: With the NFL, you got your Red Zone early, your
Speaker 1: Big Fox games, CBS games, late Sunday night Football, NBC,
Speaker 1: Monday Night ESPN. You get used to it. And college
Speaker 1: football is a little bit of a barnyard musical. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's games starting early, mid late. You never know,
Speaker 1: you turn on a game Saturday at midnight, you'd find
Speaker 1: something on. You know, there's just games everywhere, and it's
Speaker 1: always been a sport that has blowouts. And so I
Speaker 1: guess in retrospect, as this tournament expands to fourteen or
Speaker 1: sixteen teams, you're just gonna get blowouts. That's just the
Speaker 1: way it is. I mean, I'll say this again, go
Speaker 1: back to Nick Saban's heyday, that twelve year run where
Speaker 1: they were really dominant. There were years there weren't three
Speaker 1: teams that could compete with them on a neutral field,
Speaker 1: maybe LSU, Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson if they had good
Speaker 1: quarterback play maybe, so don't expect the twelfth best team
Speaker 1: and the eleventh, the tenth, and the ninth and the
Speaker 1: eighth going forward to play road games and to compete.
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, I'm watching Tennessee get steamrolled and they
Speaker 1: got pros. They don't have Ohio States pros, but they
Speaker 1: got pros. And I think we just have to understand
Speaker 1: that the one similarity between the college football regular season
Speaker 1: and the college football Playoff is these are nineteen and
Speaker 1: twenty year old kids and they are extremely influenced by circumstances.
Speaker 1: And like tonight, the Saints are a bad team in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, they'd lose at home, They'd lose in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: That's that's not a circumstance. That's a personnel issue, coaching issue.
Speaker 1: But in the NFL, you know, you go on the
Speaker 1: road right now in Vegas, they consider the home field
Speaker 1: advantage to be a point to a point and a half.
Speaker 1: Because of improved technology and improve travel, teams just travel
Speaker 1: smarter than they did eight, nine, ten years ago. But
Speaker 1: I mean, people are really freaking out about the college
Speaker 1: football Playoff, and I mean it's better than the alternative
Speaker 1: bowl games with empty stands. Going forward with the nil
Speaker 1: with players who don't really want to play in them.
Speaker 1: Some do you know, some six win teams. It means
Speaker 1: a lot to end up in, you know, a bowl game.
Speaker 1: But a lot of these big name schools that are disappointing.
Speaker 1: I mean, just look atf Ohio State wasn't playing in
Speaker 1: the playoff this year. They'd be in like the you know,
Speaker 1: the Citrus Bowl or something. You know, seven eight, ten
Speaker 1: guys on that roster. They're looking to the NFL. Some
Speaker 1: would even play. So you take a deep breath. We're
Speaker 1: a little spoiled by the NFL and the quality generally,
Speaker 1: the time, the structure, the formulaic nature to it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the margins in college football on any given Saturday,
Speaker 1: there's twenty blowouts. Sometimes when you have good teams square off,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Ohio State and Tennessee those are
Speaker 1: blue bloods. That thing was over in eight minutes. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even competitive generally. In the NFL. You know, Ravens
Speaker 1: face the Steelers, Chiefs face the Texans. You know, you
Speaker 1: kind of feel like both teams have a chance. One
Speaker 1: team may be better. Home field matters a little, but
Speaker 1: you kind of know, you know, if you get two
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks and two good coaches. I mean the Jets
Speaker 1: and the Rams. I mean you got Aaron Rodgers Matt Stafford,
Speaker 1: and that was a good football game. The better team
Speaker 1: should have won and did. There's a competitive football game
Speaker 1: for three quarters. They're all pros. So I think the
Speaker 1: college football playoffs is just going to get better and better.
Speaker 1: But we just got to bake it in college teams
Speaker 1: on the road, even talented ones. Things go sideways really fast,
Speaker 1: really fast. The volume