October 28, 2019 • 32 mins
Doug tells you why the Browns remind him of a “fad diet” after their embarrassing performance against the New England Patriots. He also tells you why the 49ers might be one of the best teams in the NFL and why they are incredibly lucky to be there. Plus, Super Bowl Champion and NFL analyst Trent Dilfer joins the show to break down the QB performances from week 8 in the NFL.
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I'll admit it, I thought the Browns coming off of
a bye would be more competitive against the New England Patriots.
It's not because I don't think the Patriots are great,
but the Patriots and played against a very soft schedule
as opposed to the Browns have played against a very
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difficult schedule. And while I don't love the construction of
the Browns, I do think that there's a reason Odell
Beckham Jr. Jarvis Landry, you know, Chub, even Baker Mayfield
like those guys are competitors. I would have thought you'd
at the best version of themselves off of bye week
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against the Patriots scene that did not have as much
time to prepare. I was wrong, and that's because I've
now determined that the Cleveland Browns are nothing more than
a fad diet, and like a fad diet, they're gonna
work here for the next couple of weeks. I don't
know if you looked ahead for their of their schedule,
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but in their schedule they still have the Bengals who
have stink twice, right, it's still on the Dolphins who stink.
Steelers are I think better than their record, and they're
starting to come together, especially defensively, but they do have
a backup quarterback. Like their scheduled down the stretchers is
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not strong, and I think like a fad diet, they
will work in a short instance. On the other hand,
why don't fad diets work because the fundamentals of how
you lose weight are pretty simple, and I understand. And
this is a discussion I've actually had with my wife,
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which is she's like, you, you seem to hold it
against people who have weight problems, and I was like, no,
She's like, well, there's there's a good portion of it,
which is genetics. That's true. Genetics do play a factor,
but you can fight those genetics with exercise and proper
diet and getting your rest. You cut the sugar out
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of your drinks. To begin with, you don't smoke, you
don't eat fried food. Everything in moderation. You get up
and if nothing else, you walk every day. I mean
you you go back and you look at some of
the great weight loss stories. It just came down to
a person making decision to change their life. It doesn't
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mean that they stayed at five and ten percent body
fat the rest of your life, but you could maintain
relatively good health. And you know what. Those fundamentals are
the same as true in football. A right to have
a good football team. Got a good offensive line, good
defensive line. You gotta turn the football over, you gotta
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be penalized. Cannot shoot yourself in the foot yet, Bill,
run the ball first, throw the ball second. If you
can do all of these things defensively, pressure the passer,
make them at least one dimensional. You don't have to
be great in all areas. You don't have to be
great in one area. If you're just good. This is
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a league that most teams are seven and nine to
nine and seven. Don't believe me. Take the Chargers right.
Gave away a game in Detroit, gave away a game
last week against Tennessee gave away one against Denver, got
a gift yesterday in Chicago. That's that's NFL football. They're
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all usually decide it by a touchdowner less. Most of
them honestly come down to a field goal less, and
the deciding factors are turnovers, penalties, red zone, special teams,
and of course what you do on third down. But
the Browns are built behind the person the brash personality
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of a quarterback who's unproven, he's undersized and feels under
equipped and played in a college offense where he's struggling
to evolve into the NFL game. They trade away one
of their best, if not their best, offensive lineman for
their second best offensive lineman to get an elite wide
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receiver who hadn't won anything for a reason. And remember
when the Miami Dolphins got rid of Jarvis Landry was
part of their house cleaning when they wanted to start
getting a better culture. That's their two wide receivers. And
while their head coach might someday or might on a
different team be fine at the position, he hadn't called
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plays for an entire season before this year. In addition
to taking on a really really rigorous job of being
a head coach. With all these personalities, he's still calling
the plays and shocker here there, it doesn't seem to
be a rhythm or a balance or a sense of
what they exactly are. You know, ask yourself, why did
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you think why did so many of us think that
the Browns would be good this year? We didn't say
because of their line, because of their defense, because their
ability to run the football, protect the pastor we said
they got a little O B J. I. They got
Myles Garrett. Look at Myles Garrett with a shirt off.
Oh my god, he's a freak athlete. Like they are
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a fad diet. They will just like last year when
they won seven games. Go back and look at the
teams they beat. They didn't be good teams. Well, they
beat the Ravens when they were starting Flacco and the
Ravens weren't good. Then that's their only win against the
playoff team. All other all six other winds we're against
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the bad teams in the NFL. Beat the Bengals twice,
who had a historically bad defense and end up firing
Marvin Lewis. Go back and look at who they beat.
The fundamentals are the fundamentals for a reason. Here's Baker
Mayfield after another disciplinting laws, non discipline, guys not being
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focused on doing their job. Starts first and foremost with
me to be a leader every single down. Get our
guys lined up, make sure they were set. We're paying
attention because if we can't use cadence, you know, we're
hurting ourselves. You know, anytime we try and use a
double account it seems like we're false starting a little bit.
But we'll get the discipline part fixed, the accountability. Like
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I said, we've pointed out the problem. Now we have
to execute it on Sundays. And once again, I feel
like we had a a week of practice, so we
just didn't translate. It couldn't translate from the practice field
to the game to the game field. They had a
week off, two weeks prepare for the Patriots, and they
look like a JV team. They look like a rag
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tag bunch of fill ins. False starts in the NFL,
multiple false starts? Who does that? Who does that? Who
has thirteen penalties after a bye week? The Browns three
turnovers on three consecutive plays. Who does that? The Browns?
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The fact is that the Browns are exactly who you'd
think the Browns would be if you remove the names
the eye candy of Miles Garrett and Baker Mayfield and
Odell Beckham Jr. And Jarvis Landry. Right, you take those
off and you're like, oh, how could Joe Thomas walk
away from a This is why I want no part
of that. No thanks. I didn't wait around. I've been
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being in a disappointing franchise this long. I didn't wait
around to be on a disappointing, dysfunctional franchise that thought
they were going to be good even though they were
poorly constructed. Fad diets come and go, and for short
periods of time they do in fact work. But the
fundamentals are the fundamentals. In football, if you get penalized
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more than the other team, if you turn the ball
over more than the other team, you are gonna lose
more often than you win. All right, No different in basketball.
You know, Wisconsin basketball for the last twenty five years,
through two coaches has been boring his sin. But what
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don't they do? They don't foul, they don't turn it over.
