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Speaker 1: What time is it? Game time? All right? Little Monday
Speaker 1: night football reaction Welkins beat the Raiders. Not much to say.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is really struggling. Not sure why they don't
Speaker 1: put Michael Pennix in he was a highly experienced college
Speaker 1: quarterback from Indiana to Washington, played with NFL receivers and
Speaker 1: offensive linemen with an NFL level head coach, Kaitlin de Boor,
Speaker 1: who I think is really really good. He'll get Alabama
Speaker 1: Hammond by next year. I don't get it. Raheem Morris
Speaker 1: defensive coach. Maybe he doesn't sense the urgency. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there were promises to Kirk Cousins, but if
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix isn't better than Kirk Cousins, then that's a
Speaker 1: wasted or miss on a first round pick because right
Speaker 1: now Kirk Cousins does not have his fastball. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Chicago Bears. So they lost to the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Sam Darnold played particularly well, but he's
Speaker 1: getting the ball to TJ. Hawkinson, Jordan Addison, and Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: so he's getting the ball to the right people. I
Speaker 1: thought he was a little high, missed some throws, but overall,
Speaker 1: Minnesota was picked for third or fourth. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: all gravy at this point. First, let's start with the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. There are a couple franchises in this league
Speaker 1: that are just broken, and I think the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: are top of the list. It's a broken franchise. The
Speaker 1: mccaskeys are arguably the worst owners in the league, oldest
Speaker 1: and among the poorest. Really out of touch. Kevin Warrens
Speaker 1: the president. I've been told for years, highly political. Charles
Speaker 1: Robinson of Yahoo reporting today that you know somebody that
Speaker 1: seeks power and to retain power. That's a little what
Speaker 1: I was told years ago. Don't know him personally, but
Speaker 1: that's what I've been told from two sources. I trust
Speaker 1: Ryan Poles is young. You know, I'm hit and miss
Speaker 1: on polls. I love the Monte Montes sweat deal, the
Speaker 1: DJ More deal. I don't think he's the problem in
Speaker 1: the organization. I think Ryan Poles is struggling with the
Speaker 1: people above him. But a great example of the dysfunction,
Speaker 1: so Matt Eberflues, a defensive coach, was fired. Well, defensive
Speaker 1: coaches don't have the offensive connections that offensive coaches do.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is a reason Andy Reid keeps hiring
Speaker 1: really good offensive coaches right like their offense. Now, Reid
Speaker 1: does most of the play calling, but Doug Peterson got
Speaker 1: a head coaching job. Matt Naggy got a head coaching
Speaker 1: job and by the way, got Mitt Trubisky to the
Speaker 1: playoffs twice. So you can say all you want about
Speaker 1: Matt Naggy. You die for Matt Naggy now in Chicago.
Speaker 1: And then there's a reason that Belichick had to rely
Speaker 1: on Josh McDaniels. When Josh left. You know, Bill was
Speaker 1: scrambling to find an offensive coordinator. But Sean McVay can
Speaker 1: find one every two years. So Thomas Brown was under
Speaker 1: Shane waldron Well. Ibra Flues doesn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: great offensive connections, clearly because when Shane waldron Lef left
Speaker 1: Chicago of Seattle, he was criticized. They rolled their eyes
Speaker 1: at him. He went to Chicago, it was a mess
Speaker 1: with Caleb Williams. Then Thomas Brown, who's a bright young guy.
Speaker 1: He coached with the Rams, but you know he is
Speaker 1: an interim head coach. He's had. This is his third
Speaker 1: different job this season with the Bears. I mean, hr
Speaker 1: is probably asking him to slow down so they can
Speaker 1: get his paycheck, right, I'm not going to blame him,
Speaker 1: but eber flu selected this staff and it's not very good.
Speaker 1: I think it's a broken franchise. And you know, my
Speaker 1: take is, if you're really honest about it, you know
Speaker 1: what they remind me of. I was thinking about it tonight.
Speaker 1: They remind me a lot. The Bears are the Chargers
Speaker 1: last season where they had a talented young quarterback, some
Speaker 1: really nice pieces, but major cultural issues and what did
Speaker 1: they do. They went and got Jim Harbaugh to fix it.
