January 11, 2022 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike open the show talking about all of the Black Monday head coaching firings across the NFL. CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora joins the show to talk about the open head coaching positions, and recap the Raiders vs Chargers game.
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listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome inside the
Jason Smith Show with my bast friend Mike Harmon. What's
up ter on Black Monday also known as the National Championship?
And why do we need to talk about this game
when we still could talk about the Chargers and Raiders
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for four hours? We might actually get to more coaching
points than uh what you might have heard over the
last boy smoking hot like fire. Add to that the
at least for me, my phone blowing up. You know,
I I don't didn't know there were so many memes
circling around the Wizard of Oz. Well, you know, there
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is a there's a new day for everything, and you
don't know when what meme is going to be a
big deal on which day? Who knew? Well, like you said,
which day it was all the which melting or the
munchkins dancing around that the Bears it cleaned house, except
they really didn't clean house. We'll talk about that. That's
the night goes on. But what a weekend. What a weekend, buddy.
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And then then we come back and well we've got
full slate of NBA and this national title field goal
kicking contest. Yeah. Look, I always call it a good
Black Monday when the Jets aren't firing a coach, because
that happens every couple of years, so it's like an
off year in the cycle, like next year at this time,
maybe we're doing it again. So I've been joining the
one year off. Yeah, I think said of every seventeen years,
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it's every other year. But that's okay. Yes, plenty of
big change in the National Football League. Will get to
that in the second. But right now, smack dab in
the middle of the nash An Old Championship game, Alabama
leads Georgia at halftime nine to six. Not exactly the
game we were expecting. Uh, probably a little bit more offense,
probably at least one touchdown in the first half, but uh,
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this is the game we're getting so far, and you know,
I think the the one thing to take away from
this first half is that Georgia is keeping Alabama at
bay by getting pressure on Bryce Young and specifically doing
exactly what Kirby Smart said in the pregame, like right
before they got in the field, said we got to
get off the field on third down. You know that,
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that's what it is, and you hear that all the time.
We gotta but that really is what it has been
for this game, and and going back to the SEC
Championship game and moving on from that is that George
has got to get off the field and the third
down Alabama will wear you out. And so far they've
been able to pressure Bryce Young a lot and a
lot of free runs at him, and he doesn't have
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a lot of time to throw. He still found a
way to throw for a two yards, but still on
third down on pressure downs, George has been able to
you enough. Now that's keeping them into it at this point,
it's not controlling the game. Uh, the second half could
be different the more Alabama's offenses on the field, because
Georgia clearly has had a tough time moving the football.
But right now, Georgia being able to get after Bryce
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young and pressure him has kept them in this game.
Neither team able to run the ball with any efficiency
to this point, Man, as we look at it, you know,
you include sacks on these things, which always gets a
little bit weird. But you're looking at thirty six total
rushing yards, you've got seven penalties for Georgia. That's one
you circle as you flow. And obviously the injury to
Jamison Williams uh the one that the big hit and
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halftime comes and now you make adjustments right in the
Alabama locker room trying to figure out exactly how you
twist your playbook, and and the calls to integrate all
those young talented I mean, the next five star guys
right pop up. But Nick Saban, obviously a level of
concerned is as he walked to the locker room, you know,
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under his own power. But that, as we know, doesn't
it doesn't mean a whole lot. He was in the
injury tent for quite a while, and you saw a
number of teammates on the broadcast trying to peek in
to get a glimpse as to what the hell was
going on, which is never a good sign with that level.
But Uh, to your point, it's it's about getting off
the field. Bowl teams doing a good job limiting third
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down conversions as combined six for seventeen. The thing about
this the game speed is absurd. It's like a video game.
You wanted the linebackers Front seven, How fast they all are?
How fast you watch and go? Man, my team has
no shot to ever play for national type. There was
a Front seven Dallas Turner linebacker gets past the tackle,
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basically runs around him. He does this securitist route to
get back to to get after and sack Bennett. It
was amazing. It was like wow, I mean that is,
you know, zero and a sixty just like that. And
so watching the speed in the lesions, I mean, turn
up the volumes if you've got the extra you know,
subwoofers in your house. Man, the crackle of the pads
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is coming through on a whole other level, giving you chills.
I think you're just an extension of Sunday because right now,
I mean, it's it's the Jaguars Bills game. Oh look
at you, hey, send in the cloudy should have pissed
Trevor Lawrence off earlier. It was unflappable with everything else. Wait,
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So at halftime, we'll keep you updated on this game
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as it goes in the third and fourth quarter. And
and really, the the the speed of the Front seven.
You know just what You watch this game and you go,
my goodness, everything is so fast, so quick twitch. Everybody
is so on top of things, and and it makes
you appreciate the game but also makes you feel like, yeah,
my team just makes the playoff. I'm feeling okay about that.
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Like Michigan right now, it's gonna be going, oh maybe,
well maybe we're just okay to make the play for
Cincinnati's saying the same thing, Oh maybe we were just
happy to make that for that's why we should expand
the playoff, because it's more of a victory. Didn't get there,
Because when you're playing teams like this that are this
loaded defensively and this fast, good luck. I mean, I'm
doing a full first round mock draft out of this
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this game. It's everybody you don't you take anybody else. Wait,
he's a freshman, he's only played three three games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just that level of speed and efficiency, and I
think the groundcovered sideline to sideline, I mean, obviously today
one of one of the great great notes as we
we go on with college football and and to get
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transition to the NFL, momentarily, our buddy LaVar Arrington, our
team made here in Fox Sports Radio goes into the
College Ball Hall of Fame, and you remember him sideline
to sideline. There was there was no escaping, right, it
was like Bobby Boucher screaming. He actually said he was
one of the inspiration and talked to them about that film.
That's a whole other story that'll show up in a book.
But like it's watching this like, all right, that guy's
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gonna get to the edge, isn't he Nope, got there
first and wait to him waiting on. So that's what
we're watching here in this this title game. It's just crazy.
Oh boy, So we'll have more on this again. You know,
Katie Perry performing a very good song here at halftime.
But we'll have more on the action when it does resume. Meanwhile, yes,
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today Black Monday in the National Football League. That's is
when everybody wonders, are they gonna be called into the
coaches off and saying Flynn Stone And that's what happened.
We had Dave Gettleman GM of the Giants quote resigned
after a horrible four year stretches. General manager Brian Flores
has fired as Dolphins head coach. Maybe the one, probably
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if any of them are that you have to say, um,
maybe I did expect that today, that's the one. But
the other ones we all knew. Mike Zimmer, we knew
that he was on thin ice and that was gonna happen.
Rick Spielman also let go in Minnesota, and uh really
to no surprise. Matt Naggie and Ryan Pace both let
go in Chicago and as part of the dysfunction for
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your Chicago Bears, my carm and it got so bad
that Matt Naggie was asking George mc caskey, who do
you want to see a quar back? And what's just
something who you want to put it? I'll put him
in a quarterback. That's my favorite part of the day. George,
you tell me, man, I'm just a coach. Who do
you want to see? I'll put anybody. I'll you know,
if we can bring back Vince Evens, I'll put him
in the game. If you say Vince Evens, I'll put
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Vince Evans in, I'll put him in. Who do you
want to see? That's who I'll go for a quarterback. Oh,
that was my favorite part of today. You know, you
tell me who you want, I'll put him in now, can.
