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Speaker 1: Instant reaction, and then on the back end, some thoughts
Speaker 1: on where I was really wrong this football season with
Speaker 1: one team in particular. Congratulations to the Dodgers winning their
Speaker 1: eighth World Series title. I think I'm very clever headline
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller's two days Off Ferris Bueller Walker Anyway, I
Speaker 1: love Dave Robbers, who deals because of the Dodgers' payroll
Speaker 1: and their commitment to Betts and Freeman and Otani, it's
Speaker 1: like an all star team. There's a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on Dave Robbers, and you know, here's a guy with
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Here's a guy that you know, wins
Speaker 1: a World Series and then Dodgers as a manager. And
Speaker 1: I just think he's a classy guy who's taken a
Speaker 1: lot of shit and he did a great job, a
Speaker 1: masterful job of not only managing the team, but managing
Speaker 1: his resources. Now, I felt very strongly tonight that it
Speaker 1: was going to go back to La and the Dodgers
Speaker 1: were going to pitch. At least I thought this in
Speaker 1: the eighth inning. They were going to pitch Yamamoto and
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler, their two best pitchers at home, whereas the
Speaker 1: Yankees just expanded Garrett Cole so he's done for the
Speaker 1: series and they go on the road. But I really
Speaker 1: thought as much as the Dodgers won tonight, I thought
Speaker 1: the Yankees, and I thought they were the inferior team.
Speaker 1: I thought they gave the game away. And the fifth
Speaker 1: innings of the craziest thing I've ever seen. Over the
Speaker 1: course of ten minutes, Aaron Judge, with a five to
Speaker 1: zhering lead, drops a routine fly ball. It was the
Speaker 1: kind of ball that you if you're playing catch with
Speaker 1: a friend. He drops a routine flyball, then volpay it short,
Speaker 1: short hops a throw to third, and then Garrett Cole,
Speaker 1: who had a masterful one hundred and eight pitching performance,
Speaker 1: doesn't cover firstpace. It would be a you would think
Speaker 1: that was a bad spring training performance. You'd get chewed
Speaker 1: out after a spring training game. To be in a
Speaker 1: World Series game and have three miscues one after the
Speaker 1: other is just insane. Then the game is tied, and
Speaker 1: then I felt like the Dodgers were playing loose and
Speaker 1: with house money. I mean, at that point, I mean,
Speaker 1: you get down five nothing, You're like, okay, we're going
Speaker 1: back to La. We got Yamamoto, Yamamoto, We've got Walker Bueller.
Speaker 1: This will be it for Garrett Cole. We have a
Speaker 1: pitching advantage, hitting advantage, home field advantage. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: win four s red against us. That's what it felt
Speaker 1: like to me. And it's so all bets are off,
Speaker 1: but God and Max Munsey, who was just great in
Speaker 1: the NLCS, had a rough world series. Otani didn't hit,
Speaker 1: and Dave Roberts, you know, I mean, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people that didn't want Max Munsey coming up,
Speaker 1: you know, that final time. So you got Munsey's struggling,
Speaker 1: Otani's struggling. And remember Jack Flaherty, who the Dodgers got.
Speaker 1: There's a story last week, I think it was in
Speaker 1: the La Times where his velocity had come down, so
Speaker 1: you know, he he didn't look like, you know, he
Speaker 1: had his best stuff. So after the Bullpen lost yesterday,
Speaker 1: Flaherty struggling today you're thinking, you know, to me, it
Speaker 1: was just like, okay, you're going home, Yamamoto Walker Buller's
Speaker 1: stuff is nasty. You're in great shape. I've been taking
Speaker 1: notes for four hours. I got so many notes. And
Speaker 1: then you know, again the Yankees in the top of
Speaker 1: the eighth you got back to back singles by Keithy
Speaker 1: Hernandez and Tommy Edmond and then Will Smith walks. You
Speaker 1: have no no outs in the bases loaded, and so
Speaker 1: you get and then there's a catcher's interference against the Yankees.
