October 10, 2023 • 27 mins
Jason’s concern for Jordan Love is 9 out of 10 after tonight’s loss to the Raiders. Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts reacts to tonight's Game 2 loss to the Diamondbacks. Plus, the reason Miami didn’t knee the ball at the end of their game against Georgia Tech on Saturday.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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up in a couple of seconds. But you know, we
talked about Jimmy Garoppolo a few minutes ago, and look,
Garoppolo is gonna lose his job at some point. He's
just not good. What we said boils down to that.
My concern level for Jordan Love right now is about
at a nine on a scale of one to ten.
He had two great weeks to start the season, and
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when you look back now with having some hindsight, boy,
Week one was against the Bears and their defense is terrible.
But you have seen in the last three weeks he
has just fallen off a cliff and maybe it's the
NFL only needed a couple of games of tape on
him to shut him down. But he is not dynamic.
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He's not moving the team downfield. He's making bad decisions,
and the Packers' offense is struck, is stuck in neutral.
When you don't have a great quarterback, you have to
be really good everywhere else. And the Packers are trying
to build a team that way. And they thought they
had that team. They said, we have two really good
running backs and Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon. No you don't.
Aaron Jones can't stay on the field. AJ Dillon is
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not very good. We have the receivers now, we're pretty deep, yes,
but none of them scare anybody. And good luck. The defense, well,
our defense is not quite what we thought it was
going to be, what we expected it to be. And
this is where you pull back the curtain and go, yeah,
maybe Aaron Rodgers gets a little bit more credit for
covering up the ills that the packers had. Packers thought
we were locked and loaded and ready to go, and
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certainly the first two weeks it looks that way. But
Jordan Love does not look comfortable. He doesn't look like
he's making the right reads, he's forcing the ball. This
is all the hallmarks of a quarterback that feels a
little lost right now. And it's not that he's a rookie,
and he's been in the league now four years, and
I get it's his first time that he's getting to play,
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but this is three weeks of he looks really stuck.
And my concern level for him, because he's basically in
a one year prove it or not deal, is about
a nine, all right. Was I was okay with what
he was doing the first couple of weeks because he's
not gonna win a passing championship. He's not gonna be
someone that throws forty touchdowns. He's gonna be someone that
throws the ball twenty five to thirty times a game
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and makes plays with his legs and wins games. That's
gonna be Jordan Love. That is not who he's been
in all the last three weeks and he has been
shut down, and the Packers' office has been shut down
the last three games. And I don't know how that
changes because Love is kind of a limited quarterback. He's
not suddenly gonna, oh, I got it now and I'm
gonna throw us to victory. It's hey, I can get
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it done, as long as the running game is okay,
as long as the receivers can get separation, as long
as the deep You need a lot for Jordan Love
to So it's not just suddenly, hey, he'll flip the switch,
he'll hit it. No, this is kind of the guy
that he is. He hit the ground running with. This
is who I am. And three weeks in a row
now that he's been shut down like this, and look,
it's not like a couple of defenses were great. Uh yeah,
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My concern level frame is about a nine.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, we go back to, you know, breaking down the
Packers and and you, because someone's got to be the
contraryan right. I was so much an abundance of Lions
Love that I just couldn't have it. So I thought
the Packers as constructed defense, playing better the run game,
Jones and Dylan would be the base and we haven't
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seen Jones on the field a bunch and Dylan up
until tonight had been ineffective. The offensive line issues, you know,
the play of the night for me is the offensively
of how they should be operating. Is also the one
that's drawing such controversy. Last hour on his update, Steve
brought up something that I had written in my notes
for us to discuss, like the big play where Love
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got out of the pocket and he finds the wide
open Christian Watson. Right, beautiful play, good interior pass rush.
So what's he do? Just starts to scoot out to
the edge and he's got a wide open Watson. Watson
starts to run towards the end zone, eventually gets horse
collared at the six, stopping the touchdown. They end up
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settling your field goal, and now you have the whole
debate of you know, what should have been called, should
he have been awarded the end zone? All those other things.
That's a discussion for another time, except for the question
of who's paying the find Is that going to get
crowdfunded or some factor in Las Vegas gonna pick take
up for Marcus Peters. But the throw Love made there
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is the offense that I would envision. You'd say, Okay,
this is how we get it open. We have to
scheme it open by using his legs because he could move.
We've seen that, yeah, oh yeah, yeah right. And last
week against the Lions. Would you believe this was the
only game of the first four that he actually topped
sixty percent completion rate. So it's been a rough go.
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You've got the last three weeks a total of six interceptions,
taking sacks. You get the news Baktiari's done for the year,
not that at this point in his career you were
banking on him for seventeen games anyway, or giving you
long stretches of effectiveness. Sad that that's where we're at.
But it's time to tinker a little bit. You've got
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a couple of guys and Dobbs and in Watson that
can make some plays. Your your rookie tight end. But
you're gonna have to get creative because if you're just
expecting Love to operate out of the pocket full time,
that's gonna be a no go until that run game
gets back to form. And until then you're gonna stack L's. Yeah,
it's gonna it's it's a it's a rough time, right.
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I know you say, well, but they're two and three. Yeah,
but your quarterback is on a three week not on
a colder. You say he's on a heater, he's on
a cold. Let's just call it what it is. You
give up seventeen points in an NFL game, you better
damn well win that game, right. I mean that that
is just basic base it's math or science. As frostburgus.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now, speaking of games you should be winning, let's hear
from Dave Roberts Dodgers. Dodgers fall the Diamondbacks four to two,
and look, we talked about the lack of good body
language from the Dodgers. The Dodgers seem lost. You see
a lot of pitchers when they come out of the
game unhappy and not shy about letting Dave Roberts know,
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whether it's Kershaw, whether it's Joe Kelly, whether it's Graderol.
