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wherever you I almost fell. That's why I almost fell
out my chair. So just like that, well, I mean,
you're just so excited with the veritable Smorges Board of
topics that we have today and there's just so many storylines,
so much flowing out of last night's games. Were plenty
of time to break down Tom Brady and what Tom
Brady is going to do, What Bill Belichick's gonna do,

(02:30):
Josh McDaniels, all of that fun. Bill Belichick will address
the media in about an hour and a half time.
We'll see if he gives you anything more than eight second,
you know, little quips like he did yesterday. Just like that.
I like that. You did a pretty good voice. I
mean almost as if that was a drop coming out
that someone had been. Stop trying to set me up.

(02:56):
But that's the goal. We gotta we gotta jump out
of the gate and and grab it by the oton
and throttle it, just like Tennessee did yesterday in the
run game Derrick Henry. That was the one part coming
in with the Patriots defense over the course of the year,
will that they were able to be run up, but
they still were stigy. Right when you give up fourteen points,
you expect to win football games. In this case, just

(03:16):
couldn't do anything offensively. Some drops, some curious play call.
Just the trust didn't seem to be there between the
play calling and McDaniels and some of the throws and
Brady reads along the way. They haven't had the consistency
clearly in the run game all year. But we'll get
in the Patriots and where they're headed soon enough. But

(03:39):
all year long, I harped on the fact, and and
you and I have been doing the show now in
good ten weeks like that for the Rams, whenever we
broke down what they were doing. The fact that they
let Roger Staffold go was one of the big missteps
of how their team was built coming into the year.
And what did we see Taylor Luan and Roger Saffold
where the guys chuck cling in the post game because

(04:02):
they just went and they bludgeoned the Patriots front and
Derrick Henry absolutely feasted. Yeah, of course, I mean, and
we saw it firsthand when they played the Ravens earlier
this year. Is you know, they couldn't handle the run.
And that's what you do in the playoffs. If you're
able to run the football like that and be physical, Um,
it's it's really hard to stop it. Right now. I mean,

(04:23):
Derrick Henry, who whose name? Hotter? Running back? Right now? Oh,
there's nothing right A healthy Derrick Henry behind that offensive line. Mean,
we watched him drag defenders early in the game. Do
you expect that second half? Right, you got the lean
and now you're you're what how you say running downhill?
But the fact and now he starts dragging guys. So

(04:44):
five yard runs become eight yards. He was doing that
off the jump. Four carries for two is a is
a beat down. It's abusive. I mean this this Patriots defense,
they're designed to hopefully get ahead and then you have
you're forced to pass the and then that's where they excel.
But in this case, um, you know, Tennessee just just

(05:05):
controlled the game and it's and it's an impressive feet
I mean, it wasn't either by shocking. It was just impressive,
you know, just methodical and working the game plan. We
saw the student become the master at times taking the
old tricks from Bill Belichick in terms of master at
times like let these guys win first. Okay, well, I
mean Belichick's been the master for two decades, so at

(05:28):
least for one day, Mike Vrabel was his equal or
his better. When he starts going to the move of
running clock on fourth down, and you watch Bill Belichick
where you're waiting for him to fall out on the
sideline where his face got his read as your former
coaches Tom Coughlin for a moment he's used are the
rules that I've already used earlier in the year, and
everybody got all excitable because they're able to steal an

(05:50):
extra minute off the clock. That's that's the beauty of
the run game, right, is that time of possession may
not mean a whole lot uh to some, but way
you get down into able to being able to run
the ball in the fourth quarter and you're taking another
forty seconds off the clock, and then even on a
fourth down when you're going to punt that you could say,

(06:11):
all right, well, let's let's run this and we'll do
the I'll start and we'll do all these shenanigans that
we can. And it's a loophole. They'll be fixed. We'll
talk about the officiating fund as the show goes on.
But for Vrabel and company, man, how often do you
see a playoff win eight of fifteen seventy two yards
one and one that is not a stat line that's
normally taking you to victory. Yeah? No, Um, it's I

(06:35):
don't know man, here's here's the thing that's crazy though.
I don't mean to like switch it up, but I couldn't. Um.
I also shocked to see so not shocked, but it
was interesting to see how many people were so excited
to see somebody lose. Oh no, that's that's the That
is the one thing here, right, And it's to me,

(06:55):
it's always to be careful what you're wishing for, because
I Makeure's been a fan stastic villain and I don't
think they're dead, right. I don't think this is done
if reading tea leaves and everybody this sale of a
house or whatever else. But that and that's that's part
of the narrative. But yes, the collective, I don't think
anybody has been that united, like I go to live

(07:16):
concerts and stuff because people are sharing experience. I've never
seen Twitter so one sided in my life towards anything. Dude.
It was like Persian versus the the Spians in three hundred.
It's like everyone just rallied against and teamed up with
each other and found a way to let's let's get

(07:37):
rid of these guys. It was really the final final quarter, right,
that's when it really started to swell where it became
a all right, here we go. I I saw a
litany of Tom Brady photoshop efforts. Great job by everybody
putting him in different reniforms especially, I mean, I understand
that people want to go at the Patriots. Okay, that's
one thing. Like as an organization, that's you know, there

(08:00):
are some questionable things. I get it, but they've done
it for so long. But tom Brady, I mean, that's
easily the greatest story probably in sports, you know, to
go in there and and take advantage of an opportunity
and eventually becoming you know, the greatest quarterback of all time.
And that's the one thing, especially in the NFL, it

(08:20):
is it is hard to win and to dominate for
that long. To me, I respect greatness. Now, I understand
the whole Patriot fatigue. People didn't want them to win.
They wanted to see them lose. And yeah, I agree,
I want to see other people when too, But man,
I respect greatness. Well, it's always the for me edge

(08:41):
edge of the chair. Let's see how far this can run, right,
how long can you beat back father time innovation by
other coaches Exactly? There's been so many, like you said, innovation,
different things, new waves, new offices, new styles, and they
are consistently just it doesn't matter what you're trying to do.
And that was the curiosity with this odd and I
got a lot of blowback over the last couple of

(09:03):
days Twitter and in my email inbox, just because look,
I had the Eagles and Patriots were my preseason super
Bowl picks. So I don't go back on it. Like
the rule of our show during the week the playoffs,
I can't suddenly say well, I don't like them anymore.
So people are like one of your super Bowl pics,
like how do you pick them? Like, because I picked
them in August and I've got to ride right, so

(09:27):
I have to ride through till it finishes. Did I
think I had a snowball's chance in hell of that
Super Bowl matchup at this point? No, it was calculated
at about one point. And at those people who will
go in after you pick the Rams to make the
Super Bowl. No, and that's it, right, Like we wear
them at as we make a lot of predictions, and
there's a lot of twists and turns super Bowl. I

(09:49):
heard Rams, you know, sure Chargers were a popular pick
for popular people and and thought that with all of
that offensive talent that they'd be able to make some noise.
But for the Patriots, just a is the rallying cry
of anybody else. Right. It's kind of like what we
have in the NBA right now is you had a
five year run of the Golden State Riders and everybody
just beating the drama. Their their dad, their dad, ha ha.

(10:12):
Like it's one year thing. Potentially those guys come back healthy,
they're able to recruit another friend, and they get to
keep that first round pick that low and behind becomes
a top ten pick. The decision makes are still there, right,
so they You look at a team like, I mean,
great example Seattle Seahawks, when they just blew up the
whole legion of boom. Everybody was gone, they got rid

(10:34):
of all the big persons. But guess what, the decision
makers were still there. John Snyder and Pete carl is
still there. So did they ever rebuild? They never had
the rebuild. They just reset. It's a tinkering, a re
resetting based on what they need to do. That it's
it's it's ridiculously hard. So it's it's every Eventually the

(10:54):
time has run its course. You know, I'm I'm a
huge fight fan, and I'm you know, I'm remember in eighties,
early nineties, Tyson was destroying everybody and he looked like
a man who could not be beat. And eventually, yeah,
I went down with bust the Douglass. And of course
people can say, oh, Tyson, you know went out the
night before he had this. He didn't, you know. But

(11:16):
at the end of the day he lost. My favorite
fighter of all time is Roy Jones, and I'm like, man,
this guy cannot be beat. He cannot be touched, you know.
And it's and eventually he met his match and Glenn Johnson,
and then he met Joe Calzaggie and and started losing.
You know, Eventually, if you're in it long enough, you're

(11:37):
gonna meet your Match's going to happen. And with the
Patriots this year, they were still twelve and four, and
you can argus, right, I mean, nobody's coming and gotten him.
But that's the thing, right if you if you brought
the band back together, and look, we we can all agree.
Josh McDaniels, probably assuming he wants to go somewhere he
can get one of these jobs. He wants to go

(11:57):
home to Cleveland. He can go to Cleveland and maybe
he well, and there's that, right, So that's I like that. Look,
you're you're just starting starting hot here on Fox Sports Radio.
It's Fox Football Sunday. We'll get into all the rumor
conjecture about where whereabouts the coaches, Belichick certainly maybe maybe

(12:21):
he's done too, maybe everybody. Maybe it just entirely resets
for Robert Kraft this offseason. We'll talk about that, but
we celebrate what the Titans were able to do yesterday.
Your final obviously, the pick six to finish the game,
something that will be written about quite a bit. He
can't go out like that. He's not retiring. Where is he?

(12:41):
We'll talk about that over the course of the show. Uh,
And we'll talk about Tom Brady coming up next, because
there's a couple of great quotes coming out of yesterday's
game that we just have to break down because well
it's just Key Brady Belichick kind of fodder for us.
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alongside me, Super Bowl champ Will black Man, We got
the road to the super Bowl has begun. Wildcard Round
two games in the books. Couple of dandies right, kept
you glued to your television. Maybe that first game was
maddening to the point where you thought it should end

(15:41):
in a tie. That's what I was voting for towards
the end. Some coaching gaffs and uh Deshaun wattson Bill
O'Brien owes him next year's salary. Just needs to give
him his salary after that play, The Escapability the pinballing
you and I on Twitter. I saw your response to that.

(16:04):
Listen really quick, just amazing, really quick. No, I'm glad
you mentioned that because I was like, Okay, when don't
you go into it's funny? Because I retweet, I was like, bro,
how basically like my hope. My thing was it was
super impressive, like I get one guy had him another
guy you know, smacked him in the back of the
head and he was able to stand up. And now
it's I look at the mentions and there are people

(16:26):
literally trying to explain to me how he was able
to stay up trying to figure out the physics. That's
the second guy like the physics and the logic is like, dude,
I know everybody. I no like I've been playing football
from ages five to thirty five. I have seen all

(16:47):
kinds of hits. I've breaken so many tackles. I understand
the logic. At the end of the day. If somebody
like Tom Brady got hit like that, he's going down.
Anyone else he's getting who's getting hit like that, They're
going down and you understand. Yeah, one guy pulled him,
but he got blasted in the back. When I saw
those two guys coming off the edge, I literally gasp.

(17:11):
I was like wondering how badly that was going on.
I thought of any given sunday with Willie Beaman got
cleaned up in the back of the head. I was like,
oh no, this is it for the Shawn Watson. And
then not only did he get hit, kept his balance escape,
but also completed the past that ultimately led to the

(17:32):
game winning field goal. Like the whole operation was impressive,
and he even said himself he was like, I didn't
know what was going to happen. I didn't plan to
get out of it. I just known that whatever was
gonna happen, however hard I got, I got hit. I
was going to I was not going down and this
and we've seen this before. That's what's funny too, because

(17:54):
one person was like, oh you know it was some
people like it's luck, it's pure luck. We have seen
this four We've seen him get sweet chin music in
the eye and still was able to complete a pass.
We've seen this well. But we saw a guy that
got used to it. Like his whole first couple of
years in the league was about improvisation because he was
getting blast. He was getting blasted. He's the he's the

(18:16):
guy who improvised so much. He got hit so much
that he took a bus from from Houston to Jacksonville
because he could not fly. Remember that, Yeah, the the
long road, right. We always talked about Philip Rivers doing
it for practice purposes. This was Deshaun Watson trying to
get back on the field. But and that play, another
guy actually gets his arms up really to try to

(18:36):
tackle him, either like they thought they were going to
get the kill shot or so it looks. So you
got more pinball, because look, classic tackling form was not
on display in that game, and all you know, it
wasn't as a as a as a defensive back, a
guy for years in the National Football League. That's gotta
be maddening at times. No, I mean the tackling was
bad all year. That's another topic we can talk about

(18:58):
after the season. But no, it no, it certainly is
because like I always raised my hand when the c
bas get signed and there's some concessions going in. It's
like there's some things that get lost in missing dates
and how practices and everything have to be have to
be done now. And tackling is certainly one of those
things that we watch time and time again on display.

(19:20):
But for Deshaun Watson, there's one of your huge moments.
And I firmly believe he's said Bill o'b brian's job.
I mean on more than one occasion. I don't see
many quarterbacks who can go who can be the quarterback
of the Houston Texas and do and do that make
them that successful? Um, he's just he's just impressive as ever.

(19:42):
I mean, he goes into you know, the Russell Wilson
and the you know, in terms of improvising. Carson wentz
to do what you can, you know, and it's it's
always impressive. Yeah, the the curiosity and we'll get to
Tom Brady coming up in about five minutes from now,
as we're on Deshaun Watson, the the greatness in and
the leading them back because look, the Bills had them

(20:03):
suffocated defense playing well. DeAndre Hopkins is a non factor, right.
The joke at halftime was that Josh Allen had more
receiving yards then DeAndre Hopkins did. When you went to
the break off of the the Philly Special now moved
to Buffalo and the and the touchdown pass from John Brown.
You saw some great things from Josh Allen once again

(20:23):
throughout this game, but you see some maddening things McDermott.
Some of his decision making really textbook. Here's what not
to do to try to win a football game. I
think they forgot we would look if I'm gonna extol
the virtues of what Mike Vrabel and company did, even
if you don't like singletterry and you're stable of running backs,

(20:43):
they abandoned the run. You're down three points or even
with the lead, you're you're still trying to go for
the downs with whom right, you don't have the the
elite receiving Corps massive Well, that that's the other. I
mean the run back that he was trying to do
the old video game, but then he forgot to throw
Leo Romo and ran into somebody. Just run back fifteen yards,

(21:05):
I mean, because on the video game it used to
be great, right, you can run back forty yards and
then the guy wings it like he's got a howitzer.
So but here, if Josh Allen is not going to
actually throw the ball and then you're calling a play
down field to a fullback, I mean, there's so many
problems and going forward on the fourth and twenty seven
instead of punting, they're they're just you know, game management
was just disastrous. The game management was disastrous in that regards.

(21:29):
But at the end of the day, I mean, there's
a there's a guy who who's will to win. Not
to use cliches, but his desire it is what it is.
With DeShawn Watson. I mean I've seen it last year
in the during the season where everything was on the
line and he's like, I don't care, man, if I
gotta run at fifty times if if I dropped back

(21:50):
and I see, man, I'm running period. I'm gonna do
everything I can and when win to lose is gonna
because of me. And he's totally fine with that. No,
And that's what I loved about him coming into draft, Like,
I know all the comparisons and and certainly my friends
and media members in Chicago were losing their minds after
that play and watching the second half, going we got Mitch.

