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there, fellas. This is Lil' Skippy Bayless. And
I like to say that I am a jealous little bitch,
and I only mouth off about my homes and the Chiefs
is because I have to latch on to something relevant
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the coffee condom breaks. You've got to be safe.
Yes. You have to be safe. Yeah. All right. We
have some interesting outcomes of some interesting
games called the playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs.
In the NFL. All right. See, I think we went three
and three with our predictions. You know what?
I'll accept that in the first round. Yeah. Cool.
Well, let's give them a table of contents. Yes.
I've got a story about Mike Tomlin. Oh, I do
too, but that's cool. We can incorporate them
both. I have bullet points. Excellent. I have
Mike Tomlin. I have Aaron Rodgers. I've got a
story about the coaching vacancies and who ESPN
thinks is going where. Oh, good. I'm glad you
did that because I didn't have time to get any
of that down. So I have the divisional round
games coming up. Oh, and I've got all the longest
tenured head coaches in NFL history. Oh, good,
good. And I also have the Eagles and the Chiefs.
Oh, yeah. Okay. Whoa, this thing is full. Both
of them experienced considerable setbacks this
year. Yep. But we'll get to that in a little
bit. I want to know, are they both going to come
back? Or is that it for a bit for both of them?
Because they both have salary cap issues. True.
I think they're both coming back because they're
both making some changes. I do too. I mean, Spagnuolo's
almost definitely gone. Philly fired their offensive
coordinator. Yeah. Which he was probably relieved
of duty the last few games. I think he was relieved
of duty. He ain't doing shit. Well, you talked
about someone that was being hugged and being,
like, thrown off board. I mean, he went, like,
out of nowhere. Yep. So, all right. Well, what
would you want to focus in on first? I have some
bullet points. Let's take care of our predictions
from last week and get those done. I think that's
a great idea. We selected the Rams to beat the
Panthers. We are correct on that. We almost were
not. Yeah, I was watching most of that game,
and it really did seem to go back and forth like
so many of the games did this past weekend. By
the fourth quarter, suddenly the game got really
tight and the scores went back and forth, and
it all came down to the very end. Wow, that worked
out just so amazingly well for the NFL. It's
just amazing. It was so coincidental that all
these games just happened to come down to. of
battling fourth quarter. Yeah, and you know what
is even more amazing is it seemed like there
was strategic penalties in the third and fourth
quarter to make that game like that. But I would
never say that it's been influenced. And it's
amazing how some of those plays, they'd show
the instant replay, and the player was clearly
committing a violation of the penalty, and not
even the announcers mention it because they know
none's going to happen. They know not to, yep.
It's just amazing. I've seen play after play
where somebody gets deliberate helmet -to -helmet
contact, and they show the replay five or six
times, and both announcers never even mention
that the two heads hit together because they
were told not to, apparently. Yeah, no, you're
right. And I know what play you're talking about,
too. I saw that. And also, they're tired of the
Eagles being there. They are. There were some
pass interference calls that were egregious,
which they didn't call. Oh, thank you. Oh, here,
let me get this out of your way. Perfect. Right
there. Appreciate it. Enjoy. Oh, I'm sure. But
anyway, Rams, Panthers, it makes more sense.
L .A. is the bigger market. Yeah. So they're
going to get the Packers -Bears. Yeah. That one
went, let's see, Packers got out to a lead, then
they just quit scoring, and the Bears came roaring
back. So somehow the Packers just all of a sudden
couldn't do anything anymore, while the Bears
suddenly could do everything. I know. Isn't that
interesting? It's amazing how that worked out.
Uh -huh. Let's see. The one thing I noticed there
is this right here. Matt LaFleur is a genius.
Matt LaFleur went from being the next guy out
to, we better sign him to a multi -year deal,
and I don't know how he did that. It's pretty
amazing. Mm -hmm. Still hearing word that Bien
-Ami is probably going to come back to the Chiefs.
That's been going on for a while now, so I think
there's legs to it. And Matt Nagy has said he's
not coming back, regardless. Regardless. Yeah.
I think that's one of those, you can't fire me
because I'm quitting. And also, there's a little
bit more to it, and I'll explain. Okay, he wants
to be known as a guy that's calling his own plays
and making his own plays. He's not getting that.
Yeah, that's true. And where the enemy really
kind of needs to... He took a step back after
leaving Kansas City, trying to make a step forward.
So now he's going to take a step forward to Kansas
City after he took a step back in Chicago. So
I get that. I get that. And also, I think that...
it's going to value his stock more too. It's
like, well, this is his second tenure with Andy
Reid and as an offensive coordinator, and everything
really kind of shut down after that. And then
if he comes back and he restores the offense
to what it was, he's going to get him another
job quickly. Mm -hmm. It'll be a proof that his
method works. Mm -hmm. Let me get a correction
here. We were actually 4 -2. Really? Mm -hmm.
Okay, good. But I got the Rams -Panthers game
wrong, and you got the Chargers -Pats game wrong.
Wow. So that's part of me different. All the
rest of them, we went the same way, win or lose.
Yeah, that Pats game, Chargers game, I'll tell
you what, Jim Harbaugh, he's not ready for the
big leagues, at least not right now, and Justin
Herbert is not the guy. But I got more on that
coming up. The third game was Bills at Jags.
We both picked the Jags. But there again, amazingly,
in the fourth quarter, it just started going
back and forth and back and forth. And the Bills
started making all these amazing plays. What
an amazing coincidence that is. Yeah. Especially
with Josh Allen. The media darling. Current media
darling. Will change eventually. Just give it
time. I mean. There are people three years ago
that thought Mahomes was always going to be a
big deal and it was never going to end. Yeah.
Yeah, it ended. Even when the Chiefs get good
again, Mahomes will never be what he once was
in the eyes of the country. No, no, no. They'll
be like, well, he had that rough patch. So that
takes away everything he's ever done in life.
Yeah. Yeah. Stupid thinking. 49ers and Eagles,
we both picked the Eagles, but wow, they looked
flat. Oh, God. I've never been so happy to be
off on a prediction in my life. Yeah, yeah. I
mean, I'm not a real big fan of the 49ers, but
the Eagles really didn't seem like they were
going to do anything past this game anyway. No,
I agree. Yeah, might as well knock them out.
Chargers at Pabst. I really thought that was
going to be a closer game, but, like, What one
field goal is all the Chargers got for the whole
playoff game? I know, wasn't that funny? That's
an indictment right there. That's all you could
muster is a field goal. Yeesh. Jim Harbaugh had
to let that game feeling very deflated. Having
fond memories of Michigan. Yeah. See, in Michigan,
I could just buy my way into victories. Yeah,
not here. And then the last one, the Texans and
the Steelers, we both picked the Texans. And
I actually stopped watching when it was 7 -6
in the third quarter, I think it was. It was
like, eh, this isn't going anywhere. The Texans
exploded for... 13 more points. Oh, no, I had
to work the next day, so I went to bed. I was
like, yeah, that's enough. 23 more points. Anyway,
but it really wasn't the Texans' offense. It
was their defense and special teams that really
took care of that. Oh, wait, no, I didn't have
to work. I just got bored. No, you're right.
Okay. No, their defense, yeah. You know, I still
have the Texans as my dark horse. I think the
Texans could very well go to the Super Bowl,
and they could conceivably even win it because
their defense. It's just been outstanding. They've
won 11 games in a row, number one. Yeah. But
you know that they're going to have to have some
offense to score some points. They really are.
There's been some times when super defensive
teams have won the Super Bowl on the strength
of their defense. I think there's a Ravens team
that comes to mind. But that's kind of the exception.
I don't know. I think Houston really needs to
figure out why their offense is not doing so
well. I would agree. But the only reason I give
them a chance at all is because I don't see a
real juggernaut out there right now. No. It's
kind of wide open. Yeah, we'll have to see how
the Broncos play because they had the week off.
So that's the only one we haven't seen play yet.
Yeah, the only thing I can say about Bo Nix is
this right here. He makes the plays when it counts,
so I guess that's good enough. Yeah. I think
that's going to be a really good matchup with
the Broncos and the Bills. Yeah, yeah. I think
it's been a long time since they've faced each
other in the playoffs. Playoffs, yeah. Especially
in Denver. Oh, it has been. Yeah. It's been at
least ten years, but it's been a lot more than
that. Yeah. Yeah. So that was last week. We didn't
do too bad. All right. Four and two in the playoffs.
Playoffs. Playoffs. All right, what do you want
to go into now? Let's talk about Mike Tomlin.
Okay, sounds good. 19 -year run. Never had a
losing season. He had some 500 seasons, but never
a losing season. I'm going to incorporate my
Mike Tomlin stuff, too, with you. Okay. Now,
they are talking about this as a mutual decision,
and he decided to step down and blah, blah. Did
he step down? That's what it says. Tomlin said
in a statement that he decided to step down after
much thought and reflection. I don't think so.
I don't think so. I think, if anything, the team
said, going forward, here are the terms and conditions.
Because he still had, what, two years, three
years left on his deal? Yeah. The team probably
told him, going forward, here's what it's going
to be. Take it or leave it. basically saying
quit or we're going to do it our way next year.
And he probably just didn't want to do that.
He caught me off guard. I didn't know they fired
him. Or he quit. He's saying he quit, but they
probably made the job look so unattractive and
unappealing that he just kind of was like, yeah,
I'm not going to stick around and do that. Here's
my question, and this is going into some of my
stuff on Tomlin. Okay, is Tomlin a victim of
his own strength? And what I mean by that is,
He takes an under -talented team and has the
ability to coach them to be a winner, but you'll
never have that kind of subpar talent winning
the playoffs. Wow, wow. That's a good point,
because he seems to have equal success on a team
of just homegrown talent. versus the team where
they go out and sign big -name free agents and
bring in people. It really doesn't seem to make
any difference, which is kind of a bad thing
for Tomlin because that means that he's not taking
advantage of those high -priced talents that
they brought in. That's right. So it's slow and
steady and always kind of there, but that's like
always the bridesmaid. They still say that. Yeah,
and never the bride. And if not, then Google
it. If you don't know what he's talking about,
Google it. Yeah, I think he's a victim of his
own strength. And it is a time, it's time for
him to leave. Yeah. It is. It is. I mean, just
like Andy Reid did a perfectly great job, a fantastic,
phenomenal job in Philadelphia, but it was time
for him to leave. And he said that too. He's
like, yeah, I had no problems with it. I needed
to leave. It's interesting how over the years
there have been a number of head coaches that
also function as general manager. Not so much
anymore. But I'm struggling to think of a single
instance where a head coach has been fired or
retired from head coaching and gone on to be
a general manager. I don't think it happens.
I don't remember anything like that either. I
don't remember it ever going the other way either.
A general manager never becomes a head coach.
There's something about those skill sets that
just really don't overlap apparently. I agree.
I think when you're going through the ranks.
They automatically identify you as one or the
other. They're like, does this guy know personnel
that well? Nobody can fire him up good. I think
the front office will tend to look at the head
coach as being like the top level supervisor.
But the front office is upper management. And
the two don't necessarily eat at the same table.
No. The only close that you can get to that is
like Mike Holmgren. The only way to go to Seattle
was, you know, to be part of GM too, GM and that.
And Andy Reid's done – he has a lot of input,
you know. And that's per probably his contract.
