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Speaker 3: Brian Kelly, old LSU head coach. He was on with
my guys Dusty and Danny in the morning over on
Serious six in College sports Radio Channel eighty four, and
he sat down for I think it was like an
hour or two. So I think it's kind of like
that deal like Jimbo Fisher had with me and e
J where it's like he's on the show, but as
a guest, like he's a part of the show.
Speaker 4: And so he said a lot, had a lot of
things to say.
Speaker 3: He talked about his time at Lshue, talked about Lshue's
roster and the forty million.
Speaker 4: And you know it could be over.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, well resources weren't the reason y'all lost,
So let's hill out with that. But I also mentioned
that he's going to be visiting teams this spring during
spring practice.
Speaker 5: Look forward to that.
Speaker 3: He's gonna stay involved around the game because he does
want to return to coaching, which, as we all know,
that would help LSU because the buyout number would change
a little bit. Uh So, Yeah, Brian Kelly had a
lot to say. Seems like he's going to be coaching.
I don't know where he's going to go this spring.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know his friend Pollon is now the head coach
of John Carroll, where our guy, mister Montgomery came from
receiver this year, so I'm sure he's going to go there,
But I don't know where he's going to go.
Speaker 4: But so he's going to go kind of tour some
spring practices.
Speaker 3: I don't really know for what purpose, but he does
want to get involved back in the game sooner rather
than later.
Speaker 6: Good good for him. I mean I would assume that
he would. He's been doing He's been coaching football for
a very long time. It's hard to just cut that off,
especially when you're you don't want to finish when you're
by getting fired. So I'm assuming that he certainly wants
to jump back in. So I mean, I like, my
only gripe with Brian Kelly is what happened on the
football field for the LSU Tigers. I got nothing else
to gripe about him. I think he's I think he
does well when he speaks. I think every everything he says,
I've always just thought, like, all right, what he says
makes sense. He can he forms his statements, his conversation,
says his quotes, he forms those very well, and everything
kind of makes sense. And I know he was good
to LSU media folks as well. So it's like, I
don't wish him anything bad. I mean, we can joke
about it, and I can make jokes like, yeah, I'm
sure there's teams that are really looking forward to him
coming in the spring whatever, But I don't really care,
like he's go be a coach, doesn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only part that the part that we care
about is the buyout situation would be just for that number,
Like if you're talking about dollars and cents of it.
His quote on Dusty and Danny in the morning was fault,
I've got four Well.
Speaker 5: He didn't draw off the contract, just signed it.
Speaker 3: Just didn't do the things that they wanted you to
do in the contract. But I hear what you're saying.
I said, Look, I've got four former assistant coaches that
are headed head football coaches in the National Football League.
I've got four power four assistant coaches that were close
to I want to get around and see their programs,
see how they're doing, get a sense of where I
can grow and I can be better. And so that's
really my focus right now. And then in the right situation,
if it does come up and I'm ready, I'm certainly
going to entertain that, which again LSU would welcome that
the school is on the hook to pay Kelly more
than eight hundred thousand dollars every month through twenty thirty one,
every month eight hundred thousand dollars. And Hunt did a
great job putting a story up on louisianasports dot Net.
Speaker 4: You can check that out there.
Speaker 3: Will Brian Kelly coach college football as a head coach
in the next two seasons. So this season, no so
it really gives you the next season. Jimbo never got
an offer. Let's remember that. So Jimbo Fisher is somebody
that we're both very close with. Resume was different because
he won a national championship. Jimbo gets bought out from
Texas A and M, and he's attached to that buyout.
Speaker 5: Did you not get an offer from like smaller school?
Speaker 3: No, right from what I understand, that has not been there.
I know there's been some interest from schools, but this
last cycle where a lot of coaches were getting another opportunity.
His resume is much better than James Franklin. Make no
mistake about it. He did not get a call.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just wonder if like you get it you
get at those buyouts. I wonder if Jimbo when he
was immediately done, like put the word out like if
you're not a contender, I don't want to hear from you.
