January 8, 2024 • 40 mins
Part One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the playoffs being set and teams making changes for next season. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Super Bowl Champion Jason McCourty discuss the Packers win over the Bears, the Cowboys winning the NFC East and what's wrong with the Eagles? The table gives thoughts on Bill Belichick's press conference. Plus, Arthur Smith is angry at the Saints!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
And with that, the twenty twenty three regular season has
come to a close, which means our Super Wildcard weekend
schedule is set. It's three days of football. It's playoff football.
This is NFL Playoffs. It starts on Saturday afternoon with
the Browns taking on the Houston Texans. It is capped
by Eagles Buccaneers.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And you have a great.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Slate of games that a lot of them were decided yesterday.
Welcome inside Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky,
live as always in New York City, Monday, January eighth.
I'm jamiear at all. There's Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason mccordy.
After listening to everybody opine last week about the final
week of the NFL season, did everyone get invited to
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the playoff party that you wanted on the guest list?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Peter, I did AFC and NFC playoff picture for the
last eight weeks. I actually, as we will see, bid
farewell to NFL head coaches today. Yeah, I like to
bid farewell to the playoff picture columns and all of
it lurking different, lurking in the hunt.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
You're not hunt.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
You're out, alive, you're out.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The Bears were hanging around for a while, the Raiders
were hanging around for a while. We got our final fourteen,
and there are some curious teams not in the batch. Jacksonville,
We're sorry. We'll never speak about you again the season.
You're on to the next. If you made it, you're in.
If you're not, we'll see at the draft. That's how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
See it as how's your guest list? Looking for the
playoff party?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
It is what it is. Yeah, you don't always get
to decide who gets to come. Sometimes that's taken out
of your hands. Sometimes as your wife, as your parents,
we didn't get to choose. But this is where we're at,
and I'm excited for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think it's perfect as it is every single year,
the right teams made it. If you didn't get in,
you should have won more games, should have stacked wins
in September.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Sorry, you're out.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There should be a new column, says on vacation. See
it at the half for my friends.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's it. We got the playoff teams to deal with.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
A lot of flights were booked last night for some
of those teams that didn't quite make it, and playoff
plans were made.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Time to lead blocked.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We welcome do Ora party in Rappaport. Omar ruiz Omar
is in Foxboro, Massachusetts. We will be hearing from Bill
Belichick within the hour here on NFL Network.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
Ian.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We'll start with you though news late last night that
kept everyone up from Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What's the details?
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Twelve two am was how the day after the season
started for the Atlanta Falcons, firing Arthur Smith after three seasons,
really a struggled down the stretch and you know, if
you'd asked me a month or so ago.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Arthur Smith seems safe.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Just really need to.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Avoid it collapse at the end.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
They had to collapse, losing four of five, and obviously
the quarterback issues really plagued the Falcons throughout. They decided
to roll with Desmond Ritter rather than sign a veteran
or trade for a veteran quarterback this pass offseason.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
That really doomed them.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Obviously, someone who you know, the fantasy community was frustrated
with the Falcons. Fans ended up frustrated with in the
end Arthur Smith, he said.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Goodbye to last night.
Speaker 9 (03:06):
The Falcons now became the fourth team to have a
head coach opening. Meanwhile, we are keeping our eyes on
the Washington Commanders. The expectation is that Ron rivera one
of the more respected voices in the NFL and someone
who has served as the head coach and in f
acto's spokeson of the Commanders for the last four years,
he is expected to be out.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That potentially could happen this.
Speaker 9 (03:27):
Morning, with owner Josh Harris said to put his stamp
on his organization that he bought this past offseason. That
would not be a surprise, that would be expected, but
still consequential assuming that happens at some point soon. We're
also keeping our eyes on the uncertain status of Mike Rabel,
the Tennessee Titans head coach. This is kind of an
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odd one because Rabel has come out publicly a couple
of times that he wants to be in Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
You know, the relationship between him.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
And general manager Ran Carthon is a good one. That said,
there's still going to be a meeting between the owner
and Mike Rabel to discuss next season, and it's one
of those guys where they are going to go into
a room and you just do not know what is
going to happen, what Vrabel's going to agree to, what
changes are going to be made to get this organization
had in the right direction. That is something that certainly
could change the status of the former coach of the Year. Now,
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I want to send it to Omar Ruiz, who is
in New England for another legendary coach with some uncertain status.
Speaker 10 (04:25):
Yeah, uncertainty.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's the word ian that we heard in the locker room.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
Players acknowledging that for the first time Bill Belichick and
his job status, there is uncertainty and certainly looking forward
to having some certainty or claranty. Twenty four seasons, six
Super Bowls, nine AFC Championships. Not much sentimentality though in
the way for Bill Belichick yesterday, most of that reserve
for Matthew Slater, the legendary special teams player, sixteen seasons,
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three super Bowl titles. For him, he was celebrated in
a big way by his teammates and fans yesterday. Most
of the players we spoke with yesterday in the locker
room said it was business as usual leading up to
that Henshial final game for Bill Belichick in their preparation
for the Jets, and it continues to be business as usual.
Bill Belichick expected to meet with the media over a
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zoom press conference at seven point thirty and then open
locker room for the players as they clean out their lockers,
and then at nine am a team meeting with Bill
Belichick and the players, and then the reported meeting with
Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, and Jonathan Craft at some point
this week. Bill Belichick acknowledge that he will be meeting
with them like he always does at the end of
(05:33):
the season, but not much specifics on the schedule for
that Until then, we wait, We continue our business as usual.
We'll have much more throughout the day here from Foxborough.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Guys, Oh mar Ian, thank you the imagery yesterday out
of Foxboro with the snow and the hoodie.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It was just perfect to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And we will find out more Bill Belichick here on
NFL Network.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Kyle, you are permitted to do.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
The Bills Dolphins, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Let's go to Belichick's division, Bill's Dolphins in the AFC East.
We're going down to Florida this one's for a big,
big time stakes. Here a home game, Allen walking through Miami, hyping.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Up the Bills.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That Bills win the AFC East, they have a home
playoff game they will play Pittsburgh. Miami does not win
the East, they will go to Kansas City in the
wildcard round. But let's hear from a guy wearing yet
another division champion T shirt and he talks about it here,
Josh Allen, after that win in Miami, we.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
Didn't blink, you know, we came in at halftime and
understood what was going on. You know, we didn't feel
like we were playing up to our potential. So this,
this second half, all three phases. That's who we are.
That's what we're gonna need to be going forward.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
This this, this is fun, This is cool, and never
say no to winning a division. But the only thing
that it slidifies as a home game in one more game,
So doesn't mean anything if we go out there next
week and don't do our job. So we gotta find
a way to put our vessel forward and go go
find victory next week.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Late surges became the Bills name of the game, not
only in that game, they outscored the Dolphins fourteen to
nothing in the fourth quarter, but the Bills went five
to zero in December to finish their season in a
ridiculous streak. Buffalo against the AFC East title. They're the
two seed, Kyle, and they will take on the Steelers
a super wildcar.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
We unbelievable turn of events for Buffalo's six and sixteen,
six and six dead in the water. We're thinking, is
this thing collapsing? Crazy off the field stuff McDermott stories.
Twelve guys on the field against Denver and they are
the division champs. It has been an amazing turn of events.
It's not only the division champs. They're home at Buffalo
against the Steelers team that will be without its best player.
(07:32):
Like you are happy right now, and listen, you might
be happy right now, but last night was was a
vintage Josh Allen performance in every single possible way.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
This was a cardiac special.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Josh decided to chuck last night, like there's there's chucker Josh,
and then there's super Chucker Josh in which he doesn't
give a damn. I thought they're right up at NFL
dot Com. Was so perfect, it like really encapsulated everybody.
If Josh Allen had played smarter and more in control,
Buffalo might have cruse to a victory. But he also
threw for three fifty nine and had sixty seven yards rushing.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
It was there. It is, guys in a nutshell. Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The red zone stuff was weird. It was the first
red zone turnover they had had all seasons. So it's
not like he's been doing it all year. Listen, we
can get into the nitty gritty of it. Alan did
the thing at the end when he needed to sort of.
They had a special team's break. Bottom line.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
They're going home in a good way.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
They're having a home playoff game against a Steelers team
that is good but wounded. They still go down and
beat Miami. It's an incredible thing that that happened. Six
and sixteen. That was dead in the water holding up
T shirts again. Now we'll see what they do with them.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
In week eleven, we came on the show and I
said they had a fourteen per chance chance of making
the playoffs, and they were the eleventh seed. And that's
how far back to the eleven seed. Only top seven
make it. They finish as the number two seed. And
if they take care of their business, they'll have two
home playoff games in front of the Bills mafia. That
is an incredible situation if you're Buffalo and you would
have definitely signed up for that before the season. Midway
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through the season, week fifteen, Week sixteen, Week seventeen, and
here you are two home playoff games if you just
take care of your business. What I loved about this
game is that in the biggest moments, it wasn't necessarily
Stefon Diggs and James Cook. It was Taylor rat making
a play. It was Trent Sherfield stepping up. And we
talked about it a couple of weeks ago when Richie
James did it from his five yard line and we
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made fun of him and said, don't you ever do that.
You never return a punt from your own five.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm gonna go to Mike Tarico for the call.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Here down fourteen to seven with an AFC East title
on the line, mister Deontae Hardy, all five foot eight
of you, take care of business from the five.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yard line, sore, Miami will punt back to back possessions.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Jake Bailey with a big punt sends Deontay Hardy all
the way back to the five, has some space, take.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
To look out. Hardy gets a plucked out field. Harty's
gonna go. He's in that field. Nobody's gonna catch him.
Deionta Hardy ninety five yards.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
That was the spark plug.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
That was everything.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They're down fourteen to seven, they're sputtering, they're sputtering. They
go to the half again, the halftime announcement of when
the games are gonna be played, and Hardy just completely
ignites this team. I think it's the play of the
season for Buffalo. I think it was everything they needed
to get going. They took care of business from there.
The offense woke up, the defense stopped the Dolphins, who,
for whatever reason we'll talk about Miami has completely abandoned
(10:16):
the run in the second half. It's watching this game
like where's a chan has been killing them all first half.
