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Speaker 2: if the ravens could fire, John Harbaugh and the Bills
Speaker 2: could fire, Sean McDermott, could you move on from us?
Speaker 2: And I said no, Well, you guys are safe, Todd,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't move on from you. Is that anyone safe? Yes?
Speaker 2: Everybody is safe. Wow, everybody is safe in this room. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you choose to leave, like if you step down,
Speaker 2: like Mike Tomlin, then now good luck. You're dead. To me,
Speaker 2: just letting you know, slightly harsh, but no, no, but
Speaker 2: you're all safe. Of course, we're a team, all right.
Speaker 3: That's lovely. I appreciate the way you put that.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, yes, Paul, if one of the guys stepped down,
Speaker 4: would you issue a lovely statement thank you for the
Speaker 4: many years of Service.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and you're dead to me. Yes, and you're
Speaker 2: dead to me. All right. Seaton Poll question for the
Speaker 2: final hour of the program is what.
Speaker 5: Losing team from the weekend that has the most biggest
Speaker 5: issues issue. The Texans have fifty one percent of that vote.
Speaker 5: Quarterback that had the most difficult time sleeping last night
Speaker 5: Josh Allen, followed by C. J. Stroud And then which
Speaker 5: team will regret firing their head coach? Maybe firing not
Speaker 5: the right words since Mike Tomlin stepped down, but we
Speaker 5: put the Steelers on there right now. It is the Ravens,
Speaker 5: followed by the Bills. They're kind of neck and neck.
Speaker 6: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll talk about those coaching vacancies. And Kevin
Speaker 2: Stefanski as predicted what an upgrade or as as I
Speaker 2: told you that John Harball. John Harball was looking at
Speaker 2: either the Falcons or the Giants, and I said, Stefanski
Speaker 2: will get the other job. Harball takes the Giants, Stefanski
Speaker 2: takes the Atlanta Falcons. Great situation. Great situation. Now, I
Speaker 2: know you don't really have a quarterback because you've got
Speaker 2: two quarterbacks there, but it feels like that's an upgrade
Speaker 2: and you get an offensive minded coach in there, and
Speaker 2: maybe they unleash their true potential there. But you know
Speaker 2: these guys now you look around Mike McDonald in Seattle,
Speaker 2: Mike Rabel in New England. You know Ben Johnson, like
Speaker 2: you don't get that much time to come in and
Speaker 2: be like, all right, we're going to the playoffs. Right,
Speaker 2: it's what Rabel did. I don't know if I'm more
Speaker 2: Is there another story turnaround more surprising than what Brabel
Speaker 2: did this year? Ben Johnson, that's a good team. The
Speaker 2: Patriots weren't a good team. I thought the Bears were
Speaker 2: standing in the way of the Bears. I thought that
Speaker 2: the Bears were a playoff team. Seattle pretty surprising anybody
Speaker 2: else in there that you go, Wow, that's a crazy turnaround.
Speaker 2: Carolina made the playoffs.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: How about Jacksonville? Would you put Jacksonville over the Patriots? Now?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't, as although you know, maybe Liam Cohen is
Speaker 2: going to save Trevor Lawrence's career and you end up
Speaker 2: with thirteen wins. Feels like Jacksonville's supposed to be competitive.
Speaker 2: New England wasn't. And then Rabel gets there. You got
Speaker 2: a second year quarterback, and here you are in the
Speaker 2: ANFC title game, Seattle. I think we were kind of
Speaker 2: trying to figure out just how good they were. You know,
Speaker 2: it was going to be defense and running the football,
Speaker 2: and then they get Sam Darnold. I have to factor
Speaker 2: that in as well. But if you would have said,
Speaker 2: of all these scenarios here, hey, New England's going to
Speaker 2: be an AFC title game, Seattle's going to be in
Speaker 2: the NFC Title game, Jacksonville is going to be a
Speaker 2: force this year, I still go back to Carolina made
Speaker 2: the playoffs, I know, with a losing record in a
Speaker 2: bad division. But I would say the Patriots are the
Speaker 2: biggest surprise. Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 4: Last year the Patriots offense was thirtieth in the league,
Speaker 4: their defense was twenty second. This year, their offense is
Speaker 4: second in the league and scoring and their defense is fourth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a huge turnaround. Obviously, Yes, Todd and people
Speaker 2: could say.
Speaker 7: All they want they had a weaker schedule, it's still
Speaker 7: fourteen and three and playoff wins and one win away
Speaker 7: from the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That's kind of insane. Celebrate Martin Luther King Day on
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Speaker 2: A couple of phone calls in here best and worst
Speaker 2: of the season, our best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 2: I was going to say the season with what happened
Speaker 2: with some of these teams that had playoff hopes. But
Speaker 2: the stakes are higher, and it feels like ownership looks
Speaker 2: around and goes, well, wait a minute, why can't we
Speaker 2: do that? And next year at this time there probably
Speaker 2: will be six or seven openings. After this year with
Speaker 2: all these openings, and you're going, can we have that many?
Speaker 2: Can we have a third of the NFL? You know,
Speaker 2: almost a third of these coaching vacancies? Yeah, Mark, It's going.
