January 23, 2026 • 38 mins
The guys get interrupted by the radio gods when they attempt to discuss the NFL's conference championship weekend. Former Bucs GM Mark Dominik joins the show to talk about the coaching carousal, Fernando Mendoza and all of the headlines around the NFL.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I was driving in today and I was saying to myself,
what happened to Eric Mangini?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
No, you were man, genius, Thank you, Taylor. What happened
to him?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Where'd you go? And then I get in here and
he's on First things First. If you're ever wondering, that's
how I found Eric Mangini, Yes.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Found him.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, huh.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
You're ever wondering what happened to Adam Gase?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I work out at the same gym as his sun.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I wasn't wondering that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But where's Adam Gase?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I mean, he drops off his son.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
He's in Fort lauder Dead. I played golf with them recently,
me and Gase. Yeah, he's doing something for Omaha Productions.
I believe it was a strange experience. I have to
be honest with you. Golfing with Adam Gaze. He's a
great guy, just weird. I was having heaters, he was.
He had one same cart.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Same cart.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes, because I maintain, man, you don't know someone until
you spend four hours in the same in the same
cart on a golf course with him.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You were driving.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's how you get to know someone because you were
forced to have conversation.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, of course I was driving. All right, I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Your own course. I didn't know if you wanted to
drive or be driven.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, I was driving.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Taylor, what are you?
What's going on with the NCAA and patches on uniforms?
You were saying something during the break from the VIP room.
I couldn't listen to you. I couldn't hear you because
everyone in Sherman Oaks was upset about the top five list.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I call her him last segment.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So this is a report from on three. The NCAA
has officially approved commercial jersey patches in college sports effective August. First,
I'm on hold with Northwestern right now trying to get
our logos on their jerseys.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
My daughter's lacrosse team.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I hope lacrosse, football, basketball. I want to be everywhere.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I think we can name higher than Northwestern. No offense
to the Wieners.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, well, no we can.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
In terms of women's lacrosse, we can't naim any higher
because that is it the Indiana of women's college lacrosse.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Can I can?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I ask for Taylor's input on another topic here that
he put on the show sheet.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Not that it's bad that it's on the show sheet.
I'm just confused by it altogether. It has to do
with Sean Payton and Patriots wide receiver kase Shawn Booty,
which I still contend parents failed should have repronounced his
name Beauty just a lot better.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Okay, But it says here that Sean Payton on the
Broncos needing their crowd to be loud this Sunday, he said,
quote They're going to have plenty of rest after this
one Peyton said of the fans two weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Okay, first of all, that's pretty confusing, all.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Right, we have audio of that, so let's just play
that instead of Sean Payton me saying what Sean Payton said,
coach for about the past month, you've had as fans
every single week.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Without noise you have.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
You have a message for them this week with the
final team.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, they're gonna have plenty of rest after this one.
Two weeks, that's right.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
So so there you go, said it better. I'm just
going to say what was said in my ear. Also,
we've got Booty to Beauty.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Here's Booty.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Not that you guys need any extra motivation, but did
you see the Trump Pitton quote Insinuay that Denver fans
will have some extra rest for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No said two weeks for the rest of the SUPERA.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I see that, you guys.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
So what are we talking about here?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Did I think Sean Payton pushed Kishan Kashan Boody uh
a slippery slope. He had no idea he was going
to because the Super Bowl is.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Not in Denver.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
No, so those same fans are going to have the
rest of the off season to rest if they really
want to write. So this whole two weeks thing that
Sean Payton thought was a clever quip doesn't make any sense.
And then he got Booty stuck with it by saying
they can rest in Cankuon too. At the end of
the day. So are we to believe that all fans
treat their fandom as a job and as soon as
(04:29):
their team gets eliminated, hey, we're all going to cancuon together,
all eighty thousand of us that we're in this stadium here.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
None of it is the It matches the level of
trash talk that the that the level of intrigue is
in this weekend's conference championship. It is the worst back
and forth I've ever heard prior to a conference championship weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's It's why we need Philip Rivers as a head
coach in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He knows how to trash talk.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean anything, anything.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
It would be better than Oh those fans they can
to rest in Cankon to sounds like a lovely time,
it does.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'm jealous.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes, I mean me and Mikey would have spent so
many years in can't Coon after the Jets season.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Am I missing something?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Taylor?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So I think with Sean Payton, he's telling the fans,
you're gonna need your voices back for the super Bowl
wherever your super Bowl parties are, right, So not just
empty the tank this week. We just need you guys
one more week to get really loud, make that home
field advantage. And is he why did I put this
on the topic sheet? This is just good old conference
(05:31):
championship bulletin board material.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I am totally with Taylor, and what Sean Payton is
trying to do is make the fans feel a part
of the team.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And what's wrong with that is he uh huh Taylor.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I did say it's fine that it's on the topic sheet,
that it is the best of it is the best
of the best when it comes to the trash talg
But no, you can feel like part of the team
without the head coach patronizing you and say, hey, you
could be loud two weeks from now again if I
were not going to be able to hear.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, I don't view it as patronizing.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I view it as Sean Payton going out of his
way to let them know how important they are to
the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That's it, you know what it was.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
He's approaching the hard network out. He needs something to
land the plane with. It's like they're gonna have plenty
of arrest.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I got this.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What a nice week, What a nice little touch.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
If you know when your team was bounced out of
the playoffs, that you get to go on a vacation
with the players to katcode.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On the team.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I mean, now, if you're going to the conference championship game,
I'm expecting at least a discount code on a flight
to Cancud as an opportunity for me to join.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It's just it's the weakest thing. But are you excited
about this Confort Championship weekend?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Because I mean that trash talk had to get your
juices flowing a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right, I'm trying to know, I'm trying to get there.
I am.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's a weird, weird final four, weird Championship Sunday.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Stuck Gott's a Company live on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
A technical issue has come down with the guys in
South Florida. I'm Dan Byron are Fox Sports Radio Studios
in Los Angeles. So we are going to try to
reconnect with the guys as they get ready for an
AFC NFC Championship weekend. One that Stu is really having
(07:13):
a difficult time getting hyped for. No matter what Sean
Payton may or may not say to the fan base,
or to his team or to the media. I think
we've got the guys back and we are about to
reconnect with them. We apologize for the technical issue. It's
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it's one of those Friday things.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, well no, it seems to be an everyday thing here.
That's what.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I'm an adventure say. It's an NFL problem.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Yes, the more we talk about this conference championship weekend,
the more stuff gets screwed up around.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Listen, I figured, Dan, if I gave you like two
more minutes, eventually you were gonna run out and you
were gonna have to give us your Denver pain.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It was.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It was sudden.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
It was like as soon as you tried to talk
about the championship games, yes, they're like, no, it's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Done.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Someone will trying to tell us something, right, go ahead,
take more calls. That's what That's what the gods are saying.
I'm going to in just a second. But Taylor, what
do you have You're right, standy, were so right about this.
That's what the sports radio gods are saying. Just take
phone calls and stick to the basics. That's why you
came back to this.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I know athletes are wired different, but if you gave
me two choices. You could go to the super Bowl
or you could go to can Coon kant Coon. I'm
going to can Coon out. I've been to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I've never been to kankuon Mikey and I don't have
a choice.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I mean it's nice. I take Indianapolis, I take anything.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh, that team is so hard to be a fan
of it. That team I'm talking about, of course, it's
the New York Jets. Let's go out to Toby in Erie,
Pennsylvania Today wants to talk Bills and Philip Rivers.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Go ahead, Toby, Hey, still Mike years the Taylor I
love you guys, curios.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
So why are the Bills interviewing Philip Rivers. There's a
perfectly good coach out there that know what's talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
He used to coach at Baylor.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It was about a decade ago.
Speaker 11 (09:17):
He paid his dues.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Our Briles, experienced coach.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Our Briles is a terrible choice, Toby. But you're supposed
to end every call with how about that? You got
to deliver your point and then give us a how
about that? And I thought the Bills coach that I
thought the potential candidate that deserved the chance was the
guy who beat Philip Rivers in high school this year,
who were trying to get on the air right now.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I thought he was going to give us a list
of bills and a list of Rivers.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Thank you for the call, Toby, eight eight eight, I
di nined on Fox. Let's go out to Ryan, who's
in Fort Lauderdale today. Ryan, go ahead, you're on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (09:58):
Hey Ryan from Poor La.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We established that, all right, I got one, and maybe
it's something to put in there's something upon her file.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
But athletes whose last names are first names and first
names are last name?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Wow, Okay, go ahead, what do you got have? Like
one or two for us? Or you have five? I
got one?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Got one?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So yeah, Tony Malachi, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I'm obsessed with guys who have two last names, and
I don't have one off the top of my head,
so maybe it shouldn't be called an obsession.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Mark Dominic is going to join us coming up next.