They completely abandoned it. Mike McDaniel has a lot of
questions to answer today and then leading up into Kansas City.
But your reward, you get a Steelers team, like you said,
which is likely without TJ. Watt and Mason Rudolph coming
into town in cold weather where the offense has not
been good.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Bill's much better place now than they were a week ago.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And I think before the season, if you were to say,
would you sign up for this despite all the downs
in the valleys, they were sure, we'll take that two ceda,
We'll take that fun.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
So it all worked out for Buffalo in the end,
no doubt about it. And Jamie you said it. Five
straight wins for this Buffalo Bills team that you said
was dead in the water. And Kyle you may mention
of a few weeks ago Sean McDermot had things that
came out that he said in a meeting, and it
seemed like the entire Bills organization was going and a
downward spired and articles being written all this that and
the third and then you watch McDermott and his defense
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last night and what they were able to do to
the Miami Dolphins was so impressive. Of course, we talk
about Josh Allen so much because of his type of game,
but this defense was unbelievable too. It had one hundred
and seventy three yards passing two interceptions. The second half.
Miami's offense was barely on the field. Every drive they
had was four plays or less and it was punts
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and interceptions by two and talking about lot and this
offense for the Dolphins because they couldn't do anything against
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I read they were in seventeen plays in the second half.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Seventeen plays. It was just pump punt interception. Game over.
You're watching that and the Dolphins get the fourth down
stop and you're like, all right, if the Miami Dolphins
go down, scare are they going to go for two
to do? They kicked that extra point. No few plays
had a pass interference this that and the third Taylor
rap comes up huge with the interception. So as much
credit that goes to Josh Allen this semo. The defense
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has stepped up. They've been huge for them, especially in
those games against big opponents. They've stepped up and really
stopped guys.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm having nostalgia for the way the build season ended
last year in the regular season and how emotionally drained.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We talked about how challenging.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That year was for the city and for the team,
and how the playoffs were just everything was charged. And
then you see this team and that punt return in particular,
feels like they are plugging this team in and it's
emotionally charged in a different way, like that kind of
punt return that gives you life.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Last year it was like that. You felt like the Bills.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You just wanted them to get to the finish line
and they couldn't get there because they were so exhausted.
This feels like a Bills team that's rested and that's
like ready to fire on all cylinders.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Bears Packers. Packers clinched a playoff berth with a win.
This was in Lambeau, Guys. This was not a great game.
It was a great game for the Packers. It was
not terribly competitive. It was ugly, it was sloppy, but
Jordan Love was really good.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I love the hate throws a lot.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
They would hold on to win seventeen to nine. Jordan
Love has never lost to the Bears.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Matt Lafleor is never lost to the Bears, and the
Packers are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Awesome job by them.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
This game played between what would become the six.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Seeded La Rams and the one seated San Francis for
forty nine ers. So smattering of stars are out of
this game.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
So that's why you have a.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Carson Wentz throw to Pukakua and the highlight years that
Pookakua now set the single season rookie record with one
hundred and five catches and and eighty six receiving yards.
He had a great moment with his mom after Rams
win at twenty one to twenty. They're going to Detroit.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Not much meaning in that game. Well, the Cowboys game
has meaning. The Cowboys can't clinch the NFC East and
the number two spot in the NFC with a victory
or an Eagles off. All right, the Cowboys are absolutely rolling.
Jack Prescott four touchdowns, two hundred and seventy nine yards
and the Cowboys would go on to get the victory
in this one, thirty eight to ten.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I put that out there, dap are we choos out
the MVP now was an amazing finishing the seasons.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Lamar sis this guy. Okay, that's all I'm saying. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
They decided a week good options, they say it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
They decided eighteen week season. There's okay, sorry, I love that.
Let's hear from Mike McCarthy. I'll be facing his former
team in Round one of the playoffs. See what you
have to say after the game.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
I mean, I've had a good year. I haven't watched
him a whole lot, but yeah, the drama of it,
I'm sure you guys will love them. I will not
participate this year.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
No, I tell you, it's it's playoff time. It doesn't
matter who we played.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
To be honest with you, one team was happy men,
it's he's the other one, well, the other one's called
the Eagles. This was one of the most confusing outcomes
of the season. And yet, if you've been watching the
Eagles all season the last few weeks, they had no
right to beat the Giants the way they've been playing. Yep,
here's Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts after another strange, strange Sunday.
Speaker 12 (14:46):
None of us are quitters. We all get up off
the mat when we're down, and we get up and
we keep going. When you get hit in life, when
you get hit in football, you've got two options. You
can stay down or you can get you can get
that up.
Speaker 13 (14:59):
Right now, what's going on outside of us, anything external?
It's about controlling what we can, controlling what we can.
I truly believe this team it's more than capable, and
they taking advantage of what's in front of us. You
gotta do the work, and you got to you gotta
do what you need to do. But you know, all
you need is a crumb. All you need is an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I needed a crumb.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Oh I need is an opportunity. They get the opportunity
to play Monday Night.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
They're nice, eight days to rest, figure things out, but
they have to go to Tampa the five seed Eagles
at Tampa Bay Monday Night Football next Monday, be there
or b square. Will the Eagles be playing the divisional round?
That's a whole other question.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We saw that scene of A J. Brown limping off
the field in the Eagles game.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Mike Rofolo has tweeted that it doesn't appear to be
serious that Brown greeted his teammates, wasn't limping out of
locker room or anything. So eight days is good, I
think for this Eagles team if they want to turn
things around, and more.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Waste than one eight days, I don't know if that's
gonna be enough for them to turn things around. You're
watching that game Sunday, and I said, as we did
the Cowboys highlight, there was still so much on the
line for the Eagles and the Cowboys in that game,
an opportunity to win the Vision and have a home
playoff game. And here we are before halftime, Sirianni's pulling
Jalen Hurts Jason Kelce because the scores twenty four to
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zero and the Eagles look like a team that you
can no longer recognize as someone that played in a
Super Bowl last year. This is back to back weeks.
They have lost to the Cardinals and now the Giants,
two teams that pick number four and number six in
the upcoming draft. The Eagles look like one of the
worst teams in the NFL. Is you watched them, they
couldn't get anything going on offense. Defensively, you have guys
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missing tackles, people wide open, not covering anybody. It's hard
to pinpoint just one thing to say, all right, this
is what's wrong with this Eagles team. And we've been
saying it is like there hasn't been a catastrophic injury
or anything like that. And then you're watching that game
and AJ Brown goes down, Jalen Hurts, You mentioned Devonte
Smith isn't even out there right now that Cam Jurgens
gets it. There was so many different guys they lost
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Sidney Brown to an ACL as well. So I just
don't see how this Eagles team just turns everything around
in eight days and now they just look like this
tremendous team coming out getting ready for the Wildcard Division.
It's crazy to think this is a team that was
ten and one at one point and now they've lost
back to back weeks to two teams out of a
combined ten wins the entire season.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I'm resisting the urge to spend the next five days
doing a eulogy for the Eagles. I'm resisting because I
don't think they're dead yet. They're in the playoffs, and
like that gets really dark, it gets really negative. But
I will go back to when things are riding high
and we were talking about that defensive line, Jalen Carter,
Jordan Davis, invisible, Hassan Reddick, you get, I don't know
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what this defense is. And I watch it and I'm
watching Darius Slayton for the second time in four weeks
run up and down against the Eagles. I'm watching Sterling
Shepherd get.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
His against the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I'm watching Wandale Robinson look like Wandale Robinson looked as
if Wandale Robinson. Give me the analogy.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
What ron I don't even know. It looked like he
was J Brown.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I need a more dynamic, I need a super I
mean an all timer. That's what Wandale Robinson looked against
the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Looked like Larry Fitzgerald in the playoffs that one year.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You looked like Larry Fitzgerald going up against the Carolina
Panthers and Jake Deloman in the playoffs where he had
about twenty eight catches.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
And that was Wandale Robinson against this Eagles defense.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
The reason I'm resistingly urged to do a eulog is
because I've seen teams limp into the playoffs before. You
mentioned the Ravens from twenty twelve, even the Eagles, But
when they won the playoffs a couple of years ago
with Nick Foles, they didn't look great against the Raiders
in a game. They barely beat the Giants in a
game like I've seen it happen. But there was that
that moment last night at the Golden Globes where Selena
Gomez is whispering to Taylor Swift and Taylors was like
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what that? I would love to know what the heck
is going on in that Eagles locker room right now,
and like what they're whispering to each other. I would
love a lip reader because it's easy for us to
be like, get the mojoe going, Sirianni gets emptied the
bag on that? So where's it gonna come from?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
How's it gonna come?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And does it end against a Baker Mayfield led Tampa
Bay Buccaneers team who won nine nothing against the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Might I hear you listen to the series point? I
have genuine love for Sirianni.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We're at the point, though, coach, like we need more
than the stock boxing metaphor.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I mean, Jesus, when you get hit in life, you
get in football. You got two options. You can stay down,
you can get the f up. And I know this
group is fighters. I know this group will get up. Coach,
your group has been asleep on the mat for six weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
They're stumbling around looking for their mouthpiece, and the referee
is calling for.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Their physician to come in the ring.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The other guy is standing up on the turnbuckles with
his hands up, and the other guy is Kyler Murray,
Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Like this is not some like boxing Balboa like he did.
The season is getting destroyed.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If I was going to even indulge you and give
you the boxing metaphor, this right now is Balboa lang
Won Rocky about a clober where like Balbo's head wasn't
even in the arena and he just got punched in
the face a thousand times. This is not the like,
it's not the fighting the dog, the dog, and it's
like all that of his nonsense.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
We're way past that. The team is asleep, they're on conscious.
It is the worst.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It is Roy Jones Junior a sleep against Antonio tarveror
just face down not moving, the Simba gift where they're
trying to wake up the Eagles. We need more than
that coach you got eight days. I need more than
a boxing metaphor, because you guys are tk fo like
it's bad. It's really Get up, Get up, somebody get
into the emergency room, Mike. I hope they have good
ones in Tampa. That's where I're going. I guess, geez,
(20:27):
that's how.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You feel about Joe Coy's joke last night about Taylor
Swift and Travis Kelsey at fell of those flat as
that did you see her just sip her wine.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
When he tried it, It's like, no, no, you don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
In terms of the lip reading, I think they were
talking about Timothy Shallomey.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You never know, you never know.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
The NFC East recorded its nineteenth straight different champion yesterday
and when the Cowboys were crowned the NFC East title
last year is the Eagles and the Cowboys walked away
with it. This season, we'll get to the Cowboys still.
