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Speaker 1: All right, here we go, semi instant reaction. I had
Speaker 1: to speak to a USC grad class today, so I
Speaker 1: was really interesting kids, and did that for an hour,
Speaker 1: a little over an hour. So I came out of
Speaker 1: the class and I heard the news the Denver Broncos
Speaker 1: had released Russell Wilson, which saves them thirty seven million,
Speaker 1: but they still have about eighty five million in dead
Speaker 1: cap money, which is like double the most ever. And
Speaker 1: I think that was I believe that was Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: Falcons when they moved off him. So you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hit on some draft picks the only way to
Speaker 1: ease the pain. And remember the NFL did come in
Speaker 1: give everybody a thirty million more dollars in cap space.
Speaker 1: That helps, and hitting on four draft picks that could
Speaker 1: players start, that helps. But for a year, it's going
Speaker 1: to be pretty ugly. Let's first start about blame. Who
Speaker 1: to blame? Well, Sean Payton needs to win games, and
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson wants to find a landing spot. Those guys
Speaker 1: are not in the blame game. They're in the turn
Speaker 1: of the page game, and I don't blame them. Their
Speaker 1: energy is going to be Russell Wilson wants to find
Speaker 1: a better team. I think Pittsburgh's perfect. You cannot be
Speaker 1: in a division with Joe Burrow twice a year, Kevin
Speaker 1: Stefanski and DeShawn Watson twice a year, and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and John Harbaugh twice a year with Kenny Pickett, can't go.
Speaker 1: Look at the Vegas odds, Steeler's near the bottom of
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think you roll the dice, you go
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson. His maturity and devotion and commitment is
Speaker 1: what the Steelers need. Offensively, it's they got some receivers
Speaker 1: who I really like, but they're a little young, limature,
Speaker 1: they're ready to go, and their offensive line is okay,
Speaker 1: not special, and Russell Wilson is still mobile enough to
Speaker 1: avoid some of that stuff. So I think it works.
Speaker 1: I think the culture and the person Ellen Pittsburgh is good.
Speaker 1: They don't have a trigger guy, they don't have a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and in the AFC, you're not going anywhere unless you
Speaker 1: have a star, even if it's a declining star. You
Speaker 1: got to have a star to win games. So I
Speaker 1: think Russell Wilson will do just fine. Denver's gonna probably
Speaker 1: go get out a JJ McCarthy or a bow Nix.
Speaker 1: I will tell you Denver schedule. They get the NFC South,
Speaker 1: that's the good news. The bad news they also face
Speaker 1: the AFC North, so they are at road games next
Speaker 1: year for Denver beyond facing Harbaugh, Justin Herbert and the Chargers,
Speaker 1: beyond facing Mahomes and Andy Reid and the Chiefs. They
Speaker 1: go to Baltimore. Yeah, Raven's pretty good. At home, they
Speaker 1: go to Joe Berwin, Cincinnati, two New Orleans and Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: to Tampa and Baker Mayfield, Rogers and the Jets, and
Speaker 1: to Seattle. That ain't great for a rookie quarterback. Now
Speaker 1: the home schedule, they get Atlanta Carolina at home, but Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Cleveland Colts at home. Now they have the schedule. They
Speaker 1: don't know when the dates are, but those are some
Speaker 1: tough road games. Those are harsh environments, going toe to
Speaker 1: toe with really good quarterbacks in many instances, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson. There's some l's there,
Speaker 1: Mahomes once, Justin Herbert once with Harbaugh. You know, I
Speaker 1: just I think maybe I wasn't like this in my twenties.
