January 14, 2022 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon preview the Rams and Cardinals facing off in the Wild Card round. The guys break down a major reason why David Culley got fired by the Houston Texans, and discuss why this is part of a major problem in the NFL. Plus, Tom Brady continues to be a poor sport!
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listening to Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio that Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm telling
you I still can't get over at Jay Glazer telling
us a few minutes ago. You know, in case you
missed the interview, we're gonna play it back a little
bit for you later on. Uh with this story involving
Brian Flores getting fired as Dolphins head coach, and everybody
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talks about what a good head coach he is, but
he's got problems getting along with people and needs to
get along with needs to be able to manage downward
towards the players and upward towards the front office as well.
You know, when it becomes a thing that you know
you don't want to get, that to be a stigma
about you that you can't get along with people. But
the guys are good coach. And you know when Jay
stopped by and said, you think Sean Payton's a day
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at the beach. He fires his coaches nine times a game.
I still can't get over that. What was that play called? Well?
I thought we could You're fired. We got somebody else
in there can call the next play. That place sucked, Yeah,
I mean going after Dennis Allen was like, hey, can
your defense get me a stop here? How many times
did did? Uh? Did? Did? Glenzer says fired Dennis Allen
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right like like a hundred times? What kind of place
that you're fired? All right, that's great, Okay, all right,
here's we're gonna this defensive formation. You're fired? Uh sorry,
I'm new here. Does this mean I take over? Now?
You know I get fired all the time, probably like
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five or six times a game. It's okay, don't worry
about it. We're just we're just gonna keep going. It'll
be okay. He's think about that. That's I mean, we
watched it happen live and in living color, so we
were told with Bruce arians and and Antonio Brown, and
I mean that was just once think about the communications
on the I mean, I want the radio calls now,
release the tapes. And who is Sean Payton yelling? I
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was probably one of his coaches. He's firing one of
his coaches right now. They're leaving my stuf right now,
you dirty, miserable sun and so you're fired. Dare you
bring in the nickel package? Where's our special teams coach?
That punt went thirty three yards? You're fired? Oh boy,
this will be one of those games. I guess he's
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gonna fire everybody on the way. Sean Payton nine times
a game, fire his coaches again. We'll play that bit
back later on with Jay Glazer. If you missed any
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you forever and ever and ever. Now. Meanwhile, elsewhere in
the NFL, as we get set for a big weekend here,
you know, first time we got a Monday night playoff game.
We only have one. By we get six games. Uh
Ram's quarterback Matthew Stafford has put everybody at ease, well
most people at ease, by saying his toe is okay.
It should not impact him much in Monday night's wildcard
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playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals, but he's not gonna
let you see it, unlike Aaron Rodgers. Let me show
you my COVID toe. Here it is. It's this, and
I wouldn't show anybody. But he said he is okay.
I should be feeling really good on Monday. I'd show
it to you, but I don't want to do that.
That's for other guys to do. I'll keep my toes
to myself and this one, but it's doing good. I
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should be all right. Stop with your Rex Ryan jokes
sting his toes are okay, Everything is fine. Matthew Stafford
says he'll be all right. Were you worried about his toe, well,
I worry s up on if he suits up on Monday.
I don't give a damn about toes. You made it
onto the field. There are no excuses for toes. Come on, man,
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what everybody else is worried about? I can make you
feel better because everybody's worried about Matthew Stafford. And now
is he turning back into Matthew Stafford right after a
big run This season? He started out great, he had
a couple of bad weeks in the middle of the season,
then he had three great weeks. Then he struggled a
bit the last three game, especially the loss of San Francisco. Uh,
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they're losing overtime and he throws the bad pick trying
to force the ball to Odell Beckham Jr. And overtime
that seals the game. And now, for all the good
will Matthew Stafford has put out there, everybody is on
pins and needs going. Oh my god, is Matthew Stafford.
He's gonna stink again. Oh my god, he's back. He's
gonna throw three picks. We're gonna lose. The Cardinals are
gonna win. I can solve all of Matthew Stafford's issues
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with one within one fell swoop, because I'm gonna say
this and you're gonna go, oh yeah, those are the
Rams issues. I can solve them all. And it's something
that was the the question I had when the Rams
got Odell Beckham Jr. Was hopefully they don't try to
force the ball to him. Like the Browns did. Because
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Odell's coming in and he's at least the number three
weapon on the team, maybe number four, but he's not
Odell Beckham. Where you gotta get him the ball because
look that hurt the Browns and Baker Mayfield and other
Browns and have said it. You know, we had to
try to get him the ball early in games that
didn't give us a great offense. And when Odell Beckham
got hurt last year and wasn't playing, the offense kind
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of flowed more. So, yeah, you want it, well, we
got to get the ball to Odell Beckam. We gotta
keep Hi happy. Gott keep him happy. He's living his
last NFL life right now, so he should be happy
just being on the Rams as long as the Rams
don't try to force the ball into him. And what
does Matthew Stafford do trying to force the ball to Odell,
But he's trying to force it to him deep. If
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you would stop trying to force those deep passes to Odell,
everything would be fine, because that's when Matthew Stafford makes
bad decisions when he throws those down how many times?
How many times? I three of his bad interceptions off
the top of my head in the last five weeks
where because he tried to throw the ball deep to
Odell Beckham. And you know what, Odell's not that great
a deep receiver. That's not where he does his damage.
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That's not the player he is now. He's someone in
the middle of the field that can find space, long outs,
long passes over the middle. But to try to throw
it deep, you see, they're just not on the same page.
Whether Stafford under throws him like he did last week
for the game inning interception, whether he throws into double
coverage where Odell can't go up and get the ball. Uh,
that's the thing. Just stop trying to force it deep
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to Odell. That's not the guy to do it to.
You need him in the middle of the field, you'd
move the chains. That's how you go with Odell Beckham.
He's a guy that can find those sweet spots and
give you some twenty yard games and it looks like
he's not even trying. That's how you do it when
you try to throw deep. That's what puts him in
trouble because it's not just Matthew Stafford, right that that
interception the end of the game against the niners. Odell
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made absolutely zero play on that ball, and he saw
it coming down, and he could have stepped and and
and fought for the ball and maybe broke up the interception,
but he just kept going. He looked back, he sees
the ball coming down, he knows it's underthrown, but he's
gonna keep running. And I'm like, how do you not
stop and at least try to make a play on
the ball. How do you not even try? He made
a horrendous play on the ball. He's done that a
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deep balls in the past. It's like he expects the
ball to bounce off somebody's shoulder pads into him. So
I'm still gonna be trying to be three yards past
everybody when the ball is coming down, because if it's
not here, it's gonna bounce over to me. Uh. They're
just on on the same page. And that that part
of it just isn't working. And that's when the Rams
get into trouble. If you stop doing that, the Rams
probably win have two more wins on this season than
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they do. They probably, you know, they probably find a
way to pull it out last week. They probably went
earlier in the season as well. And that now the
Rams have much less difficulties. But if you stop doing that,
you solve all the solvable Matthew Stafford problems and everything
is great going forward. Yeah, for me, I think a
lot of it comes down to you. You got a
little bit of game action and a few carries for
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cam Akers. Can he become a bigger part of the
offense alongside Sony Michelle Uh to give you that play
action back And like you said with Odell Beckham Jr.
Were working in the middle. We're trying to find a
scrape over over the middle for him and some running
room and not balls where he's got to go up
and play defense because he's not doing it right. I mean, look,
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some of those throwers by Stafford were atrocious, you know,
forcing it into double triple coverage. But your your wide
receiver still has to go and try to play the
ball instead of kind of watching a lot of a
lot of stand by kind of thing. It's like we
talked about in basketball, the time's all right, superstars got
the ball. I don't really need to work because he's
it's not coming back out to me. The same thing here, Odell.