Speaker 1: And that's why Mike Rabel's the higher Vrabel is Dan Campbell,
Speaker 1: less reckles. He's Jim Harbaugh, but to this point hasn't
Speaker 1: been as successful. He's a really smart guy. He's a
Speaker 1: culture changer. There's no bullshit with him. He's very honest
Speaker 1: and very upfront, and he got to an AFC championship,
Speaker 1: you know, with Tennessee. So I just think Vrabel's the
Speaker 1: call here. Vrabel, you know, and I've talked to Mike
Speaker 1: about this. Vrabel is the kind of guy that will
Speaker 1: come in and the only thing that would get in
Speaker 1: his way is a Kevin Warren level executive that was
Speaker 1: trying to retain power. If Frabel has some saying personnel,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good at that and has a great relationship
Speaker 1: with the general manager who he can answer to. And
Speaker 1: trust I think Rabel could win immediately. I think, you
Speaker 1: know again, I'll say this, the Bears have a Chargers
Speaker 1: feel now. The Chargers are not going to go from
Speaker 1: what they were last year to a Super Bowl. Need
Speaker 1: another draft. They have to hit on another receiver, maybe
Speaker 1: another tight end, another running back. They need more pieces offensively,
Speaker 1: and the Bears with Rabel are not winning a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: especially out of that division. And I think the Bears
Speaker 1: need to shore up the offensive line, but more than that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe another edge rusher. More than that, I
Speaker 1: think it's just a cultural modification is what they need.
Speaker 1: But it's rough. I mean, you can say what you
Speaker 1: want about the Jets and Woody Johnson and I think
Speaker 1: he's one of the weaker owners, but they have a
Speaker 1: good roster. Aaron's played well in the last three to
Speaker 1: four weeks. He's had one hundred plus passer rating I
Speaker 1: think on average over the last four weeks. The Giants
Speaker 1: have issues, but you know, there's some pieces there that
Speaker 1: defensive front and l Mars don't want to fire Brian
Speaker 1: Dable because they've run through coaches, but the team looks
Speaker 1: like they've quit. But with Chicago, there's just I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just not much to like. I like Montes Sweat
Speaker 1: and Jalen Johnson. I like Caleb Williams. You know DJ
Speaker 1: Moore if the running back. There's some Pete Cole comment,
Speaker 1: there's some pieces I like, But I don't know what
Speaker 1: you do other than hire Mike Rabel. This is not
Speaker 1: a job for a coordinator. Give me a break. You're
Speaker 1: not going to get a Ben Johnson here, Bobby Slowick.
Speaker 1: It's not going to turn this thing around. You're a
Speaker 1: mile from that. And I'll make this argument, I think,
Speaker 1: And I talked to Mike Vrabel about this, and my
Speaker 1: suggestion to him is, I'm not sure if I take
Speaker 1: a job this year, I think next year you could
Speaker 1: have much more attractive openings. If Joe Burrow is getting
Speaker 1: really tired of Zach Taylor, the coach of Cincinnati, they
Speaker 1: won't fire him at the end of this year, But
Speaker 1: if Joe Burrow makes demands, Zach Taylor's in trouble next
Speaker 1: year for Joe Burrow to ream Zach Taylor out, knowing
Speaker 1: he's on TV the way he reamed him out. Burrow's
Speaker 1: got no time for this nonsense in Cincinnati, So that
Speaker 1: job could be open next year. I think Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: in Dallas, I think he's probably saved his job, right,
Speaker 1: he's probably saved it. And if Dallas can move Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons get a couple of first round picks, hit on
Speaker 1: those you know, who knows. But also I think that
Speaker 1: could be open. So, you know, seven different coaches get
Speaker 1: whacked every year. I just don't like the job openings.
Speaker 1: I love Caleb Williams Chicago. To me, is it feels
Speaker 1: like quicksand for a coach. You know, Jacksonville's got an opening.
Speaker 1: There's a reason everybody fails here in Jacksonville. It just
Speaker 1: since Tom Coughlin left, it's just dead coach walking. Nobody
Speaker 1: works there. So there's got to be something systemic within
Speaker 1: the organization. And I think what you're really seeing now.
Speaker 1: And I was having this discussion this weekend with somebody
Speaker 1: I respect a lot, and he said, you know, you
Speaker 1: just you start looking around this league and it's just
Speaker 1: the power of ten. There's about ten good gms, ted
Speaker 1: good oders, ten good quarterbacks, ten good left tackles, and
Speaker 1: I just don't like. If you're Mike Vrabel, I don't
Speaker 1: like what's out there. I love Chicago. It's a great city.