He has two first.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Names, Yeah, yeah, Dominic and Mark, And technically I guess
two last names?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Is Mark our last name Marx?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Mar Yes, let's go to Ronan who's in Florida. Ronan,
you are on Fox Sports radio.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Go ahead, Hey two guys, what's up? Man? Do you
remember who this is?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Of course I do wrote in yes, yes.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Okay, No, I just I had no idea that you
guys you were, you know, doing the thing. So I
just wanted to say congrats and looking forward to some
old schools sports radio talk. It's it's been a while
to actually be able to like get on a show
in these parts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, well, no one takes calls. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Not? No, no, no, I just I just it's been
a while, so I just didn't think that that format
was still Uh, I did not know people.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Still do this.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, you didn't know that talk radio on the am
dial was still going on, was still a veg.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Yeah, I mean it's a good thing, you know.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, thank you? Yeah, I love it. No, we're having
a blast.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's been We've had some frustrations early on, but we
have had a blast all week long here, so we
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Runing, I hope you are well. Start.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Thank you for the call, buddy, eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
My Keya is getting man on my behalf. What is
happening up there?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Mikey, how about that? I know, listen, we're gonna have
to train them, Will you stop it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's a Friday, okay, people are driving home, they're feeling good,
they're heading into their weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And we just started the show and Dan Buyer's done
half of it. I mean, so what do he wants?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
There's a whole fan base trying to pack. I don't
know if I'm going to the super Bowl. I don't
know if I'm going to Cancun.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yes, all right, so listen, when you call into this
radio program, all we're asking for for today, for the
rest of today, and Mark Dominic will join us at
four twenty five, we're asking that you finish your call
with how about that? Okay, that's whatever point you want
to make, whatever question you want to ask. Just when
you're done, when you're done, get to your point, ask
the question, and when you're done, how about that? Eight seven,
(12:43):
seven ninety nine on Fox Mikey, Yeah, happy that I
explained it. Now, I see this look, but I've explained
it seven times and you're lashing out and you shouldn't
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
To the audience. Okay, dare you.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I'm doing it at you.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
How about that, Taylor? What's going on with Pat McAfee.
He had some comments. We all had to Radio Row
a week from monday. I'm excited about it. Israel is
joining us at first, mikey A is going to be there,
Taylor is going to be there. He's very excited. The
set looks amazing for Fox Sports Radio. I'm really really
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excited to get out there. I love that city. I
love San Francisco. I'll go see some deck cover bands
while I'm out there. You guys won't, but I will,
and I'm going to enjoy myself very very much. But
what is Pat McAfee? You know, I heard the rants.
I want you to explain it to me because I
have no idea why McAfee decided now was a good
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time to take out all of sports media.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah. So McAfee was talking about how he's also heading
to Radio Row and that he's going to see a
bunch of journalists that he's criticized and journalists who have
criticized him. So before he gets out to Radio Row,
he doesn't want it to be a contentious week. So
he just said, I want to get all my insulight's
out now. So that's where you got the quote from
McAfee where he said, oh, you fat nerd good to
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see you. They have shots for you, dude, you fat
lazy bum. Look at you fat? So have you been
outside of your basement all season? I know that's cliche
to say, but Jesus, the son is allergic to you.
Look at how bad you look.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I feel like that's a direct shot at me. It was,
and he hasn't seen fat until we get there.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
What do you mean we?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I mean we're bringing the fat with us between me
and mikey Yah.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Why is he saying this? Why is he upset? Pat McAfee?
You won, dude? Why are you beefing down? You won
the game.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You're a punter, is he? That's weird that he would take.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Out journalist and the entire sports media. And I'm choking
here because I'm choked up about this because I care
about sports media.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I think I think we need some time here. Let's
get a break and I will.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You're supposed to fill the time when I asked you to.
You need it.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Let's go to break.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We'll be better.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Mark Dominic could have joined us here in just a second,
let's go to Dan Byers here, who is still working
out his Denver pick.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Dan, take it away with the update.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
All good, stud Do you want to quick go back
to what happened? Yeah, as I was sitting here at
the news desk, it was no lie that the line
cut as soon as you tried to talk football. Is
he tried to put you back on the main road.
This is how it sounded on our end.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Okay, thanks?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
What are you excited about this Cupper Championship weekend?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Because I mean that trash dog had to get your
juices flowing a little bit, right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm trying to know. I'm trying to get there. I am.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's a weird, weird final four, weird championship Sunday.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Can you guys just isolate whatever that digital sound was.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Can I hear that again? To your best efforts? You
tried and that's all we can ask. Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
All Right, I gotta tell you, Dan, you do a
great job of making me feel better about myself.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That is well done.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Mark Dominic has spent over twenty years in NFL front
offices at scouting, former general manager of the Tampa Bay Box,
and a very handsome man. He's going to join us
right now, Mark, thanks for joining us. First question here,
what are the keys to remaining as good looking as
you are? Because I think you're a year older than me,
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and you look about ten years younger than I did.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
Ye, I don't know what to say. I don't feel
I feel older than I want to. You know, this
is kind of a crazy thing, right, you actually always
still younger than you actually really are. And you know,
I think it's my three kids and my wife and
everything keeps me moving.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Right, Just keep moving. That's that's good advice. Yes, have
you ever seen this is insane? Honestly, Mark, have you
ever seen a coaching camp hersel like this like the
one we're going through right now?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:15):
Never, in thirty years being in and around the league,
I can't remember anything. And the weird thing was, right
before we got to the you know, the final weekend,
I thought, you know, it might be four coaches, you know,
and this might be the lowest one in forever because
next year will be really bad. And then it turned out, well,
this is ten and that's insane, and so yeah, I
mean the nice thing is it's a really a good
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pool of opportunities. The hard thing is is it's a
lot of work for these clubs, and when new people
get added to the mix, you know, it kind of
throws the shift off. And you can also see when
you have this many people, you know, obviously you might
think you're getting a head coach and suddenly they signed
somewhere else or they cancel the visit. So it's it's
just very tricky and it's a lot of work front
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office wise, it's a lot of work for gym right Actually,
you know, wanted to be focused on you know, the
Senior Bowl and East West Shrine Game and instead camp.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, Mark, I think a lot of people were shocked
that the Bills are interviewing Philip Rivers. You were you
got to Tampa Bay in ninety five, you left in
twenty thirteen. Who's the strangest guy that you brought in
for an interview where it's like, maybe we shouldn't bring
this guy in, but let's just hear him out.
Speaker 11 (18:25):
You know, I brought in a couple other college coaches
back in twenty twelve that was, you know, wanted just
to hear them out, and so I thought that that
was interesting because they had some success and they were
just different character or different type of personality. So I'd
say that I can't really you know, I don't want
to really say because when we did.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It, yeah, I put you in a bad spot.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah he did. You really did.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, you say it, Mark, Mark, don't be so nice
around here. We're not professional. I just say, Taylor put
you in a horrible spot.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
You're good, But yeah, there was I've done that. When
I did a coach in search that was like, I know,
I'm not going to hire him, but I just want
to understand what this guy's thinking. Other thing that a
lot of these clubs can do right now is really
hard because there's so many people trying to secure stuff.
Because don't forget, you hired the head coach and now
you got to probably put an entire staff together, and
you've got ten staffs of ten different coordinators and offensive
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defense and positional coach. I mean, it's convoluted right now
in terms of the amount of like who's going where
and who's getting what job. But there are also teams
that will use this to find out information about upcoming
unrestrictive free agents. So you know, maybe you're you know,
you know that you like a player from the whatever,
the Los Angeles Rams, and so therefore you're going to
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interview one of their coordinators to find out more information
about the free agent. You don't want to miss and
spend eighty million dollars. You want to make sure you're
getting right guy. So there's a lot of stuff going
on besides just the hiring of the head coach.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
There's some retired coach in Iowa somewhere whose highlight of
his career was interviewing for the Tampa Bay Bucks job.