Speaker 1: But as I've aged, pointing fingers doesn't solve anything. Listen,
Speaker 1: you want to point fingers, you could point to the
Speaker 1: Broncos GM George Payton. He gave up two first two
Speaker 1: second round picks. I think he gave up three players
Speaker 1: and maybe a fifth round pick. He also hired Nat Hackett,
Speaker 1: and that was a complete disaster. Many believe he hired
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett because he tried to get Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: when he couldn't rustle in, Nat Hackett's off as just
Speaker 1: didn't work. So he has created eighty five million a
Speaker 1: dead cap. He gave up a lot of draft capital,
Speaker 1: he picked the wrong head coach, and Sean Payton's got
Speaker 1: to pick up the pieces from there. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think George Payton, and I do respect the
Speaker 1: job he's done mostly, but you can only have so
Speaker 1: many big whiffs, and Hackett and Russell that's a big
Speaker 1: whiff coach quarterback league whift on both so and I
Speaker 1: don't think Russell would have You know, people can get
Speaker 1: all over Sean Payton this thing. Sean and Russell were
Speaker 1: not going to work. But what coach would you really
Speaker 1: need to work? I mean, after Nat Hackett bombed, who
Speaker 1: wanted the job? Ask yourself you would have a rookie coach?
Speaker 1: Would he have worked with Russell Wilson? I mean the
Speaker 1: personnel is what it is based on what you were
Speaker 1: paying Russell Wilson and what you surrendered in the draft.
Speaker 1: There were some limitations here. So I think Sean Payton
Speaker 1: will figure it out. But I think if Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: went to the Steelers, he'll have a better year than
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy or bow next with the Broncos. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any question about that. So year two feels like,
Speaker 1: you know, Sean Payton just getting out from under Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson player. Now he has to spend another year getting
Speaker 1: out from under the dead cap hit in a division
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert Harbaugh, Pat Mahomes, Andy Reid. That is
Speaker 1: a big, big hill decline. But I've never felt and
Speaker 1: I said this, I know Sean Peyton well enough, after
Speaker 1: twenty interviews with him and a dinner with him and
Speaker 1: spending time with him and talking to him, I just
Speaker 1: never felt he and Russ. That's why I thought it
Speaker 1: was strange when he took the job. I just I
Speaker 1: didn't think it was a job. He wanted the Chargers
Speaker 1: job initially, but I think the Denver owners have a
Speaker 1: lot of cash, came in, wrote a big check, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to look the other way. I get it,
Speaker 1: but this was never going to be easy. Sean is
Speaker 1: a very direct, very authentic, very opinionated person, and you
Speaker 1: know Russell is hopelessly optimistic, and he is a declining quarterback.
Speaker 1: And there are some psychological factors when a quarterback gets older.
Speaker 1: He wants his money, he wants his protection. And I
Speaker 1: don't think Russell ever felt supported by Nat Hackett's in
Speaker 1: comp or Sean Payton's brewed lawnsty and so I didn't
Speaker 1: think it was a good fit. So let's move on
Speaker 1: and start over. I still think Russell Wilson has several
Speaker 1: good years in him. He's not a disaster, he's not washed.
Speaker 1: He just needs the right pieces. And you know I've
Speaker 1: been saying this for years. Pittsburgh's personnels. I mean, they
Speaker 1: have all the things you need. They have weapons on
Speaker 1: the outside. Offensively, they have a run game, and they
Speaker 1: have speed on the perimeter. They have a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: they have playmakers on defense. They're not great at corner.
Speaker 1: Nobody outside of maybe the Jets and the Chiefs is
Speaker 1: great at corner. We have a corner shortage in the
Speaker 1: NFL and elite corner shortage. So and once again, it's
Speaker 1: a great NFL draft for wide receivers. It's like the
Speaker 1: fourth straight draft, great wide receiver draft, not a great
Speaker 1: corner draft. So that you just that problem will be exacerbated.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna have more great receivers and fewer great corners.
Speaker 1: But I tend to think we can sit and point
Speaker 1: fingers at this stuff. Denver's in the AFC. They got
Speaker 1: to go find their next quarterback star. And history tell
Speaker 1: you if there's five quarterbacks taken in the first round,
Speaker 1: one's going to be a hit, two are gonna work
Speaker 1: kind of, one's going to be a bust, and one
Speaker 1: or two won't be as they won't get a second
Speaker 1: contract and so you know, I'll say this. I think
Speaker 1: outside of Caleb Williams, the rest of these quarterbacks will
Speaker 1: be as good as the place they land. So I
Speaker 1: think if it's bo Nix or JJ McCarthy, I think
Speaker 1: both can succeed with Sean Payton both. I think JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy's got a better arm than bo Nicks. I think
Speaker 1: BO Nicks has far more college starts and is more
Speaker 1: accurate than JJ McCarthy. But it just depends on what
Speaker 1: you like. Uh, JJ's a little taller, I think in
Speaker 1: my opinion, bon Nicks is. I feel like he's kind
Speaker 1: of elusive the deep ball. I take JJ McCarthy accuracy,
Speaker 1: I take bo nicks experience. I'd take Bo next. I
Speaker 1: think JJ McCarthy may have a higher ceiling, Bonicks a
Speaker 1: little lower ceiling. But it could be that bw Nex
Speaker 1: has a higher floor than JJ McCarthy. So I think
Speaker 1: both those guys that would be a perfect place to land.