And then you know, time goes by, everybody becomes more
more unattractive as the years go by without without being
involved in This's kind of like a player. You can't
like stop playing then just decide you're going to come
back three or four years later.
Speaker 5: Game kind of passes you by.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that is the case with him, but
I just wonder, like Chimba didn't seem like a guy
that he was going to go take the new Mexico
State job. This guy's not either to that point, he's
not going not getting a top job. No, he's not
going to Fresno State.
Speaker 3: No, So there's a likelihood if he's not willing to
do that, then he's not getting a job. Now, his
roots are different than Jimbo's because Jimbo was the offensive
coordinator at some high profile places and then he goes
to Florida State with the understanding he's going to be
the next head coach whenever coach Bowden retired, and he
was his first coaching job was Florida State, like his
first head coaching. Then he gets Texas A and M
like for Brian Kelly. He's been at Central Michigan, he's
been at Cincinnati, He's been at much smaller schools than.
Speaker 4: That, And of course then he goes to Notre Dame
in LSU.
Speaker 3: So maybe maybe because he's like, look I've been there before,
I've done that, actually was having fun coaching, So maybe
he would, but I don't think he's going to go
back to the MAC. I don't think a MAX school
could afford what he would be asking for.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess he's just I'm sure he's got
a lot of a lot of allies out there that
are that are head coaches and a lot of I mean,
he's been coaching a long time, so he's got a
lot of His inner circle is probably pretty big full
of coaches. So it's kind of like coach O going
to different camps and different prices and stuff. I'm sure
he'll have as much access as he wants to a
lot of programs that can stay around the game and
get ready for it. So I would assume he would
coach again now in the next two years. I don't
know how big the program is going to be. The
more years you're out. I'm sure Jimbo now will take
a job, would take a job that he wouldn't have
three years ago, or two years ago, whenever, whenever he
was done right. Every year that goes by, absence makes
the heart grow fonder.
Speaker 4: That's what they say, a laundry.
Speaker 5: I get that saying, right, yeah he did.
Speaker 4: That's why.
Speaker 7: You don't applyd of fish for swimming.
Speaker 6: No, well, if a fish never swims correctly before, then
he does.
Speaker 5: Give him a little clap credit to myself on that one.
Speaker 4: Guys, you were saying that he's gonna take credit.
Speaker 8: I always thought that, like he got so much money
and he's so like Brian Kelly just seems like somebody
that doesn't really he never gave football coach to me.
Speaker 7: I don't know what it is about him.
Speaker 8: I know he's been a head coach for the longest time,
winning his coach a Notre Dame or whatever, but he
just never felt like a coach to me.
Speaker 7: So I always thought.
Speaker 8: That he was gonna take his money and sail off
into the sunset.
Speaker 7: But I don't know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, if he wants the coach, like you were talking
about it, he's not gonna take a mac job. Could
he take something like, you know, a bottom toier Big
ten school like a Purdue or something like that, Like
if they came calling and I get like the buyout,
but also on the flip side of it, like if
you do it right, you could get him for cheap
because lsu' is still gonna have to pay the rest
of it. So like it really depends on on that.
But I mean, yeah, like a Purdue, like, you know,
if Illinois ever made a change, if Illinois has been good,
Burt's good, Burt's been great, But.
Speaker 4: To win there if he.
Speaker 9: Or something like that, like a school like that, yeah,
why not Purdue or if you're in the.
Speaker 7: Someone who doesn't care about winning much.
Speaker 9: Yea, even even a Michigan State there's falling off. So
like Michigan State's like, hey, Bka, we're going to masconsin
right Pickle hadn't worked out and there, like, hey, Brian,
can you bring us back to respectability? Be kind of
that bridge guy.
Speaker 4: You're at the end of Better Run Wisconsin though the
play that.
Speaker 7: Brian Kelly and respectability goes you.
Speaker 4: Better run Power It was kind of you could get it,
try to go dairy raid and it.
Speaker 9: Just didn't work out. I mean they're their whole persona.
That's like I would try to run a hurry up
offense like it's just not gonna happen. But yeah, I
mean like a Wisconsin like, hey, Brian, can you get
us to eight and four? You know you were tire
and build us out, help us, you know, get out
of the cellar because they've been awful. There's something like that.