Come on our show, the twenty twenty three playoff picture.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
It's it, you know what.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
We're gonna break down the AFC side of things.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
When we returned, Joe Coy had way more hits than
the Eagles defense. Joe Coy was like Eddie Murphy in
the eighties. Compared to the Eagles defense, it was Richard
cry just setting the stage on fire in It's.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
An strategy going at Tayler switching.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah, he's going to be the one.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Morning football New England Patriots and Bill Belichick, the seventy
one year old head coach, has been with the Patriots
now for twenty four years. He is oftentimes synonymous when
he goat or he may have been the originerator of
it when it comes to the football conversation. Bill Belichick
three hundred and two wins, third most in NFL history,
but his future in New England is seemingly up for grabs,
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or at least that's been the topic of conversation in
the back half of the season and it has snowballed
since then. We are going to hear from him momentarily
here on NFL Network. He's going to address the media. Jason,
you played for him, you know him. What's the tenor
like right now?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
He's just always business as usual. And Bill's one of
the best coaches I've ever had, and obviously everybody can
say that does been in that building around him. Just
very curious times. You think about the past twenty five years,
you haven't had an end of the season where we're
talking about this. I look at them, I look at
Dave Andrews, their senator captain. Last year. I remember him
being in tears talking about Devin mccordy as he was
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getting ready to possibly retire this year. As Matthew Slater.
But it's two disappointing endings of the season. And as
you're watching that game and you said it, the Snow's falling.
It's an ugly game. There's no points score. Reese Hall
is jetting down the sideline. Fifteen game winning streak snapped
against the Jets and shrike. Something you said last week
as we talked about Tom Brady's last game with the
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New England Patriots. There was a pick six by Logan Ryan,
and the one thing you said was, these things don't
always end gracefully, and you ride out on his white
horse or anything. That was ugly yesterday and they didn't
get the victory the whole nine. So I can't wait
to see this press conference see what Bill has to say.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I monitored every press availability he did the last week,
and he kept on using that we're only talking about
the Jets as like a crutch, we're only talking about
the Jets. Meanwhile, I'm watching the broadcast with Chris Myers
and Robert Smith and they're talking about how Belichick was
under the weather all week. You look at him, he
had that snow that he had the mask on for
a while. He just and then at the end like
this this moment of like a handshake with solid but
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like nowhere words very short, and you're like, is that
how it ends? That's it like nothing against Chris Myers
and Robert Smith. This wasn't a Super Bowl broadcast. This
wasn't you know, with with Belichick riding high and it's
like he only talked about the Jets last week. It
was I'd like to focus on the Jets.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Like to talk about that.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You can't hide today. So he's gonna have a press
availability now like that. Media is going to ask him questions.
I'm curious to see if he actually answers any of
them or if he's like all onto the next day.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
There's nowhere to go next, There's nowhere to go next.
Talk about this right.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Well, here's where we go.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He is speaking to the media right now from New England.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
We are going to it live.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
He began speaking moments ago after the Patriots regular season
finale yesterday.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Let's listen it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
We'll kind of follow up a couple of things from yesterday.
You know, as I said, it was obviously very disappoint
a season all the way around, players, coaches, staff, organization.
You know, everybody's not not anywhere close to what our
standard and expectations are. So you know, honestly, things that
need to be fixed. Proud of the way the players
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and the team competed, but not the results obviously from
any of us. You know, start with me, and you know,
all the way down and everybody else that was involved
in I know we all feel the same way. So
I'm in our contract do what I always do, which is,
you know, every day I come in work as hard
as I can to help the team in whatever way
I can. That's what I'm going to continue to do.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Zoom The voice of Bill Belichick trails off in the
Zoomer world.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
We see it's good morning football show.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I'm good with that.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Of course that was Bill Belichick after the Patriots wrapped
up yet another disappointing season, things like things need to
be fixed. But pointedly, I'm under contract and Bill Belichick
is going to return to his job the next day,
and it's way too early to talk about decisions that
need to be made for next year.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Peter coach. Bill Belichick looked dejected though.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, that was like a broken Belichick. We've been seeing
that version of him. And of course it's the day
after eighteen weeks, the worst season they've had since he's
been there. And then you look at the future here
they're gonna have a conversation he and Robert Craft's gonna
happen in the next couple of days. He's not gonna
let this linger on because if they're gonna move on,
they've got to go through the entire search, and that
doesn't start until January twenty first, where you can actually
officially interview people. But I can't imagine this thing lingering lingering, lingering.
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And I look at some of the other possible opportunities
that are gonna be open, like Washington might be open,
the Chargers might be open. There's gonna be some really
really appetizing other places with better opportunities with young rosters
or better opportunities with young quarterbacks that I think Bill
might want to be on a pivot and see if
he wants to move on and explore those. So this
was kind of a carryover from yesterday's press conference after
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the game, where it was like, still talking about yesterday,
but I didn't get a pointed question of are you
returning or not?
Speaker 6 (26:01):
How I think that's what you were looking for.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Listen there in the Patriots media scrum, and they got
a lot of questions. But with all the respect to
his inability to develop the defensive line this year, like are.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
You coaching next year?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And if he's going to dodge it, let's hear it
again and again and again. This is not just your
average end of the season. Yes, I'm not there, and
maybe they'll come and maybe they already have it. I
really would like to hear pointed direct questions about Bill,
are you going to stay?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Are you leaving?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And even if he dodges it, hit him again, this
is the time I only think, like, I kind of
disagree with you, peer the advantage Bill has with prs
that like sometimes I've seen him look that way at
a Super Bowl press conference. He always looks like a hostage,
Like you couldn't if you put that up, You're like,
did you you just have the worst season ever? Need
to win another Super Bowl? I have no idea what
you take away.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
The one thing he did say, you said still on
the contract. And Judye Batista asks him yesterday about just
wanting to continue to coach, and he said how much
he still enjoys coaching, game planning.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And a whole nine.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
So we know that part of it. But yeah, as
you listen, you know Bill's not going to come out
and just say different things about the future and the
fact that in that clip that we had he wasn't
asked about it. You don't gain anything from what we
know a disappointing season. We watched it all kind of
developed throughout the season. But who knows, I catch on.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
May one more time.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
In twenty four years of the Patriots, Bill Belichick has
never mentioned his contract publicly.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Interesting, okay, never mentioned his contract public under contract? Is
under contracted? Is?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
He's never talked about a how many years he's under
a contract?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
How much money he makes all this time, I guess
has never been questioned. So there has never been a reason.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
You never heard him say I'm under contract.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
So like to me, that one thing stands out where
like now it's going to be, hey, I'm going to
be able to handle my narrative here, I'm under contract.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
He do.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And this is something that we saw last year with
Sean Payton, the elusive coaching trade that doesn't happen a lot,
but when it does very sexy. The coaching trade concept
has been one that's been floated with Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Is the coaching trade?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Beholden it all to that January twenty first deadline that
you just mentioned in terms of interviews, and like that's
when the window opens up, or can a trade for
a head coach be conducted at any time?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
My question, I don't know that answered. I think you
know that new January twenty first window is brand new.
It used to be you could start hiring coaches and
the interviewing coaches right away, but now they want to
wait the divisional around. I wonder if you could trade
I don't know. We'll get that answer.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Okay, cool coming up on Goo Morning Football as the
dust from week eighteen settles, not just for teams in
the playoffs, but let's talk about some of those postseasons.
Super well, our weekend participants, Shall we pop in competti?
But then they got to get to game planning. We're
gonna break down every matchup is.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Already Good morning.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Derek Henry had the most yards he's had all season,
over one hundred and fifty yards. At the end of
the game, he spoke to the crowd at Nissan Field.
It was awesome to see He's been there eight years.
A free agent now. Don't know what his future holds,
but Derek Henry has been a tremendous one of the
best Titans to ever wear to you know.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
The Titans Dictator a lot of stuff Jackson. They gone
like the Titans really drove yesterday.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
That was impressed with all the morning shows, including Ian
and as like Rabel's Future. I know, like, all I
know is that team fought for them.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Right back, Brothers the sandwich shop in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Apparently they sent boxes of sandwiches to the Tennessee Titans
for winning that game and helping them solidify their foothold
in the NFL playoff picture.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Ian Rappaport, Good morning to you. Let's get to a.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Topic in Tennessee, but we begin with news late last
night out of Atlanta.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
I'll get to the news Atlanta in a second. First,
you guys mentioned the Derek Henry thing.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
That was his idea.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
You know, we've seen plenty of like sort of prepackaged
social media goodbyes and that's all fine, and I know
it's meaningful. That was basically Dereck Henry by himself being like,
let me get the microphone.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
I want to thank these fans. It's been an amazing tenure.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
And that's that was as authentic as it comes for
Derek Henry who is clear saying goodbye and going to
be a free agent watching that. That was honestly, that
was pretty cool and very heartwarming. But yes, let's get
to some not as fun stuff. Let's talk about Arthur
Smith twelve two ams when the Falcons officially fired their
head coach for the last three seasons seven, ten, seven, ten,
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seven and ten. This these so much of the struggles
guys can be traced back to the quarterback situation.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
You know, they rebuilt this thing.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
Arthur Smith, the terry find of the general manager over
the last couple of years from salary cap hell. They
really set a foundation.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
All they really needed was a quarterback and they believed
that they had.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
When in Desmond, ritter just did not happen, did not
play well enough, bench twice and quarterback played dooming them
at the end. In the end, Arthur Blank decided enough
was enough, firing Arthur Smith as their head coach.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Now they had created the fourth opening in the NFL.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Meanwhile, for the Washington Commanders, they also are expected two
part ways with their head coach.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
One of the more.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
Respected voices in the NFL, Ron River, who has been coached,
spokesman many other jobs over the last four years. He
has expected to be let go at some point today,
Josh Harris fining the team for six point zero five
billion dollars, wants to put his stamp on it, and really, guys,
the new coach of the eventual new coach, the command
is going to inherit an incredible situation including a team
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now has the number two overall pick. And then we've
talked about the Titans before. Another Titans topic. Mike Vrabel.