I mean, obviously I've got many long diet tribes about this,
but I'll just I'll take this piece of this pie
right now. It's the fact that George McCaskey allowed Matt
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Naggety continued coaching at that point. And we've talked about
it a lot. So long as there was an active contract,
Matt Naggie wasn't getting fired, and that was one of
the concerns as they started playing well against Minnesota yesterday.
I remember I talked about it a long while ago.
There were a couple of reports of super Sluice in
Chicago talking about biographies and and how contracts status for
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Naggie and Pace had always been included. And then suddenly
it wasn't. So there was a fear slash potential belief
that they've been extended quietly through two turns out that's
not the case, because I guarantee if there was still
money on the contract, they were gonna bleed it, uh
and make Naggy suffer along with the rest of us
for another year. But if the guy comes to you
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in a crisis of conscience during the year, I just
don't know, George, who tells you flat out, I am
not a football guy. I don't know who to play
a quarterback. Okay, Matt Naggie should have been fired on
the spot, right, that's it. Whether it's Bill Laser, you
hire someone from the outside mid season and just say,
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shuffle up and deal, see what you're gonna do. Uh,
that's it. The other is McCaskey. There were a million things.
He went after, the fans, He went after all the legends,
the the the oldan Crues fifteen dollar an hour um
offered to go and be a consultant with the offensive
line was brought up, and he hummed in Hodd for
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seconds at a time, and then finally more or less
called him a liar without saying the word liar Uh
just said Olan, you know, is olan kind of thing
and doesn't always remember right or something to that effect.
But McCaskey was also asked like he's still in charge
as I guess my long way of getting to it,
saying the the board thinks he's doing a good job.
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Five members of the Borders Damn family with the same
Damn surname. Well that so that would means you're the
best of the six. Is that what you're trying to
tell me? Hey, you tell me you love succession. This
is the This is succession in real life. The Bear way,
the Bearers, the front their empire is still there. I
haven't watched the last episode, don't, but at least for
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now they've all still got their their money and there's
still some success. It's there's no one to root for. No,
there's no one to root just like succession, there's no
one to root for. I don't know who to root
for because I don't think anybody can turn this team around.
I don't know what who am I rooting for now?
I have no idea. I don't like any of these people. Yes,
the Bears front office is like succession. Yeah, so so
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the problem with all this is, and I and I
get back and I did a little podcast with a
guy in Chicago who's on the common and it'll be
up and I'll retweet it swoll Dome. But I basically said,
in this process, you've now given up. Because he asked me,
who do you want to be the coach at GM?
I go, who's to decide? Who's doing the decision making?
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And then they started to have their press conference after
we'd all recorded this, and like, can we re record?
Because I was right, I don't care who the I said,
I need to know who the decius making the decision.
And when they said George was still in charge, George mcasky,
and like, yeah, it's gonna be the same thing. No
matter how many guys they interviewed, no matter how many
coaches and GM prospective candidates, they're gonna get it wrong
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because they always do. Uh. They've had multiple bites at
the proverbial apple and they've failed in each of these issues.
And I also said, whoever does come in and it's
deciding justin fields should be on potentially on the hook too, right,
Why why is all the presumption that you have to
build around him? Maybe the coach and GM don't like it,
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not not as a person and not that he can't
become the guy, but with where he is as a
player right now, did you see a guy that was
a hundred percent yes, this guy is a sure fire star.
I sure as hell didn't. I don't know that anybody
in Chicago unless they're the sycophants and fanboys that just
want to be loved by the Bears and not thrown
out at press conferences, feel that either. So yeah, not
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much more to go on this one, but suffice to say,
mixed feelings. Right the they made the move, but then
they're still gonna go through the same process. They bring
in Bill Polly and that's the guy that's gonna help him.
Oh is he gonna turn Justin Fields to dude? Get
the Roy family? Get the Roy Family from succession. Can
we just play them whenever they start when they walk
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into a press conference, at least they would They can't
do any worse than if it was worse. It would
be more fun and I would enjoy not liking them
unlike the show, or I just don't like anybody on
the show. So it's tough to watch because I really
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you McDonald's fries the whole time. Well, that and trying
to turn Wolverine into a weapon. Those are those that right.
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do apply. Well, Bryce Young might be getting a little
bit frustrated. He just threw up a pass into triple
coverage that was intercepted at midfield by Georgia, who takes
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over down nine six early in the third quarter. Yes,
he's thrown for over two hundred yards, but Georgia has
kept Alabama out of the end zone and Young looked
like he was really forcing that one, So a big,
big mistake. Georgia definitely has the capability now to tie
this game war potentially take the lead. Uh still twelve
minutes to go in the third quarter. And this will
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keep you updated, but right now, joining us on the
hotline for Black Monday in the National Football League CBS
for its NFL Insider extraordinaire Jason Locke and Flora who
was just named general manager of the New York Giants. So, Jay,
congratulations on that. I mean, Joe Judge wanted to be
GM and the owner as well, so you had to
beat him out for that. Congratulations. Hey, I um, Joe
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Judge gets whatever he wants. That's all that anybody needs
to know. Oh, all right, there's a lot of dysfunction
we gotta deal with today. But but let's let's start
with the Giants first. Okay, we knew Dave Gentleman was
gonna go Joe Judge, we weren't sure. But he wants
to say in in in the next GM. He wants
to say in things he understands he was close to
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getting fired, right, I mean, like he's not He's not
Bill Belichick right. Well, but I mean, look, he's sense
of self and self awareness and um, he's he seems
hell bent on hanging himself, and that's still a possibility.
I mean, they haven't come out with any proclamation and
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said he's definitely back David. He hadn't done any press conferences.
I mean, there's a lot of people putting a lot
of stuff out there in the media, but he doesn't
know for sure. I mean, he had a chance to
address his team, won't. Yeah, he get him be fired yet,
So I mean that's not any huge development. Um, And
he definitely has certain people who he thinks he could
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work best with. Um, It's it's staggering that he's still
there now. But I would just say there is still
at least a chance that common sense prevails here. Well,
we'll always have the third nine quarterback sneak as a
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as a group to remember forever and ever. Uh. Down
in Miami, Brian Flores is out all the reports of
just relationship issues between Flora's players the GM. Were you
surprised by this, and you know, the proclamation of that
Harball won't get poached by them, you know, where do
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they go? Well, look, it's Hardball is still in the
middle of sort of some conversations with Michigan and you know,
one of the other teams that really likes Hardball. Uh,
it's in the playoffs, and you know, we'll see what
that means for Rich Posaccia. But certainly with the team
in the playoffs. It's not like Mark Davis is going
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to start a full Toronto approach of Jim Harball. But
it's it's clear that Hardball is not going back to Michigan.
