January 24th, 2025 TDT Conference Championship Week

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Kenny Saint James Barry. But not all y'all can call me Kenned.

There's nothing, there's nothing Kenny likes more than an impromptu extended intro for no reason.

Yeah, I don't know if you feel good. I appreciate that, but yeah, not all y'all can call me. I'm gonna assume you're a first name, and you've never goned me by my first name. That's crazy, that's disrespectful almost, Isn't that funny how that flipped? Weird? Kids? Everybody like you got called a nickname. You're like, I don't like that, and then you realize I actually liked that nickname. And now it's like everybody gets called everything but their name. Yeah,

Moving on to the coaching hires, A bunch that happened already. Uh, the latest one just dropped a couple hours ago. The Cowboys hire their offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer as head coach.

Six.

I really have no idea where this came from I don't understand how you fire Mike McCarthy, a super Bowl winning coach, only to hire one of his minions, an offensive coordinator who have been fired kind of disastrously at his last two places with the Jets and the Seahawks. So yeah, I don't really know what the Cowboys are doing. Hope Jerry Jones is not losing his mind, it doesn't have dementia and doesn't end up getting the Wendy Williams slash say treatment.

That you're gonna get us thrown into a black site. But yeah, I'm going to Texas tomorrow. I need you to not like just say that, but yeah, thoughts on the shot and hummer hi, I mean, good for him? What are you gonna do? Say? No, it's not like he was ever gonna get another job anywhere else. Like literally, this is like unless he's another Jason Witton, I mean Jason, Uh,

I wonder what he said in the meeting of what he would do different than McCarthy.

To really kind of swade Jones. He probably was told him.

Like like, he probably told him he's gonna just listen to him more.

Honestly. He made Rico a star player this year. I mean, but the running back death was the steps back. The running back room looked like trash going into the season, the Henrico became a star player for the Cowboys offense so much so they cut Zeke so that yeah, yeah, but I'm saying, like the all the OC kept that offense going with Cooper Rush and Dack out, So it's like, hey, I'm the one thing holding I'm the one thing holding the offense together. I guess let me have the full reigns.

I would have I mean, I would have went with more personally. I mean, but you he's he's in Philly. Why would you go back? Why would you leave as the O C. You didn't they didn't.

Want, they didn't want you to be a head coach the first time? Why would you. I'm not gonna live. I'm not gonna put myself in a position where you can reject me twice and then I lose out on potentially a Super Bowl opportunity with the Eagles because the Saints job is still available now. Yeah, Saints job was the last one left last time I checked. Yeah, so.

All right, you know Jaguars hired uh Tampa Bay Buccaneers or see Liam. The Jaguars had interviewed a number of candidates. The Jaguars had interviewed a number of candidates, including Robert Saler and Patrick Graham. They ultimately went with Cohen. I think they were to say something about, we're.

Gonna talk about the details of how he got hired, Y, let's talk about it. Feel like we should wait to talk about the details. Let's just judge it on its merit, all right. So keep in mind, Baker Mayfield is out on his eighth offensive coordinator in eight years, Lian Cohen, Liam Cohen. That's why the Raiders would have been perfect. Baker would have been a perfect Raider. They could have signed him, they could have revamped his team. He's not

So presumably they're all They're still all in on Trevor Lawrence, even though this is effectively now his third offensive coach, So what choice They don't have a true I mean, they just signed him last year, but I mean teams have done have done more with worst contracts, So I don't know.

And honestly, I mean, we could.

Say he doesn't have a market, but you don't really know until things kind of shape up in free agency, in the draft, there's not any real free, big free agent quarterbacks out there.

So Sam Donald's yeah, Donald can get a fat contract from the Titans. He fucked up his bag so much in that last game, who knows, I mean, but then you might get him cheap. If you're the Titans, Hey, we'll give you thirty million dollars. I'd rather give him thirty million than do what the Raiders did, because if Sam Donald goes to the Vikings, I mean to the Raiders, I might snap. Wouldn't surprise me. I might snap. I might legitimately go to San Clemente and just start tagging up shit.

But yeah, I mean, I like the Cohen Hire for a lot of the reasons that you said. But I think the thing for me is like Jacksonville has always been good on defense, Like that's been their identity Saxonville, like when they have that front four before with del Rio, Like they've always been driven by defense.

And so.

Like, if this whole Trevorick's Trevor Lawrence experience doesn't work this next year or next year and a half, like I think it's not only going to be Lawrence who's out, but it's probably gonna be going too so he's got to turn that offense around real quick. There's too much talent on that roster for them to not be dynamic on offense. And also, you can't keep giving the defensive

All right, moving on.

Pete Carroll to the Raiders. Go ahead, Kenny, because you already know how I feel about this.

So he will be the oldest coach in NFL history come the first game of the season. Liam Cohen was right there, Brian Flores is right there. If you wanted just an old dude to lead this ship, like you could have just called Jim Caldwell, like this move, we're

About but he's an offensive consultant. He's eighty five, dog, he's he needs to go sit down.

Yes he was, he was. He's sixty four back then. Like, I've seen this man my whole life, and all I know is he's just apparently a brilliant offensive mind. And all I know is go write some books, dog or like, but go sit down with my grandma, Like what are we doing? I love the GM pick I love. I mean, if Tom Brady and Pete Carroll gotta work together and was on the Panther staff, that's good. Revitalizing Bryce fixing Bryce Young. What do you know he's been on the

So I wouldn't say he was saving Bryce Young because he was with them when Bryce Young was.

