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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? How are we doing? Hopefully

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Speaker 1: everyone had a fun time watching Monday night football. We

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Speaker 1: than the Jets. It just feels a little bit less,

429
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 1: maybe disastrous, because they don't have this high water mark

430
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: that everyone expected because they had Aaron Rodgers. The expectations

431
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: were low because of Daniel Jones. But they're in shambles.

432
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 1: And now you look at their division, like, obviously the

433
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: Cowboys suck, they're still better than the Giants. Now the

434
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: Commanders have real leadership, have a real coach, have a

435
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: real gm have a quarterback. They're only gonna get better.

436
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: And the Eagles, you know, kind of shook off some

437
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: craziness early in the season. You know, let's face it,

438
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 1: the Eagles have mainly been good for the last twenty years,

439
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: so like they don't win the Super Bowl every year,

440
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: but for the most part, they're winning double digit games.

441
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: And the Giants have fired. You know, gone how many

442
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: coaches post Tom Coughlin. They're on their fourth, who feels like,

443
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: in a weird way, maybe maybe not as fighting for

444
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: his job now in the year three, after all, three

445
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: of the other guys only made it two years. So

446
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: this is a franchise in a lot of turmoil, and

447
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: we got a front row seat in that hard knocks.

448
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: That was pretty embarrassing. Like I'll promise you this, I

449
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: just don't think the Steelers, you know, would ever feel

450
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: like that. It doesn't mean every organization's perfect. Every organization's

451
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: perfectly buttoned up and knows what they're doing on every

452
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: single move and gets everything right and there's not disagreement,

453
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: But that was I've never experienced anything like that as

454
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: just a fan of football, watching it on TV, having

455
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: been in these meetings and seeing the way these guys talk,

456
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: that's hard to shake. For the jam. So props to

457
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,959
Speaker 1: the Steelers, Props to Mike Tomlin. If you're a Steeler fan,

458
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: you should be fired up teams not just in first place,

459
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: but you guys have played good football. You play Steeler football.

460
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: Run the fucking ball. Najee Harris looks awesome and he's

461
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: someone who I falled since high school too, high school

462
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes away from me where I lived in the

463
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: Bay Area, followed his career at Alabama, and obviously watched

464
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: it close. This is the best football he's played so

465
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: far in his NFL career. His physicalness his speed, he

466
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: looks explosive. Obviously we know Jalen Warren kind of brings

467
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 1: a little change of pace. How many yards they run

468
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: for atnite almost one hundred and seventy yards nas he

469
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and fourteen average six yards to carry.

470
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: So if I'm a Steeler fan, I'm feeling pretty good.

471
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: Headed to work tomorrow. Let's do a quick my penhouse

472
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: in my outhouse. Listen, it doesn't get any better than

473
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: the crib and the mansion that the Chiefs are living in,

474
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: even when they don't play that well, even when they

475
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: just don't even try that hard, and they cruise do

476
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: an easy victory if it wasn't for a backdoor cover.

477
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: That's twenty seven to thirteen easyw for Kansas City. And

478
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: let's face it, you can nitpick all you want, like, oh,

479
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: they've barely won this game. They shouldn't have won that game.

480
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna look up and they're gonna be fifteen

481
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: and two. And they've added Hopkins who had three catches

482
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: or maybe it was two catches for twenty nine yards,

483
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: and they added Today from the New England Patriots. So

484
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: you had an offensive guy, a defensive guy you already

485
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: have a good team, Like I just have faith just

486
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: in their whole operation. Now they are no lock to

487
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, but the way everything's playing out

488
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: right now, they're gonna get home field. So you can

489
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: nitpick them all you want. Tell me who's betting against

490
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: the Chiefs hosting playoff games? And when you're the number

491
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: one seed, you're the only squad that gets to buy.

492
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: So I've said it from the beginning. They are on scholarship,

493
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: in the nicest penthouse, in the biggest mansion, are living

494
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: like fucking kinks. You win a game fifty two to

495
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: fourteen when your quarterback throws for less than one hundred yards.

496
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: If you told me this there was a game in

497
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: the NFL, because I would believe it in college, because

498
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: a guy could run for like four hundred yards and

499
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: score six or seven touchdowns. In the NFL, I would

500
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: say it'd be borderline statistically impossible, because you'd probably need

501
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: a huge rushing game and then multiple defensive scores to

502
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: have a quarterback throw for under one hundred yards and

503
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: win a game fifty two to fourteen or just score

504
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: fifty two points. That that feels like a statistical anomaly.

