Happy Sunday afternoon. Everybody, Welcome to another edition of Fire Up. It
is me Candy from the South Florida Tribune along with my other co host,
smoking Jeremy Be. How are you today? Any day I wake up as
good that's always to be eaten and viewed. This is true, very true,
very true. Wow. So next weekend is the last weekend of football
for the NFL. This weekend it's NFL football, but not really, not
really, it's Pro Bowl. But what are they doing? It's regulated flag
football. There's these still challenges that they're doing, and a lot of them
are football related. The one that made absolutely no sense to me, even
though the NFC won it and that was three bonus points for them, and
the whole Pro Bowl ranking scoring thing. Why do they have the closest to
the pin challenging golf? So we have Dale Happy Sunday, y'all, Wayne
Happy? Should be Super Bowl Sunday. Well that's next weekend. No,
it should be in Super Bowl Sunday. I get it. And well thanks
everybody for tuning in. So so you know on this Sunday afternoon, Pro
Bowl flag football, which is the new Rave, I mean not rave,
but it is the new new thing, the new sport that's going to be
in the Olympics. New, but they are going to have it in the
Olympics. I get it for NFL players, but for maybe some of us
that aren't good at tackling or shouldn't be tackling. Playing flag football, the
players form a football st for the Pro Bowl. Yeah, I miss the
last time we had good tackles. Do you remember that one in the Pro
Bowl? Mm hm Taylor when he lit that guy up frown across the middle
catching a pass and forced a fumble. It was such a beautiful, technically
sound, great hitting tackle. He didn't go above the chest, he didn't
go below the ways. He tackled the guy right in the bread basket while
his helmet flipped the football. The football popped up, went to his and
they ended up winning the game. While he was playing for the Redskins.
And yet I still call them the Redskins. I think most of us do.
It's hard to get used to that name, the Commanders, but Native
Americans still call it the Redskins. They were proud of the chief that was
on the side of the helmet because he was the last great chief of the
Potomac Indian tribe, which if they really wanted to honor that chief, they
ton't name the Washington teams the Potomacs. That's true, that's true. I
hear you. I hear you. Yeah, but flag football, and for
the NFL, really, why not. They're almost regulating it to that now
with the way they're getting on people about hard hits and everything else. I
understand the head honey, I agree, that's a rule they should keep.
I understand about trying to take somebody out below their knees. That's similar to
a chop block. That's a perfectly fine one. But tackling above the knees
from the thighs to your chest, that's real tackling. I agree, go
broke, I agree. Tackling is I mean, NFL you're supposed to be
tackling like, that's part of the game. That's part of the physicality that
I mean not all of us can do. And that's why those players get
elevated to that level of playing football. But I don't know, I mean,
so many of the other sports, like they play their All Star game
or what however you want to call it in the middle of their season.
So the NFL is the only one that puts it really at the end of
the season. And so therefore you're are you really getting all your pros because
let's face it, everybody in the Super Bowl, none of them are playing
because they don't want to get in here because they're playing next week. So
you're missing all of those And I'm not saying that they're gonna have all of
the All Stars, but they're gonna have some of the top talent. That's
why they're where they're at. I mean, i'm on Ra got to go
because he was the alternate for Deebo Samuel mm hmm. But at the same
time, should i'm on Ra have even been an alternate top five wide receiver
in the league Statistically, he shouldn't have had to have been an alternate,
But because they add in the special teams positions, some of them's overshadow them.
That's why it's the top three wide receivers. And then you see a
couple of the punt and kick return specialists added to that roster in the wide
receiver room. But yet they still have a spot for the hmm. It
doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me either, but
it's a it's a brutal game in a kinder, gentler stay room world.
I say still, I think the way to fix it, and it's the
only way to fix it, because then it makes it match up with every
other professional support. Do away with the bye weeks. You extend the week
one season. You give every team a bye week the week before and week
eight, and that's also the trade deadline, so people got time to actually
focus on the trade deadline. Week nine is the Pro Bowl. Week ten
is a bye week for every team in the league. You do away with
all that other bs. You can schedule your team. Make it so that
if a team plays on a Thursday night game, they don't play un till
Sunday. And the same with the week before. If you're on a Thursday
night game, you can't be in the Monday night game. Don't put a
team in a Thursday game, whether it's Thanksgiving or not, on Monday or
night football or Sunday night football. Make them afternoon games. Mm hmm,
I get it. I get it. And nephews visiting the grand parents,
aw, yeah, middle of the season. I can see. But do
you think a lot of players would go for that or do you think because
their contracts that they're afraid of getting injured, then they wouldn't play well if
you think about it, because they're afraid of being injured for the Super Bowl.
