January 21, 2026 • 39 mins
In Hour 3 of the show the guys recap what Jay Glazer was talking about relating to Mike Tomlin which may peel back the curtain to how the Steelers organization was kept up. Plus, Dean Blandino stops on by, a Mendoza edition of the Leftovers, and more!
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in the world of football, whether it's celebrating the national champion,
the Indiana Hoosiers, or it's talking about the current situation
in the NFL when you get all these openings and
vacancies getting filled. By the way, congratulations, Mike McDaniel is
going to be the offensive coordinator of the LA Chargers.
So Mike McDaniel and Jim Harbaugh in the same room.
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And I know, going back, huh's fus. Once you went,
there's no going back.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's fine. So you had to come to you had
to come in La now because that fits here. I
mean it fits here.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, he pulled his name out of head coaching. Uh,
you know, potential searches right like Cleveland he was up
for at least interviewed for. He pulled his hand out
of that. It's I mean, to teach their own I
just you'd think you'd want to stay being a head coach.
It's also an interesting pairings schematically, if you if you
you know, we look at Harbaugh throughout his time whether
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it be at Michigan, UH, San Francisco, Stanford, whatever you want.
Top points to you even at the Chargers, you know,
he runs a lot greater variety of different gap schemes
and their running style. You know, Mike McDaniels comes from
that Shanahan tree. It's everything's based off more of the
outside zone, so a little more heavy zone running scheme.
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Which maybe if that's what what what Harball wants to do,
that's why he's bringing him in. But it's it's definitely
a different philosophy, I would say from from some of
what Shannan.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Likes to do.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
However, McDaniel was really done. But that being said, I
mean they also, you know, they want to run the football.
I mean, as much as we want to look at
that tree and maybe even what Tua and the Dolphins
were able to do and how he helped him the
passing game, you know, they would to run the football,
and they want to find different personnel groupings and different
ways of cutting you up in the run game. And
that's what this signals, at least to me, is getting
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back to a little more creativity and a little more
of of everything based off of that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean, real spicy.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, South Beach Beach is spicy, not not uh
not Redondo or you know, Hermoso or Manhattan, just like
real South Beach.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know. Yeah it's different.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, it is is different, man Yeah, definitely very different.
I would say this, though, I'm not sure Mike McDaniel
can help with the the injury plague that the Chargers
continue to go through every single year, every single year.
And look, I don't know if they're practicing next to
Chernobyl like the Niners are, and if that's going to
thing to do with it, but I mean, well, because
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their offensive line was destroyed this year. Nase Harris got
there and blew his face up in a fireworks accident
before the season and then showed up and ruptured his
achilles Omaron Hampton missed a bunch of time. It just
justin Herbert was banged up like they on paper. You
look at him, you go, well, they've drafted well looks
I mean defensively, like Jesse Minter is getting you know,
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head coaching interviews because of the job he's done. Defensively,
like everything looks good, and every year there's an injury.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Every like they can't escape it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Every single year, there's some sort of a major injury
that the Chargers go through, and I just wonder. I
don't know if it's snake bit, I don't know if
it's bad luck. I don't know that that Jim Harbaugh
and or Mike McDaniel can fix that issue that they've
had for the longest time now, So best of luck,
But that'll be a fun watch to see those two
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guys together and trying to bring the Charger back to
the postseason, hopefully getting a win this time.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
On other coaching news, Jay Glazer was on Fox Sports
one talking about the situation in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin no
longer the coach there and sort of how everything stands
up in Pittsburgh. And apparently, according to Jay Glazer, Mike
Tomlin wasn't really the issue there and the issue may
still reside in the Burg.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Everybody thinks it's.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
The greatest because well, they don't fire head coaches. We
don't fire head coaches because they've been successful all those years.
But the Steelers, man, they have no quarterback. They have
an aging defense where you gonna have to move off
from some guys.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
For the stars.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I think you got to kind of chase things that
are done in the organization. I think my team really
really covered up a lot of things that were that
are done over there. They're not They don't spend like other.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Teams interesting at all.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And I think the Steelers they just assume, well, they
just don't fire guys. Yeah, they don't fire you because
they've just been successful for so many years. But I
think there's gonna be there's gonna be a little bit
of a rough patch ahead here where they're going to
have to start learning how to really open up a
spend and do things differently.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So var you're Pittsburgh Steelers, gone of the days that
that mom and pop show in Pittsburgh is going to
just continue on, continuing on and getting to the postseason.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
According to Jay Glaze, you know, knowing Jay, I wish
he would have went a little deeper, cause he has it.
Whatever it is he was basing what he was saying
off of, he has that inside information, and it's direct.
It's direct from most likely people in the front office.
It's direct from probably more so guys in the locker room.
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It's direct, and I would be curious to know what
he's referencing in terms of the bad stuff that's being
covered up. I mean, I know he mentioned you know salary,
you know the amount of money that they they spend
on players. But I just you know, I've heard a
few things because you know, I know a few people
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that are connected to the organization, and I just wonder
I would love to hear somebody just come out and
like Ben Roethlisberger is the type of guy, he'll come
out and just say it. I would love to hear
him come out and give some perspective on things right now.
And maybe he has I just might not have heard it.
But you know, I do believe that times change. Everything
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is destined to change. That's the only thing that's imminent
and inevitable is that things will change. Things are changing
in Pittsburgh. And can Pittsburgh change with it to keep
up with the times to continue to have the success
that they've had historically? That would be my biggest question.
Can they Can they ever be the Pittsburgh Steelers that
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was the steel curtain type Steelers or the early nineties
Steelers cannot ever happen and again? Or is it just
something you put that chapter of this organization to bid
and you move on into the future. Which I think
is probably the most feasible way of looking at is
put the bid whatever it is, go through the rough patch.
But you've got to find somebody who's going to be
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able to Obviously, they kept the GM, so they're going
to have to get a coach that can work with
the GM and the G and can work with the
coach and them build into what the future of the
franchise looks like.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I think there's a lot there. I mean, to your point,
obviously j knows something. I mean, we can openly look
at the contracts that they do, and in regards to
being big spenders, I mean, one of the things we
know they don't do is they don't put a lot
of cash or big signing bonuses in their deals. So
that's been a frustration for agents for a long time.
That's always been the way it's been, and it's been frustrating,
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I'm sure for some players too. You know, is the
truth about Mike Tomlan covering a lot of things up? Yeah?
I mean I think we saw some of those keys
things come to surface when Antonio Brown left, right, Like,
we're like, oh, so this probably didn't just start happening
when he got to Oakland or Las Vegas. I can't
remember where they were at that point in time. I
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just remember him freezing his feet in a cryo deal
and then he had an issue with his helmet that
it was like, what's whatever it was? And then you
saw all the receivers who would leave and you're like, oh,
all right, there's there's more issues there. So I look
at it and say, like, I'm sure there's things he
covered up. I'm sure that Pittsburgh Steelers fans are not
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going to appreciate the level of consistency that he brought
to that organization when you've never had a losing season
for that long period of time. However, this is the
new dan Age of how we look at success. It's like,
if you don't win a championship, you know, no one
wants to be the second that, you know, the first loser,
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the second place. And that ultimately is what has led
them to make this change, because is you know, clearly
Mike Tomlin has done a good job of getting this
team to the position at least get into the playoffs.