You know, the raw said, I'm not going to steal
him from my alma mater. Well, if it's clear that
he's gone, you think he'd rather play against him or
have him on his sideline. So I would say stay
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tuned on that as well. You know, am I surprised,
um mildly? This was something I reported in November that
at that point Ross was had pretty much soured on
this guy. Now he goes on one date of his
last nine games, could something change, Well, sure that they
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haven't had a run like that in Miami and quite
some time. But but ultimately he chose to listen to
people who were in that building all the time and
listen to some of his top sort of lieutenants who
said that, you know, Brian Flores probably gonna want to
run more offensive coaches out of there yet again. And
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you know, Brian Flores, it hasn't exactly been um functional.
And you know he Chris Career, the GM was there
to serve Brian, Brian Flores, Brian Flores, whatever you could say,
how much power he had on paper. Otherwise, Chris Greer
was a pleaser. And you know, this guy got what
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he wanted and it was never good enough. And I'm
getting rid of this player, I'm getting rid of that
coach um not. You know, nothing's right, even though it's
all hand picked by him, And it just wore some
people out. You know, I mean, you fire in pr people,
you're you're meddling in the other departments outside of football.
You better win, you know what I mean. And in
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this case, he won late, but not enough in the
eyes of the owner to offset um, the internal issues
in that building and also the big hole that he
dug for himself. So it's not it's a common refrain.
A lot of guys who worked under Belichick, they get
out from the nest and this is what it looks
like now, Jay. Now there's there's what's inside the building
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in Miami. There's the lack of self awareness by Joe Judge.
And then there's the Chicago Bears. No surprise today, all right,
you know Ryan Pace and and Matt Naggy both let go.
George McCaskey has this rambling press conference. He's elevant reporters,
he's making crazy analogies. You know, if you're trying to
sell me on Chicago Bears football, there's better ways to
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do it than what happened to me. This will pull
your pants down and spank yourself Monday. I mean, there
was there's a lot of people on masking themselves. Um yeah, Well,
and then over the weekend we had the Jags team
president basically coming out and giving a statement to the
paper down there in Jacksonville that we really don't care
about fans sentiment you know. Uh, yeah, it's an interesting
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time to be a decision maker in the NFL. UM. Look,
it's hard to do when you've got it, when you're
in a city like Chicago and you've got a fan
base like that and you you have that sort of
tradition and you've been this bad for this long. Um,
it takes some doing. It takes people making incompetent decisions,
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and they've done a lot of that, and are they
going to get it right this time? I boy, I
don't know. I don't know the same guys making the decisions.
So I mean, you know, it's hard. You know, it's
why are these same people always sort of in these
same awkward press conference positions every two to three years. Um.
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Everything I've heard is that there has been a sense
of kind of trying to get back into their past,
and there is this sort of allure of various people
who had success here at various times in the past
to understand what it's like to be in Hollis Hall
when we're a winning franchise and maybe we need to
reconnect with that. And you know, whether that's Leslie Fraser, um,
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whether that's Jim Harball, you know, whether that's Rod Graves.
I mean there's been a bunch of different names that
I've heard sort of connected to that thing in various capacities. Um,
but nothing's really been that close to working lately, not
on a sustained basis, that's for sure. Absolutely insane. CBS
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Sports Jason lock And for with us year at the
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Baltimore as well, and Jason, the season ends for for
the Ravens, but new life and new hope for Ben Roethlisberger.
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I thought he'd done his final waves, and here he is.
He's like a vampire, like a zombie. You can't you
can't kill him off, you know, like it's there's always
another life, there's always another comeback, there's always another when
there's always another tiebreaker that they survive. Um, that's a
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really flawed football team, you know. It's another situation where
I think they had a thirty seven plays for a
twenty six yards through three quarters. I mean they were
doing absolutely nothing, and then they took the game over,
held the ball for eleven minutes in the fourth quarter,
and went it in overtime. Um. It's it's a unique career,
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it really is. And for him to have had his
first NFL playing experience being kind of thrown to the
Wolves at Baltimore as a rookie when Tommy maddox is
knocked out and then to have an end you know,
against that bitter arrival in Baltimore, you know, on a
thirty degree day in a pouring rain. Um to come
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back with another fourth quarter, Um, come back and knock
them out of the playoffs and end up project acting yourself.
And it's very big, Ben. And do I think they
can you know, I think they will beat Kansas City? No,
I don't. But like at this point, am I gonna
say no? Because they had no business beating Baltimore the
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first time. Let along yesterday, they had no business beating Tennessee.
You know, they had no business almost coming back and
beating the Vikings when they had given up twenty nine
points and three hundred yards in the first half. You know,
I mean, but all the tiebreakers fell for them. I
mean they really I mean, if Brandon Staley doesn't call
it time out. They're probably not in the playoffs. I'm
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not going to say they have no chance to beat
the Cheers. No, look the Steelers. Look, all they gotta
do is a couple of seven play drives for twenty
eight yards. They don't need to score, but they just
keep the ball away from the homes and they win
three nothing. I mean, it could just happen that way,
it could, you know, Jay watching seven sacks, I mean,
who now, look now you brought up you brought up
Brandon Staley in the time out last night and everything
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that went along with it. We're trying to break this down.
And you know, I don't give him as much flak
for the time out I do on the fourth and
two early the fourth down gambling Riverboat Ron rivera persona
that he has had this year has cost them at
least two games. I mean, I think Staley is a
good coach. Boat. Wow, he's his own worst enemy so
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many times. Yeah, I mean, we'll have to see if
he's a good coach. Um. I like him a lot personally,
and I understand why he was hired, and and I
believe in a lot of what he believes him. But
everything in moderation, you know, there has to be sub
middle ground. I mean, when you're going for it from
your own eight team in the third quarter of a
one possession game, that's going to determine your season, uh
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that you know, and you have justin Herbert, So it's
not like you've got to force something there. It gives
me paulse you know his defense, well, was it very effective?
Wasn't very good? Is for pretty much all the season?
You know that's that's not great? Um, I don't know.
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Guys like the two guys, the two coaches who kind
of became the face of this thing this season of
kind of taking it, pushing it to the limit with
the fourth down stuff and two point conversions and all
the mathematical edges were Brandon Stali and John Harball, right,
and they combined probably fell six points in forty five
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yards on the wrong side of the playoff ledger in
large part or at least in some part, because of
the decisions they made. Now why we kind of referenced
it and getting to the tiebreakers falling into place. What
do you make of Indianapolis and what can they do
(27:51):
with Carson Wentz No I mean he's the picking time bomb,
you know, and the weeks where he you know, he
got on a pretty good little run there where they
weren't asking to do a ton. It was limited, but
he was getting it done and he wasn't turning the
ball over on the road. And when you can run
the ball like they do and the quarterback doesn't mess
it up on the road and you've got a pretty
good defense, then you probably beat a lot of teams
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you're supposed to beat. But he just never I don't
know if it was Covid guys, you know they lost
two games. He plays the Raiders game, but he's not
super sharp. Um, you know, unbacked guy Mrs Time with
Covid didn't practice that week obviously. Uh. And then in
this game he was in a total fog. It just
I mean, even like they're down three scores in the
(28:35):
second half and you're like, bro, like you need to move.
