October 13, 2025 • 34 mins
Brian Branch and JuJu Smith-Schuster got into a postgame fight after the Chiefs beat the Lions 👀 — plus, what’s really going wrong between AJ Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles, and is it time to fire a coach like Penn State did with James Franklin? We break it all down on this episode of the Fitz Take Podcast — your source for the latest NFL news, locker room drama, and college football controversy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cool. I got a receipt for you, brother. Just know that,
Just know that I got a receipt for your long
at the CBS receipt you vial me.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
If James Frank was making thirty dollars an hour. All right,
you keep knocking on the door.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into another episode
of the Fits Take podcast. I'm your guy, Jr. Marcus Fitzpatrick,
but you know you can always call me fits. That
man in boxes with me is my co host, mister
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go ahead and subscribe to that podcast feed wherever you
get your favorite podcast from, so you also can know
when we are dropping episodes. Week seven of college football
had some exciting moments in it last week here and
laugh yet not so much. Raging. CAJU has now dropped
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to two and four. Their Knoxville things are still going
well and Rocky Top a close win over Arkansas. Y'allo
didn't get it, but uh they were able to pull
it off to improve to five and one on the season. Uh,
before we get started on the episode, because we got
some stuff to talk about with coaches getting fired, dudes
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fighting after football games and all that stuff. Man, before
we get into that, how you doing, brother, doing good? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's getting a little cold out here, Chili out here
on Rocky Top.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm not I'm got used to it getting so cold
so fast after doing like what four years out there
in Louisiana, It's getting a little chilly.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm just gonna say that, I'm getting ashy quicker.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Black people can't stand the.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Colde at though, while your little ashy extravast lead at
this time we're hearing.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But I'm enjoying it though, seeing that the seasons changed.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
At listen, man, I understand I get it here here
in Louisiana. Man, it is not that we're still in
the eighties. We kind of which will to hold out
right now, bro, I'm ready for the cold freeze me
please please, I take that any day. Let's hop into it,
ladies and gentlemen, you know, speaking of getting frozen or
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being ice cold. As we're recording this episode here. On
a Monday, the night before Sunday Night, the Kansas City
Chiefs and the Detroit Lions battled and Sunday Night football
in which the Chiefs were victorious. But it wasn't the
fight on the field that made the most headlines. That
was the fight afterward that really brought the attention to
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the world. As a safety, Brian Branch pulls up on
Juju Smith Schuster and schmacks him, and then after that,
Juju runs over to then get his lick back and
proceeds to get his help and snatched off, and then
it's this big scuffle afterwards. Dan Campbell with the Lions
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gets to the mic and says, you know, I love Brian,
but he can't do that. You know. You know Brian
Ranch coming out in an article with The New York
Post today mentioning how you know, it was childish and
he regrets doing it, but then it was coming from
a place where he felt like he was right to
do it in the moment because plays before or somewhere
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early in the fourth quarter, mid fourth quarter, late fourth
quarter or something like that, Juju Smith Schuster is running
a crack block on a run play and he cracks
Brian branch on the safety. So if you're you so
trying to show this is the safety here and Jujus
over here as he's coming downhill, he cracks him, smacks him.
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And in football like the legal blind side block has
been you know, thrown out as illegal. It should be
a penalty. All this stuff like that. But afterwards, I
think what got him is that Juju stepped over. That's
I think that's what broke his pride. And he said,
I'm finna show him. We're finn show something, and so
the scuffle happens afterwards. But Elijah, will, were your thoughts
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about how it? You know, all came to fruition and
you know, shit, he even pulled up on him like that.
How do you how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I think he should have pulled up on him. I
don't know if he should have just walked up to
him and slapped him. I'm gonna keep a PG. He
slapped the dookie out of him. You know what I
really want to say. He slapped And the crazy thing
is you watch the slow bullshit jud You put his
hand out there for a handshake, and he slapped the
mess out, but I didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I think I think he should have said something. I
think the game was at.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That point was kind of I don't know if it
was out of reach it, but I know that it
was block.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was a ten point game at that point. It
was before they kicked the field goal to go up
two possessions, well three positions at that point, so it
was twenty seven to seventeen. Uh you know, Twitter bet
they be on it. So they they had to cut up.
They had a circle, but that was easy to just
pipe in block they came up.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Boy, I don't think I don't think that it was.
I don't know if it was out of reach it,
but I just think that you know, I know players,
it's football is a dangerous game. You're gonna get hit dirty,
You're gonna get hit regardless. Dirty are clean out there.
But I just think that for juju, you know, sometimes
you got to keep the players safe, like you know
what I'm saying, Like I know that you know it's dangerous,
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is violent. You want to go out and knock the
person over. The ball wasn't even coming your way though,
like so you could have like really.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Just let it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let it ride a little bit and just let it go.
So I feel what Branches saying there, the ball wasn't
coming this way, you decide to still just run and
just go full speed and just knock him over if
you want to call it the blind side, if you
want to say hit in the back, whatever you want
to say. Uh, But like I said, the ball wasn't
even coming this way. So I feel what Brian branch
frustration was there, and stepping over somebody is even more disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So but on the same token, if you're thinking, Juju,
if you're going across the middle, will he will he blind?
Would he spare you at that moment? So again, I
understand on both sides of it. But I just hope
that Juju next time be the bigger person, because I
just think that that wasn't necessary for him to run
up on him and hit him like that. First down
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play ball is not your way, I mean, I don't
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe you want the extra cookies in the film room
saying oh, Juju, go hard every play like that. Maybe
you just wanted some extra cookies or something like that
in the film room for Tuesday or.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Whenever you decide to watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
But you know, if that was the case, then that
film room also on the show what happened at the
end of the game as well, because of the decision
that you made. But again, I just think that, you know,
they I think Juju should have made a bigger decision
and I think Brian should have made a bigger decision
as well. Both of them are wrong in the situation,
and that's that's my biggest thought on it. I don't
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think that it's something illegal or anything like that, So
I just think they're both wrong in a situation.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Brother. I have strongly disagree with you on this one
because I'm looking at this plane and it looks like
they're running like some kind of variation of a inside
zone fake reverse on the play, and so Brian Branch
is in the box. They're in a four to three
type of front, and he is on the back side
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of the play. So if Juju doesn't crack him, he's free.
He gets to tackle, and it's a tackle for loss
in the backfield on first and ten on the game
that you're trying to ice. So his job on that play,
what's the crack block he did. He was doing his job. Now,
whether it was in the lines up, it was you know,
blocking the back or how close it was or all
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that stuff like that, Like I get it to play
itself is supposed to be thrown out of the game
because you're trying to keep players healthy. But as an
offensive minded player like Juju is thinking, Bro, if I
don't make this block, I can lose my job, cause yeah,
or you know, they gonna look at it on film
and say, well, he not a team player. We're not
gonna get him more touches in the game. You feel
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me so at the same time, like I understand the
defensive player wanted to be protected, but the offensive player
is saying, bro, I got to do my job. I'm
trying to ice this game. We run in the football
and if the back decides to cut back and you
the free hitter in the box, my job is to
block you. So whether it is maybe he could have,
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you know, came in differently and blocked him and just
threw his hands up like that, But bro, that's that's
what he was supposed to do. Now, the stepping over
to Alan Iverson step over, Hey, that's that's when I'm
with Brian on the let's have a conversation after the game, like, hey, man,
couldn't be cool now, Like, let's be respectful. But at
the same time, Bro, this is football. It's a dangerous
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sport and every single down that you're out on the field,
you are risking it is a one hundred percent chance
that you will get hurt at some point playing the game.
