September 22, 2023 • 28 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon recap TNF. Jason tells you why Brian Daboll is the most disappointing NFL HC so far this season. Bears GM Ryan Poles makes it really, really clear, no one in their organization is panicking. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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I tell you, Mike Carman, I am upset right now.
I got rooked.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You got brooked. You know before the show, I went
and bought ice cream? Yeah, all right, you know me.
I like the chocolate peanut butter Hogendas.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
By the way, you know what I found out, hoggen
dust doesn't mean anything. The company came up with the
name Hogendass to make it sound hoity toity and elite
and so hagends it's not real thing.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's like all the bands that had umlots that don't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Hagen Doss is not a thing you really thought it was.
I thought Hoggen.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I thought maybe the two people that came up with
it were Hoggen and Dos.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, Haggen dust doesn't mean anything. I didn't know that.
My life is shattered. I remember what I know.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I remember when fruzen Glodia was big, because that was
oh yeah that I can't say that that was that
was the right save Harbor and all.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know, this is where when something is successful you
always get a copycat, like hogen Doss is a big deal,
and like in the nineties, fruzen Glodja was big and I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Like it, save on that and that begat eber flush A.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh no, we'll we'll beget with TJ will beget to
Eberflus coming up in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But so I go.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I buy hogen Doss. I buy a pint chocolate peanut butter,
which I love. Right now, I'm gonna have a pint.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Have I let it? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I let I put it in the refrigerator. For fifteen
minutes to soften up. So I go have a little bit.
No chocolate, peanut butter. It's just chocolate. Did somebody peanut
butter out of there? No, it's just one of those
that's been known to happen in these parts. Either no
peanut butter was put in, or it was just mismarked.
It was just chocolate, and they put the wrong cover.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Because I mean, ty Shirt might want the protein and
everything out of the peanut butter, but I'm not actually touching.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It was a hole in your ice cream.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No no, no, actually opened it like normal. I made
sure it wasn't like, oh, look at this, somebody already
opened it for me.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, no, no. I peeled the top off, bottom of it,
check the bottom. Everything was good. It was cool. You
might that bad in the way right out? Zero cont
no zero peanut butter. And I checked.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I checked it like a corkscrew. I'm straight up to
the bottom in this. There you go, siphon it right.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Out, cork screwed through the bottom. I'll tell you who
it wasn't. Who wasn't it. It wasn't me, all right now,
I think it was you.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No, no, no, no, no, you would be your Your
neck would be like like size flushed neck brace from
here to Nebraska. Yeah, no, forget, you would look like
you tried to swallow a boot and it got stuck
a booth throat.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, that wouldn't work out for it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The biggest con though, is Frostburg really has no lactose intolerance.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Wow, you mean he just doesn't like cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't think a person exists he really does like it,
and all he does is he cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes, I go home many all the time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I just put bricks in the microwave and eat a
wheel of cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Take a bite out of it like it's an apple.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Sixty four slices of American cheese sixty three?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What am I supposed to do with all that cheese?
Sir two one? I think I'm blind? Oh boy, sixty
fourst life?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Tonight we watched the forty nine Ers just manhandle the
New York Giants, a game that looked very similar to
the Cowboys and the Jets on Sunday, where it was
close for a little while, but you could tell one
team was playing at a much higher level than the other.
That was the forty nine Ers and the Giants, and
what surprised me the about this game was not the
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Niners one. I had the Giants getting all. I was
the only one to say Giants getting eleven. And you
know why because I placed my trust in Brian Dable, who,
without a doubt, is the most disappointing head coach in
the NFL so far this season.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Now he's played three games and only two teams have
played three games, but without a doubt, he is the
most disappointing.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So they played two good quarters of football. But look,
that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This is a guy who last year was the best
head coach in the NFL. The Giants were extremely well prepared.
They adjusted in game. They beat the teams they were
supposed to beat handily. They beat teams that were about
the same talent level as they as they were, they
beat better teams. They were always prepared. Brian Dable was
the car I remember in the middle of the season
saying he's the coach of the year and it's not
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going to be close. Guess what he turned out to
be Coach of the year. Congratulates if you took that
and made money on it last season. And I expected
the Giants to take another step this year, and so far,
what have we gotten? We got a no show Week
one against the Cowboy. How you show up flat for
your opening game of the season at home, I don't get,
But that's on the coaching staff. When you show up flat.
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You show up and don't show for the first half
against the Cardinals, the worst team in the NFL, least
talented roster, them in the Patriots, least talented roster, and
you need an incredible second half comeback just to get
that first win. And now tonight, this was the most
glaring piece of evidence to tonight's game, to this statement
that I'm making about Brian Dable. The Giants came into
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this game. There was gonna be no Saquon Barkley, and
what I expected to see from the Giants was, well,
they're gonna utilize what Daniel Jones does best. They're gonna
get him outside the pocket. He's gonna run and make
plays with his legs. They're not gonna be able to
run the football. Matt Breed is suddenly not gonna come
in and be Saquon Barkley. But you're gonna see Daniel
Jones get utilized like Josh Allen I said he's gonna
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have seventy five yards rushing tonight. That's gonna be the night.
That's gonna be the night, and way Under was the final.
That's gonna be the night for Daniel Jones. And you're
going to see them hold this game close, and it's
going to be I'll take the Giants to the eleven.
But the Giants are going to be able to keep
this game a lot closer than you expect. And not
only did we not see that from Daniel Jones, and
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the Giants couldn't run the football. There was no creativity.
There was no hey, let's change things up a little
bit to try to juice the offense. Because the offense
was abysmal. Daniel Jones threw for one hundred and fifty yards.
They couldn't move the football at all. There was no
let's try some things to try to get the offense going.