Speaker 5: I like the Wisconsin I might like what he's gone.
Guys like, we don't have to.
Speaker 3: Hate on him anymore, but I can't want I mean, no,
I'm not.
Speaker 7: I mean he's so easy.
Speaker 4: It's not hating for sure. And look, he was good
to me.
Speaker 3: I want to get that out there, like when I
at the Senior Bowl, he would always make time for us.
Speaker 4: That that that's not this conversation.
Speaker 3: But I'm kind of I'm using Jimbo as an example
one because I talk with Jimbo often and it's very
similar in the fact that they have these big buyouts
that they're attached to, their names attached to these buyouts,
and if you ask, they'll say, that's a large reason
why I haven't gotten another opportunity.
Speaker 4: You get this stigma because it's.
Speaker 5: But it's not like you contract.
Speaker 3: You have this stigma every time Jimbo's name is brought up.
Now it's no longer national champion of winning head coach.
It's what seventy whatever million dollars.
Speaker 6: Record by I guess what. You gotta kind of not
agree with it, but you got to unpack. Like to me,
you got to unpack, Like, why is there a stigma
to that is because there's so much money involved that
they might not like care as much as a younger
coach that's like grinding to make his and make his
first big patriot. Like, I don't know what, why is
there a stigma involved?
Speaker 4: It just is because you got paid a lot of
money and you failed.
Speaker 5: I would put the stigma more on the agents than
the coach.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, But again their fault, right, that's going
to be attached to those guys, just like we're talking
about with talking about Loa, right, the dead cap hit
that he's going to call him Miami Dolphins, right, he
didn't put any of his contract.
Speaker 7: They wanted him gone.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but that's what we're going to talk about,
Like when we talked to it, that's going to be
what we talk about, no matter a great year.
Speaker 6: And it wasn't Brian Kelly in the room negotiating with
the LSU official, I'm with you, it was this agent, right,
and his agent brings him something. It's like, hey, they're
gonna pay all this money to go co coach them,
and he's like, all right, cool, let me just sign
that thing and then get all that money.
Speaker 7: It's not like, oh, I didn't know you were a
Brian Kelly apologist.
Speaker 5: I'm not, but I just want to be fair.
Speaker 9: If I get a get a ten year deal with
a larger buyle.
Speaker 5: Yeah I'm signing that thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I never thought that it would come to that either though, right, Yeah,
there was no chance.
Speaker 4: That he thought it would be a four, three and
a half year deal.
Speaker 9: Because like, yeah, he underachieved here, but before he got here,
like he was successful at every stop along the way,
he probably thought, Hey, with the resources here at LSU,
I'm gonna win. And that's what everybody says. Was the
work ethic there? Did you think you were just going
to walk into a national championship? And maybe that wasn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that that that the things that you have
to do, certainly on one side of the football were
not done.
Speaker 6: You just weren't. Guys, it wasn't the entire fluck thing.
I'm glad that he's on our head coach anymore. Okay,
got it. We still have to hate on this future.
Let's let's call it what it is.
Speaker 5: I'm not the big the biggest day.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, I know somebody personally that, unfortunately
is a hell of a football coach that's not getting
the opportunity because right, wrong or indifferent, whoever put the
deal together that's fine, is not getting an opportunity because
he is attached to the largest.
Speaker 9: He is as a better he has a better resume
than bek he does, and I know James Franklin's younger
than both of them. I think Fisher and Kelly got
better resumes then Kelly's at least played for a national
title with the hell James Franklin ever done.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm with you, y'all.
Speaker 6: Actually think it's the buyout that gives a stigma, like
Jimbo's stigma when he got done. He couldn't he couldn't
adapt to new football, like he was still running some
of the same philosophies he did when we were in school.
Speaker 5: Like that was the knock on him.
Speaker 4: Brian Kelly, he brought him by Petrino, he brought in
all these people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but do you think I'm just wondering what the
actual stigma is they gets put on it or is
it the reason why they get fired, Like you get
fired with all that buyout money, you're doing something.