They don't seem to have a great vibe going on
right now. They're not in a great headspace. They seem frustrated,
they seem tight, all the things I didn't think they'd
be coming into this playoff. And if you want to
look at one play as an illustration of that, I mean, besides,
the pitcher's getting met every time they come out of
the game. Seventh inning, the Dodgers look like they're finally
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getting something going. Mookie Betts gets on with the error,
and then Freddy Freeman comes up and watching Freddie Freeman
as much as I have. They're working them outside and
Freddie Freeman swings at a pitch that normally, when Freddy
Freeman is going right and he's in the right headspace,
he hits that pitch the other way because it's on
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the outside part of the plate and it's low, and
this is a pitch that he hits and he doesn't
try to pull it, and he goes with the pitch
and that's a base hit into the gap in left
center field. But Freddy Freeman tries to pull it, probably
because he's frustrated, probably because he's pissed. And what does
he wind up doing exactly what the Diamondbacks wanted grounds
to second double play, end of threat, Like that's what
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you can point to one play. They finally gets the
mooie Bets finally gets on bass. Right the guy's over.
He finally gets on bass, and Freddie Freeman tries to
pull it and winds up grounding into a double play.
That's the one play that should tell you the Dodgers
are not in a great headspace and their stars are
leading the way. But let's see what Dave Roberts had
to say. Here was the Dodger manager meeting the media
(08:26):
just a couple of moments ago.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
You you're cool.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Quickly he was telling Joe Kelly he was cool.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, because Kelly was the maddest guy coming out of
the game tonight. So that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't I mean, it was angry
Joe Kelly, not poudy Joe Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah you think we can do that. That's a bobblehead. Hey, no,
this is angry Joe Kelly. Oh right, jacket or how many? Okay,
so I got the Mariachi Joe Kelly, I got the
poudy Joe Kelly. Oh now, I now I have angry
Joe Kelly. Okay, great. Now let's hear from Dave Roberts
from just a couple of moments ago.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Let's start with Bobby. What did you see from him
and what prompted you to pull him when you did?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You know, I just thought that you know, he wasn't sharp.
For me, I thought he was getting behind and you know,
those guys saw a lot of pitches, and you know
where we're at tonight, being down three zero in the
first inning, and then you look at that second inning
and me recalling the bat that Fam had on him
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doesn't punch, and then the guy behind him and Walker,
you know, really squared the ball up that first at bat.
So it's just one of those I just felt, you know,
at that point in time, we couldn't afford to go
down four zero, and you know, I wanted to give
our team a chance to extend the game, and I
(09:52):
felt that we could prevent runs, you know, for the
duration of the game.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Jim Skipper, are you more frustrated?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Are angry?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Frustrated that you showed signs of trying to get back
into the thing, but but angry because of what happened
at the end.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I wouldn't say angry.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You know, I thought all night long we had pitch
to hit and we just you know, couldn't do much
with them. You know, once we got to their pen,
you know, we had an opportunity. We cashed in on
one run and we could have a chance for a beginning,
couldn't get the hit or the situation at bat. So yeah,
(10:31):
I mean there's certainly fight, there always has been, but
you know, it comes down to results too.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Jack, Dave, just you guys obviously had a lot of
opportunities in the latter innings. How did you feel about
the quality of that bats when guys were on base?
And did the pressure start to mount once you missed
one opportunity and then another and then another in some
of those.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Innings, you know, I didn't I didn't love the uh
the pitch selection. You know, there were some balls out
of this and there were some borderline balls or pitches
that you know, we offered at that you know, we
didn't give ourselves a chance to get into counts, and
so you know I saw you know, some expansion, some
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pitches that were pitchers pitches that we offered at. So yeah,
I mean it's just kind of that's just what I saw,
And we had opportunities. But you know, when you get opportunities,
you got to you got to cash in.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Can you pinpoint why Mooky and Freddie have gotten off
to a slowly start as they have this series and
sort of how they're attacking them what they can do
to be more productive.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know, I think that I think Freddy's taking good swings.
He barreled two balls last night, not that one, I
bet Mookie. I think it's just one of those. I
think he's expanding a little bit. You know, he's really
good at controlling the strike zone and hitting his pitches.
But I think the first couple of games it seems
(12:01):
more that he's being aggressive on pitchers pitches and you know,
I wouldn't say chasing, but not really hitting the swinging
at the pitches that you know he can slug. And
so you know, obviously everything's more magnified. It's two games,
but you know, our backs against the wall, so you know,
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we got to make some type of adjustments and we
have no more margin.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
How don't I don't know what adjustments you make, lance Lynn.
Don't give up home runs. There's your adjustment.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I need you, I need you to pitch more than
an inning in a third. I'm sorry, an inning in
two thirds. Let let's start with at all. Let's start
with that. Let's sorry, he went from a third of
an inning to an inning and two thirds.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Make it out of the second game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
We can get through the third, hey, and by the
fifteenth or sixteenth game this postseason, we'll get a quality start. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Look again, and as we were talking about with our
guys Steve de Sega earlier, like the the bullpen did
its job right, multiple arms, say what you want. After
the struggles Miller had coming out after the fifty two
pitches and an inning and two thirds, the bullpen combined
to give up one run thereafter, they did their job.
(13:12):
Situational hitting once again left you and it really comes back,
and I'm sure this could be another fifteen questions. Let's
talk more about the mentality around Mooki and Freeman and why,
particularly with Mooky going back to last year, similar results
in the playoffs and down the stretch. What's going on there?
(13:34):
And then just the overall feeling in the clubhouse. I mean,
we saw a couple of the reporters standing around. They
all look like they were in absolute shock, right, the
emotions coming over because you watched one hundred win year
where no matter what was thrown at them, they pulled
all the right strings right. As you always complained. The
rookies came up to hit three p fifty or pitch six,
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shutout hittings and now all of a sudden, you're on
the verge of elimination.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
To Dave Roberts's defense real quickly. He's not swinging the bats, guys.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
No, he is it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He actually batted in the eighth inning, and well it's
all a simulator.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He's actually in the dugout and and he's got you know,
all the electrodes hooked up like he's playing.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
We I mean, Garvey grounded into a double play earlier tonight.
