September 9, 2019 • 36 mins
Doug breaks down the Patriots crushing the Steelers in week 1 of the season and what impressed him the most about their win. He also thinks the Browns are worried about the wrong things which led to their disappointing performance to start the season. Plus, Super Bowl Champion Trent Dilfer gives his thoughts on the top QB performances in week 1 of the NFL season.
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Welcome in football is really back and fl Wise, we
will get into the Browns and that debacle, the Chiefs winning,
also losing. Why the Aaron Rodgers rule made sense even
when Aaron Rodgers didn't like the Aaron Rodgers rule, which
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of course is probably ended or come close to ending
Nick Fole's season already. The Dallas Cowboys. Is it them?
Or is it the Giants? End is Lamar Jackson the
next it player? Or do we have to point out
they were playing the Dolphins who traded away pretty much
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everything of value and anyone left already wants to be
traded away a lot to get to UM. But I
think we should start with the Patriots, shouldn't we? Right there?
Defending Super Bowl champions they've been to the past two
Two years ago they went to the Super Bowl and
they had a bad defense that started to figure it
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out late. Last year the defense was okay, that really
figured it out late and a passing game that became
a running game. They were not the better team against
Kancity Chiefs, but they end up finding a way, probably
the equal of the Rams. They found a way. I'm
not sure if they play the Chargers on the road
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how that works, or you know if the Chargers get
the opening kickoff, what that game looks like. But it
didn't matter. They won the Super Bowl. I feel like
the New England Patriots, and we'll get to the Antonio
Brown thing. The New England Patriots feel like, what's your
favorite high end restaurant, right, Like, let's say it's it's Morten's, right, right,
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there's there's a bunch of different high end steak at Morton's, Flemings, Ruth, Chris,
they're all good. They're all good, and you know they
all do something different. Doesn't Morten to do the thing
with actually bring out the steak. They're like, do you
have this beautiful marbled cut of meat, Like, bring out
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all the different cuts, Like here's the ribbi, there's the
t bone, there's the New York Strip, there's the there's
the tomahawk. The tomahawk is the ribbi just with this
huge argante in bone in so you feel like Barney
freaking Rubble, and you'll pay fifty dollars more for that
bone that you're not even gonna eat because you want
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your dog to get and walk around like he's got
a dinosaur bone in his in his mouth. Right, It's
a little bit opulent. You're paying a little bit more.
Everything's all a heart. Sure, they'll give you some broccoli spears,
and the mashed potatoes are delicih But the fact is
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it's a high end steakhouse and you know what, the
last couple of years it was still good, but the
menu is kind of stale. They're just kind of trying
to figure out, all right, like two nineteen, it's hard,
how do we get people? And now they've got hybrid
players on defense, they have a legit stable of running backs.
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They have a group of wide receivers and they'll add
another one. And while they don't have Gronk, they were
so dependent upon Gronk last year. Not now they're not.
They've gotten younger and more athletic at most every skill position.
And then of course Tom Brady sitting back there doing
what he always does against the Steelers. I'm not freaking out,
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but I'm just pointing out if this is Morton's, it's
like walking into Mortons and knowing you can still get
the same steak, but the drink menus different, the apps
are different. It's not as dark and as dimly lit
as it used to be. Right, and all of a
sudden you look around, the crowds not as old. I
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don't think the Patriots being this good should be that
biggest surprise. I think it was how good they were
able to be, considering that personnel was not that good before.
They were able to revamp the thing right, Like Morgen's
comes out with a whole new menu and freshness things up.
Their ability to be profitable shouldn't be surprising. Same thing
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with Flemings and with Ruth Christ and with all these
other places. It's they can still still make a ton
of money and still draw huge crowds even beforehand, because
they're just that good at what they do. It's like
Ruth Chris. They put butter on their steak when they're
cooking them. They're just that good. I I have a friend.
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They're actually there. It's a uh father and son and
every big city they go to they go to Ruth
Chris and they talk about that first bite. And this
year I took my son. You guys, remember I took
my son to the Final four and we actually we
were at Ruth Chris and they were there and we
went and had ourselves a steak and he was like, Dad,
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this is the best steak I've ever had, Like, yes
it is. It is expensive, Yes it is. You can
eat everybody of it. And we were sitting there, you know,
he had a wine glass with water in it, I
little iced tea. We had ourselves a great meal. Like
the they've been that good, but now they've refreshed things.
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Now they've added in youth, and they've been able to
do so with a little bit of extra help because
they don't have anyone who's the highest paid player of
their position. Yeah, we lost an offensive lineman, didn't have
to pay Tom Brady top dollar, don't have a wide
receiver making top dollar, and now they're gonna add Antonio Brown,
who It does feel like it's an embarrassment of riches
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after an embarrassing weekend. Um. I don't believe that Antonio
Brown had some some great plan all along where he
ultimately wanted to be a patriot to stick it to
the Steelers. There is no plan that exists in the
history of the NFL revolving around one of its stars
who wanted out of Pittsburgh because of guaranteed money and
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thinks that making twenty one million less in guarantees is
ultimately the answer to all their prayers. No chance, but
it does make it interesting. Here's Ben Roethlisberger's reaction to
the Patriots signing Antonio Brown and your thoughts on Antonio
Brown joining these guys? Now, however, whatever did you really go? Whatever?
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The only thing better than whatever would have been seriously
if he threw a whatever, Seriously, that would have been amazing.
I do think it's the last of Big Ben's problems.
I don't actually think he cares that, you know, at
every moment about it. But are you kidding me? The
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team that just wiped the field with us is gonna
add Antonio Brown, and Tom Brady is like, Hey, bring
your kids, come stay at my house with the moat.
The whole story is nothing short of amazing, you know.
And I think the question becomes, this is essentially the
Randy Moss path, only he didn't play a couple of
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years in Oakland, so it didn't hurt the middle of
his career. But will he be Randy Moss or will
he be Ocho Sinko. Financially, they're more invested than they
were in Ocho Sinko, But the fact is that chatout
Josinko couldn't line up in the right spot, didn't know
where he's supposed to be, didn't pay attention enough in meetings,
just didn't have a high enough football like you to
play there, and all that social media stuff. That that
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stuff goes out the window when you're coming to New
England and everybody's as I'm willing to sacrifice it to win.
Let's see, let's see if you're really sack worth sacrifices
into it. So what's amazing to me is not the
Patriots are good, or the Patriots might be great. It's
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how the hell did they win a Super Bowl and
almost win a Super Bowl when they weren't that good.
This reminds me Bill self talks about this all the time.
You look at his consistency of success as head coach
at Kansas. He's like, look, you can't win national champceship
every year. But if on down years you can win
thirty games and win your league, then once every four
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years you can win thirty five, thirty six and win
a national championship. That's when you got a big time program.
And that's the Patriots. In a down year you can
get to and lose in a Super Bowl to the Eagles.
What can you do in an up yere. Be sure
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Radio the I Heart Radio app. He's our old pal,
and now he's not just a Super Bowl champion quarterback,
but the head coach of Lipskum Academy, which is in Nashville. Uh.