Because the game was still there for the Giants at halftime, right,
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the game was still there. They weren't down by a lot,
they were still hanging in. Start you start doing a
couple of new things. You loosen up the Niners defense, Hey,
you start being able to make plays. There was none
of that from Brian Dable. None of that. And then
the play that stood out the most to me is
midway through the fourth quarter. The Giants are down twenty
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three to twelve and then have the football facing a
third and two and they're not quite in field goal range.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Maybe they're there, but they're not quite there.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And Party throws a pass to Christian McCaffrey who has
to come back to catch it, and he catches it
at the marker and he's facing back towards the line
of scrimmage. He comes back to the football, he's down
and it's ruled the first down and replay show. They
showed the replay right away, and the ball hits the
ground like mca cradled. It's kind of awkward. Worth a look,
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see right, And that's the thing that's worth looks because
it looks like it hits the ground. Now, maybe they
view that he has control. I think if you really
went through it like where his hand is angled, you
would argue, okay, this is how it was called on
the field.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Look, and there's like no pause, right, no, And and
I don't know that you would have won that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And I don't know that you would have won that
but clearly, hey, the ball touches the ground and you
don't know. I get you want to save your challenges
for when you think you're gonna win it. You're pretty
sure you're gonna winner. Someone buzzes down for going, Hey, challenges,
we're gonna win it. This play is the bleeping game.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Six point fifty left in the game.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
This play is the game. Ball is on.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
The thirty two to thirty three yard line, so it's
a makeable field. It's a magab but it's still a
fifty field and Moody's been fantastic, but it's but it's
still a field goal right right, because you're down by
eleven and it's still it's still a two score game.
This is the game because now you're talking about the
Niners getting the ball, getting further in field goal range,
taking more time off the clock, or scoring a touchdown.
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So this play is the game. Third and two, McCaffrey
makes the catch and it hits the ground. Okay, they're
gonna challenge it. They had three time out. You have
to worry about your timeouts because you have three timeouts
left and I'm waiting. They're showing dable and he doesn't
challenge it and the ball get spotted, the Niners snap it,
and one play later Perty hits Deebo Samuel the thirty
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yard touchdown. Game over thirty to twelve. And I can't
believe what I saw. Isle, Like Jack Buck, I can't
believe what I just saw. I can't believe Brian Dable
did not throw the challenge flag. Nobody told him to
throw maybe Spike Lee. No one told me. Nobody didn't
throw the challenge flag on a play you had to
because it's the game. And you see great code like
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Bill Parcells would always throw the challenge flag and Belichick
throws the challenge flag, and they have the same philosophy
is if it's a big enough play, I'm gonna throw
it because you never know, right, you never know how
much foot did? You never see it, Bill Belichick taking
the red flag out of his sock and then fire
and slam it down, so and and because you never know,
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and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, and sometimes
it rains.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Sometimes you win it, sometimes.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You lose it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But but you have to throw it at that point
because it's the game. And he didn't do it, and
I walk away going, this is just an epic fail
by Brian Dable. The first three weeks, said coach, and
I didn't see this coming because he was so good
last year. But there is no coach more disappointed where
I go. Dude A, the team needs more from you.
Everybody needs more from you. I don't know if you're
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a one year wonder now or other stuff is happening,
But where has this team been. You've had two quarters
of football that looked like you guys wanted to play
the rest of it's been ugly, and there's been no hey,
let's try to get out of it. I almost felt
like they came into the game going, hey, we're not
gonna win, we're on the road, there's no Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Let's just not do anything and have it. Nobody get hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Like if he said that in this post game prescotts,
I would say, Okay, that's what he said, and.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I disagree, and I can't believe he said it, but
that would make sense.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Came in on a short weeks, banged up, missing two
offensive linemen, missing Saquon Barkley, and then you watch this
game and as it it started to unfold, your defense
made plays right winning and keeping the old you know
you're behind, you're behind the sticks, right, so first and
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second down, taking care of business, forcing third and longs
and then giving up fifteen to twenty yard chunk plays
and you know they were I look, it's a rule.
I hate the old at I got to the quarterback,
but my body landed on part of him, so now
it's a personal foul penalty which set up a first
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in goal and the McCaffrey touchdown. It's a play that
I think is absolutely in a call that is absolute trash,
like getting a fifty yard pass interference penalty. I'll never
understand why they leave that in, but that is part
of the game. Helped set up a TD because the
defense did their best to hang around offensively. There was
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no creativity from Dable and Kafka.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
They got no help from him tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
No help, let's hear from Brian Dable just got finished
meeting the media a few moments ago, and well, at
least he's taking responsibility.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Yeah, no, no excuses, We got it. We can do
a better job.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
With how shorthanded you guys work, because I mean, the
injury report was pretty robust with some legit have been players.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
How close this game.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Was until that Deeper pushed on, can you take like
some legitimate.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Positive out of this? Yeah? I think you Again, it's
you got to take you know, the good from it
and you got to learn from the bat just like
like every game, the guys compete it, and you know
we compete it all the way to the end. You know,
they made they made more plays than we did. So
you go back and take a look at it, and
you know, get get going on the next week, daved
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Obviously Sunday misstackles were glaring, and tonight you guys had
a bunch as well.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Uh do you trunk.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Any of that up to the idea that Marnie will
get out of be able to have.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Full practices, no, no excuses.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
What made you decide to go with you over Ruinsky.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, that's something that we talked about as a coaching staff.
You know, he was going to go in at left,
Mark would go in at right or be a back
up to him, give him an opportunity to go out
there and play.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What have you seen a scrimmish at the end of
the first half.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
The Yeah, I saw a couple punches be throwing and
then the respect everybody back off was I couldn't see
the whole thing. I just you know, saw a couple
a couple of punches there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
All right, So there's Brian Dable. At least he took
responsibility for it. But dude, I realized, what else.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
You gonna do? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It was his fault, and his fault, hey, I squand's ankle.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I saw Justin Field say this.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It was Daniel Jones's fault, it was Matt Breida's fault.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It was ever.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Look, there was no adjustment offensively when the Niners took
Darren Waller away, because you know, the Giants plan is
to get the ball to Darren Waller, and look, Waller
had a big catch that he made. That that could
have changed. But there was nothing else. It's like, well,
we're taking Waller away, what do we do? I don't know, No,
I mean nothing. There was nothing tonight. There was no
sense of urgency to try to win this game. I
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really I'm stunned from this, still raising my hand, going hyatt, hyatt,
anybody do you have nine snaps tonight?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Nine ten snaps when it was all said done?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, wow, man, Giants problems. But this Dave I never
thought it'd be Brian Dable at primetime and a million
Daniel Jones Jason one and eleven in primetime games. Ooh wow,
he's a new Kirk Cousin. Yeah, he's gonna fight Captain Kurtin.
