Colin Cowherd Podcast - Bo Nix, Caleb Willams Shine In Preseason Debut, Aiyuk Holdout Drama, Sirianni Losing The Locker Room?

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I was in the aisle, John, I said to her, would you like to sit in the outside seat? You know, see if she and she said no. And what I wanted to say was I meant outside of the plane, like on the wing. You want to sit out there? Because I literally my meal? Nope, get up, movie get up after about the ninth time, and we're about an hour out. I just kind of looked at her for a second and I thought, you know, what am I gonna do? What am I going to say?

you're stuck. I mean Chicago to LA and that's not a that's not Sacramento to you know, Scots say, that's a long flight, right, what is it? Three and a half four hours?

parallel to the line of scrimmage all the time. It used to happen forever with the leech offensive guys, the spread offense, you know, Hawaii, Mike Leach, wherever he was then Oklahoma started, you didn't need a big arm quarterback. Watching him in college going, I think his arm's a little bit better than the way he's getting I would say, kind of pigeonholed as a player, and you watch him today, I don't want to say he's you know, he's not Brett Favor Josh Allen, but his arm strength is well

above average in the NFL. And that touchdown pass he had was in and out of his hands in the corner of the end zone, hitting the guy accurately at the front of the pylon. It doesn't get any better than that, the velocity, the accuracy, how quick it is.

And then obviously you see again Patrick Willis isn't exactly chasing him, but clearly his athleticism moving around translates and and he's confident like that was the thing with Trey Lance when the Niners got him his athleticism, he wasn't confident in it because he had never been chased by the caliber of player. Bo Nicks has been playing the best of the best, like I said, for ten years

in college and athleticism movement wise. Clearly what Sean Payton wanted to do and this didn't work out because he's not a quarterback, was a guy like Taysom Hill who could move around and throw. You know, Drew Brew he was stagnant in the pocket. Now he's great at it. But the modern day football, you have to be able to move to throw. I don't need you to be Lamar Jackson, but you've got to be able to keep plays alive. You notice all these rookie quarterbacks. They're all athletic,

and they all can throw on the move. And bo Nicks clearly can. And I know, Sean kind of old school not naming the starter had him down. This thing's over, Okay, I don't even know who the Broncos play week one. He's your starting quarterback week one. You agree with that, and this thing will play itself out you know, I think you want to make him earn it. Sean is not one of these new age thirty eight year old

offensive coordinators. Yeah, but this thing played itself out today in front of everyone's eyes, like there's no point putting. It'd be one thing if they had Peyton Manning or something. This Jared stid them like this, this thing's.

Oregon State was good. USC could score, Arizona won seven in a row and beat Oklahoma in a bowl game. The conference was really.

game and I got like second row seats. I called the buddy. I got right down the field, right behind the Oregon bench because I wanted to watch he and Penix. And he's more cut than you think he's. He he's ripped and he is really verbal on the sideline dad A's a coach. And then I met him in person for about an hour forty five minute interview, forty minute interview before and after the show. I was just blown

away by him. And then I got a couple early texts from Sean Payton and I was like, this kid's really working. And the other thing about him is there is something to be said about seeing the field. We've always said this was Zach Wilson and Justin fields. They just don't see it. It just takes a beat too long. Bo sees the field. And some of this is not only did he play at two schools. I believe he had five different coordinators in five years. It could be four,

but I think it's five. So John, this kid has had to pick up. We've never seen this kid have the same system back to back here.

His own team drafted another player before they drafted him. Justin Herbert was kind of an afterthought after Joe Burrow into a Tongua Bay Lowe. So you look at this class. Bo Knicks got beat up bad when he was in the SEC and had to transfer, and clearly it changed his career, right, So you see a lot of these guys.

You know, Caleb is one guy that had a lot of success, But I think this class is full of guys that had to struggle, and he, to me, is at the top of the Him and Penix, I mean had to transfer, were not viewed as first round picks by any means at the time they transferred and really had to earn it. And both those two guys, I mean, bo was awesome. I mean in college, obviously statistically he was incredible. Now it's a little inflated the way people play.