You know what they do? They win a hell of
a lot of games. Ain't that hard? But It takes discipline,
it takes the right fit, It takes the fundamentals, not
a hey, we want a couple of games against bad
teams to make us feel like we were really good,
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then add some eye candy that's not actually gonna help
you win. Browns are well everything you think the Browns
normally are. The only difference is the names on the
back of the jersey, which alleeds you to believe that somehow, somehow,
some way, they would win their division. Be sure to
catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays
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at three pm Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio ah app. Do you see
Garoppolo now undefeated? Garoppolo and Brady both undefeated? That's pretty amazing,
pretty easy. Fifteen and oh between the two quarterbacks who
were once starting back up and you had in Jacoby
Brissette and they've lost combined two games between those three
quarterbacks that were all on staff with the Patriots going
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back two years ago. That's if nuts if you actually
think about it. Um, I think the Francisco forty Niners
are really good. I think the San Francisco forty Niners
are really lucky. And some reason if you say lucky,
that strikes at the heart of what somebody's doing, Like, oh,
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how dare you say we're lucky? Would you rather be unlucky?
Why do we wish each other good luck? Before every game?
Go walking out the door, somebody says, hey, good luck
if he didn't want luck, Like, why wouldn't you? In
the theater you say break a leg, which translates roughly
into hey, good luck. Right, so the Niners are both
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lucky and good like well, Kyle Shanahan's a genius. He is,
you know, he won ten games combined after two seasons.
Was the genius? Right? He was much smarter after they
acquired Jimmy Garoppolo at the end of his first year,
and then much dumber was Jimmy Garoppolo got hurt last year? Right,
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they get Garoppolo at the end of the season, member
he starts the last five games to go five and
oh they beat the Jaguars. That was when the Jaguars
are good, Like the Jaguars are good. Yeah, they were
good two years ago, then earlier season. Last year, instead
of going out of bounds, Jimmy grew upload does the
dummy and and not not the dating the porn star
dummy trying to run over trying to announce his presence
with authority like nukelaluche and run over a defensive back
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and tears his a c l step out of bounds, dude,
or just slide. But that actually benefited the Niners. In seventeen,
they start one in ten, Okay, trade for Jimmy g
Win win five straight. Now, this is coming off of
back to back years in which they had jim tom
Sula and Chip Kelly tom Sula. Everybody knew he was
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just there. They sucked. He was a company guy and
they couldn't find They didn't want to pay anybody else
to take all those elves, and so they had him
for a year. Then they had Chip Kelly. Kind of
same thing. All right, all right, let's see if you
can do something kind of clever with Kaepernick and with
Um and with the rest of the staff and now,
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but it was essentially tanking. Then they go and get
Kyle Shannon. He's like, all right, well, we're gonna put
in a system and we'll try and figure out who
the best quarterback we can draft is. Well, it's genius,
And they end up passing people forget the Chicago Bears,
who may well end up having uh made what appears
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to be the wrong draft pick. They may they may
get off the Mitch Drabinsky train. Mitchell Drabinsky was drafted
where in the NFL Draft. I remember number two, the
Bears didn't have the number to pick. The Bears traded
up to get the number to pick. Do you know
who they traded with that, my friends would be the
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San Francisco forty Niners. So did they pull off a
trade and get more picks? And yeah, they did a
great job, and that's helped them build the franchise they have.
It should also be pointed out that the San Francisco
forty Niners, while trading out of the number two spot
in the NFL Draft, they they passed on the chance
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to draft Pat Mahomes right and Deshaun Watson. No one
ever says like, hey, you know, they're really good, but
they might be better if they had Pat freaking Mahomes
or Deshaun freaking Watson. Mahomes went ten, Watson went twelve.
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They had the number two pick that they traded out of,
and by the way, they took Solomon Thomas three. They
could have made that exact same trade and gotten Mahomes
or Deshaun Watson, and Salomon's I was ain't that good.
He definitely not Pat Mahomes. He's definitely not DeShawn Watson.
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Now they end up kind of lucking into the Garoppolo trade,
which is the only a third round pick, but they
had to give Garoppolo a gigantic deal, the gigantic deal,
the biggest contract in the history of the sport, because
he was coming up at the end of the year.
But remember, two years of being terrible, then they were
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bad and got and end up landing Jimmy Garoppolo in
a trade. And then they actually benefited from Garoppolo getting
hurt because that landed them the number three pick and
because Arizona wanted another quick quarterback for the second straight year,
they passed on. The number one prospect in the draft
was Nick Bosa, who, oh yeah, by the way, probably
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the best defensive player in football. So I'm not saying
they're not good, but they're really really lucky, fortunate, right.
I Mean, it's like Derek Jeter is a great player,
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it's pretty lucky he got to play with the New
York Yankees' entire career. Right the San Francisco forty Niners
might be the best team in the NFL, but there
was a lot of luck along the way, being bad
both purposefully and accidentally because of injury, other teams taking
the wrong guy and gifting them, gifting them Nick Bosa
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and oh yeah, by the way, as good as Cayl
Shanahan is, I don't remember people point out how a big, great,
a genius he was during his first two years when
he won ten games combined. He got two years to
learn on the job of being a head coach. Be
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more in three scored more in three games they did
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on the Doug Gottlieb Show TV. Let's let's start with
last night. Um, Aaron Rodgers throws a ball into the
end zone that looked like he was throwing away. Do
we care if we're crediting him for being really, really lucky?
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I didn't. He'll even admit there's some luck involved in that.
I mean it was it was incredible. Um, just to
get the ball in that spot. I do think that
you know, he threw it a safe place. A guy
makes a great play on it. Um, probably a little
hyperbolic to say it's one of the greatest those of
all time. I think Aaron would even argue that he
was probably just trying to throw that thing mostly away.
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Kind of kind of remarkable. Um, is this offense getting better?
Is it just Aaron being Aaron? Like, give me your
sensor without Davante Adams, but they're putting up big numbers.
What's what's your sense of what's going on in Green Bay? Well?
Last night was interesting. Um, that was maybe the most
fascinating thing offensively I saw a weekend was they so
far this season have been typically a run, run action team.
