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Speaker 1: Sean Salisbury will join us on loan from Houston. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about Deshaun Watson. That story ramped up quickly yesterday
Speaker 1: final hour. I see something on Pro Football Talk Mike
Speaker 1: Florio talk about Deshaun Watson starting to hear some rumors,
Speaker 1: whispers that he wants out. Next thing, I know, the
Speaker 1: whole afternoon was set for programming for all of these shows.
Speaker 1: I don't know how real it is, you know, Mike said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm sort of hearing from people that maybe you don't
Speaker 1: normally hear from to talk about Deshaun Watson. To me,
Speaker 1: this feels like this is an agent driven story. You
Speaker 1: might be upset. Are you really upset that you want out?
Speaker 1: And what's the likelihood that Houston would trade arguably one
Speaker 1: of the top five quarterbacks in the game. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Sean Salisbury about that. The Vikings wide receiver
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling he wants to be our postseason analyst here
Speaker 1: on the show. We'll give him an audition here see
Speaker 1: if he's ready to go for the big time here.
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Speaker 1: a lot of things that we discussed yesterday. Thanks for
Speaker 1: your patients. As we tried to navigate that in a
Speaker 1: professional manner, I did mention something yesterday that I had
Speaker 1: information on the national title game, but I held off
Speaker 1: the day before sending that out, obviously with what was
Speaker 1: going on in our nation's capital. And then brought up
Speaker 1: some of that information that I found out yesterday. And
Speaker 1: it has to do with is there going to be
Speaker 1: a national title game? As of right now at nine
Speaker 1: oh three Eastern, this game is still being played. But
Speaker 1: here's some things just to keep an eye on. It
Speaker 1: may be nothing, but then it may be something. COVID
Speaker 1: testing taking place today. What I was told yesterday, Ohio
Speaker 1: State may have upwards of twenty positive tests and a
Speaker 1: couple of their starters on the defensive line. Now, it
Speaker 1: could get better, but it could get worse. I was
Speaker 1: also told that Big Ten and Ohio State did reach
Speaker 1: out to the SEC to try to postpone this. They
Speaker 1: were told no. I was told that they reached out
Speaker 1: to Alabama a little more receptive to that possibility. This
Speaker 1: may not be anything. They may be playing the football game.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what I found out. Okay, So
Speaker 1: this was the possibility of Ohio State inching closer and
Speaker 1: closer towards the availability limit. That's the big issue here.
Speaker 1: I was also told this Alabama's basically saying, boo hoo, Hey,
Speaker 1: we played a full schedule, we played a game against
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. We've lost players were ready to play. You
Speaker 1: guys should be ready to play. Now, that's what my
Speaker 1: source set. Hey, we played, you guys haven't been playing.
Speaker 1: We took care of our business. You take care of
Speaker 1: your business now. Maybe there is no thing that happens
Speaker 1: with this. Maybe we get as close to a level
Speaker 1: playing field with the number of players available. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: no more positive test here with Ohio State, but that
Speaker 1: is what is going on right now. Also, I was
Speaker 1: told that, you know, they lose two starters on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, but it's not like they don't have thirteen
Speaker 1: or fourteen other defensive players to play on the line.
Speaker 1: So that's the information I got yesterday and last night.
Speaker 1: That goes along with what we talked about yesterday on
Speaker 1: the show. Yes, PAULI, I'm really curious who would make
Speaker 1: the final decision if things went poorly for a house
Speaker 1: state today. Would it be to the two conferences? The
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff Committee Mark Emert of the nca ESPN.
Speaker 1: Is it a collaborative effort or is there one person
Speaker 1: who says, like Roger Goodell would make a decision, that
Speaker 1: is our person like that. I don't know if there
Speaker 1: is when it comes to the National Title Game. The
Speaker 1: Playoff Committee, we don't know who they are. As far
Speaker 1: as you know, it's Bill Hancock, who is sort of
Speaker 1: the a singular voice there that we usually see. But
Speaker 1: you know they're they're advocating for a postponement, or they
Speaker 1: did advocate for a postponent I don't know if they
Speaker 1: still are. I think they Ohio State and Big Ten
Speaker 1: want to see what happens today with the COVID testing here.
Speaker 1: But you get the rapid testing and you're going to
Speaker 1: get results, and then we're going to find out just
Speaker 1: how fully assembled Ohio State will be. Plus Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: is going to play from what I'm told, the Alabama
Speaker 1: wide receiver will play in the Monday Night title Game.
Speaker 1: I found out a couple other things college football wise,
Speaker 1: Tennessee's being investigated, and this is not good for Jeremy Proot.
Speaker 1: Now we discussed this in the spring where all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we saw, wait, Tennessee got a four star
Speaker 1: record on they got a five start, they got another
Speaker 1: four star right, I go, oh, you can't make it
Speaker 1: this obvious. Can't make it this obvious. It's like Ole
Speaker 1: Miss Ole Miss did this a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: Robert kim DJ remember they got those guys and tread well.
Speaker 1: We went, oh, you gotta be careful too much, too
Speaker 1: soon at a program that normally doesn't get these players.
