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one hundred and sixty eight hours after issuance. Se Sportsbook dot DraftKings dot com, slash Basketball terms for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms and responsible gaming resources. All right, Nick, Right, we try to bring them on as often as we can. So I'm gonna start with something that I think you'll like.
Okay, that's a great place to start.
Yeah, i mean, why a post to starting with something that really pisses you off?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, let's start off on a good foot. By the way, I've decided this podcast, I'm drinking wine. I've decided to go classy. I figure you're going something this hard liquor. No, by the end, you're gonna be slurred.
I'm going wine.
I'm going diet coke.
So oh, I'm drinking alone. Oh that was now part of the deal. Now you're really gonna have the upper hand by the end of this thing.
Well, go ahead.
So I've kind of stayed out of all Aaron Rodgers political opinions and vaccine. I can disagree with stuff, but I also believe Aaron has a right to an opinion. I can disagree a dissenting opinion. I don't really care, but I think there is a personality trait a couple of them with Aaron that are fairly obvious. Number One, he doesn't like authority. He struggled with his parents, his brother, Green Bay's front office. He pushes back on the media,
the government. That's okay. I mean, when I was a kid growing up, that was known as the liberal, a hippie in the sixties, right, So I'm okay with that. The other one is Aaron is absolutely sure. He's the smartest guy in the room, and it comes across in every interview. Think about this. Forget all the government vaccine stuff, Robert Kennedy conspiracy theories. Look at his football decisions. He chose an offense a defensive coach, not a successful offensive coach,
because he wanted the Jets. He liked the Jets. They have one player, Garrett Wilson, that could start for the Packers one. Green Bay has the friendliest offensive salary cap for the next five years. They're not paying either tight end, five receivers, the offensive line all five start over the Jets. Even Aaron Jones to me, he's a bigger, stronger version of Breese Hall. So his football decisions stink that he really really believed Jets is going to be a great fit.
They have one player if Garrett Wilson twists his ankle, they don't have a player that can start for the Packers. When you watch green Bay beat Dallas, if you don't believe it's a fluke and you believe it's players, that game wasn't competitive. Green Bay is stacked with talent.
Well, so there's a lot of green Bay angles here to go to. There's a fun remind me. Wants me to get on with the Rogers stuff. To ask you a Jordan Love question that I was asked today. So all right, you sat on the front end. Don't care about Aaron Rodgers, you know, political opinion stances, vaccine status.
I don't either, and he, in my opinion.
Uses that as a shield, meaning any criticism of him.
He's like, oh, you don't like me.
He is using the fact that some people criticized him about being unvaccinated. I think more people criticized him about lying about it, and then any negative attention he gets he can be like, oh, that's not because you're actually engaging with what I've done. You hate me for this reason, which is just nonsense. Because Lamar Jackson's never been more popular. I don't think he was vaccinated. Kurt Cousins is one of the most well liked post quarterback series. Oh yeah,
the quarterbacks in the league. I know he's not vaccinated. So it's not about that, but it is. This is someone who's you know in your life or someone that you know a family member who's like, yeah, nobody invites me around anymore because they don't want to hear the truth. And it's like, no, it's because you're an asshole, Like it's not our failing, it's yours. So that stuff does irritate me. I'm not going to act like it doesn't.
But as you cannot in modern America not have people in your life that you love, care about, and spend time with that have different opinions on be it COVID, the upcoming election, a lot of things, like nobody is that in a bubble, so we all know how to deal with people we disagree with some of the people we love and care about the most. So that's not it now you mentioned the football thing, so I think that was ego. I don't think it was purely I
think the Jets are better than the Packers. I think it was he probably underrated what the Packers could be because they were mediocre last year with him, and he doesn't have the self awareness to be like, well, I was mediocre last year, Like you weren't getting a plus
Aaron Rodgers last year. And in fact, there was a great moment when he was on McAfee last season when I think it was after the first Lions game or something, when the Packers were before they had started winning those games, where he just kind of says, out of nowhere, he's like, yeah, and you know, my coach said that was my highest graded game of the year and a loss. And it's like, oh, this guy just can't acknowledge that he might be part of their team struggling.