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You know, at times disappears and what they need to
recall is you had an offense that was huming before
you got him in, and I know, the big play
potential is there, the reputation is there, and he's made
some big plays, right the touchdown reception, you know, reaching
in past the pylon, uh in a big game at
the end of the regular season. I mean, those those
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are all wonderful things. But it's all about staying on point,
non balance the tow I you know, between that and
Kelly Stafford saying please don't sell your tickets because Matthew
couldn't he Oh my goodness, we gotta get to that.
But like right now, tickets you can get. You can
get in there. If he came out to l A
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and you wanted to go to sofa Monday Night's under
seventy five bucks was the last time I saw forget in.
And I'm still getting text from you know, ticket reps
saying you want in Like I don't work, let me alone.
We've had this conversation. I'll be on commenting about how
many fans are taking over your stadium. But look, Odell
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Beckham is at at best the number three guy for
the Rams, right He's that That's he's at best the
number three guy and maybe the number four guy depending
on the game Van Jefferson is having. Uh, it's that.
That's the that's always my was my big fear that
the outsize persona him coming in. Well, now we we
have to get we have to throw him the football, right,
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we have to keep them happy. We have to make
it make it obvious that there's a reason why we
brought him in, how he makes us better and he's
just got to be part of the offense. I get
it's a hard thing. I get it's difficult, but that's
that's the one thing that if you want to win,
they have to do. And I got news for you.
There's gonna be a lot of points on the board
on Monday because the Rams are struggling defensively. Look, they
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signed Eric Wettele, uh you know, but we we know
the Rams can put points on the board. This is
gonna be one of those last possession kind of games
where the one turnover can wind up just absolutely crushing you.
So they gotta they gotta get on this, like right now.
If if they can just stop that, Matthew Stafford look
like a much better quarterback and everything will be okay
because he'll still throw a pick now and again, but
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he's still throwing three yards and three touchdowns a week. Uh,
it's okay, that's just gotta cut back just instead of
throwing two. If you have a game with three touchdowns
and one pick, alright, great, they'll live with the one pick.
But that second one when you try to throw it deep,
and that's a deflating pass because all it does is
deflate the team. Why is that past being thrown? Odell
is not gonna get it, and now we're going back
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out there to play defense. That those are those are
the unforceable or or the the errors you can stop
that are unforced errors. Right, there's some interceptions where well,
I gotta try to make this throw. It's third down,
I try to get in the window and it gets
picked off as a bad decision or I'm getting taken down.
I want to get the ball out and I make
a bad decision trying to make a play. All right,
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that's something happens in the heat. About these are the
unforced errors that happened, and if the RAMS can cut
down on those, I'm feeling I'm feeling great about my
RAMS super Bowl prediction. But right now I Gotta be honest,
I'm feeling really nervous because Monday Night can go either way.
Even though the Cardinals are on vapors going into this game,
and and and clearly their season could end just as
easily as it goes on. It's almost like the Raiders
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and Chart last week moving ahead this week in the NFL. Yeah,
I think the big thing, uh coming into this game
is taking the totality of it. We'll get into a
deeper tomorrow night. Is you know, James Conner and Chase
Edmonds are both game time decisions. Edmond says he's gonna
go Connor maybe a little less certainty, which to me
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is a big is a huge deal for that offense.
We talked earlier about why couldn't you get Larry Fitzgerald
to come back? If nothing else, he could have just
been a sit down guy towards red zone opportunities. Uh
for you, I know he only had one touchdown catch
a year ago, but the point is, things change, Things
evolved for Odell Beckham Jr. Right now, having been with
the team for half a year, he is fifth on
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the season in the target count Cooper Cup hundred ninety
one targets on the year Van Jefferson, Tyler Higbee eighty
nine and eighty five, respectively. And then you've got um
Robert Woods who was at sixty nine when he got hurt,
so uh, certainly working to get him into into game situation,
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averaging six targets per game. Uh. It's just gotta be
smart usage and from Matthew Stafford to play within himself
something I know is one of the great euphemisms in sports,
But don't try to force it. You've got plenty of
possessions and you've got a creative play caller who may
or may not fire his people nine times again. Be
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That is visit las Vegas dot Com. Well big result
in college basketball just in a u c l A
falls in overtime two Oregon eight four eighty one is
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the final. And continuing on the theme of all the
best teams in college basketball losing this week, a uh look,
we didn't talk to anybody over there though. No, it's
it's lucky, luckily that has worked out and no one
can blame us for the for the losing. Uh Look,
u c l A number three in the country. Now
they'll drop and it's just one of those years where
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the best teams are right are the best, but it's
not like they're head and shoulders above everybody else, even
though you know, you look at the top teams, you
look at Baylor and gonzag and they're not the teams
they were a year ago. And as good as the
teams are at the top, you're gonna still see a
lot of turnover between now and the end of the
season because the best teams are all beat auble. It's
it's one of those years where you're gonna get into
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a bracket and we're gonna see insanity, and we're gonna
see a sixth seed in a seven seed and a
two seed in a four seed in the final four.
Because that's the kind of year it is. Everybody at
the top is beatable. They all are celebrate chaos because
right now you've got another game or early second half
Oregon States Upton on USC currently ranked fifth in the country.
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It is going to be chaos, baby, see I mean
filling out brackets? Good luck? This this is what This
is one of those years where who's winning. I can't
believe Sherry is winning. What was her method? She picked
the colleges she'd rather go to, So she picked Harvard
over USC and hard for you know, then somebody like
that is going to win the your your bracket pool
and I don't understand how that happened. That's who's gonna
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win this year. All the analysis, all the time that
will be spent pouring over statistics and advanced metrics, and
time that you know, upper classmen around the court together,
and how long the point guard has been working overnights
in his passing drills. All of those things come to play.
What do you got? Uh? You know what the average
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s A T score of this school entering was higher? Uh?
Ergo I picked him? Boy, Colorado sounds gonna be more
fun to go there than Arizona. I'm gonna pick Colorado
in this game. No Arizona You kidding? Okay, well, good luck.
That's do I want to serve or do I want
to ski? Uh? David Culley was fired today as head
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coach of the Houston Texas. There's no great segue. It's
just the story. It's big. It's out there. Um the
It's not a shocker because when he was hired. Look,
Adam Schefter reported that they they only were up to
give his money or only liable for his money for
the first two years, because they knew full well it
was could be a one and done situation. David Culley says, no,
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they only for the rest of that deal with paying
me the rest of my seventeen million, and I wanted
in pennies. So it looks like a mountain drop it
off and here you going. We gotta have somebody counting
out the pennies, all right to put it in a roll.
There you go, because that's the thing that you have
to roll them otherwise they get I'll manage it like
you're just gonna shove him in that thing like the
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coin star at the grocery store anyway, So when why
do I gotta rolling jerk? I remember having to do
that when I was younger, like in my early twenties,
and we had all kinds of this change and we
and and and Pam would we'd be rolling money, just
rolling money money. I said, rolling money. Uh, you know,
roll up to take it to the bank. We were
rolling up the money. After that came rolled up, you know,
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we were no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
rolling no, rolling money in the bag. Smith was once
a line coach, Alex kidding, I was not. He went
to the table and he said, you're doing that wrong.
