WEBVTT - Best Of - Ravens FIRE John Harbaugh, Top 5 NFL Playoff Storylines + Wild Card Predictions | Nick Wright 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.480 Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.200 with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:11.920 week on the show. Enjoy. The Steelers beat the Ravens 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:17.560 in justin epic final game two seventy two of the 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.560 twenty twenty five NFL season. And before I get to 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.720 how seriously I'm taking the Steelers, the real story is, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:31.720 of course, this season from Baltimore, and the developing story 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:37.400 is that at the moment it's ten forty five am 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:44.160 Eastern on January sixth, what was happening five years ago today? 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:51.199 At this time, it's ten forty five Eastern, six years ago. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.360 At this time, I should say, uh, and John Harbaugh 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:03.120 still has a job. So right now it's status quo 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:09.080 in Baltimore. And we'll get into that piece of it 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:15.720 as well. But first I do want to show actual empathy, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.480 and I mean this. This isn't tongue in cheek, This 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.240 isn't me being a smart ass, this isn't me doing 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:28.160 any subtle I told you so stuff about Lamar who 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:34.000 had such an interesting game Sunday night. But over the 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:42.160 last ten years, it is hard to find a franchise 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:51.120 that it's dealt with more end of season stomach punches 0:01:52.760 --> 0:02:02.680 than the Baltimore Ravens. And it's literally nine of the 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:09.240 last ten years. So if I may go through it 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:16.720 just quickly, because this does the Ravens, because they've had 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:23.639 such success compared to mediocre or bad franchises, and because 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.240 they've got a two time MVP and a coach people 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.840 historically have really liked, and they've won two Super Bowls 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.800 this decade. I'm sorry this century people don't look at 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:43.880 them as like a cursed, cursed franchise. But here how 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:52.160 the last ten seasons have ended in Baltimore. Twenty sixteen, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.840 the eight and six Baltimore Ravens are playing the nine 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:03.360 and five Pittsburgh Steelers. It is on Sunday Night Football 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.680 with the de facto division title on the line. The 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:16.240 Ravens have a three point lead. I don't know if 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.280 it was a three or a four point lead. I'm 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.160 gonna check to get because I want to make sure 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.400 I have it right. They have a three point lead 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:31.280 with ten seconds left and Ben Roethlisberger throws just short 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.920 of the goal line to Antonio Brown, who gets hit 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:43.000 and stopped and Pittsburgh has no timeouts. He stopped short 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.640 of the goal line and as he's going down, he 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:53.400 turns around reaches the ball over the back of his head. Touchdown. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:58.600 Division title. Baltimore loses the next week and misses the postseason. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:07.440 Next year, Baltimore is in a win and in scenario 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:13.400 in Week seventeen against that got nothing to play for 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:20.560 Cincinnati Bengals and Andy Dalton. They have them in a 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:30.000 fourth and twelve with forty seconds remaining, and the Bengals 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:38.599 hit a sixty plus yard game winning insane touchdown pass 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:46.040 to end the Raven season. The next year is the 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.279 one year the reason I said nine out of ten 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.640 with heartbreak, the one year that didn't end in heartbreak. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:57.400 The next year, the team's not good throws a figurative 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.560 Hail Mary by going to Lamar Jackson at mid You know, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.800 late in the year, Lamar rips off a bunch of wins, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.719 they sneak into the playoffs. They get absolutely crushed in 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:13.760 round one. But you had real reason for optimism, didn't 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.040 expect necessarily, you didn't expect to look as bad as 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.279 you did in Round one against the Chargers. But whatever, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.960 But twenty sixteen, you lose a Week sixteen game for 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.839 the division in the final seconds. Twenty seventeen, you lose 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.679 a winning You're in game on a fourth and twelve 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:37.520 to Andy Dalton. Twenty nineteen. You have the number one seed, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:43.040 you have the unanimous MVP, and you get dog walked 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:49.080 by the Tennessee Titans. In your first playoff game twenty twenty, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:57.360 it is a ten to three snowy, cold weather defensive 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:03.400 battle in the divisional round. You are inside the ten 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:08.840 yard line going in for the game tying touchdown as 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.039 the waning moments of the fourth quarter approach of the 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.560 third quarter. In the waiting moments of the third quarter, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.720 Lamar Jackson picks six. You lose the game right there. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:27.799 Twenty twenty one, you're eight and three. Lamar Jackson gets 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:32.400 banged up. His coach thinks he'll be back soon. He 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.920 never comes back. You finish eight and nine. Twenty twenty two, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:46.480 you're having another solid year. You're nine to four. Lamar 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.039 Jackson gets banged up, his coach thinks he's coming back. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.719 You limp to the finish line, but make the playoffs anyway, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.320 and you're seventeen seventeen in a playoff game against the 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.640 Cincinnati Angles with Tyler Huntley at quarterback, you're on the 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:08.800 goal line. You run a quarterback sneak fumble return touchdown 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.119 ninety nine yards. Lose that playoff game. Twenty twenty three, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.960 you're the number one seed again. You have a home 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.840 playoff game. You're the number one DVOA team, the number 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.160 one DVOA defense, you have the MVP of the league 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:30.160 at quarterback. You turn the ball over three times in 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.560 that game, including a goal line fumble by Zay Flowers 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.480 and end zone pick by Lamar Jackson. You lose seventeen 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:43.520 to seven. Twenty twenty four, Lamar is the best year 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.240 of his career, arguably despite not winning MVP. You get 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.320 the Buffalo Bills again. You have a furious second half comeback, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.119 culminating in a two point conversion attempt to a wide 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:00.560 open Mark Andrewsy fumbles and twenty twenty five, you have 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.800 a season from hell, but you can make up for 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.960 all of it by beating your hated rival Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:16.840 And you have another unbelievable fourth quarter by Lamar, including 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.240 a fourth and seven conversion to Isaiah likely to give 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:26.080 you a chip shot field goal, and your rookie kicker 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:31.920 Tyler loop gaxit that is nine out of ten years 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.040 of utter heartbreak, and the one year that was not 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.280 included in the heartbreak was getting just annihilated in a 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:47.200 playoff game Lamar's rookie season. That is torture. And I 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:54.160 got real empathy for Ravens fans, honestly, and it's one 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.840 of the reasons I'm so surprised John Harbaugh is still 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.720 the coach, because even if that's not his fault, there's 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.640 too much scar tissue at this point and it sure 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:14.360 feels like a change needs to be made now. On 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:23.319 the game itself, how do we evaluate Lamar's play such 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:28.880 a weird game because for the first three quarters, and 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.240 Collinsworth set it on the broadcast early in the fourth quarter, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.599 Lamar was five of ten for sixty seven yards and 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.920 wasn't running the ball and had done nothing. And then 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:46.360 in the fourth quarter he played the best quarter of 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:52.080 his life, including two of the best plays of his 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:58.520 entire career, the two free rushers sandwiching him, him him 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.560 avoiding that sack, and then hitting Zay Flowers on a 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.920 fifty plus yard touchdown. As amazing as that was, I 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.640 don't know if that was a better play than the 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.440 fourth and seven season on the line, perfect throw and 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.640 even better catch by likely to set up the chip 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:29.160 shot field goal. So Lamar, you in sports, it doesn't 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.880 matter how big of a hole you dig yourself. Ask 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.800 my guy Trevor with his four interception playoff game, if 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:43.960 your brilliance digs you out of it. The last two 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:50.480 years the game ending losses for Baltimore, it is felt 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:57.480 like Lamar helped dig them a big hole and then 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.720 dug them this close to out of it with brilliant play, 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.320 and then mistakes by other people cost him the full vindication. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.960 Mark Andrews cost him a shot at overtime and Tyler 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.320 Loop cost him a win. But how do we do 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:26.880 the math on that? It'd be ridiculous to pin the 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.120 loss on Lamar, but it would also be ridiculous to 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:39.000 give him credit for coming through in a game that 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:43.120 they lost, and in part they lost because in the 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.080 Bills game last year and the Steelers game this year 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.800 really really shaky first half performances including a turnover or 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.200 in the Bill's game, a couple turnovers, So that part 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:03.240 is hard to parse and history probably won't remember the 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.840 details as much as more big games that the Ravens 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.040 were favored in. And that's the other piece that I 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.160 