It's why that any coach will tell you, Okay, he throws a bunch, you know, parallel to the line of scrimmage. When I evaluate him, we don't want those passes. I think Sean said that I cut those out and we evaluate everything past the line of scrimmage, the timing, the rhythm, the accuracy. Yeah, I mean I was pretty blown away. I mean I was bullish on him just because of his coach, but his physical skills. That's the other thing. Him and Caleb Bright aren't super tall, and it stands

out when you see him. They're not six four sixty five. Both of them are thick. Both of them are built. Russell, who's shorter than those guys, had that same thing early on. You're like, well, he looks like an NFL guy physically. Kyler, who's even shorter in that also built, and that matters. And that's like watching Jayden, very physically gifted, throws a beautiful ball, but god, he's skinny. And bo Nicks has this innate ability because he's been a runner his whole

life and he played in the SEC. He's not playing heroball. Get out of bounds, get down like I'm getting. Caleb yesterday had a great slide, like you can't be running around JJ McCarthy yesterday had a run. There were two defenders. He kind of lowered his shoulders, like you can't do this. And I understand John Lynch and Steve Atwater the game has changed, but that's the only time when these defenders. They can't hit you all preseason because the starters don't

play joint practices. There's no tackling the regular season game for seventeen of them. When you cross that line of scrimmage and you're erect, they're coming at you. And I know these guys are a little smaller They've never been faster. So these linebackers now, they don't wait two sixty, they weigh two twenty eight or two thirty four. They're running four four fours and they will destroy that. They'll break your collarbone, they'll break your leg.

both said before the draft. Whoever Minnesota drafted a quarterback had, after maybe Caleb, the greatest chance to succeed. We all know situational football matters. I mean, if you get a McVeigh, a Peyton, that matters. When I watched him play that, I watched the young quarterback who had had an offensive coach, the tall Sean McVay. Kevin O'Connell in his ear. He looked like he played with more confidence in kind of uh bravado with the Vikings. They didn't Michigan, Michigan. He

was a little tempered. It was almost like, hey, if we just don't turn it over, we're beating everybody. He was making plays, he was moving around for the Vikings.

he didn't hesitate and listen. Michigan was built. I think they had, I mean five of their offensive lineman got drafted for sure, it might have been six. Obviously, Jim Harbaugh wants to run the ball. That's gonna what he's gonna do. He's gonna ask his quarterback, especially in college, a little something different Andrew luck was not asked to do what he did in college in the pros, right, he started throwing it all over the place. To me, he loved that kid though, And Jim Harbaugh doesn't love

you if you're not a tough guy. So to me, like Jim Miller's his toughness and that was on full display. But like you said, the movement, the accuracy, to me, the pocket presence, I think, what's tough. And I'm root for Sam Darnold too, but if i'm When they drafted Patrick Mahomes, Alex had some equity with the fans and the franchise, right. He helped Andy resurrect the team. They

were going to the playoffs. He had been solid. Obviously they needed better, but like I think, when you have a bridge quarterback in a situation like this, it better start fast because fans are gonna be like, what are we waiting for? Like by Jefferson, I would imagine Addison get suspended a couple of games, but whenever he's back, you got an offensive head coach. I mean, we got a star tackle. Like, let's just let's just get this thing going. I mean, and I preseason is different than

regular season. The game plan. I get it, but like his physical skills where he's coming from, Like you said, his confidence is barbado and is his pocket work. That's usually something like, hey, we gotta calm this guy down. He's he's jittery. It happens to a lot of backups when starters get hurt, right in the regular season, Like, this guy's overwhelmed. It didn't seem like he's scared. Think of the defense this kid's been going up against for

two years. It's an NFL defense, NFL coordinator, right, So he's he's comfortable the bright lights, everything, you know, that Hardbob rings, Like this guy's been at you know, like Alabama Georgia level for these last couple of years. Just what he's feeling on an everyday basis and practice in the NFL is hard. So I think this guy's he just looked comfortable, which to me, I allways projet project project. This guy didn't really look a huge project to me.

