WEBVTT - HR 3 - Mike Florio, Jason Garrett 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:05.640 Sports Radio Final hour. 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.960 In this Meet Friday, we'll talk to Mike Florio from 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.719 Pro Football Talk, also Jason Garrett Football Night in America 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.000 will stop by your phone. Calls are always welcome. Each 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.120 seven to seven three DP show it is to Meet Friday. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.840 And in case you're wondering burgers and waffle fries, who 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.480 has it better than we do? 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:24.520 No? 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.160 All right, seet and pull question for the final hour 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.160 of the program. And if you want to recap the 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.480 first two hours of the program, that'd be great. Yeah, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:33.279 we got one up here. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.520 Now, Polly sent over NFL quarterbacks get too much credit 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:37.400 or too much blame? 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:39.040 Right now? 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.159 That is a fifty one to forty nine split. Do 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.159 you want to guess. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.400 Which one they get too much blame? 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.840 Fifty one percent have them getting too much blame? Yes, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.000 too much blame. Does that mean that they those people 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.480 will simply they don't get enough credit? Is that the 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:58.560 flip side of that coin? 0:00:58.720 --> 0:00:58.920 Or No? 0:00:59.280 --> 0:00:59.720 I think so? 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.840 I think so, yes, Paul, Based off this result, the 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.640 quarterbacks getting the exact amount of blame and credit. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.959 That's exactly what I was going to point out. Great 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.720 point by you, Paul. They get too much blame and 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.840 too much credit. And this bears that out. The poll 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.280 question for the final hour. Yeah, we just put that 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.920 one up about three minutes ago. Okay, yeah, and what 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.520 about the poll questions the previous hours? Anything to recap there? 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.039 Yeah, okay, we have up there, Texans aside, if the 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.520 Lions reached the Super Bowl, who should they want to play? 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.039 Right now? They should want to play? 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.960 At forty two point three percent of the vote, the 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.959 Chiefs at forty two point one percent is the Bills. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.360 I'll tell you one thing. They don't want to play 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.920 the Ravens. I'll tell you apparently not. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.920 Apparently not. But it's weird to say. Yeah, bring on, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.320 Patrick Mahomes. I know it feels like they've been vulnerable 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.000 all season long, but they also win these games. Yeah, 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.080 they're close games. They win these games. The number, the 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.400 inordinate amount of games that are decided by seven points 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.000 or less, it's at an all time high this season. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.000 You've got the one guy, you got, the fixer, you 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.920 got the closer, you got Mariana Rivera enter Sandman, and 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.200 that's the difference in these games. It can be one 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.440 possession and oftentimes it is, and if I have the 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.320 ultimate one possession guy, I don't want to face him. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.360 I want to see Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen do 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.679 it and keep doing it at you know, whether the 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.440 pressure is really on them. We've seen the pressure on Mahomes. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.760 He does really good when the pressure is on it. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.840 So I understand where you'd say that it feels like 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:47.840 they're vulnerable, and they probably are, but Patrick Mahomes isn't vulnerable. Now. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.000 I would worry about the offensive line, as we saw 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.720 when they played against Tampa a few years ago. When 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:57.519 Patrick Mahomes has an ordinary line, he's ordinary and Tampa 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.200 treated him that way. It doesn't happen very often, but 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.440 it does feel like Kelsey is not Kelsey great Kelsey. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.160 He's good Kelsey, but he's another one of those big 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.079 game game on the line. Six catches for ninety yards 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.960 in a touchdown just feels like you can pencil that 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.320 those kind of numbers in there, all right. Eight seven 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.600 to seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.440 Twitter handle at DP show. Sunday, the playoffs continue the 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.760 divisional round. It'll be the Rams going to Philly to 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.520 take on Saquanity Eagles the winner. One step away from 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.840 the super Bowl. Coverage begins on NBC and Peacock at 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.760 to Eastern. You can watch us on Peacock. Thank you 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.600 for downloading the app, and we say good morning to 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:48.240 our radio affiliate's over four hundred around America. 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I've got Sims and Devin mccorty ready 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.599 to create a diversion, and I'm gonna put it in 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.520 the right spot and I'm hoping that we have that 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.080 same jarring moment that we had. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.200 And I was watching the live and I'm like, what 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.240 the hell He's got a book, and it was awesome. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.039 I always promote reading ninety nine cents. Can't find anything 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.159 cheaper than that. Can't get this for ninety nine only 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.440 the e book. You know, paper ain't free. But I 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.760 want to get this in aj Brown's hands, and I'm 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:43.640 taking it to Philly. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.120 It might get a little wet because it's going to 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.279 snow now, but that's okay. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.320 What are you being told weatherwise? I know Kansas City 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.280 will be cold. There's the chance for snow in Philadelphia, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.680 maybe in Buffalo as well. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:55.680 Well. 