It makes more sense to move it to the middle of the season because
we already stopped the heavy hitting in the league. Make it a regular game,
make it a good game between the AFC and NFC, or even better
yet, make it the top fifty three man roster versus the previous Super Bowl
champion. I just you're cutting down on the amount of players that get to
go. But then it's more of an honor to be because you're a top
fifty three. Take it out of the fans. Don't let them both their
favorite players. Let it be that statistically top players so far through the season.
How would you make it a more meaningful game if it was the best
of the NFC and against the best of the AFC. What stakes would you
put because like, let's advantage, like just what they do in all the
other leagues, home field advantage in the championship game. Okay, okay,
if you're going to do versus NFC, make it that whoever wins, whether
it's a f R nity, you get home field advantage in the super Bowl
automatically regardless of seed. The only thing with that is they wouldn't put super
Bowls in some of our stadiums. Let's face. I mean, well,
I suppose you know, because like the super Bowl is not going to come
to lambeau Field. There's not enough. There's not enough tells around it.
There's not enough you know, accommodations. It's just those that Green Bay is
the exception of the rules to everything because they're a small town with a big
city field because of their team, right, the only draw is when teams
go to play there. The super Bowl would not work there. The draft
being there is amazing because that springtime you're talking April and May, temperatures are
warmer. They may have to do it indoors somewhere, which that would kind
of negate it. But mm hmm. Yes, Rice is having fun,
That's all I got to say. That's awesome. That's awesome. So Dale
is asking us so one of the Atlanta Braves changing their name should be soon,
just like the Kansas City Chiefs will probably end up having to change their
name. Anything related to Indians will end up having to change their name.
Probably even college schools because you got teams like the New Mexico aspects. I
think it's ridiculous that we were racing part of the American history because American Natives,
the Native Americans, they are the only true Americans here. The rest
of us are a hodgepodge mix of whatever much the countries were our grandparents,
great grandparents, and everything else was from that. Put together, we're Americans
and we're not Native Americans. Well, I've never understood it either, because
I really don't think a sports team, you you're honoring them like you cheer
for them. It's not like you're cheering against and you're demeaning them, like
you're putting them in a higher light. I mean, I grew up My
high school was at the time Menomine Falls Indians. I was an Indian,
so yes, I had a mascot that was an Indian like and to see
all of that change because we might be offending when I don't think that looking
up to or talking about a team mascot is in any way demeaning. Just
like the Running Rebels are going to have to change their name because the history
is so bad with the Rebels. Yeah, uh, number one or number
nine recruit, five star recruit in college commits to Ohio State for football today.
Uh fellows to the Patriots fans for that. He loved coaching there,
and I think that was good that he did that, But that's a sign
that he's retiring. He took a page out, Yeah, I saw that.
He took a page out and with the Boston Globe or something and put
a big ad just thanking everybody. I think part of it was is he
he did a couple of interviews for some of the vacancies, and let's face
it, he's an not going to go down to college. He's not going
to go mess with any of that nil. And now nobody offered him what
he wanted in the NFL. It's not saying that they didn't offer him something,
but I think he wanted more than most teams wanted to give up.
He wanted what Harbaugh got in San Diego or LA total control of the team
player personnel wise, and we've seen that his job as player personnel director and
GM of the New England Patriots. After Tom Brady left, it was no
longer working as the Patriot way And that's no knock to Bill and the job
he did coaching that team that is a knock fit. Maybe coaches shouldn't try
to be the ones that scouts players because there's way too much scouting that has
to be involved all season long, not just rate at draft time exactly.
And if you're coaching a team, how can you do both jobs? Like,
I get you want control because you want to control who's coming in and
who's not. But you don't have on all of the game. You don't
have enough powers in the day to do that to look and observe and see
every game and watch every game and watch them practice and scouting and all that,
and then to coach your team. Like that's just I get it,
but I don't. Because when Brad Holmes was the national scout for the LA
Rams, he went back to school and demoted himself to Southeastern Conference because he
wanted to graduate with his master's degree in leadership and Management from University of North
Carolina Greensboro. Fridays was his only day off because at that time there was
no Friday college games in the SEC. So what would he do. He'd
walk across the street, leave his wife at home, go take his research
with him, and sit at the high school across the street from his apartment.