And now he's listening to his AM radio saying, wait
a second, was that just a cursory Thanks for that,
Taylor Mark, Ask what the actual coaches interviews entail, Like,
what are you looking for in that time frame that says, Okay,
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this gentleman definitely is the guy who's gonna run my organization.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
You know, there's lots of situations you'll put them through.
You'll talk to them about situational football outside of the game.
You'll certainly talk to them a lot about you know,
their their their overall fundamentals of what they believe in,
what's their philosophy, who are the coaches that they know
they can get or think they can get, and what's
how much of the staff is can they put together?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (20:32):
But a big, the big part of it is just
letting them. They don't have a ton of time to
actually evaluate your team, So you can't just sit there
and go, well, tell me about my team outlooks souse.
These guys are running around too, and so it's more
about just the feeling you get. Does the person motivate you,
Do you see what they stand for, what they believe in,
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and do you have that same fundamental belief And then
you spend as much time in that coaches interview as
you do trying to be on the phone around that coach,
trying to understand the people that have been around that coach,
what's he been like from players, coordinators, assistants, and then
also the success of their program where they've been you know,
are they developing maybe an NFL, are they developing players
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and keep growing as the offense or devensive coordinator or
the position coach or same with college what kind of
the success of they doing recruiting bringing people through the
system and getting to the NFL, and so you're looking
at all those different things. We're in the middle of
an interview talking about the different players, especially maybe players
from their team that they know so that you already know,
so that way you can kind of get a sense
of where their evaluation tip tendencies are as well.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Mark Fernando Mendoza just declared for the draft today. If
you were the Raiders front office, what would your level
of confidence be when it comes to Mendoza as a
quarterback prospect?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Well, I think, I mean, I think it's it's almost
to the point where regardless you're taking him, so it
doesn't you want to spend some time with him. I
know he's a quieter guy, but he also seeing you
know that he's fight the gamesman and tries to do
the right thing after every game. Go find me whether
it's the you know, opposing head coach or he's trying
(22:07):
to do everything the right way. You can't underestimate, you know,
what he's been able to accomplish. I think you were
going to spend time with him, but I think you know,
he decided he wanted to be a Raider. I mean,
that's basically what it is. I mean, I understand why
it came out and certainly going number one overall, but
that's your team. You picked the team. There's no way
the Raiders aren't taking him, and so this is just
it's going to be more of pick number two. But
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it's exciting to watch Mendoz and kind of get to
learn who he is a little bit more as where
you start to go through the process.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Mark, if you have a quarterback of Josh Allen's caliber,
do you bring him in? Because it's clear that they
have do you bring him in? Is that the norm
in the NFL to bring him in on the decision
making and in terms of who the next head coach.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Is going to be?
Speaker 11 (22:47):
You know, I don't think so. I don't think it's
the norm, and I don't you know, I think I
would have brought Josh in and set him down and
just talked about the coaches on our staff. I think
that to me makes more sense than anything else. Is like,
you know, what do you think of our coaches on
our staff, like specifically obviously on the offensive side of
the ball. I think that to me is more critical
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than thinking that, you know, let's have him be part
of the interview process that he fits the right guy
fits him, or vice versa. I don't think that that's
I don't think that's the best way to handle that,
and so therefore I'm not as big as a fan
in that capacity. I think it's more of the guys
that are on staff. Yes, totally understand that. And if
you want to talk about you know, you're offen the coordinator, Josh,
(23:30):
let's have a real honest discussion about that, because I
think that's a real possibility or potential higher for them
because it just makes sense. And so you know, we'll see.
But in terms of hey, once you be part of
the Philip Rivers interview, you know, I just don't I
don't think that I would do that. I think he
could certainly say hi to him, but I don't want
to put him in the room with it because I
just think that's different.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Just a quick helloh, I love that.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yes, But if it's Mike McDaniel, let's just say, and
you know, as the offensive minded guy that he is,
that he will be implementing as much of his offense
or trying to find an offensive coordinator that he could
you know, vibe with and toss a lot of similar
ideas that way.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Wouldn't you want your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
To at least know or at least discuss this so
he could say right off the bat, hey, I don't
think that really works with my skill set.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I have a difference of opinion. Then you do.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Yeah, I think what I would do is to go
through the first round unless the guy's harball and you're like, Okay,
we've got to figure out whether we're hiring him or not, right,
but the McDaniels of the world or things like that,
I think what you do is you do the first
club interview with ownership and whoever's a part of the
head coaching hiring, and then I think if you're like, okay,
that was pretty good. You know, he checks our box,
then I think that's when you kind of get you
(24:37):
can bring the quarterback in, especially when you have an
elite quarterback and see how that vibe feels between them.
But I don't think it's round one. I think that
they can know about it or say hey, like I said,
but I think I wouldn't really spend a lot of
time making sure you know that in the first level.
But the second level, when I bring the candidate back in,
then I think it's critical that your quarterback or whoever's
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you know, the big part of that team, whether it's
the defensive you know, linebacker three technique outside Russia or
whatever it is corner, that they would meet him to
kind of get a vibe how that goes. I mean
I did that when you know, I drafted my first
quarterback I took when we brought him into town, I
brought my offensive line and I had them go out
to dinner with him and just tell me what you
guys think that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So, how would you handle what is going on with
Howie Roseman right now? And I'm wondering in terms of
AJ Brown And I'm wondering Mark, how you would handle
that situation?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And how do you think how he is handling that situation?
Speaker 11 (25:32):
Yeah, I think when you when you look at this
one and you you you see what the Eagles have
been or what they've been able to do, I think
you're you're trying to really more so look at your
entire roster, figure out what can you handle in terms
of this off season? What's it going to be like?
And you know, where's where's our money? And what kind
of money, what what do we actually have that we
can spend out there? And then you look at your
(25:52):
own team and you talk about like the fit, but
I think until they get the coordinator set, whether that's
Matt Maggie, whoever it might be for the Eagles, I
think you just play it low key right now and
you just you just let days go on. And then
I think when you get if you and how he's
probably going to Sea Bowl, I know scouts will be there,
but certainly by the time you get to the combiner
before that, uh, you know, you find out whether his interest.
(26:14):
That's where you know what I did before I was GM,
I was director of pro and one of my jobs
was to call around to thirty one of the clubs
of the course of you know, especially right around now,
and say, hey, I'm just kind of curious, who are
the guys that are on the market for your team,
Like who's an so I can start watching them because
it's not just free agency, it's also those opportunities. And
I got to think, how he's exploring that mark.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
If you could have one of these final four rosters
from from conference championship weekend, which team would you take.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
That's a fun question. I think, you know. The truth
for me would probably be the use of the RAMS
defense is very exciting. My scare is that I don't
know how much more I've got Matt Stafford left comparatively
to all the other rosters. So that's that's a really
that's a hard one for me to not take the
Rams because just there's so many pieces there that I
think are very exciting. I think probably Seattle's probably second
(27:10):
because it looks like Sam Darnold has done everything they
can ask And I would shout out to John Schneider.
If there's a a GM that knows when to part
with quarterbacks better than John Schneider, I'm not sure who
it is, right, I mean, he obviously got Russell Wilson
and everybody's like, eh, and he had Geno Smith he's
like and now he finds Sam Darnold. He knows how
to figure out that quarterback room, and boy, that's critical.
(27:31):
But I would say I would say Rams, Seahawks truthfully, Broncos,
and Patriots, which is really exciting for Patriot fans because
I think there's still a lot of potential upside there.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Mark did Taylor redeem himself or no. It seems like
he did.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
Oh yes, much better, much better spirit.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
He's learning, yes, yes, and he's so excited that you
answered with a fun question.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I have another fun question.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
If you're an owner, I make you an NFL owner,
who are you hiring to be your general manager?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
You know, at this point I would probably go after
somebody that's had a shot but it didn't work out.
I'm not saying that for any other reason, but like,
I think Joe Douglas is a good general manager. I
just don't think things went the right way for him.