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They haven't used much of what we'll just say for
simplicity sake, they're spread passing game. Um, they've created a
lot of mismatches tight end running backs on linebackers, isolate
wide receivers, deep crossing routes, kind of the let's call
it the Rams slash San Francisco forty Niners passing game. Well,
Kansas City had a really good plan against it, and
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Chris Collins was did a great job of pointing it
out that they were activating and triggering linebackers on the
run fake. So when they saw the run fakes as
linebackers triggered and then became blitzers, and Green Bay wasn't
doing very good job of picking them up, and Aaron
took some hits, took a couple of sacks. They weren't
real effective there, and all of a sudden they morphed
into their spread passing game. And when you go to
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your spread passing game, that quarterback has to have, you know,
lightning quick processing and lightning quick release. And that's what
Aaron did, and he kind of showed the fullness of
who he can be. And it goes back to something
I used to hear Merril Hodges say all the time
when I worked them on TV. It's like you can
judge it quarterback and offense by how many dimensions they have.
I think last night we really saw all of Aaron's
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dimensions and and the ability to change your offense mid game,
uh and be successful was pretty remarkable. And it was just,
you know, a tip of the hat to Aaron and
and to his brilliance. Uh. Let's let's let's get to
a couple other teams in the National Football League. The
Cleveland Browns thirteen penalties thirds are coming off of bye
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week and uh. They did eventually score some points against Patriots,
but mostly um not just non competitive, but looked dysfunctional
in the first half. Their schedule opens up and it's
it's pretty soft the second Bengals twice, Dolphins. But I
just I don't know if it matters because this team
just keeps looking worse and worse and not better. What
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do you think about how Cleveland is playing well? I
think the soft schedule will create kind of a fool's
gold mentality that will most people will buy back in
and they'll get away with kind of the spitball offense
and and they'll end up with you know, eight and
eight or a winning record, and everybody say, okay, here,
see it just took him longer. But really that the
core issues. What's their identity? Who are Who's Baker Mayfield?
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You know? What? What are they as a football team offensively?
And And to me, I would say spitball. You know,
they get a luga, they get a piece of paper,
they're making a spit the ball and they throw it
against the wall and say, oh, let's try that. Um,
you know they're at their best and they run the
football and run action off of it. Um, Baker is
a precise guy. He's a quick trigger guy. He sees
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the field really good. Uh, he's gonna be really good
in the short intermitted passing game and sit up your
play actions shots. He's not good when, um, the longer
the play takes. So when you're kind of doing these
downfield shots or this misdirection stuff and you're trying to
create all these plays, big plays in the passing game
and backfires on them, um, and they kind of jump
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in and out of what their identities should be so
until they figure out what their identity is, they're just
kind of gonna be almost and they'll trick us certain weeks.
There's certain weeks I'm sure they'll gash the Bengals and
he'll throw for three thirty and all the Browns apologists
will go, oh, see, this is what they are. But
look at him against good teams, they don't know who
they are. They don't stick to a plan, and they
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end up turning it over and having penalties because they
don't know who you are. You can always judge offensive penalties,
especially pre snap penalties, when you don't know who you are.
You don't have a foundation that you're building off of.
Your just bitballing it week to week. Uh, and players
can't adapt to that. What would you do if your
Jacksonville gargnments you. I think he's the real deal. I
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was on calling earlier and I said, I think they
found Tony Romo. I think this guy is a franchise guy. Um.
I think he's a guy you can build around. I
wrote an article for The Athletic last year talking about it.
As I was studying all the quarterbacks for last year's
draft and this year's draft that don't know who's coming out.
I thought he was the best pastor of any of them,
just peer passing instincts. And he is not the biggest
arm he's not the most talented. I'm not saying he
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has the best traits. I'm saying he is the best passer,
and passing goes a long ways and you're seeing it.
He's a good enough athlete. He's a very baker s athlete.
You know. He's got just enough athleticism to buy himself
a little time, a little wiggle, a little squirrel squirm
here there, to buy him some time in space. But
he throws guys open. He sees the field. He's a
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boundary to boundary guy. Um, he doesn't. You don't have
to cut the field in half for him. Um. I
love Nick Foles, I really do. I think Nick Foles
a good quarterback. I think he should be the Bearers
quarterback because I think the Jackson Well jack Wires quarterback
is Gardner Minshew. Yeah, I agree with you on Foles,
and I think I agree with you on Minshew. How
concerned should Jets fans be about Sam Donald? Concerned but
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not panicked. I think there's two ways of judging a quarterback. UM.
Number one is after between that thirty and forty start phase,
you start seeing what their DNA is. You know, is
he a panicker? Is he a middle of few guys,
the boundary guys, you a pick and stick guys, a
full field guy like you kind of know who they
are in the NFL starts thirty to forty, But you
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also have to judge that in context with who he
has around him. So who Baker Mayfield has around him
is very different than who Sam Donald hasn't around him. Um,
it's the weapons, the offensive play calling, the program itself,
and I think Sam is playing with a little bit
of a short deck here. You know, I don't think
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Gas has been a great fit. They don't have a
lot of talent. I think Sam is partly culpable, um,
but I don't think he's fully culpable. And I think
we need to give this thing and probably another year's
worth of starts as they get better, hopefully on offense,
or as they add talent to the offense, before you
can really judge who Sam Donald is. You mentioned you
don't think he's a great fit for Gaze. Why just
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hasn't felt right? Just hasn't looked right, It hasn't felt right. Um,
the things you're hearing, and I'm not as tightened as
I once was, but you're not hearing good things coming
out of there. It just it just doesn't feel right.
I don't know. I'm not in a position to say
anymore than that anymore because I don't have all the
inside scoop I used to have, But I can tell
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you this from my eyeball test, it doesn't look right. No, No,
I tend to agree. And I just don't know what
with Gaze having so much power and not being there
when they drafted Darnald what what that exactly means? Plus
he point out he didn't actually want to draft Donald
when when when he was in Miami. All that makes
it super super weird. And did you hear Greeny this morning?
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Did you have? I mean, Greeny was all over and
Greeny's I mean mean, we all know he's a Jets
homer and all that stuff, but Greeni's like this is
a one and done higher uh, and nobody's more tied
into the Jets kind of narratives and Grainy and he
was just I mean, it's like it was toxic. And
I don't know if any of that's true. But when
you have New Yorkers, you know, loyal Jets, guys that
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are just jumping off as fast as they can on
the coach, you know, it tells me there's something bigger.
Deshaun Watson Um gets kicked in the face until a
touchdown pass, but continues to lead. Now J. J. Watts
out for the season. Are is Deshaun in this offense
and the offensive line? Are they now good enough to
carry the team as opposed to having a good balance
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beteen the defense and the offense. I think they're getting there,
you know, carry him how far. I'm de Shaun's biggest
fan I've been on even when he's getting drafted. Um.