I think it's fair to say his status is a
little uncertain in Tennessee. He has said publicly that he wants.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
To be there.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Another relationship between him and general manager Ran Carthun seems
to be a good one. But there are some questions
that need to be asked. There's some questions need to
be answered. There's some ways that it does sound like
they're going to want to move forward.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
I don't know what the answers are going to be.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
I'm not going to be in that room unfortunately with
the owner and with Mike Rabel, So until we know
what happens in that meeting, I think we do not
know for sure whether he's going to be the coach
next year.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Wow, interesting scene that is set in Tennessee for this
offseason as they had management change last year, and now
they look ahead to a free agent running back situation
and a head coach which we will I'm sure track
Ian Rappaport, Thank you so much, Kyle, speaking of the
news out of Atlanta yesterday, just really curious the.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Way they came all right, Falcon, Saints, both of these
teams could have won the NFC South title as the
game kicked off, but the game's going to be more
interesting for what happened afterwards.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
The game will get out of hand, and there's Arthur
Smith just.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Doing the full pinched the bridger of your nose stressed
out gesture at the end of the game with the
Saints way way up, so something crazy happened. They're forty
one to seventeen. They're in victory formation and Jamis who's
in the game, hands off to Jamal Williams who punches
in a touchdown with a minute and change left. That's
Arthur Smith confronting Dennis Allen, the Saints coach, and they're
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ready to go, at least he is, and there's you
can do this, and here's what you can do, and
here's what you can do to a part.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Of my body. It's all kinds of stuff like the
real deal. Dennis Allen does not fire back. It is
not sure back. But Arthur Smith, this is before he
was let.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Go, obviously had a few things to say, really choice stuff.
Did not like that the Saints punched in a touchdown,
especially the way that they did it.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
So let's dig in.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Here's the head coach of the Saints, Dennis Allen, and
here's Jamis after the Saints win and the very controversial ending.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
That was not a play that we intended to run
down there to finish out that game. That's not who
we are, that's not how we operate. We should have
taken a knee. So I want to apologize to them.
We should have taken a knee right there. They asked
me about getting Jamal a touchdown at the end. I said,
I wanted to take a knee. We put victory out
there and the guys kind of wanted to get him
a touchdown and they did that on their own. That's
not that's unacceptable. Well, I apologize to Day because the
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play was victory, but I also explained to d A
it was a team decision.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yea, And uh, and I think when you have the team.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
Around and I actually guys, I say, guys, like, what
do you what do you want to do? We know
how much Jamal means to this team, and I understood
from DA's perspective, so I give him that.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
But they didn't condone that at all, you know, he didn't.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
However, we decided as a team to do it, and
we got an interception to the one.
Speaker 13 (33:49):
Yard linee you know, like, so if if we were scored,
what instead would have been disrespected?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
As James Smithson explaining why the team decided to go
for the play after the play was called in to
take Jamis said, team decision to punch in the touchdown. Jason,
if you were in that locker room or watching it
from outside, your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Protect Jamis at all calls is a New Orleans legend.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
The team was all around it.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
They all were in favor of it. Listen, like, I
get it. I understand exactly why Arthur smith is upset
during victory formation they score a touchdown from Jameis Winston
and the Saints. I don't give a damn. We were
trying to get our guy a touchdown at the end
of the game. My favorite quote from Jamis at Dame
was like, we got an interception returning to the one
yard line. If we would score on the interception, and
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then what, I love it. It's probably not the way
you should do things. I think there's a bigger conversation
of them saying, you know what, Dennis Allen, like, we
know you said take a knee. We have a better decision.
We're gonna do it our own way. We'll go out
there and Saints season's over. You got your guy a
touchdown at seventeen last year, his first one of the season.
Team around, they celebrate it. Hey, you don't want him
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to score?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Stop them. I love the locker room afterwards they go
through it all and Derek Carr is like, uh, you
know it, go get the exactly. I'm not going to
misquote him, but it was basically saying, I'm happy for Jamal,
but like I understand the whole situation.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
I know that's not what our offensive coordinator called, Like
there are cars.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
The adult in the room like, yeah, it's right for Jamal,
And then Kalais Campbell, who's the adult on the other side,
was like, I get it, but like we're in victory formation,
Like don't deceive us.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Just run a play, like do you think it happens
if cars room? No?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
No, no, no, no, Like we talked about it, giggling
because it's so Jamis, he's one of one. Like I
don't think that Jamal Williams gets like two million dollars
for that touchdown.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I think it's just like we wanted Jamal.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
He's a fun, loving.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Guy, we love. We want to get him a touchdown.
I think if it's not Jameis, it doesn't happen. And
I think it's not Jamal, it doesn't happen.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Jason Hill's lined up one hundred yards behind the line
of script.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
This thing took such a turn because for a while,
in real time, if you're watching it, you're like, damn,
Dennis Allen did him like that?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
That's so cool? Like why would he do that?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And then you're like, oh, James was behind it, And
then it went like fifty layers up into how fun
it is and how reacting is.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I don't know if this is an unpopular take. I
kind of like the way Arthur Smith handled himself. Yeah,
he should have been screw you and kissed my bleed
and like he was pissed off. He felt totally disrespected.
I love this.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
A lot of these coaches used to play like they
have that competition, that nature inside of him. They were going,
they should have just let him fight.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
He's I do wonder if he does that if it's
someone other than Dennis Allen, Like if let's say that
happens against the Titans, Like, are you walking up on
Vrabel like that?
Speaker 5 (36:31):
I bet you're not. I no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
But I do think the crux of why everyone is
so pissed off is the victory formation thing like that
was really really low and in fact, that's what Kalaya
said afterwards.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
He's like, look, I get it.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You want to get him a touchdown, fine, but like
you show up here and pretend you're gonna take it
and then do a trick way. It was crazy disrespectful.
I don't really care that the Saints did. It's so
funny that jamis masterminded. This is like one of his
greatest achievements. But I have no problem with what Arthur
Smith did. This is this take about if you don't
like it.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
He pissed off.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
He was wildly disrespected, and he wanted to say it
right to his face. He didn't walk off and say
to the press after he immediately walked him and said
bleep you, like, I don't know if he.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Doesn't know if Jamis is calling audible, he's an idiot.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Oh, yes, knows that they should have been right that
he did that.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You know, like we used to be a proper country
and some of disrespects you gratians say bleep you I
like that he did that.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I hear you.
Speaker 11 (37:22):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You had the Falcons Bears couple weeks ago, so you've
been around Arthur Smith recently, like he might come across
a certain way at times, like he has a fighting
him like that.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
This was a really challenging last few weeks for the team.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Yeah, Arthur Smith's a former offensive lineman, Like he definitely
has fighting him and all of those guys you said,
coaching is a tough lifestyle. You put in so many
hours in the day to be successful, and that game
was a really good game at halftime and then it
just took a turn. Yeah, quarterback throwing interceptions would have
been all season long for the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Peter, do you think a decision like that with the
Falcons specifically, because then Arthur Smith was relieved of his
duties right around midnight that the tweets was timestamped.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
When do you think that was made and where do
you think they go from here?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I think as these last two weeks or what did
Arthur in and for the whole season. When you don't
have a quarterback that could win you a game, you're doomed.
And they rolled the dice and said we're going with
rit Or a third round pick, and we're gonna sign
Heinike and that did them in this whole season. And Arthur,
I've hanged all that offensive talent from the draft, whether
it be Pitts, London, Bijon, all top ten picks in
the last three years, all since while he's gotten there,
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to them not have a great offense, that as an
offensive mind, you can't. You can't stand there and be like,
I deserve another year. I think even Arthur would say
they were underwhelming.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Do you think Arthur Blank, real classy guy, did it
play any role at the end of the game, He's
like this if he's on the fence at all, And
he saw that in the middle of the last game,
and that's the walkoff, and that's didn't.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Play any room, it's unbecoming.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yeah, I mean, for I said, I like that. I'm
a fan, though I don't know, I know you.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I'm saying for the owner, It's like, that's not that's
not the how you know, we get whooped, and this
is the person on the side.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
If he goes and shakes's hands's good games. He's still
the coach of the Falcons probably.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
But you know, to Arthur, to Arthur swiss point, you know,
there's thirty one other owners that might say, hey, I
like the behavior of a guy that has his back
up against the wall and he's gonna fight for what
he believes in or is competitive or something, because maybe
he knew that his future was on the waning hours.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You guys are all just still talking about Jamis and
Jamis and I'm just thinking all these hypotheticals I'm thinking about. Yeah, well,
I'm thinking about Jim Harbor and Jim Schwartz, Like to
whose who else do we need instead of Dennis Allen
there who did nothing wrong, but like who would have
been Like would you say, like I'm casting I'm recasting them.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Like Kyle Shanahan would take shan interesting choice. I don't
think Kyle would just.
Speaker 14 (39:35):
Take okay, yeah, Well, even even when Jameson's guy Darren
Rizzy came in, I feel like that's when Arthur started
to back up to Like Rizzy came out of the
left shoulder with the hat on, and this is the
guy who has had some attitude a couple of.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Weeks ago with the shirt that he was wearing in pregame.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
I think Arthur he went in with the intent, I'm
gonna say what I'm gonna say, and then I'm going
back to lockerroom.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
You're gonna hear me.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
So I think that was his whole intent. Walked straight
up to Dennis Allen, let my thoughts be nun and
now I'll go dress.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
How about Mike Tomlin in that role? What Daniel? What
is he? What's he doing? I'm just recasting every single year.
I know Antonio Pierce isn't putting.
Speaker 13 (40:09):
Up with that.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
I think that's the guy I want even more than
how about Dan Campbell?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Come on, he probably would do like Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Like Kevin would be like listen right, be like, oh yeah,
I didn't mean it.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
It was just what they do. Peter in that situation, Hey,
come on, man or or come on, you're talking about you.
I told James to do that. It was jams on
his own good.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Still, we're gonna run through every of that interaction.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Jordan Love and the Packers are going to the playoffs.