Where we would we would say, hey, we got like
like like there's like, oh my god, this's like thirty
dollars and change in the cart. Time you get changed,
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you throw it. It's like, let's go and take this
to the bank and we'll get you know, a twenty
and a ten for it. Okay, you know, you know
I had a buddy and when I was like, who
who uh, he only dealt in cash. He just hated
the idea of credit cards. I don't know if there
was something in the family whatever, but everything was cash.
So whenever he got changed, it went in. He had
a water cooler, so he had one of the empty huge,
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you know, water water bottles sitting there and he would
put the change in there. And then every I forget
when they would do it, but he and his brother
would cash out and they'd go on a trip to
Vegas and would be all funded by the change that
they went and they dumped cashed out, would they just
like pull it right off and just put it in
the car with him and pull it. Come on, help
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me carry this. This is money. Then they take it
to the bank, and they had a bank that recognized
the absurdity of the whole rolling thing, and they would
put it into their processor and then they'd hand them
their money and off they drive to Vegas. So they
would just like weigh it and say like oh this
is I mean, they would feel it through their machine
like you. They would just drop. But but you know,
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like you do at the coin star, right, you do
the little sweep and then it's ship and it gives
you your tally and then you decide either take the
cash minus a fee, or take the gift card or
credit at the store whatever it is. And there's no
fees on that. Uh. It was the bank has the
same machine. Right, they're gonna process it the same way.
So they found a bank that didn't make them do
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the nonsense. It's like, all right, just bring in your jug.
So literally they had one of those little wheely carts
like you would use as a mover, and they put
this giant, however many pounds of change. It was strapping
in bringing into the bank, and then they'd wait while
they dumped it. And you hear that machine just going
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for you know, twenty minutes. Because of the volume they
were pushing through it. It sounds like you were already
in Vegas. That's gonna go through. I hear the sounds
that I'm gonna get money at the end. I'm waiting
for a dinging, dinging. But there you go. There you
gotta take your change. Uh. So David Culley is fired
as as Texans head coach. And look, there's there's many
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reasons for it. Look, the Texans weren't very good. Uh.
They thought Cully would come in and potentially be someone
to to put the franchise at East during a lot
of stressful times. He had a predisposition to running the
football a lot that didn't really work. Look, Cully got
the job because nobody else wanted it, right, it was
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it was you're coming off Bill O'Brien trading everybody and
Deshaun Watson saying I want out. I'm not gonna play
here anymore, Sember. David Culley got the job when Deshaun
Watson only said he wanted out. This was before all
the sexual allegations that that stopped him from playing in
the NFL this year came out. So this was just
when I so that that's the backdrop of him getting
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this job, and I felt bad for the guy. Guys
a coach in the NFL for a long time, here's
your first chance at sixty five being a head coach.
But the look clearly the Texans they did they they
hired David Culley because I had to hire somebody. And
like I said, I feel bad for the guy because
everybody says he's a nice guy, and he's and and
the players like him. But it was just a bad
season and they need to start over. And there's the
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angle of it of here is another black head coach
who gets let go, and two more black head coaches
have gotten let go and now there's only one, and
it's Mike Tomlin. It's been Mike tom every time we
do we do this story, it's and it's still Mike
Tomlin's Mike Tomlins. And that has to change. I mean,
that really does have to change. And you know, and
that's something that that's been talked about a lot today,
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and we talked about it on the show, and that
that's the number one thing, um. But the other part
of it is this and and this is where it
gets bigger than just who's gonna be the next head
coach for the teams that have openings, is that the
NFL has kind of taken a page from Major League Baseball,
in which now the front office and ownership are way
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more involved than they used to be, all right, And
and in baseball we've seen that over the course of
the past few years, managers coming in aren't given the
keys to the kingdom, saying here you go, go go
do your thing. The team is yours. Put the lineup out,
you know, I'm trusting you, and if it's your fault,
I'm firing you. That's not the case anymore more and
more teams, because of the invention of and the advent
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of analytics, UH general managers have realized I can be
involved in the sport more. And now gms and front
office members are giving the manager of the lineup, this
is the lineup, this is who we want to come
out of the bullpen tonight. This and owners are getting
involved more. They used to stay away, but now they've
realized that with this success of analytics and different kinds
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of strategies, why aren't we doing more? Right? I want
to be involved in the game planning. So now managers
that have come in Major League Baseball don't get to
come in and write their own ticket. It's very rare.
A guy like Joe Madden will get a gig and hey,
just come and do your thing. Joe, we'll trust you,
all right. You want a World Series with the Cubs
here and and Anaheim will trust you. Most jobs are
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the manager coming in knows that he's got to work
with the front office and they're gonna cut into his
authority and it's going to be something that's very palpable
that the players are going to know. So if you
want to manage in Major League Baseball now you have
to become bull with the fact that what the job
used to be isn't there anymore. And there's still some
jobs and some managers that have the cash a that
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that are allowed to do their thing. But the more
jobs that come open, the more jobs that are open
are the ones that have to involve managers having to
work with the front office and ownership. And now you're
getting that way in the National Football League. As you
have seen with the Houston Texans, you have an owner
who wants to get involved in kl McNair in a
GM and Nickissario who was at odds with with with
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many people in the organization and whoever the next head
coaches in Houston has to know that they're going to
be involved, and they're going to be really involved. They're
gonna cut into your authority. Same thing in Jacksonville. You
gotta be beholding to the owner, right Shad con all
the conversations I had with Urban Meyer. Wow, okay you
really have to have those many conversations with him? Well,
probably you did, but uh know that if you go
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into Jacksonville, that's going to be the job. That's gonna
be the situation for you. That's how it is in
the NFL. Now, all the job Brian Flores in Miami
really good head coach. Every Buddy liked and what happened
couldn't get along with the front office and ownership. Right
had issues with the players as well, But front office ownership,
that's who you have to manage well if you're gonna
stay on. So now whoever comes into Miami has to
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understand that, hey, your owner, your GM, your front office,
they're gonna be hugely involved in what they want you
to do. In the quarterbacks, they want you to play
in the people they want to put on the field.
So that's a job where you're not going to have
the same kind of authority. So while on the surface
it's here's another job opening, how it's gonna be filled
is there's not many guys that are gonna come in
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and say, hey, I'm the head coach, you leave it
to me. Jim Harbaugh is maybe the only guy that
can do that. But every other job that gets filled
is gonna be somebody. It's gonna be a defensive coordinator
or an offensive coordinator, or a college coach coming in
that's gonna understand. I don't quite have the power, but
I want to be a head coach. I have to
really be beholden more to the GM and the director
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of player personnel and the owner that I ever have before.
And I gotta be okay with that if I want
to be a head coach in the National Football leagu
because this is now becoming the norm all the job
openings that come. You are now working more hand in hand.
You're not let alone, you are you are having personnel
decisions dictated to you in many instances. And that's what
that's what the real issue with the NFL is now
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is when you become a head coach, that's gonna be
the situation you walk into. Yeah, I me, it's just
as we've talked about quite often, right, the rules of engagement,
and the line moves right as to how you you're
you're building a franchise and you know, some trying to
say well hire, hire the coach before you get the GM.
It's like, well, how does that work? Right now? Who's
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got the power play here? And it's usually top down
and now you're you're already building in a power struggle. No,
that's not gonna work, right, There's still a structure that
has to go through. And then it becomes the for
a guy like Hardball, while he's shown success before, and
we watched how that blew up with Trent Balki and
while you know, as Jay Glazer said, I'm sure he's
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not gonna walk on the beach. Uh. Jim Harbaugh continues
to do great things. Trent Bulky, We're looking at him
with our just shrugging, going, how the hell did you
mess up? What was going on in Jacksonville that badly?