I would have brought no more in. He was sitting
in the left field. Bill made that out.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Say it tried to round the bases, he just couldn't
get there.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Penguin, penguin exit out about a Fresca exit swollen do
really bad headspace for the Dodgers. It's bad everything right now,
bad body language. Oh boy, this could get really difficult. Yes,
lance lid the whole season is on lance Lynn. There
you got former White Sox Hayes. Let's eat home run
champion lance Lynn, home run champ?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What are we eating on Wednesday? When we're in here?
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we have the biggest play of the night in Major
League Baseball coming your right next. Plus we will talk
about the biggest play in football this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
More than an Indianapolis Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You actually have a fast Wow. That's pretty good. Uh,
you've seen it. You've heard how bad the play was,
but we could tell you the why.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
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Speaker 4 (15:27):
New new, new.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
New, new, new, new, new, new new new.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
What was that I was doing the ice? That's a
dance I used to be able to. I used to
know a lot of this dance.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Did you have the baggy pants too?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I love the hammer pants.
Oh sure, a lot up stage. I want the chump
like a candle dance watching Breeze Hall run the ball
against a felony.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
All right, Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
The biggest play of this weekend in football is a
play that may wind up going down as the play
of the year simply because we usually don't get something
like this more than once every couple of generations.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Tom More than an Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Not another buft. The Miami Hurricanes lost to Georgia Tech
on Saturday because all they had to do was kneel
on the football one time to win. It's all you
gotta do. Kneel on the football to win the game.
As you know by now, they did not lean on
the football, and they lost the game. Well, because when
you kneel on the football, this doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Hey, like you should not be handing this football off right.
I don't know what Miami is doing. That's it.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Here's Cheney the straight ahead tackle and the ball popped.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Out to read the cart.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I may never read the card, I mean to me.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Georgia Tech has it with twenty six seconds left free
to the field for King up in the pocket, gonna
loop it down.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The field, and it is caught. And that's Rutherford.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Here's King from the pocket, flush to his right with
six five gonna loop it down field.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Had balls caught, touchdown Georgia Tech with one second to go.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In the ball again. Christian Leary ESPN on the call. Yeah,
all you gotta do is kneel on the football and
you win the game. But instead mar Crust the ball
and the Hurricanes. Hey, we got these crazy cool black
jerseys on. We're just gonna run the football because we're cool.
But if you're you're gonna fail. Fail spectacular. It was
a spectacular fail. You don't see this more than once
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every generation because usually coaches get fired and I'm not
doing that again. Uh, you've spent all weekends seeing the play.
You understand what a bad call it was, how how
there was no excuse for it. Now I'm gonna be
able to tell you exactly why, which is it's something
that no one's talked about. But I'll tell you exactly
why that play happened. But first let's hear from Mario
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Crystal Ball, who tried to own it a little bit
earlier today.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
When the drive started, it was going to be at
one fifty seven, you know, and we could burn about
one twenty seven off and then it was recalibrated. I
should have taken the time out right there at the end,
thought just read calibrown and you know, we talked about
two hands on the ball, but that's not good enough.
Just told him to take any in. That's it. Fumbled
the ball at twenty five and they won seventy five
yards in two plays. So not going to make an
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excuse for it or say he should have done this
or that. That's it. I know we should have should
have done it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Sometimes let's get carried away with they just finished the
game and run it. But I should have just stepped
in and said, hey, just taken.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hey, yeah, I like the I'm not going to say
we should have think but we should.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We should. I'm not saying we should, we should. Now
I could tell you exactly why he was.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He was a little.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Evasive, which I'm sure what he's doing is. I'm going
to take the bullet for this because who knows if something,
if a code said something, or hey we think we
can do it, we can't do it. All this but
that's a load of crap, because I'll tell you exactly
why this play happened. Miami was undefeated coming into this game.
Right this is They're gonna win this game in a
big showdown against North Carolina, who had a lot of
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trouble with Syracuse this weekend, because they were gonna be undefeated. Right,
that was it. That one play screwed Syracuse. Don't make
me think about it. So we watched this game and
Miami all you got to do Niel the ball and
it's an undefeated matchup and you're talking about too top
ten teams playing for it. Miami has not kneeled on
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the football all season long, despite the fact they had
the ball at the end of games with leads. Their
leads have been at least two touchdowns when they've had
the football, but they still have not kneeled a football
at all. Why does something like this happen because and
I love when coaches like this lose, Because Mario crystal
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Ball is one of those coaches that always wants to
show you I'm the smartest guy in the room. I'm
gonna do something that other coaches don't do because look
how smart I am. We don't need to kneel on
the football. We're gonna run. We're still gonna run our offense,
We're gonna get our players' reps, and we're gonna win
a game. We don't need to kneel on the football.
I'm the smartest guy in the room, and I want
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to show you. This is what sets me apart as
a coach. I coach with a lot of guys like
this in youth sports, and they're always trying to come
up with some kind of crazy ass thing to do
to make it look like, hey, look at me. I
want people to say that I'm a great coach because
I'm doing these crazy ass drills. I'm like, okay, you
know what, you can put out cones and ladders and
all kinds of stuff and had draw bull's eyes on stuff.
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And I actually I saw one coach actually drawing up
polls that you can do. But you can do all
of that does it. It doesn't mean what you're doing
is best for the team. And he wants to be
that coach that says, look at what, look at what,
look at how we do it. We do it differently,
much like Greg Ciano liked to do what I'm rushing
the snap at the end of the game, Well, teams
don't really do that. That's the way I do it.