Like, hey, I got to have some input on the guys
that are playing for me. And they're like, okay,
Andy, you deserve that right, so we're going
to give it to you. Yeah. I always thought if
I were a head coach – But most of what I would
ask for, as far as general manager duties, would
say I want to make the fourth and fifth round
draft picks. And if we don't have any fourth
and fifth round, then I want two other picks.
But I don't want the first rounders. I don't
want the late rounders. Just give me a couple
in the middle so I pick my guys. Kind of like
Spagnuolo seems to do, where it has the biggest
input on. They get those guys third and fourth
and start sorting them out. Yeah, I mean, you
can get... Such gems in the third, fourth, and
fifth rounds. I got a question. Who is a stronger
candidate for head coaching? Is it John Harbaugh
or Mike Tomlin? I'd say Harbaugh. Harbaugh, too.
Although they both won the Super Bowl, I'm going
to say this right here. John Harbaugh has had
success with various quarterbacks. Tomlin has
only had the ultimate success with one. Yeah.
Plus, with Tomlin saying, I'm stepping down voluntarily,
that doesn't sound like a coach who's all fired
up. And, in fact, he's really not expected to
coach next year at all. He's expected that nobody's
going to offer him a job for the next season.
Yeah. So he'll sit out a year. I don't know.
He doesn't seem to enjoy. The media part of it,
talking on the sideline and stuff, I don't know
if he really wants to go into broadcasting or
hosting a show or anything. I don't know if that's
his personality. The way he talks, he's kind
of soft -spoken. I would say no. I mean, he may
not be out on the field, but whenever he's talking
with the media or the sideline reporters, he's
relatively soft -spoken. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't
really seem like he's into it and enjoying it.
It's just like he's polite and he's going to
be nice, but it's an obligation that he's discharging.
Yeah, yeah. I can see him being like an advisor
or something, but not necessarily a GM. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't see him taking a head coaching
job, not really ever again. I just don't see
it. You know, I think I agree with you. I think
that he would be an advisor or something, a special
advisor. He'd be like a Bruce Arians did, where
he's like, well, I'm going to go to the front
office, but it's kind of undetermined exactly
what he does. I think he gets paid to stand there
and just watch the game. Yeah. So, there it comes.
Do you think Pete Carroll and the season he had
has kind of turned the NFL off of hiring people
like Tomlin or Belichick to be head coaches again?
It's like they're too old. They're too long at
one team. They've been out of it too long. I
think Pete Carroll kind of ruined it for everybody.
John Harbaugh has been rumored to be really interested
in the Titan job. And he said he likes Cam Ward.
He likes what he sees. He likes the new Christian
team. They have plenty of cap room and a new
stadium coming next year or the year after. Yeah.
And now that Pittsburgh and Miami have thrown
their hats into the ring for needing a head coach,
then, yeah, Spags ain't necessarily going to
Tennessee. No, no. I don't think he's going to
go to Tennessee. I think Tennessee is going to
probably get John Harbaugh because John Harbaugh
seems to be mutually as interested. So Spagnuolo
still keeps getting pushed towards the Giants.
And I don't know if it's just people starting
shit on the internet or not, but there's been
a hell of a lot of rumors saying, no, they want
him. So I don't know if that's true or not, but
that's been the hot talk. What I see in the Giants
organization is they have a lot of pieces that
he could very effectively use. So I think they've
got... a good basis for it there, and you can
step in and make a real difference. I think you're
right. Yeah, and I think that's what he's looking
at. Yeah, and some other teams, he'd have to
go ahead and find the players first. Or they've
got a good defense, and he would have to adapt
his style to theirs. Like if he went to Cleveland,
they've already got a pretty good defense. Oh,
yeah. And they wouldn't want him to mess with
that. No, no. I'll put it like this. Who did
he have before Jackson, Lamar Jackson? In between
Flacco and Jackson, he had a quarterback. Was
it like Tyrod Taylor or something? I remember
him being there, yeah. Yeah. Well, he had some
people like Gatflo to do there, right? Well,
on this, he doesn't have that Tyrod Taylor. He
thinks he has the guy already, Cam Newton. Yeah.
Or not. Yeah, yeah, Cam Ward, not Newton. Yeah,
Cam Newton, yeah, no, no. He's not the guy. Not
anymore. He looked like it for a minute, didn't
he? He did, yeah. So the thing that I think is
he's got the guy that he thinks he can mold and
shape into the guy he needs, so he's not walking
into, like you said, a situation where it's like,
well, I think we're going to start off. I'm going
to talk to the GM and maybe draft this quarterback.
He's got the guy right there in place. He's got
a really good defense and a new stadium and all
kinds of cap room. The thing is, I see John Harbaugh
being lethal in Tennessee. Just like their old
coach is in New England now. Well, from a selfish
standpoint, I'd be happy to see him not in the
AFC West. Me too. So I'm pretty curious to see
who winds up in Las Vegas. The less we face him,
the better off I feel. I mean, the guy, he's
just one of those coaches. that we know can beat
us if he has a good game. Here's a little side
note. We were talking about Vegas. Did you know
that the Oakland A's are trying to move to Las
Vegas? Yes, I did know that. They have requested
the trademark for Las Vegas Athletics and Vegas
Athletics as trademark names. They were denied.
The court said, nope, that's too generic a term.
Athletics could be anything, and you're not going
to own it. They should have went with A's. What
a big blow to them is now anybody can post anything
that says Las Vegas Athletics, and as long as
they don't use the exact logo, they can sell
that legally. That's funny. Isn't that awesome?
They should have stayed where they were. Should
have stayed where they were. Yeah, they should
have just stayed where they were. Look, everybody's
moving out of Oakland. There's not any money
there. No. Just kind of like how the stadiums
are doing in Kansas City. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're
definitely trying to come up with a better...
Let's see. The A's are a storied franchise, but
they've been nomads. They've been all over, so
I think them moving isn't that big of a deal
to anybody. It's just kind of like, well, that's
what they do. I guess that's the way to describe
it. So, all right. I've got some bullet points,
or you got something? That was all I had on Tomlin.
Okay. Well, you know what? While we're talking
about Tomlin, how about Aaron Rodgers? Okay.
Is he going to retire now? Yeah, I would say
so. With Tomlin leaving, I think that's going
to be... Kind of the little push over the edge
that Aaron Rodgers needs. It's like, I ain't
starting over again with a new head coach next
year, a new staff, all the changes, like, eh.
No, I agree. So as disappointing as this season
was for Aaron Rodgers, next season is probably
going to be a bit worse. Oh, yeah, and the problem
is all the premier teams have their guy in place.
Yeah. So he'd have to go to, like, an Atlanta
or something if they even want him. I don't know.
They have Kirk Cousins down there. He would have
to go to a team that's been a perennial stomping
bag. I mean, maybe the Raiders, but I doubt it.
I think the Raiders want to come up with their
guy. I think Tom Brady kind of put his foot down
and said, all right, we're going to get the coach
that we want, and we're going to get the quarterback
that we want, and we're going to build from there.
Yeah. The Raiders really do seem the only franchise
that is totally lost on quarterback, but Aaron
Rodgers would be such a lousy fit for him. No.
Just a bad idea. And really, Tampa Bay looks
like they could use somebody now that Baker Mayfield
has fallen off a cliff, but they're not going
to go for Aaron Rodgers. He's too old. There's
just not much left in the tank. You're not going
to invest that amount of money. There's a minimum
amount that he can legally accept, Aaron Rodgers
first. as a quarterback and the years in the
league, there's a union contract minimum that
teams can pay him. So it's not like they can
sign him for dirt cheap just for the fun of it.
Yeah. So, okay, so it doesn't look very good
for Aaron Rodgers, and I think he's probably
going to look at that and probably just be like,
you know. That's okay. It's been a great career.
And I think he'd rather go ahead and retire than
try to hook on and fail and then retire. Oh,
well, I guess nobody wants me. I'll go ahead
and quit. I think he'd rather just retire. That
almost happened last year. And also, another
thing is he's been acting really peculiar at
the press conferences. Even more than usual.
Even more than usual. The way he talks to himself
about how a reporter's doing it is really fucking
weird. Okay, I think I see what you're trying
to do here. I'm not going to be a part of it,
so fuck this, I'm going to leave. It's like,
do you really have to go through everything like
that, or are you just coming up with a reason
to leave, or you think you're going to say something
you're not supposed to, so you leave? It is weird,
isn't it? It really does sound like he's emotionally
divesting himself from the team, this community.
Disinvesting, divesting, whatever it is. Yeah.
So he's starting to cut to emotional ties, I'll
put it that way. So he doesn't really care to
be nice to the local press because he's probably
figuring it's not going to matter at the end
of the season because I ain't going to be here.
And I don't care what they say about me after
I'm gone. No, I just think his explanation on
why he's leaving has just always been so creepy.
And he's only started this last few press conferences
where he says, Hey, how you doing? Good. How
are you? I'm doing good. I'm Franco from Corollos.
Yep. Our favorite Italian market and deli. Yep.
We'll try not to get him in trouble anymore.
Yeah, yeah. I don't think his boss likes him
coming over and talking for a couple hours. Yeah.
So he'll come by and he'll say hi, but I get
it. Let me check our noise level meter, see what
we're getting here. It turns itself off. Uh -oh.
It's got a battery saver. So right now we're
hitting about 75 to 80 on the decibel. That's
about normal conversation. That's pretty good.
All right. I'm good with that. Not too noisy.
No. All right. You got something you want to
go into? I got a whole bunch of shit, so it doesn't
matter to me. Whatever. Let's see. Went to an
ESPN site and got their predictions on who's
going to go where on the coaching carousel. Oh,
okay. Let me get my readers back on for this.
All right. Nine open NFL coaching jobs. Because
they're counting coordinators, too. Have you
guys got any specials or anything going on? City
market coffee? Not right now. We still have the
winter specials. We're about to start the Valentine's
specials here next week. All right. There we
go. Valentine's Day special. We've got a strawberry
cheesecake latte. There's a barbecue beef sandwich.
We've got pickled red onion on it. We're picking
cabbage. And then we have a white chocolate strawberry
martini. Everybody, you hear that? You fucking
hear that? Thank you. Appreciate it. Damn, now
I'm hungry again. And thirsty. Anyhow, I'm sorry,
go ahead. Alright, what have we got here? We
have... This is where they said Tomlin had two
years remaining on his contract. Inform Steelers
players of his decision to walk away at their
2 p .m. meeting on Tuesday, one day after Pittsburgh
was eliminated from the playoffs. Playoffs! With
a 30 -6 loss to the Texans. And that was about
as dismal as you could get. Oh, man. I mean,
at that point, I think everybody there with their
terrible towels was probably like going, I wish
we didn't even make the playoffs. Yeah. Because
they lost and looked so bad. It's like one of
those deals, like if the Chiefs would have backed
their way into it and looked that bad, I'd be
like, I wish we wouldn't have made it. Yeah,
yeah. If your team doesn't make that field goal
at the end. Frank, are the Chiefs scoring back
next year? Are the Chiefs flooring back next
year? Going back next year? Flooring, like coming
back. If they get a good offensive coordinator,
if they get some help, yeah. Okay. Well, we think
so, too. That's why I asked. And I think they
need to get somebody outside of the Chiefs organization.
Yeah, I read a long article about that, and they
talk about how Andy Reid doesn't like to do that.
Yeah. I know they're talking about being a B,
but they got McDaniels out there. There's the
guy that. Wouldn't you love to see Josh McDaniels,
or no, Mike McDaniels. Wouldn't you love to see
what he can do with Mahomes or try to? What's
the guy that is college coach? Belichick? Oh,
no. No, Mahomes college coach. Oh, yeah, Kingsbury.