Speaker 1: So god, it's like the fifth in the eighth. It
Speaker 1: was just time after time the Yankees, you know. And
Speaker 1: you know, as I said before, I don't watch a
Speaker 1: ton of baseball in the regular season. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: on in my house with the Dodgers. When I lived
Speaker 1: I worked at ESPN back East, I always had the
Speaker 1: Yankees of the Red Sox on. It was the Yes
Speaker 1: networker Nessen, I watch my local team, right. I kind
Speaker 1: of keep track because I used to work for the Padres,
Speaker 1: so I kind of keep track of the Padres a
Speaker 1: little bit. But this was a game in which the
Speaker 1: Yankees just kept giving the Dodgers every break and the
Speaker 1: fifth inning and the eighth inning and catchers interference and
Speaker 1: airs and free passes, and the Dodgers eventually, you know,
Speaker 1: took advantage of it. So you know, it's interesting. Years
Speaker 1: and years ago, there's a coach, the late lut Olsen
Speaker 1: coach at Arizona. He had great teams in the tournament
Speaker 1: and he just could not win a championship. And there
Speaker 1: was a lot of years they went in as a
Speaker 1: heavy favorite, loss in the first round, and then eventually
Speaker 1: they got this team with Miles Simon and a bunch
Speaker 1: of freshmen and a bunch of kids, and they won
Speaker 1: the National Championship. And it's just so interesting. So many
Speaker 1: times with Dave Roberts and the Dodgers, you've got into
Speaker 1: the playoffs and you felt really strongly about them, and
Speaker 1: they just they kind of unravel and they have a
Speaker 1: bad pitching performance this year. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 1: In this World Series, Otani dried up. Max Munsey, who
Speaker 1: was brilliant in the NLCS, dried up all of a
Speaker 1: sudden going into the World Series, fled the velocity dips.
Speaker 1: You've already used forty pitchers. You're going into a World
Speaker 1: Series coming out of a National League Divisional Series and
Speaker 1: a championship series where you had to have bullpen games.
Speaker 1: You're just managing resources of all the years to win it.
Speaker 1: If you'd written down this script and said, yeah, oh Tony,
Speaker 1: it will just be brutal in a series, Max Munsey
Speaker 1: will dry up. I mean you'll have basically two starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: And Walker Bulder was kind of crossing your fingers because
Speaker 1: he's been hurt for a year and a half, two years,
Speaker 1: so got that fifth inning. I think all five of
Speaker 1: those runs the Dodger scored, I think all five were unearned.
Speaker 1: Has that ever happened in a World Series game? Five
Speaker 1: hundred runs? Well, it's just it's just crazy, and you
Speaker 1: know it's you just never known these championships where they
Speaker 1: come from. And I thought it was interesting that the
Speaker 1: World Series came down to Garrett Cole being pulled. Not
Speaker 1: singularly came down to, but Garrett Cole being pulled in
Speaker 1: Game one, got a lot of heat, and then Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole not covering first kept that fifth inning going for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. So Garrett Cole, who was, you know, the
Speaker 1: the best pitcher in the series for either team, I
Speaker 1: think ended up being so crucial, probably pulled a little
Speaker 1: early at eighty eight pitches and the Dodgers, you know,
Speaker 1: had to go to their bullpen, and good luck against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium with your bullpen. And then
Speaker 1: in this fifth inning, you know, he was he was
Speaker 1: brilliant tonight, one hundred and eight pitches, but he didn't
Speaker 1: cover first base. I mean that just crazy to me.
Speaker 1: A guy that zoned in doesn't cover first base, So
Speaker 1: I mean, the Dodgers aren't going anywhere. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just so many, so many things went wrong physically for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I mean Otani's shoulders, collarbone, I mean, what
Speaker 1: are the chances of that on a slide to second base.
Speaker 1: You're looking at any You're thinking there's no collision. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden he grabs his shoulder and you're like,
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. The timing's terrible. Ends up.
Speaker 1: They didn't need him, So it's easy. I find it's
Speaker 1: easy to root for the Dodgers. I think it's a
Speaker 1: really classy organization from research and development. They don't miss
Speaker 1: on trades. You know, when they call guys up, they deliver.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just, you know, Kershaw to Otani to Betts,
Speaker 1: to Freddie Freeman's story, to Dave Roberts to the late
Speaker 1: Vince Scully and now Joe Davis. You're just it's class
Speaker 1: personified as an organization. And you can blame Aaron Boone
Speaker 1: and you can blame the defense in the fifth inning,
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you really looked at what was happening,
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers would have not come back in the
Speaker 1: fifth inning, you were going to La to face the
Speaker 1: Dodgers best too pitchers, and at some point Otani was
Speaker 1: going to get a big hit. I mean, Aaron Judge finally,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge tonight roared back, I mean really roared back tonight.
