Speaker 1: The volume all right, saying it wasn't his decision. Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll classy as he stood at the podium, energized, saying
Speaker 1: there are waves to surf. Pete's at a house in
Speaker 1: Hawaii for some time, very active guy, Manhattan Beach, Hawaii.
Speaker 1: He's a very young seventy two years old. I don't
Speaker 1: think energy, intelligence, stamina are the questions for Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: I think he's somebody that could interview for the charger's job.
Speaker 1: If Lincoln Riley left tomorrow, USC would talk to him.
Speaker 1: That's not the question. I do think there's a question
Speaker 1: that defensive coaches just do not want to confront. When
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's telling me that Gino Smith is the answer,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sean McVay moved off Goff. Goff's a
Speaker 1: lot better than Geno Smith. Kyle Shanahan off Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: who I think is better than Geno Smith. And both
Speaker 1: of those quarterbacks got to a Super Bowl. But when
Speaker 1: I hear Ron Rivera say Sam Howe, we're good at quarterback,
Speaker 1: or Pete say o Gino Smith, Drew Locke, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: the culture is changing. Beneath your feet, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: that's not good enough. Pete Carroll has an NCAA championship
Speaker 1: and a Super Bowl. Who are the quarterbacks? Two elite quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: Matt Liinert as a college quarterback and Russell Wilson in
Speaker 1: his prime as an NFL quarterback. Pete's defensive philosophies, ideologies,
Speaker 1: details haven't changed. He had a lot of quarterbacks at
Speaker 1: us See when he had Lionert, those were his best teams.
Speaker 1: And he had a lot of quarterbacks in Seattle, right,
Speaker 1: But when he had Russell in his prime, he got
Speaker 1: to Super Bowls. So defensive coaches struggle with two things.
Speaker 1: Urgency at the position of quarterback. Listen Belichick's legend, right.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady privately will tell you he has no idea
Speaker 1: about offense none. Now, Pete maybe knows more about offense
Speaker 1: than Bill Belichick. But I think that's the number one thing,
Speaker 1: is that Pete can go to a place that has
Speaker 1: an established offensive culture. But I think it's a legitimate,
Speaker 1: reasonable question about defensive coaches. I mean, when Mike Tomlin's
Speaker 1: telling me Kenny Pickett's good enough, Kenny Pickett's the fifth
Speaker 1: best quarterback in that division. Burrow Lamar Deshaun Flatko, Kenny Pickett,
Speaker 1: Come on. I mean, Mason Rudolph looks better than Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1: Is he the sixth best? Come on? And when Ron Rivera,
Speaker 1: Sam Hell's good enough? Come on. So I think that's
Speaker 1: nothing against those particular quarterbacks. But that's my thing with Pete.
Speaker 1: Chargers already have a great quarterback, great young talent. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's a good fit. But I've been watching this for years.
Speaker 1: Andy Reid had Alex Smith said not good enough. Alex
Speaker 1: Smith's a playoff quarterback. He was a successful quarterback in
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Kansas City, both conferences. Andy Reid's like,
Speaker 1: we're not up grade McVay, goff Shanahan, And I just
Speaker 1: think offensive coaches have a higher standard of offense and
Speaker 1: the league rules now. I mean, even if you go
Speaker 1: look at the National Championship, three of the four teams
Speaker 1: Kaalen de Boor, Jim Harbass, Steve Sarksian offensive coaches. Right,
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart's a great coach, Nick saban Are a great coach,
Speaker 1: one didn't make it, and one was the fourth best
Speaker 1: team in the playoff. So I just think the world's changing,
Speaker 1: and that's what worries me about Pete. It's not his energy,
Speaker 1: it's not his intelligence, it's not his commitment, it's not
Speaker 1: his personnel decisions. That's not it. He's a good enough
Speaker 1: coach to coach somewhere else. And these defensive coaches, they
Speaker 1: see the world, run the ball, control the clock, don't
Speaker 1: make any mistakes at quarterback, play good defense. Well, Seattle
Speaker 1: wasn't playing good defense. And I don't like turnovers either,
Speaker 1: but Elway, Peyton, Manning, Eli Manning, Josh Allen, Matt Stafford.
Speaker 1: They turn the ball over occasionally, they make up for
Speaker 1: it in fourteen possessions, fifteen possessions with great elevated quarterback play.
Speaker 1: So that's my concern with Pete. Everything else, he checks
Speaker 1: a lot of boxes. What's next for the Seahawks. I
Speaker 1: would look at Jim harbaughd Shane Waldron, I'd look at
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. I think dan Quinn's lateral move. Dan Quinn's
Speaker 1: success in Atlanta was tied to a great offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. Before and after it never great got Kyle great,
Speaker 1: almost won a Super Bowl. Maybe he should have won
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. So I mean even Belichick when he
Speaker 1: lost Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady. Dante Scarnecki offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: the greatest coach ever, just didn't have the aptitude offensively
Speaker 1: to turn things around. Mac Jones got worse over time,
Speaker 1: not better. Do you think if mac Jones was given
Speaker 1: McVeigh he would have gotten significantly worse over time? I don't.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff got better over time, then they moved on.