Kingsbury. Yeah. I mean. I wouldn't mind seeing
Kingsbury. He's already had a bunch of success
for a while. It'll be interesting to see. It
will be, yeah. But yeah, if they do that, it'd
be good. I'd like to see Alex Smith come over
and be a quarterback's coach. He did so good
with Mahomes that first year when he was still
a starter. He taught him so many things. Even
Mahomes and Mahomes' dad both always thanked
him first. There's a reason for that. I agree.
Yeah, I agree with you. There's so much talent
outside of here. I would love to see someone
else's idea. He's too young. I mean, there's
no reason for him to be that he's going down
this direction already. Well, he's been injured
because I have a new knee and I have knee problems.
You do a certain walk when you can't put all
your weight on your knee, and he'd been doing
that for at least three games. Yeah. And anybody
with any type of a brain at all could tell he
was not the same. Now, how come, my question
is, is how come the coaching didn't set him down,
didn't shut him down? Exactly. Because he has
too much clout, and that's the problem. Yeah.
I love Mahomes, and we need him here, but they
need to figure out a way to say, dude, we don't
care. We don't care who you are. You have to
go rest. Yeah. Get Mahomes to take no for an
answer a lot more than he is. Yes. I think that's
a big part of it. Yeah, a very big part of it.
And I say this is it for Andy. It gets better.
If we get the same production, it might be time
to cut loose from Andy. I can see that. Yeah,
I can see that too. And there's so much young
talent now in the NFL that could – I think he
has that old school kind of coaching style. Do
you think that's how come maybe some of the team
wasn't as good this year? Because they're really
not used to that type of coaching. They don't
like that type of coaching. They don't respond
to that type of coaching. I've always kind of
felt that with Danny Green, sometimes with the
four wide receivers. What was it, a year or two
ago? He had a nice receiver before and a lot
of talent, but he wasn't utilizing people the
right way. I agree. I agree. Well, even this
year, some of it was offensive line, but the
running backs in particular, whoever's coaching
them, I think, to me, is not doing a good job.
Oh, shit. Lost pepper. Here, hang on. I'll get
it. Sorry, I interrupted Franco bringing peppers
to Corollos. Pepper overboard. Yeah, that was
split wide open. Sorry about that. Corollos,
yeah, the best Italian joint in Kansas City.
All right, yeah. Yep. You guys do a great job.
All right, I got to get in there. Sorry, you're
carrying all that shit. All right, Franco. Get
him in trouble again. I know, I know. I felt
mad after I asked him. I was like, I should have
left him alone. Anyhow, I'm sorry. Well, he can
tell he's being nice to us. Okay, so the coaching
carousel. Yeah, yeah. First, I guess they're
doing these in alphabetical order. Arizona Cardinals,
Jonathan Gannon was fired. Really don't know
anything about him prior to coming to the NFL
because we don't get much coverage of the Cardinals
here at KC. No. Three seasons, had a 15 -36 record.
So he lost two games for every one he won. I
would say that would earn a fire. Now the ESPN's
prediction for who's going to get the job is
Clint Kubiak, the offensive coordinator's son.
But he's the OC in Seattle. So that's who they're
predicting. Oh, that's right. That's where I
heard his name. And you know what? That guy deserves
a promotion. Even though Darnold's doing so well
in Minnesota. He looks so comfortable and so
good in the spot that he put him in. Yeah. So
I think Kubiak is an excellent choice to take
the next step. I think so too. And you figure
he's got no quarterbacks inside now. Yeah. So
if anybody's going to get anything from Kyler
Murray. It's going to be him. It's going to be
Clint Kubiak. I agree. That's going to be interesting.
I'm going to watch that period if that does happen.
Yeah, yeah. And, you know, I would be happy to
see the Cardinals have an upswing. I really would.
Yeah, they don't bother me at all. I mean, yeah.
Next up, we've got Atlanta Falcons. Their former
coach, Raheem Morris, was fired last week after
two seasons and a 16 -18 record. You see, I didn't
agree with that one at all. No, it seems like.
They fired him because they expected him to do
a lot better than that with the talent they gave
him. So maybe they're thinking this ain't our
guy because he should be doing better than this.
I guess. Yeah. Yeah, 16 -8, he's not bad for
two years with the talent he had. Yeah. He's
coaching him right, I think. He is, yeah. I think
he is getting the most he can out of him. I'd
like to know about Raheem Morris a little bit
more about him to see if he would be a good fit
with us. Yeah, I could definitely see him landing
somewhere this year. I do, too. Yeah. But ESPN's
prediction is going to be John Horbaugh, former
Ravens head coach. To Atlanta? To Atlanta. Okay,
well, the last I read, Titans, he was like really
leaning towards them. So, okay, maybe something
happened that I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
there's some tie -ins there, personnel -wise,
front office or on the team that we aren't fully
aware of. Oh, no, from what I understood, Cam
Ward, salary cap, new stadium. But then again,
maybe he's just a sucker for a bird mascot. He
could be. He's like, oh, I'm going to go from
Ravens to Falcons. Falcons are bigger and badder.
Yeah. Yeah. All right, speaking of the Ravens,
Baltimore Ravens, they fired former head coach
John Harbaugh last week after 18 seasons. That
still caught me by surprise. Averaging 10 wins
a season. He had a 180 and 113 regular season
record, 13 and 11 playoff record. Playoff? And
the same goal. I missed that one. Sorry, I got
a text for my massage tonight. I was trying to
make sure it wasn't canceled. You got by on me.
But, yeah, part of the oddness of that firing
is the fact that he's been doing very well recently,
getting into the postseason, having very... high
records, winning the division. But I guess they
just figure that they've given every chance,
and he hasn't got them over the hill for a long
time, so on they go. ESPN's prediction is Kevin
Stefanski, former Browns head coach. Oh, I think
that's a great idea. I think so, too. Stays within
the division. He's familiar with both teams.
I think that could be a really good hire. To
me, I think that's a good hire. Yeah. Let's see.
Oh, now up next to the Cleveland Browns. All
this is allegedly. They didn't hire him. Well,
that's true. This is all legend. Cleveland Browns,
they fired Kevin Stefanski last week after six
seasons, a 45 -56 regular season record, a 1
-2 playoff record. Playoff? ESPN's prediction
for the next Browns head coach, Mike McDaniel,
former Dolphins. Do they want him to work with
Shador? Do they want him to work with Gabriel?
Or do they want him to work with the massage
guy? From what I've read and read between the
lines, they're kind of leaning towards Dylan
Gabriel because Shador isn't working out to be
nearly what they expected him to be this season.
And I think they think Dillon was a little easier
to work with. I think Dillon was showing more
upside, that's for sure. Dillon was getting where
he was getting games into twos, not very many
interceptions. He was going from bad to an upper
mediocre pretty quickly. So I think that would
be something to work with, and I think Mike McDaniels
would be a good guy. And at this point, I think
whichever one of the two is more willing to learn,
and work with coaching staff is the one they're
going to focus on. So if Shador Sanders has an
independent streak and pushes back, they're probably
just going to say, yeah, it's not worth it, let's
go with the other guy. Yeah, and I think that's
also good bait for Shador. If they think there's
more there, he's going to respond to that if
he wants to. Yeah. So I get it. They'll probably
tell him, you know, fight to get your starting
job back. Let's see what you got. No, that's
the way it should be done too. Las Vegas Raiders
fired former coach Pete Carroll after one season
and a 3 -14 record. ESPN prediction for the next
Raiders head coach, Robert Saleh. Saleh, yeah,
former Jets, now he's with the 49ers. Currently
their defensive coordinator. And good, very good
defensive coordinator. Game plan he came up against
the Eagles was brilliant. He stifled them. Yeah,
yeah. I think he'd fit in pretty well with the
Raiders. Raiders would like to have a big, mean,
tough defense the way they used to. I could see
Robert Salah being a perfect fit over there,
although I don't want him in our division. No,
I don't. I'm trying to remember the last time
the Raiders had a defense the league feared.
It's been a long -ass time. Not even when Schottenheimer
was facing off on them. Not even then they really
didn't have a defense. I'm thinking early 80s.
Early 80s. Probably the last time they had a
feared defense. Yeah, and that was back when
they had Stabler. Stabler was more in the 70s.
Yeah, he was. Then they moved on from him to
Plunkett. Plunkett. Plunkett is who I was thinking
of. They had a pretty good defense with Steve
Plunkett. Yeah. Was that Steve Plunkett? Jim
Plunkett. Jim Plunkett. Steve Plunkett is the
lead singer of Autograph. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's
right. Which is actually his stepson. Yes. Yes.
Which he found out much later, too. Yeah. All
right, next up, Miami Dolphins. Former coach
was Mike McDaniel. Fired last week after four
seasons, a 35 -33 regular season record, and
0 -2 in the playoffs. That's going to kill you.
They fired him right after he was doing breakdancing
karaoke. Yeah, I'd fire him for that. That's
crime against humanity. Yeah, yeah. So they went
ahead and said, well, while you're doing that,
did that guy just take off his shirt? I think
it just ripped off of the Hulk style. It's fucking
20 degrees out there. Whatever. Okay. He's trolling
for the ladies. I guess so. Or guys. Could be.
You know what? To each his own. That's fine with
me. Yep. All right, ESPN's prediction for the
next Dolphins coach, Chris Shula from the Rams,
defensive coordinator. Oh, okay. Get another
Shula back in Miami. That would probably be his
grandson. That would have to be his grandson,
yeah. Okay. This is no joke, really. Yeah, yeah,
it really is. Because, yeah, Don Shula was 60s.
He was coaching back in the 60s. I think he started
with the Baltimore Colts. Back when the Colts
were in Baltimore. Yes, he did, yeah. All right,
New York Giants. Former coach Brian Dable fired
in November after three and a half seasons, 20
-40 -1 regular season record and 1 -1 record
in the postseason. Offensive coordinator Mike
Kafka finished the season as interim head coach
and went 2 -5. He is supposed to be on the Chiefs'
horizon because he used to work with... With
Andy Reid in those offenses. Yeah. And he's probably
going to be let go. Yeah. Interim coaches generally
do. That was one of the predictions I read, but
I don't necessarily trust. Yeah. The ESPN's prediction
for the next Giants head coach is Jeff Halfley,
Packers defensive coordinator. Even after the
playoffs? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I thought his stock
would have went down after Chicago surged back
in the fourth quarter and had their way with
him. Yeah, yeah, Packers defense didn't look
so great then. No, no. But it's also possible
that the Giants really don't have the pull to
get a top tier. No, that's it right there. They're
going to have to get what they can get. It's
just like the Chiefs, 80s, and then in the 2000s
when they were horrible, they couldn't get a
good head coach. They tried and tried, and then
finally, the only reason Andy Reid came here
was because Dick Vermeule was here, and they're
good friends. He called up Dick Vermeule, and
he said, hey, Kansas City called me, and Dick
Vermeule said, go, go right now. And that's why.
Other than that, we probably would not have gotten
him. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, it worked
out great for everybody. Yeah, yep. Except for
the Chiefs haters. Yes. Okay, and then as of
yesterday, Pittsburgh Steelers also need to head
coach now. Former coach Mike Tomlin, who parted
ways with the team. I like that, parted ways.
