January 14, 2022 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon break down why David Culley was fired by the Houston Texans. Logan Paul gets scammed for $3.5 million with fake Pokemon cards. Plus, one former NFL player suggests a wild remedy to handle the cold in Buffalo this weekend!
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from the Fox Sports or Radio studios. Where today's top story,
Mike Harmon has you written all over it, absolutely all
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over it one. I mean you mean you're previewing the
Denver Nuggets in Portland Trailblazers game. That's gonna tip off. No,
it's he Cam Reddish for Kevin Knox trade. Oh yeah, No,
it's got me excited this morning. Let me tell dude,
that got me really excited because we gave away a
guy that wasn't playing for a guy that could actually play.
It was a free guy that actually is pretty damn good,
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and it's just been well relegated to Atlanta. It's like,
help surprise. I'm like the guy to help you on
your push. That's a that's a great trade. It's because
the Knicks gave up nothing. They give up a guy
who wasn't even in the rotation and Kevin Knox, and
they get back Cam Reddish, who was pretty decent, but
he's stuck in a log jam in in Atlanta, and
obviously they want to change things up a bit. It's
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like it's like free money. It's like, okay, I would
I didn't give up anything, and I get something that
could really help me. As what's the catch. It's like
going to when you buy a cargo. Yeah, we're gonna
help you and give you this zero parent, zero present financing.
What's the catch? No catch, We're giving it to you. No.
But the way you say that like like there's a
catch somewhere. I'm waiting for the catch. I'm waiting for
the catch on this Knicks trade. But apparently there's no catch.
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I'm very excited. We're gonna win fifteen in a row.
You made that card dealer sound almost like all the
Aaron Rodger commercials. No, you all get the same rate.
You all get the same deal. There is no special deal.
But no, when you can get rid of the guy
on the back end. We've been talking about it all
along the last couple of weeks. As the trade winds
start to blow. You know, where are you gonna be
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able to find some value? Which of the teams that
are fringe contenders? Right? And I think that's where you
put the knicks if things broke right, Uh, they could
be be at least interesting as long as they're not
ground down by TIBs in the regular season. But now
you had an extra body, third year man who what
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eleven and about five per game and twenty three minutes
of action per night. Pump it up a little bit.
He's he's a guy with great athleticism. Reunite him and R. J.
Barrett and now they can begin to take over. No, No,
it's kind of good Zion. That's what it is. We're gonna,
We're gonna. You've been saying that for two years. That
was long before became an issue. You said, oh, he's
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eventually a dick. You know. Now he had him for
cheap because you know we can't get on the court.
So well, it's like all the guys that, yeah, all
the guys around the hallway, is that everybody's a future
late with you. You just start immediately drawing into your
little notebook about you know, pictures of the dude in
a Knick's uniform. But why do you think coach K
is retiring from Duke. He's gonna be the Knick's head coach.
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We're gonna have Coach K. We're gonna have Zion, We're
gonna have Barrett. You know. Now we got Reddish, it's
gonna be great. We're gonna get everybody shy. Yeah, well
he gets to a successfully avoid n I L and
all the headaches from those pesky kids and the changing
of the game can work with all these guys. Yeah,
Cam Reddish Down and R J. Barrett's becoming a star
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now he's scoring thirty a night, Cam Reddish Down. Zion
is the next one. They're working our way towards it.
I'm telling you, sad's happen. That's happening. And we'll just
up like TOAJ Gibson form like, have you give up
anything you can't get on the floor. Look, we'll give
you ToJ. Gibson. Okay, how about that? Is that fine?
All right? Great? Great, good luck, thank you. We'll take
Zion for you. Uh No, but today's top story, which
really when I saw this, I said, see, I can't
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wait to talk to Harmon about this. Uh. You know,
Logan Paul as a YouTuber and now celebrity boxer who
was boxed with Floyd Mayweather and some others and makes
money and is big time into the card business, which
has become a very big industry in the past few years,
people buying unopened boxes of baseball cards, football cards, Pokemon
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cards and and hoping they're worth a small fortune. Well,
Logan Paul made huge headlines today, huge headline today. If
you remember, back in December, he bought a box of
first edition Pokemon card booster packs for three point five
million dollars. Right now, Pokemon the cards the guy think
the guy owns like like like a two million dollar
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Mega charges art or something. I know, A yeah know,
he's got a bunch of crazies early edition Pokemon cards.
The market has settled a bit on him. But the
point being that at the time when he started playing it,
it's kind of like a lot of the n f
T market. As soon as the celebrity jumps in, as
you've had with the board apes and some of those
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other things which are allegedly going to be part of
the Super Bowl half to time show because eminem And
and everybody started buying them. Uh, it boosts the market, right,
It's like, oh, there's some other money that's come in,
and well people follow the lead. And with Logan Paul,
he was one of those guys that helped you pump
the Pokemon market to what it became. So he bought
a box of unopened Pokemon cards booster packs for three
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and a half million dollars. Now, the thing is depending
on what was inside, there could be some cards that
will blow that out of the water what you could
sell things for. However, some experts began to question the
legitimacy of his purchase. Some people said, ah, the box
doesn't resemble previous boxes for a similar set. The original
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seller kind of changed their story how they got the
case a couple of times. So we brought it to
Chicago to the cards opened, and when they had him opened,
they were nothing but G I Joe trading cards, not
worth nearly as much as on a package of Pokemon
cards could be worth. So it was all Gi Alex
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t the G I Joe theme song, Real American, You
go very nice there you go. I don't know. I
don't know if that's g I Joe. But that's fine,
I don't know, it sounded like it. So he lost
three and a half million dollars in paying for these cards. Now,
according to recent reports, potentially one of the guys is
going to reimburse him, but now he's out some of
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the money. So he bought a package of cards and
for some reason couldn't verify enough that they were real,
and when he opened them they were actually G I
Joe cards. Oh yeah, no, this has become prevalent, right,
and you've got the this company BBC trying to verify
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the authenticity authenticity of it. Sorry, I'm I'm distracted by
wanting to sing along with g I Joe. Joe. Was
there g I Joe? Oh yeah, remember g I Joe?
You could shave g I Joe and the G I
Joe dolls And we were younger then. G I Joe
had the kung fu grip. He had the big grip
and do kung fu moves on in karate. Oh yeah,
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g I Joe. Yeah. So Logan Paul bought this box.
He brought that the guy that he actually purchased this
from so that guy made eight hundred grands selling it
to Logan Paul, And now it was a alright, let's
super sleute this thing. And you've got a company, a
couple of companies that will do this because once upon
a time they didn't shrink wrap all boxes, which meant chicanery, right,
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and you just as long as you didn't bend it
up too terribly, you could probably pass it off as
you know, unsearched, and with some of the early releases, uh,
there was a pattern that would be very easily established.
So it's like, all right, take the third pack out
of the left front row and then the back right,
take the ninth back and then boom, you've got the
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two big cards. Uh. So you had those kind of thing,
and that still happens sometimes with sequencing with the manufact
extures now, but uh, in this case, they go to
authenticate it and and try to look through the the
boxes and match them up with known exemplars as a
respected doing a signature. And well, but like you got explains,
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because here's what I'm dead is that Okay, you're gonna
buy these cards, great, you're gonna have them, uh verified
that they're legitimate. Yes, they're gonna make sure they're legitimate. Great,
Yet people who are just seeing these online brought to
his attention, Hey, dude, I think you got duped. That
doesn't look like the previous How do people online You're
supposed to go and have these things authenticated right by
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someone who knows what they're doing. And okay, yeah, absolutely
yes for this. And now people just online can see
a picture and go, hey, man, uh, guess what you got?
Got you got got you got? Well I don't understand
how that happens, but but that's just it. Right for
the evolution of a marketplace in going back into venues,
because at first pokemon were just being played with, right,
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and yeah, you had some folks that just put them in,
wanted to collect a set, just like you would baseball
cards and put them in sleeves and away they went.
