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Speaker 1 (01:32):
All right. Good. That's what's really really, really really important,
really important. This is the Gotlib show on Fox Sports Radio.
I saw this thing and I thought it was really interesting.
Clarence Hill, he writes for the All City d l LS,
he covers the Dallas Cowboys, has done so for years.
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You know, for the extent of my time working in
national radio for over twenty years, I believe Clarence has
covered the Cowboys. He says the Cowboys are closing in
on a deal to make offensive coording to Brian Schottenheimer,
their new head coach. Hill said the sides are quote
expected to cross the finish line today or no later
than Friday. Again, this is from the report. Schottenheimer fits
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everything that owner Jerry Jones covets in his head coaches.
He will be inexpensive relative to other head coaches in
the league. As Schottenheimer has no other interviews Jones, who
doubles a double general manager, maintains control and continues to
be the face of the team, and it's someone who
with Jones is familiar. This is really interesting. I know
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everybody wants to say this shows the downfall of the Dallas Cowboys,
and you may be right, he may be right, but
continuity is a gigantic piece. When you think you are close,
when you think you're close, now, my guess is that
it's not a guess. The reality is that you think, Okay,
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the best chance for Jerry Jones to be successful with
the Cowboys this year is not throwing a new offensive,
new scheme, new verbiage at Dak Prescott. They believe the
offense was working, the defense wasn't working, and they had
a bunch of injuries. But this doesn't tell you anything
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other than or what tells me is they didn't think
Mike McCarthy would leave. They thought they'd get Mike McCarthy's
short term deal, kind of a prove it sort of contract,
and that they're really happy with how the offense went,
and they can figure out, do we keep Zimmer on
the defense, do we change the defense coordinator? What does
that all look like? The weird part about it is
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how many times had people been critical of Jerry Jones
because you think Jerry Owns wants to make the splashy hire.
This is not a splashy hire. Was Marty a great coach?
He was? And I remember Marty Schottenheimer, his dad was
head coach of the Chiefs when they were awesome but
sunk in the playoffs, the Chargers when they're awesome, stunk
in the playoffs, the Browns when they're awesome, and the
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drive the fumble, that was all Marty Schoenheimer. So he
comes from good stock but not seen around the league
as a great head coaching candidate. On the other hand,
how many of these guys. It's really weird. It's really weird.
Like Ben Johnson is a young, hot candidate because he's
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a fantastic offensive coordinator. Right, we have no idea Ben
Johnson can be a head coach. It's a different job.
It's a different thing. I like learning. There's so many
other things that go with being a head coach. Even
in basketball college basketball. I can't imagine in the National
Football League, although it still is about football, it's weird.
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Cowboys offense it's generally been really, really good and you
can give credit to Mike McCarthy as he's an offensive guy,
but Schottenheimer was an offensive coordinator. And how many of
these other offensive coordinators are getting jobs. Why shouldn't Schottenheimer
be considered. Yes, there were times in the past with
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some of his previous jobs where their offense was wildly underwhelming.
But this to me is, Yeah, some of it's Jerry
wanting to maintain control, but a lot of it is
Jerry going like, wait, Dak likes this offense works for him.
Offense isn't the reason that we were getting beat injuries
and defensive dysfunction was Let's just get a big time
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defensive coordinator and fix our roster. It doesn't mean that
Jerry wants to have ultimate control over coaching may and
that's where he becomes like Al Davis. But I honestly
believe that it would have to be the whole plan. Hey,
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this is what I'm doing an offense. This is who
I'm gonna hire or what I'm gonna do with the defense.
This is new special teams, and this is how we're
gonna do it. I get it. I get it. Because
there have been stops for Brian Schottenheimer's offenses have underwhelmed.
We all think it's Mike McCarthy's offense. Brian Schottenheimer more
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quarterback coach along for the ride, and why would he
be getting the Cowboys job when he can't get any
other jobs. But the things that we're critical of Jerry
Jones about is the splashy hires and the splashy acquisitions.
And this is not splash. This is and they may
be misjudging it based upon what they think is substantive.
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So I do I love it at first glance? I don't.
I would have loved Bill Belichick, but I would guess
Bill Belichick's not going right if you get you can't
hire somebody who's won a Super Bowl one in the
playoffs and the rest of the league's going too offensive. Guys,
and your offense has been good. You like your offense?
Why do you have to change your offense? You don't?
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You don't.