only gain so much sitting behind a guy. And if Sam Darnald the leash, it's a one year deal, it's not like It's not like the Kirk Cousins Pennock situation, so you you already know the outcome in the future. I think there's a weird spot because obviously a coach, this is the NFL. Everyone's trying to win this. No one tanks early, maybe in December. But I wonder if they have second thoughts. Obviously I think, say, I'm gonna

get the start immediately. But if it's a little rocky, don't you want to get this guy a lot of experience, especially he knows the plays. He looks comfortable like these reps will only help him the next couple of years when you try to build around his rookie contract. So I'm a Sam I'm I've always rooted for Sam Donald, like you have a soft spot for him. But like if I was a Vikings fan, I'd be like, what the hell are we waiting for?

what are the matchups? What's the health of the old line. But my thing, you're not going to go back if you start JJ, So I think you just kind of look, I think it's much closer than I thought going in but and if last year, what's ironic is last year they had to make a trade for Josh Dobbs. They may have two guys that can play right now. And I think Jason McIntyre said this the editor he picked

up for the playoffs. I said this, if they finished fourth, that is the best fourth place team in a decade in the league. That team's got dudes offensively everywhere. That's a good offense.

be better this year that that division. Like you said, you could finish fourth, win six games and be like, we're better than every team that's kind of in our range by a wide margin.

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a bit sloppy. Mahomes does, or did early in his career. Mechanically, you know, Patrick's running around, he just gets a little backyard football lee. And both the gms I talked to with Caleb said he just he just has to get more in rhythm, which he said, I think in the pros he won't run around as much. He's a smart kid. He'll figure out I don't want to get hit. The second thing is sometimes he's a little bit of a playmaker,

a little bit of an ad libber. But Jordan Palmer said, listen, he got bored with college.

I thought Caleb was a little sloppy last year. And I think sometimes Lincoln Riley, because of the offensive line, really struggled with what to call. And I heard that inside the program. It's like Lincoln just didn't trust the protection. So he's like, I'm not getting Caleb Williams hurt. I'm not getting it, you know, cause Caleb was. He came all the way out to USC first year, got pretty good protection, wins the highest. But I think Lincoln feels like you know what it's worth it. This is gonna

be great by the second year. Halfway through it, I think Lincoln, what I was told is Lincoln just there's things Lincoln wouldn't call. He didn't want to get him hurt. And so I think go back to the previous year. That's the Caleb Williams you're going to see in Chicago, which is focused runs the play, can ad lib if he has to. But Jordan's whole point was don't judge too much. In the last five or six USC games, team was terrible. He was bored ad libing a little

bit more than he probably would in real life. So what's your thought on that?

means feel in the pocket. That means to know when it's not going to go well and I got rid of the ball immediately, or when I can keep a play alive. And I think the new trait that every team looks for is the scramble to throw and keep plays alive. But to scramble to throw, you need a good arm. It's what Aaron Rodgers built a Hall of Fame career on. He could throw outside the tackle box

ropes accurately. And that's what Caleb Williams can do in spades, because let's face it, all these teams in the NFL now multiple most teams have multiple sweet pass rushers. There aren't as many good offensive linemen in the league anymore, so you've got to be able to move. And he's accurate in the arm. Strength is just elite. Like you said, he's gonna have a little hero ball, But how could you not have hero ball if that's the skill that

he has. I mean, Patrick Mahomes, he had to get older and realize that we can play a little different, but early on, like I want him to bring that to the table because he's accurate throwing the ball downfield. If he has to move now there's a difference of something was open, you didn't need to do that, but like nothing was there, your guard gets smoked. You gotta move. But he made he did it all. He threw a sweet play I think on like the second or third

pass of the game from the pocket. He had the crazy instinctive play to swift. He had the play on the move. The other thing and they I don't know if you saw hard knocks yet, but they kind of did this silly thing where they brought it a slip and slide to teach the quarterbacks how to slide. I'm sorry that they were joking about it, but also kind

of serious. It's important. His right arm is the franchise and he had a scramble where he slid, and he's gonna have I would say, depending on the game, anywhere from two to five could be second, and eight could be third and eight. He can scramble for ten yards and pick up a first down. But when you scramble and you're not by the sideline, you gotta fucking hit the ground and you gotta slide because they can't touch you,

and the defenders know it when you stay up. And JJ McCarthy did in the game, and a lot of quarterbacks do it. You're gonna get clipped and you're gonna get clipped hard. So if you're doing that, he can stay healthy because he can avoid well. His short area of quickness is just elite and then the army. He doesn't need much space to get that thing off.