Some had the foresight or maybe they just didn't sell out,
just kinda have the boxes laying around. But in this key,
So if you come in as an influencer, as someone
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who's new to it and just said, wait, there's another
way to diversify my holdings, right, asset allocution and alternative
assets that you joke about all the time, Well, this
is one of them. And that's what Logan Paul did
with some knowledge, some excitement, and when you're buying it
that's already been authenticated. That's nice and easy. It's in
the holder and go. When it comes to sealed boxes
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a little more difficult. It's like getting an autograph. You
know someone's got a good story of how they acquired
it doesn't make it necessarily so, right, So you're always
trying to prove providence, and that's what they were trying
to do here and ultimately established that there are a
bunch of g I joke cards and m I feel
like this is like the plot of like like a
bad Oceans eleven rip off movie. Like no, but it's
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exactly what happens in the van, right, what happened all
that money? It's it's advertisement for hookers, right, that's what
you got? So what happened all that money? Uh? This
is a bit of a shocker. I didn't but okay,
I I looked at the world of of cards. I
admit is not completely in my wheelhouse, but I think
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being able to authenticate a case of cards, there's got
to be a better way to get that done than
to not get found out on the Internet, like he
would have been better off just saying, Hey, I'm gonna
buy this, Hey, Internet, should I buy this? And then
the Internet would have told him, hey, dude, don't that's
not the same kind of background, that's not the same
kind of cards that were there. I would have gone to.
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I would have gone to the people to authenticated form.
Now that worked out for him, but that's it. They
had a previous owner of the set to claimed that
this company had verified the legitimacy of it. So based
on the story and having money in the pocket to burn.
This is why you know, when when you go to
a card shop, card show, whatever, you're getting into coins, stamps, whatever,
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you're buying toys off the rack, thinking you're gonna be
able to find the rare one that's gonna make you
some money. You know you gotta do your due diligence
and research and you get do Likewise, you know, you
go to buy stocks, you type in one wrong keystroke
and all of a sudden, you're buying something in an
industry you have no idea what it is because the
ticker symbols are very similar. It's it's in this case
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you know they they they bought the story. They were excited,
and obviously it's about clout. Look at what I was
able to just drop all this money on and now
you've got egg on your face. But you know what,
it gets a lot of mileage. I'm sure based on
whatever deal he has with all streaming services that carry
his YouTube, his clips, right, all the video clips, I'm
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sure he's making a good chunk of that back in
short order. Not to mention, maybe it got insurance on it,
perhaps as well with I don't know if he got
got this way, do you think he really got insurance
on it? If hey, hey, I don't know what's inside
pretty sure like they could be valuable cards, yes, but
we're not positive. No, that's good enough. But this guy
you know that he bought it from, said he's gonna
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make some kind of restitution. Otherwise Logan Paul's gonna be
his ass if he can find him. That's why I mean,
it's like a low It's like a low rent Oceans
eleven movie where you know, he opened cards, the cards
where we also now we're gonna go chase him. Where
do we go chase? And we chase him from party
to party in Los Angeles. It's not like it's not like,
you know, we chase you on the riviet. Now just
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go house party, the house party in l A. That
that's the movie. We don't have as much of a budget,
but that's we're gonna do well. Six degrees of separation.
I want to see how many characters they have to
go through. And that's the fun of it. As he
goes to each person who allegedly, once upon a time
home this all the way, there's a two point seven
million dollars sail. I think it'd be a fun story.
Let's start ferreting that out next time. This just falls
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under my category of if I can't see it, I'm
not gonna buy it. But there could be right, but
it may might not be right, and it might not
be real. Right. Yeah, here you go. Take three and
a half million dollars of my money. That is good enough.
It's a good enough explanation for me. I like it.
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earlier today talking about it. So we'll catch up with
Jay in about an hour. And look, clearly the number
one topic of the day is going to be David
Culley fired as Texans head coach. And this is not
something that is shocking, especially the reports that we heard
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from Adam Schefter that he was only guaranteed money for
the first couple of years, basically meaning that the Texans
knew this could be a one and done kind of year,
that maybe he was only going to coach one year. Yeah,
but that was actually afew it by others. And I said,
they got it straight from David Culley that they're on
the hook for paying him another three years. Yeah, let's
wait and see. Now it gets interesting. But look, why
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did this happen this way? Why is David Culley fired
after one year? You can talk about a lot of things,
and and David Culley is someone who was very uh
he was he really wanted to run the football a
lot and it didn't work out in their rushing attack
was bad. Some of the things they thought he could
do for the team, they didn't. Look, this is a
team that quite honestly couldn't find anybody to take the
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job at this point last year. Deshaun Watson, this is
before all the sexual assaults, the sexual cases he has
UH dealing with right now. When he wanted a trade.
He wanted out right, this was I want out. This
doesn't work. I don't trust Nick Kisserio, I don't trust ownership.
It was very bad between Deshaun Watson and the team
and Bill O'Brien had traded away everybody else it was
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ever worth anything. So this was a bad job and
it still is a bad job. So what else you
gonna do? Why David Culley get the job? Nobody else
wanted it. Nobody wanted this Texans job because they're not
gonna succeed in it because the team is bad. The
quarterback doesn't want to stay. But David Culley has been
a coach in the NFL for a long time. Hey,
this is your chance to be an NFL lead coach.
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So we got it. And all the Texans did was
basically spin their wheels this year. And now they're gonna
try to start over again. They'll try to trade Deshaun Watson,
will try to figure it out. But yeah, this it's
not a surprise. This is a one year thing. Because
when you couldn't get anybody to get the job, take
the job because it wasn't a good job, and I
still isn't a good job. That's kind of how it goes.
I feel bad for the guy because you know, it's
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he's been waiting his whole life for this and and
here's the job, and it's, Oh, is he really qualified
for it? Why is he getting it? What are the
Texans doing? And and it ended this way? I can't.
I think the only surprise from anybody is that it
didn't happen on Monday, that they waited another three days
to make this announcement well, and that a lot of
what we talked about with Joe Judge applies in terms
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of timing here. And then you start hearing the behind
the scenes and all the discussions of Kissario and people
being in his ear during games and practices and the
whole nine yards. So control not control, uh in reality
and a team that had been stripped of major parts
of look just like with Brian floor Is a couple
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of years ago in Miami one thing, and with Dan
Campbell this year, you could say the Texas played hard.
Go ask the Chargers about that game. Sorry, Frostburg, I
had to do it. Uh left for dead and and
they come up and you know, you can be heroes
for one day, and and so they kept playing hard.
They were obviously devoid of of real substantive talent. You
had Brandon Cooks, and you got a guy who's at
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least a little bit intriguing in Davis Mills as a
mid round guy that you can maybe decide if the
carousel doesn't bring you some other quarterback that you love,
that you pushed into the future with him. But in
the interim, for for Culli, I mean a life life
for football guy gets his shot. A lot of folks
are saying, hey, you know, look, I'll sign up for
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that and the giant paychecks after all those years of working.
Sure he's made a decent amount of money in his career.
Not that another seventeen million isn't is nothing. But to
the point of, all right, maybe I get to build
You signed me for five years. What is that just
the standard deal? Right? It's like when we talk about
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the quarterbacks and well here's the starting It's like, no,
it doesn't have to be. If you don't think the
guy's worth forty million dollars, you were off from forty
million dollars. You reset the table. Likewise here if you
thought he was only a short term response and as
a first time coach at this point, then why why
wasn't he only given three years? I can't imagine that
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was hardball. He was the last guy you you tried
to to bring in after all the swings and missus
and and a lot of speculation that eventually guys would
be calling their own. You know, there's a big thing.