Jordan Love is really good. The Bears were not. They're done.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
We're going to talk all about the Packers and those
highlights coming up. I promise our show is the best
because we tell James before Love. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (40:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:46):
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schedule is set. It's three days of football. It's playoff football.
This is NFL Playoffs. It starts on Saturday afternoon with
the Browns taking on the Houston Texans. It is capped
by Eagles Buccaneers.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And you have a great.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Slate of games that a lot of them were decided yesterday.
Welcome inside Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky,
live as always in New York City, Monday, January eighth.
I'm jamiear at all. There's Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason mccordy.
After listening to everybody opine last week about the final
week of the NFL season, did everyone get invited to
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the playoff party that you wanted on the guest list?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Peter, I did AFC and NFC playoff picture for the
last eight weeks. I actually, as we will see, bid
farewell to NFL head coaches today. Yeah, I like to
bid farewell to the playoff picture columns and all of
it lurking different, lurking in the hunt.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
You're not hunt.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
You're out, alive, you're out.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The Bears were hanging around for a while, the Raiders
were hanging around for a while. We got our final fourteen,
and there are some curious teams not in the batch. Jacksonville,
We're sorry. We'll never speak about you again the season.
You're on to the next. If you made it, you're in.
If you're not, we'll see at the draft. That's how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
See it as how's your guest list? Looking for the
playoff party?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
It is what it is. Yeah, you don't always get
to decide who gets to come. Sometimes that's taken out
of your hands. Sometimes as your wife, as your parents,
we didn't get to choose. But this is where we're at,
and I'm excited for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think it's perfect as it is every single year,
the right teams made it. If you didn't get in,
you should have won more games, should have stacked wins
in September.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Sorry, you're out.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There should be a new column, says on vacation. See
it at the half for my friends.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's it. We got the playoff teams to deal with.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
A lot of flights were booked last night for some
of those teams that didn't quite make it, and playoff
plans were made.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Time to lead blocked.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We welcome do Ora party in Rappaport. Omar ruiz Omar
is in Foxboro, Massachusetts. We will be hearing from Bill
Belichick within the hour here on NFL Network.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
Ian.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We'll start with you though news late last night that
kept everyone up from Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What's the details?
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Twelve two am was how the day after the season
started for the Atlanta Falcons, firing Arthur Smith after three seasons,
really a struggled down the stretch and you know, if
you'd asked me a month or so ago.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Arthur Smith seems safe.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Just really need to.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Avoid it collapse at the end.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
They had to collapse, losing four of five, and obviously
the quarterback issues really plagued the Falcons throughout. They decided
to roll with Desmond Ritter rather than sign a veteran
or trade for a veteran quarterback this pass offseason.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
That really doomed them.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Obviously, someone who you know, the fantasy community was frustrated
with the Falcons. Fans ended up frustrated with in the
end Arthur Smith, he said.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Goodbye to last night.
Speaker 9 (03:06):
The Falcons now became the fourth team to have a
head coach opening. Meanwhile, we are keeping our eyes on
the Washington Commanders. The expectation is that Ron rivera one
of the more respected voices in the NFL and someone
who has served as the head coach and in f
acto's spokeson of the Commanders for the last four years,
he is expected to be out.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That potentially could happen this.
Speaker 9 (03:27):
Morning, with owner Josh Harris said to put his stamp
on his organization that he bought this past offseason. That
would not be a surprise, that would be expected, but
still consequential assuming that happens at some point soon. We're
also keeping our eyes on the uncertain status of Mike Rabel,
the Tennessee Titans head coach. This is kind of an
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odd one because Rabel has come out publicly a couple
of times that he wants to be in Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
You know, the relationship between him.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
And general manager Ran Carthon is a good one. That said,
there's still going to be a meeting between the owner
and Mike Rabel to discuss next season, and it's one
of those guys where they are going to go into
a room and you just do not know what is
going to happen, what Vrabel's going to agree to, what
changes are going to be made to get this organization
had in the right direction. That is something that certainly
could change the status of the former coach of the Year. Now,
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I want to send it to Omar Ruiz, who is
in New England for another legendary coach with some uncertain status.
Speaker 10 (04:25):
Yeah, uncertainty.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's the word ian that we heard in the locker room.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
Players acknowledging that for the first time Bill Belichick and
his job status, there is uncertainty and certainly looking forward
to having some certainty or claranty. Twenty four seasons, six
Super Bowls, nine AFC Championships. Not much sentimentality though in
the way for Bill Belichick yesterday, most of that reserve
for Matthew Slater, the legendary special teams player, sixteen seasons,
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three super Bowl titles. For him, he was celebrated in
a big way by his teammates and fans yesterday. Most
of the players we spoke with yesterday in the locker
room said it was business as usual leading up to
that Henshial final game for Bill Belichick in their preparation
for the Jets, and it continues to be business as usual.
Bill Belichick expected to meet with the media over a
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zoom press conference at seven point thirty and then open
locker room for the players as they clean out their lockers,
and then at nine am a team meeting with Bill
Belichick and the players, and then the reported meeting with
Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, and Jonathan Craft at some point
this week. Bill Belichick acknowledge that he will be meeting
with them like he always does at the end of
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the season, but not much specifics on the schedule for
that Until then, we wait, We continue our business as usual.
We'll have much more throughout the day here from Foxborough.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Guys, Oh mar Ian, thank you the imagery yesterday out
of Foxboro with the snow and the hoodie.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It was just perfect to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And we will find out more Bill Belichick here on
NFL Network.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Kyle, you are permitted to do.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
The Bills Dolphins, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Let's go to Belichick's division, Bill's Dolphins in the AFC East.
We're going down to Florida this one's for a big,
big time stakes. Here a home game, Allen walking through Miami, hyping.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Up the Bills.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That Bills win the AFC East, they have a home
playoff game they will play Pittsburgh. Miami does not win
the East, they will go to Kansas City in the
wildcard round. But let's hear from a guy wearing yet
another division champion T shirt and he talks about it here,
Josh Allen, after that win in Miami, we.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
Didn't blink, you know, we came in at halftime and
understood what was going on. You know, we didn't feel
like we were playing up to our potential. So this,
this second half, all three phases. That's who we are.
That's what we're gonna need to be going forward.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
This this, this is fun, This is cool, and never
say no to winning a division. But the only thing
that it slidifies as a home game in one more game,
So doesn't mean anything if we go out there next
week and don't do our job. So we gotta find
a way to put our vessel forward and go go
find victory next week.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Late surges became the Bills name of the game, not
only in that game, they outscored the Dolphins fourteen to
nothing in the fourth quarter, but the Bills went five
to zero in December to finish their season in a
ridiculous streak. Buffalo against the AFC East title. They're the
two seed, Kyle, and they will take on the Steelers
a super wildcar.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
We unbelievable turn of events for Buffalo's six and sixteen,
six and six dead in the water. We're thinking, is
this thing collapsing? Crazy off the field stuff McDermott stories.
Twelve guys on the field against Denver and they are
the division champs. It has been an amazing turn of events.
It's not only the division champs. They're home at Buffalo
against the Steelers team that will be without its best player.
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Like you are happy right now, and listen, you might
be happy right now, but last night was was a
vintage Josh Allen performance in every single possible way.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
This was a cardiac special.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Josh decided to chuck last night, like there's there's chucker Josh,
and then there's super Chucker Josh in which he doesn't
give a damn. I thought they're right up at NFL
dot Com. Was so perfect, it like really encapsulated everybody.
If Josh Allen had played smarter and more in control,
Buffalo might have cruse to a victory. But he also
threw for three fifty nine and had sixty seven yards rushing.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
It was there. It is, guys in a nutshell. Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The red zone stuff was weird. It was the first
red zone turnover they had had all seasons. So it's
not like he's been doing it all year. Listen, we
can get into the nitty gritty of it. Alan did
the thing at the end when he needed to sort of.
They had a special team's break. Bottom line.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
They're going home in a good way.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
They're having a home playoff game against a Steelers team
that is good but wounded. They still go down and
beat Miami. It's an incredible thing that that happened. Six
and sixteen. That was dead in the water holding up
T shirts again. Now we'll see what they do with them.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
In week eleven, we came on the show and I
said they had a fourteen per chance chance of making
the playoffs, and they were the eleventh seed. And that's
how far back to the eleven seed. Only top seven
make it. They finish as the number two seed. And
if they take care of their business, they'll have two
home playoff games in front of the Bills mafia. That
is an incredible situation if you're Buffalo and you would
have definitely signed up for that before the season. Midway
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through the season, week fifteen, Week sixteen, Week seventeen, and
here you are two home playoff games if you just
take care of your business. What I loved about this
game is that in the biggest moments, it wasn't necessarily
Stefon Diggs and James Cook. It was Taylor rat making
a play. It was Trent Sherfield stepping up. And we
talked about it a couple of weeks ago when Richie
James did it from his five yard line and we
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made fun of him and said, don't you ever do that.
You never return a punt from your own five.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm gonna go to Mike Tarico for the call.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Here down fourteen to seven with an AFC East title
on the line, mister Deontae Hardy, all five foot eight
of you, take care of business from the five.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yard line, sore, Miami will punt back to back possessions.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Jake Bailey with a big punt sends Deontay Hardy all
the way back to the five, has some space, take.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
To look out. Hardy gets a plucked out field. Harty's
gonna go. He's in that field. Nobody's gonna catch him.
Deionta Hardy ninety five yards.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
That was the spark plug.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
That was everything.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They're down fourteen to seven, they're sputtering, they're sputtering. They
go to the half again, the halftime announcement of when
the games are gonna be played, and Hardy just completely
ignites this team. I think it's the play of the
season for Buffalo. I think it was everything they needed
to get going. They took care of business from there.
The offense woke up, the defense stopped the Dolphins, who,
for whatever reason we'll talk about Miami has completely abandoned
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the run in the second half. It's watching this game
like where's a chan has been killing them all first half.
They completely abandoned it. Mike McDaniel has a lot of
questions to answer today and then leading up into Kansas City.