Mutually, mutually, or whatever. Parted his hair,
or passed wind, or I don't know. 19 seasons with
a 193 -114 -2 regular season record. That's pretty
impressive. Yeah. Didn't quite make it to 200
wins. But here's the one that I surprised me.
8 -12 in the playoffs. Wow. 8 -12? 8 -12. He
had a lot of seasons where he was one and done
or win one, lose one, and you're done. I had
no idea that he had lost four more than he'd
won. I didn't either. That surprised me. They
all came under Roethlisberger, I know that. Yeah.
Every one of his wins came under Roethlisberger,
including the Super Bowl. Yeah. And that was
against the Arizona Cardinals and Kurt Warner.
Yeah, yeah. Two Super Bowl appearances and one
Super Bowl title for Tomlin. But ESPN's prediction
for the next head coach is Jesse Minter, the
Chargers defensive coordinator. And again, did
we see the playoff game? Not so good. Over the
past few seasons, the Chargers have had a reputation
of a decent defense, but I don't know. I mean,
well, they did hold Drake May in the Patriots
high -rolling offense to, what, 16, 18 points?
Yeah. But they let, who was it? Was it Demarcus
Robinson? Yeah. They let him just fucking eat
them up. He ate them alive. Our old, yeah, our
old wide receiver, number five. Yeah. Well, he's
number five up there, too. And he ate them up.
Yeah. So, okay, whatever. Yeah, I remember Robinson
was, he couldn't. I think I'm thinking of a different
game, but go ahead. Oh, yeah, yeah. But, yeah,
Robinson, he had a couple of spectacular catches.
Yeah. Okay, anyhow, go ahead. What was it, the
90s or early 2000s? We had Johnny Robinson. Yeah,
yeah, that's right. And then Will Robinson. Yeah.
Yeah, Will Robinson, he was kind of spacey. Yeah,
yeah. He was always yelling about Dr. Smith.
Touch it. Last team on the list, the Tennessee
Titans. Mom! June, Dr. Smith touched him again.
Former coach Brian Callahan fired in October
after nearly one and a half seasons. Wow, nearly
one and a half. Demarcus Robinson. And a 4 -19
record. Mike McCoy finished the season as interim
coach and went 2 -9. I think Brian Callahan showed
that he's a lot alike his father, Bill Callahan,
who did great at Nebraska. They got into pros
and pretty much just grabbed his pants. It was
the 49ers who I was meaning to say. Demarcus
Robinson tore. Prediction for the next Titans
coach, Matt Nagy, Chiefs Offensive Coordinator.
Good. Good. Let him go. Let him go. See you.
Yeah. But nowhere in this was Steve Spagnuolo
mentioned. It depends on who you listen to. Yeah.
If you listen to one person, he's the hottest
candidate out there. If you listen to another
one, he's not even on the radar. Yeah. So. Let's
see. We can talk about how the Eagles have fired
their offensive coordinator, Kevin Petullo. I
think we mentioned it earlier, but we had to
figure that was going to happen. I don't know
that the Eagles would be interested in Matt Nagy
and whether he would do a lateral move like that
to be their offensive coordinator. I'm going
to say no. I'm going to say no on both parts.
I don't think either one would want the other.
Doesn't fit the bill. And Nagy has said he's
not coming back no matter what. He's like, either
I'm getting another job or I'm quitting, but
I ain't coming back here. Because he's probably
heard the people in the stands yelling at him
every game. Probably. And let's hope he takes
the special teams coach with him when he leaves.
Yeah, Dave Tom, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Yeah,
I don't like that idiot either. No. Anyone that
won't take responsibility for his own shit, I
don't like. Yeah. And then you try to divert
everything by going to a stupid question. Who
cares what the president thinks about the fucking
new rules? Who cares? And did they really think
we were that stupid that that weak -ass attempt
at a distraction was going to work? Yeah, yeah.
You pouting out your little fucking bird chest.
You could tell him I said that. Yeah. No one's
going to tell him I said that because he won't
give a fuck. Yeah. He's like the little ant standing
on top of his anthill yelling about how strong
and powerful he is as the steamroller smooshes
him. You've got a great high opinion of yourself,
but how'd it work out for you? Yeah, and then
also, you know, people are going to run and tell
the president, Hey, President Trump, you hear
what Dave Tobe said about you? Who's that? I
think he's like a special teams guy. I don't
care. Why not? It's like they were expecting
him to go running to his room and throw himself
on his pillow and weep into his David Cassidy
pillowcase. Why? Why? Why? Why me? He's taking
a shower. At the very least, Dave Taub should
find the person who suggested it. release that
statement, and fire that person. Immediately.
Because that person has no idea how to handle
PR in the press. I'll bet you Andy Reid was like,
what? Motherfucker. Get him on the phone right
now. Right now. Go ahead and buy him a plane
ticket right now that I want to talk to. No,
no, no. I want to talk to him on the phone. Bring
him here. Let me get my fucking boots on. It's
the kind of thing where you don't want someone
that stupid to be associated with your organization.
Yeah, that's what it's like. You bring him here
now. We can do this two ways. You can step down
after this season or I can fire your stupid ass
right now. Anyhow, go ahead. Let's see. The Buffalo
Bills have lost yet another wide receiver. Tyrell
Shavers suffered a torn ACL. Ernie Shavers, the
boxer. Yeah. His brother. Yeah. In Sunday's 27
-24 victory over the Jaguars. Coach Sean McDermott
said Tuesday that Shavers played the second half
Sunday on his torn ACL. Oh. Which he suffered
in the second quarter on a punt return. You see,
I told you Mahomes is a wimp. No, I'm joking.
That's what people are going to say now. As he
came off a block, Shavers immediately pulled
up and began limping and then was looked at by
athletic trainers on the field. Shavers came
back to play 21 offensive snaps in the final
two quarters but did not return to special teams.
So it's a partial tear, not a total tear. Because,
you know, a total tear and you wouldn't be able
to stand up. But that's pretty tough on his part.
And it shows also... how the league and the teams
view the players as disposable. It's like, we
need something from you. We don't care if it
wrecks the rest of your career and you never
play again. We need this from you now. Give it
to us. So if I were Terrell Shavers, I would
look at that very carefully and remember that
come contract time that they view the players
as something to use and then discard. I would
keep that in mind. It looks like the Baltimore
Ravens owner is starting out a love fest towards
Lamar Jackson. Ravens owner Stephen Bischiotti
said on Tuesday that he told Lamar Jackson he
wants a new deal done by the start of free agency
in March that would significantly lower the two
-time NFL MVP's $74 .5 million cap number. Quote,
the urgency of that matters to me because we've
got free agents and I don't want to go into free
agency with that hanging over our head. Biscotti
said, and I made it clear to Lamar. Is that the
cookie guy? Yes, the one you dunk in your coffee.
Yes, okay, that's what I thought. He said, I
made it very clear to Lamar that I think he was
very appreciative of my stance and hopefully
willing to work with Eric DaCosta, Ravens General
Manager, and not get this thing dragged out into
April like last time. It's very hard for him
to build a roster when that thing is not centered.
Jackson, who is 29 years old, is under contract
for three more years, but his cap number increases
by $31 million in 2026. Wow. So that would be
a $74 .5 million cap figure that would count
for 25 % of the team's salary cap in one player.
Yeah, he's got to change that. I mean, if Jackson
wants to win regularly, he's going to have to
figure that out. Yeah. yeah and at a certain
point players start to realize that if i want
championships then i gotta give up some of my
stuff so they have money to pay these other people
come over and win championships okay and i think
the realization is starting to get there and
this is part of the owner coming out and saying
you know we love you lamar we want you to be
here but get reasonable on your salary demands
hey i get it and it needs to be done now not
later because they need to know where they stand
with a salary cap yeah and also it's going to
make a hell of a difference on the next coach
they hire this is true as well if you interview
a head coaching prospect and say well lamar's
kind of iffy on the contract we don't know yeah
you're gonna lose somebody that way yeah yep
a good person a good person would be like you
know i have options i'm not gonna do this Well,
and then what I got left is the longest tenured
head coaches in the NFL history. Okay, that'll
do. Or you want to do that a little better? No,
let's skip on to something else. All right, I've
got some bullet points. All right, do the Rams
have something to worry about going forward in
the playoffs? Wow. Yeah, I think so. I do too.
They've got some issues there, obviously, that
have been exploited. Yeah. I'm not sure who the
Rams play next. Hang on. So we've got Rams and
the Niners and the Seahawks and the Bears, okay.
Well, they've got a chance against the Bears,
but against the Niners or the Hawks. It's kind
of iffy. I don't really see the Rams going all
the way this year. No, I don't either. It's possible,
though, because if there's ever a wide open year,
I think it's right now on both sides. So, okay.
I think they have a lot to worry about. Yeah.
And we'll see if they get past Chicago. That
does seem to be kind of a historic matchup, though,
Rams and Bears. It really is. Yeah. I'm sure
the NFL loves this LA -Chicago. Yeah. All right,
Stafford made some crucial errors but made crucial
plays to win. Is this a sign of a first -class
quarterback or the opposite? Wow. It's a good
question. Yeah, I thought so. I'm going to start
deciding the good quarterback. Yeah, being able
to overcome your mistakes and keep your head
in the game, I think that outweighs making a
mistake in the first place. Yeah. Well, I go
back to the prolific quarterback, though, are
all interception machines. It's the more you
try, the more you do, the more you do, the more
you do. I remember Hall of Fame running back
Eric Dickerson. You just knew he was going to
fumble at least once in the game. Yeah, but you
didn't care because he got you so many other
points, so many yards. But he could rip off these
big, amazing long runs. It was like it all balanced
out. Yeah, it did, and also it helped your offense
so much with that threat there that, yeah, they
won more games or not, but like you said, you
knew he was going to fumble, but it was like,
well, we still got to give him another. I think
teams are kind of accustomed to having their
opponent flip the field on them with a long pass,
but having them do it with a long run. It just
hurts a little more. It does. We had these guys
backed up beside their own 20. Now they're already
in field goal position one play later. Yeah.
And it wasn't their passing defense. These guys
just ran right through us. That's demoralizing.
And also another thing demoralizing and just
kills the defense is having to chase after a
running back in the flat. It's brutal on the
body, and it wears you down quickly. So, I mean,
a good running game just demoralizes the other
team. It really does. Yeah. I've always been
a proponent of a strong running game. I'm starting
with that. It should start, and then set up to
pass. Yeah. Okay. Will Carolina be a regular
in the playoffs in the near future? Playoffs.
Playoffs. I think so. I think they've built something
pretty good here. Thank you. Oh, welcome. I think
they're headed in the right direction. Yeah.
You know, of course, they got the same drawbacks
every team has, which is, you know, keep their
players healthy, keep their players re -signed.
But since every team goes through that, then
that kind of makes it even. Yeah, I can see Carolina.
You know, I can see them kind of taking over
that division because Tampa Bay is kind of iffy.
The Saints are iffy. The Falcons are iffy. I
could see the Panthers becoming the strength
of that division for a while. I could too, but
I used to love Todd Bowles. I'm not sure if he's
head coach material. Yeah. You really learn a
lot about a head coach when there's a lot of
adversity. Yes. And I'm going to point fingers
right here in Kansas City, and as much adversity
as the Chiefs had this year, I don't think Andy
Reid handled it very well. I don't think he did
at all. I think he abandoned sections of the
game that he shouldn't have. He waffled on players.
It's like, all right, it's you. You're the starter.