Why Because he wanted people to think I'm the smartest
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coach in the room. I'm the smartest guy there is
and you watch because I'm doing all these next level
things that make people go wow. They make the parents
of the kids go wow, he's a great coach. She's
a great coach. Oh look at what they're doing. Oh
my goodness, and I just go. I love when people
like that lose. I love when they lose because they
want you. They want that image out there that they
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think they know more than you and that I'm gonna
show you that, Hey, we don't need to kneel on
the football. Dude, kneel on the football. It's why people
kneel on the football. But no, no, no, I'm special.
My team doesn't have to do it. That's why I love.
I love that they lost, and I love that he
lost that way because that's what it's about. That was
about hubris and about attitude and showing look look at me.
I want everybody. I want recruits, I want parents, I
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want coaches to say, look, boy, he just does things
differently than everybody else does. And I love when teams
like that lose.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, I mean, when Ciano was more the we're going
to be the bullies, We're going to be U. I
still can't even in Save Harbor, I can't say the
word we're going to be the biggest, you know, a
fill in the blank on the block. And that's the
way he wanted to operate, right. The problem was he
was also that way in the locker room. So the
players didn't like him either, so that that ended and
(22:09):
burnt burnt out pretty fast in this particular case. They
you know, there's some speculation about milestones. Certainly you saw
the reaction to the players on the sidelines after the
fact of what did we just do? Uh with some
expletives mixed therein.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
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Speaker 3 (22:38):
He hangs on to the ball now part of it,
You know, I didn't replay seemed to show he was
down before the guy punched the ball out.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now, it's general principal. You do something that stupid, We're
gonna give him the football. We're not whistling this dead now.
If the ball was coming out.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, stupid, they get the ball. In fact, touchdown.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I'm not even gonna let him throw it. I'm just
gonna gievehim a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah. And here here's the best part of it, though,
because you had multiple chances to still finish this thing, right.
It's like, you know, the Buckner play, the Moise elud
Bartman play, all of these sings multiple chances to still
take care of businesses up. You melt down. The quarterback
for Georgia Tech, Haines King, before that final possession, had
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thrown for seventy seven yards. He threw for seventy four
on two compleations, including the touchdown that won the game
in the final half minute. Play defense, all right, you
lost the ball, you fumbled the ball. They still had
to go seventy five yards on you, no timeouts and
just a few precious ticks on the clock. That's an
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organizational failure on multiple levels. You could have picked your
coach up, but you were still too damn stunned that
he didn'tkneel the ball out, so you didn't respond defensively.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'll tell you it's so much fun watching coaches like that.
I remember coaching again and the example I was giving.
I'm were coaching a game in All Stars soccer, like
two or three years ago, and we were playing a
team and in the first half, girl missed a penalty.
Their best player missed penalty. She like just sailed it
over the crossbark like it happens. Halftime, What does the
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coach do. The coach puts out cones and a ladder
and puts like makeshift bull's eyes in the corner of
the net. So while everybody else is is hanging out
and getting ready for the second half, you know, getting
you know, eating and getting ready going over strategy, he's
got her on the field going through cones, then stepping
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through a ladder and trying to kick a penalty and
hit and hit a bulls eye that he put in
the corner, And I'm like, what do you do? You
really do he real This is a guy who thinks, oh,
I want all the parents watching me saying, look look
at what I'm doing to try to help this girl.
All you're doing is pointing out that your best player
missed a penalty and now you're punish exactly and I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I'd say we should be doing this drill anyway in practice.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, not at halftime. And Pam, Pam always because I
always say, you know, coach like that, I go, I
could put out I could put out cones and and
and and uh and ladder than bullseyes. And she's like,
because of that coach, right, I'm like, yeah, it's because
of that coach.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
They put out a little trail of bullseye from toys,
like what do you do?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But that's Marra Crista ball. No, we don't need to
look at us. We're in these we're in these these
big jerseys that we like, and we don't need to
If they knelt on the football before I could say, okay,
something happened. There was a miscommunication and they thought they
needed to run another play or they did what what?
But no, no, no, We've never kneeled on the ball before,
never kneeled on it, and so we don't need to
do it now because we don't need to because we're Miami, right,
(25:45):
This is ow why coach? Yeah, and I love I
love When they lost, I was like, yes, you deserved
the personal And he does well because he stands for
the coaches that I coach against to do this, because
there's lots of them in youth sports. Man, I'll tell you, uh.
But watching him, I go, he's gonna think about that
for the rest of his life. He's gonna think about
that game every day because of the stakes. The stakes
were here.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I am.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I've turned it around in Miami. My first year wasn't great,
but I've turned it around, and look at us. We're undefeated,
We're gonna be going into a big game against North
Countin win or lose. Hey, the U is back, and
now it's dude, you're lucky you have a job after that.
You're lucky you have a job after that. How about
his player's reactions on the bench. What there doing? Yeah, yeah,
that's how you you want, you want that's our I mean,
(26:26):
you know how to get fired. Really that I get
see you together. They look through Miami looked through going, hey,
what's how much do we owe them? How much do
we owe them? How much do we do we because
I don't know the players gonna play for me? Well,
but I mean, think about it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Extended back into the Monday night football game tonight, right
where McDaniels has the opportunity on a fourth and two,
fourth and one and a half, call it two, and
goes for the Carlson fifty two yard field goal right
to make it a seven point game. The data says
that that that's far more makeable, but Carlson normally nails
(26:58):
about eighty three and a half percent from fifty plus
in his career, now twenty four of thirty. That you
make that decision there where most of the time you're
going forward on that fourth down, and then in this
moment where you can make it a seven point game,
you decide to kick the field going. I guess the
argument he would make is other, he's.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Gonna throw it. Hey, let's try to get another's take.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Him into the line and go.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Maybe they'll go like Shianu and go really hard at
us when we go to try to kneel and we
can fake it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Hey, I feel bad we haven't gotten DeVonta Adams of
ball more against his old team. Let's throw it to him.
Let's you know what, Let's throw it in the flat.
That way, they're really going at beers.
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up in a couple of seconds. But you know, we
talked about Jimmy Garoppolo a few minutes ago, and look,
Garoppolo is gonna lose his job at some point. He's
just not good. What we said boils down to that.