I do think he is Michael Jordan esque um as
a competitor as a player. I think him and Patrick
Mahomes are going to compete for the best player in
football here for the next handful of years. UM. But
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I don't think they're built for the long run without J. J. Watt.
I think there's there's there's still finding who they are.
They get rid of clowning now that you don't have
what I don't think you know their their corner situations. Maybe, Um,
you know they have holes, but I think Deshaun and
Hopkins and when Fuller comes back and with Hide, with
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getting the left tackle from Miami. UM, I think they're
building kind of an offensive driven team and Deshaun's the
guy that can can power that. I don't think you
empower to a super Bowl, but you can get it
into the playoffs and probably win one, maybe two. Here's
what um, an NFL scout friend of mine said about
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the Bears said. I said, um, the Bears last year
because when I covered him last year, they love their
in love with Robinsky the guy. And then I watched
the play calling and I watched Robinsky's lack of confidence,
and it feels like they don't believe in him, so
he doesn't believe in him and he looks lost. Is that?
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Is that an accurate assessment of what's going on with Chicago?
I lived it, I loved I think everybody's lived that, right,
I'm anybody who's you know, if your bosses don't believe
in you, they don't put you a position to succeed,
and then of course you start to believe in it. Right, Amen,
I did it. I lived it. Um. I think it
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was last week we talked about the love button syndrome
from the GM. Just because the GM loves you doesn't
mean the coaches love you, you know. I mean they're
the one scheme and they're the one sitting there dialing
up plays all Sunday night after the game Monday Tuesday morning.
You know, they're getting after it and they're trying to
They're like, okay, what can we do? How can we
take advantage of the defense? And they sit in the
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room and they go, well, we can't, we can't, we can't,
we can't, we can't. And they spend two days saying
they can't because they don't believe in the quarterback. And
then they give you the plan and you're like, what
the heck is this? Like this is basically the same
thing we did last week, or this is training camp stuff.
Where's the good stuff? And they don't really say well
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because you can't do it, but you feel it and
you're like, man, they don't trust me with good stuff.
They trust me with remedial stuff. And that starts building
and then that carries over into Sunday and like you said,
I'm sure as people listen to man, that's how my
boss treats me. I mean, I lived it. You lived it.
It's tough, man, I mean you got it. You gotta
pull him out of the camp into the can. And
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that happens during the week, And if you're Mr Robiski,
you're ter go to practice on Wednesday, like I gotta
have the greatest week of practice of my life and
get these people to believe in me and correct the
mistakes I've been making. Otherwise my time here is going
to be short. I don't know if you saw this,
but Joe Flacco apparently is a bad neck, so he's
not going to start for the Broncos. This after Flacco
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called out the conservative nature of the play calling in
their loss to the Cults yesterday. Um, look, Flacco hadn't
been great, but the offensive line is bad and the
play calling was conservative. Does he deserve be benched? I
saw his comments. I didn't hear about the benching because
then it's not it's yes, yeah, that's that's but I'm
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watching I'm watching the press conference and there's nothing wrong
with his neck. Yeah. No, I saw the press conference
to didn't look like there's anything wrong with his neck. Um.
I have a hard time with this. One, because you know,
I don't believe in throwing people under the bus. I
don't believe in using the media as a tool to
express your frustrations. However, coaches do it sometimes, and they
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do it passive aggressively in the media. Um yet they
don't get disciplined for it. And players sometimes need to
have a voice that they need to be able to
express those things, and I don't think it was the
right platform to do it. I made that mistake as well,
like pretty much everyone. I mean, I mean almost every
mistake you can make. But what I learned through those
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mistakes there's a much more creative way of doing it.
But you do need to have the right to express
your your voice and your displeasure. And he should not
be benched for it. He's probably just pulled into the
to the head coach's office and saying, hey, there's a
better way of doing that. Tony Dunge was the best
at that. You would make a mistake publicly and instead
of embarrassing you, he would pull you and use as
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a teaching moment whether you were a third year guy,
a fifth year guy, or a twelfth year guy. And uh,
I think that that's probably learning from Tony. That's how
I would have handle this with Joe. It's a it's
a great way of a great way of looking at
Did the Eagles figure something out? I mean, that's that's
a good another almost listen And I'm an Eagles fan now,
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So I again I liked them. I love Doug, I
love their coaching staff. I just think they're almost. I
think they're they're almost good and almost good get you
in the NFL at best. Um, they're gonna they're they're
gonna be fool school some week. Like yesterday. I mean,
Josh Allen gives them the ball three times by fumbling it. Yeah,
they take advantage of it. Yeah they do some good things,
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but they're not earning that early in the game. Early
in the game they were no different. It wasn't until
they just started getting the ball given to him and
they're like, oh wow, look what we just got another gift?
Oh another gift, Oh another gift. Okay, we're good again.
Well what happens when the team doesn't give him those gifts?
It's gonna be a different situation. So I think the
Eagles are you know, I don't know a better term
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than almost. I think they're almost Kirk cousins Um didn't
have to do much on Thursday night, but the numbers
since he apologized to Adam Dealen for not getting in
the ball more and they started kind of opening up
the offense are incredible. And his overall numbers are are
are very good. They played Kansas City, who we expected.
You have Pat Mahomes back. What's your sense from Minnesota's
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offense now as opposed to what you thought, you know
three or four weeks ago, the opposite of the Browns.
So they have an identity. They are going to run
the football, Doblin Cook. They're gonna maximize the screen game.
They're probably the best screen team in football right now. Um,
they're gonna change the launch point and they're let Kirk
Turners back to the defense and run action and take
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shots to two really talented receivers and a tight end
by the way, who's primarily a blocker this year, but
he's sneaky sneaky good and Rudolph and they have other
auxiliary players that can get you. So they know who
they are and they don't deviate from it. And one
week he might only throw it for one seventy six
and they're gonna rush for two thirty, but it's gonna
be exactly the same way. And then when they load
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up on the run and they load up on Stoff
and Dalvin Cook, they're gonna turn their back and they're
gonna put it in Dalvin's belly and they're gonna pop
up and digs and the learning gonna have one on
ones or they're gonna have really good screens built in
to get some chunk, steal some chunk yards. They don't change.
You watch them every single week and it's the same
exact stuff, just done a little bit differently with bells
and whistles, and it's kind of like what Sean Payton
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has done for years. Like they're gonna run the same
stuff every weekend. There's gonna window dress it up and
they know exactly who they are. The Vikings know who
they are. They're not going to deviate from who they
are and that's why they're going to be successful. Awesome stuff.