But knowing Joe and how Hardy works and what he's about,
he's a guy that he's a boy you know, maybe
just wasn't the cookie. I mean, you look at Robert Solly,
(28:29):
he's got another chance to be head coach. But yet
you know, it's like, why wouldn't Joe Douglas get another
shot to be GM? So I would really probably lean
towards Joe first, as I see he's interviewing, which makes
logical sense. But Joe seems like a guy that I
think he just needs a different circumstance and I think
it might have turned out differently for him.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Well, last thing before we get you out of here.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Mark, you hear a lot about Lamar Jackson and people
getting excited about him possibly moving.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
When you see that, even.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
As a possible ability, how realistic does it seem. I'm
not talking about this particular move, but I'm saying a
quarterback in his you know, twenty nine thirty year old prime,
how realistic is one of those guys changing teams?
Speaker 11 (29:12):
I just don't think it's very realistic at all. I
think when you go down that rabbit hole, you you
better have a one hundred percent answer for what you're
doing next. And it's not Cooper Rush, and it's not
Tyler Hunting right, and it's just it's just not And
so in this draft class is not bringing with young
quarterback talent. It's it's got quite a few gaps as
(29:34):
you go down. And I think there's really interesting stuff
in the third, fourth, and fifth round, but first and
second round it's actormindoza. It's it's pretty quiet in my opinion,
you know, so overall, So I think for the Ravens,
to me, it's it's let's go another year, let's get
the new coach in here, let's see how everything feels.
And then make a decision like, if you want to,
you know, consider another avenue. But I just don't think
(29:55):
there's anything out there that really makes sense other than
staying with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Because teams don't.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Right, there's no scenario you could say, Okay, I'll take
that great offer, even if it means next year is
going to be just a wasted year. You try to
find the happy medium.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
There, right, Yeah, and the grass isn't always greener, as
we all know, and you know it's so it's so
easy to say, well, just you'll just you know, you
get these draft picks, you know, draft a quarterback in
twenty twenty seven or whatever. Okay, that sounds all good,
But if your team goes three and fourteen, I mean,
I didn't you know, we saw the head coaches that
(30:30):
got fired. You know, only a couple of gms got fired.
I think gms are a lot more trouble next year
than head coaches are, just because at some point, you
know that's going to call in the other way. It's
gonna be like, what, let's look at the roster. So
my point in all that is, yeah, you can have
draft picks, but you might not get to use them
or just because you draft a quarterback. As we see,
you know, not every everyone's going to work out. I
mean this time last year, I think people are all
(30:53):
you know, no one was very very excited about uh,
you know, Drake May, and everybody's like I can't wait
to see more Michael Pennocks. And now it's like, well
now Drake May's got the lead, and so you know,
it's just just because it sounds good on paper and
it seems like, you know, just draft a quarterback. Okay,
he's got to pan out and that's that's such a
hard job to play.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
One more quick one. We'll get you out of here.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We appreciate the time Mark Dominic does. Mark, what is
what is getting rich? Can you explain to the audience
we're in South Florida, a lot of Dolphin fans listening.
Can you explain what cutting Tua would mean to the
Miami Dolphins in ways that we would understand?
Speaker 11 (31:29):
Well, I mean, I think the main thing when you
look at Tua is trying to, you know, really kind
of work through what that contract implication will be right
and how does that all come hitting your club of
financially and what's the burn? And I think when you
look at what it could be if they get rid
of to a it's a massive hit. But you know,
but his base salaries, I'm trying to remember in my mind,
(31:53):
I know his base all he's almost forty million dollars
right in twenty twenty eighty six, and so you know,
it's it's a it's it's a heavy number.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
And at the same point, I think it's not fully
guaranteed right now, I think it. Let me see if
I remember.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right I was by de yeah, a dead cap hit
of ninety nine million dollars and then in the cap
the natural cap hit is fifty six.
Speaker 11 (32:18):
I mean, it's it's it's to the point where it's
it's Deshaun Watson. You have to move. What you'd have
to do is handle this way that the Cleveland Browns
handled to Shawn Watson, meaning we're going to have to,
you know, forward, think a lot of salary cap places.
We're gonna have to create, you know, lower as many
players on our team base salaries, replace that with signing bonus.
And what that means is that ownership has to be
(32:40):
willing to write a lot of checks this offseason. And
so like a guy that's making let's say, ten million
dollars in our team. You can take him down to the
minimum salary and give him a signing bonus and pro
rade his contract out, you know, a little bit longer,
and now suddenly his cap salary kepts lower. You're gonna
have to do with a lot of players to be
able to absorb this. But that means mister Ross has
to write a lot of checks to a lot of
veteran players right now, which makes them a little more
(33:00):
guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, Mark, we appreciate the time. This was great.
Thank you for doing it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
We hope to have you on again if you're willing
to deal with Taylor and his bad questions.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 11 (33:10):
I know why you guys put me on radio not TV.
I get it still, I.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Mean, oh no, I want to see you on TV, sir. Yes, okay,
thank you.
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Speaker 1 (33:51):
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Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yep.
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Speaker 2 (34:05):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
But it's been a fun week, and thank you to
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Taylor.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Let's wrap up the week here. We have a bunch
of pole questions at Steu Gott seven ninety on X.
That's at Stegott seven ninety on X. Taylor, what do
you have for us today?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
First poll question justin Herbert until you do it in
the playoffs, you're a loser to me.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
There is the question exactly, there is no question. Yees.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Seventy five percent of the audience said yes.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
All right, yes, that is right. Yep, Mikey is celebrating that.
I think it was his question that wasn't a question.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Is Championship Sunday the perfect day for a snowstorm?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Ninety one point two percent of the audience said yep,
snow me.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
In and the Monday after wouldn't be bad either, right,
I mean people are excited, Mikey. You want if you're
locked in your house on Monday, you're gonna be a
happy Mikey A, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I won't move from my couch.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yes, Sunday until Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, we had or not? We had bear on the
podcast he said it's his heaven being snowed in. Can't
leave the house on a weekend, nothing left to do
but gamble.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
That was it. That's his heaven.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Go ahead, tyl it walking into home depot with your
wife dangerous game?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It's because he feels inadequate, is he?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
And there's a guy sitting there with an apron He
has all the answers.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Right, that his wife is just looking at him like
this guy doesn't know anything.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
That's a man.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
We gotta go by himself. That's as many questions as
you want.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
The next question comes from what were the results?
Speaker 11 (35:53):
Good?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Point? Seventy four percent of the audience said yes, dangerous game.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
The next question comes from Chris Simms's appearance. If Drake
May's QBR is lower than c. J. Stroud's QBR, should
we just throw that stat out?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Eighth qbr? He really does?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Eighty point nine percent of the audience said toss it
out definite.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
If I'm with Jared Stickham, it's a low, low entry
point right here. All I gotta do is do better
than that guy did for the Zoom Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Stick them, stick them, stick them, stick them.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I have to go on that mad show, Christopher Mad
Dog Runzo in eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I have to go on with stick them.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Thank you is the light blue box of Girl Scout
Cookies The treyfoils anybody's favorite Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I didn't even know they had a light which one.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Of those shortbread?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It's oh, I mean I love short bread, I know,
come on the light fulb Yeah no, they're nice.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Who said that, by the.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Way, I said they were my favorite. Mikey said they
were boring, and then Mikey called me the Treyfoil of.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Life shortbread cookie.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Eighty two point five percent of the audience said Nope,
nobody's favorite.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
You could do worse than that.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Better name for a quarterback, Jared Stidham. Jared Stickham Stickham,
thank you overwhelming. Jared Stickham wins seventy seven percent. Steve
audience voted yes. If the Patriots make the Super Bowl,
(37:30):
will people still be questioning if they beat a good
team this season?
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Yep, one hundred percent, easiest path of all time?
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Surprisingly, is he not one hundred percent close though? Ninety
point eight percent.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, I think we observed it.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
We were discussing earlier that if they made the Super
Bowl this year, won it, and then made the Super
Bowl next year, people would.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Still be saying, have they beaten a good team yet?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
This is why Stickham's winning by four.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Should the guy who beat Philip Rivers in the high
school playoffs all get an interview with the Buffalo Bills?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yes, yep, one hundred each, you get the job.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yes, that's our guy. Yeah, ninety three percent of the
audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I want him on the show on Monday.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Taylor, any more polls, any more polls?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
One more poll question? Okay, big one here for me.