Speaker 7: To be the same thing with college football. Also, I'm
Speaker 7: sure if you're Arkansas or Mississippi State, Indiana got to
Speaker 7: the national championship game, let's do something.
Speaker 2: But you know, it is interesting that, you know, it
Speaker 2: used to be there were the same schools that were
Speaker 2: playing in the playoffs and winning national championships. Now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I get to pay players too, and
Speaker 2: now we've leveled the playing field. You know, Mark Cuban
Speaker 2: became a big donor for Indiana football, Like you have
Speaker 2: to have that. It's just you know, that is your
Speaker 2: power point. Like we have to have money. You have
Speaker 2: to have people, you know, collectives, billionaire, whoever it is,
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. You get one guy in there who's going
Speaker 2: to write a check, that's what you need. And the
Speaker 2: fact that we're getting close to forty million dollars with
Speaker 2: sort of the operating budget per year not sustainable. I
Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier in the show. Friday. College Football Playoff
Speaker 2: committee is expected to announce whether they're going to go
Speaker 2: to sixteen teams or they'll stay at twelve. And what
Speaker 2: I learned was the Big Ten once a commitment that
Speaker 2: says a firm agreement that you will go sixteen, sixteen,
Speaker 2: sixteen the next three years, and then after that you'll
Speaker 2: go to twenty four teams. And that doesn't seem like
Speaker 2: a lot to ask, all right, So at least we
Speaker 2: didn't go twelve, then to sixteen, then to twenty four.
Speaker 2: You give it three more years and then you see
Speaker 2: if you're ready to go to twenty four teams. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's where they're going. It's just sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, that's
Speaker 2: what the Big Ten wants. Let's see Nick and Irvine. Hi, Nick,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 8: Again. Always an honor to talk to you. Hall of Famer. Listen,
Speaker 8: great great weekend. Got to watch the La Rams yesterday
Speaker 8: at the bicycle casino eating and drinking, and Oldlasme's compadres
Speaker 8: over at the bike playing one to three no limit.
Speaker 2: My work is found a little roughed up.
Speaker 8: Nick. Yeah, well, you know I've been sober for about
Speaker 8: three four hours.
Speaker 2: So well, congratulation on your sobriety.
Speaker 9: Got a lastful about that pregame tonight.
Speaker 8: So my worst of the weekend has to be even
Speaker 8: as a Raider fan and of course a humanitarian, I
Speaker 8: hate the Broncos, but that kid, that quarterback on the Broncos,
Speaker 8: he threw two of the best balls I've really ever seen.
Speaker 8: I mean, it was incredible, those passes, and I was
Speaker 8: really looking forward to watching him in the championship game
Speaker 8: and to hear that he got mixed out of that
Speaker 8: was a disappointment. So that was my worst. My best
Speaker 8: for the eleventh consecutive week and this time snuggling with
Speaker 8: Danica Patrick and Dodger Hall of Fame fan Mary Hart
Speaker 8: on my couch was watching the Dodgers once again, come
Speaker 8: back in the World Series in Game seven and win it.
Speaker 8: So until someone dethrones that, it's going to be my
Speaker 8: best every weekend. It's probably going to be Opening Day
Speaker 8: for the Dodgers. That'll be my best of the week.
Speaker 2: Right Well, thank you, Nick, congratulations again on your Dodgers. Boy.
Speaker 2: The number of articles that talked about how the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are ruining baseball, they took advantage of an opportunity that, like,
Speaker 2: I can't fault them. I don't think they have to
Speaker 2: dumb down their organization just because nobody else is going
Speaker 2: to be able to spend that money. There are other billionaires.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers outsmarted a lot of people the show Heyo
Speaker 2: Tani deferred payment contract. Now, I'm wondering if Baseball will
Speaker 2: try to firm up that loophole there, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, what can baseball do? What does Baseball want
Speaker 2: to do? Salaries? Salary cap Player Association won't allow that
Speaker 2: to happen, and it might define the legacy of this commissioner.
Speaker 2: Is he able to bring some kind of financial sanity
Speaker 2: to the game, And I don't know if he can,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he wants to. I get. I mean,
Speaker 2: you want to have as many teams. That's why we
Speaker 2: love the NFL because you can get Carolina in there.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville turns it around. New England turns it around. You
Speaker 2: can reap benefits of doing things the correct way while
Speaker 2: everybody is playing by the same rules. But I still
Speaker 2: go back to the Dodgers were two ounces away from
Speaker 2: not winning the World Series.
Speaker 4: Yes, pauling the Dodgers spending is the tush push of baseball.
Speaker 4: All the other teams want it gone. But how do
Speaker 4: you penalize for the Dodgers for doing something that's completely
Speaker 4: legal under the rules today.
Speaker 2: Well, Buffalo certainly used the tush push a lot, but
Speaker 2: four or five times yesterday. David in Ohio, Hi David,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Dan got a bess in and Worst of the weekend,
Speaker 10: real quick best. Even though they lost PAULI, I still
Speaker 10: think the Bears have got a lot to cheer about,
Speaker 10: and they're going into the off season. I still think
Speaker 10: they're the favorite to maybe when the NFC North next year.