Awesome stuff for uh the one and only quarterback Guru,
head coach of Lipskam Academy. Follow him on Twitter at
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I'll admit it, I thought the Browns coming off of
a bye would be more competitive against the New England Patriots.
It's not because I don't think the Patriots are great,
but the Patriots and played against a very soft schedule
as opposed to the Browns have played against a very
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difficult schedule. And while I don't love the construction of
the Browns, I do think that there's a reason Odell
Beckham Jr. Jarvis Landry, you know, Chub, even Baker Mayfield
like those guys are competitors. I would have thought you'd
at the best version of themselves off of bye week
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against the Patriots scene that did not have as much
time to prepare. I was wrong, and that's because I've
now determined that the Cleveland Browns are nothing more than
a fad diet, and like a fad diet, they're gonna
work here for the next couple of weeks. I don't
know if you looked ahead for their of their schedule,
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but in their schedule they still have the Bengals who
have stink twice, right, it's still on the Dolphins who stink.
Steelers are I think better than their record, and they're
starting to come together, especially defensively, but they do have
a backup quarterback. Like their scheduled down the stretchers is
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not strong, and I think like a fad diet, they
will work in a short instance. On the other hand,
why don't fad diets work because the fundamentals of how
you lose weight are pretty simple, and I understand. And
this is a discussion I've actually had with my wife,
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which is she's like, you, you seem to hold it
against people who have weight problems, and I was like, no,
She's like, well, there's there's a good portion of it,
which is genetics. That's true. Genetics do play a factor,
but you can fight those genetics with exercise and proper
diet and getting your rest. You cut the sugar out
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of your drinks. To begin with, you don't smoke, you
don't eat fried food. Everything in moderation. You get up
and if nothing else, you walk every day. I mean
you you go back and you look at some of
the great weight loss stories. It just came down to
a person making decision to change their life. It doesn't
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mean that they stayed at five and ten percent body
fat the rest of your life, but you could maintain
relatively good health. And you know what. Those fundamentals are
the same as true in football. A right to have
a good football team. Got a good offensive line, good
defensive line. You gotta turn the football over, you gotta
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be penalized. Cannot shoot yourself in the foot yet, Bill,
run the ball first, throw the ball second. If you
can do all of these things defensively, pressure the passer,
make them at least one dimensional. You don't have to
be great in all areas. You don't have to be
great in one area. If you're just good. This is
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a league that most teams are seven and nine to
nine and seven. Don't believe me. Take the Chargers right.
Gave away a game in Detroit, gave away a game
last week against Tennessee gave away one against Denver, got
a gift yesterday in Chicago. That's that's NFL football. They're
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all usually decide it by a touchdowner less. Most of
them honestly come down to a field goal less, and
the deciding factors are turnovers, penalties, red zone, special teams,
and of course what you do on third down. But
the Browns are built behind the person the brash personality
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of a quarterback who's unproven, he's undersized and feels under
equipped and played in a college offense where he's struggling
to evolve into the NFL game. They trade away one
of their best, if not their best, offensive lineman for
their second best offensive lineman to get an elite wide
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receiver who hadn't won anything for a reason. And remember
when the Miami Dolphins got rid of Jarvis Landry was
part of their house cleaning when they wanted to start
getting a better culture. That's their two wide receivers. And
while their head coach might someday or might on a
different team be fine at the position, he hadn't called
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plays for an entire season before this year. In addition
to taking on a really really rigorous job of being
a head coach. With all these personalities, he's still calling
the plays and shocker here there, it doesn't seem to
be a rhythm or a balance or a sense of
what they exactly are. You know, ask yourself, why did
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you think why did so many of us think that
the Browns would be good this year? We didn't say
because of their line, because of their defense, because their
ability to run the football, protect the pastor we said
they got a little O B J. I. They got
Myles Garrett. Look at Myles Garrett with a shirt off.
Oh my god, he's a freak athlete. Like they are
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a fad diet. They will just like last year when
they won seven games. Go back and look at the
teams they beat. They didn't be good teams. Well, they
beat the Ravens when they were starting Flacco and the
Ravens weren't good. Then that's their only win against the
playoff team. All other all six other winds we're against
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the bad teams in the NFL. Beat the Bengals twice,
who had a historically bad defense and end up firing
Marvin Lewis. Go back and look at who they beat.
The fundamentals are the fundamentals for a reason. Here's Baker
Mayfield after another disciplinting laws, non discipline, guys not being
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focused on doing their job. Starts first and foremost with
me to be a leader every single down. Get our
guys lined up, make sure they were set. We're paying
attention because if we can't use cadence, you know, we're
hurting ourselves. You know, anytime we try and use a
double account it seems like we're false starting a little bit.
But we'll get the discipline part fixed, the accountability. Like
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I said, we've pointed out the problem. Now we have
to execute it on Sundays. And once again, I feel
like we had a a week of practice, so we
just didn't translate. It couldn't translate from the practice field
to the game to the game field. They had a
week off, two weeks prepare for the Patriots, and they
look like a JV team. They look like a rag
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tag bunch of fill ins. False starts in the NFL,
multiple false starts? Who does that? Who does that? Who
has thirteen penalties after a bye week? The Browns three
turnovers on three consecutive plays. Who does that? The Browns?
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The fact is that the Browns are exactly who you'd
think the Browns would be if you remove the names
the eye candy of Miles Garrett and Baker Mayfield and
Odell Beckham Jr. And Jarvis Landry. Right, you take those
off and you're like, oh, how could Joe Thomas walk
away from a This is why I want no part
of that. No thanks. I didn't wait around. I've been
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being in a disappointing franchise this long. I didn't wait
around to be on a disappointing, dysfunctional franchise that thought
they were going to be good even though they were
poorly constructed. Fad diets come and go, and for short
periods of time they do in fact work. But the
fundamentals are the fundamentals. In football, if you get penalized
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more than the other team, if you turn the ball
over more than the other team, you are gonna lose
more often than you win. All right, No different in basketball.
You know, Wisconsin basketball for the last twenty five years,
through two coaches has been boring his sin. But what
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don't they do? They don't foul, they don't turn it over.