505
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: But it also feels a lot like the Detroit Lions,

506
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: who when you lose Hutchinson, you never know, like how

507
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: are you gonna shake off that emotional letdown? And listen,

508
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: they still got to be sniffing around for trades. They

509
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: still need to make a move. But you lose Jamison

510
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: Williams to I wish we would just say what they

511
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: got in trouble for, Like no one cares, like you did,

512
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: a little steroids, a little cocaine, whatever it was. Can

513
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: you just put what he got to spend it for?

514
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: Was it because he was injured he was trying to rehab,

515
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: Like I don't care. I don't think most people care.

516
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: But we know you got spend it for pds, Like

517
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: for what? But you lose them and then you're like,

518
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: well they lose their speed element and you're looking up

519
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: and Gibbs is going ninety yards on a run. It's

520
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: like this, this is this is even fair? And the

521
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: Titans will get to it a little bit. But props

522
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,479
Speaker 1: Alliance because last year they had one of the greatest

523
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: seasons in the history of the franchise, and then to

524
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: come back this season look like they've looked for most

525
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: of the year I know they hit. That game against

526
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: Tampa was weird, but for the most part, God, they've

527
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: been impressive. I you know, I struggled. I could have

528
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: just left it at that. I really could have, because listen,

529
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: playing a divisional game with jamis like, it sucks to

530
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: lose that game if you're the I don't think that

531
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: differently of you. I think Cleveland's a very tough place

532
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,479
Speaker 1: to play. You do have a major, major flaw, like

533
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: your past defense and your coverage for a team that

534
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: had one of the best defenses statistically in recent memory

535
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: last year, a complete defense, Like you have a problem,

536
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: and it's like, no matter who you play, you are very,

537
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: very susceptible. And it creeped its head in last you know,

538
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: two days ago, and it's bigger reason you lost. Now

539
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: I understand that Kyle Hamilton should have caught the ball. Well, yeah,

540
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: par even when your guys are given opportunities to make plays,

541
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: they dropped the ball, hit them right in the bread basket.

542
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: It was like, and it wasn't even some frozen rope.

543
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: It was a little lollipop pass. But you lose to

544
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland with jamis like I gotta boot you out. I'm

545
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: tempted to throw the Bills in there if we're just

546
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: doing it on a weekly basis. Like I watched a

547
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: lot of that Seattle game. It was raining, it was

548
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: bad weather, and they beat the shit shit out of Seattle.

549
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: They destroyed them. Keon Coleman's coming on the knock on

550
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: him was like he can't get open. It's like, yeah,

551
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: he's like six ' three, throw him up, let him

552
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: make contested catches. Use a Marii Cooper who didn't do

553
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: anything in the game. But you know, I think the

554
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: question with Amar is when you say it, Mari Cooper,

555
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: I don't really think cold weather. I don't really think

556
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: inclement weather. Tough conditions not really his thing, you know,

557
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: like DeAndre Hopkins, his style of play should translate well

558
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: Amri's you know, I don't know, uh, but you watch

559
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: James Cook run the ball. We know Sean McDermot is

560
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: one of the better defensive coaches. You get nervous in

561
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: these big games with them. They've done stupid stuff. But

562
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm a believer in the Bills. So they're like poking

563
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: their head in, you know, screaming at Dan Campbell and

564
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. They're the only team that's kind of on

565
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: the fridge. It's hard with the Packers. They got some

566
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: quarterback injuries. Minnesota. You're gone, Houston, like, I'm sorry, your

567
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: record's good. I have a bet on you to get

568
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: the number one seed with your injuries. You lose digs. Now,

569
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: Nico's already gone. You get the Jets held. You might

570
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: be seven and two, but you just haven't played that well.

571
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: Uh so, Yeah, it's it's cheeks just kind of chilling,

572
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: cruising down the road by themselves, like the fifty cent meme.

573
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: You know when he looks and he smiles and drives

574
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: off the outhouse. You know, in the summer, if you're

575
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: at like a concert and you gotta go, like the

576
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: only place to go to the bathroom is the porta pottis,

577
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: and there's that line and it's like one hundred and

578
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: ten degrees and if you you know, eat something bad

579
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: and it's like I gotta, I gotta go, And you're

580
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: getting that thing and probably seventy five people have used

581
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: it over the last day and a half. It reeks.