But your reward, you get a Steelers team, like you said,
which is likely without TJ. Watt and Mason Rudolph coming
into town in cold weather where the offense has not
been good.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Bill's much better place now than they were a week ago.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And I think before the season, if you were to say,
would you sign up for this despite all the downs
in the valleys, they were sure, we'll take that two ceda,
We'll take that fun.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
So it all worked out for Buffalo in the end,
no doubt about it. And Jamie you said it. Five
straight wins for this Buffalo Bills team that you said
was dead in the water. And Kyle you may mention
of a few weeks ago Sean McDermot had things that
came out that he said in a meeting, and it
seemed like the entire Bills organization was going and a
downward spired and articles being written all this that and
the third and then you watch McDermott and his defense
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last night and what they were able to do to
the Miami Dolphins was so impressive. Of course, we talk
about Josh Allen so much because of his type of game,
but this defense was unbelievable too. It had one hundred
and seventy three yards passing two interceptions. The second half.
Miami's offense was barely on the field. Every drive they
had was four plays or less and it was punts
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and interceptions by two and talking about lot and this
offense for the Dolphins because they couldn't do anything against
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I read they were in seventeen plays in the second half.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Seventeen plays. It was just pump punt interception. Game over.
You're watching that and the Dolphins get the fourth down
stop and you're like, all right, if the Miami Dolphins
go down, scare are they going to go for two
to do? They kicked that extra point. No few plays
had a pass interference this that and the third Taylor
rap comes up huge with the interception. So as much
credit that goes to Josh Allen this semo. The defense
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has stepped up. They've been huge for them, especially in
those games against big opponents. They've stepped up and really
stopped guys.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm having nostalgia for the way the build season ended
last year in the regular season and how emotionally drained.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We talked about how challenging.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That year was for the city and for the team,
and how the playoffs were just everything was charged. And
then you see this team and that punt return in particular,
feels like they are plugging this team in and it's
emotionally charged in a different way, like that kind of
punt return that gives you life.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Last year it was like that. You felt like the Bills.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You just wanted them to get to the finish line
and they couldn't get there because they were so exhausted.
This feels like a Bills team that's rested and that's
like ready to fire on all cylinders.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Bears Packers. Packers clinched a playoff berth with a win.
This was in Lambeau, Guys. This was not a great game.
It was a great game for the Packers. It was
not terribly competitive. It was ugly, it was sloppy, but
Jordan Love was really good.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I love the hate throws a lot.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
They would hold on to win seventeen to nine. Jordan
Love has never lost to the Bears.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Matt Lafleor is never lost to the Bears, and the
Packers are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Awesome job by them.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
This game played between what would become the six.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Seeded La Rams and the one seated San Francis for
forty nine ers. So smattering of stars are out of
this game.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
So that's why you have a.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Carson Wentz throw to Pukakua and the highlight years that
Pookakua now set the single season rookie record with one
hundred and five catches and and eighty six receiving yards.
He had a great moment with his mom after Rams
win at twenty one to twenty. They're going to Detroit.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Not much meaning in that game. Well, the Cowboys game
has meaning. The Cowboys can't clinch the NFC East and
the number two spot in the NFC with a victory
or an Eagles off. All right, the Cowboys are absolutely rolling.
Jack Prescott four touchdowns, two hundred and seventy nine yards
and the Cowboys would go on to get the victory
in this one, thirty eight to ten.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I put that out there, dap are we choos out
the MVP now was an amazing finishing the seasons.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Lamar sis this guy. Okay, that's all I'm saying. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
They decided a week good options, they say it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
They decided eighteen week season. There's okay, sorry, I love that.
Let's hear from Mike McCarthy. I'll be facing his former
team in Round one of the playoffs. See what you
have to say after the game.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
I mean, I've had a good year. I haven't watched
him a whole lot, but yeah, the drama of it,
I'm sure you guys will love them. I will not
participate this year.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
No, I tell you, it's it's playoff time. It doesn't
matter who we played.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
To be honest with you, one team was happy men,
it's he's the other one, well, the other one's called
the Eagles. This was one of the most confusing outcomes
of the season. And yet, if you've been watching the
Eagles all season the last few weeks, they had no
right to beat the Giants the way they've been playing. Yep,
here's Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts after another strange, strange Sunday.
Speaker 12 (14:46):
None of us are quitters. We all get up off
the mat when we're down, and we get up and
we keep going. When you get hit in life, when
you get hit in football, you've got two options. You
can stay down or you can get you can get
that up.
Speaker 13 (14:59):
Right now, what's going on outside of us, anything external?
It's about controlling what we can, controlling what we can.
I truly believe this team it's more than capable, and
they taking advantage of what's in front of us. You
gotta do the work, and you got to you gotta
do what you need to do. But you know, all
you need is a crumb. All you need is an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I needed a crumb.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Oh I need is an opportunity. They get the opportunity
to play Monday Night.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
They're nice, eight days to rest, figure things out, but
they have to go to Tampa the five seed Eagles
at Tampa Bay Monday Night Football next Monday, be there
or b square. Will the Eagles be playing the divisional round?
That's a whole other question.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We saw that scene of A J. Brown limping off
the field in the Eagles game.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Mike Rofolo has tweeted that it doesn't appear to be
serious that Brown greeted his teammates, wasn't limping out of
locker room or anything. So eight days is good, I
think for this Eagles team if they want to turn
things around, and more.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Waste than one eight days, I don't know if that's
gonna be enough for them to turn things around. You're
watching that game Sunday, and I said, as we did
the Cowboys highlight, there was still so much on the
line for the Eagles and the Cowboys in that game,
an opportunity to win the Vision and have a home
playoff game. And here we are before halftime, Sirianni's pulling
Jalen Hurts Jason Kelce because the scores twenty four to
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zero and the Eagles look like a team that you
can no longer recognize as someone that played in a
Super Bowl last year. This is back to back weeks.
They have lost to the Cardinals and now the Giants,
two teams that pick number four and number six in
the upcoming draft. The Eagles look like one of the
worst teams in the NFL. Is you watched them, they
couldn't get anything going on offense. Defensively, you have guys
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missing tackles, people wide open, not covering anybody. It's hard
to pinpoint just one thing to say, all right, this
is what's wrong with this Eagles team. And we've been
saying it is like there hasn't been a catastrophic injury
or anything like that. And then you're watching that game
and AJ Brown goes down, Jalen Hurts, You mentioned Devonte
Smith isn't even out there right now that Cam Jurgens
gets it. There was so many different guys they lost
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Sidney Brown to an ACL as well. So I just
don't see how this Eagles team just turns everything around
in eight days and now they just look like this
tremendous team coming out getting ready for the Wildcard Division.
It's crazy to think this is a team that was
ten and one at one point and now they've lost
back to back weeks to two teams out of a
combined ten wins the entire season.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I'm resisting the urge to spend the next five days
doing a eulogy for the Eagles. I'm resisting because I
don't think they're dead yet. They're in the playoffs, and
like that gets really dark, it gets really negative. But
I will go back to when things are riding high
and we were talking about that defensive line, Jalen Carter,
Jordan Davis, invisible, Hassan Reddick, you get, I don't know
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what this defense is. And I watch it and I'm
watching Darius Slayton for the second time in four weeks
run up and down against the Eagles. I'm watching Sterling
Shepherd get.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
His against the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I'm watching Wandale Robinson look like Wandale Robinson looked as
if Wandale Robinson. Give me the analogy.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
What ron I don't even know. It looked like he
was J Brown.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I need a more dynamic, I need a super I
mean an all timer. That's what Wandale Robinson looked against
the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Looked like Larry Fitzgerald in the playoffs that one year.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You looked like Larry Fitzgerald going up against the Carolina
Panthers and Jake Deloman in the playoffs where he had
about twenty eight catches.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
And that was Wandale Robinson against this Eagles defense.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
The reason I'm resistingly urged to do a eulog is
because I've seen teams limp into the playoffs before. You
mentioned the Ravens from twenty twelve, even the Eagles, But
when they won the playoffs a couple of years ago
with Nick Foles, they didn't look great against the Raiders
in a game. They barely beat the Giants in a
game like I've seen it happen. But there was that
that moment last night at the Golden Globes where Selena
Gomez is whispering to Taylor Swift and Taylors was like
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what that? I would love to know what the heck
is going on in that Eagles locker room right now,
and like what they're whispering to each other. I would
love a lip reader because it's easy for us to
be like, get the mojoe going, Sirianni gets emptied the
bag on that? So where's it gonna come from?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
How's it gonna come?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And does it end against a Baker Mayfield led Tampa
Bay Buccaneers team who won nine nothing against the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Might I hear you listen to the series point? I
have genuine love for Sirianni.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We're at the point, though, coach, like we need more
than the stock boxing metaphor.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I mean, Jesus, when you get hit in life, you
get in football. You got two options. You can stay down,
you can get the f up. And I know this
group is fighters. I know this group will get up. Coach,
your group has been asleep on the mat for six weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
They're stumbling around looking for their mouthpiece, and the referee
is calling for.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Their physician to come in the ring.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The other guy is standing up on the turnbuckles with
his hands up, and the other guy is Kyler Murray,
Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Like this is not some like boxing Balboa like he did.
The season is getting destroyed.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If I was going to even indulge you and give
you the boxing metaphor, this right now is Balboa lang
Won Rocky about a clober where like Balbo's head wasn't
even in the arena and he just got punched in
the face a thousand times. This is not the like,
it's not the fighting the dog, the dog, and it's
like all that of his nonsense.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
We're way past that. The team is asleep, they're on conscious.
It is the worst.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It is Roy Jones Junior a sleep against Antonio tarveror
just face down not moving, the Simba gift where they're
trying to wake up the Eagles. We need more than
that coach you got eight days. I need more than
a boxing metaphor, because you guys are tk fo like
it's bad. It's really Get up, Get up, somebody get
into the emergency room, Mike. I hope they have good
ones in Tampa. That's where I're going. I guess, geez,
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that's how.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You feel about Joe Coy's joke last night about Taylor
Swift and Travis Kelsey at fell of those flat as
that did you see her just sip her wine.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
When he tried it, It's like, no, no, you don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
In terms of the lip reading, I think they were
talking about Timothy Shallomey.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You never know, you never know.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
The NFC East recorded its nineteenth straight different champion yesterday
and when the Cowboys were crowned the NFC East title
last year is the Eagles and the Cowboys walked away
with it. This season, we'll get to the Cowboys still.