Speaker 10: They beat the Packers, so I would say that that's
Speaker 10: that is that could be their Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 10: and then wor's the weekends obviously, Marvin's Niners losing in Seattle.
Speaker 10: I was just just a complete blowout, and I really
Speaker 10: hope maybe they come back next year and maybe it's
Speaker 10: become a contender there.
Speaker 2: So thank you, all right, And I saw I don't
Speaker 2: know if they were reports, So I'm always very careful
Speaker 2: about this because somebody can kind of speculate, you know,
Speaker 2: it can go hey, you know what about and then
Speaker 2: it becomes a report and it's not but Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: to the Vikings because I don't think the Vikings are
Speaker 2: sold on Jay J. McCarthy, but they I think they
Speaker 2: toyed with the idea of Aaron Rodgers. Aaron wanted to
Speaker 2: go there and then ended up in Pittsburgh. But I
Speaker 2: wonder if he wants to play again. Is Minnesota an option?
Speaker 2: Greg and Buffalo, Hi, Greg, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Dan.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to chime in locally on the whole
Speaker 9: Bill situation that came about today. You haven't mentioned Bill's
Speaker 9: GM Brandon Bean at all, and I can tell you
Speaker 9: here in Western New York he is the one that
Speaker 9: people by far have been wanting to be fired more
Speaker 9: than Sean McDermott. Brandon Bean has a lot of goodwill
Speaker 9: this year, and it started when he went on a
Speaker 9: local radio spot after the draft, and so complaining about
Speaker 9: wide receivers is one of the dumbest things he's ever heard.
Speaker 9: Now a year prior, he took Coleman with a thirty
Speaker 9: third pick in the draft, and he was getting healthy,
Speaker 9: scratched in the playoff, pushed down the strutch in the
Speaker 9: regular season. So not only this is wide receiver room
Speaker 9: construction ben malpractice, but they have money and resources go
Speaker 9: lower into the defensive line and it has not worked,
Speaker 9: especially in the playoffs. And look, I know Seawn was
Speaker 9: the scapegoat and steam taskcor is right about what an
Speaker 9: ambassador Sean's been for Buffalo and Western New York. But
Speaker 9: in the end, this is about roster construction and depth.
Speaker 9: And one last thing Dan you mentioned, I know with
Speaker 9: John Elway in those early Super Bowls, how he didn't
Speaker 9: maybe have those offensive teammates around him, those high end
Speaker 9: players compared to later he obviously had TD and Shannon
Speaker 9: and all that. Since drafting Josh in twenty eighteen, the
Speaker 9: Bills have drafted fifty six players. Only two have gone
Speaker 9: to make the Pro Bowl, Dawson Knox and James Cook.
Speaker 9: Having the rest of your week, guys, Thank.
Speaker 4: You, Greg, I appreciate that. Yes, Paulie multiple reports to
Speaker 4: the GM, Brandon Beans the Bills. He not only didn't
Speaker 4: get fired, he got a promotion. He's now president of
Speaker 4: football Operations.
Speaker 2: In addition to GM oh I was going to say,
Speaker 2: maybe they got him out of the GM spot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's tricky though, when you keep the GM when you
Speaker 2: bring in a coach and John Harball I think is
Speaker 2: fine with Joe Shane as the GM with the Giants,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. It took him a few days
Speaker 2: to get that contract done. All right, let me take
Speaker 2: a break. Albert Breer his job is to well one
Speaker 2: of his jobs is to keep an eye on the
Speaker 2: coaching vacancies. And we'll ask him, was Buffalo going to
Speaker 2: do this no matter what? Now they got to the
Speaker 2: Super bowl'd be pretty hard to send him packing. But
Speaker 2: at what point do you make a decision you're going
Speaker 2: to fire Sean McDermott and also these other coaching vacancies
Speaker 2: because you got some really blue chip openings here with Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: with Buffalo, with Baltimore. We'll take a break. We're back
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Speaker 2: More phone calls coming up on this Monday. As we
Speaker 2: always do best and worst through the weekend, which you
Speaker 2: saw that you liked you didn't like. To update the
Speaker 2: poll results as well, we bring in the senior NFL
Speaker 2: reporter for the Monday Morning quarterback, Albert Breer, back on
Speaker 2: the program. I guess it turns out that Sean McDermott
Speaker 2: was coaching for his job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how's your Monday morning going?
Speaker 2: Still employed?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That I I would say, I, I I'm surprised, but
Speaker 6: I think there were and I think he was surprised,
Speaker 6: but there were some tea leaves, you know. I think
Speaker 6: Josh Allen's emotional press conference. I think McDermott you could
Speaker 6: kind of see, you know, with the criticism of the
Speaker 6: officials the first time and then coming back the second time.
Speaker 6: I think you kind of feel.
Speaker 3: That there was heat on everybody there, you know, and
Speaker 3: that the window to.