What quarterback was from that school and it was a middle school I don't
know, and an hooker. That is how Brad became friends with Hendon's dad
because he saw something and then hooker on the field. While he's sitting there
trying to do this stuff, he found himself watching the football game because he's
a scout and it's football, and he saw something in that kid in the
eighth grade. So he's been tracking this kid's career and scouting from afar because
you can't you really go to every game, okay, for his stats,
and watching his progression from middle school to high school to Virginia Tech who had
no O line and absolutely no weapons outside of grace Ford Wheaton, and then
watched him go to Tennessee and flourish in a different system with almost no time
to learn the system because I think eight weeks in their senior got hurt and
he had to take over his junior year. That's crazy. So he takes
over and he goes eighteen touchdowns and one interception with only eight weeks to learn
a program. Then he comes in the next year and goes thirty seven touchdowns,
two interceptions, and ten roshing touchdowns and was head and shoulders above everybody
for the Heisman voting, including the guy that went one and the one that
went two overall in the draft. And everybody says, oh, but he
was just a running quarterback. No, he was a quarterback first and he
ran second. I actually went back and watched every single game. He would
make his first, second, and third reads, which is more than most
college kids do, and then the pocket collapse or nobody was open, he'd
take off and run and do it successfully. It was a non contact injury
that blew a a c L. It wasn't like he got lit up.
He turned when he got outside the lines on a dead run, and he
got the got the team of first down to win a game. When he
blew out a a CL. It's nuts. Wow, that's just crazy.
Oh, I just I just wanted to throw that out there that you know,
Brad Holmes had a plan for him and Hooker the whole time. Mm
hmm. And I think we were creating if he would have been healthy and
then the draft. But being a GM and a head coach all in one,
it doesn't I just don't see it being that successful doing both jobs.
That those are both full time jobs that people get paid for. Like,
I get you, as a coach, you kind of want that, but
as an organization, I'd want two different people doing that because it also is
a different skill set too, Right, And let's go back to when I
think it was when Belichick was being talked about with Tom Brady like Andy Reid
is with Pat Mahomes right now. I think it was that same timeframe when
they did that interview with him right after the season. He goes, being
a head coach is a fifty a week year job. You actually only get
about two weeks off. You get that two weeks off to recover, and
that was when the Pro Bowl was after the Super Bowl. Key thing there,
so you take those two weeks off if he wasn't coaching the Super Bowl.
And nine times out of ten he turned down coaching the Super Bowl because
he wanted that two weeks off, and then it was right back to working
with the scouts, working with the coordinators that he had, or if coordinators
moved on, hiring the next one, and everything else. So I understand
it. Seven days a week, fifty weeks out of the year, he
was at his desk. Oh Joshua and now that Scott is a big time
author, he doesn't come on your show anymore. Well, actually Scott has
his own shows. This one is my show. So Scott comes on,
and I've asked him to, but this is actually mine and Jeremy's show on
Sundays, our Fire Up Edition on Sundays for sure. So that's why Scott's
not on. And he's a little under the weather today, so but nope,
Thursdays. He thought I was only on Thursdays. Also, Gein's how
Cliff Kingsbury because after all the hate he got for taking the OC job as
the Raiders by fans step down and now they're expected to name Louke Getsy the
offensive coordinator of the of the Raiders. And I don't know if that's an
improvement from click Cliff Kingsbury smoking Jay. You know it, you know.
And that's part of the head coach's job too, is like to be in
on like all his staff. So there's been a lot of movement this year
with a lot of different coordinators going here or they're getting fired. So there's
a lot of having to gel and as coaches, you have to learn to
gel first before you can gel with your players, although there are some teams
that have not lost anybody, like Detroit. You guys are all back,
or most of you guys. The only one we might lose because he just
had his second interview on Friday, is Tanger Tanner Engstrom, our assistant offensive
coordinator, which you know everybody says, oh, oh, that's the guy
next in line. If Ben Johnson leaves, I'm gonna throw a caveat out
there. He hadn't had his first interview yet, and we hired a d
line coach to replace Scott Johnson, who did not do as good a job
as God wotch with this defense. And we hired Terrell Williams of the Titans,
who's coaching at the for the American squad down at the Senior Bowl this
week that plays this afternoon, and they made him the run game coordinator.
