October 20, 2020 • 39 mins
Doug argues that the Cowboys should stick with head coach Mike McCarthy despite their ugly start to the season. He also loves the plan the Miami Dolphins have put into place after announcing QB Tua Tagovailoa will be their starter now. Plus, former NFL executive Doug Whaley joins the show to share what it takes to find a franchise QB and how to build a team around him.
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Does Mike McCarthy have a scantly dressed assistant or maybe
an assistant that doesn't say a word and simply does
the walla thing? Does he wear a wizard's hat? Does
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he have what are those things that magicians have with
the he does he have a Wand the answer is no, No, Doug,
he does not. Well, then he's not a magician. And
of course it would take a magician to make this
team any good against a reputable NFL team Because they
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lost Zack Martin last last night. He of course is
they're starting right guard, arguably the best or one of
the two or three best guards in the Nation Football League.
They already lost their book end tackles, their center retire
before the season began, and last week, they lost their
quarterback for the rest of the season. Outside of that,
Mrs Lincoln, how was the show? Right? How was the show? Now? Now?
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I hear the criticism that Jane Slater has relayed, where
you have players saying they're not good at the coaches
aren't good at their job, we're not prepared, they don't teach.
I hear you. I could also point out that the
players themselves aren't good at their job and aren't learning.
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But regardless, honestly, regardless of the outcome, I I think
there's a chance McCarthy gets a pass because does anybody
realize the Cowboys are still in first place? As bad
as it seems. The Cowboys are still in first place.
As bad as it seems, It's not like the Giants
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are gonna overtake them. It's not like the the Washington
football team is going to overtake them. And however bad
the injuries are for the Cowboys, the Eagles seem to
have it worse, with the exception of having their starting
quarterback car Swentz, who, as we pointed out, played incredible
football Sunday and they still lost. So look, you can
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take a lot of pride in dancing on the grave
of the Dallas Cowboys. One they're not dead too, they're
actually in first place. And three, I think they can
figure some things out. And they walked into a bit
of a buzz saw with a Cardinal team that I'm
gonna be admit. I questioned their defense to start the year.
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I've never had questions about Kyler Murray. I realized they
would score some points. I just didn't know if they
could stop anybody and if the defense and offense could
coexist based upon what's happened with Cliff going back to
when he was at coach of Texas Tech. And the
answer to this point is yes, good enough. We'll see
when they're getting the more divisional play because their division
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is arguably the toughest in football if the Niners get healthy.
But but I look last night and we have all
these panic buttons with the Dallas Cowboys, and we got
to realize, Bro, I don't care who it is. You
lose your quarterback, you're gonna stink. You lose your left tackle,
your right tackle, your right guard, and your center and
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your quarterback, and the likelihood that you can you can
even play NFL football is minimal. The those guys are
backups for a reason, and just so you're aware, they're
not the only team with all of those injuries. The
Charges have lost most of their offensive line. We pointed
out the Eagles have lost most of their offensive line
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and then even to get a replacement that does. Do
people understand how difficult it is this year? Even if
you trade for somebody who's been in the COVID protocol,
do you know they have to quarantine for six days
in a hotel room before they can even show up
at your facility to start working out. Yeah, I listen.
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I I understand that some of you are gonna do
this thing to where you're gonna go. You know, gotleib
is a basketball ax part a basketball player, so hey, gosh,
I know flatball because he was a basket ball player. Well, okay,
that's that's cool. I don't know it on the level
of my friend Jeff Schwartz or or Chris sims is
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gonna join us, or Doug Whaley or Robbie Gould, But
I know it on the level of a guy who
playing professional sports and having connections and talking to people.
I learned. I've learned things every year that I've been
doing this job. And I'm gonna tell you right now,
this year is eating people alive with these injuries, and
it makes makes good coaches look like bad coaches, makes
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bad coaches look like a joke, makes great coaches look okay, Like,
would anybody question the quality of coaching in New England?
If I said to you, Hey, how good do you
think that New England staff is with Josh McDaniels offensive
coordinator and Bill Belichick his head coach? You would say,
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I think it's pretty pretty damn good, wouldn't you? Did
you watch them play Sunday? They looked like they hadn't
had a practice in a month. And you know what,
they've struggled to have practice recently because of COVID. You're
not practicing. You didn't have O T A s in preseason.
You expanded your roster, but it doesn't matter. Those guys
are backups for a reason. You lose your offensive line,
you lose your quarterback, everybody. Now, on the other hand,
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when you start to understand that the players aren't into
the coaches you still do, you start to figure out,
maybe we made the wrong call right, Maybe we made
the wrong call. Yes, the owner picked the offensive coordinator,
but the offense up until last night hadn't been the
problem the defense had. I've heard Cowherd say, start all over.
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Why would you possibly start all over? You're still in
first place. You've got plenty of dudes, plenty of weapons.
You got to move some pieces around. You're in better
shape than everybody else in your division. Then, not right
now because you don't have DAK, but long term you are.
So listen. I I understand it's really easy to hit
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the panic button, and I too watch the Cowboys and think,
but what did you expect to see? You know what,
what what did you really expect when it's not just
that they lost their offensive line. That team is built
around the offensive line. And when you put that much
money in the offensive line, what do you think their
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backups are gonna look like you got a ten million
dollar tackle. You're not gonna have a ten million or
a five million dollar tackle behind him. That's not the
way it works. You get whatever you can get, and
you throw it out there and you hope you figure
it out. Now. Look, quality coaching would be keeping guys
together and you'd see comments like, you know, we're really depleted.
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But these coaches that are in with us and we
were gonna figure it out eventually. You don't hear that.
And I do think there's a good chance, a better
than average chance, that even if he makes the playoffs,
Mike McCarthy could be out of a job because McCarthy
acted like he was some changed guy studied this analytics
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that went through a year watching film and it's been
the same thing. But if you're ever gonna give anybody
a pass, losing essentially your entire starting offensive line when
your team is built around your offensive line, then losing
your quarterback who led the league in offense last year
and was leading the league in passing this year, I
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kind of think that's deserving of some sort of a
pass for having no offense. I didn't have no offensive
of continuity right now. This is um, Mike McCarthy after
the game last night. Most importantly, I didn't coach very well.
I have a continuing issue with with ball security on
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my football team. UM, something i'd personally take a lot
of pride in and and and how it reflects how
you played a game of football. And I'm not getting
that done right now. I love that. I love that
fake that that that what is it? Fake? Um? When
you when you take things on yourself, it's like being
fake humble, right, that's on me, fake accountability, that's on me.
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We didn't hold on the football tonight. I take special
pride that, like, dude, stop it. We know you're calling
out the ball handlers that fumble the football. We we
get it. Of all the things to be fake accountable
for that one's it's not it's not that this is
not that hard. We got our butts whooped. We obviously
weren't well coached. If we were well coached, this wouldn't
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have happened. But instead you go to ball security. Now
you're like, all right, you're doing the I'll take this
finger myself, but really, I'm pointing at that guy. You
point at that guy, you know, Yeah, you fumbled too much. Yeah,
you're turn the football over too much. Andy Dalton threw
two picks. They looked awful, I mean horrendous, worse than awful.
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But don't do the fake humble thing. That doesn't work
for us either. Be sure to catch the live edition
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Heart Radio WHAP I I think this is one of
those cases where you know, we get the schedules, everybody
looks at the schedule, like, oh, there's a bye week
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early on the season, that would be a good week
to get to a in It feels like the Dolphins
have had a plan all along, right, Like even you
go back to last year with traded Laramie Tunso right
before the year, they traded Minka Fitzpatrick during the year
to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then they went out and
they spent some of the draft capital as well as
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use some money and signed free agents. It just it
feels like the Dolphins have a plan and are executing
the plan. And that's one of those things where when
everyone's in on it, it totally works. When everyone's not
that that's when it that's when it becomes um. Guys
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are like yo. Like I think if you watch Ryan
Fitzpatrick on Sunday, He's sits down, he sits with Tah
and they're going over plays and they're talking back and forth,
and then Twa goes in there and Ryan Fitzpatrick is
his biggest fan, his biggest cheerleader. Whether he wants and
fits played well, he played really well granteds against the Jets.