So I think that's the first part of it. And the second part of it is.
I think he thought, Okay, well, it doesn't matter what the Jets have, once they have me, they'll be awesome. And I think that's one thing for Aaron to be that. And by the way, that might have been true. A decade ago. He's not true at thirty nine in the AFC, in that com you know what I mean, in that division. But it's another for the Jets a year into the experience.
Now they are not getting the Aaron Rodgers they thought they were getting, whatever they thought they were, They're getting a player a year older, often Achilles, a year more removed from.
Football, from good football.
I mean that game Jordan Love played was the best quarterbacks best quarterback play the Packers have gotten in a playoff game in seven years. Yeah, look it up. That was the and now he played phenomenally, So that would that's a high bar. So I think it is ego and being delusional. Like I know this probably makes you a little uncomfortable because I often use you when I'm
talking to you in analogies. But I think you know you made a decision in your career almost a decade ago to go from a more stable place to not quite a startup whatever it is.
I would I.
Would argue that would be maybe a poor decision for seventy year old Colin Coward to make, right to be like you know what I'm you know, I can carry and build this new thing.
Aaron seventy in football years.
Yeah, to think I can you know, go Lebron the Cavs the second time around. This for the Jets, No, you can't. And so I just, yeah, I think that I think the Jets are. I looked around the league. Mike Vrabel been to an AFC title game, got in the one seed with Tennessee. Couple down years, not good enough.
We got to move on.
Bill Belichick obviously won six super Bowls, went to nine, also went to the playoffs with Mac Jones two down years, not good enough.
Got to move on.
The other coach that was just fired after two bad years. I'll remember it was. It doesn't matter. But we're talking about, you know, all these coaches moving on, and then you look at the Jets, who it's like, well, our coach at wins thirty percent of his games, has two career wins against the division, has been there three years, good enough, let's stay there. You look at these coaches where it
wasn't good enough. And then you look at Bob Salah, who they're like, yeah, let's run that back, and it's because that's what Aaron wants. And so then you do have to ask yourself the question it is what Aaron wants right now, the best chance at win winning or the most power possible. Do I want the best coach I can get?
Or do I want a coach.
Who knows the reason he has the job is thanks to me and therefore I run the whole operation. Yeah?
I always feel in sports and in our business, it's wins. Like in our business, I don't care about anything other than in radio, my revenue is great right now, highest ad rates have ever had, and in TV my ratings are my highest. If the volume were crushing, Like to me, it's not about me, it's about the unit. If the unit's good, that exerts pressure on everybody, on you, because
nobody wants to break up winning, right. If you're winning and in your show, by the way, he's doing great, nobody wants to screw that up, right, they want to extend it. So to Aaron, it's it's it's really crazy. Did he have the forethought with all these super young players for Green Bay? He saw them, He saw Dobbs in Christian Watson. He knew they were talented. Did he not think, Jesus, if I hang around here for three years, you don't have to pay him? These are tremendous players.
I mean, Aaron has to have some like in.
The easier conference, and and and and a lot of a lot of factors there, and so I I don't think that. I don't think he thought those guys were that good because they didn't succeed last year, and he can't. I don't think he has the self awareness to be like, how much of that was on me? If you operate from a place of I am always excellent, I am always producing excellence, and the results aren't excellent, then I think you're like, well, this play substance.
If Brady was in New England and they would have had Dobbs, Christian Wattons, Watson.
Jaen, but yeah, but go ahead.
Tom wouldn't have left. Tom was too smart. Tom left. I remember specifically on the sidelines during a New England game when he yelled at the receivers just get opened. His problem was New England's last seven drafts with Belichick two Pro bowlers, one's a punter. Tom would have stayed.
He was frustrated.