Speaker 1: So Jeremy Pruitt is probably will walk in a fine
Speaker 1: line here if he's going to be able to hold
Speaker 1: onto that job, from what I'm told, And I think
Speaker 1: Philip Fulmer, the athletic director, is going to come under
Speaker 1: fire here as well. But let me see what else
Speaker 1: do I have here at a busy day yesterday. Let's see.
Speaker 1: So it's it's for they're investigating for cause at Tennessee,
Speaker 1: which means show cause, which means they can fire Jeremy Pruitt.
Speaker 1: And I was also told that may cause Philip Fulmer
Speaker 1: his job as well. I was also told, well, I'm
Speaker 1: such I'm full of such great news. Yesterday I was
Speaker 1: also told Tennessee is on the clock being investigated. Next
Speaker 1: in the on deck circle Georgia. I was told Georgia
Speaker 1: got sloppy this year and recruiting and or maybe it's
Speaker 1: been a couple of years, but you've got the NCAA
Speaker 1: is looking at Georgia as well. Just something to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. That's everything that I'm telling you is
Speaker 1: what I was told yesterday by my source, in fact,
Speaker 1: two sources on the Ohio State stuff. But keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it. Maybe there's nothing here, maybe there's nothing
Speaker 1: at Tennessee, there's nothing at Georgia. I can only tell
Speaker 1: you what is happening in real time behind the scenes
Speaker 1: here and that Ohio State in the Big Ten did
Speaker 1: reach out to the SEC and Alabama and right now,
Speaker 1: as of right now, they're playing the national title game.
Speaker 1: Monday's long way away, three and a half days, and
Speaker 1: you have the COVID testing done this morning. Yes, Paul,
Speaker 1: it's fast at college football. I mean, I know NFL
Speaker 1: has a lot of storylines, but man, college football. That's
Speaker 1: the fact that it's Friday and we don't know if
Speaker 1: the National Title Game has been played. And you know,
Speaker 1: this could happened with the Super Bowl when there's downtime
Speaker 1: and travel, and you know what happened in the World Series.
Speaker 1: It's such a surreal years. You know, the World Series
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Speaker 1: all debating on the side the games, the wildcard games.
Speaker 1: We all made our predictions, but my question is, what
Speaker 1: is the most likely blowout of the weekend. What's the
Speaker 1: game where you don't have to watch because it's going
Speaker 1: to be lopsided, Bills over Colts, Steelers over Browns, Saints
Speaker 1: over Bears, or Bucks over the Washington football team. What's
Speaker 1: the one that you think is most likely to be lopsided.
Speaker 1: You don't have to make a prediction. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: which one can you see getting away? Yeah, but then
Speaker 1: I have to make a prediction. No, no, no, you're
Speaker 1: just you're not You're saying I'm not making my prediction.
Speaker 1: But I can see how this game could unplay where
Speaker 1: once this team gets rolling, they're going to really go
Speaker 1: at it. Well. It feels like Buffalo has an ability
Speaker 1: as of late. It also feels like I don't know
Speaker 1: what to expect out of the Bears going into New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Washington could make it ugly to keep it close. I
Speaker 1: just don't think they have enough offense for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: I think if that game was in Tampa Bay, then
Speaker 1: I would say that that would be the blowout there.
Speaker 1: They're not even sure who their quarterback is going to be.
Speaker 1: Imagine this, We're going into wild card weekend and you're
Speaker 1: not sure what's happening with the Rams. Although I do
Speaker 1: think Jared Golf is going to start against Seattle and
Speaker 1: with Washington, I'm not quite sure if Alex Smith is
Speaker 1: going to be able to play. Yeah, Paully. The Bears
Speaker 1: early in the season took the Saints to overtime, lost
Speaker 1: by three, with Nick Foles at the helm and Drew
Speaker 1: Brees was healthy new Yeah. Uh, let's see. The Athletic
Speaker 1: is reporting Michigan and Jim Harball close to finalizing a
Speaker 1: five year deal expected to be four million dollars bass salary.
Speaker 1: With incentives, he could get back to the eight million
Speaker 1: dollars buyout is expected to be low. Harball hasn't signed,
Speaker 1: is expected too soon. Well, there you go, Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Things are looking up. There, there's some there's some good
Speaker 1: news for you. I'll take a couple of negative COVID
Speaker 1: test for that. If I'm a Buckeye fan, turn a while.
Speaker 1: But we got some good news for Ohio State fans
Speaker 1: can find another d N eighteen five star guys backing
Speaker 1: them up. A little bit of sun just burst through
Speaker 1: those clouds. Yep, that's what I do. It brings I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew we had some sunshine on the way. Do
Speaker 1: you like that? Jim Harball hears from some of the
Speaker 1: stories that he volunteerily, took a pay cut and then
Speaker 1: sent that's more in. He could still make his money,
Speaker 1: but it's much more incentive based than flat salary. I
Speaker 1: think I respect that. Well. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: had a choice, right well, he could not sign it.
Speaker 1: And just go go away. Yeah, but then you make
Speaker 1: zero dollars. Well, he could get another job. But if
Speaker 1: you want to stay there, the competitor in you and
Speaker 1: that's your alma mater. Um okay, I mean he should
Speaker 1: take a pay cut, earn your incentives. Yeah, yees, McLean.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the last couple of Michigan coaches. It
Speaker 1: was rich Rod and Brady Hope. Are you sure Michigan
Speaker 1: had its better options than Harbor at this point? Do they?