What would you rather go to the Super Bowl? Or
can coon?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Oh it's easy, can't coud?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Can coon? Seventy two point nine percent. Those are the polls.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
What do you three? Can't Coon
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Let's give this if.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I was driving in today and I was saying to myself,
what happened to Eric Mangini?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
No, you were man, genius, Thank you, Taylor. What happened
to him?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Where'd you go? And then I get in here and
he's on First things First. If you're ever wondering, that's
how I found Eric Mangini, Yes.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Found him.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, huh.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
You're ever wondering what happened to Adam Gase?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I work out at the same gym as his sun.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I wasn't wondering that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But where's Adam Gase?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I mean, he drops off his son.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
He's in Fort lauder Dead. I played golf with them recently,
me and Gase. Yeah, he's doing something for Omaha Productions.
I believe it was a strange experience. I have to
be honest with you. Golfing with Adam Gaze. He's a
great guy, just weird. I was having heaters, he was.
He had one same cart.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Same cart.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes, because I maintain, man, you don't know someone until
you spend four hours in the same in the same
cart on a golf course with him.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You were driving.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's how you get to know someone because you were
forced to have conversation.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, of course I was driving. All right, I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Your own course. I didn't know if you wanted to
drive or be driven.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, I was driving.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Taylor, what are you?
What's going on with the NCAA and patches on uniforms?
You were saying something during the break from the VIP room.
I couldn't listen to you. I couldn't hear you because
everyone in Sherman Oaks was upset about the top five list.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I call her him last segment.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So this is a report from on three. The NCAA
has officially approved commercial jersey patches in college sports effective August. First,
I'm on hold with Northwestern right now trying to get
our logos on their jerseys.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
My daughter's lacrosse team.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I hope lacrosse, football, basketball. I want to be everywhere.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I think we can name higher than Northwestern. No offense
to the Wieners.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, well, no we can.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
In terms of women's lacrosse, we can't naim any higher
because that is it the Indiana of women's college lacrosse.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Can I can?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I ask for Taylor's input on another topic here that
he put on the show sheet.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Not that it's bad that it's on the show sheet.
I'm just confused by it altogether. It has to do
with Sean Payton and Patriots wide receiver kase Shawn Booty,
which I still contend parents failed should have repronounced his
name Beauty just a lot better.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Okay, But it says here that Sean Payton on the
Broncos needing their crowd to be loud this Sunday, he said,
quote They're going to have plenty of rest after this
one Peyton said of the fans two weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Okay, first of all, that's pretty confusing, all.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Right, we have audio of that, so let's just play
that instead of Sean Payton me saying what Sean Payton said,
coach for about the past month, you've had as fans
every single week.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Without noise you have.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
You have a message for them this week with the
final team.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, they're gonna have plenty of rest after this one.
Two weeks, that's right.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
So so there you go, said it better. I'm just
going to say what was said in my ear. Also,
we've got Booty to Beauty.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Here's Booty.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Not that you guys need any extra motivation, but did
you see the Trump Pitton quote Insinuay that Denver fans
will have some extra rest for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No said two weeks for the rest of the SUPERA.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I see that, you guys.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
So what are we talking about here?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Did I think Sean Payton pushed Kishan Kashan Boody uh
a slippery slope. He had no idea he was going
to because the Super Bowl is.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Not in Denver.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
No, so those same fans are going to have the
rest of the off season to rest if they really
want to write. So this whole two weeks thing that
Sean Payton thought was a clever quip doesn't make any sense.
And then he got Booty stuck with it by saying
they can rest in Cankuon too. At the end of
the day. So are we to believe that all fans
treat their fandom as a job and as soon as
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their team gets eliminated, hey, we're all going to cancuon together,
all eighty thousand of us that we're in this stadium here.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
None of it is the It matches the level of
trash talk that the that the level of intrigue is
in this weekend's conference championship. It is the worst back
and forth I've ever heard prior to a conference championship weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's It's why we need Philip Rivers as a head
coach in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He knows how to trash talk.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean anything, anything.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
It would be better than Oh those fans they can
to rest in Cankon to sounds like a lovely time,
it does.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'm jealous.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes, I mean me and Mikey would have spent so
many years in can't Coon after the Jets season.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Am I missing something?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Taylor?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So I think with Sean Payton, he's telling the fans,
you're gonna need your voices back for the super Bowl
wherever your super Bowl parties are, right, So not just
empty the tank this week. We just need you guys
one more week to get really loud, make that home
field advantage. And is he why did I put this
on the topic sheet? This is just good old conference
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championship bulletin board material.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I am totally with Taylor, and what Sean Payton is
trying to do is make the fans feel a part
of the team.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And what's wrong with that is he uh huh Taylor.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I did say it's fine that it's on the topic sheet,
that it is the best of it is the best
of the best when it comes to the trash talg
But no, you can feel like part of the team
without the head coach patronizing you and say, hey, you
could be loud two weeks from now again if I
were not going to be able to hear.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, I don't view it as patronizing.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I view it as Sean Payton going out of his
way to let them know how important they are to
the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That's it, you know what it was.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
He's approaching the hard network out. He needs something to
land the plane with. It's like they're gonna have plenty
of arrest.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I got this.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What a nice week, What a nice little touch.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
If you know when your team was bounced out of
the playoffs, that you get to go on a vacation
with the players to katcode.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On the team.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I mean, now, if you're going to the conference championship game,
I'm expecting at least a discount code on a flight
to Cancud as an opportunity for me to join.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It's just it's the weakest thing. But are you excited
about this Confort Championship weekend?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Because I mean that trash talk had to get your
juices flowing a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right, I'm trying to know, I'm trying to get there.
I am.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's a weird, weird final four, weird Championship Sunday.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Stuck Gott's a Company live on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
A technical issue has come down with the guys in
South Florida. I'm Dan Byron are Fox Sports Radio Studios
in Los Angeles. So we are going to try to
reconnect with the guys as they get ready for an
AFC NFC Championship weekend. One that Stu is really having
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a difficult time getting hyped for. No matter what Sean
Payton may or may not say to the fan base,
or to his team or to the media. I think
we've got the guys back and we are about to
reconnect with them. We apologize for the technical issue. It's
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it's one of those Friday things.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, well no, it seems to be an everyday thing here.
That's what.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I'm an adventure say. It's an NFL problem.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Yes, the more we talk about this conference championship weekend,
the more stuff gets screwed up around.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Listen, I figured, Dan, if I gave you like two
more minutes, eventually you were gonna run out and you
were gonna have to give us your Denver pain.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It was.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It was sudden.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
It was like as soon as you tried to talk
about the championship games, yes, they're like, no, it's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Done.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Someone will trying to tell us something, right, go ahead,
take more calls. That's what That's what the gods are saying.
I'm going to in just a second. But Taylor, what
do you have You're right, standy, were so right about this.
That's what the sports radio gods are saying. Just take
phone calls and stick to the basics. That's why you
came back to this.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I know athletes are wired different, but if you gave
me two choices. You could go to the super Bowl
or you could go to can Coon kant Coon. I'm
going to can Coon out. I've been to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I've never been to kankuon Mikey and I don't have
a choice.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I mean it's nice. I take Indianapolis, I take anything.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh, that team is so hard to be a fan
of it. That team I'm talking about, of course, it's
the New York Jets. Let's go out to Toby in Erie,
Pennsylvania Today wants to talk Bills and Philip Rivers.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Go ahead, Toby, Hey, still Mike years the Taylor I
love you guys, curios.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
So why are the Bills interviewing Philip Rivers. There's a
perfectly good coach out there that know what's talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
He used to coach at Baylor.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It was about a decade ago.
Speaker 11 (09:17):
He paid his dues.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Our Briles, experienced coach.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Our Briles is a terrible choice, Toby. But you're supposed
to end every call with how about that? You got
to deliver your point and then give us a how
about that? And I thought the Bills coach that I
thought the potential candidate that deserved the chance was the
guy who beat Philip Rivers in high school this year,
who were trying to get on the air right now.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I thought he was going to give us a list
of bills and a list of Rivers.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Thank you for the call, Toby, eight eight eight, I
di nined on Fox. Let's go out to Ryan, who's
in Fort Lauderdale today. Ryan, go ahead, you're on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (09:58):
Hey Ryan from Poor La.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We established that, all right, I got one, and maybe
it's something to put in there's something upon her file.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
But athletes whose last names are first names and first
names are last name?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Wow, Okay, go ahead, what do you got have? Like
one or two for us? Or you have five? I
got one?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Got one?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So yeah, Tony Malachi, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I'm obsessed with guys who have two last names, and
I don't have one off the top of my head,
so maybe it shouldn't be called an obsession.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Mark Dominic is going to join us coming up next.