the way, this was Jordan Love. Jordan Love had a better year the year before he came out, and then he lost a coordinator. Remember that he lost the coordinator, he lost a coach, he lost people. He was not very good as awful. So the Packers went to the previous year video and went, yeah, that's that's who he is. And so you take the best of what you saw because obviously, if you lose a coach at Utah State, you may get If you have three coordinators at Utah State,

two may stink, one may be okay. So when he had his best coaches, Green Bay looks at that and goes, Okay, that's what he can be because our coaches are great offensively. So I think with Caleb, you go back a year and go when the old line was healthy. He'd come over. And Lincoln was not afraid. Remember that year if they beat Tulane, they went twelve games. They were really really smoking that year. The second year, I think just I mean, I was told this, Lincoln just he didn't.

gotta throw hard. And you know, Perty can get away with it a little bit because his offensive scheme is so great and he's a good athlete. He can scramble. But Peyton Manning's one of the most accurate players in the history of the sport. Arm strength match yes, and it always has and it always will. And you see these plays and you only see it even more once the regular season starts. All these former quarterbacks talk about the the kind of space in college relative to the NFL,

of what's open. Things happen quick. A lot of things get screwed up, and you got to add lib and that even puts more pressure on your arm. It ultimately can be the downfall of some of these guys that can't scramble and don't have a great arm, like Cousins and Golf are good examples. When it's perfect, they can destroy you. They can have four or five touchdowns on you. But if you can throw them off, they can't move, and then they can't throw very hard on the move.

So it's a major problem. You watch, you watch the modern day football the modern day football player who's having a lot of success in the NBA. What is it? You gotta shoot threes? You better be able to scramble and throw ropes because these all these young coaches want to get you on the move. And even when they're not getting you on the move, because more than likely you're gonna have two or three offensive linemen that they would gladly replace if they could, you're gonna be running

for your life. And a lot of these the good ones keep their eyes up, scramble and throw in Caleb. It's like geez it was to get up on Saturday more and watch in the bill. I mean file score was like thirty three to six. The Bills clearly didn't even care. But just to watch his physical attribute, You're like, wow, this in an NFL you and they were a DJ Moore out there. They command, they were trying, you know, they wanted to get this yes, confidence, yeah smart.

to something. There's a little lamar, he's real quick. There's a little Jordan Love where he lets it fly. I said this the other day. What I like about Washington. Everybody's new, I mean, owner, GM, coach, coordinator, players. It's almost like you're part of a huge recruiting class. Like the new coach comes in, the new Lincoln Riley comes in.

It's all his guys, right, but he brings in the transfers, the recruiting class, and I feel like with Jayden, you know, nobody's got seniority, nobody's you know, there's nobody that's resentful of the new guys. That every single person in the building is new. That matters. And I think that's important for young quarterbacks because I think sometimes what happens is a GM inherits a quarterback and is really not rooting for him, Sean Payton and Harrets Russell Wilson, you know,

he's just looking for reasons to move on. So what this tells me is John and you know this is a scout. Jaden's going to get a full two years of snaps. They're not bailing on it. They want this to work.

lot of credit, a lot of kudos. So my take is on Jaden, it's not one of these where half the people in the building they're almost like, you know, justin Fields, he kind of felt like half the guys in the building just weren't into it. He didn't do himself favors. But I think Jaden's gonna get two straight years, no judgment. I think it's gonna work. I don't know to what I feel like it's gonna work.

I mean, they just joint practice against the Jets, and Sauce Gardner says, I went up to him and told him, Holy, you're gonna be a player, And defenders don't just say that because they're trying to be friendly. Like he's trbably getting watching this guy pass. He throws Colin a beautiful deepst I mean, remember Russell Wilson early on. It's like his deep ball. That's gonna work. You just throw some go routes every single you know, couple a quarter or something.