Sorry, he man, and you don't look good again either way either way. But when you factor him, okay, if this is the guy to write the ship and get you. If he's your okay, you got three years to fix our franchise type of situation. Okay. Pete Carroll, Uh, you put some great pieces together at the end of your time in Seattle. He put together in all pro secondary pretty much, so I have to give him his props. In some areas he got too off. He got Lucas

The best higher the Raiders have made, probably since del Rio, only because del Rio was kind of an obvious choice, and I feel like in this case, Pete Carroll was also kind of an obvious choice. But it's like, Raiders don't always have to be the smartest people in the room. You don't always got to reinvent the fucking wheel, you don't always got to think you're better than everyone else, because guess what, the last twenty years of behavior has

Of Gruden, and then two years of grewd In before that.

So pretty much for the last five years, the Raiders have been completely and utterly unstable, starting at the top. And we didn't even get into the four GMS they've had over that time, right, So, this is a team that's this is a team that's not just going through a rebuild, but it has been going through a transitional.

Period for the past ten years.

Since they've announced the move to Vegas, they've basically been in a transitional period in terms of even when they made that move, we didn't know what the impact would be on del Rio or McKenzie.

They didn't end up making it.

Well, McKenzie did, but Delrio didn't end up making it to Vegas. And since then, on the back end, we've seen them hire new president, we saw them fire a bunch of executives they had. They've gone through like two different kind of scouting overhauls already over that time. So the Raiders have just been in constant transition pretty much the last five.

To ten years.

And really, I mean you could probably even go back to before then. So for me, this higher at least steadies and shit, like, yeah, you might be right. They might go seven and nine, They may go you know eight, They may go eight and nine. They may go nine and eight. They may miss the playoffs with ten wins and a really tough division. Shoot, he may get bested by the Chargers still in Jim Harbam like, he may

That's kind of their ven diagram.

But I think Pete Carroll will also develop some talent because he has developed some.

Talent in Seattle.

He has found in the rough for every you know, first and second round pick he's missed, he's found a guy. So at least for me, that's what I'm excited about. I'm excited for the Raiders to finally just be respectable and just be run correctly. Like because McDaniels, we all knew he had personality issues before.

They even hired him.

Gruden, we knew he was old and stuck in his ways and didn't even know if it worked. Antonio appears, we always knew was kind of a flyer. You know, we wanted to believe in him, but you know, we always knew his limitations. Pete Carroll, you know, we know he can relate to players because he's been doing it forever. You know, there were players that were upset when he even left Seattle last year. Despite his age. We know he doesn't have personality issues. He's able to manage players.

I mean, they really are. That's the problem with lay your asses down somewhere. I mean, you're not wrong on that point. The dream that you the world you prepared us for, never existed and you failed at it. That's why your ass is still work.

But in a beautiful dream scenario, what I think is gonna make or break this higher hell is going to be the coordinators and the things that you said finding Carrol's replacement, because yeah, like let's say they go Let's say they go seven to nine this year, they go ten and ten and seven next year, and then they're eleven and five, and now your coordinators are getting interviews whatever, So instead of letting them go, you promote one, and then Pete Carroll moves to a senior consultant role or

We want to call spade a spade, I guess, But yeah, all right, that's enough.

On the Raiders, Ben Johnson went to the line, went to the Bears. You put as Lions head coach, but he joined the Bears. He had his opening press conference. But yeah, just takeaways already from Ben Johnson. Many people saw as the number one candidate.

Choosing the Bears job. Ay plus job. I mean it was the best It was really the best place, the only place you should be considering. So now is what it is that he made the right choice. Now to be interesting to see who was his defensive coordinator, because I would be calling Gerrod mao. It was me. I like the job for Ben Johnson.

I mean there's a lots like you know, obviously the Bears have a historic organization, Chicago has rabid fans. You know, the defense is solid, has some talent on there, the offense has some weapons. You have Kleb who was the number one pick last year. So there's a lot to work with there. But honestly, I don't know how it's gonna work out. And here's why I think my first concern, like just looking at that opening press conference, like I

But did he allegedly take a shot? People said he took a shot at Bratt LAFLORA, Yeah he did. I was like, if you don't know that guy and you're not a friend, you shouldn't be calling out by his first name.

Not well that and then also well, I mean you could say the same thing about Matt Lafour too. I mean, Matt Laford wasn't that impressive his first year. It took some time.

There's all the credit when Matt Laflour got there, and then you realize, no, Matt Lafloor can actually do this.

So it might take some time for Ben Johnson to kind of grow into his big head coaching energy. But yeah, I just think like if it doesn't work out for him, it's gonna be tough because you essentially inherited a quarterback, but you're not gonna live to see another one. And

Well, they're in a perfect position because I think I have like the eighth or ninth overall pick, but then my last my last kicker is.

Like I could see why you would want to stay in the division because you know you're gonna know the teams like matter before, You're gonna know your Lions, You're gonna know.

The Vikings.

You've put together game plans against them, so you know their defense, you know their schemes. And also I feel like that could also go to your disadvantage because they are those teams are walking into that same with that same knowledge. And also you're gonna be playing against your mentor you know, the team that puts you on a team that you didn't even want to leave in the Lions.