He has two first.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Names, Yeah, yeah, Dominic and Mark, And technically I guess
two last names?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Is Mark our last name Marx?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Mar Yes, let's go to Ronan who's in Florida. Ronan,
you are on Fox Sports radio.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Go ahead, Hey two guys, what's up? Man? Do you
remember who this is?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Of course I do wrote in yes, yes.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Okay, No, I just I had no idea that you
guys you were, you know, doing the thing. So I
just wanted to say congrats and looking forward to some
old schools sports radio talk. It's it's been a while
to actually be able to like get on a show
in these parts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, well, no one takes calls. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Not? No, no, no, I just I just it's been
a while, so I just didn't think that that format
was still Uh, I did not know people.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Still do this.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, you didn't know that talk radio on the am
dial was still going on, was still a veg.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Yeah, I mean it's a good thing, you know.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, thank you? Yeah, I love it. No, we're having
a blast.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's been We've had some frustrations early on, but we
have had a blast all week long here, so we
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Runing, I hope you are well. Start.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Thank you for the call, buddy, eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
My Keya is getting man on my behalf. What is
happening up there?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Mikey, how about that? I know, listen, we're gonna have
to train them, Will you stop it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's a Friday, okay, people are driving home, they're feeling good,
they're heading into their weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And we just started the show and Dan Buyer's done
half of it. I mean, so what do he wants?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
There's a whole fan base trying to pack. I don't
know if I'm going to the super Bowl. I don't
know if I'm going to Cancun.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yes, all right, so listen, when you call into this
radio program, all we're asking for for today, for the
rest of today, and Mark Dominic will join us at
four twenty five, we're asking that you finish your call
with how about that? Okay, that's whatever point you want
to make, whatever question you want to ask. Just when
you're done, when you're done, get to your point, ask
the question, and when you're done, how about that? Eight seven,
(12:43):
seven ninety nine on Fox Mikey, Yeah, happy that I
explained it. Now, I see this look, but I've explained
it seven times and you're lashing out and you shouldn't
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
To the audience. Okay, dare you.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I'm doing it at you.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
How about that, Taylor? What's going on with Pat McAfee.
He had some comments. We all had to Radio Row
a week from monday. I'm excited about it. Israel is
joining us at first, mikey A is going to be there,
Taylor is going to be there. He's very excited. The
set looks amazing for Fox Sports Radio. I'm really really
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excited to get out there. I love that city. I
love San Francisco. I'll go see some deck cover bands
while I'm out there. You guys won't, but I will,
and I'm going to enjoy myself very very much. But
what is Pat McAfee? You know, I heard the rants.
I want you to explain it to me because I
have no idea why McAfee decided now was a good
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time to take out all of sports media.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah. So McAfee was talking about how he's also heading
to Radio Row and that he's going to see a
bunch of journalists that he's criticized and journalists who have
criticized him. So before he gets out to Radio Row,
he doesn't want it to be a contentious week. So
he just said, I want to get all my insulight's
out now. So that's where you got the quote from
McAfee where he said, oh, you fat nerd good to
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see you. They have shots for you, dude, you fat
lazy bum. Look at you fat? So have you been
outside of your basement all season? I know that's cliche
to say, but Jesus, the son is allergic to you.
Look at how bad you look.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I feel like that's a direct shot at me. It was,
and he hasn't seen fat until we get there.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
What do you mean we?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I mean we're bringing the fat with us between me
and mikey Yah.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Why is he saying this? Why is he upset? Pat McAfee?
You won, dude? Why are you beefing down? You won
the game.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You're a punter, is he? That's weird that he would take.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Out journalist and the entire sports media. And I'm choking
here because I'm choked up about this because I care
about sports media.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I think I think we need some time here. Let's
get a break and I will.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You're supposed to fill the time when I asked you to.
You need it.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Let's go to break.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We'll be better.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Mark Dominic could have joined us here in just a second,
let's go to Dan Byers here, who is still working
out his Denver pick.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Dan, take it away with the update.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
All good, stud Do you want to quick go back
to what happened? Yeah, as I was sitting here at
the news desk, it was no lie that the line
cut as soon as you tried to talk football. Is
he tried to put you back on the main road.
This is how it sounded on our end.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Okay, thanks?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
What are you excited about this Cupper Championship weekend?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Because I mean that trash dog had to get your
juices flowing a little bit, right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm trying to know. I'm trying to get there. I am.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's a weird, weird final four, weird championship Sunday.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Can you guys just isolate whatever that digital sound was.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Can I hear that again? To your best efforts? You
tried and that's all we can ask. Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
All Right, I gotta tell you, Dan, you do a
great job of making me feel better about myself.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That is well done.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Mark Dominic has spent over twenty years in NFL front
offices at scouting, former general manager of the Tampa Bay Box,
and a very handsome man. He's going to join us
right now, Mark, thanks for joining us. First question here,
what are the keys to remaining as good looking as
you are? Because I think you're a year older than me,
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and you look about ten years younger than I did.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
Ye, I don't know what to say. I don't feel
I feel older than I want to. You know, this
is kind of a crazy thing, right, you actually always
still younger than you actually really are. And you know,
I think it's my three kids and my wife and
everything keeps me moving.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Right, Just keep moving. That's that's good advice. Yes, have
you ever seen this is insane? Honestly, Mark, have you
ever seen a coaching camp hersel like this like the
one we're going through right now?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:15):
Never, in thirty years being in and around the league,
I can't remember anything. And the weird thing was, right
before we got to the you know, the final weekend,
I thought, you know, it might be four coaches, you know,
and this might be the lowest one in forever because
next year will be really bad. And then it turned out, well,
this is ten and that's insane, and so yeah, I
mean the nice thing is it's a really a good
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pool of opportunities. The hard thing is is it's a
lot of work for these clubs, and when new people
get added to the mix, you know, it kind of
throws the shift off. And you can also see when
you have this many people, you know, obviously you might
think you're getting a head coach and suddenly they signed
somewhere else or they cancel the visit. So it's it's
just very tricky and it's a lot of work front
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office wise, it's a lot of work for gym right Actually,
you know, wanted to be focused on you know, the
Senior Bowl and East West Shrine Game and instead camp.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, Mark, I think a lot of people were shocked
that the Bills are interviewing Philip Rivers. You were you
got to Tampa Bay in ninety five, you left in
twenty thirteen. Who's the strangest guy that you brought in
for an interview where it's like, maybe we shouldn't bring
this guy in, but let's just hear him out.
Speaker 11 (18:25):
You know, I brought in a couple other college coaches
back in twenty twelve that was, you know, wanted just
to hear them out, and so I thought that that
was interesting because they had some success and they were
just different character or different type of personality. So I'd
say that I can't really you know, I don't want
to really say because when we did.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It, yeah, I put you in a bad spot.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah he did. You really did.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, you say it, Mark, Mark, don't be so nice
around here. We're not professional. I just say, Taylor put
you in a horrible spot.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
You're good, But yeah, there was I've done that. When
I did a coach in search that was like, I know,
I'm not going to hire him, but I just want
to understand what this guy's thinking. Other thing that a
lot of these clubs can do right now is really
hard because there's so many people trying to secure stuff.
Because don't forget, you hired the head coach and now
you got to probably put an entire staff together, and
you've got ten staffs of ten different coordinators and offensive
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defense and positional coach. I mean, it's convoluted right now
in terms of the amount of like who's going where
and who's getting what job. But there are also teams
that will use this to find out information about upcoming
unrestrictive free agents. So you know, maybe you're you know,
you know that you like a player from the whatever,
the Los Angeles Rams, and so therefore you're going to
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interview one of their coordinators to find out more information
about the free agent. You don't want to miss and
spend eighty million dollars. You want to make sure you're
getting right guy. So there's a lot of stuff going
on besides just the hiring of the head coach.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
There's some retired coach in Iowa somewhere whose highlight of
his career was interviewing for the Tampa Bay Bucks job.
And now he's listening to his AM radio saying, wait
a second, was that just a cursory Thanks for that,
Taylor Mark, Ask what the actual coaches interviews entail, Like,
what are you looking for in that time frame that says, Okay,
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this gentleman definitely is the guy who's gonna run my organization.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
You know, there's lots of situations you'll put them through.