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.960 The thing about weather forecasts, and I don't mean to 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.120 indict the entire industry, but it seems to me the 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.360 only weather they ever get right is yesterday's. But at 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.800 the same time, it's moving towards snow, and the temperature 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.280 is gonna peak at thirty six degrees. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.600 This is your weather on the ones here on the 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.360 Dan Patrick Show. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.640 It's gonna peak at thirty six and it's gonna gradually drop 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.279 throughout the day. And then we have a nor'easter or 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.960 something that's going to cause four to five inches of snow. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:20.440 Throughout the day. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.839 And it looks like the greatest chance of snow comes 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.560 right about the time we'll be freezing our asses off 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.039 on the sideline before the game and during the game. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.159 And remember that twenty thirteen Lions Eagles game in Philly. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.960 Matthew Stafford was the quarterback of the Lions. Then he's 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.760 been through it. The rest of the team has not been. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.800 Yeah, And we were talking to David Carr and he said, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.760 cold is what affects you. He said, you know, if 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.080 it snows, you're okay with that. Wind is that's the 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.320 big thing, if you know, if it's windy in these 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.760 conditions here. And I was just talking about I kind 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.719 of stumbled on this last hour where I said to 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.640 David Carr, it feels like the Lions have pressure on 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.120 them than anybody else, including the team trying to threepete 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.240 in the Kansas City Chiefs. You're gonna lose your coordinators. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.560 Probably you had your opportunity last year. These windows close 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.839 and it just feels like they have the spotlight on 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.920 them shining a little brighter than anybody else. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.000 Your thoughts, yo, when you talk about yourself as a 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.440 team of destiny, that just amps it up even more. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.080 Now you're coming in as eight and a half point 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.440 favorites against a team that feels more If you watch 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.320 the outcomes of some of these Commander's games, it feels 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.520 like destiny is on their side, not your side. And 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.000 the challenge I think for Dan Campbell and the Lions 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.560 because they've crafted this identity and being aggressive and going 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.000 for it, and that's who we are. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.640 You don't even wonder anymore when it's fourth and anything 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:47.440 less than five. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.600 But man, when you get into single elimination, you have 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.520 to wonder, are there moments where you should set aside 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.960 who you are and work the circumstances toward winning the game. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.239 I go back to the NFC Championship. They're up seventeen 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.240 at the half, the forty nine Ers get a field 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:05.800 goal to cut. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:06.400 It to fourteen. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.880 On the first drive of the third quarter, they get 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.200 in position to put it back to a three score 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.800 game and really put the clamps on the forty nine ers, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.280 But they went for it because that's what we always do, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.080 and that's fine as long as it works. When it 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.600 doesn't work, it opened the door for the comeback and 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.000 they came back and they knocked out the lines. Will 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.000 Dan Campbell pivot from the nature of the team in 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.960 the right moment to preserve a win? And when you're 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.080 talking about a team like the Commanders that thrives on 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:37.280 close games, it introduces even more risk if you are 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.320 caught in this idea of do we go for the 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.800 kill here or do we play it conservatively? And maybe 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.000 with the commanders you could make the argument it is 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.760 the smart thing to do to go for a knockout 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:47.800 whenever you can get one. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.760 I'm talking to Mike Florio Pro Football Talk. You can 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.360 see that show preceding hours on Peacock. Why is the 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.960 coaching carousel slowed down. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.440 Because there's only two guys who were no brainers going 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.280 into it, Mike Vrabel and Ben Johnson. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.080 Now with Ben Johnson, the question. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.440 Is is there a spot where he is willing to 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.880 go and give up this opportunity to be part of 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.440 an emerging juggernaut in Detroit. And also, not every guy 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.600 wants to be the guy at the front of the room. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.760 I've heard that Ben Johnson relishes his current role as 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.559 mad scientists, coming up with all these trick plays, running 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.040 the offense and not dealing with the pressure of being 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.080 the head coach. Look at what Dan Campbell has to 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.960 deal with. I mean, he got docksed. They had people 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.240 show up at his house. When you're the offensive coordinator, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.000 that doesn't happen when you're the head coach. That happens, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.800 and alignment has been the word most associated with Ben Johnson. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.559 He wants alignment with the front office. So you look 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.800 at some of these jobs where there's a GM that 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.360 maybe isn't going to be as aligned, and then you 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.880 look at the Raiders where two days after they fired 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.120 the head coach, they cleared out the GM. The alignment 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.440 is more likely going to be in Vegas if he 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.680 chooses that job, And all indications when you talk to 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.320 people around the league are the Raiders really won question 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.200 is does he want to leave the Lions for anyone, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.959 specifically a Raiders team that needs a lot of help 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.160 to become a contender. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.720 Yeah, I wondered about this that does he stay. I 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.360 don't know how many assistant coaches, Mike and you probably 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.559 have a better handle on this. Coordinators who realize that 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.199 they aren't head coaches or that maybe they don't want 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.920 to be head coaches. And I'm just throwing that out there. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.720 I don't have any numbers to back that up. It 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:32.000 feels like that's the natural progression. But yeah, as I've 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.280 said many times, the audience is tired of hearing it. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.800 Not every coordinator is meant to be a head coach. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.079 Well, the other thing too, Dan, When you're a coordinator 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.120 in the window opens for you to be a head coach, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.480 some guys feel like they'd better jump through it now 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.840 because it might close by next year. Johnson has the confidence, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.680 and it's backed up by having a great team on 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.679 the field that he's working with that the window is 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.000 going to stay open, so I don't have to go 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:58.319 this year. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.280 He didn't go last year. You'll wait for the right spot. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.720 The problem is these jobs rarely come open because the 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.360 team looking for a coach is a properly functioning NFL franchise. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:13.440 Every team, unless you have a retirement when the guy 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.400 walks away and the team's on top, every team that's 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.760 looking for a coach is a bad team that is 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.760 trying to find a way to get better. So you 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.000 go into a dysfunctional situation. Two or three years later, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.280 you get fired, you have that scarlet letter on your 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.720 coaching resume, and then. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.120 You go back to being a coordinator. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.839 I think Johnson understands that and it makes him reluctant 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.480 to just take whatever comes along. There's a lot of 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.480 factors that go into it, but number one is alignment, 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.840 and if he doesn't have the alignment. He's not leaving, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.480 and I think this year, when you look at the 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:44.840 jobs out there, you look at the teams that have 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.960 interviewed him, like the Jets are at least sufficiently self 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.360 aware to not even bother to try to interview Ben Johnson, right, 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:51.640 So I give them credit there. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:52.800 They know what they are. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.280 But I think it's the Raiders or Lions take that 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.720 Raider's job or stay put for Ben Johnson. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.679 Favorite player, Aaron Rodgers. Not sure if he's going to 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.079 play again next year, but I saw where the Vegas 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:12.079 odds the favorites the Vegas football team. Your thoughts on 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.760 Tom Brady bringing in Aaron Rodgers for a year, Well, it. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.280 Makes sense depending upon who they ultimately hire as GM 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.240 and head coach. I think he's not going to be 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.520 back with the Jets. I think he wants the Jets 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:23.920 to be the ones to end it. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:25.040 But I don't think he. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.800 Wants to go back to the Jets after the last 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.480 two years. When you consider your ultimate football legacy, nothing's 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.200 going to take away what he did in Green Bay. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.200 But I think any. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.280 Competitor wants the last memory of you to be something 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.559 other than what it's been with the Jets the last 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.840 two years, and for him, where's my spot where I 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.920 can do what I thought I was going to do 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.720 with the Jets? And I don't know that the Raiders 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.240 are in. When you're looking at the Chiefs and here 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.240 are the Broncos who are ready to make a push, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.439 and the Chargers with Jim Harbaugh, it's going to be 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.959 very difficult for the Raiders as long as there is 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.400 that division competing with those three teams. So that would 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.920 be the one downside if you're Rogers. Yeah, hey, it 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.199 makes sense. I know, Brady, Hey, they need a quarterback, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.120 you know, Las Vegas whatever, proximity to where he lives 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.000 in the offseason. But is it really a spot where 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.439 you're gonna have a chance to compete for a postseason 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.400 berth and ultimately a championship. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.360 How real is the Deonda Dallas story in your opinion? 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:28.760 Well, I think it was a master stroke of publicity 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.440 and attention. They drop it that Deonna talked to Jerry 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.160 Jones during the Rams Vikings playoffs game. They know what 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.080 they're doing and there's a lot of that Carnival Barker 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.320 and Jerry Jones. But I just don't see it happening 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.320 under the current circumstances. And now Deon's a guy who 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.240 said a year ago he'd never coached in the NFL. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.800 Then he says, I'd only coach my sons. Well, Shadur's 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.840 not going to be the quarterback of the Cowboys next year. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:54.920 He may not be the quarterback of the Cowboys for 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.360 a long time to come because of Dak Prescott's contract. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.520 So I don't see it making sense. But how many 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.320 things do the Cowboys do that make sense? And at 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:04.680 the end of the day, who are they going to hire? 