And what what happened with you? And urban is he
writing a book? I would love to read Balki's book
about the year that they just had. There's no question there.
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But you know, looking at Coli specifically, he's not the
guy that traded for David Johnson thinking it was the
fantasy hero of five years ago, six years ago, right,
Rex Burkehead became their valuable, viable running back. Uh. For
for you later on in the year, Congratulations to you, Uh,
fantasy owners that got some love from him out of
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desperation place. Brandon Cooks was great, But what else did
you really have? So expecting something else is absurd. But
if you're you're coming up in the ranks, you know
these are now the rules of engagement, uh, and that
autonomy is not going to be there even if you're
you're coming from one of these strong programs, right, you
want to go into the old coaching tree analogies and
(27:02):
and kind of do the diagrams across the board. Even
if you're coming out of Kansas City, you're coming out
of Tampa, you're coming out of these successful squads. And
obviously we're looking straight at you know, for for Eric
b Enemy Byron Leftwich, knowing that you're you're not going
to get the first head coaching job and be able
to run am uck, right because you haven't been a
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head coach and you know, with sustained success. And I'm
not saying it's fair because you know what what happened
with Jacksonville and all of the many, many laundry lists
of steps and missteps by urban Meyer just unconscionable, right
in terms of everything that was able able to be
done and then finally shown the door is you're not
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gonna get that. Why was he given it? Because he
had one titles, and he had the reputation, and the
expectation was that he'd come in and with the number
one overall picked the golden haired boy, everything would be great.
And then it was anything but uh. And now he's
the cautionary tale, you know, for first time NFL head
coach is going forward as well in terms of getting
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that kind of control no matter how successful you've been
moving up the ranks and pushing through. But I hope
those guys all get their shots and not just cursory interviews,
you know, talking about Jim Caldwell would be I think
with hardball, the one guy would be looking at you know,
of the veteran Uh, he'd been there, coached and showed
showed he can want to win in a different circumstance.
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But I don't I don't know that that happens. Hell,
I don't know that he still wants to That's the
whole other part of this. But but it's certainly you
know when you go to the analytics and and we
watched it with the Chargers, like it or not, that's
that's where the game is. It may not be as visible,
may not be as in your face as some of
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the calls from Staley, you know, seem to offend the
sensibilities of people ruined the sanctity of the game for um,
which which I say, get over yourself. Life evolves, life
is changed, uh, And in the NFL there's still a
lot of things to change, which is why we bring
up the names that we do in this coaching carousel
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to make sure that guys get a shot uh and
have a an office that they can work into more
success and not have another one and done situation like
we saw with Wilkes over in Arizona or this year
with Culli where he was put in an untenable situation
and arguing that he's going to get to walk away
with the giant novelty check. Uh, is the worst thing
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you could possibly do in this process because it just
showed the horrid nature of this of all right, that's
supposed to be okay, lifetime of football too well, he
got a shot, like, it's not his fault that failed.
I mean, you look at the front office, ownership. Whatever
takes some some onus go give this guy some stuff
to work with, you know, an actual first string running
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That that really worked with this Aerosmith It did it?
Did it? Really? Did it? Really did? Uh? I've told
you for a long time. Look, Tom Brady is just
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a bad sport. He's a bad loser, and I love
watching him get so huffy when things don't go his
way and he just loses his mind. Well, you just
wanted to be humanized, and for you, that's how he
gets humanized is in that moment he he acts like
a child until he goes on another winning streak. Yeah,
the guy who has won more than any other quarterback
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in the history of the game still loses his mind
when things don't go his way. And it's so fun
to see him just act like a little kid when
things don't go his way. But today he was asked
in advance of the Bucks game against the Eagles, remember
the Bucks and the Eagles, or Tom Brady and the
Pages and the Eagles. In the Super Bowl a couple
of years ago, a lot was made of the fact
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that the last couple of times Tom Brady has lost
to Nick Foles. Uh, he didn't shake his hand, didn't
shake his hand against the Bears in the in the
now famous I thought it was fourth down game. But yeah,
he didn't measure up to to Nick in those games, right.
And then after I'll come on, that's a good show.
I think that. I think that. Uh. And then the
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of course, the snubbed handshake at the end of the
Super Bowl. Uh. It was brought up to Brady today
in advance of the game against the Eagles, and this
is what he had to say in response. I've shaken
Nick's hand plenty of times, though, so I a lot
of respect for Nick. And you know, I try to
be a good sport as best I can. I know
it doesn't always look like that, because sometimes I get
a little piste out there but for the most partly
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try to be a good sport. Yeah, yeah, for the
most part. Yeah, for the most part. Now, when I win,
I'm a good sport. When we lose, I'm not a
good sport. That's basic. Fortunately he doesn't lose that off, right,
exact fault, man, he lost more forget it. Look he
his but you'd get used to it, so maybe it
wouldn't sting. Maybe if he was a jet it wouldn't matter.
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And we lost again. Hey, I haven't seen that guy
in a while. Let's go say hi and shake his hand.
I'm just gonna give you the wave as I walk
off the field, right when you see the coaches do
that when they don't want to walk and shake hands.
Just give the wave. Yeah, good game. Yeah, I'm gonna
walk off. I'm not gonna lie. We didn't play well.
Look well, look Brady had to go blanket. He blanked
Ennis Allen in the in the middle of the game.
When Brady wasn't playing well this year when he was
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coaching for the Saints. I mean, this is who Brady is.
He's a bad sport, right he I tried. He's not
the only one is. We found out from Jilzer Dennis, Well,
what's your own team doing it? Well, you know, we'll
get to that the next hour on the show. We'll
get to that part of it. But but that's who
Brady is. He's a bad sport and he acts like
a kid. And I wish that he would be able to,
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uh show that he was a better sport if they lose.
But I guarantee, if they lose this week, he's gonna
run off the field. He's gonna be mad that he lost.
He's gonna run off the field. He's not gonna shake
hands with Jalen Hurts or anybody else. And that that's
because that's who Brady is. He just doesn't want when
I get so mad, I can't do it. I can't
be a pro and do what everybody else does because
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everybody else's hearts are broken at the end of big
playoff games when they lose. Brady is not the only guy.
Other quarterbacks don't walk a fielding go what do I
can that's early vacation. Everybody else's heart broken too, and
they still find a way to go shake hands with
the other team, with the other quarterback or people on
the other side. But no, but Brady. No, I'm just
two pissed like I can't do. Oh. Yes, what a
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great competitor you are. You're a better competitor than everybody
else because you won't shake hands at the end. I
told you this is who Brady is, and he just
admitted it. I try to be a good sport. Sometimes
I'm two piste. Okay, now I'm glad he atle said
who he is? Right. I mean, look, this is exactly
what you wanted. This is the honesty, and you know
sometimes I'm not very good at it. I'm growing as
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a person and involved. You for man, come on day,
You're not You're not you know, you're not even at
the half life. So maybe you can teach old dogs
new tricks. I don't know. That's just who he is.
And if that's the worst thing he's doing to society,
God bless him. He's done. Okay, he's a baby. This
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is why I like to see him loose, because I
want to see him walk up the field going it's done. Fair.
I just lost the game I'm supposed to win. I
supposed to win super Bowls. Just want him to feel
like you do on Sunday. I'm a Nicon I've never
no come and Tuesday's, Thursdays and Saturdays, no, no, no, no,
I feel or whatever the Knicks play. We have made
the playoffs in eleven years, my Carmen, eleven years. It's
a lot of sad, sad days and ice cream. Up next,
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listening to Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio that Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm telling
you I still can't get over at Jay Glazer telling
us a few minutes ago. You know, in case you
missed the interview, we're gonna play it back a little
bit for you later on. Uh with this story involving
Brian Flores getting fired as Dolphins head coach, and everybody
(00:47):
talks about what a good head coach he is, but
he's got problems getting along with people and needs to
get along with needs to be able to manage downward
towards the players and upward towards the front office as well.
