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a copycat league. It's a copycat league. And some people
believe that the copycat league will ultimately lead to failures
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from many of these head coaches. And you know what,
they're right, but it's not because of the copycat league.
Adam Gaze is your new head coach the New York Jets.
He was the head coach of the Miami Dolphins until
last week. Adam Gaze is a offensive quarterback guru. He
spent time in Denver. Peyton Manning swears by him. I
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actually called a game this year's sideline for Fox when
they played the Bears, and you know who was on
the sideline. That would be the sheriff, Peyton Manning. And
apparently Peyton Manning made a call and that was that.
That was what sealed the deal for Adam Gates become
the new head coach of the Jets. And so you
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may say to yourself, man, Mattia, just a copycat league,
what a trend. You're right, You're You're absolutely right. This
is a trend. That's what happens in business, but it's
also what happens in politics. Hey, I mean, go back
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to when President Obama took over. Do you remember that moment,
Remember that moment in Chicago where he and his young
family were waving, and it was this unbelievable tidal wave
of support, not just for President Obama but for the
entire Democratic Party. What happened in the mid terms They
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got bludgeoned and then even and though he won re election,
slowly but surely, the Democrats went from having complete control
of the White House, the House, and the Senate after
the last election when Donald Trump one, it was a
red wave and the Republicans had the House and the Senate.
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And what happened in the mid terms. What happened the
mid terms was the Republicans lost the House and held
onto the Senate. And we can make all kinds of
excuses on either side for why one side, why the
Democrats didn't win the Senate, or why the Republicans lost
the House. But the fact is, this is generally how
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it works in our country. The pendulum swings is the same, right,
it goes from one side. Obama comes in blue wave
to the other side, Trump comes in red wave, and
I'm sure at some point it will swing back the
other way. That's just the cycle of how we live
and where we live. That's no different than the National
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Football League. I can't believe these offensive coaches are all
getting a chance when so many of them are unproven. Okay, um,
Mike Petton, he got a job defensive guy Cleveland Browns.
Remember that, Remember Chuck Pagano, Rex Ryan twice over, Jack
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del Rio, Marvel Lewis came in as a defensive guy.
But you just go back two or three years ago,
and so many of these coaches came in with with
a Todd Bowles just got the job with four years
ago with the Jets, did a great job with the
Arizona Cardinals on defense. So we we make this out
to be about race or age, when the truth is
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it's about the pendulum swinging. It's the league reacting to
what we've seen during the season. All time records set
for yardage, all time records set four points, and more
and more teams understanding that a great way to build
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a great team is to get a young quarterback who's
under club control, not making million dollars, and if you
can just survive with that young quarterback, then you can
build an outstanding team around him. That's what the Seahawks did, right,
That's what the Eagles have done. That's what the Rams
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have done. That's what the Chiefs have done. That's what
the Cowboys have done. Rankly, it's what the Jaguars did.
Wasn't young, young ish, but he wasn't making still not
making twenty millies stinks, but still making million dollars a year. Right,
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And so in this copycat league, it's a hey, look,
we got a young quarterback. Let's figure out a way
to get the most out of him, and then let
the GM and the defensive guys get as many dudes
as possible, get playmakers on offense to make them look good,
build an offensive line. It will swing back the other way.
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How do I How do I know it? Because there
are two assistant coaches who have both got interviews that
are young, that are vibrant, that are really good. And
when the pendulum swings, Chris Richards from the excuse me,
Chris Rashard Shard from the Dallas Cowboys formerly a Seattle
Seahawks will ultimately get a head coaching job, and Brian
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Flores other doing Patriots, we'll get a head coaching job.
Both are under forty years old, both are outstanding, well
respected their job, but they're also still coaching teams, so
it makes them harder for them to invest in to
interview and that there are other issues that go with it.
But more than anything, they also have to fit what
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a team needs. Even Big Bangio, who's old and a
curmudgeon sixty years old and got the job with the
Denver Broncos. Like even he's in denial of of of
how it works in Denver. Right here, here's here's Big
Pangio today at the introductory press conference. We have to
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evolve on defense to defend what the offenses are doing.