Like you've been in the division.

You chose this job, you chose this quarterback, you chose these weapons. So for Ben Johnson, like he's gonna have the most pressure probably out of all these guys that we've talked about.

They're in a great spot draft wise because they can either take their future their left tackle in the future, they could trade for one, maybe with the Raiders because they need a center and a tackle for sure, but they can also you know, buy some go get some offensive lineman a free agency. But also like they could take an edge rusher. They can think whatever edg rusher falls to them at ten or whatever their position is, or they could just take Kelvin Banks junior out of

It's not just about that though, It's about the command that he had in the games.

And I mean fact that a refolution wasn't the fact that his.

The fact that his trajectory was so up and down, like obviously the coach, the coach, the coaches and the coaching you know, took the.

Fall for that.

But now that that variable has been isolated, if Caleb continues in that way, a way that you pointed out at USC and flag at USC, probably before anybody else. Like, if he continues that, at some point, we just gotta believe he's already shown us who he is.

I think with a dude like that, great pay calling covers up a lot of novelty, Like yes, Patrick, look at Patrick Mahomes, you got to execute. Yeah, you're right, but look at Patrick Mahomes. Andy Reid ran a lot of fly jet sweep ship. When Mahomes first took over a starter, he didn't give him the whole playbook. Mahomes worked up to that, and now he's worked down to now the same ship.

No, he just I mean, they're not running jet sweets, they don't have to, but they're running the ball there, quick passes to emotions, they're doing motion ship like they're doing. They're still doing a lot of similar he's making making the decisions now.

Yeah, yeah, but I'm saying, look at James Daniels, he said part of his pre draft he wanted like a virtual reality.

But the reason why I'm giving you that example is to say that, like Pat Mahomes is still that guy because he learned to be that guy and he's still executing within himself. He knows his limitations and he knows he has no limitations. At the same time, Caleb, Caleb was a better prospect enabled as you've talked about for the past four years. He had to play hero balls different you know, placated too, and it's not.

Work to his benefit. I think this year was a good taste for him. He needed to experience some more losing. He had some success.

Well, you mentioned Jayden, but think about where they were four years ago.

They were a mess. Remember they had Haskins.

But that's what I'm saying is, look at Jaden's.

A whole totally different front offense.

Look at look at Jaden's progression versus Klob's progression.

I mean, quiet as kept Jaden was always a better passer and Caleb, we could just go back and look at his record breaking high school career in Cali. By the way, By the way, there's two California quarterbacks left in the playoffs and two Texas quarterbacks left in the playoffs. So I guess we're gonna find out who's who because uh, Josh Allen went from the I'm saying is I'm rooting for all the Cali quarterbacks. That's all I gotta say. But yeah, I just I think it'll work out for Chicago.

How did you say Caleb had a better Moore efficient season? He threw less touchdowns the same amount of interceptions. No, he threw a couple less interceptions. But his touchdown and interception ratio was still lower. His yards per average were lower, His yards were lower, and his completion percentage was a full ten percent lower.

Yeah, well, efficiency versus production efficiencies, your completion path, your complete completion percentage is actually a very over reception rate. Completion percentage a very overrated stat. You play enough of HLA football to know that you can run twenty five straight jet sweeps. Did you really complete one hundred percent of your passes or was just a fucking handoff? Yeah? Was it a shovel pass?

When you're talking to throw over the middle, when you're talking about sixty two percent versus sixty nine, Yeah, you're right. Jaden's sixty nine might be a little bit high, but sixty two.

Is also kind of low. They ran a college.

Sixty two is kind of close to fish.

They run a college.

Sixty two's a good twenty to thirty with green passes. With me, you take away thirty of those screen passes, and that's fifty nine percent.

Uh, he threw more downfield though.

His yards, throw more yards per attempt, don't to show that.

What I'm saying is, no, I didn't say he connected downfield. I'm saying he had to say his guards per attempt. Yes, okay, but look at how many shots he took downfield it didn't hit. What I'm saying is the Commanders run a college offense where it's high efficiency completions, completions. Just look at it, like Terry McClain is the best receiver Zach Ertz had, Like I mean yard, that's the other eighty five catches.

That's the other layer of it is Caleb supporting cast is a lot better than Jaden's.

Well, they expected Caleb was just coming to.

I don't know when you became a Caleb Caleb apologist, but.

I don't not a callb apologist you are. I just know you are in twenty twenty five. Apologies. Definitely not when you were the.

First one bringing up all these red flags about him, all these red flags that persisted for three years.

And we'll see you in the offseason if him had Ben Johnson fixed it, at.

Some point, if your dad keeps going to rehab, you just got to accept that.

He's a drunk. This is his rookie year. Like, these are ungodly expectations because think about it, people didn't want to put People weren't saying, oh, Jaydon Daniels is the truth he's gonna be. People are like, it might be Drake May and what are they doing with the old miss QB Jackson Dart right now? Hyping him up is the next greatest thing, even though we all know what's either should do. It's really Cam Wore and everybody else.

So it's like I think, for me, it's not about where you start, it's not about your production.

It's about how you.

Finish and the So what I mean by that is how you developed, right and then also during that process of development, what can you do and what is your base line? That's how I look at it. It's like, yeah, what Caleb can do is a lot. He's given us a great range, a lot of sparks. But the baseline has been inconsistent to say the least. So I'm not saying he's a bus I'm not saying to throw him away. What I'm saying is like he doesn't have a lot of room for error either, and him in the marriage

You want to say on the Bears because we got one more nah, I think you just gotta wait and see at this point because our offense is like eighty percent complete.