Did they battle later on this year in a primetime game? Yeah,
Jet's giants when Kirk Cousins is playing for the jam
playing in the toilet bowl.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know it's a crime. It's an actual radio crime.
That tonight you've only played Earth Wind and Fire September once. Well, Jason,
I My response is this, how many times in September?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Is it the twenty first one time? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
So you play the song on the twenty first of September,
which is tonight at one time.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
There's only one day you can play twenty for September
and have it be so relevant. We got it in
one time.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's not about the quality of It's all about the
one time.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
By the way, this also circled you like a buzzard
all night.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You would be the worst program director of a music
radio station in the world. Hey, uh, we have that
big new hit by Taylor Swift Alex. How often should
we play it? Like every two hours, every hour.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And a half? Play it once a day?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What once a day? People will tune in wanting more. No,
people actually tune.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
In wanting to hear the big hits. I just play
it once.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I just always remember that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Play it once at three am, and don't play it
all during the day.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Don't play it all.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
One of our initial conversations as we're meeting with our
boss down Mard Maman. During the holidays, that rotation tightens
to five stars. You might have seven to nine the
rest of the year, but in the holidays five times.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You gotta get the people what they want to. Wait
till we get the most wonderful time of the year
coming up to h It's been canceled. That's Rack Christmas
is canceled.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
live from the tire Rack dot Com studios. We have
more of the Thursday night game between the Niners and
the Giants coming up in a few minutes because we
got to get to Brock Purdy. But the drama with
justin Fields just won't end. It just won't end. Now
we're waiting to find out the other shoe dropping with
the Allan Williams situation, the Bears defensive coordinator who stepped
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away from the Bears to focus on time with his family.
Now he had actually stepped away from the team before
Matt Eberfu's coach the team. It didn't go very well.
He was already away from the team. But now he
is officially done. And we had the story yesterday that
Hallis Hall was raided. Hallas Hall was not rated.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
PETERA.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Tillman, FBI agent confirmed led the raid on Hallis Hall
did not happen. What we're getting today is that Alan
Williams home was raided, not Hallas Hall. Eventually we're going
to get something on this. We joined Jay Glazer joined
us a little earlier in the show. When you asked him, Hey, Jay,
what can you tell us about He goes, that's his
story to tell. That's not for me to say. That's
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when it comes out, and that's his story to tell.
So that means there's something there waiting to find out
what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, as we surmised in reading the tea leaves, I
think we're pretty good observers and going through the analysis
of things where there's a short resignation letter and the Bears,
who has an organization, they're usually pretty as much as
they do incorrectly from a football standpoint, they usually embrace
(17:23):
people and and show love and take care of them
on the as they they leave, or you'd at least
get a statement of hey, we wish him the best,
whatever is going on for health, family, whatever. There was
none of that. There was just a quickly quick resigation.
He's gone.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
He is not here, kind of like you would say
when you cut a player in week three of the season.
I mean like they when they cut Peterman before they
re signed him today. Right, it's just terse and quick.
He's off the website, all of those things. He doesn't
get a medical leave of APS, so that's a part
of it that doesn't make any sense to me. Right
if there was, you know, still love between him and
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the team. As his lawyer, who was described on the
score in Chicago as oily from an appearance he had
yet no if you go back and listen to the
it's it's not good like the.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay, hastily hired.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Legal help for Williams did did a lot of Billy
Flynn and and and and that's what he's paid to do.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And that's fine. But again, if if everything was right
with the.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Team, you would think leave of absence, a health plan
in play to make sure he and his family are good. Right,
you would lean in on the insurance, uh, and what
your benefits were with the squad. So something there just
doesn't seem right. There's a big gap that still needs
to be filled. But Jay Glazer said, hey, that's his
story and we'll see what happens at the next iteration.
(18:53):
Today it was more about football and and the boss
actually getting in front of people.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So there's something there. What it is, It sounds like
we're going to hear it at some point. Oh, it's
gonna come out at some point. What we did get
today was Justin Field. Yeah, the gift that keeps on giving.
It was yesterday. It feels like it was like a
month ago, but it was just yesterday morning. Justin Fields
met the media talking about a little bit of frustration
with the team so far this year and his lack
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of performance, and he said that, yeah, you know, sometimes
I get a little too much coaching. They give me
a lot of stuff, but I, you know, I need
to just be me and I need to listen to
the coaching during the week and go out on Sundays
and play. Basically saying, yeah, I get coached too much
and they fill my head with a lot of stuff
and it doesn't allow me to play.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
How I like to clows him down.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, So we had that, and then he actually wanted
to make sure that we knew what he was talking about,
so we called the reporters back in.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
To the locker room after he gave his press conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Listen, you know, don't take it out of context, and
you don't do what you're gonna do to get clicks, Like, no, dude,
we let you say everything. You know, no one edited
anything you said. You basically said I don't want to
be coached. So today Ryan Poles, the GM decided, okay,
after you can say what I need to say. He
didn't give a comment on the Allen Williams, Oh no, no,
(20:12):
He very definitely pushed that to the side. But he
did weigh in on justin fields and how the team
feels about fields, following his comments from a day ago.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
We have adversity, right, now slow start owing to not
where you want to be. We've dealt with life issues, injuries,
and that's all real, and that's a part of what
we do and what we got to deal with. In
terms of Justin, that can't be more clear than this.
No one in our entire building, none of our coaches,
see Justin as a finger pointer at all. Is always
taking ownership of anything that's happened on the field. He
(20:45):
works with his teammates, works with his coaches.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Fine solution, all right, So no one looks at Justin
Fields his finger pointing.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
This is going to end because now it's a battle.
It's a fight between Fields and eber Fleas. But they
hugged it out on him.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, okay, uh.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
By week eight, one of them is not going to
be there. And by that I mean either Eberflus is
fired or Fields is benched. One of those two things
is happening. He took on the coaching staff. This is
not going because if he continues to not play well,
not take to coaching, they'll sit him. They'll say you're done,
we're tanking, we're going into next year, we're going to
get a quarterback, We're done, or everybody is mad their
(21:32):
Bears should be better than they are. Eber Flues gets fired.