582
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: You can't breathe. There's this like shit humidity piss mix

583
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: in the air and you can't breathe. But you have

584
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: to go. That to me would be the Panthers. Like

585
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: that is Panthers football. They are so bad. They even

586
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: ask Sean Payton after the game. People can talk shit

587
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: about Sean Payton all they want. You gotta appreciate Hell,

588
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: He'll just say how he feels. They're like, hey, Sean,

589
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: your defense is really rolling. He's like, yeah, their offense stinks.

590
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: That wasn't exactly verbatim what he said, but he's like, yeah,

591
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: their offense isn't any good. I mean, the Panthers are

592
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: an abomination. It just doesn't get any worse, canalis Bryce Young.

593
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: I watched some highlights of that game today. H God,

594
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: that's it's the porta potty in the peak of summer,

595
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: and we all know when you open that door, that

596
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: little latch and you're just you're just desperate for some air,

597
00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: some fresh air, and it that's the Panthers. I don't

598
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: even know what to say about the Titans. I love Nashville.

599
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: Getting married in Nashville Stadium's going to be sweet. They stink,

600
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean they stink. They actually aren't that far away

601
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: from Porta Potti's status. I just like a couple more

602
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: players on their team. But you lose a game fifty

603
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: two to fourteen. It was thirty five to fourteen and

604
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: a half. I feel I didn't watch the end of

605
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: that game, but did Dan Campbell call off the Dogs?

606
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's pretty bad man. The Panthers and

607
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: Titans are going nowhere fast, and I think we just

608
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: got to add this team, the Patriots. They're out they

609
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: win a game, right, Even the Giants, you just watch

610
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: them play like they're not. I can't compare them to

611
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: the Titans or the Panthers. But when you lose to

612
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots in a game where you don't have a

613
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: timeout after the first quarter because you blew all three

614
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: of them on delay of game situations. Someone reminded me

615
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: of this situation today. I think they had a ten

616
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: play drive when they score to take the lead against

617
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: the Patriots with I forget exactly how much times on

618
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: the clock. Was it two fifty or three minutes or something?

619
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: So as you're driving, you know, hey, if we score,

620
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 1: you have eyes. You took basic math and elementary like, well,

621
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: we need a two point conversion, So have a two

622
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: point conversion play called immediately when you score, or even

623
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: in the huddle like Hey, Aaron, if we score here,

624
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: this is gonna be our two point play. Get him

625
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: up in the huddle. Instead, they score, and they've already

626
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: they've already had a million delay of game situations throughout

627
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: the game. They get a delay of game on the

628
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: two point conversion, and then when they run the play,

629
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,919
Speaker 1: they barely make it past the five yard line. Aaron

630
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: Rodgers a shell of himself, There's just no way around it.

631
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: And if he was gonna be a shell of himself

632
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: and a bottom like wherever the middle line is of

633
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: just the you know, like the sixteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth quarterback

634
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: kind of that range, if he was on the wrong

635
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: side of that, the Jets were absolutely screwed. And Colin's

636
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: taken a lot of shit over the years for being

637
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: critical of Aaron, just with his leadership and some stuff.

638
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: It's kind of showing like at the end of the day,

639
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: you're the most important guy here at the moment, not

640
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: the coaching, not Jeff Ulbrick who's never been a head coach,

641
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: not Todd down Downing who's been fired by like five

642
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: different teams. Like, Aaron, can can you just lead us

643
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: to a couple of victories and he's incapable of doing

644
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: that right now, he really is. He's incapable of doing it,

645
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: and he's listen, I've defended him with like no one

646
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: gives a shit in twenty twenty four about his vaccine

647
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: status and most people didn't care at the time, beside

648
00:36:54,080 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: the media. The darkness retreats and stuff like that. Stuff

649
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: gets so overblown, but like this is a moment, like, hey, man,

650
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: can you just kind of rally the fucking troops because

651
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: like back to what I said about that, like the

652
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: players didn't care, they didn't care at all, But this

653
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: is a moment where they got a young team and

654
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 1: everyone's kind of looking around. It's like when Tom Brady's

655
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 1: like follow me, follow me to freedom. As Charlie Steiner

656
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: once said, Peyton Manning when he went to Denver Broncos

657
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: kind of just feels like Aaron just like, eh, let eron,

658
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 1: I'm cool and the team is just it's a joke,

659
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: it really is. Now they're not as bad as the

660
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: Panthers or the Titans, but when you factor in how

661
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: bad that losses, like you could put it on equal

662
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: footing of getting beat fifty two to fourteen by the

663
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, like losing to the New England Patriots in

664
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: the fashion in which you lost to him. It's just

665
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: borderline if you're a fan, like it feels like unforgivable,

666
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: Like I can't even look at this team, and then

667
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: they play Thursday night. I didn't even realize that till

668
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: this morning. It's like, wait, it's Jets Texans. They lose

669
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: the Texans. I mean, they might as well just buy

670
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: that whole strip of Porta potties. That whole strip of

671
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: Porta potties, like a Taylor Swift concert is probably the world.