Push the ball down the field. His accuracy hits it, and he's a really, really good athlete. My question will be one the running around. He's never been a slide guy, and he's thin. He will get hit. You've got to learn how to do that because he's gonna They're gonna run him. He had a touchdown yesterday. He just ran him in. Now he walked into the end zone. But

they're gonna use these plays like Sean did with bow Nicks. Yes, you're gonna scheme up run plays and then just can he just pick you apart against a schemed good defense. When you're playing the Cowboys, when you're playing the Eagles, when you're playing the Giants, they all have good defensive lineman. They're coming at you, and he really you know, in college he had Malik Naghbors, who I mean, I think could be an NFL star. The other guy was drafting

the top twenty five. I mean, yeah, so's he's used to playing with stars. Terry Mclaurin's good. But this is it's not just gonna be easy all the time. So I think he's gonna have some ups and downs. But even Zach Kertz said earlier this training camp, stop saying he's gonna be a good player. He's good now this. I don't think they're just blowing smoke. I think all these people see him. They see he's accurate. The deep ball's awesome, and he can move. You're like, there're is so much here?

not not up to speed. Everything's too fast. You're gonna run, you're gonna move the chains, you're gonna your feet, are gonna get your first downs. You're not gonna be great, but it'll buy you stuff. Jared Goff didn't get that his first year, right, like you either figure out. You either figure out or you're in big trouble. They had to get him Andrew Whitworth and say we got to build a pocket here. So and the Washington's offensive line is not very good. It's not Giants bad, but it's

not very good. So the truth is he'll he has the advantage that for two years he's gonna move around a lot and he's gonna buy some first downs. Kyler did this. That was a shitty old line he inherited. And it's like he kind of figured out how to move the chains. Seven eight play drives because nine to ten play drives, So I think. And the other thing is it does matter to me every time I hear him talk totally focused on football. It's like when Dak

broke into the league. I didn't love the way through. Every time he talked, he said the right stuff. Every time they interviewed Jake Jordan loved did this last year even when he was struggling. Every time they asked him, He's like, I'm going to get there.

themselves in press conferences. It's almost like they're numb to it all. They're completely unfazed. And maybe it gets back to how popular college football is now, how they've been under the spotlight even as a recruit. But you watch you know, Jayden played at LSU. I remember I had

a buddy that still works in the league. Tell me he was He was a GM for a little bit, and he said he walked in like on the first preseason game, and some of his rookies were like almost throwing up, they were so nervous, and he went over to one and the guy had played like Auburn or Georgia. He's like, for the last three years you have played in half your games were infinitely more important and had more people watching and had more pressure than this game

you're about to go play in just relaxed. And I think you watch a lot of these guys like, yep, I played Auburn Alabama game for three straight years, or I played against you know, I played against Ohio State every year when twenty five million people were watching, and it felt like they were in the big leagues. And I wonder if a lot of these guys benefit with the college football has always been big, but it really felt big, especially from the quarterback standpoint, these last couple

of years. And these guys are walking in pretty seamlessly. You know, well, it's a pretty easy transition so far for the crew.

and it just blew up. Now it appears they've circled back. Is that what you're hearing?

They have twenty eight million dollars. And then he says no. So to me, it feels like a guy who's gotten a little over his skis. He does he really want to leave San Francisco. Of course, not because you're a star with the Niners. And he's a West Coast guy, grew up in Reno when high school in Sack, played at Arizona State, has become a well known name. But got so emotional by this number. And let's face it,

the Niners drive a hard bargain. They had a number and they didn't flinch because also, you're not a free agent. We don't have to trade you anywhere. I want to go to the Steelers well, yeah, they could get In theory, I guess they could give you our their first round pick, But what good does that do us Week one against the Jets. That's that's that's a player that does not exist for another eight months. First round picks or having two of them are incredible in February, March, and April.

