WEBVTT - Harbaugh to Giants, Tomlin & Steelers SPLIT, Caleb Williams STEALING Stafford’s crown? | Nick Wright NFL 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome in. We'll driving the great Episode four fifteen. This 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.000 episode has always is presented to you by our great 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.800 friends at boost Mobile. We are on the precipice of 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.720 my favorite sports weekend of the year, NFL Divisional Round weekend, 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:27.640 typically four absolutely unbelievable games. Usually you have at least 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.880 six of the best eight teams in the league over 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.960 the course of the season playing this weekend. This year, 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.840 one could argue you have all eight of the eight 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.879 best teams in the league playing this weekend, with the 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.239 one exception being my Jags not making it. But I 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.000 don't know who you'd put them over, the Bills who 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.279 just beat them, the Texans, maybe the Niners in their 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:54.320 current form. Whatever it is. Basically, all the right teams 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.880 are playing and I can't wait to get to it. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.280 We also have coaching news from overnight and from since 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.480 we last talk, so let's get right to it. We'll 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.880 go to straight the voicemail brought to you by our 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.760 friends at boost Mobile. Anthony Davis evidently out weeks and 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.600 not months with a hand injury, not gonna have surgery. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.959 Yanna's booed by the Bucks fans, and then greats back 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.640 that you're saying the fans. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:20.600 Are ungrateful, grateful. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.640 Yeah, here's here's the thing on that quickly, I don't 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.759 I know Yannis took it as if they were booing him. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.520 I don't think they were booing him. I think they 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:39.360 were booing the twenty twenty six Milwaukee Bucks. And I 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.360 think that part of their frustration is that that team 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.199 can be that bad despite having Yannis. But it sure 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:52.120 seems like that relationship has run or is, you know, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.880 run its course, and that it could be the best 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.880 for all parties to move on. But that was a 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.080 I didn't like any of that. Yan looked really sad 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.840 on the bench, and then afterwards he was like, I 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.120 always boo when I get booed, but those are road games, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:11.760 Like I don't know. Also, just now, Jonathan Kaminga demanded 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.160 a trade. That's he's never been happy there. And the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.959 really cool one point Slam sixty four person tennis tournament 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.200 winner gets a million bucks. They played one point each 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.919 game and an amateur ended up winning the whole thing. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.720 He beat Center in the round of sixteen because Center faulted, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.360 and then beat a young lady when she hit it 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.680 out on in the championship. He won a million bucks. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.120 I actually watched that. It was pretty sick. Demons, how are. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.000 You, Cinema. I'm good. I'm doing pretty good this morning. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:54.800 No complaints right after you, either on the air or 0:02:54.800 --> 0:03:00.600 off the air. Last recording mentioned some stupid Twitter meme 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.840 about like four pictures one picture or whatever, and all 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.840 of us were like, we don't We weren't really familiar 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.239 with what you were talking about. And you said, well, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.080 maybe this I'm showing my own immaturity or something. This 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:20.600 is my algorithm. Yeah, the White House did one, so 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.440 I don't know. Man, We're just living in the dumbest timeline. Reminder, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:31.840 everybody like rate, subscribe review to the show again, the 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.160 thumbs up, the hitting the bells on YouTube is helpful, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.680 get leaving us a nice review. We appreciate that. But 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.840 what literally pays the bills are the subscriptions. And the 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.920 cool thing about the subscriptions to this is it's totally free. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.080 So if you would subscribe on YouTube, it would be 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.840 greatly appreciated. Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify, it would be 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.480 greatly appreciated. All right, let's get to the overnight news 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.120 of John Harball going to the Giants. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.520 John Harbaugh agreed to go to the Giants last night, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.920 and a little bit before that, and shortly after our 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.840 last show, Tomlin had stepped down as the Steelers coach. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.280 We'll talk about that in a little moment, But what 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.320 do you think about Harble going over to the Giants. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:25.040 I I don't say this often, but I totally agree 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.839 with Dan Orlovsky. This is the best thing to happen 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.960 to the Giants since they won the Super Bowl. They 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:42.839 sincerely there are There are two things now. There are 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:50.040 three things that really matter in the NFL to being 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:56.320 a perennial contender and avoiding being a perennial laughing stock. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:04.320 The first one is avoid having atrocious ownership. So the 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:11.320 Giant Stadium mates the Jets, they just have atrocious ownership 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.280 that will always be in their way. I think the 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.880 Browns have atrocious ownership that will always be in their way. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.760 The Giants have had one of those three kind of 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:30.400 benchmarks down and they have good to very good ownership 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:36.120 in the Maras. The second thing you need is a legitimate, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.160 true professional head coach. They now have that for the 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:48.279 first time since Tom Coughlin. Obviously the third leg of 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.120 that stool. If you will is the quarterback. I don't 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.600 think they have that, but maybe they do, and if not, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.760 you'll see how you can paper it together while you 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.480 try to find the quarterback. But if ownership will stay 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:08.720 out of the way and you have a legitimate head coach, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:15.359 once you have the quarterback in place, you can instantly contend. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.359 The Bears and Patriots are showing you that right now. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.920 That and I've said this before, I will say it again. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.520 If you have the right coach and the right quarterback, 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:38.839 the rebuild is somewhat instant. And if you have had 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:44.719 the same coaching quarterback for two years, not four years, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 not six years, two years, and the team is not 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:53.440 competing at the very least where playoffs are the expectation, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.360 then you don't have the right coach or you don't 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:01.159 have the right quarterback. There are no instances of awesome coach, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.080 awesome quarterback, but it took us four years to get 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:11.120 it together. That flatly doesn't happen. And so the Giants 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:17.920 got the best coach that was truly available. And I 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:23.400 say that because I don't think Tomlin is truly available. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.200 I think Tomlin's going to take a year off and 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:37.600 survey the landscape because none of these jobs are great jobs. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:45.360 I ranked him on the TV show yesterday, but nine 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.800 to one the way I had it. Let me pull 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:55.920 up my exact list. Number nine was the Browns because 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:01.680 of that ownership problem, because of the cap issues created 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.120 by the Watson contract, and because they don't have a quarterback. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.920 Number eight is the Titans. To me, now, if you 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.000 love cam Ward, then that job moves up the list. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.760 But even if you love cam Ward, they only have 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.000 one other player on the roster you could love in 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.640 Jeff Simmons. And ever since Amy Adams Strunk took over, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.760 they have just been a revolving door of front offices. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.200 They move off for abel that it's been a disaster. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:40.560 Number seven's the Dolphins, again no quarterback. They have not 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:46.600 had a head coach there since Don Shula, lasts longer 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.120 than four years, and they're in a rough cap position. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:57.960 The Cardinals I put it six because I think it's 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.920 a very tough division and they don't have the quarterback. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.200 The Falcons are an interesting one, super soft division have 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.760 won seven or eight games each of the last in 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.600 seven of the eight last years. They do have some talent, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.200 and I don't think Blank's a terrible owner, so that 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.600 you know it makes that a decent job. I put 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.760 the Giants at four. They've got money, They've got a 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:31.360 D line, they might have a quarterback. I'm skeptical, but 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.320 that also is a I think not the hardest division. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:42.319 The Raiders. I put a three purely because I think 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:48.040 if you believe in Mendoza, that number one pick plus 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:54.720 the fact that, uh, you have a ton of money 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.280 to spend makes that somewhat attractive. But that to me 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.400 feels like a better job for a young, offensive minded 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.200 guy that wants to grow with Mendoza than sixty two 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.400 year old John Harbaugh. Now the flip side of that is, well, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.880 the Raiders don't mind paying coaches. The Raiders since Art Shell, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.360 which was nineteen ninety four. In the last thirty years, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.640 they have had two head coaches get more than three 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.480 get at least three years, Jack del Rio and John 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:36.840 Gruden twice, and they have had a dozen other coaches 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.840 get less than three years. So they will that Hamster 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.320 will will spin. And then the Steelers two Ravens one. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.000 Obviously Harball wasn't going to the Ravens. The Steelers, I 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.600 think that they were not going to hire a coach 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.080 his age, and because they want that coach to be 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.040 there for fifteen some years ideally, And so I I 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.360 think Giants are a great job for him. I don't 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:08.959 expect a snap contention, but I do think that all 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.800 of a sudden, the Giants could be a five hundred 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.520 ish team next year. I think that's a legitimate possibility. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.640 And I want to see what Jackson Dart looks like. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:27.640 Don't love Scataboo and Neighbors both coming off major injuries. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.920 But this is a great day for Giants fans. Flatly, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:37.480 this is probably the happiest you've been since the Boat 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:42.800 Party playoff game against the Packers with Odell and Eli 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.400 at the end of ELI. And it's the best day 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:52.360 for your franchise since you won a Super Bowl. All right, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.959 let's talk a little Tomlin here, Demonsey. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.480 Yeah, so Reid is now the longest tenured coach over 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.560 there in camp the city. Do you think that Tomland's 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.200 potentially waiting to take over Kansas City? 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:12.240 So here's I don't think that necessarily, but I also 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:19.199 don't think that's crazy. So the last head coach of 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:26.120 the Steelers was Bill Kauer. Bill Kwer left after fifteen years, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:33.640 went to CBS and for about five consecutive coaching cycles. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:38.560 Demonsey Bill Kauer was the number one candidate, and he 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.319 never left the job. He's still doing TV on CBS. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:48.040 He just stayed there. I do think it's on the 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:54.880 board that Tomlin goes and does TV and never stops. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.760 And it's like, I can make I'm not making coaching 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.320 money doing this. I mean, he was making twenty five 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:07.000 million dollars a year reportedly from the Steelers, but I'm 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:12.000 making millions and millions of dollars for two percent of 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.120 the work. I love it. So I think it's on 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.920 the board. It wouldn't be my bet, but I think 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.839 it's on the board that Tomlin does not coach again. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.720 I think that's possible, okay, And because he's going to 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:30.640 have such a great job, he can be and because 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:37.240 he's young enough, he can be very choosy. So for 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:47.160 Mike Tomlin, my if I had to bet on the 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:52.800 next job for Mike Tomlin, my bet would be the 0:13:52.840 --> 0:14:00.560 Philadelphia Eagles a year from now. I think that the 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.520 is a job that will come open in the next 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:09.480 few years, and that Tomlin that's a that's a great job, 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.840 so when we're thinking of it. So the reason I 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:18.040 don't think the Chiefs thing is a ludicrous idea is 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:24.840 because at some point during Patrick's career, Andy's going to retire, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.520 and the moment that happens, that becomes one of the 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:37.000 greatest job openings of all time. Again, assuming Patrick comes back, well, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:42.240 I mean Andy's older than you think, and so I 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:49.560 mean Andy is in two months he turned sixty eight. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.080 So you know, again, the reason I think it's not 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:00.400 far fetched is because or not insane, is because I 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:05.000 could see Tomlin staying in TV for more than one year. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.600 Sean Payton stayed for one year and then the Broncos 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.040 traded a pick to the Saints to get him. If 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.880 Tomlin comes back in the next two years, his team 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.760 would have to trade do some type of compensation with 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.880 the Steelers. I don't think the Steelers, they would throw 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.960 up too many roadblocks, but I could see. You just 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:28.800 got to think about what are great jobs that realistically 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.480 could come open. The Packers are a very good job, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.840 and it looks like Lafleoor's, you know, a little tenuous 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:42.040 at the moment. The Eagles I expect to come open 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.360 the Bills at some point, let's see, let's see how 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.600 this year goes. And like the though, like McDermott is. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.600 Is Baltimore, Like I know, we don't have a coach 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.320 right now, maybe we get a coach. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.480 Does well, that's the thing. So I mean, I think 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:05.080 Baltimore is insane because it's open now. No, I just 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.880 think because it's open now and he's not Taeo. He's 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:14.600 not going there right right now. And so the what 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.320 I was saying about McDermott is McDermott's kind of on 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:26.000 the perma warm seat, and he could end that this 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.080 year they win the Super Bowl, he'll be the coach 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.200 there for probably the rest of Allen's career. Zach Taylor 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.640 and the Bengals. The problem there is, I don't know 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.960 that that's a good job, even though Joe Burrow is 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:46.640 awesome because of ownership and so you just you look around. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.520 But my money would be that Mike Tomlin is going 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.200 to be the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in a year. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.160 That's where I that's where I would put my money. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.360 But I don't think. I also, I think there is 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:07.280 a chance that in three years he's still doing TV 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.919 and he come and what pulls him away from that 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.760 is Andy Reid retiring. I think that's possible, all right, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.119 I know you got one more follow up. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.879 Do you think this eliminates any chance of Rogers coming 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.639 back or at least at the start of the season 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:23.560 for next year. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.640 He's definitely certainly eliminates any chance of him coming back 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.720 to the Steelers, certain And I don't think Roger's gonna 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.280 be a Week one starter for anybody next year. I 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.119 still think he might play again, but it would be, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.920 you know, a mid season edition after an injury. 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Bears, Demons. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.719 See your MVP Matthew Stafford escaped Carolina last week and 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.800 now they get to go and play the Spicy Bears 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.879 who keep getting these improbable wins. Do you think the 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.680 last week's game was too emotional of a too emotional 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.720 of output for Chicago Bears and the fans this week 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.800 to overcome I'm sorry. 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:22.240 No, You're fine. I mean I do think there is 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:31.360 an element of that game validated their season, and there 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:36.920 was such a catharsis from that stadium to come back 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.280 the way they did, to do it against that team, 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:46.080 the hated rival, And I don't I thought the state. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.520 I thought the Bears crowd played a real factor in 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:55.280 the comeback, and I just don't know that I expect 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.960 the crowd to be a twelve out of ten again. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:08.320 I also think that the Bears injuries during that game, 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:14.840 a banged up defense, losing another linebacker and the left 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.399 tackle being out, maybe for next year as well, but 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:22.320 certainly the rest of this postseason. With a blown ACL, 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.000 they were already behind the eight ball here and now 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.760 I listen. I think people know how much I like 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:36.920 the Bears, how much I like Caleb, and how impressed 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:42.040 I've been with Caleb's late game heroics. But I feel 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.840 like they're going up against the best team in the NFL, 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:51.880 and I I think, Demonse, they are going to need 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:56.359 to score forty to win this game. I think the 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.600 Rams are going to be able to move the ball 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:04.520 at will against this Bears defense. I think what you 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.360 saw Green Bay doing in the first half against the Bears, 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:11.959 the Rams are going to be able to do the 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:16.720 entirety of the game, and I think Davante Adams now 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.920 knock some of the rust off in the last game, 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:26.240 he will be a bigger factor. Puka is simply unguardable, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.600 and if I'm a Bears fan, I am just worried 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.920 that it is. There are going to be guys running 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:38.800 wide open all throughout the game. And like what we 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:45.479 saw in that game for the Packers, even in the 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:50.200 second half when who was the number six, oh, Kyler 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:55.879 Gordon was getting picked on repeatedly. I think that Sean 0:22:55.960 --> 0:23:02.359 McVeigh is going to a big red circle around Kyler 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:06.879 Gordon and hunt him. They probably can. The Rams have 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:10.480 enough weapons they can stay away from Jail and Johnson. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:14.720 I don't know that the Bear's pass rush is going 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:18.679 to be able to disturb Stafford that much because Stafford 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:24.639 was Stafford was you know, pretty somewhere from pretty good 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:30.159 to super exceptional in almost any scenario, but he was 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.840 unbeatable if you didn't get pressure on him. I don't 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:37.239 know if they're gonna get pressure on him. And I 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.760 think this is a really tough game for Chicago. It 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:44.520 would be remarkable if they win it. If they win it. 