Aaron Glenn went to the Jets, an organization that drafted him. He played eight years there, left the Lions organization where he had really revived that defense.

They kind of had a down year due to injuries, but really.

Just I mean, you think about the Detroit Lions when Danny Campbell first got there and they were just kind of a laughingstock, and I think eventually they figured it out, and Glenn it was just a big, big part of that. I mean even there, like you know Hutchinson, you know, you know Carlton Davis, you know some of these you know, bigger pay guys, but they have a lot of guys who are just blue collar starters that are actually doing solid, like half of their d line, half of their corners,

Like so, I don't even funk John, He's not even he's not even worthy of being a Hall of Fame quarterback. But that's another story. I mean, that's crazy, bro, He's he's overrated that go look at his numbers.

These numbers are not about our numbers. You were just talking about how it's not all about the numbers.

Bro, You literally Nyablor waited forever. Joe Name just got in like it was nothing. Kenny Stable had to wait for it because he called his fucking shot iconically. Bro, They're running back had the best game running Jets had. They don't even talk about the running the starting running back who actually is the reason why they won the game.

He brought a Super Bowl to the Jets. And what about the fucking I want you to google his stats. I want with the stats from that. But it's not just about that game. It's about the Colts game before that where Name is played.

Really well, okay, that's cool, but in today's NFL, that dude is made.

In today's NFL, it really doesn't matter. Because you want to talk about stats, doesn't today's stats blow well, quarterback stats blow away all the stats from back then, So it really doesn't matter type of court like and also there's like five more games.

Now, so no, no, no, sh it really doesn't matter. Let's just look at the type of quarterback that exists, justin Herbert Joe Namath. If you put Justin Herbert on that Jets team, they're probably winning by even more.

No, because they probably won't even fucking throw the ball. Yeah, but he's tall at ship not he'd be cooking.

But I'm saying, like people hype up Joe Namath, but like, let's be real, a lot of nobody's trying to hope hype up Joe Namath. I'm just saying, Okay, cool.

I'm saying, is he's a thought leader of the Jets organization. Shouldn't even him. He is excited, and fans are excited, like fucking should he? Though Greenberg is probably shouldting himself.

I don't even care what my Greenberg thinks. But ship, Bro, we're talking about the fucking Jets. Are you kidding me? There are more prominent Jets fans. You know. That's a fucking prominent Jet fan. Brohl is a prominent jet Jet fire man Rex Ryan, Curtis Martin. This dude said Rex Ryan. Bro. Come on, bro, he's a last success. We want to talk about people we don't fuck that. Don't look it matter, Brow, that's crazy. You just gonna you're the first person on Rex Ryan.

Anytime you brought up you bring.

A that is because because it's funny, because it's funny. Though the foot jokes are funny.

Anyways, you're very mad, right. I don't know why you're hating on the Aaron Glenn Higher. That's crazy.

I love the Aaron Glenn Higher. I don't gonna fuck with John to say about it. I think it's a great higher.

The sat gotta stop picking on the fucking slow kid on the football team.

Bro, that's crazy. Just let the Jets have something, dude, that's you're just calling me the I defended the slow k. I defended the slow kid on our football team. That's disrespectful.

But yeah, last point I make is the Jets defense is also deep, so I feel like he's gonna do a lot with that.

I think they're gonna have to take a quarterback because I'm not trusting. I'm not trusting. I'm telling you we're taking a quarterback. If it's like if is there, he'll sit behind you. But just know, like this team doesn't work with you past this year. They have to do something he can't do, like he can't go with Antony appreciated. I'm just gonna accept not getting my quarterback because we got a forty five year old dude on ayahuasca. No, no,

That has to change right there the front office, like whatever the fuck they gotta stopped. They're drinking that same cool he Joe Douglas, who actually where they're trying to always fucking just make one more move.

It's like they got it of jock Joe Douglas. And I don't think they should have done that because look up everything he did. He rebuilt that whole roster from the stand.

But he's also done a lot of ship to over leverage them and fucking gambled on town that hasn't hit. Yeah, he's gambled on town that has hit, but there's also.

Been I give you Garrett Wilson. If I give you Garrett Wilson and get Deronte Adams. And the only thing I fucked up on was Aaron Rodgers, which nobody, Nobody called him popping his achilles ten in seven minutes into the game.

Well that Butante Adams, he got out of the Zach Wilson situation.

Adams was a bust there. Yeah, but I mean we knew that was coming, watch and watched devontec On Kary Wilson had a down here, Yeah, because they had no offensive identity and Breeze Hall care team on his back.

I mean, they let Makay Beckton go for nothing to have an all Pro season when they really could have used an offensive line. Like it's crazy how little Aaron Rodgers gets sacked knowing how immobile and old he is. Yeah, like these young quarterbacks need to watch that, because just the way he moves and Phil's in the pocket is like literally fucking crazy. Like he's literally like a blind, blind, fucking Samurai trope at quarterback and it's just being wasted away.

