Good Sunday afternoon, and welcome to another episode of Fire Up. It's with
me, Miss Candy and mister smoking Jeremy be. How are you smoking,
Jeremy b any day I wake up is good because it's better to be seen
than viewed. This is true. Is very good. That is very good.
Well, we are in the middle of Super wild Card weekend in NFL
football. What better weekend is there? Super Bowl? That's about it.
The only thing with Super Bowl weekend is it just one? You have all
this hype. It's the game, is what I'm getting at. The playoffs
are great, Yeah, Will Volgel's team, the Panthers couldn't sniff the sniff
the playoffs even if they drafted c. J. Stroud instead of Brace Young
because that old line trash. The weapons are bad and that defense is the
only thing good. The old line is absolutely oord Yes, well, mister
Will is very busy. Good afternoon. Playoffs, playoffs, And then Braylan
says, hey, Candy, I really want your Packers to win. Hate
Dallas more. I couldn't agree with you more, Braylan, But we'll get
to that a little bit later. And Will is saying, don't remind me
and then they're talking about and then the Lions will crush the Packers. Hopes
that's not how it would line up, though, because if San Francisco beats
Dallas, who's the two seed, that's the seventh seed, they will have
to go to San Francisco to play the forty nine Ers, which means the
lie would get the home game on whoever wins between the Bucks and Eagles at
four twenty five today. Interesting. Interesting, Yes, well, I would
rather that be the case. I would rather that be the case. If
you think about it, what is the better road somebody you have not played
and somebody who've already beaten, or somebody who split games with and then lost
to the other team. Mm hmm. I would rather the Packers win and
go play San Francisco, maybe cause a couple little minor mishaps because they're angry
and playing with with a little fire on the defensive side, because they're trying
to save Joe Berry's job again. Yes, eight games of despair and misery
and then all of a sudden boom, the Packers play on defense. I
know, I know, it gets to that point where they hasn't it been
all three years with them now m okay, just making sure I had,
you know, my eyes dotted and t's cross with that. Yes, well,
let's let's recap yesterday's games before we go into really today's games and tomorrow's
games, especially since they moved one of the games to tomorrow. But let's
let's recap. Let's start with the first game yesterday, Brown's at the Texans.
The Texans showed up. The Browns didn't. They were still on the
plane. That's all I can say. It amaze me here you have the
rookie quarterback against a veteran quarterback and who who, lights out did played better?
Not just a little bit, but lights out. You would have thought
the veteran, but no, it was not the veteran. C J.
Stroud did everything that Joe Flacco. That Joe Flacco did the Davis Mills in
the previous meeting, And like I said, I said, because CJ.
Stroud did not play, that's the only reason why Cleveland barely won that game.
It wasn't a blowout, it was a barely got by them. I
think it was less than seven points. And c J. Stroud is that
much better than Davis Mills. That proved it to everyone. Oh, yeah,
plus they were at home. I do think there is an advantage at
home. And I hate to say that because we're going to talk about Dallas
later, and Dallas obviously has a big advantage playing at home because they've they've
just been playing better at home. But there's something to be said about playing
at home unless you're a much better team. And I think when you're an
evenly matched because we kind of all thought they were kind of a little more
even. But when you have that little bit, that little edge is at
home field advantage when you think it's an even game. Yeah, and uh,
James Burgess said it what best. Joe Blackow went limp. I have
a nickname that goes with that. If you want to hear it, I'll
let it out because then you'll get some laughs and some reactions. It's our
already been on my show a few times, and it's not cussing. It's
Joe placid mm hm. Oh. Yes. Yes. The Browns defense was
a really suspect for the number one defense. It really didn't. They weren't
proven themselves. The crowd made it hard on the offense and defense. If
you looked every time, every time they were in the huddle. That loud,
That crowd was loud, And that's exactly what you're not jumping forward to
tonight's game with the Lions. That's what David Montgomery wants the fans to do
to the Rams because if they're in the huddle, whether on offense or defense,
it makes it hard on them because they don't know your play calling exactly
exactly. I was just I was really surprised that Texans defense defence really came
to play too. You know, as bad as that offense has been off
and on, the defense has actually been middle of the road to very good.
Yes. I mean I don't think they've been ranked ever since. They've
been there lower than fifteenth in the league. And if you think about that,
they've only made the playoffs one other time than this, and that was
with DeShawn Watson. The Texas online was underrated was the biggest takeaway I got
from that game. They had Garrett out of position all night runner pass.
Yeah, I mean, Larry m. Tunstall was doing a job on Miles
Garrett. I was enjoying watching it when he got hurt there for a minute,
I was like, oh no, this might not be good. And
instead of sticking him on the backup, they rotated him to the other side,
and I was like, well, that doesn't make any sense. Why
take him away when he just got at least two or three plays that he
might be able to take on a guy not a caliber as Laramie Dunstall.