He's the odds on favorite to be the first head
coach fired this year. So by week eight, one of
those things is happening. It's coming to a head for
both of them. If you're looking to a sign, blame
who is wrong. I've heard a lot for both sides
with Fields, Hey, Fields needs to be coached better. Of course,
the Bears need to make sure that he's playing, of course.
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But what this comes down to is the Bears made
a mistake that teams may all the time when they
draft a quarterback. I saw it with the Jets and
Zach Wilson. I saw it with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson.
Is that teams draft a guy out of college, and
if it's someone who they feel their skill set needs
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to be refined a little bit, they say, you know
what we gonna do. We're gonna turn you into a
pocket passer, or we're gonna turn you into a player
that you're not comfortable being that you haven't done and
that's just stupid.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
This is not nineteen eighty five where a kid comes
out of a small school and hey need to work
on your footwork and need to work on this. We
need to make you this kind of player. Players come
out of college now as quarterbacks fully formed. They are ready.
There's a reason why they've been as successful as they
have over their course of their careers. Their quarterback, they're
used to a lot of different things. You have to
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be the smartest guy in the field because you have
to be in charge of more than just what you're doing.
A quarterback. You come out and you're taking in the
first round. This is the player you are. And too
many coaches say, okay, great, but we want to extend
your career. We want you to do a couple of
different things. So we're gonna put you in the pocket.
Right let's take justin justin fields for example. We're gonna
keep you in the pocket longer than you have to
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be What are you doing. You're turning him into a
player that he's not. And you can't reinvent a guy
coming out of college saying Okay, you've done it this
way your whole life. Now here you are at the
toughest level of competition you're ever gonna face. We want
you to change how you do things and learn that way.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You put the guy out there and what you do
is you bang out the dents. That's the best thing
you can do as a coach. Don't try to remake
the guy because it never works. It never works. You
have to teach a guy a new way to do
things right. I remember the Jets drafted Quentin Copples out
of North Carolina a few years ago, and Rex Ryan
was like, oh man, I know he's a defensive end,
but I would have played a defensive tackle. I want
his hand in the dirt. I'm like, they're ruining his career.
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He's never now you tell it what a position he played,
you're gonna change. And what happened Quentin Coples was out
of the league a couple of years later. Right, this
is what's going on with Justin Fields. Yes, of course
you want him in the pocket better. You want him
hitting open receiver. You want that, but that's not what
he does. You know the guy's got talent because he
set a record for rushing yards for a quarterback last year.
You know he can do it, but you have to
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let him do his thing. And when he comes in,
there's certain things you can say, Okay with Justin Fields,
you need to do this a little bit better. Let's
see you know how to play quarterback. Let's bang out
the dents and turn you into and turn you in
what you need to be. And that's what the best
coaches do. That's what Andy Reid does really well. He
bangs out the dents on guys and they turn into
really good players. Except sometimes coaches like the Bears want
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to go overboard, and they wind up ruining someone's career
because they're trying to turn them into a player that
they're not doing something incredibly new when it's but this
is kind of how I do it. This is why
you drafted me. So you want to know why Justin
Fields isn't isn't succeeding the way it's because the Bears
continue to try to make him something he's not. Hey,
i'd rather have the guy play five If his prime
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is going to be five years or six years, I'd
rather have him have five or six really good years
than a couple of ify years and then he's out
of the league.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Because he can't get it done.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well. It's the conversation we had long ago when it
came to Cam Newton and certainly the criticism of Harbaugh
in Baltimore with Lamar Jackson and running and some of
what Josh Allen is getting right now is that's part
of what makes them special as a player. Right.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You can't take that away.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Now, you refine it, you try to implement different wrinkles
to things, but the whole idea is always, Hey, your
system should be tailor made to these skills that your
player has. In this case for the Bears, you also
have the fact that Justin Fields was not the choice
of this quarterback slash GM combo. So you've got that right,
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You've got Ryan Pace and going back to Naggie and
all these guys of what they were envisioning as Fields
came on board. And now you're looking into the next iteration.
You went and got him some help in the receiving corps.
Great in theory, Cole Comet will be the guy he
was for that month last year or so. You think
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I'm not convinced DJ Moore he's going to be better, Well,
you also see it's not just Field isn't getting rid
of the ball because we've all done the Hey four
seconds we were talking about it Monday. I ranted about
it red in the face like Brian Dable. I would
admit to that you wore the the the nylon coaches
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short sleeve pull over like he does.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You look a lot like I mean, I put out
a little bit of weight, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
But it's more about you wearing the appearance and then
the red face shave my head and whatever. But the
idea being that we we've all watched it, right, is
that he's trying to stay in the pocket. He's trying
to let things develop. He's not pulling the trigger. You're
not calling designed rollouts. They did that for the first
chunk of last year. And guess what once you finally
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did it finding him some space. This is where Kamet
had his big month, where you found some opportunities for
Mooney downfield. And so this year you bring in DJ
Moore and look, this is the other part of the
Bears that only if you really subjected yourself to watching
the full games did you see where the number of
occasions where you had receivers not clearing out their routes, right,
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I saw a clip of Kurt Warner kind of dissecting
the play that everybody's watching, Well, why didn't even throw
it here? Like, well, the guy kind of half asses
it into his route so he doesn't take the safety away,
and the other guy doesn't run the burner to the corner,
which means the cornerback staring.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It down the whole way. So you know, there's still
some truth in all right.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's not as clean, but there are opportunities, and at
some point you have to try to make a throw
to make something happen, or you revert to the player
you've been and you take off and you go fight
for that first down and live to see another day.
Somewhere along the way, he and gets he have to
get on the same page and make plays, and they
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need to recall and understand very quickly. Roshan Jason is
your most complete running back on that roster. Get him
the ball. I feel like al Pacino at any given Sunday,
the game against Dallas at the end and coach Unitas
where he tells Aaron Eckhart, who is the offensive coordinator, he's.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Calling in the plays, calling plays, Ah, let the kid
do his thing?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
What what do you mean it's not about like, let
the kid do his thing and Jamie Fox leads him
all the way down and sorry spoiler, they score a touchdown.
Really weird, but he runs back and.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Over the time Jason Willie Beaman's actually good.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm like justin Willie beam and uh so, yeah, great
music video. Let the kid do his thing and that's
what they that's you need to do with quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Out the dents.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
He's one of the great you know, hot plays or
ninjas for this week based on that because I think
he he comes out and his hair's on fire.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Frankenstein's Monster no good bang out the dents. That's how
you do it, nictally doing
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I got rooked.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You got brooked. You know before the show, I went
and bought ice cream? Yeah, all right, you know me.