Speaker 6: Win a championship, like the owners were feeling that and
Speaker 6: feeling the pressure of being within that. And you know,
Speaker 6: I think a couple of months ago I used the
Speaker 6: Tony Dungee comparison with you Dan, and I think it's
Speaker 6: an apt one, you know. I That's the way I
Speaker 6: see this is, you know, Sean McDermott did a ton
Speaker 6: of good in Buffalo. They had me been to the
Speaker 6: playoffs in eighteen years, you know, he was there for nine.
Speaker 6: They make it an eight of those nine years, seven
Speaker 6: in a row, five AFC's titles, two AFC Championship games,
Speaker 6: a franchise quarterback, like all these things were unimaginable for
Speaker 6: the Bills when he got there. But you know, the
Speaker 6: same way it was with Tony Dungee when he rebuilt
Speaker 6: the Bucks. You know, the owners down there felt this
Speaker 6: shrinking window with that team they had with you know,
Speaker 6: Derek Brooks and Lawren Sapp and John Lynch and Rendez Barber,
Speaker 6: and I think sort of the same thing with a
Speaker 6: quarterback in Buffalo. You know, there's a feeling like we're
Speaker 6: not going to get a million shots at this, so.
Speaker 3: We need to strike while the iron's hot.
Speaker 2: So what's Buffalo do?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great question. This is I think a
Speaker 6: once in a lifetime opportunity for a coach, don't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But Baltimore is as well. Right.
Speaker 6: I just look at like this with Josh Allen and
Speaker 6: the chance to do this and compete for a championship,
Speaker 6: Like if this job were to come open again in
Speaker 6: three or four years, with the amount of damage he's taken, like,
Speaker 6: we don't know that it's gonna be the same Josh Allen,
Speaker 6: you know. So if I'm the bill, I'm taking full
Speaker 6: advantage of that. And that means you're going to interview
Speaker 6: all the usual suspects, the names that we've heard, you know,
Speaker 6: over the course of the last couple of weeks, and
Speaker 6: there's some really good candidates out there, some of them
Speaker 6: on the defensive side of the ball, which you know,
Speaker 6: maybe the Bills shy away from that now because they
Speaker 6: just did spend nine years going down that path with McDermott.
Speaker 3: But why not take big swings if you're Buffalo?
Speaker 2: Why not just see well?
Speaker 3: I mean, we'll call the Rams call.
Speaker 6: And I'm not saying those guys that be available, but
Speaker 6: you know, when you have that quarterback and you're in
Speaker 6: this situation and you might be able to entice something
Speaker 6: just to see how their situation is, why wouldn't you
Speaker 6: do it?
Speaker 3: I mean, I got it.
Speaker 6: This is the way I look at it right Like
Speaker 6: it's like if I'm if I'm Buffalo, I'm looking at
Speaker 6: this and I'm saying, like we are in a once
Speaker 6: in a lifetime window.
Speaker 3: This is a really hard place to be.
Speaker 6: We got a quarterback who harry an incredibly heavy load
Speaker 6: this year, and we want to take some of that
Speaker 6: off of him.
Speaker 3: And we can offer somebody.
Speaker 6: The chance to do that and compete for championships right
Speaker 6: away with a roster that's still pretty good and has
Speaker 6: a lot of young pieces on it, I think you
Speaker 6: have to take advantage of that. Opportunity and what that
Speaker 6: opportunity looks like. You know, it's gonna be in the
Speaker 6: eye of the beholder. But I mean, the one thing
Speaker 6: I can't shake is, like Josh Allen turning thirty this offseason,
Speaker 6: there's the chance for someone to get in there and
Speaker 6: compete for championships right away and change the narrative on
Speaker 6: Josh Allen and.
Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 6: And if you're going to make this bold move to
Speaker 6: get rid of a coach that accomplished that much over
Speaker 6: nine years, I think your higher has to be bold
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, but why wouldn't we say the same thing about Baltimore.
Speaker 2: They've got the two time MVP in Lamar Johnson.
Speaker 3: I'd agree. I just I.
Speaker 6: It's fair, it's a fair it's a fair thing to say.
Speaker 6: I just think if you look at Baltimore's success, it
Speaker 6: goes past Lamar, right, And they've always been so stable
Speaker 6: and able to build for so long.
Speaker 3: And they've got Eric DaCosta, who was.
Speaker 6: Groomed by Auzie Newsome for the job, and this is
Speaker 6: this has been who the Ravens are for twenty five years.
Speaker 6: And they found John Harbob like kind of going an
Speaker 6: unconventional route, and so I think it's a little different.
Speaker 6: There's just some nuance there where, Like I think with
Speaker 6: Baltimore as good as Lamar is, and I think Lamar
Speaker 6: is great, you know what I think of Lamar. I
Speaker 6: think it's just a little bit of a different spot
Speaker 6: than Buffalo where you look at it and it's just
Speaker 6: so much has been built around that one player, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Where, Man, if we've.
Speaker 6: Invested this much to getting it getting it right with
Speaker 6: the quarterback, we need to get the coach right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Baltimore is a better job.
Speaker 6: I think it's probably fair too, because of the stability
Speaker 6: to franchise and everything else.
Speaker 2: I think they're a better team. You know, Buffalo I
Speaker 2: didn't think was a great team.