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:50.840 They either are then hosting the Niners in a rematch 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:55.280 of the forty two thirty eight classic that we saw 0:23:55.840 --> 0:24:01.320 in Week seventeen, except this one's in Chicago, or they're 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:08.320 going to Seattle feeling like we've got the better quarterback. 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:10.240 Let's see what the hell happens. 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:15.000 But if Carolina could score thirty one, they could score forty. Huh. 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.480 I actually don't think so. I think the Panthers game 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:29.720 was misleading on the overall quality of that Rams defense. 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:39.919 And I also still don't totally understand how the Panthers 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:46.560 scored all the points they did. I the I mean, 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:51.240 Bryce threw for two sixty, but they only ran for eighty, 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:56.920 and it it was just good. 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.960 They scored that, literally, that exact same amount of point. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:03.640 It's the last time they played them, so I mean 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:04.920 there's something. 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:08.360 And the Rams. The Rams defense, after starting the year 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:13.560 off great, gave up thirty one to the Panthers, twenty 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:16.640 to the Cardinals, twenty seven of the Falcons, thirty eight, 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:20.040 and overtime to the Seahawks, thirty four to the Lions. 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.080 As you mentioned, thirty one a couple weeks before that 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:28.440 to the Panthers. The first time I think the Rams 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.400 pass rush is going to have more of an impact 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.359 in this game with that injury to the Bears starting 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:38.119 left tackle again, I think kalab will play well. But 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.920 and again we'll do our pick show tomorrow, but this 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:48.680 feels like forty two to twenty seven to me. 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:52.520 Like I I know, I mean, I do believe the 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:54.560 offense is gonna be having for the Rams. I don't 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:56.560 think there are too many problems. 0:25:57.520 --> 0:26:01.160 I just yeah, I just don't. I don't know how 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.240 the Bears shut him is slow him down? Forget shut 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.560 him down, slowhim down. This would be a to me, 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:13.200 a remarkably impressive win. And the only way the Bears 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:17.800 win that I can see is if Caleb plays the 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:21.320 best game he's played as a prop. If you get 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:26.679 late game Caleb for the entirety of the game, And 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:28.880 I think that's just hard. It's a hard ask. 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:33.560 So you hinted at if Stafford retired out of the 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.840 NFC this this year, that Caleb would be the best 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:40.439 quarterback in the NFC. How important is this head to 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:41.840 add matchup in that theory. 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:48.119 Well, I think that if he were to win this game, 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:52.000 some folks would argue he doesn't need Stafford to retire. 0:26:52.320 --> 0:26:54.679 He's just going into next year the best quarterback. But 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:59.920 I and I don't think Stafford's retiring, to be clear, 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:10.399 But I right now would rather have Caleb than Dak 0:27:11.600 --> 0:27:17.919 or Jaden or Jalen Hurts or Jordan Love or Jared 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:24.560 Goff or Baker or Purty or Donald. The only guy 0:27:24.600 --> 0:27:27.439 in the conference that I would rather have as my 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:38.040 quarterback is Stafford. And I think that the only hole 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:44.520 in Caleb's game right now is accuracy on easy throws, 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:47.359 Like that's the one part of his game that is 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:54.040 below average at this point. And I'm gonna give him 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:58.920 credit that from year one to year two, the biggest 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:03.720 thing he needed to improve on was not taking awful sacks, 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:08.000 and he fixed it. And then during from the beginning 0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:10.439 of year two to the end of year two, the 0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:14.600 biggest thing he needed to improve on was the pre 0:28:14.760 --> 0:28:18.400 snap operation, getting out of the huddle on time, not 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:23.720 having these procedural penalties, and he fixed it. So now 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:27.679 the biggest thing he needs to improve is that the 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:32.160 accuracy on what I would call simple passes. So I'm 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:35.399 going to give him credit that he'll be able to 0:28:35.400 --> 0:28:38.800 fix that. So I I, you know, I am as 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.560 bullish as one can be on Caleb, and I think 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:45.360 he's just scratching the surface on who he can be. 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:47.280 All right, let's talk about the next game. 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:50.480 Uh, Niners and Seahawks face off of the third time 0:28:50.560 --> 0:28:53.360 this year with the NFC Championship game on the line. 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:56.360 We know San Francisco has been played with injuries and 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:59.560 Darnold's teams to tense up in the bright lights. Which 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:02.160 one do you think is a bigger liability in this game? 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:08.320 I think it's the Niners injuries because I just I 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:12.840 don't think Donald is going to need to have a 0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:16.840 huge game. I mean, these two teams have played twice, 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:20.479 once in Week one, once in Week eighteen, and the 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:25.840