Speaker 4: Jimbo at a and m was forty five and twenty five.
Speaker 5: Again to second bring that up.
Speaker 3: I bring that up just because it's not they fell
off a cliff. Now, they had expectations, they didn't meet those,
but that's not a record bad enough to not be
in the game anymore. Right, You know what I'm telling
you is that the buyout and people are like, we're
not touching that.
Speaker 4: Are you doing that?
Speaker 6: Let's go back to what we learned during the week
of the combine. The second day of training camp for
LSU football is the only reason Brian Kelly is not
your current head coach. When Garrett Nesmyer got hurt second
day of training camp. If Garrettsmar plays this last year
fully healthy, Brian Kelly is still the coach for LSU.
And that it's hard to say that that's a fact,
but I'm ninety nine point nine percent confident that that's
the case. So quarterback gets hurt, he gets fired, and
we're in a better spot.
Speaker 5: Going forward.
Speaker 6: But just because to everybody else's point, because of that contract,
he would still be the coach if your quarterback didn't
get hurt second day, second day of training camp.
Speaker 5: Because of a contract.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even with the bad scheme. I mean, I hear
what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Even with the scheme that was not great, had a
ton of questions that didn't have answers. You probably I
don't want to say luck, but you probably find your
way to two more victories.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: I mean you're close to getting two more victories with
the hurt quarterback, with a terrible scheme. So like, do
you find your way to three more victory?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I would you find a way to at least two more?
I like, Garrett's a really good quarterback. He's about to
get be the third or fourth quarterback taken in the
draft with playing like that because he was so good
before that. That's what they think of him. At the
pro level. You can't throw with abs, you got a problem.
So I like, even with the bad scheme, and maybe
the injury is why there was a lot of bad scheme.
Speaker 4: You gotta well, I don't. I don't know about that.
Speaker 5: Not one hundred percent, but at least some percentage.
Speaker 4: Because your AB hurting doesn't make you not run.
Speaker 5: Power Okay, well yeah, that part.
Speaker 4: Running screens that have no blockers isn't because your AV hurts.
But I hear you. There's things that he couldn't do
that he could the year before.
Speaker 5: I do get that you're puting the power. You're right,
Frank Kelly's the worst.
Speaker 3: That what I'm asking you to say. I told you,
I told you he was good. He was very good
to me, and I appreciate the time he always gave me.
I don't know why I'm not attacking the man like
very defensive. Let me tell you real quick. Okay, So
at the combine, you know me, So have my laptop up.
I'm watching film of all the guys they are about
to come on and whatever. And we're watching aj halse tape,
me and my co host and another guy that's on
the NFL radio channel that played for a long time.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, hey, y'all, come watch this play of
a J. Halseon.
Speaker 3: So we played it so like you know, we're getting
a conversation, like seven eight plays a kind of gone
by or whatever, and so like we all kind of
stopped talking and then we like kind of turn our
attention back to the tape. This is Vanderbilt game, and
the guy that played a long time in the NFL,
he goes run that back.
Speaker 5: I was like, what.
Speaker 4: He goes, What in the hill were they trying to
get done here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 3: And it was one of the many mini screens. He goes,
that's a real play. I said, Oh, buddy, it's a
real football play, dying. I said, I got seventeen more
waiting for you.
Speaker 5: It wasn't missed a Simon either, No, just a bad
he said.
Speaker 4: Was So that's a real ball play.
Speaker 5: That's real ball play. We got a lot of them too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my guy, it's a real ball play.
Speaker 6: And then if y'all want to say, I'm like going
hard in the pain for Brian Kelly, because I said,
if Nessmiyer's not heard, he's still a coach.
Speaker 5: Just just what it is. That doesn't make it right,
just what it would what it would have been.
Speaker 7: Just dude's got stuck in, Brian Kelly.
Speaker 4: He's got you have a card, You have a card.
You have a trading card, Brian Kelly.
Speaker 9: If they had coaches, trading guards, they are the turnover
all those things has gotta be like I.