So there has been evolution, and the biggest evolution in
football that's happened in the last few years is you
don't see fullbacks on the field much, which I'm not
saying is right or wrong. You're seeing three wide receivers
on the field. So the game's trended towards the speed
of the wide receivers and spreading it out. Yeah and
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oh yeah, by the way, Pangio doesn't get the job
in Denver if if Gary Kubiak could be the head coach,
couldn't you know, I mean, like there's also to a
certain amount of this where where guys, uh, they don't
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they offensive coordinators have to be paid at a higher level. Right,
It's like this happens in our business where producers top
out because there's a producers only make X. You're like, yeah, well,
the guy's killing it. He's really really good, he's got
to make two. Actually, well, he can't be a producer now,
he's got to be a program director. Right, that's what
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happens with offensive coaches. If you're really really good, you
can't go and say, well, listen, we're gonna pay you
two X to be an offensive coordinator. Like now, the
only way to pay a guy to extra three X
in the NFL is to make him a head coach.
And really they're just the offensive coordinator. And you hire
a defensive coordinator or you work for the Patriots and
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you're Josh McDaniels. But that's that's an outlier that liar. Look,
they have many trends in the National Football League. There's
been the trend where you had to have coached before, right,
some places where you had to have been a head
coach before. Of course, that allowed Rex Ryan to get
another job in Buffalo, that allowed Jack del Rio to
get another job with the Oakland Raiders that allowed Hugh
Jackson to get another job at the Cleveland Browns. Right,
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you had to have been the um the Giants. Why
am I forgetting? Uh? The Giant's head coach? Also an
offensive guy, obviously, Pat Sherman. Pat Sherman was for one
year the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. There's some
place you're like, look, I can't hire a guy unless
he's been a head coach before. Andy Reid been a
head coach before, in a really good one. But when
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there aren't, there's not a list of great candidates, right,
Like Jimmy Johnson not coaching anymore. All right, he's just
not that ship sailed a long time ago. Tony Dungee
not coaching anymore, you know. I mean, look, if you
want to get one of those guys off of TV,
what do you have to do? You have to get
mc garden deal, which I Gruden I think is going
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to his process ultimately should prove fruitful if they don't
completely screw it up. But people are making fun of
their process. They are making fun of their process. So
owners look at themselves and like, well, Gruden's an offensive guy.
He's an offensive guru, and we had to overpay and
give him too too many years in order to get him.
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We're not going to do that. If we hire an
offensive coordinator or a guy who just got fired, we
can save some money on a head coach. And oh yeah,
by the way, fix our quarterback and we'll figure out
the rest. It's funny. You heard Vic Fangio talking about
the evolution of football. Take a listen. This is two
thousand and seventeen, just two years ago. Year in AFGO
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Steve Kurt talking about the evolution of basketball. Right, if
they were all the game gets worse as time goes on.
Players are less talent. You guys are the fifties destroying everybody.
It's weird. Health is sort of like sports players get
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weaker and smaller and less Still, I can't explain Yeah,
I can't. I can't explain it, So he said, I
cannot explain it. So like, look, players change, the sports
are changing, and management and ownership is forced to try
and keep up and catch up. And and here's a
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really important thing, and this, this is this has not
been uttered by one single national radio host. Because I
want you to turn up your dial. If you're listening
to me, listen to the I Heart Radio app. If
you're listen on any of our hundreds of affiliates nationwide. However,
you're listening to show this is really important, all right,
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and when the here's the biggest difference in when you
hire a coach in the NFL and you hire a
coach in college football. The press conference actually really matters
in college football because it sets a tone. Right. If
you get the fans excited, if you get you'll get
the recruits excited. You come in, you're like, man, we
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got this guy, that guy, this guy, and then we're
gonna go out we hit the road recruiting, because that's
the lifeblood of how you get players. The biggest challenge
to NFL teams for the next ten years is not
winning games, do you know what it is? It's getting
people to come to their stadiums. Ask yourself this, would
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you go to an NFL game if it was this
weekend and you're like, oh, yeah, playoff game. I'd go.
Okay if the tickets were two hundred bucks apiece for
decent seats. You don't get all the replays now this weekend,
at least their standalone games, So you're not missing them. Now,
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think about regular season games and all of these teams
that fired coaches aren't going to the playoffs. So you've
got to sell season tickets and personally private seat licenses
PSLs for your stadium and your product. While it's good,
it's more of a TV product. Between the replays, they're
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able to change the channel, they're abild to see different
angles of the game, the broadcasters. It's the perfect TV product.