(22:11):
We should have had this, Guys, like, once they made
their pick, that's it. You can't cry about it anymore.
But certainly what could have been. I'd go back to
draft night and probably as close as I've come to
FCC violation when that pick was made, because Deshaun Watson
had been all that in college. But you go through
the way that offense runs, and my fear was, no,

(22:35):
Will Fuller, there are a good seven eight points a
game less you don't have that obvious number two. Kenny
still has made a couple of plays for him yesterday.
Carlos Hyde was a fantastic find who was fourth on
the Chief's depth chart, and how he goes over a
thousand yards on the year. But it really comes down
to Deshaun Watson. Whatever the television tried to tell you

(22:55):
about the greatness of J. J. Watt, Yes, he played great.
He should not have been the first interview you. And
if I had a drinking game, I would have never
seen their second half comeback because I saw so many
shots at J. J. Watt on the side. It was
one thing I didn't miss in coverage of the Texans
over the course of the last eight nine weeks. No disrespect,
he's a hell of a player, but there's a lot

(23:17):
a lot of other stuff going on, and Deshaun Watson,
I think needs to be pushed a little bit more
when we talk about what quarterbacks are doing in this league.
Last you a question about the Texas. Rob bar colleague
Rob Parker asked me the earlier this week. You know,
in terms of who's like the face of the Houston
Texans when you Texas when you think of them historically,

(23:39):
and uh, somebody said, Andre Johnson probably is the face.
And I looked at it like that. I looked at
as the three part thing. Andre Johnson is tough. If
I mean, if you're a fantasy football player, then I
guess Andre Johnson had great meaning to you. Well, I
look at Okay, Andrew Johnson's one of like the one
of like the founding fathers of the Texans, almost like
how Bart stars for the Packers, right And then if

(24:03):
you look at the longevity, I look at J. J. Watt.
J J. Watts like the Brett Farve, you know, he's
like the person you think of. But then the face
of the organization right now is the Shaun Watson. And
that's like how Aaron Rodgers is. He's the face of
the Packers right now and right to your to your point,
the first interview should have been to Seawan. It should

(24:23):
the whole every time they pay the cameras should have
been to Shaun because he's the guy that needed. Had
he not been on that team. J. J. Walker had
have been healthy all year and had to Shaun not
been there because most a lot of my colleagues they picked,
they said, if if Fuller was healthy and ready to go,
for sure Texans got this. Well that's that's where I

(24:44):
was in the game analysis over the course of the weeks,
like if you've got another you've got Fuller there, And
that's that's the most frustrating thing to watch as as
a fan of the game, like you see how much
different it is, how much easier it is for Deshaun Watson.
I mean, I like to watch escapability and the improvisation
that we saw on display that leads to a game winner.

(25:05):
Don't get me wrong, but I also want a guy
operating with all his tools in his in the you know,
proverbial two belt to go into all our analogies as
we go through, and that offense is so much better.
But Will Fuller's health, you can't count on him for
a quarter, let alone. Try to think he's gonna be
there for a quarter of a season or a full season.

(25:28):
So it'll be curious to see whenever this runs in
if if it ends next week that in the off season,
where's that next speed guy go to help DeAndre Hopkins? Right,
because get him, get him another tool, get him a
pass catching tight end, because that's something was missing this
year as well. So curiosity. But yeah, Deshaun Watson, face
face of the Texans and certainly get him some more runs,

(25:50):
show that that past play another hundred times, and get
some scientists involved. This is a sports science one I'd
actually really want to see Will in terms of the
physics and the the balance displayed off of those two
hits to be able to still keep your wits and
make a play because there was no panic. There none.
And that's where it comes down to. He said he

(26:11):
wasn't going down. I'm not going down. That's it that
I might wear a T shirt just like Lamar Jackson
runs along around with his nobody cares work harder. It's like,
I'm just gonna keep going. You're not stopping me. Well,
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go home and start raising a farm or is he
going to continue in the National Football League? Tom Brady
and the decision next. But first we go over to
our buddy Isaac Low and Kron who's got what's trending?

(26:53):
Good morning, Happy to ye, Michael, and well your body,
Happy New Year, do you guys. The headlines in the
Boston Globe set it all page A one, a Titanic Reckoning,
and then on the front page of the sports section,
simply time runs out. Here's how that sounded Brady. In
the end, Zo takes the snap, looks, fires, passed, batted

(27:15):
up at the air, intercepted, and returned for a touch
that Titans Loogan ryant with nine seconds to go. Mike
Keith the call on w g f X as the
Patriots defeated. The Titans defeated the Patriots twenty to thirteen,
buying a hundred and eighty two rushing yards from Tennessee's
Derrick Henry. There will be a new Super Bowl champion

(27:37):
this season. The Titans advanced to the Divisional playoff round
at Baltimore next week. After the game, Tom Brady asked
about his future and had a craft e response. I
love the Patriots. I mean they obviously, uh you know,
it's the greatest organization, and you know, playing for Mr
Craft all these years and for Coach Belichick, I mean
there's there's nobody who's had a better career. I would

(28:00):
say to me, just being with them, I'm very blessed,
and I don't know what the future looks like. So
I'm not going to predict it. Earlier Saturday, the Houston
Texans and the Buffalo Bills worked overtime. Snap his down,
fair parents, kick this up, that it's good, and the
Texans go took the defensional round and dramatic fashion pretty

(28:21):
the Bills in overtime twenty two tonight to Mark vandermuer
the call on Sports Radio six ten. The Texans will
be at Kansas City next week, and coming up today,
the NFC takes center stage in the wild Card round
one oh five pm Pacific, the Saints host the Vikings,
and then at four forty Eastern time, it'll be the

(28:41):
Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Seattle Seahawks. Michael and Will all yours,
thank you, Illo, appreciate you, Happy new Year. Back to you,
Will Blackman with me here. I'm Mike Armend. Thanks for
hanging out with us Fox Football Sunday on this wild
Card weekend. I know two hundred fifty six great gifts
to us. The NFL regular season done, you're already doing
your off season shopping, uh for component parts to make

(29:05):
your team better for next season. I on the draft
and all the players starting to put their proverbial hats
into the ring for for draft Day. We'll talk a
little bit about to a tongue of Voloa as the
show goes on. He's making his decision tomorrow. Some thoughts
on that, but Tom Brady also in the decision process.

(29:26):
You heard it in the update with with Iolo about
reading tea leaves and trying to figure out what's next.
He was asked just every permutation of what you could
in terms of what he's planning now that the season
is done. Is there any possibility that you would retire
after this last season? Uh, I would say it's pretty unlikely,
but hopefully unlikely. I just don't know what's gonna happen,

(29:49):
and you know I'm not going to predict it, and
no one needs to make choices at this point. You know,
I love playing football. I love playing for this team.
I love playing for this team for two decades and
winning a lot of games. Again, I just I don't
know what it looks like moving forward, so we'll just
take it day by day. Hopefully unlikely was the curious

(30:10):
turn a phrase. They're like, they're they're suitors. We've got
a big quarterback caresel as much we're talking about coaching
changes in the NFL the this offseason, will I and
the quarterbacks are all over the place. Right teams make
a huge decision to do the Bucks go with Jamis Winston.
Bruce Arians had his comments earlier this week. Look, we
won some games with Jamis, we can win with somebody else.

(30:30):
That got people all up in arms. But with Tom
Brady twenty years in New England, you've got this system
the by far the oldest team on average in the league.
And as much as you can talk about his age,
that doesn't skew things that much. When you're talking about
forty three guys, they were almost thirty one years old
per man and so that's something that's gonna change. A

(30:53):
lot of contracts beyond Brady's that also have to be
looked at. They don't have a lot of heavy money
invested in anybody going forward. But for Brady, from your eye,
did you see enough to say that you know his
goal to to play until forty five is there. I'm
wondering how much of it is weapons and scheme and
trust of those weapons beyond what just Brady's physical I

(31:16):
think it's it's definitely weapons for him. I mean, there
were a lot of drops yesterday even Julian Edelman, who
especially this time of year, he's missed a reliably. He's
the one everyone is trying to catapult into the Hall
of Fame because of his postseason career. You know. Um,
it's definitely a situation of weapons because he to play quarterback,

(31:38):
you have to be a great decision maker, and Brady
is probably the greatest, you know, if not one of
the greatest decision makers at that position of all time.
So yeah, if you surround him of weapons and more
reliable people, then it's it makes sense, especially especially now. Um,
I don't I don't see many teams trying to rebuild,

(32:01):
you know, it's like we don't have time. We want
to win now that method of okay, well, but the
four year plan doesn't exist. Well, you've got those very
very rare right. The only one I think that you
can legitimately say, at least on the surface it look
that way is what Flora has got in Miami. Right,
here's a five year deal. By the way, we're going
to trade off all the guys that were known commodities.

(32:22):
And then they played hard for them all season long
and they forced the issue to where the Patriots were
playing on wild Card weekend with Maryan Fitzpatrick. But like
that's the only because because that one, right, that one
truly needed reconstruction overall, because they saw themselves as an
organization that we're not going anywhere. And then you know

(32:44):
we're gonna see the same thing in Carolina. You know
they're gonna go through something. I mean, they might make
some moves and changes where you know they might put
themselves in contention next year, who who knows. But but
to your point, roster wise, Miami has des did the
entire thing right, traded it all off, and that's one
of those deals made Pittsburgh a contender, right make if

(33:05):
Fitzpatrick right, Look what was fantastic for them? That defense
changed when right, But it's one of those In the
discussion of great moves in season, people laughed at what
they gave up, like it's a draft pick. Picks are important,

(33:25):
but if you've got a guy that's a known commodity,
you go and make that move every day for the
Patriots coming into the year, all right, and kill Harry
didn't play until what week nine, Week ten? You traded
for snow I thought would have been But it's funny
because in one of his interviews, he was like, you know,
I'm just scratching the surface. I'm like, bro, it's wild

(33:47):
car weekends, playoffs. There's no more scratching. Right, you got
eight You had eight weeks to figure out the offense
is best good. So there's a guy that you pick up.
You can't rely on. Ben Watts looks like he's running
in mud. Right, you had one big play to him
that gets wiped out from a penalty. But Jacoby Myers

(34:08):
we saw him during the regular season at times, but
then there were times in the same game where Brady
wouldn't even look at the experience expence. So the inexperience
showed up a lot um not just experience in terms
of years, but the inexperience of being in that offense.
You know, it got to the point where I'm sure
some reports are gonna come out how banged up Julian
Edeman was. That's he's he's a small guy. He's taking

(34:31):
a lot of him saying he came into the year,
he has a lot of miles from playing. You know,
he's in the post season every year of his career
for the most part um and and he's you know,
Grock's not there to take the bulk of it, and
he's getting beat up, he's getting double team and it's
it's funny because you know, I landed up against Julian
and he's not fast like that. He's not quick like that.

(34:52):
He's very very crafty, very very smart. And him and
Tom Brady on the same page. So when guys line
up and they're double teaming him, he has to work
ten times him as hard and he's getting just abused
well and going across the middle, you're gonna take take
a pounding as he has for for years. So like
you're talking about a thirty two year old body that
with all those weary miles of the playoffs. I mean,

(35:13):
that's that's a lot of you know, we talked about
it with Lebron James and and he's a small guy, right,
so so we have that added up. It's like how
Irison was so aggressive ever was six one like one seventy.
Maybe I wish he could play in the NBA now
we think about it when you can't touch him and
beat him, beat him up like they used because he
was towards the middle of the end of his career,

(35:35):
he was always injured because of how he played getting
beat up so much. You know Lebron could played that
long because Lebron. Lebron is built a certain way. He
is a cyborg, as we've talked about. But top Brady
over the course of the show. Uh, we'll talk about
Brady and the future. Look, I've seen the photoshop for
all of your teams and I love them, The Chargers,

(35:55):
the Bears. I still with with kind of hedge that
he ends up back in New England. But you have
a much different looking team. We'll talk about that as
we roll on. But we also do have a culture
change and how much is cosmetic how much is real.
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(38:46):
what Will's got going on there. You can find me
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pithy commentary, movie reviews, and madness. Along the way, I
went and saw the Harry Potter play up in San Francisco.
That was fantastic. I can totally nerd out about that,
as well as some of the uh, you know, gastro
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(39:07):
what we do, uh food, booze and just having some
fun and enjoying the NFL playoffs certainly what we're doing
and watching teams make their decisions of how they'll set
up for years to come. And in Washington, well they
moved on and and Ron Rivera becomes the first coaching
higher of the year and he immediately goes to Washington.

(39:28):
We're doing a little of this and Vince, you know,
you want to pop on the mic, can do this
to uh surprisingly, you know, for all of Dan Snyder
and and what we've had over the course of the years,
only three head coaches now and in the last ten years, right,
he was, let's shuffle up and deal with ree treads
and veteran coaches for years and then Shanahan into Gruden

(39:51):
and now Ron Rivera becomes the guys. But one of
the first things he does will and saying we need
to change our culture here, the win winning time is
now is the shuffleboard table and the ping pong table
are removed from the locker room. As players, you know,
you spent a lot of time around each other and
there's some camaraderie things that you go to. I mean,

(40:14):
certainly we've heard about the ping pong tournaments here in
Los Angeles forever with Clayton Kershaw and what he does
and that relaxation and that kind of competitiveness cosmetic or
is it just a we're stripping everything down to the bones.
I don't know, man, Um it's not a big deal,
but I think it's a big deal for someone like

(40:35):
like trust Way, the putter. You know he was he
was definitely a ping pong extraordinaire and and he made
the Pro Bowl at all pro So I don't know,
you might have some of the same something about this
table somebody getting it done and just end up for yourself.
Trust Well, But you know, do putters have the same
voting rights in terms of the locker room? Is everybody

(40:57):
else don't any rights? Yeah, that's the question, right because
he Brett Kerns got no love yesterday. Man, He's the
big punt down the down the field that set up
what became the Yeah, he's just trying to interception, is
just trying to just okay, guys, let's let's let's start
from let's start from scratch. Okay and not earned. But

(41:20):
we're not about We're not about these games. We're about
the real game. Let's get down to work. I think
what he's trying to do is just weed out the
people who are not about football, because there are a
lot of people. There are a lot of people on
teams and you know, I've been fortunate to play twelve
years that you see a lot of guys who are

(41:42):
just happy to have that NFL like shield, to be
to be part of the fraternity. Guy's just happy to
be there. Well, that's been one of the things I've
long contended on the show and on the network. Here
will and people push back like, no, no no, no, there's
still that level of competitiveness and willing to wanting to
be great because you gotta still bust your ass to

(42:03):
be in the league. But also if you've got a contract,
you've got your signing bonus. When not even so much
want to be great, but just willing to work. You know, there,
like I said, there are guys that get there who
are super talented and end up becoming complacent, like Big
Country or not, because because they're in the NFL, because
they have that status, because they are a pro football player,

(42:25):
they get complacent and comfortable. It goes, you know, back
to the whole saying separate the men from the boys. Well,
that's what it is. It's it's Ron wants to know
who who who's ready to be a part of who's
ready to be all about football? And he he said it,
he said, if they don't want to be here, get
him out. We'll find We will find out. And and
it's easy. It's I'm telling you it's it's so easy

(42:45):
to find out. And that's how you that's how you
build a culture when you find out guys who are
legit about trying to make a change and do something.
And that's been the curiosity. And we'll talk about the
coaching interview process and what we've heard. Well, we'll get
to Dallas coming up in about ten minutes from now
with some of the guys they brought in. Because in
Cleveland all year long, what do we say you needed

(43:05):
an adult in the room, right And in New York
with with Pat Sherman or even with Jason Garrett to
a degree when we watched the defensive players after a
big stop and he's looking for high fives and they
just gotta shrug and and walk past him. That you're
looking for that that guy, that that leader. And certainly
for Washington, you get rid of rid of Gruden and

(43:27):
you try to figure out what the next phases. And
for Daniel Snyder, to a degree, it does hearken back
to that first ten years. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, Vince,
you're a long suffering, suffering fan with them, is that
you do go back to a guy that's had some
great success, coach of the year, great reputation, but more

(43:48):
that old school hardass. Hey, yeah, I mean I appreciate it.
I I kind of wanted him to come I'm excited
for him to come in because I feel like he
can do a lot with Dwayne Haskins what he did
with Cam Newton. When Cam Newton came in, he had
a lot more under his belt, but you know, he
still had a lot of raw talent. And I think
Ron Rivera really positioned him in a great way too,

(44:13):
but put him into the position that he was in
when he won the m v P took him to
the Super Bowl, and I feel like he can do
that with Haskins. Whereas the hardass part, I I kind
of like the ping pong tables and stuff like that,
because you know it's camaraderie, you know, showing the sense
of team. But I also agree with Will. It also
Will put to the point, oh, these guys are here
to just play ping pong and be on a team

(44:33):
or are they going to really be ready to buckle
down and and put put in the work, Because well,
the camaraderie part, that's well, I agree that does help
guys to play games and what have you. But the
part that was missing from the Redskins was the chemistry
on the field that camaraderie, Like, are these are these

(44:54):
guys actually watching films studying together? In the show? They weren't.
Because when you look talent wise, especially on the defense
side of the ball, you have the leaders, you have
probo caliber guys, you have toughness, you have really good
players and a Just and Jael so well that disconnection
because even with the early struggles, they were still alive

(45:15):
technically playoff wise, right, So you think about a play
here or there and you go back and watch the film.
All Right, we should have gotten this game. We could
have been this game, and in the NFC East, you
might have actually been able to steal the division. The
way things work, right, I'm telling you, man, like when
the culture and the building is not good, it is.
It is like I don't know how to say the

(45:36):
word bill. It just decimates what you're everything. Yeah, and
it's more energy paralyzing. It keeps you from a maximizing
what you've got in that locker room. He's well, black man,
I'm my Carmen. This is Fox Football Sunday coming up next.
We stay in coaching with the Dallas Cowboys. Don't listening

(45:58):
having the bun with you. Fox Football Sunday, Wild Card
Round and we got some rugby. That guy just took
a big hit, yet he just spun Like DeShawn Watson.
I gotta get it in as fast as I can.
I celebrate his entire time. I don't think he's spun.
He just ran through the guy. But in my head

(46:21):
it was glorious. Do you have to play rugby? It
seems like something i'd be was built for. Once upon
a time, I learned that there's fifth there's fifteens in
their sevens. Okay. I remember Pierce Morgan when I was
in London. He tweeted out because I guess London England
whooped us in rugby and it was the fifteen. He

(46:42):
was like, see this is my point. Why if you
take off the pads? Oh yeah yeah, Because he was
bashing off. He said we would beat the Americans in
football and rugby. And I'm like, dude, line up, line
up exactly, that's the number one thing. Line up and

(47:03):
people were killing us. I'm like, well, let's not. Let's
forget not. Let's not forget our sevens rugby team is
one of the top in the nation. They're like one
or two people like, oh that's different, like notes the
rugby bro. Yeah, but he was doing all his best
to just stoke the fire and get everybody all upset.
And you can roll that. And I'm sure he'll run

(47:24):
that same right, But I'm sure he'll run that same
bit next year when the NFL games come to London
once again. Will Blackman twelve years in the NFL. Uh,
he's a Super Bowl champion at Will Blackman is where
you find him on Twitter and on Instagram NFL wine
guy as well. Find me over at swow and Dome

(47:46):
going through all the fun stories around the National Football
League and rolling through the coaching world. We talked a
little bit about Ron Rivera in Washington last hour, and
the one that everybody has their attention and on is
in Dallas right now. Jason Garrett still showing up for
lunch dates with Jerry Jones. Jerry keeps calling him back,

(48:08):
whatever the exit interviews are. And on the fourteenth he
stops getting paid. So there's really no firing. So everybody
calling for the firing. The only thing that will be
at some point if he's gone is the acknowledgement that
he's gone. In the interim, they're talking to McCarthy, they're
talking to Marvin Lewis. You're bringing back some of the
veteran guys talking about Ron Rivere in terms of culture, attitude, consistency, discipline.