I find that odd because if everybody that's around us is supposed to be so
great as assistants around Ben Johnson, why is a defensive line coach being made
the run game coordinator. That means if Ben Johnson did leave, Scotty Montgomery,
our running backs coach, was not going to be the offensive coordinator.
If Tanner Ingstram got promoted, they were gonna have to hire somebody, just
a run game coordinator. I just just calling it, like I see it,
m hm. Well, and I do know that Green Bay obviously moved
on from Joe Berry, and the dominoes beneath him are starting to drop too,
because some of the coaches are like, I don't either I don't feel
comfortable working with the new defensive coordinator, or maybe he doesn't want to where
they're just not gelling. But our run defense coordinator he's out. He decided
he didn't want to. And I'm like, I hate to say this,
but we were twenty third against the run and twenty eighth and something else,
and I'm like, okay, we're not really losing someone that's hitting on all
cylinders. Twenty third versus the run and twenty eighth and scoring defense. That's
what it was. So if teams are able to run against you, what
can they do they can score against you. I think it was your red
zone defense. Actually it was twenty eight eight than you guys were like twenty
fifth or twenty sixth the scoring defense. It was something like that. But
you know, if you can't stop the run, you're not gonna stop somebody
in the red zone. No, no, exactly say what you want.
Everybody says, Oh, everybody's gonna pound the rock and run for hundreds of
yards against you. This quarterback's gonna do it. This running back's gonna do
it. This running back's gonna do it. The Lions head Yet through twenty
games, never gave up a one hundred yard rushing running back, which is
why they were the number two run defense in the league. That's the part
we got right. What we have to fix the scoring defense and the scoring
offense. In the third quarter. Scoring offense, we were twentieth. Scoring
defense, we were thirty second in the league. That means every team,
including the god awful Panthers, did better at stopping teams in the third quarter.
And don't don't shoot the messenger. But that's why Allions lost that NFC
championship game. We couldn't stop a cold mm hm. That's true because they
that you allowed San Francisco to get back into that game. And say what
everybody wants to say about Dan Campbell and he's the gambler and stuff like that,
but it worked most of the season, and is it gonna work ninety
percent of the time. No, but neither is a kick, and a
field goal is never one hundred percent guaranteed, especially anymore. You used to
find kickers there. You used to have more kickers that were more accurate.
There were seasons where they would, you know, but they're just not out
there anymore. There's two coming out of college that people should be looking at
if you want an accurate long distance field goal. There's two names. I'm
gonna throw out. The kid out of Standford, Josh Carte. He's over
sixty percent over fifty with the longest sixty one and ninety two percent of everything
under fifty. Wow. And Harry Nevis out of Missouri, who had such
a bad offense, is kicking won them games. He kicked six field goals
for an NCAA record in one game with a sixty one yard game winner.
That's clutch people. So and he's also over sixty percent from over fifty and
eighty five percent for everything under either one. If you need a kicker,
I'm telling you that's the guy you want your team to take in Day three
of the draft, not Day two exactly exactly, but I mean you have
to think about it because I remember they had an interview and they interviewed Matt
Lafleur, and he said he just prayed every time our kicker went out.
And it's like, okay, that says something almost as bad as Dan Campbell
when his friends and colleagues outside of Detroit would say, are you going to
continue to be like this on fourth down? He goes, all I got
the say is when you watch our team wear a diaper, six of our
games were one off of that, only three games were lost out on fourth
down decisions. I'll take that average all day long. Mm hmm, you
say not. Everybody's ninety percent on fourth and three or less. The Lions,
even after the NFC Championship game, were eighty eighty six percent successful.
If they'd have got both of them, they'd have been at ninety percent.
And technically the pass was in one wide receiver's hands both times it was yes.
So it wasn't the play calling that was wrong. It wasn't the execution
of the play that was wrong. It was a mental lapt by one player
that cost the game. In my opinion, the biggest snafoo was taking the
field goal at the end of the half instead of punching it in from the
two yard line. I think that they'd have punched it in and did the
dagger to the hearts and the morale of the forty nine ers and being up
by twenty one at a half time versus seventeen, it had been a different
ballgame in the second half. Yep, I agree. The seventeen points has
been overcome before. It's not a record, people. It tied the record,
so it means it's been done before, and that's fine. Thank god
it wasn't a record, because if it was a record, then I would
be screaming stame. Old lions might exist. So Jeremy, I know you
watch a lot of college and you you're you're big on the draft at any
names that you think for some of the positions that we should be watching for.