You don't get the play in and go, like you
gotta be sprinting around like this is it, this is
your season, And there was just sort of this disconnect there. Um.
But no, he's like the Colts keep running into the
same thing, Like the quarterback at the end of the day,
(28:59):
is ends up being h too limited to get you
where you want to go. I do like a lot
of other things about that roster. I believe in Frank Reich.
And you know, if you would have told me Christmas
night that these guys were gonna, you know, missed the
playoffs after they went to Arizona, would have depleted roster
(29:21):
and bullyed them. I would have said, no way. You know,
even with Carson Wents and I think that night he
only completed like five passes or something like that, but
they still played bullyball. I would have said, no way. Um.
So yeah, they're gonna have to figure something out at
the quarterback position and it's not gonna be easy. Um,
we'll see what Chris Ballard can figure out there. You
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We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the games always
my pleasure. Gentlemen, have a great week. Thank you, Thank
great stuff there from Jason lock and forth. Look coming
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you exactly. I can't get over how many people are
(30:04):
misconstruing the end of that Raider Charger game last night,
for what happened in the time outs and all because
we're we're gonna be able to set you straight on
all that stuff coming up in a few minutes, because really,
it baffled me last night when it was going on,
and it baffled me today. I feel like everybody just
jumped and said, oh, we called time out, no change out.
I'm like, well, I think it goes a little bit
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National Championship game. It is now thirteen nine, Georgia with
the lead over Alabama as the big play and t J.
James Cook taking the bus for sixty seven yards deep
into Alabama territory and then Zamir White goes in from
a couple of yards out to give Georgia the lead.
(31:51):
So finally we have a touchdown. It happened you got
the big play and explosive issue wanted after the missfield
go remember went past the line of image. So if
you're playing college fantasy football, it's not a block, it's
just a miss. But they get the ball at the
twenties Rips off the sixty seven yard run. Uh extra
(32:11):
little face masks mix, they're in to get the ball
to the one and they punch it in and well,
now we've got some scoring. Now it's up to twenty two.
So if you bet an in game under, you're in trouble, buddy.
So we'll keep you updated on this again. Thirteen nine
Alabama getting the football back now down four with a
little bit over a minute left to go in the
(32:32):
third quarter. But with today being Black Monday in the NFL, right,
we saw a lot of jobs open up. The Giants
need a new GM. Joe Judges staying at least for now,
Brian Flores let go as Dolphins head coach, Matt Naggie
and Ryan Pace let go in Chicago. Look, there's a
lot of drama and things that go along with all
these jobs. Right, you watched Chicago today and the George
(32:55):
mccowsky press conference. You go, why the hell would I
go there? Oh my goodness, the dysfunction. The same thing
in Miami. Brian Flores, who had a pretty good last
couple of years but now doesn't get along with players allegedly,
and the owner comes in and steps in and says, yeah,
I'm making a change. And two is our guy? Oh
is that really a good job? The Giants going in
(33:15):
his GM there that they're an absolute mess. The gig
to get where you can win right away? Right, Like,
what's the best job to have? Because you know there's
only thirty two jobs the NFL. They say it all
the times, only thirty two jobs. Okay, yes, you would
love to get one of the big market jobs. You
love to get the Giants job or the Bears job,
but you also want to be a head coach more
than a couple of years before you get let go
(33:36):
and after go be a special teams coach again. Uh,
the best place to go and this is where you
should be lining up to go is Minnesota. All right.
You are coming in with a new GM. It is
a it is a brand new slate and you're coming
with the roster that is loaded. You have a lot
of offensive weapons on there. Your defense didn't come the
(33:56):
The defense wasn't as good this years. I thought spent
a lot of money in free agent see and it
all didn't come through. But this is still a loaded
roster with so much talent and and maybe the best
wide receiver in the NFL. Outside of Cooper Cup. So
you have a lot there and you look at the division.
What are you seeing? The Bears are starting over there,
a mess. Aaron Rodgers may not be in Green Bay
(34:18):
after this year, and suddenly it's Jordan's Love and the
Lions are the Lions. So you tell me where you're
gonna go, and you're gonna say, Hey, this is where
I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna win right away, and
I can have this job for eight years like Mike
Zimmer did. The Vikings are the job. It's weird because, look,
they're not nearly on the map as much as these
other jobs are. Because you're talking about the big you're
talking about all top five markets in New York, Chicago, Miami.
(34:39):
But if you want to go win someplace, the Vikings
is that it's set up for you to win. Just
go in, get a couple of good players defensively to
come in and fill some holes, and suddenly you can
run rough shot over that division next year. Yeah, it's
funny because the other team that has all the talent
but obviously not an advantageous schedule, i e. Six games
a year within division is Denver, right, because on both
(35:01):
sides the ball. You've already re upped your wide receivers.
You got Javonte Williams, and you go and you gotta
figure out your quarterback position. But you've got a lot
of other things in the proverbial cupboard. When you look
at Minnesota, Look, Aaron Rodgers not going anywhere. Let's do
this again. Let's start it right now. He ain't going anywhere.
I don't care if his best friends from green Bay
(35:23):
have been sought for, you know, preliminary interviews in Denver.
It doesn't matter. They're not gonna trade him. He can
go walk the earth before anything. But yeah, Minnesota's in Chicago.
I'm not gonna do it. Seems like you're mentally beaten. No,
(35:45):
that press conference with George McCaskey was one of the
more agonizing forty seven minutes because it counts is work
like that's work in show prep and life prep and
you're you know where where It's like they he's alienated
so many, like I think on a porter before there
was even one question to yell at ret that's the point.
He's yelling at reporters, he's yelling at the fans, you know,
(36:06):
talking about how they treated Matt Maggie, he's getting into
an owl. And Cruz. It's famous that anybody that's even
talks to the media, if you're a veteran player, he
wants no part of you. And he even kind of
alluded to such in that press conference. Uh and then
gave you really no hope because there's still the decision makers.
And then I like the fighting Campbell's of what they
might be able to build, but they still got to
(36:27):
figure out a quarterback? Is that Jared Goff? I mean,
DeAndre Swift is a beast. I'm on raw St Brown
is a monster. So and Hockinson went healthy. There's three
guys on your offense right there. You go, Okay, I
can work with this. Uh and and that's it. So yeah, Minnesota,
by default you should be playoff worthy. You know, win
a couple of those one score games late. Just flip it,
(36:51):
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up ter on Black Monday also known as the National Championship?
And why do we need to talk about this game
when we still could talk about the Chargers and Raiders
(00:44):
for four hours? We might actually get to more coaching
points than uh what you might have heard over the
last boy smoking hot like fire. Add to that the
at least for me, my phone blowing up. You know,
I I don't didn't know there were so many memes
circling around the Wizard of Oz. Well, you know, there
(01:08):
is a there's a new day for everything, and you
don't know when what meme is going to be a
big deal on which day? Who knew? Well, like you said,
which day it was all the which melting or the
munchkins dancing around that the Bears it cleaned house, except
they really didn't clean house. We'll talk about that. That's
the night goes on. But what a weekend. What a weekend, buddy.
