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. Much love to everybody in the chat. We appreciate that you watch. We appreciate that you talk and come in here and watch two talking heads talk sports, football, basketball, baseball. I just threw a couple of topics
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