I was told he was frustrated for three years before he left. The idea and by the way, where did Tom shoes Mike Evans Chris Godwin, Bruce Arians, Where did Stafford, Juice McVeigh, Cooper Cup Andrew Whitworth. Aaron literally left this bevy of super talented kids, saw them, knew by the way in the in the following draft they were going to go heavy tight end, and it was all yeah, to do is go to one mock draft. It was
the best tight end class when he was leaving. And like in Green Bay, they drafted two I think, but in the second round or third. So the takeaway is, did Aaron ever get out of himself and go, this is all about having the right pieces. When Peyton man chose Denver, go look at their pieces. They're a line, their receiver, they're tight end. It is remarkable that he didn't look at all that Green Bay talent that was on display Sunday, now some of it hadn't been drafted
yet and go, God, look how good they are. Now what are they going to be in a year?
And so all right, So then now let me ask you the So I obviously the podcast I do I do with my son and he about six weeks ago, so we watched obviously the Packers game on Thanksgiving together and then I was shortly after Thanksgiving, I was in LA and he and I watched Packers Chiefs together. And after that Packer's Chiefs game, he said to me, he's like, I'm going to be a Jordan Love guy. I'm like, really, He's like, he's like, I think he can be awesome.
And this was before he really got super red hot, and I was.
Like, he's like, he's gonna be my guy.
He's like, I'm gonna plant my flag that that guy is going to be awesome.
I like him so.
Right now he feels like the smartest guy in the world. He's like, I feel like I was the first one on it. So he asked me this question. He said, where does Jordan Love fall in the NFC quarterback hierarchy going into next year?
And I was like, oh man, I was.
Like, now, you and I like Stafford.
Stafford's talent outside of Mahomes, he may be the best arm talent in the league.
And he's God damn, He's tough, and there's the and so so I said, I don't care that they lost that playoff game. I thought he played really well in it. I would say Stafford.
Is won Okay.
After that, Oh, I think Jordan Love again, people are allowed new inforage.
Their opinion, new information. Sample size is doubled from the midway point of the season, and now you can change in yes.
Six or four athletic, big arm, back foot thrower with ease erratic, But so is Stafford, like Burrow is rare most guys.
It can be erasd throw a lot of picks.
And I think number two in play.
It's in play. It's not a guarantee. It's in play.
Okay, I love Kyler Murray, but I have to acknowledge he's five to eleven. But I I am a huge Kyler Murray fan. I think he's in I think he's a better version of Russell Wilson in this prob Yeah.
With maybe, yeah, maybe I was good study habits and maybe a little more polarizing at times. But sure you
like Kyler. But the point is Dak had a legitimate MVP gase this year, and now that works against him because when you play that well, it's like embeed to a degree embed being this good in the regular season then being so one different in the playoffs consistently all of a sudden, it's almost you'd be better off if you weren't quite as good in the regular season, right, because then you would you feel like the moment gets one.
So dak Stock takes a massive hit.
Jalen Hurts is worth a real discussion now as far as who is he?
So did I do when I talked to you today? Did I do the Peyton Manning thing with you?
No? No?
Okay, all right, So people think I'm being unfair. I think people believe I'm being unfair to Jailing. But I'm going to talk about Peyton Manning for a second. Peyton Manning was the best player, was looked at as a no doubt NFL franchise quarterback in high school.
Yeah, when the Gatorade Player the Year.
Every step of the way at Tennessee, they're like, that guy is going to be the number one pick.
That guy's a franchise.
Quarterback as a rookie, even though he threw damn near thirty picks, Everyone's like, Yep, he's got it. Second year, he was thirteen and three franchise quarterback. Third year led the league in touchdowns and yards. Franchise quarterback. Fourth year was the playoffs. Playoffs.
He's six and ten touchdowns are down interceptions way back up.
Did anyone in that moment say to themselves, Oh, I think he's that guy versus who he'd been every step of the way up to it. No, everyone's like a weird year, but I'm sure he'll be Okay, right.
That was what people.
But maybe they questioned him in the playoffs or whatever, but I don't even think that had really started yet. They were like, that guy is a franchise quarterback. Okay, what's the opposite of that?