Pretty amazing thing that he's taken over at l A
Mustang football is how you can follow kind of his
journey as a high school coach. The only high school
with a full time nutrition is full time academic coach,
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former NFL strength coach, best high school weight room in
the country, barbershop, Uh, three thousand foot a square foot
concert venue, and a coaching staff with thirty years of
NFL coaching and playning experience. Pretty amazing. Uh scored more
points in three games than they did in the last
eleven games last year. And that's because Trent Dilford knows
the thing to about ball. He joins us on the
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Doug Gotlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio. T d
um Let's let's let's start with Let's start with what
we saw last night. The Patriots have always dominated the
Steelers when they played in Foxboro. But the Patriots, and
when we go back to when you when you did
prematurely throw throw some dirt on them in Kansas City,
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they used to get off to these slow starts, and
yet last night they looked amazing. What was it about
New England that allowed them to be so successful last night?
I think they're better than they've been believe it or not. Um,
they have way more team speed. That's the easiest way
to explain the Patriots this year is that, Um, they're
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just fast. They're young and fast where you need to
be young and fast. The secondary, their linebackers can run.
Dorset was the guy that nobody talked about with the
A B situation. They really don't need a B. Now
he's a great, great, great football player and obviously he'll
help if he gets in line. Um, but Dorset has
as much roadrunner beep beep twitch as anybody in football. Um,
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Gordon is a beast. Um. You know the runners have twitch.
I mean that they're just fast and twitchy, and I
you haven't seen that. You know. Belichick comes from the
old parceling and model, where they're usually thick jointed, big,
heavy handed, heavy jointed guys. And now he's kind of
found hybrids that he's still got good size, but he's
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got dudes that can flat roll. And um, I just
think they're better than they've been in the past. And Tom,
you know, the ageless Wonders as good at whatever. He
is sixty five years old as he was at thirty
years old. Do they need Antonio Brown? No, they don't.
Now he's gonna make him unstoppable. Uh if he buys
into the culture. Um. I mean he's one of the
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top I don't know ten football players in all football. Um,
and you definitely don't Um, you won't know how to
defend them with ab um. But I'm sure you know
it's the analedge you've given is you know, if you
have a strong foundation, your family structure, you have great
core values, you can have outsiders come into your family structure.
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You can adopt a child, you can take on a
you know, somebody a relative that has a bad how situation.
You can have a foreign exchange student and they up
to your culture. Well, the Patriots are the best family
culture of anybody in football. And he's either going to
adapt to their culture or they won't tolerate it. I mean,
they don't need him, and they'll tell him that when
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Tom Brady sits him down to his locker and says, hey, bro,
I'm Tom Brady and I'm one of fifty three here,
and guess what. You have to be one of fifty
three here, not one one of fifty three just like
I am. And if you're not, we won't tolerate it.
We don't have any room for you. We don't need you.
And when he hears that message from Tom Brady, I
think it's gonna change his perspective on his personal brand
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and how complex his life is. Yeah, I mean, I
mean that this this thing this weekend was crazy. I
mean really really crazy. Do you think this was all
orchestrated to get him to New England or do you
think this was simply a golden parachute that at some
point in time he was able to take. I think
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it's a golden parachute, but I could be wrong. UM.
I don't know enough about the inner workings anymore. I'm
not in it daily. Um it wouldn't surprise me. Um
if this was you know, something that was thought up
by Rosen House and agents and you know, people at
the top but I think he looked into this thing. UM.
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I think it's a bigger issue though, And you pricee
us at the AU basketball level. I know I've seen
it at the elite eleven and grassroots level where these
guys are being taught their brands instead of teammates. And UM,
I think Antonio Brown at some point started valuing his
personal brand more than any value being part of a tribe,
being part of a team, UM. And you know he
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started acting as such. And when you start acting like
you're more important than the tribe you serve, UM, then
it's usually a bad ending. Try to deal for joining
us in the Doug Galtic Show on Fox Sport Trader,
Let's get to Lamar Jackson. How much of it was
Lamar Jackson? How much of it is He's basically playing
against the worst team in football, He had all day
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to throw and ultimately was able to do whatever he wanted.
I think it's both. You know, I think this is
the first four weeks. It's always like we all do it,
and I've made tons of mistakes doing like you want
to make these definitive um points, you know, these these
comments with an exclamation point at the end, like oh,
Lamar Jackson has arrived, or Baker Mayfield is all sizzle
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not substance or whatever, And I think the answer is
usually both. I mean, the Dolphins are bad, Yes, they're
in a rebooting of a roster and a culture. Um.
But I also think Lamar Jackson, when an offense is
built around his skill set in a running game and
r P O game kind of a hybrid college offense,
is built around who he is, much like the forty
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Niners did with Harbonder Colin Kaepernick when he was having success.
That you're going to create a lot of what I
would call define looks and free place because it's going
to take the league a little bit to catch up
with you. And there is even more complex than what
the Niners did because it's so run heavy and r
PO heavy. Um. It puts defenders in a big conflict
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and it's gonna take NFL coaches a while to figure
it out because they also can just run traditional offense
and slam it down your throat. So UM. I think
it's the perfect form for Lamar Jackson and an offensive
coordinator with his hair on fire. Um. And you know
all the resources they poured into kind of developing a
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new version of NFL offense around a freak a zoid
quarterback that can throw it deep and make you look
stupid when he runs the ball, and some good backs
to carry it too. So um, I think it's a
combination of both, and I do think it'll soften as
the year goes on. NFL coordinators have a history of
kind of figuring things out over time, but I do
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think this one's gonna take a little bit longer to
figure out than most. Deal for joining us in the
Doug Gotlip Show. What went wrong for the Browns? This
thing was built, you know, a lot of it, or
a lot of the hype was about the flash and sizzle,
not not about the substance and um. You know, I
think we all fall into the trap of when you
see an accumulation of big time talents, um that you say, wow,
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talent you know wins, Well it doesn't in the NFL.
It helps winning, But what wins are the boring you know,
things that nobody likes to talk about. Discipline, um, being
sound in the kicking game, UM, not turning the ball over,
winning the time of Physessian game, and not having eight
team penalties. I mean, just things that not not always
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trying to add home run shots in the passing game,
but taking what the defense gives you. And you know,
I watched every snap of that game, and it seems
like every past play they called was some type of
big chunk play. It seems like everything they did was
hyper aggressive. It's almost like they felt like they had
to prove their their stuff by being super aggressive. And
it's almost they played right into Rabel's hands and the
defensive staff of the Titans hands where you know they're
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all about bending but not breaking, like go ahead, check
it down. You know, give four yards running the ball
in the middle. You know we're gonna make you take
the long road. We're not gonna let you take easy street.
And the Browns were looking for easy Street, and um,
they're gonna have to figure out really quick that Odell's
as good as anybody catching the ball in a five
yard slant and taking at forty five. You don't have
to be running them on twenty five yard pass play. So, UM,
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I think they got humbled. Um if they have some
sophistication that staff, they'll reboot and they'll say, Hey, the NFL,
you win games the NFL by marching the ball by
doing the boring stuff, by being disciplined. The sizzle stuff
will happen naturally when you have playmakers like they have.
But they got to reboot their system a little bit. Yeah,
I tend to agree. Um, what about the eighteen penalties
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you being a head coach now? Trent Dilfer joining his
head coach at lipskom Academy being a head coach, how
much of that is a reflection on the fact they
have a guy who wasn't even a coordinator to start
last year. Yeah, it's a great quint to put it
in the head coaching. It does. It takes on a
different face when you're a head coach because emotions double
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edged sword. You want your players to play with great emotion.