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Speaker 1 (07:23):
At s Doug Gottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio. You know,
I was actually thinking I was actually thinking and this
is what we should put out on our on our
digital stuff. Did you know that there's a portion of
your brain that allows you to learn other languages? And
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I know there's all the different Rosetta Stone and other
software where people are learning new languages. Have you guys
ever tried that as adults? Dan, have you ever tried
that to learn different language as an adult?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I have not considered it, but I have not taken.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That st Yeah, I think that's one of those. It's
a lot like a New Year's resolution, Like everybody's like
this year, I'm going to learn to speak Italian. We're
going to Italy the summer, babe, Let's learn to speak Italian.
And then like you get to January fifteenth, you're like, yes, whatever,
it's fine and diiamo, let's go. What about you, Jayce dou.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Not as an adult?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
No.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I did take Spanish between seventh and twelfth grade. The
final year of Spanish in high school, all we did
was talk Spanish to each other. The teacher never spoke English,
and we could never speak English, and I know about
three sentences of Spanish right now.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm the same way with German. I took German in
high school and in college in completely you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Took German in high school. I guess here in Wisconsin.
There's a big German and Polish population in Wisconsin. That's
amazing that they taught you German.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yes, the Germans.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yes, you know what I think? What about you, Sam? Sam?
You know any other?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Like?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I did take Spanish in junior high and high school
in one semester of college. But yeah, and then I
did go to Spain in twenty eighteen and try to
bring some of it back into my memory. It was
a little choppy, made it through, but I haven't done
any Rosetta Stone or you know what are the other
ones are Gibberish or what was it?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
What's it called? There's another one out there. Babbel babbel, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yah, babbel yeah, babble. Well when you when you babble,
it comes out as gibberish. Not that not that far
off there, not that far off. Ninety percent of your
brain is developed by the time you're five years old, right,
and a lot of that comes with languages. You can
overcome that wiring, but it's not easy. And I bring
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it up because why would you hire Brian Schottenheimer, Well,
why do you think?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you remember the quote that we got from from
Dak Prescott and again, Brian Schotteimer has not been higher,
But this is Clarence Hill saying that resting towards a deal.
I respect Clarence. He's in the know if that's If
that's the case, it's like, why would you Well, remember
this is Dak Prescott who said, essentially, I want Mike
McCarthy to be our coach. I think he's one of
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these guys like, look, dude, I don't want to learn
a new language. I like this one. I don't want
to learn a new football language. I like this one.
Or I like this offense. You guys fix the roster,
you guys fix the defense. I got the offense. Brian's fine.
Brian's fine, And I think you do you get to
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a certain age you're like, yeah, I don't want to
learn a new language. I mean Aaron Rodgers and I
know it hasn't gone well in New York, but we
all like, why would he bring in an offensive coordinator
who because he doesn't want to learn a new language.
He knows that his brain's already developed. If five years
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is all it takes for a baby five years in
the NFL. You know the quarterback language that work for you.
You know, are you a McVeigh guy. Are you a
Shanahan guy? Which is very similar but a lot of motion.
Are you an Andy Reid guy? In this particular case,
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this offense that the that the Cowboys run, that's West
Coast and apparently that's the West Coast offensive. Guys like,
why don't want to change the verbiage? I want if
I don't have to teach anybody how I want to
run my offense. Brian already knows. So I think that's
what this is about more than anything. It's familiarity with
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the quarterback and the quarterbacks familiarity and uh desire to
run the run that exact same offense. Which brings us
to Jade Daniels, who's having an unbelievable rookie year. Now.
He's playing with Cliff Kingsbury, right, Cliff Kingsbury is his
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offensive coordinator. They are working incredibly well together. I thought
this was a weird question that Jaden was asked earlier today.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
What would it mean to you if you were the
first rookie quarterback to take.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
A team to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Oh now, I'm not even thinking that far. It will
obviously be a blessing, but you know, I'm just focused on,
you know, how can I be better day by day?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah? What would mean to you? I mean, he's just
he's going to give the kind of cliche answer. But
you have heard people say, well, you know, he could
be the first rookie quarterback to go to a Super Bowl,
But he's not a rookie anymore because he's played.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The whole year.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Like what why do we say these things? Do we
want the world to hate us? Or are we just
trying to Like what are we trying to do with
that statement? Like he's a second year player because he
has this many reps. Like now it's still his first play.
This is his first NFC Championship game. He's playing against
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the Eagles. And they've all played in this game. They've
won this game, they've played in the Super Bowl. These
are experiences they've had. He hasn't. He hasn't even at
LSU when he won the Heisman Trophy. He didn't play
in the college ball playoff. This is the first playoff
football he's ever played. It's different, and yet it went great.