It's not a great product in person. Additionally, it's not
really a family atmosphere. That's not really what the The
NFL is not major League Baseball. Right, there's fights in
the stands. It's a bunch of dudes or women. They
get dressed up as like characters, they paint their face,
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they scream obscenities, they drink a bunch of beer. Oh yeah,
and you gotta fight traffic, pay to park, stay for
an increasingly long game, fight traffic, get home, and you
miss all the other games. With fantasy football, it's really
really hard to pay attention to your team when it's
way more cost effective and frankly, sometimes better to sit
and watch it at home. Right, what's gonna make you
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want to buy season tickets more Vic Fangio and the
old curmudgeon defensive coordinator or an offensive guy like Cliff
Kingsbury who says, and we might not win, we might
score seventy. You don't think that owners and gms know
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this that if most teams in the NFL finished between
seven and nine and nine and seven, the differences is
our stadium filled and your stadium is more likely to
be filled if you one win and two score a
bunch of points. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Radio app. Check In with Less Need is the general
manager of the l A Rams for the second consecutive year,
get a home game in the playoff scores this year
they got to buy um. Let's let's you realize that
you are a trend setter, right that you're a I
think what Silicon Valley calls you as a disruptor. Everyone
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wants the next Sean McVeigh and you got Sean McVeigh.
How does that feel? I can tell you it's it's
definitely satisfying. For for many reasons, and probably the most
important reason, is for this to actually be a trend
that people want to follows. You know, over the last
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couple of years, we've had a successful football team. We've
made progress, and we won the division twice and we've
gotten to the tournament twice. So I think that's the
most satisfying thing. And but uh, you know, that's really
what I can say on it. And and I don't
blame uh other teams other organizations for trying to find
uh the next Sean McVeigh. Okay, So, so, and I
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know you've discussed this previously, but I don't know how
many people are asking about it now, but I'm fascinated
by it. But what was the process like in terms
of how how difficult was it to even convince yourself,
let alone your owner and everybody around you that, hey,
here's a guy who's you know, thirty years old and
has never been a head coach and where to come
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put him in charge of our team? And everyone had
said how talented your team was, but a quarterback who
one year in people were wondering how good Jared Goff
could be. How difficult was that to convince everybody he
was the right guy? Your hindsight, it seems like right,
it's the obvious choice. I can tell you when we
went through it a little bit more difficult. Uh you know,
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easier said than done, as you've alluded to, And there
were many variables that got into that. I think number
one is this the research we did on Sean Uh
came back. Really he was very unique, and especially the
research that we did with the players he had coached
in in that Washington redskin in locker room. I mean
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it was hey, all of them gave home run uh
thumbs up type recommendations in terms of, yes, we'll follow
this guy up a mountain. But more importantly to really
bright with football does an unbelievable job of teaching football
to the most important people in your organization, and that's players.
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So that that was one thing. So then you're always
still trying to get a while this guy's thirty years old,
and in the back of your mind, probably like all
of us, you're thinking, wow, I must have been a
loser at thirty years old. We're sitting here and areviewing
this guy for a head coaching job, and and uh,
what was I doing at thirty? So but that was all.
But I think when you met with Sean, and I
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think a lot of people have seen this personality now
as as he's gotten popular and beneface and and and
been a you know, in the involved in the media
where you can get his personality. He commands a room,
you quickly forget that the guys you know in his
early thirties first and having more to the media. And
I've been fortunate to work at at ESPN, CBS, now
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at Fox. I worked at all different sorts of leadership guys,
and I can tell you that like you can it.
I remember one place I work, we had one guy
who was much younger and he was in charge, and
he got up in front of the room and it
was dead silent, and everybody's paying attention and I don't.
And it didn't matter how old he was, You just
knew and uh. He left that company. And then the
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next guy who stood up in front of the room
was probably ten years his senior. Everyone knew him, had
been experienced, and he just didn't have the same panash
and he didn't he didn't generate the same amount of charisma.
He was probably better prepared and better suited for the job.
But you weren't. We weren't his into him and I
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and I think that's one of the things that Sean has.
It's as with what friends say, geness a qual right.