You want them to be on the razor's edge. Um,
but you wanted to use to serve eamen at the
same time, and uh, you know the high school of
obviously you're dealing with, you know, sixteen year old kids
a little bit harder run the professional level. You still
wanted to play with that collegiant energy and that collegian enthusiasm.
If you watch the Jacksonville game, you watch the Cleveland game, Um,
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they went over the top and it cost them the
ball games because their guys didn't know how to regulate
their emotion UM. And I think Freddie Kitchen has a
great challenge ahead of them, and he's quit worrying about
XS and know so much and more about the substance
of things about the temperament of your football team. UM.
That what lessons you're trying to teach a midweek Um,
how you're trying to help them stay emotionally and mentally
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focused during the game and not let their emotions get
the best of them. Because it was clear, I mean
it was clear watching both those games with Jacksonville and
Cleveland that they probably had had some big pregame hype
session and everybody's hairs on fire, and they go out
there and they lost their minds because they were so
caught up in their hair being on fire, um, and
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being all emotionally ready for opening day, that they forgot
the basic principles of just self regulation, discernment, making good decisions. Um.
And that it's a sixty minute football game. It's not
who throws the hardest punch firsts who throws the last punch.
Trendell for joining us in the Doug Gotlip Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. Um. Uh, look, Dalvin Cook appears
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to be back in at full strength. But what are
your expectations for Kirk Kirk Cousins a guy who like, look,
they won and he only threw for ninety eight yards yesterday. Uh.
Kirk's problem is when the you know, he's put up
really good numbers, but just not in the big primetime games.
What are your thoughts on Cousins heading into the year. Yeah,
I think it's a good formula for him. Kurt. Kurt
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has put a big numbers because he's been a volume passed,
but he's never been a critical moment pass her. And
when you have this Kubiak influence on your offense, and
go back to Matt Schob in Houston, Um, where Matt
shop is not the most talented you know, never never
had the flash and the sizzle, but won a lot
of big games because he was just you know, he
did job and they limited the opportunities for him to
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make mistakes. And that's what I did in Baltimore. You know,
I'm fully transparent about that. And I think Kirk kind
of fits in the same category that he can make
a lot of throws and there's times he just looks amazing.
But when you can run the ball, play good defense, um,
you know, trust kind of that boring stuff again to
kind of be your fastball, then Kirk Cousin is gonna
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be able to play better in critical downs. It's gonna
be there's gonna be less of them. Um. So his
best stuff can happen when it matters the most. And
I think it's a really good form of him. I
think Dalvin Cook's a special back. I think it also
helps because that offensive line still growing, right, it's still
it's still a working process and our progress, sorry and
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uh by. By simplifying the game and going the old
Denver Bronco Shanahan the Kubiak Houston Texans model should really
help get the best out of Kurt. Now, his numbers
won't be nearly as good, but it should equal more wins.
Let's get to the Dallas Cowboys. How much of it
is the Giants aren't good. How much of it is
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Kellen Moore's calling better plays. How much of it is
Dak Prescott coming into his own I don't want to
get anyway from Dak. I do think he's gonna contend
for an m v P. I'm not saying he's one
of the twenty best players in the league, but I'm
saying he'll be one of the ten most productive. Um.
I don't think you can overvalue how much a John
Kitten a Kellen Moore combination can mean for a young quarterback. Um,
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you're talking about John Kitten. Who if you asked that
Josh mccowns, the Matt hasselbacks, the Carson Palmer's. You know,
these guys have been around the league a long time.
I don't know if anybody is more respected than John
Kittna in our in our quarterback community, and only as
a player, as a competitor, but as a teacher, as
a coach, as a mentor. Asked Tony Romo, who's the
best mentor he's ever had? It will be John Kittna.
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You know he started asking these guys about And I've
known John forever. He's been a dear friend for every
He blows my mind every time I'm with him with
how much football he knows, but how he can teach
the game, how he can enter the position. So that's
who Dak Prescott as is his quarterback coach. And then
Kellen Moore, whose whole life's journey has been to put
him in this position to be an offensive coordinator eventually
a head coach. UM. So now you have two of
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these great young um exceptional minds, um that are mentoring
you every single day, who happened to see the game
the way you see it as a quarterback. So everything
they do is through the lens of getting the most
out of the quarterback. Oh, you also have one of
the best offensive lines in football. Oh, you have really
good skill position guys. Oh yeah, I also have one
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of the best runners in the league. Oh, and you
have a defense that's been growing over time, that can
get after the quarterback, that can run and hit, that
has young talent, that has speed. I really, I mean
it's Week one and I'm not going to do the
knee jerk reaction thing like I did a few times
at ESPN. But I can't think of a team that
has a better makeup in the NFC than the Dallas Cowboys.
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And I think Dak Prescott is going to benefit from
all of it because it because he's a quarterback. Being
n ep candidate um Kyler Murray was awful through three
quarters and they were fortunate that Detroit did a couple
of Detroit things. Um, but some of that stuff started
work and they worked themselves into a tie. Granted it's
very early on. Do you think the Kyler Murray Cliff
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Kingsbury experiment works. I think it's too early to say that.
But here's all I said about Kyler, and I said
this on the with Calling earlier. You know, go anybody's
interested in the storyline, it's called this Kyler Murray storyline.
Go back and track his high school career. The kid
never lost high school football game in Texas six ade football.
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He's arguably the greatest high school football player that's ever played.
And it wasn't like they were always the best team.
The one thing that Kyler Murray does, and you'll really
appreciate this is in his entire competitive life baseball and football,
I don't think he's ever flinched. I mean, he just
has no flinch in him. He never changes, He's always
the same. He is a fierce, a competitive it or
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as you'll ever find. And what what stick out to
me yesterday watching the game was it was an absolute
crap storm for a while, and every time they did
the one shot of him on the bench, no flinch.
He looked exactly the same on the bench, whether it
was going good or bad or indifferent. Like his He's
always looking at the next play. He's always looking the
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next opportunity to compete. He's always looking for the next
thing to prove himself. And I think because that he's
never going to be out of a ball game, like
you're never gonna feel like you're out of the game
of Calor. Murray's your quarterback. Now, he's gonna do some
things to drive you crazy. He's gonna get balls battered down. Yes,
he's gonna escape the pocket to soon probably. Is he
gonna make some reckless throws, for sure, but you're always
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Is he gonna fumble, Yes, but he's You're always going
to be in the game because the type competitor he is. Um,
I'm trying to come up with an NBA analogy just
because I know a geeky out but I don't really
have one right now. But he's that point guard that's
under you know who he is. He's Lowry from the
Toronto Raptors. That's who he is. He's he's the point
guard for the Toronto Raptors. He's undersized. You know he's
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never the top guy you talk about, but Gali, he's
gonna win a lot of a lot of ball games
and he's always gonna make a good decision. He's gonna
hit the shot we need to hit the shot. He's
just that kind of competitor. Uh. We're gonna get a
chance to Shawn Watson tonight. How much will it change
how he looks with Laramie Tunsil left tackle, hopefully a lot. Um.