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I think a lot of people would look good. But
my guess is, and this is more than an educated guess,
is that Chris Greer, who's their general manager, and Brian Flores,
who's their coach, have told to have told fits, had
told everybody, this is our plan that, barring some unforeseen setback,
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if two is healthy, we're gonna go out and we're
will come out of the bye week, we'll have a
chance to really prepare him. He'll have he'll he'll be
his best self, will find the right plays, we'll have
the right blocking, will protect him. And they gave him
just a little bit of run and he threw two
passes to two completed both. I think the reason this
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one has a great chance to work is they're all
in on it, and when you're all in on a guy,
usually that guy plays the more confidence because he looks
over the sideline and they're like, uh huh uh hu,
this is what we plan for. Right. Quality coaching and
quality general manager work is the exact same thing. It's
telling people what's gonna happen before it happens, that it happens,
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and they go, wow, that was really amazing. How don't
you know, like Chris Careery, like, look, Ryan fitz Patrick's good,
he's gonna win a couple of games. He's gonna look
pretty good in a couple of games. But fits just
so you know, like this is to his job when
we think he's ready and we're looking at coming out
of the bye week regardless of value play, and like
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you know, Ryan fitz Patrick is thirty seven years old,
he's been through it before, he's been the placeholder before,
Like he's done this things before. Either accepts it and
that's the job, that's his job, or he would move
on and he didn't because this was the plan. I
don't think it has anything to do with Fomo. That
justin Herbert's playing before they thought and playing well. I
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don't think gets said everybody know Joe Burrow would play
right away in Cincinnati as they cleared out Andy Dalton.
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
I don't think it's about how the Dolphins are playing
or how they're not playing, or how Fits is playing
or not playing. I don't think it's about the opponent
because obviously you would have prepared to prefer the Jets
to the Rams. I don't want to er and Donald
coming after my quarterback was coming off a hip injury.
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I think this is really really simple. We gotta plan,
like said, to keep the plan. And the plan started
a year and a half ago. Let's hire a bright, young,
up and coming coach. Let's get some junkyard dogs out
there that people count out and see who can stick.
And they found some guys who have stuck. Some found
some guys that bought in the culture. And then they
went out and drafted more culture guys and signed more
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culture guys and and look great in the offseason. And
they tanked for one guy for twa They didn't tank for,
you know, for for Joe Burrow. They didn't tank for
Justin Herber. They tanked for Tah and then they got
him and yeah he was injured, but they had faith
and if there was any sense that there was anything
wrong with him, he wouldn't have been out there Sunday.
And seeing as he was out there last Sunday, he's
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fine to start a week from Sunday. This is just
a case of a team and an organization all coming
together and figuring out, all right, what do we want
to do. This is what we want to do. We
want to rebuild and do it behind this young talented
quarterback who's an outstanding leader. This is the guy we
believe in, and everybody's either all in or there's somewhere
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else this year. It doesn't mean that it will work,
but it does mean that you're giving it the best
possible chance of working, the best possible chance of working,
and that's usually when you get a lot of success.
All right, Coming up next, it's Doug Otlips Show here
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on Fox Sports Tray. By the way, this is Chris
Sim's talking about to a starting for the Dolphins. Well,
I think they had to do it, you know, and
and and this is why, because well, what are you
The Dolphins are getting it together. They're playing pretty good football.
What were they gonna wait until they were, you know,
eight and four and in the playoff time and then
make the switch, right, I think the timing is right.
They're not worried about this year. They know they're not
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gonna win the Super Bowl. But man, I mean they
killed the off season. You're seeing some of those free
agents and some of those draft picks really pop for
their football team. I Mean, the Dolphins did everything last
year for what a rebuild team should do. It's textbook that.
I mean, that's what teams should do if you're the
Falcons and you're looking to rebuild or any other team
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like that. You know, the Miami Dolphins put the outline
out there that was Chris Simms earlier. Today, people are
freaking out because the Packers got blown out again and
I'm gonna do my best. Aaron Rodgers can tell you
to relax. Be sure to catch the live edition of
The Doug Gottlip Show weekdays at three p m. Easter
noon Pacific. Doug Whalley joins us a long time remember
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the Bills front office. He joins us in the Doug
Gotlips Show on Fox Sports Radio. UM, one ask you,
so two is going to get a start in a
week and a half for the Miami Dolphins. And you've
been to this before when you're director approplayer personnel, when
you're with the Bills and you guys, uh drafted DJ Manual.
When did you know that he didn't have what you
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thought he needed to have to to be the long
time start to to hold onto the job. It's first
of all, thanks for having me on, and hopefully everything's
well with you. Um, it's one of those things where
when you're around a quarterback enough, especially when you've been
around some very successful quarterback, it becomes very evident that
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he or that quarterback doesn't have the skill set to
take you where you want to go. Especially in our
situation with e J. We started to put a bunch
of pieces around him to say this will help e
J be better? Or and when you when that was
a mistake I made. And when you have to put
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pieces around the quarterback to help the quarterback, then you
you and have a quarterback. You need a quarterback, and
the really good quarterbacks make all the pieces around them better. Right, Uh,
it's it's it's it's fascinating. But I mean, like because
I know a little bit about e J. Where like
if you meet him, you're blown away because a super
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bright guy and very charming guy, right and he looks
like everything about him like looks the part. There was
just something like in games, he wasn't that good like
that really, you know. So I just wonder when you
when you when you draft a guy and you feel
like you know a guy, if it takes you longer
to admit maybe he's not the guy you you obviously,
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and like you said, first of all, he's an incredible
human being. When you meet him, he isn't. I mean,
he's just everything you want as a quarterback. The thing
that kept coming up was his ability to understand the
nuances of the quarterback position, to be able to anticipate,
to be able to understand the coverages and be able
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to say, Okay, that was their last time and they
fooled me, but this time, I'm going to have to
do something different. So he was more of a programmed guy,
which when everything was perfect and the pocket was perfect
and the coverage didn't change, he could make the throw.
When there was some adversity, not only on the field
but off the field. He got injured and it was
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the first time he had to deal with an injury
and coming back from injury. I don't think he was
totally equipped to come back from that and keep progressing
to be able to be a suitable star starting quarterback. Now. Also,
we did overdraft him. If he was a third round pick,
he probably could still be in the league. But as
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a first round pick that to whom much has given,
much is expected, so a lot more was expected from him. Yeah,
and then you had to play him earlier than you
want to play him. Um, you know the owners sitting
there going, why don't you playing the guy you drafted
in the first round. The fans are saying, you throw him,
and they're like, that's why we didn't play right? All right?
What about what about tah Kay who he has shown
the fortitude to come back from multiple injuries. The last
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one was one that could have ended his career. They're
playing pretty well, they got a bye week, and they
just announced today we're gonna start to a what's your
reaction to Miami the timing of Miami's decision. I think
it's very surprising now. I mean the one thing, like
you said, they're playing well, they're winning games, so it's
a it's very curious to insert him now because if
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you look at, let's say, on my homes, you have
a capable starter. There was Fitzpatrick, a very smart, crafty
bet that has accepted the role that he's the place keeper.
He could learn from that from fits and you read
the stories and anytime fitz comes off the sideline, he's
sitting there talking to to a breaking it down, say
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and do this is what happened? That's what happened. That
type of stuff is invaluable. So but with that said,
you've been a player, and I've been a player before.