Speaker 1: Is that a team that gets like the urban Myer
Speaker 1: type said, well, what happens is you want to hire
Speaker 1: a Michigan man. Yeah, that's where you get in trouble.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a Michigan man here. Brady Hope is
Speaker 1: not a head coach. Rich Rod had his moment, and
Speaker 1: I think of offensively, they thought they were going to
Speaker 1: be creative. They were gonna, you know, do some real
Speaker 1: damage there and that didn't work out either. But when
Speaker 1: you go we gotta get a Michigan man, we gotta Okay,
Speaker 1: didn't they do that with? Uh? Remember when Bill Freeder?
Speaker 1: Bill Freeder was taken the job. Was that right during
Speaker 1: the tournament? And then he was gonna go to Arizona State,
Speaker 1: and then Steve Fisher got the job. They're like, we
Speaker 1: won a Michigan Yeah, and they won the national title too,
Speaker 1: But yeah, Michigan, you know with bo Shem Beckler, and
Speaker 1: you gotta have a Michigan guy in there. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but at least har I had a Super Bowl under
Speaker 1: his belloty Compared to Brady Hoke, he's Fitz Lombardi. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not still one of our great great I
Speaker 1: think I did. I ask about urban Meyer with that
Speaker 1: quote from Freddy You asked him about how do you
Speaker 1: feel about the Buckeyes hiring urban Meyer's mate Seton? Do
Speaker 1: you have the whole exchange? You know? I mean sorry,
Speaker 1: I thought I had the question it, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: like I see Brady sounds like a card toon, Like
Speaker 1: he's a character, you know, in a movie or something
Speaker 1: like Chris Farley could have played Brady Hope. Hey, Brady,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about playing urban Meyer in Ohio State?
Speaker 1: Remember the big story Brady Hoop was he was on
Speaker 1: the sidelines with no headset. He's just hanging out watching
Speaker 1: the game. What a gag? Can't they give you a headset?
Speaker 1: But it's not hooked up to anything. Well, didn't you
Speaker 1: ask him? They had like a big play and you
Speaker 1: asked him, like, what was the call there on that?
Speaker 1: He's like, well, you know what, I don't know. They
Speaker 1: got around to being like, I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't call this place. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wasn't even wearing a headset. They don't clue me in
Speaker 1: on anything. He's screaming, come on, guys and the sidelines.
Speaker 1: That's all I think. That's all he does. God, that
Speaker 1: was a good time. Come on, we're going out there
Speaker 1: and win. When when when not? Good? Halftime speech is awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happened during the game. Yeah, Well
Speaker 1: it is a wild Card weekend, putting the wild into
Speaker 1: wild Card weekend, and you got playoff expansion. So first
Speaker 1: year that we've had twelve teams playing opening weekend, and
Speaker 1: we obviously have the COVID issues. Then you have the injuries,
Speaker 1: significant ones. The Browns are playing without their head coach,
Speaker 1: the Rams and Washington football team uncertainty at their quarterbacking position.
Speaker 1: Then you got guys who were going to play but
Speaker 1: won't be one hundred percent. Jamal Adams in Seattle, Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas in New Orleans, Mike Evans with the Buccaneers. It
Speaker 1: feels like every team is dealing with something. And the
Speaker 1: other key difference this year is the lack of crowds.
Speaker 1: Because you fight all year, you want to have that
Speaker 1: home field advantage. You don't really have that home field advantage.
Speaker 1: Good luck for all of you out there who love
Speaker 1: to wager on these games, because you got to factor
Speaker 1: in a lot of things. Normally you'd go, Seattle's playing
Speaker 1: at home in the playoffs and they're only favored by
Speaker 1: three and a half. Load up on Seattle, right, That
Speaker 1: just feels like it's last possession kind of game. It's
Speaker 1: just no matter. It's never a clean game with Seattle.
Speaker 1: Where you go and they won twenty eight to twenty one,
Speaker 1: it's always nineteen to nine or something, and they're losing,
Speaker 1: and then we go, ah, here comes Russ. He's got
Speaker 1: to make some magic app in here. And then Washington
Speaker 1: talented defense fund defense. But this is the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet against Tom Brady. They should win this game.
Speaker 1: But it's like New Orleans in Chicago is strangely intriguing
Speaker 1: for me, just because they played already true. Whisky is
Speaker 1: playing good. Good. They seem to play well against good
Speaker 1: teams in New Orleans. I don't know what I have
Speaker 1: in Drew Brees Michael Thomas defense is good. I don't
Speaker 1: have that home advantage. So somebody who's going to be
Speaker 1: shocked on Monday morning, we're gonna go. Can you believe
Speaker 1: that happened? They'll be at least one of those games.
Speaker 1: It feels like all right. Phone calls are always welcome.
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Speaker 1: pull question before we take a break. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put up most likely blowout, and I'm gonna bet the
Speaker 1: room that the Bills are that team because Philip rivers
Speaker 1: cold Weather. Oh boy, yeah, but you're you're you're leading
Speaker 1: the witness. I'm leading the witness. Well, nobody listens to me.