I like the chocolate peanut butter Hogendas.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
By the way, you know what I found out, hoggen
dust doesn't mean anything. The company came up with the
name Hogendass to make it sound hoity toity and elite
and so hagends it's not real thing.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's like all the bands that had umlots that don't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Hagen Doss is not a thing you really thought it was.
I thought Hoggen.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I thought maybe the two people that came up with
it were Hoggen and Dos.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, Haggen dust doesn't mean anything. I didn't know that.
My life is shattered. I remember what I know.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I remember when fruzen Glodia was big, because that was
oh yeah that I can't say that that was that
was the right save Harbor and all.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know, this is where when something is successful you
always get a copycat, like hogen Doss is a big deal,
and like in the nineties, fruzen Glodja was big and I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Like it, save on that and that begat eber flush A.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh no, we'll we'll beget with TJ will beget to
Eberflus coming up in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But so I go.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I buy hogen Doss. I buy a pint chocolate peanut butter,
which I love. Right now, I'm gonna have a pint.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Have I let it? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I let I put it in the refrigerator. For fifteen
minutes to soften up. So I go have a little bit.
No chocolate, peanut butter. It's just chocolate. Did somebody peanut
butter out of there? No, it's just one of those
that's been known to happen in these parts. Either no
peanut butter was put in, or it was just mismarked.
It was just chocolate, and they put the wrong cover.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Because I mean, ty Shirt might want the protein and
everything out of the peanut butter, but I'm not actually touching.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It was a hole in your ice cream.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No no, no, actually opened it like normal. I made
sure it wasn't like, oh, look at this, somebody already
opened it for me.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, no, no. I peeled the top off, bottom of it,
check the bottom. Everything was good. It was cool. You
might that bad in the way right out? Zero cont
no zero peanut butter. And I checked.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I checked it like a corkscrew. I'm straight up to
the bottom in this. There you go, siphon it right.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Out, cork screwed through the bottom. I'll tell you who
it wasn't. Who wasn't it. It wasn't me, all right now,
I think it was you.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No, no, no, no, no, you would be your Your
neck would be like like size flushed neck brace from
here to Nebraska. Yeah, no, forget, you would look like
you tried to swallow a boot and it got stuck
a booth throat.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, that wouldn't work out for it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The biggest con though, is Frostburg really has no lactose intolerance.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Wow, you mean he just doesn't like cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't think a person exists he really does like it,
and all he does is he cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes, I go home many all the time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I just put bricks in the microwave and eat a
wheel of cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Take a bite out of it like it's an apple.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Sixty four slices of American cheese sixty three?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What am I supposed to do with all that cheese?
Sir two one? I think I'm blind? Oh boy, sixty
fourst life?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Tonight we watched the forty nine Ers just manhandle the
New York Giants, a game that looked very similar to
the Cowboys and the Jets on Sunday, where it was
close for a little while, but you could tell one
team was playing at a much higher level than the other.
That was the forty nine Ers and the Giants, and
what surprised me the about this game was not the
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Niners one. I had the Giants getting all. I was
the only one to say Giants getting eleven. And you
know why because I placed my trust in Brian Dable, who,
without a doubt, is the most disappointing head coach in
the NFL so far this season.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Now he's played three games and only two teams have
played three games, but without a doubt, he is the
most disappointing.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So they played two good quarters of football. But look,
that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This is a guy who last year was the best
head coach in the NFL. The Giants were extremely well prepared.
They adjusted in game. They beat the teams they were
supposed to beat handily. They beat teams that were about
the same talent level as they as they were, they
beat better teams. They were always prepared. Brian Dable was
the car I remember in the middle of the season
saying he's the coach of the year and it's not
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going to be close. Guess what he turned out to
be Coach of the year. Congratulates if you took that
and made money on it last season. And I expected
the Giants to take another step this year, and so far,
what have we gotten? We got a no show Week
one against the Cowboy. How you show up flat for
your opening game of the season at home, I don't get,
But that's on the coaching staff. When you show up flat.
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You show up and don't show for the first half
against the Cardinals, the worst team in the NFL, least
talented roster, them in the Patriots, least talented roster, and
you need an incredible second half comeback just to get
that first win. And now tonight, this was the most
glaring piece of evidence to tonight's game, to this statement
that I'm making about Brian Dable. The Giants came into
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this game. There was gonna be no Saquon Barkley, and
what I expected to see from the Giants was, well,
they're gonna utilize what Daniel Jones does best. They're gonna
get him outside the pocket. He's gonna run and make
plays with his legs. They're not gonna be able to
run the football. Matt Breed is suddenly not gonna come
in and be Saquon Barkley. But you're gonna see Daniel
Jones get utilized like Josh Allen I said he's gonna
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have seventy five yards rushing tonight. That's gonna be the night.
That's gonna be the night, and way Under was the final.
That's gonna be the night for Daniel Jones. And you're
going to see them hold this game close, and it's
going to be I'll take the Giants to the eleven.
But the Giants are going to be able to keep
this game a lot closer than you expect. And not
only did we not see that from Daniel Jones, and
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the Giants couldn't run the football. There was no creativity.
There was no hey, let's change things up a little
bit to try to juice the offense. Because the offense
was abysmal. Daniel Jones threw for one hundred and fifty yards.
They couldn't move the football at all. There was no
let's try some things to try to get the offense going.