My concern level for Jordan Love right now is about
at a nine on a scale of one to ten.
He had two great weeks to start the season, and
(01:11):
when you look back now with having some hindsight, boy,
Week one was against the Bears and their defense is terrible.
But you have seen in the last three weeks he
has just fallen off a cliff and maybe it's the
NFL only needed a couple of games of tape on
him to shut him down. But he is not dynamic.
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He's not moving the team downfield. He's making bad decisions,
and the Packers' offense is struck, is stuck in neutral.
When you don't have a great quarterback, you have to
be really good everywhere else. And the Packers are trying
to build a team that way. And they thought they
had that team. They said, we have two really good
running backs and Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon. No you don't.
Aaron Jones can't stay on the field. AJ Dillon is
(01:53):
not very good. We have the receivers now, we're pretty deep, yes,
but none of them scare anybody. And good luck. The defense, well,
our defense is not quite what we thought it was
going to be, what we expected it to be. And
this is where you pull back the curtain and go, yeah,
maybe Aaron Rodgers gets a little bit more credit for
covering up the ills that the packers had. Packers thought
we were locked and loaded and ready to go, and
(02:15):
certainly the first two weeks it looks that way. But
Jordan Love does not look comfortable. He doesn't look like
he's making the right reads, he's forcing the ball. This
is all the hallmarks of a quarterback that feels a
little lost right now. And it's not that he's a rookie,
and he's been in the league now four years, and
I get it's his first time that he's getting to play,
(02:35):
but this is three weeks of he looks really stuck.
And my concern level for him, because he's basically in
a one year prove it or not deal, is about
a nine, all right. Was I was okay with what
he was doing the first couple of weeks because he's
not gonna win a passing championship. He's not gonna be
someone that throws forty touchdowns. He's gonna be someone that
throws the ball twenty five to thirty times a game
(02:56):
and makes plays with his legs and wins games. That's
gonna be Jordan Love. That is not who he's been
in all the last three weeks and he has been
shut down, and the Packers' office has been shut down
the last three games. And I don't know how that
changes because Love is kind of a limited quarterback. He's
not suddenly gonna, oh, I got it now and I'm
gonna throw us to victory. It's hey, I can get
(03:17):
it done, as long as the running game is okay,
as long as the receivers can get separation, as long
as the deep You need a lot for Jordan Love
to So it's not just suddenly, hey, he'll flip the switch,
he'll hit it. No, this is kind of the guy
that he is. He hit the ground running with. This
is who I am. And three weeks in a row
now that he's been shut down like this, and look,
it's not like a couple of defenses were great. Uh yeah,
(03:39):
My concern level frame is about a nine.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, we go back to, you know, breaking down the
Packers and and you, because someone's got to be the
contraryan right. I was so much an abundance of Lions
Love that I just couldn't have it. So I thought
the Packers as constructed defense, playing better the run game,
Jones and Dylan would be the base and we haven't
(04:01):
seen Jones on the field a bunch and Dylan up
until tonight had been ineffective. The offensive line issues, you know,
the play of the night for me is the offensively
of how they should be operating. Is also the one
that's drawing such controversy. Last hour on his update, Steve
brought up something that I had written in my notes
for us to discuss, like the big play where Love
(04:24):
got out of the pocket and he finds the wide
open Christian Watson. Right, beautiful play, good interior pass rush.
So what's he do? Just starts to scoot out to
the edge and he's got a wide open Watson. Watson
starts to run towards the end zone, eventually gets horse
collared at the six, stopping the touchdown. They end up
(04:44):
settling your field goal, and now you have the whole
debate of you know, what should have been called, should
he have been awarded the end zone? All those other things.
That's a discussion for another time, except for the question
of who's paying the find Is that going to get
crowdfunded or some factor in Las Vegas gonna pick take
up for Marcus Peters. But the throw Love made there
(05:07):
is the offense that I would envision. You'd say, Okay,
this is how we get it open. We have to
scheme it open by using his legs because he could move.
We've seen that, yeah, oh yeah, yeah right. And last
week against the Lions. Would you believe this was the
only game of the first four that he actually topped
sixty percent completion rate. So it's been a rough go.
(05:27):
You've got the last three weeks a total of six interceptions,
taking sacks. You get the news Baktiari's done for the year,
not that at this point in his career you were
banking on him for seventeen games anyway, or giving you
long stretches of effectiveness. Sad that that's where we're at.
But it's time to tinker a little bit. You've got
(05:49):
a couple of guys and Dobbs and in Watson that
can make some plays. Your your rookie tight end. But
you're gonna have to get creative because if you're just
expecting Love to operate out of the pocket full time,
that's gonna be a no go until that run game
gets back to form. And until then you're gonna stack L's. Yeah,
it's gonna it's it's a it's a rough time, right.
(06:11):
I know you say, well, but they're two and three. Yeah,
but your quarterback is on a three week not on
a colder. You say he's on a heater, he's on
a cold. Let's just call it what it is. You
give up seventeen points in an NFL game, you better
damn well win that game, right. I mean that that
is just basic base it's math or science. As frostburgus.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now, speaking of games you should be winning, let's hear
from Dave Roberts Dodgers. Dodgers fall the Diamondbacks four to two,
and look, we talked about the lack of good body
language from the Dodgers. The Dodgers seem lost. You see
a lot of pitchers when they come out of the
game unhappy and not shy about letting Dave Roberts know,
(06:56):
whether it's Kershaw, whether it's Joe Kelly, whether it's Graderol.