To the severity of it, nobody can really tell. You know,
you got ranging from neck injuries all the way down
to just you know, breaking a pinky. You know what
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I'm saying, Like simple stuff like this, It's going to happen.
It's one hundreds when you're playing game of football. Do
I agree with Brian Branch going up to Juju Smith
Schuster afterwards and smacking him. No, I do not. Let's
have a conversation, bro, after the game, shake pat hand, cool, Juju?
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Come on, man, you better than that. And if he
be on some you know, fugazy type stuff or he like,
oh no, man, you know it's football. Cool. I got
to receive for you, brother, Just know that. Just know
that I got to receive for your long at the
CBS received me. I got you again. So if they
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don't play again. And I got you. I got you.
I promise you, I got you, I promise you. That's
the thing, bro, football is literally the opportunity. That's why
I've never understood fights when you got a helmet on,
because for one thing, you shmacked him, but you really
didn't hit him. You hit his face masks. So it's
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like the disrespect part of it is, yeah, you hit me, broke,
what did you really hit because this part you got
the chin strap, you got by this much space in
between the chin strap and your face mask, so you
just are you hurting your hand. The only way that
you could really start scrapping is if the helmet is off,
like when Trent Williams punched Richard Sherman. Okay, cool, your
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helmet is off. I hit you. I'm trying to make
a statement. But when we both got our helmets on
and we squarre bro, bro, what are we doing? Come
on now, abod, Like what are you doing? You're not thinking,
You're not thinking, and like if it was so dirty,
I would have went out of my way. Let me
tell you something. The Marshawn Lynch and Mike Evans beef
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when he was in Tampa and New Orleans when they
used to meet up all the time that beef was
on site. It was like the now that's a beef.
That's like the run play is going to the right
way on the back side and they scuffling. That was
real because if you wanted did that bad, brother, I'd
have said, Okay, don't worry about it. The next play,
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I'd have forgot my assignment. I'm goin to come get you.
I'm goin to come get you. If you wanted it
that bad, if you wanted it that bad, because after
the game, it's just it don't make sense because now,
you don't put yourself in a position and obviously he
said it was childish. I shouldn't have done it. You
didn't put yourself in a position you finna get fined, right,
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depending on you know what type of roster spot you're on.
And I know obviously he plays for the Lions, so
Dan Campbell not gonna cut him. But in the league, Bro,
it's that the initials is NFL and most of the
time it's not for long. Like you just don't know, Bro,
that could be the play that could get you cut.
I'm not saying that he gonna get cut, but in
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just the overall conversation of it, you can't do things
like that in those type of positions. So was it
a dirty play. I'm not gonna say it was dirty.
I think the dirty part of it was the Alan
Iverson step over. That's when it's like he felt disrespected,
he felt played. So he said, I'm gonna show you better,
and I can tell you after the game, you know which,
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I can feel that, But you just gotta be smarter
about it. You gotta do it. You gotta give him
his receipt in between between the lines, Man, do it
between the lines. I'm gonna be Look, I'm gonna build
his coverage. Hey, coach, you know I forgot my assignment
and knowing good and will that I had in my
mind what I was supposed to do, but I was
gonna just go. He laid Juju Smith Schuston. So that's
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how I feel about it. Man. I think I think
he should have got him the next play to the
next play, That's what I think should have happened. That's
that's what I would have been trying to do the
next play because I've been in them instances. Man, dude,
get you on the back side. You know what I'm saying,
And it's like, bro, I want to uh scuffle with you, brother.
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We we in the heat a battle. We're playing football
right now, so we'll see what comes out of it.
I'm sure he'll get fined and all this stuff, but uh,
Brian Branch and the Juju Smith Schuster fight is going
to be talked about all throughout the day, and we
just wanted to get our thoughts on it also as well.
So stayed in the NFL man the Philadelphia Eagles and
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the soap opera that is their offense just seems to
continue every single week. They started off really hot early
in the season, and I think they've lost their last
two games if I'm not mistaken, and it's just been
a lot of confusion around to throw the A J
or not to throw the AJ. It's every week, especially
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in a market like Philadelphia, top five market in the country,
they find they're finna be hounding this. The radio, the newspaper,
the beat writers, the TV people. They're constantly asking AJ Brown,
Jalen Hurst, AJ Brown, Jalen Hurst, AJ Brown, Jalen Hurst,
what's going on with y'all? While y'all boys can't get
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on the same page about this. It's it's a constant thing.
You know. I'm not really understanding it because it's like, dang,
my soup is too hot, my girlfriend is too fine,
Like dog, you won a Super Bowl. I get the
competitive spirit behind it. I truly do. But man, you
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could be back in Tennessee right now. You can be
over there with cam Moore is saying, y'all, but you
could be over there. You could be you kind of
you kind of have to compare the apples to oranges. Bro,
You know what I'm saying. You gotta you gotta, you
gotta look at how great things are for you sometimes
I do. I do understand when you're winning, it feels good.
But you want to feel like you're a part of
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the web. I definitely understand that, but not to get
too deep into it. To give you your time to
speak about just what do you think about? Is AJ
Brown kind of in the right about how he's handling
the situation? Is Jalen Hurst? What is it that's causing
this rift in this offense right now?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say I'm team a J. Brown,
even though I'm not a I don't agree with all
his antics of You know, sometimes I do think he
stopped running on the routes, and I do think he's
sometimes it don't seem like he's giving his best effort.
But I understand where he's coming from as a competitor,
right You you want a super Bowl? You shoot, you're
happier at a better place. But the magic going to
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your your saying your favorite restaurant, and they keep giving
you the wrong order, You're gonna be upset after a while.
You're gonna be like, bro, I'm not I don't. I
don't want to keep coming here, even though I'm forced
to come. That's what it is right there, because like,
don't get me wrong, they want a super Bowl. Not
a lot of players are gonna win a super Bowl.