Yes, and then we had the fourth coldest game in NFL history played last
night, and all I have to say is, as much as we all
thought it might be a sold out stadium, they said it wasn't sold out,
But they also said that you would not have been wanting to sit in
that upper section. The bottom bowl wasn't as bad, but the upper section
because the wind was blowing that it was negative what twenty seven thirty below zero
with that wind, and just seeing the negative twenty three at the start of
the game. By the end of the game that they said it was in
the thirties below zero, that was just crazy. And we saw a kind
of the game that we thought we'd see from Miami in that kind of cold
weather. They're just not a cold weather team. When when your play for
a place that averages seventy two degrees year round and you go to a place
that averages negative ten from January through March. You're not gonna play well there,
No, no, let's face it. Miami did themselves in the last
game of the year, losing to Buffalo made them go to Kansas City.
And had they done better down the stretch the end of the season, they
would have had some momentum, and they didn't have any momentum. And it
showed. First half they hung in there a little bit, but second half
what they were totally demolished. And to him talking about Mahome's helmet shattered,
it shattered more to the cold than it was the hit because that was a
glancing blow. If that had been a direct helmet to helmet hit, targeting
would have been called, right, I agree, but it was crazy to
see that the helmet shattered. I'm like I saw that they almost wanted to
put him in concussion protocol. You saw that they made him called time out
and change his helmet. Yes, and then they was complaining because this helmet
wasn't the new helmet didn't fit the same. Yeah, it didn't fit him
right, and he didn't feel comfortable in it. He'd rather had the one
with the because all it was was the shell. The helmet itself wasn't broken
they have a shell? Yes, well, And it was so funny because
we were watching the first game, and the first game was previewing the second
game, and they were previewing how Taylor Swift was going to be out in
the elements in this at this cold game, and I'm like, oh,
come on, she will not be out in the elements. She's going to
be in this cozy little suite. It's and it's heated. It's yes,
it may not be as warm as being in a house, but really so
yes, you're James. I'm so happy that Taylor Swift had a nice comfy
suite and number one candy. Am I A screwed this up at the end
of the this season? Yes, yeah, no, he gave you a
plus one. He does scoring for good comments. Thanks James. I appreciate
that. Yes, and Miami did screw it up. They shouldn't have rested
their starters versus Buffalo in that Week eighteen game. And I have said this
going into the wild cards. The teams that rest their starters in Week eighteen
tend not to do well in the wild card round. They're fine if they
make it to the division round, but there's only been five winners of teams
that's arrested players in the wild card round. And even Candy knows about this
from the year they rested Rogers and Company. They lost the last game,
went in and lost in the wild card and was bounced. Yes, there's
something to be say about continuity and it just yeah, you're right. Why
I agree? Dan Campbell should have played the starters and gone for the win
and pulled them at the right time. I mean, once they had that
two two score lead at the beginning of the fourth quarter and Mullins and company
drove down and scored and made it a one score game. You can't take
your starters out. If it was a two or three score lead and they
didn't score on that drive, then yes, you could have pulled your starters
on offense, but you still want your starters on defense to stop them.
I agree. I agree. Well, let's get off the Miami warm or
cold Bay bandwagon. Five degrees under forty. Oh yeah, there is a
little bit of breaking news or that JJ McCarthy is declaring for the NFL Draft.
I don't think that's a surprise. Who said that was happening. I
was gonna say I don't think that's a surprise. I wonder if him doing
that, if he has any inside to the coaching, if Jim Harball is
going to be back or not. And Braylan Dennis agrees with me, Yes,
thank you, Jeremy. Somebody finally stuid it. Mm hmm, well
think about it. The Jags thought about doing it because Trevor Lawrence was kind
of hurt, but after the Texans won, they had to play their starters
and Trevor Lawrence had to play hurt and got beat, which is how the
Texans won the division. Coach of the Year and Offensive Rookie of the Year
are on the same team because they were not even predicted to win more than
seven games this year. Mm hmm. But funny that that kind of sounds
something like somewhat like the Packers too. They weren't predicted to do anything either,
And look at you, who told you prior to this season. I
see them as second place because the Minnesota defense was worse than everybody thought.
You did. You did just because your second place doesn't mean you make the
playoffs. No, And I said there would be a chance because if they
only win nine games, they might not make it. But you didn't.
You won ten, didn't you? No? We won nine? Oh yeah,
that's right. The Seahawks failed to get their tenth win. That's how
they got it. That's how you got it. Hey, Yes, it
doesn't matter how you got their congratulations, Thank you. You got the total
win total I predicted. I said, you guys would be nine and eight.