They do good teams, no good during the season. That's why, ideally you make that trade before the combine. Well guess what the Niners probably tried. No one was offering that at the time. Why great wide receiver draft? Why am I going to trade you my first round pick? When I get a wide receiver is going to start at a number. Instead of paying a guy twenty eight million, I get the ideally or in the perfect world, the similar player for four right, just basic economics, And I

think he overplayed his hand. And the Niners are like, listen, we had these deals, they were the ones we'd accept. Those are the teams. Everyone knows you're on the block. No one else is coling, no one else has the money. You want to go to the Steelers, they have nothing to give us back. This has to be it takes two to tango here. There's two sides, and we don't want their draft picks. They're not giving us TJ. Watt, so that ain't happening. Here's our number. What are you

gonna do? Not play? We want to give you a contract. No One feels bad for him, and he's emotional. I can't imagine being twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, have this money, like the number that you think you're His value on their team is a lot different than some of these guys making twenty nine dollars. They don't play like that, and I just think they're kind of at a crossroads. But he does. I guess he has the leverage,

just not practice. He can demand a trade all he wants, but if John and Kyle don't want to trade him, he's not getting traded. Ideally, I think they want to avoid this, right, They don't want this, but they're not just gonna give them away because that's the easy thing to do. So he's kind of stuck, and it's they're pissed off. I know that obviously he's he's well established that he's mad. They're mad. And this is kind of a joke now because at the end of the day,

Bosa was gonna kind of get over on him. He had all the leverage, he's the best player, he was going to get a ton. They go, listen, you're really good, but DJ Moore has been a lot better than you. For six years playing with Coward and middle Cooff as his quarterback, You've had productive quarterbacks and you're never going to catch more Navy balls here. So the ROI and R investment, if we give you thirty million dollars is

kind of a doesn't make a lot of sense. And that's where I think they're kind of stuck looking at each other. I still believe he's going to end up on the Niners, but I think he might be a first player in NFL history who sounds like a four year, one hundred million dollar deal and is mad at the dais when he gives his press conference, Well get ready for that.

he's a one. So the reality is the one position that is literally expanding, you know, because there's a lot of families outside of a Texas that aren't playing as much football. There's not as many high school football players today is ten years ago. There's not Moms are like

a lot of moms Southern California, LA. Forget it. You're an outcast if you let your kid by high school football, especially if you're west of the four H five Freeway, like all the you know, all the high end fallutin you know, coastal towns so Malibu, Yeah, Hermosa, Manhattan Beach in Brentwood, Plaia. There does not. So my take is, but if you start looking at that position, there's few. They were good running backs. You get about one good left tackle a year, maybe two one star quarterback, maybe

two serviceable ones. I could argue if I went back and looked in the last decade, do we have eight receivers a year that come in here and stick. So it is hard unless you're like very top of the market, and by the way, if you're very top of the market, it's also discomforting. These guys now make thirty million dollars. Some gms are like, I mean, you better be able to do that on the rookie contract. You can't pay your quarterback and a receiver thirty large like unless he's

Jamar Chase. So I think it's one of these situations where they just if Trent Williams was in year three in his career and they had two more years not to pay him, I think you could be willing to push it. They can't win the Super Bowl in my opinion without Trent Williams. That's that's the roadblock here too.

cost a million dollars. If this was a real estate deal, it would have been over weeks ago. The Niners, you know this. They want two million. Niners are offering one point six. We ain't budget you're not budgeting. We go our separate ways. And that's kind of what's happened, except he's stuck on their team because he's under contract and their trump card is your fifth year options this year, and we have two franchise tags. We want to make this work, but this is our number. You're not a

free agent. You are not a free agent, so you can sit out to win the season. You're gonna pass up fourteen million dollars. That's like he acts, and I think his side, they think they got a bunch of leverage. There aren't a bunch of teams with a lot to give back. There was one, the Browns. The Niners like that offer Amari Cooper in the second round pick, and then he's like, no, well, you can't ask for a trade. This is in the NBA. You're not gonna dictate all

the terms here. And I think that's what's made him mad and the forty Niners mat because he won't play ball like we're offering you a ton of money. You're immediately gonna be the highest paid player on a highly paid team. So yeah, DJ Morris, these guys make more, They do more for their team in terms of production. That's never gonna Kyle Shanahan's not gonna start playing like Andy Reid, right, That's not how they're gonna play. They're gonna run the ball. I think in a perfect world,

party has like twenty six past attempts a game. That's what they're shooting for. They're not trying to play like forty three times. He's like, well, I could be a star receiver. Well, on this team, you're willing to pay you, and you're gonna thrive and you can make a ton off This is the forty nine Ers are top two or three brand in the league. He makes a ton off the field.