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford came and he's gotten better over time. Brock Perdy,
Speaker 1: you think it would work if he had a defensive coach.
Speaker 1: Do you think Kyle Shanahan has a connection. Why is
Speaker 1: Jared Goff playing so well? Ben Johnson? Why was Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan an MVP? Kyle Shanahan. So I've been on this
Speaker 1: now for two to three years. Not that the defensive
Speaker 1: coaches lack certain skills, abilities and talent. That's not it.
Speaker 1: The league is changing right below their feet, and so
Speaker 1: Seattle kind of felt like Pete, if you're locked in
Speaker 1: on Gino and Drew Locke, that's not gonna work for us.
Speaker 1: So I think Seattle is one of the few teams
Speaker 1: in the NFL that has the personnel and draft picks
Speaker 1: to move from their draft position into the top ten.
Speaker 1: I could see him going after bow Nicks or Michael
Speaker 1: Pennix around ten to twelve, if they're available. Seattle doesn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of needs. They have a left tackle,
Speaker 1: they have multiple weapons, They have pass rushers, good corners,
Speaker 1: nice running backs, active linebackers. Can maybe use another safety.
Speaker 1: Maybe Seattle doesn't have needs. Quarterback is their need, and
Speaker 1: now a coach preferably offensive. Dan Quinn feels like somebody
Speaker 1: that Pete Carroll recommended, right, And that's okay. Pete and
Speaker 1: Dan are close, and Pete and Dan are both really
Speaker 1: really good defensive minds. But I think this year when
Speaker 1: you watch Seattle, their defense slipped. Their offensive line was
Speaker 1: not as good as it should have been. And if
Speaker 1: I look at the Rams and I look at the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: this is a rebuilding year for the Rams. This was
Speaker 1: not a rebuilding year for the Seahawks. They were in
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and had another great draft. Can't
Speaker 1: let the Rams beat you twice. Rams can't make it
Speaker 1: and you can't miss. Can't be that way. You have
Speaker 1: the better roster, you had the momentum. So I think
Speaker 1: it's we just have to be honest. This division, the
Speaker 1: NFC West, is going to run through Shanahan and McVeigh
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. And if brock Perty's as good
Speaker 1: as I think he is, and I think he's good,
Speaker 1: and Matt Stafford's really good, and then Kyler Murray's terrific.
Speaker 1: Seattle's got upgrade at quarterback. Forget the NFC, forget the NFL,
Speaker 1: the division, McVeigh, Shanahan, Kyler Murray, Seattle has to upgrade
Speaker 1: at the most important position. Maybe maybe Pete didn't want to,
Speaker 1: but I would. I would put a Gino Smith draft
Speaker 1: pick package, maybe another player, and I'd move up five
Speaker 1: or six spots, seven or eight, nine or ten spots
Speaker 1: and go get a quarterback. That's what I would do.
Speaker 1: So I think Pete is going to coach again. I
Speaker 1: think he wants to coach again. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not an assistant, he's not an advisor. That's not
Speaker 1: who he is. But who knows. Bob Stoops retired at
Speaker 1: Oklahoma early. I didn't understand it. Chris Peterson wanted out.
Speaker 1: But if you listen to Pete Carroll today, he sounds
Speaker 1: like he wants to coach. I mean he was selling
Speaker 1: at the podium, he was selling my energy's great my optimism.
Speaker 1: Let's go ride some waves. I can't wait. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: That press conference was not only classy by Pete, but
Speaker 1: he was sending messages to all the gms and maybe
Speaker 1: all the athletic directors in college. He was sending messages.
Speaker 1: You go to the podium. Tom Brady used to do
Speaker 1: a radio hit every Monday in Boston radio. Was he
Speaker 1: doing it because he needed the money? He would send
Speaker 1: the message for the week, right, what's the message for
Speaker 1: the week for the organization? So Pete smartly steps to
Speaker 1: the podium and he wanted to sell energy. I'm not done,
Speaker 1: I feel great, I'm not tired. I got a bright future.
Speaker 1: I'm a young two year old guy. That was the messaging,
Speaker 1: and I think Pete deserves interviews. If I was the Chargers,
Speaker 1: I would hire Harbaugh first, Vrabel second, but I'd interview Pete.
Speaker 1: I don't want another assistant, but I'd interview Pete. Hell Michigan,
Speaker 1: Pete want to coach college again? I mean Lincoln Riley
Speaker 1: in two years once out. I mean, it's a seventy
Speaker 1: two year old today, is not a seventy two year
Speaker 1: old twenty five years ago. Pete exercises, Pete moves, Pete
Speaker 1: eats better. You know, it's just a different world. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a different world. I just turned
Speaker 1: sixty years old. I wait the same weight I waited
Speaker 1: in high school and college, lower body fat. I work
Speaker 1: out more, I eat much better. You know. I don't
Speaker 1: recover as quickly from a cocktail, but I feel pretty good.