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I liked the move because for DeShawn ever, you know,
reach his full potential. They got to give him a
chance to play the game on rhythm. They got to
give him a chance to not be beat up all
the time. I mean, I know what his body has
gone through just in his short career. Um, you know
they gotta they gotta run the marathon, which sean not
run a sprint. And this gives him that protection. Um.
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They've they've invested now in building around him offensively, um
and kind of changing perspectives instead of being an old
parceling and defensive first on the football team. But you
know they're gonna spread you out, They're gonna use their
talented playmakers. They're gonna protect the quarterback and let an
uber talented guy um kind of hold the baton and
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take you home. So um. They got to get the
ball of his hand quick And now he has some
burden in this too. He's got to get rid of
the ball faster. Those sixty two sacks, not all those
on the offensive Wine Deshawn's got to do a better
job of getting the ball out quicker. So for me
tonight it's going to be his eyes. It's gonna be decisive.
He is kind of that timing between the time he
puts his back foot in the ground at the time
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the ball is coming out of his hand. Is it
something that anybody could watch and look for. The more
he's bouncing around and spinning out of stuff and trying
to be a playmaker, the worst it is for the
Houston texts. His name is Tred Dilfer and now he's
the head coach at Lipscomb Academy. How much money you
have it, Belly, This is the hardest thing I've ever done,
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and by far, outside of raising the family, the best
thing I've ever done. It is, uh, there's nothing like it.
I don't know how to properly take late and probably
the eight seconds I have left, but it is. I'm
so glad that my wife, my daughter and I had
the courage to say yes to this because this has
been an incredible journey so far. It's only going to
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get better. Awesome, awesome stuff. Thanks for catching up with us,
giving your your incredible insight. Get back into the film
room and coach your boys. Appreciate you joining us, All right,
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and his mindset after yesterday's loss is everybody's gonna throw
us in the trash. I think that's good. I know
what's happened men we have in this locker room, and
quite frank, I don't really give a damn what happens
on the outside. I know how we're going to react.
I know what we're gonna do, how we're gonna bounce back,
and we've got a Monday night game coming up, so
we don't really care where gonna go. Yeah, I understand
the us to get I just think there's some teams
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are not made up the right way, and they're having
massive issues in the offensive line. And you know, Baker
is still a smaller quarterback. But the big question we
had for the Cleveland Browns was how would they handle adversity.
I didn't think we get it this quickly, but we
are and here we are. Um it it's you know,
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it's interesting. Baker is great when it's a you know,
the idea of him against the world and defending his guys.
I will be interested to hear when it's not really
personal like I think he personalized that he thinks people
are out to get him, people would pick out his
flaws when we just go like, hey, you know, their
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team might not be that good. The offensive line is
not that good, and everyone wants to wear that black hat,
but not everyone's equipped to wear it. And then when
the makeup of your team is that that it's built
from the outside in skill position players um more more
important than than than uh than offensive lineman. I mean, look,
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Marcus Mariota was this close to losing his job in
the preseason. He comes in and lights you up. And
you know, Freddie Kitchens is a guy who I think
it's likable. But we all wondered could he control this team?
And he got eighteen penalties yesterday. Here's Freddie Kitchens after loss.
We lost our discipline, we lost our composure. But it's
one game and we're gonna be tested adversity. You either
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you take adversity and you either run together, run toward
each other, or you run away. And I think we've
got a bunch of guys are gonna run toward each
other and we're gonna be fine. Yeah, I think, and no,
two very different things, right, I think it's going to
be I think it's going to be you know, eighty
five degrees when I step outside, I know it's gonna
(30:51):
be nice because of southern California. Just saying you think
you know, it's totally different than knowing you know. That's
the big thing. I think you know it is not
you know, you know you know. And no one has
any idea of how O b J will react, Jarvis
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Langer react like I think Baker is gonna keep plugging.
But Baker wasn't good luck yesterday. He just wasn't. So
I'm not gonna sit there and tell you I'm taking
joy in their struggles thus far. But I think they're fascinating,
They're gonna be fascinating to watch, and can they fix
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all of that which seems to be going wrong right
now in such short order. When the head coach says
we lost our discipline, you don't lose your discipline in
the first game. You never had any. You just didn't
have any. That, by the way, is in fact coaching,
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you know, and I'm not saying it's easy to coach men,
but that's what the job entails. Coaching men, getting them
to buy in, getting them to to to be disciplined,
to not lose their cool, to what is it Sean
Payton always says, which to Bill Belichick model, do your job,
Just do your job. Just do your job. When you're
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down forty three to thirteen. That game was not close,
not close. And we freaked out last year because they
won some games over bad teams, like sweeping The Bengals
were awful last year, didn't have Dalton. Their defense was
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until the last three weeks it was going to be
the worst defense historically in the history of the NFL.
Those are two year wins. And we point out that,
you know, Baker is as much supposed to success as
they had in comparison to the one win in the
two previous years. They're being the bad teams. Um, Tony Barbara,
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who's a Fox Business reporter, Hey, Richard, is that Millie spokesman,
says Odell Beckam Jr. Wasn't paid to wear their watch
on the field and isn't in a brand ambassador. He
just likes to watch, Like, do you want to lack
a discipline? Everything matters, It just does. And that may
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not sound like a big thing to you. It's like
when you I coach two a U basketball games on
a Saturday, right, and I'm I'm a I'm big on
all these little things mattering. Hey man, we get like
five minutes to warm up. Five minutes, so when the
buzzer sounds, you sprint over next to the bench. Everybody
put your stuff down, get in line, and we're we
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don't just we do passing in addition to layups. Concentrate
on everything, get to the marks that we actually work on,
so that you're moving your legs, you're passing, you're cutting,
you're catching, because you know, people don't work enough and
on catching. Catching is just as important as anything. Yeah,
The point is everything matters, and you know in these
youth games. Just like in high school games. You can't
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wear mismatched undershirts, so a kid will be in warm
up lines, shirt won't be tucked in and you'll have
an undershirt on the raffle. Comeboy, you gotta take that off.
What's that cut down? It cuts down like two minutes
of warming up in your first game as a Bengal.
Has to see me as a Brown soon to be
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a Bengal. Your first game as a Brown, You've proven nothing.
The Giants paid you to not play at the end
of the season, then traded you away after signing to
the biggest contract in the history of the position. Does
it matter that you wear a watch? Like, not really,
but everything matters. Perception becomes reality. You're way more worried
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about looking cool than just winning a damn football game.
You know what's really cool when you win football games?
And then if you want to throw on a watch,
she hadn't playing it down or real football. You didn't
go to o t a s. You've got a kind
of mere curial way about you. You've got this on again,
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off again hip injury which has caused you to lose
rep reps. I get if you've never played sports before
this this, I don't know why you're worried about it.
Federal wears one adult Like, dude, those are tennis players,
country club sport. We're talking about football. Have you ever
seen a wide receiver wear a watch before, let alone
a It's literally, not figuratively against the rules and crazy
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expensive and I guess partially dangerous right like it could
break and hurt your wrist, or it could break and chatter.
And you know, I'll be the old grandma, your grandpa.
He can poke your eye out. But more than anything,
if it's even twenty seconds of distraction, it's twenty seconds
you don't need. And it is apropos for a team
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that was so concerned about how they look and how
it sounds and the names and the dude, you just
got run out of the building by the Titans, and
the Titans were getting ready to move on from Marcus Mariotta.
Now you gave him a highlight film.