You know, when it becomes a thing that you know
you don't want to get, that to be a stigma
about you that you can't get along with people. But
the guys are good coach. And you know when Jay
stopped by and said, you think Sean Payton's a day
(01:08):
at the beach. He fires his coaches nine times a game.
I still can't get over that. What was that play called? Well?
I thought we could You're fired. We got somebody else
in there can call the next play. That place sucked, Yeah,
I mean going after Dennis Allen was like, hey, can
your defense get me a stop here? How many times
did did? Uh? Did? Did? Glenzer says fired Dennis Allen
(01:32):
right like like a hundred times? What kind of place
that you're fired? All right, that's great, Okay, all right,
here's we're gonna this defensive formation. You're fired? Uh sorry,
I'm new here. Does this mean I take over? Now?
You know I get fired all the time, probably like
(01:53):
five or six times a game. It's okay, don't worry
about it. We're just we're just gonna keep going. It'll
be okay. He's think about that. That's I mean, we
watched it happen live and in living color, so we
were told with Bruce arians and and Antonio Brown, and
I mean that was just once think about the communications
on the I mean, I want the radio calls now,
release the tapes. And who is Sean Payton yelling? I
(02:16):
was probably one of his coaches. He's firing one of
his coaches right now. They're leaving my stuf right now,
you dirty, miserable sun and so you're fired. Dare you
bring in the nickel package? Where's our special teams coach?
That punt went thirty three yards? You're fired? Oh boy,
this will be one of those games. I guess he's
(02:37):
gonna fire everybody on the way. Sean Payton nine times
a game, fire his coaches again. We'll play that bit
back later on with Jay Glazer. If you missed any
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you forever and ever and ever. Now. Meanwhile, elsewhere in
the NFL, as we get set for a big weekend here,
you know, first time we got a Monday night playoff game.
We only have one. By we get six games. Uh
Ram's quarterback Matthew Stafford has put everybody at ease, well
most people at ease, by saying his toe is okay.
It should not impact him much in Monday night's wildcard
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playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals, but he's not gonna
let you see it, unlike Aaron Rodgers. Let me show
you my COVID toe. Here it is. It's this, and
I wouldn't show anybody. But he said he is okay.
I should be feeling really good on Monday. I'd show
it to you, but I don't want to do that.
That's for other guys to do. I'll keep my toes
to myself and this one, but it's doing good. I
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should be all right. Stop with your Rex Ryan jokes
sting his toes are okay, Everything is fine. Matthew Stafford
says he'll be all right. Were you worried about his toe, well,
I worry s up on if he suits up on Monday.
I don't give a damn about toes. You made it
onto the field. There are no excuses for toes. Come on, man,
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what everybody else is worried about? I can make you
feel better because everybody's worried about Matthew Stafford. And now
is he turning back into Matthew Stafford right after a
big run This season? He started out great, he had
a couple of bad weeks in the middle of the season,
then he had three great weeks. Then he struggled a
bit the last three game, especially the loss of San Francisco. Uh,
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they're losing overtime and he throws the bad pick trying
to force the ball to Odell Beckham Jr. And overtime
that seals the game. And now, for all the good
will Matthew Stafford has put out there, everybody is on
pins and needs going. Oh my god, is Matthew Stafford.
He's gonna stink again. Oh my god, he's back. He's
gonna throw three picks. We're gonna lose. The Cardinals are
gonna win. I can solve all of Matthew Stafford's issues
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with one within one fell swoop, because I'm gonna say
this and you're gonna go, oh yeah, those are the
Rams issues. I can solve them all. And it's something
that was the the question I had when the Rams
got Odell Beckham Jr. Was hopefully they don't try to
force the ball to him. Like the Browns did. Because
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Odell's coming in and he's at least the number three
weapon on the team, maybe number four, but he's not
Odell Beckham. Where you gotta get him the ball because
look that hurt the Browns and Baker Mayfield and other
Browns and have said it. You know, we had to
try to get him the ball early in games that
didn't give us a great offense. And when Odell Beckham
got hurt last year and wasn't playing, the offense kind
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of flowed more. So, yeah, you want it, well, we
got to get the ball to Odell Beckam. We gotta
keep Hi happy. Gott keep him happy. He's living his
last NFL life right now, so he should be happy
just being on the Rams as long as the Rams
don't try to force the ball into him. And what
does Matthew Stafford do trying to force the ball to Odell,
But he's trying to force it to him deep. If
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you would stop trying to force those deep passes to Odell,
everything would be fine, because that's when Matthew Stafford makes
bad decisions when he throws those down how many times?
How many times? I three of his bad interceptions off
the top of my head in the last five weeks
where because he tried to throw the ball deep to
Odell Beckham. And you know what, Odell's not that great
a deep receiver. That's not where he does his damage.
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That's not the player he is now. He's someone in
the middle of the field that can find space, long outs,
long passes over the middle. But to try to throw
it deep, you see, they're just not on the same page.
Whether Stafford under throws him like he did last week
for the game inning interception, whether he throws into double
coverage where Odell can't go up and get the ball. Uh,
that's the thing. Just stop trying to force it deep
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to Odell. That's not the guy to do it to.
You need him in the middle of the field, you'd
move the chains. That's how you go with Odell Beckham.
He's a guy that can find those sweet spots and
give you some twenty yard games and it looks like
he's not even trying. That's how you do it when
you try to throw deep. That's what puts him in
trouble because it's not just Matthew Stafford, right that that
interception the end of the game against the niners. Odell
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made absolutely zero play on that ball, and he saw
it coming down, and he could have stepped and and
and fought for the ball and maybe broke up the interception,
but he just kept going. He looked back, he sees
the ball coming down, he knows it's underthrown, but he's
gonna keep running. And I'm like, how do you not
stop and at least try to make a play on
the ball. How do you not even try? He made
a horrendous play on the ball. He's done that a
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deep balls in the past. It's like he expects the
ball to bounce off somebody's shoulder pads into him. So
I'm still gonna be trying to be three yards past
everybody when the ball is coming down, because if it's
not here, it's gonna bounce over to me. Uh. They're
just on on the same page. And that that part
of it just isn't working. And that's when the Rams
get into trouble. If you stop doing that, the Rams
probably win have two more wins on this season than
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they do. They probably, you know, they probably find a
way to pull it out last week. They probably went
earlier in the season as well. And that now the
Rams have much less difficulties. But if you stop doing that,
you solve all the solvable Matthew Stafford problems and everything
is great going forward. Yeah, for me, I think a
lot of it comes down to you. You got a
little bit of game action and a few carries for
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cam Akers. Can he become a bigger part of the
offense alongside Sony Michelle Uh to give you that play
action back And like you said with Odell Beckham Jr.
Were working in the middle. We're trying to find a
scrape over over the middle for him and some running
room and not balls where he's got to go up
and play defense because he's not doing it right. I mean, look,
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some of those throwers by Stafford were atrocious, you know,
forcing it into double triple coverage. But your your wide
receiver still has to go and try to play the
ball instead of kind of watching a lot of a
lot of stand by kind of thing. It's like we
talked about in basketball, the time's all right, superstars got
the ball. I don't really need to work because he's
it's not coming back out to me. The same thing here, Odell.