(48:31):
So you're seeing that, like bringing in Marvin Lewis. That's
the one thing it said, right, and you think about that.
I saw so many people get after for the the
lack of playoff success, and and you don't discount it, right,
You gotta you have to be able to win when
the lights are brightest. But then remembering what Cincinnati was
to bring in consistency in, I just think it's incongress

(48:52):
with where Dallas is because they're they're they're not a build, right,
there are a team that's ready now we just different
from what Marvin Lewis had. So bringing him in it's
the question of all right, can you be that B
two C guy for us? But he's but that was
that's dallas Is problem. Right, No, But but that's the question.
Is Marvin lewis that guy? Is Marvin Lewis the builder

(49:15):
and someone else is the finish No, but I'm saying
if since he's had since he had playoff problems even
when they had a J. J. Marvin Jones. So we
brought up Mohammed Sanou again. See he's the common link
to all this. Just kidding, but yeah, you mentioned all

(49:37):
those weapons, right, You had guy after guy that were
from a skill position standpoint you you were pretty loaded
in the A F C and couldn't get over. So
that that's what it doesn't make sense to me, Like
he's not and it's always right, it's still black and blue.
I know you're excited, you know you want to watch
Tennessee and Baltimore. I mean that that's a every everything

(49:59):
that the trainer's table could possibly bought. I bought some
knob Creek for that game. It's just got a number
pain even though you're sitting that. Yeah, I love it.
It's gonna be a game that that will be fun
to chat about as we get ready to preview. But
but for Marvin Lewis, that's the thing that didn't make
sense to me, right I I really like the McCarthy thing.

(50:23):
I thought that made more sense. It makes way more
sense to me if you want a a veteran coach,
a successful coach who actually, you know, took a team
that was undecided. You know, I understand green when he
when he got hired to Green Bay, they did have
far you know, they had a bunch of other guys

(50:43):
on defense. I think Bla was stud defender at the
time on that side of the ball. Um and you
had him on green but an underrated back in the NFL.
Oh yeah, totally. But you know he did the four
year plan I was talking about. There's a lot of
things going on there, and for him to switch on

(51:04):
and move on to Aaron Rodgers and deliver a super
Bowl Like that was the hardest thing. Can you deliver
a super Bowl? Since they had the drought since? Right?
And then to finally do so, and then we can't
disregard his his fact, the fact that he's a quarterback coach. Well,
I mean that's the the underscore to this right of

(51:26):
Dak Prescott. Whether you're gonna franchise him or you're gonna
give him a shiny new deal, whichever Jerry decides to do,
I'm guessing more towards the franchise side, given the money
you've got committed to McCarthy. Have he had Alex Smith
and Sanford? Right? Was he there? No? He just helped.
He helped decide that. I think, yeah, he was the
decision making before he moved to Greenbank because he was

(51:46):
there for a year, and then Farv and then Rogers.
Then you deliver a super Bowl. I mean, I think
that makes the most sense. I see, there you go,
You've just solved all the problems. It was just curious,
right because people are getting up in arms about Jason
Garrett still being there. It's like it's two more weeks
he can say no to, he can walk out, But

(52:08):
every chance he gets to go into that room and
try to lobby for Look what I can do, Look
what we did here. Why would you not take advantage
of that? Right because Jerry hadn't said anything definitively against him.
He's almost like family, right, And that's the running bid
is that he's been around the team forever and several lives.

(52:29):
If we're gonna go nine lives on a cat of
where he said, all right, that should be the end
of him. We should have How much of it was
play calling this year? And I mean they did some
bum slang just let's just call it what it is.
They beat some bad teams. I think it works of
taking taking Dak Prescott and refining it because the team

(52:51):
is the talents there right now, like they're they're just waiting,
like you said, to go over. Well, you spent all
that money right here, we go through the we go
through their salaries, and we look at the way this
team has been constructed. You spent a lot on the offense,
offensive line, the defensive interior. You gotta figure out what
you're doing with a Mari Cooper, whether he's the guy

(53:11):
you want or not. On the outside. But you signed
Zeke so you've you've got your core, and now it's
just how can you maximize Dak Prescott Because coming into
the year when we talked all fifty three, they would
have been on everybody's short list of top fives, right,
and then they just didn't maximize from there. So it's
not like it's they all right, we need to reload,

(53:33):
rebuild that we're the cupboards bear and then that's the
frustrating part if you're a Cowboys fan, and certainly for
Jerry Jones Warren on his face and in every interview
that he did of well, how do we do we
get over? And that's the why at some point the
message goes stale, right, I mean why Ron Rivera goes
in and dumps what the comforts are? The creature comforts

(53:58):
of a team in the locker room? I saying, all right,
let's refocus and how do we get to that next piece?
And maybe it's scheming. Mike McCarthy in that interview he
did with Peter King talking about learning from those last
couple of years because people talking, Yeah, that was great,
and the Tom Pellis sorry interview was fantastic. Just uh,
he really mentioned how how his family needs football and

(54:20):
then he misses misses that. I'll tell you what I
told myself. I'm always I always get asked like what
I what I ever coach in NFL? Would I want
to do that? Because right now, this time of year
is it's combined season, right all the all the agents
bring in their players and I actually do uh position training,
I get guys ready for the combine and um. Last

(54:41):
year I had a Shawan Bunting from the Buccaneers who
end up playing well on Money Railway, Ugo Madi, a
bunch of guys and UM. I told myself I would
never coach in the NFL. I just couldn't. I think
after twelve years, I couldn't do those hours again. However, Mike,
Mike McCarthy, Mike, if you get that Dallas job, I

(55:01):
will have a conversation. I will have a conversation. And
the other team that I would I would consider. I
would consider the Chargers. I would I would cook because
it's close to my house. I live near the Charger
so well. Proximity is a good. That's the main thing
I want. I want to be home. But Dallas, I'll consider.
Put that star on the cap and I'll stroke this

(55:22):
this mini gote've been growing for twenty years. I just
gotta stay in there. Then it's not going. It's not
going anywhere, man, It's not become part of the icon.
So I mean that way, if you have a little
animated gift of yourself made, you don't have to update it.
I don't. I actually don't. I found a really good lotion,
by the way. I'll tell you later. There you go,

(55:43):
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(56:03):
I've been reading up trying to figure out which is
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guy find me over at Swollen Dome. Head coaching record
seventies seven and two for McCarthy, ten and eight, playoff
record as well, and for Jerry Jones. I mean, that's

(56:24):
just it right. You're you're talking to the difference for
this year. One of those games against a quality opponent. Right,
they beat the Rams, and we've beaten the Rams down
as much as we need to. They're done. Uh you guys,
have I've been nice to the Rams? Well, I don't
have to be. I got relationships. I can well know
that there's different considerations for me. You know, I'm not

(56:48):
you know I'm not looking to be. I don't. I'm
just jo. I just gotta call it what it is.
I didn't like the roster. A chat, Get a chat
to your job. That's it. You got to keep those
checks flowing, no question about to find more of them
along the way as you can. But we talked about
roster construction and problems there getting to where you got

(57:10):
to the super Bowl, and then, as we've seen so
many times, they can't get back. And the super Genius tag,
all right, he goes from wildly coyote super genius back
to genius at least with the asterisk for now because
McVeigh has got to go back to the drawing board
and figure out what the team is for next year.
But you at least were able to climb that mountain
for Dallas. You just saw all the opportunities to win

(57:34):
this division. And we'll talk about the Eagles playing on
a little later today, you know, as they've got Seattle
come into town. Two teams really banged up. Much different
game than what we saw a few weeks ago in
terms of personnel and what expectations are for these squads.
For Carson Wentz a fantastic russell, some weapons, he still

(57:55):
has some guys that can model. I mean, you may
not have the backfield like Carson would love to have
the K Bacalf right. I think he'd give his left
arm to have a DK Metcalf running for him downfield.
And even Tyler Lockett, who's been banged up for the
last month, you know, on and off the radar a
little bit and and inconsistent, but at least you still

(58:16):
have some weapons downfield, something Philadelphia still struggling to find,
even though zach Ertz, I'm gonna give it a go,
uh and we'll get upgraded a little bit. Lane Johnson, Yeah,
I think he's still declare it out, so I think
they'd still need another week from him. Yeah, we'll update that.
We'll do that next As we talked Seattle and and Philly,

(58:36):
but with all of those injuries for Philadelphia, it was
it was on the table. But the Cowboys you just
take the division and they couldn't rise up some play calling,
decision making doc in big spots. The really to me,
I go back to play calling. We talked about Josh
McDaniels and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick not having weapons

(58:58):
and guys that you trusted, you didn't trust that offensive
line and Zeke Elliott. You still got Dak Prescott throwing
the ball thirty times a game like that. That that
was the thing that made no sense to me. Open
I had a tweet about I think I put out
every year. I'm like, as long as z has about
thirty touches that's receiving and rushing, you have a chance.

(59:22):
I mean the guys young, the guys, I mean, he's
every time. If I would start a team and they
said pick a runner back, it would be him. Your
pot committed, you paid him, run him. Like we used
to buy my mom stuff. I've told this story before.
We used to buy my mom's stuff. You know, growing up,
you'd save up and you'd go to the store and
you'd buy a nice blouse or whatever the case was,

(59:43):
and then it would end up in the back of
the closet and you'd say save it him for good. Well,
what what's better about tomorrow than today? Right? I mean,
just you use what you have at your disposal, right
for this, Well, this was a good time to wear
that blouse. And for the Rams, they waited on Todd Gurley.
You know what, that day never came. That day never

(01:00:05):
came this year for the for the Cowboys. How many
times did you watch a possession going? Why did Zeke
Elliott not touch the ball at all? Right? All right?
We went three and out on three pass plays? Like
what are we doing here? Right down? Distance? Game situation
just confusing over the course of the year. But they're
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(01:03:02):
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Not at all, guys. We'll talk okay, um. But yeah,
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Find me over at Swollen Dome. Now this game later
on today Seattle and Philadelphia, two teams that intriguing a

(01:04:10):
lot of people belly aching and look at Seattle with
all those wins, they gotta go there. You know what
divisions are there for a reason. You want to abolish him.
Abolish him then then come up with the proposal, and
you tell me what the schedules should look, you tell
me how to disperse it. Right, But that's it. That's
first goal. When I was in Seattle in training camp
on the board, Pete Carroll's number one goal is win

(01:04:34):
the West period because that's the automatic bit, right, automatic
bit but I think across all locker rooms, it's the
this is goal one, right. Not everybody could be the
Patriots where every year it's said, we gotta we gotta win,
we gotta beat these when these games, right, those are

(01:04:54):
six games differently. And look, we can belly ache about
the schedule because that I wasn't a big fan of
how some of it played out. Where you're playing, you know,
an opponent twice in the final three weeks, as we
saw in a couple of instances, or the final four weeks,
that should be a little more spread out. But whatever
that that's small potatoes. But when it comes down to it,

(01:05:15):
win the division and control your faith, right, get your
home playoff game and move on. So what we have
with Seattle is they go on the road and it's
a much different squad. We don't have the Carson who
had become a monster second half of the year, the
guy that we saw in ten, got through the early
fumbling issues, dominant gets hurt. You have Rashad Penny showing

(01:05:38):
signs of why they really loved him, and he'd become
that number two, not quite the thunder lightning. Go back
to you know, a brand in Jacob's tiki barber or
insert your favorite thunder and lightning combination out of a backfield.
But the same idea that pennies your your big play threat.
He gone c J processe poor guy can't stay healthy.

(01:05:59):
He's the Seattle version of Will Fuller. At this point,
you see you see flashes when he's on the on
the field and get right now there there. So my
first like six years, I was like pretty much wrestling
with the injury bug. Like I almost got an injury
bug tattoo. It was that serious. Did you just start

(01:06:22):
designing that just starting? So But there was a guy
who who coached Olympians and try to fielding carval and
I met him when I was back East, and he
told me that I should check my levels of vitamin
D because there is something there is It's linked to
soft tissue injuries, is linked to chronic injuries, you know.