You know what they do? They win a hell of
a lot of games. Ain't that hard? But It takes discipline,
it takes the right fit, It takes the fundamentals, not
a hey, we want a couple of games against bad
teams to make us feel like we were really good,
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then add some eye candy that's not actually gonna help
you win. Browns are well everything you think the Browns
normally are. The only difference is the names on the
back of the jersey, which alleeds you to believe that somehow, somehow,
some way, they would win their division. Be sure to
catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays
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at three pm Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio ah app. Do you see
Garoppolo now undefeated? Garoppolo and Brady both undefeated? That's pretty amazing,
pretty easy. Fifteen and oh between the two quarterbacks who
were once starting back up and you had in Jacoby
Brissette and they've lost combined two games between those three
quarterbacks that were all on staff with the Patriots going
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back two years ago. That's if nuts if you actually
think about it. Um, I think the Francisco forty Niners
are really good. I think the San Francisco forty Niners
are really lucky. And some reason if you say lucky,
that strikes at the heart of what somebody's doing, Like, oh,
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how dare you say we're lucky? Would you rather be unlucky?
Why do we wish each other good luck? Before every game?
Go walking out the door, somebody says, hey, good luck
if he didn't want luck, Like, why wouldn't you? In
the theater you say break a leg, which translates roughly
into hey, good luck. Right, so the Niners are both
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lucky and good like well, Kyle Shanahan's a genius. He is,
you know, he won ten games combined after two seasons.
Was the genius? Right? He was much smarter after they
acquired Jimmy Garoppolo at the end of his first year,
and then much dumber was Jimmy Garoppolo got hurt last year? Right,
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they get Garoppolo at the end of the season, member
he starts the last five games to go five and
oh they beat the Jaguars. That was when the Jaguars
are good, Like the Jaguars are good. Yeah, they were
good two years ago, then earlier season. Last year, instead
of going out of bounds, Jimmy grew upload does the
dummy and and not not the dating the porn star
dummy trying to run over trying to announce his presence
with authority like nukelaluche and run over a defensive back
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and tears his a c l step out of bounds, dude,
or just slide. But that actually benefited the Niners. In seventeen,
they start one in ten, Okay, trade for Jimmy g
Win win five straight. Now, this is coming off of
back to back years in which they had jim tom
Sula and Chip Kelly tom Sula. Everybody knew he was
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just there. They sucked. He was a company guy and
they couldn't find They didn't want to pay anybody else
to take all those elves, and so they had him
for a year. Then they had Chip Kelly. Kind of
same thing. All right, all right, let's see if you
can do something kind of clever with Kaepernick and with
Um and with the rest of the staff and now,
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but it was essentially tanking. Then they go and get
Kyle Shannon. He's like, all right, well, we're gonna put
in a system and we'll try and figure out who
the best quarterback we can draft is. Well, it's genius,
And they end up passing people forget the Chicago Bears,
who may well end up having uh made what appears
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to be the wrong draft pick. They may they may
get off the Mitch Drabinsky train. Mitchell Drabinsky was drafted
where in the NFL Draft. I remember number two, the
Bears didn't have the number to pick. The Bears traded
up to get the number to pick. Do you know
who they traded with that, my friends would be the
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San Francisco forty Niners. So did they pull off a
trade and get more picks? And yeah, they did a
great job, and that's helped them build the franchise they have.
It should also be pointed out that the San Francisco
forty Niners, while trading out of the number two spot
in the NFL Draft, they they passed on the chance
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to draft Pat Mahomes right and Deshaun Watson. No one
ever says like, hey, you know, they're really good, but
they might be better if they had Pat freaking Mahomes
or Deshaun freaking Watson. Mahomes went ten, Watson went twelve.
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They had the number two pick that they traded out of,
and by the way, they took Solomon Thomas three. They
could have made that exact same trade and gotten Mahomes
or Deshaun Watson, and Salomon's I was ain't that good.
He definitely not Pat Mahomes. He's definitely not DeShawn Watson.
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Now they end up kind of lucking into the Garoppolo trade,
which is the only a third round pick, but they
had to give Garoppolo a gigantic deal, the gigantic deal,
the biggest contract in the history of the sport, because
he was coming up at the end of the year.
But remember, two years of being terrible, then they were
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bad and got and end up landing Jimmy Garoppolo in
a trade. And then they actually benefited from Garoppolo getting
hurt because that landed them the number three pick and
because Arizona wanted another quick quarterback for the second straight year,
they passed on. The number one prospect in the draft
was Nick Bosa, who, oh yeah, by the way, probably
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the best defensive player in football. So I'm not saying
they're not good, but they're really really lucky, fortunate, right.
I Mean, it's like Derek Jeter is a great player,
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it's pretty lucky he got to play with the New
York Yankees' entire career. Right the San Francisco forty Niners
might be the best team in the NFL, but there
was a lot of luck along the way, being bad
both purposefully and accidentally because of injury, other teams taking
the wrong guy and gifting them, gifting them Nick Bosa
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and oh yeah, by the way, as good as Cayl
Shanahan is, I don't remember people point out how a big, great,
a genius he was during his first two years when
he won ten games combined. He got two years to
learn on the job of being a head coach. Be
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on the Doug Gottlieb Show TV. Let's let's start with
last night. Um, Aaron Rodgers throws a ball into the
end zone that looked like he was throwing away. Do
we care if we're crediting him for being really, really lucky?
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I didn't. He'll even admit there's some luck involved in that.
I mean it was it was incredible. Um, just to
get the ball in that spot. I do think that
you know, he threw it a safe place. A guy
makes a great play on it. Um, probably a little
hyperbolic to say it's one of the greatest those of
all time. I think Aaron would even argue that he
was probably just trying to throw that thing mostly away.
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Kind of kind of remarkable. Um, is this offense getting better?
Is it just Aaron being Aaron? Like, give me your
sensor without Davante Adams, but they're putting up big numbers.
What's what's your sense of what's going on in Green Bay? Well?
Last night was interesting. Um, that was maybe the most
fascinating thing offensively I saw a weekend was they so
far this season have been typically a run, run action team.
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They haven't used much of what we'll just say for
simplicity sake, they're spread passing game. Um, they've created a
lot of mismatches tight end running backs on linebackers, isolate
wide receivers, deep crossing routes, kind of the let's call
it the Rams slash San Francisco forty Niners passing game. Well,
Kansas City had a really good plan against it, and
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Chris Collins was did a great job of pointing it
out that they were activating and triggering linebackers on the
run fake. So when they saw the run fakes as
linebackers triggered and then became blitzers, and Green Bay wasn't
doing very good job of picking them up, and Aaron
took some hits, took a couple of sacks. They weren't
real effective there, and all of a sudden they morphed
into their spread passing game. And when you go to
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your spread passing game, that quarterback has to have, you know,
lightning quick processing and lightning quick release. And that's what
Aaron did, and he kind of showed the fullness of
who he can be. And it goes back to something
I used to hear Merril Hodges say all the time
when I worked them on TV. It's like you can
judge it quarterback and offense by how many dimensions they have.