Think about it, your top caliber guy. Sometimes I want
a super Bowl. Don't want a super Bowl. Damn Marino
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never won one. No, I'm not no disrespect Trent dilferd,
but he won one. If you talked about who was
a better quarterback, we all will agree that Dan Marino
is better than Trent Dilford. So there is things where,
you you know, not everybody get the chance to reach
that pinnacle. But I was always told that NFL stands
for not for long, and if he wants to have
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his name up there with the to Os and the
of course the Randy Mosses, jay Rice is not saying
he's the same caliber those guys Antonio Brown's, Calvin Johnson's,
but he wants to at least have numbers, so he
could make that debate because he feels like, hey, I'm
just as talented and well not just he may feel
like that, but what I'm saying is also with this,
think about the guys in the league right now. That's
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Jamar Chase don't have a quarterback, Justin Jefferson don't have
a quarterback. Pooka Nakoula has a quarterback and he leads
the league in yards, receptions and stuff like that. In
a sense, do you not feel like j aj Brown
don't feel like, hey, I'm better than this dude. I
should be able to get some targets and put my
name Cementing up there. Actually, with those two Juggernauts not
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having a production year that they have, I should have
my production year. So I just think that I understand
where he's coming from with that in a sense, like
he wants the production. He wants to be looked at
as one of the top players in the league, if
not if the one of the top receivers in the league,
if not, one of the top players. And it's nothing
wrong with that. Do I agree with the effort and stuff.
I don't agree with that, And I did go in
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to look into his contract to see the incentative base
if it comes down to money. Money isn't in this
this all at all. The Philadelphia Eagles worked out a
deal where all he has to do is show up
for workouts. That's the extra two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars right there. And then all he has to do
is make the roster. That's an extra one million dollar
bonus right there. So it doesn't have anything to do
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with money. I just think that he just want his
name up there as one of the best. And it
shows because you worked this hard in the off season
to prove that you are that guy.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now he just want a chance to go out there
and prove it. So I understand where A. J. Brown
is coming.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I feel you, man, And it's also that you know,
Jalen Hurts is not always considered the perennial quarterback like
he for whatever reason, when you talk start talking about quarterbacks,
you know, you go Alan Lamar, you kind of go
one A, one B with that one. It's Joe Burrow.
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And then people start getting kind of like you could
put Aj Brown and or you could put Jalen Hurts
in there, back and forth and stuff like that. You know,
the bottom line is Jalen Hurts works for what Philly
is trying to do, which is being a gritty football team,
running the football and then throwing it over the top
of your head with the play action pass game. That's
who they are, right. They're not a spread team. That's
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why they have these receivers. You've got a big body
receiver that can go and AJ Brown. You've got a
speeester on the other side with Devonte Smith. And I
get it. I understand it from the competitive nature man,
but sometimes you also have to just look at the
big picture of it. If I'm Aj Brown, maybe I'm
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not being used in the offense and things aren't looking
as you know, great as what I would like on
a personal level. But if they trade me where I'm
finna go, I'm not going anywhere in the division because
you don't want to trade to a division ruffles. So
you're not gonna go to Dallas where the're airing it out.
You're not gonna go to Washington where Jane Daiels has
come into his own even though his knee is hurt.
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You're not going to New York where they need a
receiver with Malik down, but they're still fighting ways for
Jackson Darth to be effective in the throw game. So
they gonna take you somewhere out of the division. Okay,
you're not going to the Agreement Packers because they sat
over there like where are you gonna go? Where are
you gonna go? You could fool around and be back
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on a bad team, and now you're looking silly because
you're getting twelve targets a game, ten catches for a buck,
twenty two touchdowns, but you're lost. So it's hard man
having your cake and eating it too, you know, being
able to say that we win the games and we
win the super but also that I'm getting everything I want.
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You're not gonna be able to get everything that you want,
and this is a case of that. You know, it
was talks of whether it was a team only meeting
or if it was a conversation between those guys. Sometimes
you just have to just make it work. In some situations,
it ain't It ain't gonna be perfect. They was talking
about all this stuff last year and they won the
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Super Bowl. Like some people just seem to never be
satisfied in this instant. I don't think he's going to
be satisfied until he's traded. And unfortunately, that is going
to be something that I don't think will hurt Philadelphia,
but I think it's something that's gonna hurt him ultimately
because he's gonna go somewhere and you know, he may
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be effective in the throw game on whatever team that
he's on, but will it affect the wins and losses?
I don't know what. I don't know what teams are
a receiver away or have assets at their disposal that
can give away some assets to be a receiver away
from being championship level team, you know what I mean.
So if that's not truly out there and an opportunity
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for him to make that, I'm saying, man, look give
what you can't because I think the last game they
played against the Giants, he had five catches for like
forty seven yards. So as like now they you got
the office coordinator. We're looking at the place sheet and
we're going, all right, what an AJ plays here? Okay,
we're finna force feed him now. And now that they
know they're force feeding you, the defense finilsah, just roll
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coverage over there. Oh they force feeding Okay, We're just
gonna buzz this linebacker underneath safety over the topic we
need to and we dare y'all to throw it over there,
like come on, man, I don't know. We'll see what
comes of this AJ brown saga, if it will continue
through the season or if Philly is just gonna say,
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all right, bro, you want to go see you later.
I believe that that's what will happen, and I think
it'll be a huge mistake or a huge hurt on
it a J. Brown for what he's trying to continue
to build on his legacy. Man, Like I said, I
get it, but I think this will be something that
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he'll look back on and regret tremendously. So with that, guys,
we're going to round out the show talking about the
ever evolving coaching care ofself in college football. Just over
this weekend alone, three head coaches were let go Oregon State,
Let's go off their head coach, Trent Dilford is let
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go at Ua being and the biggest one is James
Franklin being fired at Penn State. Right, to some this
is a shocker. To some is like it was more
than warranted. To some people, it was the perfect time.
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This is this is this is very interesting because the
conversation is now, you know, two weeks ago this was
a top five team college game day pulled up looking
like the new edition and all White had him on set.
It was all a dream, right fifteen sixteen days ago,
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he was on top of the world, and now he's unemployed.
He's very rich and unemployed. He's straight. Don't get rid
of it because of what he's buy out, like fifty
million dollars. I saw that. I was like, fifty million dollars.
They think they fired Chelsea Clinton?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Like what my gud YEP, it's just being fired with
fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
The coach O said when he got to let Go,
he said, what do you want me to go out?
And what time do boy? But we paid him. Mind
aized like when is the time to fire a coach now?
Because in college football, really, really in all levels of football,
as we look at it BRO. You really don't have
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that big of a window to start turning something around.
They want you to be Kurt Signette. Come in here,
flipping around, get us in the college football playoffs. Make
this a whole new program in one year, Like, how
do you feel when is the time to fire a
head coach? And then kind of piggybacking off of that,
do you believe that it was the right time for
James Franklin to go?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, because I ain't gonna lie to you when we
text when we text on Saturday, I don't show.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You how to text to me.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And Fitz I said, James Franklin feel to be selling
black of miles at the Blue store next week. I
said that because you you gave you gave u c
l A the first win, I mean the loss of
organ that's that's a that's a washing wash. But there,
that's what that was saying. If you know you can't
win the big games, and that's what the narrative was
the whole time, But then you go lose the U
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c l A. And then last week you lose like Northwestern,
Like I don't care if Dre Allen was back there
or not. You don't lose the Northwestern You know what
I'm saying. That's something that that's something you just skate through.