Come on our show, the twenty twenty three playoff picture.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
It's it, you know what.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
We're gonna break down the AFC side of things.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
When we returned, Joe Coy had way more hits than
the Eagles defense. Joe Coy was like Eddie Murphy in
the eighties. Compared to the Eagles defense, it was Richard
cry just setting the stage on fire in It's.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
An strategy going at Tayler switching.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah, he's going to be the one.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Morning football New England Patriots and Bill Belichick, the seventy
one year old head coach, has been with the Patriots
now for twenty four years. He is oftentimes synonymous when
he goat or he may have been the originerator of
it when it comes to the football conversation. Bill Belichick
three hundred and two wins, third most in NFL history,
but his future in New England is seemingly up for grabs,
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or at least that's been the topic of conversation in
the back half of the season and it has snowballed
since then. We are going to hear from him momentarily
here on NFL Network. He's going to address the media. Jason,
you played for him, you know him. What's the tenor
like right now?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
He's just always business as usual. And Bill's one of
the best coaches I've ever had, and obviously everybody can
say that does been in that building around him. Just
very curious times. You think about the past twenty five years,
you haven't had an end of the season where we're
talking about this. I look at them, I look at
Dave Andrews, their senator captain. Last year. I remember him
being in tears talking about Devin mccordy as he was
(22:17):
getting ready to possibly retire this year. As Matthew Slater.
But it's two disappointing endings of the season. And as
you're watching that game and you said it, the Snow's falling.
It's an ugly game. There's no points score. Reese Hall
is jetting down the sideline. Fifteen game winning streak snapped
against the Jets and shrike. Something you said last week
as we talked about Tom Brady's last game with the
(22:37):
New England Patriots. There was a pick six by Logan Ryan,
and the one thing you said was, these things don't
always end gracefully, and you ride out on his white
horse or anything. That was ugly yesterday and they didn't
get the victory the whole nine. So I can't wait
to see this press conference see what Bill has to say.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I monitored every press availability he did the last week,
and he kept on using that we're only talking about
the Jets as like a crutch, we're only talking about
the Jets. Meanwhile, I'm watching the broadcast with Chris Myers
and Robert Smith and they're talking about how Belichick was
under the weather all week. You look at him, he
had that snow that he had the mask on for
a while. He just and then at the end like
this this moment of like a handshake with solid but
(23:15):
like nowhere words very short, and you're like, is that
how it ends? That's it like nothing against Chris Myers
and Robert Smith. This wasn't a Super Bowl broadcast. This
wasn't you know, with with Belichick riding high and it's
like he only talked about the Jets last week. It
was I'd like to focus on the Jets.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Like to talk about that.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You can't hide today. So he's gonna have a press
availability now like that. Media is going to ask him questions.
I'm curious to see if he actually answers any of
them or if he's like all onto the next day.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
There's nowhere to go next, There's nowhere to go next.
Talk about this right.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Well, here's where we go.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He is speaking to the media right now from New England.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
We are going to it live.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
He began speaking moments ago after the Patriots regular season
finale yesterday.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Let's listen it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
We'll kind of follow up a couple of things from yesterday.
You know, as I said, it was obviously very disappoint
a season all the way around, players, coaches, staff, organization.
You know, everybody's not not anywhere close to what our
standard and expectations are. So you know, honestly, things that
need to be fixed. Proud of the way the players
(24:18):
and the team competed, but not the results obviously from
any of us. You know, start with me, and you know,
all the way down and everybody else that was involved
in I know we all feel the same way. So
I'm in our contract do what I always do, which is,
you know, every day I come in work as hard
as I can to help the team in whatever way
I can. That's what I'm going to continue to do.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Zoom The voice of Bill Belichick trails off in the
Zoomer world.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
We see it's good morning football show.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I'm good with that.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Of course that was Bill Belichick after the Patriots wrapped
up yet another disappointing season, things like things need to
be fixed. But pointedly, I'm under contract and Bill Belichick
is going to return to his job the next day,
and it's way too early to talk about decisions that
need to be made for next year.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Peter coach. Bill Belichick looked dejected though.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, that was like a broken Belichick. We've been seeing
that version of him. And of course it's the day
after eighteen weeks, the worst season they've had since he's
been there. And then you look at the future here
they're gonna have a conversation he and Robert Craft's gonna
happen in the next couple of days. He's not gonna
let this linger on because if they're gonna move on,
they've got to go through the entire search, and that
doesn't start until January twenty first, where you can actually
officially interview people. But I can't imagine this thing lingering lingering, lingering.
(25:32):
And I look at some of the other possible opportunities
that are gonna be open, like Washington might be open,
the Chargers might be open. There's gonna be some really
really appetizing other places with better opportunities with young rosters
or better opportunities with young quarterbacks that I think Bill
might want to be on a pivot and see if
he wants to move on and explore those. So this
was kind of a carryover from yesterday's press conference after
(25:55):
the game, where it was like, still talking about yesterday,
but I didn't get a pointed question of are you
returning or not?
Speaker 6 (26:01):
How I think that's what you were looking for.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Listen there in the Patriots media scrum, and they got
a lot of questions. But with all the respect to
his inability to develop the defensive line this year, like are.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
You coaching next year?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And if he's going to dodge it, let's hear it
again and again and again. This is not just your
average end of the season. Yes, I'm not there, and
maybe they'll come and maybe they already have it. I
really would like to hear pointed direct questions about Bill,
are you going to stay?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Are you leaving?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And even if he dodges it, hit him again, this
is the time I only think, like, I kind of
disagree with you, peer the advantage Bill has with prs
that like sometimes I've seen him look that way at
a Super Bowl press conference. He always looks like a hostage,
Like you couldn't if you put that up, You're like,
did you you just have the worst season ever? Need
to win another Super Bowl? I have no idea what
you take away.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
The one thing he did say, you said still on
the contract. And Judye Batista asks him yesterday about just
wanting to continue to coach, and he said how much
he still enjoys coaching, game planning.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And a whole nine.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
So we know that part of it. But yeah, as
you listen, you know Bill's not going to come out
and just say different things about the future and the
fact that in that clip that we had he wasn't
asked about it. You don't gain anything from what we
know a disappointing season. We watched it all kind of
developed throughout the season. But who knows, I catch on.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
May one more time.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
In twenty four years of the Patriots, Bill Belichick has
never mentioned his contract publicly.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Interesting, okay, never mentioned his contract public under contract? Is
under contracted? Is?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
He's never talked about a how many years he's under
a contract?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
How much money he makes all this time, I guess
has never been questioned. So there has never been a reason.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
You never heard him say I'm under contract.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
So like to me, that one thing stands out where
like now it's going to be, hey, I'm going to
be able to handle my narrative here, I'm under contract.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
He do.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And this is something that we saw last year with
Sean Payton, the elusive coaching trade that doesn't happen a lot,
but when it does very sexy. The coaching trade concept
has been one that's been floated with Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Is the coaching trade?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Beholden it all to that January twenty first deadline that
you just mentioned in terms of interviews, and like that's
when the window opens up, or can a trade for
a head coach be conducted at any time?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
My question, I don't know that answered. I think you
know that new January twenty first window is brand new.
It used to be you could start hiring coaches and
the interviewing coaches right away, but now they want to
wait the divisional around. I wonder if you could trade
I don't know. We'll get that answer.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Okay, cool coming up on Goo Morning Football as the
dust from week eighteen settles, not just for teams in
the playoffs, but let's talk about some of those postseasons.
Super well, our weekend participants, Shall we pop in competti?
But then they got to get to game planning. We're
gonna break down every matchup is.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Already Good morning.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Derek Henry had the most yards he's had all season,
over one hundred and fifty yards. At the end of
the game, he spoke to the crowd at Nissan Field.
It was awesome to see He's been there eight years.
A free agent now. Don't know what his future holds,
but Derek Henry has been a tremendous one of the
best Titans to ever wear to you know.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
The Titans Dictator a lot of stuff Jackson. They gone
like the Titans really drove yesterday.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
That was impressed with all the morning shows, including Ian
and as like Rabel's Future. I know, like, all I
know is that team fought for them.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Right back, Brothers the sandwich shop in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Apparently they sent boxes of sandwiches to the Tennessee Titans
for winning that game and helping them solidify their foothold
in the NFL playoff picture.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Ian Rappaport, Good morning to you. Let's get to a.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Topic in Tennessee, but we begin with news late last
night out of Atlanta.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
I'll get to the news Atlanta in a second. First,
you guys mentioned the Derek Henry thing.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
That was his idea.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
You know, we've seen plenty of like sort of prepackaged
social media goodbyes and that's all fine, and I know
it's meaningful. That was basically Dereck Henry by himself being like,
let me get the microphone.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
I want to thank these fans. It's been an amazing tenure.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
And that's that was as authentic as it comes for
Derek Henry who is clear saying goodbye and going to
be a free agent watching that. That was honestly, that
was pretty cool and very heartwarming. But yes, let's get
to some not as fun stuff. Let's talk about Arthur
Smith twelve two ams when the Falcons officially fired their
head coach for the last three seasons seven, ten, seven, ten,
(30:02):
seven and ten. This these so much of the struggles
guys can be traced back to the quarterback situation.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
You know, they rebuilt this thing.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
Arthur Smith, the terry find of the general manager over
the last couple of years from salary cap hell. They
really set a foundation.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
All they really needed was a quarterback and they believed
that they had.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
When in Desmond, ritter just did not happen, did not
play well enough, bench twice and quarterback played dooming them
at the end. In the end, Arthur Blank decided enough
was enough, firing Arthur Smith as their head coach.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Now they had created the fourth opening in the NFL.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Meanwhile, for the Washington Commanders, they also are expected two
part ways with their head coach.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
One of the more.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
Respected voices in the NFL, Ron River, who has been coached,
spokesman many other jobs over the last four years. He
has expected to be let go at some point today,
Josh Harris fining the team for six point zero five
billion dollars, wants to put his stamp on it, and really, guys,
the new coach of the eventual new coach, the command
is going to inherit an incredible situation including a team
(31:04):
now has the number two overall pick. And then we've
talked about the Titans before. Another Titans topic. Mike Vrabel.