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You know, at times disappears and what they need to
recall is you had an offense that was huming before
you got him in, and I know, the big play
potential is there, the reputation is there, and he's made
some big plays, right the touchdown reception, you know, reaching
in past the pylon, uh in a big game at
the end of the regular season. I mean, those those
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are all wonderful things. But it's all about staying on point,
non balance the tow I you know, between that and
Kelly Stafford saying please don't sell your tickets because Matthew
couldn't he Oh my goodness, we gotta get to that.
But like right now, tickets you can get. You can
get in there. If he came out to l A
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and you wanted to go to sofa Monday Night's under
seventy five bucks was the last time I saw forget in.
And I'm still getting text from you know, ticket reps
saying you want in Like I don't work, let me alone.
We've had this conversation. I'll be on commenting about how
many fans are taking over your stadium. But look, Odell
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Beckham is at at best the number three guy for
the Rams, right He's that That's he's at best the
number three guy and maybe the number four guy depending
on the game Van Jefferson is having. Uh, it's that.
That's the that's always my was my big fear that
the outsize persona him coming in. Well, now we we
have to get we have to throw him the football, right,
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we have to keep them happy. We have to make
it make it obvious that there's a reason why we
brought him in, how he makes us better and he's
just got to be part of the offense. I get
it's a hard thing. I get it's difficult, but that's
that's the one thing that if you want to win,
they have to do. And I got news for you.
There's gonna be a lot of points on the board
on Monday because the Rams are struggling defensively. Look, they
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signed Eric Wettele, uh you know, but we we know
the Rams can put points on the board. This is
gonna be one of those last possession kind of games
where the one turnover can wind up just absolutely crushing you.
So they gotta they gotta get on this, like right now.
If if they can just stop that, Matthew Stafford look
like a much better quarterback and everything will be okay
because he'll still throw a pick now and again, but
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he's still throwing three yards and three touchdowns a week. Uh,
it's okay, that's just gotta cut back just instead of
throwing two. If you have a game with three touchdowns
and one pick, alright, great, they'll live with the one pick.
But that second one when you try to throw it deep,
and that's a deflating pass because all it does is
deflate the team. Why is that past being thrown? Odell
is not gonna get it, and now we're going back
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out there to play defense. That those are those are
the unforceable or or the the errors you can stop
that are unforced errors. Right, there's some interceptions where well,
I gotta try to make this throw. It's third down,
I try to get in the window and it gets
picked off as a bad decision or I'm getting taken down.
I want to get the ball out and I make
a bad decision trying to make a play. All right,
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that's something happens in the heat. About these are the
unforced errors that happened, and if the RAMS can cut
down on those, I'm feeling I'm feeling great about my
RAMS super Bowl prediction. But right now I Gotta be honest,
I'm feeling really nervous because Monday Night can go either way.
Even though the Cardinals are on vapors going into this game,
and and and clearly their season could end just as
easily as it goes on. It's almost like the Raiders
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and Chart last week moving ahead this week in the NFL. Yeah,
I think the big thing, uh coming into this game
is taking the totality of it. We'll get into a
deeper tomorrow night. Is you know, James Conner and Chase
Edmonds are both game time decisions. Edmond says he's gonna
go Connor maybe a little less certainty, which to me
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is a big is a huge deal for that offense.
We talked earlier about why couldn't you get Larry Fitzgerald
to come back? If nothing else, he could have just
been a sit down guy towards red zone opportunities. Uh
for you, I know he only had one touchdown catch
a year ago, but the point is, things change, Things
evolved for Odell Beckham Jr. Right now, having been with
the team for half a year, he is fifth on
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the season in the target count Cooper Cup hundred ninety
one targets on the year Van Jefferson, Tyler Higbee eighty
nine and eighty five, respectively. And then you've got um
Robert Woods who was at sixty nine when he got hurt,
so uh, certainly working to get him into into game situation,
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averaging six targets per game. Uh. It's just gotta be
smart usage and from Matthew Stafford to play within himself
something I know is one of the great euphemisms in sports,
But don't try to force it. You've got plenty of
possessions and you've got a creative play caller who may
or may not fire his people nine times again. Be
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in college basketball just in a u c l A
falls in overtime two Oregon eight four eighty one is
(14:06):
the final. And continuing on the theme of all the
best teams in college basketball losing this week, a uh look,
we didn't talk to anybody over there though. No, it's
it's lucky, luckily that has worked out and no one
can blame us for the for the losing. Uh Look,
u c l A number three in the country. Now
they'll drop and it's just one of those years where
(14:29):
the best teams are right are the best, but it's
not like they're head and shoulders above everybody else, even
though you know, you look at the top teams, you
look at Baylor and gonzag and they're not the teams
they were a year ago. And as good as the
teams are at the top, you're gonna still see a
lot of turnover between now and the end of the
season because the best teams are all beat auble. It's
it's one of those years where you're gonna get into
(14:50):
a bracket and we're gonna see insanity, and we're gonna
see a sixth seed in a seven seed and a
two seed in a four seed in the final four.
Because that's the kind of year it is. Everybody at
the top is beatable. They all are celebrate chaos because
right now you've got another game or early second half
Oregon States Upton on USC currently ranked fifth in the country.
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It is going to be chaos, baby, see I mean
filling out brackets? Good luck? This this is what This
is one of those years where who's winning. I can't
believe Sherry is winning. What was her method? She picked
the colleges she'd rather go to, So she picked Harvard
over USC and hard for you know, then somebody like
that is going to win the your your bracket pool
and I don't understand how that happened. That's who's gonna
(15:33):
win this year. All the analysis, all the time that
will be spent pouring over statistics and advanced metrics, and
time that you know, upper classmen around the court together,
and how long the point guard has been working overnights
in his passing drills. All of those things come to play.
What do you got? Uh? You know what the average
(15:53):
s A T score of this school entering was higher? Uh?
Ergo I picked him? Boy, Colorado sounds gonna be more
fun to go there than Arizona. I'm gonna pick Colorado
in this game. No Arizona You kidding? Okay, well, good luck.
That's do I want to serve or do I want
to ski? Uh? David Culley was fired today as head
(16:16):
coach of the Houston Texas. There's no great segue. It's
just the story. It's big. It's out there. Um the
It's not a shocker because when he was hired. Look,
Adam Schefter reported that they they only were up to
give his money or only liable for his money for
the first two years, because they knew full well it
was could be a one and done situation. David Culley says, no,
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they only for the rest of that deal with paying
me the rest of my seventeen million, and I wanted
in pennies. So it looks like a mountain drop it
off and here you going. We gotta have somebody counting
out the pennies, all right to put it in a roll.
There you go, because that's the thing that you have
to roll them otherwise they get I'll manage it like
you're just gonna shove him in that thing like the
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coin star at the grocery store anyway, So when why
do I gotta rolling jerk? I remember having to do
that when I was younger, like in my early twenties,
and we had all kinds of this change and we
and and and Pam would we'd be rolling money, just
rolling money money. I said, rolling money. Uh, you know,
roll up to take it to the bank. We were
rolling up the money. After that came rolled up, you know,
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we were no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
rolling no, rolling money in the bag. Smith was once
a line coach, Alex kidding, I was not. He went
to the table and he said, you're doing that wrong.
Where we would we would say, hey, we got like
like like there's like, oh my god, this's like thirty
dollars and change in the cart. Time you get changed,
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you throw it. It's like, let's go and take this
to the bank and we'll get you know, a twenty
and a ten for it. Okay, you know, you know
I had a buddy and when I was like, who
who uh, he only dealt in cash. He just hated
the idea of credit cards. I don't know if there
was something in the family whatever, but everything was cash.