(01:30):
And then then we come back and well we've got
full slate of NBA and this national title field goal
kicking contest. Yeah. Look, I always call it a good
Black Monday when the Jets aren't firing a coach, because
that happens every couple of years, so it's like an
off year in the cycle, like next year at this time,
maybe we're doing it again. So I've been joining the
one year off. Yeah, I think said of every seventeen years,
(01:51):
it's every other year. But that's okay. Yes, plenty of
big change in the National Football League. Will get to
that in the second. But right now, smack dab in
the middle of the nash An Old Championship game, Alabama
leads Georgia at halftime nine to six. Not exactly the
game we were expecting. Uh, probably a little bit more offense,
probably at least one touchdown in the first half, but uh,
(02:12):
this is the game we're getting so far, and you know,
I think the the one thing to take away from
this first half is that Georgia is keeping Alabama at
bay by getting pressure on Bryce Young and specifically doing
exactly what Kirby Smart said in the pregame, like right
before they got in the field, said we got to
get off the field on third down. You know that,
(02:33):
that's what it is, and you hear that all the time.
We gotta but that really is what it has been
for this game, and and going back to the SEC
Championship game and moving on from that is that George
has got to get off the field and the third
down Alabama will wear you out. And so far they've
been able to pressure Bryce Young a lot and a
lot of free runs at him, and he doesn't have
(02:53):
a lot of time to throw. He still found a
way to throw for a two yards, but still on
third down on pressure downs, George has been able to
you enough. Now that's keeping them into it at this point,
it's not controlling the game. Uh, the second half could
be different the more Alabama's offenses on the field, because
Georgia clearly has had a tough time moving the football.
But right now, Georgia being able to get after Bryce
(03:14):
young and pressure him has kept them in this game.
Neither team able to run the ball with any efficiency
to this point, Man, as we look at it, you know,
you include sacks on these things, which always gets a
little bit weird. But you're looking at thirty six total
rushing yards, you've got seven penalties for Georgia. That's one
you circle as you flow. And obviously the injury to
Jamison Williams uh the one that the big hit and
(03:37):
halftime comes and now you make adjustments right in the
Alabama locker room trying to figure out exactly how you
twist your playbook, and and the calls to integrate all
those young talented I mean, the next five star guys
right pop up. But Nick Saban, obviously a level of
concerned is as he walked to the locker room, you know,
(03:59):
under his own power. But that, as we know, doesn't
it doesn't mean a whole lot. He was in the
injury tent for quite a while, and you saw a
number of teammates on the broadcast trying to peek in
to get a glimpse as to what the hell was
going on, which is never a good sign with that level.
But Uh, to your point, it's it's about getting off
the field. Bowl teams doing a good job limiting third
(04:20):
down conversions as combined six for seventeen. The thing about
this the game speed is absurd. It's like a video game.
You wanted the linebackers Front seven, How fast they all are?
How fast you watch and go? Man, my team has
no shot to ever play for national type. There was
a Front seven Dallas Turner linebacker gets past the tackle,
(04:44):
basically runs around him. He does this securitist route to
get back to to get after and sack Bennett. It
was amazing. It was like wow, I mean that is,
you know, zero and a sixty just like that. And
so watching the speed in the lesions, I mean, turn
up the volumes if you've got the extra you know,
subwoofers in your house. Man, the crackle of the pads
(05:08):
is coming through on a whole other level, giving you chills.
I think you're just an extension of Sunday because right now,
I mean, it's it's the Jaguars Bills game. Oh look
at you, hey, send in the cloudy should have pissed
Trevor Lawrence off earlier. It was unflappable with everything else. Wait,
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as it goes in the third and fourth quarter. And
and really, the the the speed of the Front seven.
You know just what You watch this game and you go,
my goodness, everything is so fast, so quick twitch. Everybody
is so on top of things, and and it makes
you appreciate the game but also makes you feel like, yeah,
my team just makes the playoff. I'm feeling okay about that.
(06:10):
Like Michigan right now, it's gonna be going, oh maybe,
well maybe we're just okay to make the play for
Cincinnati's saying the same thing, Oh maybe we were just
happy to make that for that's why we should expand
the playoff, because it's more of a victory. Didn't get there,
Because when you're playing teams like this that are this
loaded defensively and this fast, good luck. I mean, I'm
doing a full first round mock draft out of this
(06:32):
this game. It's everybody you don't you take anybody else. Wait,
he's a freshman, he's only played three three games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just that level of speed and efficiency, and I
think the groundcovered sideline to sideline, I mean, obviously today
one of one of the great great notes as we
we go on with college football and and to get
(06:54):
transition to the NFL, momentarily, our buddy LaVar Arrington, our
team made here in Fox Sports Radio goes into the
College Ball Hall of Fame, and you remember him sideline
to sideline. There was there was no escaping, right, it
was like Bobby Boucher screaming. He actually said he was
one of the inspiration and talked to them about that film.
That's a whole other story that'll show up in a book.
But like it's watching this like, all right, that guy's
(07:15):
gonna get to the edge, isn't he Nope, got there
first and wait to him waiting on. So that's what
we're watching here in this this title game. It's just crazy.
Oh boy, So we'll have more on this again. You know,
Katie Perry performing a very good song here at halftime.
But we'll have more on the action when it does resume. Meanwhile, yes,
(07:35):
today Black Monday in the National Football League. That's is
when everybody wonders, are they gonna be called into the
coaches off and saying Flynn Stone And that's what happened.
We had Dave Gettleman GM of the Giants quote resigned
after a horrible four year stretches. General manager Brian Flores
has fired as Dolphins head coach. Maybe the one, probably
(07:58):
if any of them are that you have to say, um,
maybe I did expect that today, that's the one. But
the other ones we all knew. Mike Zimmer, we knew
that he was on thin ice and that was gonna happen.
Rick Spielman also let go in Minnesota, and uh really
to no surprise. Matt Naggie and Ryan Pace both let
go in Chicago and as part of the dysfunction for
(08:20):
your Chicago Bears, my carm and it got so bad
that Matt Naggie was asking George mc caskey, who do
you want to see a quar back? And what's just
something who you want to put it? I'll put him
in a quarterback. That's my favorite part of the day. George,
you tell me, man, I'm just a coach. Who do
you want to see? I'll put anybody. I'll you know,
if we can bring back Vince Evens, I'll put him
in the game. If you say Vince Evens, I'll put
(08:41):
Vince Evans in, I'll put him in. Who do you
want to see? That's who I'll go for a quarterback. Oh,
that was my favorite part of today. You know, you
tell me who you want, I'll put him in now, can.
I mean, obviously I've got many long diet tribes about this,
but I'll just I'll take this piece of this pie
right now. It's the fact that George McCaskey allowed Matt
(09:01):
Naggety continued coaching at that point. And we've talked about
it a lot. So long as there was an active contract,
Matt Naggie wasn't getting fired, and that was one of
the concerns as they started playing well against Minnesota yesterday.