Indoors in Detroit with the other quarterback turned the ball over.
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Be a little different this weekend in Philly. So the
of the cliche sayings that I think most of us,
you know, yesterday, Dan, you weren't here because you're taking
care of your family. We talked about at the midway
things were over. I'm over the idea of well, he's
no longer a rookie because he's played this much. Is
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he played an NFC Championshi game before. Yes, he's played
in Philadelphia before, but never in the playoffs, and we
all know that's just different. All right, let's walk him in.
This is the Doug Outlieb Show here on Foxsports Radio
live from the Tyraq dot com studios. Daniel Jeremiah joins us.
Of course, Move the Sticks is his podcast. He's also
the radio analyst for the LA Chargers Network and we'll
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get ready for the upcoming NFL Draft. You'll see him
on the NFL Network. DJ, thanks so much for taking time.
Let's let's go to last weekend. How how do you
evaluate Lamar Jackson's performance, factoring in not just the last drive,
which was outstanding and the drop from Mark Andrews, but
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also his own turnovers. Which he pointed out, are as
big a part of the loss as anything.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a it wasn't a clean game,
and he had a chance to make up for it
and did his part to make up for it. But
I think he was he was right in saying, you know,
there's the mistakes at the end of the game on Andrews' part,
but he can't turn them all over early in the game,
which he did twice. And that was not just the
story of Lamar and the Ravens, it was a story
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of the whole weekend. I mean, the difference between you know,
winning and losing in every single game was turnovers. All
the teams that won and moved on all had a
clean sheet and uh and those that lost didn't protect
the football.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, they they really didn't protect the football. They just
did not Mark Andrews. I mean, how do you I mean,
it's it's because he's such a talented stud tight end.
But the fumble then the drop. You know, there are
some that are picking out that well, he hasn't met
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with the media yet. What do you think of Mark Andrews,
who some are kind of handling with kid gloves while
social media is not.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
You know, I was on the I was on the
postgame desk at NFL Network, and we kept waiting to uh,
you know, everybody's producers and everyone as you know how
it works. You're you're on on Twitter and and uh,
we're getting sound that we're using in the ninety minute
post game, and we kept, hey, has he spoke yet,
as we have anything from Mark Andrews. And so I
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think a lot of people were, you know, waiting to
hear from him. It's surprising because it's just it's unusual
normally when you have an impact on the game, positive
or negative, it's just part of the deal. You uh,
you know, you face the music, for lack of a
better phrase. So I was a little taken it back
and surprised by that. But I've learned, Doug. I'm forty seven,
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So I like to think with being you know, having
been around us for twenty over twenty years now, it
gives you a little more perspective of have some grace,
have some understanding. I don't know what's going on with him,
you know that there could be other things that he's
dealing with, and and I've just learned that, you know,
we can say Okay, I wish he would have talked,
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but I don't know what he's going through, so I
have a hard time going all out and uh and
and pressing, pressing him really hard on not speaking.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, I'm I'm sort of with you that with you
on that one for sure. Okay, let's let's get to
a couple of the other games. Another one. We talked turnovers,
rams a bunch of turnovers, right, and the Eagles survive.
I guess the question becomes, though the Eagles still feel dysfunctional,
yet they're successful. How does that work?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
The Eagles are the most talented team in football, talented
enough where in a quarterback era they could I think
they have a legitimate shot, especially with what I say this,
knowing that Hurts is not healthy and has not been
playing great, that they have somehow a massed enough talent
that they could carry a quarterback to a championship, which
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is darn near impossible in today's NFL. But they don't
really need him to do much. They don't. Their offensive
line is so dominant it's like a nineties team. You know,
they can just run the ball down your throat even
when you know it's coming, because they're massive, and they're
so gifted up front, and then defensively they're really good.
There's not a pure weakness there. They're good at all
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three levels. They have a really good defensive coordinator. I
would say that if En Hurts played good, not great.
If he plays good, they're winning the super Bowl. And
I still think they could win it with him being
average and maybe even a tick below. That's how talented
they are.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Wow, that's amazing. Okay, what do you make of of
I know there's turnovers. Let's start with Ben Johnson wide
receiver pass in the fourth quarter gets intercepted. What do
you think of how he called the game?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Well, it's still players, I mean on that one specifically. Yeah,
I mean, in hindsight, you probably like to have that back.