I look, I got what. I got what you're saying. Uh, Look,
there's a big thing to to know coming out of this,
because this is not just about David Culley, and here
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he is one job and not getting it is that
it's that's something you haven't heard all day talking about this. Look,
obviously we're down to now one black head coach in
the NFL to have been let go, and that's a
big thing, right. We really start needing to see more
candidates interviewed and and and there's got to be more
attention spent on this. Uh and that. Look, that's the
obvious point that we see. The not so obvious one
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is that this is a moment where anybody who wants
to be a head coach has to understand something and
be comfortable with it if they want to do it.
Because the jobs are disappearing that are giving coaches coaching autonomy, right, Like, no,
you know, a coach comes and understands, Okay, I'm gonna
work with the GM in the front office, and maybe
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I get to help pick the players. Maybe I don't.
But I'm the coach, and and and and that's and
that's on me. Whatever happens, it's my game plan, it's
my coaches, they're my player and I'm trying to figure
out a way to win on Sunday. And that's my sanctum, right,
And many coaches are happy with that. Some really want
to be involved in the personnel decisions. Some don't. Bill O'Brien,
for instance, wanted to do it. Now he doesn't want
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to do it. He realizes how bad he is at it.
Did you see that though? That part of it as
he interviews for the Jacksonville job. No, he's only interviewing
because he wants to be a head coach. He wants
no responsibilities front office. Like really you think so? You
think anybody's gonna let trade her Bill into the room, Hey, Bill,
come on and just start trading guides whatever you know,
we don't even signed you to a contract, and just
start making trades. Man. We'll put them out as fast
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as you can know. I thought this was all just
a simulator, and but this is what coaches have to
deal with. They're going to be the coaches who come in.
They're still gonna be the coaches that get hired that Hey,
you're a big name, we're gonna turn things over to
you in the coaching department and and you're gonna continue
to do the job you did. But what you're seeing
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now in many places is the head coaching job in
the NFL is kind of becoming like a managerial job
in Major League Baseball, where the ownership and the front
office want and have a bigger say where they didn't before.
They didn't get into your your domain of hey, this
is what we want to do coaching the team, and
now you are seeing it everywhere. Look, why is Brian
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Flores out in Miami. Couldn't get along with the GM
couldn't get along with the owner. There was all kinds
of issues there, right, Uh, Jacksonville, you're gonna go work
for Shad conn That's a difficult thing. He's a guy
that likes to be involved and Urban Meyer, they have
many conversations about things. When you take a job now
in the NFL, unless you're a guy that can come
in and write his ticket and say this is what
I want, You're gonna leave me alone. There's not a
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lot of guys like that. You have to be comfortable
with the fact that you're coming in as the head coach.
But guess what, the general manager is gonna have some
input into your game plan and what players play and
what and what goes on. And the owner is going
to have some kind of input where it used to
be in the past, off couple of owners had that.
We always made fun of Jerry Jones having that input.
Now that it's working in Major League Baseball with thanks
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to analytics and everything else, the front office saying here's
here's a lineup. These are the guys you're gonna put
out there tonight. Here's the first guy out of the bullpen.
Here's you know, it's it's moneyball come to life. And
anybody but mag's the first out of the pen Alright,
it's moneyball come to line. You're seeing anybody who wants
to be a manager in Major League Baseball understands that. Now, Okay,
I I'm losing a little bit of my power. I'm
losing a little bit of my domain because I'm gonna
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have to talk to the GM in the front office
and their baseball people. I'm gonna be be meeting with
Peter Brand every single day going over these are the
guys to bring in. This is the order. This is
that I have to be comfortable that if I want
to be a manager, because it's not like it was
in the past where I just had the ability to
make the call every single time I wanted to. That's
getting into football now now. Granted, the coach is always
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gonna have a larger input on the game plan because
he's the guy spending eighteen hours a day at the
at the facilities getting ready. But when you want back,
you want that to be your tie. This is Mike,
this is my kingdom. And now the GM, the front office,
the owner. When more of them get involved, this is
what the jobs are going to be. And as time
goes on, there's going to be way more of these
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jobs available than there are of the old jobs. Right,
Andy Reid is not suddenly gonna become free and show
up and hey whatever you want, Andy? What everybody? No,
there's less jobs like that and more jobs like Hey,
if you're coming in, you're gonna work with everybody in
jackson You're gonna work everybody with everybody in Houston, and
they're they're gonna be involved very, very in a very
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big way with everything you have going on. Those are
the more jobs coming available now in the NFL. Well,
but but even look at you know, some of the
veteran guys that are have been in plays a long time.
Some of the reports that Pete Carroll if he wants
to stick around, and you know that's part of the
push pull here in the Russell Wilson situation is maybe
Pete Carroll is on the way out, but one of
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the things that's being discussed is that he gives up
any of that front office part of his job and
just goes back to coaching. Right, the last data point
you have of a guy coming in with a lot
of control that didn't work out so well, and Jacksonville
did it while you had a GM in name Urban
Meyer pretty much did whatever the hell he wanted now
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just to flesh out, you know, with with David Culley,
you know, I've been talking a lot about the Chicago
job and we have here on the show, of course.
Uh and you could hear it in the voice a
lot of yelling, uh and screaming with people about this
stuff is you know, you're you're trying to get people
that come from big time organizations and longevity. And that's
one of the parts when David Cully got the job
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was this guy is a good organization guy, right, because
he was with Andy Reid in Philadelphia. He was over
in Kansas City with Andy Reid for a couple of
years right, and over in Baltimore, like he was in
organizations where there's stability and structure, and then he goes
to Houston where the McNair's going back Historically they kind
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of abdicated some of that, right, Bill O'Brien, when when
Bob McNair died, there's a power vacuums like, all right, Billy,
you just do it. And look what he did. It
beat havoc on an organization. So here's a guy, a stabilizer,
a good a good coach at you know, at different
levels and certainly collegiant into the pros wide receiver coach,
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you know, assistant head coach and all those roles. But
going back to you know, as you said, the the
changing of the guard, Yeah, I mean, how many guys
come in with the cache that you'd say, okay, right,
if Nick Saban decided he wanted another shot at the NFL,
maybe he gets a shot, but maybe he doesn't even
want to do that part of it. There's no coach, dude,
I don't look look at Doug Peterson, the guy want
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to bleep in Super Bowl with with Philadelphia, and he's
coming in just hoping to get a job, just hoping
to get runner or not. Boy, look at what he's
just hoping to get a job. Well, but that's part
of where we're at also, right, the idea that you
move on from recycling and you're going into a new age.
You know, people can bemoan what happened, you know on
Sunday Night with Brandon Staley, or the way John Harbaugh
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managed the Ravens and changed up some of the approach
this year, some out of necessity because of all the
injuries that they sustain and COVID losses on given weeks
and whatever. But they took a different approach and people
can be mad about it. Go go and watch your
own organizations. There's a lot more of that. If you really,
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you know, check under the hood, then you want to
believe just because it's not always on a very controversial
fourth down call doesn't mean it's not happening happening incrementally
within front offices and coaching staffs. Well, we'll look at
it this way. Right there six openings right now, right technically,
I mean the Raiders are probably look, they're in the playoffs,
they're probably not gonna have an opening, But that that
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would be seven. Right. The only guy who could come
in and say this is what I want and you
have to cow tow to him a little bit would
be Jim Harbaugh. He'd be the only guy that could
come in because he could come in coming off success
in college, incredible success in a short amount of time
with the San Francisco forty nine. He was I mean
what he did. He brought that team up to the
top of the league in no time. So he's the
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one guy that could come in. But still, even if
he comes in, he's not coming in with any kind
of person elsewhere, So we still got to be able
to work. But from the coaching standpoint of it, yeah,
they'll let Hardball kind of do his thing because they
know what he's done. But everybody else coming in, everybody
else is gonna be okay, you're coming in, we're working together,
we're gonna be heavily involved, and this is what we
want and this is what, in the end is going
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to wind up being what coach, why coaches get hired,
and why they don't. Because if someone saying, hey, you know,
I don't know, like what would you be would you
be okay with meeting with me four times a week
on your game plan and going forward, and the coaches
honest and says, yeah, I don't know about that. The
game plan has gotta be mine and uh, we kind
of do it. That's gonna knock people out. And that's
gonna that's gonna allow teams to say, Okay, this person
(28:43):
was a front runner. Now they're not because they're not
gonna play ball. And it's not gonna be I'm not
gonna fight with the coach to get a meeting with him.