Speaker 4: Got a Mike Babel.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: Just because I say Commis sense things about Lane earlier,
it means I hate him. Just becauna say Commis sense
things about Brian means I love them.
Speaker 5: What is happening right now?
Speaker 4: Why don't Why nobody's attacking you? Why are you being
so defensive? I was talking about the scheme, y'ah.
Speaker 5: Literally just attacked me about my love y'all.
Speaker 8: I mean, if you want to love Brian Kelly, that's
on you. But like I'm just saying, you're going kind
of hard.
Speaker 4: You're about to get a sensitification.
Speaker 5: I crushed Brian Kelly, by the way, on the show.
Speaker 4: Play the tape, I do got Okay, No, that's not fair.
Speaker 5: I'll beat him with golf too. And did you I
watched this draft with that ass.
Speaker 4: All right. I did not have that segment going nineteen minutes.
I did not have it going it that way.
Speaker 7: But minutes on Brian Kelly.
Speaker 4: You know, good dialogue.
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Speaker 8: Because Matts in the comments like bring BK back, and
this guy said the amount of BK love on this
show disgusts me.
Speaker 4: It ain't this show. It's one side of this show.
Speaker 7: That's the only b K Truther around here. Truther, he
said himself, bring b K back Burger King. You don't
even like burger King. You can't use that a case.
Speaker 5: You can't.
Speaker 3: Don't jump Matthew just because you're not on the lane
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Speaker 5: Don't be weird. I am on the lane train.
Speaker 3: Nope, you said it, dude, what you said there in
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Speaker 7: He was like, we made a huge mistake hiring Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 9: Guy be caching coach at twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: I just said last segment that Smier nearly ruining his
entire football career was probably the best thing to happen.
Speaker 5: It was your football.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear you say that.
Speaker 9: Now now we got him, Yah.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: I'm never I'm not gonna stop driving that bus. Everybody gone, good,
great man.
Speaker 4: Just imagine if you didn't have a unicornant.
Speaker 3: Quarterback for those two years anyways.
Speaker 7: Just imagine that's how good Jade and Daniels was.
Speaker 9: By the way, so many people we were we were
talking about it halfway through the year when we could
run the ball.
Speaker 5: Everybody's like, oh, you were able to run.
Speaker 9: No no, no, no, no no no. Jayden and Daniels take it
off and scrambling, doesn't Kid, that's not a running game. Yeah,
traditional running game. Kelly never did it.
Speaker 3: Running backs had We're not set up for success four
years go, y has some diversity in your run game.
My god, it's pathetic. I hate it watching it.
Speaker 7: That's when you should have de I in your football program.
Speaker 6: Golee, Hey, we got it. It helped the go to practice.
Film review people people like to see what's happening with
I'm just doing the film breakdowns a baseball film.
Speaker 3: Ooh, we should We're gonna run inside zone again. They're
never gonna believe it. But a quarterback that can't pull
it awesome. It's great that backside guy's really gonna hold
tight over there, or he's just gonna immediately engage and
hit the running back.
Speaker 5: In his face. That's fun.
Speaker 3: Love turning my shoulders to the sidelines and running inside
zone out of gun as our only run.
Speaker 4: That's said, you have to be explosive. Anyways, what's about that?
Speaker 5: Guy?
Speaker 4: Kind of lost my train of thought, to be honest
with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna talk about one of the.
Speaker 7: Threw me off. How much you like Brian Kelly.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: Actually what I was going to talk about was how
excited I am for spring practice, because I don't know
this to be factual.
Speaker 4: I just believe it.
Speaker 3: Knowing the personalities in that building, I think there's gonna
be some good spirited competition between the offense and defense.
Speaker 4: I really do, like I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: When we were at our very best at LSU, it
was when Jimbo Fisher and Bo Planey wanted to try
to kill each other. Now after practice they were cool whatever.
