WEBVTT - Colin Cowherd Podcast Prime Cuts - March Madness, 49ers Hit the “Reset” Button, Chargers Win The AFC West? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:12.120 The volume. All right, it's time for our weekly hour 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.600 with John Middlecoff, who will eventually take some time off. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.040 He got married last week. And okay, let's do some NFL. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.600 You know, I had said this last year. I thought 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.920 the Niners were going to start regressing. I thought they 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.360 should have started the rebuild last year. They did it. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.800 This year. They let Debo and Hufunga and Green Lawn 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.280 Shavarious Ward go. They have twelve draft picks, but it's 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.760 a week draft, so let's say you hit on six 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.880 year draft picks. I thought last year was the first 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.960 year in the last several. I just didn't think their 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.200 defense was intimidating. I thought when Bosa was off the field, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.000 it was weak. I thought you could kind of manipulate it. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.159 I said this, I think Darnold and the Seahawks have 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.160 a chance to be really interesting. Where are you on 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.600 the Niners right now? A lot of draft picks. I mean, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.120 they didn't want to let Houfunk Gun Green Law Goals 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.720 are excellent instinctive players. I mean, now you're getting to 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.880 a point now where you're really crossing your fingers with 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.080 Christian McCaffrey and Trent Williams. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.160 Big time. I think every move in a vacuum is 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.120 easy to justify, it's not. I mean green Law was 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.199 coming off of torn achilles, came back for a half, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.760 he looked like Fred Warner junior, and then couldn't play 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.720 the rest of the season. Who funk got acl multiple 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.520 injuries to it, like all the all the moves in 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.039 a vacuum. Oh, let him go. You're not gonna pay 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.720 that much for banks trade this backup running back. He 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.800 was gonna make five million dollars on the totality, though, 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.760 You go, that's losing a lot of guys, like who 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.160 are going to be your backups? I think they would 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.240 have somewhat started last year. It's much more difficult, though, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.160 when you have a team coming off being up late 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.000 in the Super Bowl against the current dynasty. So you go, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.120 we are right there. All these guys are championship level players. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.800 I think they're big mistake in where they got really 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.520 rattled for a long period of time. The Niners, like 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.920 fifteen twenty years ago, they could extend the Patrick Willis's, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.520 the Frank Ors, the Vernon Davis's relatively cheap and they 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.880 were great at it. Because Parrague Marate their Mundy guy 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.200 is elite. He's like Howie Roseman, but he's not a GM. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.800 He just like runs the York's money and he runs 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.200 their international soccer team well as the Caps exploded players. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.800 I don't want to say it's the NBA, but they 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.040 do have a lot more juice. When Jamar Chase says 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.679 I'm not playing for anything less than thirty eight to 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.280 forty million dollars, like he's not really bullshit, Like he's 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.440 not taking a discount. The top guys have some juice, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.160 but now the middle tier guys, like they would have 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.400 laughed at Brandon Auke ten years ago and they would 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.000 have won, but they were kind of in no man's land, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.280 and their coach, you know, who has a lot of juice, 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.640 didn't want to get rid of their best receiver, and 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.960 he took advantage of him, and that really rattled them 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.360 because they immediately regretted it. If they could do that 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.080 all over again, they would have traded him before the 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.280 draft instead. Now they're trying to trade him. He's got 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.079 an ACL and like he's untradeable for anything of value, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:52.840 and they're kind of in a weird spot. But the 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.960 elephant in the room is the quarterback. And listen, Mike 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.720 Silver has known the Shanahan family for thirty plus years 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.079 and he's been reporting like they are telling everyone, take 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.120 a deep breath. We're cutting some costs and we got 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.000 to kind of recalibrate because I think they saw what 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.639 the Rams did these last couple of years. Yes, now 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.960 the difference is and look look at what the Bills 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.720 did last year. I mean the Bills got rid of 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.880 like half their big names. Well, Josh Allen's one of 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.720 the greatest talents I've ever seen, and Matt Stafford whall 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.000 Older was right there with would be considered Josh Allen 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.520 ten years ago. He just played first shitty franchise, Like 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.280 that's not Brock Purty and we all know that. Look 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.000 at the NFC colin the two best quarterbacks you'd say, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.840 you know, I would say win wise and statistically would 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.560 be Jalen and Jared Goff are on loaded rosters offensively, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.640 like we would say, you put either one of those 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.440 guys on like the Jags or a bad team, it's 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.600 gonna be props. Pretty the same thing. When he's on 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.040 a good