at the Kittle thing. I look at the debo thing, because there's they're guys that play, and I love both, and they feel like they're DNA that they're they're really they feel like the Niners. But if you pay Ayuk, it does change things because he's a legitimate deep threat, and I think it changes the personality of your team a little bit. If you're paying him twenty five John, I'm throwing the ball to him.

guaranteed to this guy. You are in bed with him now for the next three or four years, on top of haying party, on top of having to figure out your left tackle situation. Trent's getting older. If George were to fall off a cliff, you need a tight end. He's very important in this offense. Fred's got a lot of wear and tear. Greenlaw has a torn achilles. You just got big picture question marks. And when you go all in on a player, you go, is he a

top eight wide receiver in the league. Well, if you even have to question that, should you be breaking them off a massive contract. The problem is they would trade him, but all these teams don't want to trade for him because they don't want to meet his demands either. So that's where they're kind of stuck in this weird spot. And let's face a colin, I would say they have do they have the most drama going on? I mean they got this IUX situation that is not figured out.

Trent Williams a holdout they have. They just had to cancel their their joint practices they were supposed to with the Saints because they have to called Dennis Allen's like, we got too many injuries. It's then God is August eleventh. But they got a lot going on.

tight end. I kind of feel like when I'm watching the Lions, they're the Niners four years ago and in Detroit's gonna have this four year run and they're not you know, they're not paying all of their guys yet. But the Lions, like the Niners are, are really physical. It's the Dan Campbell thing. It's a different physical, different style, but it's like they're gonna punish you.

didn't even know what's new with my hands. I started thinking a lot. It's one like obviously John Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh, Belichick for a long time have mastered the CEO approach. But some of these coaches that are being they're not doing that much more than mir or you on the couch or a fan. I mean, seriously, like Kyle said, I called a couple of times out, I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't doing anything. And that's the thing with Philly,

right that article that came out last week. You just wonder they have so much talent, can they get by. I think their coordinators are good, but if things get weird, if you question, people are always going to disagree with a boss, with a coach. We're humans. When I question or I lose respect for you because I don't think you have the knowledge. I don't know if you ever

come back from that. In a professional setting, if there's a superior and I think this guy is incapable of either helping me out or knowing what he's doing, that doesn't change because it's not a twelve year old. You don't all of a sudden gain that ability at forty eight or fifty four like you kind of have to have it. That's why you're in that position. And when people under you, especially in highly competitive areas like Wall

Street or what we do, or definitely football. If Jalen Hurts questions his football acumen, can you imagine a quarterback for the top coaches questioning like I don't think Andy knows this coverage at all, or someone with Belichick. That's that'd be unheard of, And that's maybe they can overcome just because they have so much talent. But that's something to keep in the back pocket if things go south or they had a little adversity that'll that'll come back to roost, won't it. Well.

game against Baltimore. I remember one watching and thinking, I don't have four guys that start for the Ravens, and they were just back and forth. So you can say what you'll know at Campbell and I was like, this is cheesy. But they are exactly what he promised they would be at the podium opening presser, like he said, We're going to be relentless. That's exactly what they are. Even with Golf who's a finesse player, they're pretty relentless team.

Siriani was just lost. Tom Sula was embarrassing. And at the end, now I have a story that comes out multiple sources from somebody I respect at ESPN says, yeah, they don't really respect him. I'm with you on that. I mean, I've been very lucky in my life. I've had good bosses. I've had one that you know, we had a nickname for him. He just didn't know what he was doing. And though I liked him, I never looked at him the same way. I just if he came down the hall, good guy, let's get a coffee.

Wasn't somebody I respected? So to your point, and remember, Jalen Hurts has had Nick Saban and Lincoln Riley, So those those are the voices he has heard in his life. And I don't know it was Sark the offensive coordinator when he was at Alabama. I forget who it was, but it was somebody like kippin her Sark. Wasn't that somebody?