(01:06:46):
And there's a study where people who had vitamin D
levels lower than I think you want to be fifty.
If it's lower than that, then then you're link to
dealing injuries. And I checked my levels and I was
at twenty three, No seriously twenty three. And so I
ended up supplementing to get my levels up higher. And honestly,

(01:07:10):
I haven't dealt with anything soft tissue or not because
all my issues were not contact. I didn't get hit
like my foot broken, I stepped wrong, my a c L,
I did a jump cut, you know all these things.
So I really think that and this is not me
trying to be funny. I seriously believe that, you know,
Fuller should go and check that out, you know, see

(01:07:33):
what his levels are and get that up. I'm gonna
send him to the audio from this clip. Yeah, I'm
gonna send it to him. I'll reach out to It's
fun to watch and a guy that you see what
he could be if he could stay on the field,
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are able to win to get today, in theory, you
get de Shawn Jackson back out with the core injury,

(01:08:37):
but you also have Lane Johnson's not there, okay, so
your offensive line down a big component part we know
about the receiving core issues. Zach Ertz is gonna give
it a go. They've they've medically cleared him enough at
least two to be able to run some routes, and
he's been nothing short of amazing. We've seen what George
Kittle can do when you shoot him up. I don't

(01:08:58):
know how much you have the same here with the
rib injury and flak jackets and everything. Still gonna take
his hits over the middle. So you've got Urts and
Dallas Goddard, Miles Sanders who's a bit banged up, and
you got Boston Scott. That's your skill position players three
TVs got It's gonna have to be huge today. I
remember when flak jackets were mandatory, like and Pop and

(01:09:21):
Pop Warner, you had to wear the ripper a little
vast over the top in the high school. I did.
And I remember what I went to when I my
first day at Boston College. We get our equipment and
I get my helmet, shill the pads, you know, get
the my pants pad, thighpad and stuff, and I'm like, yo,

(01:09:42):
where the rib hads that They're like, what ri pets?
I was like, y'all don't where He's like, no, we don't.
We don't wear that stuff. Like when the quarterbacks get
the flak jackets. And then you started going, is there
anything that says I can wear it if I'm comfortable
with it? How about I get yeah, because I'm like, man,
ribs are exposed, but that's what you know, you want
to protect yourself with. That's it's funny that at one point, yes,

(01:10:02):
those were mandatory, and I think that should wear one today.
Certainly expect him to be a little bulkier around the
mid section and torso today as you go, but trying
to play through that situation both secondaries. Leaky would be
the kind way to describe him. Made Philadelphias for certain

(01:10:23):
you know, so I would expect some of Russell Willis
Scott Jenkins. Sure man's one. I haven't but listen, if
the one person that's that guy, he has to be
the safety and he's you know, the constant guy you
can move around. He's the constant guy that can for sure, uh,
make plays all over the field. I think he's definitely

(01:10:45):
one of the most underrated defensive acts for a long time.
So he's he's huge. Yeah. So and it's it's an
interesting setup right again, done and Quadre Diggs will be back.
So one of the other offseason movie talk about making
Fitzpatrick earlier. I appreciate you on Twitter, I love you.
Go back and watch the defensive film once he arrived

(01:11:07):
versus the early part of the season. We'll continue previewing games,
make our picks as the the show goes on. But
someone who's gonna make a big decision, uh well, later
on this week about the pros or not to go
to a tongue of Voloa, the merits of leaving staying.
We'll talk about it next. But first it's Isaac Blow
and Crown. He's got what's trending in our sporting universe, Michael,

(01:11:30):
and we'll get an interesting tidbit from the aftermath of
the last night's clash between the Patriots and Titans in
the a f C Wild Card round that ended thus
leave Brady in the end, Zo takes the snap, looks fires, passed,
batted up at the air, intercepted, and returned for a
touch that Titans Logan Ryant with nine seconds to go

(01:11:53):
Mike Keith to call on w g f X is
the Titans one at twenty to thirteen behind Derrick Henry's
one hundred and eighty two rushing yards. The Titans will
be at Baltimore next week now. As most of you know,
before the game, Tom Brady posted a height video on
social media depicting a lion yeah, being laughed at by

(01:12:14):
hyenas and jackals until one day. In the words of
the video, quote the lion gets up and tears the
bleep out of everybody unquote obviously the hyenas and jackals,
referring to apparently the Tennessee Titans. Before the game, well,
Shirley Lee Young of the Boston Globe reports that after
the game, Titans head coach Mike Vrabel shouted to his players, quote,

(01:12:39):
they want the hyenas, they got the mother bleeping hyenas, unquote,
and the players then broke out in unison in high
pitched hyena laughter. I'm not exactly sure what that sounds like,
but you've got the idea. Is not none of the iterations,

(01:13:00):
none of them. Wait a minute, See this is very
impressive that Chris would have the fastest draw in the
West to have actual hyena laughter at the ready. I'm
a little nervous about that, to be honest with you.
He had his Obi one hood on a minute ago.
By the way, did he notice how I gracefully talked

(01:13:21):
my way out of making guys forget that. I've never
seen the line king before. Hey, no, no, we didn't
wear that'll come up later, and I'm sure it will.
We'll be ready. Meanwhile, Brady himself relegated to discussing his future.
I love the Patriots. I mean they obviously, uh, you know,
it's the greatest organization, and you know, playing for Mr
Craft all these years and for Coach Belichick, I mean,
there's there's nobody who's had a better career, I would

(01:13:44):
say than me. Just being with them, I'm very blessed,
and I don't know what the future looks like, so
I'm not going to predict it. Earlier Saturday, the Texans
and Bills went to overtime, snap us down, fair parents,
kick is up. That that's good that Texans to put
the Firs all around in dramatic fashion. Pretty the belicant overtime. Tonight,

(01:14:07):
Mark Vandermer the call on Sports Radio six ten. The
Texans will be in Kansas City next week, and thus
there goes the NFL playoffs. Circle of life. Michael and
wellbeck to you, Thank you so much. I loo. One
of the headlines from the New York newspapers, also related
to the Patriots, was die Nasty or dynasty or however

(01:14:28):
you want to corny. Yeah, well, but that's what they do.
I mean, sometimes they're clever. Most of the time, you
just go for the cheese ball and and the corny
jokes because it makes for good copy and it gets
a dope like me to talk about it on air. Uh.
One of the things we'll be talking about over the
course of the next couple of months is will be
trying to slot drafts. I know mock drafts have been

(01:14:50):
going for a while. No, you can probably get one
mock draft going if you really wanted to. But to
a tongue of Iloa, the hip injury and question of
whether he will or won't return. Now you've got some
principles in Alabama that have decided they're already coming back.
Talk about some linemen making the decision not to go,
and it's all about grading and where you're gonna go.

(01:15:12):
I have no idea how you'd come to the conclusion
that you need to go back to Alabama given what
he's accomplished at this point, unless he doesn't shine or
something like that, or well, I mean that's that's it, right,
I mean, for for a reality of going to the
NFL wherever you get slotted, right, because look as if anything,

(01:15:34):
you saw Lamar Jackson right last pick of the first round,
Baltimore trades back up. Now he's the m v P.
Is he getting the giant contract the first time out? No,
he's gonna go out and earn the next one. Make
it up on just being brilliant on the field. And
you go into a team that was good, right you
you they changed the offense for you, and they may

(01:15:55):
added a number of component parts, certainly don't discount that
at all. But you had a base and you had
an organization that has stability, something that many NFL teams.
When what are we talking about with finding the grown
up in the room? We talked about it all year
with Cleveland. You look in Cincinnati, first year coach and

(01:16:15):
trying to find his way. Just going down the list,
there's so many teams where it's like, all right, every
three years it's the reboot of trying to figure out
what's next. Where's Baltimore? Pretty set, right set, and forget it?
You had some other parts. You bring in mark Ingram,
who's the best hype man anybody could ever hope for,
Not to mention one hell of a running back and

(01:16:35):
away you go. So for tongue of Iloa. People are like, well,
you know, you don't know the pecking order. And Jason
Smith and I chopped this up a little bit over
the course of the week. But now that we're starting
getting definitive notes of when this announcement will come, the
debate is that much more real. It's just a I
don't care where I'm slotted in in those I mean
that that if that's your consideration, there's a whole other

(01:16:57):
thing going on. It's getting yourself right physically, and where
are you going to get better training than to get
with an NFL team and start that process, not to
mention start the clock on getting to that second big
contract with whomever. So that's another year in the process,
and you're gonna go back to Alabama. You've already wanted Alabama.
So you go back to Alabama for what like, what's

(01:17:19):
what's the end game there? You you go play for
another year where you can't get paid and then you're
sacrificeding your body again. But I'll tell you what. And
he was in a situation where, you know, they picked
him over Jalen Hurts, who was a proven quarterback. Right
they got a kid come in right now from modter
Day named Brice Young, who just lit up the All

(01:17:42):
American Bowl and who is arguably, you know, one of
the best quarterbacks to ever play the game in high school.
And that's how they got him to come there. Was
the assumption was gone, yeah, or you're gonna have at worse.
It's like you're getting every shot to come and take
his just when you get and if if one of

(01:18:03):
the things that you dealt with was a major injury, why,
like I just don't understand, like what would draw you
back on any level. So folks thinking that it was
a pretty easy call to come back and then throwing
some financials or throwing in the draft stock of whatever

(01:18:25):
Trevor Lawrence does or other quarterbacks, like that's all in
consequence because you're not going one next. I don't care.
How about you play, you know, and coming off that
the hip I mean, even if you drift a little bit,
because there's plenty of teams every year that are looking
for quarterbacks, and this year's an odd ball because you
got a bunch of the veterans, the longstanding heroes of

(01:18:45):
the community that are also out there on the free
agent market, which is really unique for quarterbacks. Right. We
normally don't see anybody of even declining value that hits
the market. Normally there's they they go put out the past,
you're all together, or they never become available with another deal.
So you've got that. But coming off the hip injury,

(01:19:06):
the best thing for him is that mid rounder later
rice it probably more organizational stability and and more just
you don't. You're not forced to come in and be
the savior right away, right, because if you're picked early,
the pressure is on you to play. Right. Daniel Jones
probably could have benefited from not playing this year. He

(01:19:27):
could have, but that's not what's going on. Like I said,
guys are trying to get people ready. Now you're trying
to take advantage of having a young quarterback that they're
not paying half the cap to, you know, and and
that's what that's what going on. So um yeah to uh.
I know you're trying to like savor this moment, but

(01:19:48):
we know what's going on. Say all the right things,
be pleasant about your I think he wants. I think
you just want to thank everybody publicly. That's probably what
give everybody a big hug symbolically. And and because Brian
Young's coming in and it's going down, just letting you
guys know you see, Will had to just keep it real.
Everybody else's all tier eye and handkerchiefs and the next

(01:20:11):
guy's coming move aside, go get paid because everybody's looking
at the Russell Wilson model. Right to take it back
to what we were talking about right, where you draft
well and and look it's on the organization to figure
out how to make that work. But where you can
get a number of impact players, whether it's in the
first round or in those mid rounds, that become stars
while they're not getting paid, because eventually, like the fair

(01:20:34):
comes due and you watch how they have to split
and and if you have organizational stability, you can rebound
and keep rolling. As we've talked about with the Seahawks.
That's the model for everybody. Figure out how to win
when you're not paying a guy thirty five million dollars
or whatever the going rate is going to be. Like,
that's where the cowboys are in the quandary. Now you've

(01:20:56):
got a lot of money committed on the lines, a
lot of money committed to Zeke, and now you got
to decide is Dak Prescott a thirty five million dollar man?
I mean, essentially that's kind of what New England's been doing, right,
But but they got a guy who they had the
luxury of didn't say I need thirty million dollars a
year publicly publicly publicly, but at least at least it's

(01:21:18):
always looked nice, right, and and the appearances have always
been good. And I mean that's one of these sticking points,
maybe for that last year that he wants that balloon
payment one last time for services rendered. We'll talk about
that as we go forward. But there was an interesting
story that started making the rounds a discussion with boxes

(01:21:39):
own Troy Aikman, as we talked about Tom Brady's future
and where he goes. There's the potential like Troy Aikman
could have come out of retirement long long ago. I
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(01:22:21):
Happy New Year to you wherever you are finishing up
the holiday, maybe getting the tree out to the curb
and getting the kids back into school mode. That'll try
and everybody goes back to school. Although we had a
we had a fantastic day. Uh me and the family. Yeah,
my wife and I took the kids to the Reptile

(01:22:42):
Super Show and Anaheim the Reptile Super Show. Yes it is.
It is the largest reptile expo in the world. Did
you purchase any reptiles for your home? We we almost
got a geck almost we we we have a we
have a beater dragon, but we almost got a gecko.

(01:23:02):
At the get go. We make some more mentions of
Geico and have some fun with that. There you go,
because you never know, I mean, if you're feeding them,
you know, special concoctions. I mean, maybe you do get
a Godzilla kind of thing going on. Our son loves Godzilla.
Last one was kind of interesting, kinking the monsters. So
the sequels coming soon. Yeah. It was loud. Yeah, no,

(01:23:25):
that it was very loud. I went and saw that
in Dolby. That was bad. That was bad. That was
a bit over a guilt for me there, and I
already knew it was going to be loud, but then
adding the hey I'll go to the showing that I
meant that. My point was our kids are fearless. The
son is nine, our daughter is five, and they were
just holding snakes, holding reptiles, holding beerter dragons, iguanas, holding

(01:23:48):
whatever that, you know, whatever, like teaching to be fearless early. Yeah,
wait what you were just making a gesture with your
arms like going wide? What what what would they carry
in there? Pythons and pythons and boas and all that
kind of Yeah. Check my Instagram story at Will Blackman,
you'll see it. Fearless kids are nuts, the Reptile super Show.

(01:24:09):
How about that? It seems like I would have seen
a sign for that along the highways. You didn't know.
I think I saw more about I think I saw
the clippers were in it together. No, I saw the sign.
That's I saw this. That's why. That's why I found it.
You saw a sign and that was on Thursday about

(01:24:30):
that billboards work people for me, black messesure I set
their person if I see I got you. You know
there's a there was a Simpsons episode, of course Simpsons
did it where Homeward goes out of the house, goes, oh,
fresh billboard, day, fresh billboard, and it's all the stopping
and he's causing, causing all these accidents because he wants

(01:24:51):
to stop and read the billboards. And at the end
he's like, I got everything that they told me to get,
but I'm not thinking about that Clown College. And then
he goes to Cross Clan College and everybody he comes
to Clown. I have all the seasons at home. See
there you go. Classics thirty one years now. Also a
classic the fact that Jay Glazer uh responded to a

(01:25:14):
Joe Buck tweet saying I got time. Do you want
to ask Joe? And he said, well, who's got better hair?
Is it Troy Aikman or is it uh Mike Pereira.
Kind of funny. Troy Aikman in the news from an
l A Times conversation that he had three legitimate offers
to return to the NFL upon announcing his return in
two I think it's interesting, though, because we're talking about

(01:25:35):
Tom Brady and extending a career. I'm sure he has though,
like that's not like shocking. Yeah, but when you're that
turn it on calls every day well bred fart might
be as a yoked up superman still running around on
his infomercials. I saw him out there with Jerry Rich,
Jerry Rice would come back at a second. I bought
a copper fit Nie Lee. How did it work for you?

(01:25:57):
Kept falling off, kept kept I don't even know what
to do with that. Does that mean you have to
bulk up? Does that mean you had to go buy
buy some nut. They need to have something that, you know,
if you're sweating that it actually stays. Is there? You
go product make somebody miss And I'm like, man, you
had to go out and get that hat. To get

(01:26:18):
it wasn't out a billboard. It was the infomercial in
the middle of that waiting for Rugby to come up.
When you have insomnia, you know, you're just buying knee
braces and trust me braces and you know, get yourself
a couple of I can't get up the medical bracelet
while we're at you haven't hit that point yet. We're

(01:26:38):
talking about the shoulder in tingement earlier. I haven't quite
hit the check my medical correct years. Okay, I go
Marth right, isn't your granddad promise? There you go? So
in this story from Zam Farmer at been actually sitting
in the broadcast booth saying, hey, call Andy Reid at halftime.
We're playing in San Francisco Monday night. You'll be the starter, Andy,
I haven't played in two years. You'll be all right.

(01:27:02):
I mean they will to to just keep going. I
mean you you're keeping in shape, right, You're still looking
at you know, the the NFL is still still there.
I mean, and and I talked to guys who've been
out of league a decade or more and they still
get that. I'm not keeping in shape any longer. Not
that kind of shape. Well it's a it's a different
different shape. But at a base listen, I just ride

(01:27:24):
the elliptical. For every glass of wine I had that day,
I write ten minutes. That's not a bad thing. There
you go, there's your there's your metric to live up
to here in but that it's like when you're watching games,
like as you did yesterday, your mind go, you know,
into into the chess mode match and you just kind

(01:27:45):
of wanted to be in that place. You you physically,
you you put yourself in the situation you see and
you're like, man like, if they can just do this,
if I can just do that, you know, if someone
called me right now, I can go play. That's the
part that's that that you know you're still still there, right, yeah,
the the itch that is always there. You know what

(01:28:06):
we should do watching games with Will next year? Just
here's your second screen hopefully, well there's that too, no
question about it. At Will Blackman at NFL Wine guys,
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(01:28:31):
the show has begun. The disco ball has gone away,
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with you Fox Football Sunday. Thanks to our crew getting
it done, Isaac and Vance, and now we've got Iowa
Sam on the ones. That two is Chris Perfett. Uh
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find himself a nap before getting ready for these NFC

(01:28:52):
playoff games because hopefully they're at least as engaging in
the final minutes as our two a f C Wild
Hard games were a day ago. Will twelve years in
the league, Super Bowl champion. But you get jacked up
for this time of year, winning time. I do you know?
Actually you know what I was just thinking about the

(01:29:13):
Patriots loss because before we went back on the air.
I was like, man, I bet back home New England.
I'm from Providence. For those who don't know, Providence wrote
back home in New England. I'm sure it is just quiet.
Just energy is weird, you know, And it reminds me
of when I was a sophomore at Boston College two

(01:29:34):
three when Aaron Boone hit that grand slam, Aaron Bleepen Boone.
Those unawares that grand slam, and I just remember looking
outside and it was just I mean, you you, I
don't know what people would have thought. Everybody walking in
a fog today because there's just so much it's not

(01:29:56):
just speaking. It was a legit fog today. No, that's
right during the game. We saw it last night. Oh
driving today here it's out the California sure, visibility very obscured,
but you made it in crushing it. You're live on
on Twitter at Will Blackman's where you find him there,
and on Instagram, guy, Yeah, find me over at Sam.