It's gonna be a coach that understands that you work
for me and when we need to get together or
if I have an idea I want something done, then
it's gonna get done. So to say that it was
it's all on the coach. It it's gonna be who
the teams are comfortable with because they're gonna want that
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part of control. So for of the six jobs, one
of them could go to a guy who will be
able to write as much of his ticket as he can.
The rest are all gonna be people who are gonna
be able to work with and for the ownership and
the GM because they're gonna be really involved. So that's
a percentage right there. Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping, you know,
in all earnestness that there's you know, legit processes to it. Right.
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Sometimes when you see the recycled guys immediately into buildings,
you're like, really, there's so many others, but a lot
of guys that you'd love to consider are still in
the playoffs, so that becomes a more difficult thing. And
then if guys aren't under contract, well then nothing really
has to be reported, right because they don't have to
put the slip into the league. You just keep your
logs to make sure you're meeting all requirements, which we
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know are are grossly um well in less impactful than
they should be and certainly uh not always followed. It's
because what's the punt? She meant a slap on the wrist,
more or less the guy I would hire, and I
said it before us. And again it's like, why, why
isn't anymore you talking to Jim Caldwell, especially if you've
(30:10):
got a young quarterback, not like you, you know what
I mean, Like, if you already have a young quarterback
and do how is that guy not getting in the building. Yeah? Yeah,
I mean he's someone that I don't know anybody that
likes Jim called Well as a head coach. But the
guy won. The guy's won in places. He's won in Indianapolis,
he actually won in Detroit. He was actually winning games,
(30:31):
and like his his firing there and and we can
look at Flores and and maybe it was just something
that couldn't be bridged between he and the front office.
And if the stories of him getting after two as
he did, you know, we should have drafted Matt Jones
was the latest generation of that. And that's kind of curious.
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But you know, David Culley getting ousted here. I mean,
they played hard, and they were in games they should
have been in, and they've got a reboot coming. I
don't honestly why it couldn't have been the guy to
stabilize it and move forward. I'm not a fan of
quick triggers. As you know, go back to Wilkes in Arizona, right,
they were able to get their guy, pair him up
with Kyler Murray. But you know he got done wrong
(31:15):
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Usually when NFL teams get ready to play, sometimes do
you have to take a shot to be able to
play right. Everybody lines up for toward all. Everybody knows
I I gotta do it. Well, It's gonna be really
(32:21):
cold on Saturday when the Patriots face off against the
Buffalo Bills in Buffalo wind Chills, expect to be down
near zero degrees and uh. Former NFL linebacker Bart Scott
had a different idea for Josh Allen to really stay
ready and loose and motivated and to be able to
play his best game at home on Saturday. Here he
(32:42):
was on ESPN earlier today saying, this is what Josh
Allen needs to take in order to win this game.
Can I get you a suggestion for him? Listening? Can
people get this mentioned him? By Agra? Take some biograph
for the game. Baby, circulation going right? And you played
A lot of us take viagra right because opens up
(33:03):
the bloodst A lot of us take what do you mean?
A lot a lot of NFL players at least in
my dates, and viagraph open up the blood vest There's
a lot of endurance athletes because first heart medicine right,
so it builds up circulation, which makes sure that it
get those circulations to the feet. Why do I get
a feeling this is something that doctor players, uh, and
(33:24):
we're able to figure out and this wasn't something that
actual doctors told the NFL. Yeah, this is great, friend. Hey,
you know what I read on the internet. Viagraah, because
it was a heart medicine. It will move the blood
to your extremities. Get you going, Hey, let's all take viagra.
So apparently everybody, we're all gonna take viagara? Now? Is
it to the NFL players? White papers on that testing
(33:46):
the efficacy of this truck? But it doesn't it doesn't
it strike you that that's what it is. Hey, I
only run on the internet. Man, Hey, hey, viagra And
if you had a respected voice in the locker room
telling you take viagra, people are gonna take viagara. They're
gonna do it. Why not? I do like that. Dawson
Knox had to make sure he pointed out emphatically that
he's not on board that train. You're just fine, look
(34:09):
at me, Look at me. I'm not taking any of
that stuff. Hello, Everybody like, is it? Is it a
p E? D? I mean, I don't know. You gotta
have a prescription for it, right, I mean I know
that the other thing that viagara helps you out with
his supposedly high blood pressure. Uh. So there's that, But
you know, I I don't know about the whole open
up your heart and and everything. Open up your heart
(34:30):
let me in now, you know. I I don't know
about the rest of it. I see that, and you go, Wow,
that's somebody that's read stuff on the internet and goes, hey,
I I could be a doctor. I could figure this
out right here. Yes, let's all take viagara. Yeah, I
don't know about that. Well, I mean, look, he gets
fired up for the game. There's no question about that.
(34:50):
Bart Scott, no wonder he was yelling, can't wait, can't wait.
I'm excited. I just I just took the pill. I'm ready.
I'm excited, going Brian Cox the this is my kind
of party. All that comes to get all the linebackers
getting after it. Uh in a big way. I don't know.
I mean it's it's certainly a curiosity and love. I
(35:10):
love to see if you could get the famous poll
questions in locker room. So guys, uh, we know about
tour it all. We know about all the different things.
You you know, the old bowls of greenies, how about
the little blue pill. Anybody, anybody. You don't have to
take the brand name stuff. There's plenty of competitors. I
actually worked for a competitor for a while. But the
(35:32):
Viagra competitor like a knockoff of Viagra. Well, no, it's
just a different drug, a different system back in the
day before I started working for you. Problem is you
had to administer it locally, so it was very easy
to then just pop a pill. So it's okay. They
ended up making a lot of money developing products for
for women, but from the male side they trying to say, hey,
(35:53):
this is far better and it doesn't go through your
blood blood system to where it could negatively affect your heart. Uh,
that wasn't a good enough marketing campaign Like that didn't matter.
It's like, wait, I have to do what Nope, I'll
take the bill and take my chances. I need to
see a commercial find me where where you say marketing
campaign where it says, hi, you know, hey, if you
(36:14):
have a football game coming up and it's gonna be
in cold weather, take Viagara helps push blood to your extremities.
There's video of guys making plays Viagara is for you,
and then you get that at the end side effects
may include death, dismemberment, inability to see straight, falling down,
fingers falling off, toes falling off, Like I want to
make sure that those those after possible side effects aren't
(36:35):
that big a deal, Like I want to you know,
if if you start getting into serious things like that,
then I'm like, Okay, it's not worth it for me.
So I need the commercial to see if I would
do it or not. I will say this, Um, Saturday
Night Live is back live this weekend. Don't don't think
the writer's room didn't jump on this one. So I
would fully anticipate and add on Saturday's episode and then
(36:57):
teach a clearly. Bart Scott talk about this on Get
Up earlier in the day. I got more for the
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Mike Harmon has you written all over it, absolutely all
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over it one. I mean you mean you're previewing the
Denver Nuggets in Portland Trailblazers game. That's gonna tip off. No,
it's he Cam Reddish for Kevin Knox trade. Oh yeah, No,
it's got me excited this morning. Let me tell dude,
that got me really excited because we gave away a
guy that wasn't playing for a guy that could actually play.