didn't even mention in this favored in that game against 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.520 the Chiefs, favored in obvious, the game against the Bills, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:24.040 favored in, the game against Pittsburgh lost, lost loss. Now, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:33.240 the very end of the game, should John Harbaugh have 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:38.360 attempted to put Tyler Loop in a better position? The 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:47.640 easy answer is yes, why didn't he? The uncomfortable answer 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.440 is because Derrick Henry had a fumbling problem this year, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:13:04.400 and all of that matters. The fact that the Ravens 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:13.240 moved on from Justin Tucker to a rookie kicker mattered 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.520 this year, the fact that Derrick Henry fumbled early in 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.040 the year and seemed to be in his head about it, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.880 despite how brilliant he was. If it wasn't in his head, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.240 it was in Harball's because you had fourteen seconds, you 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.840 had one time out, and you were staring at a 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:34.080 forty one yard field goal in the toughest stadium to 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:40.280 kick in the sport. And instead of asking Derrick Henry 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.560 to make it a thirty five yard field goal or 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.160 maybe a zero yard field goal if he pops one, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.280 you made it a forty four yard field goal. Because 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.840 you don't want to risk the turnover. Also, Lamar told 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:58.880 us that not long before Tyler looped and I don't 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.600 know if Harbaugh knew this. Not long before Tyler loop 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.680 goes to take the kick that will define his entire 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.800 NFL career, most likely Lamar flipped out on him on 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.720 the sidelines. He kicked the ball out of bounds. That's 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.400 gotta be tough for the rookie kicker. I don't know 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.640 how confident he was walking into that kick, and we 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.000 only the cameras didn't catch that. Lamar told us that 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:29.760 after the game. But ultimately the reason the Ravens lost 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.880 was because they were not a good team this year. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:40.240 They were an eight to nine team in every fashion. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.040 They had moments of brilliant defense and moments of horrific defense, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.040 and that was over the course of the season, and 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.360 in the final game of the year, their quarterback had 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.360 moments of brilliant play and moments of the shakiest play 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.280 of his career. That was all season, and in Week eighteen. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:10.640 They're coached by a special teams coach, and the special 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:15.840 teams were shaky throughout the season, and then they lost 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.360 it for him in Week eighteen. That was not a 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.000 great football team, and that was not a team that, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.479 had they won, they were going to be super dangerous, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.120 even though people tried to convince themselves they would be. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.200 That was a team that needed the Cleveland Browns and 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.000 Shadoor Sanders to win a Week seventeen game just to 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:42.400 make Week eighteen matter for them. And so why will 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:49.160 this team be different next year? Well, right now, as 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:55.080 I keep checking my phone for an update, it doesn't 0:15:55.160 --> 0:16:01.800 look like they're going to be. Which Lamar was asked 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.840 after the game if he wants Harbaugh back next year, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.320 and he said, I can't focus on that right now. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:17.840 We just lost, which is a damning and telling answer. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:35.440 And I have been of the informed belief that Lamar 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:45.960 is over John Harbaugh. Lamar's answer to that question just 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:55.160 furthered that belief, which again is not naked speculation. And 0:16:55.520 --> 0:17:00.040 if I were the Ravens, I'd almost always picked the 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.000 player over the coach. It doesn't seem like they have 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.399 any interest in moving on from Lamar, so I just 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.680 assumed they knew they had to move on from Harbaugh. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.159 And again, by the time you listen to this, maybe 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.399 that will have happened. But it has not happened yet, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:32.560 and the Lamar contracts situation becomes very tricky because he 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.320 has got two years left on what is now a 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:41.880 drastically undermarket deal that averages fifty two million dollars a year. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:47.520 The top of the market's now sixty. Also, they need 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.760 to rework that deal because it's got a cap hit 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:55.160 of seventy five million dollars next year and the year after, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.760 which is completely untenable. And Lamar, who turned twenty nine 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.199 tomorrow and is coming off his worst year as a 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:11.159 pro and a year with five injuries, is going to 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:23.200 want a top of market, fully guaranteed contract. And if 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:29.159 the Ravens keep John Harbaugh, what was already going to 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:37.800 be a very tough contract negotiation for the Baltimore Ravens 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:45.119 with Lamar, I think we'll get that much tougher. So 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.080 I don't want to spend too much time right now 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:55.720 on the Lamar future Harball future angle, just because I 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:01.920 still feel like this could become day in hours, because 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.359 I still feel like the Ravens are probably moving on 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:10.600 from Hardball, but it hasn't happened yet. 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I I would be really interested in Mike 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.840 McDaniel just got fired and a lot of people are 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:16.600 connecting Harbaugh to the Dolphins. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:18.200 I couldn't see him coaching. 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.359 I couldn't see who coaching was. 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:23.200 I couldn't see Harball coaching in Miami. 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:29.240 Well, I think there's like a weird Steve. I think 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.720 I should know this. I think there's some Michigan connections 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:37.040 Stephen Ross, but doesn't matter. Like the I think it'd 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:41.240 be hard to go from Lamar Jackson to two, but 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:43.280 they're not even gonna have Tua. Like what are they 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:43.679 gonna do? 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:44.080 I don't know. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:48.879 Miami's in a tough spot. I what's funny not funny, 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:52.960 But what's interesting is I thought Mike McDaniel as the 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:58.760 Ravens offensive coordinator was an awesome idea, like that running 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.679 game that he did developed, except you have Lamar and 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.240 Derrick Henry, Like that would be you know, Mike McDaniel 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.320 as as it was like Matt Nagy's leaving the Chiefs. 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:12.280 I know it's different systems and everything, but man, oh man, 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.960 Mike McDaniel's the Chiefs offensive coordinator is something I'm super 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:20.000 intrigued by, even though I think it's very unlikely. Now, 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:23.640 maybe McDaniel thinks he's gonna step into a head coaching job. 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:27.080 That would surprise me. I don't think he's gonna go right, 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:29.480 but maybe he will. His record wasn't terrible, the team 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.040 didn't quit at the end, and some people might be like, 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:34.800 look at what he did with Tua. As far as 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:41.720 the Ravens decision on firing Harball. I there was no decision, guys, 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:50.840 the and I've done enough victory lapping on Twitter, so 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:53.640 I don't need to. And it's not victory lapping about 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.320 someone losing their job, to be clear, victory lapping on 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:58.160 I told you guys all year there was a problem 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:00.000 between Lamar and Harrball, and you guys thought I was 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.360 just I spun a wheel. People thought like, oh, Nick 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.280 just decided today, he's gonna create this out of thin air, 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:13.080 as opposed to a paying close attention to the incredibly 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:19.840 odd objective fact that they didn't communicate about how hurt 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:25.960 he was and also having a little behind the scenes insights. 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:36.159 So their ability to ensure Lamar was a Raven for 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:42.840 life and was a raven next year was going to 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:48.399 be kneecapped had they kept Harball. So they didn't, so 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:52.840 they move on. And even though tell me if this 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:56.920 makes sense to you, de Monse, the odds are the 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:00.560 next coach of the Ravens is not near as good 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:05.800 of a coach as John Harball. But that doesn't mean 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:08.680 that coach won't be the one to get him over 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:09.080 the hump. 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:10.480 He might be a. 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:14.080 Worse coach, but also like that they just need something 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:18.359 new or better luck or whatever it is, and that 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:21.280 it felt like you couldn't just run it back again 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:24.159 with Harball. So I felt like the move needed to 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:26.320 be made, even though I think Harball is an excellent 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:28.119 coach that tracked to you. 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:30.480 Yeah, I definitely don't think the next coach that we 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:32.320 would get will be better or as. 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:33.119 Good as John Harball. 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:35.720 I think it's it's gonna be pretty hard to find 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:37.439 Belichick wanted them to. 