During practice, murder on their mind straight. It was really
good because like you were gonna get the very best
when we went two minutes or we went like blitz
pick up that day, like a blitz period. It was
real like there was nothing like practice, simulated situation. No, no, no,
it was a game. You might not have got tackled
to the ground. Well sometimes you would because Lauren couldn't
help himself. But that was when we were at our
best because because when we did that, when we did
two minute like we did, and you know how it
was with Jimbo, He's gonna give you the worst case scenario. Hey,
you're backed up on your own seven yard line. You've
got thirty five seconds, one time out, and you got
to go score a touchdown. Oh cool against this defense,
please he because he wanted to make it as tough
as possible. Those were wars out there, like you wanted
to fight your best friend, you and your roommate were
going to fight. You'd be cool after practice, but you
wanted to hurt them. I haven't seen that in a minute.
Speaker 4: Now. You would get some of that with Coacho, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know for a fact that Blay Baker and
that defense staff have that in them. Now you've got
an offensive staff that a think is going to match that.
I want to get back to the offensive defensive coordinator
during practice, happy to kind.
Speaker 4: Of be held back a little bit because when.
Speaker 3: You treat those drills like they're the most important thing,
because guess what, when do you win games in the
two minute before the half and two minute at the
end of the game. And you put a point of
emphasis on we're doing it this tempo, this speed because
it means everything. This means everything to our success. And
that's what it was, you know, I mean, you were
part of those you had to go in and play
quarterback during those when you get to the game, you
don't have to tell them.
Speaker 4: They already know what that means. I want to see that.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to have that, and I can't
wait to get out the spring practice to see that dynamic.
Speaker 6: And that was what either sorts were from training camp
this past year was that there was no fights the
entire training.
Speaker 4: Camp, which is ludicrous.
Speaker 6: And then of course we get to bull practice and
I think there was a fight like the first day.
So it's not me saying yeah, fights are cool, like
just go fight everybody.
Speaker 5: That's not the thing.
Speaker 6: It's more of like a microcosm of like your team
mentality or attitude, your competitiveness, Like you want alphas out there,
you want you want alphas to feel like they can
act like that as well. And I've just never been
a part of a successful team that didn't go out
and fight and like and that's it's you know, it's
it's a heat and like you're tired, you're in the
dog days of training camp. You don't like one another
during camp, you don't like where you're at, Like you're
not feeling good, but you're still trying to win. And
your coach is pushing you as hard as you can
to win and win the job, win the rep, win
the period, like they're they're forcing you to do that,
and then that's why tempers start to flare. Intensity goes up,
like when your coaches aren't like and it starts from
the top down, Like you said, Blake Baker in that career,
they got that, they got that dog in them, like
that it's gonna happen. It's just it's just a it's
a side effect that that happens when you practice in
the right way and you're giving them the mentality.
Speaker 5: Like again we're not saying just.
Speaker 6: Go fight, but hey, it's got to happen. But in football,
in training camps, and in practice, it happens. And when
it doesn't happen, I told this, like, no one gets
hurt in these fights. But you know there's face mask,
but it's just like it shows you a little juice
every like, and then no one gets wants to get
a fight because like.
Speaker 4: You get really tired after a fight, So that's what
it like.
Speaker 6: So you get so mad and competitive that you're you're
you it's okay, you find it worth it to risk
all of that stuff to do that and like it
just happens. Guys, I'm sorry. If you're sensitive to that,
don't play football like it happens.
Speaker 3: I've told the story a bunch on air before, but
the example I always give is I had some really
good friends on defense in Denver, Like my best friends
were probably defensive guys on that team. But we drafted
a running back Moneyball in the second round, and they
were gonna pick on him, and they kept picking on him,
and I was like, guys, if you'll do it again,
y'all know what's gonna happen. It was my guys, My guy,
Wesley Woodard hit him late out of bounds. I was like,
all right, well we got to fight. We got to
like it. I like you, you're my friend, but I
told you stop hitting our rookie running back.
Speaker 5: You're being a third.
Speaker 3: We're gonna fight, and we did, and here it comes
like ten of us were brawling after that. It's like,
all right, you understand now if you hit him, Me
and Jacob Tammy the tight ends, like we got to
come protect our guy, right, And we had a couple
of brawls because of it, but we understood the assignment,
like that had to happen because we got to protect
our young running back.