There must be something in practice that is making it
undeniable that he needs to be the starter, because you
don't make no mistake. If he wasn't ready, those players
in that locker room would let it be known that
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this is not the right move. And then lastly, it's
very curious that they're gonna have start his first starting
against Aaron Donald. I mean, that's that's again curious. But
there's got to be something that we as the public
aren't pritty too, that is making that that decision, driving
that decision. Yeah, it's it's interesting because originally that game
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was supposed to be the Jets right play the Jets
by so that that's why it made sense to me, like, yeah,
did you go against the Jets like that that's the JV.
That's like, that's a good one. Um let me let
me let me hypothesize for a second. I feel like
this entire thing is what they had planned, right, Like, look, look,
Chris Greer gets the job, and you're like, all right,
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here's what we're gonna do. We want two is our guy,
and we're gonna sell off the other pieces that we
don't necessarily want or need because we're bad. We're gonna
start over. So Minca Fitzpatrick and Larrymy Tunsel they're gone.
They get picks back in return, they try to figure
out what they had. They did well in free agency,
well in the draft, and they end up two ends
up because of injury falling to them even though they
don't get the number one pick. And my guests would
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be this was the plan all along, off the bye week,
they would play him barring injury, and it just so
happens to be the Ramps. Is that a possibility that
a team is so committed to a plan that they
don't care about the opponent? Absolutely? And the one thing
though in in the NFL, the scary thing part is
you can have a plan. You just hope that your
stay you're around to enact that plan. But that could
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be a plausible reason why they're doing it now. And
guess what, The plan has worked so far, so might
as well stick with it. Um Okay, so how much
how much can we blame the Cowboys coaching staff? And
I'm not sure if you're aware that that there's some
report today from James Slater that some players came out
and said that they're not teaching us, they're not prepared. Meanwhile,
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you know, like, look, I give at least the offense
a bit of a pass last night. You lose most
of your line and your quarterback. I don't know anybody
who's gonna look good against the legitimate team. But but
the fact that the defense is such a mess, how
much of that is on the players? How much of
that is on the coaching staff? Well, I look at
it this way, and when you're losing, everyone's going to
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be disgruntled. But the alarming part is for the Blair players,
they just don't doesn't seem like they believe in the
coaching staff or the game plan. So it really has
to we really have to look at it as has
the game. The NFL game passed the Dallas Calibully's coaching
staff by and all these reports that are coming out,
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you may have to lean to that because very rarely,
especially this early in the season, are you're gonna have
players coming out and basically telling that our coaching staff
isn't that. So it's very alarming, and the players do
have some culpability. But they have some talent on that staff.
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They have some injuries, but on that team, Uh, it's alarming.
And i'd have to say right now from from the reports,
you'd probably got coaching players. Yeah. No, I mean, like,
look the last night's perfect example. You bring in a
guy who new age system, you know different, you know,
air Aide, airraide system. Mike Nolan's like old school NFL
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and and hadn't been a coordinated for several years. That
it feels a little bit The Cowboys got this little
bit with Monty Kiffin right where Monty Kiffin he couldn't
do it anymore, and he couldn't do it at SC
even because because because the game had changed so much,
his old Tampa two didn't work. And and Doug, I
don't know about the basketball, but in football there's a saying,
why do you do it? Because we've been done it
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that way forever? Yes, Well guess what now the game
has is starting to evolve. And I think I've said
this before is football used to be NFL set everything
in the football ecosystem, and it was a trickle down effect.
Anything the NFL did, everybody else trying to learn. Well,
now the roles were reversed. It's a trickle up effect.
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Things from college are starting to trickle up into the NFL.
So if you have these old school guys that are
resistant to change or evolution, the game is just going
to pass them by. And I think especially on defense,
I think we're seeing that on the Dallas Cowboys. This
this is a great conversation. Doug Walley joining as former
general manager of the Buffalo Bills. Doug gotlip show here
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on Fox Sports Radio. Um, let me let me go
to the Bills. Um, how the knock on Josh Allen
was accuracy and it still pops up at sometimes when
he just misses guys with that with that big arm.
But how have they been able to kind of craft
this thing to be more consecutively and consistently successful. I
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think you gotta look at the Brian bable. I mean
you you've got to look at the offensive coordinator and
the pieces that they put around on him to put
him in positions to be successful. Uh, you saw Monday
night when he's got to fit back in that pocket
and be on the spot and try to go through
progressions that that's not where he's the most successful. The
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most successful when he's able to get something out quick
or on unscripted places where he's running around and he's
that dual threat. So I think the dable is one
of the main reasons why they started so so hot.
But again, over time, guys that have lack of accuracy
are going to regress to their means, and I think
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we saw it last night and hopefully it doesn't keep
popping up for the rest of the year. Hopefully he
can bounce back to where he played in the first
four games, but he's going to have games like that
because the accuracy is it's it's like a golf swing.
It's muscle memory. And if you have to go to
a quarterback guru to get your feet right in your
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arm position, right in your arms plot right, that's going
to take time before it's becomes natural muscle memory. But
even even then, you still, like you said, you still
regress to you get the game slippe. You still regrets
to the means. Happ with Lamar Jackson right where where
you know people are able to find out what throws
he doesn't make well and make him make those more often,
and the accuracy issues that he had in college have
have have popped back up Doug Wale, our guest on
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The Doug Gotlip Show. Conversely, you have Kansas City, and
I think to some people was a whole hump. To me,
the way Buffalo played them is the same way the
Chargers played them, where you try and keep everything in
front and and force them these long drives and running
the football. The differences this year they can run the football.
Is there any chance they're actually better than they were
last season? I would say yes, when you can have
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that balanced attack where people can't make you one dimensional,
and with the weapons they have, and then you had
Lady on Bell in there. Oh man, that's that's gonna
be a special unit. And it's gonna be a defensive
coordinator's nightmare. You gotta pick your poison. What are you
gonna play cover two and have them run the ball
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or have them give up all shorts and then guess
what they're it's gonna be death by a thousand cuts,
or do you play man and come after them and
then it's guess what. It's big place, so uh they're
forced to be reckoned with and it's uh, nothing I
would want to wish on my defensive coordinator. Who are
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the real Green Bay Packers weeks one through four or
weeks six. I would say weeks one through four. Uh,
you gotta understand these players, they have sixteen maybe more
days to be on and to be on for that
many times is very hard. And then you act not
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just one player, but you've got to have fifty some
players that have to be playing at their best and
having a good day at the office. And it's hard
to have a good day at the office every day
on your job. I mean there's days you'd probably say
I didn't wasn't enough to par that day, but I
did the best I could. And there's other days like
I nailed it. Well, guess what, when you aren't enough
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to par on the football field, those things get exposed
and it's just something that makes it people understand. Hopefully
they understand it is very hard to win in the NFL.
And then you have the fact that the other team
they get paid to, Yeah, they're they're trying it to
win as well well, and and and they and they
got what and their offense got what last time out too,
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So it wasn't like they weren't motivated right right, right exactly.
But if I'm betting on anything. I'm betting on Aaron Rodgers. Um,
I'm I'm I'm absolutely with you. Doug Walley joining us
on the Doug Gotlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio. UM,
I felt like Carson Wentz played really well. He's just
between the drops the offensive line issues like he's doing it.
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It's all smoking mirrors. Many have been critical of him
trying to, you know, kind of have to play hero ball.
What's what's your sense of the Eagles quarterback? I'm with you.
I'm a big Winds fan. And what I like about it,
which some people may be knocked and knocking him, is
this competitiveness. He knows he's playing with one hand tied
behind his back with with the people that are around him,
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just because of injuries, but he's willing his team to
try to win. He's doing everything he can in his power,
and to me, that is what you want in your quarterback.