It was a free guy that actually is pretty damn good,
(01:07):
and it's just been well relegated to Atlanta. It's like,
help surprise. I'm like the guy to help you on
your push. That's a that's a great trade. It's because
the Knicks gave up nothing. They give up a guy
who wasn't even in the rotation and Kevin Knox, and
they get back Cam Reddish, who was pretty decent, but
he's stuck in a log jam in in Atlanta, and
obviously they want to change things up a bit. It's
(01:28):
like it's like free money. It's like, okay, I would
I didn't give up anything, and I get something that
could really help me. As what's the catch. It's like
going to when you buy a cargo. Yeah, we're gonna
help you and give you this zero parent, zero present financing.
What's the catch? No catch, We're giving it to you. No.
But the way you say that like like there's a
catch somewhere. I'm waiting for the catch. I'm waiting for
the catch on this Knicks trade. But apparently there's no catch.
(01:49):
I'm very excited. We're gonna win fifteen in a row.
You made that card dealer sound almost like all the
Aaron Rodger commercials. No, you all get the same rate.
You all get the same deal. There is no special deal.
But no, when you can get rid of the guy
on the back end. We've been talking about it all
along the last couple of weeks. As the trade winds
start to blow. You know, where are you gonna be
(02:10):
able to find some value? Which of the teams that
are fringe contenders? Right? And I think that's where you
put the knicks if things broke right, Uh, they could
be be at least interesting as long as they're not
ground down by TIBs in the regular season. But now
you had an extra body, third year man who what
(02:31):
eleven and about five per game and twenty three minutes
of action per night. Pump it up a little bit.
He's he's a guy with great athleticism. Reunite him and R. J.
Barrett and now they can begin to take over. No, No,
it's kind of good Zion. That's what it is. We're gonna,
We're gonna. You've been saying that for two years. That
was long before became an issue. You said, oh, he's
(02:51):
eventually a dick. You know. Now he had him for
cheap because you know we can't get on the court.
So well, it's like all the guys that, yeah, all
the guys around the hallway, is that everybody's a future
late with you. You just start immediately drawing into your
little notebook about you know, pictures of the dude in
a Knick's uniform. But why do you think coach K
is retiring from Duke. He's gonna be the Knick's head coach.
(03:11):
We're gonna have Coach K. We're gonna have Zion, We're
gonna have Barrett. You know. Now we got Reddish, it's
gonna be great. We're gonna get everybody shy. Yeah, well
he gets to a successfully avoid n I L and
all the headaches from those pesky kids and the changing
of the game can work with all these guys. Yeah,
Cam Reddish Down and R J. Barrett's becoming a star
(03:33):
now he's scoring thirty a night, Cam Reddish Down. Zion
is the next one. They're working our way towards it.
I'm telling you, sad's happen. That's happening. And we'll just
up like TOAJ Gibson form like, have you give up
anything you can't get on the floor. Look, we'll give
you ToJ. Gibson. Okay, how about that? Is that fine?
All right? Great? Great, good luck, thank you. We'll take
Zion for you. Uh No, but today's top story, which
really when I saw this, I said, see, I can't
(03:54):
wait to talk to Harmon about this. Uh. You know,
Logan Paul as a YouTuber and now celebrity boxer who
was boxed with Floyd Mayweather and some others and makes
money and is big time into the card business, which
has become a very big industry in the past few years,
people buying unopened boxes of baseball cards, football cards, Pokemon
(04:14):
cards and and hoping they're worth a small fortune. Well,
Logan Paul made huge headlines today, huge headline today. If
you remember, back in December, he bought a box of
first edition Pokemon card booster packs for three point five
million dollars. Right now, Pokemon the cards the guy think
the guy owns like like like a two million dollar
(04:36):
Mega charges art or something. I know, A yeah know,
he's got a bunch of crazies early edition Pokemon cards.
The market has settled a bit on him. But the
point being that at the time when he started playing it,
it's kind of like a lot of the n f
T market. As soon as the celebrity jumps in, as
you've had with the board apes and some of those
(04:57):
other things which are allegedly going to be part of
the Super Bowl half to time show because eminem And
and everybody started buying them. Uh, it boosts the market, right,
It's like, oh, there's some other money that's come in,
and well people follow the lead. And with Logan Paul,
he was one of those guys that helped you pump
the Pokemon market to what it became. So he bought
a box of unopened Pokemon cards booster packs for three
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and a half million dollars. Now, the thing is depending
on what was inside, there could be some cards that
will blow that out of the water what you could
sell things for. However, some experts began to question the
legitimacy of his purchase. Some people said, ah, the box
doesn't resemble previous boxes for a similar set. The original
(05:43):
seller kind of changed their story how they got the
case a couple of times. So we brought it to
Chicago to the cards opened, and when they had him opened,
they were nothing but G I Joe trading cards, not
worth nearly as much as on a package of Pokemon
cards could be worth. So it was all Gi Alex
(06:05):
t the G I Joe theme song, Real American, You
go very nice there you go. I don't know. I
don't know if that's g I Joe. But that's fine,
I don't know, it sounded like it. So he lost
three and a half million dollars in paying for these cards. Now,
according to recent reports, potentially one of the guys is
going to reimburse him, but now he's out some of
(06:26):
the money. So he bought a package of cards and
for some reason couldn't verify enough that they were real,
and when he opened them they were actually G I
Joe cards. Oh yeah, no, this has become prevalent, right,
and you've got the this company BBC trying to verify
(06:47):
the authenticity authenticity of it. Sorry, I'm I'm distracted by
wanting to sing along with g I Joe. Joe. Was
there g I Joe? Oh yeah, remember g I Joe?
You could shave g I Joe and the G I
Joe dolls And we were younger then. G I Joe
had the kung fu grip. He had the big grip
and do kung fu moves on in karate. Oh yeah,
(07:07):
g I Joe. Yeah. So Logan Paul bought this box.
He brought that the guy that he actually purchased this
from so that guy made eight hundred grands selling it
to Logan Paul, And now it was a alright, let's
super sleute this thing. And you've got a company, a
couple of companies that will do this because once upon
a time they didn't shrink wrap all boxes, which meant chicanery, right,
(07:32):
and you just as long as you didn't bend it
up too terribly, you could probably pass it off as
you know, unsearched, and with some of the early releases, uh,
there was a pattern that would be very easily established.
So it's like, all right, take the third pack out
of the left front row and then the back right,
take the ninth back and then boom, you've got the
(07:54):
two big cards. Uh. So you had those kind of thing,
and that still happens sometimes with sequencing with the manufact
extures now, but uh, in this case, they go to
authenticate it and and try to look through the the
boxes and match them up with known exemplars as a
respected doing a signature. And well, but like you got explains,
(08:16):
because here's what I'm dead is that Okay, you're gonna
buy these cards, great, you're gonna have them, uh verified
that they're legitimate. Yes, they're gonna make sure they're legitimate. Great,
Yet people who are just seeing these online brought to
his attention, Hey, dude, I think you got duped. That
doesn't look like the previous How do people online You're
supposed to go and have these things authenticated right by
(08:36):
someone who knows what they're doing. And okay, yeah, absolutely
yes for this. And now people just online can see
a picture and go, hey, man, uh, guess what you got?
Got you got got you got? Well I don't understand
how that happens, but but that's just it. Right for
the evolution of a marketplace in going back into venues,
because at first pokemon were just being played with, right,
(08:57):
and yeah, you had some folks that just put them in,
wanted to collect a set, just like you would baseball
cards and put them in sleeves and away they went.