Rabel last week. Rabel's the Patriots head coach and Johns McDaniels. This is OC and they brought back this special teams coordinator. They had the second best special in the NFL. He actually is like one of the best special teams coordinators in the league, arguably the best. But he's from Baltic's days. He was already on staff. He was retained by the Pats, but they had the number two special teams union in the country, So yeah, I would want to keep that guy.

What I don't understand is much like the cowboys, Like why would you put try so hard to push out Bill Belichick.

To then bring back his mouth, his.

Back, his his clone, like his vessel, his vessel.

There you go, perfect, what the what the fucking horror crux is this? And then I don't know that Baltimore is not.

Get the band back together, Like what in the fucking nineties band?

Is this like the Blue Hell?

Is this like you're just gonna change the lead singer and expect us to act like everything's the same. Yeah, talking to you, Lincoln Park. Uh yeah, that's actually a great comparison r P.

Chester. So yeah, that's crazy to me. And also.

Like the thing about doing that is and I'm speaking as a Raiders fan, cause now we've done this twice.

We brought back our show.

When we had no business bringing back our show. We brought back John Gruden when we had no business bringing back John Gruden. So when you do this whole, let me tap back into legendary coaching tree. What you really do is you undercut your own legend status.

Like you take something.

That you take a great meal that tasted good that you always can think back and say, damn, that was one of the best meals I ever had to it, and you add lima beans to it, you fucking freezer dry it, and then you pull it out of the freezer twenty years like some fucking wedding cake on your anima que, and then throw it in the freezer and then expect it to hold up to fucking today's standard It's like, bro, everything changes over time. That's good, that's life.

Move Okay, j Cole, Okay, sparks will fly that sparks will fly with Genko and Ja Cole. But that's try that's a biggie difference. I'm choosing the light skin route. It's funnier, just go with that old thing. But yeah, it's funnier, yeah, Ja co host all that. Yeah anyways too.

So yeah, my point of saying that is, if Rabel sucks, not only are you gonna essentially kill the Patriot way, you're gonna tank whatever half slice of dignity, pride.

Josh McDaniels can hang it at his hat on.

And three Robert Kraft, You're gonna look like you don't know what the fuck you're doing, and people are gonna start looking at you as the problem instead of Belichick and Brady, and they're probably gonna look at you as the reason of what broke that thing up and got between them. So yeah, Patriots, there's a lot on the line essentially. I mean, the whole thing about drum Mail was like he was cut from the same cloth as

Anything else you want to add, Josh McDaniels is the enemy of the forward pass. Tell him, Kenny said it. Tell him, Kenneth think gains Verry said it. I'll give my address too.

All Right, college football, we gotta speed it up a little bit. We're on a hard stop.

To all right, so I'll stay with the National Championship. What's the fucking dude? It was still kind of crazy. I didn't. I wasn't at the game, even though I fucking covered them all season and I covered their bowl game the last two years, which was ironically at the Cotton Bowl. But somehow I didn't mind, like got missed. But hey, that just uh makes me even more psychotically locked in on twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven because the nut yeah National Championship it was gonna be

The reason why I'm saying that is because, yeah, as you mentioned, n I L, revenue share, all these different things are making it so that you need someone to bridge the gap between the front office and the play and the players and the money. And that's really what a general manager does. Yeah, I just deleted it. Don't We don't need those. You can talk about those next week.

I don't even remember what they were now.

One of them was Shrine Bowl, and one of them was something else for next week. Oh it was it was something else about the schedule or something. Probably actually important. No, it wasn't Big twelve media day in Frisco. You don't even talk about that right now.

Oh yeah, well they announced it's gonna be a frist go don't You don't need did that do anything? Now? Everybody knows who cares about the big pot? You could talk about that anytime. No, it's true the ones you deleted, I literally didn't. I'm gonna. I'm flying out to Texas tomorrow for the hundred annual East I Triaboat. I'm only going because it's the hundredth. Otherwise I would be at home saving my money broke.

But yeah, back to what I was saying about the GM is one, I think this is becoming a more important position in college. Two, there's a lot of crossover between the organizations. I mean, I think if you would have thought about what Notre Dame was five years ago or ten years ago, I think they've done a good job of modernizing that and embracing the modern times and not, you know, trying to shy away from it. You not to say USC hasn't, but USC just has had its

So yeah, I mean, overall, I like the move.

I think there's a lot of crossover that I think will help USC kind of make it.

Successful right away. And yeah, they made a rival, they made one of their biggest rivals weaker. Yeah, I'll be in the Elbama for the Senior Bowl, So it's gonna be a hell of a lot of people interview all right, moving on, take your tangent.

According to Rapport, new Buccaneers coach Liam Cohen allegedly lie to the Jacksonville Jaguars said he wasn't taking a job so he could get a higher pay raise from them. Meanwhile, the Jaguars were interviewing Patrick Graham to satisfy the Rooney Rule. So take your tangent, which, by the way, Lions also get a third round pick for ang Glenn getting hired as a Jets coach.

That's great. I mean, should the Buccaneers want my tangent on this? My thing is, wait, I got this one.

Hold on, let me just say this and then you can say whatever the fuck you want to say, because mine's gonna be short, uh how long till forty seven gets rid of the Rooney rule. That's all I wanted to say, because he's getting rid of all these other d shit in spite of the fact that, you know, unemployment is kind of the worst to spin in a cool minute quietly.

And also.

Black companies only got like one percent of the funding, and women companies women like companies only got like three percent.

So yeah, if you.