team, he's proven he canna be a really 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.000 good player. But like if you're cutting costs and depending 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.600 on some randos. It's just it's a pretty scary I 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.480 do think they are gonna low ball Brock party and 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.040 they're gonna make this more difficult because they before it 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.560 was just like, hey, Trent, what do you want? Which 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.400 I know would have a problem with doing that to Trent. Yeah, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.400 but the two were It's like, you're not Jamar Chase 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.040 and your team doesn't play like that. It doesn't make 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.280 any sense. I get the Cowboys. They throw out to 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.560 Ceedee Lamb every other play. Yes, Brandon and I you 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.400 had a career year seventy five. But at the end 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:13.960 of the day, they do have a big time coach 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.080 at a bad year, but he's proven to be really 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.720 good and still a culture. They get Robert solid Back. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.279 I wouldn't count him out yet, but it's gonna be 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.919 a lot of new names Colin, and they're gonna be 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.120 very dependent on these high They have the eleventh pick, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.400 like you need a Micah Parsons. You need to you know, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.760 look at the Eagles and the Cowboy. When the Cowboys 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.560 got Mike O or the Eagles got Davonte Smith. You're 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.000 gonna have to nail this well. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:41.360 And also there are certain positions in football running back 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:48.120 I think wide receiver, some say cornerback, where you can 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.360 come in and make an impact pretty quickly. It's very instinctive. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:58.080 But where the Niners are drafting offensive line, maybe another 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:03.960 tight end, you know, a play calling linebacker, a crucial 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.320 safety in their defense. Those are hard positions to go 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.640 college and pro. I mean, if you look at very 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.200 few tight ends come into this league, brock Bauers is 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.000 a total outlier. Very good tight ends have struggled because 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.680 the blocking assignments now are so so difficult compared to college. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.960 So the Niners are asking players from college in the 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:29.839 twelve draft picks to come into positions replace excellent instinctive, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.000 smart veteran players. Forget just making tackles. I mean green 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.440 law is, I mean he is. He and Warner are 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.320 anchors and communicators, and I think those kind of positions 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.240 to replace, I have no problem. You know, it'd be 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.520 one thing. If they're replacing you know, one corner one 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.359 running back, you get to the offensive line. In Kyle 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:56.120 Shanahan's system, you're lost until Thanksgiving. That's a tough rebuild. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.360 Oh for sure. Same with wide receivers. I mean same 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.240 with Listen. Even if they draft defensive lineman with the 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.920 eleventh pick, Khalil Mack, who's one of the better players 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.600 of his generation. I think at four and a half 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.680 sacks his rookie year. Jared Verse last year, who came 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.400 on toward the end, wasn't a dominant, dominant force all 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:13.080 season long. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.800 I covered Warren Sap in Tampa. It wasn't until the 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.880 end of his first year that he made an impact 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.400 here too. He was fantastic. But this league, there are 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.560 guys that can make impacts. But I don't see the Niners. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.560 Their schedule sucks, their schedules bad. They have a last 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.760 play schedule and they get to draft really high in 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.559 every round. I think one of the divisions they play 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.839 is the AFC South. I mean, I would say even 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.800 before this mass exodus, I still think ten wins is 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.039 very very you know, look at what the Rams have 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.120 done these last couple of years. I think sometimes when 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.800 you are as they say in most you know, world 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.920 industries on boarding players. I think McVeigh uses that too, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.159 it takes a little time and then you kind of 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.400 catch fire. I mean, I think they were one in 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.400 four last year and two and three and six the 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.559 year before. Now, you don't want to make a living. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.760 It's you do that ten times. A lot of times 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.000 you're gonna end up with seven or eight wins. But 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.560 you start a little slow and then you peak. One 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.720 thing is very, very key for the forty nine ers. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.240 I'd say two guys. Trent Williams got to be on 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.960 the field, and if Christian McCaffrey is just healthy, which 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.600 who knows. I mean, he had multiple akilles, he tore 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.800 his knee, but he is a major, major wild card 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.160 in the NFL, going back to the Panther days. When 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:29.600 he's on the field, he's one of the best players 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.160 in the league. When he's off, especially with Kyle, he 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.280 kind of derails their operation. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:40.440 So I thought the team, you can tell who has 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.360 the power. In most organizations, McVeigh runs the Rams. I 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.040 think Shanahan until recently had power on the draft. Andy 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.640 Reid doesn't want it necessarily, Belichick did, Sean Payton does 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.080 in Denver. You can tell the moves when coaches are making. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.920 Chicago clearly signaled that Ben Johnson's run the show for 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.400 him to replace the entire interior. O line was telling 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:10.480 Ryan Poles, you got your picks stink. And I thought, frankly, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.840 for the Chicago Bears, who I've been saying this for 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.000 so many years, they're like, they're just a defensive culture. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.200 For a guy to come in and spend money on 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.440 guards and centers, I thought it was a real moment 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.679 in the history of the Chicago Bears. I was like, Wow, 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.200 this field, I mean, how many years have the Steelers 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.760 been hamming egging it on their offensive line? Tomlin runs 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.079 the show, I for the first time that I can remember. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.400 I really like the direction where the Bears are going well. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.480 I think sometimes when you get like the whiz kid, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.400 the great offensive coordinator, they just want to score points 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.959 and they're thinking quarterback and wide receiver. Ben Johnson's pretty 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.800 lucky that his welcome to stardom in the NFL started 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.000 with the trenches. I mean, I mean, let's face it, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.440 the Lions really separated themselves with a dominant offensive line, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.080 so they go and trade for a guy. It's crazy. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.560 You and I talk about these young quarterbacks. By that 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.160 second year Thanksgiving, it's like you're on the clock, like 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.880 your career is in troubles. It's like that now with 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.480 free agency, the Rams side Jojah Jackson last year, three years, 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.760 fifty one million dollars. Less than a year later, it's 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.320 like traded. I mean these teams now, the money and 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.319 the cash bonuses. Sealing that not in a million years, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.160 I would say, up till what seven eight years ago, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.600 would have ever happened because no owner, it's like he's 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.920 a good player, and it's like, yeah, not a great fit. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.000 Seal you later. So they get a guy that they know, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.480 the Falcon Center is good and you see Andy Reid's 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.400 quotes on toon, He's like, he's one of the toughest 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.760 guys I've ever We don't want to trade this guy. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.520 We just there's money involved and we can't afford to 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.520 keep them lay. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.520 We had the best year of his career arguably because 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:46.920 he went to left Tackleon was excellent. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.880 To me. He's like his generation's Logan Mankins. I mean, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.000 just a plug and play guy who could play multiple 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.840 positions as a stud. The other thing is when you 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.840 have a smaller quarterback. You know, Non Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:00.960 the flat gol that generation and all those guys were huge, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.480 you know, Carson Palmer, Caleb. This generation is a little smaller, well, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.240 Sean Payton dealt with one in that generation, and they 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.560 always invested in centers and guards. They had high because 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.000 the pressure up the middle it rattles and he can't 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.360 see where Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Historically they had 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.880 some pretty random guys on some seasons when they had 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.120 good teams playing center and guard, they get away with it. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.280 Smaller quarterbacks cannot. It hurts pretty sometimes when they get 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.120 in past situations and the garden center gets smoked. He's swimming. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.520 He can handle the outside pressure because he can move around. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.080 Same with Caleb he can move. But up the middle 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.520 you are screwed. So they they could have I know 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.960 they've invested draft picks and some tackles, but we'll see 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.559 how good those guys turn out to be. But they 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.000 went all in on the garden center position because I 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.880 think with a smaller quarterback it's really really important to 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.000 just neutralize. Think how many teams also have a good 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.160 interior pass rush now, So yeah, it was hard to 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.160 I mean, that was a no brainer. Moved by the Bears, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.760 and Ryan Pole is pretty lucky that this the way 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.839 this He kept his job and he's still here and 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:02.400 he gets to be a. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.559 Part of this. Yeah, I mean a couple of years ago, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.840 he whiffed on Villas Jones and I was like, oh dude, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:08.560 you could have called me. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.600 And then the Chase played with Rome. I mean, Rome 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.560 was a pretty looking back. You should have taken an 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:14.320 offensive lineman. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.080 Yeah, but Villas Jones, miss Chase Claypool, miss Roma Danze 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.160 not as good as we thought. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:20.440 You know. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.160 So again, I think you and I agree. I think 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.960 the Bears are head in the right direction. You just 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.280 pointed out something and I've been on this for a 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:34.640 few years that I think there's a duality to all 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:40.880 the owners being billionaires and some being ten, fifteen, twenty billionaires. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.720 Is that number one? The downside is they're more willing 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.720 to just fire people quickly. They're more impulsive than they've 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.520 ever been when they were all worth six hundred million. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.000 You're you're not just riding a seventeen to twenty five 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.920 million dollar check to blow out a staff. You're just 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.720 not doing it. Now. These guys will just blow out 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.440 a seventy million dollar staff. So who does that hurt? 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.280 It hurts a young quarterback who has to have another staff. So, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.040 I mean, Caleb Williams, even though he upgrades staffs. It's 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.880 a brand new system. So that's the downside. The upside, though, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.160 is when you make a mistake with personnel like Rams 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.600 and Jonah Jackson where it just didn't feel great, you 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.800 can just move off it. And so you know this, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.240 you know you can never move off NBA contracts or 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.040 baseball contracts. They're so guaranteed. In the NFL. Now, if 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.480 you make a mistake, guys just write shacks and go all. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:35.920 Right, big Jo. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.000 I mean for the Bears to get Drew Dolman and 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.560 Joe Toney, Jesus, you have your You're you may not 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.000 be Philadelphia or Detroit, but that's a top three interior 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.040 O line in the league. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.000 Well, let's you even use I mean, the craziest example 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.640 currently is his cousin's example. Now, I know Arthur Blank 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.840 is probably I don't know where he ranks, but he's 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.440 not near the bottom when it comes to wealth. They're like, well, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.840 you're not gonna us around. We're gonna pay you ten 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.400 million for next year. He obviously he's not gonna be 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.160 the team next year, and we'll eat it until we 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.839 figure this out. But you are gonna capitulate and you're 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.400 gonna give us a trade eventually before the season starts. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.880 That never would happen. I thought it was like, no, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.040 no human lives is gonna give him ten million dollars 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.760 guaranteed for next year. Cousin's gonna win this. They will 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.240 cut him. I thought he'd be cut, you know, Wednesday Thursday. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:23.880 He's like, no, they just picked it up. But he's 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.400 still there and we'll just have a staring contest. It's 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.599 that that never would have happened without the influx of cash. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.959 I thought this when some of these deals are I 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.360 mean Aaron Banks, the Niners left guard, got, I mean 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.640 so much money. Milton Williams, who is obviously a really 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.520 talented players he never played more than fifty percent of 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.720 the snap for the Eagles, got twenty six million dollars 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:46.040 a year. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.320 I was watching a clip of Jim Harbaugh and I 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.280 had just had this discussion with Steve Kime about a 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.800 week ago, two weeks ago, and I said, if I 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.800 was ever a GM, because he owes jokes. He said, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.440 you're not a talk show host. You want to be 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.440 a GM. And I'm like, you know, I like my job, 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.760 but I would love to be a GM, you know, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.200 if I would have put thirty years into that instead 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.600 of what I'm doing. Who knows, you know, you don't know. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:19.120 But I told him, I said I would overdraft the 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.560 offensive line. And Harbaugh said this, and this is what 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.720 Steve and I said. Jim put it more smartly. He said, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.280 there's only one unit in a football field that doesn't 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:34.240 rely on any other unit, yet every other unit relies 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.280 on it. And he said, it's offensive line. It makes 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.280 your quarterback better, your running back's better, your tight end 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.480 doesn't have to block as vigorously, your wide receivers have 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.240 more time to get downfield. It keeps your defense off 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.600 the field if you have a great offensive line. And 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.400 it was one of those things where when you go 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.040 back to drafting Joe Ault over a wide receiver, the 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.320 Bears went wide receiver and then this year had to 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.000 spend a fortune on their offensive line instead of The 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.720 Bears probably should have gone O line instead of going 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:07.000 with Romadunze. But it is interesting that the more the NFL, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.560 you know, changes and becomes an offensive league. We pay 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:17.640 so much attention to quarterbacks. But I and I made 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.400 this pick the other day. I think the Chiefs are 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.080 going to struggle and I don't think they're going to 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.640 win their division. I don't think in this draft class 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:30.040 there's a starting left tackle good enough in their division 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:35.000 to block Max Crosby or Khalil Mack or the kid 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:42.520 number fifteen Oklahoma Bito Budido. And it's really interesting I think. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.560 I mean, right now, the three or four teams I 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.400 like in the league all have great old lines, all 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.840 of them. Philadelphia, Detroit. I thought the Rams finally got 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:55.160 their act together offensive line. I think Buffalo's last year 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.680 was better than people thought. I thought Denver's was better 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:02.400 than people thought. I think Kansas City, I think we've 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:03.200 just baked it in. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:04.480 John. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.440 They're not going ten to one in close games next year. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.120 Yeah, I would agree there, but their offensive line was 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.480 puture this year on the on the edges, and they 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.800 were able to well. I mean, they were basically a 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.600 sixteen and one team. They threw the last game of 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.000 the season. So when it comes to coaching, when it 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.200 comes to quarterback play, and most importantly, their defense is 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.200 gonna be good. So like part of the reason they 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.000 were winn all these games because they could win nineteen 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.320 to seventeen. They weren't allowing many points that that is 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.840 not going to change. Now the Chargers in the Broncos, 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.800 You and I have been saying this. Anyone with common 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.920 sense has been saying this. The worst their teams were 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.800 gonna be was last season. They're both gonna be better. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.800 So if either Houfunga or Greenlaw play, that defense is 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.720 going to be improved in Denver's defense was awesome. When 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.680 I saw Dk Metcalf ask for a trade, a lot 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.320 of people that covered the NFL were like the Chargers. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.400 It's like, guys, do you think that Jim Harbaugh is 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.400 going to trade a top whatever fifty pick and pay 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.400 a third contract to this kind of out there wide 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.840 receiver though very talented, kind of the poor man's modern 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.080 day Torell Owens type. It's different, But I mean I 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.760 think physically they have some to Dk Metcalf. Are you 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.280 guys nuts? And what does he do? He goes signs 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.600 Makai Beckton and he's he's got a huge I see 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.399 yesterday he's got a huge smile on his face. Like, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.400 have you guys not followed Jim Harbaugh's career since Stanford? 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.280 This they might draft a wide receiver this year in 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.600 the third round. I would expect tight end, d lineman 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.240 running back like it's Naji Harris. When I was living 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.080 in the Bay Area, Naj was his senior year, was 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.560 one of the biggest recruits in the country. I think 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.400 he was number one recruit. He was number one and 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.760 it was committed to go to Alabama, but Jim was 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.320 recruiting him very hard. And I saw a clip that 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.560 Jim had an Antioch. I think he went to the 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.159 homecoming game. He announced their king and queen and so 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.399 like that's who he's Listen. I'm not the biggest nause 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.040 star running back, first round guy, but he is a solid, 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.720 runs down hill, physical guy. Like that's how Jim wants 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.240 to play. Jim wants to play a lot like this 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.160 version of the Chiefs and clearly Denver. I think Sean 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.479 would like to be a little more explosive down the field, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.720 but like that that division is gonna be really physical. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.320 And same thing with the I mean, we know how 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.520 Pete Carroll, why did he butt heads with Russell Wilson. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.560 Russell wanted to throw it fifty times a game. Pete 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.880 wanted to throw about twenty in play d and run 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.399 the ball. So I think this defense is gonna or 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.440 this divisions is gonna look a lot like each other. Now, 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.320 you know, if for she Rice is healthy, Xavier Worthy 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.600 came on. I do think the Chiefs offense could get 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.240 more explosive, and I would also guess that they draft 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.199 a running back. I think all these teams in this 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.119 division could draft running backs. Yes, and if two of 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.840 the four of them become stars, whichever ones those guys 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.879 go to, like the next Yamier Gibbs or whoever Nick Chubb, 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:47.920 you know, you name it, those second round running backs 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.240 hit for one of these teams could be the difference. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.639 If all of a sudden, you tell me Denver it 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.280 has a version of Nick Chubb or you know, Alvin 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.639 Kamara on their squad, I'd be like, well, why couldn't 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.560 they win twelve or thirteen games? Same thing with with Chargers. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.080 And maybe this is the year the Chiefs win. Two 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:04.479 years ago when they won a Super Bowl, I think 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.600 they won eleven games. So the difference between eleven and 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.680 fifteen is like a couple of missfield goals and a 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:10.880 couple of fumbles go your way. 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:16.640 Yeah, the yeah, it's it's I thought. I thought DeVante 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.840 Adams was obviously a great move for the Rams. But 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.280 I thought, Najie Harris, there were a couple of moves 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.520 I loved offensively. I think Deebo Samuel to Cliff Kingsbury 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:30.480 and Jaden is a sensational move for them. At this point, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.840 He'll get tons of looks and by the way, it 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.200 will give Cliff another twelve offensive plays because Deebo is 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.680 such a unique player. And then I also thought, I thought, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.399 I thought Najie Harris. I'm like, remember a couple of 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.040