Speaker 3: Are you worried about Lamar's injuries?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing is like, that's the thing
Speaker 3: you have to sort of assess, you know.
Speaker 2: But would you hire Mike McDaniel in Buffalo?
Speaker 3: I think about it.
Speaker 2: Would you hire Brian Dable?
Speaker 6: I think about it, and the reason why I just
Speaker 6: I look at like so many things and Dave Ball's
Speaker 6: got the built in relationship with Josh, so that's a
Speaker 6: factor of course, Dave Ball's also from Western New York.
Speaker 6: He understands the market, like I think he'd be good
Speaker 6: in that job. Watching the Bills this year, everything looks
Speaker 6: like harder than it should be, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Did you get that sense to watching them? So they
Speaker 6: got to do something at receiver. I think they got
Speaker 6: to do something to give Josh. I can still remember this,
Speaker 6: and like with Ben Roethlisberger, right, So Todd Haley came in,
Speaker 6: and this was when Arian's left for the Colts in
Speaker 6: and twelve, and so Todd Haley came in and that
Speaker 6: was after eight years of Ben Roethlisberger, right, and two
Speaker 6: Super Bowl wins. And he looked at Ben and said,
Speaker 6: he's not going to last if he keeps playing this way.
Speaker 6: And so you know, they they had kind of assembled
Speaker 6: this young group of receivers that Antonio Brown and Mike
Speaker 6: Wallace and Emmanuel Sanders and you know, Todd Haley kind
Speaker 6: of taking the tack. We got to make things easier
Speaker 6: on this guy, and we got we got to create
Speaker 6: more layups on him for him, and we got to.
Speaker 3: Kind of transform who he is as a quarterback.
Speaker 6: And I think that that's going to be part of
Speaker 6: the job for the next coach is like, how do
Speaker 6: we create like a second phase of Josh Allen's career
Speaker 6: where he doesn't have like in the playoffs, three different
Speaker 6: injuries on the on the injury report at the end
Speaker 6: of a playoff week.
Speaker 3: Right, how do we do that?
Speaker 6: And you know, I remember having a lot of conversations
Speaker 6: with Todd Haley about that, you know, back then. That
Speaker 6: was fourteen years ago now, but I think some of
Speaker 6: the same principles apply, where you know, you want to
Speaker 6: try to create a situation for your quarterback where you're
Speaker 6: you're making things easier on him.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look quite as hard.
Speaker 6: Anymore, and you know, you're you're almost generating a second
Speaker 6: phase of his career.
Speaker 2: Talking to Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter,
Speaker 2: are we close to any of these vacancies being filled?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Miami could be soon. I think Tennessee
Speaker 6: could be soon. You know, Miami's got a couple of
Speaker 6: guys in this morning. Jeff Hafley is going to be
Speaker 6: in this afternoon. He worked with their new general manager,
Speaker 6: John Eric Sullivan in Green Bay. He's been sort of
Speaker 6: the leader in the clubhouse for a few days now.
Speaker 6: Hathley's also got the opportunity to go to Tennessee, and
Speaker 6: I think whether or not he takes that trip, you're
Speaker 6: gonna hear.
Speaker 3: About that later today, you know.
Speaker 6: And I just think, you know, like it's it may
Speaker 6: come down to Hafley saying, I really want to take
Speaker 6: a look at the Tennessee job, which one's better, or
Speaker 6: I'm gonna take the bird in the hand with a
Speaker 6: general manager that I know in John Eric Sullivan.
Speaker 3: Tennessee's accelerating their process as well.
Speaker 6: They were supposed to have Robert Sala, the forty nine
Speaker 6: ers defensive coordinator, for a zoom yesterday. They rescheduled that
Speaker 6: as an in person interview today. They're very interested in Sala.
Speaker 6: They've got Naggy back in for a second interview again.
Speaker 6: Hathley supposed to come in tomorrow. And those are the
Speaker 6: three known finalists at this point.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think they like Athley quite a bit.
Speaker 6: They like Saw, They've got the relationship with Naggie, Mike
Speaker 6: Borgonzi does from Kansas City, and what they're looking for
Speaker 6: in a coach's presence, you know, I think part of
Speaker 6: that is kind of maybe trying to re establish what
Speaker 6: Mike Vrabel had there over the years, you know, and
Speaker 6: then Cleveland has Jim Schwartz in for a second interview today.
Speaker 6: Nathan schielhas the Rams play a passing coordinator, and Mike
Speaker 6: McDaniel are both in the mix there as well. So
Speaker 6: you have some teams that are sort of coming down
Speaker 6: the stretch now, and it'll be interesting to see, like,
Speaker 6: you know, as some of these names, you know, like
Speaker 6: that people are less familiar with, Likeah Halflee, like maybe
Speaker 6: a Jesse mintor as these guys start to get second
Speaker 6: interviews with multiple teams, I think that's gonna going to
Speaker 6: create a situation where some of the dominoes are going
Speaker 6: to start following.
Speaker 2: What about c J. Streud's future.