A guy who was a tweeer coming out of high school.
It's like, we'll see at college, is he a we'll see at his second and when we're talking about is he a franchise quarterback at we'll see in the draft, second third rounder as a rookie, Yeah, kind of a tweener as a second year player, eh, kind of a tweener third year. Holy shit, this guy's awesome. He's in the super Bowl dropping dimes as a fourth year player.
I don't know.
Well, so now now it's like, okay, if when a guy has a body of work of seven years of amateur and pro ball, of being a clear cut going to be a franchise quarterback and one bad year, we don't say he's the bad version of himself. The guy's got six years of body of work of I'm not sure if that's an NFL quarterback and one year where you know he is. Does that then make you pause for a moment? It does for me. It does for me a little bit, and.
So I don't.
It's not that I think Jalen is like a bad player or was the biggest problem with Philly, but I do think there's it is fair to question will we look at ten years into his career as last season as not only the best season he ever had, but an outlier, as a year that he was not able to recapture. And if you're an Eagles fan, that's scary because they paid him based on that's going to be the standard, not the super Bowl every year.
Well, but that's gonna be the standard.
I wonder sometimes if we don't give so Marino had Shula, Brady mostly had Josh McDaniel McDaniels, be it quarterback or offensive coordinator. There's two things you have to get right in the NFL. Pittsburgh can't get either right. And they have a good head coach, quarterback and OC because most offensive coaches don't call her on places. So Pittsburgh can't get either of those, right, they get everything else on
the roster, right, the culture, the toughness, the pass right quarterback. Oh, they haven't had a good oc since arians in twenty eleven and a good quarterback OERC combined since that year.
So do we ever consider We know quarterbacks are more important than coaches and coordinators, but it is interesting when you start inspecting the great quarterbacks, Like the great actors, they mostly work with the same writer or director, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, They're like, yeah, I'm musa stick with that guy. You start looking at Apeman, you start looking at Fouts, you start looking I mean, I'm talking legends.
You start going through all these quarterbacks. Mahomes has always had read. That's his guru, that's his muse. You start looking at Jalen Hurts, and it's like, well, Lincoln Riley and Shane Steichen briefly outside of that, like we have even the great ones, even Mahomes without Andy Reid, if he had a defensive like right now C. J. Stout's tearing it up, but he has a very.
God sloic Yeah, he's got and that guy's gonna leave right and that it.
Makes you worry. It does.
No, No, I'm not, And I think CJ throws a beautiful effortless ball. But it is interesting that we all know we have quarterbacks seventy thirty edge over coach. But I think if you went back and trace the top thirty quarterbacks of all time and mostly now, they generally have a muse. They have a singular guy that sees the world like they.
Do and obviously probably the most famous Montana and Walsh.
And this is sneaky.
An argument of that the best is yet to come for Josh Allen because he had it briefly and Dable, Yeah, and you saw the best of him and then Dable left and now and even right now it kind of feels like they're just having Josh.
Allen run with a governor.
It it's like we don't know how to get the three hundred yard passing game without the turnovers, so we're asking for two hundred yards passing seventy five yards you kick and everybody's ask running and just don't turn the ball over.
It's a weird and that's.
His weapons are better this year. I mean, James Cook the kid from Boise State two years ago. So to your point, it is less about Alan now, but some of that stable. I'm not saying it's like I've had. I've had twenty producers in my life, radio and TV, but I have probably my best one ever. Now. My show's always been better when I have my best one. But I've had, you know, I've had a fine career, and they're like you Wilds and Brusard. It's just perfect chemistry.
If one left, the show would still succeed. But there is a time in everyone's life when you have the perfect team.
Perfect team, and you can feel it and so and there's you can feel it. And so this.
Is like sneaky an argument that is kind of an argument as to why it's so tough for defensive coaches to be the best hire you can make, because like Demiko, I think looks awesome and I think that was a great hire.
I think it's inarguable. But then what happens is, and we've talked.