You thought eight and nine? Again, I remember, yes, And
let's face it, we're gonna go. The Packers are going into Jerry's World
eighteen in Stadium, which we've never lost, but we've only played there four
times, and obviously it was with a much different quarterback. And let's face
it, Dallas is playing really tough at home. But I will say that
Dallas, somehow, Someway always finds a way to make mistakes when it comes
to big games. Come on, say it like it is. They craft
the bed. And I don't know if that's part of McCarthy. You know,
My question would be is if they lose, If Dallas loses, does
McCarthy lose his job? He should? I said, if they don't make
the super Bowl with this roster being as talented as it is, that's that's
Dak makes sixty million next year if they don't make the Super Bowl, you
can't have a sixty million dollar quarterback on your roster. And there's almost no
dead cap. That means Dak becomes a free agent, they'll just cut him.
They won't even have to trade him because right now, what team that
needs a quarterback is going to trade for Dak Cusper, Dak Prescott. I
don't know. We'll think about it. Who's out there that would want to
trade for a quarterback that can't get it done? Well, you don't want
to put so much salary cap, spend so much salary cap for one player
that's not I mean, he's he's not a bag of chips and all that,
you know, right, I mean, yes, he's had better numbers
this year than he's had since his MVP like season. This has been the
best he's played and that Remember the next year was when he broke his leg
and was out the year. So you can't count that against him, right,
but you can count the three years in between that against him. Since
McCarthy's been there, no less, Okaye, I think it'll I think it'll
come down to I think it'll come down to the Packers wide receivers getting free
and Jordan hitting them and not missing them and being on the same page.
I think that that's key. I think Aaron Jones will do good, but
I think more so. And then I guess our defense too, because I
never know with Joe Berry and our defense what he's going to do, and
sometimes he lays flat eggs and sometimes he's good. But that's what's that always
scares me, you know. But Dallas has all the pressure on them.
The Packers really don't have any pressure on them. They weren't expected to be
there. They can play more loose. What do you think, Jeremy.
I think with no expectations on the Packers of even making the playoffs, they
have nothing to lose. They can play, for lack of a better term,
ball to the wall. Mm hmm. You go out there, you
fire on Allison, does all systems go? You make Dallas one dimensional,
which is what the Lions did, take away their run. Use a run
blitz, which we've seen Joe Barry do lately. He hasn't been laying back
on the run game. So make them one dimensional. Don't let Tony Pollard
and induce Vaughn take over the game. Held them to a combined under one
hundred yards and Dak makes mistakes when under pressure. So that means not just
run blitz, but pass blitz, which is something you guys are good at.
I think in pressers you guys were at top fifteen in the league if
I remember right, and in facts you were in the top twenty if my
memory serves me right for the regular season. That means you guys know how
to get to the quarterback. We weren't even top twenty in sacks. We
were in that twenty to twenty five range, which is better than last year
and better than the year before. It's minor minute improvement. So there's another
game, hmm that's being played tonight, and it's more in your backyard.
You want to plash backyard. Absolutely Rams versus Lions right here in Detroit at
Fordfield, because why, why, why why the Lions won the division?
Yes, absolutely, I just wanted to hear you say it. I know,
I give kudos the Lions. Hey, they're up and coming and they've
done They've done some remarkable things under Dan Campbell. So it's the same thing
for the Lions that the Packers have to do. But the Lions have done
it very well all season. They are number one in DVOA for advanced statistics
versus the run. That's scoring defense, run defense as well as yardage run
defense against. The thing with the Rams, what have they proven they can't
do all year? They can't stop a good running team. In the DVA
Advanced statistics they are thirty second in the league in scoring defense against. That
is not a good combination with the lethal duo we have that runs the ball
and helped the O line versus an O line that likes to give up pressure
doesn't really open holes. E step through the middle because they have suspect tackles
because their starting tackles at the beginning of the year are still out. So
that gives the edge to the Lions. And we're also a top five offense.
Rams are a top fifteen offense. They came on strong with the run
game late. But if you hold Kyron Williams to seventy yards, which is
what we've done to every superstar running back all year, seventy yards are or
less. Matt Stafford makes mistakes, they're one and seven in that situation.
I think you guys can pressure Matt Stafford, and I think that will really
help you guys, Dan Campbell in the play calling that he said he was
taking over after the Chicago game. It has shown that his hand is on
this defense because we became one hundred more to aggressive than we had been all
year. Hutchinson went from having six and a half sacks to ending the season
with eleven and a half sacks. Actually, no, it's five and a
half to eleven and a half, so he got stick stacks over the last
four or five games. That's a huge. Both quarterbacks, as much as
I hate hate to say it, are absolutely garbage versus pressure this season.