Speaker 6: Uncertain They have big decisions to make this offseason. He's
Speaker 6: eligible for a new contract for the first time. He
Speaker 6: has a fifty year option. They got to make a
Speaker 6: decision on that, and you know, I haven't looked up
Speaker 6: the number, but I think it's over thirty million dollars
Speaker 6: that would lock them in for twenty twenty seven. So,
Speaker 6: you know, those are our two big decisions that need
Speaker 6: to be made this offseason. And they went three and
Speaker 6: oh with Davis Mills in there, you know.
Speaker 3: So I think having seven.
Speaker 6: Turnovers and two in two playoff games and being in
Speaker 6: the window that they're in. I just talked about windows
Speaker 6: at Buffalo being the one being in the window that
Speaker 6: they're in with this just ridiculous defense that played really
Speaker 6: well for the most part, eventually crack but played really
Speaker 6: well for the most part in New England and obviously
Speaker 6: dominated in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: There's some big decision.
Speaker 6: Making that has to happen there, so I think his
Speaker 6: future is a little uncertain. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 6: teams make calls just.
Speaker 3: To see if if he's available.
Speaker 6: But there are definitely some moving parts there and we'll
Speaker 6: see what happens.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: Again, I don't know they've had the chance to sit
Speaker 6: down and fully assess everything, and they probably won't until
Speaker 6: they review the entirety of the season.
Speaker 2: Tell my audience everything they need to know about Jared Stidham.
Speaker 3: He's an interesting name, so he was.
Speaker 6: He was at the like coming out of high school,
Speaker 6: was one of the top players in the country, went
Speaker 6: to Baylor to play for our Briles and got caught
Speaker 6: in the caught up in all of that, like and
Speaker 6: not that he was involved, but like obviously, you know,
Speaker 6: he was one of the players that kind of became
Speaker 6: collateral damage in that whole thing.
Speaker 3: And so he winds up.
Speaker 6: Transferring to Auburn, played in an offense that maybe wasn't
Speaker 6: all that suited to his skill set, and when he
Speaker 6: was coming out, a lot of people looked at him said, like,
Speaker 6: this guy still has as like all the traits that
Speaker 6: you would want in a blue chip recruit, right, And
Speaker 6: so gets drafted by the Patriots. He may have started
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty in New England if it weren't for
Speaker 6: COVID wiping out like the entire offseason program. Obviously the
Speaker 6: shorter off season, the Patriots wanted somebody more experienced. They
Speaker 6: brought in Cam Newton that year, and then Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 6: who had Stidham in New England, goes to Vegas and
Speaker 6: they were together for three years in New England and
Speaker 6: trades for him, right, And so he trades for him
Speaker 6: as to be Derek Carr's back up in twenty two
Speaker 6: and then tries to bring him back to compete with
Speaker 6: Jimmy Garoppolo for the job in twenty three. But Sean
Speaker 6: Payton now bids him as Russell will and brings him
Speaker 6: bring and Sean Payton brings him in as Russell Wilson Insurance.
Speaker 6: Peyton did a two year deal with him, then he
Speaker 6: does another two year deal with him, So clearly there's
Speaker 6: something there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I know Sean really liked, you know, Sidham's ability to
Speaker 6: handle a very complex offense, you know, because he'd played
Speaker 6: for Josh McDaniels and they have a ton of confidence
Speaker 6: that he's going to be okay, played really well in
Speaker 6: the preseason. I think the question is going to be here.
Speaker 3: Dan Is Knicks was good, not.
Speaker 6: Great for three and a half quarters of a lot
Speaker 6: of games and then just made huge throw after a
Speaker 6: huge throw after a huge throw, and big spots. Is
Speaker 6: why he has so many fourth quarter comebacks this year,
Speaker 6: including the one against Buffalo on Saturday. Can still of
Speaker 6: make those plays at the end of the game if
Speaker 6: they can get New England into the fourth quarter and
Speaker 6: they're at home, can still of make the sorts of
Speaker 6: throws that Knicks was making it towards the end of games.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be the biggest question.
Speaker 2: What's the going rate for head coaches now as far
Speaker 2: as because Lafloor's up to whatever, maybe fourteen to fifteen
Speaker 2: million dollars? Is that? Where is it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean well I would say maybe even more than that.
Speaker 6: I don't have the number, but I mean I can
Speaker 6: give you this, like, you know, Liam Cohen got twelve
Speaker 6: million million of years a first time head coach last
Speaker 6: year in Jacksonville. Ben Johnson got thirteen million a year
Speaker 6: last year as a first time head coach in Chicago,
Speaker 6: and I believe he had a bigger offer than that, right,
Speaker 6: And that was part of where some of the questions
Speaker 6: were with Lafleur in Green Bay. It was never do
Speaker 6: do we want to bring him back? They always wanted
Speaker 6: to bring him back. The question was whether or not
Speaker 6: they be able to work out a new contract and whether,
Speaker 6: you know, if things went sideways in the negotiation, would
Speaker 6: some other team come in and offer something enticing Like
Speaker 6: there were a lot of moving parts there. Obviously they
Speaker 6: wind up getting it done. But I mean, look, here's
Speaker 6: the thing. I mean, you have like second receivers, right,
Speaker 6: second pass rushers getting twenty million a year, So for
Speaker 6: an established head coach, it makes sense they're worth at
Speaker 6: least that much, you know, So I think it's there
Speaker 6: were some owners I would say suppressing. I don't want
Speaker 6: to use a C word, but suppressing maybe salaries a
Speaker 6: little bit for a while there. But it certainly looks
Speaker 6: like the damn's broke. And you know, one thing that
Speaker 6: contributed to was was all the TV money that's out there,
Speaker 6: you know, I know it was a factor in Sean
Speaker 6: mcvay's negotiation with the RAMS, what he was getting offered
Speaker 6: to go into network television. And you know, so certainly
Speaker 6: I think there's been a little bit of a correction
Speaker 6: and those numbers are way higher than they used to be.