To this before, your quarterback is gonna be on an offensive coordinator conveyor belt because if you get a great one, he eventually leaves you. If you get the wrong one, you have to replace him, like I forgot Oseth Payne, who played in the NFL for the Jags and the Texans, does radio in Houston, he tweeted not that long ago, because he still covers the Texans now about everyone in Houston's sad.
Bobby Slowick might get a job, and he's like, the.
Dream is is that your offensive coordinator that is great with your quarterback gets a job. If he gets a job that he flames out so spectacular, he can never and he can never get another one. Because that's why Josh McDaniels, Josh McDaniels thing in Denver was so bad, Brady got him for another decade before the Raider took a chance on him in a in a weird way, that's kind of what's happened with Spags on the defensive
side in Camp City. That's right, Spag's tenure as a head coach was so unfortunate that it's like, Okay, I'm a lifetime de coordinator, and Andy's like, yep, I'm never gonna have to worry about that side of the ball, and so it's a so but because you're trying to like nurture these quarterbacks like Joe Burrow. They're talking about the Callahan guy, Brian Cally. Would I forget which his first name.
Bill, Bill Well Bill.
I don't know if it's Bill or Brian. One was a father, one's son. I assume everyone of the NFL's real Brian's the yeah that he's getting head coaching jobs. So is Joe Burrow gonna have to learn either a new system or is it gonna be So that's tough.
Well, see, even when you have the offensive coach.
Like when the enemy left kans City, there's been some growing veins for Patrick.
Yeah, ideally you want an offensive coach. You can win with a defensive coach, but you're gonna go through offensive coordinators regularly. So ideal Demiko's winning, but they're gonna have to hire a new OC within a year. What you want is McVeigh who has the ability as he changes in OC to kind of step in and kind of tweak it very quickly because these defensive coaches Belichick Brady laughed at Belichick. He didn't even know the language of offense and he's been a football guy for fifty years,
So it is. I think Houston's fine, and I think C. J. Stroud will be fine. But I said that, how about this, I'll throw this out there. You'll think it's crazy. I said, the comp for c. J. Stroud was Jared Goff, and I had said on the air multiple times, nobody will acknowledge this. That's a good comp. I don't see juice it either. But if almost love Goff, you've heard me. I love Golf. I think he's a top ten guy. But Goff inherited a disaster. By the second year, he
had McVeigh and Whitworth a left tackle. Stroud got the good coach initially and the good left tackle. If you go to Goff's second year numbers, there's Stroud's rookie numbers.
Oh that's interesting, yees see.
So I don't the comp there is tough for me, just because Stroud is so much more juice in his arm than Golf does, and so like to me, the upside for Stroud is higher than golfzever was.
But that was lamb Jeerline, a Houston guy that made the comp, and he said, listen, after the Georgia game, when CJ. Stroud ran, it's like, there's your juice like Herbert and the Rose Bowl. Oh he can run too. But the comp is really good. Pocket throwers really accurate, better in the pocket than moving, though they can move. But it is interesting Goff's second year coach, left tackle and a couple weapons. They're the same numbers. Actually, I think he has a few more touchdowns GoF second year.
But it's just Goff inherited nonsense, and I did. And I said, God's not good enough to overcome nonsense. And I said with with with Stroud, He's not good enough to overcome nonsense. He didn't inherit nonsense. Great OC, great left tackle, good weapons, good coach. So we still don't know the truth of that. It's easy to say, well, Scround's amazing. But Demiko Ryans was so I remember talking
to somebody inside the Niners. They're like, we made this guy like defensive controller by the next year, like should we make him coordinator? He was there for like an hour and a half, Like Demiko was a lot.
Listen, I was. I was in Houston covering the Texans when he was a player. When he was a player, people said he's going to be.
A head coach.