You think you're gonna there's a really big safety that's coming out of Florida
State. His name is James Williams. He's six five, two hundred and
twenty pounds. He runs a four four to four or five forty. He's
being tried out at line just because they've got really good safeties across the whole
NCAA and there's not enough room for all of them. And some of the
linebackers wouldn't come and play because they declared for the draft and whatever. So
they're gonna try him out at linebacker. But in high school he was a
corner, and he graduated high school at six foot three and two hundred pounds,
so he put on two inches and twenty more pounds, which, if
you think about it, he's the type of guy you could do that Isaiah
Simmons type of thing and make him play all over the field if you have
the right coordinator to scheme it as if you need a defense interior d lineman
and for a four to three or a four to two five defense to draft.
Terrell Williams is coaching this kid out of Texas. His name is to
Andandre Sweat six foot four, three hundred and sixty two pounds. He's a
mammoth and moves mountains. He literally was triple teamed in one of the practice
events and they couldn't stop them from getting to the quarterback. Hey, I'm
glad to hear Brian snow that you're feeling better from Snowman Multimedia. It's okay,
brother, I'll have you on next week when we do our Super Bowl.
Pick them awesome, awesome. So what quarterback is going is gonna go
first in the draft? I just because I don't think Chicago's moving on from
field, so I don't think they're going for a quarterback. So it's either
gonna be Caleb Williams or Drake May. That's the two names I'm hearing at
the top, and third will probably be Jayden Daniels. Your fourth one to
me is Pennix because of his resume and how he's done as a starter for
Washington. And fourth or fifth it's a crap shoot there. You could throw
out ten names and some some people have been throwing out JJ McCarthy, and
I watch a lot of Michigan football. I'm a Michigan slappy. I'm not
gonna lie, but I'm also a realist when it comes to what I see
going into the NFL. He's gonna be someone you'd rather take late Day two,
early day three and let him sit two or three years just to see
if he can get the grasp of reading an NFL defense. I think he
needs a lot of work with his decision making. I'm just being as brutally
honest as I can. I love JJ McCarty and what he did with Michigan.
But Bears are expected to trade the pick and get an experienced QB.
But before they get a QB, they need to address the big problem in
the last few years. The line, the old line is actually is actually
better than people think. They give fields an average of two point eight seconds,
which is good for top fifteen in the league in pass protection. Where
they suck at is run protection. As you saw without David Montgomery, there
breaking tackles behind the line. Khalil Herbert struggled mightily every now and then he'd
break free because he's shifty enough. But they need a power runner. Roseean
Johnson is that guy. Maybe they need to give him the rock ball more
on first and second downs and keep Khalil Herbert as the change of base back
for third down and as the scat back. But I think they need to
address the interior part of the old line, which they could do all through
that first round. I think they need another valid weapon opposite opposite Dj Moore.
Because Mooney's a free agent. You guys could franchise tag him, but
I think that's a mistake. His production dropped while and he had more drops
this year than he's had in the past, and he looks like you never
really recovered from trading for a true number one receiver. I think you guys
should go Marvin Harrison junior number one and maybe trade back at nine and get
more picks there, because I think Marvin Harrison junior special. I would agree
with that. I would agree with that. And you can never have too
many Maybe you can, but not some of the teams that need to improve.
You can never have too many weapons, snowman. I I appreciate that.
Good to see me. Love to kind of show. Let me know
and we'll work that out. I would love to be on the show.
So next week is Super Bowl, and I don't know how many people are
gonna be watching this one, but I have no dog in the fight.
And no dogs I'm gonna tell everybody the exact same thing that I've said for
now eight years. This will be the eighth year I haven't watched the Super
Bowl, super Bowl evening I lost my oldest son. Until the Lions are
in it, I'm not watching. I hear you. I hear you.
I don't think we're watching it either. We just don't. We don't have
anybody in the race. And to be honest with you, these two teams
really don't excite us. And I mean the only thing that I could find
exciting is that Rock Perdy and the forty nine Ers can beat the Chiefs.