Speaker 2: How did the reps do this weekend?
Speaker 3: Am I gonna get fined? Look like? I just think
Speaker 3: like public trust is at an all time low, you know,
Speaker 3: And I I.
Speaker 6: Agree with Sean McDermott there needs to be more clarity
Speaker 6: and it can't be I mean, and I just think
Speaker 6: watching the games and you know, I.
Speaker 2: But how do you get clarity though? Albert, Well, I mean,
Speaker 2: here's the thing.
Speaker 6: So during the season, I don't get to During the season,
Speaker 6: I'm trying to watch everything, so really I don't get
Speaker 6: to watch watch like drill down on the commentary or
Speaker 6: even the pace of some of the games as much
Speaker 6: because I'm trying to watch everything right and see the
Speaker 6: primetime games of course, but you know, during the playoffs,
Speaker 6: one thing that sucks stuck out to me is like
Speaker 6: it's just you know, sometimes you get this long drawn
Speaker 6: out explanation.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's like, what the hell has happened? You know.
Speaker 3: In this case, Sean mcdermoy is trying to slow it
Speaker 3: down so the.
Speaker 6: Head official can get a look at at at the
Speaker 6: at the Cooks play with McMillan there, with Jakawhan McMillan there, Like,
Speaker 6: I think that's a fair ask to have the head
Speaker 6: referee go over under the hood and take a real
Speaker 6: look at it. Who is making that ruling, who is
Speaker 6: who is in the referee's ear, Like, there's just not
Speaker 6: a lot of clarity with it, And if there's not
Speaker 6: a lot of clarity, then there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 6: of questions.
Speaker 3: And in an era when the.
Speaker 6: NFL and its teams are taking money handover fists from
Speaker 6: all the gambling companies, I think having some clarity on
Speaker 6: the way these things are being officiated and the way
Speaker 6: certain players are being adjudicated is paramount, and so I've
Speaker 6: said this for a long time, like I just think
Speaker 6: it's gotten.
Speaker 3: So tangled up.
Speaker 6: They've done a bad job incorporating the technology because they
Speaker 6: just keep kind of all right, here are more points
Speaker 6: of emphasis, here's more technology, and it's more and more
Speaker 6: and more and more and more. They've made it so
Speaker 6: much harder on the on field officials, and then they
Speaker 6: don't know how to communicate it to the public. I
Speaker 6: really think that they need to go in this off
Speaker 6: season and tear the thing down to the studs and
Speaker 6: take all the technology available, take the crews they have available,
Speaker 6: maybe add sky judges to each crew, and rebuild it
Speaker 6: all together, because I just think what's happening right now
Speaker 6: flat out isn't working in the eyes of the public,
Speaker 6: and the public trust is such an important thing for
Speaker 6: a professional sport.
Speaker 2: Fritzie is the commissioner on the phone to find Albert Breer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got them, Okay, all right, commission Albert, I know
Speaker 2: you're busy. Thank you for your time. It's always all right,
Speaker 2: Thanks Dan. That's Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback senior
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Speaker 12: I'm a huge Secons fan, really proud of how far
Speaker 12: they got. I think they it's not time to cast
Speaker 12: away c Jay Jess yet. I feel like they haven't
Speaker 12: exhausted all options on giving him the best OC. I
Speaker 12: feel like for the last two they've been first year,
Speaker 12: second year, So I think the best candidate right now
Speaker 12: and I want to see what you guys thought would
Speaker 12: be Mike McDaniels. And I think not only because of
Speaker 12: what he did with TUA and his talent, but his
Speaker 12: connection with the Texans, even though he got let go
Speaker 12: for showing up drunk to work at the Texans, but
Speaker 12: his connection with Demiko when they're both offensive coordinators. I
Speaker 12: think it'll do two things. It'll give them what CJ
Speaker 12: needs to take it to the next gear, but also
Speaker 12: give the Texans what they need to help them make
Speaker 12: the decision for the future.