Speaker 1: They're good pieces. But man, anybody watching this show, watching
Speaker 1: this podcast, or listening, it does not matter how good
Speaker 1: the employees are. If ownership and management is sideways, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I've said this before. I've been really fortunate.
Speaker 1: I had a really good ownership in Las Vegas my
Speaker 1: first job. Obviously, ESPN and Fox are well run companies.
Speaker 1: At Portland, I thought we had good ownership, good management.
Speaker 1: I worked in Tampa for a couple of years and
Speaker 1: really really talented people in the newsroom, photo journalists, producers, reporters, anchors.
Speaker 1: It was not the employees. I thought management was a
Speaker 1: circus and I'll just it at that, and you couldn't
Speaker 1: overcome it. And it was a real learning moment for me,
Speaker 1: is that the employee base was the best I'd ever
Speaker 1: worked with. At the time, I thought there was just
Speaker 1: so many talented people. Our sports department was just really fun, clever,
Speaker 1: smart people. But you can't you can't, like in Chicago,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if Rabel's the coach and he's trying
Speaker 1: to change things eventually, if people are political upstairs, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's like, look at the Jets, they fire
Speaker 1: Robert Sali the best coach on the staff. I mean,
Speaker 1: going into a game against Buffalo, if they won it,
Speaker 1: there they were in first place. I mean they fired
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas. Well, Douglas got Devonte Adams, who's playing great now.
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas missed on a quarterback. But Joe Douglass. That
Speaker 1: Jets roster they've got, dudes, I mean they really do.
Speaker 1: They're going to get another very good first round pick
Speaker 1: this year. They've got a left tackle for the future,
Speaker 1: they've got their corner, they've got weapons. I mean, they
Speaker 1: can really be selected. The Jets could move down in
Speaker 1: the first round and get four or five. You know,
Speaker 1: if they moved down and got another second round pick
Speaker 1: or a second and a fourth round pick, you could
Speaker 1: have five new starters on the team next year. And
Speaker 1: I think the Jets, I mean, they really have their weapons.
Speaker 1: They have their left tackle, the Penn State kid, a
Speaker 1: couple of good receivers, good corners, pass rushers. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I I mean I thought saw when Joe Douglas were capable.
Speaker 1: They're both out. So there's nothing you can do if
Speaker 1: upstairs is messed up. There's just in my experience in life,
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do, you know. It's I make
Speaker 1: picks blazing five, and I had another terrible week. Generally,
Speaker 1: I've been doing this blazing five thing for like twenty years,
Speaker 1: and on average I hit about fifty six percent, fifty
Speaker 1: five fifty seven percent. This is my worst year easily.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I've just struggled all year long,
Speaker 1: but I'm actually it's funny because on the bigger preseason
Speaker 1: predictions for division champions, I've actually had the best year
Speaker 1: I've ever had. I had Buffalo, Kansas City, Baltimore and
Speaker 1: the Texans winning their division. If Baltimore beats the Steelers Saturday,
Speaker 1: I'll be four for four. Heading to the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, I had Philly, the Rams, Green Bay, and
Speaker 1: the Falcons winning their divisions. Philly and the Rams du lead.
Speaker 1: Green Bay and the Falcons still have a shot, although
Speaker 1: Atlanta right now they'll beating the Raiders tonight. They got
Speaker 1: to get quarterbacks solved. My two dark horse teams were
Speaker 1: Washington and Denver. They'll both make the playoffs. So I
Speaker 1: actually have in terms of predictions, I think I've had
Speaker 1: a really good year. I don't know why I'm struggling
Speaker 1: so much. I've just been out of rhythm. You know.
Speaker 1: The weekends I take favorites, they go belly up. The
Speaker 1: weekends I take dogs. I have the wrong ones. But
Speaker 1: I love doing it, and I always feel bad. I
Speaker 1: don't mind losing money. I don't like anybody else to
Speaker 1: lose it. But I'm'm picking football games for so long.