Speaker 1: There you go, instant reaction. I'd go offense. Shane waldern,
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson and Seattle. That's not a rebuild roster. They're
Speaker 1: ready to win a lot of games now. Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: good luck, You've earned it. Speaking of seventy two years
Speaker 1: year old Nick Saban, Alabama head coach is officially retiring.
Speaker 1: It just happened a little bit surprised. Although years ago
Speaker 1: Nick Saban and I think he told his agent, Jimmy Sexton,
Speaker 1: he said, I don't want to be Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden.
Speaker 1: I don't want people dragging me out of here. I'm
Speaker 1: going to know. I am going to know when it's time,
Speaker 1: and I think he knows it's time. I'll also tell
Speaker 1: you this, I have a theory on why he's retiring now.
Speaker 1: And I think you're going to find that he has
Speaker 1: quietly and privately negotiated a huge TV contract with somebody,
Speaker 1: and you'll know that very quickly. You will know that
Speaker 1: very quickly. That's my guess. I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you why, but there could be a network that feels
Speaker 1: they have a need for a big, important personality, and
Speaker 1: I think he's going to go to the TV route
Speaker 1: and make lots and lots of money sign a very
Speaker 1: very big contract. So Nick is the greatest college football
Speaker 1: coach of all time. One of the things I appreciate
Speaker 1: about Nick Saban is his ability to adapt. Unlike a
Speaker 1: lot of defensive coaches. I mean it was Doug nuss
Speaker 1: Meyer and Jim mcelwaine and Lane Kiffin and Sark and
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien. He had to run through offensive coach after
Speaker 1: offensive coach and he didn't miss I mean, he really
Speaker 1: hit a lot of hires out of the park. And
Speaker 1: most defensive coaches they miss on those coordinators regularly. So
Speaker 1: Nick nailed it. Nick was willing to evolve. I think
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin deserves for that. Brought him in, and you
Speaker 1: know it would confront Nick like Nick, the world's changing.
Speaker 1: I can score in your defensive practice. I also think
Speaker 1: college football is a young man's game. Jay Wright, Skryzhevsky,
Speaker 1: Roy Williams Now Nick Saban. The transfer portal is a
Speaker 1: pain in the butt. It's year round recruiting. It's really
Speaker 1: ruined it for coaches of stature and age. It's just
Speaker 1: not any fun. You don't have a life. You get
Speaker 1: maybe two weeks off a year. NFL coaches get like
Speaker 1: five to six weeks off a year. So the college
Speaker 1: game is a young man's game. It's a Laane Kiffen world.
Speaker 1: It's a Sark world, Kaylin de Boor world. You get
Speaker 1: into the sixties and seventies, it's exhausting. And the transfer
Speaker 1: portal the nil. And I think probably a TV network
Speaker 1: walked up to Nick Saban and said we're gonna pay
Speaker 1: it ten million bucks a year. Get over here, That's
Speaker 1: my guess, and you'll hear about it fairly soon. I
Speaker 1: think Nick will be great on TV, but I think
Speaker 1: he's the greatest college football coach of all time. His
Speaker 1: ability to adapt, his ability to dominate the toughest conference
Speaker 1: in the SEC. BAMA will be fine personnel wise, but
Speaker 1: there'll be no more Nicks Bear Bryant, Nick Saban. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of average coaches in between, and it's a
Speaker 1: very very tough job. You know, whoever's going to line up,
Speaker 1: they'll there'll be a lot of people lining up. A
Speaker 1: lot of people think Dabbo Sweeney at Clemson is going
Speaker 1: to take the job. Dabbo would be my choice if
Speaker 1: he was willing to leave Clemson. Not sure he would
Speaker 1: terrific coach. It's not a rebuild, but I do think
Speaker 1: the transfer portal and the offer from a TV network
Speaker 1: are the deciding factors. You just don't know about the
Speaker 1: offer yet from the TV network. I can guarantee you
Speaker 1: this is not just Nick just didn't wake up and
Speaker 1: have a side of eggs and a piece of burnt
Speaker 1: toast this morning and said, you know, I just gonna
Speaker 1: see I just gotta retire. Nick's been thinking. Nick plans everything,
Speaker 1: Nick strategizes everything. Nick Saban been thinking about this for
Speaker 1: a while. And he sees young Lane Kiffen and here
Speaker 1: comes Sark and here comes Brent Venables, and he, you know,
Speaker 1: he starts looking around this conference and some of these
Speaker 1: young guys and Lane Kiffen and he's like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: I mean in my seventies. Do I want to be
Speaker 1: on the road recruiting constantly all this transfer portal nonsense
Speaker 1: where I have to recruit my own kids as much
Speaker 1: as high school kids. No thanks, I'm out. So congrats
Speaker 1: the nicksabe the greatest college football coach of all time.