So whenever he got changed, it went in. He had
a water cooler, so he had one of the empty huge,
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you know, water water bottles sitting there and he would
put the change in there. And then every I forget
when they would do it, but he and his brother
would cash out and they'd go on a trip to
Vegas and would be all funded by the change that
they went and they dumped cashed out, would they just
like pull it right off and just put it in
the car with him and pull it. Come on, help
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me carry this. This is money. Then they take it
to the bank, and they had a bank that recognized
the absurdity of the whole rolling thing, and they would
put it into their processor and then they'd hand them
their money and off they drive to Vegas. So they
would just like weigh it and say like oh this
is I mean, they would feel it through their machine
like you. They would just drop. But but you know,
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like you do at the coin star, right, you do
the little sweep and then it's ship and it gives
you your tally and then you decide either take the
cash minus a fee, or take the gift card or
credit at the store whatever it is. And there's no
fees on that. Uh. It was the bank has the
same machine. Right, they're gonna process it the same way.
So they found a bank that didn't make them do
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the nonsense. It's like, all right, just bring in your jug.
So literally they had one of those little wheely carts
like you would use as a mover, and they put
this giant, however many pounds of change. It was strapping
in bringing into the bank, and then they'd wait while
they dumped it. And you hear that machine just going
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for you know, twenty minutes. Because of the volume they
were pushing through it. It sounds like you were already
in Vegas. That's gonna go through. I hear the sounds
that I'm gonna get money at the end. I'm waiting
for a dinging, dinging. But there you go. There you
gotta take your change. Uh. So David Culley is fired
as as Texans head coach. And look, there's there's many
(19:52):
reasons for it. Look, the Texans weren't very good. Uh.
They thought Cully would come in and potentially be someone
to to put the franchise at East during a lot
of stressful times. He had a predisposition to running the
football a lot that didn't really work. Look, Cully got
the job because nobody else wanted it, right, it was
(20:13):
it was you're coming off Bill O'Brien trading everybody and
Deshaun Watson saying I want out. I'm not gonna play
here anymore, Sember. David Culley got the job when Deshaun
Watson only said he wanted out. This was before all
the sexual allegations that that stopped him from playing in
the NFL this year came out. So this was just
when I so that that's the backdrop of him getting
(20:34):
this job, and I felt bad for the guy. Guys
a coach in the NFL for a long time, here's
your first chance at sixty five being a head coach.
But the look clearly the Texans they did they they
hired David Culley because I had to hire somebody. And
like I said, I feel bad for the guy because
everybody says he's a nice guy, and he's and and
the players like him. But it was just a bad
season and they need to start over. And there's the
(20:58):
angle of it of here is another black head coach
who gets let go, and two more black head coaches
have gotten let go and now there's only one, and
it's Mike Tomlin. It's been Mike tom every time we
do we do this story, it's and it's still Mike
Tomlin's Mike Tomlins. And that has to change. I mean,
that really does have to change. And you know, and
that's something that that's been talked about a lot today,
(21:18):
and we talked about it on the show, and that
that's the number one thing, um. But the other part
of it is this and and this is where it
gets bigger than just who's gonna be the next head
coach for the teams that have openings, is that the
NFL has kind of taken a page from Major League Baseball,
in which now the front office and ownership are way
(21:42):
more involved than they used to be, all right, And
and in baseball we've seen that over the course of
the past few years, managers coming in aren't given the
keys to the kingdom, saying here you go, go go
do your thing. The team is yours. Put the lineup out,
you know, I'm trusting you, and if it's your fault,
I'm firing you. That's not the case anymore more and
more teams, because of the invention of and the advent
(22:04):
of analytics, UH general managers have realized I can be
involved in the sport more. And now gms and front
office members are giving the manager of the lineup, this
is the lineup, this is who we want to come
out of the bullpen tonight. This and owners are getting
involved more. They used to stay away, but now they've
realized that with this success of analytics and different kinds
(22:25):
of strategies, why aren't we doing more? Right? I want
to be involved in the game planning. So now managers
that have come in Major League Baseball don't get to
come in and write their own ticket. It's very rare.
A guy like Joe Madden will get a gig and hey,
just come and do your thing. Joe, we'll trust you,
all right. You want a World Series with the Cubs
here and and Anaheim will trust you. Most jobs are
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the manager coming in knows that he's got to work
with the front office and they're gonna cut into his
authority and it's going to be something that's very palpable
that the players are going to know. So if you
want to manage in Major League Baseball now you have
to become bull with the fact that what the job
used to be isn't there anymore. And there's still some
jobs and some managers that have the cash a that
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that are allowed to do their thing. But the more
jobs that come open, the more jobs that are open
are the ones that have to involve managers having to
work with the front office and ownership. And now you're
getting that way in the National Football League. As you
have seen with the Houston Texans, you have an owner
who wants to get involved in kl McNair in a
GM and Nickissario who was at odds with with with
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many people in the organization and whoever the next head
coaches in Houston has to know that they're going to
be involved, and they're going to be really involved. They're
gonna cut into your authority. Same thing in Jacksonville. You
gotta be beholding to the owner, right Shad con all
the conversations I had with Urban Meyer. Wow, okay you
really have to have those many conversations with him? Well,
probably you did, but uh know that if you go
(23:50):
into Jacksonville, that's going to be the job. That's gonna
be the situation for you. That's how it is in
the NFL. Now, all the job Brian Flores in Miami
really good head coach. Every Buddy liked and what happened
couldn't get along with the front office and ownership. Right
had issues with the players as well, But front office ownership,
that's who you have to manage well if you're gonna
stay on. So now whoever comes into Miami has to
(24:11):
understand that, hey, your owner, your GM, your front office,
they're gonna be hugely involved in what they want you
to do. In the quarterbacks, they want you to play
in the people they want to put on the field.
So that's a job where you're not going to have
the same kind of authority. So while on the surface
it's here's another job opening, how it's gonna be filled
is there's not many guys that are gonna come in
(24:32):
and say, hey, I'm the head coach, you leave it
to me. Jim Harbaugh is maybe the only guy that
can do that. But every other job that gets filled
is gonna be somebody. It's gonna be a defensive coordinator
or an offensive coordinator, or a college coach coming in
that's gonna understand. I don't quite have the power, but
I want to be a head coach. I have to
really be beholden more to the GM and the director
(24:52):
of player personnel and the owner that I ever have before.
And I gotta be okay with that if I want
to be a head coach in the National Football leagu
because this is now becoming the norm all the job
openings that come. You are now working more hand in hand.
You're not let alone, you are you are having personnel
decisions dictated to you in many instances. And that's what
that's what the real issue with the NFL is now
(25:14):
is when you become a head coach, that's gonna be
the situation you walk into. Yeah, I me, it's just
as we've talked about quite often, right, the rules of engagement,
and the line moves right as to how you you're
you're building a franchise and you know, some trying to
say well hire, hire the coach before you get the GM.
It's like, well, how does that work? Right now? Who's
(25:36):
got the power play here? And it's usually top down
and now you're you're already building in a power struggle. No,
that's not gonna work, right, There's still a structure that
has to go through. And then it becomes the for
a guy like Hardball, while he's shown success before, and
we watched how that blew up with Trent Balki and
while you know, as Jay Glazer said, I'm sure he's
(25:58):
not gonna walk on the beach. Uh. Jim Harbaugh continues
to do great things. Trent Bulky, We're looking at him
with our just shrugging, going, how the hell did you
mess up? What was going on in Jacksonville that badly?
And what what happened with you? And urban is he
writing a book? I would love to read Balki's book
about the year that they just had. There's no question there.