I remember I talked about it a long while ago.
There were a couple of reports of super Sluice in
Chicago talking about biographies and and how contracts status for
(09:23):
Naggie and Pace had always been included. And then suddenly
it wasn't. So there was a fear slash potential belief
that they've been extended quietly through two turns out that's
not the case, because I guarantee if there was still
money on the contract, they were gonna bleed it, uh
and make Naggy suffer along with the rest of us
for another year. But if the guy comes to you
(09:43):
in a crisis of conscience during the year, I just
don't know, George, who tells you flat out, I am
not a football guy. I don't know who to play
a quarterback. Okay, Matt Naggie should have been fired on
the spot, right, that's it. Whether it's Bill Laser, you
hire someone from the outside mid season and just say,
(10:03):
shuffle up and deal, see what you're gonna do. Uh,
that's it. The other is McCaskey. There were a million things.
He went after, the fans, He went after all the legends,
the the the oldan Crues fifteen dollar an hour um
offered to go and be a consultant with the offensive
line was brought up, and he hummed in Hodd for
(10:25):
seconds at a time, and then finally more or less
called him a liar without saying the word liar Uh
just said Olan, you know, is olan kind of thing
and doesn't always remember right or something to that effect.
But McCaskey was also asked like he's still in charge
as I guess my long way of getting to it,
saying the the board thinks he's doing a good job.
(10:48):
Five members of the Borders Damn family with the same
Damn surname. Well that so that would means you're the
best of the six. Is that what you're trying to
tell me? Hey, you tell me you love succession. This
is the This is succession in real life. The Bear way,
the Bearers, the front their empire is still there. I
haven't watched the last episode, don't, but at least for
(11:10):
now they've all still got their their money and there's
still some success. It's there's no one to root for. No,
there's no one to root just like succession, there's no
one to root for. I don't know who to root
for because I don't think anybody can turn this team around.
I don't know what who am I rooting for now?
I have no idea. I don't like any of these people. Yes,
the Bears front office is like succession. Yeah, so so
(11:32):
the problem with all this is, and I and I
get back and I did a little podcast with a
guy in Chicago who's on the common and it'll be
up and I'll retweet it swoll Dome. But I basically said,
in this process, you've now given up. Because he asked me,
who do you want to be the coach at GM?
I go, who's to decide? Who's doing the decision making?
(11:54):
And then they started to have their press conference after
we'd all recorded this, and like, can we re record?
Because I was right, I don't care who the I said,
I need to know who the decius making the decision.
And when they said George was still in charge, George mcasky,
and like, yeah, it's gonna be the same thing. No
matter how many guys they interviewed, no matter how many
coaches and GM prospective candidates, they're gonna get it wrong
(12:16):
because they always do. Uh. They've had multiple bites at
the proverbial apple and they've failed in each of these issues.
And I also said, whoever does come in and it's
deciding justin fields should be on potentially on the hook too, right,
Why why is all the presumption that you have to
build around him? Maybe the coach and GM don't like it,
(12:37):
not not as a person and not that he can't
become the guy, but with where he is as a
player right now, did you see a guy that was
a hundred percent yes, this guy is a sure fire star.
I sure as hell didn't. I don't know that anybody
in Chicago unless they're the sycophants and fanboys that just
want to be loved by the Bears and not thrown
out at press conferences, feel that either. So yeah, not
(13:00):
much more to go on this one, but suffice to say,
mixed feelings. Right the they made the move, but then
they're still gonna go through the same process. They bring
in Bill Polly and that's the guy that's gonna help him.
Oh is he gonna turn Justin Fields to dude? Get
the Roy family? Get the Roy Family from succession. Can
we just play them whenever they start when they walk
(13:22):
into a press conference, at least they would They can't
do any worse than if it was worse. It would
be more fun and I would enjoy not liking them
unlike the show, or I just don't like anybody on
the show. So it's tough to watch because I really
have what you think about Brian Cox trying to sell
you McDonald's fries the whole time. Well, that and trying
to turn Wolverine into a weapon. Those are those that right.
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do apply. Well, Bryce Young might be getting a little
bit frustrated. He just threw up a pass into triple
coverage that was intercepted at midfield by Georgia, who takes
(15:59):
over down nine six early in the third quarter. Yes,
he's thrown for over two hundred yards, but Georgia has
kept Alabama out of the end zone and Young looked
like he was really forcing that one, So a big,
big mistake. Georgia definitely has the capability now to tie
this game war potentially take the lead. Uh still twelve
minutes to go in the third quarter. And this will
(16:20):
keep you updated, but right now, joining us on the
hotline for Black Monday in the National Football League CBS
for its NFL Insider extraordinaire Jason Locke and Flora who
was just named general manager of the New York Giants. So, Jay,
congratulations on that. I mean, Joe Judge wanted to be
GM and the owner as well, so you had to
beat him out for that. Congratulations. Hey, I um, Joe
(16:44):
Judge gets whatever he wants. That's all that anybody needs
to know. Oh, all right, there's a lot of dysfunction
we gotta deal with today. But but let's let's start
with the Giants first. Okay, we knew Dave Gentleman was
gonna go Joe Judge, we weren't sure. But he wants
to say in in in the next GM. He wants
to say in things he understands he was close to
(17:05):
getting fired, right, I mean, like he's not He's not
Bill Belichick right. Well, but I mean, look, he's sense
of self and self awareness and um, he's he seems
hell bent on hanging himself, and that's still a possibility.
I mean, they haven't come out with any proclamation and
(17:26):
said he's definitely back David. He hadn't done any press conferences.
I mean, there's a lot of people putting a lot
of stuff out there in the media, but he doesn't
know for sure. I mean, he had a chance to
address his team, won't. Yeah, he get him be fired yet,
So I mean that's not any huge development. Um, And
he definitely has certain people who he thinks he could
(17:47):
work best with. Um, It's it's staggering that he's still
there now. But I would just say there is still
at least a chance that common sense prevails here. Well,
we'll always have the third nine quarterback sneak as a
(18:08):
as a group to remember forever and ever. Uh. Down
in Miami, Brian Flores is out all the reports of
just relationship issues between Flora's players the GM. Were you
surprised by this, and you know, the proclamation of that
Harball won't get poached by them, you know, where do
(18:29):
they go? Well, look, it's Hardball is still in the
middle of sort of some conversations with Michigan and you know,
one of the other teams that really likes Hardball. Uh,
it's in the playoffs, and you know, we'll see what
that means for Rich Posaccia. But certainly with the team
in the playoffs. It's not like Mark Davis is going
(18:50):
to start a full Toronto approach of Jim Harball. But
it's it's clear that Hardball is not going back to Michigan.