Speaker 4: Yep, you're not gonna keep hitting him late. Like if
you don't have one of those.
Speaker 6: It's not like I don't know, it's not it back
in our day. Thing Like you talked to anybody from
any chamber you talked to. I guarantee Indiana fot this
last year, no doubt, no doubt, those dudes were fighting.
Speaker 4: I can guarantee you.
Speaker 3: Like interviewing Aiden Fisher and those guys, they fought, Pat Coogan,
you gotta have a little bit of that. I'm looking
forward to getting back to that because I think you
have the right mixture of coaches that are going to
elevate every single drill. And guess what, I bet they
bring back nine on seven. They didn't have inside period
last year. Football coaches, I hope I didn't just make
you wreck your car. They didn't have nine on seven
last year. Let that sink in as we go to break,
think about what I just said.
Speaker 6: Explain to people who aren't football coaches or I've played
what nine on seven?
Speaker 3: It's inside run drill. It's where it's the most physical
point in your practice.
Speaker 6: Got everybody on the team except receivers. Basically, yeah, defens
has tight ends, running backs, fullbacks if you got them,
and quarterbacks, and it's the worst drill of practice.
Speaker 4: It's intense.
Speaker 5: It's very intense, like.
Speaker 3: For me like if I had a day but I
had a good inside run period.
Speaker 6: And it's a defensive for drill, like the defense should
win most of the reps. It's really hard on the
offense because they know there's no chance of a pass,
there's no chance of a playoff. They come downhill and
they get off the ball and the coaches tell the
quarterbacks only go on one. There's one snapcount. You can't
go on a quick count. It's on one. So they
know the snapcount and it makes it really hard on
the offensive lineman. And what good coaches do. They make
practices hard so that games can then be easy.
Speaker 4: All right, hopefully you're still safe on the road, football coaches.
Speaker 3: We will take a break more OTB when we come
back here live from.
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Speaker 4: All right, we are certainly getting news throughout the NFL cycle.
Speaker 6: It's a big it's a big betch. This is the
tampering period starts today. Then the new league year opens
tomorrow correct Wednesday, Wednesday Wednesday, So there's a two day
kind of legal tampering which sure just opening.
Speaker 3: Period here, and so we'll start to see some deals
like the Dolphins released tool. We talked about that, I
thanking Fitzpatrick gets traded from the Dolphins to the Jets.
Sean Gary gets traded from the Packers to the Cowboys,
Trip mcduffy.
Speaker 4: Signed his massive deal. Just a couple of things.
Speaker 3: The Bengals aren't going to tender their backup Jake Browning,
who came in and had a flash for the Bengals
when Joe Burrow went down, uh the first time the
second time, not as much as why they went and
got Joe Flacco. We mentioned ed Ingram a little bit earlier.
So yeahs are starting to.
Speaker 6: Move Max Cross Raiders the deal Ravens gave him two
first round picks to the Raiders for Max Crosby, a
hell of a haul.
Speaker 3: So now the guy that you know didn't have I mean,
he didn't play in the back end of the season,
shut down a couple of games, but love love him
as a player, but didn't have his best season. It's
still it's two first round picks in return, they still
under thirty.
Speaker 6: Uh. Hell of an athlete, but a guy that had
reportedly requested a trade. Apparently the Raiders come to him
towards the end of the season with multiple games left,
told him he's going on IR and he says, I'm
not not hurt yep, nearly now, you're just going on IR.
So he didn't take take a liking to that very
much because he doesn't believe in that they should be tanking,
which is basically what they were doing. They're putting your
healthy one of your best players on the team, if
not the best player enter team, putting them on IR
for no reason. That's a tank. And he didn't like that,
so requested a trade. And they get two first rounders.
I think now they have let the number one pick.
Now they got the I think the Ravens have the
fourteenth pick or something like that in the draft.
Speaker 4: So it's a big haul.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, Max is a great player, and I
know back in twenty twenty three he had fourteen and
a half sacks, but he only played in twelve games
in twenty four seven and a half.