You're hoping you're going to dial it up and it's
going to be wide open. And maybe that's something as
a play caller when you send the play in, you know,
you send the play into the headset of golf, it's
you tag it with the reminder, Hey, if it's not there,
eat it. You know, just tell Jamison if it's not there,
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eat it. But that's putting a lot on him, you know,
as someone who's not a pastor of football by nature.
So I think it's just he took a he took
an aggressive play call. They have been ultra ultra agress
have They got criticized for it last year and their
exit against the forty nine ers. That's just kind of
the way that they've done it. From Dan Campbell to
Ben Johnson, they've just been very, very aggressive. But that
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would be the one I think you'd like to have back.
But outside of that particular call that you know, the
Jared didn't play great, you know, they didn't execute well
and that that was the reason why they were done.
And I just think so many injuries on defense eventually
it just caught up to them and playing him. If
you're Detroit with their offensive line and their defense a
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little bit beat up, this sounds crazy, but I almost
I bet you they would rather played that game in
Washington than in Detroit. I mean, having Jayden Daniels on
a fast track in there, I mean they couldn't stop him.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, he's Wow, He's amazing as a rookie. I mean
just unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Never see anything like it ever, No, not like this.
I mean, we went the list of first year players
first year quarterbacks who had made it to a conference
championship game, you know, as rookies, and you look at
those guys and you think of those teams and you
know it's like the Mark Sanchez, you know, Jets, Like
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that's one example, Like Mark Sanchez was not the driving
force of that team as a defensive team that could
run the football, and he'd make a couple of plays
in the past game, you know, Braylen Edwards, whoever they
were throwing to back. Then this team runs through Jade Daniels,
like he is the main actor here. He is not
a supporting role. I've never seen him, a rookie quarterback
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elevate everyone around him. You know, you look at their
offensive line on paper, very average. You know, mclaurin's a stud.
But you know Ertz is on his you know, everybody's
thought he was done, but turns out he's got a
little bit left. He's not the supporting cast, is not spectacular,
and he's elevated all of them.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
How much is Cliff responsible for that?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I give him a lot of credit. I mean, I
think it's them working together. It's it's creative without you know,
being super complex and not that Jayden couldn't handle complexity,
but just as a young player, he just he's made
some things defined for him, which is has been helpful.
But I still the vast majority of it goes to
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Jayden himself, uh, and what he's doing and seeing the
field fast, making good decisions and then and then having
the explosive element with both his arm and his legs.
It's it's pretty awesome, man. I don't uh, I don't
think Philadelphia is excited to see him come into town.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Help me out with this one. How Look, you've been
on the Chargers broadcast, and I know that everybody in
the AFC West feels like kan City gets with murder
in terms of holding when they play at home. But
how uh, how do you feel about the officiating in
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regards to the Houston game this past weekend?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Well, I come at it from stars get calls in
every sport, So that's you know, that's just is what
it is. You're gonna you know, Pat is going to
if it's close, Mahomes is going to get calls. Now,
I've you know, and look, I even I might even
tweet something out when it happened, but he's kind of
mastered the you know, bait bait guys in the calls
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and flopping and all that stuff, which I don't really
care for. But he's getting the calls, so he's going
to keep doing it because it's been rewarded. My issue,
more so than that, which is happening once a game,
maybe maybe sometimes twice in a game, is the holding situation.
And some of those numbers got posted about just the
lack of holding calls on them. I see a lot
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of that team twice a year doing the Charger games,
and they're very I mean they're they're the best team
in the NFL. They have been, but man, they that
holding bothers me. The lack of holding calls bothered me
more even than than the Mahomes, you know, tight roping
on the sideline and and take a fall.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, I completely agree with you. Okay, help me out
with with this upcoming weekend. Let's start with Washington have
to go into Philadelphia, place they have played before, a
defense that he's seen twice before. What are your thoughts
on that match up to go to the Super Bowl the.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
NFC, Well, I think that you know to the first game,
he didn't play great against Philly through the first three quarters.
I think they had fourteen points and then he unlocked
it and went off in the fourth quarter where they
scored thirty whatever, thirty five thirty six points, ended up
winning that game at your five touchdowns. So I think
he's gonna have a lot of confidence going up against
this group. Cosmi getting hurt, I don't think helps matters,
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you know, to me, Philadelphia is the better team. I
think the you know, being cold and outside, I think
benefits Philly and sa Kuon Barkley and their style will
play a little bit more than it benefits Washington. So
I think Philly ends up winning this game. I could
see Washington put us scare into them, but yeah, I
don't think they're going to be able to block Philly's
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defensive lines.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Okay, let's go to the AFC. Is this the year
for the Bills? How did how do they match up
this time around on the road in Kansas City?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Yeah, just get it. If you're the Bills, get you
have to get on them early and kind of put
it away. You don't want this thing coming down to
the end with Mahomes having a chance to finish you
as he's done time and time again. So I picked Buffalo.