He's trying to if no one else around can make
it happen, I'm going to take it all myself to
make this happen and will this team to win. So
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sign me up. Yeah. What about Baker? Baker feels like
how you described e J Well. He said, if you
got to put a bunch of people around him. He
probably not the guy. He's got a running game, although
they didn't have one against the Steelers. He's got elite
wide receivers. They went on and got him a great
pass catching tight end, and it feels like he's holding
them back. Is that a wrong way to read what
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what happened in Cleveland against Pittsburgh? Not at all? And
in oh he can answer that bell. That's the that's
what's gonna be his. That's what's gonna be out there
on him. Um, when you make them one dimensional and
you make Baker Mayfield throw the ball, especially from the pocket,
that's when you're going to have the most successful him
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and that's against him, and that's where his deficiencies will
be highlighted. Doug, awesome stuff man. Always great to have
you on. You are welcome anytime. Thanks for joining us
on Fox Sports Radio. Appreciate you having me, Doug, and
stay healthy. Say same to you. Doug Walley joining us.
There's longtime member the front office of the Bills. He
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s R to listen live. We've been training in our
lives to cheer for the little guy, right, because we
like to see ourselves as the little guy. That was
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whole thing back in the seventeen hundreds, all right, we
were the little guy who weren't the big guy, and
so we've been kind of trained to really be that guy,
to be to root for the underdog. The Cinderella story, which,
by the way, can I simply point out how dysfunctional
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and awful Cinderella is as a story, just to recap, okay,
the real Cinderella story of Cinderella. So Cinderella is born
or mom dies. Okay, the mom dies, that's a terrible story.
The dad, who apparently rich beyond belief, marries some evil
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step mom who brings in her two daughters and forces
his daughter to live to live up in her own
little check because I think he died. So the mom dies,
the dad remarries some witch, and then the dad dies,
and then the stepma um instead of take care of
this kid that's been through all this trauma, puts her
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and she goes and lives and her only friend or
a bunch of mice. We celebrate the stories if it's
a good thing. Then she sneaks out. She needs a
fairy stepmother to make a pumpkin uh into a carriage
to take her to a ball. She meets the prince,
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who falls madly in love with her, and of course,
the evil stepmom does everything in her power to put
her own daughters or flesh and blood in front of Cinderella,
who only because of some miracle that they have a
glass slipper fits her foot. That does she become we
assume the wife to the prince. That's a terrible story.
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The mom dies, the dad dies, the stepmom makes her
live in an attict and her only friend or some mice.
That's some That's some evil stuff right there. Nonetheless, we've
been trained to cheer for Cinderella because she had to
live in an attict her only friends were mice. I'm
cheering for Goliath tonight, not David. David took the rock
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and and he did the thing that the Texas a
and m fans do right, And he slung it and
he slayed the the beast and it's biblical Clayton Kershaw.
In two thousand eleven, Um won his first cy Young.
He had a two point to a d r A.
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He was twenty one. In five he led the league
and strikeouts with two hundred and he threw two hundred
and thirty three innings. The next year he threw two
d twenty seven innings, again led the league in the
r A. He was runner up for the cy Young Award.
In two thousand thirteen, he won his second cy Young Award.
He struck out two hundred and thirty two. He had
a one point eight three e r A, which led
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the league. He threw two hundred and thirty six innings.
He had the back problem in uh In two thousand
and fifteen, after winning back to back side Young's and
winning an m v P and even with the back
problem right we're he only threw a hundred and ninety
eight innings. He led the league with a one point
seven seven r A. His e r A in his
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career has only been above three first season twice. Once
was last year, when he had a three point oh
three e r A. He was an All star and
top ten in cy Young Award voting and the other
was his first year when he was twenty years old,
when he he UH, he started twenty one games. He
had a four point to six d r A. Since
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two thousand nine, so roughly the last twelve baseball seasons
he has been with one exception below two point nine two.
With his e r A, he has been outstanding. He's
led the league five times, he led the league in
strikeouts three times. He's led the league in innings once
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and been over two hundred innings over six times. He
usually starts every six day. Of course, he has been
injured a little bit. He sawid. He's consistent, he's been
the ace and through all the failings, and there have
been plenty in in the playoffs. In terms of his failings,
it's fair to point out that uh he's played ten
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years in the playoffs. Of his nineteen seasons, he's just
eleven and twelve with a four point three one e
r Alright, so four point three one is not terrible.
But when you consider that your career e r A
is UH is two point four three, you're like, okay,
it's two points high, two runs higher. That's not good.
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Have you ever heard Clayton Kershaw say you know, and
they used me less than the regular season. I would
have had more in the tank for the postseason. You
ever heard that? Have you ever heard uh? Ever heard
Clayton Kershaw say, you know, if our bullpen was better,
our bullpen was better, they wouldn't have had to be
used me in those seventh innings like it's the Saint
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Louis Cardinals and I would have gotten out unscathed. You
even heard that? Have you heard him point out that
Kenley Jansen is not the picture he used to be?
Have you heard him say that the Houston Astros stole
a World Series from No, not the perfect picture. I'm
sure he's not the perfect human being. But in a
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world in which we pick apart everything we a guy does,
and we understand that he hasn't been as good under pressure,
especially late in games when he started. When when when
the he loses a mile or two off fastball, and
he loses a mile or two or a little bit
of spin rate off of the curveball, off you know,
off the slider, that he becomes human and hitable. But
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for a guy who, over the last eleven years has
been arguably the best picture in baseball, most of those
years Max Scherzer in that conversation. There are others in
that conversation for Lander a couple of years as well.
I find it hard to root against him. I'm not
a Dodger fan. Like, well, you're in l A. You're
a Dodger fan, and I'm an Angel fan. How give
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me a Dodger fan. Look at all the money that
they spend. I get it. I understand. It's you know,
I'm sure Andrew Friedman's out there and he goes like, well, like,
it's spend twenty a million on an entire team, or
spend twenty a million on a guy. I think I'm
gonna take this Dodger job job. You know, it is
easier when you're the Dodgers, when you have the resources
of the Dodgers, when you can trade for Mookie Bets
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and give him a gigantic contract. It's it's it's easier
to win that way. Not everybody wins that way. The
Red Sox haven't won a couple of years, and the
Yankees have tried to buy championships time and again. That
doesn't work either. This is not telling you that the
Rays are not worthy champions and they're not worthy of
being cheered for. Although most you don't care about the race.
This series is about Clayton Kershaw, and he gets the
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start Game one, and he's probably the third best picture
of the Dodgers have, right, Is that fair? Yeah, Walker Bueller,
I'd say Dusty May in terms of stuff, and then
Clayton Kershaw. But we would all agree that there's a
lot of things fishing going on when Houston beat him
and he lost that game six, And yeah, I don't
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know any of anybody deserves to win a championship. But
if there's a guy who's close, considering what he's done
for his club, what he's done for baseball, and the
fact that you've never heard him say a negative word
about well, you know, if Dave Roberts wasn't such an idiot,
would take me out of the game, or Don maddenly
would have taken me, or if you know, like if
my catcher would have, if my my closer would if
we would have had a bullpen, it like, no, none
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of that. He gets the baseball. He throws the baseball.
That's the best he can accountable when he gives up hits.
I'm cheering for for Goliath. As unpopular as that maybe
you know, I get it. We we it's not that
big an upset when they come from three games the
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one down against the Braves, when you consider they're the
best team in baseball, and ultimately Water finds his level,
got it understood it completely. Kershot of me feels different.
He is a sympathetic figure even though he makes a
gigantic amount of money and his own personal failings because
he hasn't come through our his own personal failings. I'm
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not gonna point to one error that we haven't. We
have enough data to point out that he's not as
good in the postseason, especially in some big spots late
in games, as he has been in the regular season.
And we can chalk it up to fatigue, and we
can chalk it up to to whatever we want to
chock it up to the cold weather and whatever. At
some point, it is what it is. But all it
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takes is one championship and most of that narrative goes away.