672
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: It have to be like a hard rock or like

673
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: a country concert, not just little girls, because I would imagine,

674
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: like Taylor Swift, the Porta potties probably smell a lot

675
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: better than some of the concerts I've been to. But

676
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: that would be the Jets, the whole strip, like the

677
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: twenty straight Porta potties. Okay, let's hit on a couple

678
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: other things around the NFL. One of the big stories

679
00:38:54,160 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: of Monday morning. I missed this exact incident on day night.

680
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: I saw it at the end after, you know, I

681
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: recorded with Colin after the afternoon games, and again on

682
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: the Sunday night games, and then I recorded our own

683
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: podcast really late, so I didn't see the Tyreek Stevenson

684
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: viral video, which I would say is the biggest viral

685
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: video so far of the NFL season, and I do

686
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: think it'll be pretty tough to top that moment for

687
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: the young man. Obviously, it was really embarrassing and it's

688
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: something that good teams can never tolerate. Now, I'm not

689
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: some moral high horse guy when it comes to sports,

690
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: like I know what I'm involved in. I'm really not

691
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: just in general in the business world like this. We

692
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: live in a bottom line society and in football it's

693
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: about winning and losing, and businesses about making fucking money. Like,

694
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those media guys. I don't even

695
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: consider myself a media guy that likes to pound my

696
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: chest and lecture people on stuff. And I'm not like

697
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: it funny seeing everyone say they should cut the guy. Well, one,

698
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: he's a starter and one of the better defense in

699
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: the league and has been a starter from the moment

700
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: he was drafted. He's part of the Carolina trade that

701
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: landed the Panthers Bryce Young. He's been an excellent player

702
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: for them. People make mistakes now, sometimes our mistakes are

703
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: worse than others, and for a player that's about as

704
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: bad as you get. That jumps the shark on just

705
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: being an embarrassing moment, on being a moment where the

706
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: coaches chew your ass out the following week that comes

707
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: like the entire city thinks you lost them a football game, because,

708
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: let's face it, he kind of did. He wasn't paying

709
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: attention the ball snapped, he looks they're already running. His

710
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: job is to actually ebra flu said it, to get

711
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: the guy that caught the ball. Well, he's so discombobulated

712
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 1: because the player's already started. He just kind of runs

713
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: to the scrum and obviously he ends up tipping the

714
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: ball to Noah Brown. So it was one of the

715
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: bigger individual disaster plays you'll ever see from a defensive player.

716
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: You could argue, given the scenario and the context of

717
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: the game, the actual that it's a hail Mary, it's

718
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: one of the worst NFL plays from an individual you

719
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: will ever see. But like, you're not cutting this guy one.

720
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: If you did cut him, which again they never would,

721
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 1: he would be claimed by thirty one teams in the NFL.

722
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: So the Carolina Panthers, I'm pretty sure they have the

723
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: worst record. Uh maybe that I don't know. I don't

724
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: have the whoever has the you know it's tiebreaker. There

725
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: are some obviously one win teams. Whoever is top of

726
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: the waiver wire claim would claim him, he'd be gone.

727
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: So you're not cutting the guy. But this is a

728
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: teachable moment, and to me, this is a reflection of

729
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: your locker room because that was a game where you

730
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: were getting out played and if it wasn't for your defense,

731
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: who was holding this team to field goals, you could

732
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: have been down like twenty four to nothing because they

733
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: were kicking your ass. But your defense is playing their

734
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: balls off. Montes Sweat looks like Lawrence Taylor flying around

735
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: chasing Jayden Daniels. I don't know. It feels like besides,

736
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: like Kyler and Lamar one of the fastest guys in

737
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: the league at quarterback, and they're doing everything humanly possible

738
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: even though your offense isn't doing crap to keep you

739
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: in the game. And then in the fourth quarter, you

740
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: got Sweat busting off a fifty five sixty yard run.