Speaker 2: Well, they're not moving on from him, they just shouldn't
Speaker 2: pony up and giving him a long term deal like
Speaker 2: the Dolphins did with Tua. I want to see another
Speaker 2: at least another year with c J. Stroun. And I
Speaker 2: agree with Troy Igman. He's been chasing his rookie year
Speaker 2: for two years and he's regressed. And there was a
Speaker 2: time when we were gone, boy if you redrafted well,
Speaker 2: but CJ. Stroud has the talent he's shown us. But
Speaker 2: this is where when you get to the NFL, you
Speaker 2: haven't made it. That's when it begins. And a lot
Speaker 2: of these players, certainly at quarterbacking position. Hey, I dominated
Speaker 2: in college. Okay, that he played really well's rookie year. Okay,
Speaker 2: Now the league gets a book on you. You have
Speaker 2: to keep adjusting, you have to keep adding to your game.
Speaker 2: And it feels like CJ. Stroud did not do that.
Speaker 2: Whereas Drake May he's been you know, he's going to
Speaker 2: finish second in the MVP race. Bo Nix has shown
Speaker 2: the ability to come up big in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams has shown that he can. Jayden Daniels, I
Speaker 2: still need to see at a little bit more from him.
Speaker 2: He is incredibly talented, but I got to have you
Speaker 2: on the field. As the saying goes, the best ability
Speaker 2: is availability, and that's what I need for him.
Speaker 7: Yes, Marv, if you're a Texans fan, I'd be really
Speaker 7: frustrated because what will Anderson in the Texans defense was
Speaker 7: doing with they were keeping those guys in the game,
Speaker 7: forcing fumbles, Fluster and Drake May and all you had
Speaker 7: to do was put up a trend built for like performance,
Speaker 7: like don't mess things up. That's all you really had
Speaker 7: to do.
Speaker 2: You would have thought that that would be enough for them,
Speaker 2: even with all the turnovers, that they still could have
Speaker 2: won that game. It felt like with that defense when
Speaker 2: they were down five, I thought, boy, oh boy, this
Speaker 2: is an incredible drive for the Patriots, and then they
Speaker 2: score the touchdown. But you're watching these opportunities and that's
Speaker 2: where we always come back and say the same thing, Well,
Speaker 2: they'll be back next year. No. Detroit was supposed to
Speaker 2: be back this year. They're a getting further away. I
Speaker 2: don't think the Niners are here next year. Buffalo new coach.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Bad division, yes, but you know you're
Speaker 2: trying to figure out these teams where you go, yep,
Speaker 2: they figured it out. They got a window, and your
Speaker 2: window is only two or three years unless you're really
Speaker 2: really fortunate and smart like the Chiefs and then the
Speaker 2: Patriots during the Belichick Brady years. You know, we thought
Speaker 2: the Eagles, we don't. Is there window still open? It
Speaker 2: should be right, But then I'm not so sure. I
Speaker 2: thought something all along this year. It just it never
Speaker 2: felt easy for the Eagles. And as a result, you know,
Speaker 2: you have a coach maybe on the hot seat going
Speaker 2: into next year. Are they all in with their quarterback?
Speaker 2: Are you going to have aj Brown there next year?
Speaker 2: Does he want to be there? Offensive line? Is it
Speaker 2: going to be healthy enough? I mean even the defense,
Speaker 2: defensive line. So there's so many factors that go into this. Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 4: Going back to the Texans, if you're a Texans fans,
Speaker 4: you're watching that game, going if we can get a
Speaker 4: little offense and get by this team. We got Jarrett
Speaker 4: Stidham versus our defense next week to get to the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yes, this day in sports history.
Speaker 4: Paul the NFL bought the franchise the New York Yankees
Speaker 4: from Ted Collins. The franchise was then awarded to a
Speaker 4: group from Dallas on January twenty fourth. Eventually that became
Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowboys. The CFL became the CFL in nineteen
Speaker 4: fifty eight, and the NHL announced that the Winnipeg Jets
Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety six could move to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: This was the two Brady fumble against the Raiders, but
Speaker 2: not a fumble was ruled an incomplete pass, the tuck rule.
Speaker 2: The tuck rule. Also on this day, nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame beat UCLA, ending the bruins eighty eight game
Speaker 2: winning streak. Bill Walton hit that was always his worst day.
Speaker 2: And I think Digger Phelps would always call Bill on
Speaker 2: this day because Digger was the coach of Notre Dame
Speaker 2: and beat Bill and the Bruins in South Ben Billy.
Speaker 2: Anybody taking Miami tonight, straight up? Anybody got moneyline Miami
Speaker 2: straight up?
Speaker 5: Oh man, I really want that, you know what. I
Speaker 5: have a real like my head says Indiana. My heart
Speaker 5: says Miami.
Speaker 2: Is that a yen?
Speaker 5: I'll take it? Yeah, you got Miami straight up. I'll
Speaker 5: jump in there. Yeah, why not, I'll take Miami straight up.
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of I'm I'm there with you. I
Speaker 2: don't know why. It was like everybody was in on
Speaker 2: the Texans. I'm like, I'm taking the Patriots.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm positive Jared's Didham is going to like
Speaker 5: absolutely light the world on fire against that.
Speaker 3: Todd.
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Speaker 7: Kristen Syracuse makes a good point that selling for a
Speaker 7: field all these days is looked at us A losing
Speaker 7: four points not getting three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It looks like helure for Fritzie Seaton,
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