We're sticking with it until you prove otherwise.
He waffled on that. It was just shifting lineup,
shifting people in and out constantly so no one
could get in a rhythm or get used to working
with each other. Personnel -wise, I think it
was poorly handled. It was like mass confusion.
Yeah, yeah. And the game plan was, it seemed
like the game plan was based on Mahomes performing
the way he did three, four years ago. They fell
in love with backyard football. Yes. Just go
out there and do what you can. It ain't working
anymore. No, no. It barely worked back then.
And, yeah, people caught up. People figured it
out. Especially with offensive lines so thin
and not that good because they could send Irving
coverage and still sack the quarterback. I can
imagine the members of the other team, when they'd
see the Chiefs come out and do their backyard
trick play, goofy kind of thing. It seemed like
an insult, like a taunt. Yes. Like the guy who's
running into the end zone and holding the ball
back towards you, knowing you can never reach
him in time and tiptoeing. It's that kind of
taunt. And I think all the other teams said,
you know what, it's bad enough that the Chiefs
are everywhere and we get them all pushed down
our throats, but now you're out there on the
field taunting us with these dumbass little kid
plays, making us look stupid. All right, we're
just going to start pounding you. We'll take
the penalties. We're just going to drive you
into the dirt because fuck you. And that's why
I don't feel sorry. I think that was it. I don't
feel sorry about Jim Harbaugh and his fucking
little precious quarterback pretty much leaving
on a stretcher. Yep. There you go. There you
fucking go. You like to do that or you got it
back to you? Yeah. Well, enjoy it because more
is coming, asshole. Yep. People owe you. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. I think unofficially there's going
to be a lot of bounty. against the Los Angeles
Chargers next season. Yes. I think it's going
to hurt them. Yeah, I think so too. All right,
is Amazon or Netflix doing a better job with
NFL? I'm going to say Amazon. I think Amazon's
doing better. When they came out with that, the
AWS, the Amazon stats and next -gen stats and
the AI, all that kind of stuff, that was the
whole idea. To show people, look, we can carry
the football games. Yes. And now it's taken over.
Like I said, Amazon used to be a company that
sold products. Now they're a company that gathers
marketing information and sells it to other people.
And the way they gather it is by selling products.
But the marketing information is the main goal
now. Well, what's pissing me off is now on Amazon
Prime. And actually, if you have a Fire Stick
or a Smart TV through Amazon, what happens is
when you pause a show, a commercial comes on.
It's a flat steel commercial, but it's on. YouTube's
doing that too. Yeah, it's bullshit. I think
Netflix can catch up, but I'd rather have Netflix
put money into more original programming. Me
too. I wish they'd just stay out of NFL and let
everyone else do it. Because eventually... The
NFL is going to own the broadcast rights, and
you just go directly to the NFL if you want to
see the game. Yeah, they're going to do that
with an app, I'm sure. You want to pay $50 a
month, you can watch every game on your app.
You can communicate with the NFL. You can order
swag. You can order tickets. You can do everything
on here. You want to tap dance? I mean, if the
NFL is selling the rights. and the person or
the company buying the rights can still make
a profit, then that's profit the NFL could have
made by keeping the rights. Yeah, that's true.
And I know they know that. And it's going to
get to the point where if you want to watch an
NFL game, you have to go through the NFL to see
it or get it. And then from there, it may move
over to one of the casinos. Yeah. It's like MGM
Grand presents the NFL kind of thing. Okay. You
know, I'm going to do one more NFL, but you're
talking about the casinos, right? You know what,
I'm going to jump up to your question after this
because you're talking about the casinos. The
Royals canceled their contract with DraftKings.
Is this because the elderly won't go to a gambling
source to watch the game, or do they think that
they got a bad deal? There's several of them
that did that, not just the Royals. There's like
four other teams that did that. I didn't get
a chance to see the other teams. Do you believe
that it has to do with your clientele base, or
do you think there's something more to it, like
they think they've got a better deal somewhere
else? I think it has to do with the deal, because
if you offer gambling... on the Royals, it doesn't
matter who the Royals fan base is because people
will get on there and bet against the Royals.
That's right. And other baseball fans or people
who just want to gamble. I mean, there's somebody
who would gamble on the color of your next piss
if they could. Michael Jordan, allegedly. Yeah.
So I don't think it has really much to do with
the clientele or fan base. It's just some of
these teams realize they get a shit deal. And
I'm wondering if it's the smaller market teams
that got the crappy deals. I think it was. I
think it's like the Cincinnati's and stuff like
that, I do believe. I'll have to look it up.
I'll come up with more, but okay. Then the question
before is, is the pay -per -game coming to the
NFL? So if you want this game, you can have it.
It's going to be $7 .99. I think so. There's
no flat order. I want the Chiefs all year on
whatever. Yeah, I think it's going to be more
all -the -cart, as you said. I think so, too.
It's going to be Bistro. Yeah, yeah. Cafe style.
Yes. Or what is it? Deli style. Deli style. That's
what the weed dispensaries are doing now. You
know, on the little tiny buds for the plants
that don't grow and develop properly, and the
buds turn out to be little tiny things. They
used to sell them for a discount and call them
budlets. Now they're charging more and calling
it deli style. Of course. As, you know, the plant
failed, but now they're turning it into, oh,
well, this is a desirable thing, and we're going
to charge you more for it. And everybody does
it. Yeah. But I've noticed UFC has abandoned
pay -per -view. There's no more pay -per -view
UFC. It's all going to be from a streaming service.
I think Paramount Plus now is where it goes.
I agree. I think a lot of people are getting
really burned on this pay -per -view stuff, but
the NFL's got the advantage because they can
guarantee you a close, competitive, tight game
because they will influence it that way as the
game is going and make sure it's not a blowout.
But when it gets to the point the NFL is selling
the pay -per -view, there's no reason not to
control it. I mean, they can legally do it. There's
nothing against the law in fixing a game or scripting
a game because they never told you it was a fair
and open sports competition. It's entertainment.
I think it's going to go that way, and I think
that will be one of the final things they do
because... At that point, you're on the downward
slope of people are getting so pissed off that
you're squeezing them for every penny that they're
going to start finding other things to do. I
agree. Other ways to spend their money. They're
like, you know what? This just ain't worth it
anymore. Every time I turn around, I have to
spend more and buy more and manage these accounts.
Eh, forget it. I'm just going to do something
else. I see it coming, but the NFL is going to
be run into the ground and monetized all the
way. They're going to squeeze every penny out
of it and then leave a rotting corpse by the
side of the road. That's pretty much what they're
doing. Yeah. Look at it. Yeah. All right. Next
one. Should baseball have a disclaimer? before
every broadcast explaining that the game is slow
and somewhat boring at times. I would think that
would be a good public service. They could count
that as a public service announcement. Yeah,
yeah. They wouldn't have to do another one for
I don't know how many more ads. And, you know,
sign up a lot of sponsors for, like, energy drinks
and coffee and pep pills and anything to keep
you awake. Yeah. Yeah. Was it not Salman X? I
think that puts you to sleep. Yeah. No does.
Yeah, no does. There we go. Yeah, no does. Yeah.
All right. Google it. All right. What does the
best job covering the broadcasting for the NFL?
Hmm. I'm going to say NBC. Is that the Sunday
night? Yes. Yeah. I'd say so. They seem to do
the best job of giving you information that you
can actually use and need. I mean, they do throw
in the goofy stuff and the, you know, hey, look
at me stuff. Yeah. They talk too much about gambling.
And, of course, all of the broadcast teams are
relentless fans about, oh, isn't he just the
greatest player? That's what gets me. I mean,
Collinsworth, he just, like, everybody's the
greatest guy ever. That last game that I saw...
But he also criticizes very well, too. Yeah.
I think it was the last game I saw the Chiefs
play where the color commentator guy said three
different times about three different players
on the Chiefs roster. He said, that's the guy.
That's the guy they trust right there. Yeah,
they trust him. And he kept going back to that
well over and over and over. And it became just
so painfully obvious that he was... He was coming
up with stuff to try to pad the stats to make
it look better than what it was. Yeah, he was
rah -rah. Chiefs are great. Broncos are great.
Everybody's great. The country staffs are great.
The fans are great. Everybody's wonderful and
great. It's like handing out a participation
trophy to everybody. You quit believing it means
anything. Well, that's what I like about Tom
Brady is Tom Brady will actually say something
like, yeah, so -and -so, you know, isn't having
a great season and kind of get into it a little
bit because he doesn't care, I don't think. He's
just like, you know, I'm just going to tell it
like I see it. Romo's another one that's really
bad about glad -handing everybody because I'll
see him talk about one player and what a great
defender he is. Oh, he's just so amazing. He's
so quick and he never misses a play. And then
the very next play, the guy gets burned. So instead
of saying, oh, he got burned, he said, oh, yeah,
the guy who scored on him, man, he's just a bastard.
Yeah, he was. Just suddenly, oh, that guy screwed
up. Well, let's just talk about this best, wonderful
guy over here. And everybody's wonderful and
the best, and nobody's farts stink. Most of these
are former players, too. Yeah. And because they
know how it feels to get criticized, so they're
afraid to do it. They're like, oh, no, man, I
remember that one asshole saying this or this
about, you know. Yeah. And they realize that
it's so easy now to find out what's been said
about anybody, and they'll hold it against you.
Next time you want an interview or ask a question,
they'll just lie to your face or blow you off
or something. It started with Chrissy Chandler.
Yes. We're not getting anything close to the
truth or the reality. We're just getting whatever
the current story or spin is. Was that Jim Rome?
Yeah, he was Chrissy Everett. Chrissy Everett.
Jim Everett was the quarterback for the Rams.
He called him Chris Everett. Chris Everett. Yeah,
that was it. Yeah. And he also called him Chandelier.
Not Chandler, but Chandelier. Chrissy Chandelier
and stuff like that. Yeah. Until he came on the
show and smacked the piss out of me. Yes. Then
that changed. Yeah. And I remember I watched
it a little while back again. And he goes, I
think Jim Rohn said something like, you mean
to tell me that if I say that again, you're going
to smack me or something like that? And he goes,
yeah. And he said it again, and he jumped up
and smacked him. Yep. Told you. Yep. I wonder
how much of that was staged for our entertainment.
I wondered that, too, because watching it, to
me, it wasn't overly convincing. Yeah. And no
charges were filed. I think that's a no -brainer.
It's like, charge the guy. Have him arrested.
Otherwise, you're telling everyone it's okay
to get on the air and smack Jim Rome around.
So the fact that nobody ever even whispered about
pressing charges or a lawsuit or anything, it
makes it smell like a prearranged publicity stunt
to me. Just like this, Jim Everett or any other
quarterback that was any good at all didn't give
a shit what anybody said about him anyhow. They
knew what they did and they knew what they do.
Yeah. So, all right. If the Packers aren't going
well into the playoffs this season, is Matt LaFleur
in trouble? Evidently not. This has been answered.
Yeah, but I think he's one of those guys that
might get fired in the middle of next season.
After they re -upped him for four years or five
years. Yeah, he starts out like two and seven
next season. He's gone. Yeah. All right, and
finally. Who has the nicest -looking pass in
the NFL, spiral -wise, accuracy? Oh, wow. Yeah,
I know. Man, there's been some awesome passers.
I mean, Doug Williams for the Washington Redskins.
Oh, my God, yeah, Washington Redskins, yeah.