Then you can start to make the analogy of mister irrevelent being closer to Tom
Brady than Pat Mahomes'. Pat Home is a different type of quarterback, whereas
Rock Perdy is almost exactly like Tom Brady. Nobody knew he could run until
he did it. Everybody said he was a statue back there. That's why
he got hurt versus Billy, and we saw last week he looked just as
good as Vanilla Vick up there for the New York Giants, Daniel Jones at
running the ball. So yeah, and yes, that is literally his nickname.
It's Vanilla Vick or Danny Dimes for Daniel Jones. Well, I have
changed his nickname to Danny Paesos because I don't think he's worth a dime.
Speaking of Rock, PERTY have to make light of Cam Newton talking about Brock
Purty and saying how Brock was the tenth best player on the forty nine Ers.
I loved right, but I love the he's kind of right, But
I love the response. But and brock Perty said, well, there's ninety
quarterbacks in the league and you're not one of them. Cam. I love
that. Like, Okay, wait a minute, you want to talk about
me, let's talk about you. I'm at least playing in the league.
I'm starting quarterback. Yeah, there might be other players on my team that
are better than me, but at least I'm playing this game that you want
to play and you're not playing. I love it. The swagger by this
kid in the moxie. You can't help but like the kid, right,
I don't. I don't got anything negative to say about him. Mister irrelevant
shouldn't be called mister irrelevant anymore. It's mister starting QB. He was statistically
a top ten quarterback. If you ranked him in quarterbacks and you have him
outside the top fifteen, your delusional or mentally challenged. It's the same with
golf. You know what he is. Golf is a better version of Rock
thirty because he's older and more seasoned and makes better decisions. That's it.
If it wasn't for eight drops, do you realize what GoF State stat line
would have been. And I'm not saying make those catches. I'm saying just
remove the eight drops, remove those eight passes from his stat line. He
was twenty five or thirty three, which means he actually tied his exact completion
percentage that he had for the season in that game. Rayland Dennis man prety
overrated in your opinion, being from two teams that just watched them come back
in the second half and torch a couple of teams. I can't agree with
that statement, Raylan Dennis. And I'm not saying God overrated either. Nowhere
have I said that he had top five statistics. But if you ask anybody
that scouts the NFL on a regular basis, and I'm talking about professionals,
not just us people doing podcasts, I'm talking like the guys on ESPN and
NFL Network, Golf and Party are ranked pretty close to the same. They're
like either eleven inch twelve or twelve and thirteen, depending on whose list you
look at. And is it right? No, because statistically Golf was fifth
and Party was actually fourth in yardage, Golf was tied for seventh in touchdown,
Party was ahead of him at six. Completion percentage, Golf is above
Party and that to me is what puts golf above Party because that means his
decision making is better, I think, and being overrated, I don't agree
with that. I think I think exactly underrated. People dog them all the
time, exactly, and I think part of it is a lot of it
has to do with the team that you're on and the players that you're surrounded
with. Party's on a good team. But I don't think he's overrated,
right. But that's my opinion too. I disagree with you, Brillan.
I appreciate and I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it. A
lot of people are saying he's overrated, and it's mostly there's a lot of
Lions fans that are salty from that game. And you know what, you
got to take your fandom out of it and look at it and go look
at his statistics, you really do. I can say all sorts of bad
things about Love too, but guess what. He statistically was a top fifteen
quarterback for his first year playing as a starter. But the difference is he
had three years to sit. All you can say is they had Trey Lance
and Jimmy Garoppolo last year on the forty nine ers, and they weren't winning
until Rock Purdy got there. I agree, I agree, I mean yes,
is it all Shanahan's system? Partially? Is Rock Perdy better than he
was drafted? One thousand percent? That's where I'm at with it. There's
twenty eight teams in the league that would rather have Rock Purdy than the quarterback
there they have right now. And how many of them had ants to get
them and decided to pass? And that's the crap shirt you take in the
draft? All of them think about it. Ed last picking the draft at
two hundred and fifty fifth or two sixty seven, whatever he was. Every
team in the league had a chance to draft rockbirdy mm hmm, and yet
San Francisco is the only one that did. And the success they've had since
then, when you know, is awesome. Well, Jeremy, are we
ready to talk a little women's college basketball? Absolutely? I haven't talked about
it's sports related. And you know, I'm not a big and I'll be
honest with you, I'm a big basketball, especially women's basketball. I don't
follow the WNBA that for anybody that watches three chicks in a pot or chicks
and sauce that we all know that that's a Megan Prices, that's her stick,
that's what she does, that's what she does really great. But I
have to give kudos because Caitlin Clark of doing something that we haven't seen in
quite a while. She is averaging thirty two point four points per game this
season. For her career, she has fifty one thirty point games, the
most by a Division IE player in the last twenty five seasons. Fourteen of
those is this season. She has fifteen triple doubles, including four this season.
She has eleven forty point games, which is the most by any D
one player over the last twenty five years. Right now, she has three
thousand, four hundred and sixty two points. She is number two all time.
Number one was Kelsey Plume. She played for Washington from twenty thirteen to
seventeen, with three thousand, five hundred and twenty seven points. Caitlin Clark,
will you become the all time leading scorer? Do you think she's going
to do it? Odds are eight in her favor. I mean, how
can you bet against those type of numbers. I don't know how you can.
I mean, I don't think we've seen a female as predominant as she
is in years. I mean obviously the you know, it's only been a
couple of years since the last one. But and the excitement that she's brought
to women's basketball. The attendance that they're drawing too, is something we haven't
seen in I don't know ever. I think you were saying that they have
more at an Iowa women's basketball than some of the NWNBA go back to the
divisional round or no, the wild card round or the playoffs. The and
Shea women's basketball were more watched than Philly at Tampa Bay and more watch than
any WNBA game. It's just crazy. But that's exciting to see because some
of these less known sports or less watched in the previous years. It's great
to see the popularity because, let's face it, what else is on TV
to watch? TV has became like sports anyways. It's all reality TV anymore.
It is. It is why I have subscription services. I just watched
the shows I want to watch. There you go, there you go.
Well, Jeremy, what else is on your mind today? I don't want
to go back to a few years when a rookie quarterback had a great year
and earned a second contract with the Lions, and it's a guy you got
don't want to hear this about, but we made him the highest player for
all of two weeks until Kirk Cousins got his deal with the Minnesota Vikings.
That was Jonathan Matthew Stafford. We go a few years into that contract and
we redo his contract to make him the highest paid again and again. Within
a couple of weeks, it was overshadowed and everybody was complaining that we paid
him this much money and we're going to the playoffs and losing, and couldn't
understand why none of these players wanted to stay on the team and why we
couldn't afford anybody we overpaid for past accomplishments. When you overpay a quarterback,
you hinder the growth of the rest of the team and who you can keep,
and the core of your team starts to fall apart, and when it
starts to degrade, everybody points the fingers at the coaches and not at the
GM and the quarterback that eating up more than twenty percent of the team's salary.
Say, honestly, I could say, I honestly feel that's the reason
why in Green Bay we only had one with Aaron and one with Brett farb
mm hmmm. It's the same thing. You guys finally got it to where
your draft picks after that, because when you first got Brett farv it was
easy once he got that Super Bowl and it was easy to pay him.
Mentally, he earned it right. But at the same time, you watched
a lot of players start to leave and you're like, man, why is
this player leaving? Why is this player leaving? You can't afford them?
Nope, And the same thing happened when Rogers won his Super Bowl in this
second year playing, which was after his franchise tag. What happened he got
that Super Bowl MVP contract. There's a reason why a few Packer fans call
him the same thing other fans do, and it's not a polite name,
so I'm not gonna say call it mm hmm. That was the one thing
you have to give Tom Brady credit for is that he would go back in
and say, let's renegotiate because I know I need players around me. I
can't do this by myself, right, And That's where I'm going with it.
If you go back to the year two thousand and you add up every
salary of the Super Bowl playing not just winning Super Bowl playing quarterbacks and add
it all together. The only one that's above this number was the guy Detroy
traded to the Rams where they had to add players for win that year.
Anyway, and I'm going to keep repeating this because everybody thinks both when they're
in a Super Bowl. No, it's a team game. If the percentage
is eighteen point two percent, all all the qbs combined, the only one
above it is Jonathan man New Stafford. That's pretty overwhelming because if you take
him out of the equation, it would have been fifteen point eight. That
means every Super Bowl playing quarterback was either on a rookie contract or Tom Brady
on a less than market value. Yes, let me repeat that, every
Super Bowl playing quarterback was either a rookie contract or Tom Brady on a less
than market value. And if with the way the inflated cap room is now
eighteen point two percent, the number anybody should not want to pay a quarterback
more than is forty one point two million starting this season. That's your food
for thought. Interesting. Interesting, that is really interesting. We have to
say good afternoon too, will thank you for joining us here. Will Mark
Melly Rookie on Super Bowl or Bust. I agree, twenty twenty five is
our year. We got to say it. For next year again, well,
I think green Bay might have a little something to say about it,
but but we'll see. I think it's going to come down to Detroit or
green Bay for the division. But I think both teams make the playoffs.