Some had the foresight or maybe they just didn't sell out,
just kinda have the boxes laying around. But in this key,
So if you come in as an influencer, as someone
(09:17):
who's new to it and just said, wait, there's another
way to diversify my holdings, right, asset allocution and alternative
assets that you joke about all the time, Well, this
is one of them. And that's what Logan Paul did
with some knowledge, some excitement, and when you're buying it
that's already been authenticated. That's nice and easy. It's in
the holder and go. When it comes to sealed boxes
(09:39):
a little more difficult. It's like getting an autograph. You
know someone's got a good story of how they acquired
it doesn't make it necessarily so, right, So you're always
trying to prove providence, and that's what they were trying
to do here and ultimately established that there are a
bunch of g I joke cards and m I feel
like this is like the plot of like like a
bad Oceans eleven rip off movie. Like no, but it's
(10:03):
exactly what happens in the van, right, what happened all
that money? It's it's advertisement for hookers, right, that's what
you got? So what happened all that money? Uh? This
is a bit of a shocker. I didn't but okay,
I I looked at the world of of cards. I
admit is not completely in my wheelhouse, but I think
(10:26):
being able to authenticate a case of cards, there's got
to be a better way to get that done than
to not get found out on the Internet, like he
would have been better off just saying, Hey, I'm gonna
buy this, Hey, Internet, should I buy this? And then
the Internet would have told him, hey, dude, don't that's
not the same kind of background, that's not the same
kind of cards that were there. I would have gone to.
(10:47):
I would have gone to the people to authenticated form.
Now that worked out for him, but that's it. They
had a previous owner of the set to claimed that
this company had verified the legitimacy of it. So based
on the story and having money in the pocket to burn.
This is why you know, when when you go to
a card shop, card show, whatever, you're getting into coins, stamps, whatever,
(11:08):
you're buying toys off the rack, thinking you're gonna be
able to find the rare one that's gonna make you
some money. You know you gotta do your due diligence
and research and you get do Likewise, you know, you
go to buy stocks, you type in one wrong keystroke
and all of a sudden, you're buying something in an
industry you have no idea what it is because the
ticker symbols are very similar. It's it's in this case
(11:31):
you know they they they bought the story. They were excited,
and obviously it's about clout. Look at what I was
able to just drop all this money on and now
you've got egg on your face. But you know what,
it gets a lot of mileage. I'm sure based on
whatever deal he has with all streaming services that carry
his YouTube, his clips, right, all the video clips, I'm
(11:52):
sure he's making a good chunk of that back in
short order. Not to mention, maybe it got insurance on it,
perhaps as well with I don't know if he got
got this way, do you think he really got insurance
on it? If hey, hey, I don't know what's inside
pretty sure like they could be valuable cards, yes, but
we're not positive. No, that's good enough. But this guy
you know that he bought it from, said he's gonna
(12:13):
make some kind of restitution. Otherwise Logan Paul's gonna be
his ass if he can find him. That's why I mean,
it's like a low It's like a low rent Oceans
eleven movie where you know, he opened cards, the cards
where we also now we're gonna go chase him. Where
do we go chase? And we chase him from party
to party in Los Angeles. It's not like it's not like,
you know, we chase you on the riviet. Now just
(12:34):
go house party, the house party in l A. That
that's the movie. We don't have as much of a budget,
but that's we're gonna do well. Six degrees of separation.
I want to see how many characters they have to
go through. And that's the fun of it. As he
goes to each person who allegedly, once upon a time
home this all the way, there's a two point seven
million dollars sail. I think it'd be a fun story.
Let's start ferreting that out next time. This just falls
(12:57):
under my category of if I can't see it, I'm
not gonna buy it. But there could be right, but
it may might not be right, and it might not
be real. Right. Yeah, here you go. Take three and
a half million dollars of my money. That is good enough.
It's a good enough explanation for me. I like it.
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and everything else. And he's well, he already doesn't wear sleeves,
said any point, it's tank tops. So you know that
would be really good. Uh. So we got Jay Glazer
coming up in an hour. JA had to push his
visit with us. Uh, just let us know, no big deal.
We'll get with Jay coming up in uh an hour
from now. He's got some great stuff. Look, we've got
big stories out of the NFL today. Uh. And Jay's book. Uh,
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you can preorder it now it's out. He's got a
lot of great stuff, like he was on Dan Patrick
earlier today talking about it. So we'll catch up with
Jay in about an hour. And look, clearly the number
one topic of the day is going to be David
Culley fired as Texans head coach. And this is not
something that is shocking, especially the reports that we heard
(15:47):
from Adam Schefter that he was only guaranteed money for
the first couple of years, basically meaning that the Texans
knew this could be a one and done kind of year,
that maybe he was only going to coach one year. Yeah,
but that was actually afew it by others. And I said,
they got it straight from David Culley that they're on
the hook for paying him another three years. Yeah, let's
wait and see. Now it gets interesting. But look, why
(16:10):
did this happen this way? Why is David Culley fired
after one year? You can talk about a lot of things,
and and David Culley is someone who was very uh
he was he really wanted to run the football a
lot and it didn't work out in their rushing attack
was bad. Some of the things they thought he could
do for the team, they didn't. Look, this is a
team that quite honestly couldn't find anybody to take the
(16:30):
job at this point last year. Deshaun Watson, this is
before all the sexual assaults, the sexual cases he has
UH dealing with right now. When he wanted a trade.
He wanted out right, this was I want out. This
doesn't work. I don't trust Nick Kisserio, I don't trust ownership.
It was very bad between Deshaun Watson and the team
and Bill O'Brien had traded away everybody else it was
(16:52):
ever worth anything. So this was a bad job and
it still is a bad job. So what else you
gonna do? Why David Culley get the job? Nobody else
wanted it. Nobody wanted this Texans job because they're not
gonna succeed in it because the team is bad. The
quarterback doesn't want to stay. But David Culley has been
a coach in the NFL for a long time. Hey,
this is your chance to be an NFL lead coach.
(17:12):
So we got it. And all the Texans did was
basically spin their wheels this year. And now they're gonna
try to start over again. They'll try to trade Deshaun Watson,
will try to figure it out. But yeah, this it's
not a surprise. This is a one year thing. Because
when you couldn't get anybody to get the job, take
the job because it wasn't a good job, and I
still isn't a good job. That's kind of how it goes.
I feel bad for the guy because you know, it's
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he's been waiting his whole life for this and and
here's the job, and it's, Oh, is he really qualified
for it? Why is he getting it? What are the
Texans doing? And and it ended this way? I can't.
I think the only surprise from anybody is that it
didn't happen on Monday, that they waited another three days
to make this announcement well, and that a lot of
what we talked about with Joe Judge applies in terms
(17:56):
of timing here. And then you start hearing the behind
the scenes and all the discussions of Kissario and people
being in his ear during games and practices and the
whole nine yards. So control not control, uh in reality
and a team that had been stripped of major parts
of look just like with Brian floor Is a couple
(18:17):
of years ago in Miami one thing, and with Dan
Campbell this year, you could say the Texas played hard.
Go ask the Chargers about that game. Sorry, Frostburg, I
had to do it. Uh left for dead and and
they come up and you know, you can be heroes
for one day, and and so they kept playing hard.
They were obviously devoid of of real substantive talent. You
had Brandon Cooks, and you got a guy who's at
(18:39):
least a little bit intriguing in Davis Mills as a
mid round guy that you can maybe decide if the
carousel doesn't bring you some other quarterback that you love,
that you pushed into the future with him. But in
the interim, for for Culli, I mean a life life
for football guy gets his shot. A lot of folks
are saying, hey, you know, look, I'll sign up for
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that and the giant paychecks after all those years of working.
Sure he's made a decent amount of money in his career.
Not that another seventeen million isn't is nothing. But to
the point of, all right, maybe I get to build
You signed me for five years. What is that just
the standard deal? Right? It's like when we talk about
(19:22):
the quarterbacks and well here's the starting It's like, no,
it doesn't have to be. If you don't think the
guy's worth forty million dollars, you were off from forty
million dollars. You reset the table. Likewise here if you
thought he was only a short term response and as
a first time coach at this point, then why why
wasn't he only given three years? I can't imagine that
(19:44):
was hardball. He was the last guy you you tried
to to bring in after all the swings and missus
and and a lot of speculation that eventually guys would
be calling their own. You know, there's a big thing.