Think critical or race theory doesn't impact capitalism and.

Economics, then I don't know.

What to tell you, because clearly the data shows the other people have not caught up in spite of whatever you think should happen over the course of sixty years versus a four hundred year country. But uh yeah, I.

Wasn't even gonna blow my top, but since you brought it up, I just want everybody to universally know just you know, same way oxygen helped. So it's all breathe. White women and gay white people are the biggest and undeniable beneficiaries of all di and affirmative action. Like it's statistically a fact. Like you can go back and look through all the waves of feminism, Like you could go through every wave of feminism you want, white women have

Of you gotta keep the ship moving because we're only halfway through the rundown.

I'm about get out of this. I'm about to go out of his onion trip. So allegedly, for multiple reports, he didn't talk to the Bucks, he didn't tell anybody he was taking the interview because the condition of him getting the contract was not taking the interview with the Bucks, I mean not taking the interview with the Jaguars. So the only person he talked to was Todd Bowles. But Tam Bowles already knew by that conversation that he had

Uh. I don't really even blame him because I think, but yeah, hard you gotta like, just because you have a job doesn't mean you stop looking for a job, And just because you found a potential job doesn't mean you shouldn't stop looking for a raise. Because either way, like fighting fighting about on two fronts, like when they can combine and be beneficial for you in the long run.

If you do, it's got to justify the means. It's like, you could take this into the relationship world. You could take this to anything. If you're being offered more money than you've ever gotten, allegedly he was getting being Johnson money. But if I offer you the top spot and you could just be like, if you could be somebody's main and get married, why would you stay a side piece? That's like, that's the only way I could like, it's common sense. If that's how it fell out, that's what

All right, the Raiders hired the Bucks assistant GM to be their main GM, Spikey I think his name was, or spy.

Tech or something like that. Yeah, it's great again. I think him Pete Carroll and Belichick or not Belichick. But Brady, you're gonna be in lockstep, especially since Brey Belichick's not. Pete Carroll's not really in the coach under the coaching tree of Belichick technically are we We're not saying he isn't right, he's technically his own, so if he's his own, but he understands the Patriot way and he helped create a team that got to a Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean,

Yeah, I mean, I think if you look at the bus last few drafts, they've made the obvious pick, but it worked out for them, Like they've developed these guys and that's something.

The Raiders haven't done. So I'm looking forward to that.

I think strategically they probably aligned on a four to three, which which I'm privy.

To ivve is in this draft class. So I mean, if you get Mason Graham, but I'm not taking Mason Grahama, Listen, I was like a four to seven or some crazy shit.

So yeah, I mean, have had some money issues, but they always seem away seem to find ways around it, which is what.

You want from a GM. So Florida to Texas, I mean Florida to Vegas. Yep, sales tax that matters, all right.

The Colts higher for defensive coordinator at the same position.

Al right. I forget how to say his last name, but y'all can google it. He was the Bengals DC that led him to a Super Bowl appearance. Yeah, he's perfect with the Colts. I'm surprised the Raiders didn't snack him up. SPECIs Pete Carroll didn't snack him up. But he's perfect for what the Colts need, and he probably is gonna be a great help to what they're trying

I don't really have anything to add to that other than I feel like the Colts defense kind of fell of cliff this year. I feel like they were pretty good the past two years and then this year they were just made as fuck.

So hopefully they can stir the ship right.

Texans fire offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick after two years.

Take your tangent. That's crazy because he was literally seen as a head coaching candidate after one year and now he's fired.

Not for long, That's why they call it that. Obviously, this is in response to the struggles c J. Stroud had this year, which honestly, I don't even know if you could put on slowick because they had so many

Footing in that game. And I think that, to me was kind of.

The deal breaker, because, yeah, you could have brought him back for one more year with everyone healthy, like let's see what happens, but you would have been in the same position, you know, five six games and having to.

Make a switch.

You're better off making that switch now, getting the guy you really want and settling on you know, whatever coordinators in house midway through the season. So saying all that, I respected Texans for ripping the band aid off, but yeah, I probably would have given him a plee just because of how good the first year was and some of the adversity they had this year. But yeah, with that,

I can't call it a touchdown because Mark Andrews did not indeed catch the ball and didn't score. So I mean, I think the whole outrage behind it is a turnover because technically you don't have to speak to the media. Not everybody has to speak to the media. And Cam Newton brought up a great point. Fox Sports got all kinds of sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations, and Joy Taylor and everybody else went back to work like nothing happened.

It's a turn on the opposite of what you're saying is like yes. And also, how many scrums have you gone to? How many opening statements have you heard that don't really say ship? So, Mark Andrews, you could have got up there, you could have given a really brief statement and just said something anything, because at the end of.

The day, like say something I'm there for.

Well, in theory, the media should be there to represent the fans in the audience. So they're asking on behalfy the stance in the audience they want to see it. Now, granted there'd be some people in there just for clouds and selfies, but we don't got to get into that. The fact of the matter is the press conference is there to address the fans, the public, the people. And honestly, it wasn't Mark Andrews's fault, like the team should have

You have the trouble, you know what, you know, none of his receivers were there because none of them could catch the fucking ball.

Like, I respect Cam giving him a plead as a player. Cam took a lot of press conferences that weren't the best of times he.

Did after he almost fucking died in a car crash, so he was all fucked up.