I think it's fair to say his status is a
little uncertain in Tennessee. He has said publicly that he wants.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
To be there.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Another relationship between him and general manager Ran Carthun seems
to be a good one. But there are some questions
that need to be asked. There's some questions need to
be answered. There's some ways that it does sound like
they're going to want to move forward.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
I don't know what the answers are going to be.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
I'm not going to be in that room unfortunately with
the owner and with Mike Rabel, So until we know
what happens in that meeting, I think we do not
know for sure whether he's going to be the coach
next year.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Wow, interesting scene that is set in Tennessee for this
offseason as they had management change last year, and now
they look ahead to a free agent running back situation
and a head coach which we will I'm sure track
Ian Rappaport, Thank you so much, Kyle, speaking of the
news out of Atlanta yesterday, just really curious the.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Way they came all right, Falcon, Saints, both of these
teams could have won the NFC South title as the
game kicked off, but the game's going to be more
interesting for what happened afterwards.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
The game will get out of hand, and there's Arthur
Smith just.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Doing the full pinched the bridger of your nose stressed
out gesture at the end of the game with the
Saints way way up, so something crazy happened. They're forty
one to seventeen. They're in victory formation and Jamis who's
in the game, hands off to Jamal Williams who punches
in a touchdown with a minute and change left. That's
Arthur Smith confronting Dennis Allen, the Saints coach, and they're
(32:32):
ready to go, at least he is, and there's you
can do this, and here's what you can do, and
here's what you can do to a part.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Of my body. It's all kinds of stuff like the
real deal. Dennis Allen does not fire back. It is
not sure back. But Arthur Smith, this is before he
was let.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Go, obviously had a few things to say, really choice stuff.
Did not like that the Saints punched in a touchdown,
especially the way that they did it.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
So let's dig in.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Here's the head coach of the Saints, Dennis Allen, and
here's Jamis after the Saints win and the very controversial ending.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
That was not a play that we intended to run
down there to finish out that game. That's not who
we are, that's not how we operate. We should have
taken a knee. So I want to apologize to them.
We should have taken a knee right there. They asked
me about getting Jamal a touchdown at the end. I said,
I wanted to take a knee. We put victory out
there and the guys kind of wanted to get him
a touchdown and they did that on their own. That's
not that's unacceptable. Well, I apologize to Day because the
(33:25):
play was victory, but I also explained to d A
it was a team decision.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yea, And uh, and I think when you have the team.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
Around and I actually guys, I say, guys, like, what
do you what do you want to do? We know
how much Jamal means to this team, and I understood
from DA's perspective, so I give him that.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
But they didn't condone that at all, you know, he didn't.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
However, we decided as a team to do it, and
we got an interception to the one.
Speaker 13 (33:49):
Yard linee you know, like, so if if we were scored,
what instead would have been disrespected?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
As James Smithson explaining why the team decided to go
for the play after the play was called in to
take Jamis said, team decision to punch in the touchdown. Jason,
if you were in that locker room or watching it
from outside, your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Protect Jamis at all calls is a New Orleans legend.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
The team was all around it.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
They all were in favor of it. Listen, like, I
get it. I understand exactly why Arthur smith is upset
during victory formation they score a touchdown from Jameis Winston
and the Saints. I don't give a damn. We were
trying to get our guy a touchdown at the end
of the game. My favorite quote from Jamis at Dame
was like, we got an interception returning to the one
yard line. If we would score on the interception, and
(34:37):
then what, I love it. It's probably not the way
you should do things. I think there's a bigger conversation
of them saying, you know what, Dennis Allen, like, we
know you said take a knee. We have a better decision.
We're gonna do it our own way. We'll go out
there and Saints season's over. You got your guy a
touchdown at seventeen last year, his first one of the season.
Team around, they celebrate it. Hey, you don't want him
(34:59):
to score?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Stop them. I love the locker room afterwards they go
through it all and Derek Carr is like, uh, you
know it, go get the exactly. I'm not going to
misquote him, but it was basically saying, I'm happy for Jamal,
but like I understand the whole situation.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
I know that's not what our offensive coordinator called, Like
there are cars.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
The adult in the room like, yeah, it's right for Jamal,
And then Kalais Campbell, who's the adult on the other side,
was like, I get it, but like we're in victory formation,
Like don't deceive us.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Just run a play, like do you think it happens
if cars room? No?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
No, no, no, no, Like we talked about it, giggling
because it's so Jamis, he's one of one. Like I
don't think that Jamal Williams gets like two million dollars
for that touchdown.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I think it's just like we wanted Jamal.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
He's a fun, loving.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Guy, we love. We want to get him a touchdown.
I think if it's not Jameis, it doesn't happen. And
I think it's not Jamal, it doesn't happen.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Jason Hill's lined up one hundred yards behind the line
of script.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
This thing took such a turn because for a while,
in real time, if you're watching it, you're like, damn,
Dennis Allen did him like that?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
That's so cool? Like why would he do that?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And then you're like, oh, James was behind it, And
then it went like fifty layers up into how fun
it is and how reacting is.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I don't know if this is an unpopular take. I
kind of like the way Arthur Smith handled himself. Yeah,
he should have been screw you and kissed my bleed
and like he was pissed off. He felt totally disrespected.
I love this.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
A lot of these coaches used to play like they
have that competition, that nature inside of him. They were going,
they should have just let him fight.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
He's I do wonder if he does that if it's
someone other than Dennis Allen, Like if let's say that
happens against the Titans, Like, are you walking up on
Vrabel like that?
Speaker 5 (36:31):
I bet you're not. I no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
But I do think the crux of why everyone is
so pissed off is the victory formation thing like that
was really really low and in fact, that's what Kalaya
said afterwards.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
He's like, look, I get it.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You want to get him a touchdown, fine, but like
you show up here and pretend you're gonna take it
and then do a trick way. It was crazy disrespectful.
I don't really care that the Saints did. It's so
funny that jamis masterminded. This is like one of his
greatest achievements. But I have no problem with what Arthur
Smith did. This is this take about if you don't
like it.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
He pissed off.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
He was wildly disrespected, and he wanted to say it
right to his face. He didn't walk off and say
to the press after he immediately walked him and said
bleep you, like, I don't know if he.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Doesn't know if Jamis is calling audible, he's an idiot.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Oh, yes, knows that they should have been right that
he did that.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
You know, like we used to be a proper country
and some of disrespects you gratians say bleep you I
like that he did that.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I hear you.
Speaker 11 (37:22):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You had the Falcons Bears couple weeks ago, so you've
been around Arthur Smith recently, like he might come across
a certain way at times, like he has a fighting
him like that.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
This was a really challenging last few weeks for the team.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Yeah, Arthur Smith's a former offensive lineman, Like he definitely
has fighting him and all of those guys you said,
coaching is a tough lifestyle. You put in so many
hours in the day to be successful, and that game
was a really good game at halftime and then it
just took a turn. Yeah, quarterback throwing interceptions would have
been all season long for the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Peter, do you think a decision like that with the
Falcons specifically, because then Arthur Smith was relieved of his
duties right around midnight that the tweets was timestamped.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
When do you think that was made and where do
you think they go from here?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I think as these last two weeks or what did
Arthur in and for the whole season. When you don't
have a quarterback that could win you a game, you're doomed.
And they rolled the dice and said we're going with
rit Or a third round pick, and we're gonna sign
Heinike and that did them in this whole season. And Arthur,
I've hanged all that offensive talent from the draft, whether
it be Pitts, London, Bijon, all top ten picks in
the last three years, all since while he's gotten there,
(38:24):
to them not have a great offense, that as an
offensive mind, you can't. You can't stand there and be like,
I deserve another year. I think even Arthur would say
they were underwhelming.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Do you think Arthur Blank, real classy guy, did it
play any role at the end of the game, He's
like this if he's on the fence at all, And
he saw that in the middle of the last game,
and that's the walkoff, and that's didn't.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Play any room, it's unbecoming.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yeah, I mean, for I said, I like that. I'm
a fan, though I don't know, I know you.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I'm saying for the owner, It's like, that's not that's
not the how you know, we get whooped, and this
is the person on the side.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
If he goes and shakes's hands's good games. He's still
the coach of the Falcons probably.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
But you know, to Arthur, to Arthur swiss point, you know,
there's thirty one other owners that might say, hey, I
like the behavior of a guy that has his back
up against the wall and he's gonna fight for what
he believes in or is competitive or something, because maybe
he knew that his future was on the waning hours.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You guys are all just still talking about Jamis and
Jamis and I'm just thinking all these hypotheticals I'm thinking about. Yeah, well,
I'm thinking about Jim Harbor and Jim Schwartz, Like to
whose who else do we need instead of Dennis Allen
there who did nothing wrong, but like who would have
been Like would you say, like I'm casting I'm recasting them.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Like Kyle Shanahan would take shan interesting choice. I don't
think Kyle would just.
Speaker 14 (39:35):
Take okay, yeah, Well, even even when Jameson's guy Darren
Rizzy came in, I feel like that's when Arthur started
to back up to Like Rizzy came out of the
left shoulder with the hat on, and this is the
guy who has had some attitude a couple of.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Weeks ago with the shirt that he was wearing in pregame.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
I think Arthur he went in with the intent, I'm
gonna say what I'm gonna say, and then I'm going
back to lockerroom.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
You're gonna hear me.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
So I think that was his whole intent. Walked straight
up to Dennis Allen, let my thoughts be nun and
now I'll go dress.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
How about Mike Tomlin in that role? What Daniel? What
is he? What's he doing? I'm just recasting every single year.
I know Antonio Pierce isn't putting.
Speaker 13 (40:09):
Up with that.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
I think that's the guy I want even more than
how about Dan Campbell?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Come on, he probably would do like Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Like Kevin would be like listen right, be like, oh yeah,
I didn't mean it.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
It was just what they do. Peter in that situation, Hey,
come on, man or or come on, you're talking about you.
I told James to do that. It was jams on
his own good.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Still, we're gonna run through every of that interaction.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Jordan Love and the Packers are going to the playoffs.
Jordan Love is really good. The Bears were not. They're done.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
We're going to talk all about the Packers and those
highlights coming up. I promise our show is the best
because we tell James before Love. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (40:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:46):
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