I look, I got what. I got what you're saying. Uh, Look,
there's a big thing to to know coming out of this,
because this is not just about David Culley, and here
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he is one job and not getting it is that
it's that's something you haven't heard all day talking about this. Look,
obviously we're down to now one black head coach in
the NFL to have been let go, and that's a
big thing, right. We really start needing to see more
candidates interviewed and and and there's got to be more
attention spent on this. Uh and that. Look, that's the
obvious point that we see. The not so obvious one
(20:28):
is that this is a moment where anybody who wants
to be a head coach has to understand something and
be comfortable with it if they want to do it.
Because the jobs are disappearing that are giving coaches coaching autonomy, right, Like, no,
you know, a coach comes and understands, Okay, I'm gonna
work with the GM in the front office, and maybe
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I get to help pick the players. Maybe I don't.
But I'm the coach, and and and and that's and
that's on me. Whatever happens, it's my game plan, it's
my coaches, they're my player and I'm trying to figure
out a way to win on Sunday. And that's my sanctum, right,
And many coaches are happy with that. Some really want
to be involved in the personnel decisions. Some don't. Bill O'Brien,
for instance, wanted to do it. Now he doesn't want
(21:11):
to do it. He realizes how bad he is at it.
Did you see that though? That part of it as
he interviews for the Jacksonville job. No, he's only interviewing
because he wants to be a head coach. He wants
no responsibilities front office. Like really you think so? You
think anybody's gonna let trade her Bill into the room, Hey, Bill,
come on and just start trading guides whatever you know,
we don't even signed you to a contract, and just
start making trades. Man. We'll put them out as fast
(21:33):
as you can know. I thought this was all just
a simulator, and but this is what coaches have to
deal with. They're going to be the coaches who come in.
They're still gonna be the coaches that get hired that Hey,
you're a big name, we're gonna turn things over to
you in the coaching department and and you're gonna continue
to do the job you did. But what you're seeing
(21:55):
now in many places is the head coaching job in
the NFL is kind of becoming like a managerial job
in Major League Baseball, where the ownership and the front
office want and have a bigger say where they didn't before.
They didn't get into your your domain of hey, this
is what we want to do coaching the team, and
now you are seeing it everywhere. Look, why is Brian
(22:17):
Flores out in Miami. Couldn't get along with the GM
couldn't get along with the owner. There was all kinds
of issues there, right, Uh, Jacksonville, you're gonna go work
for Shad conn That's a difficult thing. He's a guy
that likes to be involved and Urban Meyer, they have
many conversations about things. When you take a job now
in the NFL, unless you're a guy that can come
in and write his ticket and say this is what
I want, You're gonna leave me alone. There's not a
(22:37):
lot of guys like that. You have to be comfortable
with the fact that you're coming in as the head coach.
But guess what, the general manager is gonna have some
input into your game plan and what players play and
what and what goes on. And the owner is going
to have some kind of input where it used to
be in the past, off couple of owners had that.
We always made fun of Jerry Jones having that input.
Now that it's working in Major League Baseball with thanks
(22:59):
to analytics and everything else, the front office saying here's
here's a lineup. These are the guys you're gonna put
out there tonight. Here's the first guy out of the bullpen.
Here's you know, it's it's moneyball come to life. And
anybody but mag's the first out of the pen Alright,
it's moneyball come to line. You're seeing anybody who wants
to be a manager in Major League Baseball understands that. Now, Okay,
I I'm losing a little bit of my power. I'm
losing a little bit of my domain because I'm gonna
(23:21):
have to talk to the GM in the front office
and their baseball people. I'm gonna be be meeting with
Peter Brand every single day going over these are the
guys to bring in. This is the order. This is
that I have to be comfortable that if I want
to be a manager, because it's not like it was
in the past where I just had the ability to
make the call every single time I wanted to. That's
getting into football now now. Granted, the coach is always
(23:41):
gonna have a larger input on the game plan because
he's the guy spending eighteen hours a day at the
at the facilities getting ready. But when you want back,
you want that to be your tie. This is Mike,
this is my kingdom. And now the GM, the front office,
the owner. When more of them get involved, this is
what the jobs are going to be. And as time
goes on, there's going to be way more of these
(24:03):
jobs available than there are of the old jobs. Right,
Andy Reid is not suddenly gonna become free and show
up and hey whatever you want, Andy? What everybody? No,
there's less jobs like that and more jobs like Hey,
if you're coming in, you're gonna work with everybody in
jackson You're gonna work everybody with everybody in Houston, and
they're they're gonna be involved very, very in a very
(24:24):
big way with everything you have going on. Those are
the more jobs coming available now in the NFL. Well,
but but even look at you know, some of the
veteran guys that are have been in plays a long time.
Some of the reports that Pete Carroll if he wants
to stick around, and you know that's part of the
push pull here in the Russell Wilson situation is maybe
Pete Carroll is on the way out, but one of
(24:45):
the things that's being discussed is that he gives up
any of that front office part of his job and
just goes back to coaching. Right, the last data point
you have of a guy coming in with a lot
of control that didn't work out so well, and Jacksonville
did it while you had a GM in name Urban
Meyer pretty much did whatever the hell he wanted now
(25:08):
just to flesh out, you know, with with David Culley,
you know, I've been talking a lot about the Chicago
job and we have here on the show, of course.
Uh and you could hear it in the voice a
lot of yelling, uh and screaming with people about this
stuff is you know, you're you're trying to get people
that come from big time organizations and longevity. And that's
one of the parts when David Cully got the job
(25:29):
was this guy is a good organization guy, right, because
he was with Andy Reid in Philadelphia. He was over
in Kansas City with Andy Reid for a couple of
years right, and over in Baltimore, like he was in
organizations where there's stability and structure, and then he goes
to Houston where the McNair's going back Historically they kind
(25:50):
of abdicated some of that, right, Bill O'Brien, when when
Bob McNair died, there's a power vacuums like, all right, Billy,
you just do it. And look what he did. It
beat havoc on an organization. So here's a guy, a stabilizer,
a good a good coach at you know, at different
levels and certainly collegiant into the pros wide receiver coach,
(26:11):
you know, assistant head coach and all those roles. But
going back to you know, as you said, the the
changing of the guard, Yeah, I mean, how many guys
come in with the cache that you'd say, okay, right,
if Nick Saban decided he wanted another shot at the NFL,
maybe he gets a shot, but maybe he doesn't even
want to do that part of it. There's no coach, dude,
I don't look look at Doug Peterson, the guy want
(26:32):
to bleep in Super Bowl with with Philadelphia, and he's
coming in just hoping to get a job, just hoping
to get runner or not. Boy, look at what he's
just hoping to get a job. Well, but that's part
of where we're at also, right, the idea that you
move on from recycling and you're going into a new age.
You know, people can bemoan what happened, you know on
Sunday Night with Brandon Staley, or the way John Harbaugh
(26:55):
managed the Ravens and changed up some of the approach
this year, some out of necessity because of all the
injuries that they sustain and COVID losses on given weeks
and whatever. But they took a different approach and people
can be mad about it. Go go and watch your
own organizations. There's a lot more of that. If you really,
(27:15):
you know, check under the hood, then you want to
believe just because it's not always on a very controversial
fourth down call doesn't mean it's not happening happening incrementally
within front offices and coaching staffs. Well, we'll look at
it this way. Right there six openings right now, right technically,
I mean the Raiders are probably look, they're in the playoffs,
they're probably not gonna have an opening, But that that
(27:37):
would be seven. Right. The only guy who could come
in and say this is what I want and you
have to cow tow to him a little bit would
be Jim Harbaugh. He'd be the only guy that could
come in because he could come in coming off success
in college, incredible success in a short amount of time
with the San Francisco forty nine. He was I mean
what he did. He brought that team up to the
top of the league in no time. So he's the
(27:58):
one guy that could come in. But still, even if
he comes in, he's not coming in with any kind
of person elsewhere, So we still got to be able
to work. But from the coaching standpoint of it, yeah,
they'll let Hardball kind of do his thing because they
know what he's done. But everybody else coming in, everybody
else is gonna be okay, you're coming in, we're working together,
we're gonna be heavily involved, and this is what we
want and this is what, in the end is going
(28:20):
to wind up being what coach, why coaches get hired,
and why they don't. Because if someone saying, hey, you know,
I don't know, like what would you be would you
be okay with meeting with me four times a week
on your game plan and going forward, and the coaches
honest and says, yeah, I don't know about that. The
game plan has gotta be mine and uh, we kind
of do it. That's gonna knock people out. And that's
gonna that's gonna allow teams to say, Okay, this person
(28:43):
was a front runner. Now they're not because they're not
gonna play ball. And it's not gonna be I'm not
gonna fight with the coach to get a meeting with him.