And I felt like there was ready to turn the
page because James, it is a really good coup. But
at a certain time, you're gonna be tired of just
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knocking on the door. Knocking on the door. You want
to go in. One day, somebody want to go in.
You're not gonna I don't want to keep knocking on
the door. I'm paying you all this money. We're getting
all these recruits that we are thinking that you're great.
And of course you got guys listed in It's coming
in next year.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's five star, four star, three star. However, and we
keep knocking at the door. That's frustrating. That's frustrated.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And as a as a fan base and as a
as an organization, as a school program, whatever you want
to be labeled as, is frustrating because you're paying all
this money. Now, if James Franklin was making thirty dollars
an hour, all right, we keep knocking on the door.
I don't mind it because we're not paying nothing. But
we fired you for fifty million. Is telling you we,
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like dog were paying you a lot of money and
we're paying you to win win a national championship. Now
you first of all, you didn't win the Big ten.
You got me closed last year. You got me to
the semi final round. Appreciate you, love you, but you
don't get me to the point where our fans are
going to be appreciated of us of winning a national championship.
That is always the goal. Now, I'm not saying it's hard.
(26:09):
That is hard to do. There's very hard to do.
Win the national Championship, super Bowl, NBIA Finals, Finals, the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
That is hard to do, is win anything like that.
But at the same time, you can't just keep giving
me my favorite snacked and taking away Like what's that
commercial where you they had a dollar.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You thought you had it?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
No, you don't know, you don't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's what it felt like for Penn State fans. So
that's that's that's where it's at with that. And I
just think that I've seen the writing on the wall
for James Franklin. It's embarrassing because you lost to those
two schools. But I just think that this like there's
not the right time to fire a coach.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Ever, in my mind.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Less well, you know, maybe maybe in the offseason because
he's already off. But other than that, I just feel like,
you know, James Franklin right ones on the wall after
the Northwestern State game, and I wasn't surprised at I
just think that Penn State's probably going to a direction
of trying to find like a legendary coach who knows.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They'll probably throw a bag at Nick Saban.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm not saying Nick Saban will come back, but they'll
they'll try to find somebody that's already established and that
they think could take them to the next level, because
knocking on the door is not good enough for the
Nity Lions coaching candidates.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Right now, the highest odds is Nebraska head coach Matt Rule,
which sure, but I mean, what has has he won
a championship? Like this goes into the conversation man like
people sometimes don't understand how difficult it is to win
something to put together, like sometimes it's almost lightning in
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the bottle. You have to have a good defense, a
competent offense, special teams has to be clicking. Everything has
to go well, and then you still have to have
other factors outside of things like sometimes somebody starting quarterback
has to be hurt, like there have to be so
many factors that go into winning a championship. I get it.
(28:04):
James Franklin has not won the big games, but he
has won. I think he had one hundred and four
and forty five record in his time at Penn State
in the twelve seasons that he was well eleven and
a quarter seasons, eleven and a half seasons that he
was the head coach. Out of those eleven and a
half seasons, six of them will winning seasons. I get it.
He didn't want the Big twelve, but I think or
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Big ten just one time. But it's hard, man, It's hard.
It just goes to show you that the time clock
on college football is way way faster than ever before.
But I think sometimes and we you know, we've had
conversations with assistant coaches offline about how how do you
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People are looking at it. Boosters and people that are
invested in the program are saying, do you want to
And as we're saying this, a Penn State four star
commit reopens his recruitment.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So you know.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In real time, you lose your coach and people are decommitting.
So now It's like, who are you going to bring
in right now that can get back on the trail
and start recruiting and saying, hey, if you stay and
come here, we're gonna flip this thing around next season.
It's hard to do that, bro, because in a time
where you had a transfer portal, you have nil. It's
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hard to do. It's hard to maintain a roster where
you can go a recruited kid out of high school
and keep him three to four years because if you
bring a kid in now and you red shirt him,
he been hit the portal. I can't come hit the
red shirt. I came here to make money and play football.
Put me on the field. And most of the time
these kids are sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old making these decisions.
(29:46):
They don't know that instead of going to Penn State
out of high school, sometimes you might need to go
to a G five so you could go ahead and
play if you weren't trying to play right away. It's
not out they're not always making the best decision because
because they mine ain't even fully developed. You feel me.
But this goes to show that if you are not
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doing your job, they will find the money to make
you leave. So Bill and Napier and Kelly the ones
that you'll seek warming up. Let this be a full
blown wake up call that they don't care. They gonna
find the money. They gonna find the money. But like
(30:29):
I was, you know, mentioning, a lot of schools are
in a situation now where they're looking at do we
take this fifty million dollars and put it towards rev
sharing and you know, paying these players and all that
stuff like that, or do we want to get this
dude b out of here. So for them to take
that money and get rid of James Franklin, to get
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him to leave fifty million dollars, there had to be
some form of a disconnect within the locker room, within
the organization itself, within the athletic department for them to say,
we don't want this dude around here no more. We
don't care how much he wins. That mean they just
don't like you no more. They getting you about of
here because they don't like you no more. And winning
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championships shits a lot of people up. You know. I
think a shout out to my guy Thomas prepet you
you know, uh, he got the job over in Tulsa,
and we were having a conversation about coaches and whether
they will keep you around, how long they'll keep you around,
and he was like, as a coach, you can either
be good and unliked, or you can be liked and
(31:39):
not good. But you can't be both. You can't be
not good and not liked. The GONA, they gonna get
you a bout of there, like there you you gotta win.
You either gotta be really really loved for them to
keep you around, or you gotta be really really good
and winning. And obviously they didn't like it because if
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she winning and they don't like you, and they go
in they pot and say, let me get fifty million
dollars to send you home. That says a lot man,
That says a lot. So the clock is ticking on
all these coaches that are on the hot seat. The
clock is ticking. If you ain't doing your job, if
you ain't winning no championships, if you ain't winning the
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big games, hey, brother, start looking because you're gonna get
that pink slip. But that's just our take. Ladies and gentlemen,
put yours down in the comments. What do you think
was it right for Penn State to get rid of
James Franklin. How do you feel about the coaching care
ofself moving as fastly as it is. And who are
some people that you think could potentially be the replacement
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for James Franklin. They're at Penn State. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Give me the job for twenty five million dollars. I'll
go take the half of it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Million dollars. A I started drawing play than the thing.
All right, we're gonna run run this post. You're gonna
run this post. Boy. We're gonna find a way. We're
gonna win something. We're gonna be to work in. We're
gonna find a way. We're gonna find a way for
the twenty five fifty boy. Man, they bottom money they
paying these coaches. Now, you gotta find a way to win.