741
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 1: You got Caleb pulling plays out of his ass getting

742
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: chased around. You got Keenan making plays. DJ Moore making

743
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: plays obviously sweat making plays like those guys did everything

744
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: to stay locked in even when times were the toughest

745
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: to win. You a football game on the road, clearly

746
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: against a good team, and we lose because of that moment.

747
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna cut him and like having a

748
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: stern talking do in the office, I don't think that

749
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: does anything. I think you got a draw a line

750
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: in this end to your locker room. This will never

751
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: be tolerated here because there are a lot of guys

752
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: on this team. We're gonna be on the team for

753
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. And whether they make the playoffs or

754
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: not this year, I don't think they're going to. But

755
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: the game plan over the next several years will be

756
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs every year with the talent we

757
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: have on this roster. And eber Flus, because he's literally

758
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: coaching for his job, clearly he's gonna want this guy

759
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: to play come Sunday. Why he's playing the Arizona Cardinals,

760
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 1: who offensively can be a major major problem. Well, guess

761
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: who's not going anywhere? The general manager And to me,

762
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: this is an easy BP fastball for the GM to

763
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: draw a line in the sand, make him in active

764
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: for a game, and just show everyone else in that

765
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: locker room, not only do I appreciate everything you did,

766
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: what happened on Sunday in Washington will never ever be

767
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: tolerated here Again, Tyree Stevenson, He's not going anywhere. He's

768
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a part of this team. He's gonna obviously

769
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: really learn from this moment. But like, to me, that's

770
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: the move, and we'll see what they do. Ben him

771
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: for a quarter, Like, it's not about that. It's about

772
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: because like benching for a quarter, how does that change

773
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: what just happened to me? It's about letting every young

774
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: guy on the roster, starting with your quarterback, like, I

775
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: want you to know that like the thing we're building

776
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: here and what we stand for and what this organization

777
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: represents in terms of winning culture. Would Belichick? Would Andy Reid?

778
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that happening for Dan Campbell, Jim or

779
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: John Harbot, Mike Tomlin what they would do in that

780
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: moment with that instance of that individual player. So I

781
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: think it's an easy one for the Chicago Bears to

782
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: just to show their team that that's not okay, and

783
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: we appreciate everyone that laid it on the line from

784
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: start to finish in that game, because most of their

785
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: guys did, they played winning or put themselves in a

786
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: position to win the game in the fourth quarter of

787
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: the Bears definitely played winning football offensively and defensively. Coaches

788
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: screwed up with the full back tipe to the offensive lineman.

789
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: Speaking of locker room, I do think the Cults are

790
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: in a very precarious situation. Obviously, their quarterback has gone

791
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 1: viral throughout the season for I don't know, not being

792
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: able to complete passes. And like we learned in Cleveland,

793
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: when Joe Flacco is on your team, if your quarterback

794
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: is not playing well, he's better than you, or he's

795
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: better than that guy and should be starting. We saw

796
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: in Cleveland major upgrade we saw in Indy he came in.

797
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: Offense looks dramatically better. As we sit here on October

798
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, I think it's universally agreed upon that today

799
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is a better player than Anthony Richson. But

800
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: this was another one of those situations yesterday. Because I

801
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: don't have the volume on the game. If I don't

802
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: pay attention for a play and something happens. You don't

803
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: really know what happens unless you see on social media later,

804
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: or obviously you just watch the highlight shows and you

805
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: figure out like, wait, Anthony Richardson tapped out of the

806
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: game for a play. Oh, he was injured or something

807
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: tweaked his shoulder or his hipoca, No, he was winded.

808
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: And I thought about it a lot today because I

809
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: saw Pat McAfee asking Belichick about it, and I thought

810
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 1: about the viral video that from the Netflix Quarterback series

811
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,919
Speaker 1: when the Chiefs are in the playoffs and Mahomes hurts

812
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: his ankle and Andy Reid is telling him to go

813
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: to the locker room with Rick Burkeholder the trainer and

814
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: get an X ray, and Pat is dog cussing him,

815
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: refusing to go. Matt Nagge comes over, talks to him,

816
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: The trainer talks to him, and then finally Eric b

817
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: Enemy comes talk to him and they all tell him

818
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: you gotta go get an X ray, and he is

819
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: just dropping f ward every other sentence, refusing to go.