Beautiful, perfect, tight spiral. It could be
raining, muddy, winds, doesn't matter. He threw
a perfect pass. I'm still a huge fan of Doug
Williams. Yeah, yeah. And also his testimony,
too. Yeah. The way they treated him because he
was African -American and a quarterback and telling
him he wasn't smart enough and he couldn't get
the schemes and all that. I mean, he still talks
and is happy. I mean, I think I'd be bitter.
I'd be like, you know what, fuck every one of
you guys. It just really seems strange looking
back that there was a time when the NFL owners
let anything get in the way of making money.
Yes. But they did. It's like, oh, black players?
We don't want them at all. Yeah. And then it
turned into, okay, it's working out to our advantage
to have black players, but we're not going to
let them be quarterbacks or head coaches or anything.
Yeah, they're going to be running backs and stuff
like that. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. But even into
the 90s, there was still a lot of talk about
the certain coaches that would be, like, threatening
to quit if they hired a black man to be quarterback.
But anymore, it's been pretty much weeded out
that everybody realizes whoever can help us make
more money and grow the NFL, that's who we want.
We don't care where they come from, how they
look, who they pray to, who they go to bed with.
It doesn't matter. If they can make us money,
we like them. And if you're a business owner,
that's the way to do it. That's the intelligent
thing to do. And also, a lot of times a team
wants a certain player, and that player happens
to be black. Yeah. I don't know of any fan base
anymore that would really object to a black starting
quarterback for their favorite team. Not anymore,
no. I think people have – and, okay, the people
that do still think like that have learned their
lesson. Yeah, I think college helped weed that
out too. I think so too. Because there's a lot
more diversity. In college football, as far as
what ethnicities are regularly starting in different
positions, et cetera. So I think a lot of people,
they watch college, and they love their college
team more than they do their NFL team. Oh, there's
a lot of them. And they realize, you know, well,
I don't like that guy because he doesn't look
right. Oh, my team's winning now, and he's playing
well. Oh, I like that guy after all. You don't
think college is that big? Go to Louisville,
Kentucky, and you tell me that college isn't
that big. Anywhere in the state of Texas. Yes.
It's like a whole separate religion down there.
Yeah. No, Louisville, I was very impressed with
that because my cousin's daughter almost went
to Louisville. Oh, yeah? We was there visiting
the school. I met him there, you know, me and
Val met him there to, you know, get together
with family. And that whole town, that whole
city, which is a good -sized city, about a million
and a quarter or something like that, all Louisville
Cardinals. Huge stadium everywhere, Louisville
Cardinal this, Louisville Cardinal that. They,
I mean, it's like, it's maybe better than a lot
of proteins. Yeah. And it's interesting, there's,
you know, I remember Dr. Martin Luther King saying,
judge us on the content of our character rather
than the color of our skin. Yeah. I think in
sports, it is turned into that. It's like, we
don't care what... ethnicity you are or where
your parents are from or anything can you help
us win okay we love you yeah and they're judging
these athletes pregnant playing for the college
teams on what they can do as far as helping the
team win their athletic ability working together
as a team and they don't care if you're from
Tokyo or Chihuahua or wherever help us win No,
I agree. Okay. After Saul said the Eagles won
as many playoff games as the Chiefs did this
season, which is a big fat zero. Okay. The Eagles
have been rumored to make some big offensive
coaching changes this offseason. Do you think
that needs to happen? Yeah. Yeah. They've got
the star running back. But if you're a one -dimensional
team, it doesn't matter if your one dimension
is running or passing. You're still one -dimensional
and they can shut you down. Now you're getting
into what I'm going to. Yeah. Okay. A lot of
grumblings about Jalen Hurts. Do they need to
look at the draft for another QB1? Or do you
think that he's good enough? He was last season,
but this season not so much. Has he been uncovered
and found out? Or when Barkley's not having quite
as good a season, he does not prop up Hurts enough?
Yeah, I think it's more of that. I think Jalen
Hurts is fine. I think that letting the running
game falter a bit, not be so strong this season,
and then their offensive coordinator obviously
doing things wrong because they fired his ass.
Yeah. But I think Jalen Hurts was mishandled
and mismanaged. Basically the whole offensive
philosophy for the team for this season just
wasn't correct. Have a strong running game. Great.
That's a great idea. Be able to run inside. Be
able to run outside. Be able to throw to your
running backs. But if that's all you've got,
then you're going to get 11 guys in the box.
You've got to have a long pass or a quick pass
or something so they can't commit to stopping
the running game. For the most part. It seemed
like teams, when they face the Eagles, like,
let's commit to stopping the run, and the passing
game will take care of itself. And that kind
of worked. I know it's foolproof, but it kind
of worked against the Eagles. No, it did. Okay,
then. The Chiefs have been rumored to be the
same, that they're going to make big offensive
changes, not in quarterback, but probably definitely
receivers and the coaches. So, are both teams
going to be back? Or do you think that they're
both on the decline and they're going to have
to sit back for a little bit? I think they're
both going to come back strong next year. I think
a good way for really either team to do it is
paring your receiving core down to two, maybe
three stars who are going to catch 80 % of your
balls. Instead of having like five guys and they're
constantly rotating in and out and nobody catches
shit because nobody can get in rhythm and nobody's
the featured guy. I agree. It didn't work. It
didn't work at all last year. Well, Mahomes does
that organically. You don't have to put in five
kind of stars. No, he's going to spread it around.
He always has. Just by himself, yeah. He always
has and always will. But having the same one,
two, and three receivers in for 90 % of your
pass plays is going to be a good thing. It really
is. It really is. No, I agree. So, do we go after
that number one guy finally, or do we draft him?
I think we have enough talent on the team right
now that you could pick two or three of the guys
that are on the team right now, and then... give
the others lesser roles or trade them or whatever,
and then draft the guy for the future. Because
they do pretty well drafting receivers. But don't
go out and find the guy because now it's somebody
who's never worked in your system before and
there's a learning curve and he's got to catch
up. I'd say you've got the guys for next season.
Go draft somebody. Okay. I agree. I think I'd
probably be about the right one. Okay. So we
both agree that both... The teams are going to
be back. They're going to be a part of it again.
Yeah. Okay. Do you want to go into the games
coming up and do our predictions? Yeah. All righty.
First one, 4 .30 p .m. Eastern time on CBS. The
number six seed Bills at the number one seed
Broncos. Wow. I used to really like snow games,
but not so much anymore. It's more fun for rain.
But I hope it's kind of a cool or cold day. I
think that would make it more interesting for
both teams to play. I think so too. And they're
both cold weather teams. They both play in the
cold enough. And outdoors. And outdoors. Yeah.
I'm going to give the edge to the Broncos. I'm
going to go. I'm going to have to go Broncos
too. Although it pains me. Yeah. I'm thinking
about how banged up Josh Allen particularly is.
They lost some players. Yeah, they lost a lot
of players. Yeah, and Denver's at home. They're
well -rested from last week. And they don't have
the pressure on them, I don't think, that the
Bills have on them this year. They do not have
the pressure. Enormous pressure on the Bills
this year. They could coast to the Super Bowl
on the clout that they have without any pressure
right now. So next year will be different. This
year, no. It would be embarrassing for the Broncos
to get the number one seed and then lose at home
in the first round. But that would be, I think,
a lot more survivable than the Bills going in.
getting blown out by Denver. Oh, if the Bills
even lose this game, their whole franchise is
going to be in question big time. Yeah, because
the storybook setting is there. Last season in
the old stadium, let's go all the way. It's our
season. Mahomes is out. Jackson's out. The Steelers
are out. So many teams have fallen by the wayside.
The Bengals are out. Yeah. If you can't do it
this season, Bills, then you can't do it. Yeah.
Yeah, it should be a clear one for them. If I
was the fans over there, I'd be fucking happy
as hell going, look, everybody's out of your
way. You guys just go do it. If the Bills hadn't
gone on that losing streak, I'm pretty sure they
would have had the number one seed. I know, but
the thing is, is they shit the bed back then.
Yeah. So we'll see. All right, how about the
49ers, the number six seed 49ers at the number
one seed, Seattle Seahawks. This will be 8 p
.m. Eastern time on Fox. And this Saturday, January
17th, in case I didn't say that earlier. Wow,
you know, that's kind of tough to call. It is,
isn't it? I'm tempted to go with the Niners because
they're playing well and they're on fire and
they're really believing in themselves. I actually
think so, too. Even with George Kittle out and
their other injuries, I'm not sure if Trent Williams
is back in or not, but if Trent Williams is back
in, I'm definitely giving it to the 49ers. Yeah.
Remember when McCaffrey was supposedly done and
they had this progressive leg disease that was
never going to get any better? Suddenly no one
even mentions that it ever happened. I know.
It's like we were supposed to forget it was ever
a thing. I guess some dead babies got injected.
Yeah, yeah. Allegedly. After they were allegedly
sacrificed to Satan. Yes, yeah, allegedly, yeah.
So anymore when they say, oh, this catastrophic
injury, I don't believe them because they say
that about everything. So they can set it up
for a miraculous return. I don't buy it anymore.
Show me the x -ray. Same here. So I'm leaning
towards the 49ers too. So we both pick the 49ers
and we both pick the Broncos. I do want the Broncos
to win over the Bills. Not because I hate the
Bills, but because it's going to be interesting
to see how the Bills react if they don't make
it. all the way and win the Super Bowl, it's
going to be interesting to see. That's a good
question. That's a good question. They're going
to doubt their whole scheme and go some way.
Yeah. And no, they don't want to go limping into
their new stadium with a failed playoff run.
Playoffs. Playoffs. Yeah. No, they don't. Yeah.
All right. Number five. This is the next round.
Okay. It's going to be Sunday's games. Yeah.
No, this is Saturday's game still. Oh, okay.
Yeah. The Texans at the Patriots, ESPN, ABC,
at 3 p .m. Eastern time. And this will be – I
don't know why I skipped to the 8 o 'clock game.
I have no idea. So, the Texans, I like what they're
doing, but I'm with you. I don't think they have
enough offense. Yeah. So, I'm going to say the
Patriots are going to get them. What do you think?
I think so, too. I know the Patriots haven't
really beat anybody with a winning record this
season, but that's such a misleading stat. It
is. It is. I don't care. They beat every team
they're supposed to and then a couple more. Yeah,
yeah. And even teams with losing records can
be really tough -ass opponents. There is no giving
game in the NFL ever. Unless the team is 0 -17,
then they are capable of winning, aren't they?
Yeah, I think the Pats are definitely... Going
to be able to take advantage of the Texans' lack
of offense. Yeah, Romeo Cornell had the 0 -4
team. Yeah. And I forgot who was before LeFleur
had the no -loss team. Yeah. This Romeo Cornell's
only year in Kansas City. They came to Kansas
City and were huge, huge, huge favorites. And
Kansas City beat their ass. So anything can happen
in NFL. We had nobody. Tyler Thigpen, maybe?
Yeah. Or something like that? Yeah. No running
back to speak of. Yeah. So, yeah, don't tell
me it can't be done. Yeah. So the Patriots doing
what they did is phenomenal. Yeah. All right.
So we both think the Patriots are going to do
it? Yeah, I think so. This is 6 .30 p .m. Eastern
Time, NBC. Number five Rams, number two Bears.