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:44.119 Yeah, so it sounds contradictory. Is the Belichick thing so 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:48.400 interesting had he not had this embarrassment of a year 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:55.320 in his coaching? Yes, I really think so. And you 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:58.200 wouldn't care that that he's old, that it's not long term, 0:25:58.240 --> 0:25:59.720 because it's like, no, we just need to get over 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:07.440 the whole lamar For Harball, obviously, I think he could 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:12.639 have his pick of jobs. If I'm John Harbaugh, I 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:19.040 don't know that I want any of these jobs. I 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:23.040 certainly because it was reported yesterday that he's gonna wait 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:27.200 a week before he starts taking interviews. I think that's 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:35.800 smart because I'd be awful interested in if the Eagles, 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:45.520 Bill's or Packers losing Round one to any of those teams, 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:55.800 ownership decide we're gonna fire our coach to hire Harball. Now, 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:59.639 on that note, I think Cincinnati should reach out to 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:02.400 harror Ball's agent today and be like, if this job 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.160 was open, would he take it? And if the answers yes, 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.679 I'd fire Zach Taylor. Now that's not really Cincinnati's style. 0:27:09.440 --> 0:27:13.720 For Philadelphia, it might sound harsh, Sirianni is literally the 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:18.119 defending Super Bowl champion, but Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Loriie 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.600 have never cared about being harsh. They drafted Carson Wentz 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:24.359 number two overall, gave him a huge contract, moved on 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:28.600 from him. Doug Peterson won a Super Bowl with Nick Foles, 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:30.960 then won a Playoff game the next year with Nick Foles. 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:34.360 They moved on from him. They moved like they will 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:38.560 if they think they can get better, they will move 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.840 on from somebody. And I think Harbaugh, who came like 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:46.320 started coaching in Philly. I think that's really interesting there. 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:50.480 Buffalo less interesting, and he, Danny explained, I didn't quite 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:53.200 follow it. He has some real like green Bay ties 0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:57.639 about like his who his agent is, and the green 0:27:57.680 --> 0:28:01.159 Bay I don't totally follow it doesn't matter, but it 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:07.000 seemed like Lafleoor midway through the season there was little 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:09.680 scuttle but about Lafleur not being quite as safe as 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:12.560 people thought and how he hadn't gotten an extension. So 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:14.760 if I'm Harball, I just want to wait and see 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:18.320 do what does a job come open where the quarterback 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:23.800 is set Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Jordan Love or am 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:30.040 I gonna have to roll the Jackson Dart Dice or 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:34.800 Atlanta with Michael Pennix. Like, So that's what I think. 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.840 Is those places went over there would be more likely 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:40.960 to move off the quarterback though, right Like it's like, oh, 0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:41.680 he's obvious. 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:43.200 It's not the coach that's the problem. 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:45.400 It's the quarterback more likely to oh you have a 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:47.280 little bit more control over who's coming in. 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:50.400 Oh yeah, I mean I think John Harball will get 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:53.760 whatever he wants because there's also not another great head 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:57.479 coaching option out there. Yeah, it's not like there's also 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:01.120 Sean Payton and Jim Harball waiting in the wings or 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:06.240 Ben Johnson. You know that guy doesn't seem to exist 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:11.440 this cycle. Now, let me say this about what this 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:15.719 means pardon me, guys, what this means for Lamar? 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:22.320 Come come with it next year, dude. 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:23.200 They have. 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:29.600 Changed defensive coordinators multiple times since he's been there. Again, 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:32.840 no culpability on his end for that, just stating effect. 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:37.200 They've changed offensive coordinators multiple times and they're about to 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:44.080 do it again. They've now changed head coaches. They brought 0:29:44.080 --> 0:29:46.920 in Derrick Henry, who has been nothing but dominant since 0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:51.520 he became a Raven. We can argue about how good 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:55.640 these picks were, but since Lamar has been there, they 0:29:55.680 --> 0:30:01.880 have spent three first round picks on wide receiver. They 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:05.400 perennially lead the league or near the top of the 0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:11.200 league in Pro bowlers on the roster. And now I believe, 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:15.200 with reason to believe, he got what he wanted and 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:19.280 he's getting a new head coach. Got to go be 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:24.080 awesome now. And more than being awesome, you gotta be available. 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:28.720 You want to know a shocking fact, Demons, In the 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:38.200 last five years, Lamar Jackson and always injured brittle Joe 0:30:38.240 --> 0:30:43.920 Burrow have played the exact same amount of games. No, 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:48.600 that's true. I'm not making that up. 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:49.960 That is an insane stat. 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:58.320 In the last five years, Lamar Jackson has played seventy 0:30:58.440 --> 0:31:03.680 regular season games and four playoff games, and Joe Burrow's 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:08.680