But I'll be honest with you, anytime I ever picked
against the Chiefs, whether it's Week three or the Super Bowl,
I don't have a high level of confidence just because
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of how they are able to seemingly just do whatever
it takes to find their way to a win. But
you know, I just felt like Josh Allen being healthy
and fresh, that this could be. You know, you had
twelve carries in the first game, Doug. I could see
this being at Josh Allen, like fourteen fifteen, sixteen carries,
just whatever you got to do to get out of
there with.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
The win, and do they I picked.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Them to win. I picked Buffalo to win. But again
I've never I've never picked picked the Chiefs to lose
and felt good about it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I can tell you that I hear you, brother, I
hear you. Last thing. Number one quarterback prospect in this
year's NFL draft. I know you're just now diving in.
Where are you as of now?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
As of right now, I have cam Ward. He's got
just a ton of ability. He's played a lot of football.
He can make you know, big time throws, you can
really drive the football. He gets a little bit loose
at times, so you got to live with some of that.
I don't think. I think we kind of learned last year.
Trying to coach that out of a player like a
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Caleb Williams is probably You're probably better off just embracing
it as opposed to trying to newdram So I think
it'll be important of where he goes. But I don't
have any quarterback in this class higher than the top.
You know guys we had in the first round last year,
to the point where I think JJ McCarthy would have
been the first pick in this year's draft. So I
would take Abdol Carter with the first pick and I
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would not look back.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He's the one and only. Daniel Jeremiah moved the sticks
as the podcast. You'll see him on the NFL Network. DJ,
You're the best man. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Thanks buddy, Good luck, Doug.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't know if you saw this, Jay stew or
Dan from Mark Andrews. It's impossible to adequately express how
I feel. I'm absolutely gutted by what happened on Sunday.
I'm devastated for my teammates, my coaches, and Ravens fans.
I pour every ounce by being into playing at the
highest level possible because I love my team in the
game of football like nothing else. This is why it's
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taken me until now to collect my thoughts and address
this publicly. Even though the shock and disappointment are unlike
anything I felt before, I refuse to let that situation
defind me, and I promise that this adversity will only
make me stronger and fuel us moving forward. I think
everyone who has shown me and our team gratitude and
support these past several days. Despite the negativity, I've seen
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heartfelt love and encouragement from those who generously donated to
the Breakthrough t one D organization. Even the moments seemed
darkest perspective can reveal there's still a lot of light
in this world. Now, I'm going to do my part
to bounce back and to it where you go, Uh yeah,
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My reaction is is that it's the perfect response. Perfect
And as somebody who I've always been in kind of
the public spotlight, you know. Look, I've seen negativity before,
for you know, and it's something you say on TV,
something you say on radio, something you say in print
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or whatever, or a tweet. I've never experienced anything like
this with my young basketball team and struggling to win,
and it's it's really interesting on how people just like
to pounce on you when things don't go well, like, hey,
it's not easy. Here's Mark Andrews, the guy who's accomplished
great things in the NFL. He fumbled one ball and
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dropped another. That's all he did wrong. And and you
watch social media like, oh, this is crazy crazy. Go ahead, Dan,
I know you want.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'm glad that you said that, because that's what I
actually think is the amazing part of this, because it's
not the first.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Time, and it's not the second time, and it's been
many times.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Is just what the Buffalo Bills fans and the Bills
mafia does in these situations. I mean, they've raised almost
one hundred thousand dollars for his for his charity. They
did it with Andy Dalton in terms of when Dalton
was with the Bengals, and they beat the Ravens so
the Bills could get into the postseason. Like time and
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time again, we talk about we talk about fan bases
and you know how Philadelphia is awful, and we have
the video recently and we laugh at Bill's Mafia and
we laugh at the things that they throw on the
field and what they do in tailgates. But to like,
the whole story to me is they just raised one
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hundred thousand dollars for his charity. Like it's it's amazing
to me. I'm glad he had the statement, and I
think probably the Bills mafia is work in doing it
was the reason why we got it now. But yeah,
it's just it's crazy to see on how that fan
base just rallies together and does the right thing.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, No, I think it's I think. Look, here's what
I here's what I know. I know that people in
the real world. I've always known this that that that
It's like in politics, the fringe makes up most of
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the people tweeting and most of the people most people
in the middle stay out of it. It's the same
thing with sports commentary. It's it's like how much of
an a hole can I be? It's like a challenge,
like how much of an a hole can I be? Oh?