(26:19):
But you know, looking at Coli specifically, he's not the
guy that traded for David Johnson thinking it was the
fantasy hero of five years ago, six years ago, right,
Rex Burkehead became their valuable, viable running back. Uh. For
for you later on in the year, Congratulations to you, Uh,
fantasy owners that got some love from him out of
(26:40):
desperation place. Brandon Cooks was great, But what else did
you really have? So expecting something else is absurd. But
if you're you're coming up in the ranks, you know
these are now the rules of engagement, uh, and that
autonomy is not going to be there even if you're
you're coming from one of these strong programs, right, you
want to go into the old coaching tree analogies and
(27:02):
and kind of do the diagrams across the board. Even
if you're coming out of Kansas City, you're coming out
of Tampa, you're coming out of these successful squads. And
obviously we're looking straight at you know, for for Eric
b Enemy Byron Leftwich, knowing that you're you're not going
to get the first head coaching job and be able
to run am uck, right because you haven't been a
(27:23):
head coach and you know, with sustained success. And I'm
not saying it's fair because you know what what happened
with Jacksonville and all of the many, many laundry lists
of steps and missteps by urban Meyer just unconscionable, right
in terms of everything that was able able to be
done and then finally shown the door is you're not
(27:46):
gonna get that. Why was he given it? Because he
had one titles, and he had the reputation, and the
expectation was that he'd come in and with the number
one overall picked the golden haired boy, everything would be great.
And then it was anything but uh. And now he's
the cautionary tale, you know, for first time NFL head
coach is going forward as well in terms of getting
(28:08):
that kind of control no matter how successful you've been
moving up the ranks and pushing through. But I hope
those guys all get their shots and not just cursory interviews,
you know, talking about Jim Caldwell would be I think
with hardball, the one guy would be looking at you know,
of the veteran Uh, he'd been there, coached and showed
showed he can want to win in a different circumstance.
(28:32):
But I don't I don't know that that happens. Hell,
I don't know that he still wants to That's the
whole other part of this. But but it's certainly you
know when you go to the analytics and and we
watched it with the Chargers, like it or not, that's
that's where the game is. It may not be as visible,
may not be as in your face as some of
(28:52):
the calls from Staley, you know, seem to offend the
sensibilities of people ruined the sanctity of the game for um,
which which I say, get over yourself. Life evolves, life
is changed, uh, And in the NFL there's still a
lot of things to change, which is why we bring
up the names that we do in this coaching carousel
(29:12):
to make sure that guys get a shot uh and
have a an office that they can work into more
success and not have another one and done situation like
we saw with Wilkes over in Arizona or this year
with Culli where he was put in an untenable situation
and arguing that he's going to get to walk away
with the giant novelty check. Uh, is the worst thing
(29:34):
you could possibly do in this process because it just
showed the horrid nature of this of all right, that's
supposed to be okay, lifetime of football too well, he
got a shot, like, it's not his fault that failed.
I mean, you look at the front office, ownership. Whatever
takes some some onus go give this guy some stuff
to work with, you know, an actual first string running
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That that really worked with this Aerosmith It did it?
Did it? Really? Did it? Really did? Uh? I've told
you for a long time. Look, Tom Brady is just
(30:56):
a bad sport. He's a bad loser, and I love
watching him get so huffy when things don't go his
way and he just loses his mind. Well, you just
wanted to be humanized, and for you, that's how he
gets humanized is in that moment he he acts like
a child until he goes on another winning streak. Yeah,
the guy who has won more than any other quarterback
(31:17):
in the history of the game still loses his mind
when things don't go his way. And it's so fun
to see him just act like a little kid when
things don't go his way. But today he was asked
in advance of the Bucks game against the Eagles, remember
the Bucks and the Eagles, or Tom Brady and the
Pages and the Eagles. In the Super Bowl a couple
of years ago, a lot was made of the fact
(31:38):
that the last couple of times Tom Brady has lost
to Nick Foles. Uh, he didn't shake his hand, didn't
shake his hand against the Bears in the in the
now famous I thought it was fourth down game. But yeah,
he didn't measure up to to Nick in those games, right.
And then after I'll come on, that's a good show.
I think that. I think that. Uh. And then the
(32:00):
of course, the snubbed handshake at the end of the
Super Bowl. Uh. It was brought up to Brady today
in advance of the game against the Eagles, and this
is what he had to say in response. I've shaken
Nick's hand plenty of times, though, so I a lot
of respect for Nick. And you know, I try to
be a good sport as best I can. I know
it doesn't always look like that, because sometimes I get
a little piste out there but for the most partly
(32:21):
try to be a good sport. Yeah, yeah, for the
most part. Yeah, for the most part. Now, when I win,
I'm a good sport. When we lose, I'm not a
good sport. That's basic. Fortunately he doesn't lose that off, right,
exact fault, man, he lost more forget it. Look he
his but you'd get used to it, so maybe it
wouldn't sting. Maybe if he was a jet it wouldn't matter.
(32:42):
And we lost again. Hey, I haven't seen that guy
in a while. Let's go say hi and shake his hand.
I'm just gonna give you the wave as I walk
off the field, right when you see the coaches do
that when they don't want to walk and shake hands.
Just give the wave. Yeah, good game. Yeah, I'm gonna
walk off. I'm not gonna lie. We didn't play well.
Look well, look Brady had to go blanket. He blanked
Ennis Allen in the in the middle of the game.
When Brady wasn't playing well this year when he was
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coaching for the Saints. I mean, this is who Brady is.
He's a bad sport, right he I tried. He's not
the only one is. We found out from Jilzer Dennis, Well,
what's your own team doing it? Well, you know, we'll
get to that the next hour on the show. We'll
get to that part of it. But but that's who
Brady is. He's a bad sport and he acts like
a kid. And I wish that he would be able to,
(33:26):
uh show that he was a better sport if they lose.
But I guarantee, if they lose this week, he's gonna
run off the field. He's gonna be mad that he lost.
He's gonna run off the field. He's not gonna shake
hands with Jalen Hurts or anybody else. And that that's
because that's who Brady is. He just doesn't want when
I get so mad, I can't do it. I can't
be a pro and do what everybody else does because
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everybody else's hearts are broken at the end of big
playoff games when they lose. Brady is not the only guy.
Other quarterbacks don't walk a fielding go what do I
can that's early vacation. Everybody else's heart broken too, and
they still find a way to go shake hands with
the other team, with the other quarterback or people on
the other side. But no, but Brady. No, I'm just
two pissed like I can't do. Oh. Yes, what a
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great competitor you are. You're a better competitor than everybody
else because you won't shake hands at the end. I
told you this is who Brady is, and he just
admitted it. I try to be a good sport. Sometimes
I'm two piste. Okay, now I'm glad he atle said
who he is? Right. I mean, look, this is exactly
what you wanted. This is the honesty, and you know
sometimes I'm not very good at it. I'm growing as
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a person and involved. You for man, come on day,
You're not You're not you know, you're not even at
the half life. So maybe you can teach old dogs
new tricks. I don't know. That's just who he is.
And if that's the worst thing he's doing to society,
God bless him. He's done. Okay, he's a baby. This
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is why I like to see him loose, because I
want to see him walk up the field going it's done. Fair.
I just lost the game I'm supposed to win. I
supposed to win super Bowls. Just want him to feel
like you do on Sunday. I'm a Nicon I've never
no come and Tuesday's, Thursdays and Saturdays, no, no, no, no,
I feel or whatever the Knicks play. We have made
the playoffs in eleven years, my Carmen, eleven years. It's
a lot of sad, sad days and ice cream. Up next,
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