(01:30:23):
Sam's jacked up. He's jacked up about he's still riding
the high of Iowa beating USC. I mean, I know
it's big, more than but it's still carries forward. Wow.
Bringing in the Mike North reference while we had it too.
I like that. I like that, but you know, for
for the folks in Boston, it certainly is. It's not
just a loss to end a season, right everybody, well

(01:30:45):
most most people are used to those for their respective
NFL teams. They're usually not expecting it to end so
quickly there in New England. But you know, you don't
win the Super Bowl every year, but this one has
just so much on them. Well that's it, but this
one has so much more residents and that you don't
know what's coming back. And that's the discussion. We've got

(01:31:08):
monitoring the Bill Belichick press conference that's going on, seeing
if he gives us any ten second gems or confused stairs.
Not that that plays on radio, but it's entertaining to
us at reporters as they ask long winded questions. But
you don't know what Brady's doing. You don't know what
McDaniels is doing. After yesterday's game. Maybe people aren't as

(01:31:29):
enamored with Josh McDaniels and the idea of what they
couldn't cobble together offensively over the course of the year
with the component parts. And we've talked about it lesser
than and no go to outside of Edelman, right, at
least in the past you had Gronkowski, So it became
a I got two guys that I trust are going
to be where the play is called and where the

(01:31:51):
design is and the you know, that continuity, camaraderie, whatever
you call it, is going to be there. Didn't have
it with the young receivers and the trust factor certainly
one of the things that was to their detriment in
watching this roster go. But there's so much uncertainty. Every
other team has gone through the Hey we've got another
coach coming in, we've got a quarterback we don't trust,

(01:32:14):
We've got injuries or whatever is going on, or free
agency is going to kill us. For New England, this
is the first time that you can say, at least
from the component parts, like your base, there's uncertainty. This
has been uncertainty every year, even whether they win or lose,
there's been uncertainty. You know, are they gonna come back?
That's the question. Well, but at least for Belichick and Brady,

(01:32:37):
there's no uncertainty like are they going to be competitive again?
It's are they uncertain? Will they be back? Yeah? This one,
this one just felt. I mean that part of it
might have just been media creation to try to blow
it up, right, because as soon as Brady Sells puts
a house up for sale, still for sale, everybody got excited.
His trainer put one up for sales, like al right,
guys own houses all over the place for all, you know,

(01:32:59):
even looking at economic indicators saying now is the time,
at peak of market to sell a house, right, I
didn't read much into that. That's fine. So those are
just outliers. Those are just whatever data points, and it
makes for a nice narrative. But inside it was time
to sell. Maybe the house was of value. Well that's
that's just it, right, Depending on when you bought it,

(01:33:20):
you got some money. It takes a while while to
sell a house with the multimillions that we're talking about,
because I think they have a moat and gators in
the whole night. Maybe he wants to move into the
ritz Ovar in Tremont, you know, and downtown there the
Boston Commons. Right, there's a there's a million other things
that can pretty cool. See there you go, getting lifestyles

(01:33:42):
of the rich and famous with Will Blackman here on
a Sunday morning. But like all of those factors to me,
we're just nonsense, right, And reports of rifts in the
locker room. Nobody's getting along. People say, Kauai moota home
in Toronto, and maybe he did. Maybe he just got
a lot of real estate holding. Maybe he knows them
are it And then guess what happened, right, he came

(01:34:03):
down l A and that was it. He came home,
so exactly, So those reports mean nothing people. I mean,
they're nice data points. And look, you do the radio
show or TV show or TV hit in the moment
as of that day with the information you have, and
you work from there and then you try to build
the picture. As we sit here today, the only thing
we know for certain is the Patriots are not playing anymore.

(01:34:26):
It's like, oh, I saw Kauai. He was watched he
was watching the Jurassic World the other day. He's coming back.
Maybe he's just a big fan of Chris Pratt. Probably not.
I mean, you had Chris Pratt on your your timeline, right.
I believe he made an appearance and a gift that
you used yesterday. But point being made is that they're

(01:34:49):
done for the year. We've still got a lot of
football to be to be played, and we'll have a
new Super Bowl champion when they crown one down in
Miami on Fox to start your February now. Later on today,
as we're starting to see the arrivals at the stadium,
you've got Kirk Cousins and all the metrics that always
go into big game, Kirk and everything rolling up against

(01:35:11):
the New Orleans Saints. Saints about an seven and a
half point favorite little bit of pushback. The line was
sitting out at eight earlier in the week, so you've
got a little bit of push back on that number.
And the idea for Minnesota offensively healthier they've been in
a long long time. Dalvin Cook adam feeling now how
healthy there is the speculation I understand Dalvin Cook said,

(01:35:35):
I'm back for a full strength. Yeah. No, nobody's full
strength going into into the playoffs. Given the you know,
not not if you have been hurt and have dealt
with stuff you know and and have has not been
effective this part of the season. Both of Minnesota's key
players on offense well and you've had to hold him back.

(01:35:57):
And then you've got Alexander Madison who hasn't been available
for them either. So you're never gonna tell your opponent.
I'm okay, right, everybody's a harder percent, right, that's what
they're gonna tell you. I'll do the old Jim Brown
just lay down, act like hurt. Every play. It's a
way to extend, extend things. You know. Here, here's a

(01:36:17):
couple of extra seconds. Well that's just it rope a
dope as you go through. I mean, we watch enough
soccer and in the studios here move strategicy as it were,
to try to just lay off a little bit. All right,
he's wounded, so they'll go elsewhere, like now they come
right back, like the the play just for the to
go back to the Patriots for one second, right to

(01:36:39):
where everybody's like, oh, look at Tom Brady braiding Julian Edelman. No,
I don't think so. It seemed like more rope a
dope kind of move as he gives him the the
end around and he goes in for the touchdown. But
we've got Bill Belichick. We'll see if we get anything
fun out of that. The right up just saying you
won't talk about the future, because in his quotes was

(01:37:00):
actually yesterday saying, let's talk about this game where it's
always onto something else or what I mean, there's no
game to go to, so you're not gonna say, hey,
we're on, although that would have been kind of fun,
uh for for us here, it's a drop we would
play forever, much like I hate that song when he
was discussing holiday music all that those years ago. But

(01:37:21):
but we do have exactly, but we do have the
Saints and the Vikings a little later on today. For
the Saints, it's been the Michael Thomas show, whether it's
Bridgewater or Breeze rolling at him. And we can have
the debate of whether Breeze should By the way, so
far from this matchup, as they kept asking safety Marcus

(01:37:42):
Willims about that play where he, you know, missed the
tackle and the pick, the Minnesota Minnesota miracle. Yes, it's
been referenced thirty seven times, and he said neither neither
of us would the super Bowl, So it doesn't matter.
It's a fair point, that's fair. Move on. It's not
like they want and went on and did something special.

(01:38:02):
They went on and got rid of the quarterback. You
have no one. I mean, it's a nice highlight that
will live forever, but that that's it, right, he happened.
He's still in the league and he's still playing meaningful football.
You know, it wasn't like the ball went down the
first baseline he missed it. Who you really just got
going after the Boston guess of course they still so

(01:38:24):
I had to play more more baseball. But we we
look at this game, right for New Orleans, I'm wondering
how much more we see of Alvin Kamara right from
a running back running perspective, think we see a lot
He finally caught on, right, because you have Latavia's Murray
picking up a lot of carries as the season went on,
and oftentimes you see the touch count got to twenty,

(01:38:47):
but it was more on the receiving end, or as
much on the receiving end, keeping the carry count in
that eleven to fifteen range. So perhaps this is one
where you get a little more of Alvin Kamara running
into the heart of the Minnesota defense. And I think
Jared Cook is going to have to have a huge
game for this New Orleans offense. It can't be all

(01:39:08):
Michael Thomas here against Minnesota. Uh it won't. It's it's
definitely gonna have to balance of everybody, and they're gonna
have to truly, truly construct the game plan where you
get some car Rudolf an important situation as you get
dealing important situations, and you obviously digs on important situations
and use all the run, use everybody, both running backs,

(01:39:30):
you know, control the clock, keep the football away from
Drew Brees. You know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's
the important thing. And then there's gonna have some some
times where you're gonna have to take get explosive plays
because when Kirk Cousins is throwing the ball very far
down the field and completing those, he's usually doing very well.
Start flinging it down and just go You imagine Kyle Rudolphin,

(01:39:52):
you know, picked up a lot for it. I just
want Kirk to go for it like this. This is
the time where Kirk Cousins just needs to say, like
I don't even care anymore, Like just be ticked off
and go for it. Just forget about all these stats
because we're seeing him up here right then. Then the
latest fabricated one of this that he's oh and fifteen
career against teams with a winning percentage of seven are better.

(01:40:15):
So you've got that. It's just one thing after the
next on the mix as we roll through from the
Vikings side of things, Daniel Hunter having himself a fantastic season.
But what we know is Drew Brees gets the ball
out so fast, so defensively right, so defensively, you know,
trying to combat how he approaches the game. How much different.

(01:40:37):
I mean, obviously is one of the games all time greats.
But you know your prep week and as you're you're
scouting this team and working ahead, you know, how do
you account for that that quick release as a defensive back? Yeah,
I mean the biggest thing too is you know he's
not the typical six five, so obviously you try to
get your hands up quick, but you you gotta have

(01:40:58):
you have to have tight coverage. And the funny thing is,
if you throw it to Michael Thomas, I think he
has like an eight seven percent like if you throw it,
if you throw it in his area, he's catching the ball. Period.
But even if he's got webbed hand. But even if
you have tight coverage. I remember playing against New Orleans
and I would be literally draped over the defenders back

(01:41:20):
and there's nowhere to throw it, and then Drew Bees
would throw it at his like right kneect where I
can't get it right. Put it where you're right. The
old hit it where they ain't right. And from a
baseball analogy here it's they just give your guy a chance.
If I'm on the top shoulder, is the ball is
going to the back hip? Yeah, I think the hip
is going to the front quad like he just he

(01:41:42):
knows exactly he's doing and once you get in the
rhythm is dangerous. I think the amazing thing to watch
is as we we've watched this team over the course
of the year, it really has been the Michael Thomas
showed with some Jared Cook. He's had some monster games
mixed in, but that's it from your receiving corps right.
Tray Kuwan Smith is not developed and been healthy. Ted
Gain has had a couple of big plays, but the

(01:42:04):
story of his career is that he's just never been
a consistent target where you're looking at five catches in
game or any of that. So for Michael Thomas to
do what he did, that's why you know stumping. As
we talk m VP consideration, look at Lamar Jackson's award,
but it's it's just curious to watch how a guy
could be so dominant when we're always talking about you

(01:42:24):
need a number two or something to take heat away
from you. And you mentioned the seven percent or whenever,
the ridiculous rate of return. You know who's who's quote
on late though, and and I'm sure you're agreed, is
is Derek has been um getting a lot of one
on ones versus safety is because of the draw to
you know, Michael Thomas and because of the emergence of

(01:42:47):
uh chimera that he's he's living it up though. I'll
tell you that, Oh he's loving it now, are you
kidding me? A featured guy on on a team that's winning,
heading to the playoffs, A guy that we always like
the skills right went back when he was in Tennessee.
Uh the year in Oakland, had had a big role
before with the Rams. Yeah, yeah, he's had He's had

(01:43:09):
start thinking about how many times he's bounced around. Uh uh,
But he like, he likes traveling. That's just what it is.
He he gets these one year deals and plays with
really good quarterbacks and moves on now hanging out in
New Orleans where he's found himself a nice home as
the number two receiver in that offense. We've got some big,
big Bill Belichick sound coming up, is what I'm being told.

(01:43:30):
So we'll hear from the Patriots coach or maybe the Giants.
I don't know. Well, we'll talk about that coming him next.
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I'm on air. So yeah, we had the yeah snap face,
and we had the a f C Wildcard round yesterday.
The Texans come back on the Buffalo Bills. The Josh
Allen greatness at times in the first half. You had
some great throws in the second half, but it's clearly

(01:45:21):
inconsistency and some mind numbing play calls and decision making
along the way open the door. Oh, they were mind numbing.
I got to the point where I was calling for
a tie between the head coaches and some of the
decisions being made. I'm like, I'm done with this. Move on.
But Deshaun Watson always one that you want to see
live to see another day, and we will next week.

(01:45:44):
Early reports are that they will actually have will Fuller
back for next week. We'll see if that becomes the case.
Obviously that offense even more dynamic. Question for you hit
me if Brady decides to come back. Do you think
New England tries to rework something to get Judy from BAM?

(01:46:05):
Bringing Jerry Judy? How about that? Definitely needs a play maker.
I love it. I mean, then you're talking about where
you're drafting, right because you didn't run to the super Bowl,
so now you're in the twenties. I don't know, curious.
I mean, they love trying to know what. No, but
that's the thing is they love trading acquiring bunch. But

(01:46:29):
you definitely need to go get him weapons. I think
he comes back when it's all said and done, and
that they finish his long, you know, illustrious career with
New England. But Bill Belichick had his season ending Prescott
before he gets out a boat and runs away. Maybe
they've got another documentary, the Lighthouse film. Yeah, receivers Vince

(01:46:51):
Mutamba height and Vince said if he was six four,
you should have played receiver if because I said I
would love to be six four, and I was like,
I would have played receiver in the NFL. But what
happened was at the combine I had one of my
team interviews, and I remember I spoke to the Atlanta
Falcons and they approached me about playing receiver in the NFL.
And they said, hey, man, we like you at receiver

(01:47:14):
and if if you happen to end up being, you know,
a free agent after the draft, will pick you up.
Oh the disrespect. We like you as a receiver, a
free agent free agent receiver. I was like, screw that.
The next interview, I don't want anything about receiver. I'm
playing dB. That's why. That's the real story why I

(01:47:35):
said I'm not playing receiver because Atlanta. I got an
Atlanta story where they take me off. But please keep going.
We can bury the fact. We have time for that
right now. Story alright, so check this out. There's a
four hour show, so then we could do Belichick in
five minutes. That'll wait. No, this is this happened recently.

(01:47:57):
So I work out, I go out for the Uh
the Falcons, right, and uh, this is two years ago
and Dan Queane brings me in and Peel he's there,
and Dimitrof is there and I work out for them
and I ended up just destroying the workout, like doing
very very well. And so it's me and another safety

(01:48:18):
and then after that, uh, you know, you go back
to your locker, you change, and they want to meet
with you one on one and give you their opinion,
you know what they think. So I remember, I go
meet with Joe Collier, okay, I think he's their national
scout and he's like, man, like, um, your journey was great.

(01:48:39):
I love what you did. You you worked hard, man,
and um, you know we're gonna sign you. Man, We're
gonna do it. And and literally the air got taken
out of me because I bust my tail and I
was like, yes, this is finally it. I was like,
thank you man. He goes, I know, I know, man,
it was hard. I know you went to the spring
league and you did this, and I was like spring league.

(01:49:00):
I was like, I didn't go to the spring league.
He was like, oh, man, I told him to get
the other defensive back. No, man, dog, are you kidding me?
That's just wrong? Are you kidding me? I joke about
it now and because it's it's it's overweight. But man like,
straight up, that was hands down, probably one of the
most unprofessional things I've ever dealt in my entire life. Yes,

(01:49:23):
that's exactly what I said. You're trying to take him down?
Did you? And what? And what's that gonna do? I
don't know what made you feel good in the moment
he said, Oh man, I'm like, how do you mess
that up? You get the wrong guy? Poor? He just
new uniform numbers. I guess Falcons. Well, that's that's just
some bad word strike two and three with that one.

(01:49:44):
I mean, that's like that guy the other day that
was in the shoe store and thought he saw Chris
Paul and went up and it was Region Rondo. Oh man,
Chris Ball and looked like Rondo was about to take
a swing at the Don't you know who I am? Dude,
brow that's that. That might be one of the craziest
stories ever heard. It's it's bad. We've heard a lot

(01:50:07):
of them, and these always it was bad. That was
the ultimate. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it
because as soon as you started saying the journey, I'm like,
all right, where's the turn here? Guy? The guys said
that this is because my journey was like afterwards like
it was I did everything in my power to get

(01:50:27):
back from the journey before you even got to spring league.
I'm like, all right, this is this is already setting up.
Once he said spring league, I was like, I didn't
play in the damn spring league. He was like, oh man,
that was the other guy. How about that bad job
by him? There's a lot. There's a lot of nonsense.
I have no doubt. The workout stories I'm sure you get.
You can do uh oh daily podcast with guys who've

(01:50:51):
been in and out of the league. And the stories
we have been lied to, well there's that too. You
want to get one of those off here? Good? We do.
We we got plenty of more. Show let me getting
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(01:51:14):
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What's trending? In the sporting universe. Indeed, Michael and Will
what's trending? Of course, A busy day in the NFL,
on the field and off the field, A busy weekend

(01:51:35):
in fact, starting with the New England Patriots trying to
defend their Super Bowl championship last night against the Tennessee Titans.
Trying was the key word Brady. In the end, so
takes the snap, looks, fires pass, batted up in the air, intercepted,
and returned for a touch that Titans logan Riot with

(01:51:56):
nine seconds to go. Mike Keith to Call on w
g f F says the Titans beat the Patriots twenty
to thirteen. Tennessee will be at Baltimore next week. As
for Tom Brady's future, he says retirement is pretty unlikely.
As well as I love the Patriots, I mean they obviously,
uh you know, it's the greatest organization, and you know,

(01:52:16):
playing for Mr Craft all these years and for Coach Belichick,
I mean there's there's nobody who's had a better career,
I would say than me. Just being with them, I'm
very blessed, and I don't know what the future looks like.
So I'm not going to predict it earlier Saturday in Houston.
Snap his down, fair parents kick is up, and it's
good and the Texans go to the divisional round in

(01:52:38):
traumatic fashion. Pretty the bells at overtime twenty two Tonight day,
Mark vander Meer the call. Sports Radio six ten. Texans
at Kansas City next week. Coming up today at what
oh five eastern, it's the Saints and Vikings from the Superdome.
At four or forty eastern, the Eagles host the Seahawks. Finally,
Mary kay Cabin of the Cleveland Plain Dealers just reported

(01:53:00):
that the Cleveland Browns will interview Patriots offensive coordinator Josh
McDaniels sometime this week for their head coaching job. Adam
Schefter just reported that Washington came close to hiring former
Houston Texans general manager Rick Smith as their team president
before they hired Ron Rivera as their head coach. That note,

(01:53:21):
Michael and will back to you, Thank you so much, Isaac,
So Ron Rivera was able to say, I don't want
to work with Rick Smith? Is that really? When I
when I read from that, he's like, we're good. Yeah,
I think he's got a lot of control. We'll get
into the Josh McDaniels angle coming up in about ten
minutes or some A question about Rivera too, by the way,
actually by all means, yeah, I got a question, and Vince,

(01:53:44):
we appreciate this. I got asked, do I think that
Josh Norman can restart his career with Rivera as head coach?
And my answer to that, this is from actually Chick Carennas.
My answer that is, does Josh want to does he

(01:54:04):
want to even keep playing football at the end of
the day, you know, Um, that's that's pretty much what's
gonna come down to. Well, he's got a contract with Fox,
so he's part of the larger, larger family around here.
We've seen him on pregame shows at times and during
bye weeks and what have you. So certainly his foot
dipping the toes as it were, into the media world

(01:54:25):
after that. But Rivera understands him. He calls Josh stubborn,
are hard headed, but a heck of a talent. He
gets it well. A guy he's worked with, guy guy
he knows right. So certainly no strangers there. But it's
always good to have a familiar face in the locker room,
I guess. But at the end of the day comes
down to if Josh because you've seen like in the

(01:54:47):
year Josh is out and about, you know, traveling doing
his thing and that's what he's into. I'm not knocking
it whatever. Um you know, you didn't really see much
much training or what have you anything with football. So
my thing is like that is football still in his heart?
You know? Is he is? He? Is? He? A case

(01:55:10):
of where you know, you get the money and you choo,
we don't. We don't know so well, certainly at this
point in his career too right. I mean we're, what
two thousand and sixteen, five year, seventy five million dollar
deal and you start trying to figure out exactly what
the out is, right. We we talked about the outs

(01:55:30):
in contracts all the time. We get a lot with
Carolina as they make the decision on Cam Newton on
a relative basis, he's cheap for a quarterback. But is
it time to move on given the level of injuries,
a new owner, a new coach coming in. Does it
become let's shift the entire paradigm of where we are.
For Ron Rivera, the first thing he did was let's

(01:55:53):
change up just the feel of the locker room might
be meaningless on the whole, but the shuffleboard, the ping
pong table, all of those things go to the wayside.
But you're looking for leaders, right You're looking for a
locker room. You've got a guy well still under contract
right now, and Alex Smith injured, but he says he
wants to play again. He got a young quarterback in

(01:56:14):
Dwayne Haskins. But then it's trying to figure out the
rest of the room. And if you got a guy,
like you said, with that kind of money, it's always
the question once you get paid that level, is the
hunger still there to be great, particularly when you see
the light and the other career opportunities that are ahead
of you. I think he used even our record saying
like man like this is this is not everything for me.

(01:56:36):
You know, I want to win a super Bowl and
then right into the sunset, you know, And I respect
that everybody wants to be able to write, get the
get the huge contract, win a super Bowl and put
those on your resume and then go do whatever. But
when I when a guy is young and you know

(01:56:56):
and talking like that, that kind of kind of less
to know where where guy's minds are at. Sure, if
you're if you're already there, because you look at the
you look at the other spectrum, and you look at
someone like Tom Brady, who's still undecided, who has done
everything everything, there's not one accolade he has not yet received. No,

(01:57:17):
that's it right, verything from down to Hey, let's sit
down and talk about the greatest of all time. But
you'll put me as the center piece. Should have been
done a long time ago, but he kept coming back.
And if you think he got something left, and I
think with Tom Brady, enough was said about how washed
he was, which is why you had that lion video
that everybody started laughing about and Brable referenced, and you

(01:57:38):
have the cackling in the whole nine yards like anybody,
I watched the Patriots over the course of the year.
I don't know how well you can evaluate what Tom
Brady was. Where there's throws missed, sure, how much of
that was I don't trust what's on the other end
you but you just throw it and you just hope.
You know, hoping. Hope is a dangerous thing. We learned

(01:57:59):
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(01:58:19):
about an hour ago, Bill Belichick met the media. I
had some thoughts of closing out this year, obviously, given
Tom Brady's age and there's been a lot of talk
about his future. Do you have a timeline in your
mind point you'd like to sit down and do you
have would you like to get clarity on his situation
by the time of New Week year starts. Look, I mean,
I know it's out there, just like there's a lot
of the things out there. I mean, we could bring

(01:58:41):
up fifty questions just like that one, and I told
her what my state is on pen So you can
ask all fifty of them and it's gonna be the
same answer fifty times been. We've been working on Tennessee,
it's twelve hours after the game. I'm not gonna talk
a lot of things about the future, because it's not
I'm not prepared to talk abo. I don't know fifty questions.

(01:59:01):
I'm sure you do. You can name fifty guys, fifty coaches.
I mean, there's plenty. You can talk about anything you want,
but in the future, and there are all the questions
that need to be answered at some point in time
by the organization, by myself, by the coaching staff, by
some of the players. But those are collective decisions that
are not made by one person that made collectively. There's

(01:59:21):
a lot of time and thought and effort and communication
that goes into that, and now is not the time.
I certainly appreciate that I have just one one. If
Tom says he wants to come back and play, and
the same answer that I just gave you, let me
just keep going. If you wanted to the whole question,
because you talked over some of it, I said, it
says he wants to play your quarterback, and I gave
it the same answer that I just gave you on

(01:59:43):
the other one. So we can go through some more
if you want to. It's fine. What about you, Bill?
Will you be back here coaching this scene next year?
That's I've just answered all those questions. Future questions are
the future. Right, we're twelve hours less than twelve hours
after the camp. I think anybody that's compared at it
than it's been in this type of situation, and all
your focus on the game, you know, it's not on

(02:00:04):
something else. So hopefully you can respect that. But if
you can't, then I've done the best I can to
explain it. I'm sorry. As simple as that, I'll try
a different way. Let me ask you that question walked
and he walked in there with a player like, listen,
this is not happening today. I would not be intimidated
by Bill, but he wanted to get his run right

(02:00:25):
now hero of the day. He said, you did answer
the question because you were talking over it about because
that guy's pressed pass has been revoked if Bill Belichick
returns for next season. But trying to go to the
it is just funny, right, saying hey, that's in the future,
when normally the response to any loss or anything negative
has been We're onto insert city here onto Cincinnati is

(02:00:50):
always the running joke. But where we have this situation
now is all right, we gotta collectively You heard that
word a bunch lot of decisions to make talked about
their salary cap and and where they're at in terms
of commitments for next year. The only guy really making
any quote real money when we talk about NFL and

(02:01:10):
being prohibitive on you is Stefan Gilmour is a cap
hit of about eighteen point six. Next highest outside of Brady,
who's in this whole other world of how they determine
what he's uh he signs for if he comes back,
is Dante high Tower is at eleven point three, and
then from there it gets smallish pretty fast. Right, So

(02:01:31):
they're not top heavy like some of these teams. Like
we've talked about with the Rams all year. We talked
about what Dallas has put together. The Patriots should have
some flexibility along the way. Of course, there's going to
be a number of players who want to see if
they can go get top of market given where we
are for linemen and some of the linebacking uh cores
around the league where they price inflated over the last

(02:01:54):
two years. But for Bill Belichick, he certainly wasn't gonna
talk about the future. So having this press conference other
than all right, I can check a box saying I did,
it really served no purpose in the grand scheme. Will Well,
this whole interview thing is funny because right now they're
just gonna lay it onto England. Well that's how anybody's

(02:02:16):
doing right now, is right is it's you know, we
talked about the collective joy. There is no on to
another team. You gotta answer these damn questions, buddy, because
I'll see you in September. But that that's one of
the larger questions, right because one of the permutations in
the coaching carousel is maybe Bill Belichick actually goes and

(02:02:37):
takes that Giant's job. Now, like the Patriots altogether, it ends.
I don't think that's the case. I think the band
comes back together with more weapons for Brady one last time,
uh and seeing if they can actually make one one
more runs. So people thinking that it's dead until it's
officially dead. All they did was lose a game. Okay,
that's it. You know, we we've got the Dynasty, big

(02:03:00):
voice guy saying we've got Rob Parker and all all
our colleagues here at Fox taking their victory laughs, like
it's one loss. So they didn't get to the super Bowl. Still,
they've all agreed to shake hands and walk away from
each other. This thing's not dead. By the way. Also,
in the East, even if Brady does walk away, who
the hell's beating him? Who's we're talking about the East

(02:03:24):
in the bread he leaves, because they it will be,
it won't be Jared Stidham. But we're still talking about
three teams that can't get out of their own way.
If the divisions Brady leaves, that's changed, and immediately I'd
be curious to see who would be next on me. Well,
I like Josh Allen, but I like, I like Buffalo,

(02:03:45):
I like I like overall what they've done. Coach still
has some explaining to do for some of it because
he tried to lay it at Josh Allen's feet yesterday
and he made some bad decisions. But Coach doesn't get
off the hook for some of his down in distance
and decision making in terms of clock management along the way.
He had his young coach issues there. And the Buffalo

(02:04:06):
squad is there, but I'm not trusting Adam Gaze. And
Miami's still got to answer the quarterback question long term
because it ain't Ryan Phillipe. But at least at least
Miami is competing. You see there in a there literally,
there's a direction right. At least the teams in the
division are competing because they know that the window is well,
the gap is closing, right and certainly for Bill Belichick,

(02:04:30):
the decision how much longer he wants to coach is
one we keep talking about as well. He's Will black
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(02:04:50):
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(02:05:11):
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(02:05:33):
and we'll we'll link out as we go, and Jason
Smith will be back from his vacation in Detroit. Do
you ever know anybody that vacationed in Detroit for their holiday? No? No,
you've met Jason. You think he's skiing? He no at
a rat battle in his mind, yes, in his mind

(02:05:54):
it was finished the show rat Battle followed by three
am white Castle. Maybe he got cool like a you know,
one of those things where you have to go and
watch a meeting and for like a time share or something. Unfortunately, No,
I think he's just family, his wife's family. So he

(02:06:15):
goes everywhere from there holiday. But why not? You gotta
break it. Listen, if you live here in California, southing California,
you don't leave. No, but you're not. But why not
get them to come here or go somewhere else, because
you don't go anywhere anywhere anywhere past the mountains like

(02:06:36):
Midwest and East Coast. They don't leave. They don't leave.
I trust me. I try to convince my family. Dude,
it's a vacation in itself. Not only are you spending
time with me, but you're in vacation. This is vacation. No,
I got I got you. I flew my dad out
here finally, and I'm like, Dad, look at this. This
is why you with your favorite child. Look at that.

(02:07:00):
I'm the youngest. So it's automatic. Hello, is that the
way that works? Okay, so that's interesting. All right, there
you go. But yes, everybody comes to come to California. Yeah,
he'll be back, and I'll be you know, everyone don't
come to California. But I'm just well, they're leaving. The
numbers say they're leaving all sorts of things flowing in.
Although although my traffic patterns they're not helping me. Not

(02:07:24):
enough of them have left as you go. Mary Kay Cabot,
reporter out of Cleveland, saying that Josh McDaniels is coming
for a visit. We just got through Bill Belichick talking
about the future, well really not talking about the future.
Uh won't address his We know Brady unlikely that he
retires or hopefully doesn't retire, all the different word choices

(02:07:46):
that he's had along the way. But for Josh McDaniels,
who would appear that the time has come for him
to maybe make a run. A couple of years ago,
look like he was going to Indianapolis and hit him
with the punk fake right, and then he comes back
and is he the heir apparent? One of those coaching
waiting situations. Then then realizing Bill Belichick never wants to

(02:08:08):
give up the throne and he's originally an Ohio guy.
All of these things in the idea of maybe being
the one to correct Baker Mayfield, because you would show
up on a roster that's pretty full of talent, right right,
but no GM right. I mean that offense if healthy,
adding Kareem Hunt to Nick Chubb, who's a Beast, offensive

(02:08:32):
line was pretty solid, and you're talking about skill position
and Baker is capable of just mentally he needs to
get together, work on the accuracy. Maybe you can coach
him up and in year three get it done. I mean,
as we talked about for the last two months plus, well,
it's the grown up in the room. There wasn't one
stop fighting with fans. Fans before the game too, right,

(02:08:53):
stop wearing dumb do you know we can't come down there? Baker.
I was waiting for the guy to drop down. I mean,
go all mission possible style. I didn't want to lead.
You want to get banned right at right before they
get good. But then he can go tea and he'd
be good. NA facial recognition software. You think you're gonna
care about that guy enough? All right? Maybe they would,

(02:09:14):
But for Josh McDaniels, on the surface, it would look
like a perfect fit. Right, just come in there and
and have your keys to the kingdom. I believe so.
I mean he got he got the tebow playoff win right,
Yes he did, Yes, he did, was able to pull
off a remarkable run. I still blame you, Maryan Barber
the third for allowing that streak to continue at more

(02:09:37):
on that rant. Later on exactly the Iowa guy says,
uh blank and gopher uh Will Blackman with me? I'm
my Garmen coming out next. There's a Schefter report out
of Washington that's kind of interesting. Will Blackman weighs in next.
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(02:10:42):
with us, getting your new year started right. A f
C Wild Card games yesterday. Uh, suffice to say, Deshaun
Watson brilliance, the escapability, mobility, versatility, all of those words
to describe the brilliance of getting pinballed and staying up right.
We appreciate everybody engaging on that play. Will with a

(02:11:05):
couple hundred thousand game, a couple of hundred thousand dollars
laid down. He was really nervous when it was sixteen nothing,
but the Bills can't close. Some decision making, a couple
of bad decisions by Alan in between some great throws
and great athleticism from him. Watson with the big play,

(02:11:29):
the thirty four yard pass play that helps set up
the game winner, as it were. So you have that
and then the nightcap Tennessee scores four teen. It's all
you needed your final or right. I don't want to
discount the interception return can't touchdown. I can't because it counts.

(02:11:51):
And for for Logan Ryan, it's a it's a big
deal for everybody there, big deal. They'd already covered, all right,
they've already beaten the spread because even if it finished
fourteen thirteen A they one outright on the money line
be they were plus four and a half. So you're
already a winner. But the stamp, and for many it's
the that's the last past Tom Brady will throw as

(02:12:12):
a patriot or perhaps ever. So you have that storyline
rolling on, while we've also got from Adam Schefter coming along. Now.
We've talked a little bit about Ron Rivera as head
coach and trying to set the tone and try to
find the new character and identity of the Washington Redskins
locker room. But now the Schefter report, Uh, this comes

(02:12:32):
out a little bit during this past hour. They're planning
to wait until after the draft to hire a general manager,
per league sources. Team's thinking is that it has the
people in place for now, although anyone in the front
office is in jeopardy after the draft, and there will
be more changes to come. That's kind of an odd
place to put a new coach. I mean, so Ron

(02:12:53):
Rivera has the Bill O'Brien stamp for now, right, You've
got an interim uh GM there and Chris Olsa for
the Texans. But Bill O'Brien became Trader Bill at the
beginning of the season and was laughed and you know, hey,
what else do they have in the cupboard that they
can find while they're they're winners on wild card weekend
and they'll play on. Although for a while there it

(02:13:14):
looked like maybe Houston was gonna be looking for someone
else to coach up Deshaun Watson the way they played
and some of the decisions in that first half. But
they rally and get a victory for Ron Rivera. Now
you're in charge, right, you get to say I'm the
captain now and you've got all called through the draft
and then retro fitting to bring in a GM. I

(02:13:35):
mean he's definitely qualified to do so, sure, But then
you mean from a power structure perspective, right, So the
GMS job will Ron Rivera is ostensibly still be doing
that job even after that guy's hired, right in terms
of evaluation and personnel moves. If you've already given him

(02:13:57):
that power and he gets to pick the guy, does
he become a de facto yes man pushing a pen
all right, he's pushing paperwork after I mean that that's
the only thing in terms of setting up your front office.
It seems like you've got a guy that's then have
to ask my people about it. You ask your people
like that. Yeah, it's just a curious flow. I mean,

(02:14:20):
like Dan Snyder does. You've got people all over the place.
We've we've been able to ascertain this. I mean, you've
still got hot coffee some five hours later, which is
just confusing me. And some magic cuple. You should have
had it on the hike you went on. I should have.
I could have used it in that second half of
the hike. Let me tell you our two although Quadzilla

(02:14:41):
was back in full effect, given some of the Latin,
I'll just doing some of the climbs as we had to.
Let me tell you come well, there's that too, uh Sam.
On the ones and twos for us today, but for
the Washington Redskins is Daniel Snyder looks for this next
iteration right, twenty years now he's on the team. The
first decade, volatile would be the kind way to put

(02:15:04):
it right, as he cycled through coaches and tried to
find the answer, including some retreads Joe Gibbs for another run.
And then you have the second half. You've got three
coaches the last decade, Mike Shanahan, You've got Jay Gruden.
And now you move into Ron Rivera, so lifetime football men,
Rivera obviously long time NFL player. Uh. Some in Chicago

(02:15:26):
were still lamenting he never got a shot at their
head coaching job years ago when he was with the Chargers.
But has had a good run and now he'll take
over Washington trying to institute culture, old school kind of mentality.
Will but but now but now it's him. The way
this is setting up right, it's dance out. So just

(02:15:48):
say you're gonna hire him an executive assistant when it's
all said and done. Well, that was the that was
the thing coming in there is that for this job
to be attractive and appealing, they on it some or
a bulk of the executive say and what goes on
in terms of the football decisions and having Bruce Allen

(02:16:09):
in the building, made the job, made the job less
attractive to a lot of suitors. So based on dance
football advisors and based on agents of who representing these
coaches that were interested, that was that was a big deal.
What seems to be the consensus, right because you're talking
about the Cleveland job a few minutes ago he got
Haslam and Dorsey's out after a very short tenure. Looked

(02:16:33):
like he he started to put together a team, but
ultimately giving Freddie Kitchens the job. On the recommendation and
the comfort of Baker Mayfield. Is that legit though? Was
that a recommendation from Baker? Is that like for real?
For real? That seems to be the consensus that that was,
which I believe because it was Baker vouching for that
relationship saying I need to keep this relationship going. Because

(02:16:54):
I also because I made that, I would believe that
story because I feel like, when you know Dorsey was
going through this draft process of evaluating Baker Mayfield, I
think they just fell in love with the fact that
he just had so much command and control at Oklahoma,
like this is what we need, this is our culture change.

(02:17:17):
This is the guy who's going to come in and
really give us what you need, continue to lift us up.
Even after the departure of Lebron for basketball. And I
think they they didn't just you know, let him borrow
the car. They gave him the keys and put the
car in his name. Well, and that's it, right, he
got full control and from the grown up in the room,

(02:17:38):
like that's the I guess the euphemism being used in
all of this process of someone like a rivera just
you know, stabilize things. Same thing in Cleveland. You got
a lot of talent, but you didn't have anybody to
just tell Baker to shut up. Oh it would be nice.
I'm calling it what it is. Come on the the
guy anything. People lobbed up each swings at a lot

(02:18:01):
of it, just just like quarterbacks on the shut up,
take it easy. But Chicago's coming out right now. That
happens easy, bro. But look, I want my quarterback to
hit hit his marks on the field, fighting with fans
and fighting. He can speak, but pick and choose what
you're talking about. That's it. Pick your battles. You don't

(02:18:22):
need to keep blobbing stuff. Can't fight everybody. Jason Smith
and me and our Nighttime Show. I mean all of
those like you're you're really extending the net. Good. Good
for him. Yesterday supporting Deshaun Watson, he availed himself to
a lot of criticism. Everybody can't have that job. No,
but that's it takes up too much of your time

(02:18:43):
talking about being in the film room and stuff you
can't be doing. I know, you know, I'm very proud
of I love my wife Sean, and she's unbelievably gorgeous.
And so when we're out and about, I know guys
are gonna look. You know. Of course I can't fight
every guy who's staring. It is to the guy that
starts stepping towards, starts stepping toward, and then I'd take

(02:19:03):
his knee outright if the eyes stay back, if the
body stays back with the eyes are there, I mean there.
Do you know I can't fight everybody. It's like he said,
it's a waste of energy. Otherwise, make sure you've got
that camera on you, on you so we can get
all images as you're whirling dervish taking everybody down, like
like you're like you're straight out to kill Bill. Yeah,

(02:19:25):
did you take it down? But thank god, he went
to Cleveland because in New York over respect so much. Well,
Eli took the barbs, took the jokes and want some rings,
made part of it, you know, part of who he became. Right,
go back to the Saturday Night Live episode he hosted.
He made fun of Eli face. He knew exactly what

(02:19:47):
the deal was, and he played the bit. Eli has
a great sense of humor. He's just chilling. You know,
seed Eli in a while, so in terms of having
a chance to chat with him, but I always thought
he got it, like what his place was, right, Peyton's Peyton.
So you're you're already living in that shadow and then
playing in New York when things go wrong, I mean,

(02:20:07):
the poison pens come out fast. So you gotta learn
a deal. In Cleveland, you're somewhat insulated. But then as
soon as you make it about you, and there's some expectations,
and he played well, so it's set him up in
the worst possible way. Right, you've got some success, then
you got control. I mean, Greg Williams, they do what

(02:20:28):
they weren't going to give him the full time job,
even though he was the guy that the most qualified,
the guy they rallied behind, Right, who got that locker
room right for that second half of the season. So
that's another thirty for thirty that I love to see
the behind the scenes on. But it comes down to
the comfort with Baker Mayfield. Freddie Kitchen gets the job.

(02:20:48):
So now Josh McDaniels becomes the guy they're saying the
head coach in Cleveland for Haslum gets to pick the
GM there, So former Eagles executive and Drew Berry possibly
coming back to I think that was I think there
was there was some swirling of that as well. I
mean when I worked out for Cleveland, he was there.
It was it was funny um I worked on. He

(02:21:11):
was like, hey man, he was like, you know, because
they do a combine literally a combine, leverigator, the shuttle,
the forty, all this stuff. He's like, hey, your shuttle
time actually as faster than it was when you came
out for college. I'm like, I know, train bro training
with Will Blackman, We'll get the I didn't train for
the combine. I didn't have time. A lot of these

(02:21:34):
guys go train for the combine and they leave school
and they still have credits to finish. I went to
Florida and trained for like a week and then finished school.
I was like, I want to finish. You know, I
got this far well because a lot of guys don't
go back. It's there, so I didn't. I wish i'd
trained for the combine. Also wish you wish six four earlier.

(02:21:57):
Vince wanted to be a six five behemon, I'm they're
going up five minutes nothing. He didn't get sound better
on radio when I said he wanted to be a
six five, But you make him sound like he doesn't
appreciate his height right now. I don't. Just I'm five
and I said here he said, he said he's scraped
six ft and he's the shortest. I'm like, man, please,
people would kill to be six ft as I raised

(02:22:19):
my hand sheepishly in the studio, thinking of what might
have been, and I've been six ft, would my body
would have broken earlier? We're gonna do that coming up next.
I like that. Eagles and see Hattle. We'll break down
the NFC playoff games coming up next here on Fox
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(02:22:42):
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(02:23:04):
fun with you on Mike Arment alongside Will Blackman. Twelve
years in the league, Super Bowl champion. You know where
he's going down. It's going down between the two roommates
back there. I know I got animated there. I I
was gonna call a prize fight as we go. I
got a lot of hand gestures and evinced through in
the towel. I mean he went to towel having a

(02:23:27):
Sam grow up. I think we can have a podcast
on that. That'll be fun, having some fun with you
here as we get ready for the NFC side of
the bracket. Here wild Card Weekend, the Texans and the
Titans advance a f C South represent Yesterday on a
big wild Card Saturday, I think people were enjoying some
Saturday football, and now we'll do it again with two

(02:23:49):
more games. So you can procrastinate and not get back
to the tasks at a hand in your life. Kids
still gotta go to school tomorrow, so you've got that
going for you. Minors scided to go back to school,
and I'm blessed, but I enjoyed um having them at
the house. Hey, shout out to Davy Fisher. Hi Davy.

(02:24:11):
I usually say hi Mom too. What's a while Mom's listen? Yeah?
I said, how did my wife Shawna? And Hi to
my friend Nedick and say, hid everybody? What up? Um? Yesterday?
My our daughter she learned how to ride a hoverboard.
She's five and she took her two tries and she's
a zooner on the house. Right back to it. And
you had the birthday so last week, right, so weeks ago?

(02:24:32):
You had two birthdays in the Christmas Yeah, a lot
a lot of stuff flowing through as we get into
the new year. So happy new Year, wherever you are,
wherever you're celebrating. If you're looking for a new coach,
maybe one you'll find one under the tree you put
outside yesterday here and we'll get back into the coaching
searches and run down all the guys talking to the
giants because it's a laundry list, But seems to me

(02:24:53):
that there's one obvious play as you go through, but
two games on the books today. We've got these Saints
and the Vikings. We'll get to that in a moment,
but when we talk about the Seattle Seahawks, UH and
the Philadelphia Eagles. I picked the Eagles to get there
before the season. Okay, you pick Philly. A lot of

(02:25:14):
a lot of people are are right now. They're eating
the cheesesteaks. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not flip flopping on it.
I picked them before the year. I had them in
the Patriots, So one of my Super Bowl picks is done.
At least both of them made it to the twelve
team tournament, So I feel like I did something right
along the process. UH snowball's chance, as it were, for

(02:25:35):
both of them to get there, given the injuries, talent level,
and what we've seen from Patriots offense, only muster thirteen
points yesterday and they go home for the Eagles the
walking wounded. No Lane Johnson, You've got zach Ertz. The
longer we wait to play this game, the more injuries
that seemed to pop up on his report. Right, not

(02:25:55):
only do you have the cracked rib, but you have
the lacerated kidney. I mean, we're talking life writtening stuff
here will some stuff that you know when you start
getting into flat jackets or whatever. You know, sometimes you
gotta protect gas from themselves. And I guess they've held
him out and you're doing but you do until now right,
you still tried to. But you know, guys make decisions
because this is this is what guys played for, is

(02:26:19):
the postseason to have their chance, especially for the Eagles
trying to get their second. Here talking about Carson Wentz
leading them four straight wins, schedule aside, and like you
beat who's on it, and the opportunity opened opened itself
and you and you took advantage of what Dallas couldn't. Right,
let's leave it and leave it there. So you got

(02:26:39):
Carson Wentz, you got Miles Sanders, you got Boston Scott
in the backfield, Dallas Goddard, whatever percentage you've got from
Zach Ertz. Look, his availability is really all that matters
because it changes how you have to defend them as
you go wide receiver. It's a roll of the dice
as to which guy is going to become avail himself
to Carson wentz in this one for Russell Wilson. He

(02:27:01):
at least has two wide receivers that you trust, right, right,
So you got huge, right, two guys that you trust
against the secondary that struggled and well, and Russell is
fully healthy. You know that's that's the biggest thing too.
And also you know Homer came came along to Travis.
Homer had himself a little bit of a ron here
and Marshawn Lynch with another week back really quick. I

(02:27:24):
guess yeah, my wife and my our two kids, Writer
and j Hello, Writer and Jade. I know you guys
seem right there. Thanks forgetting up with us now finished
cleaning your rooms to school, so they didn't know. That's
a deal our son for him to go. He wants
to get up and watch TV and plays games. Rider
he gets up and makes his bed. Good man. I've
been doing that for about two years now. I like that.

(02:27:45):
He's nine, all right, Sorry, discipline is good, it is well.
So many people like discipline. I mean, as Schwarzenegger yelled
at kindergarten, as you just said it, I had to
had do. I mean it's called back. It's you know,
the movie quotes are always ringing the dome up in here.
I just I just trust, I trust like you. You
love to have both of these quarterbacks right because the

(02:28:08):
this is the do most a little. But I feel
like Russell at least has something well he's got and
DK Metcalf has been far better than I think anybody
could expect. Like you love him as a physical specimen
and what was he going to be? Yeah, but I
think it stops there. And you you saw teams as
of late taking advantage of the cornerback, especially like you know,
Darby had that struggle against Dvante Parker who came along

(02:28:31):
and got paid. You want to talk about a guy
who second half of the year, you should break off
a little for Ryan Fitzpatrick being willing to put it
up down field with such regularity as well. Yeah, but
for Russell Wilson, for Carson Wentz, I think there's a
different appreciation for Carson Wentz right because it was always
Nick Foles finished the job ha ha whenever. And I'm

(02:28:52):
sure he feels that even though he doesn't really like
outright say it and walks around in his brash but
I know his competitive nature like he knows that, which
is why he's playing how he is. Yeah, I mean
you had all the rumors of whether there's dysfunction in
the locker room. One one guy said that, yeah, but
it's enough to where it starts, because it starts to grow,

(02:29:13):
like right, So it's a something and it gives you
something to talk about for the team. And Peterson has
done a great job of keeping this team. Like when
they won, it was the underdog thing, right, and then
this ship it was like, oh this this function yeah
this year. I mean, now it becomes you're you're the
ultimate underdog and that we don't know what two we're
going to show up to play. No exciting, but but

(02:29:36):
this one's fun, right for that For that fact too, Seattle,
you look at this team and what was seventeen nine
in the first meeting and now you you roll it
back up and a lot of those principles are gone
as well. I mean, I love the way they built
this team. You had the first offensive line for Seattle
that was functional from day one in a long time,
right since hutch and Jones were running around two guys

(02:29:59):
talking about all of fame stuff. But then you you
look at Carson and Penny with a little bit of Procise,
who's never been able to stay healthy and become the
guy they hoped he would. Ever since Marshawn, you know
when he's first and dead, they haven't had a consistent
running back health wise, right, So Carson was finally getting
that guy. He got rid of the fum bolitis and

(02:30:19):
then he gets hurt and so you lose him. Hopefully
he will be back and ready for that same battering
rams style. But the consistent thing and all of it
is Russell Wilson, who, as we we talked about earlier
on in the show, even from his first days, it
wasn't a finished product, right, the wide receivers had You

(02:30:39):
had Baldwin and then guys that kind of know but
but that but that's what I mean, the only one
that pretty much would be okay, Like Golden Tate was
drafted to be a stud and he ended up doing so.
And then yeah, Doug Baldman, what was he undrafted free agent?
Jermaine Kurch what was he undrafted free agent? And then
and that's also where I give Russell a lot of respect. Yes,

(02:31:00):
those two guys work hard, but you know, he helped
turn those guys into stuffs that went off and got paid.
They got paid. That's right again, extra bonus holiday gift
from those guys to Russell Wilson. Look, I picked the
Eagles before the years, so I can't go back on him.
So I'll take them to win. But but you wouldn't.
It's not something I'm sure you're like, you feel stuck

(02:31:22):
about it, like you feel confident with that pick. Oh.
I like him. I like the makeup of the squad,
like and and the fact that they keep battling its
thing you and I since we we've been working together
here on Sunday mornings. I want guys that want to
compete like and you can see that we're watching enough football,
you talk to enough people around the sport, and and
certainly something for Doug Peterson. These guys still wanted to play.