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You have to, yea. So with that, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
If James Frank was making thirty dollars an hour. All right,
you keep knocking on the door.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into another episode
of the Fits Take podcast. I'm your guy, Jr. Marcus Fitzpatrick,
but you know you can always call me fits. That
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when we are dropping episodes. Week seven of college football
had some exciting moments in it last week here and
laugh yet not so much. Raging. CAJU has now dropped
(00:56):
to two and four. Their Knoxville things are still going
well and Rocky Top a close win over Arkansas. Y'allo
didn't get it, but uh they were able to pull
it off to improve to five and one on the season. Uh,
before we get started on the episode, because we got
some stuff to talk about with coaches getting fired, dudes
(01:17):
fighting after football games and all that stuff. Man, before
we get into that, how you doing, brother, doing good? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's getting a little cold out here, Chili out here
on Rocky Top.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm not I'm got used to it getting so cold
so fast after doing like what four years out there
in Louisiana, It's getting a little chilly.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm just gonna say that, I'm getting ashy quicker.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Black people can't stand the.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Colde at though, while your little ashy extravast lead at
this time we're hearing.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But I'm enjoying it though, seeing that the seasons changed.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
At listen, man, I understand I get it here here
in Louisiana. Man, it is not that we're still in
the eighties. We kind of which will to hold out
right now, bro, I'm ready for the cold freeze me
please please, I take that any day. Let's hop into it,
ladies and gentlemen, you know, speaking of getting frozen or
(02:13):
being ice cold. As we're recording this episode here. On
a Monday, the night before Sunday Night, the Kansas City
Chiefs and the Detroit Lions battled and Sunday Night football
in which the Chiefs were victorious. But it wasn't the
fight on the field that made the most headlines. That
was the fight afterward that really brought the attention to
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the world. As a safety, Brian Branch pulls up on
Juju Smith Schuster and schmacks him, and then after that,
Juju runs over to then get his lick back and
proceeds to get his help and snatched off, and then
it's this big scuffle afterwards. Dan Campbell with the Lions
(02:55):
gets to the mic and says, you know, I love Brian,
but he can't do that. You know. You know Brian
Ranch coming out in an article with The New York
Post today mentioning how you know, it was childish and
he regrets doing it, but then it was coming from
a place where he felt like he was right to
do it in the moment because plays before or somewhere
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early in the fourth quarter, mid fourth quarter, late fourth
quarter or something like that, Juju Smith Schuster is running
a crack block on a run play and he cracks
Brian branch on the safety. So if you're you so
trying to show this is the safety here and Jujus
over here as he's coming downhill, he cracks him, smacks him.
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And in football like the legal blind side block has
been you know, thrown out as illegal. It should be
a penalty. All this stuff like that. But afterwards, I
think what got him is that Juju stepped over. That's
I think that's what broke his pride. And he said,
I'm finna show him. We're finn show something, and so
the scuffle happens afterwards. But Elijah, will, were your thoughts
(04:04):
about how it? You know, all came to fruition and
you know, shit, he even pulled up on him like that.
How do you how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I think he should have pulled up on him. I
don't know if he should have just walked up to
him and slapped him. I'm gonna keep a PG. He
slapped the dookie out of him. You know what I
really want to say. He slapped And the crazy thing
is you watch the slow bullshit jud You put his
hand out there for a handshake, and he slapped the
mess out, but I didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I think I think he should have said something. I
think the game was at.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That point was kind of I don't know if it
was out of reach it, but I know that it
was block.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was a ten point game at that point. It
was before they kicked the field goal to go up
two possessions, well three positions at that point, so it
was twenty seven to seventeen. Uh you know, Twitter bet
they be on it. So they they had to cut up.
They had a circle, but that was easy to just
pipe in block they came up.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Boy, I don't think I don't think that it was.
I don't know if it was out of reach it,
but I just think that you know, I know players,
it's football is a dangerous game. You're gonna get hit dirty,
You're gonna get hit regardless. Dirty are clean out there.
But I just think that for juju, you know, sometimes
you got to keep the players safe, like you know
what I'm saying, Like I know that you know it's dangerous,
(05:21):
is violent. You want to go out and knock the
person over. The ball wasn't even coming your way though,
like so you could have like really.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Just let it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let it ride a little bit and just let it go.
So I feel what Branches saying there, the ball wasn't
coming this way, you decide to still just run and
just go full speed and just knock him over if
you want to call it the blind side, if you
want to say hit in the back, whatever you want
to say. Uh, But like I said, the ball wasn't
even coming this way. So I feel what Brian branch
frustration was there, and stepping over somebody is even more disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So but on the same token, if you're thinking, Juju,
if you're going across the middle, will he will he blind?
Would he spare you at that moment? So again, I
understand on both sides of it. But I just hope
that Juju next time be the bigger person, because I
just think that that wasn't necessary for him to run
up on him and hit him like that. First down
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play ball is not your way, I mean, I don't
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe you want the extra cookies in the film room
saying oh, Juju, go hard every play like that. Maybe
you just wanted some extra cookies or something like that
in the film room for Tuesday or.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Whenever you decide to watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
But you know, if that was the case, then that
film room also on the show what happened at the
end of the game as well, because of the decision
that you made. But again, I just think that, you know,
they I think Juju should have made a bigger decision
and I think Brian should have made a bigger decision
as well. Both of them are wrong in the situation,
and that's that's my biggest thought on it. I don't
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think that it's something illegal or anything like that, So
I just think they're both wrong in a situation.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Brother. I have strongly disagree with you on this one
because I'm looking at this plane and it looks like
they're running like some kind of variation of a inside
zone fake reverse on the play, and so Brian Branch
is in the box. They're in a four to three
type of front, and he is on the back side
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of the play. So if Juju doesn't crack him, he's free.
He gets to tackle, and it's a tackle for loss
in the backfield on first and ten on the game
that you're trying to ice. So his job on that play,
what's the crack block he did. He was doing his job. Now,
whether it was in the lines up, it was you know,
blocking the back or how close it was or all
(07:39):
that stuff like that, Like I get it to play
itself is supposed to be thrown out of the game
because you're trying to keep players healthy. But as an
offensive minded player like Juju is thinking, Bro, if I
don't make this block, I can lose my job, cause yeah,
or you know, they gonna look at it on film
and say, well, he not a team player. We're not
gonna get him more touches in the game. You feel
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me so at the same time, like I understand the
defensive player wanted to be protected, but the offensive player
is saying, bro, I got to do my job. I'm
trying to ice this game. We run in the football
and if the back decides to cut back and you
the free hitter in the box, my job is to
block you. So whether it is maybe he could have,
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you know, came in differently and blocked him and just
threw his hands up like that, But bro, that's that's
what he was supposed to do. Now, the stepping over
to Alan Iverson step over, Hey, that's that's when I'm
with Brian on the let's have a conversation after the game, like, hey, man,
couldn't be cool now, Like, let's be respectful. But at
the same time, Bro, this is football. It's a dangerous
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sport and every single down that you're out on the field,
you are risking it is a one hundred percent chance
that you will get hurt at some point playing the game.