I think last night we really saw all of Aaron's
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dimensions and and the ability to change your offense mid game,
uh and be successful was pretty remarkable. And it was just,
you know, a tip of the hat to Aaron and
and to his brilliance. Uh. Let's let's let's get to
a couple other teams in the National Football League. The
Cleveland Browns thirteen penalties thirds are coming off of bye
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week and uh. They did eventually score some points against Patriots,
but mostly um not just non competitive, but looked dysfunctional
in the first half. Their schedule opens up and it's
it's pretty soft the second Bengals twice, Dolphins. But I
just I don't know if it matters because this team
just keeps looking worse and worse and not better. What
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do you think about how Cleveland is playing well? I
think the soft schedule will create kind of a fool's
gold mentality that will most people will buy back in
and they'll get away with kind of the spitball offense
and and they'll end up with you know, eight and
eight or a winning record, and everybody say, okay, here,
see it just took him longer. But really that the
core issues. What's their identity? Who are Who's Baker Mayfield?
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You know? What? What are they as a football team offensively?
And And to me, I would say spitball. You know,
they get a luga, they get a piece of paper,
they're making a spit the ball and they throw it
against the wall and say, oh, let's try that. Um,
you know they're at their best and they run the
football and run action off of it. Um, Baker is
a precise guy. He's a quick trigger guy. He sees
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the field really good. Uh, he's gonna be really good
in the short intermitted passing game and sit up your
play actions shots. He's not good when, um, the longer
the play takes. So when you're kind of doing these
downfield shots or this misdirection stuff and you're trying to
create all these plays, big plays in the passing game
and backfires on them, um, and they kind of jump
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in and out of what their identities should be so
until they figure out what their identity is, they're just
kind of gonna be almost and they'll trick us certain weeks.
There's certain weeks I'm sure they'll gash the Bengals and
he'll throw for three thirty and all the Browns apologists
will go, oh, see, this is what they are. But
look at him against good teams, they don't know who
they are. They don't stick to a plan, and they
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end up turning it over and having penalties because they
don't know who you are. You can always judge offensive penalties,
especially pre snap penalties, when you don't know who you are.
You don't have a foundation that you're building off of.
Your just bitballing it week to week. Uh, and players
can't adapt to that. What would you do if your
Jacksonville gargnments you. I think he's the real deal. I
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was on calling earlier and I said, I think they
found Tony Romo. I think this guy is a franchise guy. Um.
I think he's a guy you can build around. I
wrote an article for The Athletic last year talking about it.
As I was studying all the quarterbacks for last year's
draft and this year's draft that don't know who's coming out.
I thought he was the best pastor of any of them,
just peer passing instincts. And he is not the biggest
arm he's not the most talented. I'm not saying he
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has the best traits. I'm saying he is the best passer,
and passing goes a long ways and you're seeing it.
He's a good enough athlete. He's a very baker s athlete.
You know. He's got just enough athleticism to buy himself
a little time, a little wiggle, a little squirrel squirm
here there, to buy him some time in space. But
he throws guys open. He sees the field. He's a
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boundary to boundary guy. Um, he doesn't. You don't have
to cut the field in half for him. Um. I
love Nick Foles, I really do. I think Nick Foles
a good quarterback. I think he should be the Bearers
quarterback because I think the Jackson Well jack Wires quarterback
is Gardner Minshew. Yeah, I agree with you on Foles,
and I think I agree with you on Minshew. How
concerned should Jets fans be about Sam Donald? Concerned but
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not panicked. I think there's two ways of judging a quarterback. UM.
Number one is after between that thirty and forty start phase,
you start seeing what their DNA is. You know, is
he a panicker? Is he a middle of few guys,
the boundary guys, you a pick and stick guys, a
full field guy like you kind of know who they
are in the NFL starts thirty to forty, But you
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also have to judge that in context with who he
has around him. So who Baker Mayfield has around him
is very different than who Sam Donald hasn't around him. Um,
it's the weapons, the offensive play calling, the program itself,
and I think Sam is playing with a little bit
of a short deck here. You know, I don't think
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Gas has been a great fit. They don't have a
lot of talent. I think Sam is partly culpable, um,
but I don't think he's fully culpable. And I think
we need to give this thing and probably another year's
worth of starts as they get better, hopefully on offense,
or as they add talent to the offense, before you
can really judge who Sam Donald is. You mentioned you
don't think he's a great fit for Gaze. Why just
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hasn't felt right? Just hasn't looked right, It hasn't felt right. Um,
the things you're hearing, and I'm not as tightened as
I once was, but you're not hearing good things coming
out of there. It just it just doesn't feel right.
I don't know. I'm not in a position to say
anymore than that anymore because I don't have all the
inside scoop I used to have, But I can tell
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you this from my eyeball test, it doesn't look right. No, No,
I tend to agree. And I just don't know what
with Gaze having so much power and not being there
when they drafted Darnald what what that exactly means? Plus
he point out he didn't actually want to draft Donald
when when when he was in Miami. All that makes
it super super weird. And did you hear Greeny this morning?
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Did you have? I mean, Greeny was all over and
Greeny's I mean mean, we all know he's a Jets
homer and all that stuff, but Greeni's like this is
a one and done higher uh, and nobody's more tied
into the Jets kind of narratives and Grainy and he
was just I mean, it's like it was toxic. And
I don't know if any of that's true. But when
you have New Yorkers, you know, loyal Jets, guys that
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are just jumping off as fast as they can on
the coach, you know, it tells me there's something bigger.
Deshaun Watson Um gets kicked in the face until a
touchdown pass, but continues to lead. Now J. J. Watts
out for the season. Are is Deshaun in this offense
and the offensive line? Are they now good enough to
carry the team as opposed to having a good balance
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beteen the defense and the offense. I think they're getting there,
you know, carry him how far. I'm de Shaun's biggest
fan I've been on even when he's getting drafted. Um.
I do think he is Michael Jordan esque um as
a competitor as a player. I think him and Patrick
Mahomes are going to compete for the best player in
football here for the next handful of years. UM. But
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I don't think they're built for the long run without J. J. Watt.
I think there's there's there's still finding who they are.
