WEBVTT - Early Coaching Changes + Fantasy Exit Interviews, Part 1 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:15.200 Wow, everybody, It's Tuesday, January fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Welcome 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.560 to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we are definitely 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.200 thinking about all the folks in Los Angeles. Be your 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.400 man named g. Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f. Florio 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:23.680 and Laqwan Jones. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:25.400 I was gonna sa. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.000 Happy New Year, but we have we have, We have 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.120 spoken since the New Year, right, we've done a show 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.800 since the two weeks. Yeah, I mean, look, I mean 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.239 you say that, but on the other hand, it's been 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:39.800 a whirlwind two weeks. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.080 It's been it's been crazy. So you know, I just 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.360 wanted to make sure right that we had actually had 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.519 done a show on New Year's Day together. Oh that's 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:51.840 a good point. Yeah, we did do a show. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.880 We did do an NFL Fantasy Live show on New 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:55.480 Year's Day. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:55.800 Uh. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.400 Look, I'm the. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.000 Regular season ends, in the fantasy season ends, and I 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.000 sort of go into a brain FuG for a couple 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.839 of weeks, and like, I'm still a little bit away 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:06.720 from coming out of it. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.520 I'm right there with you, man. Incredible year, incredible season, man, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.600 And like I feel like with the season being so great, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.280 it's a new year and it's a new me. Guys like, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:23.959 I know, but my hair is blonde. Guys like you know, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.560 oh my god. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.039 Okay, so obviously for the for the folks who aren't 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:30.840 seeing the audio, and trust me, this will end up 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.600 on socials. When we started the show, you know, we're 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.680 on stream Yard and Lakwan's camera wasn't on and he's like, oh, 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:39.679 this is weird, this is new. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.560 And in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, all right, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.399 is he doing something weird? Is he doing a bit? 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.160 But I didn't really, I didn't. I didn't really push it. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.080 And then all of a sudden he opens up the 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.240 camera and here he is looking like Cisco. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.680 Oh my god, demolition man, you gotta show it. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.480 Oh my god. Oh wow, lady, I'm not gonna lie 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.560 to you. It's not a bad look. Hey, I like it. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.040 I want I still want us to be in studio 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.760 one day for a grand reveal like live on YouTube 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:10.320 or something. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.720 I will I will take it. The folks that are listening, like, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.399 this is really for my Australia people to all see 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.040 you guys DM and me like, when you're gonna do it, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.880 when you're gonna do it. This is just a teaser. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.960 You're listening now, you got it to next week. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.840 I didn't know the folks down under had such a 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.400 vested interest in your hairing God, it. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.560 Was like, oh, you got to be a man of 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.440 your word, ladies and gentlemen. I am a man of 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.919 my word. He is a man of his word. Absolutely so. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.920 John news Smith finished out a career year for himself. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.280 He ends the year as the tied end for and 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:47.400 true to his word, Lakwan Jones now has blonde hair. Yeah, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.960 so what what did the wife and kids say about it? 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.480 So? Uh well, they have not seen this yet. So 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.400 we're lady on the reveal at home. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.120 Thought magnifico and wowno. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.720 Sabrino went to work and you were normal, and she's 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.160 gonna come home and and this. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.400 Wow, you gotta we'll be married after this. I don't know. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.840 You gotta videotape the reaction and put that on socials 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.720 as well, because that was wow. All right, all right, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.200 but shout out to you man. You know, I know 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.200 you were dreading this for a while, but. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.520 Have your kids seen it? No, nobody have seen this. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:29.760 You guys are in the first. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.680 You're gonna pick them up from school or something. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.040 Later and they're just gonna like. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.240 Layla's gonna side on. I mean, like, what is. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:43.160 Wow? All right, boom there it is. We don't even 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.000 know the rest of the show. I'm happy now, you. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.760 Know we can we can just like say so thanks 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.880 everybody for listening. Uh, and we'll see you. We'll see 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.320 you next week. Now we have later to talk about. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.000 We obviously, the the Fantasy season itself is done. I'm 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.920 we're still doing a couple of shows a week for 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.600 the next few weeks, so figure out this is a 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.520 good time to start our exit interview portion where we 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.320 talk about the teams in terms of what happened this 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.200 past year and what we hope for for next year 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.760 as well. Normally, in the past when we've done these shows, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.080 I've done it by division, but it always sort of 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.800 felt awkward because inevitably we would run into some teams 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.200 that were still playing in the playoffs. So this time around, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.880 the genius in me not just a hat rack, guys, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.880 I think we would do it by draft order because 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.039 that means we're very less likely to run into teams 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.919 that are still playing in the playoffs as we do it. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.960 So we're going to start with the number one overall 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.000 draft pick and work our way all the way down 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:46.479 through thirty two. Presumably we are done by with this 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.920 before or after the Super Bowl happened, so that we 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.840 know who the final picks in the first round are 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:52.400 going to be. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.800 That Bill's Rams Super Bowl, That Bill's Rams Super Bowl. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:58.880 You know that. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:04:59.800 I'll say this. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:01.680 I mean, while on the one hand, I guess I'm 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.480 sort of sad that the forty nine ers aren't in it. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.520 On the other hand, watching stress free football this weekend. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:12.560 Was kind of nice. Nice, you know, it was really good. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.360 I Well, first off, I guess I'd probably take this 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.479 opportunity to say, because we are obviously the three of 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.960 us living in Los Angeles, there are still a lot 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.120 of folks who are very much dealing with the fires 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.080 going on there. You know, we have had coworkers who 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.120 have had to evacuate their homes, a lot of folks 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.560 who are dealing with incredible trauma having lost everything, and 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.159 so we certainly go out to them. And if you 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.919 can find someone to somewhere to donate or volunteer time, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.560 I strongly urge you to do that, because a lot 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.240 of people need help, not just now, but are going 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.120 to need help in the future as they put the 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.520 fires out and everybody tries to to sort of rebuild 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.960 their lives as they are. The three of us are 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.840 fortunate and that we haven't had to evacuate. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:56.159 Floria. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.560 I know you were the closest to some of the fires. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.680 You guys were sort of on watch there for a while, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:02.080 weren't you. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.400 We never got close to having to evacuate, per se, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.360 but the warning got like I don't want to give 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.680 exact streets away, but you guys would know better, Like, yeah, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.240 it got not that far away from us, and like 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.760 our highway exits got shut down for a night or whatever. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.080 But that was the worst part of it for us, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.800 and the worst part of it. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.279 I feel like for you guys could probably relate to 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.159 this as well, Like when you're kind of far enough, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.400 it's rough not only seeing every like people lose stuff, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.920 but like seeing establishments that you like to go to 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:31.600 and stuff that. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.799 Are no longer around anymore. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.159 That was for me the hardest part. But yeah, I 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.560 just echo everything Marcus said. Any way that you can, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.440 you can help. It is very needed right now. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.320 For sure, Yeah, for sure, for sure. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.520 Yeah, We my family and I we weren't near any 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.320 evacuation zones, but the air quality was horrible. We decided 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.919 to just sort of leave the area for a couple 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.160 of days just to kind of get some try to 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.840 get some clean air, some fresh air, you know, but 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.440 very much on the mind and you know, friends, family, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.320 having to evacuate, and just kind of keeping in touch 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.160 with people the whole time. But as a long way 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.080 of saying, I did get to enjoy stress free football 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.080 as a fan this week, and for the first time 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:13.600 in a while. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.000 He was kind of nice to just like, I can. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.000 Check in if I wanted to, I can sit down 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.320 and have some food and a drink and not really 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.560 freak out. You gentlemen, did not have that, although I 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.400 guess you kind of did, because, like neither one of 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.600 your games, LaQuan, your game was over before halftime, Florio, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.200 Yours kind of got out of hand somewhere midway through 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.239 the third quarter and the Bills just got to cruise 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:34.920 along from there. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.240 The first half was stressful, the second half was a 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.120 lot of fun. I'll say this though, like even when 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.120 your team is in Laqwan. I'm sure you felt this 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.440 way too, Like even when your team's up two scores 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.880 in the playoffs, You're like this, this isn't over yet. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.040 Like yeah, after stressing every single play for three hours, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.800 the Eagles Packers game felt. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.520 Like a preseason game to me because I was like, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.760 my team one, I don't have to stress it all. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.360 I don't care more. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.240 I think I had the most anxiety because my game 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.760 was on Monday, But overall, when I look at it, 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.520 I was like, I'm not really stressed. Man, I'm not 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.240 scared to say im Darnold. I was gonna say. We 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.480 texted in a group text yesterday. Kaul was like, I 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.200 have no worries at all about this game. No, I 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.080 already figured out how this was going to go. We're 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:20.800 going to get a ton of pressure, which we did 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.760 nine sacks, which tied the playoff record. We were supposed 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.000 to break it, but we tied the playoff record in 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.080 NFL history. But listen, I was not stressed at all 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.560 because I know we're going to handle business. And Dan 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.839 Campbell might actually have to eat his words because there 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.240 may be a possibility does see the vikings in two weeks, 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.680 right on the couch when the commanders come in and 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:40.760 surprise everybody. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:46.600 So already calling a commander's upset over the Lions. We 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.560 will get to that a little bit later in the week. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.640 We will have some picks for the divisional round games 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.480 and that sort of thing here, but we do have 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.679 we will do some more all. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.360 I just think we'll do some some takeaways. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.200 I guess we can do some more takeaways from the 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.600 wild card weekend later at the show. The show that 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.040 was that was kind of how we had it on 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.439 the rundown, whatever things happened organically here, you guys, we. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.480 Love the rundown sometimes, you know how it works. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.960 Come. Like I said, we will get through the exit interviews. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.320 We want to start with a little bit of news 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.080 because obviously it's the off season. Even for the teams 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.040 that aren't any playoffs, there are things happening. There are 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:23.200 coaching changes afoot. The Patriots introduced their new head coach, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:28.080 Mike Vrabel, who obviously played for the Patriots for a 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.640 long time, was the head coach of the Tennessee Titans 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.080 for years, was out of the coaching game for a 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:33.480 little bit. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.000 Now he is back. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.480 We'll talk about the Patriots because they are right now 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.600 are sitting in the number four slot overall. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:41.480 But I mean Lakwan. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:46.280 For all the excitement about about Mike Rabel, if this 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.680 roster doesn't get any better, does it matter a whole lot. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.800 No, There's some key moves that need to be made, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.200 some like configurating of obviously the wide receiver room. I mean, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.680 I love the Maryo Douglas, but he's not as effective 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.240 as an alpha wide receiver in that offense. And Mike 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.559 Rable's gonna want to run the rock as well at 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.760 some point, you know. Rashid, I mean raroand j Stevenson, 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.800 I feel like, you know, he's a great running back 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.800 for a guy that could play both sides, the dual 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.599 thread passing out, catching passes out of the backfield, but 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.599 you need that hard nose runner. And I don't know 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.560 if they grab it in the draft, bring and see 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.520 whatever the case may be. But there's a lot of 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.920 pieces that need to be fixed, you know, before it 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.000 start mattering to Patriots fans. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.320 Yeah, I mean Florida, you as a fan of a 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:31.480 team in that division. Uh, it still doesn't feel like 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.040 the Patriots are close to being competitive yet. I mean, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.160 I know, look and we're just starting the offseason, but 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:38.800 it still feels like they're ways away. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.880 Maybe I'm foolish. I think they're a year away, but 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.600 I think long term they are the biggest threat to 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.920 the Bills in the AC East. Because I've been on 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.640 record for a while I'm a big, big supporter of 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.880 Drake May, and like just happened organically. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.880 I don't go into the year being like I want. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.240 To support the Patriots quarterback, but watching him play, he 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.440 quickly won me over and I was like, this guy 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.360 is awesome. And then the roster's going to look extremely 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.160 different next year. They have the most cap, they have 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.600 their picks. I mean, the Bills kind of messed them 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.400 up by losing that game in Week eighteen, or they'd 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.199 be selling off the number one pick right now and 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.280 getting a Kings ransom for it. But yeah, I expect 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.680 this to look a lot different, And in fact, Drake 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.439 May playing as well as he did. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.160 This year might be the reason they made the change. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.920 Because if he didn't look good, I think maybe you say, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.080 all right, we run this back with another year. But 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.079 I think you're looking at it now like, hey, we 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.920 got four more years on this rookie deal. We have 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.800 the most cap this year, we got our picks. The 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.840 time to strike is now. So I think the Patriots. 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.120 I'm not saying they're going to be like a Super 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.680 Bowl contender or anything next year, but in the next 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.000 year or two, I think they could. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.600 They could make noise in surprise people. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.560 So I was at home yesterday and I turned on 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.679 on our network and caught the beginning of the introductory 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.080 press conference, and after a few minutes of it, I 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.400 turned it off because I got It's just made me 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.360 a little bit wheezy, and I wanted to enjoy the 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.520 Chariso on eggs I. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:06.160 Had in front of me. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:16.360 This is not the first cynical and disingenuous NFL head 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.400 coaching hiring search that we've ever seen. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:20.880 It sures hell won't be the last. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.079 This one, though, felt, at least of any of them 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.640 in recent memory, the most egregious because it felt like 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.120 a slow motion train wreck we saw coming for like 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.120 half the season. Because it felt like midway through the year, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.480 they were already Fans are fickle. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.160 I know that there are fans. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.720 There were sort of media reports asking questions about whether 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.200 or not Gerard Mayo was the guy, and it just 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.679 seemed like, what what were the expectations for him and 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:54.559 for this team? 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.160 Because coming into the season. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.480 There were no expectations on this roster, right, Nobody looked 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.280 at it from top to bottom and said, there's just 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.160 not a lot of talent here. And you know, the 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.640 Bills we knew were going to be good. The expectation 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.120 was the Dolphins were going to be good. Two were 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.080 getting hurt, obviously torpedoed a lot of that. A lot 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.000 of us believe the Jets would be at least competitive, right, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.040 I mean, we didn't think they were going to bottom out. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:20.680 The way they did. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.360 So where were the expectations for the Patriots? Yet midway 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.560 through the season, there's already sort of these rumblings that 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.559 maybe Gerrodmeyo wasn't the guy after the organization spent all 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.600 this time grooming him as the coach in waiting after 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.960 Bill Belichick was going to go. So then we get 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.480 to the end of the season and Mike Rabel's name 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.760 starts popping up as a guy who wants back in 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.400 as a head coach, and immediately he's sort of linked 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.760 to well, maybe he can go back to New England 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.199 and maybe, you know, maybe they would want to have 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.800 a sort of a reunion with one of their favorite sons. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.040 And you know, then you have Rod Mayo who's. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.719 Let go, and it just sort of it sort of 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.319 rubbed me really wrong, even at the time that Robert 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.880 Kraft stands there with sort of these this hang dog's 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:14.160 sad face talking about how I failed him. You know, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.360 we put him in this position and he didn't succeed 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.080 and it's on me and I failed him, to which 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.080 I said, well, why didn't you try harder? You give 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.920 it one year with a terrible roster, and you moved 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.000 on from him, and now you're going to somehow give 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.800 this big Maya kulpa, only to turn around a couple 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:34.040 weeks later and bring in Mike Rabel after mind you, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.120 maybe the most cynical of all Rooney Rule interviews with 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.520 Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich, like two guys who hadn't 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.360 been in the league since twenty twenty two. You do 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.720 these two interviews sort of back to back and have 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.680 your social media staff stick them on one graphic and 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.080 throw it out just to sort of what provide cover 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:59.160 that you actually did it, and it just the whole 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.200 thing just made me feel ill watching all of a 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.000 sudden then pivot to this favorite son who now you 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.280 feel like is going to get all the resources that 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.000 they didn't give to their guy, throwing the fact that 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.600 you had people leaking, possibly from within the organization. The 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.440 reason that they moved on from Gerrodmeo had nothing to 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.200 do with on the field, or not as much to 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.280 do with on the field, but because he was unprofessional 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.320 on radio interviews and press conferences, ignoring the fact that 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.920 their previous coach dressed like a hobo and gave mono 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.200 salamic answers and press conferences most. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:31.520 Of the time. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.400 I mean, he was well known for that, right, So like, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.680 don't hit me with unprofessionalism in press conferences because. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.040 You loued this thing that happened for years and years 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:41.560 and years. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:46.280 I just found it just incredibly distasteful. It just felt 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.640 like it made a mockery of the whole thing. But 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.360 Robert Kraft has certainly favored nation status among ownership and 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.200 in the NFL front office, So chances are those all 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.520 things are gonna skate. We're all gonna celebrate Mike Vrabel. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.400 I think he's a good coach. Jets aren't gonna have sess. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.040 I just felt wrong about it. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:05.560 The end. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.640 Simply amazing, simply amazing. That take right there. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.960 Speaking of barcacle organizations, the Dallas Cowboys looking for a 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.800 head coach right now they let go of Mike McCarthy. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.760 The other look, I don't really know. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.040 The rumor now at Florio is that Dion Sanders might 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.720 be interested and the Cowboys might be interested in in Dion. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.360 I mean, you want to talk about Spectacle bringing coach 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.160 prime to Dallas and pairing him up with Jerry Jones 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.240 in what is already just a circus on wheels down 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.440 there in Dallas. Please please Floyle like I'm five years 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.040 old explaining the Dallas Cowboys to me. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.000 Uh, look, I actually think that Dion, if that's the 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.760 route they go, I think it makes a lot of 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:58.640 sense because he's a big enough personality one he'll have 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.760 all everyone in the country's eyeballs will be on the 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.560 Cowboys games, which is what Jerry Jones wants and what 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.080 the NFL wants. I'm going to talk about it. What 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.280 I think we're gonna get to the Titans in a 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.600 couple of minutes. I think if the Cowboys hire Dion, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.639 it can have a ripple effect around the NFL. But 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.880 to me, what is even crazier is the fact that 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.919 like literally two days before it, the Cowboys blocked Mike 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.560 McCarthy from talking to the Bears. He's free to come 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.320 to them now, like it, this is the thing, And 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.800 like I get it if you are an NFL team 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.280 and you view things like everything changes so much year 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.920 to year and stuff that like a whole lot could 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.640 change in a year, And if you want to say 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.359 that with Jeron Mayo, Mike McCarthy, Antonio Pierce. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.240 I get it. The results kind of speak for themselves 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.320 on the field, but the way these teams have handled 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.359 these things are, in my opinion, not great. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.080 Like Marcus, you spoke about the Patriots, the Cowboys coming 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.200 out and saying like Mike McCarthy's going to be back 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.800 where we're blocking him from other places, and then firing 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.879 him a week after every other team moved on from 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.919 their head coach. The Raiders allowed Antonio Peers to do 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.520 a press conference on Black Monday, and he was like, yeah, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.959 as far as I know, I'm coming back, and then 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.280 two days later him and the GM are fired. Like 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:19.360 I get it. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:20.080 It's a business. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.280 You want to make the best moves for on the field, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.040 and what you believe is best for your team, and 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.520 like I do think Mike Vrabel's a better coach than 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.040 Geron Mayo at this point in their career. Stuff like that. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.440 So, like from a football landscape, I can understand why 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.600 teams make these moves, but from a human standpoint, you 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.760 could go about it a whole lot better. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.439 And not make people do press conferences, not drag it 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.960 out a week like you have to make the decision, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.480 but don't I don't know. Don't make it a spectacle, 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:47.120 and don't. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.840 Embarrass the people that you're getting rid of. 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.359 Side note, as you were as you were speaking on that, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.520 I saw a skeet on Blue Sky come through from 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.240 Tom Pro. Tom Pelsero is saying, Mike McCarthy's to you 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:06.200