So for me, like he should understand why it is important and why it should have been important to Andrews because not just that, but it's like, to me, this signals that Andrews knows his days in Baltimore number because that, to me is a question that he didn't want to answer, much like how Cooper Cup had to answer it and was like, yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna be here next year. I don't think Mark Andrews wanted to give that response because as far as.

Dropping the ball, like I.

We could have given him a number of please like I said. He could have said, it wasn't all my fault. You know, we shouldn't have been in that position, type one diabetes. He could have said, you know, obviously nobody wants to drop the ball in that position, but you know, things happen, like blah blah blah.

There's a number of things he could have said.

He could have He could have you know, went full of scorched earth, like, yeah, that was totally on me. You know I should have did that. They paid me a lot of money to make those catches. Blah blah blah. There's a number of different talking points and talking tracks he could have taken. But choosing to say nothing just

It like, you don't want another off season like that.

Just address the elephant in the room so that we can move on, so that fans can move on. But now you just left things uncertain, and they's gonna be uncertain like this all the way until August and September. Like, not only are fans not gonna forgive you for dropping it, but now they're gonna not forgive you for not looking them in the eye and telling.

Them what the fuck happened. Technically, he was so depressed about it, it's sad. And also, like the Bills, he could have just gone up there eighty thousand dollars like Bills, fans give him, like eighty thousand dollars. That charity troll is crazy, but that's beautiful though, Like is it? It is? But it's like if you're gonna whoop my bills, the Bills have actually pioneered the fucking charity trolling, which is crazy whooping your ass and then giving you money for

Um, the twenty twenty seven College Football Playoff National Championship will be healthy, will be touchdown turn over.

It's a fucking touchdown and I will be there. Mark my fucking words, I'm so serious. You're not depriving me of that one. You don't want to give it to me because in Texas, hey, I can catch a fucking gray hand, I can catch a mega buster Vegas, I don't even need a room. I mean, I'll get one obviously, because I'll be in Vegas for a week. But like, I'm gonna go the other way with this, I'm gonna down. I'm gonna say it's a turnover. They keep having pro sec states.

Bro, I'm gonna say it's a turnover.

Georgia playing a fucking home game.

I love Vegas, don't get me wrong. I love Vegas. But I'm gonna say it's a turnover because one your plays, not because one, yeah, sure, I didn't even think about that, but that's a good point. One the pickums aren't even legal in Vegas, so yeah, you can't. You can't do any Project picks Underdog, none of that ship out there. So that sucks, but that's kind of a tangent.

That's why they're doing it. What I don't like about this movie is two things.

One, the Raiders stadium is small, in comparison to where they have these games. Usually usually you're looking at a place of over you know, one hundred thousand, eighty thousand, something like that.

The Raider Sam's only fifty, So that's gonna check out.

The prices twice as much because these games always sell out. So that means all prices for everything is gonna go twice as much, which means all the people that are going are just gonna They're not gonna be you know, mom and Dad, who you know been season ticket holders and have been fans for twenty years. They're gonna be corporations and executives flying from all over the country because yeah,

And because I mean for.

Some of these places, some of these teams, these Georgia fans, these Alabama fans, they don't have anything else going on in their life, so going and spending ten thousand dollars on the Super Bowl if their team is there, is like no I mean, on a on a championship game, that's nothing for them, because that for them is priceless versus like a Super.

Bowl is like, eh, yeah, maybe I'm a wife on egos fan.

I might go, but I might really just stay and watch it with my friends and at a local bar.

College kids and also college not getting you're not getting nowhere like the allotment for some of these ball games. But my thing is, I.

Don't have really and and you really want to start the new year off with two hundred college kids in a place where prostitution, weed drinking in public is legal.

Yes, because the're gonna be extra security, I mean, but that and traffic is gonna be a nightmare. Finally catching the bus.

Last part, and this has been something I've been talking about the past few years. I'll say it again, but this is also the delusion of college football balls.

As we know it.

Like the Las Vegas Ball is not traditionally a college football playoff game, nor is it a historical college football bowl like the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Colton Bowl, Rose Bowl, et cetera. So now you're pretty much making it to where the national title game can go anywhere, which is good for a place like LA because you could have

I would push back a little bit and say they saw the record profits that could be made, and honestly, Vegas should have more stuff like this, Like you don't already feel about college football all Star games, move that ship to Vegas. If it's not the Senior Bowl, it should be in Vegas. Nobody's I'm not going to the

Already said it, Bro, don't elaborate on it.

You gotta keep it moving, bro. I'm done, all right, What was it last one.

Uh, Texas part away with their team president Greg Grison.

Wasn't he with the Colts? No that you're thinking of Ryan Grigson. That was the text since GM it was. It's interesting because the Texas president and they got rid of them, which will let me know. Okay, we're solidified in our head coach and their coordinators in that situation. So the Texas are really smart.

Rid of a guy that edited you Joe Mixing and Stefan Diggs in the same season and you still made the playoffs.

Yeah, but I mean, what's the finn even come back?

I mean, still though you he made he rolled the dice, he made the he made the play.

He was great until he towards a CEO, until he wasn't fucked. My whole season up in Fantasy all my elite receivers got hurt. Did you hear the joke or should I repeat it? You can repeat it, but I was trying to be nice and play past it all right?

Uh faara fay Marcellswelli versus Ryan Clark. You got like literally two lines on all these like one into two lines.