Matt Stafford is thirty one, Jared Goff is twenty ninth versus pressure. Stafford
has thrown a couple more interceptions than what GoF has this year, so they're
pretty much even in that category. But our old line is healthy. Their
old line is suspect. So it means towards a Lions win. And I
know every single Stafford with Dan or Lowsky on his podcast, picked the Rams
to win. Guess what, every single one of them picked the Browns to
beat the Texans two. There's the reason why we play these games. I
mean, let's face it, I think the interesting common said a lot of
people have said, uh, have how many Stafford Lions jerseys will be in
attendance. I don't even care. That has no bearing on how the game
is played, and if it does. If it does, that means that
the players are not playing, paying attention to the field, and they're paying
attention to the stands. That's true. This is Jared Goff's team, It's
Jared Goff's town. We embraced him now. He did something Matt Stafford was
never able to do with much less roster that Stafford had in a lot of
points in his career here, not towards the end, but I'm talking about
when we were going good during the three playoff runs. That twenty fourteen to
fifteen team was one of the best rosters in the league. Number two overall
defense, number one rushing defense, number two in NFL history. Your point
part of it is, too is coaching as well, because you didn't have
Dan Campbell. And as much as I like Dan Campbell, don't get me
wrong, I think sometimes I definitely disagree with some of his very aggressive coaching.
I would say some of his calls I agree. I mean he went
on full tilt after the bad call at the end of the Dallas game.
And I don't really blame him. I would be on full tilt too,
And if anybody says they wouldn't be, they've never been in that type of
pressure situation. You go full tilt when something goes off kilter, and you
do the same thing, right, But there were some other other times in
some of the other games when he went for it, and I'm like,
I don't know that I would have gone for I would have gone for the
points, you know, and stuff. I obviously I'm not a quarter I'm
not a coach, so obviously my I don't get paid lots of money like
he does, so you know, but I do think he does gamble a
lot more than a lot of others. It'll be interesting to see how this
game turns out. I mean, I think you're at home, which gives
you guys an advantage, and it because you guys can be loud in there,
and that's the one thing. Because you're inside Ford Field, the loud
factor takes it to a different level than an outside stadium would. And Kelly
Stafford was mad because if we didn't have a suite available for her and her
friends. So she's doing a friendly get together at a tavern near the stadium
instead with her friends that came in from out of town. But the reason
why there was no suites available is because the season ticket holders with tickets on
the opposing sidelines are off the suite first, so that the opposing team can
have seats by the sidelines. And yes, it is a sold out game.
They have just opened their second batch of standing room tickets. I think
that was done on Friday if I remember right. So, yeah, it's
a sold out game when you're selling standing room tickets and those are sold in
five thousand blocks. That's why that one game said there was eighty two thousand
in attendance. They said they only see sixty five. No, there was
eighty five thousand people there on the concourse and in the in the aisles trying
to watch sitting on steps. Mm hmm. That's crazy. It is crazy.
But that almost rivaled our biggest home attendance at Pontiacs Overdome, which did
seat eighty two thousand. Well, at least everybody will be able to see
this game because it'll be on NBC as opposed to last night's game on Peacock.
Yeah, I was able to watch it, but I got a different
service than everybody else, so it doesn't matter. I don't I was able
to watch it on NBC because I was in one of the counties close to
Miami, so that I was allowed. Right Miami was. Miami's considered a
major market because of their population. I think Tampa Bay even got to see
it too on NBC. I'm not sure because they're one of the I think
they're a top fifty populated city. Okay, we're in the Detroit area.
You could watch it on NBC if you were in New York, LA.
All those places interesting. Interesting, and it's the mid it's the main that
is what's considered a major to mid major market. It was actually the WrestleMania
three. It was one hundred and two thousand people in attendance. It's it's
still a record for an indoor attendance. Ever. Wow, that is just
crazy. That is just crazy. Well, on from our games for tonight,
there is two games tomorrow because they moved the Steelers Bills game to Monday
because they are having a winter storm right now. Update on that it may
get moved to Tuesday because the storm is flowing on how it's moving through the
area. So they're talking about even pushing it back another day. You're kidding.
I had not heard that yet. I just heard that this morning.
Wow, that is crazy. But I mean, and we've heard I've heard
some grumblings from some of the Bills fans. Here's what I'm going to say.
You have to be safe first and foremost. We are playing a game.
And I get everybody loves this and NFL football, but to get there,
you have to be safe. And then that player's safety once they're in
the stadium to play a game in this the weather that they were, I
know, they were also asking for people to shovel snow and they were gonna
pay them twenty bucks an hour. Yep, and Bills Mafia tried to keep
up, but overnight it changed to freezing rain and once it became a layer
of ice, shoveling's not gonna work, no cusin. I know we dealt
with it here Friday night. Ouch. How is the weather there today?
Negative nine with the windshill. It's a bit brisk. How warm can they
warm ford Field? Ford Field's completely stealed with like really good heaters. They'll
probably have it some. They usually try to keep the temperature between sixty eight
and seventy two degrees. That way, when it fills up, it does
and get too humid because that slit turf becomes slick when humid. So I'm
quite sure they'll have the temper the thermostat rate at seventy till people start to
show up, and then turn it down to sixty nine to keep the humidity
down, and then the body heat will keep that feeling like seventy three seventy
four degrees the entire time. Okay, back to the bull Bill's game.