Because the game was still there for the Giants at halftime, right,
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the game was still there. They weren't down by a lot,
they were still hanging in. Start you start doing a
couple of new things. You loosen up the Niners defense, Hey,
you start being able to make plays. There was none
of that from Brian Dable. None of that. And then
the play that stood out the most to me is
midway through the fourth quarter. The Giants are down twenty
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three to twelve and then have the football facing a
third and two and they're not quite in field goal range.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Maybe they're there, but they're not quite there.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And Party throws a pass to Christian McCaffrey who has
to come back to catch it, and he catches it
at the marker and he's facing back towards the line
of scrimmage. He comes back to the football, he's down
and it's ruled the first down and replay show. They
showed the replay right away, and the ball hits the
ground like mca cradled. It's kind of awkward. Worth a look,
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see right, And that's the thing that's worth looks because
it looks like it hits the ground. Now, maybe they
view that he has control. I think if you really
went through it like where his hand is angled, you
would argue, okay, this is how it was called on
the field.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Look, and there's like no pause, right, no, And and
I don't know that you would have won that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And I don't know that you would have won that
but clearly, hey, the ball touches the ground and you
don't know. I get you want to save your challenges
for when you think you're gonna win it. You're pretty
sure you're gonna winner. Someone buzzes down for going, Hey, challenges,
we're gonna win it. This play is the bleeping game.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Six point fifty left in the game.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
This play is the game. Ball is on.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
The thirty two to thirty three yard line, so it's
a makeable field. It's a magab but it's still a
fifty field and Moody's been fantastic, but it's but it's
still a field goal right right, because you're down by
eleven and it's still it's still a two score game.
This is the game because now you're talking about the
Niners getting the ball, getting further in field goal range,
taking more time off the clock, or scoring a touchdown.
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So this play is the game. Third and two, McCaffrey
makes the catch and it hits the ground. Okay, they're
gonna challenge it. They had three time out. You have
to worry about your timeouts because you have three timeouts
left and I'm waiting. They're showing dable and he doesn't
challenge it and the ball get spotted, the Niners snap it,
and one play later Perty hits Deebo Samuel the thirty
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yard touchdown. Game over thirty to twelve. And I can't
believe what I saw. Isle, Like Jack Buck, I can't
believe what I just saw. I can't believe Brian Dable
did not throw the challenge flag. Nobody told him to
throw maybe Spike Lee. No one told me. Nobody didn't
throw the challenge flag on a play you had to
because it's the game. And you see great code like
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Bill Parcells would always throw the challenge flag and Belichick
throws the challenge flag, and they have the same philosophy
is if it's a big enough play, I'm gonna throw
it because you never know, right, you never know how
much foot did? You never see it, Bill Belichick taking
the red flag out of his sock and then fire
and slam it down, so and and because you never know,
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and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, and sometimes
it rains.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Sometimes you win it, sometimes.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You lose it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But but you have to throw it at that point
because it's the game. And he didn't do it, and
I walk away going, this is just an epic fail
by Brian Dable. The first three weeks, said coach, and
I didn't see this coming because he was so good
last year. But there is no coach more disappointed where
I go. Dude A, the team needs more from you.
Everybody needs more from you. I don't know if you're
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a one year wonder now or other stuff is happening,
But where has this team been. You've had two quarters
of football that looked like you guys wanted to play
the rest of it's been ugly, and there's been no hey,
let's try to get out of it. I almost felt
like they came into the game going, hey, we're not
gonna win, we're on the road, there's no Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Let's just not do anything and have it. Nobody get hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Like if he said that in this post game prescotts,
I would say, Okay, that's what he said, and.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I disagree, and I can't believe he said it, but
that would make sense.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Came in on a short weeks, banged up, missing two
offensive linemen, missing Saquon Barkley, and then you watch this
game and as it it started to unfold, your defense
made plays right winning and keeping the old you know
you're behind, you're behind the sticks, right, so first and
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second down, taking care of business, forcing third and longs
and then giving up fifteen to twenty yard chunk plays
and you know they were I look, it's a rule.
I hate the old at I got to the quarterback,
but my body landed on part of him, so now
it's a personal foul penalty which set up a first
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in goal and the McCaffrey touchdown. It's a play that
I think is absolutely in a call that is absolute trash,
like getting a fifty yard pass interference penalty. I'll never
understand why they leave that in, but that is part
of the game. Helped set up a TD because the
defense did their best to hang around offensively. There was
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no creativity from Dable and Kafka.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
They got no help from him tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
No help, let's hear from Brian Dable just got finished
meeting the media a few moments ago, and well, at
least he's taking responsibility.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Yeah, no, no excuses, We got it. We can do
a better job.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
With how shorthanded you guys work, because I mean, the
injury report was pretty robust with some legit have been players.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
How close this game.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Was until that Deeper pushed on, can you take like
some legitimate.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Positive out of this? Yeah? I think you Again, it's
you got to take you know, the good from it
and you got to learn from the bat just like
like every game, the guys compete it, and you know
we compete it all the way to the end. You know,
they made they made more plays than we did. So
you go back and take a look at it, and
you know, get get going on the next week, daved
(12:25):
Obviously Sunday misstackles were glaring, and tonight you guys had
a bunch as well.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Uh do you trunk.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Any of that up to the idea that Marnie will
get out of be able to have.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Full practices, no, no excuses.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
What made you decide to go with you over Ruinsky.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, that's something that we talked about as a coaching staff.
You know, he was going to go in at left,
Mark would go in at right or be a back
up to him, give him an opportunity to go out
there and play.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What have you seen a scrimmish at the end of
the first half.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
The Yeah, I saw a couple punches be throwing and
then the respect everybody back off was I couldn't see
the whole thing. I just you know, saw a couple
a couple of punches there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
All right, So there's Brian Dable. At least he took
responsibility for it. But dude, I realized, what else.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
You gonna do? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It was his fault, and his fault, hey, I squand's ankle.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I saw Justin Field say this.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It was Daniel Jones's fault, it was Matt Breida's fault.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It was ever.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Look, there was no adjustment offensively when the Niners took
Darren Waller away, because you know, the Giants plan is
to get the ball to Darren Waller, and look, Waller
had a big catch that he made. That that could
have changed. But there was nothing else. It's like, well,
we're taking Waller away, what do we do? I don't know, No,
I mean nothing. There was nothing tonight. There was no
sense of urgency to try to win this game. I
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really I'm stunned from this, still raising my hand, going hyatt, hyatt,
anybody do you have nine snaps tonight?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Nine ten snaps when it was all said done?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, wow, man, Giants problems. But this Dave I never
thought it'd be Brian Dable at primetime and a million
Daniel Jones Jason one and eleven in primetime games. Ooh wow,
he's a new Kirk Cousin. Yeah, he's gonna fight Captain Kurtin.
Did they battle later on this year in a primetime game? Yeah,
Jet's giants when Kirk Cousins is playing for the jam
playing in the toilet bowl.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
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Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know it's a crime. It's an actual radio crime.