You'll talk to them about situational football outside of the game.
You'll certainly talk to them a lot about you know,
their their their overall fundamentals of what they believe in,
what's their philosophy, who are the coaches that they know
they can get or think they can get, and what's
how much of the staff is can they put together?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (20:32):
But a big, the big part of it is just
letting them. They don't have a ton of time to
actually evaluate your team, So you can't just sit there
and go, well, tell me about my team outlooks souse.
These guys are running around too, and so it's more
about just the feeling you get. Does the person motivate you,
Do you see what they stand for, what they believe in,
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and do you have that same fundamental belief And then
you spend as much time in that coaches interview as
you do trying to be on the phone around that coach,
trying to understand the people that have been around that coach,
what's he been like from players, coordinators, assistants, and then
also the success of their program where they've been you know,
are they developing maybe an NFL, are they developing players
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and keep growing as the offense or devensive coordinator or
the position coach or same with college what kind of
the success of they doing recruiting bringing people through the
system and getting to the NFL, and so you're looking
at all those different things. We're in the middle of
an interview talking about the different players, especially maybe players
from their team that they know so that you already know,
so that way you can kind of get a sense
of where their evaluation tip tendencies are as well.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Mark Fernando Mendoza just declared for the draft today. If
you were the Raiders front office, what would your level
of confidence be when it comes to Mendoza as a
quarterback prospect?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Well, I think, I mean, I think it's it's almost
to the point where regardless you're taking him, so it
doesn't you want to spend some time with him. I
know he's a quieter guy, but he also seeing you
know that he's fight the gamesman and tries to do
the right thing after every game. Go find me whether
it's the you know, opposing head coach or he's trying
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to do everything the right way. You can't underestimate, you know,
what he's been able to accomplish. I think you were
going to spend time with him, but I think you know,
he decided he wanted to be a Raider. I mean,
that's basically what it is. I mean, I understand why
it came out and certainly going number one overall, but
that's your team. You picked the team. There's no way
the Raiders aren't taking him, and so this is just
it's going to be more of pick number two. But
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it's exciting to watch Mendoz and kind of get to
learn who he is a little bit more as where
you start to go through the process.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Mark, if you have a quarterback of Josh Allen's caliber,
do you bring him in? Because it's clear that they
have do you bring him in? Is that the norm
in the NFL to bring him in on the decision
making and in terms of who the next head coach.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Is going to be?
Speaker 11 (22:47):
You know, I don't think so. I don't think it's
the norm, and I don't you know, I think I
would have brought Josh in and set him down and
just talked about the coaches on our staff. I think
that to me makes more sense than anything else. Is like,
you know, what do you think of our coaches on
our staff, like specifically obviously on the offensive side of
the ball. I think that to me is more critical
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than thinking that, you know, let's have him be part
of the interview process that he fits the right guy
fits him, or vice versa. I don't think that that's
I don't think that's the best way to handle that,
and so therefore I'm not as big as a fan
in that capacity. I think it's more of the guys
that are on staff. Yes, totally understand that. And if
you want to talk about you know, you're offen the coordinator, Josh,
(23:30):
let's have a real honest discussion about that, because I
think that's a real possibility or potential higher for them
because it just makes sense. And so you know, we'll see.
But in terms of hey, once you be part of
the Philip Rivers interview, you know, I just don't I
don't think that I would do that. I think he
could certainly say hi to him, but I don't want
to put him in the room with it because I
just think that's different.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Just a quick helloh, I love that.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yes, But if it's Mike McDaniel, let's just say, and
you know, as the offensive minded guy that he is,
that he will be implementing as much of his offense
or trying to find an offensive coordinator that he could
you know, vibe with and toss a lot of similar
ideas that way.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Wouldn't you want your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
To at least know or at least discuss this so
he could say right off the bat, hey, I don't
think that really works with my skill set.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I have a difference of opinion. Then you do.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Yeah, I think what I would do is to go
through the first round unless the guy's harball and you're like, Okay,
we've got to figure out whether we're hiring him or not, right,
but the McDaniels of the world or things like that,
I think what you do is you do the first
club interview with ownership and whoever's a part of the
head coaching hiring, and then I think if you're like, okay,
that was pretty good. You know, he checks our box,
then I think that's when you kind of get you
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can bring the quarterback in, especially when you have an
elite quarterback and see how that vibe feels between them.
But I don't think it's round one. I think that
they can know about it or say hey, like I said,
but I think I wouldn't really spend a lot of
time making sure you know that in the first level.
But the second level, when I bring the candidate back in,
then I think it's critical that your quarterback or whoever's
(24:59):
you know, the big part of that team, whether it's
the defensive you know, linebacker three technique outside Russia or
whatever it is corner, that they would meet him to
kind of get a vibe how that goes. I mean
I did that when you know, I drafted my first
quarterback I took when we brought him into town, I
brought my offensive line and I had them go out
to dinner with him and just tell me what you
guys think that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So, how would you handle what is going on with
Howie Roseman right now? And I'm wondering in terms of
AJ Brown And I'm wondering Mark, how you would handle
that situation?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And how do you think how he is handling that situation?
Speaker 11 (25:32):
Yeah, I think when you when you look at this
one and you you you see what the Eagles have
been or what they've been able to do, I think
you're you're trying to really more so look at your
entire roster, figure out what can you handle in terms
of this off season? What's it going to be like?
And you know, where's where's our money? And what kind
of money, what what do we actually have that we
can spend out there? And then you look at your
(25:52):
own team and you talk about like the fit, but
I think until they get the coordinator set, whether that's
Matt Maggie, whoever it might be for the Eagles, I
think you just play it low key right now and
you just you just let days go on. And then
I think when you get if you and how he's
probably going to Sea Bowl, I know scouts will be there,
but certainly by the time you get to the combiner
before that, uh, you know, you find out whether his interest.
(26:14):
That's where you know what I did before I was GM,
I was director of pro and one of my jobs
was to call around to thirty one of the clubs
of the course of you know, especially right around now,
and say, hey, I'm just kind of curious, who are
the guys that are on the market for your team,
Like who's an so I can start watching them because
it's not just free agency, it's also those opportunities. And
I got to think, how he's exploring that mark.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
If you could have one of these final four rosters
from from conference championship weekend, which team would you take.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
That's a fun question. I think, you know. The truth
for me would probably be the use of the RAMS
defense is very exciting. My scare is that I don't
know how much more I've got Matt Stafford left comparatively
to all the other rosters. So that's that's a really
that's a hard one for me to not take the
Rams because just there's so many pieces there that I
think are very exciting. I think probably Seattle's probably second
(27:10):
because it looks like Sam Darnold has done everything they
can ask And I would shout out to John Schneider.
If there's a a GM that knows when to part
with quarterbacks better than John Schneider, I'm not sure who
it is, right, I mean, he obviously got Russell Wilson
and everybody's like, eh, and he had Geno Smith he's
like and now he finds Sam Darnold. He knows how
to figure out that quarterback room, and boy, that's critical.
(27:31):
But I would say I would say Rams, Seahawks truthfully, Broncos,
and Patriots, which is really exciting for Patriot fans because
I think there's still a lot of potential upside there.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Mark did Taylor redeem himself or no. It seems like
he did.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
Oh yes, much better, much better spirit.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
He's learning, yes, yes, and he's so excited that you
answered with a fun question.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I have another fun question.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
If you're an owner, I make you an NFL owner,
who are you hiring to be your general manager?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
You know, at this point I would probably go after
somebody that's had a shot but it didn't work out.
I'm not saying that for any other reason, but like,
I think Joe Douglas is a good general manager. I
just don't think things went the right way for him.
But knowing Joe and how Hardy works and what he's about,
he's a guy that he's a boy you know, maybe
just wasn't the cookie. I mean, you look at Robert Solly,
(28:29):
he's got another chance to be head coach. But yet
you know, it's like, why wouldn't Joe Douglas get another
shot to be GM? So I would really probably lean
towards Joe first, as I see he's interviewing, which makes
logical sense. But Joe seems like a guy that I
think he just needs a different circumstance and I think
it might have turned out differently for him.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Well, last thing before we get you out of here.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Mark, you hear a lot about Lamar Jackson and people
getting excited about him possibly moving.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
When you see that, even.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
As a possible ability, how realistic does it seem. I'm
not talking about this particular move, but I'm saying a
quarterback in his you know, twenty nine thirty year old prime,
how realistic is one of those guys changing teams?