Who do we think is going to take that game? I think it's going
to be a case of the division winners winning all the wild card rounds in
the AFC. I don't see Mason Rudolph and a TJ. Wattless defense beating
the Bills. Yeah, I think with TJ. Watt out that makes a
heat. That's a big blow for the Steelers, and they've been playing so
erratic. I would say this year that I agree with you. I agree
with you. Do we think Tomlin will come back? Then? Tomlin was
talking about retiring after the season before the season even started. He's tired of
the grind. He wants to spend time with his family. His kids are
getting older, he's missing their childhood. He talked about all of this,
and he's also talked about the attitude of the fans that want him gone.
It wears on you, it has to. I'm quite sure Matt Patricia is
still sitting somewhere with scorch marks on his butt from the things we said about
him. That that's true as you Matt Patrashia, Yeah, that's my favorite
name for him. But I was being polite. Their team is in the
playoffs. But guess what, that Ben don't Break defense looks exactly like the
defense he ran with the Lions. It's not working. They've lost four of
their last five. And that's the other game that's on Tomorrow night. You
know, I think Sunday, with every most of Americans that work Monday through
Friday having the night off, they actually got it right putting the Lions and
Rams in this prime time slot versus the primetime slot on Monday, because on
Monday you have to go to work the next day. Half the viewers are
probably gonna check out if the game's over in the third quarter. M if
it's a tight game, they might stay up and watch the whole thing,
but it'll really be the Philadelphia market and the Tampa Bay market that stays up
for the entire game unless you're a die hard football slappy like me. I
agree, I agree. I think the better games are tonight, and I
think that in both games well at Lisa and I hope, so let's put
it that way too. I mean, for both of our sakes that I
hope, but I really I hope they're really good games. Like yesterday's games.
The Browns game was good till half, and then after half it really
was very one sided, very one the back to back pick sixes by Joe
Blackout that sealed their fate. I knew they weren't scoring another point. I
didn't even have to watch the rest of the game, yep, I just
watched the score role on the the Google pinned score board on my phone.
Wow. Well, look at all these people that are commenting. I love
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a little bit from NFL. I was reading an article and I was thinking,
you know, we always talk about coaching trees, but we always talk
about NFL coaching trees like Bill Belichick, Oh he this coach came from the
Bill Belichick tree, or Andy Reid, this guy came from this tree and
this tree Shanahan or the Peyton or the Rex Ryan or whatever. But we
don't normally talk about Nick Saban's coaching tree. And now that he's retiring,
it's huge, it is, and I was so surprised. And I was
reading an article that said thousands of players have played for him, and we
there's obviously lots of great players, but we don't give credit to the coaching
tree that he actually has. And that's where he really made his mark,
is what a lot of people are saying, and we don't give we don't
give him credit for that. And a lot of his coaches have been very
successful, I might add, some of them not so much but the saving
coach and Tree just from Alabama alone. That's from twenty eleven to present,
there's been twenty different head coaches and coordinators that have came out of there.
Well, let's read off some, okay. In twenty twenty three, Lance
Taylor went to Western Michigan. Twenty twenty two, Ron Cooper and Dan Lanning.
Ron Cooper went to Long Island University. Dan Lanning the current head coach
at Oregon. That's why he was a favorite to get the coaching job there.
Joe Judge, former head coach and currently couch sitting after being fired from
the Patriots this past offseason. New York Giants, Phil Napier Louisiana Lafayette,
Jeremy Pruitt, the guy at Tennessee who I wouldn't mind seeing it. Ben
Jonson's not a coordinator, that's right, Just say it. Mike Loxley,
Maryland, Lane Kip and Florida, Atlantic, Mario Cristobal or Oregon, Major
Applewhite, Houston, Jeff Collins at Temple, Jim mcelwing Colorado State, Kurt
Signetti Indiana, Pennsylvania, Eric Keisaw Fresno State, Mike B. Loosley,
Maryland, Steve sarkesh in Texas, Brent k Georgia Tech, Lou Spannos Connecticut,
Butch Jones Arkansas State, and Charles up at Marshall. That's twenty just
from the Alabama tree well. And then there's Jimbo Fisher he was under Saban,
Kirby Smart was under Saban, Will mush Camp. Let's see Mark Dantonio,
he was under. There is a couple of other big ones that I
thought once from LSU, specifically Kirby Smart, Adam Gase, jimbo Fisher,
Derek Dooley, Mel Tucker, Will Mustamp and Michael Haywood. From his short
stint with the Miami Dolphins, Dan Quinn, Mike Malarkey, Jason Garrett,
and Scott Lenehan. That is such a list of coaches MSU is Pat Shermer,
Josh McDaniels, Mark D'Antonio, Morris Watt, and Bobby Williams. And
then from his time at Toledo it was Tom Amstut's, Dean Peas and Lawrence
L. T. Cole. All of these guys were either a high end
coordinator or a head coach with some moderation of success in some way or the
other. With the exception of Joe Judge, and you never know, he
might Joe Judge might come back and be successful with another team. I mean
right now now, but you never know. And he was an assistant with
Bill Belichick, so he actually comes from the Bill Belichick crocheing tree. He
was under him. Think about that. Everybody says, oh, Bill Belichick
doesn't have one successful coach. They all forget one of the last years when
Cleveland was there, before that team shut down for a while, they were
there. Yeah, Rex Ryan is all in. He's one of the few
national pundits other than Kyle Brandt of the NFL Network with the other guy,
the young kid that loves Brad Holmes and did the interview with him prior to
the season. They can't think of his name. There was Kyle Brandt and
Peter Schreger. That's him. They pick the Lions to beat the Rams.