You can't put your hand on it. It's just the
thing right, right, And I think that's the easiest way,
is it right? It's it's the it factor. We don't
I mean, I don't know how you define that, but
what I do know is you lit and I think
we were probably less than ten minutes into that interview,
and I believe I remember writing a note, Hey, it's
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not about the age, it's just whether do you want
to hire Sean McVeigh as your head football coach? At
the age? Is not a problem here because you as
soon as you sat out with him, you're he's he's
got command, and you're listening and he's teaching and by
the end you're following up a hill. Uh what about
the floor? He was with you, he was with you
for a year as well. Did you know that he
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was a guy that this quickly could assimilate to being
a head coach? Definitely? I think you what what that
group has, and it's very fascinating. They all love football,
they all want to win, they all want to compete,
but they they spend every waking, passionate hour that they
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have trying to to come up with what he's to
let's call it, make offensive football better. And and and
in term, you know, overall, you know, we're all team better.
So would when you would just observe how they worked
work together, you definitely had a good feeling if we
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had success here in Los Angeles. Stat that, Matt and
and right now, we've got a couple of other people
on our staff who've interviewed. And I don't blame teams
for interview you just you just had a good, good
feeling if we have success, there's some really bright people
in this building. Is going to get a chance to
to following Sean's shoes as well. Let's need joining us
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in the Doug Gotlis Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh.
Last year, obviously you get beat at home by the
Atlanta Falcons. This year, no Cooper Cup, and I felt
like that that hurt Jared. Of course, the offensive line
wasn't as dominant as it was in the year. And
then Todd being hurt. H Todd being a little banged
up has has hurt the offensive production. Uh, what are
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your thoughts on how close to being back to the
start of the year when you guys were really really clicking,
you know, especially after the first couple of weeks. It
is this offense. Well, I think what you said, I
won't I don't think we won't make light of it. Right,
if you go into a game and you lose Cooper Cup,
that that that is going to affect you and and negatively,
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there's some there's some I always say that every thorn
has every thorn didn't have a rose, but every rose
has a thorn per se. But the rose of this
injury was Okay, wait a minute. Whether it's different personnel
packages that we haven't used, whether it's younger players getting
on the field and experience so that you know, our
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offensive staff, Shawn, our quarterback, everybody else, uh, you know,
trust them to make place. But there's definitely some evolution,
some uh that you have to do. I think all
good teams do it. You're gonna face adversity through the year.
The best thing you can do is make the most
of it. And you're gonna go to battle and and
and try to you know, create matchups. You know, in
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this case with the Cowboys, that that air on the
side of the ramps, and that's just what you have
to do. Okay. So here's and you tell me if
I'm way off of this, less needs the general manager
of the Rams. Back when you guys are in St. Louis,
you were the thorn in the side of the Seahawks, right,
the Seahawks they kicked the hell out everybody, and they
were always in for a war with you guys because
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of your because your front seven, the speed of your defense,
and you would run the football kind of shortened the game.
And it seemed like, whether reality, it seemed like you
were the one of the toughest opponent yearly twice a
year for those dominant Seahawk teams. Is that was that
a fair um? I know it wasn't always that way,
but was that a fair assessment? That's definitely a fair
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take and assessment on that robbery during those those early years,
for sure. Okay. So I look at this Cowboys team,
and I think they're built like those Seahawks teams. Right.
They got a quarterback who he can run a little bit,
he can throw a little bit, and they're pretty conservative
with their play calling. They're really good running team, probably
even better than the Marshawn Lynch running teams with the Seahawks,
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and they got speed on defense, which matches up to Gurley.
They're really physical up front then get after the passer.
Like just in terms of matchups, I feel like there's
some similarities there. Even though if I was gonna pick
out skill position players and and how many teams in
the league you could, you would obviously beat way more
teams in the league than they would. This feels like
a tough matchup based upon how they play similarly to
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how you guys used to play against the Seahawks teams.
Definitely fair And you're exactly right now. And I think
I think the interesting thing now that you were let's
call it, we're in the division around you get a buy.
I think when you get to the the final eight teams,
it's probably hard to hey find let's call it a
team that you know that everybody's good, capable of beating
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anybody on that game. And also the thing that the
Cowboys have going for him is you know, if you
if you get a buy, whoever you play, whoever comes
to Los Angeles or any other team that has to buy,
guess what hot they They got a winning streak in
the playoffs. They could have lost their last four games
of the regular season, but you win one playoff game,
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you're hot. So uh, everything you said is true and
I think you know it. It makes this matchup, you know,
let's call it good entertainment, good for uh Saturday night.