That tonight you've only played Earth Wind and Fire September once. Well, Jason,
I My response is this, how many times in September?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Is it the twenty first one time? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
So you play the song on the twenty first of September,
which is tonight at one time.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
There's only one day you can play twenty for September
and have it be so relevant. We got it in
one time.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's not about the quality of It's all about the
one time.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
By the way, this also circled you like a buzzard
all night.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You would be the worst program director of a music
radio station in the world. Hey, uh, we have that
big new hit by Taylor Swift Alex. How often should
we play it? Like every two hours, every hour.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And a half? Play it once a day?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What once a day? People will tune in wanting more. No,
people actually tune.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
In wanting to hear the big hits. I just play
it once.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I just always remember that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Play it once at three am, and don't play it
all during the day.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Don't play it all.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
One of our initial conversations as we're meeting with our
boss down Mard Maman. During the holidays, that rotation tightens
to five stars. You might have seven to nine the
rest of the year, but in the holidays five times.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You gotta get the people what they want to. Wait
till we get the most wonderful time of the year
coming up to h It's been canceled. That's Rack Christmas
is canceled.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
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got to get to Brock Purdy. But the drama with
justin Fields just won't end. It just won't end. Now
we're waiting to find out the other shoe dropping with
the Allan Williams situation, the Bears defensive coordinator who stepped
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away from the Bears to focus on time with his family.
Now he had actually stepped away from the team before
Matt Eberfu's coach the team. It didn't go very well.
He was already away from the team. But now he
is officially done. And we had the story yesterday that
Hallis Hall was raided. Hallas Hall was not rated.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
PETERA.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Tillman, FBI agent confirmed led the raid on Hallis Hall
did not happen. What we're getting today is that Alan
Williams home was raided, not Hallas Hall. Eventually we're going
to get something on this. We joined Jay Glazer joined
us a little earlier in the show. When you asked him, Hey, Jay,
what can you tell us about He goes, that's his
story to tell. That's not for me to say. That's
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when it comes out, and that's his story to tell.
So that means there's something there waiting to find out
what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, as we surmised in reading the tea leaves, I
think we're pretty good observers and going through the analysis
of things where there's a short resignation letter and the Bears,
who has an organization, they're usually pretty as much as
they do incorrectly from a football standpoint, they usually embrace
(17:23):
people and and show love and take care of them
on the as they they leave, or you'd at least
get a statement of hey, we wish him the best,
whatever is going on for health, family, whatever. There was
none of that. There was just a quickly quick resigation.
He's gone.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
He is not here, kind of like you would say
when you cut a player in week three of the season.
I mean like they when they cut Peterman before they
re signed him today. Right, it's just terse and quick.
He's off the website, all of those things. He doesn't
get a medical leave of APS, so that's a part
of it that doesn't make any sense to me. Right
if there was, you know, still love between him and
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the team. As his lawyer, who was described on the
score in Chicago as oily from an appearance he had
yet no if you go back and listen to the
it's it's not good like the.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay, hastily hired.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Legal help for Williams did did a lot of Billy
Flynn and and and and that's what he's paid to do.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And that's fine. But again, if if everything was right
with the.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Team, you would think leave of absence, a health plan
in play to make sure he and his family are good. Right,
you would lean in on the insurance, uh, and what
your benefits were with the squad. So something there just
doesn't seem right. There's a big gap that still needs
to be filled. But Jay Glazer said, hey, that's his
story and we'll see what happens at the next iteration.
(18:53):
Today it was more about football and and the boss
actually getting in front of people.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So there's something there. What it is, It sounds like
we're going to hear it at some point. Oh, it's
gonna come out at some point. What we did get
today was Justin Field. Yeah, the gift that keeps on giving.
It was yesterday. It feels like it was like a
month ago, but it was just yesterday morning. Justin Fields
met the media talking about a little bit of frustration
with the team so far this year and his lack
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of performance, and he said that, yeah, you know, sometimes
I get a little too much coaching. They give me
a lot of stuff, but I, you know, I need
to just be me and I need to listen to
the coaching during the week and go out on Sundays
and play. Basically saying, yeah, I get coached too much
and they fill my head with a lot of stuff
and it doesn't allow me to play.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
How I like to clows him down.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, So we had that, and then he actually wanted
to make sure that we knew what he was talking about,
so we called the reporters back in.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
To the locker room after he gave his press conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Listen, you know, don't take it out of context, and
you don't do what you're gonna do to get clicks, Like, no, dude,
we let you say everything. You know, no one edited
anything you said. You basically said I don't want to
be coached. So today Ryan Poles, the GM decided, okay,
after you can say what I need to say. He
didn't give a comment on the Allen Williams, Oh no, no,
(20:12):
He very definitely pushed that to the side. But he
did weigh in on justin fields and how the team
feels about fields, following his comments from a day ago.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
We have adversity, right, now slow start owing to not
where you want to be. We've dealt with life issues, injuries,
and that's all real, and that's a part of what
we do and what we got to deal with. In
terms of Justin, that can't be more clear than this.
No one in our entire building, none of our coaches,
see Justin as a finger pointer at all. Is always
taking ownership of anything that's happened on the field. He
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works with his teammates, works with his coaches.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Fine solution, all right, So no one looks at Justin
Fields his finger pointing.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
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Speaker 1 (21:02):
This is going to end because now it's a battle.
It's a fight between Fields and eber Fleas. But they
hugged it out on him.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, okay, uh.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
By week eight, one of them is not going to
be there. And by that I mean either Eberflus is
fired or Fields is benched. One of those two things
is happening. He took on the coaching staff. This is
not going because if he continues to not play well,
not take to coaching, they'll sit him. They'll say you're done,
we're tanking, we're going into next year, we're going to
get a quarterback, We're done, or everybody is mad their
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Bears should be better than they are. Eber Flues gets fired.
He's the odds on favorite to be the first head
coach fired this year. So by week eight, one of
those things is happening. It's coming to a head for
both of them. If you're looking to a sign, blame
who is wrong. I've heard a lot for both sides
with Fields, Hey, Fields needs to be coached better. Of course,
the Bears need to make sure that he's playing, of course.