To the severity of it, nobody can really tell. You know,
you got ranging from neck injuries all the way down
to just you know, breaking a pinky. You know what
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I'm saying, Like simple stuff like this, It's going to happen.
It's one hundreds when you're playing game of football. Do
I agree with Brian Branch going up to Juju Smith
Schuster afterwards and smacking him. No, I do not. Let's
have a conversation, bro, after the game, shake pat hand, cool, Juju?
(09:25):
Come on, man, you better than that. And if he
be on some you know, fugazy type stuff or he like,
oh no, man, you know it's football. Cool. I got
to receive for you, brother, Just know that. Just know
that I got to receive for your long at the
CBS received me. I got you again. So if they
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don't play again. And I got you. I got you.
I promise you, I got you, I promise you. That's
the thing, bro, football is literally the opportunity. That's why
I've never understood fights when you got a helmet on,
because for one thing, you shmacked him, but you really
didn't hit him. You hit his face masks. So it's
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like the disrespect part of it is, yeah, you hit me, broke,
what did you really hit because this part you got
the chin strap, you got by this much space in
between the chin strap and your face mask, so you
just are you hurting your hand. The only way that
you could really start scrapping is if the helmet is off,
like when Trent Williams punched Richard Sherman. Okay, cool, your
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helmet is off. I hit you. I'm trying to make
a statement. But when we both got our helmets on
and we squarre bro, bro, what are we doing? Come
on now, abod, Like what are you doing? You're not thinking,
You're not thinking, and like if it was so dirty,
I would have went out of my way. Let me
tell you something. The Marshawn Lynch and Mike Evans beef
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when he was in Tampa and New Orleans when they
used to meet up all the time that beef was
on site. It was like the now that's a beef.
That's like the run play is going to the right
way on the back side and they scuffling. That was
real because if you wanted did that bad, brother, I'd
have said, Okay, don't worry about it. The next play,
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I'd have forgot my assignment. I'm goin to come get you.
I'm goin to come get you. If you wanted it
that bad, if you wanted it that bad, because after
the game, it's just it don't make sense because now,
you don't put yourself in a position and obviously he
said it was childish. I shouldn't have done it. You
didn't put yourself in a position you finna get fined, right,
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depending on you know what type of roster spot you're on.
And I know obviously he plays for the Lions, so
Dan Campbell not gonna cut him. But in the league, Bro,
it's that the initials is NFL and most of the
time it's not for long. Like you just don't know, Bro,
that could be the play that could get you cut.
I'm not saying that he gonna get cut, but in
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just the overall conversation of it, you can't do things
like that in those type of positions. So was it
a dirty play. I'm not gonna say it was dirty.
I think the dirty part of it was the Alan
Iverson step over. That's when it's like he felt disrespected,
he felt played. So he said, I'm gonna show you better,
and I can tell you after the game, you know which,
(12:17):
I can feel that, But you just gotta be smarter
about it. You gotta do it. You gotta give him
his receipt in between between the lines, Man, do it
between the lines. I'm gonna be Look, I'm gonna build
his coverage. Hey, coach, you know I forgot my assignment
and knowing good and will that I had in my
mind what I was supposed to do, but I was
gonna just go. He laid Juju Smith Schuston. So that's
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how I feel about it. Man. I think I think
he should have got him the next play to the
next play, That's what I think should have happened. That's
that's what I would have been trying to do the
next play because I've been in them instances. Man, dude,
get you on the back side. You know what I'm saying,
And it's like, bro, I want to uh scuffle with you, brother.
(13:02):
We we in the heat a battle. We're playing football
right now, so we'll see what comes out of it.
I'm sure he'll get fined and all this stuff, but uh,
Brian Branch and the Juju Smith Schuster fight is going
to be talked about all throughout the day, and we
just wanted to get our thoughts on it also as well.
So stayed in the NFL man the Philadelphia Eagles and
(13:27):
the soap opera that is their offense just seems to
continue every single week. They started off really hot early
in the season, and I think they've lost their last
two games if I'm not mistaken, and it's just been
a lot of confusion around to throw the A J
or not to throw the AJ. It's every week, especially
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in a market like Philadelphia, top five market in the country,
they find they're finna be hounding this. The radio, the newspaper,
the beat writers, the TV people. They're constantly asking AJ Brown,
Jalen Hurst, AJ Brown, Jalen Hurst, AJ Brown, Jalen Hurst,
what's going on with y'all? While y'all boys can't get
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on the same page about this. It's it's a constant thing.
You know. I'm not really understanding it because it's like, dang,
my soup is too hot, my girlfriend is too fine,
Like dog, you won a Super Bowl. I get the
competitive spirit behind it. I truly do. But man, you
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could be back in Tennessee right now. You can be
over there with cam Moore is saying, y'all, but you
could be over there. You could be you kind of
you kind of have to compare the apples to oranges. Bro,
You know what I'm saying. You gotta you gotta, you
gotta look at how great things are for you sometimes
I do. I do understand when you're winning, it feels good.
But you want to feel like you're a part of
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the web. I definitely understand that, but not to get
too deep into it. To give you your time to
speak about just what do you think about? Is AJ
Brown kind of in the right about how he's handling
the situation? Is Jalen Hurst? What is it that's causing
this rift in this offense right now?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say I'm team a J. Brown,
even though I'm not a I don't agree with all
his antics of You know, sometimes I do think he
stopped running on the routes, and I do think he's
sometimes it don't seem like he's giving his best effort.
But I understand where he's coming from as a competitor,
right You you want a super Bowl? You shoot, you're
happier at a better place. But the magic going to
(15:35):
your your saying your favorite restaurant, and they keep giving
you the wrong order, You're gonna be upset after a while.
You're gonna be like, bro, I'm not I don't. I
don't want to keep coming here, even though I'm forced
to come. That's what it is right there, because like,
don't get me wrong, they want a super Bowl. Not
a lot of players are gonna win a super Bowl.
Think about it, your top caliber guy. Sometimes I want
a super Bowl. Don't want a super Bowl. Damn Marino
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never won one. No, I'm not no disrespect Trent dilferd,
but he won one. If you talked about who was
a better quarterback, we all will agree that Dan Marino
is better than Trent Dilford. So there is things where,
you you know, not everybody get the chance to reach
that pinnacle. But I was always told that NFL stands
for not for long, and if he wants to have
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his name up there with the to Os and the
of course the Randy Mosses, jay Rice is not saying
he's the same caliber those guys Antonio Brown's, Calvin Johnson's,
but he wants to at least have numbers, so he
could make that debate because he feels like, hey, I'm
just as talented and well not just he may feel
like that, but what I'm saying is also with this,
think about the guys in the league right now. That's
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Jamar Chase don't have a quarterback, Justin Jefferson don't have
a quarterback. Pooka Nakoula has a quarterback and he leads
the league in yards, receptions and stuff like that. In
a sense, do you not feel like j aj Brown
don't feel like, hey, I'm better than this dude. I
should be able to get some targets and put my
name Cementing up there. Actually, with those two Juggernauts not
(17:01):
having a production year that they have, I should have
my production year. So I just think that I understand
where he's coming from with that in a sense, like
he wants the production. He wants to be looked at
as one of the top players in the league, if
not if the one of the top receivers in the league,
if not, one of the top players. And it's nothing
wrong with that. Do I agree with the effort and stuff.