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Does Mike McCarthy have a scantly dressed assistant or maybe
an assistant that doesn't say a word and simply does
the walla thing? Does he wear a wizard's hat? Does
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he have what are those things that magicians have with
the he does he have a Wand the answer is no, No, Doug,
he does not. Well, then he's not a magician. And
of course it would take a magician to make this
team any good against a reputable NFL team Because they
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lost Zack Martin last last night. He of course is
they're starting right guard, arguably the best or one of
the two or three best guards in the Nation Football League.
They already lost their book end tackles, their center retire
before the season began, and last week, they lost their
quarterback for the rest of the season. Outside of that,
Mrs Lincoln, how was the show? Right? How was the show? Now? Now?
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I hear the criticism that Jane Slater has relayed, where
you have players saying they're not good at the coaches
aren't good at their job, we're not prepared, they don't teach.
I hear you. I could also point out that the
players themselves aren't good at their job and aren't learning.
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But regardless, honestly, regardless of the outcome, I I think
there's a chance McCarthy gets a pass because does anybody
realize the Cowboys are still in first place? As bad
as it seems. The Cowboys are still in first place.
As bad as it seems, It's not like the Giants
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are gonna overtake them. It's not like the the Washington
football team is going to overtake them. And however bad
the injuries are for the Cowboys, the Eagles seem to
have it worse, with the exception of having their starting
quarterback car Swentz, who, as we pointed out, played incredible
football Sunday and they still lost. So look, you can
(02:45):
take a lot of pride in dancing on the grave
of the Dallas Cowboys. One they're not dead too, they're
actually in first place. And three, I think they can
figure some things out. And they walked into a bit
of a buzz saw with a Cardinal team that I'm
gonna be admit. I questioned their defense to start the year.
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I've never had questions about Kyler Murray. I realized they
would score some points. I just didn't know if they
could stop anybody and if the defense and offense could
coexist based upon what's happened with Cliff going back to
when he was at coach of Texas Tech. And the
answer to this point is yes, good enough. We'll see
when they're getting the more divisional play because their division
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is arguably the toughest in football if the Niners get healthy.
But but I look last night and we have all
these panic buttons with the Dallas Cowboys, and we got
to realize, Bro, I don't care who it is. You
lose your quarterback, you're gonna stink. You lose your left tackle,
your right tackle, your right guard, and your center and
(03:50):
your quarterback, and the likelihood that you can you can
even play NFL football is minimal. The those guys are
backups for a reason, and just so you're aware, they're
not the only team with all of those injuries. The
Charges have lost most of their offensive line. We pointed
out the Eagles have lost most of their offensive line
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and then even to get a replacement that does. Do
people understand how difficult it is this year? Even if
you trade for somebody who's been in the COVID protocol,
do you know they have to quarantine for six days
in a hotel room before they can even show up
at your facility to start working out. Yeah, I listen.
(04:34):
I I understand that some of you are gonna do
this thing to where you're gonna go. You know, gotleib
is a basketball ax part a basketball player, so hey, gosh,
I know flatball because he was a basket ball player. Well, okay,
that's that's cool. I don't know it on the level
of my friend Jeff Schwartz or or Chris sims is
(04:56):
gonna join us, or Doug Whaley or Robbie Gould, But
I know it on the level of a guy who
playing professional sports and having connections and talking to people.
I learned. I've learned things every year that I've been
doing this job. And I'm gonna tell you right now,
this year is eating people alive with these injuries, and
it makes makes good coaches look like bad coaches, makes
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bad coaches look like a joke, makes great coaches look okay, Like,
would anybody question the quality of coaching in New England?
If I said to you, Hey, how good do you
think that New England staff is with Josh McDaniels offensive
coordinator and Bill Belichick his head coach? You would say,
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I think it's pretty pretty damn good, wouldn't you? Did
you watch them play Sunday? They looked like they hadn't
had a practice in a month. And you know what,
they've struggled to have practice recently because of COVID. You're
not practicing. You didn't have O T A s in preseason.
You expanded your roster, but it doesn't matter. Those guys
are backups for a reason. You lose your offensive line,
you lose your quarterback, everybody. Now, on the other hand,
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when you start to understand that the players aren't into
the coaches you still do, you start to figure out,
maybe we made the wrong call right, Maybe we made
the wrong call. Yes, the owner picked the offensive coordinator,
but the offense up until last night hadn't been the
problem the defense had. I've heard Cowherd say, start all over.
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Why would you possibly start all over? You're still in
first place. You've got plenty of dudes, plenty of weapons.
You got to move some pieces around. You're in better
shape than everybody else in your division. Then, not right
now because you don't have DAK, but long term you are.
So listen. I I understand it's really easy to hit
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the panic button, and I too watch the Cowboys and think,
but what did you expect to see? You know what,
what what did you really expect when it's not just
that they lost their offensive line. That team is built
around the offensive line. And when you put that much
money in the offensive line, what do you think their
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backups are gonna look like you got a ten million
dollar tackle. You're not gonna have a ten million or
a five million dollar tackle behind him. That's not the
way it works. You get whatever you can get, and
you throw it out there and you hope you figure
it out. Now. Look, quality coaching would be keeping guys
together and you'd see comments like, you know, we're really depleted.
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But these coaches that are in with us and we
were gonna figure it out eventually. You don't hear that.
And I do think there's a good chance, a better
than average chance, that even if he makes the playoffs,
Mike McCarthy could be out of a job because McCarthy
acted like he was some changed guy studied this analytics
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that went through a year watching film and it's been
the same thing. But if you're ever gonna give anybody
a pass, losing essentially your entire starting offensive line when
your team is built around your offensive line, then losing
your quarterback who led the league in offense last year
and was leading the league in passing this year, I
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kind of think that's deserving of some sort of a
pass for having no offense. I didn't have no offensive
of continuity right now. This is um, Mike McCarthy after
the game last night. Most importantly, I didn't coach very well.
I have a continuing issue with with ball security on
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my football team. UM, something i'd personally take a lot
of pride in and and and how it reflects how
you played a game of football. And I'm not getting
that done right now. I love that. I love that
fake that that that what is it? Fake? Um? When
you when you take things on yourself, it's like being
fake humble, right, that's on me, fake accountability, that's on me.
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We didn't hold on the football tonight. I take special
pride that, like, dude, stop it. We know you're calling
out the ball handlers that fumble the football. We we
get it. Of all the things to be fake accountable
for that one's it's not it's not that this is
not that hard. We got our butts whooped. We obviously
weren't well coached. If we were well coached, this wouldn't
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have happened. But instead you go to ball security. Now
you're like, all right, you're doing the I'll take this
finger myself, but really, I'm pointing at that guy. You
point at that guy, you know, Yeah, you fumbled too much. Yeah,
you're turn the football over too much. Andy Dalton threw
two picks. They looked awful, I mean horrendous, worse than awful.
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But don't do the fake humble thing. That doesn't work
for us either. Be sure to catch the live edition
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Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio WHAP I I think this is one of
those cases where you know, we get the schedules, everybody
looks at the schedule, like, oh, there's a bye week
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early on the season, that would be a good week
to get to a in It feels like the Dolphins
have had a plan all along, right, Like even you
go back to last year with traded Laramie Tunso right
before the year, they traded Minka Fitzpatrick during the year
to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then they went out and
they spent some of the draft capital as well as
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use some money and signed free agents. It just it
feels like the Dolphins have a plan and are executing
the plan. And that's one of those things where when
everyone's in on it, it totally works. When everyone's not
that that's when it that's when it becomes um. Guys
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are like yo. Like I think if you watch Ryan
Fitzpatrick on Sunday, He's sits down, he sits with Tah
and they're going over plays and they're talking back and forth,
and then Twa goes in there and Ryan Fitzpatrick is
his biggest fan, his biggest cheerleader. Whether he wants and
fits played well, he played really well granteds against the Jets.