You know, the raw said, I'm not going to steal
him from my alma mater. Well, if it's clear that
he's gone, you think he'd rather play against him or
have him on his sideline. So I would say stay
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tuned on that as well. You know, am I surprised,
um mildly? This was something I reported in November that
at that point Ross was had pretty much soured on
this guy. Now he goes on one date of his
last nine games, could something change, Well, sure that they
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haven't had a run like that in Miami and quite
some time. But but ultimately he chose to listen to
people who were in that building all the time and
listen to some of his top sort of lieutenants who
said that, you know, Brian Flores probably gonna want to
run more offensive coaches out of there yet again. And
(19:54):
you know, Brian Flores, it hasn't exactly been um functional.
And you know he Chris Career, the GM was there
to serve Brian, Brian Flores, Brian Flores, whatever you could say,
how much power he had on paper. Otherwise, Chris Greer
was a pleaser. And you know, this guy got what
(20:15):
he wanted and it was never good enough. And I'm
getting rid of this player, I'm getting rid of that
coach um not. You know, nothing's right, even though it's
all hand picked by him, And it just wore some
people out. You know, I mean, you fire in pr people,
you're you're meddling in the other departments outside of football.
You better win, you know what I mean. And in
(20:36):
this case, he won late, but not enough in the
eyes of the owner to offset um, the internal issues
in that building and also the big hole that he
dug for himself. So it's not it's a common refrain.
A lot of guys who worked under Belichick, they get
out from the nest and this is what it looks
like now, Jay. Now there's there's what's inside the building
(21:01):
in Miami. There's the lack of self awareness by Joe Judge.
And then there's the Chicago Bears. No surprise today, all right,
you know Ryan Pace and and Matt Naggy both let go.
George McCaskey has this rambling press conference. He's elevant reporters,
he's making crazy analogies. You know, if you're trying to
sell me on Chicago Bears football, there's better ways to
(21:22):
do it than what happened to me. This will pull
your pants down and spank yourself Monday. I mean, there
was there's a lot of people on masking themselves. Um yeah, Well,
and then over the weekend we had the Jags team
president basically coming out and giving a statement to the
paper down there in Jacksonville that we really don't care
about fans sentiment you know. Uh, yeah, it's an interesting
(21:44):
time to be a decision maker in the NFL. UM. Look,
it's hard to do when you've got it, when you're
in a city like Chicago and you've got a fan
base like that and you you have that sort of
tradition and you've been this bad for this long. Um,
it takes some doing. It takes people making incompetent decisions,
(22:09):
and they've done a lot of that, and are they
going to get it right this time? I boy, I
don't know. I don't know the same guys making the decisions.
So I mean, you know, it's hard. You know, it's
why are these same people always sort of in these
same awkward press conference positions every two to three years. Um.
(22:34):
Everything I've heard is that there has been a sense
of kind of trying to get back into their past,
and there is this sort of allure of various people
who had success here at various times in the past
to understand what it's like to be in Hollis Hall
when we're a winning franchise and maybe we need to
reconnect with that. And you know, whether that's Leslie Fraser, um,
(23:00):
whether that's Jim Harball, you know, whether that's Rod Graves.
I mean there's been a bunch of different names that
I've heard sort of connected to that thing in various capacities. Um,
but nothing's really been that close to working lately, not
on a sustained basis, that's for sure. Absolutely insane. CBS
(23:23):
Sports Jason lock And for with us year at the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmond, Fox Sports Radio as
we wrap up the regular season get to the playoffs,
followed Jason on Twitter at Jason Lockin for you can
hear my one oh five seven the fans there in
Baltimore as well, and Jason, the season ends for for
the Ravens, but new life and new hope for Ben Roethlisberger.
(23:46):
I thought he'd done his final waves, and here he is.
He's like a vampire, like a zombie. You can't you
can't kill him off, you know, like it's there's always
another life, there's always another comeback, there's always another when
there's always another tiebreaker that they survive. Um, that's a
(24:07):
really flawed football team, you know. It's another situation where
I think they had a thirty seven plays for a
twenty six yards through three quarters. I mean they were
doing absolutely nothing, and then they took the game over,
held the ball for eleven minutes in the fourth quarter,
and went it in overtime. Um. It's it's a unique career,
(24:30):
it really is. And for him to have had his
first NFL playing experience being kind of thrown to the
Wolves at Baltimore as a rookie when Tommy maddox is
knocked out and then to have an end you know,
against that bitter arrival in Baltimore, you know, on a
thirty degree day in a pouring rain. Um to come
(24:54):
back with another fourth quarter, Um, come back and knock
them out of the playoffs and end up project acting yourself.
And it's very big, Ben. And do I think they
can you know, I think they will beat Kansas City? No,
I don't. But like at this point, am I gonna
say no? Because they had no business beating Baltimore the
(25:18):
first time. Let along yesterday, they had no business beating Tennessee.
You know, they had no business almost coming back and
beating the Vikings when they had given up twenty nine
points and three hundred yards in the first half. You know,
I mean, but all the tiebreakers fell for them. I
mean they really I mean, if Brandon Staley doesn't call
it time out. They're probably not in the playoffs. I'm
(25:42):
not going to say they have no chance to beat
the Cheers. No, look the Steelers. Look, all they gotta
do is a couple of seven play drives for twenty
eight yards. They don't need to score, but they just
keep the ball away from the homes and they win
three nothing. I mean, it could just happen that way,
it could, you know, Jay watching seven sacks, I mean,
who now, look now you brought up you brought up
Brandon Staley in the time out last night and everything
(26:04):
that went along with it. We're trying to break this down.
And you know, I don't give him as much flak
for the time out I do on the fourth and
two early the fourth down gambling Riverboat Ron rivera persona
that he has had this year has cost them at
least two games. I mean, I think Staley is a
good coach. Boat. Wow, he's his own worst enemy so
(26:24):
many times. Yeah, I mean, we'll have to see if
he's a good coach. Um. I like him a lot personally,
and I understand why he was hired, and and I
believe in a lot of what he believes him. But
everything in moderation, you know, there has to be sub
middle ground. I mean, when you're going for it from
your own eight team in the third quarter of a
one possession game, that's going to determine your season, uh
(26:47):
that you know, and you have justin Herbert, So it's
not like you've got to force something there. It gives
me paulse you know his defense, well, was it very effective?
Wasn't very good? Is for pretty much all the season?
You know that's that's not great? Um, I don't know.
(27:09):
Guys like the two guys, the two coaches who kind
of became the face of this thing this season of
kind of taking it, pushing it to the limit with
the fourth down stuff and two point conversions and all
the mathematical edges were Brandon Stali and John Harball, right,
and they combined probably fell six points in forty five
(27:31):
yards on the wrong side of the playoff ledger in
large part or at least in some part, because of
the decisions they made. Now why we kind of referenced
it and getting to the tiebreakers falling into place. What
do you make of Indianapolis and what can they do
(27:51):
with Carson Wentz No I mean he's the picking time bomb,
you know, and the weeks where he you know, he
got on a pretty good little run there where they
weren't asking to do a ton. It was limited, but
he was getting it done and he wasn't turning the
ball over on the road. And when you can run
the ball like they do and the quarterback doesn't mess
it up on the road and you've got a pretty
good defense, then you probably beat a lot of teams
(28:14):
you're supposed to beat. But he just never I don't
know if it was Covid guys, you know they lost
two games. He plays the Raiders game, but he's not
super sharp. Um, you know, unbacked guy Mrs Time with
Covid didn't practice that week obviously. Uh. And then in
this game he was in a total fog. It just
I mean, even like they're down three scores in the
(28:35):
second half and you're like, bro, like you need to move.