They get rid of clowning now that you don't have
what I don't think you know their their corner situations. Maybe, Um,
you know they have holes, but I think Deshaun and
Hopkins and when Fuller comes back and with Hide, with
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getting the left tackle from Miami. UM, I think they're
building kind of an offensive driven team and Deshaun's the
guy that can can power that. I don't think you
empower to a super Bowl, but you can get it
into the playoffs and probably win one, maybe two. Here's
what um, an NFL scout friend of mine said about
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the Bears said. I said, um, the Bears last year
because when I covered him last year, they love their
in love with Robinsky the guy. And then I watched
the play calling and I watched Robinsky's lack of confidence,
and it feels like they don't believe in him, so
he doesn't believe in him and he looks lost. Is that?
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Is that an accurate assessment of what's going on with Chicago?
I lived it, I loved I think everybody's lived that, right,
I'm anybody who's you know, if your bosses don't believe
in you, they don't put you a position to succeed,
and then of course you start to believe in it. Right, Amen,
I did it. I lived it. Um. I think it
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was last week we talked about the love button syndrome
from the GM. Just because the GM loves you doesn't
mean the coaches love you, you know. I mean they're
the one scheme and they're the one sitting there dialing
up plays all Sunday night after the game Monday Tuesday morning.
You know, they're getting after it and they're trying to
They're like, okay, what can we do? How can we
take advantage of the defense? And they sit in the
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room and they go, well, we can't, we can't, we can't,
we can't, we can't. And they spend two days saying
they can't because they don't believe in the quarterback. And
then they give you the plan and you're like, what
the heck is this? Like this is basically the same
thing we did last week, or this is training camp stuff.
Where's the good stuff? And they don't really say well
(27:02):
because you can't do it, but you feel it and
you're like, man, they don't trust me with good stuff.
They trust me with remedial stuff. And that starts building
and then that carries over into Sunday and like you said,
I'm sure as people listen to man, that's how my
boss treats me. I mean, I lived it. You lived it.
It's tough, man, I mean you got it. You gotta
pull him out of the camp into the can. And
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that happens during the week, And if you're Mr Robiski,
you're ter go to practice on Wednesday, like I gotta
have the greatest week of practice of my life and
get these people to believe in me and correct the
mistakes I've been making. Otherwise my time here is going
to be short. I don't know if you saw this,
but Joe Flacco apparently is a bad neck, so he's
not going to start for the Broncos. This after Flacco
(27:47):
called out the conservative nature of the play calling in
their loss to the Cults yesterday. Um, look, Flacco hadn't
been great, but the offensive line is bad and the
play calling was conservative. Does he deserve be benched? I
saw his comments. I didn't hear about the benching because
then it's not it's yes, yeah, that's that's but I'm
(28:12):
watching I'm watching the press conference and there's nothing wrong
with his neck. Yeah. No, I saw the press conference
to didn't look like there's anything wrong with his neck. Um.
I have a hard time with this. One, because you know,
I don't believe in throwing people under the bus. I
don't believe in using the media as a tool to
express your frustrations. However, coaches do it sometimes, and they
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do it passive aggressively in the media. Um yet they
don't get disciplined for it. And players sometimes need to
have a voice that they need to be able to
express those things, and I don't think it was the
right platform to do it. I made that mistake as well,
like pretty much everyone. I mean, I mean almost every
mistake you can make. But what I learned through those
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mistakes there's a much more creative way of doing it.
But you do need to have the right to express
your your voice and your displeasure. And he should not
be benched for it. He's probably just pulled into the
to the head coach's office and saying, hey, there's a
better way of doing that. Tony Dunge was the best
at that. You would make a mistake publicly and instead
of embarrassing you, he would pull you and use as
(29:16):
a teaching moment whether you were a third year guy,
a fifth year guy, or a twelfth year guy. And uh,
I think that that's probably learning from Tony. That's how
I would have handle this with Joe. It's a it's
a great way of a great way of looking at
Did the Eagles figure something out? I mean, that's that's
a good another almost listen And I'm an Eagles fan now,
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So I again I liked them. I love Doug, I
love their coaching staff. I just think they're almost. I
think they're they're almost good and almost good get you
in the NFL at best. Um, they're gonna they're they're
gonna be fool school some week. Like yesterday. I mean,
Josh Allen gives them the ball three times by fumbling it. Yeah,
they take advantage of it. Yeah they do some good things,
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but they're not earning that early in the game. Early
in the game they were no different. It wasn't until
they just started getting the ball given to him and
they're like, oh wow, look what we just got another gift?
Oh another gift, Oh another gift. Okay, we're good again.
Well what happens when the team doesn't give him those gifts?
It's gonna be a different situation. So I think the
Eagles are you know, I don't know a better term
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than almost. I think they're almost Kirk cousins Um didn't
have to do much on Thursday night, but the numbers
since he apologized to Adam Dealen for not getting in
the ball more and they started kind of opening up
the offense are incredible. And his overall numbers are are
are very good. They played Kansas City, who we expected.
You have Pat Mahomes back. What's your sense from Minnesota's
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offense now as opposed to what you thought, you know
three or four weeks ago, the opposite of the Browns.
So they have an identity. They are going to run
the football, Doblin Cook. They're gonna maximize the screen game.
They're probably the best screen team in football right now. Um,
they're gonna change the launch point and they're let Kirk
Turners back to the defense and run action and take
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shots to two really talented receivers and a tight end
by the way, who's primarily a blocker this year, but
he's sneaky sneaky good and Rudolph and they have other
auxiliary players that can get you. So they know who
they are and they don't deviate from it. And one
week he might only throw it for one seventy six
and they're gonna rush for two thirty, but it's gonna
be exactly the same way. And then when they load
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up on the run and they load up on Stoff
and Dalvin Cook, they're gonna turn their back and they're
gonna put it in Dalvin's belly and they're gonna pop
up and digs and the learning gonna have one on
ones or they're gonna have really good screens built in
to get some chunk, steal some chunk yards. They don't change.
You watch them every single week and it's the same
exact stuff, just done a little bit differently with bells
and whistles, and it's kind of like what Sean Payton
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has done for years. Like they're gonna run the same
stuff every weekend. There's gonna window dress it up and
they know exactly who they are. The Vikings know who
they are. They're not going to deviate from who they
are and that's why they're going to be successful. Awesome stuff.
Awesome stuff for uh the one and only quarterback Guru,
head coach of Lipskam Academy. Follow him on Twitter at
l a Mustang fb t D. Have a great week.
(32:08):
Thanks so much for joining us.
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