820
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: And when you watch Lamar, no quarterback I've ever seen

821
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: runs around more and I have never thought for one

822
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: second even when he's played bad, and I've been critical

823
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: of him like in a playoff game that he ain't

824
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: laying it on the line, and his competitive character is

825
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: not elite. So you think of the best quarterbacks you're

826
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: playing in the AFC, If you're the Colts, the best

827
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: team with the best quarterback has ten out of ten

828
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: competitive character. I would say Lamar Jackson's competitive character ten

829
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: out of ten. Oh, that other team that's five and

830
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: two and gonna be probably a thirteen to fourteen win team,

831
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. I would put Josh Allens at a

832
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: ten out of ten. So the three, honestly three of

833
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: the better quarterbacks I've seen in my lifetime when it

834
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 1: just comes to physical skills, when it comes to accomplishments,

835
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: when it comes to ability, and when it comes to competitiveness.

836
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: You would have to drag those fucking guys off the

837
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: field to have them miss a play in a big

838
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: game against a division rival in the second half on

839
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: third in goal. They wouldn't tap out of the game

840
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: if there was a pot of gold outside the stadium.

841
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: So to seeing Anthony Riginson tap out, I went, do

842
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: we have to question his competitive character? Is it just

843
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: simply while he's tired, he runs more than some guys,

844
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: it's like, well, Lamar runs all the time, Kyler runs

845
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: all the time. And I was talking with some scouts

846
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: and one said, you know, Johnny's never really played. He

847
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: was injured in high school, he was injured early in Florida,

848
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: and his one season at Florida they went six and six,

849
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: so half the games didn't even matter, and then he

850
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: was injured. Last year he's been injured again. And I thought, well, okay,

851
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: Because I do think through experiences you build up stuff,

852
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: whether it's confidence, whether it's understanding of your sport, of

853
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: your craft. I also think once you hit a certain age,

854
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 1: they were like innate competitive traits that you either have

855
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: or you don't. I think a lot of people listening

856
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: to this, whatever business or industry you're in, whether you

857
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: have them, the people you work for them, you have

858
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: them when you're around people that are really really competitive financially. Obviously,

859
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 1: in sports it's about winning and losing. It is something

860
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: that you cannot mistake or fake. And some people are

861
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: just a little I would say lacks when it comes

862
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: to that. And I do think you have to question

863
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: how the rest of the locker room because this gets

864
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: to the Bears thing like, even if I really like

865
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: Tyrek Stevenson, like, this is our job. We are paid

866
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: to win these games, and if we don't, if we

867
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: miss the playoffs, if a new coach comes in, the

868
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: majority of guys on this roster are not Montese Sweat

869
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson and Caleb Williams or DJ Moore. Most guys

870
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: are fighting for their fucking jobs on a yearly, weekly basis.

871
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: In the NFL. Obviously, if you're a veteran player, once

872
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: you make week one yr contract is guaranteed for the

873
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: rest of the season, but definitely on a weekly or

874
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: a yearly basis. It's like, we can't afford to lose guys,

875
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: and I'm watching the Colts lose that game. His stats

876
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: were horrendous. I saw someone breaking down, like some of

877
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: those were drops. It's like, okay, Like, you don't just

878
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: become forty four percent passer on the season because your

879
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 1: wide receivers are dropping a lot of balls. He's an

880
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 1: inaccurate passer, but it's like, Okay, we got a project.

881
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: We drafted him fourth overall. I can live like this

882
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: is what I went into business with. I cannot live

883
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: with that competitive character question mark because now it's been

884
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: one thing. Listen. We had durability concerns, we had accuracy concerns,

885
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: and now the number one concern is, like I've seen

886
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: so many former players that have said, in all my

887
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: life of being around football, I have never seen this ever,

888
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: Like it's been universally agreed upon. It never happens. It

889
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: happens when you're hurt, and usually that guy's kind of

890
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: limping off or laying on the ground. He tapped out

891
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 1: like he's Alvin Kamar or Christian McCaffery or Derreck Henry

892
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: after a fifty yard run. The quarterback and the five

893
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: offensive lineman never come out of the game ever, if

894
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: they are not injured. I think if you're a Colts fan,

895
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: you've tried to rationalize the inaccuracies, the amount he's going

896
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: to have to grow to be competitive at the highest level.