I don't agree with that, And I did go in
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to look into his contract to see the incentative base
if it comes down to money. Money isn't in this
this all at all. The Philadelphia Eagles worked out a
deal where all he has to do is show up
for workouts. That's the extra two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars right there. And then all he has to do
is make the roster. That's an extra one million dollar
bonus right there. So it doesn't have anything to do
(17:43):
with money. I just think that he just want his
name up there as one of the best. And it
shows because you worked this hard in the off season
to prove that you are that guy.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now he just want a chance to go out there
and prove it. So I understand where A. J. Brown
is coming.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I feel you, man, And it's also that you know,
Jalen Hurts is not always considered the perennial quarterback like
he for whatever reason, when you talk start talking about quarterbacks,
you know, you go Alan Lamar, you kind of go
one A, one B with that one. It's Joe Burrow.
(18:20):
And then people start getting kind of like you could
put Aj Brown and or you could put Jalen Hurts
in there, back and forth and stuff like that. You know,
the bottom line is Jalen Hurts works for what Philly
is trying to do, which is being a gritty football team,
running the football and then throwing it over the top
of your head with the play action pass game. That's
who they are, right. They're not a spread team. That's
(18:40):
why they have these receivers. You've got a big body
receiver that can go and AJ Brown. You've got a
speeester on the other side with Devonte Smith. And I
get it. I understand it from the competitive nature man,
but sometimes you also have to just look at the
big picture of it. If I'm Aj Brown, maybe I'm
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not being used in the offense and things aren't looking
as you know, great as what I would like on
a personal level. But if they trade me where I'm
finna go, I'm not going anywhere in the division because
you don't want to trade to a division ruffles. So
you're not gonna go to Dallas where the're airing it out.
You're not gonna go to Washington where Jane Daiels has
come into his own even though his knee is hurt.
(19:21):
You're not going to New York where they need a
receiver with Malik down, but they're still fighting ways for
Jackson Darth to be effective in the throw game. So
they gonna take you somewhere out of the division. Okay,
you're not going to the Agreement Packers because they sat
over there like where are you gonna go? Where are
you gonna go? You could fool around and be back
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on a bad team, and now you're looking silly because
you're getting twelve targets a game, ten catches for a buck,
twenty two touchdowns, but you're lost. So it's hard man
having your cake and eating it too, you know, being
able to say that we win the games and we
win the super but also that I'm getting everything I want.
(20:02):
You're not gonna be able to get everything that you want,
and this is a case of that. You know, it
was talks of whether it was a team only meeting
or if it was a conversation between those guys. Sometimes
you just have to just make it work. In some situations,
it ain't It ain't gonna be perfect. They was talking
about all this stuff last year and they won the
(20:22):
Super Bowl. Like some people just seem to never be
satisfied in this instant. I don't think he's going to
be satisfied until he's traded. And unfortunately, that is going
to be something that I don't think will hurt Philadelphia,
but I think it's something that's gonna hurt him ultimately
because he's gonna go somewhere and you know, he may
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be effective in the throw game on whatever team that
he's on, but will it affect the wins and losses?
I don't know what. I don't know what teams are
a receiver away or have assets at their disposal that
can give away some assets to be a receiver away
from being championship level team, you know what I mean.
So if that's not truly out there and an opportunity
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for him to make that, I'm saying, man, look give
what you can't because I think the last game they
played against the Giants, he had five catches for like
forty seven yards. So as like now they you got
the office coordinator. We're looking at the place sheet and
we're going, all right, what an AJ plays here? Okay,
we're finna force feed him now. And now that they
know they're force feeding you, the defense finilsah, just roll
(21:27):
coverage over there. Oh they force feeding Okay, We're just
gonna buzz this linebacker underneath safety over the topic we
need to and we dare y'all to throw it over there,
like come on, man, I don't know. We'll see what
comes of this AJ brown saga, if it will continue
through the season or if Philly is just gonna say,
(21:48):
all right, bro, you want to go see you later.
I believe that that's what will happen, and I think
it'll be a huge mistake or a huge hurt on
it a J. Brown for what he's trying to continue
to build on his legacy. Man, Like I said, I
get it, but I think this will be something that
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he'll look back on and regret tremendously. So with that, guys,
we're going to round out the show talking about the
ever evolving coaching care ofself in college football. Just over
this weekend alone, three head coaches were let go Oregon State,
Let's go off their head coach, Trent Dilford is let
(22:30):
go at Ua being and the biggest one is James
Franklin being fired at Penn State. Right, to some this
is a shocker. To some is like it was more
than warranted. To some people, it was the perfect time.
(22:50):
This is this is this is very interesting because the
conversation is now, you know, two weeks ago this was
a top five team college game day pulled up looking
like the new edition and all White had him on set.
It was all a dream, right fifteen sixteen days ago,
(23:12):
he was on top of the world, and now he's unemployed.
He's very rich and unemployed. He's straight. Don't get rid
of it because of what he's buy out, like fifty
million dollars. I saw that. I was like, fifty million dollars.
They think they fired Chelsea Clinton?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Like what my gud YEP, it's just being fired with
fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
The coach O said when he got to let Go,
he said, what do you want me to go out?
And what time do boy? But we paid him. Mind
aized like when is the time to fire a coach now?
Because in college football, really, really in all levels of football,
as we look at it BRO. You really don't have
(23:55):
that big of a window to start turning something around.
They want you to be Kurt Signette. Come in here,
flipping around, get us in the college football playoffs. Make
this a whole new program in one year, Like, how
do you feel when is the time to fire a
head coach? And then kind of piggybacking off of that,
do you believe that it was the right time for
James Franklin to go?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, because I ain't gonna lie to you when we
text when we text on Saturday, I don't show.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You how to text to me.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And Fitz I said, James Franklin feel to be selling
black of miles at the Blue store next week. I
said that because you you gave you gave u c
l A the first win, I mean the loss of
organ that's that's a that's a washing wash. But there,
that's what that was saying. If you know you can't
win the big games, and that's what the narrative was
the whole time, But then you go lose the U
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c l A. And then last week you lose like Northwestern,
Like I don't care if Dre Allen was back there
or not. You don't lose the Northwestern You know what
I'm saying. That's something that that's something you just skate through.
And I felt like there was ready to turn the
page because James, it is a really good coup. But
at a certain time, you're gonna be tired of just
(25:03):
knocking on the door. Knocking on the door. You want
to go in. One day, somebody want to go in.
You're not gonna I don't want to keep knocking on
the door. I'm paying you all this money. We're getting
all these recruits that we are thinking that you're great.