They don't seem to have a great vibe going on
right now. They're not in a great headspace. They seem frustrated,
they seem tight, all the things I didn't think they'd
be coming into this playoff. And if you want to
look at one play as an illustration of that, I mean, besides,
the pitcher's getting met every time they come out of
the game. Seventh inning, the Dodgers look like they're finally
(07:19):
getting something going. Mookie Betts gets on with the error,
and then Freddy Freeman comes up and watching Freddie Freeman
as much as I have. They're working them outside and
Freddie Freeman swings at a pitch that normally, when Freddy
Freeman is going right and he's in the right headspace,
he hits that pitch the other way because it's on
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the outside part of the plate and it's low, and
this is a pitch that he hits and he doesn't
try to pull it, and he goes with the pitch
and that's a base hit into the gap in left
center field. But Freddy Freeman tries to pull it, probably
because he's frustrated, probably because he's pissed. And what does
he wind up doing exactly what the Diamondbacks wanted grounds
to second double play, end of threat, Like that's what
(08:03):
you can point to one play. They finally gets the
mooie Bets finally gets on bass. Right the guy's over.
He finally gets on bass, and Freddie Freeman tries to
pull it and winds up grounding into a double play.
That's the one play that should tell you the Dodgers
are not in a great headspace and their stars are
leading the way. But let's see what Dave Roberts had
to say. Here was the Dodger manager meeting the media
(08:26):
just a couple of moments ago.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
You you're cool.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Quickly he was telling Joe Kelly he was cool.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, because Kelly was the maddest guy coming out of
the game tonight. So that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't I mean, it was angry
Joe Kelly, not poudy Joe Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah you think we can do that. That's a bobblehead. Hey, no,
this is angry Joe Kelly. Oh right, jacket or how many? Okay,
so I got the Mariachi Joe Kelly, I got the
poudy Joe Kelly. Oh now, I now I have angry
Joe Kelly. Okay, great. Now let's hear from Dave Roberts
from just a couple of moments ago.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Let's start with Bobby. What did you see from him
and what prompted you to pull him when you did?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You know, I just thought that you know, he wasn't sharp.
For me, I thought he was getting behind and you know,
those guys saw a lot of pitches, and you know
where we're at tonight, being down three zero in the
first inning, and then you look at that second inning
and me recalling the bat that Fam had on him
(09:31):
doesn't punch, and then the guy behind him and Walker,
you know, really squared the ball up that first at bat.
So it's just one of those I just felt, you know,
at that point in time, we couldn't afford to go
down four zero, and you know, I wanted to give
our team a chance to extend the game, and I
(09:52):
felt that we could prevent runs, you know, for the
duration of the game.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Jim Skipper, are you more frustrated?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Are angry?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Frustrated that you showed signs of trying to get back
into the thing, but but angry because of what happened
at the end.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I wouldn't say angry.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You know, I thought all night long we had pitch
to hit and we just you know, couldn't do much
with them. You know, once we got to their pen,
you know, we had an opportunity. We cashed in on
one run and we could have a chance for a beginning,
couldn't get the hit or the situation at bat. So yeah,
(10:31):
I mean there's certainly fight, there always has been, but
you know, it comes down to results too.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Jack, Dave, just you guys obviously had a lot of
opportunities in the latter innings. How did you feel about
the quality of that bats when guys were on base?
And did the pressure start to mount once you missed
one opportunity and then another and then another in some
of those.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Innings, you know, I didn't I didn't love the uh
the pitch selection. You know, there were some balls out
of this and there were some borderline balls or pitches
that you know, we offered at that you know, we
didn't give ourselves a chance to get into counts, and
so you know I saw you know, some expansion, some
(11:14):
pitches that were pitchers pitches that we offered at. So yeah,
I mean it's just kind of that's just what I saw,
And we had opportunities. But you know, when you get opportunities,
you got to you got to cash in.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Can you pinpoint why Mooky and Freddie have gotten off
to a slowly start as they have this series and
sort of how they're attacking them what they can do
to be more productive.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know, I think that I think Freddy's taking good swings.
He barreled two balls last night, not that one, I
bet Mookie. I think it's just one of those. I
think he's expanding a little bit. You know, he's really
good at controlling the strike zone and hitting his pitches.
But I think the first couple of games it seems
(12:01):
more that he's being aggressive on pitchers pitches and you know,
I wouldn't say chasing, but not really hitting the swinging
at the pitches that you know he can slug. And
so you know, obviously everything's more magnified. It's two games,
but you know, our backs against the wall, so you know,
(12:21):
we got to make some type of adjustments and we
have no more margin.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
How don't I don't know what adjustments you make, lance Lynn.
Don't give up home runs. There's your adjustment.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I need you, I need you to pitch more than
an inning in a third. I'm sorry, an inning in
two thirds. Let let's start with at all. Let's start
with that. Let's sorry, he went from a third of
an inning to an inning and two thirds.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Make it out of the second game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
We can get through the third, hey, and by the
fifteenth or sixteenth game this postseason, we'll get a quality start. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Look again, and as we were talking about with our
guys Steve de Sega earlier, like the the bullpen did
its job right, multiple arms, say what you want. After
the struggles Miller had coming out after the fifty two
pitches and an inning and two thirds, the bullpen combined
to give up one run thereafter, they did their job.
(13:12):
Situational hitting once again left you and it really comes back,
and I'm sure this could be another fifteen questions. Let's
talk more about the mentality around Mooki and Freeman and why,
particularly with Mooky going back to last year, similar results
in the playoffs and down the stretch. What's going on there?
(13:34):
And then just the overall feeling in the clubhouse. I mean,
we saw a couple of the reporters standing around. They
all look like they were in absolute shock, right, the
emotions coming over because you watched one hundred win year
where no matter what was thrown at them, they pulled
all the right strings right. As you always complained. The
rookies came up to hit three p fifty or pitch six,
(13:57):
shutout hittings and now all of a sudden, you're on
the verge of elimination.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
To Dave Roberts's defense real quickly. He's not swinging the bats, guys.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
No, he is it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He actually batted in the eighth inning, and well it's
all a simulator.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He's actually in the dugout and and he's got you know,
all the electrodes hooked up like he's playing.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
We I mean, Garvey grounded into a double play earlier tonight.