I'm going to go with Rams like you. Pedigree
is going to count so much on this. I think so,
yeah. Matt Stafford is going to count so much
on this. The Bears are still learning, and they're
going to be there for a while. I just don't think
they're quite there yet. Yeah, yeah. That big
comeback against Green Bay was exciting and impressive,
but it's not the kind of thing I think the Bears
can do over and over. I think nine times out
of ten, they fail in their comeback. Yes. We
just saw the one time in ten where it worked.
Yep. But, yeah, I really don't. Yeah, I can see
the Bears getting in a hole, and then the maturity
and experience of the Rams takes over. I don't
know. It's probably going to be another one of
those games where in the fourth quarter suddenly
they're tied up and they go back and forth and
back and forth like they're supposed to. But
I tend to think the Rams are going to never be
trailing from halftime on. Okay. All right, I
could go along with that, too. All right. Okay,
that was Sundays. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. Yeah,
the Texas Patriots and the Rams and Bears are
Sundays. I'm sorry. I said that, then went away
from it, then you said that, then went away from
it. It is Sundays. It's just the fact that my
printer decided not to print it out up there,
decided to print it down. Yeah. So this is Sunday,
January 18th's games. Okay. So, all right. And
I was thinking, gosh, that's a lot of games for
one day, and isn't that all of them? Yeah, it
is kind of all of them. Yeah, okay. All right,
that's our predictions. All right. Let's see
if I have anything. You got anything else on
there? Yeah, I've got the longest tenured head
coaches in NFL history. Good. At the start of
the 2025 season, the longest tenured active head
coaches were Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh, and
Andy Reid. Two of the three have been fired.
At the end of the season, Harbaugh was fired
from Baltimore Ravens after 18 years. And Tomlin
stepped down slash was fired after 19 years.
And then nine teams have dismissed their head
coaches. We covered that before. But Andy Reid
is now the longest tenured head coach in the
league, having been at the helm of the Kansas
City Chiefs for 13 years. So everybody that was
coaching when Andy Reid got hired is gone. Is
gone now. Yeah, at least with a different team.
Yeah. Sean McDermott, Sean McVay, and Kyle Shanahan.
are four years behind him with nine years apiece.
Matt LaFleur and Zach Taylor have six years each.
If you go back in history of the NFL to see who
the longest tenure head coach is, we have a tie
at number one. Curly Lambeau for the Packers,
29 seasons from 1921 to 1949. He founded the
Green Bay Packers in 1919 and played 10 seasons
with the team before becoming a player coach
in 1929. That year he led the Packers to the
NFL championship because there was no Super Bowl
prior to 1967 and then retired as a player continuing
as a coach. for the next 20 years, winning five
more NFL championships in 1930, 31, 36, 39, and
44. What's this guy's name again? Curly Lambeau.
Oh, Curly Lambeau. Lambeau Field. Lambeau Field.
Yeah, the Lambeau League. So he was named to
the NFL's 100th anniversary all -time team. Now
tied with him is Tom Landry. For the Cowboys,
also 29 seasons from 1960 to 1988. Landry was
the first coach of the Cowboys in 1960, and he
would set an NFL record of 20 consecutive winning
seasons during his tenure. Landry led Dallas
to two Super Bowl wins, defeating the Miami Dolphins
in Super Bowl VI and the Denver Broncos in the
Super Bowl XII. He was named the NFL's Coach
of the Year in 1966 and the UPI NFL Coach of
the Year in 1975. Wow. UPI, that was United Press
International. Yeah, they're still around, actually.
They're still around? Yeah. Okay. They have this
segment I look at every now and then called Weird
News. Oh, cool. And you can find some crazy shit
going on there. It's pretty good. All right.
Tom Landry was an innovator. With the 4 -3 defense
being among his creations. Really? I didn't know
that. Tom Langer invented the 4 -3 defense. I
wonder what they did before then. I think it
was more like a 4 -4. Really? Yeah. Okay. Or
a 5 -2. Because it was more heavily a run league.
Yeah. Okay. That's why. That's why. Okay. Got
it. Yeah. In second place, Don Shula for the
Miami Dolphins. 26 seasons. 1970 through 1995.
So he took over when I was a little kid in grade
school. And by the time he finished, I was married,
had two kids. Wow. Playing in a band. From 1970
through 1995, Shula had the legendary run as
head of the coach of the Dolphins. Shula led
the Dolphins to a pair of championships in Super
Bowl VII and Super Bowl VIII. Miami had a perfect
season in 1972, making Shula the only coach in
NFL history to go undefeated through regular
season, postseason, and championship. Now, back
then, they played six preseason games, and he
lost all of them that season. Lost every single
one. Shows him how little that matters. No, I
know. If you can just look at the Chiefs for
that, they don't give one ounce of shit about
the preseason, as you shouldn't. And according
to my uncle Mike, who was a very big Dolphins
fan, he said during that 72 perfect season, they
won the coin toss just about every single time.
So people had to know things were going their
way. No, there is a thing about luck like that.
The Chiefs were like that too for many years.
They won every coin toss, and they always deferred,
and they always scored first in the third quarter,
and they always won. There's something to the
luck that you create for yourself. I've always
said. A lot of people don't seem to understand
what I'm saying, but I think you do, don't you?
Yeah. You create your own luck by your own actions.
Yeah. Part of it is getting your opponent to
show up thinking they've already lost. Yes. It's
like, oh, we're not going to win this plane toss.
They always win. And the most luckiest things
happen to you because you set the universe up
like that. Yep. So anyhow, go ahead. Let's see.
Shula was named the AP's Associated Press NFL
Coach of the Year in 64, 67, 68, and 72. Shula
is the winningest coach in NFL history with 328
regular season wins. Wow. That's amazing. And
doesn't he have the only perfect record? Yep,
only one. 16 -0, but still. 16 -0 has been done,
but not with a world champion. Yeah, yeah. Actually,
it was a 14 -game season, two playoffs, and it
would have been 17 -0. Oh, 17 -0, okay. But,
yeah, 328 regular season wins, and he started
and played a lot of his career when there were
only 14 games in the season. Yeah. So that's
even better. Number three on the list, Bill Belichick,
I mean Chick, Patriots, 24 seasons from 2000
to 2023. Doesn't that just sound good, the Patriots?
It does. Belichick was hired by the New England
Patriots on January 27, 2000. He was at the helm
of their dynasty, leading the team to six Super
Bowl victories in 21, 25, 36, 38, 39, 49, 51,
and 53. Okay. So his first Super Bowl was Super
Bowl XXI. The last was Super Bowl 53. Didn't
he have two with Bill Parcells? I think so, yeah.
I believe he did. He was a coordinator. Yeah.
But I believe he got two with Bill Parcells and
his Giants team. At least one. I think maybe
two. It says Belichick ranks first among all
NFL coaches in playoff wins with 31 playoff victories.
Shit. He was named Associated Press NFL Coach
of the Year in 2003, 2007, and 2010. And he was
the only active coach selected at the NFL's 100th
anniversary all -time team. Wow. Okay. We've
got a tie for number four. Chuck Knoll with the
Steelers, 23 seasons, 69 through 91. The Steelers
hired Knoll as their head coach on January 27,
1969, and his tenure lasted 23 years. Over that
span, Knoll led the Steelers to four Super Bowl
victories, Super Bowls 9 and 10 and Super Bowls
13 and 14. So he had back -to -back, a couple
years off, two more back -to -back. Oh, wow.
It's the second most in NFL history behind only
Bill Belichick. He was named the Maxwell Club's
NFL Coach of the Year in 1989 and the UPI AFC
Coach of the Year in 1972. Noel was selected
to the NFL 100th Anniversary All -Time Team.
Wow. Going back to the last one tied in fourth
place is Steve Owen. head coach of the Giants
for 23 seasons from 1931 to 1953. He started
as a player coach for the New York Giants in
1931. He continued coaching the team long after
his playing career ended, and he led the Giants
to two NFL championships in 1934 and 1938 during
his tenure. He's still the winningest head coach
in franchise history with 153. Owen was deducted
into the Giants' Ring of Honor in 2010. Now,
George Hallis of the Chicago Bears would have
made this list with 40 seasons, but they weren't
all in a row. Oh, okay. He kept firing himself
as head coach and hiring somebody else. Oh, that's
right. And then he'd fire them and take over
again. Because he was the owner of the team,
he would just hire himself as head coach. He
did four 10 -year stints as head coach, but he
kept firing himself. At least he was fair. Yeah.
He's like, damn, I don't know what I'm doing.
I better fire myself. Come here. You coach this
team. You know what? You're doing less than me,
so you're fired, and I'm back in there. Yeah,
it was usually a year or two, and then he's like,
nah, I'm coaching. Yeah, this ain't working.
Fuck you. Get out of here. Wow. Is that it? That's
it. How about some Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen
career stats? Year by year here. We hear so much.
We hear so much about Mr. Allen and best guy
ever. Oh, my God. Yeah, I've never seen anything
like him. Oh, geez. Oh, fuck. Everything. Everything.
Yeah, the Josh Allen fan club really seems to
be huge and vocal. And I love Josh Allen. I do.
But what I don't love is these idiots that put
him ahead of Mahomes. Yeah. It's ridiculous at
this point. It's a real bad look when you're
being so obvious. promote him and push him into
the forefront. Like, why are you trying so hard?
You make me suspicious just because you're trying
so freaking hard. Exactly. And also, if you took
Josh Allen by himself, candidly, and go, who's
a better quarterback? He would say Mahomes. Yeah,
I imagine so. Yeah, and I mean, talking honestly,
he would be like, yeah, Mahomes. He's got three
Super Bowls, five all together, got three rings.
Meet me every time. So, okay. The first year,
Josh Allen, I can't, like, compare year to year
because the home started 2017. True. And then,
well, actually, 2017, I could just throw that
away and start with 2018 because he played one
game in 2017. Yeah. And he had 22 completions
out of 35 attempts, 62 .9 with 284 yards, no
touchdowns. No interceptions, so. Still damn
good. Yeah, yeah, still damn good. And that prompted
them to go ahead and trade Alex Smith the next
year and keep him. Yeah. Okay, so let's go to
2018. Josh Allen had 169, 320 attempts, 169 completions,
52 .8, 2 ,074 yards, 10 touchdowns, 12 interceptions,
and a 67 .9 rating. Nothing too exciting there.
No. The Chiefs, 2018, Mahomes, 16 games, and
it was 12 games for Allen his first year. Okay.
He had 580 attempts, 383 completions, 66 percentage
completion rate, 5 ,097 yards. Wow. Yes. 50 touchdowns.
12 interceptions for a 113 .8. That's a huge
difference. Yes. Between Allen's year and Mahomes'
year. Let's go to 2019. Okay. 2019, 16 games
and 14 games for Mahomes. He got hurt in Denver,
I believe. Yeah, I think so. Okay. All right.
Josh Allen had 461 attempts, 271 completions,
58 .8. Completion ratio, 3 ,089 yards, 20 touchdowns,
and nine interceptions for an 85 .3 percentage.
That's still two to one touchdown to interception.
That's, man. Yeah, fair. Yeah. Okay, 2019 for
Mr. Mahomes would be in 14 games, 484 attempts,
319 completions. 65 .9 completion ratio, 4 ,031
yards, 26 touchdowns, five interceptions, 105
.3. Josh Allen was throwing one interception
for every two touchdowns. Mahomes was throwing
one interception for every five touchdowns. Exactly.
Big difference. Yep. All right, 2020 Chiefs versus
Mahomes versus Allen. Let's see. Okay, 16 games
for Allen. He had 572 attempts, 396 completions,
a 69 .2 percentage, 4 ,544 yards, 37 touchdowns,
10 interceptions, 107 .2. Best season so far.