And of course you got guys listed in It's coming
in next year.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's five star, four star, three star. However, and we
keep knocking at the door. That's frustrating. That's frustrated.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And as a as a fan base and as a
as an organization, as a school program, whatever you want
to be labeled as, is frustrating because you're paying all
this money. Now, if James Franklin was making thirty dollars
an hour, all right, we keep knocking on the door.
I don't mind it because we're not paying nothing. But
we fired you for fifty million. Is telling you we,
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like dog were paying you a lot of money and
we're paying you to win win a national championship. Now
you first of all, you didn't win the Big ten.
You got me closed last year. You got me to
the semi final round. Appreciate you, love you, but you
don't get me to the point where our fans are
going to be appreciated of us of winning a national championship.
That is always the goal. Now, I'm not saying it's hard.
(26:09):
That is hard to do. There's very hard to do.
Win the national Championship, super Bowl, NBIA Finals, Finals, the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
That is hard to do, is win anything like that.
But at the same time, you can't just keep giving
me my favorite snacked and taking away Like what's that
commercial where you they had a dollar.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You thought you had it?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
No, you don't know, you don't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's what it felt like for Penn State fans. So
that's that's that's where it's at with that. And I
just think that I've seen the writing on the wall
for James Franklin. It's embarrassing because you lost to those
two schools. But I just think that this like there's
not the right time to fire a coach.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Ever, in my mind.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Less well, you know, maybe maybe in the offseason because
he's already off. But other than that, I just feel like,
you know, James Franklin right ones on the wall after
the Northwestern State game, and I wasn't surprised at I
just think that Penn State's probably going to a direction
of trying to find like a legendary coach who knows.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They'll probably throw a bag at Nick Saban.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm not saying Nick Saban will come back, but they'll
they'll try to find somebody that's already established and that
they think could take them to the next level, because
knocking on the door is not good enough for the
Nity Lions coaching candidates.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Right now, the highest odds is Nebraska head coach Matt Rule,
which sure, but I mean, what has has he won
a championship? Like this goes into the conversation man like
people sometimes don't understand how difficult it is to win
something to put together, like sometimes it's almost lightning in
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the bottle. You have to have a good defense, a
competent offense, special teams has to be clicking. Everything has
to go well, and then you still have to have
other factors outside of things like sometimes somebody starting quarterback
has to be hurt, like there have to be so
many factors that go into winning a championship. I get it.
(28:04):
James Franklin has not won the big games, but he
has won. I think he had one hundred and four
and forty five record in his time at Penn State
in the twelve seasons that he was well eleven and
a quarter seasons, eleven and a half seasons that he
was the head coach. Out of those eleven and a
half seasons, six of them will winning seasons. I get it.
He didn't want the Big twelve, but I think or
(28:25):
Big ten just one time. But it's hard, man, It's hard.
It just goes to show you that the time clock
on college football is way way faster than ever before.
But I think sometimes and we you know, we've had
conversations with assistant coaches offline about how how do you
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People are looking at it. Boosters and people that are
invested in the program are saying, do you want to
And as we're saying this, a Penn State four star
commit reopens his recruitment.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So you know.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In real time, you lose your coach and people are decommitting.
So now It's like, who are you going to bring
in right now that can get back on the trail
and start recruiting and saying, hey, if you stay and
come here, we're gonna flip this thing around next season.
It's hard to do that, bro, because in a time
where you had a transfer portal, you have nil. It's
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hard to do. It's hard to maintain a roster where
you can go a recruited kid out of high school
and keep him three to four years because if you
bring a kid in now and you red shirt him,
he been hit the portal. I can't come hit the
red shirt. I came here to make money and play football.
Put me on the field. And most of the time
these kids are sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old making these decisions.
(29:46):
They don't know that instead of going to Penn State
out of high school, sometimes you might need to go
to a G five so you could go ahead and
play if you weren't trying to play right away. It's
not out they're not always making the best decision because
because they mine ain't even fully developed. You feel me.
But this goes to show that if you are not
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doing your job, they will find the money to make
you leave. So Bill and Napier and Kelly the ones
that you'll seek warming up. Let this be a full
blown wake up call that they don't care. They gonna
find the money. They gonna find the money. But like
(30:29):
I was, you know, mentioning, a lot of schools are
in a situation now where they're looking at do we
take this fifty million dollars and put it towards rev
sharing and you know, paying these players and all that
stuff like that, or do we want to get this
dude b out of here. So for them to take
that money and get rid of James Franklin, to get
(30:52):
him to leave fifty million dollars, there had to be
some form of a disconnect within the locker room, within
the organization itself, within the athletic department for them to say,
we don't want this dude around here no more. We
don't care how much he wins. That mean they just
don't like you no more. They getting you about of
here because they don't like you no more. And winning
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championships shits a lot of people up. You know. I
think a shout out to my guy Thomas prepet you
you know, uh, he got the job over in Tulsa,
and we were having a conversation about coaches and whether
they will keep you around, how long they'll keep you around,
and he was like, as a coach, you can either
be good and unliked, or you can be liked and
(31:39):
not good. But you can't be both. You can't be
not good and not liked. The GONA, they gonna get
you a bout of there, like there you you gotta win.
You either gotta be really really loved for them to
keep you around, or you gotta be really really good
and winning. And obviously they didn't like it because if
(32:02):
she winning and they don't like you, and they go
in they pot and say, let me get fifty million
dollars to send you home. That says a lot man,
That says a lot. So the clock is ticking on
all these coaches that are on the hot seat. The
clock is ticking. If you ain't doing your job, if
you ain't winning no championships, if you ain't winning the
(32:23):
big games, hey, brother, start looking because you're gonna get
that pink slip. But that's just our take. Ladies and gentlemen,
put yours down in the comments. What do you think
was it right for Penn State to get rid of
James Franklin. How do you feel about the coaching care
ofself moving as fastly as it is. And who are
some people that you think could potentially be the replacement
(32:43):
for James Franklin. They're at Penn State. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Give me the job for twenty five million dollars. I'll
go take the half of it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Million dollars. A I started drawing play than the thing.
All right, we're gonna run run this post. You're gonna
run this post. Boy. We're gonna find a way. We're
gonna win something. We're gonna be to work in. We're
gonna find a way. We're gonna find a way for
the twenty five fifty boy. Man, they bottom money they
paying these coaches. Now, you gotta find a way to win.
(33:18):
You have to, yea. So with that, ladies and gentlemen,
that is gonna conclude another episode of the Pits Tape podcast.
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will continue to put out the great content that we
are talking about all things in the sports world. Uh
as baseball and all that stuff is continuing to rave
on NBA season is about to start. We're gonna be
closer to the World Series. Shout out to the Las
Vegas Aces for sweeping uh and winning the w NBA
Championship third in the last four years, and Asian Wilson
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cementing herself as the greatest woman's basketball player of all
time in my opinion. Uh, but that's that's a whole
other topic for a whole nother episode. So but now, guys,
signing out for Elijah Nixon, I'm Jamarcis Fitspatrick. We'll see
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