Speaker 1: They only listen to what you say. Okay, but actually
Speaker 1: the early leader. A lot of people have Bear Saints
Speaker 1: as a potential blot too, but I agree with you,
Speaker 1: this is tricky. Yeah. It's one of those where and
Speaker 1: I always go back when I used to gamble, and
Speaker 1: you'd go, oh, that's so obvious. And when it's obvious,
Speaker 1: I always get nervous about it because you know they're
Speaker 1: gonna blow him out. They're just times when you go,
Speaker 1: how did that happen? It's like when the Jets beat
Speaker 1: the Rams and you go, how did that happen? Well,
Speaker 1: how did that happen? Minnesota beating Green Bay? How did
Speaker 1: that happen? Yeah, mclub. If you're a betting or an analyst,
Speaker 1: how do you know what presentage Jamal Adams is with
Speaker 1: his shoulder and like all the code and Kimara can't practice,
Speaker 1: I know, it feels really hard to make a smart pick. Well,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill coming back from a concussion, Like, I'm just
Speaker 1: there's there's uncertainty there. That's like if you're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out if the Browns can beat the Steelers without
Speaker 1: their head coach and starting offensive guard, good luck with that,
Speaker 1: And then trying to figure out if Ben Roethlisberger can
Speaker 1: play at a high level anymore. He hasn't had a
Speaker 1: good game. I think he's had a half of a
Speaker 1: game since Thanksgiving. We haven't really seen much out of Ben.
Speaker 1: Defense isn't what it once was. They don't run the football.
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw the ball forty five times here. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Sean Salisbury about the Deshaun Watson situation here,
Speaker 1: because boy did that get interesting yesterday. In a hurry,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Sean and we'll touch on a couple
Speaker 1: other topics as well, coming up on twenty after the hour.
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Speaker 1: I was just looking at the numbers most playoff wins
Speaker 1: for a quarterback since nineteen fifty John Always fourteen, Terry
Speaker 1: Bradshaw fourteen, Peyton Manning fourteen, Joe Montena sixteen, Tom Brady thirty.
Speaker 1: I also saw this yesterday and this was Albert Brier,
Speaker 1: who has been a frequent guest on the show. He
Speaker 1: said that Deshaun Watson advocated for the Chiefs offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Eric Biennemy. Patrick Mahomes even called Watson and said, I
Speaker 1: want to put in a strong word for Eric B enemy.
Speaker 1: The Texans didn't even put in for a request to
Speaker 1: interview Eric B Enemy. And this started yesterday at around
Speaker 1: eleven twenty eleven o'clock somewhere in there, and Mike Florio said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm hearing a little too much here, and
Speaker 1: he put it up on Pro Football Talk about Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is unhappy and May asked to be traded. So
Speaker 1: we bring in Sean Salisbury. Sean who is the morning
Speaker 1: host of the Sean Salisbury Show Sports Talk seven ninety
Speaker 1: in Houston, former NFL quarterback. How big did this get
Speaker 1: in Houston there? Sean? First off, Dan, was I not
Speaker 1: in that playoff? Let me, I've got thirty less than Brady.
Speaker 1: You you never won a playoff game. I put it
Speaker 1: as a starter. Note the Cup. I won the Cup,
Speaker 1: the Great Cup, the Great Cup. There you go. They
Speaker 1: playoff games, but I didn't win one. As a starter,
Speaker 1: I got us there, but I didn't win one. Let's
Speaker 1: just put it that way. Ever won a Great Cup?
Speaker 1: You know what? That's a one heck of a point.
Speaker 1: So who's better me or Brady? That's what you gotta ask.
Speaker 1: You are better in Canada is Yeah, I've got I've
Speaker 1: got far more in the north of the boarder than
Speaker 1: Brady does. Dan, you asked me about Watson. First of all,
Speaker 1: my head's gonna explode over this. Okay, in a Houston
Speaker 1: season when there wasn't much going on in any of
Speaker 1: the sports, we've got hardened wants out. The Astros had
Speaker 1: to go through what they went through, uh and self
Speaker 1: inflicted and now the best, the second best building franchise
Speaker 1: player in this league. We're talking about being unhappy now
Speaker 1: and cal McNair promised him that he'd at least have
Speaker 1: some input. I get his frustration. If you're gonna say something,
Speaker 1: live by it. If not, then don't talk to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Just let him do his thing. Deshaun's not getting traded.
Speaker 1: Golf got two ones, two twos, and two threes, Daniel,
Speaker 1: this is herschel Walker Hall. Because if I took Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson and stuck him in Kansas City, and I think
Speaker 1: Mahomes is the best in the league, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: building franchise for the next seven to ten years that
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs would still be the number one
Speaker 1: seed in fourteen and two or thirteen and three if
Speaker 1: Watson was there, if Mahomes was in Houston, the Texans
Speaker 1: would still be four and twelve. So I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you that the distance between one and two is closer
Speaker 1: than the distance between the second and third best franchise
Speaker 1: builder in this league. You cannot trade Deshaun Watson. I
Speaker 1: know he should be frustrated, the ownership is dysfunctional. He's
Speaker 1: eric the enemy should get an interview. But you can't
Speaker 1: trade him because unless you want to give me eleven
Speaker 1: players or three ones, two twos, a starter and another starter,
Speaker 1: I'm not even answering your damn phone call. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if Watson wants out, well, Dan, he's under contract for
Speaker 1: what five years. He's a forty million dollars a year
Speaker 1: player with his DNA and his character. Okay, let's say
Speaker 1: it's August and they haven't traded him. That's just for fun.