Speaker 1: I don't think Michael, though I love the way he throws,
Speaker 1: I don't think Denver would take the risk on him
Speaker 1: being his injury history. They got to get this thing right,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like bo Nix works for that offense. Accuracy, experience,
Speaker 1: kid that's been around. He carried Oregon at times, whereas
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy felt sometimes not to be unfair, but like
Speaker 1: he was carried by Michigan's O line, run game coaching
Speaker 1: and dominating defense. So I think that's the direction they'll go.
Speaker 1: Jarrett Stidham can start for the time being. He's capable,
Speaker 1: he's okay. That's obviously not the future. It does matter, though,
Speaker 1: that the rookie quarterback is going to come into a
Speaker 1: system where you know, they pay like twelve million bucks
Speaker 1: for Jarrett Stidham, so he's going to take some snaps.
Speaker 1: You know, Stidham got some snaps this year. He'll probably
Speaker 1: start the season. I could see absolutely. You get a
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy or a bow Nicks and you're like, listen,
Speaker 1: we're earmarking Thanksgiving, and you know, Stidham struggles with a
Speaker 1: tough schedule that includes trips to Baltimore and Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and you know, I could see the jarretts
Speaker 1: that I'm struggling, and then Sean Payton saying, all right,
Speaker 1: it's week seven, Week six, let's go with a kid.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that too. But in the end, it
Speaker 1: was a big swing by Denver. I was surprised how
Speaker 1: bad the Russell Wilson nat Hackett combination was. I just
Speaker 1: remember the first game that he played in Denver and
Speaker 1: they went to Seattle to face the Seahawks and they
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out the clock with two minutes ago. It
Speaker 1: was like, oh, oh, we got a coordinator, not a
Speaker 1: great one, trying to be a head coach. This isn't
Speaker 1: going to work. So and I think you've seen that
Speaker 1: in New York with Nat Hackett and Zach Wilson. So
Speaker 1: it happened. We can point fingers. I think it was inevitable.
Speaker 1: I don't think the personalities clash. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be best friends with your quarterback. Belichick and Brady reportedly
Speaker 1: didn't have a dinner in twenty years. You don't have
Speaker 1: to be best friends. But I think Russell maybe the
Speaker 1: most optimistic player in the league, and I think Sean
Speaker 1: Payton on the other end, is the most authentic and
Speaker 1: raw and outspoke in the league. So I mean you
Speaker 1: have a chasm there of personalities. Whereas Belichick and Brady
Speaker 1: are both intensely driven workaholics, work over everything else. They
Speaker 1: were kind of on the same plane and in the
Speaker 1: same direction for years. I think Tom's a little more
Speaker 1: joyful and easier to be around. Builds a little more
Speaker 1: old school, but a lot of things. Brady and Belichick
Speaker 1: were very similar on their ascension, their drive, their work ethic,
Speaker 1: and their commitment to the sport. Sean and Russell. You
Speaker 1: couldn't pick a more optimistic quarterback, maybe Kirk Cousins, and
Speaker 1: a more raw coach than Sean Payton. It's oil and water.
Speaker 1: It never worked. That's okay, don't need to blame anybody.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 1: Shawn's won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So is Russ.
Speaker 1: They've both won Super Bowls. They're more than capable. George Payton,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, I would be surprised if he
Speaker 1: has a lot of tarmac left. You Whiffin a coach,
Speaker 1: You Whiffin a quarterback? Eighty five mil dead cap. That's
Speaker 1: going to leave a mark that lingers and remember this
Speaker 1: division now negat Andy Reid and Jim Harbaugh and pretty
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