And and you gotta we have to prayer just as
though to give them our best shot and go try
to get to win in your team, you know, I
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think the we're very confident team. And and and again
I always say that confident is doesn't mean you're gonna
doesn't mean that you're gonna win the game. And I think,
but the reason you become a confident team is and
it probably starts last year, right last year, we wanted
to just you know, make progress somewhere in the middle
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of the six team season and coincidentally, probably after beating
the Cowboys last year, wait a minute, could we do
something a little bit bigger than just progress? And and
it led to a division championship. But I think all
of those steps uh along the way getting you know, hey,
going through a process, trying to improve the boring stuff,
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that cliche stuff that's actually true that you come in
on Wednesdays and Thursdays and get better. They lead to
results on Sundays and and two years in the process.
Guess what You go into each game believing that you
can win and and and it's not just a false
belief because guess what you've done it so you know
you can. The key is this and what Sean does
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a great job is is is during the week explaining
to our team how we can go beat the Cowboys
if we execute. It's gonna be fascinating to see Kyl
seeum a great place to watch game. Can't wait to
see your team compete this week and congratulates on another
fabulous season thirteen wins and another division title. Thanks so
much for joining us less on Fox Sports Radio. Definitely
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appreciate you having me, all right, that's less need gentle
manager of the l A Rams, and welcome in the
Dallas Cowboys this weekend. That one is Saturday night on Fox.
Be sure to catch live edition so the Doug dot
Leaps show week days in noon eastern three pm Pacific.
He's a new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He's Bruce Arians who joins us on Fox Sports Radio.
B A, how are you good duck. How you do, brother?
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I'm great? You know last year this time I met
you at Fox and you know, look, it was it
was health. It was a lot of things that caused
you to walk away from the Cardinals. Did you do
P ninety X? If you done yoga? Like I I
heard what you said. You you had a good health report? Like,
what did you do to change your health? I just
got healthy, but I gained twenty pounds. I gotta get
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rid of that, that's for sure. Yeah. I fail at
retirement miserably. Um okay, So here's my thing. I tell
guys all the time. If you really want to retire,
you know what you shouldn't do. You shouldn't go call
games because when you're sitting because because because you know
it works, like, you go and you you meet with
each team, the code chees, you watch a bunch of film.
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Then you're at the game and you almost miss the
losing as much as you missed the winning. You missed
the locker room, you missed the guys. If you're in
the studio, it's sterile. You're not really in the sport.
Do you think that's one of the things covering games
for CBS that brought you back to the sports so quickly. Oh,
there's no doubt, you know, going to practice every Friday,
and uh, I think it was week eight or nine.
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I actually almost stepped on the field to correct somebody
was being my team. I was like, oh, this is
the fire just started burning and burning doing all the
production meetings with the players, and uh, you know, then
the opportunity came and couldn't have been happier. Um. I
remember when he came out and early in his career
people compared Jamis um to two big Ben, right, big body,
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sometimes held on the bottom ball too long because you
couldn't bring him down, and sometimes I would get him
in trouble where he tried he turned the football over
trying to you know, force the square peg into a
round hole. And then you know, look he's had some
off the field stuff and had some Outffield stuff early
in his career as well. Is that a fair parallel
a guy who knows quarterbacks as well as you, Is
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there a fair parallel of Big Ben Roethlisberger to Jameis Winston.
Oh I don't. I don't own the field. I think
they're a little bit different. I mean, Ben Ben has
one and been proven and he've got that Superman cape
that no plays ever dead. I think Jamis is on
his way. Uh, he just gotta get a little more consistent.
Like I said, he got those wow plays and then
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those other wows, and I just got to get rid
of those interceptions that I think he tries a little
bit too hard at times to to to prove he
belongs when he just relaxed and play You're the man
You're gonna don't don't worry about it, play smarter, not scared. Um. Look,
also chatting around the league and covering the league this year,
you're a guy who I'm sure picked up some things.