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.560 And here's the problem with doing the Hey we're gonna 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.200 talk to dian and Hey we're going to talk to 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.360 this guy, and hey we're gonna talk about Bill Belichick, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.839 and our new coach is Kellen Moore. It's kind of 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.959 a letdown, all due respect to Kevin Moore at the 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.360 end of Kellen Moore at the end of the day, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:18.800 if that's where it goes. But I think a lot 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.520 of people are thinking it's going to be Kellen Moore 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:21.000 when it's. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:21.600 All said and done. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.000 With this weird possibility that Jason Witten could make the 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.280 jump from high school football coach to Cowboys coach, because 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.679 there are people who think one of these days is 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.040 going to be the head coach of the Cowboys. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.080 It just might not be now. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.720 Yeah, but he made that jump to broadcasting and that 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.560 didn't go well for Jason Witten. I would think it 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.559 would be a tough a tougher jump from high school 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:49.640 football to coaching the Cowboys. See, Oh my god, you're right. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.480 Here, right Dan, It's not real. I mean, is it 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.480 really a coveted job? Is it really? 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.640 When you go to Dallas, you have to accept the 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.040 fact that Jerry's the one who's shopping for the groceries, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.640 that Jerry's going to do two radio spots that are 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.040 going to make headlines during the season, that he's going 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.679 to do a postgame media scrum that's going to outshine 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.280 your postgame press conference. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.040 You've got to be ready to deal with that if 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:09.800 you're a head. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.160 Coach, and a lot of these guys who want to 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.079 be the head coach don't want Jerry Jones to be 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.319 the face and voice of the team. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.679 Well, I don't think being the coach of the Cowboys 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.440 means as much as it once did thirty years ago. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.000 I still think being the quarterback of the Cowboys still 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.880 means an awful lot. But that's the problem I have 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.560 with this job. No matter who takes the job, you've 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.880 got a thirty two year old, injury prone, immobile quarterback 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.240 who's making who's owed over two hundred and thirty million 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.080 dollars guaranteed. That's not something I want to walk into. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.520 Cowboys have done a great job drafting and developing. They 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.360 have made numerous mistakes figuring out what to do with 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.680 their young players when it's time to pay them. They've 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:56.200 paid the wrong guys like Michael Gallup. They've not paid 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.080 or waited too long to pay the right guys, which 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.280 paints them into a corner. They did that twice with 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.840 Dak Prescott. They did that Dak Prescott current contract sixty 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.400 million a year with all that guaranteed money, on the 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.800 morning of the regular season opener, because they knew, we 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.000 need to do this or he's going to. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.760 Walk away as a free agent. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.600 And in hindsight, plenty of Cowboys fans would say we 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.480 should have let him play it out and start from 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.640 scratch at the quarterback position. But they have just mishandled 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.080 the negotiations. They wait too long, They lobe all the players, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.960 and then they come around and cry, uncle, it's just 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.800 not a good way to build a sustainable, successful franchise. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.480 Let me look at a couple of resumes here before 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.640 I let you go. If I said Sean Payton, Mike Tomlin, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.560 Mike McCarthy, who are Hall of famers right now? 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.720 And I saw a tweet earlier in the week from 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.200 the guy at ESPN who goes by HIMBO that McCarthy 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.360 needs a better publicist because McCarthy has a better track 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.280 record than Peyton and Tomlin when you look at some 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.320 of the big picture things, I think that Tomlin right now, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.160 given the eighteen years in Pittsburgh, given that it's the Steelers, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.720 two super Bowl pace pearances, consistent contender, never had a 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.760 losing season, I think Tomlin is the guy who walks 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.960 right in. But you know Peyton and MacArthur are going 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:10.960 to have strong cases. But then there's a logjam. There's 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.280 plenty of coaches who deserve to be in who haven't 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.200 gotten in, and they always change the rules a little bit, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.320 and you never quite know what the standard is, or 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.960 what the process is, or whether coaches are competing with 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.280 other players are competing with owners or they have their 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.120 own lane. It's hard for guys who deserve to be 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.720 in to get in, like a Mike Holmgren and a 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.960 Mike Shanahan. So the coaches of today are going to 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.080 be caught behind that. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:33.800 But I think Tomlin is the one. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.040 Eighteen years, no losing seasons, two Super Bowl appearances, playoff appearances. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.320 I think Tomlin is the one of the three that's 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.480 the most likely to get in. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.640 Safe travels to Philadelphia. Play nice there, Mike, Well. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.200 I'm not the one that needs to be told to 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.840 play nice. I gotta worry about the fans. Rodney Harrison's 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.960 gonna throw snowballs at me. It's going to be a 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:53.680 challenging day. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.200 I might wear a helmet. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.600 He's Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk Live co host and 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.000 he'll be there with NBC Football Night in America. 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