Speaker 1: Say that you think he's not showing Name me a
Speaker 1: quarterback who's in his mid twenties. In the history of
Speaker 1: this game, the number one we've even thought about trading
Speaker 1: as an elite franchise quarterback or who's held out of
Speaker 1: camp for when you're making that money. You can find
Speaker 1: me one. It's it's not gonna happen. But which management
Speaker 1: dude to appease him? Sean, how about just simply call
Speaker 1: him up. We'll give you him put in. Oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, we'll interview Eric the Enemy. It doesn't cost
Speaker 1: that much to interview a guy who, by all standards,
Speaker 1: is not only prepared, is ringing endorsements from Andy, from
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes and from Deshaun Watson and around like other
Speaker 1: people are interviewing Eric the Enemy. What's it take? Dan?
Speaker 1: Put him on a corporate plane or get on zoom
Speaker 1: and find out what you need to know for two hours.
Speaker 1: I don't think the GM Nick Cassario has anything to
Speaker 1: do with Deshaun's frustration. I think it's the dysfunction of
Speaker 1: the constant one thing do another. Deshaun should be frustrated,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be they paid him, so he got paid.
Speaker 1: Put some players around him, which is gonna be Nick
Speaker 1: Cassario's job. But Dan, number just bring in a guy
Speaker 1: at least interview the guy. You don't have to let
Speaker 1: Deshaun hire the guy. But Deshaun should have some input,
Speaker 1: shouldn't he all your great place should have some input.
Speaker 1: I don't think Ben Roethlisberger has input. I don't think
Speaker 1: Drew Brees has input. Brady didn't have in Okay, if
Speaker 1: they were gonna trade Michael Thomas, you don't think that
Speaker 1: Sean Payton would have the respect or if they were
Speaker 1: going to trade DK metcalf in Seattle. You don't think
Speaker 1: I didn't say make the decision. You don't think at
Speaker 1: least the text mess saying we're considering doing this. What
Speaker 1: do you think? Do you? Dan? I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, and this honest to god truth.
Speaker 1: When I was in San Diego and I'm no player,
Speaker 1: there's about eight of us that our general manager in
Speaker 1: San Diego, and Bobby Ross was on his way out
Speaker 1: called us in to ask what we thought about the
Speaker 1: possible new replacement. A guys who'd been in the league
Speaker 1: a while and I now listen, I ain't I wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly your starter for ten years called us in and
Speaker 1: wanted and Bobby Bethard and we didn't make the decision.
Speaker 1: He just wanted some input for guys that were there
Speaker 1: because he loved Bobby Ross and we did so input,
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't you And if you're not given input?
Speaker 1: I don't believe in letting them make a decision Brady Manning, Watson, Wilson,
Speaker 1: But I do. Why wouldn't I have Lebron James at
Speaker 1: least give me some insight? Why wouldn't I let just
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson give me insight? I just signed him for
Speaker 1: two hundred or one hundred and seventy five million bucks
Speaker 1: and then go make your decision? And what does it
Speaker 1: cost to interview a guy to appease the guy who,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, is a top three player at his position
Speaker 1: in this league. I wouldn't have given him that, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to consult with you, promise initially. Amen, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But if you give it to him, then you can't go, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you be consulted on certain things, but
Speaker 1: not this. Then I have a problem with that. Amen.
Speaker 1: What I said it out earlier today, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: if you're the just don't say anything, be the owner.
Speaker 1: Let the GM could Dan. I've in teams that I'll
Speaker 1: bet you there's players across this league that have never
Speaker 1: shaken hands with the owner of their franchise now, meaning
Speaker 1: you know the owners kind of sometimes you don't even
Speaker 1: see them in the building for months or two years.
Speaker 1: So if you're going to go to your franchise player
Speaker 1: and promise him, live up to the promise, because here's
Speaker 1: a problem when you lie to people or you go
Speaker 1: back on promises like this committee, like the corn ferry,
Speaker 1: like promise in your quarterback. When it happens once you
Speaker 1: say okay, happens twice, you wonder happens three times. It's
Speaker 1: a trend. Okay, everybody makes a mistakes. So this has
Speaker 1: become a trend with the dysfunction that's cal McNair and
Speaker 1: the Texans. If you're a head coach now and you're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: I got the Chargers and Herbert, I got a great
Speaker 1: player in Watson, but the franchise dysfunction. Why would I
Speaker 1: go there to be a part of this? And it
Speaker 1: ain't going anywhere right now? And cal McNair has created
Speaker 1: this with the Shawn Watson. We don't need number four unhappy.
Speaker 1: But I agree with you. I would have never tried
Speaker 1: to consult. But if a little input doesn't hurt anybody,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have to make the decision to Shaun
Speaker 1: wants just to appease him after you promised him by
Speaker 1: at least giving him a ten minute talking to Well,
Speaker 1: I had Mike Florio on and he had the initial report,
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, probably the reason why they
Speaker 1: didn't interview b enemy is they didn't want to interview
Speaker 1: him and then not hire him as opposed to we're
Speaker 1: just not interviewing him. Whatever the logic is on that.