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Is there anything that you are going to change from
last time around with Arizona or with Indie even in
that you watch things, you watch different ways of doing
different stuff, and you thought, hey, my next shot, I
want to try this. Yeah, there were there were you know,
saying everybody practice every Friday. Uh there were good ones
or a bad ones or things you liked about them. Um.
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I was shocked to know that Bill Belichick might have
been the first guy to have music at practice. And
uh so yeah, Tom Brady said, Yeah, We've been doing
this for gosh, ten years I get out of here,
and so I'm not a music guy, so the players
are gonna have to talk me into that one. But yeah,
there was a lot of things that I picked up.
How I listened to your press conference and you know,
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you talked about it being their team, you know, empowering
those players. But there's like, look, they there's a trust there,
Like you gotta you have to have the right players
if you want to turn the foot, turn the team
over to them, because if you don't have the right
culture sometimes that can go awry. Um, how did how
do they earn that truck? Is there anything you have
to do to earn that trust from you so you
can turn the team over to them. No, I think
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it's it's there. I'm gonna tell him the first player
that's their team if they want to win. I'm don't
have any magic speeches that's gonna turn Centil a winner.
They have to decide they want to win and and
now show him a plan on how to do it.
What's the biggest challenge in doing that? I don't really
don't think it's never been a problem. Um, you know
it was either offense or than in India, was the
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whole team after we did it Chuck's way there. So
it's really just Arizona and and it worked real well.
So I don't think we should change the blueprint at all.
You know, they've said, I don't know if you've you've
heard this. A lot of guys in my job have said, Hey,
look at all these coaches. They're all young and good looking.
You gotta like being lumped into that group, right, You're like, yeah,
young and you know, exactly like me, sixty six and
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sexier than ever. Isn't that amazing? Though? How long it
took for you to finally get an opportunity and now
you take a year off and you're fighting him off
and you get to pick your opportunity. This is a
crazy business you work in. It's crazy business. I'm really
happy for Vic fangioe Uh, he deserved this for a
long time. Yeah, Vic Fangio gets a shot. You get
another shot with your team. What was it about the
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Buccaneers organization which intrigued you? It starts with ownership. Really
really was impressed with the ownership. Uh. Then the general
manager who and Jason lie To I know, good friend
and an excellent evaluator. So when you have good ownership
and you've got a GM that you can work together with,
and you put your coaches in your scouts all on
the same page, then you make good buccaneer decisions and
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there's no power struggle like who who Who picked the
guy in the draft? Who cares he's the best player
for the Bucks And that's that's the way we're gonna
do it. You know. One of the things that you
are famous for is like, look, you want your quarterbacks
to take shots down the field. And as much as
it's a quarterback driven league, a lot of these guys
are dinking and dunking a lot of this. You know
it's within ten yards of the line of scrimmage. What
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are your thoughts on on the next trend in terms
of passing, the next trend in offense in the NFL?
What else should we expect to see, not just from
your team, but from the league as we head forward. Well,
I think, yeah, I think the long ball is always
going to stay in it and in our in our offense,
there's a short, there's a medium, and there's a long
bowl and the coverage dictates, but don't be to take
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it when it's there. Bruce Arians joining us in the
Doug Gotlips Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um, alright, look,
we're looking at games this weekend. I'm gonna I'm gonna
put you have your analysts cap on back before you
put your football cap on. You talked about Bill Belichick,
the guy you got to cover this year. I've seen
the Chargers a bunch, and man, they got a ton
of talent, and they got Philip Rivers, a guy who
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is a tremendous Hall of Fame caliber quarterback. But but
there's something. How how did the Patriots do it when
it doesn't look like their talent is what it used
to be. How have they been able to maintain this
level of dominance. Yeah, a great coaching and they got
they got a really good players. I mean, the one
thing about the Patriots that they take players they like
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might not be rated high by some draft analyst. But
Bill loves that guy and they play well for him.
It's gonna be a great game, I think, which is
seen in the playoffs right now. You see quarterbacks. Everybody's
got a quarterback, and everybody talks about defense and running game.
They don't have a quarterback, you ain't winning in the playoffs.
B A, Listen, We're so happy to have you back
in the NFL. You're always entertaining, your teams play a
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fun style, and you know how to emphasize that quarterback.
I can't wait to see what you can do with Jamis.
Thanks for joining us on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks, I
appreciate your brother. All Right, that's be A. That's uh.
Bruce arians new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers