January 28, 2023 • 32 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the idea of the Chicago Bears potentially trading Justin Fields and use their own #1 overall pick in the draft to draft Alabama QB Bryce Young. Jason and Mike also have NFL Insider Jason Cole on the show.
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It sounds so excited. I have been miss excited about
a game that doesn't feature one of my teams in
a while. Like I'm so I mean both games this
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week because it hasn't happened in a while. It's so exciting.
My teams have been in big games. The last night
is a game that was the biggest win of the
year in the NBA, maybe the biggest win in the
last decade, next decade, Yeah, that could be the But listen,
you can have your NBA championships and big wins. Now.
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Give me the Knicks beating the Celtics because Jalen Brown
missed two free throws and seven seconds left. Give me that.
Nicks Nicks, Nicks, Nick Nicks, Nicks nick Nick Burrow ahead
is starting to become like when h the Schwarzenegger rant
and pumping iron when he says, some people say go
to California instead of go to Hell because it's a
place to'll never get there. I'm pretty sure he said this.
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Somebody came on the floor. Oh boy, I was waiting
for that. My been a regular thing. I don't know,
tight shirt? Yes, yes or no? Answer me this quite?
Yes or no? Yes or yes, yes, yes or no.
Do you go home and when you go home do
you play that drop at various times during the day? Yes? Okay,
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Like I picture you, like making a sandwich in your
kitchen and you walk over to the big replay machine.
You just start pressing buttons when you want to hear
something once in a while. Absolutely, Okay. Once Jay Moore left,
I took his playback box. Hey that's Lakers. That's Lakers
owner Jay Moore. I'm sorry, Lakers owner jas pretty soon
I remember folks trying to lug that thing around. Well
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that was kind of fun to watch, just when when
you're in your cot in the back, you know, with
that and that, with that little kitchenette. I mean you're playing,
you're just playing sound bites, just big tight shirt, laying
in bed with headphones on, like everybody listens to music.
And he's got the machine on and he's just playing
all his drops. Listen. Huh, welcome to the club, pal
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keen Sandwich just sitting there ready to playing the drops
and playing the drops. And I'm playing the drops. They
playing the drop. Are you gonna pick the keen wat
of his belly button next to me? Gooda? Wow? Whoa
what are we doing here? What the hell is that? Man?
You got the guy laying in a cot and this
is exact and you got and you got like, hey,
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picture and picking keen wah out of your belly But Hans, whoa,
that's you picturing? Whoa? There's a place that's over the
line man, that's I mean yours, that's wow. No, I
just I just hey, I'm painting a nice picture. In
Harmon decides, no, I don't want the picture. I'm just
gonna go. I'm gonna do it blueture like that kid
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and wedding crashers painting a nice picture. Hey, hey, I'm
keeping the painting, Todd, Mike's got good face. J don't
hate it. What do you think the most dangerous game? Huh?
Go on? Yeah, yeah, I like where your heads at.
I like where your heads at. So apparently, like as
part of our big NFL Friday Night, we got Jason
Cole stopping by in a few minutes for god knows what.
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The Bears have a new GM, Harmon, How did you
not tell me that Warren Sapp is your new GM.
I I didn't know. I missed the memo myself. I
know Kevin Warren just came over from the Big Ten.
Didn't know that Warren Sapp sneaked in the back door
and stolen office. I mean we we we send texts
all day to each other with stuff and he we
send each other stories. You did not send us one
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text that Warren Sapp became your new GM. What he
said Warren Sapp, you know for former NFL defense n
Hall of Famer. Uh said that he has heard it
was an NFL network for while I was there the
same time he was. Uh said that he has heard
word around the Chicago Bears is is that they're looking
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to package Justin Fields in a trade and they want
to take Bryce Young number one overall. Now, let me
say this. I don't know if Warren Sapp is inside information,
and I don't know if he's right, but I know
I'm right when I told you three weeks ago, watch
out as soon as the as soon as the Bears
clinched that number one pick, Justin Fields was gonna get traded,
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and it's it's going to happen. From the beginning was well,
we have a quarterback, We're never gonna do it. Yeah,
you know what. I live in the real world, and
I know what it means. When you have the number
one overall pick in the draft and there's seventeen quarterbacks
that people love that you can draft, the pressure of
not taking a quarterback at number one is so immense.
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Are you really gonna say Justin Fields? And look, and
I love Justin Fields and and he's and he's a dude, man.
And if I can't get Lamar Jackson, he's the guy want.
I mean, I'm okay because the Jets are getting Aaron Rodgers.
But you know, thinking about the future, he's great, man,
He's he's he's becoming Lamar Jackson. He's really good. But
when you're still three and fourteen and you're sitting there
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at number one overall, are you really gonna not take
a quarterback? No? The pressure is too immense because do
you love Justin Fields or do you just are you
sold on him? Or are you kind of sold on them?
Because the Bears, I've always felt like they were kind
of sold on Justin Fields. This is a new regime
that didn't draft him, and they're looking at the number
one overall pick. And you know, certain cities things play
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out differently. If you screw this up in Chicago, you're
never gonna hear the end of it. Now, the Bears
are to no win situation because if they keep Justin
Fields and they wind up not picking your quarterback at
number one, and as if one of those guys in
the draft, doesn't matter which one any of those guys
that that comes into the draft w C J. Stroud.
It doesn't matter Anthony Richardson. If one of those guys
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turns into a star, Chicago fans is just gonna go
crazy and bananas blaming the regime, going, how did you
not pick this guy? How did you not know the
one of the six quarterbacks that take you're in a
no win situation and the Bears know this, but the
worst is going to be if you don't take a
quarterback at number one overall, right, the the other thing
you do is you re set the quarterback clock. Is
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that okay? Well, justin Fields coming up couple of years,
gonna want a extent. You canna want a lot of money. Well, now,
Bryce Young, we have four years and we started building
the team a little bit. We got a couple of
running backs. Maybe want to resign David Montgomery? If not,
the two headed monster of him and Herbert are pretty good.
Um this we can reset the quarterback clock and not
have to worry about paying the guy because suddenly that's
become the en vogue thing to do. Hey, trying to
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win a super Bowl on the rookie clock, because now
it's impossible when you don't have your quarterback on a
rookie contract. Right, it's in bod No one can win.
The Bills can't win. We don't have a guy to
rookie deal. So it's be that's become another part of
the pressure. But just think every single day, it's man,
we have the number one pick in the draft. Are
we really gonna not take a quarterback? The I'll tell
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you they're gonna wind up doing it. They're gonna wind
up trading justin fields and they're gonna take the end
and they're gonna say we're gonna get great draft picks
for him as well. The rebuild on this team is
going to advance even more because we're gonna get multiple
first round picks or maybe first and a couple of
seconds and a player. You're gonna get a bunch of
picks in here, and you're still gonna get a quarterback
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that's really good. Look, Bryce Young is fantastic. Nobody sees
the field like him. He's gonna come to the league
and just pick everybody apart Bryce Young. It doesn't matter.
He can hit his seventh re read what he means
to it's okay, and now he can get outside the
pocket and make place. Bryce Young is great an Ohio
State you you kind of had to don't stay, don't
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take the Ohio State guy, take the other. But just
just go after the process of college to pros. It's
not an exact science. And you know you look at
where the bears are here and look, I I'm always
have the phone rings. You want to call, give me
your best offer. The worst. It's like I was. I've
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always told my daughters, you know, asked the question, The
worst I can do is kind of chuckle and say, no, right,
you want you're asking for some gadgetry. You're asking for
the outing a concert that you saw, you need new shoes,
whatever the case. Maybe uh, you asked the worst second
says oh, you're good duct tape those things. Let's go. Uh.
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And you know things like that when when you go
through the gms that need quarterbacks and they are ample. Hell,
you got a guy that just got hired as a
head coach down in Carolina who really covets one of
those top quarterbacks. So can you package something to go
move up to where Chicago says, yeah, you could have
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the number one pick. And but you with you have CAROLINEA.
You've you've got a number of teams. But to say
that you're gonna go draft one of the other guys
because he could do this and showed it at the
collegiate level. A lot of these guys show that at
the collegiate level. Right. But the one thing, the one
part I agree with you on this is that if
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they're not picking a quarterback, they're gonna trade the pick
because there's no way that There's no way they take
somebody else that's not a quarterback at number one. There's
no there's just no way they do it. As we
move out, when you can go get other as you
have so many other needs through some of those through
the draft, as opposed to the going into free agency
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and find ample uh quality, even if they're just part
of a rotation on the offensive defensive lines. You win. Yeah,
that that's they That's also a way for them to say, look, hey,
we we did what was best for the team, and well,
hey we didn't pick that guy at number one because
we traded the pick. I mean the part of the
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thing that part of me thinks they think, well we
trade the pickets. Okay, No, you're still gonna get blamed.
You trade out of the pick. So well. I mean
they're they're just look at Chicago, They're gonna get killed
one way or us. It doesn't matter what you as
you go back to and people are off of the
at least it's lessened the killing the Bears for Travisky
over Mahomes. I think it's finally dawned on enough people
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and they've read enough reviews and and history to know
that Mahomes was a while all talented in all world
that we saw in Texas Tech, still a guy going
into the pros wondering how it would translate right based
on past likewise Ohio State quarterbacks. But I'll get back
to the second. The one that the Bears general manager
of the time and the front office and everybody that
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helped the decision making process of getting killed is that
they took Adam Shaheen in the second round. George Kittle
went in the fifth in that same draft. Now just
just think about this for a second. If if if
you no, no, no, they're not gonna do it every
single day from the end. You're starting to get it
now because right like you did that hit in Chicago,
people are saying, make this crazy trade for Lamar Jackson
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out in ball. Uh, just think about after the Super Bowl,
we get to the combine, people start meeting the quarterbacks,
and guys like Bryce Young or c J. Strouds start
to separate themselves. They have great pro days and every
day it's boy, this guy is can't miss, He's fantastic.
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Every all our grades on him are great. The Bears
will say, we're doing our due diligence, and they'll meet
with Young and Strad and Richardson and Levis and all
these guys, and you're gonna start seeing certain players rise
to the top, and every day it's gonna be this guy.
This guy is the next franchise quarterback. This guy is
the next great guy, and it's probably gonna be Bryce Young,
but just it could wind up being c J. Stroud
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or somebody else. But it doesn't matter, because the Bears
are gonna sit here and live that reality every single day.
And when you live in that every single day, it's
impossible to not get influenced by it. So eventually they're
gonna say, Okay, we're gonna bite the bullet. We're gonna
trade justin fields and do this. Somebody's gonna want him,
someone's going on him for his last two years. The
deal will get draft picks, will do it. The only
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question for me is how long they wait, Like, do
they wait past free agency to do it? Do they
do it right before the draft? Do they do want
to do it before free agency because teams a law
from a lot more going a alright, all the guys
are here now, because you could wind up seeing musical
chairs and having a lot of the seats field. There's
a lot of quarterbacks out there because if Brady wants
to play, he's somewhere. The same thing with Rogers, Lamar Jackson, Garoppolo,
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Derek Carr. You could roll the dice and hope that
well after free agency is over, there's some teams who
would love to have a guy like Justin Fields because
maybe Brady retires, maybe Aaron Rodgers days in Green Bay.
You know, maybe maybe we we get Lamar Jackson who
winds up loving Baltimore again he wants to stay in
There's less quarterbacks available, but that's a big gamble to take.
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So for me, that's the only question. They do it
before the NFL Draft, do it before free agency where
they could really maximize Justin Field's ability, That's the only
but the pressure they'll live with every day, Mike Harmon,
They're gonna fold under it. They will fold and they
will trade justin fields. See if it was certain men
of the past bears regimes, I'd agree. For now, I'm
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still liking the guys that are in charge, especially as
they move away from people who are off of the
family tree of the mc caskey's and the Hollises and
have other football making uh football decision making bodies that
are in there. I I think I think there's just
a different look. You've got Kevin Warren's gonna do mostly
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business stuff, I think. So it's Ryan Poles and his
staff in terms of the talent evaluation. I'd really the
way you set it up. If I'm at the NFL combine,
I'm the guy that's sitting there. Like when I took
the s A T. I wouldn't let anybody sit in
the seat in front of me and I kicked my
feet up. That's what I'd be if I'm Ryan Poles. Hey,
you need to talk at me from two rows down?
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Why because I'm kicking my feet up while you guys
grovel and keep offering more picks Twitter and out about
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Hill Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon bat Well, we got we got
games in Purtyville this weekend and in burrow Head. Joining
us now on the hotline to break it all down.
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A guy who has lived in Burrowhead can follow on
Twitter at Jason Coles sixty two. That is, at Jason
Coles sixty two. He is a Pro Football Hall of
Fame voter longtime insider. Check out his latest on out
kick j Cole. If you you tell us what was
it like you lived in Burrowhead for a number of years,
what was Burrowhead like? Burrowhead is an impressive place, especially
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if you can get inside the actual head of Joe
Burrow and what's going on. But yeah, Burrowhead very very
very impressive place. It's where you don't lose. To Patrick
Mahomes ever. Okay, so because I would rather it's a
it's a challenge. Um when you don't have one side
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from stre entire offense line, that's the problem, Burrow. But
the game's in borrow Head. It should be fine to
get the game is in Burrowhead. It's all good. The
Bengals have gone from chip on their shoulders, You're the
greatest team ever. Who's gonna block Chris Jones's wonder and
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Trank Clark on the same You know, seems Magnola may
not be blessed with the best overall um uh team
or you know, a group of talents that he's ever
had in his in his career. This is not like
when the Giants upset you know, the Patriots and he
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had you know, Justin Tuck and you know Mike Strahan
and all those guys up front. But it does have
to two guys who can really play up front and
they line up exactly where both two missing on the
So this could be an issue. Just thing could be
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an issue. So you're going with the Chiefs. Your pick
is that you You're you're going against Borrow. Look, look,
the problem, of course is that Patrick Mahomes has banged
up to right, So which way do you go on
this one? I think this is a fantastic game, not
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because both teams are at their best, but because both
teams have major issues to overcome and you want to
see how the how the respective coaches are going to
deal with it. I would say this, I think Cincinnati
believe it can be anybody at any time, Like they
just don't care. And Joe Burrow does have that, like
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he's got a swagger that is just completely and totally
out of control. It's a lot like watching the swagger
Zack Wilson. Yeah, that's pretty good man. That was a
good one. You really zigged and I thought you got
a zag right there with Zach Wilson. I like that.
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By the way, can I just say nothing says six
Zach Wilson like Nathaniel at Well, listen, I got news
for you. Okay. This was done obviously to get Aaron Ross. Yeah,
you're you're gonna get Aaron Rods. Aaron Rodgers, who is
prickly about the media coverage he gets in Green Bay,
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is going to go to New York. Sure he is,
Come on that, ayuasca t or whatever. It's gonna it's
gonna take all his cares away. He's been waiting for this.
We're getting Aaron Rona, the West Coast guy who burned
incense while he does, you know, cleanses every offseason. Um
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as over, you know, looking over the bluffs of Malibu.
Wants you know to hear from fireman head. Well, hey,
nothing says cleansing yourself like going to the jets. Oh
I really am starting over. Nothing cleaning yourself like playing
in the meadow like them. Yeah, this was one of
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those hires where it reaked a desperation that it had
to happen to have a shot at Aaron Rodgers. Now
he addressed it in his weekly McAfee thing, kind of
with the nod in the wink of hire the right
guy for Zach Wilson. I don't know why this question
about za Wilson, but repiring anybody to fix Zack Wilson,
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like Zach Wilson has already fixed themselves. Like and it's
ben a pickle, right, um right, Like it's just this,
This is all about like who's the next guy? And yeah,
they're angling for Aaron Rodgers. Is like everybody else is
gonna angle for Aaron Rodgers, and who's going to get
in on this one? Who's gonna get Brady? And yeah,
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eventually somebody's gonna win these sweep steaks. Um. But again,
if you're Aaron Rodgers, you know, like, it doesn't matter
where you go. It's the offensive quitter and coordinator. Doesn't
matter at any team you choose to play for, because
you're the offensive coordinator. He's the one drawing up the
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game plans. It's like, hey, Aaron, what do you like
this week? That's how the game plan is going to
get drawn up wherever he goes. Um, Because he's at
he's got to the point where I mean, he's basically uncoachable,
um and uncontrolled, uncontrollable in many ways. And so team
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has put up with that. But wait, but the Jets,
the Jets have had bad coaches. They can't coach anyway.
So what why do I care for you? You're not
you're not breaking news there, pal Okay, so dysfunctional. Yeah,
I guess what. You could say the same thing every
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year since nineteen seventy. Okay, it's just a bad organization. Okay,
So getting Aaron Rodgers there doesn't fix the organization at all.
In fact, He just puts Aaron Rodgers in the middle
of New York and he already has problems dealing with
the media in Green Bay. Okay, stop, this is not
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Crocodile Dundee moves to Los Angeles or whatever. This is
Aaron Rodgers can handle the media. I think he can
handle it a little bit. He's look, it's he's already
pricky as it gets right, and he takes everything really
to Like he argued with a story this season I
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can't remember about you know, it was about all these
issues he was having with with the receivers, and he's
you know, he's talking about you know, people are saying
this and you know, saying that, implying that they were
all off the record sources. Everybody was on the record.
He took he took issue with that. Guess what he's
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gonna do when Steve Servey writes a column with eleven
unnamed sources, like, he's just gonna his brain is gonna fry.
He's just not. He will not enjoy this. He will,
he will. I mean, it's just it's going to be
a nightmare. He'll be at war. And in August, Yeah,
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you got Serby in there as well. Nicely done, Jason.
The first year covering the NFL beach was when Ray
Handley was coaching the Giants and I was going up
to cover a preseason game in New York and Servey
had literally so many anonymous sources that he numbered them
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one through like ten. I swear to odd that he
just eviscerated Ray Handley in a column with ten un
named sources that he numbered. Jesson goal with us here
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Seven books
out there that you can find to add to your
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library and become as well read as he is. He's
uh the latest Alway a relevantless Life and he's succeeded. Yeah,
I know that the Rich Mahogany too at Jason Cole
sixty two where you find him read him on out
Kick as well. So that that's it. Let's go to
the quarterbacks that are that are fun. Then you got
Aaron Rodgers or Kyler Murray. Who would you rather try
to corral if you were a coach? Well, you give me,
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come on, I mean I want to have Aaron Rodgers,
come Kyler Murray. Oh yeah, he's getting smaller by the
year where it was like he was he's like down
to five ft four now, Okay, So so who's gonna
end up coaching him? Who who's desperate enough to take
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that job? Like, I just like they're going to get
somebody who's gonna get fired in two years anyways, because
he's not gonna be able to turn around. Kyler Murray,
I you know, I don't I don't know who's actually
I don't know who really really wants the job outside
of the daring and the desperate. Right, That's that's what
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you end up getting in Arizona. It's gonna be the
same thing in Indianapolis. Because you're stuck, you're married to
a quarterback. I mean, is it not clear enough already
that Sean Payton wants no real part of Denver yet
part of any of it? It seems at this point, well, right,
because none of the situations are perfect. I will say this,
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Sean paytman has worked it so that he's got Russell
Wilson begging him to take the job, right, Yeah, And
by getting Russell Wilson to begging to take the job,
he is therefore empowered over Russell Wilson. And this will
be the only time because they're stuck with Russell Wilson.
So if he's ever going to coach the guys, this
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is the time to do it right when you when
you have when you have that kind of leverage over
a guy. But I mean, I just don't think he's
gonna do it. I don't think it's gonna happen. All right,
let me ask you thist. Let's finish here. Then we
will come full circle. We talked about burrow Head and
(25:31):
we got into this. Now ros Bertie is going to
win a super Bowl. Wow, look at you, Look at
you from the Andrew Luck is gonna win a super
Bowl to Brock Purdy's gonna win a super Bowl. Look
at you. Andrew Luck should have won a super Bowl. Unfortunately,
banner he does have a banner, Yeah, he does. I
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gotta go over to He's I gotta go see him
at Stanford again. We got we gotta talk important issues. Um.
I look, I think they're going to win this game. Um,
I think it's This is a This is a fantastic
game where yes, Rock Purty easily could get inundated by
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the combination of Graham and Fletcher Cox and all the
other big bodies that they throw at them. Right that
becomes a really tough one to me. Um, But I
trust the San Francisco defense enough to keep them under control.
That's number one. And number two, I think that Philadelphia's defense,
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while the secondary is really good, has had problems dealing
with good path catching running back and good tight end.
And then you throw two really good receivers. Because Brandon
Ayuk now playing with per is the most effective he's
ever been in his career, and George Kittle has returned
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to being incredibly effective with Purdy there, it's pretty like
to the tight end. One concern I have is if
they get behind. If if if Stilly's offense gets going
and can get ten point lead, any kind of too
score lead in this game, then Purty probably gets overwhelmed
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in this game. But I just don't see that happening.
I think with being a one score game pretty much
the entire game all the way through. He's on Twitter
at Jason Coles sixty two. That is, at Jason Coles
sixty two. Whether he's living in Burrowville or Purdy Town,
you can contact him there. Uh and we'll get to well,
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we'll get to the Hall of Fame coming up soon.
You have to get to get to the talk and
the conversation next next week we can talk about it. Yeah,
let's go. I mean, Darrelle Revas is getting in right
a unanimous first ballot. Absolutely not Hello hello, hello, hello,
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oh Mary, all right, we'll see. Be sure to catch
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That Jason comes with my best friend Mike car from
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the tire dot Com shop, you know, seeing Berwin. This
is out of control. On the Friday Night this hat
be Friday America tight shirts. Personal hell, Like everybody's got
an idea what their personal hell would be. His personal
hell would be he's in front of of of his
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of his machine and he can press the greatest drops
at any time possible, except he's got his hands tied
to his sides and he can't and he can't move
and all the different things we say, all the double
entendre stuff, and he can't do it. And he's trying
to reach over and do it with his nose like
he's a rooster and I'm just going to peck at it.
I can't. That's gotta be your personal hell. Right there.
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If you tell me right now that I owe you
a dollar, I'm gonna lose my crab if yeah, if
I give you a dollar, and I'll go home. Uh So,
listen as we get set for the NFC Championship game
on Sunday. Thanks to Jason Cole for stopping by. Uh look,
brock Purty, is he going to turn into a pumpkin?
Is something gonna happen? Will he wind up getting a
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big lesson in what playoff football is? Like? Uh? You've
heard a lot of comps for him, right, You've heard
he's the new Tom Brady, look Mr Irrelevant And and
here he is, you know, getting a shot because of injury,
and he's not giving the job back. And look how
well he's playing. Look at his story being Mr revelop
He's kind of Kurt Warner. He comes in and fits
this offense so well, that's great, and that's you know,
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we're we're we're really kind to vaulting him up to
think he's that kind of guy. But honestly, the comp
for him, and this I think is the most accurate
comp for brock Purty, is he's Tony Romo. He's not
Tom Brady. He's not Kurt Warner. He's Tony Romo, except
he's got a better team around him than Romo had
with the Cowboys. He's a low round pick. He gets
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thrust in, he makes plays with his legs, He keeps
plays alive. He gets the ball to the playmakers where
they do their thing. And that's what Tony Romo did
for so long. Listen, I gotta get the ball to
these guys and let them do their thing. And the
Niners have all kinds of great playmakers on offense, whether
it's McCaffrey or Debo or Brandon Aiyuk or George Kittle.
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Just get the ball to them. That's where he's walked
into a situation where a team that's loaded, right, That's
what Romo did. Romo walked into a team where, boy,
we got weapons everywhere. Now, I just gotta be able
to keep the play alive long enough to get the
ball downfield. Because Romo got the gig because Drew Bledsoe
was a statue in the pocket and Bill Parcels was
looking for a way to keep the offense move. Then
when Bledsoe really can't move anymore, so that's kind of
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where it is. He's walked into a situation where but
Atlanta lights out defense. I got great weapons, all I
gotta do is get them the ball. I'm confident that's
kind of what it is. He's not doing it himself
like Brady with checkdowns and audibles and decision making. Look,
Brady won with a bunch of jags on offense. Right.
You know, Pretty and Romo both stepped into hey, we
got it good, we just gotta make it run well.
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So if I'm looking for a comp for brock Party,
it's Tony Romo. I think that one, Uh, it can
work to a degree. And then I think with Romo
there was a little bit more and trying to remember
his career as it took off, willingness to put the
ball up a bit more, uh for grabs. Now, Pretty
had a couple last week against said Cowboys. Uh that
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should have been picked off? Right, The would have should
have could a game. It's funny how we selectively apply
that to our quarterbacks. By the way, Uh, you know, no,
not in there. It's like, no, no, it wasn't a
clean game just because the box score doesn't show it.
I mean there's still opportunities, but that's where guys play quarterback. Um,
I think to this point it's still play within the
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system and what those weapons allow you to do as
so long as George Kittle is healthy and ready to go. Uh,
they're dangerous. So maybe he gets to rewrite that narrative
here and he certainly won't be holding for anybody. Twitter
and out about a Fresca. Mike gets swollen dome, just
think about it. Brock Party, Tony Ramo, Brock Party, Tony Ramo.
We got more on the NFC Championship coming up next,
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A crazy ass story involving Brock Party and can I
really go away from picking the Eagles? That's next on
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It sounds so excited. I have been miss excited about
a game that doesn't feature one of my teams in
a while. Like I'm so I mean both games this
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week because it hasn't happened in a while. It's so exciting.
My teams have been in big games. The last night
is a game that was the biggest win of the
year in the NBA, maybe the biggest win in the
last decade, next decade, Yeah, that could be the But listen,
you can have your NBA championships and big wins. Now.
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Give me the Knicks beating the Celtics because Jalen Brown
missed two free throws and seven seconds left. Give me that.
Nicks Nicks, Nicks, Nick Nicks, Nicks nick Nick Burrow ahead
is starting to become like when h the Schwarzenegger rant
and pumping iron when he says, some people say go
to California instead of go to Hell because it's a
place to'll never get there. I'm pretty sure he said this.
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Somebody came on the floor. Oh boy, I was waiting
for that. My been a regular thing. I don't know,
tight shirt? Yes, yes or no? Answer me this quite?
Yes or no? Yes or yes, yes, yes or no.
Do you go home and when you go home do
you play that drop at various times during the day? Yes? Okay,
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Like I picture you, like making a sandwich in your
kitchen and you walk over to the big replay machine.
You just start pressing buttons when you want to hear
something once in a while. Absolutely, Okay. Once Jay Moore left,
I took his playback box. Hey that's Lakers. That's Lakers
owner Jay Moore. I'm sorry, Lakers owner jas pretty soon
I remember folks trying to lug that thing around. Well
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that was kind of fun to watch, just when when
you're in your cot in the back, you know, with
that and that, with that little kitchenette. I mean you're playing,
you're just playing sound bites, just big tight shirt, laying
in bed with headphones on, like everybody listens to music.
And he's got the machine on and he's just playing
all his drops. Listen. Huh, welcome to the club, pal
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keen Sandwich just sitting there ready to playing the drops
and playing the drops. And I'm playing the drops. They
playing the drop. Are you gonna pick the keen wat
of his belly button next to me? Gooda? Wow? Whoa
what are we doing here? What the hell is that? Man?
You got the guy laying in a cot and this
is exact and you got and you got like, hey,
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picture and picking keen wah out of your belly But Hans, whoa,
that's you picturing? Whoa? There's a place that's over the
line man, that's I mean yours, that's wow. No, I
just I just hey, I'm painting a nice picture. In
Harmon decides, no, I don't want the picture. I'm just
gonna go. I'm gonna do it blueture like that kid
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and wedding crashers painting a nice picture. Hey, hey, I'm
keeping the painting, Todd, Mike's got good face. J don't
hate it. What do you think the most dangerous game? Huh?
Go on? Yeah, yeah, I like where your heads at.
I like where your heads at. So apparently, like as
part of our big NFL Friday Night, we got Jason
Cole stopping by in a few minutes for god knows what.
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The Bears have a new GM, Harmon, How did you
not tell me that Warren Sapp is your new GM.
I I didn't know. I missed the memo myself. I
know Kevin Warren just came over from the Big Ten.
Didn't know that Warren Sapp sneaked in the back door
and stolen office. I mean we we we send texts
all day to each other with stuff and he we
send each other stories. You did not send us one
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text that Warren Sapp became your new GM. What he
said Warren Sapp, you know for former NFL defense n
Hall of Famer. Uh said that he has heard it
was an NFL network for while I was there the
same time he was. Uh said that he has heard
word around the Chicago Bears is is that they're looking
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to package Justin Fields in a trade and they want
to take Bryce Young number one overall. Now, let me
say this. I don't know if Warren Sapp is inside information,
and I don't know if he's right, but I know
I'm right when I told you three weeks ago, watch
out as soon as the as soon as the Bears
clinched that number one pick, Justin Fields was gonna get traded,
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and it's it's going to happen. From the beginning was well,
we have a quarterback, We're never gonna do it. Yeah,
you know what. I live in the real world, and
I know what it means. When you have the number
one overall pick in the draft and there's seventeen quarterbacks
that people love that you can draft, the pressure of
not taking a quarterback at number one is so immense.
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Are you really gonna say Justin Fields? And look, and
I love Justin Fields and and he's and he's a dude, man.
And if I can't get Lamar Jackson, he's the guy want.
I mean, I'm okay because the Jets are getting Aaron Rodgers.
But you know, thinking about the future, he's great, man,
He's he's he's becoming Lamar Jackson. He's really good. But
when you're still three and fourteen and you're sitting there
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at number one overall, are you really gonna not take
a quarterback? No? The pressure is too immense because do
you love Justin Fields or do you just are you
sold on him? Or are you kind of sold on them?
Because the Bears, I've always felt like they were kind
of sold on Justin Fields. This is a new regime
that didn't draft him, and they're looking at the number
one overall pick. And you know, certain cities things play
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out differently. If you screw this up in Chicago, you're
never gonna hear the end of it. Now, the Bears
are to no win situation because if they keep Justin
Fields and they wind up not picking your quarterback at
number one, and as if one of those guys in
the draft, doesn't matter which one any of those guys
that that comes into the draft w C J. Stroud.
It doesn't matter Anthony Richardson. If one of those guys
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turns into a star, Chicago fans is just gonna go
crazy and bananas blaming the regime, going, how did you
not pick this guy? How did you not know the
one of the six quarterbacks that take you're in a
no win situation and the Bears know this, but the
worst is going to be if you don't take a
quarterback at number one overall, right, the the other thing
you do is you re set the quarterback clock. Is
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that okay? Well, justin Fields coming up couple of years,
gonna want a extent. You canna want a lot of money. Well, now,
Bryce Young, we have four years and we started building
the team a little bit. We got a couple of
running backs. Maybe want to resign David Montgomery? If not,
the two headed monster of him and Herbert are pretty good.
Um this we can reset the quarterback clock and not
have to worry about paying the guy because suddenly that's
become the en vogue thing to do. Hey, trying to
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win a super Bowl on the rookie clock, because now
it's impossible when you don't have your quarterback on a
rookie contract. Right, it's in bod No one can win.
The Bills can't win. We don't have a guy to
rookie deal. So it's be that's become another part of
the pressure. But just think every single day, it's man,
we have the number one pick in the draft. Are
we really gonna not take a quarterback? The I'll tell
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you they're gonna wind up doing it. They're gonna wind
up trading justin fields and they're gonna take the end
and they're gonna say we're gonna get great draft picks
for him as well. The rebuild on this team is
going to advance even more because we're gonna get multiple
first round picks or maybe first and a couple of
seconds and a player. You're gonna get a bunch of
picks in here, and you're still gonna get a quarterback
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that's really good. Look, Bryce Young is fantastic. Nobody sees
the field like him. He's gonna come to the league
and just pick everybody apart Bryce Young. It doesn't matter.
He can hit his seventh re read what he means
to it's okay, and now he can get outside the
pocket and make place. Bryce Young is great an Ohio
State you you kind of had to don't stay, don't
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take the Ohio State guy, take the other. But just
just go after the process of college to pros. It's
not an exact science. And you know you look at
where the bears are here and look, I I'm always
have the phone rings. You want to call, give me
your best offer. The worst. It's like I was. I've
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always told my daughters, you know, asked the question, The
worst I can do is kind of chuckle and say, no, right,
you want you're asking for some gadgetry. You're asking for
the outing a concert that you saw, you need new shoes,
whatever the case. Maybe uh, you asked the worst second
says oh, you're good duct tape those things. Let's go. Uh.
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And you know things like that when when you go
through the gms that need quarterbacks and they are ample. Hell,
you got a guy that just got hired as a
head coach down in Carolina who really covets one of
those top quarterbacks. So can you package something to go
move up to where Chicago says, yeah, you could have
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the number one pick. And but you with you have CAROLINEA.
You've you've got a number of teams. But to say
that you're gonna go draft one of the other guys
because he could do this and showed it at the
collegiate level. A lot of these guys show that at
the collegiate level. Right. But the one thing, the one
part I agree with you on this is that if
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they're not picking a quarterback, they're gonna trade the pick
because there's no way that There's no way they take
somebody else that's not a quarterback at number one. There's
no there's just no way they do it. As we
move out, when you can go get other as you
have so many other needs through some of those through
the draft, as opposed to the going into free agency
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and find ample uh quality, even if they're just part
of a rotation on the offensive defensive lines. You win. Yeah,
that that's they That's also a way for them to say, look, hey,
we we did what was best for the team, and well,
hey we didn't pick that guy at number one because
we traded the pick. I mean the part of the
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thing that part of me thinks they think, well we
trade the pickets. Okay, No, you're still gonna get blamed.
You trade out of the pick. So well. I mean
they're they're just look at Chicago, They're gonna get killed
one way or us. It doesn't matter what you as
you go back to and people are off of the
at least it's lessened the killing the Bears for Travisky
over Mahomes. I think it's finally dawned on enough people
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and they've read enough reviews and and history to know
that Mahomes was a while all talented in all world
that we saw in Texas Tech, still a guy going
into the pros wondering how it would translate right based
on past likewise Ohio State quarterbacks. But I'll get back
to the second. The one that the Bears general manager
of the time and the front office and everybody that
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helped the decision making process of getting killed is that
they took Adam Shaheen in the second round. George Kittle
went in the fifth in that same draft. Now just
just think about this for a second. If if if
you no, no, no, they're not gonna do it every
single day from the end. You're starting to get it
now because right like you did that hit in Chicago,
people are saying, make this crazy trade for Lamar Jackson
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out in ball. Uh, just think about after the Super Bowl,
we get to the combine, people start meeting the quarterbacks,
and guys like Bryce Young or c J. Strouds start
to separate themselves. They have great pro days and every
day it's boy, this guy is can't miss, He's fantastic.
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Every all our grades on him are great. The Bears
will say, we're doing our due diligence, and they'll meet
with Young and Strad and Richardson and Levis and all
these guys, and you're gonna start seeing certain players rise
to the top, and every day it's gonna be this guy.
This guy is the next franchise quarterback. This guy is
the next great guy, and it's probably gonna be Bryce Young,
but just it could wind up being c J. Stroud
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or somebody else. But it doesn't matter, because the Bears
are gonna sit here and live that reality every single day.
And when you live in that every single day, it's
impossible to not get influenced by it. So eventually they're
gonna say, Okay, we're gonna bite the bullet. We're gonna
trade justin fields and do this. Somebody's gonna want him,
someone's going on him for his last two years. The
deal will get draft picks, will do it. The only
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question for me is how long they wait, Like, do
they wait past free agency to do it? Do they
do it right before the draft? Do they do want
to do it before free agency because teams a law
from a lot more going a alright, all the guys
are here now, because you could wind up seeing musical
chairs and having a lot of the seats field. There's
a lot of quarterbacks out there because if Brady wants
to play, he's somewhere. The same thing with Rogers, Lamar Jackson, Garoppolo,
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Derek Carr. You could roll the dice and hope that
well after free agency is over, there's some teams who
would love to have a guy like Justin Fields because
maybe Brady retires, maybe Aaron Rodgers days in Green Bay.
You know, maybe maybe we we get Lamar Jackson who
winds up loving Baltimore again he wants to stay in
There's less quarterbacks available, but that's a big gamble to take.
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So for me, that's the only question. They do it
before the NFL Draft, do it before free agency where
they could really maximize Justin Field's ability, That's the only
but the pressure they'll live with every day, Mike Harmon,
They're gonna fold under it. They will fold and they
will trade justin fields. See if it was certain men
of the past bears regimes, I'd agree. For now, I'm
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still liking the guys that are in charge, especially as
they move away from people who are off of the
family tree of the mc caskey's and the Hollises and
have other football making uh football decision making bodies that
are in there. I I think I think there's just
a different look. You've got Kevin Warren's gonna do mostly
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business stuff, I think. So it's Ryan Poles and his
staff in terms of the talent evaluation. I'd really the
way you set it up. If I'm at the NFL combine,
I'm the guy that's sitting there. Like when I took
the s A T. I wouldn't let anybody sit in
the seat in front of me and I kicked my
feet up. That's what I'd be if I'm Ryan Poles. Hey,
you need to talk at me from two rows down?
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Why because I'm kicking my feet up while you guys
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Hill Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon bat Well, we got we got
games in Purtyville this weekend and in burrow Head. Joining
us now on the hotline to break it all down.
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A guy who has lived in Burrowhead can follow on
Twitter at Jason Coles sixty two. That is, at Jason
Coles sixty two. He is a Pro Football Hall of
Fame voter longtime insider. Check out his latest on out
kick j Cole. If you you tell us what was
it like you lived in Burrowhead for a number of years,
what was Burrowhead like? Burrowhead is an impressive place, especially
(15:35):
if you can get inside the actual head of Joe
Burrow and what's going on. But yeah, Burrowhead very very
very impressive place. It's where you don't lose. To Patrick
Mahomes ever. Okay, so because I would rather it's a
it's a challenge. Um when you don't have one side
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from stre entire offense line, that's the problem, Burrow. But
the game's in borrow Head. It should be fine to
get the game is in Burrowhead. It's all good. The
Bengals have gone from chip on their shoulders, You're the
greatest team ever. Who's gonna block Chris Jones's wonder and
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Trank Clark on the same You know, seems Magnola may
not be blessed with the best overall um uh team
or you know, a group of talents that he's ever
had in his in his career. This is not like
when the Giants upset you know, the Patriots and he
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had you know, Justin Tuck and you know Mike Strahan
and all those guys up front. But it does have
to two guys who can really play up front and
they line up exactly where both two missing on the
So this could be an issue. Just thing could be
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an issue. So you're going with the Chiefs. Your pick
is that you You're you're going against Borrow. Look, look,
the problem, of course is that Patrick Mahomes has banged
up to right, So which way do you go on
this one? I think this is a fantastic game, not
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because both teams are at their best, but because both
teams have major issues to overcome and you want to
see how the how the respective coaches are going to
deal with it. I would say this, I think Cincinnati
believe it can be anybody at any time, Like they
just don't care. And Joe Burrow does have that, like
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he's got a swagger that is just completely and totally
out of control. It's a lot like watching the swagger
Zack Wilson. Yeah, that's pretty good man. That was a
good one. You really zigged and I thought you got
a zag right there with Zach Wilson. I like that.
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By the way, can I just say nothing says six
Zach Wilson like Nathaniel at Well, listen, I got news
for you. Okay. This was done obviously to get Aaron Ross. Yeah,
you're you're gonna get Aaron Rods. Aaron Rodgers, who is
prickly about the media coverage he gets in Green Bay,
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is going to go to New York. Sure he is,
Come on that, ayuasca t or whatever. It's gonna it's
gonna take all his cares away. He's been waiting for this.
We're getting Aaron Rona, the West Coast guy who burned
incense while he does, you know, cleanses every offseason. Um
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as over, you know, looking over the bluffs of Malibu.
Wants you know to hear from fireman head. Well, hey,
nothing says cleansing yourself like going to the jets. Oh
I really am starting over. Nothing cleaning yourself like playing
in the meadow like them. Yeah, this was one of
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those hires where it reaked a desperation that it had
to happen to have a shot at Aaron Rodgers. Now
he addressed it in his weekly McAfee thing, kind of
with the nod in the wink of hire the right
guy for Zach Wilson. I don't know why this question
about za Wilson, but repiring anybody to fix Zack Wilson,
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like Zach Wilson has already fixed themselves. Like and it's
ben a pickle, right, um right, Like it's just this,
This is all about like who's the next guy? And yeah,
they're angling for Aaron Rodgers. Is like everybody else is
gonna angle for Aaron Rodgers, and who's going to get
in on this one? Who's gonna get Brady? And yeah,
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eventually somebody's gonna win these sweep steaks. Um. But again,
if you're Aaron Rodgers, you know, like, it doesn't matter
where you go. It's the offensive quitter and coordinator. Doesn't
matter at any team you choose to play for, because
you're the offensive coordinator. He's the one drawing up the
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game plans. It's like, hey, Aaron, what do you like
this week? That's how the game plan is going to
get drawn up wherever he goes. Um, Because he's at
he's got to the point where I mean, he's basically uncoachable,
um and uncontrolled, uncontrollable in many ways. And so team
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has put up with that. But wait, but the Jets,
the Jets have had bad coaches. They can't coach anyway.
So what why do I care for you? You're not
you're not breaking news there, pal Okay, so dysfunctional. Yeah,
I guess what. You could say the same thing every
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year since nineteen seventy. Okay, it's just a bad organization. Okay,
So getting Aaron Rodgers there doesn't fix the organization at all.
In fact, He just puts Aaron Rodgers in the middle
of New York and he already has problems dealing with
the media in Green Bay. Okay, stop, this is not
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Crocodile Dundee moves to Los Angeles or whatever. This is
Aaron Rodgers can handle the media. I think he can
handle it a little bit. He's look, it's he's already
pricky as it gets right, and he takes everything really
to Like he argued with a story this season I
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can't remember about you know, it was about all these
issues he was having with with the receivers, and he's
you know, he's talking about you know, people are saying
this and you know, saying that, implying that they were
all off the record sources. Everybody was on the record.
He took he took issue with that. Guess what he's
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gonna do when Steve Servey writes a column with eleven
unnamed sources, like, he's just gonna his brain is gonna fry.
He's just not. He will not enjoy this. He will,
he will. I mean, it's just it's going to be
a nightmare. He'll be at war. And in August, Yeah,
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you got Serby in there as well. Nicely done, Jason.
The first year covering the NFL beach was when Ray
Handley was coaching the Giants and I was going up
to cover a preseason game in New York and Servey
had literally so many anonymous sources that he numbered them
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one through like ten. I swear to odd that he
just eviscerated Ray Handley in a column with ten un
named sources that he numbered. Jesson goal with us here
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Seven books
out there that you can find to add to your
(23:17):
library and become as well read as he is. He's
uh the latest Alway a relevantless Life and he's succeeded. Yeah,
I know that the Rich Mahogany too at Jason Cole
sixty two where you find him read him on out
Kick as well. So that that's it. Let's go to
the quarterbacks that are that are fun. Then you got
Aaron Rodgers or Kyler Murray. Who would you rather try
to corral if you were a coach? Well, you give me,
(23:40):
come on, I mean I want to have Aaron Rodgers,
come Kyler Murray. Oh yeah, he's getting smaller by the
year where it was like he was he's like down
to five ft four now, Okay, So so who's gonna
end up coaching him? Who who's desperate enough to take
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that job? Like, I just like they're going to get
somebody who's gonna get fired in two years anyways, because
he's not gonna be able to turn around. Kyler Murray,
I you know, I don't I don't know who's actually
I don't know who really really wants the job outside
of the daring and the desperate. Right, That's that's what
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you end up getting in Arizona. It's gonna be the
same thing in Indianapolis. Because you're stuck, you're married to
a quarterback. I mean, is it not clear enough already
that Sean Payton wants no real part of Denver yet
part of any of it? It seems at this point, well, right,
because none of the situations are perfect. I will say this,
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Sean paytman has worked it so that he's got Russell
Wilson begging him to take the job, right, Yeah, And
by getting Russell Wilson to begging to take the job,
he is therefore empowered over Russell Wilson. And this will
be the only time because they're stuck with Russell Wilson.
So if he's ever going to coach the guys, this
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is the time to do it right when you when
you have when you have that kind of leverage over
a guy. But I mean, I just don't think he's
gonna do it. I don't think it's gonna happen. All right,
let me ask you thist. Let's finish here. Then we
will come full circle. We talked about burrow Head and
(25:31):
we got into this. Now ros Bertie is going to
win a super Bowl. Wow, look at you, Look at
you from the Andrew Luck is gonna win a super
Bowl to Brock Purdy's gonna win a super Bowl. Look
at you. Andrew Luck should have won a super Bowl. Unfortunately,
banner he does have a banner, Yeah, he does. I
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gotta go over to He's I gotta go see him
at Stanford again. We got we gotta talk important issues. Um.
I look, I think they're going to win this game. Um,
I think it's This is a This is a fantastic
game where yes, Rock Purty easily could get inundated by
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the combination of Graham and Fletcher Cox and all the
other big bodies that they throw at them. Right that
becomes a really tough one to me. Um, But I
trust the San Francisco defense enough to keep them under control.
That's number one. And number two, I think that Philadelphia's defense,
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while the secondary is really good, has had problems dealing
with good path catching running back and good tight end.
And then you throw two really good receivers. Because Brandon
Ayuk now playing with per is the most effective he's
ever been in his career, and George Kittle has returned
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to being incredibly effective with Purdy there, it's pretty like
to the tight end. One concern I have is if
they get behind. If if if Stilly's offense gets going
and can get ten point lead, any kind of too
score lead in this game, then Purty probably gets overwhelmed
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in this game. But I just don't see that happening.
I think with being a one score game pretty much
the entire game all the way through. He's on Twitter
at Jason Coles sixty two. That is, at Jason Coles
sixty two. Whether he's living in Burrowville or Purdy Town,
you can contact him there. Uh and we'll get to well,
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we'll get to the Hall of Fame coming up soon.
You have to get to get to the talk and
the conversation next next week we can talk about it. Yeah,
let's go. I mean, Darrelle Revas is getting in right
a unanimous first ballot. Absolutely not Hello hello, hello, hello,
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That Jason comes with my best friend Mike car from
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the tire dot Com shop, you know, seeing Berwin. This
is out of control. On the Friday Night this hat
be Friday America tight shirts. Personal hell, Like everybody's got
an idea what their personal hell would be. His personal
hell would be he's in front of of of his
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of his machine and he can press the greatest drops
at any time possible, except he's got his hands tied
to his sides and he can't and he can't move
and all the different things we say, all the double
entendre stuff, and he can't do it. And he's trying
to reach over and do it with his nose like
he's a rooster and I'm just going to peck at it.
I can't. That's gotta be your personal hell. Right there.
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If you tell me right now that I owe you
a dollar, I'm gonna lose my crab if yeah, if
I give you a dollar, and I'll go home. Uh So,
listen as we get set for the NFC Championship game
on Sunday. Thanks to Jason Cole for stopping by. Uh look,
brock Purty, is he going to turn into a pumpkin?
Is something gonna happen? Will he wind up getting a
(29:35):
big lesson in what playoff football is? Like? Uh? You've
heard a lot of comps for him, right, You've heard
he's the new Tom Brady, look Mr Irrelevant And and
here he is, you know, getting a shot because of injury,
and he's not giving the job back. And look how
well he's playing. Look at his story being Mr revelop
He's kind of Kurt Warner. He comes in and fits
this offense so well, that's great, and that's you know,
(29:58):
we're we're we're really kind to vaulting him up to
think he's that kind of guy. But honestly, the comp
for him, and this I think is the most accurate
comp for brock Purty, is he's Tony Romo. He's not
Tom Brady. He's not Kurt Warner. He's Tony Romo, except
he's got a better team around him than Romo had
with the Cowboys. He's a low round pick. He gets
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thrust in, he makes plays with his legs, He keeps
plays alive. He gets the ball to the playmakers where
they do their thing. And that's what Tony Romo did
for so long. Listen, I gotta get the ball to
these guys and let them do their thing. And the
Niners have all kinds of great playmakers on offense, whether
it's McCaffrey or Debo or Brandon Aiyuk or George Kittle.
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Just get the ball to them. That's where he's walked
into a situation where a team that's loaded, right, That's
what Romo did. Romo walked into a team where, boy,
we got weapons everywhere. Now, I just gotta be able
to keep the play alive long enough to get the
ball downfield. Because Romo got the gig because Drew Bledsoe
was a statue in the pocket and Bill Parcels was
looking for a way to keep the offense move. Then
when Bledsoe really can't move anymore, so that's kind of
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where it is. He's walked into a situation where but
Atlanta lights out defense. I got great weapons, all I
gotta do is get them the ball. I'm confident that's
kind of what it is. He's not doing it himself
like Brady with checkdowns and audibles and decision making. Look,
Brady won with a bunch of jags on offense. Right.
You know, Pretty and Romo both stepped into hey, we
got it good, we just gotta make it run well.
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So if I'm looking for a comp for brock Party,
it's Tony Romo. I think that one, Uh, it can
work to a degree. And then I think with Romo
there was a little bit more and trying to remember
his career as it took off, willingness to put the
ball up a bit more, uh for grabs. Now, Pretty
had a couple last week against said Cowboys. Uh that
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should have been picked off? Right, The would have should
have could a game. It's funny how we selectively apply
that to our quarterbacks. By the way, Uh, you know, no,
not in there. It's like, no, no, it wasn't a
clean game just because the box score doesn't show it.
I mean there's still opportunities, but that's where guys play quarterback. Um,
I think to this point it's still play within the
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system and what those weapons allow you to do as
so long as George Kittle is healthy and ready to go. Uh,
they're dangerous. So maybe he gets to rewrite that narrative
here and he certainly won't be holding for anybody. Twitter
and out about a Fresca. Mike gets swollen dome, just
think about it. Brock Party, Tony Ramo, Brock Party, Tony Ramo.
We got more on the NFC Championship coming up next,
(32:30):
A crazy ass story involving Brock Party and can I
really go away from picking the Eagles? That's next on
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