That's healthy. There's no growth at a little confrontation. But when I think you know nothing or at the level in which I'm accustomed to, it's hard to function. So when that part of that article that he called wink Martindale, I think a lot of it. And my first thought was like, God, it's kind of a go getter, and then you started thinking about I think he just lost. He's like, who do I even talk to? Right? I just need to talk to someone who might give me

some decent advice here of some schematic help. And that's what I wonder with Siriani. And listen, the Eagles do a couple of things really well. One they just acquire good players, and two, their owner will spend a lot. Their two coordinators are making and combined, I've heard a lot of money. I mean, Vic Fangil might be the highest Bay defensive coordinator in the league, and Kellen Moore's

numbers closer to five million than it is one. So they're paying their two They're paying their two coordinators a lot of coin. But those guys they're gonna run it right, Sire Howani even in that article is like, get away from Kellen and the quarterbacks. Well, he's an offensive guy. How many offensive coaches? That's why I have so much respect for Lafloor. What he did with Rogers was impressive, but it was easy to go with Rogers great players, and what he did with Jordan love Is makes you

like you're gonna get contract extensions for a long time. Right. Mcveigh's worked with several quarterbacks. Kyle's worked with a ton of quarterbacks, and he can coach any quarterback. I'm watching this guy. I thought he's an offensive guy, but the

quarterback doesn't even like him. And by all accounts he can be clearly Jalen's a little weird, little quirky, but he's clearly like a good guy and wants to pluy and like is an all about football guy, and he thinks your weakness is I would say the most thing for a coach schematics. In the NFL, we're college recruiting. The Jimmy's and the Joe's scheme matters. But if I have the more talent, like I'm just gonna boat race ninety percent of the teams, I'm gonna play football Monday

through Saturday. In the NFL is a thinking man sport. It's about trying to outthink, outplay out chest maneuver you. It's why Urban Meyer, who's used to recruiting and everything,

got to it was just it wasn't this thing. Jim Harbaugh would be the first to tell you, like, I'm very dependent on great I can do the leadership, I can do the toughness, but scheme's not his thing, but he hires great coaches because scheme in the NFL, it's it's just working fifteen eighteen hours a day Monday through Saturday, getting ready for Sunday. And I don't know what Siriani doing. Honestly, I don't know the answer, like tangibly, like you see

Dan Campbell, you see what he's doing. You feel his team, John Harbaugh his whole career, you feel it, even if he's not calling on inside the ball. But now I question his is, like I what's going on here? They were kind of stuck because it was because people go back to two years ago, could you fire him for Shane Stike? And that would have been a pretty unprecedented move, right going to the Super Bowl firing the coach for the other guy. Clearly today they wish they could have,

but that it would have been difficult. And then last year they were definitely sniffing around, but they were kind of stuck. And this goes back to Luckily their owner's got a lot of money and willing to pay a lot for coordinators.

is gonna go. You would probably lean, if you're a betting man, Mike McCarthy will not be the coach after the season just because are they going to make the NFC Championship game. But he's kind of proven that he's more than capable as an offensive play caller. Yeah, leader, like he's he's a real NFL coach.

the time. We're somebody successful has a ring. It can be in anything, but I mean, you know, Frank Vogel has a ring. No, it's it is what he took an Indiana team with Roy Hibbert, who I love by the way. Personally that team didn't have any offense is Paul George, Roy Hibbert and guys George Hill. I think it played on that team and they gave the heatles every year. Problems those series were. I mean, Lebron struggled put Hibbert by the ten. Frank Vogel goes to Los Angeles.

I just saw Frank at dinner the other night in town. Frank Vogels won a lot of basketball games in this league, but it's the NBA. They all get fired if they're not called Steve Kerr, s Poulter or Greg Popovich. So I think McCarthy's one of those guys where you know he can coach he needs. There's certain things he does very very well. He comes across, you know a little bit like you know, he looks outdated. He talks like

he's outdated. I mean he does. But to his credit, he is on the right side of the ball, and he wins about eleven games a year in his career.