Oh this ship is corny, y'all? Are grown men? Fight or let it? Go. But like Michell's why he's making it known. He's just making content out of Ryan Clark, and Ryan Clark's kind of coming off sensitive even if he's right, and it's like, bro, fight and handle this shit off camera. I'm tied to myself. Wiley constantly throwing up Canter. It's like, bro, we get to hear from content. But like you're being kind of corny. You went to Columbia,

I'm gonna say it's a fit for a lot of reasons that you said. I think for me, it's hard to see someone that I really respect and know a lot about and have admired a lot.

In Marcel's Wiley just kind of being reduced to the guy who just you.

Know, talks about the people and that are talking about the other people. I understand why he does it. I mean we kind of do it too. He's on his own, he's an independent, so you gotta find ways to make content.

And then he's got such a big.

Following that people are asking him about these things that other people are saying.

So ultimately I just think it's a.

Fade because One, I feel like Marcellus Wiley's bigger than this. Two Ryan Clark is coming off sensitive because, as Marcelle's Wiley has said repeatedly, like I'm not a tough guy. I grew up around tough guys and they kept me away from them for a reason. Like I know my place, I know who I am. I'm the big corny Smiley, funny dude. Like That's who I've always been and that's why I'm going to keep being so Yeah, overall, I think it's just it's a fade because y'all ain't really

You know what they're.

Trying to give Mexicans and Latinos together, Doug.

They're trying to give black people.

They trying to get more.

Don't you miss Nephew's name on this pod. They're about to have a mixer. Hey, don't shut up. I can't say what I want to say right now, but you shut you got to fuck up, Okay, all right. All I'm saying is we stray further and further away from God's love every day, and when this bitch finally gets destroyed, I'm not even gonna feel bad for most of you, because we need we gotta start popping off more CEO. I want to know whose idea this what I'm saying that I say killer, we got to pop them shoe

One, I don't think tequila and fried chicken go together like that, but maybe maybe it'll be a fried chicken taco or maybe it'll be like a tequila flavored wing that could be which both of those could be fired because I would try it.

So I'm with that, But also shouldn't have been a hypnotic or hennessy. Yeah, you're too afraid to bring up incredible Holk was right there. Incredible Holk right there. It's worse than bringing back TikTok only to say like, yeah, we might band it again in ninety.

Yeah, people are selling TikTok phones for like two grand. If someone about my phone or two grand phone, any phone that already has TikTok on it, grandpa for like two grand because you can't download TikTok new. So if you have TikTok on your phone, you can flip your phone for like twice the price right now. But yeah, you got an iPhone fucking seven, So bit is an iPhone.

It's not phone C it's not literally an iPhone seven.

No, it's not bitches after the eleven iPhone, it's really eleven and a half. No, iPhone se is an iPhone seven Max.

You've got the eleven. It's the iPhone seven on Mastard. That's all it is. It's like the remastered version, you know how they drop Now I understood you. I'm just I'm dealing with the trauma of what you just said, Like I'm it's sunk in.

But hey, if it got TikTok on it, then at least it's you knows instead of one hundred. Just made me feel like shit, brom feel there's some little kid that will buy your ship just as an eyepad touch, just so.

They have tick talk. Bro. I don't have TikTok on the phone, oversight, but it's on my other phone that's broken.

Jerry quits Patriot's Safety of Jabrill Peppers of his assault.

He still caught the cocaine charge, but uh yeah, fair faith. Apparently the fight called when like apparently allegedly Juju Smith Schuster was smashing a girl in question, and that's what caused initial reaction. And yeah, I hate being lied on. I know how it feels, so yeah, i'd be mad too, and I would out or sue for damages. It's just me. But he was quitted.

But one point we have made on this podcast. How many times y'all got millions of dollars, y'all have traveled around the whole world, and y'all are still staying around the same horrible females.

That's it. Last one, Robert Saller returned to the forty Diners, Sir, Fade Pete's right, I owe him some hood Burger spot because he kept saying he's gonna go back, and I deep down I knew it too, But I mean, hey, is what it is.

It's like when Destiny's Child got back together and everyone was like, oh, Beyonce's not going to show up, but then she did show up. The same thing with En Sync, where it was like, uh yeah, Justin is not going to be a part, and he ended up being a part of it.

It's like some sometimes the winds just blow your.

Home, and that's just what it is like. You know, I don't know if solid two point is going to be as good as one point, oh, but I knew that was the direction.

All right.

We literally got four minutes, so you literally have to do the one to two minute rat which the segment was intended to be, So speak whatever you gotta speak.

Okay, tell me to speak because I'm gonna just do it.

Well, I'm telling you that you'nutes a fucking setup.

He's cutting cutting my time. He's already forty five seconds over all. Right, bottom line, it's been a great week. I guess it hasn't been a bad week. It's just been a week. So I'm thankful and excited. Hopefully you know, figures cross safe travels out to Texas. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a storm. The storm is supposed to have already cleared up, though, at least to the part of Texas. I'm going to, so fingers crossed all that

Yeah, so uh, I'm sorry to get down the mobile this week wanted to take some time off, but it wasn't able to, so still going to be working, but they try to get as much interviews done as I possibly can. And yeah, man, hopefully my work situation works itself out. And outside of that, man, it's been I

We're out. Tune in next week, Huge Draft special. We're out. Peace