You don't get the play in and go, like you
gotta be sprinting around like this is it, this is
your season, And there was just sort of this disconnect there. Um.
But no, he's like the Colts keep running into the
same thing, Like the quarterback at the end of the day,
(28:59):
is ends up being h too limited to get you
where you want to go. I do like a lot
of other things about that roster. I believe in Frank Reich.
And you know, if you would have told me Christmas
night that these guys were gonna, you know, missed the
playoffs after they went to Arizona, would have depleted roster
(29:21):
and bullyed them. I would have said, no way. You know,
even with Carson Wents and I think that night he
only completed like five passes or something like that, but
they still played bullyball. I would have said, no way. Um.
So yeah, they're gonna have to figure something out at
the quarterback position and it's not gonna be easy. Um,
we'll see what Chris Ballard can figure out there. You
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can follow me on Twitter at Jason lock and for
that is at Jason lock and for a CBS Sports
NFL Insider. J As always my friend, appreciate your time.
We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the games always
my pleasure. Gentlemen, have a great week. Thank you, Thank
great stuff there from Jason lock and forth. Look coming
up in a few minutes we'll get into We'll tell
you exactly. I can't get over how many people are
(30:04):
misconstruing the end of that Raider Charger game last night,
for what happened in the time outs and all because
we're we're gonna be able to set you straight on
all that stuff coming up in a few minutes, because really,
it baffled me last night when it was going on,
and it baffled me today. I feel like everybody just
jumped and said, oh, we called time out, no change out.
I'm like, well, I think it goes a little bit
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(31:30):
National Championship game. It is now thirteen nine, Georgia with
the lead over Alabama as the big play and t J.
James Cook taking the bus for sixty seven yards deep
into Alabama territory and then Zamir White goes in from
a couple of yards out to give Georgia the lead.
(31:51):
So finally we have a touchdown. It happened you got
the big play and explosive issue wanted after the missfield
go remember went past the line of image. So if
you're playing college fantasy football, it's not a block, it's
just a miss. But they get the ball at the
twenties Rips off the sixty seven yard run. Uh extra
(32:11):
little face masks mix, they're in to get the ball
to the one and they punch it in and well,
now we've got some scoring. Now it's up to twenty two.
So if you bet an in game under, you're in trouble, buddy.
So we'll keep you updated on this again. Thirteen nine
Alabama getting the football back now down four with a
little bit over a minute left to go in the
(32:32):
third quarter. But with today being Black Monday in the NFL, right,
we saw a lot of jobs open up. The Giants
need a new GM. Joe Judges staying at least for now,
Brian Flores let go as Dolphins head coach, Matt Naggie
and Ryan Pace let go in Chicago. Look, there's a
lot of drama and things that go along with all
these jobs. Right, you watched Chicago today and the George
(32:55):
mccowsky press conference. You go, why the hell would I
go there? Oh my goodness, the dysfunction. The same thing
in Miami. Brian Flores, who had a pretty good last
couple of years but now doesn't get along with players allegedly,
and the owner comes in and steps in and says, yeah,
I'm making a change. And two is our guy? Oh
is that really a good job? The Giants going in
(33:15):
his GM there that they're an absolute mess. The gig
to get where you can win right away? Right, Like,
what's the best job to have? Because you know there's
only thirty two jobs the NFL. They say it all
the times, only thirty two jobs. Okay, yes, you would
love to get one of the big market jobs. You
love to get the Giants job or the Bears job,
but you also want to be a head coach more
than a couple of years before you get let go
(33:36):
and after go be a special teams coach again. Uh,
the best place to go and this is where you
should be lining up to go is Minnesota. All right.
You are coming in with a new GM. It is
a it is a brand new slate and you're coming
with the roster that is loaded. You have a lot
of offensive weapons on there. Your defense didn't come the
(33:56):
The defense wasn't as good this years. I thought spent
a lot of money in free agent see and it
all didn't come through. But this is still a loaded
roster with so much talent and and maybe the best
wide receiver in the NFL. Outside of Cooper Cup. So
you have a lot there and you look at the division.
What are you seeing? The Bears are starting over there,
a mess. Aaron Rodgers may not be in Green Bay
(34:18):
after this year, and suddenly it's Jordan's Love and the
Lions are the Lions. So you tell me where you're
gonna go, and you're gonna say, Hey, this is where
I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna win right away, and
I can have this job for eight years like Mike
Zimmer did. The Vikings are the job. It's weird because, look,
they're not nearly on the map as much as these
other jobs are. Because you're talking about the big you're
talking about all top five markets in New York, Chicago, Miami.
(34:39):
But if you want to go win someplace, the Vikings
is that it's set up for you to win. Just
go in, get a couple of good players defensively to
come in and fill some holes, and suddenly you can
run rough shot over that division next year. Yeah, it's
funny because the other team that has all the talent
but obviously not an advantageous schedule, i e. Six games
a year within division is Denver, right, because on both
(35:01):
sides the ball. You've already re upped your wide receivers.
You got Javonte Williams, and you go and you gotta
figure out your quarterback position. But you've got a lot
of other things in the proverbial cupboard. When you look
at Minnesota, Look, Aaron Rodgers not going anywhere. Let's do
this again. Let's start it right now. He ain't going anywhere.
I don't care if his best friends from green Bay
(35:23):
have been sought for, you know, preliminary interviews in Denver.
It doesn't matter. They're not gonna trade him. He can
go walk the earth before anything. But yeah, Minnesota's in Chicago.
I'm not gonna do it. Seems like you're mentally beaten. No,
(35:45):
that press conference with George McCaskey was one of the
more agonizing forty seven minutes because it counts is work
like that's work in show prep and life prep and
you're you know where where It's like they he's alienated
so many, like I think on a porter before there
was even one question to yell at ret that's the point.
He's yelling at reporters, he's yelling at the fans, you know,
(36:06):
talking about how they treated Matt Maggie, he's getting into
an owl. And Cruz. It's famous that anybody that's even
talks to the media, if you're a veteran player, he
wants no part of you. And he even kind of
alluded to such in that press conference. Uh and then
gave you really no hope because there's still the decision makers.
And then I like the fighting Campbell's of what they
might be able to build, but they still got to
(36:27):
figure out a quarterback? Is that Jared Goff? I mean,
DeAndre Swift is a beast. I'm on raw St Brown
is a monster. So and Hockinson went healthy. There's three
guys on your offense right there. You go, Okay, I
can work with this. Uh and and that's it. So yeah, Minnesota,
by default you should be playoff worthy. You know, win
a couple of those one score games late. Just flip it,
(36:51):
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