(29:53):
You think that was an ale? Wait, I'm gonna it's
like a top or of I'm going to try and
be as it's terrible to somebody as humanly possible in
an effort to get noticed and I'll just tell you,
like in my situation, you get somebody who's like, yeah, no,
I don't know what he does, and so you know,
I don't read messages. I get ones that are funny
(30:16):
or I think just over the top cent to me.
So a lot of my dms, i'd be like, hey,
come to practice. Here's the time in data practice. Come watch.
It's okay. You think we don't know what we're doing,
It's okay, feel free, and they either back down, you know, hey,
I was just you know, or you don't hear from
ghost crickets. And I just I think that Mark Andrews
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post on social media is perfect because most of the
ridiculous commentary is from social media, whereas the rest of
us are like, that sucks. Stud dude fumbles the ball.
Stud dude drops the ball on a two point conversion,
falling down the back on the side of the end zone.
(31:02):
How much I can do there? But it look, if
you consistently do this in big moments, well then by
all means you go like, hey, the guy's a choker,
can't throw it to me, but he's a guy who
can always count it. That's why it's actually more surprising
isn't it, Dan. I mean, because he's a guy, Like,
there's one guy who's not going to drop this thing
in the snow. It's gonna be Mark Andrew. Yeah. So
(31:23):
it just shows with all those people donate on that money,
how much good there is in the world, way more
than you see on social media. Way way way, way, way,
way way more.
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Speaker 4 (32:02):
This is Game Time on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Hello Danlo, Doug. I am great, and the game today
is I feel it?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, just I felt some momentum coming over from Tuesday's
rankum and then to hear Daniel Jeremiah say what he
had to say about conference championship Sunday, I thought we
would draft who we think are the most important players
left in the NFL playoffs, specifically for this weekend, and
what they mean to their team.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Jason Stewart, you pick first.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I pick second. Sam picks third. Doug, you have these
swing picks. Jason, you are on the clock.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Thank you, Dan. I'll take it from here. Saquon Barkley's
off the board. Saquon Barkley, Sorry.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Guys, man.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I thought he was going to be a possibility for
the number one overall pick, and sure enough he goes
number one. I am going to go Josh Allen. I
do think it's the only way, and I feel that
Daniel Jeremiah's assessment of what Josh Allen probably needs to
do is correct. I'll take Josh Allen of the Bills
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at number two.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Iowa, Sam, I will take Travis Kelsey, not the guy
throwing him the ball, but that guy who moves the sticks,
moves the ball down the field one hundred and seventeen yards.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I believe in that playoff win against the Texans, we
saw a biggie was in the playoffs last year. All Right, Doug,
you have back to back picks here.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I don't think these are really difficult. Maybe I'm making
it too simple, But Jane Daniels are the Commander's right.
He has to play at a super high level. And
then Pat Mahomes. Yes, I felt like these ones are
kind of easy. I love all your guys picks, but
(34:00):
I I the reason those guys get paid all the
money is because they touch the ball way more often
and affected way more often. Those are two most important
players in each of those games by my estimation.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
All right, Sam, you are up at pick number six.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
You need this guy to make good decisions and run
the ball a little bit himself. Gotta get that passing
game going. I'm gonna take Jalen Hurts. I think this
is the biggest wild card in there. Hurts his performance.
If he's awful, I don't know how it fares for Philadelphia. Yeah,
(34:36):
he's played like he has in throwing the football.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
A lot of good candidates still available, but I'm gonna
stick with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
But I'm gonna go other side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
If Jalen Carter does what he did laid against the Rams,
then it's going to be a tough day.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
For the Commanders.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Sure they don't have Sam Cosme on the off offensive line,
so they lose him.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Jalen Carter will be my pick at numbers seven.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Jalen Carter off the board, Chase dou.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
I'm gonna be consistent with Dan here and go defensive
side of the ball, and I'm gonna I'm flipping a
coin and at lands heads, So Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Trent McDuffie is off the board. What was heads? Was it?
Chris Jones? Yep, nailed it. That is game time.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
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