897
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: But I think you were hoping, like, hey, everything, we

898
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: hear high character people like him, But now we got

899
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: competitive question marks. To me, those are non starters. You

900
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: don't have a snowballs chance in hell to compete in

901
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: that conference against the competitive level of guy that you

902
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: have to play, who are already infinitely better players, and

903
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: that you know, to get Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen or

904
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes out of a game, they would have to

905
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: have a serious, serious injury. You almost have to chock

906
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: it up to in the loss. And I saw a

907
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: headline the day that Shane Steichen, I think, in a

908
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: call to the media, said that they're still evaluating who's

909
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: going to be their starting quarterback. I think the decision

910
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: was made for you the moment he tapped his helmet.

911
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: You have to start Joe Flacco. Now you got to

912
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: whether this guy's out of shape, whatever the deal is,

913
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 1: we got to do some soul searching here because that

914
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: can never be okay. When Jonathan Taylor, I mean, they

915
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,959
Speaker 1: got random guys on defense that were playing their ass

916
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: off in that game. That can't be accepted because if

917
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: it is accepted, Listen, a lot of people in the

918
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: NFL make fun of the Colts because they think Chris

919
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: Ballard is well liked by a lot of people in

920
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: the media, and he kind of gets a pass. I

921
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: don't even know the guy, and I've been pretty optimistic

922
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 1: when I talk about him. But if Joe Flacco's not

923
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 1: their starting quarterback this year, like I'm sorry, their organization

924
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: is a joke one. I mean, Flacco is just clearly

925
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 1: a better player right now, but to that specific incident,

926
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: I just don't see how his teammates can take him seriously. Last,

927
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: but not least, I think the power of coaching, this

928
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: is why these guys make so much money, is on

929
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: full display really in college and the pros every Saturday

930
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: and Sunday, but nothing more than this Sunday. Like all

931
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: I heard coming into the regular season was the Jets.

932
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: The Jets are the betting favorite to win the AFC East.

933
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: And my whole thought was, even if you think Rogers

934
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: is going to be Pete Rogers, look at their coaching

935
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: staff that this is you have to have both. You

936
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: can have Joe Montana or Tom Brady, but you typically

937
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: also have to have Bill Belichick or Bill Walsh. Like

938
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: Mike Holmgren was a lot better when he had Brett Pharr.

939
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,399
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's been excellent. You giving Patrick Mahomes like it's

940
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: a duo. The head coach in football means so much,

941
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: and it's like everyone that acts like Sean McDermott and listen,

942
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: He's had some devastating losses, but he has a pretty

943
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: long resume now of being a winner and that organizational philosophy.

944
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 1: And currently if you go to the standings on NFL

945
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: dot com or ESPN dot com, they have a gigantic

946
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,240
Speaker 1: lead and it's not even Halloween. The Patriots coach clearly's

947
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: in over his head, the Jets have no coach, and

948
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: the Dolphins coach is the most overrated coach in recent memory.

949
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: Like this division could be over by December first, it

950
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: really could, and the Bills just have to keep playing

951
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: for seating purposes. But like Sean McDermott and Joe Brady,

952
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: because this was a team, it's like, oh, they lost

953
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: these guys, they got rid of their safeties, they traded

954
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: step On Diggs. Watched them play against Seattle on the

955
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: road in the rain. How buttoned up that operation was.

956
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: The Packers, to me, have just been a revelation this

957
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: year because the reason most of us liked him so

958
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: much coming into the season. It's like, did you see

959
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: Jordan Love down in stretch last year? Look, Aaron Rodgers,

960
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: if this defense is just a little bit better, Steam

961
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: could win Super Bowl. And then he gets hurt opening night,

962
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: he gets hurt again yesterday, and it's like he missed games.

963
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: They had to start Malik Willis for two games. They

964
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: had to bring Malik Willis yesterday into a game that

965
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: was tightly contested. And I look today Malik Willis Ford

966
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: Matt Lafoor and that offense is twenty nine of thirty

967
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:39,720
Speaker 1: nine for seventy five percent, throwing three touchdown and no picks.

968
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: He's also averaging over eight yards of carry and he's

969
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: ran in another touchdown. Like that's what coaching is. If

970
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,280
Speaker 1: you gave the Packers Ebra Flus and Shane Waldron, there's

971
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: zero chance there six and two, I mean none. And

972
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: if you flip flopped Lafleur and Halflee in and those

973
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: guys with the Bears, I think it's safe to assume

974
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 1: their defense would still be really good, but their offense

975
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 1: would be dramatically better. I don't think the Minnesota Vikings

976
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: roster is that great. Obviously, the receiver is an incredible talent,

977
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: and Aaron Jones is really good, but now they've lost

978
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: their left tackle. You look at their defensive pieces, like,

979
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: who's their best defensive player, a forty year old Harrison Smith.