So those are three guys. I actually like their opinion and I like the
way they talk about it. And they're not lyon slappies. They're Dan Campbell
and Brad Holmes slappies. Yes, yes, oh that's what I said.
Listen. No, you said he coached with him. He actually was an
assistant under Bill Belichick at the time. Mm hmm, yes, So it
wasn't really coaching with him, it was coaching for him. So because he
was the linebackers coach and Saban was the assistant linebackers coach at that time.
It's just interesting because people always talk about how successful he was, and we
think about successful coaches and we think we only think national championships or Super Bowl
titles. But sometimes you got to look back and say, are you successful
if you've developed coaches underneath you to succeed as well. And obviously some of
the players. He's coached thousands of players that have gone on to be very
successful. And whatever he decides to do next, I mean, I know
he's retiring from coaching football, but I wish him all the success he has
given us years of angst, but good football. Whether you like him as
a person or not, he gave us football. He helped elevate the game.
Yep. And James burd just brings up a good point in Bill Belichick's
first NFL job was a special teams assistant with the Lions. I did not
know that. Wow. They let him walk from the building to the Browns.
The Browns let him walk to New York and then from New York to
of course New England. But it was the New York Giants, not the
Jets. So where do we think he'll go next? It depends on which
team a lot like Harball leaving the NFL. If any of these teams hire
a GM, cross that off Harball's list, and I think it's crossed it
off of Belichick's list. They're one of those guys that want total control of
the team. But don't you think at a certain age you get tired of
doing both. Listening to Bill talk when he did his exit speech, if
he was tired of coaching, he'd just said, that's it, I'm going
home. True, he said, I'll weigh my options. Yeah, I
don't think he's done. I don't think he's done either. Would I love
for him to be a defensive coordinator, Yes, he's a great defensive mind.
M HM. As far as drafting a wide receiver, that's the only
thing I'd hire a GM for because he can't draft one. To save his
butt. It's been proven he's had three first round wide receivers that have all
busted. His best ones have been from his national scout suggestions in the later
rounds. Interesting. Interesting, and Julian Edelman was a yes, you're adopted,
but anyway, that's too funny. Yeah, but anyways, Uh where
was I at there? Oh? You were talking about Bilichick and the defensive
mine. If he would if he would be willing to step back and take
a defensive coordinator and be an assistant head coach anywhere? Yes, I think
that is his best move he could actually do. I think it would be
smarter for him to do that to go help a young new coach getting a
job and letting a new guy take the reins of the team and then just
let him be into total control of the defense and offer his let the Packers
fire Joe Berry and bring Belichick in that that'll never happen. But Matlfloor wouldn't
accept that. No, No, I think Matt Lafour would those two because
Matt Laflour is an alpha male with a lot a lot less of the defensive
IQ of Bill Belichick, and he would not take a back seat to whatever
he suggests. Right right? Do you think if Dallas loses today and they
fire McCarthy, do you think there's been rumors that I've heard that Belichick would
go work for Jerry Jones. Do you think that would work? No,
Jerry Jones is the own GM as well. That's lake has get Bill Belichick
to say, hey, I want no control whatsoever. Yes, yes,
every time Belichick going to DZ would be a horm cheating. Every team in
the league has been Belichick multiple time. Vib Brayln Dennis agrees. No,
that's too funny. That's too funny. I think I think the real spots
that Belichick might be good at is the Chargers because they already have Justin Herbert,
which if you actually look at his statistics, you know what he is.
He's Philip Rivers minus the Catholicism and kids. Okay, he doesn't get
it done in the playoffs. He gets this team just en up there and
falls apart. That's been the very epitome of Phil Rivers' career. True,
true, great regular season numbers looks like a fantastic quarterback. Get him in
the postseason. Nope, I agree. I agree because I remember the days
when I was playing fantasy football and I actually had Philip Rivers because he did
have good stats for a while there. Mm hmm, Yeah, fantasy football.