Yeah, like the and then I'll get another I forget who tweeted it, but somebody tweeted, I think if I owned an NFL team and I was interviewing for head coaches, I would only interview nerds or linebackers, like the player, like people love Antonio, Piers, Rabel's been good, Jamiko's been awesome, and then like there's the Mike McDaniel, Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay. Like I'm a genius at twenty eight years old, I
can figure it out. He's like, those are the two lanes either a linebacker and Dan Campbell's not a linebacker who tied end, but it's kind of a linebacker in art, like a linebacker mentality or a nerd.
I loved it. You know.
One of the things that I and I think we both like this sort of the theories of sports. I I find Lamar Jackson fascinating, and there's there's so many comps with Lamar. But I think what I like most about Lamar is that your opinion of Lamar will tell me everything about you the person. Because in order to love Lamar, you can't be rigid. You have to accept initial opinions are wrong, including your own. Because Lamar is now an elite pocket passer, Lamar wins eighty percent of his games.
Lamar and Josh Allen Mahomes is maybe the more refined quarterback. Lamar and Josh are the hardest players to frankly defend, because when they want to run, it's kind of you can't do anything about it. They're bigger, faster, stronger.
Than other people.
And that what's fascinating about Lamar. When people tell me they don't like Lamar, it doesn't tell me anything about Lamar. It tells me about the person that you struggle with, change, that you struggle with things that aren't conforming to your initial view. If you go into Lamar, this whole thing about the pocket quarterback, if you watch football, you can't tell me he can't throw from the pocket, he doesn't have a top tight end. It's ob j a rookie
to a rookie and a second year guy. He literally is so dangerous that San Francisco's warners and Bosa's and Chase Young's are afraid to rush him. Is that Lamar is a classic. It's like, if you tell me a vote for Trump, I don't need to know. I can kind of frame who you are and what matters to you. If you tell me you don't like Lamar. It's like they used to joke every sports writer ever loves Springsteen, right like I think they Yeah, it's a profile for it.
And so it is funny with Lamar when I watch him play, I can't imagine not saying that's one of the top three guys in the league.
But it is.
Amazing how many people still struggle with him.
Well, I think it's two things. One is, I think you're right, like there is a level of either rigidity or I'm convinced it's not the same. But it's people who even you know, two MVPs and a championship in we're like, ah, not sure about Steph Curry, not sure if that can win in the NBA.
It's like, oh, that couldn't win in the NBA.
That youth that used to exist and that may be you wish came back. Yeah, but in today's NBA, that can be one of the three best players in the league. That style, that brochra, that thing, and you just don't want to accept that the world or the game has changed. The Lamar thing is almost has felt for his whole
career a little more nefarious. There's almost a level of it's not just that he's black, but it's that the way he carries himself and that he is so unashamedly himself that some people have been like, I don't want that guy to be the best play, the best quarterback in the league or the MVP in a level that other black quarterbacks didn't threaten him the same way like Mahomes or other guys that they're were like okay, no, no, no, yeah, that's that's more okay. So there was, to me always
a level of that. But then there also is the level of people have a really hard time doing what I think you do really well and some for somehow people give you shit for it, which is.
Hey, guess what changed my mind?
Like, hey, I thought this, I watched more games, I saw more things, and I've changed my mind on something. And so I think there were a lot of people that are planted their flag. This guy is just an athlete, not a quarterback, and then any evolution he makes they won't.
Give him credit for. Won't want to.
Now I want to be clear, like I thought, I was skeptical that the offensive coordinator change was gonna work. I thought in the loaded AFC, the Ravens could miss the playoffs. It's not like I've been like, oh my god, he's gonna have this monster year. But as he was having it, I was not in denial that it was happening. I wasn't like, no, I mean, you know what, I
think it's Isaiah likely carrying him. It's like I watched the games like there is I because there's another quarterback that I think is almost the inverse, which is I think that people deep down don't think is good but are either afraid of going against the numbers or they think it's mean, and so they lie to themselves.
And that's toua.