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Welcome in football is really back and fl Wise, we
will get into the Browns and that debacle, the Chiefs winning,
also losing. Why the Aaron Rodgers rule made sense even
when Aaron Rodgers didn't like the Aaron Rodgers rule, which
(01:28):
of course is probably ended or come close to ending
Nick Fole's season already. The Dallas Cowboys. Is it them?
Or is it the Giants? End is Lamar Jackson the
next it player? Or do we have to point out
they were playing the Dolphins who traded away pretty much
(01:49):
everything of value and anyone left already wants to be
traded away a lot to get to UM. But I
think we should start with the Patriots, shouldn't we? Right there?
Defending Super Bowl champions they've been to the past two
Two years ago they went to the Super Bowl and
they had a bad defense that started to figure it
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out late. Last year the defense was okay, that really
figured it out late and a passing game that became
a running game. They were not the better team against
Kancity Chiefs, but they end up finding a way, probably
the equal of the Rams. They found a way. I'm
not sure if they play the Chargers on the road
(02:35):
how that works, or you know if the Chargers get
the opening kickoff, what that game looks like. But it
didn't matter. They won the Super Bowl. I feel like
the New England Patriots, and we'll get to the Antonio
Brown thing. The New England Patriots feel like, what's your
favorite high end restaurant, right, Like, let's say it's it's Morten's, right, right,
(03:03):
there's there's a bunch of different high end steak at Morton's, Flemings, Ruth, Chris,
they're all good. They're all good, and you know they
all do something different. Doesn't Morten to do the thing
with actually bring out the steak. They're like, do you
have this beautiful marbled cut of meat, Like, bring out
(03:24):
all the different cuts, Like here's the ribbi, there's the
t bone, there's the New York Strip, there's the there's
the tomahawk. The tomahawk is the ribbi just with this
huge argante in bone in so you feel like Barney
freaking Rubble, and you'll pay fifty dollars more for that
bone that you're not even gonna eat because you want
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your dog to get and walk around like he's got
a dinosaur bone in his in his mouth. Right, It's
a little bit opulent. You're paying a little bit more.
Everything's all a heart. Sure, they'll give you some broccoli spears,
and the mashed potatoes are delicih But the fact is
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it's a high end steakhouse and you know what, the
last couple of years it was still good, but the
menu is kind of stale. They're just kind of trying
to figure out, all right, like two nineteen, it's hard,
how do we get people? And now they've got hybrid
players on defense, they have a legit stable of running backs.
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They have a group of wide receivers and they'll add
another one. And while they don't have Gronk, they were
so dependent upon Gronk last year. Not now they're not.
They've gotten younger and more athletic at most every skill position.
And then of course Tom Brady sitting back there doing
what he always does against the Steelers. I'm not freaking out,
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but I'm just pointing out if this is Morton's, it's
like walking into Mortons and knowing you can still get
the same steak, but the drink menus different, the apps
are different. It's not as dark and as dimly lit
as it used to be. Right, and all of a
sudden you look around, the crowds not as old. I
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don't think the Patriots being this good should be that
biggest surprise. I think it was how good they were
able to be, considering that personnel was not that good before.
They were able to revamp the thing right, Like Morgen's
comes out with a whole new menu and freshness things up.
Their ability to be profitable shouldn't be surprising. Same thing
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with Flemings and with Ruth Christ and with all these
other places. It's they can still still make a ton
of money and still draw huge crowds even beforehand, because
they're just that good at what they do. It's like
Ruth Chris. They put butter on their steak when they're
cooking them. They're just that good. I I have a friend.
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They're actually there. It's a uh father and son and
every big city they go to they go to Ruth
Chris and they talk about that first bite. And this
year I took my son. You guys, remember I took
my son to the Final four and we actually we
were at Ruth Chris and they were there and we
went and had ourselves a steak and he was like, Dad,
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this is the best steak I've ever had, Like, yes
it is. It is expensive, Yes it is. You can
eat everybody of it. And we were sitting there, you know,
he had a wine glass with water in it, I
little iced tea. We had ourselves a great meal. Like
the they've been that good, but now they've refreshed things.
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Now they've added in youth, and they've been able to
do so with a little bit of extra help because
they don't have anyone who's the highest paid player of
their position. Yeah, we lost an offensive lineman, didn't have
to pay Tom Brady top dollar, don't have a wide
receiver making top dollar, and now they're gonna add Antonio Brown,
who It does feel like it's an embarrassment of riches
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after an embarrassing weekend. Um. I don't believe that Antonio
Brown had some some great plan all along where he
ultimately wanted to be a patriot to stick it to
the Steelers. There is no plan that exists in the
history of the NFL revolving around one of its stars
who wanted out of Pittsburgh because of guaranteed money and
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thinks that making twenty one million less in guarantees is
ultimately the answer to all their prayers. No chance, but
it does make it interesting. Here's Ben Roethlisberger's reaction to
the Patriots signing Antonio Brown and your thoughts on Antonio
Brown joining these guys? Now, however, whatever did you really go? Whatever?
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The only thing better than whatever would have been seriously
if he threw a whatever, Seriously, that would have been amazing.
I do think it's the last of Big Ben's problems.
I don't actually think he cares that, you know, at
every moment about it. But are you kidding me? The
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team that just wiped the field with us is gonna
add Antonio Brown, and Tom Brady is like, Hey, bring
your kids, come stay at my house with the moat.
The whole story is nothing short of amazing, you know.
And I think the question becomes, this is essentially the
Randy Moss path, only he didn't play a couple of
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years in Oakland, so it didn't hurt the middle of
his career. But will he be Randy Moss or will
he be Ocho Sinko. Financially, they're more invested than they
were in Ocho Sinko, But the fact is that chatout
Josinko couldn't line up in the right spot, didn't know
where he's supposed to be, didn't pay attention enough in meetings,
just didn't have a high enough football like you to
play there, and all that social media stuff. That that
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stuff goes out the window when you're coming to New
England and everybody's as I'm willing to sacrifice it to win.
Let's see, let's see if you're really sack worth sacrifices
into it. So what's amazing to me is not the
Patriots are good, or the Patriots might be great. It's
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how the hell did they win a Super Bowl and
almost win a Super Bowl when they weren't that good.
This reminds me Bill self talks about this all the time.
You look at his consistency of success as head coach
at Kansas. He's like, look, you can't win national champceship
every year. But if on down years you can win
thirty games and win your league, then once every four
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years you can win thirty five, thirty six and win
a national championship. That's when you got a big time program.
And that's the Patriots. In a down year you can
get to and lose in a Super Bowl to the Eagles.
What can you do in an up yere. Be sure
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(09:59):
Radio the I Heart Radio app. He's our old pal,
and now he's not just a Super Bowl champion quarterback,
but the head coach of Lipskum Academy, which is in Nashville. Uh.
Pretty amazing thing that he's taken over at l A
Mustang football is how you can follow kind of his
journey as a high school coach. The only high school
with a full time nutrition is full time academic coach,
(10:21):
former NFL strength coach, best high school weight room in
the country, barbershop, Uh, three thousand foot a square foot
concert venue, and a coaching staff with thirty years of
NFL coaching and playning experience. Pretty amazing. Uh scored more
points in three games than they did in the last
eleven games last year. And that's because Trent Dilford knows
the thing to about ball. He joins us on the
(10:42):
Doug Gotlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio. T d
um Let's let's let's start with Let's start with what
we saw last night. The Patriots have always dominated the
Steelers when they played in Foxboro. But the Patriots, and
when we go back to when you when you did
prematurely throw throw some dirt on them in Kansas City,
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they used to get off to these slow starts, and
yet last night they looked amazing. What was it about
New England that allowed them to be so successful last night?