Speaker 1: And despite what happened in the World Series, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: three years ago set their sights on Otani and what
Speaker 1: a significant upgrade for him personally, because you know, when
Speaker 1: you get these star players, it always reminds me to
Speaker 1: a lesser version of like Joe Mauer with the Twins
Speaker 1: or a Joey Vado with a Cincinnati Reds, where you
Speaker 1: just can't you pay him and you can't surround him
Speaker 1: with elite players, and the Angels couldn't really do that.
Speaker 1: But with the Dodgers, you can have him cleanup, you
Speaker 1: can beat him third fourth, You're gonna have Mooky Betts
Speaker 1: and Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy, you know, and tremendous
Speaker 1: players all around him. He's gonna usually get better pictures.
Speaker 1: And it's just I mean, for him to be as
Speaker 1: as classy as he was. I mean, this season started
Speaker 1: with that you know, gambling story, which could have derailed
Speaker 1: the franchise, derailed his career, and he was just poised,
Speaker 1: under control, beloved in the locker room, fit right in,
Speaker 1: and it feels like they're just certain players. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like Aaron Judge needs to be a Yankee, right
Speaker 1: like Otani really needs to be a Dodger. It's nothing
Speaker 1: against the Angels, but you know, they're just the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have more resources and the Yankees have more resources, and
Speaker 1: there's just a handful of teams that can surround these
Speaker 1: great players with better players so they get better pitches.
Speaker 1: And I just I just thought think of how the
Speaker 1: season started pretty bumpy for Otani and it ended pretty bumpy.
Speaker 1: But let's not forget what he produced. For a majority
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of this season. He was the best
Speaker 1: player by a lot, and that's saying something. On a
Speaker 1: team with Betson Freeman and Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: and the amazing players in Major League Baseball, Otani by
Speaker 1: a long shot fifty to fifty club was the best
Speaker 1: player in baseball. I like how it ends for him
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers. So great players eventually have their moment
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Speaker 1: I don't worry about getting week to week predictions right
Speaker 1: because nobody does right. We all. If you can get
Speaker 1: fifty five percent of my blazing five picks, I'm more
Speaker 1: than happy, and of course I want to get my
Speaker 1: picks right. But what I do worry about and take
Speaker 1: seriously are the big macro topics over the course of
Speaker 1: a football season. Those I think you can You can
Speaker 1: hit eighty percent of those if you do your homework.
Speaker 1: So I had four or five big topics coming into
Speaker 1: this football season. Number one, I said, the Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: cleaning House will immediately become a playoff team. So it
Speaker 1: looks like I'm right on that. I had pretty good
Speaker 1: insight with Cliff Kingsbury, who banged the table for Jaden
Speaker 1: Daniels in the draft, and he really felt he was
Speaker 1: like a better version of Kyler Murray and he has
Speaker 1: been fewer mistakes, more of a leader, and so I
Speaker 1: feel really good about that that I got it right.
Speaker 1: I also predict that I thought the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine ers had peaked and that you'll start to see
Speaker 1: flaws and limitations with Brock Purdy in the overall organization,
Speaker 1: which is very Christian McCaffrey reliant. I think I was
Speaker 1: right on that. I picked the Denver Broncos and Sean
Speaker 1: Payton to be the one team the safest bet on
Speaker 1: the over underscale. Vegas had him at five and a
Speaker 1: half wins. My take is Sean Payton is going to
Speaker 1: win you a couple of games, out smarting mediocre coaches,
Speaker 1: bow Nicks with sixty one college starts by at least Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: will be a real NFL quarterback, franchise quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: he is now, and frankly the AFC's got There's a
Speaker 1: lot of winnable games on the Bronco schedule, including two
Speaker 1: in division against the Raiders, and so I think I
Speaker 1: got that right as well. So Denver Washington San Francisco,
Speaker 1: I thought I got right. I think the one I
Speaker 1: really got wrong was the Pittsburgh Steelers. I had said
Speaker 1: I thought Justin Fields would win the locker room. Now
Speaker 1: I think I got that right. But I think one
Speaker 1: thing that is very clear, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: winning a super Bowl. If you go look in the
Speaker 1: last three to four years in the NFL, the final
Speaker 1: four coaches are all offensive. But to win a playoff
Speaker 1: game or two, you know Sean McDermott can do that
Speaker 1: as a defensive coach. And I think I think Mike Tomlin,
Speaker 1: and we've always studies credible, but I think what Mike
Speaker 1: Tomlin has shown over the course of this season, and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm wrong on this, is that I always felt
Speaker 1: he was a little tone def to offense. But by
Speaker 1: pivoting off Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, and Justin Fields who
Speaker 1: had a winning record and settling on Russell Wilson, I
Speaker 1: think it shows that he is more aware than I
Speaker 1: gave him credit for, and defensive coaches can struggle with this,
Speaker 1: that he understands the urgency at quarterback. This is why
Speaker 1: I banged on Ron Rivera at Washington, who thought Sam
Speaker 1: Hall was good enough or Pete Carroll and Seattle. I
Speaker 1: thought Geno Smith was good enough. No, they're not. And
Speaker 1: I don't think Russell Wilson's good enough to win a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. But he is better than Mason Rudolph and
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett and Justin Fields. And I think even though
Speaker 1: they were winning, it's hard as a coach when you're
Speaker 1: winning to make changes, right, like you're going to disrupt things.