(21:53):
But what this comes down to is the Bears made
a mistake that teams may all the time when they
draft a quarterback. I saw it with the Jets and
Zach Wilson. I saw it with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson.
Is that teams draft a guy out of college, and
if it's someone who they feel their skill set needs
(22:14):
to be refined a little bit, they say, you know
what we gonna do. We're gonna turn you into a
pocket passer, or we're gonna turn you into a player
that you're not comfortable being that you haven't done and
that's just stupid.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
This is not nineteen eighty five where a kid comes
out of a small school and hey need to work
on your footwork and need to work on this. We
need to make you this kind of player. Players come
out of college now as quarterbacks fully formed. They are ready.
There's a reason why they've been as successful as they
have over their course of their careers. Their quarterback, they're
used to a lot of different things. You have to
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be the smartest guy in the field because you have
to be in charge of more than just what you're doing.
A quarterback. You come out and you're taking in the
first round. This is the player you are. And too
many coaches say, okay, great, but we want to extend
your career. We want you to do a couple of
different things. So we're gonna put you in the pocket.
Right let's take justin justin fields for example. We're gonna
keep you in the pocket longer than you have to
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be What are you doing. You're turning him into a
player that he's not. And you can't reinvent a guy
coming out of college saying Okay, you've done it this
way your whole life. Now here you are at the
toughest level of competition you're ever gonna face. We want
you to change how you do things and learn that way.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You put the guy out there and what you do
is you bang out the dents. That's the best thing
you can do as a coach. Don't try to remake
the guy because it never works. It never works. You
have to teach a guy a new way to do
things right. I remember the Jets drafted Quentin Copples out
of North Carolina a few years ago, and Rex Ryan
was like, oh man, I know he's a defensive end,
but I would have played a defensive tackle. I want
his hand in the dirt. I'm like, they're ruining his career.
(23:45):
He's never now you tell it what a position he played,
you're gonna change. And what happened Quentin Coples was out
of the league a couple of years later. Right, this
is what's going on with Justin Fields. Yes, of course
you want him in the pocket better. You want him
hitting open receiver. You want that, but that's not what
he does. You know the guy's got talent because he
set a record for rushing yards for a quarterback last year.
You know he can do it, but you have to
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let him do his thing. And when he comes in,
there's certain things you can say, Okay with Justin Fields,
you need to do this a little bit better. Let's
see you know how to play quarterback. Let's bang out
the dents and turn you into and turn you in
what you need to be. And that's what the best
coaches do. That's what Andy Reid does really well. He
bangs out the dents on guys and they turn into
really good players. Except sometimes coaches like the Bears want
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to go overboard, and they wind up ruining someone's career
because they're trying to turn them into a player that
they're not doing something incredibly new when it's but this
is kind of how I do it. This is why
you drafted me. So you want to know why Justin
Fields isn't isn't succeeding the way it's because the Bears
continue to try to make him something he's not. Hey,
i'd rather have the guy play five If his prime
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is going to be five years or six years, I'd
rather have him have five or six really good years
than a couple of ify years and then he's out
of the league.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Because he can't get it done.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well. It's the conversation we had long ago when it
came to Cam Newton and certainly the criticism of Harbaugh
in Baltimore with Lamar Jackson and running and some of
what Josh Allen is getting right now is that's part
of what makes them special as a player. Right.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You can't take that away.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Now, you refine it, you try to implement different wrinkles
to things, but the whole idea is always, Hey, your
system should be tailor made to these skills that your
player has. In this case for the Bears, you also
have the fact that Justin Fields was not the choice
of this quarterback slash GM combo. So you've got that right,
(25:41):
You've got Ryan Pace and going back to Naggie and
all these guys of what they were envisioning as Fields
came on board. And now you're looking into the next iteration.
You went and got him some help in the receiving corps.
Great in theory, Cole Comet will be the guy he
was for that month last year or so. You think
(26:03):
I'm not convinced DJ Moore he's going to be better, Well,
you also see it's not just Field isn't getting rid
of the ball because we've all done the Hey four
seconds we were talking about it Monday. I ranted about
it red in the face like Brian Dable. I would
admit to that you wore the the the nylon coaches
(26:23):
short sleeve pull over like he does.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You look a lot like I mean, I put out
a little bit of weight, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
But it's more about you wearing the appearance and then
the red face shave my head and whatever. But the
idea being that we we've all watched it, right, is
that he's trying to stay in the pocket. He's trying
to let things develop. He's not pulling the trigger. You're
not calling designed rollouts. They did that for the first
chunk of last year. And guess what once you finally
(26:52):
did it finding him some space. This is where Kamet
had his big month, where you found some opportunities for
Mooney downfield. And so this year you bring in DJ
Moore and look, this is the other part of the
Bears that only if you really subjected yourself to watching
the full games did you see where the number of
occasions where you had receivers not clearing out their routes, right,
(27:15):
I saw a clip of Kurt Warner kind of dissecting
the play that everybody's watching, Well, why didn't even throw
it here? Like, well, the guy kind of half asses
it into his route so he doesn't take the safety away,
and the other guy doesn't run the burner to the corner,
which means the cornerback staring.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It down the whole way. So you know, there's still
some truth in all right.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's not as clean, but there are opportunities, and at
some point you have to try to make a throw
to make something happen, or you revert to the player
you've been and you take off and you go fight
for that first down and live to see another day.
Somewhere along the way, he and gets he have to
get on the same page and make plays, and they
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need to recall and understand very quickly. Roshan Jason is
your most complete running back on that roster. Get him
the ball. I feel like al Pacino at any given Sunday,
the game against Dallas at the end and coach Unitas
where he tells Aaron Eckhart, who is the offensive coordinator, he's.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Calling in the plays, calling plays, Ah, let the kid
do his thing?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
What what do you mean it's not about like, let
the kid do his thing and Jamie Fox leads him
all the way down and sorry spoiler, they score a touchdown.
Really weird, but he runs back and.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Over the time Jason Willie Beaman's actually good.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm like justin Willie beam and uh so, yeah, great
music video. Let the kid do his thing and that's
what they that's you need to do with quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Out the dents.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
He's one of the great you know, hot plays or
ninjas for this week based on that because I think
he he comes out and his hair's on fire.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Frankenstein's Monster no good bang out the dents. That's how
you do it, nictally doing
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