I think they're better than they've been believe it or not. Um,
they have way more team speed. That's the easiest way
to explain the Patriots this year is that, Um, they're
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just fast. They're young and fast where you need to
be young and fast. The secondary, their linebackers can run.
Dorset was the guy that nobody talked about with the
A B situation. They really don't need a B. Now
he's a great, great, great football player and obviously he'll
help if he gets in line. Um, but Dorset has
as much roadrunner beep beep twitch as anybody in football. Um,
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Gordon is a beast. Um. You know the runners have twitch.
I mean that they're just fast and twitchy, and I
you haven't seen that. You know. Belichick comes from the
old parceling and model, where they're usually thick jointed, big,
heavy handed, heavy jointed guys. And now he's kind of
found hybrids that he's still got good size, but he's
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got dudes that can flat roll. And um, I just
think they're better than they've been in the past. And Tom,
you know, the ageless Wonders as good at whatever. He
is sixty five years old as he was at thirty
years old. Do they need Antonio Brown? No, they don't.
Now he's gonna make him unstoppable. Uh if he buys
into the culture. Um. I mean he's one of the
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top I don't know ten football players in all football. Um,
and you definitely don't Um, you won't know how to
defend them with ab um. But I'm sure you know
it's the analedge you've given is you know, if you
have a strong foundation, your family structure, you have great
core values, you can have outsiders come into your family structure.
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You can adopt a child, you can take on a
you know, somebody a relative that has a bad how situation.
You can have a foreign exchange student and they up
to your culture. Well, the Patriots are the best family
culture of anybody in football. And he's either going to
adapt to their culture or they won't tolerate it. I mean,
they don't need him, and they'll tell him that when
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Tom Brady sits him down to his locker and says, hey, bro,
I'm Tom Brady and I'm one of fifty three here,
and guess what. You have to be one of fifty
three here, not one one of fifty three just like
I am. And if you're not, we won't tolerate it.
We don't have any room for you. We don't need you.
And when he hears that message from Tom Brady, I
think it's gonna change his perspective on his personal brand
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and how complex his life is. Yeah, I mean, I
mean that this this thing this weekend was crazy. I
mean really really crazy. Do you think this was all
orchestrated to get him to New England or do you
think this was simply a golden parachute that at some
point in time he was able to take. I think
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it's a golden parachute, but I could be wrong. UM.
I don't know enough about the inner workings anymore. I'm
not in it daily. Um it wouldn't surprise me. Um
if this was you know, something that was thought up
by Rosen House and agents and you know, people at
the top but I think he looked into this thing. UM.
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I think it's a bigger issue though, And you pricee
us at the AU basketball level. I know I've seen
it at the elite eleven and grassroots level where these
guys are being taught their brands instead of teammates. And UM,
I think Antonio Brown at some point started valuing his
personal brand more than any value being part of a tribe,
being part of a team, UM. And you know he
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started acting as such. And when you start acting like
you're more important than the tribe you serve, UM, then
it's usually a bad ending. Try to deal for joining
us in the Doug Galtic Show on Fox Sport Trader,
Let's get to Lamar Jackson. How much of it was
Lamar Jackson? How much of it is He's basically playing
against the worst team in football, He had all day
(14:55):
to throw and ultimately was able to do whatever he wanted.
I think it's both. You know, I think this is
the first four weeks. It's always like we all do it,
and I've made tons of mistakes doing like you want
to make these definitive um points, you know, these these
comments with an exclamation point at the end, like oh,
Lamar Jackson has arrived, or Baker Mayfield is all sizzle
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not substance or whatever, And I think the answer is
usually both. I mean, the Dolphins are bad, Yes, they're
in a rebooting of a roster and a culture. Um.
But I also think Lamar Jackson, when an offense is
built around his skill set in a running game and
r P O game kind of a hybrid college offense,
is built around who he is, much like the forty
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Niners did with Harbonder Colin Kaepernick when he was having success.
That you're going to create a lot of what I
would call define looks and free place because it's going
to take the league a little bit to catch up
with you. And there is even more complex than what
the Niners did because it's so run heavy and r
PO heavy. Um. It puts defenders in a big conflict
(15:58):
and it's gonna take NFL coaches a while to figure
it out because they also can just run traditional offense
and slam it down your throat. So UM. I think
it's the perfect form for Lamar Jackson and an offensive
coordinator with his hair on fire. Um. And you know
all the resources they poured into kind of developing a
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new version of NFL offense around a freak a zoid
quarterback that can throw it deep and make you look
stupid when he runs the ball, and some good backs
to carry it too. So um, I think it's a
combination of both, and I do think it'll soften as
the year goes on. NFL coordinators have a history of
kind of figuring things out over time, but I do
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think this one's gonna take a little bit longer to
figure out than most. Deal for joining us in the
Doug Gotlip Show. What went wrong for the Browns? This
thing was built, you know, a lot of it, or
a lot of the hype was about the flash and sizzle,
not not about the substance and um. You know, I
think we all fall into the trap of when you
see an accumulation of big time talents, um that you say, wow,
(17:02):
talent you know wins, Well it doesn't in the NFL.
It helps winning, But what wins are the boring you know,
things that nobody likes to talk about. Discipline, um, being
sound in the kicking game, UM, not turning the ball over,
winning the time of Physessian game, and not having eight
team penalties. I mean, just things that not not always
(17:24):
trying to add home run shots in the passing game,
but taking what the defense gives you. And you know,
I watched every snap of that game, and it seems
like every past play they called was some type of
big chunk play. It seems like everything they did was
hyper aggressive. It's almost like they felt like they had
to prove their their stuff by being super aggressive. And
it's almost they played right into Rabel's hands and the
defensive staff of the Titans hands where you know they're
(17:47):
all about bending but not breaking, like go ahead, check
it down. You know, give four yards running the ball
in the middle. You know we're gonna make you take
the long road. We're not gonna let you take easy street.
And the Browns were looking for easy Street, and um,
they're gonna have to figure out really quick that Odell's
as good as anybody catching the ball in a five
yard slant and taking at forty five. You don't have
to be running them on twenty five yard pass play. So, UM,
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I think they got humbled. Um if they have some
sophistication that staff, they'll reboot and they'll say, Hey, the NFL,
you win games the NFL by marching the ball by
doing the boring stuff, by being disciplined. The sizzle stuff
will happen naturally when you have playmakers like they have.
But they got to reboot their system a little bit. Yeah,
I tend to agree. Um, what about the eighteen penalties
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you being a head coach now? Trent Dilfer joining his
head coach at lipskom Academy being a head coach, how
much of that is a reflection on the fact they
have a guy who wasn't even a coordinator to start
last year. Yeah, it's a great quint to put it
in the head coaching. It does. It takes on a
different face when you're a head coach because emotions double
(18:53):
edged sword. You want your players to play with great emotion.
