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You're dead. To me, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.880 just letting you know, slightly harsh, but no, no, but 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.280 you're all safe. Of course, we're a team, all right. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.560 That's lovely. I appreciate the way you put that. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.520 Okay, yes, yes, Paul, if one of the guys stepped down, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.600 would you issue a lovely statement thank you for the 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:21.640 many years of Service. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.960 Yes, yes, and you're dead to me. Yes, and you're 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.360 dead to me. All right. Seaton Poll question for the 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.680 final hour of the program is what. 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.080 Losing team from the weekend that has the most biggest 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.239 issues issue. The Texans have fifty one percent of that vote. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.880 Quarterback that had the most difficult time sleeping last night 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.960 Josh Allen, followed by C. J. Stroud And then which 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.240 team will regret firing their head coach? Maybe firing not 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.160 the right words since Mike Tomlin stepped down, but we 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.760 put the Steelers on there right now. It is the Ravens, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.839 followed by the Bills. They're kind of neck and neck. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:54.160 Hmm. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:59.000 Okay, well we'll talk about those coaching vacancies. And Kevin 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:03.680 Stefanski as predicted what an upgrade or as as I 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.280 told you that John Harball. John Harball was looking at 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.160 either the Falcons or the Giants, and I said, Stefanski 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.359 will get the other job. Harball takes the Giants, Stefanski 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:19.080 takes the Atlanta Falcons. Great situation. Great situation. Now, I 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.160 know you don't really have a quarterback because you've got 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.920 two quarterbacks there, but it feels like that's an upgrade 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.640 and you get an offensive minded coach in there, and 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.800 maybe they unleash their true potential there. But you know 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.520 these guys now you look around Mike McDonald in Seattle, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.960 Mike Rabel in New England. You know Ben Johnson, like 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.320 you don't get that much time to come in and 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.720 be like, all right, we're going to the playoffs. Right, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:51.680 it's what Rabel did. I don't know if I'm more 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.960 Is there another story turnaround more surprising than what Brabel 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:02.160 did this year? Ben Johnson, that's a good team. The 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:07.600 Patriots weren't a good team. I thought the Bears were 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.280 standing in the way of the Bears. I thought that 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:16.400 the Bears were a playoff team. Seattle pretty surprising anybody 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.719 else in there that you go, Wow, that's a crazy turnaround. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:22.840 Carolina made the playoffs. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:24.480 That's pretty good. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:34.440 How about Jacksonville? Would you put Jacksonville over the Patriots? Now? 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:39.400 I wouldn't, as although you know, maybe Liam Cohen is 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:45.760 going to save Trevor Lawrence's career and you end up 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:54.080 with thirteen wins. Feels like Jacksonville's supposed to be competitive. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.280 New England wasn't. And then Rabel gets there. You got 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.680 a second year quarterback, and here you are in the 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:06.840 ANFC title game, Seattle. I think we were kind of 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.120 trying to figure out just how good they were. You know, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.960 it was going to be defense and running the football, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.760 and then they get Sam Darnold. I have to factor 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.320 that in as well. But if you would have said, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.560 of all these scenarios here, hey, New England's going to 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.200 be an AFC title game, Seattle's going to be in 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.760 the NFC Title game, Jacksonville is going to be a 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.760 force this year, I still go back to Carolina made 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.760 the playoffs, I know, with a losing record in a 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:40.800 bad division. But I would say the Patriots are the 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.400 biggest surprise. Yeah, PAULI. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.599 Last year the Patriots offense was thirtieth in the league, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.359 their defense was twenty second. This year, their offense is 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.000 second in the league and scoring and their defense is fourth. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.760 Yeah, that's a huge turnaround. Obviously, Yes, Todd and people 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:56.240 could say. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.360 All they want they had a weaker schedule, it's still 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.760 fourteen and three and playoff wins and one win away 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:02.360 from the super Bowl. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.520 That's kind of insane. Celebrate Martin Luther King Day on 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.119 NBC in Peacock with a full day of basketball NBA 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.719 action all day long Monday on NBC and streaming on peacock. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.440 A couple of phone calls in here best and worst 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.320 of the season, our best and worst of the weekend. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.600 I was going to say the season with what happened 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.720 with some of these teams that had playoff hopes. But 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.400 the stakes are higher, and it feels like ownership looks 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.039 around and goes, well, wait a minute, why can't we 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.360 do that? And next year at this time there probably 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.080 will be six or seven openings. After this year with 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.000 all these openings, and you're going, can we have that many? 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.520 Can we have a third of the NFL? You know, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:53.400 almost a third of these coaching vacancies? Yeah, Mark, It's going. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.640 To be the same thing with college football. Also, I'm 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.120 sure if you're Arkansas or Mississippi State, Indiana got to 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.960 the national championship game, let's do something. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.919 But you know, it is interesting that, you know, it 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.120 used to be there were the same schools that were 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.440 playing in the playoffs and winning national championships. Now all 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.440 of a sudden, I get to pay players too, and 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.960 now we've leveled the playing field. You know, Mark Cuban 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.200 became a big donor for Indiana football, Like you have 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.320 to have that. It's just you know, that is your 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.040 power point. Like we have to have money. You have 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:35.160 to have people, you know, collectives, billionaire, whoever it is, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.000 Texas Tech. You get one guy in there who's going 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.320 to write a check, that's what you need. And the 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.040 fact that we're getting close to forty million dollars with 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.800 sort of the operating budget per year not sustainable. I 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.720 mentioned this earlier in the show. Friday. College Football Playoff 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.280 committee is expected to announce whether they're going to go 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:02.360 to sixteen teams or they'll stay at twelve. And what 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.040 I learned was the Big Ten once a commitment that 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.840 says a firm agreement that you will go sixteen, sixteen, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.880 sixteen the next three years, and then after that you'll 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 go to twenty four teams. And that doesn't seem like 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.200 a lot to ask, all right, So at least we 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.240 didn't go twelve, then to sixteen, then to twenty four. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.640 You give it three more years and then you see 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.440 if you're ready to go to twenty four teams. I mean, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.760 that's where they're going. It's just sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, that's 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.280 what the Big Ten wants. Let's see Nick and Irvine. Hi, Nick, 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:38.200 welcome back. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.640 Again. Always an honor to talk to you. Hall of Famer. Listen, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:49.439 great great weekend. Got to watch the La Rams yesterday 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:55.199 at the bicycle casino eating and drinking, and Oldlasme's compadres 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.840 over at the bike playing one to three no limit. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.120 My work is found a little roughed up. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.840 Nick. Yeah, well, you know I've been sober for about 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.679 three four hours. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.199 So well, congratulation on your sobriety. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.920 Got a lastful about that pregame tonight. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.440 So my worst of the weekend has to be even 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.319 as a Raider fan and of course a humanitarian, I 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:28.839 hate the Broncos, but that kid, that quarterback on the Broncos, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.680 he threw two of the best balls I've really ever seen. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.400 I mean, it was incredible, those passes, and I was 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.560 really looking forward to watching him in the championship game 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.400 and to hear that he got mixed out of that 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:48.440 was a disappointment. So that was my worst. My best 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.000 for the eleventh consecutive week and this time snuggling with 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.600 Danica Patrick and Dodger Hall of Fame fan Mary Hart 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.320 on my couch was watching the Dodgers once again, come 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.960 back in the World Series in Game seven and win it. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.760 So until someone dethrones that, it's going to be my 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.280 best every weekend. It's probably going to be Opening Day 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.040 for the Dodgers. That'll be my best of the week. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.440 Right Well, thank you, Nick, congratulations again on your Dodgers. Boy. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.240 The number of articles that talked about how the Dodgers 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:27.600 are ruining baseball, they took advantage of an opportunity that, like, 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.480 I can't fault them. I don't think they have to 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.920 dumb down their organization just because nobody else is going 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.240 to be able to spend that money. There are other billionaires. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.280 The Dodgers outsmarted a lot of people the show Heyo 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.760 Tani deferred payment contract. Now, I'm wondering if Baseball will 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.560 try to firm up that loophole there, But I don't know. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.320 You know, what can baseball do? What does Baseball want 0:10:55.320 --> 0:11:00.520 to do? Salaries? Salary cap Player Association won't allow that 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.800 to happen, and it might define the legacy of this commissioner. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.800 Is he able to bring some kind of financial sanity 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.200 to the game, And I don't know if he can, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.520 I don't know if he wants to. I get. I mean, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.640 you want to have as many teams. That's why we 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.400 love the NFL because you can get Carolina in there. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.559 Jacksonville turns it around. New England turns it around. You 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.280 can reap benefits of doing things the correct way while 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.120 everybody is playing by the same rules. But I still 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.680 go back to the Dodgers were two ounces away from 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.400 not winning the World Series. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.439 Yes, pauling the Dodgers spending is the tush push of baseball. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.320 All the other teams want it gone. But how do 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.000 you penalize for the Dodgers for doing something that's completely 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.240 legal under the rules today. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:01.240 Well, Buffalo certainly used the tush push a lot, but 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.319 four or five times yesterday. David in Ohio, Hi David, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.319 what's on your mind today? 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:07.720 Yeah? 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.720 Dan got a bess in and Worst of the weekend, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.960 real quick best. Even though they lost PAULI, I still 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.800 think the Bears have got a lot to cheer about, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.080 and they're going into the off season. I still think 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.440 they're the favorite to maybe when the NFC North next year. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.040 They beat the Packers, so I would say that that's 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.559 that is that could be their Super Bowl this year, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.600 and then wor's the weekends obviously, Marvin's Niners losing in Seattle. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.280 I was just just a complete blowout, and I really 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.640 hope maybe they come back next year and maybe it's 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:38.720 become a contender there. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.240 So thank you, all right, And I saw I don't 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.000 know if they were reports, So I'm always very careful 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.240 about this because somebody can kind of speculate, you know, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.360 it can go hey, you know what about and then 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.040 it becomes a report and it's not but Aaron Rodgers 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.480 to the Vikings because I don't think the Vikings are 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.360 sold on Jay J. McCarthy, but they I think they 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.960 toyed with the idea of Aaron Rodgers. Aaron wanted to 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.240 go there and then ended up in Pittsburgh. But I 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.920 wonder if he wants to play again. Is Minnesota an option? 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.240 Greg and Buffalo, Hi, Greg, what's on your mind today? 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:18.760 Hey? 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:19.520 Good morning, Dan. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.000 I just wanted to chime in locally on the whole 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.720 Bill situation that came about today. You haven't mentioned Bill's 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.880 GM Brandon Bean at all, and I can tell you 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.240 here in Western New York he is the one that 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.480 people by far have been wanting to be fired more 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.000 than Sean McDermott. Brandon Bean has a lot of goodwill 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.240 this year, and it started when he went on a 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.880 local radio spot after the draft, and so complaining about 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.480 wide receivers is one of the dumbest things he's ever heard. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.520 Now a year prior, he took Coleman with a thirty 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.800 third pick in the draft, and he was getting healthy, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.120 scratched in the playoff, pushed down the strutch in the 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.480 regular season. So not only this is wide receiver room 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.600 construction ben malpractice, but they have money and resources go 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.040 lower into the defensive line and it has not worked, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.319 especially in the playoffs. And look, I know Seawn was 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.000 the scapegoat and steam taskcor is right about what an 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.120 ambassador Sean's been for Buffalo and Western New York. But 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.240 in the end, this is about roster construction and depth. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.800 And one last thing Dan you mentioned, I know with 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.320 John Elway in those early Super Bowls, how he didn't 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.920 maybe have those offensive teammates around him, those high end 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.160 players compared to later he obviously had TD and Shannon 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.160 and all that. Since drafting Josh in twenty eighteen, the 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.880 Bills have drafted fifty six players. Only two have gone 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.760 to make the Pro Bowl, Dawson Knox and James Cook. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.880 Having the rest of your week, guys, Thank. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.920 You, Greg, I appreciate that. Yes, Paulie multiple reports to 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.360 the GM, Brandon Beans the Bills. He not only didn't 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.360 get fired, he got a promotion. He's now president of 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.120 football Operations. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.600 In addition to GM oh I was going to say, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.160 maybe they got him out of the GM spot. Yeah, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.440 that's tricky though, when you keep the GM when you 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.280 bring in a coach and John Harball I think is 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.840 fine with Joe Shane as the GM with the Giants, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.760 but I don't know. It took him a few days 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.440 to get that contract done. All right, let me take 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.720 a break. Albert Breer his job is to well one 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.400 of his jobs is to keep an eye on the 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:28.160 coaching vacancies. And we'll ask him, was Buffalo going to 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.480 do this no matter what? Now they got to the 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.480 Super bowl'd be pretty hard to send him packing. But 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.760 at what point do you make a decision you're going 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.920 to fire Sean McDermott and also these other coaching vacancies 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.320 because you got some really blue chip openings here with Pittsburgh, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.120 with Buffalo, with Baltimore. We'll take a break. 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Check us out on YouTube, subscribe, hit that 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.800 thumbs up icon and comment away. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.480 More phone calls coming up on this Monday. As we 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.120 always do best and worst through the weekend, which you 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.160 saw that you liked you didn't like. To update the 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.280 poll results as well, we bring in the senior NFL 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.880 reporter for the Monday Morning quarterback, Albert Breer, back on 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.480 the program. I guess it turns out that Sean McDermott 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.000 was coaching for his job. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.640 Yeah, how's your Monday morning going? 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:57.040 Still employed? 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:00.280 Yeah? 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.159 That I I would say, I, I I'm surprised, but 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.920 I think there were and I think he was surprised, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.480 but there were some tea leaves, you know. I think 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.359 Josh Allen's emotional press conference. I think McDermott you could 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.520 kind of see, you know, with the criticism of the 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:24.800 officials the first time and then coming back the second time. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.480 I think you kind of feel. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.720 That there was heat on everybody there, you know, and 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.200 that the window to. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.040 Win a championship, like the owners were feeling that and 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.679 feeling the pressure of being within that. And you know, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.560 I think a couple of months ago I used the 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.520 Tony Dungee comparison with you Dan, and I think it's 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.879 an apt one, you know. I That's the way I 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.360 see this is, you know, Sean McDermott did a ton 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.480 of good in Buffalo. They had me been to the 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.320 playoffs in eighteen years, you know, he was there for nine. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.480 They make it an eight of those nine years, seven 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.920 in a row, five AFC's titles, two AFC Championship games, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.919 a franchise quarterback, like all these things were unimaginable for 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.439 the Bills when he got there. But you know, the 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.840 same way it was with Tony Dungee when he rebuilt 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.520 the Bucks. You know, the owners down there felt this 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.960 shrinking window with that team they had with you know, 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:19.719 Derek Brooks and Lawren Sapp and John Lynch and Rendez Barber, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.560 and I think sort of the same thing with a 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.920 quarterback in Buffalo. You know, there's a feeling like we're 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.800 not going to get a million shots at this, so. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.399 We need to strike while the iron's hot. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:31.200 So what's Buffalo do? 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.119 Yeah, it's a great question. This is I think a 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.639 once in a lifetime opportunity for a coach, don't you. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.080 Yeah, yeah, But Baltimore is as well. Right. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.840 I just look at like this with Josh Allen and 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.119 the chance to do this and compete for a championship, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.440 Like if this job were to come open again in 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.280 three or four years, with the amount of damage he's taken, like, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.439 we don't know that it's gonna be the same Josh Allen, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.640 you know. So if I'm the bill, I'm taking full 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.560 advantage of that. And that means you're going to interview 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.960 all the usual suspects, the names that we've heard, you know, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.520 over the course of the last couple of weeks, and 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.440 there's some really good candidates out there, some of them 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.119 on the defensive side of the ball, which you know, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.280 maybe the Bills shy away from that now because they 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.680 just did spend nine years going down that path with McDermott. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.320 But why not take big swings if you're Buffalo? 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.199 Why not just see well? 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.240 I mean, we'll call the Rams call. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.080 And I'm not saying those guys that be available, but 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.600 you know, when you have that quarterback and you're in 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.800 this situation and you might be able to entice something 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.359 just to see how their situation is, why wouldn't you 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:44.680 do it? 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:46.679 I mean, I got it. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.199 This is the way I look at it right Like 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.160 it's like if I'm if I'm Buffalo, I'm looking at 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.640 this and I'm saying, like we are in a once 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:55.760 in a lifetime window. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.639 This is a really hard place to be. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:02.160 We got a quarterback who harry an incredibly heavy load 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.000 this year, and we want to take some of that 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:04.760 off of him. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.120 And we can offer somebody. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.480 The chance to do that and compete for championships right 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.720 away with a roster that's still pretty good and has 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.720 a lot of young pieces on it, I think you 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.800 have to take advantage of that. Opportunity and what that 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.720 opportunity looks like. You know, it's gonna be in the 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.000 eye of the beholder. But I mean, the one thing 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.040 I can't shake is, like Josh Allen turning thirty this offseason, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.040 there's the chance for someone to get in there and 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.159 compete for championships right away and change the narrative on 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:38.240 Josh Allen and. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:39.199 The Buffalo Bills. 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.359 And if you're going to make this bold move to 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.480 get rid of a coach that accomplished that much over 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.040 nine years, I think your higher has to be bold 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:47.360 as well. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.920 Okay, but why wouldn't we say the same thing about Baltimore. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.800 They've got the two time MVP in Lamar Johnson. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.000 I'd agree. I just I. 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.840 It's fair, it's a fair it's a fair thing to say. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.919 I just think if you look at Baltimore's success, it 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.440 goes past Lamar, right, And they've always been so stable 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:08.720 and able to build for so long. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.560 And they've got Eric DaCosta, who was. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.760 Groomed by Auzie Newsome for the job, and this is 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.520 this has been who the Ravens are for twenty five years. 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.119 And they found John Harbob like kind of going an 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.240 unconventional route, and so I think it's a little different. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.720 There's just some nuance there where, Like I think with 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.240 Baltimore as good as Lamar is, and I think Lamar 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.600 is great, you know what I think of Lamar. I 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.280 think it's just a little bit of a different spot 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.119 than Buffalo where you look at it and it's just 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.639 so much has been built around that one player, you 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:41.240 know what I mean. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:43.880 Where, Man, if we've. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.040 Invested this much to getting it getting it right with 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:47.960 the quarterback, we need to get the coach right. 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.520 Yeah. I think Baltimore is a better job. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.000 I think it's probably fair too, because of the stability 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:56.240 to franchise and everything else. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.639 I think they're a better team. You know, Buffalo I 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.480