I would have brought no more in. He was sitting
in the left field. Bill made that out.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Say it tried to round the bases, he just couldn't
get there.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Penguin, penguin exit out about a Fresca exit swollen do
really bad headspace for the Dodgers. It's bad everything right now,
bad body language. Oh boy, this could get really difficult. Yes,
lance lid the whole season is on lance Lynn. There
you got former White Sox Hayes. Let's eat home run
champion lance Lynn, home run champ?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What are we eating on Wednesday? When we're in here?
What are we doing? Celebration of lance Lynn? Eight seven
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we have the biggest play of the night in Major
League Baseball coming your right next. Plus we will talk
about the biggest play in football this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
More than an Indianapolis Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You actually have a fast Wow. That's pretty good. Uh,
you've seen it. You've heard how bad the play was,
but we could tell you the why.
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Speaker 4 (15:27):
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Speaker 2 (15:29):
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Speaker 1 (15:36):
What was that I was doing the ice? That's a
dance I used to be able to. I used to
know a lot of this dance.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Did you have the baggy pants too?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I love the hammer pants.
Oh sure, a lot up stage. I want the chump
like a candle dance watching Breeze Hall run the ball
against a felony.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
All right, Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
The biggest play of this weekend in football is a
play that may wind up going down as the play
of the year simply because we usually don't get something
like this more than once every couple of generations.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Tom More than an Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Not another buft. The Miami Hurricanes lost to Georgia Tech
on Saturday because all they had to do was kneel
on the football one time to win. It's all you
gotta do. Kneel on the football to win the game.
As you know by now, they did not lean on
the football, and they lost the game. Well, because when
you kneel on the football, this doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Hey, like you should not be handing this football off right.
I don't know what Miami is doing. That's it.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Here's Cheney the straight ahead tackle and the ball popped.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Out to read the cart.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I may never read the card, I mean to me.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Georgia Tech has it with twenty six seconds left free
to the field for King up in the pocket, gonna
loop it down.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The field, and it is caught. And that's Rutherford.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Here's King from the pocket, flush to his right with
six five gonna loop it down field.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Had balls caught, touchdown Georgia Tech with one second to go.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In the ball again. Christian Leary ESPN on the call. Yeah,
all you gotta do is kneel on the football and
you win the game. But instead mar Crust the ball
and the Hurricanes. Hey, we got these crazy cool black
jerseys on. We're just gonna run the football because we're cool.
But if you're you're gonna fail. Fail spectacular. It was
a spectacular fail. You don't see this more than once
(17:45):
every generation because usually coaches get fired and I'm not
doing that again. Uh, you've spent all weekends seeing the play.
You understand what a bad call it was, how how
there was no excuse for it. Now I'm gonna be
able to tell you exactly why, which is it's something
that no one's talked about. But I'll tell you exactly
why that play happened. But first let's hear from Mario
(18:05):
Crystal Ball, who tried to own it a little bit
earlier today.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
When the drive started, it was going to be at
one fifty seven, you know, and we could burn about
one twenty seven off and then it was recalibrated. I
should have taken the time out right there at the end,
thought just read calibrown and you know, we talked about
two hands on the ball, but that's not good enough.
Just told him to take any in. That's it. Fumbled
the ball at twenty five and they won seventy five
yards in two plays. So not going to make an
(18:31):
excuse for it or say he should have done this
or that. That's it. I know we should have should
have done it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Sometimes let's get carried away with they just finished the
game and run it. But I should have just stepped
in and said, hey, just taken.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hey, yeah, I like the I'm not going to say
we should have think but we should.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We should. I'm not saying we should, we should. Now
I could tell you exactly why he was.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He was a little.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Evasive, which I'm sure what he's doing is. I'm going
to take the bullet for this because who knows if something,
if a code said something, or hey we think we
can do it, we can't do it. All this but
that's a load of crap, because I'll tell you exactly
why this play happened. Miami was undefeated coming into this game.
Right this is They're gonna win this game in a
big showdown against North Carolina, who had a lot of
(19:14):
trouble with Syracuse this weekend, because they were gonna be undefeated. Right,
that was it. That one play screwed Syracuse. Don't make
me think about it. So we watched this game and
Miami all you got to do Niel the ball and
it's an undefeated matchup and you're talking about too top
ten teams playing for it. Miami has not kneeled on
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the football all season long, despite the fact they had
the ball at the end of games with leads. Their
leads have been at least two touchdowns when they've had
the football, but they still have not kneeled a football
at all. Why does something like this happen because and
I love when coaches like this lose, Because Mario crystal
(19:56):
Ball is one of those coaches that always wants to
show you I'm the smartest guy in the room. I'm
gonna do something that other coaches don't do because look
how smart I am. We don't need to kneel on
the football. We're gonna run. We're still gonna run our offense,
We're gonna get our players' reps, and we're gonna win
a game. We don't need to kneel on the football.
I'm the smartest guy in the room, and I want
(20:17):
to show you. This is what sets me apart as
a coach. I coach with a lot of guys like
this in youth sports, and they're always trying to come
up with some kind of crazy ass thing to do
to make it look like, hey, look at me. I
want people to say that I'm a great coach because
I'm doing these crazy ass drills. I'm like, okay, you
know what, you can put out cones and ladders and
all kinds of stuff and had draw bull's eyes on stuff.
(20:38):
And I actually I saw one coach actually drawing up
polls that you can do. But you can do all
of that does it. It doesn't mean what you're doing
is best for the team. And he wants to be
that coach that says, look at what, look at what,
look at how we do it. We do it differently,
much like Greg Ciano liked to do what I'm rushing
the snap at the end of the game, Well, teams
don't really do that. That's the way I do it.