Speaker 1: That's what Florio had to say. We're talking to Sean Salisbury,
Speaker 1: morning host of the Sean Salisbury Show Sports Talk seven
Speaker 1: ninety in Houston. The team most likely to be upset
Speaker 1: this weekend is the team that I listen. The defense
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis can play against anybody. The problem I'm concerned about.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to get an upset this weekend. Dan.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Rams Seahawks game, maybe that's not much of
Speaker 1: an upset, right exactly, So you may get an upset
Speaker 1: their points spread wise, but listen, you gotta after in quarterback.
Speaker 1: My concern about the Indianapolis Colts is can if it's
Speaker 1: inclement weather and the winds blowing and you take him
Speaker 1: off his mark and he's not in rhythm thrown on time,
Speaker 1: I don't think Philip Rivers can keep it up. But
Speaker 1: if you let him get the ball out of his
Speaker 1: hand and they run it like they did last week
Speaker 1: and keep Josh Allen from explosion, you can move the
Speaker 1: ball on Buffalo's defense a little bit. I still don't
Speaker 1: think it's going to happen. Everything would have to go
Speaker 1: perfect offensively for the Colts. I think Buffalo is a
Speaker 1: real threat to Kansas City. And here's what's ironic about
Speaker 1: the Saints game is that we always say the Saints often,
Speaker 1: Saints often Saints offense. If the Saints are getting to February,
Speaker 1: I believe it's because of defense now, and that one
Speaker 1: Dan is the key is don't let Drew Brees get
Speaker 1: all that rhythm underneath and make him push the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. And I am a bit concerned because
Speaker 1: of the inconsistency. I picked Tampa to go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in August. I'm not getting off that, although
Speaker 1: I take green Bay now. Is that if you're the
Speaker 1: Washington football team and you can get inside pressure, We've
Speaker 1: seen some really great games and they he's playing well now.
Speaker 1: From Tom and the bit and the Buccaneers, but Dan,
Speaker 1: they've also had some conkers that are so ugly that
Speaker 1: if you can hit them early and force a few
Speaker 1: short field turnovers. If this game's in the low twenties
Speaker 1: or teams, the Washington football Team's gonna win. If this
Speaker 1: game creeps into the mid twenties or upper twenties, then
Speaker 1: and I expect it to, then Tampa's going to win
Speaker 1: the game. So probably the Rams game. But I think
Speaker 1: the favorites in these and I don't usually like favorites
Speaker 1: all the way across the board. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a favorite weekend, and I think the favorites
Speaker 1: are usually going to walk away with this one. You know,
Speaker 1: it may sound strange, but if Kevin Stefanski was going
Speaker 1: to be able to coach in this game, I would
Speaker 1: lean towards the Browns. Yeah, I agree, because I don't
Speaker 1: know what I have in Pittsburgh. Ben has not played
Speaker 1: well in the last month and a half. They got
Speaker 1: receivers who drop passes. They're not formidable in the running game,
Speaker 1: the defense is not as formidable as it once was,
Speaker 1: and it feels like the Browns at least know who
Speaker 1: they are. They may not be great but they know
Speaker 1: who they are and that's part of the battle in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They got their identity finally, Dan, after a
Speaker 1: lot of years. And you know what, I think you
Speaker 1: make that's probably the best one. Here's why. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned Pittsburgh's really not making those big chunk play now.
Speaker 1: They did in the second half, you know, in their
Speaker 1: in their last game, the game fifteen. But you know what, Dan,
Speaker 1: and I actually didn't even look at Cleveland as the underdog,
Speaker 1: so you're probably right. I actually think Cleveland can beat Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: I do because if you don't, you know, with the
Speaker 1: lack of with some injuries on the defensive side, and
Speaker 1: I understand Stefansky not being there at Van Peltz got
Speaker 1: a heavy job ahead of him. But you know how
Speaker 1: that is. Dan. Sometimes it's like, well, let's give Kevin
Speaker 1: next week, so let's reach deep inside now, not that
Speaker 1: that should be the reason, but if you run the
Speaker 1: ball and control it and hit Ben, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: and I should have looked at that as probably the
Speaker 1: number one, but I didn't because I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think that Cleveland right now that they're better
Speaker 1: than Pittsburgh. I do. Mayfield got to play and be accurate.
Speaker 1: But the way they run the football and they could
Speaker 1: after Ben and prevent that big play. I don't disagree
Speaker 1: with you one bit. I actually think Pittsburgh if I had,
Speaker 1: if I had to bet money on this game, I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure I wouldn't take Cleveland myself. So in
Speaker 1: the point spread side, it's an upset Without Stefanski, I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna rise. I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a really, really, really late fourth quarter football game. I've
Speaker 1: had people on recently and I've asked them the following question,
Speaker 1: I'll give you Trevor Lawrence or Justin Herbert. Everybody has
Speaker 1: said Justin Herbert. I've talked to a couple of people
Speaker 1: that I said, I asked the question Dan, people that
Speaker 1: are either in the know or study this stuff that
Speaker 1: we do, and I said, of all the current players
Speaker 1: in the league and the draft that's coming out in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, would Trevor Lawrence where would he fit
Speaker 1: in and building a franchise? And not one of them
Speaker 1: is taken him outside the top five of the guys
Speaker 1: I've talked to. Now, for me, I understand Herbert. These
Speaker 1: same guys that are saying that now we're probably eight
Speaker 1: months ago or a round draft, Hire saying I don't know,
Speaker 1: we all were. Let's face facts we missed on because
Speaker 1: he didn't buy into I don't like people missed on
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He's an accurate. Yeah, he's completing around seventy percent,
Speaker 1: and as an MVP candidate, I guess today I would.