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I think a lot of people would look good. But
my guess is, and this is more than an educated guess,
is that Chris Greer, who's their general manager, and Brian Flores,
who's their coach, have told to have told fits, had
told everybody, this is our plan that, barring some unforeseen setback,
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if two is healthy, we're gonna go out and we're
will come out of the bye week, we'll have a
chance to really prepare him. He'll have he'll he'll be
his best self, will find the right plays, we'll have
the right blocking, will protect him. And they gave him
just a little bit of run and he threw two
passes to two completed both. I think the reason this
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one has a great chance to work is they're all
in on it, and when you're all in on a guy,
usually that guy plays the more confidence because he looks
over the sideline and they're like, uh huh uh hu,
this is what we plan for. Right. Quality coaching and
quality general manager work is the exact same thing. It's
telling people what's gonna happen before it happens, that it happens,
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and they go, wow, that was really amazing. How don't
you know, like Chris Careery, like, look, Ryan fitz Patrick's good,
he's gonna win a couple of games. He's gonna look
pretty good in a couple of games. But fits just
so you know, like this is to his job when
we think he's ready and we're looking at coming out
of the bye week regardless of value play, and like
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you know, Ryan fitz Patrick is thirty seven years old,
he's been through it before, he's been the placeholder before,
Like he's done this things before. Either accepts it and
that's the job, that's his job, or he would move
on and he didn't because this was the plan. I
don't think it has anything to do with Fomo. That
justin Herbert's playing before they thought and playing well. I
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don't think gets said everybody know Joe Burrow would play
right away in Cincinnati as they cleared out Andy Dalton.
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
I don't think it's about how the Dolphins are playing
or how they're not playing, or how Fits is playing
or not playing. I don't think it's about the opponent
because obviously you would have prepared to prefer the Jets
to the Rams. I don't want to er and Donald
coming after my quarterback was coming off a hip injury.
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I think this is really really simple. We gotta plan,
like said, to keep the plan. And the plan started
a year and a half ago. Let's hire a bright, young,
up and coming coach. Let's get some junkyard dogs out
there that people count out and see who can stick.
And they found some guys who have stuck. Some found
some guys that bought in the culture. And then they
went out and drafted more culture guys and signed more
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culture guys and and look great in the offseason. And
they tanked for one guy for twa They didn't tank for,
you know, for for Joe Burrow. They didn't tank for
Justin Herber. They tanked for Tah and then they got
him and yeah he was injured, but they had faith
and if there was any sense that there was anything
wrong with him, he wouldn't have been out there Sunday.
And seeing as he was out there last Sunday, he's
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fine to start a week from Sunday. This is just
a case of a team and an organization all coming
together and figuring out, all right, what do we want
to do. This is what we want to do. We
want to rebuild and do it behind this young talented
quarterback who's an outstanding leader. This is the guy we
believe in, and everybody's either all in or there's somewhere
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else this year. It doesn't mean that it will work,
but it does mean that you're giving it the best
possible chance of working, the best possible chance of working,
and that's usually when you get a lot of success.
All right, Coming up next, it's Doug Otlips Show here
(14:44):
on Fox Sports Tray. By the way, this is Chris
Sim's talking about to a starting for the Dolphins. Well,
I think they had to do it, you know, and
and and this is why, because well, what are you
The Dolphins are getting it together. They're playing pretty good football.
What were they gonna wait until they were, you know,
eight and four and in the playoff time and then
make the switch, right, I think the timing is right.
They're not worried about this year. They know they're not
(15:07):
gonna win the Super Bowl. But man, I mean they
killed the off season. You're seeing some of those free
agents and some of those draft picks really pop for
their football team. I Mean, the Dolphins did everything last
year for what a rebuild team should do. It's textbook that.
I mean, that's what teams should do if you're the
Falcons and you're looking to rebuild or any other team
(15:27):
like that. You know, the Miami Dolphins put the outline
out there that was Chris Simms earlier. Today, people are
freaking out because the Packers got blown out again and
I'm gonna do my best. Aaron Rodgers can tell you
to relax. Be sure to catch the live edition of
The Doug Gottlip Show weekdays at three p m. Easter
noon Pacific. Doug Whalley joins us a long time remember
(15:49):
the Bills front office. He joins us in the Doug
Gotlips Show on Fox Sports Radio. UM, one ask you,
so two is going to get a start in a
week and a half for the Miami Dolphins. And you've
been to this before when you're director approplayer personnel, when
you're with the Bills and you guys, uh drafted DJ Manual.
When did you know that he didn't have what you
(16:10):
thought he needed to have to to be the long
time start to to hold onto the job. It's first
of all, thanks for having me on, and hopefully everything's
well with you. Um, it's one of those things where
when you're around a quarterback enough, especially when you've been
around some very successful quarterback, it becomes very evident that
(16:35):
he or that quarterback doesn't have the skill set to
take you where you want to go. Especially in our
situation with e J. We started to put a bunch
of pieces around him to say this will help e
J be better? Or and when you when that was
a mistake I made. And when you have to put
(16:56):
pieces around the quarterback to help the quarterback, then you
you and have a quarterback. You need a quarterback, and
the really good quarterbacks make all the pieces around them better. Right, Uh,
it's it's it's it's fascinating. But I mean, like because
I know a little bit about e J. Where like
if you meet him, you're blown away because a super
(17:17):
bright guy and very charming guy, right and he looks
like everything about him like looks the part. There was
just something like in games, he wasn't that good like
that really, you know. So I just wonder when you
when you when you draft a guy and you feel
like you know a guy, if it takes you longer
to admit maybe he's not the guy you you obviously,
(17:40):
and like you said, first of all, he's an incredible
human being. When you meet him, he isn't. I mean,
he's just everything you want as a quarterback. The thing
that kept coming up was his ability to understand the
nuances of the quarterback position, to be able to anticipate,
to be able to understand the coverages and be able
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to say, Okay, that was their last time and they
fooled me, but this time, I'm going to have to
do something different. So he was more of a programmed guy,
which when everything was perfect and the pocket was perfect
and the coverage didn't change, he could make the throw.
When there was some adversity, not only on the field
but off the field. He got injured and it was
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the first time he had to deal with an injury
and coming back from injury. I don't think he was
totally equipped to come back from that and keep progressing
to be able to be a suitable star starting quarterback. Now. Also,
we did overdraft him. If he was a third round pick,
he probably could still be in the league. But as
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a first round pick that to whom much has given,
much is expected, so a lot more was expected from him. Yeah,
and then you had to play him earlier than you
want to play him. Um, you know the owners sitting
there going, why don't you playing the guy you drafted
in the first round. The fans are saying, you throw him,
and they're like, that's why we didn't play right? All right?
What about what about tah Kay who he has shown
the fortitude to come back from multiple injuries. The last
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one was one that could have ended his career. They're
playing pretty well, they got a bye week, and they
just announced today we're gonna start to a what's your
reaction to Miami the timing of Miami's decision. I think
it's very surprising now. I mean the one thing, like
you said, they're playing well, they're winning games, so it's
a it's very curious to insert him now because if
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you look at, let's say, on my homes, you have
a capable starter. There was Fitzpatrick, a very smart, crafty
bet that has accepted the role that he's the place keeper.
He could learn from that from fits and you read
the stories and anytime fitz comes off the sideline, he's
sitting there talking to to a breaking it down, say
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and do this is what happened? That's what happened. That
type of stuff is invaluable. So but with that said,
you've been a player, and I've been a player before.