Guess who's a champ this year? Gee, I can't imagine. I
had got and Sam Laporta on my team. Okay, okay, but I
had Travis at the end and uh James Connor for running backs. I also
had Ceedee Lamb. Wow, little Lamb. Now Monra alone was a little
bit of a stack in the box. I was gonna say a little stacked
there on that roster. Well, I was the eleventh pick on an eleventh
man league. Somehow Ceedee Lamb wasn't picked in the person and I didn't realize
it. I grabbed a Monroe and then was able to come back around and
get him with the first pick in the second Wow. Wow, that's crazy,
because I thought he'd have been gone in the first five. Oh yeah,
you know Jamar Kays, Christian McCaffrey, right, technically, Josh Jacobs
because of how he runs and he's a threat in the receiving room, Nick
Chubb, and then Ceedee Lamb. I really thought that was the order,
you know, and maybe justin Jefferson switched out for one of the running backs.
That's usually the order I seen in every mix. So I didn't even
look for those guys that is just crazy only looks anything else. Jeremy Oh,
I mean, what an amazing coaching tree save in his head, and
you can't say he's not very successful. But even since our show, we
went from stix vacancies to eighth, it looks like the Raiders are not signing
Antonio Peers. He has received a request from the Titans to interview for that
head coaching job, which the report that came out on Friday right after that
he wasn't hired. Max Crosby is waving his no trade clause and wants out
if Antonio Piers this is not the head coach. Mark Davis is doing it
again. Mark my words, He's gonna go Harbaugh, probably Ben Johnson.
I don't think he wants Belichick because Josh McDaniels came out of that tree,
which technically he came out of the sab and three two true true. I
think the Patriots one are. It leaves a bad taste in Mark Davis's mouth
right now, So I think it's gonna be Harbaugh, Ben Johnson or one
of the other defensive coaches that have just been let go. Do you think
Harbor would take Raiders? They have no GM they fired their GM two.
He wants total control over roster right now. The only two teams that have
neither is the Chargers and the Raiders, which coincidentally are the two teams that's
asked to interview him. No, I don't know if I would take I
don't think I would go out and work for Davis. I really don't.
I don't think I think Chargers is the better fit for Harbaugh. Yeah,
I would agree with that, and yes, if you think about it.
After the Raiders game, the interview with Crosby in the locker room lent me
to think he wouldn't mind playing across from Mutch and for Dan Campbell and whoever's
the defensive coordinator, because he said some pretty good things about Detroit. Mm
hmm. You guys are atmosphere there. Yeah. Me, if Ben Johnson
went to the Raiders, I'd get on that phone. I talked about this
last night on my show. There's a trade. I would make it a
heartbeat, And yes, I would be trading the signal caller because they don't
have a good quarterback. Get him out of our conference. Don't let him
play against you, except maybe in the playoffs. Mm hmm. It makes
perfect sense, Goth and a third rounder for Max Crosby and a fourth rounder
and maybe throw in a future first or second round pick because Max Crosby is
that good and how good would our defense be going in the next season.
We wouldn't have to worry as much about a first year starting quarterback at the
helm if your defense has got that much pressures on both side of it,
I agree that would be That would be uh. From the Green Bay perspective,
I would definitely not like that, but it would be a very smart
business move. You don't have to pay Golf over forty million a year,
which is what he has to be asking because he has not accepted a contract
through two talks, and granted that's his agent talking with our our financial people
and Matt Dunstall or Mike Dunstall, I should say our cat guru that does
all the contract. He's trying to be poached by the Redskin or the Commanders
right now. They have requested an interview with him. John Dorsey has had
a couple interviews for GM jobs. Hey, James Burgess is exactly right.
Max Crosby means a leam is facing a single blocker. Basically ninety percent of
the snaps juicy. If it's to get Max Crosby, I would trade whoever's
on this roster they wanted and they need a signal caller, I'm trading golf.
Yeah. I don't think Goff. Goff is a good quarterback. He's
manageable, but I don't think he's not an elite. So he's expendable.
I mean, and whereas I would say Max Crosby is elite. So yes,
I agree with you, Jeremy. I would trade him in a heartbeat.
It has to do with business. A twenty million dollar pass rusher or
a forty five plus million dollar quarterback. I'm taking a twenty five million pass
rutger with a thirty three percent success rate all day. And let let's face
it, you could even if you draft, well, there is some quarterbacks
out there in the draft. And look what CJ. Shroud did. I
mean, he's granted, he's a very good quarterback, but he's a rookie.