Speaker 4: He played in fifteen games last year, only ten, So
and I think I.
Speaker 6: Think the Cowboys, I think the Cowboys reportedly matched that
offer as well for him. They just chose the Ravens
offer because I think the better draft positions and things
like that.
Speaker 9: So the Cowboys were in a market for a pass rusher.
Speaker 5: Yes, weird.
Speaker 9: Oh, by the way, take that, Matt, I know you
were all high and mighty that Michael Parsons is a packer.
Cowboys just stole a Sean Gary ticked that.
Speaker 5: Whoa.
Speaker 9: It seems like it even seems like an even swells
to me.
Speaker 6: He's a good player, fairness, Mi like it did get hurt,
so he wasn't a good player when he wasn't playing.
But good for old Jerry, old jeer bear over there
trying to make a move. Didn't get it done.
Speaker 5: He tried, though.
Speaker 4: It's a great move for the Raiders.
Speaker 5: Oh it's great. Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 4: Because Max sid you know, been unhappy.
Speaker 3: His production was a little bit declining, and you're able
to get that kind of haul and so you gonna
be picking in the middle of the first round on
top of your number one overall pick you're gonna get
hopefully younger man.
Speaker 6: We were talking about last week, like what we would
give up for just one first round draft pick, Like
it's a lot to give up for the Ravens, especially
with the Ravens, you know, coming off the season where
you're uncharacteristically bad, you fire your long term head coach,
and you're gonna got a new head coach. You're gonna
give away for two first rounders. I think they got fleeced.
It does feel like a little bit maybe a first
and second you could like argue a little bit more,
but two first rounders man with a new head coach,
a new regime coming in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it's time one hand behind their back a
little bit.
Speaker 3: So the conversation is twenty twenty six first round pick,
which I be least fourteen, and then twenty twenty seven
first round pick, and the Ravens get you know, Max Cross,
like we're talking about so like the grades for ESPN
dot Com, any trade they put it, they gave the
Ravens a C and the Raid.
Speaker 6: In eight plus and I would too right now, look
like you you know, he wasn't like publicly not happy.
You can get you can man, you could have got
him for less. I feel like, do you think the
Raiders are gonna hold on if you have a first
and a third offer for him, they're gonna hold onto
a gather.
Speaker 4: You're you're gonna move him.
Speaker 3: They got a great deal, and that division continues to
add players and get better in the West. And now
another rusher is added to the Cincinnati Bengals division where
now they have TJ.
Speaker 4: Watt, they have Max Crosby, and they have Miles Garrett.
Speaker 9: Poor Joe, poor Joe, and the Bengals are letting Henderson walk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's probably go to the I think I saw
the Colts maybe a leader in the clubhouse because the
Chargers were in there. Then they signed Khalil mack back
one year, eighteen million dollars for him.
Speaker 6: Hmmm, Cowboys, I mean, you got two first rounders if
you're willing to give. If I'm the Cowboys, Browns would
take that.
Speaker 3: Just Hendrickson, just sign him, you give up my I
was Garrett for two first rounders, not now, not now
that Max Crosby got two first rounders anymore. Okay, let's
just play before this situation, we were talking about it.
It would take a lot not to but like, you
got to be a hell of a player. Well, obviously
Miles is, but Brown's aren't. Certainly aren't threatening next year.
I don't even know who they're starting quarterback is going.
Speaker 5: To be next year.
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why you're so hard on him.
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Speaker 4: Do you think you could?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's tough, But I mean when we went to Nashville
for SEC media days years ago, we had a pitching
machine throwing ninety five and hit it at Texas leaguer
in the left field for a single there, but that
was ninety five straight. He did tell him what pitch
was coming, which helps the only person that in fact
did not touch the ball was Chris Dorrian.
Speaker 6: So, and there's a lot of pressure too in those
situations that you're a professional, and we know that Kershaw
likes to hang them when the pressure is high.
Speaker 9: This must have been playoffs.
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Knicks got Patrick Ewing is a good one, like the ball.
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JFK is like the most interesting. There's so many different
theories and like what they say happens. Actually the one
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