There must be something in practice that is making it
undeniable that he needs to be the starter, because you
don't make no mistake. If he wasn't ready, those players
in that locker room would let it be known that
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this is not the right move. And then lastly, it's
very curious that they're gonna have start his first starting
against Aaron Donald. I mean, that's that's again curious. But
there's got to be something that we as the public
aren't pritty too, that is making that that decision, driving
that decision. Yeah, it's it's interesting because originally that game
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was supposed to be the Jets right play the Jets
by so that that's why it made sense to me, like, yeah,
did you go against the Jets like that that's the JV.
That's like, that's a good one. Um let me let
me let me hypothesize for a second. I feel like
this entire thing is what they had planned, right, Like, look, look,
Chris Greer gets the job, and you're like, all right,
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here's what we're gonna do. We want two is our guy,
and we're gonna sell off the other pieces that we
don't necessarily want or need because we're bad. We're gonna
start over. So Minca Fitzpatrick and Larrymy Tunsel they're gone.
They get picks back in return, they try to figure
out what they had. They did well in free agency,
well in the draft, and they end up two ends
up because of injury falling to them even though they
don't get the number one pick. And my guests would
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be this was the plan all along, off the bye week,
they would play him barring injury, and it just so
happens to be the Ramps. Is that a possibility that
a team is so committed to a plan that they
don't care about the opponent? Absolutely? And the one thing
though in in the NFL, the scary thing part is
you can have a plan. You just hope that your
stay you're around to enact that plan. But that could
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be a plausible reason why they're doing it now. And
guess what, The plan has worked so far, so might
as well stick with it. Um Okay, so how much
how much can we blame the Cowboys coaching staff? And
I'm not sure if you're aware that that there's some
report today from James Slater that some players came out
and said that they're not teaching us, they're not prepared. Meanwhile,
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you know, like, look, I give at least the offense
a bit of a pass last night. You lose most
of your line and your quarterback. I don't know anybody
who's gonna look good against the legitimate team. But but
the fact that the defense is such a mess, how
much of that is on the players? How much of
that is on the coaching staff? Well, I look at
it this way, and when you're losing, everyone's going to
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be disgruntled. But the alarming part is for the Blair players,
they just don't doesn't seem like they believe in the
coaching staff or the game plan. So it really has
to we really have to look at it as has
the game. The NFL game passed the Dallas Calibully's coaching
staff by and all these reports that are coming out,
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you may have to lean to that because very rarely,
especially this early in the season, are you're gonna have
players coming out and basically telling that our coaching staff
isn't that. So it's very alarming, and the players do
have some culpability. But they have some talent on that staff.
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They have some injuries, but on that team, Uh, it's alarming.
And i'd have to say right now from from the reports,
you'd probably got coaching players. Yeah. No, I mean, like,
look the last night's perfect example. You bring in a
guy who new age system, you know different, you know,
air Aide, airraide system. Mike Nolan's like old school NFL
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and and hadn't been a coordinated for several years. That
it feels a little bit The Cowboys got this little
bit with Monty Kiffin right where Monty Kiffin he couldn't
do it anymore, and he couldn't do it at SC
even because because because the game had changed so much,
his old Tampa two didn't work. And and Doug, I
don't know about the basketball, but in football there's a saying,
why do you do it? Because we've been done it
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that way forever? Yes, Well guess what now the game
has is starting to evolve. And I think I've said
this before is football used to be NFL set everything
in the football ecosystem, and it was a trickle down effect.
Anything the NFL did, everybody else trying to learn. Well,
now the roles were reversed. It's a trickle up effect.
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Things from college are starting to trickle up into the NFL.
So if you have these old school guys that are
resistant to change or evolution, the game is just going
to pass them by. And I think especially on defense,
I think we're seeing that on the Dallas Cowboys. This
this is a great conversation. Doug Walley joining as former
general manager of the Buffalo Bills. Doug gotlip show here
(24:31):
on Fox Sports Radio. Um, let me let me go
to the Bills. Um, how the knock on Josh Allen
was accuracy and it still pops up at sometimes when
he just misses guys with that with that big arm.
But how have they been able to kind of craft
this thing to be more consecutively and consistently successful. I
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think you gotta look at the Brian bable. I mean
you you've got to look at the offensive coordinator and
the pieces that they put around on him to put
him in positions to be successful. Uh, you saw Monday
night when he's got to fit back in that pocket
and be on the spot and try to go through
progressions that that's not where he's the most successful. The
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most successful when he's able to get something out quick
or on unscripted places where he's running around and he's
that dual threat. So I think the dable is one
of the main reasons why they started so so hot.
But again, over time, guys that have lack of accuracy
are going to regress to their means, and I think
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we saw it last night and hopefully it doesn't keep
popping up for the rest of the year. Hopefully he
can bounce back to where he played in the first
four games, but he's going to have games like that
because the accuracy is it's it's like a golf swing.
It's muscle memory. And if you have to go to
a quarterback guru to get your feet right in your
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arm position, right in your arms plot right, that's going
to take time before it's becomes natural muscle memory. But
even even then, you still, like you said, you still
regress to you get the game slippe. You still regrets
to the means. Happ with Lamar Jackson right where where
you know people are able to find out what throws
he doesn't make well and make him make those more often,
and the accuracy issues that he had in college have
have have popped back up Doug Wale, our guest on
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The Doug Gotlip Show. Conversely, you have Kansas City, and
I think to some people was a whole hump. To me,
the way Buffalo played them is the same way the
Chargers played them, where you try and keep everything in
front and and force them these long drives and running
the football. The differences this year they can run the football.
Is there any chance they're actually better than they were
last season? I would say yes, when you can have
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that balanced attack where people can't make you one dimensional,
and with the weapons they have, and then you had
Lady on Bell in there. Oh man, that's that's gonna
be a special unit. And it's gonna be a defensive
coordinator's nightmare. You gotta pick your poison. What are you
gonna play cover two and have them run the ball
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or have them give up all shorts and then guess
what they're it's gonna be death by a thousand cuts,
or do you play man and come after them and
then it's guess what. It's big place, so uh they're
forced to be reckoned with and it's uh, nothing I
would want to wish on my defensive coordinator. Who are
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the real Green Bay Packers weeks one through four or
weeks six. I would say weeks one through four. Uh,
you gotta understand these players, they have sixteen maybe more
days to be on and to be on for that
many times is very hard. And then you act not
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just one player, but you've got to have fifty some
players that have to be playing at their best and
having a good day at the office. And it's hard
to have a good day at the office every day
on your job. I mean there's days you'd probably say
I didn't wasn't enough to par that day, but I
did the best I could. And there's other days like
I nailed it. Well, guess what, when you aren't enough
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to par on the football field, those things get exposed
and it's just something that makes it people understand. Hopefully
they understand it is very hard to win in the NFL.
And then you have the fact that the other team
they get paid to, Yeah, they're they're trying it to
win as well well, and and and they and they
got what and their offense got what last time out too,
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So it wasn't like they weren't motivated right right, right exactly.
But if I'm betting on anything. I'm betting on Aaron Rodgers. Um,
I'm I'm I'm absolutely with you. Doug Walley joining us
on the Doug Gotlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio. UM,
I felt like Carson Wentz played really well. He's just
between the drops the offensive line issues like he's doing it.
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It's all smoking mirrors. Many have been critical of him
trying to, you know, kind of have to play hero ball.
What's what's your sense of the Eagles quarterback? I'm with you.
I'm a big Winds fan. And what I like about it,
which some people may be knocked and knocking him, is
this competitiveness. He knows he's playing with one hand tied
behind his back with with the people that are around him,
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just because of injuries, but he's willing his team to
try to win. He's doing everything he can in his power,
and to me, that is what you want in your quarterback.