They just haven't been able to climb back on top.
And I would argue and say a lot of that
went to the wayside after big men, and so their
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their biggest issue has been they haven't been able to
get the quarterback position right since then, you know, since
they had a Hall of Famer. And by the way,
that that's tough for any organization. I mean defensively, they've
pretty much been there. They've been really good, you know,
consistently good, and that's always been their identity. But like
I would say this about their organization, people can say that,
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you know, maybe they don't spend as much in the
way they do their contracts or even a free agency.
They haven't needed to. They've drafted and developed really, really well.
And they've obviously got a good, you know, strength and
development program. I don't feel like they faced too many injuries,
I mean outside of someone puncturing teaching Watt's lungs, which
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might need to be looked into. So they tend to
keep most of their guys pretty healthy. So I don't know,
I mean, maybe we'll see a step back. I think
that's a great ownership group. It's a great organization. I
am curious to see who takes that job and what
that looks like in the future. But I still think
there's a lot there. But I guess to Jay's question
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or to some of his point like can you win
the way they have done or even what LeVar said,
can you win the way that they've done it in
the past. In today's NFL, where you know, you see
organizations that are rewarded for their spending. I mean that
the Rams are never a team that's afraid of spending.
They have an owner with deep pockets, you know, they're
an example of that. There's other ownership groups too that
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have now started to buy these majority stakes and teams,
and when they want to make a move, they make
a move and they spend the money on it. So
it's going to be it's gonna be interesting to see
if they can keep that that same level of consistency
or or the Steelers going to start facing some of
those really down years before they can build it back
up again.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
This is what I will say.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Mike Tomlin beat cheeks up out of there, and that
says to me, a dude like Mike Tomlin, the intensity,
the loyalty, the dedication, the leadership, the qualities that that
man brings to the table are pretty pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And he got up out of there, and we could.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Sit there and say, huh he got out of there
because it's like, hey, I can't do anything else with
this team. I've hit my ceiling. I'm walking away. But
what exactly does that mean? On the other side of it,
I almost feel like this is like some Wizard of
Oz type stuff, like like.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Oh, this is really what Pittsburgh Steelers are. Oh, peel
back to curtain. It's a bad team.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
No, I understand why he got here.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Oh take off that filter on Instagram. Oh no, no, oh.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
No, take the filter off the jets.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I had a quaint say, buddy I played golf with recently,
and you know, he's been a couple of times divorced,
and he was he came it was it was over
late to the golf course because he's like, yeah, you know,
I had had a little friend over last night and
all that stuff. And because he's in his fifties and
I was talking to him about like dating at this
point stage in his life. He's like, man, it's crazy.
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You know. He's like, there's a lot of stuff out there.
He's like, but that stuff doesn't look the same in
person as it does on Instagram. He's like, I've been
I've been fooled a couple of times. He goes, and
I tell you something. Those dates, he goes, we don't
order appetizers. I just get right to the entre we're out.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, I mean I would take an exactly, let's
go hit that restroom real quick and slid.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh yeah, but if they buy you three appetizers, is
that a good sign?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Lorena. If you're applying to yourself, I would say, you
date weirdos.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
There you go, there you go. I would just say,
you know, it's man, I don't think this is a
road you want to go down.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Off.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah ready, I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Just yeah, leave that one alone. Yeah yeah, yeah, let's
take a break.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And by the way, everybody knows if you're on a
date and somebody shows up and they look like a gargoyle,
like the move is you have a buddy call you
in a panic and then you just it gives you
an excuse to leave.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's easy. Make a call, say hit me up in
twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I'll act concern if I need to get out of here,
or I'll just say yeah, well, i'll give you a
call back later. Things are going well, then you bail out.
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Speaker 4 (16:02):
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Dean Blandino, Fox Sports, NFL and College Football rules Analyst.
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You can get him on x at Dean Blandino and
he is now most recently the star of TMZ.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Dean, Good Morning, heidn I doing.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Can you explain the last part?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah? TMZ again, what happened. I didn't do anything this time.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I mean, listen, he was, you know, give to give
a nice interview on TMZ and you know, oh plan, Yeah,
not a gotcha moment at the airport, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I didn't notice. During the game this weekend, Tom was
like basically saying how you weren't on the broadcast enough.
You know, he was basically calling for you sitting.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Did you kind of get the fact that he missed
talking to me? That he listened?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I heard that, and I said that millions of people.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Talk to you. I don't like it when we don't
talk to you. That was Tom Brady about him.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Here's the weird thing is, yeah, that was like Tom
Brady said that millions of people heard it. And my
first thought was, like, I've said that to you on
a broadcast before. And at no point ever were you like, yeah, Brady,
like I wish I could talk to you more. You know,
you said that to Tom, you know, he were really
excited about it. You never said that to me ever.
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
I mean, I don't know, I just maybe it's a
super Bowl winning thing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Come on, he would know more than anyone else.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Right. I mean, I get that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I get that. I don't feel like, here's what I
say those I don't feel like eating dinner with him
would be as good. You know, I think you and
I could sit down a nice Italian meal. I'm not
sure like he would, he'd be having like gluten free.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Cred you're I definitely would the Italian meal with you.
I choose you over time for that.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And we can have some wine and drink. You know,
I don't. I'm not He's gonna drink. He's gonna with
some avocado ice creamch It's a little different.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I hope we understand.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
This is a fine, but this is a fine.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Wash wash, wipe your nose off, bro. I saw wow,
that's take the fine you're taking.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You're gonna take. That's a fine. Let's get to it.
Let's get down to business.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Washing the way. Yeah, let's get.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Down to it. Dan, let's get the business.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Come one a d all right soon? Or was it
an iron t?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
It was an iron t. Look the catch rule and
this has gone on forever. There's no perfect rule. There's
always going to be controversy. And I think with with
that play, when when the receiver like Cooks is falling
to the ground, whether they're diving, stumbling, whatever it is,
to make the catch. They got, you got. He's got
to hold onto it when he hits the ground like
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when you finish hitting the ground, like when you fall,
eventually your body stops. The momentum stops, and so when
his entire body's on the ground, he's got to hold
on to it. To me, the ball came loose. It
was probably coming loose as they went to the ground,
and McMillan ended up with it, and I thought it
was I thought interception. And in that situation, when it's
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that close and the ball comes out immediately, you go
with whoever ends up with it. I did think, and
I thought Sean McDermott had a great point. I kind
of thought it in the moment. I was like, why
not just saw everything down, stop the game, do a
full review, bring the referee over, go through the whole
process so you don't leave any doubt because I think
a lot of people aren't one hundred percent sure as
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to what goes on on a play like that. Okay,
there's a business business interception. Who's looking at it, who
makes the decision not to bring the referee over. I
think that if they had done that, at least it
might have been less controversial. It might have been some
you know, a little bit less doubt as to whether
they actually gave it a real close thorough examination. But
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I thought it was the right call ultimately, I.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Mean, and what there were no athletics steps made right,
Like I know, there was another another play that happened
or whatever where they were using it as a comparison
in terms of Adams, the Davante Adams one, Well why
is it this?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Why is this one not? And why is this one?
Speaker 6 (20:56):
So?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
But Davante had taken steps like he to established steps.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
He was upright, Yeah, he was, he was. He caught
the ball up right. Then he then he completed to
catch them with tackled and then so at that point,
and that's what I've spent time a lot of people
just explaining there's a difference between trying to catch the
football and having possession being a runner, and then your
knee touches right, if you're trying to catch it to
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knee doesn't matter. If you're falling to the ground, you
gotta hold on to it all the way. If you're
already a runner, with possession, then as soon as your
knee hits, you're down by contact.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think that was the dis Yeah, right, that's the differentiation.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So so I kind of felt like ultimately Dean that
the call in the field was gonna probably rule that,
like what, like they weren't going to overtime it one
way or another. Is that fair to say, because because
when I saw it in real time, I thought it
looked like he had more possession of it than the
defender even did. But but even if it was to
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be simultaneous possession, and then, like I guess I'm saying,
I could have saw it both ways. Like I wasn't
one of those that like one of saying, oh it
had to be this, Like I was more. I was
more frustrated with the inconsistency of the officiating of DPI
in that game. Like that's where I kind of felt
like you could there's a few calls that weren't made
that could have been made and just and then they
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were made. I don't know, like how do you view
overall because these are supposed to be the best officiating crews,
and it feels like even even that, like in the
in game, there's inconsistencies and how they were calling it.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Yeah, you know, look and I agree with you that
if they had called that Cooks play at catching down,
then then it probably would have stood. They would have
said it was too close to change. I do think
in that game, and I feel like, and again we
talked about this, right the playoffs, you don't you don't
officiate them differently than the regular season. But I do
feel like I don't know if if this was actually
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a directive from the league, but I do feel like
there is more of a kind of let them play
mentality right now. And even in that game, there weren't
you know, I don't think the Broncos got called for
a penalty and and so you letting a lot go.
And then late in the game, you know, you get
a couple of DPI play. I thought the one, the
one at the end, I think it was the end
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of regulation where the Bills were upset, they could have
gotten a call. I thought that wasn't you know, that
really wasn't ti. I didn't like the first one in
overtime that the Bills got called for. I think they
had rough in the passer on the play anyway, so
it would have been a first down, and then the
last one I thought was was past in appearance. But
there is a lot of downfioall contact that's going on,
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that's getting you know, that's let go, And it is
that consistency that everybody's looking for that I'm just not
quite sure it was there in that game.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Dean Blandino joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. What
is the thought behind not giving a coach a challenge
in overtime?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yeah, it's a good that's a good question because the
theory always for challenges when we went back was in
the last two minutes because we had this and this
was funny in ninety nine when the system came back
and the coaches had challenges, they had these buzzers. They
had these pagers, and they would page the officials when
they wanted to challenge something, and in the last two minutes,
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like I remember, Steve Mariucci was like famous for this,
the officials would get a page and in a very
opportune time for whether it was the Lions or the
Niners or whoever he was coaching at the time, you know,
whenever they needed like a time out, they would get
a page and the referee would go over and he'd
be like, I didn't hit it. It wasn't me. And
then and it's like, okay, I'm not going to call
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you a liar. So you'd get you'd get basically a
free timeout. So we went with the red flag to
not be able to manipulate the clock. And it wasn't
just moved and there was other coaches that did this,
but he would he was just really funny about it,
and so it wasn't the last you mention is like
you can't challenge something to manipulate the manipulate the clock
and then be like, oh, I didn't know that was reviewable.
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But then we just we just said overtime. What if
the team is out of challenges and you know you
this is extra foot all, let's do it all upstairs.
But but there is the thought, okay, give them an
once overtime starts, regardless of how many challenges you have left,
you would get one if you were out. And I
think that that certainly, Butalo would have used it in
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that situation. So I think it's something worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Dean, will there oh sorry, no worries, Well, will there
ever be a conversation at the you know meetings this
year or in the media about how egregious the holds
are getting. It's it's I know, I ask you every
time you come on, but it just seems like it
has to be mentioned that these defensive ends, you know,
(25:41):
even even other guys linebackers, the holds that these these
offensive linemen are are showing on camera and some of
the biggest in the DBS, and these dbs too, And
so you see how he's jumping in on my question,
Dean just hold holding in general. Yes, but I'm I'm
(26:02):
I'm attacking the offensive side of the ball right now,
and I'm and I'm going to stay true to that
focus and true to that purpose. Will it be addressed?
Will will the public be made aware of the fact
that they are, in fact, okay with allowing these holds
the way that they are, because it's not just holding anymore.
(26:23):
It's like literally beer hugging. You got your hands inside
of their jerseys that you're not letting go, They're trying
to pull away.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's it's really really bad. It's really bad.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I don't think
I think the the unintended consequence of that, which I
think a lot of people around the league would see
as a positive is that it just gives the quarterback
more time, especially in the pass game. It gives the
quarterback more time to throw the ball, and it keeps them
protected in the gap between the defense, the DSM on
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the defensive line and the offensive line. Just seems it's
never been greater. So I'm not saying that they're out
there going let them get away with murder, but it's happening,
and I think the league, you know, and they look
at major fact. Look, holding is always either one or
two in terms of number of calls made every year.
It's like holding in false starts are either one or
two every year, and so they're going to look at that,
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and it just it's a matter of whether people, whether
it's at the League office and the officiating department, are
on the Competition Committee. And the competition Committee is in
shambles right now because you're losing Mike Tomlin, you're losing
Sean McDermott, you're you know, So it's going to be
interesting to see who these new people are on the committee,
if they see it as a problem and want to
take it up as a point of emphasis. I don't
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know right now, where they're at with that. I I
you know, I'll find out, but I'm not sure if
there's an appetite right now to do a review of
holding Diana.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I can't recall what Gamma was this weekend, But do
we have a chickout from the forty?
Speaker 9 (27:55):
I suppose that was weeks ago, that was a cop
that was that was Rams Panthers where I don't know,
it's a I don't know what's going on there, like,
it's just the kickoff is never in the history of.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
The NFL has never been from the forty. I know
you could have penalties to carry out, right, that's rare,
So I don't know. I don't know what happened there, like.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But but the reason why I ask is because it
draws there.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
It's like I'm going to put the ball to forty
and to see if anybody noticed, Like Tom, don't what
are you doing? Like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But it draws the question of how involved is New
York because you know, there's not that many games going well,
there's not that many games going on, so they have
to be watching it. And even in New York, no
one who's assigned to that game to watch it is going.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
There's like there's it's a playoff game, there should be
there's there's probably too many people watching it and and yeah,
I don't I guess you just get into cruise control
and you're what and you're just assuming that we're going
to put the ball at the right spot to kick it.
I don't know. Yeah, it's that one was like, could.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You explain for our listeners to like just the crew
that you have when you guys are doing games, like
you have like multiple people watching to look for stuff
like in that whole little back glass bowl that you
live in basically when you're when when you guys were
there and when Mike's there, whenever you're doing games like
it's a real operation. The NFL is even bigger, right glass.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
It's not Class Bowl. It's not like Bubble Boy, but
it's it's a woomb.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You know, you used to be bubble Boy.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I know, I know it was bubble Boy. And now
your Brady boy exactly time.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And Dan, you got to pay ten dollars fines man,
ten dollars fines you. You you be washed on on
Tom Brady ten dollars fine player.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Okay, all right, all right, so yeah, there's a team
of people. There's spotters, just like in the broadcast mooop.
You know, when you're doing a game, when the player
by play the analysts, you have spotters. You have people
that are looking for that stuff. And uh, and again,
I just think people get into like cruise control, they
get on autopilot and and don't pick up. Didn't pick
(30:08):
up the fact that we're kicking from the wrong yard line.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean it seems like a problem. Uh, Dean the
rules analyst criticism like, okay.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
A lot of craziness.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I don't talk all right.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I don't understand how whether it's you or Terry McCauley
or anybody, why are you guys the ones getting the
heat when it's it feels like it killed a messenger
type situation we have going.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
On saying about about and I want people to understand
what our role is. Like my role ninety eight percent
of what I do as a rules analyst is not
on camera. It's not on the broadcast. And this role
was was created by you know, Dave Hill at Fox Sports,
Mike Pereira, you know, all the studies that they did
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at the networks where people fans enjoy the game more
when they understand the rules. And if you ever pick
up an NFL rule book, it's bringing three hundred pages long.
It's insane how complicated the rules can get. So they said, okay,
rather than having toy Akman or or John Matt, whoever
it is, try and interpret this, this fringing encyclopedia, why
(31:25):
not get somebody that knows the rules that we can
use as a resource. And that's where it was came
out of and and now everybody's doing it. And so
when I'm I'm sitting there and like I said, nineteen
percent of the time, I'm just feeding Burkhart and Brady
information when there's a call, who the call is on,
what they're what they're looking at. And then one or
two times a game, I come on, and I'll even
(31:45):
say if it's obvious, why am I going to come on?
I'll just tell the producer, Hey, this is obvious. You
don't need me because I can come on and go, hey,
look everybody like you have eyes at home, the ball
hit the ground like that's that's that's useless. So I
don't ever want to do that for me. It's like, okay,
can I come on and explain something. A couple of
weeks ago, flag pick up for an eligible downfield. A
(32:07):
lot of people didn't know the rule. Okay, if you
engage within a yard, you can be more than a
yard downfield when the past is thrown. So I think
that's where and we just get a lot of crap,
which is fine because sometimes, oh, you just agree with
the officials every time, like no, like I'm not, I don't.
I'm going to give my own opinion, and I agree
with the officials more often than not because they're right
(32:29):
more often than not. But it's just that's the way
it goes. And so people are upset. And look what
I'm saying is like there's I'm probably I'm the go
to rules analysts and not everybody. That guy isn't as
good as Glendino's.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Actually true, Actually that's right. That's not that's true. That's right.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Uh, Dean, Well, and you'll be you'll be there in
Seattle this weekend.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Correct, Yeah, we'll be up in Seattle looking for it.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Should be nice there.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
He is the great team.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Blandino was here on Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports It's
high on Meal with Dant rules analyst.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Get him on X at dem we'll have.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Tom just sit there and watch a seat.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You know, of course we will, all right, So we'll
do it again next week. There he is, the Great
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Time to find out what's left Town's incredible.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Here's the Leftover?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
All right, Loreno, what do we got? All right? I
got some yummy leftover for you? You like that?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
All right? Well, Indiana's back. Fernando Mendoza has been locked
in with his goals and not giving time to distractions.
Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
I know myself and I know that it was such
a short period of time that if I have a
really really good next year, next two years, I can
make it the NFL. And I believe that it will
make the NFL. However, at this point, I gotta limit
all distractions. I live a three minute walk.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
From the facility where we have our weight.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
Room, our practice facility, and our stadium.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
So I think that's very.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Portland and close. Especially with the girls, it could.
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Be very distracting, now is I mean, you can I find.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Your first love in college and stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
But I know that if I finish Coasts at six,
like everything, I'm gonna give everything my all.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So if I have a girlfriend, I'm.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
Gonna give her my all, and that means I'm gonna
go back from six to nine just go, you know,
hang out with her and you know, maybe get dinner
or something red than maybe picking up dinner on the
way back to the class and watching extra film for
a game week.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You know what, go have options in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Fine, man, You know the bar's gonna make fun of
him for this, oh Man, But think about that.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
That was two years ago. He was a Cow oh man.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
And no one really knew unless you were a Cow
fan or into college football even knew who this dude was.
And now he's a national champion, sixteen to oho Heisman
Trophy winner, and he'll be able to get whatever he wants.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
He don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeh, did I just set out from Ricky Williams why
he was at the Heisman or whatever that he was
asking uh till Tebow? Whereas Ricky Williams about girl and
how I guess I gotta get involved.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I would just I would recommend if you're friend in
a mendoza, if you're walking what you've been doing. If
you're walking down the street in Vegas and one of
those guys hands you a pamphlet, don't call that number.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Give it back. Yeah, doesn't give it back. Don't call
that number. They do show up.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I man, just keep doing what you doing. Don't don't don't.
Don't meet no girls. If you ain't met none yet,
don't meet none now. Just just just keep going the straight.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
You know the barnacles in Vegas that are gonna be
latching on, They're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
They're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Oh my god, think about how think about how well
he's played, Like when you when you're trying to figure
out answers to like, how the heck did they do this?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
That dude's locked in, man, that is literally locked in.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, and it's a good lesson for young people too,
because there's a lot of distractions out there. We're using
girls in this case, but I don't care if it's
social media, your phone and all that. Like, follow what
he's doing, man, because he's doing something right. You can
achieve a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
I got a good kid like my son right now.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
He is a really like he is a really good dude,
but he is he is girl crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
He don't date. He don't date nobody. He don't act
on it, stays bar they just you know, talk to people.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
He don't.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
He doesn't act on anything. But he he talks about
girl all the time. I like, where do you get
that from? I don't know. I have no idea the
slightest idea of that. But he don't do anything. I
don't know. Damn Well, that's that's the older one. Man.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
You know, don't do that. Oh gosh, I'll get it.
I don't know how you do it, but God bless you.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Because really, all the dramas that she was alluding to
kind of like connects to girls like, if you're dealing
with a teammate, he might be upset with you.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
You don't even know he's upset with you. It's probably
because of a girl.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
The girl like you doesn't like him, and that, Oh,
you the quarterback, I don't like you. The girls like
it's generally everything you're gonna deal with, oh, getting a.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
New car, how your clothes look, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
It's all based upon your appearance and the optics of
what you represent to the opposite X.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, which is funny, because I.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Have a girl, a daughter that's on the cheerleading squad.
Like you talk about, like the dichotomy between cheerleaders and
players and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
It's just wild, man. I'm on both sides of it.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I'd rather be a bad football player with a rocket
shift it than a Heisman winner or nothing.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I hate to admit this.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I hate to admit this because this is so shallow,
but I totally agree.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I totally agree. You guys got problems. Jonas is touched man,
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in the world of football, whether it's celebrating the national champion,
the Indiana Hoosiers, or it's talking about the current situation
in the NFL when you get all these openings and
vacancies getting filled. By the way, congratulations, Mike McDaniel is
going to be the offensive coordinator of the LA Chargers.
So Mike McDaniel and Jim Harbaugh in the same room.
(01:53):
And I know, going back, huh's fus. Once you went,
there's no going back.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's fine. So you had to come to you had
to come in La now because that fits here. I
mean it fits here.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, he pulled his name out of head coaching. Uh,
you know, potential searches right like Cleveland he was up
for at least interviewed for. He pulled his hand out
of that. It's I mean, to teach their own I
just you'd think you'd want to stay being a head coach.
It's also an interesting pairings schematically, if you if you
you know, we look at Harbaugh throughout his time whether
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it be at Michigan, UH, San Francisco, Stanford, whatever you want.
Top points to you even at the Chargers, you know,
he runs a lot greater variety of different gap schemes
and their running style. You know, Mike McDaniels comes from
that Shanahan tree. It's everything's based off more of the
outside zone, so a little more heavy zone running scheme.
(02:46):
Which maybe if that's what what what Harball wants to do,
that's why he's bringing him in. But it's it's definitely
a different philosophy, I would say from from some of
what Shannan.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Likes to do.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
However, McDaniel was really done. But that being said, I
mean they also, you know, they want to run the football.
I mean, as much as we want to look at
that tree and maybe even what Tua and the Dolphins
were able to do and how he helped him the
passing game, you know, they would to run the football,
and they want to find different personnel groupings and different
ways of cutting you up in the run game. And
that's what this signals, at least to me, is getting
(03:21):
back to a little more creativity and a little more
of of everything based off of that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean, real spicy.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, South Beach Beach is spicy, not not uh
not Redondo or you know, Hermoso or Manhattan, just like
real South Beach.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know. Yeah it's different.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, it is is different, man Yeah, definitely very different.
I would say this, though, I'm not sure Mike McDaniel
can help with the the injury plague that the Chargers
continue to go through every single year, every single year.
And look, I don't know if they're practicing next to
Chernobyl like the Niners are, and if that's going to
thing to do with it, but I mean, well, because
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their offensive line was destroyed this year. Nase Harris got
there and blew his face up in a fireworks accident
before the season and then showed up and ruptured his
achilles Omaron Hampton missed a bunch of time. It just
justin Herbert was banged up like they on paper. You
look at him, you go, well, they've drafted well looks
I mean defensively, like Jesse Minter is getting you know,
(04:26):
head coaching interviews because of the job he's done. Defensively,
like everything looks good, and every year there's an injury.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Every like they can't escape it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Every single year, there's some sort of a major injury
that the Chargers go through, and I just wonder. I
don't know if it's snake bit, I don't know if
it's bad luck. I don't know that that Jim Harbaugh
and or Mike McDaniel can fix that issue that they've
had for the longest time now, So best of luck,
But that'll be a fun watch to see those two
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guys together and trying to bring the Charger back to
the postseason, hopefully getting a win this time.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
On other coaching news, Jay Glazer was on Fox Sports
one talking about the situation in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin no
longer the coach there and sort of how everything stands
up in Pittsburgh. And apparently, according to Jay Glazer, Mike
Tomlin wasn't really the issue there and the issue may
still reside in the Burg.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Everybody thinks it's.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
The greatest because well, they don't fire head coaches. We
don't fire head coaches because they've been successful all those years.
But the Steelers, man, they have no quarterback. They have
an aging defense where you gonna have to move off
from some guys.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
For the stars.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I think you got to kind of chase things that
are done in the organization. I think my team really
really covered up a lot of things that were that
are done over there. They're not They don't spend like other.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Teams interesting at all.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And I think the Steelers they just assume, well, they
just don't fire guys. Yeah, they don't fire you because
they've just been successful for so many years. But I
think there's gonna be there's gonna be a little bit
of a rough patch ahead here where they're going to
have to start learning how to really open up a
spend and do things differently.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So var you're Pittsburgh Steelers, gone of the days that
that mom and pop show in Pittsburgh is going to
just continue on, continuing on and getting to the postseason.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
According to Jay Glaze, you know, knowing Jay, I wish
he would have went a little deeper, cause he has it.
Whatever it is he was basing what he was saying
off of, he has that inside information, and it's direct.
It's direct from most likely people in the front office.
It's direct from probably more so guys in the locker room.
(06:46):
It's direct, and I would be curious to know what
he's referencing in terms of the bad stuff that's being
covered up. I mean, I know he mentioned you know salary,
you know the amount of money that they they spend
on players. But I just you know, I've heard a
few things because you know, I know a few people
(07:07):
that are connected to the organization, and I just wonder
I would love to hear somebody just come out and
like Ben Roethlisberger is the type of guy, he'll come
out and just say it. I would love to hear
him come out and give some perspective on things right now.
And maybe he has I just might not have heard it.
But you know, I do believe that times change. Everything
(07:31):
is destined to change. That's the only thing that's imminent
and inevitable is that things will change. Things are changing
in Pittsburgh. And can Pittsburgh change with it to keep
up with the times to continue to have the success
that they've had historically? That would be my biggest question.
Can they Can they ever be the Pittsburgh Steelers that
(07:54):
was the steel curtain type Steelers or the early nineties
Steelers cannot ever happen and again? Or is it just
something you put that chapter of this organization to bid
and you move on into the future. Which I think
is probably the most feasible way of looking at is
put the bid whatever it is, go through the rough patch.
But you've got to find somebody who's going to be
(08:15):
able to Obviously, they kept the GM, so they're going
to have to get a coach that can work with
the GM and the G and can work with the
coach and them build into what the future of the
franchise looks like.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I think there's a lot there. I mean, to your point,
obviously j knows something. I mean, we can openly look
at the contracts that they do, and in regards to
being big spenders, I mean, one of the things we
know they don't do is they don't put a lot
of cash or big signing bonuses in their deals. So
that's been a frustration for agents for a long time.
That's always been the way it's been, and it's been frustrating,
(08:52):
I'm sure for some players too. You know, is the
truth about Mike Tomlan covering a lot of things up? Yeah?
I mean I think we saw some of those keys
things come to surface when Antonio Brown left, right, Like,
we're like, oh, so this probably didn't just start happening
when he got to Oakland or Las Vegas. I can't
remember where they were at that point in time. I
(09:12):
just remember him freezing his feet in a cryo deal
and then he had an issue with his helmet that
it was like, what's whatever it was? And then you
saw all the receivers who would leave and you're like, oh,
all right, there's there's more issues there. So I look
at it and say, like, I'm sure there's things he
covered up. I'm sure that Pittsburgh Steelers fans are not
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going to appreciate the level of consistency that he brought
to that organization when you've never had a losing season
for that long period of time. However, this is the
new dan Age of how we look at success. It's like,
if you don't win a championship, you know, no one
wants to be the second that, you know, the first loser,
(09:54):
the second place. And that ultimately is what has led
them to make this change, because is you know, clearly
Mike Tomlin has done a good job of getting this
team to the position at least get into the playoffs.
They just haven't been able to climb back on top.
And I would argue and say a lot of that
went to the wayside after big men, and so their
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their biggest issue has been they haven't been able to
get the quarterback position right since then, you know, since
they had a Hall of Famer. And by the way,
that that's tough for any organization. I mean defensively, they've
pretty much been there. They've been really good, you know,
consistently good, and that's always been their identity. But like
I would say this about their organization, people can say that,
(10:38):
you know, maybe they don't spend as much in the
way they do their contracts or even a free agency.
They haven't needed to. They've drafted and developed really, really well.
And they've obviously got a good, you know, strength and
development program. I don't feel like they faced too many injuries,
I mean outside of someone puncturing teaching Watt's lungs, which
(10:59):
might need to be looked into. So they tend to
keep most of their guys pretty healthy. So I don't know,
I mean, maybe we'll see a step back. I think
that's a great ownership group. It's a great organization. I
am curious to see who takes that job and what
that looks like in the future. But I still think
there's a lot there. But I guess to Jay's question
(11:21):
or to some of his point like can you win
the way they have done or even what LeVar said,
can you win the way that they've done it in
the past. In today's NFL, where you know, you see
organizations that are rewarded for their spending. I mean that
the Rams are never a team that's afraid of spending.
They have an owner with deep pockets, you know, they're
an example of that. There's other ownership groups too that
(11:42):
have now started to buy these majority stakes and teams,
and when they want to make a move, they make
a move and they spend the money on it. So
it's going to be it's gonna be interesting to see
if they can keep that that same level of consistency
or or the Steelers going to start facing some of
those really down years before they can build it back
up again.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
This is what I will say.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Mike Tomlin beat cheeks up out of there, and that
says to me, a dude like Mike Tomlin, the intensity,
the loyalty, the dedication, the leadership, the qualities that that
man brings to the table are pretty pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And he got up out of there, and we could.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Sit there and say, huh he got out of there
because it's like, hey, I can't do anything else with
this team. I've hit my ceiling. I'm walking away. But
what exactly does that mean? On the other side of it,
I almost feel like this is like some Wizard of
Oz type stuff, like like.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Oh, this is really what Pittsburgh Steelers are. Oh, peel
back to curtain. It's a bad team.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
No, I understand why he got here.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Oh take off that filter on Instagram. Oh no, no, oh.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
No, take the filter off the jets.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I had a quaint say, buddy I played golf with recently,
and you know, he's been a couple of times divorced,
and he was he came it was it was over
late to the golf course because he's like, yeah, you know,
I had had a little friend over last night and
all that stuff. And because he's in his fifties and
I was talking to him about like dating at this
point stage in his life. He's like, man, it's crazy.
(13:28):
You know. He's like, there's a lot of stuff out there.
He's like, but that stuff doesn't look the same in
person as it does on Instagram. He's like, I've been
I've been fooled a couple of times. He goes, and
I tell you something. Those dates, he goes, we don't
order appetizers. I just get right to the entre we're out.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, I mean I would take an exactly, let's
go hit that restroom real quick and slid.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh yeah, but if they buy you three appetizers, is
that a good sign?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Lorena. If you're applying to yourself, I would say, you
date weirdos.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
There you go, there you go. I would just say,
you know, it's man, I don't think this is a
road you want to go down.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Off.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah ready, I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Just yeah, leave that one alone. Yeah yeah, yeah, let's
take a break.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And by the way, everybody knows if you're on a
date and somebody shows up and they look like a gargoyle,
like the move is you have a buddy call you
in a panic and then you just it gives you
an excuse to leave.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's easy. Make a call, say hit me up in
twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I'll act concern if I need to get out of here,
or I'll just say yeah, well, i'll give you a
call back later. Things are going well, then you bail out.
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(16:45):
You can get him on x at Dean Blandino and
he is now most recently the star of TMZ.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Dean, Good Morning, heidn I doing.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Can you explain the last part?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah? TMZ again, what happened. I didn't do anything this time.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I mean, listen, he was, you know, give to give
a nice interview on TMZ and you know, oh plan, Yeah,
not a gotcha moment at the airport, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I didn't notice. During the game this weekend, Tom was
like basically saying how you weren't on the broadcast enough.
You know, he was basically calling for you sitting.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Did you kind of get the fact that he missed
talking to me? That he listened?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I heard that, and I said that millions of people.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Talk to you. I don't like it when we don't
talk to you. That was Tom Brady about him.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Here's the weird thing is, yeah, that was like Tom
Brady said that millions of people heard it. And my
first thought was, like, I've said that to you on
a broadcast before. And at no point ever were you like, yeah, Brady,
like I wish I could talk to you more. You know,
you said that to Tom, you know, he were really
excited about it. You never said that to me ever.
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
I mean, I don't know, I just maybe it's a
super Bowl winning thing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Come on, he would know more than anyone else.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Right. I mean, I get that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I get that. I don't feel like, here's what I
say those I don't feel like eating dinner with him
would be as good. You know, I think you and
I could sit down a nice Italian meal. I'm not
sure like he would, he'd be having like gluten free.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Cred you're I definitely would the Italian meal with you.
I choose you over time for that.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And we can have some wine and drink. You know,
I don't. I'm not He's gonna drink. He's gonna with
some avocado ice creamch It's a little different.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I hope we understand.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
This is a fine, but this is a fine.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Wash wash, wipe your nose off, bro. I saw wow,
that's take the fine you're taking.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You're gonna take. That's a fine. Let's get to it.
Let's get down to business.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Washing the way. Yeah, let's get.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Down to it. Dan, let's get the business.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Come one a d all right soon? Or was it
an iron t?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
It was an iron t. Look the catch rule and
this has gone on forever. There's no perfect rule. There's
always going to be controversy. And I think with with
that play, when when the receiver like Cooks is falling
to the ground, whether they're diving, stumbling, whatever it is,
to make the catch. They got, you got. He's got
to hold onto it when he hits the ground like
(19:29):
when you finish hitting the ground, like when you fall,
eventually your body stops. The momentum stops, and so when
his entire body's on the ground, he's got to hold
on to it. To me, the ball came loose. It
was probably coming loose as they went to the ground,
and McMillan ended up with it, and I thought it
was I thought interception. And in that situation, when it's
(19:51):
that close and the ball comes out immediately, you go
with whoever ends up with it. I did think, and
I thought Sean McDermott had a great point. I kind
of thought it in the moment. I was like, why
not just saw everything down, stop the game, do a
full review, bring the referee over, go through the whole
process so you don't leave any doubt because I think
a lot of people aren't one hundred percent sure as
(20:13):
to what goes on on a play like that. Okay,
there's a business business interception. Who's looking at it, who
makes the decision not to bring the referee over. I
think that if they had done that, at least it
might have been less controversial. It might have been some
you know, a little bit less doubt as to whether
they actually gave it a real close thorough examination. But
(20:34):
I thought it was the right call ultimately, I.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Mean, and what there were no athletics steps made right,
Like I know, there was another another play that happened
or whatever where they were using it as a comparison
in terms of Adams, the Davante Adams one, Well why
is it this?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Why is this one not? And why is this one?
Speaker 6 (20:56):
So?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
But Davante had taken steps like he to established steps.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
He was upright, Yeah, he was, he was. He caught
the ball up right. Then he then he completed to
catch them with tackled and then so at that point,
and that's what I've spent time a lot of people
just explaining there's a difference between trying to catch the
football and having possession being a runner, and then your
knee touches right, if you're trying to catch it to
(21:21):
knee doesn't matter. If you're falling to the ground, you
gotta hold on to it all the way. If you're
already a runner, with possession, then as soon as your
knee hits, you're down by contact.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think that was the dis Yeah, right, that's the differentiation.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So so I kind of felt like ultimately Dean that
the call in the field was gonna probably rule that,
like what, like they weren't going to overtime it one
way or another. Is that fair to say, because because
when I saw it in real time, I thought it
looked like he had more possession of it than the
defender even did. But but even if it was to
(21:53):
be simultaneous possession, and then, like I guess I'm saying,
I could have saw it both ways. Like I wasn't
one of those that like one of saying, oh it
had to be this, Like I was more. I was
more frustrated with the inconsistency of the officiating of DPI
in that game. Like that's where I kind of felt
like you could there's a few calls that weren't made
that could have been made and just and then they
(22:14):
were made. I don't know, like how do you view
overall because these are supposed to be the best officiating crews,
and it feels like even even that, like in the
in game, there's inconsistencies and how they were calling it.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Yeah, you know, look and I agree with you that
if they had called that Cooks play at catching down,
then then it probably would have stood. They would have
said it was too close to change. I do think
in that game, and I feel like, and again we
talked about this, right the playoffs, you don't you don't
officiate them differently than the regular season. But I do
feel like I don't know if if this was actually
(22:47):
a directive from the league, but I do feel like
there is more of a kind of let them play
mentality right now. And even in that game, there weren't
you know, I don't think the Broncos got called for
a penalty and and so you letting a lot go.
And then late in the game, you know, you get
a couple of DPI play. I thought the one, the
one at the end, I think it was the end
(23:08):
of regulation where the Bills were upset, they could have
gotten a call. I thought that wasn't you know, that
really wasn't ti. I didn't like the first one in
overtime that the Bills got called for. I think they
had rough in the passer on the play anyway, so
it would have been a first down, and then the
last one I thought was was past in appearance. But
there is a lot of downfioall contact that's going on,
(23:28):
that's getting you know, that's let go, And it is
that consistency that everybody's looking for that I'm just not
quite sure it was there in that game.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Dean Blandino joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. What
is the thought behind not giving a coach a challenge
in overtime?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yeah, it's a good that's a good question because the
theory always for challenges when we went back was in
the last two minutes because we had this and this
was funny in ninety nine when the system came back
and the coaches had challenges, they had these buzzers. They
had these pagers, and they would page the officials when
they wanted to challenge something, and in the last two minutes,
(24:10):
like I remember, Steve Mariucci was like famous for this,
the officials would get a page and in a very
opportune time for whether it was the Lions or the
Niners or whoever he was coaching at the time, you know,
whenever they needed like a time out, they would get
a page and the referee would go over and he'd
be like, I didn't hit it. It wasn't me. And
then and it's like, okay, I'm not going to call
(24:31):
you a liar. So you'd get you'd get basically a
free timeout. So we went with the red flag to
not be able to manipulate the clock. And it wasn't
just moved and there was other coaches that did this,
but he would he was just really funny about it,
and so it wasn't the last you mention is like
you can't challenge something to manipulate the manipulate the clock
and then be like, oh, I didn't know that was reviewable.
(24:51):
But then we just we just said overtime. What if
the team is out of challenges and you know you
this is extra foot all, let's do it all upstairs.
But but there is the thought, okay, give them an
once overtime starts, regardless of how many challenges you have left,
you would get one if you were out. And I
think that that certainly, Butalo would have used it in
(25:14):
that situation. So I think it's something worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Dean, will there oh sorry, no worries, Well, will there
ever be a conversation at the you know meetings this
year or in the media about how egregious the holds
are getting. It's it's I know, I ask you every
time you come on, but it just seems like it
has to be mentioned that these defensive ends, you know,
(25:41):
even even other guys linebackers, the holds that these these
offensive linemen are are showing on camera and some of
the biggest in the DBS, and these dbs too, And
so you see how he's jumping in on my question,
Dean just hold holding in general. Yes, but I'm I'm
(26:02):
I'm attacking the offensive side of the ball right now,
and I'm and I'm going to stay true to that
focus and true to that purpose. Will it be addressed?
Will will the public be made aware of the fact
that they are, in fact, okay with allowing these holds
the way that they are, because it's not just holding anymore.
(26:23):
It's like literally beer hugging. You got your hands inside
of their jerseys that you're not letting go, They're trying
to pull away.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's it's really really bad. It's really bad.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I don't think
I think the the unintended consequence of that, which I
think a lot of people around the league would see
as a positive is that it just gives the quarterback
more time, especially in the pass game. It gives the
quarterback more time to throw the ball, and it keeps them
protected in the gap between the defense, the DSM on
(27:00):
the defensive line and the offensive line. Just seems it's
never been greater. So I'm not saying that they're out
there going let them get away with murder, but it's happening,
and I think the league, you know, and they look
at major fact. Look, holding is always either one or
two in terms of number of calls made every year.
It's like holding in false starts are either one or
two every year, and so they're going to look at that,
(27:21):
and it just it's a matter of whether people, whether
it's at the League office and the officiating department, are
on the Competition Committee. And the competition Committee is in
shambles right now because you're losing Mike Tomlin, you're losing
Sean McDermott, you're you know, So it's going to be
interesting to see who these new people are on the committee,
if they see it as a problem and want to
take it up as a point of emphasis. I don't
(27:42):
know right now, where they're at with that. I I
you know, I'll find out, but I'm not sure if
there's an appetite right now to do a review of
holding Diana.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I can't recall what Gamma was this weekend, But do
we have a chickout from the forty?
Speaker 9 (27:55):
I suppose that was weeks ago, that was a cop
that was that was Rams Panthers where I don't know,
it's a I don't know what's going on there, like,
it's just the kickoff is never in the history of.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
The NFL has never been from the forty. I know
you could have penalties to carry out, right, that's rare,
So I don't know. I don't know what happened there, like.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But but the reason why I ask is because it
draws there.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
It's like I'm going to put the ball to forty
and to see if anybody noticed, Like Tom, don't what
are you doing? Like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But it draws the question of how involved is New
York because you know, there's not that many games going well,
there's not that many games going on, so they have
to be watching it. And even in New York, no
one who's assigned to that game to watch it is going.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
There's like there's it's a playoff game, there should be
there's there's probably too many people watching it and and yeah,
I don't I guess you just get into cruise control
and you're what and you're just assuming that we're going
to put the ball at the right spot to kick it.
I don't know. Yeah, it's that one was like, could.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You explain for our listeners to like just the crew
that you have when you guys are doing games, like
you have like multiple people watching to look for stuff
like in that whole little back glass bowl that you
live in basically when you're when when you guys were
there and when Mike's there, whenever you're doing games like
it's a real operation. The NFL is even bigger, right glass.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
It's not Class Bowl. It's not like Bubble Boy, but
it's it's a woomb.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You know, you used to be bubble Boy.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I know, I know it was bubble Boy. And now
your Brady boy exactly time.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And Dan, you got to pay ten dollars fines man,
ten dollars fines you. You you be washed on on
Tom Brady ten dollars fine player.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Okay, all right, all right, so yeah, there's a team
of people. There's spotters, just like in the broadcast mooop.
You know, when you're doing a game, when the player
by play the analysts, you have spotters. You have people
that are looking for that stuff. And uh, and again,
I just think people get into like cruise control, they
get on autopilot and and don't pick up. Didn't pick
(30:08):
up the fact that we're kicking from the wrong yard line.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean it seems like a problem. Uh, Dean the
rules analyst criticism like, okay.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
A lot of craziness.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I don't talk all right.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I don't understand how whether it's you or Terry McCauley
or anybody, why are you guys the ones getting the
heat when it's it feels like it killed a messenger
type situation we have going.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
On saying about about and I want people to understand
what our role is. Like my role ninety eight percent
of what I do as a rules analyst is not
on camera. It's not on the broadcast. And this role
was was created by you know, Dave Hill at Fox Sports,
Mike Pereira, you know, all the studies that they did
(31:01):
at the networks where people fans enjoy the game more
when they understand the rules. And if you ever pick
up an NFL rule book, it's bringing three hundred pages long.
It's insane how complicated the rules can get. So they said, okay,
rather than having toy Akman or or John Matt, whoever
it is, try and interpret this, this fringing encyclopedia, why
(31:25):
not get somebody that knows the rules that we can
use as a resource. And that's where it was came
out of and and now everybody's doing it. And so
when I'm I'm sitting there and like I said, nineteen
percent of the time, I'm just feeding Burkhart and Brady
information when there's a call, who the call is on,
what they're what they're looking at. And then one or
two times a game, I come on, and I'll even
(31:45):
say if it's obvious, why am I going to come on?
I'll just tell the producer, Hey, this is obvious. You
don't need me because I can come on and go, hey,
look everybody like you have eyes at home, the ball
hit the ground like that's that's that's useless. So I
don't ever want to do that for me. It's like, okay,
can I come on and explain something. A couple of
weeks ago, flag pick up for an eligible downfield. A
(32:07):
lot of people didn't know the rule. Okay, if you
engage within a yard, you can be more than a
yard downfield when the past is thrown. So I think
that's where and we just get a lot of crap,
which is fine because sometimes, oh, you just agree with
the officials every time, like no, like I'm not, I don't.
I'm going to give my own opinion, and I agree
with the officials more often than not because they're right
(32:29):
more often than not. But it's just that's the way
it goes. And so people are upset. And look what
I'm saying is like there's I'm probably I'm the go
to rules analysts and not everybody. That guy isn't as
good as Glendino's.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Actually true, Actually that's right. That's not that's true. That's right.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Uh, Dean, Well, and you'll be you'll be there in
Seattle this weekend.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Correct, Yeah, we'll be up in Seattle looking for it.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Should be nice there.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
He is the great team.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Blandino was here on Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports It's
high on Meal with Dant rules analyst.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Get him on X at dem we'll have.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Tom just sit there and watch a seat.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You know, of course we will, all right, So we'll
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really really good next year, next two years, I can
make it the NFL. And I believe that it will
make the NFL. However, at this point, I gotta limit
all distractions. I live a three minute walk.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
From the facility where we have our weight.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
Room, our practice facility, and our stadium.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
So I think that's very.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Portland and close. Especially with the girls, it could.
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Be very distracting, now is I mean, you can I find.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Your first love in college and stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
But I know that if I finish Coasts at six,
like everything, I'm gonna give everything my all.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So if I have a girlfriend, I'm.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
Gonna give her my all, and that means I'm gonna
go back from six to nine just go, you know,
hang out with her and you know, maybe get dinner
or something red than maybe picking up dinner on the
way back to the class and watching extra film for
a game week.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You know what, go have options in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Fine, man, You know the bar's gonna make fun of
him for this, oh Man, But think about that.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
That was two years ago. He was a Cow oh man.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
And no one really knew unless you were a Cow
fan or into college football even knew who this dude was.
And now he's a national champion, sixteen to oho Heisman
Trophy winner, and he'll be able to get whatever he wants.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
He don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeh, did I just set out from Ricky Williams why
he was at the Heisman or whatever that he was
asking uh till Tebow? Whereas Ricky Williams about girl and
how I guess I gotta get involved.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I would just I would recommend if you're friend in
a mendoza, if you're walking what you've been doing. If
you're walking down the street in Vegas and one of
those guys hands you a pamphlet, don't call that number.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Give it back. Yeah, doesn't give it back. Don't call
that number. They do show up.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I man, just keep doing what you doing. Don't don't don't.
Don't meet no girls. If you ain't met none yet,
don't meet none now. Just just just keep going the straight.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
You know the barnacles in Vegas that are gonna be
latching on, They're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
They're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Oh my god, think about how think about how well
he's played, Like when you when you're trying to figure
out answers to like, how the heck did they do this?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
That dude's locked in, man, that is literally locked in.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, and it's a good lesson for young people too,
because there's a lot of distractions out there. We're using
girls in this case, but I don't care if it's
social media, your phone and all that. Like, follow what
he's doing, man, because he's doing something right. You can
achieve a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
I got a good kid like my son right now.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
He is a really like he is a really good dude,
but he is he is girl crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
He don't date. He don't date nobody. He don't act
on it, stays bar they just you know, talk to people.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
He don't.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
He doesn't act on anything. But he he talks about
girl all the time. I like, where do you get
that from? I don't know. I have no idea the
slightest idea of that. But he don't do anything. I
don't know. Damn Well, that's that's the older one. Man.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
You know, don't do that. Oh gosh, I'll get it.
I don't know how you do it, but God bless you.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Because really, all the dramas that she was alluding to
kind of like connects to girls like, if you're dealing
with a teammate, he might be upset with you.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
You don't even know he's upset with you. It's probably
because of a girl.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
The girl like you doesn't like him, and that, Oh,
you the quarterback, I don't like you. The girls like
it's generally everything you're gonna deal with, oh, getting a.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
New car, how your clothes look, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
It's all based upon your appearance and the optics of
what you represent to the opposite X.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, which is funny, because I.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Have a girl, a daughter that's on the cheerleading squad.
Like you talk about, like the dichotomy between cheerleaders and
players and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
It's just wild, man. I'm on both sides of it.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I'd rather be a bad football player with a rocket
shift it than a Heisman winner or nothing.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I hate to admit this.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I hate to admit this because this is so shallow,
but I totally agree.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I totally agree. You guys got problems. Jonas is touched man,
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