It's gonna be a coach that understands that you work
for me and when we need to get together or
if I have an idea I want something done, then
it's gonna get done. So to say that it was
it's all on the coach. It it's gonna be who
the teams are comfortable with because they're gonna want that
(29:04):
part of control. So for of the six jobs, one
of them could go to a guy who will be
able to write as much of his ticket as he can.
The rest are all gonna be people who are gonna
be able to work with and for the ownership and
the GM because they're gonna be really involved. So that's
a percentage right there. Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping, you know,
in all earnestness that there's you know, legit processes to it. Right.
(29:26):
Sometimes when you see the recycled guys immediately into buildings,
you're like, really, there's so many others, but a lot
of guys that you'd love to consider are still in
the playoffs, so that becomes a more difficult thing. And
then if guys aren't under contract, well then nothing really
has to be reported, right because they don't have to
put the slip into the league. You just keep your
logs to make sure you're meeting all requirements, which we
(29:48):
know are are grossly um well in less impactful than
they should be and certainly uh not always followed. It's
because what's the punt? She meant a slap on the wrist,
more or less the guy I would hire, and I
said it before us. And again it's like, why, why
isn't anymore you talking to Jim Caldwell, especially if you've
(30:10):
got a young quarterback, not like you, you know what
I mean, Like, if you already have a young quarterback
and do how is that guy not getting in the building. Yeah? Yeah,
I mean he's someone that I don't know anybody that
likes Jim called Well as a head coach. But the
guy won. The guy's won in places. He's won in Indianapolis,
he actually won in Detroit. He was actually winning games,
(30:31):
and like his his firing there and and we can
look at Flores and and maybe it was just something
that couldn't be bridged between he and the front office.
And if the stories of him getting after two as
he did, you know, we should have drafted Matt Jones
was the latest generation of that. And that's kind of curious.
(30:53):
But you know, David Culley getting ousted here. I mean,
they played hard, and they were in games they should
have been in, and they've got a reboot coming. I
don't honestly why it couldn't have been the guy to
stabilize it and move forward. I'm not a fan of
quick triggers. As you know, go back to Wilkes in Arizona, right,
they were able to get their guy, pair him up
with Kyler Murray. But you know he got done wrong
(31:15):
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Usually when NFL teams get ready to play, sometimes do
you have to take a shot to be able to
play right. Everybody lines up for toward all. Everybody knows
I I gotta do it. Well, It's gonna be really
(32:21):
cold on Saturday when the Patriots face off against the
Buffalo Bills in Buffalo wind Chills, expect to be down
near zero degrees and uh. Former NFL linebacker Bart Scott
had a different idea for Josh Allen to really stay
ready and loose and motivated and to be able to
play his best game at home on Saturday. Here he
(32:42):
was on ESPN earlier today saying, this is what Josh
Allen needs to take in order to win this game.
Can I get you a suggestion for him? Listening? Can
people get this mentioned him? By Agra? Take some biograph
for the game. Baby, circulation going right? And you played
A lot of us take viagra right because opens up
(33:03):
the bloodst A lot of us take what do you mean?
A lot a lot of NFL players at least in
my dates, and viagraph open up the blood vest There's
a lot of endurance athletes because first heart medicine right,
so it builds up circulation, which makes sure that it
get those circulations to the feet. Why do I get
a feeling this is something that doctor players, uh, and
(33:24):
we're able to figure out and this wasn't something that
actual doctors told the NFL. Yeah, this is great, friend. Hey,
you know what I read on the internet. Viagraah, because
it was a heart medicine. It will move the blood
to your extremities. Get you going, Hey, let's all take viagra.
So apparently everybody, we're all gonna take viagara? Now? Is
it to the NFL players? White papers on that testing
(33:46):
the efficacy of this truck? But it doesn't it doesn't
it strike you that that's what it is. Hey, I
only run on the internet. Man, Hey, hey, viagra And
if you had a respected voice in the locker room
telling you take viagra, people are gonna take viagara. They're
gonna do it. Why not? I do like that. Dawson
Knox had to make sure he pointed out emphatically that
he's not on board that train. You're just fine, look
(34:09):
at me, Look at me. I'm not taking any of
that stuff. Hello, Everybody like, is it? Is it a
p E? D? I mean, I don't know. You gotta
have a prescription for it, right, I mean I know
that the other thing that viagara helps you out with
his supposedly high blood pressure. Uh. So there's that, But
you know, I I don't know about the whole open
up your heart and and everything. Open up your heart
(34:30):
let me in now, you know. I I don't know
about the rest of it. I see that, and you go, Wow,
that's somebody that's read stuff on the internet and goes, hey,
I I could be a doctor. I could figure this
out right here. Yes, let's all take viagara. Yeah, I
don't know about that. Well, I mean, look, he gets
fired up for the game. There's no question about that.
(34:50):
Bart Scott, no wonder he was yelling, can't wait, can't wait.
I'm excited. I just I just took the pill. I'm ready.
I'm excited, going Brian Cox the this is my kind
of party. All that comes to get all the linebackers
getting after it. Uh in a big way. I don't know.
I mean it's it's certainly a curiosity and love. I
(35:10):
love to see if you could get the famous poll
questions in locker room. So guys, uh, we know about
tour it all. We know about all the different things.
You you know, the old bowls of greenies, how about
the little blue pill. Anybody, anybody. You don't have to
take the brand name stuff. There's plenty of competitors. I
actually worked for a competitor for a while. But the
(35:32):
Viagra competitor like a knockoff of Viagra. Well, no, it's
just a different drug, a different system back in the
day before I started working for you. Problem is you
had to administer it locally, so it was very easy
to then just pop a pill. So it's okay. They
ended up making a lot of money developing products for
for women, but from the male side they trying to say, hey,
(35:53):
this is far better and it doesn't go through your
blood blood system to where it could negatively affect your heart. Uh,
that wasn't a good enough marketing campaign Like that didn't matter.
It's like, wait, I have to do what Nope, I'll
take the bill and take my chances. I need to
see a commercial find me where where you say marketing
campaign where it says, hi, you know, hey, if you
(36:14):
have a football game coming up and it's gonna be
in cold weather, take Viagara helps push blood to your extremities.
There's video of guys making plays Viagara is for you,
and then you get that at the end side effects
may include death, dismemberment, inability to see straight, falling down,
fingers falling off, toes falling off, Like I want to
make sure that those those after possible side effects aren't
(36:35):
that big a deal, Like I want to you know,
if if you start getting into serious things like that,
then I'm like, Okay, it's not worth it for me.
So I need the commercial to see if I would
do it or not. I will say this, Um, Saturday
Night Live is back live this weekend. Don't don't think
the writer's room didn't jump on this one. So I
would fully anticipate and add on Saturday's episode and then
(36:57):
teach a clearly. Bart Scott talk about this on Get
Up earlier in the day. I got more for the
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