980
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: Like sometimes you watch them get pressure, like who are

981
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: these guys? You're like, Oh, they drafted this guy in

982
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: the fourth round four years ago. This is not Zadarius

983
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: Smith and Daneil Hunter on the squad anymore. But they

984
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: got Kevin O'Connell and they got Brian Flores, and now

985
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come back to earth a little

986
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,959
Speaker 1: bit more because the left tackle's gone. But I would

987
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: still expect them to be a ten win team. I've

988
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: said this forever about McVeigh. For them even being in

989
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: position that if they got everyone back they would still

990
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 1: be alive is an incredible accomplishment. To win that game

991
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: early on in the season against the forty nine ers

992
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 1: with no wide receivers is one of the crazier things

993
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Because the Niners blew two bad games,

994
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: one to Arizona and one to the Rams. They are

995
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 1: not equals. Ultimately, Stafford was thrown to me and you

996
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: Kyler still had, you know, James Connor, Trade McBride, Marvin Harrison, Dortch,

997
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: a kind of like like, they got guys that keep

998
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: you on your toes. Is why they've had some big

999
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: comeback victories the last couple of years. Since Kyler came back,

1000
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: I kept saying, listen, I whiffed on the Saints they

1001
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: might not win another game. Spencer Rattler is one of

1002
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: the worst players I've ever seen. Might not be all

1003
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: his fault. They're missing offensive lineman, they got wide receiver injuries,

1004
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: but he's got awful. But look at the Chargers schedule

1005
00:57:54,840 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: right now. They won last year. I think they went

1006
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,959
Speaker 1: five to twelve. They obviously had the fifth overall pick.

1007
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: They were terrible. They lost a game on Thursday night

1008
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: like sixty to twenty, which is ironic because they ended

1009
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: up hiring that GM who got fired the next day

1010
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: that the Raiders literally got him fired. But this Charger

1011
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: team was an embarrassment to football. Do you know what's

1012
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: gonna happen when the season ends this year? The Chargers

1013
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: are gonna be in the playoffs. I'm gonna read you

1014
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: their schedule. The Chargers this week at the Browns. I

1015
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: like the Chargers. The following week Titans, I like the Chargers.

1016
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: They get the Bengals at home. Tougher game, but definitely winnable.

1017
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: Ravens loss at the Falcons, loss at the Chiefs, loss, Buccaneers,

1018
00:58:52,840 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: million injuries, Chargers, Broncos, another team Cha their quarterback brought

1019
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: in their guy, have a bunch of guys on defense

1020
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: that most people don't know that well. Besides, her Tain

1021
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a playoff team as well. There's a

1022
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: reason these guys are making fifteen eighteen million dollars because

1023
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: if you got Eberflus and I got Sean Payton or

1024
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh, I have an exponentially better chance to be

1025
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: playing in the middle of January than you do. We

1026
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: both could lose a bad game, we both could win

1027
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: a bad game during the regular season, but over the

1028
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: course of the year, it's advantaged me. And it's why

1029
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: I was always so critical on the Chargers, Like I

1030
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: like so many of your players. You went from Drew

1031
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: Brees to Philip Rivers to Justin Herbert. That's pretty damn good.

1032
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: The overwhelming majority of the NFL would have died for

1033
00:59:55,120 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: that twenty five year run. But when you refuse to

1034
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: pay coaches any money, you can't complain about underwhelming and

1035
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs all the time. He said, you know what,

1036
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: screw it here, Jim Harbaugh. Here is five years, sixteen

1037
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. Oh, you want to bring Jesse Mentor,

1038
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: who's clearly one of the better defensive coordinators in the league.

1039
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: How much he gonna cost, Well, he's about three million bucks. Okay,

1040
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: here's three million bucks. How much your total staff gonna cost?

1041
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: Dramatically more money than you've ever paid anybody. That's what

1042
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: we gotta do. Because you're watching the Chargers, you're watching

1043
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: the Broncos. They're not exactly rolling out superstar players at

1044
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: all these positions. Yet they have good coaches, they have

1045
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: guys that know what they're doing, and they're both gonna

1046
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: end up. I would I feel pretty confident that there's

1047
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: probably like a seventy five percent chance both make the playoffs.

1048
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: I think there's one hundred percent chance one of them

1049
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: makes the playoffs. If I was a betting man, I

1050
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: just take Harbod Justin Herbert over bownex the volume mhm