You want them to be on the razor's edge. Um,
but you wanted to use to serve eamen at the
same time, and uh, you know the high school of
obviously you're dealing with, you know, sixteen year old kids
a little bit harder run the professional level. You still
wanted to play with that collegiant energy and that collegian enthusiasm.
If you watch the Jacksonville game, you watch the Cleveland game, Um,
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they went over the top and it cost them the
ball games because their guys didn't know how to regulate
their emotion UM. And I think Freddie Kitchen has a
great challenge ahead of them, and he's quit worrying about
XS and know so much and more about the substance
of things about the temperament of your football team. UM.
That what lessons you're trying to teach a midweek Um,
how you're trying to help them stay emotionally and mentally
(19:37):
focused during the game and not let their emotions get
the best of them. Because it was clear, I mean
it was clear watching both those games with Jacksonville and
Cleveland that they probably had had some big pregame hype
session and everybody's hairs on fire, and they go out
there and they lost their minds because they were so
caught up in their hair being on fire, um, and
(19:58):
being all emotionally ready for opening day, that they forgot
the basic principles of just self regulation, discernment, making good decisions. Um.
And that it's a sixty minute football game. It's not
who throws the hardest punch firsts who throws the last punch.
Trendell for joining us in the Doug Gotlip Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. Um. Uh, look, Dalvin Cook appears
(20:20):
to be back in at full strength. But what are
your expectations for Kirk Kirk Cousins a guy who like, look,
they won and he only threw for ninety eight yards yesterday. Uh.
Kirk's problem is when the you know, he's put up
really good numbers, but just not in the big primetime games.
What are your thoughts on Cousins heading into the year. Yeah,
I think it's a good formula for him. Kurt. Kurt
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has put a big numbers because he's been a volume passed,
but he's never been a critical moment pass her. And
when you have this Kubiak influence on your offense, and
go back to Matt Schob in Houston, Um, where Matt
shop is not the most talented you know, never never
had the flash and the sizzle, but won a lot
of big games because he was just you know, he
did job and they limited the opportunities for him to
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make mistakes. And that's what I did in Baltimore. You know,
I'm fully transparent about that. And I think Kirk kind
of fits in the same category that he can make
a lot of throws and there's times he just looks amazing.
But when you can run the ball, play good defense, um,
you know, trust kind of that boring stuff again to
kind of be your fastball, then Kirk Cousin is gonna
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be able to play better in critical downs. It's gonna
be there's gonna be less of them. Um. So his
best stuff can happen when it matters the most. And
I think it's a really good form of him. I
think Dalvin Cook's a special back. I think it also
helps because that offensive line still growing, right, it's still
it's still a working process and our progress, sorry and
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uh by. By simplifying the game and going the old
Denver Bronco Shanahan the Kubiak Houston Texans model should really
help get the best out of Kurt. Now, his numbers
won't be nearly as good, but it should equal more wins.
Let's get to the Dallas Cowboys. How much of it
is the Giants aren't good. How much of it is
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Kellen Moore's calling better plays. How much of it is
Dak Prescott coming into his own I don't want to
get anyway from Dak. I do think he's gonna contend
for an m v P. I'm not saying he's one
of the twenty best players in the league, but I'm
saying he'll be one of the ten most productive. Um.
I don't think you can overvalue how much a John
Kitten a Kellen Moore combination can mean for a young quarterback. Um,
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you're talking about John Kitten. Who if you asked that
Josh mccowns, the Matt hasselbacks, the Carson Palmer's. You know,
these guys have been around the league a long time.
I don't know if anybody is more respected than John
Kittna in our in our quarterback community, and only as
a player, as a competitor, but as a teacher, as
a coach, as a mentor. Asked Tony Romo, who's the
best mentor he's ever had? It will be John Kittna.
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You know he started asking these guys about And I've
known John forever. He's been a dear friend for every
He blows my mind every time I'm with him with
how much football he knows, but how he can teach
the game, how he can enter the position. So that's
who Dak Prescott as is his quarterback coach. And then
Kellen Moore, whose whole life's journey has been to put
him in this position to be an offensive coordinator eventually
a head coach. UM. So now you have two of
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these great young um exceptional minds, um that are mentoring
you every single day, who happened to see the game
the way you see it as a quarterback. So everything
they do is through the lens of getting the most
out of the quarterback. Oh, you also have one of
the best offensive lines in football. Oh, you have really
good skill position guys. Oh yeah, I also have one
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of the best runners in the league. Oh, and you
have a defense that's been growing over time, that can
get after the quarterback, that can run and hit, that
has young talent, that has speed. I really, I mean
it's Week one and I'm not going to do the
knee jerk reaction thing like I did a few times
at ESPN. But I can't think of a team that
has a better makeup in the NFC than the Dallas Cowboys.
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And I think Dak Prescott is going to benefit from
all of it because it because he's a quarterback. Being
n ep candidate um Kyler Murray was awful through three
quarters and they were fortunate that Detroit did a couple
of Detroit things. Um, but some of that stuff started
work and they worked themselves into a tie. Granted it's
very early on. Do you think the Kyler Murray Cliff
(24:17):
Kingsbury experiment works. I think it's too early to say that.
But here's all I said about Kyler, and I said
this on the with Calling earlier. You know, go anybody's
interested in the storyline, it's called this Kyler Murray storyline.
Go back and track his high school career. The kid
never lost high school football game in Texas six ade football.
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He's arguably the greatest high school football player that's ever played.
And it wasn't like they were always the best team.
The one thing that Kyler Murray does, and you'll really
appreciate this is in his entire competitive life baseball and football,
I don't think he's ever flinched. I mean, he just
has no flinch in him. He never changes, He's always
the same. He is a fierce, a competitive it or
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as you'll ever find. And what what stick out to
me yesterday watching the game was it was an absolute
crap storm for a while, and every time they did
the one shot of him on the bench, no flinch.
He looked exactly the same on the bench, whether it
was going good or bad or indifferent. Like his He's
always looking at the next play. He's always looking the
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next opportunity to compete. He's always looking for the next
thing to prove himself. And I think because that he's
never going to be out of a ball game, like
you're never gonna feel like you're out of the game
of Calor. Murray's your quarterback. Now, he's gonna do some
things to drive you crazy. He's gonna get balls battered down. Yes,
he's gonna escape the pocket to soon probably. Is he
gonna make some reckless throws, for sure, but you're always
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Is he gonna fumble, Yes, but he's You're always going
to be in the game because the type competitor he is. Um,
I'm trying to come up with an NBA analogy just
because I know a geeky out but I don't really
have one right now. But he's that point guard that's
under you know who he is. He's Lowry from the
Toronto Raptors. That's who he is. He's he's the point
guard for the Toronto Raptors. He's undersized. You know he's
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never the top guy you talk about, but Gali, he's
gonna win a lot of a lot of ball games
and he's always gonna make a good decision. He's gonna
hit the shot we need to hit the shot. He's
just that kind of competitor. Uh. We're gonna get a
chance to Shawn Watson tonight. How much will it change
how he looks with Laramie Tunsil left tackle, hopefully a lot. Um.
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I liked the move because for DeShawn ever, you know,
reach his full potential. They got to give him a
chance to play the game on rhythm. They got to
give him a chance to not be beat up all
the time. I mean, I know what his body has
gone through just in his short career. Um, you know
they gotta they gotta run the marathon, which sean not
run a sprint. And this gives him that protection. Um.
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They've they've invested now in building around him offensively, um
and kind of changing perspectives instead of being an old
parceling and defensive first on the football team. But you
know they're gonna spread you out, They're gonna use their
talented playmakers. They're gonna protect the quarterback and let an
uber talented guy um kind of hold the baton and
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take you home. So um. They got to get the
ball of his hand quick And now he has some
burden in this too. He's got to get rid of
the ball faster. Those sixty two sacks, not all those
on the offensive Wine Deshawn's got to do a better
job of getting the ball out quicker. So for me
tonight it's going to be his eyes. It's gonna be decisive.
He is kind of that timing between the time he
puts his back foot in the ground at the time
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the ball is coming out of his hand. Is it
something that anybody could watch and look for. The more
he's bouncing around and spinning out of stuff and trying
to be a playmaker, the worst it is for the
Houston texts. His name is Tred Dilfer and now he's
the head coach at Lipscomb Academy. How much money you
have it, Belly, This is the hardest thing I've ever done,
(27:52):
and by far, outside of raising the family, the best
thing I've ever done. It is, uh, there's nothing like it.
I don't know how to properly take late and probably
the eight seconds I have left, but it is. I'm
so glad that my wife, my daughter and I had
the courage to say yes to this because this has
been an incredible journey so far. It's only going to
(28:12):
get better. Awesome, awesome stuff. Thanks for catching up with us,
giving your your incredible insight. Get back into the film
room and coach your boys. Appreciate you joining us, All right,
talk to you next week, definitely. It's a date. That's
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and his mindset after yesterday's loss is everybody's gonna throw
us in the trash. I think that's good. I know
what's happened men we have in this locker room, and
quite frank, I don't really give a damn what happens
on the outside. I know how we're going to react.
I know what we're gonna do, how we're gonna bounce back,
and we've got a Monday night game coming up, so
we don't really care where gonna go. Yeah, I understand
the us to get I just think there's some teams
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are not made up the right way, and they're having
massive issues in the offensive line. And you know, Baker
is still a smaller quarterback. But the big question we
had for the Cleveland Browns was how would they handle adversity.
I didn't think we get it this quickly, but we
are and here we are. Um it it's you know,
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it's interesting. Baker is great when it's a you know,
the idea of him against the world and defending his guys.
I will be interested to hear when it's not really
personal like I think he personalized that he thinks people
are out to get him, people would pick out his
flaws when we just go like, hey, you know, their
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team might not be that good. The offensive line is
not that good, and everyone wants to wear that black hat,
but not everyone's equipped to wear it. And then when
the makeup of your team is that that it's built
from the outside in skill position players um more more
important than than than uh than offensive lineman. I mean, look,
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Marcus Mariota was this close to losing his job in
the preseason. He comes in and lights you up. And
you know, Freddie Kitchens is a guy who I think
it's likable. But we all wondered could he control this team?
And he got eighteen penalties yesterday. Here's Freddie Kitchens after loss.
We lost our discipline, we lost our composure. But it's
one game and we're gonna be tested adversity. You either
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you take adversity and you either run together, run toward
each other, or you run away. And I think we've
got a bunch of guys are gonna run toward each
other and we're gonna be fine. Yeah, I think, and no,
two very different things, right, I think it's going to
be I think it's going to be you know, eighty
five degrees when I step outside, I know it's gonna
(30:51):
be nice because of southern California. Just saying you think
you know, it's totally different than knowing you know. That's
the big thing. I think you know it is not
you know, you know you know. And no one has
any idea of how O b J will react, Jarvis
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Langer react like I think Baker is gonna keep plugging.
But Baker wasn't good luck yesterday. He just wasn't. So
I'm not gonna sit there and tell you I'm taking
joy in their struggles thus far. But I think they're fascinating,
They're gonna be fascinating to watch, and can they fix
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all of that which seems to be going wrong right
now in such short order. When the head coach says
we lost our discipline, you don't lose your discipline in
the first game. You never had any. You just didn't
have any. That, by the way, is in fact coaching,
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you know, and I'm not saying it's easy to coach men,
but that's what the job entails. Coaching men, getting them
to buy in, getting them to to to be disciplined,
to not lose their cool, to what is it Sean
Payton always says, which to Bill Belichick model, do your job,
Just do your job. Just do your job. When you're
(32:15):
down forty three to thirteen. That game was not close,
not close. And we freaked out last year because they
won some games over bad teams, like sweeping The Bengals
were awful last year, didn't have Dalton. Their defense was
(32:36):
until the last three weeks it was going to be
the worst defense historically in the history of the NFL.
Those are two year wins. And we point out that,
you know, Baker is as much supposed to success as
they had in comparison to the one win in the
two previous years. They're being the bad teams. Um, Tony Barbara,
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who's a Fox Business reporter, Hey, Richard, is that Millie spokesman,
says Odell Beckam Jr. Wasn't paid to wear their watch
on the field and isn't in a brand ambassador. He
just likes to watch, Like, do you want to lack
a discipline? Everything matters, It just does. And that may
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not sound like a big thing to you. It's like
when you I coach two a U basketball games on
a Saturday, right, and I'm I'm a I'm big on
all these little things mattering. Hey man, we get like
five minutes to warm up. Five minutes, so when the
buzzer sounds, you sprint over next to the bench. Everybody
put your stuff down, get in line, and we're we
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don't just we do passing in addition to layups. Concentrate
on everything, get to the marks that we actually work on,
so that you're moving your legs, you're passing, you're cutting,
you're catching, because you know, people don't work enough and
on catching. Catching is just as important as anything. Yeah,
The point is everything matters, and you know in these
youth games. Just like in high school games. You can't
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wear mismatched undershirts, so a kid will be in warm
up lines, shirt won't be tucked in and you'll have
an undershirt on the raffle. Comeboy, you gotta take that off.
What's that cut down? It cuts down like two minutes
of warming up in your first game as a Bengal.
Has to see me as a Brown soon to be
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a Bengal. Your first game as a Brown, You've proven nothing.
The Giants paid you to not play at the end
of the season, then traded you away after signing to
the biggest contract in the history of the position. Does
it matter that you wear a watch? Like, not really,
but everything matters. Perception becomes reality. You're way more worried
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about looking cool than just winning a damn football game.
You know what's really cool when you win football games?
And then if you want to throw on a watch,
she hadn't playing it down or real football. You didn't
go to o t a s. You've got a kind
of mere curial way about you. You've got this on again,
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off again hip injury which has caused you to lose
rep reps. I get if you've never played sports before
this this, I don't know why you're worried about it.
Federal wears one adult Like, dude, those are tennis players,
country club sport. We're talking about football. Have you ever
seen a wide receiver wear a watch before, let alone
a It's literally, not figuratively against the rules and crazy
(35:35):
expensive and I guess partially dangerous right like it could
break and hurt your wrist, or it could break and chatter.
And you know, I'll be the old grandma, your grandpa.
He can poke your eye out. But more than anything,
if it's even twenty seconds of distraction, it's twenty seconds
you don't need. And it is apropos for a team
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that was so concerned about how they look and how
it sounds and the names and the dude, you just
got run out of the building by the Titans, and
the Titans were getting ready to move on from Marcus Mariotta.
Now you gave him a highlight film.
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