And if you can do if you can develop a rookie quarterback, and
if you you also have to have an offensive line, because I do feel
Carolina doesn't have. They didn't do anything for Bryce, but they got rid
of their number one weapon. They find a bunch of number twos mm hm,
and they didn't address the old line until like the fifth round. Right,
it was a mistake compounded by a mistake, compounded by a mistake.
Guess who else did that? The Bears. They let Alan Robinson walk,
who was their best wide receiver at the time, traded up to drad draft
Field and gave him no weapons for two years. Right, I mean,
Darnell Mooney came on the second year, big deal. It didn't help them
a lot, and now they got DJ Moore. But their O line still
sucks because it's very injury prone and that's why they struggle. I agree,
I agree. And let's face it that Aaron Rodgers kept saying all those years,
we need I need weapons, I need weapons, but you also need
people to protect yours. You need a good O line because if you do
not have an on line, unless your weapons are that quick that they're breaking
off from the guys right away, you don't have time to throw. I
mean, if you saw sat back and watched some of those throws in some
of those games yesterday, some of them they had all day. I feel
like times when Troud had over five seconds to throw. There was three throws
I could see by Mahomes where he had over six seconds to decide throw the
ball or run. It wasn't even the pocket wasn't even breaking down. He
was just manipulating the pocket for five six seconds. Oh there's were Steve Rice,
Oh there's Kelsey mm hmm, and Mahomes. Actually, if you watched
last night's games, Kelsey had a couple of key drop. There were a
couple of drops in there. A couple of their receivers there were, and
they weren't bad throws. They were throws that should have been made. Now
I realized, with it being so cold, the football is different and it's
harder to catch. That makes a difference, and it's also harder to throw.
As we noticed in the first quarter, Mahomes didn't look good at all.
Nia did to a They were sailing their passes because the ball was slipping
out. Yes, yes, And I loved what Devin mccorty said during the
broadcast. He goes, my God, I would put ten of those hand
heaters in my muff on the front of my just to keep my hands warm
so I could grip the ball when it came to me. Because it was
so covered and ie it was slippery. It would keep his hands dry and
hot. And they were saying that one side of the field that was really
hard to get the tart off because it was so icy one of the end
zones. I remember if they literally stuck to the ground because of the ice.
It did. It did. Devin Byam comes in and says, good
after you and everyone. James Riddens says, I really like golf, but
he's also an asset. Yeah, I'd take Max and see what Hending can
do. He agrees with us. I mean, it's not about saying Gos's
bad. It's not about wanting to get rid of golf. It's about wanting
to improve the team, right, because a quarterback, no matter who it
is, is only as good as the team around them, unless they are
Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady or and you really you have to start the question,
is Mahomes the lead anymore? Because he does not elevate the play of
those around him. He has not been as good since they kill left.
They won more do to their defense lately. Then because of Pat Mahomes,
I would agree, I would agree. I mean he's on that borderline.
Yes, he's done elite things for someone so young, but he's had a
great team around him to do it exactly. I mean, Juju Smith Schuster
isn't that great of a wide receiver anywhere else, but he was the best
receiver last year and they let him walk. Mm hmm, Nope, I
would agree. I would agree. I don't there are Like you said,
there aren't many quarterbacks that I wouldn't be able to move on from because there
aren't as many elite ones anymore. And I don't even know if i'd put
Aaron Rodgers anymore in that. Aaron Rodgers, how he played through his prime,
his prime is basically done. If you look at how he played through
his prime, he was elite. Dan Marino was elite, but they never
had an elite team around him. That's the biggest example of this. You
look at that he he went to the Super Bowl didn't win it. Matt
Stafford had an elite team around him in twenty fourteen to fifteen, but due
to bad play calling and bad coaching even less than the bad call. The
bad call was just the icing on the cake. You can't score three points
offensively and a half and expect to win a game, right right. I
mean, let's face it, a lot of people would have mister irrelevant brock
Purty won last year. He's not an elite quarterback by any stretch that I
would say. He's got elite numbers because he has elite players around him.
Correct, correct, And we all saw if Trent Williams goes down, he's
not good. Mm hm. Exactly three games Trent Williams missed, only one
for Deebo Samuel, only two for Christian McCaffery. He couldn't complete over sixty
percent of his passes, he threw more picks than touchdowns and lost three games
straight, including one to Minnesota. They never should have lost, not with
the talent on that roster defensively, I agree, well, mister Jeremy,
this has been real fun. And look at all those comments in the I
appreciate all those comments in the in the chat room. Any final closing thoughts,
Let's have a great game tonight, go Lions, pour down the field,
ram it down their throats, and yet at the same time, try
to be a better person than you were the day before, because that's the
only way to make the world a better place. It starts in here.
Much love, to everybody, James Burgess, Braylan, Dennis, will Vogel,
Devin buying them. You guys were great in the chat. Love everyone
of you. Go Lions. I'll be at the Lions Dan cheering them on
because I got my first invite to an invite only Lions club. Wow.
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