Speaker 1: But if you told me right now, Dan, you got
Speaker 1: to build a franchise. And I love Herbert, but if
Speaker 1: you I think Lawrence is different, I would take Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence over Herbert. It's easy to say Herbert now because
Speaker 1: we've seen the result, but I would. I would still
Speaker 1: have to take Lawrence because I think when all is
Speaker 1: said and done, that ceiling, I think he can break
Speaker 1: a bigger hole in the ceiling than Herbert. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this is one of the great misses
Speaker 1: by a lot of us. I didn't think Herbert would
Speaker 1: be this good, this fast. And that's the number one
Speaker 1: job right now, Dan, because of the personnel around Herbert
Speaker 1: Watson makes it an attractive job. The dysfunction makes you
Speaker 1: that an unattractive job. But the charger's jobs the number
Speaker 1: one job out there right now. Because of that his brilliance.
Speaker 1: Early in his career, herban Meyer is interviewing with Jacksonville
Speaker 1: take this job. Well, there's I got There's a kid
Speaker 1: in Clemson who's pretty good. Urban's not stupid, dead you.
Speaker 1: I both know that he wouldn't take the job if if,
Speaker 1: if Gardner Minshew was the quarterback and they weren't getting
Speaker 1: And I don't mean this disrespect him, Menshew, but he's
Speaker 1: got that to build on. And I got about ten
Speaker 1: million reasons why I wouldn't let him out of the building.
Speaker 1: But they had the number two pick, not the number
Speaker 1: one pick. Sean does Urban take that job? I think
Speaker 1: Urban's ego and I mean this affectionately, would think that
Speaker 1: he can make whoever it is, Zach Wilson or Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: that he that he could turn them into that guy.
Speaker 1: I believe he thinks that. Now. I know people in
Speaker 1: college in NFL, but Dan Jacksonville's got to do something different,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't let him outside the building today. He's
Speaker 1: proven leadership. He's won everywhere but the NFL. So until
Speaker 1: he proves to me he can't, I'm telling you he's
Speaker 1: the number one coaching candidate on the planet. That's not coaching.
Speaker 1: What college, NFL, high school, the CFL. I don't care.
Speaker 1: If you're Jacksonville plus, people will go to the stands.
Speaker 1: You got Trevor Lawrence, I wouldn't let him out of
Speaker 1: the building. I'd pay him six seven years and I'd
Speaker 1: give him ten million bucks and say, let's see what
Speaker 1: we got. We need a big hit, and Urban Meyer's
Speaker 1: the biggest hit on the coaching circuit right now. I
Speaker 1: just don't think he'll last. I don't think he'll last
Speaker 1: more than four years. Five years? Will that be enough
Speaker 1: Dan to get them back in the hunt? Well, it's
Speaker 1: going to take two years, you would think, right right,
Speaker 1: at least you know two years, because you know the
Speaker 1: colts are good. Like if you just look at the
Speaker 1: the AFC South Tennessee is good. So you're you're competing
Speaker 1: in your own division. You you're not even the Texans
Speaker 1: right now, right right? So I think just he's never lost,
Speaker 1: and you know what that is like guys who come
Speaker 1: out of college and they're like I lost one or
Speaker 1: two games, and all of a sudden, you lose fourteen
Speaker 1: or fifteen. I talked to Troy Aikman about it. It It
Speaker 1: was like, Man I took it home with me every day.
Speaker 1: It was like something you wear. I couldn't get get
Speaker 1: rid of it. Well, think about this, Dan, and I
Speaker 1: talked to Dick for meal about that same thing. He said,
Speaker 1: I should have enjoyed the wins as much as I
Speaker 1: suffered from the losses. Right, but they don't. And Urban, Right,
Speaker 1: you'll lose four games at a c at a season
Speaker 1: in Urbans like I ain't lost four games in fourteen years, dude,
Speaker 1: when I was at Bowling Green. So Dan, well, let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. Let's let's say sc job came open.
Speaker 1: Would Urban have them or Texas? If you would have
Speaker 1: taken instead of Sark Would they be in the National
Speaker 1: title Final four in two years? Texas? No, Southern Cal No.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that because Alabama and Clemson and Ohio
Speaker 1: State have such a head start on everybody. And Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: If Jacksonville gets if Meyers signs with them and Lawrence
Speaker 1: is the call and Urban stays around six years, will
Speaker 1: they win the division more than once while he's there.
Speaker 1: I don't think you'll stay six years, but I would
Speaker 1: say that they would win that. I could see them
Speaker 1: winning a division. I could. I'm not letting him out
Speaker 1: of the building. But I'm with you. It's an eight
Speaker 1: year contract e eight. Stay at all eight years of fritze.