I think that there is a level of if you watch a lot of football, you're like, well, he's a small doesn't have a big arm, is not if he is athletic or he's not, it doesn't really matter because unfortunately he can't really run because he can't get hit because of the concussion stuff, and he needs everything perfect perfect for it to work. Perfect everything people it was I've never heard such a thing in the NFL where
people just basically, and I think they were serious. We're like, yeah, I know the Chiefs beating eleven win team by nineteen points, but you got almost put an asterisk on it because it was fucking cold, and they're like, and we all know Miami can't deal with that, like they came from Venus, and it's.
Like, oh, it's like, oh, it's not fair.
This is not their climate. It's professional football players. But by the way, not wrong. It's like, you're correct, can't deal with it. So all these things, but there was to me a push, especially about midway through this year, where folks in our profession would do almost this rhetorical thing, well, what more do you want him to do? Leads the league in passer rating, leads the league in this stat what more does he have to do to convince you? And I would listen to this, and I'd be like, Okay,
either one of two things. Either you're just doing you know, a captain easy stance like this will be a popular opinion. Miami fans will be happy for me, or you. I feel have a fundamental misunderstanding of how football works, because what I want him to do is something I think he's physically uncapable of doing, incapable of doing, which is be one of the eight to ten human beings alive.
That and shit is bad, and you have to just make it happen.
You can and we know he can't, and so there
it's like what can he do? Unfortunately the answer is nothing like nothing like there is not And people would try to be like, oh, you're underrating the what he does with his eyes and how he moves to fenders, and I'm like, you're just bullshitting, like you're just saying all these things because you agree with me that if a game comes down to can you make the throws, you don't have the guy and so and then after this playoff loss, and this is what would just kill
me if I were Mike McDaniel. After the playoff loss, some of the narratives switched to, Okay, guys, I know he's smart, and I know he gives good quotes, but how much blame should Mike McDaniel get here? And my response would be if I'm him, like, okay, so now, because I have gotten the absolute most anyone could ever get out of this quarterback, now it has turned into it's my fault we didn't go further because you've tricked yourself into thinking we have someone.
We don't have a quarterback, right, like why do they fall apart?
Once the weather changes and the teams get better because our quarterback can't throw it thirty yards in a.
Stiff wins, right, and everyone knows it. Everyone knows it.
No, it is that the media can be protective on that. I mean, it's it's kind of what the media does. Like John Stewart said this years ago, just enough conservatives are just enough right when they say the media is in the bag for the left. There's just enough examples where you're like, yeah, well kind of. It's like they the media oversteps places that it shouldn't, you know, overstep, And I think sometimes the media is protective and they choose and I think two is one of those. Everybody
feels bad about the concussions. He's a kid of faith, he's a nice and he's a really nice kid. He's an easy, easy guy to root for.
And he's not the problem with it.
It's not like I'm saying this guy's a bum, this guy shouldn't be in the league. But if I had a real problem just reconciling with people that I like and respect, their opinion were like I think he's the NFL's MVP.
It's like kind of like what do you? What do you? And if there was an anonymous team vote.
You think the has ten guys on that team that vote not for the league MVP, for Dolphins MVP, then vote for him over Tyreek Hill, Like, no, you don't.
And it's not even that you can't win.
With him, it's that everything has to be perfect and the guys that it's not allow long list of guys that things don't have to be perfect for.
But those are the guys that have.
Not all the value, but a wildly disproportioned amount of the value when it comes to who can win this time of year in the NFL, especially right now in the AFC, where weird things going on.
Where in the NFC you.
Don't really have to deal with bad weather because it's domes in warm weather. It's La San Francisco, Detroit, Dallas, Tampa. I guess domes are warm weather. The only good outdoor teams are Philly in Green Bay and they didn't have home field this year. In the AFC, the only good dome team is Houston and Miami. Miami's warm weather, but
then it's Cincinnati, Buffalo, Cleveland, Kansas City, Baltimore. So if you're gonna try to win in the playoffs, and you're in the AFC, you sure shit better be able to go out in the cold outdoors in January. And in the NFC you can build a track team be like we're probably gonna be indoors the whole way anyway.
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