Speaker 1: An old story. When I first moved to Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: I had no money, I was out of college, and
Speaker 1: I drove down to Vegas in a blue AMC Pacer
Speaker 1: that later caught fire. A couple of years later, on
Speaker 1: Charleston and Oak Streets in Las Vegas, I had Texaco
Speaker 1: station I pulled in my car was on fire. And
Speaker 1: I remember when I first moved to Vegas, I'd never
Speaker 1: met football games, and so I was a huge Pack
Speaker 1: ten fan, and so I really started hitting on a
Speaker 1: lot of Pac ten picks because all the games weren't televised.
Speaker 1: I knew the Pacific Northwest teams really well because I
Speaker 1: was from there. I remember one year I think I
Speaker 1: was like ten and one on Oregon State games. I
Speaker 1: just could not miss on the Beavers. And I just
Speaker 1: love picking football games. But I have stunk this year.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is that Nick Wright and Danny Parkins
Speaker 1: at FS one have both been on fire, hitting like
Speaker 1: sixty five percent. So congrats to those guys. But you know,
Speaker 1: my overall takeaway really on the playoffs this year is
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of surprises. I mean, right now,
Speaker 1: I have If Baltimore beats the Steelers Saturday, i'll have
Speaker 1: six of the eight teams I picked to win the
Speaker 1: division winning and Green Band and the Falcons close. What
Speaker 1: is pretty clear, and the reason I picked those teams
Speaker 1: to win the division was like head coach and quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so I think the one thing I look at
Speaker 1: this year is a real positive. I think Caleb can play.
Speaker 1: I think Jayden Daniels can play. I think Boon Nicks
Speaker 1: can play. My guess is JJ McCarthy can play. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell's going on with Michael Pennix,
Speaker 1: because I really liked him out of college. I thought
Speaker 1: he was a bigger, stronger, better deep ball to and
Speaker 1: TWOA is more than capable, but he just can't throw
Speaker 1: the ball deep down field. He's not good against pressure
Speaker 1: or really elite defenses are in cold weather, you have
Speaker 1: to qualify everything with Tua. I think Panicstows a much
Speaker 1: better sharper deep ball, stronger, longer, just a bigger athlete.
Speaker 1: But I think we have a chance to go five
Speaker 1: for five with quarterback. And this is not a great
Speaker 1: quarterback year in college. But if the quarterbacks go four
Speaker 1: for five or five for five this group of quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: it will be the third draft since around twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: where you've had multiple first round quarterbacks hit. And I
Speaker 1: don't think we'll ever get to a saturation point where
Speaker 1: you know everybody's got their quarterback. But I don't remember
Speaker 1: a time where there were this many good quarterbacks. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, even Aaron Rodgers in the last month has
Speaker 1: been unbelievable. Jordan Love, Jaylen Hurts. This weekend was sensational.
Speaker 1: You know, bo Nicks makes mistakes, but he's clearly a
Speaker 1: franchise guy. His toughness, his athletic ability. He's got a
Speaker 1: better arm I think in the pros and I thought
Speaker 1: he had in college. So I think, big picture, as
Speaker 1: the league's become more have and have nots, I think
Speaker 1: we had another bumper quarterback draft class. I only saw
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy in the preseason, but in the couple appearances,
Speaker 1: I thought he was really quick, really nimble, and he
Speaker 1: reminded me a little bit of Sam Darnold that he
Speaker 1: was really aggressive. And I think Kevin O'Connell's proven the
Speaker 1: Vikings head coach, he can coach a lot of that
Speaker 1: out of you. And another part of this quarterback journey
Speaker 1: is there's better quarterback coaches. I mean this, so I
Speaker 1: think the guy down in Tampa, Liam Cohen under Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: who was briefly in Los Angeles, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to get looks. I think the quality of offensive coaching
Speaker 1: has really improved. That's why you're seeing Donald and Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield a rebirth. I think there's sensational coaching offensively. I
Speaker 1: didn't feel that fifteen years ago in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: think it's everywhere, and I think the talent's everywhere. So
Speaker 1: I mean, yesterday we had a really ugly one o'clock window.
Speaker 1: It was the first time all year I was bored
Speaker 1: watching the NFL where I thought, man, this is just
Speaker 1: a batterly window. But I mean this weekend, the college
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Speaker 1: the en at Notre Dame. The next Friday, Saturday Sunday
Speaker 1: could be the most sensational three day stretch of football
Speaker 1: any year, and a lot of it is because of
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