Why Because he wanted people to think I'm the smartest
(21:00):
coach in the room. I'm the smartest guy there is
and you watch because I'm doing all these next level
things that make people go wow. They make the parents
of the kids go wow, he's a great coach. She's
a great coach. Oh look at what they're doing. Oh
my goodness, and I just go. I love when people
like that lose. I love when they lose because they
want you. They want that image out there that they
(21:22):
think they know more than you and that I'm gonna
show you that, Hey, we don't need to kneel on
the football. Dude, kneel on the football. It's why people
kneel on the football. But no, no, no, I'm special.
My team doesn't have to do it. That's why I love.
I love that they lost, and I love that he
lost that way because that's what it's about. That was
about hubris and about attitude and showing look look at me.
I want everybody. I want recruits, I want parents, I
(21:43):
want coaches to say, look, boy, he just does things
differently than everybody else does. And I love when teams
like that lose.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, I mean, when Ciano was more the we're going
to be the bullies, We're going to be U. I
still can't even in Save Harbor, I can't say the
word we're going to be the biggest, you know, a
fill in the blank on the block. And that's the
way he wanted to operate, right. The problem was he
was also that way in the locker room. So the
players didn't like him either, so that that ended and
(22:09):
burnt burnt out pretty fast in this particular case. They
you know, there's some speculation about milestones. Certainly you saw
the reaction to the players on the sidelines after the
fact of what did we just do? Uh with some
expletives mixed therein.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
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Speaker 3 (22:38):
He hangs on to the ball now part of it,
You know, I didn't replay seemed to show he was
down before the guy punched the ball out.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now, it's general principal. You do something that stupid, We're
gonna give him the football. We're not whistling this dead now.
If the ball was coming out.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, stupid, they get the ball. In fact, touchdown.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I'm not even gonna let him throw it. I'm just
gonna gievehim a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah. And here here's the best part of it, though,
because you had multiple chances to still finish this thing, right.
It's like, you know, the Buckner play, the Moise elud
Bartman play, all of these sings multiple chances to still
take care of businesses up. You melt down. The quarterback
for Georgia Tech, Haines King, before that final possession, had
(23:23):
thrown for seventy seven yards. He threw for seventy four
on two compleations, including the touchdown that won the game
in the final half minute. Play defense, all right, you
lost the ball, you fumbled the ball. They still had
to go seventy five yards on you, no timeouts and
just a few precious ticks on the clock. That's an
(23:45):
organizational failure on multiple levels. You could have picked your
coach up, but you were still too damn stunned that
he didn'tkneel the ball out, so you didn't respond defensively.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'll tell you it's so much fun watching coaches like that.
I remember coaching again and the example I was giving.
I'm were coaching a game in All Stars soccer, like
two or three years ago, and we were playing a
team and in the first half, girl missed a penalty.
Their best player missed penalty. She like just sailed it
over the crossbark like it happens. Halftime, What does the
(24:19):
coach do. The coach puts out cones and a ladder
and puts like makeshift bull's eyes in the corner of
the net. So while everybody else is is hanging out
and getting ready for the second half, you know, getting
you know, eating and getting ready going over strategy, he's
got her on the field going through cones, then stepping
(24:40):
through a ladder and trying to kick a penalty and
hit and hit a bulls eye that he put in
the corner, And I'm like, what do you do? You
really do he real This is a guy who thinks, oh,
I want all the parents watching me saying, look look
at what I'm doing to try to help this girl.
All you're doing is pointing out that your best player
missed a penalty and now you're punish exactly and I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I'd say we should be doing this drill anyway in practice.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, not at halftime. And Pam, Pam always because I
always say, you know, coach like that, I go, I
could put out I could put out cones and and
and and uh and ladder than bullseyes. And she's like,
because of that coach, right, I'm like, yeah, it's because
of that coach.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
They put out a little trail of bullseye from toys,
like what do you do?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But that's Marra Crista ball. No, we don't need to
look at us. We're in these we're in these these
big jerseys that we like, and we don't need to
If they knelt on the football before I could say, okay,
something happened. There was a miscommunication and they thought they
needed to run another play or they did what what?
But no, no, no, We've never kneeled on the ball before,
never kneeled on it, and so we don't need to
do it now because we don't need to because we're Miami, right,
(25:45):
This is ow why coach? Yeah, and I love I
love When they lost, I was like, yes, you deserved
the personal And he does well because he stands for
the coaches that I coach against to do this, because
there's lots of them in youth sports. Man, I'll tell you, uh.
But watching him, I go, he's gonna think about that
for the rest of his life. He's gonna think about
that game every day because of the stakes. The stakes
were here.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I am.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I've turned it around in Miami. My first year wasn't great,
but I've turned it around, and look at us. We're undefeated,
We're gonna be going into a big game against North
Countin win or lose. Hey, the U is back, and
now it's dude, you're lucky you have a job after that.
You're lucky you have a job after that. How about
his player's reactions on the bench. What there doing? Yeah, yeah,
that's how you you want, you want that's our I mean,
(26:26):
you know how to get fired. Really that I get
see you together. They look through Miami looked through going, hey,
what's how much do we owe them? How much do
we owe them? How much do we do we because
I don't know the players gonna play for me? Well,
but I mean, think about it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Extended back into the Monday night football game tonight, right
where McDaniels has the opportunity on a fourth and two,
fourth and one and a half, call it two, and
goes for the Carlson fifty two yard field goal right
to make it a seven point game. The data says
that that that's far more makeable, but Carlson normally nails
(26:58):
about eighty three and a half percent from fifty plus
in his career, now twenty four of thirty. That you
make that decision there where most of the time you're
going forward on that fourth down, and then in this
moment where you can make it a seven point game,
you decide to kick the field going. I guess the
argument he would make is other, he's.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Gonna throw it. Hey, let's try to get another's take.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Him into the line and go.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Maybe they'll go like Shianu and go really hard at
us when we go to try to kneel and we
can fake it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Hey, I feel bad we haven't gotten DeVonta Adams of
ball more against his old team. Let's throw it to him.
Let's you know what, Let's throw it in the flat.
That way, they're really going at beers.
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