(02:31:44):
They could have they could have folded up shop at
mid season. And they have leaders in the right place
like Peterson is he already he lets you know what
the Philly especially, he's all in. You know, that was
his whole deal. And you got a leader in the coach,
you got a leader in wins, and you got on defense,
you've got the leader. You got a couple of guys
you got Graham, you got a jaking and you've got
guys that know how to lead, you know. And I
look over in Seattle, same thing you got, you know,

(02:32:04):
I was looking at I put Pete Collen Josh Snyder
together because they have I guess somewhat equals say and
what goes on the team. You got Russell and then defensively,
you know, you got Wagner and kJ and then Clowney.
You've got those guys that over there as well. So
it's it's interesting, messed up. And I I just give
an edge to Seattle because I feel like they have

(02:32:25):
just a little more playmakers. So for Seattle, right, So
from a defensive standpoint, we haven't seen them with a
consistent pass rush. They haven't been healthy either, right, Clowney
smissed some time, but with no Lane Johnson on the
Philly offensive line. If you're if you're scheming, is this
more Boston Scott and Miles Sanders in the passing game

(02:32:48):
just trying to get the ball out of Wentz his
hands quick? Yeah, this is a situation where you're definitely,
you know, give to put the running backs in space
as receivers and and try to make the linebackers covering
space because we've certainly seen a lot from Sanders, I mean,
had had one heck of a year for them as
a runners. But that's what Santa That's how Santa franc succeeded.

(02:33:10):
You know they we get the running I mean the
tight end of the seamen space and get the runner
back in space. So they can do that, then you
know they have a chance. All right, I'll check Carson Wentz.
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preview the other side of the NFC Wildcard Sunday, as
we've got the Saints and the Vikings. Captain Kirk can
he take down the all time great and Drew Brees.
We'll get into that next, but first is Isaac Lowenkron
and he's got what's trending? What's going on? Love? Michael

(02:33:52):
and Will got some tidbits to pass along to you
from a j Glazer report about the Dallas Cowboys head
coaching situation. Jake as, you're just reporting this on the
NFL on Fox. Get your popcorn ready. So Glazer reports
that Jason Garrett is continuing to lobby to remain as
the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Glazer said on

(02:34:13):
the NFL and Fox Today, they've gone through it now
a couple of times this week to say, Okay, you're
out as our head coach. He says, hold on, hold on,
don't do it yet. I still want to be considered
for this. And every time they do it, they said,
we're moving on, we're starting to interview other people. That
again they still have to tell Jason Garrett, no, you're gone.
We're moving on. And that has not happened yet. Blazer,

(02:34:37):
it's everything I said. What's happening to keep inviting him
to lunch? You haven't gotten rid of him. Glazer also
reported that their conversation went so well their conversation being
Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones with Mike McCarthy, that McCarthy
stayed an extra day in Dallas. Ian Rappaport adds to
the situation that Jason Garrett has told his assistance that

(02:34:58):
are still under contract, they don't to come into work
until this gets sorted out, and at this rate, it
won't get sort of that until trading camp elsewhere in
a more stable situation. Kind of New England Patriots head
coach Bill Belichick how it is end of season noon
news conference this morning, and not surprisingly didn't really say

(02:35:20):
much of consequence about the future as it relates to
Tom Brady. But for posterity, let's hear it from the
man himself, certainly iconic figure in this organization, and nobody
respects Tom or than I do. I respect all the
other players and all the other coaches and sordization too,
And so any decisions made is you know, it's not

(02:35:42):
an individual decision, it's there are the people involved in
so there has to be some type of communication, understanding, agreement,
whatever you want to call it. And that's not one
way street. I hope you can understand that it's one
person just can't decide with everybody else is gonna do.
Also kind of behind the scenes thing. You know, we
do our audio editing digitally now, so you can actually

(02:36:03):
see the audio levels on each highlight and sound bite
that we play on the air. That was a straight
line for twenty eight seconds, baby total monitor never seen
anything like that's brilliant elsewhere. Mary kay Cabin of the
Cleveland Playing Dealer reports that the Browns will interview Patriots
offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels for their head coaching job this week. Finally,

(02:36:24):
Adam Schefter reported today that Washington came close to hiring
former Texans general manager Rick Smith as their team president
before they wound up hiring Ron Rivera as their head coach.
Michael and will never a dull moment around here. But
it's a beautiful thing. Thank you, Ailo. We'll get to
the other NFC game this moment. I love that, Dallas,
because that's been my theory all along. Keep letting him

(02:36:46):
in the door. What's he gonna do? Hey, I designed
some more plays. Here's how I can make DAC that
much better here, Just give me more time, Give me
more time. That's if he's not willing to walk away,
because he could have done that too, right, He's under
contract to the fourteenth. He could have stop taking the
call saying, look, either make a decision. I'm not gonna
keep doing this. But if you're gonna keep inviting him
in for more Eggit interviews or whatever else, what's he

(02:37:07):
gonna do. He's gonna keep lobbying for the job that
he loves so much. He doesn't even shore at home.
He shower was in the locker room and Jerry's locker room.
Is that my towel? But the whole thing with the coaches, right,
their key cards were working until Friday, right, they were
all still coming into the building going bad access to
their completions and the film and whatever else they listen

(02:37:28):
New Year, you know, knew me. I'm not getting a
gym membership. I'm gonna use his free gym at Dallas Facility.
Absolutely get this. I'm gonna get a free meal that
I've been getting every more for breakfast. Right until you
change the locks, I'm still coming in the door, and
I'm still the Dallas Cowboys head coach, assistant coach, whatever
the case may be. So I'm not surprised that this
at all. I just like the fact that now Jay

(02:37:50):
Glazers got the stamp and that's the actual report. Like
I said, I like Mike McCarthy as the next coach. Well,
and he stayed in Dallas an extra. I mean, with
all the steakhouses in places to eat, you want to
talk about restaurants per capita, Dallas is where it's at.
Get your popcorn ready, get your steak ready. We've talked
to the last gotta gotta have the sizzle with that,

(02:38:14):
stay hand fried chicken fried steak. Right, I don't know.
Thanks Bill Belichick, It is all about you today. Uh
coming up in about ten minutes, we have, uh, well,
one of the great injuries in sports. We're gonna step
away from football. Why because I want will to see
if to think of the best story about a player
injury where you had to see if you could cover

(02:38:37):
it up a little bit, because we had a crazy
one in the world of baseball that cost the guy
an awful lot of money. But we'll get to that
in about ten minutes. The other side of the bracket,
we got Minnesota and we got New Orleans. We talked
about Jared Cook, we talked about Mike Thomas. Those are
your two receiving threats, and an awful lot of Alvin
Cameron and Smith. Well, he's he's been more a decoy

(02:38:58):
than a regular contributor, right, He and Ted Ginn Jr.
They've had their blips on the radar. That's one of
those in your You're in while Taysom Hill has been
as a bigger threat as a receiver than those other
guys at times this year. He's a curious character. As
we go, throw a friend of the show for Jason
Smith and I when they play primetime games. We seem

(02:39:20):
to be able to talk to Taysom Taysom Hill with
some regularity, good sense of humor. Uh and and I
think gets it and appreciates being able to play with
Drew Brees. But the question for Minnesota can how do
you stop Drew Brees? How do you keep how do
you get him to where he's not in rhythm? You
know that people have been able to do three percent
of the time of his pro career. That's the question

(02:39:42):
I'm asking. You are a defensive guru here at Fox
Sports Radio. I mean, do you all night? I like
that Titans there you go. We're gonna have him movie quotes.
I think we're just gonna run lines. I think that's

(02:40:02):
gonna be one of the bits we do going forward.
You and I are such a lover of football movies
and film in general. But but when we talk about
trying to fin yeah, that's right, we did have and
he just lost them recently. Yeah, yeah, there you go
the we're on a high note and now there it goes.

(02:40:24):
But the effect that matter, it is a celebration of life.
But then it's a moment, you know, have the somber moment.
And we moved back to the games at hand of
trying to solve what is a well oiled machine when
it when it comes down to what the Saints bring
on the offensive of the highest completion percentages of all
time there one and two k and Captain Kirk a

(02:40:46):
guy that has his fantastic numbers. But then you have
the breakouts of what he does prime time, big time games, digs, feeling,
feeling and cook for the vikings. There there's your big
medical street and what kind of production you get. I
hope Kirk got no sleep last night. He woke up
frustrated and then he just had to go hit the

(02:41:08):
coffee and so he's just wired and ready to go.
It is angry, ready to go and just get it done.
I like him plus seven and a half, that's for sure. Yes,
Minnesota getting seven and a half points pressure came down.
It was eight to start the week, so a little
bit of downward pressure, especially as you started hearing uh
and feeling a little better about the availability of Dalvin Cook.
But certainly the curiosity, uh, you know, can he get

(02:41:31):
to touches over the course of this game? Right, you
gotta can. But that's what I mean, Kenny handled that
level of workload because certainly Mike Boone was not the answer.
Madison still hurt. So can you get enough of the
run games? So Kirk has time right word to where

(02:41:51):
play action becomes a viable option for the Minnesota offense
because we've seen Stefad Digs do some special thing. Is
gonna need a little help from that run game to
do it here against you know, he's got lata More
hanging out with him out on the Yeah, I think
they both um can Obviously we'll need a benefit from that.

(02:42:14):
But I just I just feel like right now the
hot hand from both teams is Michael Thomas. He's just
been unbelievable. And you know, Um Rhodes has David Rhodes
has struggled this year tremendously. Yeah, he's much surprising, you know,
because he had that one year where it didn't matter
you know where he remember they played the Giants and
he took all dall and threw him to the sideline

(02:42:35):
and got paid. You know. It was a bit of
a bit of Rhodes Island kind of thing. He was chatteling.
Is gonna Darrell Reeves stop here? Yeah? So they they've
had their issues in the secondary helped when you can
get a pass rush off. And that's why I mentioned Hunter,
a guy who's had a big run here of late,
and they're gonna need him to do whatever you can
to disrupt timing with Michael Thomas. What do you do

(02:42:56):
boxing one? I mean, how else you try to stop this?
He's gonna get his He's gonna figure out how to
make Jared Cook's the the X factor. Right If he's
what over seventy yards, you're probably right because we're watching
him work down the score. For me, I got New Orleans.

(02:43:17):
Let's go thirty one gets us to our over not obscene,
but but I think the Saints have just enough to
eat out a win at home here. But we'll take
Minnesota plus the number. All right? Coming up next, we
are going to do the yoan a sspitous story why

(02:43:37):
because it's fun to me. What is it? It's about
wild boars and maybe I'll have a recipe before it's
all said and done. He's Will black Man, I'll Mike
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(02:43:59):
closer to k Off here on Fox Sports Radio. You're
listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back. In a lot
of debates going on here, a lot of anger, vitriol
here and the guy go Fox Sports Radio Studios. I'm
getting ready to set up a pay per view event
with all of the conversations going. We've got people that
want to fight Vince for the fact that he doesn't

(02:44:19):
like Whole Foods. Burrito's not a sponsor, but I mean
battle there. You got you and too much tortilla, too much,
not even the fact that, not even the fact of
the eggs, potato, bacon, all that and the cheese is great,
he said, too much tortia and here's the best of it.
Now you got I always say he's still Vince, still
eats grilled cheese with the crust off. He's that guy.

(02:44:41):
But you got Iowa Sam who lives by the Whole
Food Burrito. So Sam who's already into it. But he
already into it with Gavin. Now we've got just a
a triple threat magic going on here. I mean, we're
building this out for w W E. Now they're all fighting.
This is great. And then you've got a artman coming
in here. I am a fan of Richie's silver hair.

(02:45:05):
I am just the legend Hartman and orn Burger coming
up for you in about ten minutes from now, as
we get ready for kickoff of the Vikings and Saints
get things rolling for a big day. On the NFC
side of the bracket, we watched the Bills surrenderous sixteen
nothing lead and Deshaun Watson came up and snatched it

(02:45:26):
from him as the Texans advanced. Don't don't believe the
narrative all about J. J. Watt. It's a Deshaun Watson
signature game from yesterday. I love you J J. Watt.
It was not your game. And then even like um
like Whitney, Mercer is the one that's played playing his tail.
He's been fantastic. Oh my gosh, I want to talking
about a guy who's stepped up in and probably made

(02:45:48):
himself another ton of money uh this year with what
he's done for them. And then in the nightcap, of course,
everybody's signaling the death knell for the New England Patriots.
Lots to be talked about. We had the Bill Belichi
press conference earlier. We discussed it. I'm sure Rich and
Steve will get into that at Duzzy coming up here
in just a little bit. You find Will Odd Twitter

(02:46:09):
and Instagram at Will Black and find me over at
Swollen Dome keeping an eye on the coaching carosel uh
oh the coordinator interviews as we go. Always take us
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your friends will appreciate you. There was a story for

(02:46:31):
baseball that I wanted to get to with you, Will,
because I I think baseball players we've seen far more
frequently with Odd injuries that cost him significant time and money.
And the report from ESPN from earlier in the week
that a wild boar was the the blame. And this
is originally a New York Post article that the fractured

(02:46:53):
ankle that you know and a suspense Cspitas suffered in
spring was in Port St. Lucy, Florida, where he'd caught
a wild boar and while trying to release it's still alive,
I the animal charged, he stepped into a hole broke
his egg, which cost him a ton of money for

(02:47:18):
the non baseball injury. And so his twenty nine point
five million dollars was cut to six million based on this.
Think about that, So we had that, you know, we've
we've had so many stories through the year of guys,
you know, making themselves a salad and cutting their fingers
or going out. And you know, in theory, if I'm

(02:47:38):
a Major League Baseball player and I've made my millions,
I've made the show, I could pay a gardener. I
might want to do it myself, but I could use
that time to do something else, maybe catch up on
some of the binge watching I haven't done during the season.
But in in the NFL, we don't see as many
the off the field craziness, right, we had Clinton balms
of the Rockies. Uh try did to lie about something.

(02:48:01):
He was carrying deer meat and slipped down some stairs.
We had Jeff Kent on his motorcycle, like all these
baseball stories, why was chasing wildlife? I don't know. I mean, well,
Steve McMichael of the Five Bears and four remembers you
had to go back well and member of the n
w oh. He used to hunt rattlesnake. He was, he
was a four horseman before n w OH. But fie

(02:48:25):
brothers stay, yeah, remember of the four Horsemen. So the
idea that he used to hunt rattlesnakes and they'd be
mad at him for doing that. That seems quite tame.
But I don't know. You're a Texas guy. You decided
that was your thing, the only rattlesnake in Texas. Now

(02:48:45):
you're talking to nicely done. Now see now, now we've
got you. Now, we've gotten you into the rhythm as
you go. But anything crazy that you guys as a
group had trying to tell coaches was just legit on
the field that you can know with out naming names.
Of course, I don't have any stories, You've got nothing, No,
because our our contracts on guarantee like that, so we're

(02:49:08):
not that crazy. So nobody doing it. And I mean
I've seen baseball contracts and they preclude all this stuff,
but guys still go out and do it even if
they can get avoided, which has always been curious to me.
But football guys evidently living in All right, Well, that
that's basketball. I think basketball playing basketball better off the court. Okay,

(02:49:30):
how tough is that? Right? Don't go leave in your
ankles on the court. Leaving ankles on the court. Yeah,
that too craziness. But that was a story from the
week that was just interesting. All right. So we got
McCarthy to to the Giants, McDaniels to Cleveland. Who's coaching Carolina?
Is that Matt Rule's job? Then Greg Roman? Oh, you're

(02:49:53):
gonna get Greg Roman. Greg Roman, uh, Lamar Jackson. Everybody's
seen Cam. He's got work here. Cam. Get Greg? Well,
you got Cam for one more year at about nineteen. Yeah,
if you can get Greg Roman out of there, no question.
He said he want him. He wants old school discipline

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