Speaker 1: We're four and two. I'm not going to disrupt the
Speaker 1: locker room. That takes a pair by Mike Tomlin at
Speaker 1: four and two to go in and say, guys, we
Speaker 1: should be five and one. We're a better team than this.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing about Russell Wilson is that's
Speaker 1: really encouraging if you're a Steeler fan, is that Russell
Speaker 1: never made a ton of mistakes. He was always elusive,
Speaker 1: he was always smart, he took the right risks. But
Speaker 1: I think Russell is I think he knows now he's
Speaker 1: got he understands sort of what he's become. And I
Speaker 1: look at the Steelers and it's sort of Seahawks light
Speaker 1: power run game. Marshawn Lynch is better than Nausee Harris
Speaker 1: power run game, defensive coach, defensive culture, a couple playmakers
Speaker 1: on the outside, good pass rush, good home field environment,
Speaker 1: and a really good, tough physical culture. With Seattle and Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Russell's not as good as he was, but he's also capable.
Speaker 1: He's a better quarterback right now than Aaron Rodgers, and
Speaker 1: I think he's as good a leader he's I think
Speaker 1: he's certainly in the class close to a Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: who I predicted would win twelve games this year and
Speaker 1: be the number one seed potentially with Atlanta. So I
Speaker 1: think I was really wrong on Pittsburgh. I think Tomlin
Speaker 1: was more aware of the need for urgency on offense.
Speaker 1: I thought it took real guts to get rid of
Speaker 1: Justin Field's nice kid, liked in the locker room, high ceiling,
Speaker 1: but a really low floor. And so I may have
Speaker 1: Washington right so far and right and San Francisco right,
Speaker 1: but I think I've been wrong on Pittsburgh, that that's
Speaker 1: a real team. And you start looking at that schedule, Well,
Speaker 1: Cleveland now stinks, Cincinnati's not very good, Baltimore's better. I
Speaker 1: think over time, Baltimore's better, but Baltimore is not very good.
Speaker 1: On the defensive end. So could Pittsburgh win that division. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna favorite Baltimore, but they can win that division.
Speaker 1: You know, the very top of the AFC, Kansas City, Buffalo, Houston, Baltimore,
Speaker 1: those are very good teams. It gets real squishy in
Speaker 1: the middle and really bad on the bottom. But in
Speaker 1: the NFC, the middle of the NFC is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Arizona can beat anybody with those weapons. Minnesota can play
Speaker 1: with anybody with those weapons. The Rams when Puka Nakua,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, Kyron Williams, Cooper Cup are healthy, they can
Speaker 1: play with anybody. So the top of the AFC is
Speaker 1: really good. But Pittsburgh could very well be the best
Speaker 1: team in the middle, along with the Chargers. And that's
Speaker 1: my take is that the Chargers and the Steelers they're
Speaker 1: not Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo, But because the middle is
Speaker 1: so soft in the AFC, I think what I'm seeing
Speaker 1: is the Chargers Harbaugh Herbert and the Steelers Tomlin, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson look like clearly the best of the next group,
Speaker 1: and that next group should be winning playoff games the volume.
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