Speaker 1: I mean, book Sean Salisbury for six years down the road.
Speaker 1: The next time we'll have him on will be six years,
Speaker 1: and then we'll bring up Urban Meyer and Jackson. Hey,
Speaker 1: guess what, you're the only guys that want to book
Speaker 1: be ahead of time. Have a good weekend. Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 1: It's always happy to your Dan. Appreciate your budding. Sean
Speaker 1: Salisbury a morning host of The Sean Salisbury Show and
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Speaker 1: Interesting story going on, asked to do with Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1: This from the New York Post. Kyrie Irving missed the
Speaker 1: Nets game last night, a win over the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: and the team listed his absence as for personal reasons.
Speaker 1: Shortly before tip off, The nets head coach Steve Nash
Speaker 1: said he had no clue what those reasons were, nor
Speaker 1: did he know afterwards. Amid reports Kyrie Irving was upset
Speaker 1: over Wednesday's events in Washington, and another report from The
Speaker 1: Heavy citing a source close to Irving saying the point
Speaker 1: guard's reasoning for not playing was I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to play. While Steve Nash admitted after the game that
Speaker 1: he still hadn't communicated directly with Kyrie Irving, he did
Speaker 1: say he wouldn't characterize the situation that way. Nash is
Speaker 1: quoted as saying, I haven't spoke to him yet. I
Speaker 1: can't really comment because I haven't spoken to him, and
Speaker 1: it's personal reasons, so it has to come from Kyrie.
Speaker 1: But I don't believe that to be the case. We're
Speaker 1: two weeks into this season, and you know the danger
Speaker 1: is when you speculate here because you don't know. It
Speaker 1: could be something that's really serious personal somebody close to him,
Speaker 1: could be health related. But Steve Nang says, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I sent him a message. I just found out, so
Speaker 1: I sent him a message in the last half hour.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard back yet. Obviously thinking about him. Hope
Speaker 1: Paul as well. And yes, it's a private matter. Let's
Speaker 1: see if there's anything else in here. Karris LeVert, who
Speaker 1: was the sixth man on the team, said he texted
Speaker 1: us before the game, but that's a personal issue for him.
Speaker 1: We support him, he's our brother. Kyrie did communicate with
Speaker 1: somebody in the organization before the game and explained his circumstances.
Speaker 1: Also texted his teammates beforehand, letting them know that he
Speaker 1: was fine, but Kyrie was not there. KD is in
Speaker 1: COVID quarantine, and they end up blowing out the so
Speaker 1: called best team in the NBA, the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: last night, Mark in California. Hi, Mark, what's on your
Speaker 1: mind today? You know again, I'd like to meet He
Speaker 1: revisit the urban Meyer subject. Okay. You know one thing
Speaker 1: that it seems like on sports talk has been sidelined
Speaker 1: is urban Meyer's health. Yeah. You know, going back to
Speaker 1: I think Miami he had some health issues and he
Speaker 1: had to step away and Ohio State, I'm an Ohio
Speaker 1: State fan, had health issues. You say what, Dan, You
Speaker 1: say what? No, I've been saying it. That's why he
Speaker 1: won't last I would not hire urban Meyer. He's you know,
Speaker 1: I was glad when he stepped down because if he
Speaker 1: truly has health issues, coaching is not something that you go, boy,
Speaker 1: that's going to help my health. And this three times
Speaker 1: he stepped down from jobs health related. Yeah. See, that's
Speaker 1: I think he just used the key phrase there, if
Speaker 1: he truly has health reasons issues. Yeah, if he does,
Speaker 1: if he truly yeah, uh, you know, maybe there was
Speaker 1: a parting at Ohio State this last time around, but
Speaker 1: he has gone through health issues and seem to be
Speaker 1: enjoying Fox Sports. They're big, you know, noon kickoff pregame show.
Speaker 1: But no, I would not hire urban Meyer if this
Speaker 1: was a college, if this was Texas or USC, I'd
Speaker 1: hire urban Meyer. He's proven that the NFL, as long
Speaker 1: as you have a great GM in there and a
Speaker 1: capologist there. It's nice to have Trevor Lawrence, but that's
Speaker 1: that you're starting there, and then how long will it
Speaker 1: take for you to build? And those losses where they
Speaker 1: you know, these coaches wear those losses on their face
Speaker 1: because a lot of these guys are successful and then
Speaker 1: they go to a bad team. They're not used to losing.
Speaker 1: Not that anybody gets used to it, but at least
Speaker 1: you know what that feeling is. Like. Urban Meyer doesn't lose.
Speaker 1: He's gonna lose ten eleven games a year for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, you feel like, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's going to be around for five years. That's
Speaker 1: why I said Ryan Day would make more sense for Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: The Ohio State head coach than urban Meyer. People said,
Speaker 1: you're crazy. Yeah, I am crazy. But Ryan Day is younger,
Speaker 1: he's been in the NFL, and I think that's a
Speaker 1: guy who would be in there for the long haul.
Speaker 1: And I think he would be great for the development
Speaker 1: of Trevor Lawrence. But if you're Jacksonville, get a couple
Speaker 1: of nice shining objects with Trevor Lawrence and Urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: I understand it. You suddenly become relevant. One hour in
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