He's trying to if no one else around can make
it happen, I'm going to take it all myself to
make this happen and will this team to win. So
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sign me up. Yeah. What about Baker? Baker feels like
how you described e J Well. He said, if you
got to put a bunch of people around him. He
probably not the guy. He's got a running game, although
they didn't have one against the Steelers. He's got elite
wide receivers. They went on and got him a great
pass catching tight end, and it feels like he's holding
them back. Is that a wrong way to read what
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what happened in Cleveland against Pittsburgh? Not at all? And
in oh he can answer that bell. That's the that's
what's gonna be his. That's what's gonna be out there
on him. Um, when you make them one dimensional and
you make Baker Mayfield throw the ball, especially from the pocket,
that's when you're going to have the most successful him
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and that's against him, and that's where his deficiencies will
be highlighted. Doug, awesome stuff man. Always great to have
you on. You are welcome anytime. Thanks for joining us
on Fox Sports Radio. Appreciate you having me, Doug, and
stay healthy. Say same to you. Doug Walley joining us.
There's longtime member the front office of the Bills. He
was their general manager and of course joins us here
on the Doug Glip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Fox
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s R to listen live. We've been training in our
lives to cheer for the little guy, right, because we
like to see ourselves as the little guy. That was
(31:00):
whole thing back in the seventeen hundreds, all right, we
were the little guy who weren't the big guy, and
so we've been kind of trained to really be that guy,
to be to root for the underdog. The Cinderella story, which,
by the way, can I simply point out how dysfunctional
(31:20):
and awful Cinderella is as a story, just to recap, okay,
the real Cinderella story of Cinderella. So Cinderella is born
or mom dies. Okay, the mom dies, that's a terrible story.
The dad, who apparently rich beyond belief, marries some evil
(31:42):
step mom who brings in her two daughters and forces
his daughter to live to live up in her own
little check because I think he died. So the mom dies,
the dad remarries some witch, and then the dad dies,
and then the stepma um instead of take care of
this kid that's been through all this trauma, puts her
(32:03):
and she goes and lives and her only friend or
a bunch of mice. We celebrate the stories if it's
a good thing. Then she sneaks out. She needs a
fairy stepmother to make a pumpkin uh into a carriage
to take her to a ball. She meets the prince,
(32:23):
who falls madly in love with her, and of course,
the evil stepmom does everything in her power to put
her own daughters or flesh and blood in front of Cinderella,
who only because of some miracle that they have a
glass slipper fits her foot. That does she become we
assume the wife to the prince. That's a terrible story.
(32:46):
The mom dies, the dad dies, the stepmom makes her
live in an attict and her only friend or some mice.
That's some That's some evil stuff right there. Nonetheless, we've
been trained to cheer for Cinderella because she had to
live in an attict her only friends were mice. I'm
cheering for Goliath tonight, not David. David took the rock
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and and he did the thing that the Texas a
and m fans do right, And he slung it and
he slayed the the beast and it's biblical Clayton Kershaw.
In two thousand eleven, Um won his first cy Young.
He had a two point to a d r A.
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He was twenty one. In five he led the league
and strikeouts with two hundred and he threw two hundred
and thirty three innings. The next year he threw two
d twenty seven innings, again led the league in the
r A. He was runner up for the cy Young Award.
In two thousand thirteen, he won his second cy Young Award.
He struck out two hundred and thirty two. He had
a one point eight three e r A, which led
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the league. He threw two hundred and thirty six innings.
He had the back problem in uh In two thousand
and fifteen, after winning back to back side Young's and
winning an m v P and even with the back
problem right we're he only threw a hundred and ninety
eight innings. He led the league with a one point
seven seven r A. His e r A in his
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career has only been above three first season twice. Once
was last year, when he had a three point oh
three e r A. He was an All star and
top ten in cy Young Award voting and the other
was his first year when he was twenty years old,
when he he UH, he started twenty one games. He
had a four point to six d r A. Since
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two thousand nine, so roughly the last twelve baseball seasons
he has been with one exception below two point nine two.
With his e r A, he has been outstanding. He's
led the league five times, he led the league in
strikeouts three times. He's led the league in innings once
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and been over two hundred innings over six times. He
usually starts every six day. Of course, he has been
injured a little bit. He sawid. He's consistent, he's been
the ace and through all the failings, and there have
been plenty in in the playoffs. In terms of his failings,
it's fair to point out that uh he's played ten
(35:19):
years in the playoffs. Of his nineteen seasons, he's just
eleven and twelve with a four point three one e
r Alright, so four point three one is not terrible.
But when you consider that your career e r A
is UH is two point four three, you're like, okay,
it's two points high, two runs higher. That's not good.
(35:40):
Have you ever heard Clayton Kershaw say you know, and
they used me less than the regular season. I would
have had more in the tank for the postseason. You
ever heard that? Have you ever heard uh? Ever heard
Clayton Kershaw say, you know, if our bullpen was better,
our bullpen was better, they wouldn't have had to be
used me in those seventh innings like it's the Saint
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Louis Cardinals and I would have gotten out unscathed. You
even heard that? Have you heard him point out that
Kenley Jansen is not the picture he used to be?
Have you heard him say that the Houston Astros stole
a World Series from No, not the perfect picture. I'm
sure he's not the perfect human being. But in a
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world in which we pick apart everything we a guy does,
and we understand that he hasn't been as good under pressure,
especially late in games when he started. When when when
the he loses a mile or two off fastball, and
he loses a mile or two or a little bit
of spin rate off of the curveball, off you know,
off the slider, that he becomes human and hitable. But
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for a guy who, over the last eleven years has
been arguably the best picture in baseball, most of those
years Max Scherzer in that conversation. There are others in
that conversation for Lander a couple of years as well.
I find it hard to root against him. I'm not
a Dodger fan. Like, well, you're in l A. You're
a Dodger fan, and I'm an Angel fan. How give
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me a Dodger fan. Look at all the money that
they spend. I get it. I understand. It's you know,
I'm sure Andrew Friedman's out there and he goes like, well, like,
it's spend twenty a million on an entire team, or
spend twenty a million on a guy. I think I'm
gonna take this Dodger job job. You know, it is
easier when you're the Dodgers, when you have the resources
of the Dodgers, when you can trade for Mookie Bets
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and give him a gigantic contract. It's it's it's easier
to win that way. Not everybody wins that way. The
Red Sox haven't won a couple of years, and the
Yankees have tried to buy championships time and again. That
doesn't work either. This is not telling you that the
Rays are not worthy champions and they're not worthy of
being cheered for. Although most you don't care about the race.
This series is about Clayton Kershaw, and he gets the
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start Game one, and he's probably the third best picture
of the Dodgers have, right, Is that fair? Yeah, Walker Bueller,
I'd say Dusty May in terms of stuff, and then
Clayton Kershaw. But we would all agree that there's a
lot of things fishing going on when Houston beat him
and he lost that game six, And yeah, I don't
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know any of anybody deserves to win a championship. But
if there's a guy who's close, considering what he's done
for his club, what he's done for baseball, and the
fact that you've never heard him say a negative word
about well, you know, if Dave Roberts wasn't such an idiot,
would take me out of the game, or Don maddenly
would have taken me, or if you know, like if
my catcher would have, if my my closer would if
we would have had a bullpen, it like, no, none
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of that. He gets the baseball. He throws the baseball.
That's the best he can accountable when he gives up hits.
I'm cheering for for Goliath. As unpopular as that maybe
you know, I get it. We we it's not that
big an upset when they come from three games the
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one down against the Braves, when you consider they're the
best team in baseball, and ultimately Water finds his level,
got it understood it completely. Kershot of me feels different.
He is a sympathetic figure even though he makes a
gigantic amount of money and his own personal failings because
he hasn't come through our his own personal failings. I'm
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not gonna point to one error that we haven't. We
have enough data to point out that he's not as
good in the postseason, especially in some big spots late
in games, as he has been in the regular season.
And we can chalk it up to fatigue, and we
can chalk it up to to whatever we want to
chock it up to the cold weather and whatever. At
some point, it is what it is. But all it
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takes is one championship and most of that narrative goes away.
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