Speaker 11 (29:12):
I just don't think it's very realistic at all. I
think when you go down that rabbit hole, you you
better have a one hundred percent answer for what you're
doing next. And it's not Cooper Rush, and it's not
Tyler Hunting right, and it's just it's just not And
so in this draft class is not bringing with young
quarterback talent. It's it's got quite a few gaps as
(29:34):
you go down. And I think there's really interesting stuff
in the third, fourth, and fifth round, but first and
second round it's actormindoza. It's it's pretty quiet in my opinion,
you know, so overall, So I think for the Ravens,
to me, it's it's let's go another year, let's get
the new coach in here, let's see how everything feels.
And then make a decision like, if you want to,
you know, consider another avenue. But I just don't think
(29:55):
there's anything out there that really makes sense other than
staying with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Because teams don't.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Right, there's no scenario you could say, Okay, I'll take
that great offer, even if it means next year is
going to be just a wasted year. You try to
find the happy medium.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
There, right, Yeah, and the grass isn't always greener, as
we all know, and you know it's so it's so
easy to say, well, just you'll just you know, you
get these draft picks, you know, draft a quarterback in
twenty twenty seven or whatever. Okay, that sounds all good,
But if your team goes three and fourteen, I mean,
I didn't you know, we saw the head coaches that
(30:30):
got fired. You know, only a couple of gms got fired.
I think gms are a lot more trouble next year
than head coaches are, just because at some point, you
know that's going to call in the other way. It's
gonna be like, what, let's look at the roster. So
my point in all that is, yeah, you can have
draft picks, but you might not get to use them
or just because you draft a quarterback. As we see,
you know, not every everyone's going to work out. I
mean this time last year, I think people are all
(30:53):
you know, no one was very very excited about uh,
you know, Drake May, and everybody's like I can't wait
to see more Michael Pennocks. And now it's like, well
now Drake May's got the lead, and so you know,
it's just just because it sounds good on paper and
it seems like, you know, just draft a quarterback. Okay,
he's got to pan out and that's that's such a
hard job to play.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
One more quick one. We'll get you out of here.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We appreciate the time Mark Dominic does. Mark, what is
what is getting rich? Can you explain to the audience
we're in South Florida, a lot of Dolphin fans listening.
Can you explain what cutting Tua would mean to the
Miami Dolphins in ways that we would understand?
Speaker 11 (31:29):
Well, I mean, I think the main thing when you
look at Tua is trying to, you know, really kind
of work through what that contract implication will be right
and how does that all come hitting your club of
financially and what's the burn? And I think when you
look at what it could be if they get rid
of to a it's a massive hit. But you know,
but his base salaries, I'm trying to remember in my mind,
(31:53):
I know his base all he's almost forty million dollars
right in twenty twenty eighty six, and so you know,
it's it's a it's it's a heavy number.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
And at the same point, I think it's not fully
guaranteed right now, I think it. Let me see if
I remember.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right I was by de yeah, a dead cap hit
of ninety nine million dollars and then in the cap
the natural cap hit is fifty six.
Speaker 11 (32:18):
I mean, it's it's it's to the point where it's
it's Deshaun Watson. You have to move. What you'd have
to do is handle this way that the Cleveland Browns
handled to Shawn Watson, meaning we're going to have to,
you know, forward, think a lot of salary cap places.
We're gonna have to create, you know, lower as many
players on our team base salaries, replace that with signing bonus.
And what that means is that ownership has to be
(32:40):
willing to write a lot of checks this offseason. And
so like a guy that's making let's say, ten million
dollars in our team. You can take him down to the
minimum salary and give him a signing bonus and pro
rade his contract out, you know, a little bit longer,
and now suddenly his cap salary kepts lower. You're gonna
have to do with a lot of players to be
able to absorb this. But that means mister Ross has
to write a lot of checks to a lot of
veteran players right now, which makes them a little more
(33:00):
guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, Mark, we appreciate the time. This was great.
Thank you for doing it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
We hope to have you on again if you're willing
to deal with Taylor and his bad questions.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 11 (33:10):
I know why you guys put me on radio not TV.
I get it still, I.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Mean, oh no, I want to see you on TV, sir. Yes, okay,
thank you.
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Speaker 1 (33:51):
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on Fox Sports Radio. It has not come without many mistakes,
and that's okay. We'll get better at this, I promise
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Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
We got two teams, one in Pemberke Ponds one in
Sherman Oaks. We call them Sherm.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
But we will get better. We'll communicate better, we promise
moving forward here.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
But it's been a fun week, and thank you to
everyone who has supported us, both listening to the radio
and on the podcast, which is soaring up the charts
right now and I am very, very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Taylor.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Let's wrap up the week here. We have a bunch
of pole questions at Steu Gott seven ninety on X.
That's at Stegott seven ninety on X. Taylor, what do
you have for us today?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
First poll question justin Herbert until you do it in
the playoffs, you're a loser to me.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
There is the question exactly, there is no question. Yees.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Seventy five percent of the audience said yes.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
All right, yes, that is right. Yep, Mikey is celebrating that.
I think it was his question that wasn't a question.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Is Championship Sunday the perfect day for a snowstorm?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Ninety one point two percent of the audience said yep,
snow me.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
In and the Monday after wouldn't be bad either, right,
I mean people are excited, Mikey. You want if you're
locked in your house on Monday, you're gonna be a
happy Mikey A, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I won't move from my couch.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yes, Sunday until Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, we had or not? We had bear on the
podcast he said it's his heaven being snowed in. Can't
leave the house on a weekend, nothing left to do
but gamble.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
That was it. That's his heaven.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Go ahead, tyl it walking into home depot with your
wife dangerous game?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It's because he feels inadequate, is he?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
And there's a guy sitting there with an apron He
has all the answers.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Right, that his wife is just looking at him like
this guy doesn't know anything.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
That's a man.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
We gotta go by himself. That's as many questions as
you want.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
The next question comes from what were the results?
Speaker 11 (35:53):
Good?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Point? Seventy four percent of the audience said yes, dangerous game.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
The next question comes from Chris Simms's appearance. If Drake
May's QBR is lower than c. J. Stroud's QBR, should
we just throw that stat out?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Eighth qbr? He really does?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Eighty point nine percent of the audience said toss it
out definite.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
If I'm with Jared Stickham, it's a low, low entry
point right here. All I gotta do is do better
than that guy did for the Zoom Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Stick them, stick them, stick them, stick them.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I have to go on that mad show, Christopher Mad
Dog Runzo in eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I have to go on with stick them.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Thank you is the light blue box of Girl Scout
Cookies The treyfoils anybody's favorite Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I didn't even know they had a light which one.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Of those shortbread?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It's oh, I mean I love short bread, I know,
come on the light fulb Yeah no, they're nice.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Who said that, by the.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Way, I said they were my favorite. Mikey said they
were boring, and then Mikey called me the Treyfoil of.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Life shortbread cookie.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Eighty two point five percent of the audience said Nope,
nobody's favorite.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
You could do worse than that.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Better name for a quarterback, Jared Stidham. Jared Stickham Stickham,
thank you overwhelming. Jared Stickham wins seventy seven percent. Steve
audience voted yes. If the Patriots make the Super Bowl,
(37:30):
will people still be questioning if they beat a good
team this season?
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Yep, one hundred percent, easiest path of all time?
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Surprisingly, is he not one hundred percent close though? Ninety
point eight percent.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, I think we observed it.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
We were discussing earlier that if they made the Super
Bowl this year, won it, and then made the Super
Bowl next year, people would.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Still be saying, have they beaten a good team yet?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
This is why Stickham's winning by four.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Should the guy who beat Philip Rivers in the high
school playoffs all get an interview with the Buffalo Bills?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yes, yep, one hundred each, you get the job.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yes, that's our guy. Yeah, ninety three percent of the
audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I want him on the show on Monday.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Taylor, any more polls, any more polls?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
One more poll question? Okay, big one here for me.
What would you rather go to the Super Bowl? Or
can coon?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Oh it's easy, can't coud?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Can coon? Seventy two point nine percent. Those are the polls.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
What do you three? Can't Coon
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