I think both teams floor is about ten wins and anything above that is gravy.
I would agree. I would agree because do you think for both teams?
Oh it does? Oh yeah, and everybody's going to be gunning for
him. Green Bay was the third best team in the division last year,
so they had the easier side of the schedule right overall. Detroit was second.
They had an easier schedule than Minnesota. What we're going to see is
if this is a one year one or and if we can keep maintained that
ten plus win season for the first time in Detroit Lions history in the Super
Bowl era, can we have a back to back ten plus win season?
Mm hmm. And I'd go back to saying talking about a little bit about
the quarterbacks and reconstructuring your contracts. We're seeing it even in other sports somewhat.
I know we talked about a little bit Thursday night about Corbyn Burns because
it was breaking news that he was being traded. And there are so many
Brewer fans that are up in arms because how can we give away the farm
this season and we're not going to have a good season. But you also
have to remember that if players become free agents after a season, you get
nothing besides a draft pick, nothing if they go someplace else Whereas if you
have trade value now or you or they're willing to restructure and do their contracts
and you can, it's a different story. But you don't want to be
left with them walking out the door as a free agent. So you got
to you gotta trade value now. At forty one point two million, I
want to say something because that's a key number. Also, Daniel Jones signed
a three year, forty million a year contract, so it's at least one
million more than Daniel Jones. If anybody offers that contract to somebody, the
agent can't come back with that awful saying. You know you're gonna hear oh,
so you're saying, my QBS no better than Daniel Jones is now the
floor of contract value. But at the same time, that percentage, it
has nothing to do with anything other than keeping your team together. That is
the main reason why Tyreek Hill is a Miami Dolphin. It's Patrick Mally's contract
that was due this season. They knew they couldn't afford him in an eighteen
to twenty million dollars a year wide receiver. And if you ask Tyreek Hill
right now, would he like being making that money with Miami or playing in
the super Bowl this weekend and making fifteen million, I bet you he'd say
I'd rather make the fifteen million. I think players are going to have to
start really taking a look at and I get they're only playing for so many
years, so they want to make as much as they can. But what's
more important making the bigger bucks or having more of a chance to go further
and win a super Bowl? Because everybody you talk to, super Bowl or
bust, that's what they want. They want. They don't want. I
don't want a career of how many years I'd rather win a super Bowl.
I want to win a super Bowl. In order to win a super Bowl,
you might have to take less money so that there's money to go around.
Dan Marino tried. He just had a horrible GM that didn't know how
to sign or draft anybody. Dan Reno took less than the highest paid quarterback,
even though he was the best quarterback in the league those years. He
just didn't. He made OJ McDuffie a household name. And it's as Dan
Marino retired, what happened O j McDuffie retired a year after. It's food
for taught people. People don't have that team mentality anymore, and that's the
problem. They're me. It's a me for society. They're looking out for
themselves. Yes, I understand it's a short window of years that you get
to play in the NFL. The average NFL career for a running back is
three to five years. For a quarterback, it's still seven to ten.
If you're making a twenty MILLI year and you can't make your money last,
you're not living within your means. You're living beyond your means. It means
you're doing stuff extracurricular wise that's costing you money. That's years that I'd be
happy with a million a year. Get tax the crap out of me and
take a hundred thousand and invest it and live comfortable with the interests of the
rest of my life because they have such a thing as a mutual money marketing
account where you're guaranteed a one to four percent monthly year. That's the first
five years. Is a rookie contract only for first round picks. Mh.
That is why it's three to five years for a running back, because not
every running back is a first round pick, right right. Wow, we've
had quite a bit quite a good time on the show again, Jeremy,
And where did the time go? I mean, wow, first four years
with the fifth year option, it's a five year contract. There's a lot
of guys that don't even make it through their first year. Muhammedi bringing be
in one of them. Any last parting shots, Jeremy, I want to
say what I say at the end of my show. Try every day to
be a better person than you wear the day day before, because that's the
only way to make the world a better place. It starts with it here.
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I wasn't mad. I know, life happened. Stuff happened, and
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