Yes. So let's go to the 2020 Mahomes then. Yeah.
15 games, one game less, 588 attempts, 390 completions.
66 .3 completion, 4 ,740 yards, 38 touchdowns,
6 interceptions. Better than 6 -1. Yes. 108 .2
quarterback rating. So are you getting a pattern
here? Yeah, he's always behind Mahomes stat -wise.
Sometimes way behind, sometimes a little bit
behind. But either way, every time behind Mahomes.
Yeah. So let's go to 2021. 17 games for Josh
Allen. 13 games for, and I don't know, I can't
remember, was he hurt that many times, I guess,
in 2021? I guess he was, wasn't he? Okay, and
17 games for him too as well. Attempts, okay,
for Josh Allen, it is, for 17 games, 409. 696
attempts, 409 completions, 63 .3 completion ratio,
4 ,407 yards, 36 touchdowns, 15 interceptions
for a 92 .2. Not that good. Yeah, getting close
to 2 -1 on interception to touchdown again. Yeah.
So let's go back to Mahomes here for the 2021,
and this is in 13 games. Or no, 17 games, sorry.
658 attempts, 436 completions, 66 .3 completion
percentage. Really consistent with that. Very
much so. All really close. With completely different
receivers, the only one steady was Kelsey. Yeah.
4 ,836 yards, 37 touchdowns, 13 interceptions,
98 .4. to Josh Allen's 92 .2. So let's go to
2022. 16 games for Allen, 17 games for Mahomes.
Attempts, 567, 359, this is for Allen, completions,
63 .3 completion, 4 ,283 yards, 35 touchdowns,
14 interceptions. 96 .6, which is respectable.
Very. So, let's go to Mahomes. 17 games, 648
attempts, 435 completions, 67 .1 completion ratio,
5 ,250 yards. One of the all -time great, great
seedlings ever. It's like 1 ,000 more than Allen
again. Yeah. Yep, again. 41 touchdowns, 12 interceptions,
105 .2 rating. Wow. So right there alone, who
was beating who hands down without even fucking
being close? Every season, Mahomes is ahead.
Yeah. Every season. Even on his quote -unquote
bad seasons, he's ahead. So let's go to 2023.
He had 16 games. 2023, 17 games for Allen. 579
attempts, 385 completions, 66 .5 completion ratio,
4 ,306 yards, 29 touchdowns, 18... Wait a minute,
I did that one, 92 .2 receptions. No, this is
different. Yeah, it is, okay. So, 29 touchdowns,
18 interceptions, 92 .2 rating. 29 versus 18.
That's not good. That's not even two touchdowns
for every interception. And this is the season
Mahomes is getting bagged on really bad. 16 games,
597 attempts, 401 completions, 67 .2 completion
ratio. Right again, 4 ,183 yards. And remember,
this is the season he's getting all different
kinds of bullshit for. Yeah. 27 touchdowns, 14
interceptions, which is unusual for him at a
92 .6 ratio. Again, better than Allen at a 92
.2. That's the first time Mahomes has been as
low as 2 -1 on touchdowns and interceptions.
Yeah. Yep. And let's go to 2024. 17 games for
Allen, 483 attempts, 307 completions, 63 .3 ratio,
3 ,731. 31 yards, so he's only in the high threes
there, and only 3 ,070. 28 touchdowns to 16 interceptions.
Worse than 2 -1 again? Yes. And believe it or
not, a 102. No, it isn't. Where did the rating
go? Yeah, okay. 25, no, 28 to 6. 101 .4 quarterback
rating. And then Mahomes 2024, 16 games, 581
attempts, 391. So out of 581, he had almost 400
completion yards. And 67 .5, 3 ,928 yards, 26
touchdowns, 11 interceptions. And this is a season
he got a lot of flack for, too. 93 .5 quarterback
rating. That was lower than Mahomes' standard.
He's still better than Josh Allen year after
year after year. That's what I'm saying is where
are they getting this bullshit at? So then finally
this year it's really kind of incomplete because
Mahomes went down with injury. But Josh Allen
had 16 games, 460 attempts, 319 completions,
69 .4 completion ratio, 3 ,668 yards, 25 touchdowns,
10 interceptions, 102 .2. Then the Chiefs, like
I said, this is not a good one to judge it by
because he was injured for the last three games.
So he played 11 games, and he had 502 attempts,
315 completion, 62 .8 completion, which is really
low for him. 3 ,587 yards, not that far behind
Josh Allen with three games less. 22 touchdowns,
11 interceptions, which is 2 -1, which is not
like him. Yeah. 89 .6 quarterback rating. Yeah.
So, want to hear the rushing yards from each
one of them? Yeah. Not that far off like one
would think. Because if you heard any of the
media, you would go, oh my gosh, Josh Allen can
run so much more than... Emma Holmes, don't tell
me it didn't fucking print out. Oh, okay, no,
it didn't. Okay, okay. Okay. Rushing stats for
Josh Allen. 2028, he had 89 attempts for 631
yards and a 7 .1 average and eight touchdowns.
Nice. 2018. Mahomes had 16 attempts, 272 rush
yards, and four rushing touchdowns. So Allen's
a better runner, but not that much better. And
Allen, I think, is going to get more touchdowns
because they have him do the quarterback sneak
for touchdowns, and they don't do that with Mahomes.
So there will be disparity there. Yeah, so Allen
has a couple of 700 -yard seasons. Mahomes' highest
one is 422. But he definitely made that up in
passes. And I don't have to read all of the rushing
stats because that's really not what we're talking
about here. And it's worth noting that one of
Josh Allen's rushing attempts in that previous
game is what buggered his knee up. Yes. Yep.
Which is why they don't have Mahomes down. Exactly.
Yeah. So, you tell me. Who was definitively,
besides the rings, besides the appearances, Who
is definitively the better quarterback, hands
down? I don't care how you look on the field.
I don't care how you throw a tight spiral. I
don't care how you run around and scramble and
extend plays. It's obvious Mahomes is actually
quite a bet above Allen. Yeah. A lot more. I
mean, they can't even compare it. He's so far
ahead of them. Yeah. But I think. There's such
a desire to have somebody for Mahomes to be competing
against and to be his rival. They're making one
up. They're fudging figures. They're lying about
figures. They're ignoring other figures just
to make sure that there's this pseudo -competitive
rivalry. Now, Mahomes and Allen probably don't
give a damn about it. They're like, fine, do
whatever you want. I bet they call each other
up and go, hey, did you see what so -and -so
did? Oh, yeah, yeah, that's good. But it's performance
theater for us, the fans. The players themselves
don't care. It doesn't mean anything to them,
and they know it's not real. It doesn't have
any meaning. But it's just something to be fun
and distracting, and this will make Buffalo Bills
fans happy, and this will make Chiefs fans angry.
I wish they'd be intellectually honest at least,
but they won't. No, it's all about manipulation
and crowd control. So they're politics too. Okay,
so Allen and Mahomes are really good friends.
So if anyone's thinking there's like a rivalry
there, yeah, it's friendly though. I mean, yeah,
it's a rivalry to go, ha, ha, I won. But as far
as that, they really like each other. They get
along and they're good friends. So this isn't
them two perpetrating this is what I'm getting
at. This is the media wanting a storyline so
bad. So if they could get something between Purdy
and Hertz, or Purdy and Stafford, or Goff and
Stafford, but Goff doesn't have a personality,
so they couldn't get anything out of him. True,
true. And Stafford's just like an overall nice
guy. He's not going to be doing anything like
that. And Darnold is pretty bland. Yeah, Darnold
is like salt. Yeah. Yeah, out of the spices.
He would be like baking soda. Yeah. Yeah. Well.
But he's looking good this year. Yeah. He looked
good last year until the playoffs. Playoffs.
So we will see. All right. That's all I got,
I believe. Yeah. I think I'm pretty well tapped
out. I got a little thing about Jimmy Harbaugh.
If you want me to do that or you want to go ahead
and go. Okay. Okay. Round us off to about two
hours here. All right. Cool. Jimmy Harbaugh.
Is Justin Herbert still the guy? Maybe not. Would
you, firstly, if you were Jimmy Harbaugh, would
you move on from him? Yeah. I would too. Herbert
has never had a decent game or a game -winning
drive in the playoffs or a crucial game. I never
remember any game where he came to bat and said,
I'm going to win. No, I don't. Not a single one
where it's like, the Chargers, led by Justin
Herbert, came roaring back to win in the last...
No, he doesn't put them on his back. He doesn't
do a Mahomes or even an Allen or even a Hurts
last year or a Jaden Daniels last year. He doesn't
go, hey, everybody get on my back. Watch this.
Wow. Yeah. I mean, Caleb Williams has more tenure
on game -winning drives than he does. It really
kind of goes. Trevor Lawrence has him. That's
true. Yeah. It kind of shows how we were sold
an image of Justin Herbert and who he's supposed
to be, but he just hasn't measured up. Well,
this is right before Allen got prominent. So
they had to have somebody going, this guy's the
next Mahomes. Yeah. I remember hearing that.
And for a team, it's to their advantage to tell
the fan base, hey, we're the quarterback we got.
He's the next whoever. And if you can make them
believe it and make them buy more tickets, great.
Well, that's what it is. They're trying to make
the general public believe that Justin Herbert
is in the same class as Mahomes or Allen or whoever
else you want to go with that. And they hadn't
been in Los Angeles all that long. They were
in San Diego for the longest time before that.
So it was another reason to their advantage to
try to... play up Justin Herbert as the next
greatest thing. And then whether he was or not,
it's like, eh, we'll deal with that later. I've
got even more. Okay. Were the Chargers exposed?
Yes. Okay. Their best game of the season was
that first game in Brazil against the Chiefs
where they looked amazing. But that was, I think,
everything they had for the whole season. That
was everything. I agree. They used up all of
their good mojo that game. Yep. Hope it was worth
it. Yeah, check this out. Herbert was not sacked
once in the playoff game. Not once. He was 19
for 31, 159 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions.
But without a single sack, he did that poorly.
Yes, without a single sack. Wow. He was pressured,
but not as bad as one would think. Not like that.
I'm sure he got knocked down a few times. But,
yeah, that just seems like they really got to
him. They were inside his head. Yeah. And, yeah.
You have no sacks to speak of at all, none. Man,
so many quarterbacks would love to have a game
where they never got planted on their ass. Oh,
you imagine Mahomes? He'd have had fucking 500
yards if he never got planted on his ass. So
159 yards is all he has. That's sad. The leading
charger receiver was McConkley. Actually, it's
McConkie. McConkie, yeah. For 32 yards. Is he
related to Phil McConkie, who used to be a giant?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's his son or
grandson or nephew. Yeah, yeah, Phil McConkie.
Yeah, yeah, that's him. Third great stepson twice
removed. Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. And he's
also related to the smart -ass saying, Phil,
you know, fill your anus? This is Phil McConkie.
Ah, all right, okay. Drake May was sacked five
times, but still threw for 268 yards with one
touchdown and one interception. May, who had
five sacks, had 66 yards rushing to Herbert's
57 with no sacks. Wow. Yeah. And just see, as
I recall, Justin Herbert was drafted a lot higher
than Drake May was. Yes. Wow. Yep. Yeah. Man,
it's just so hard to hit on a quarterback. Oh,
it is. For last year, will you have touched Drake
May with a fucking pole? No. No. No. And I thought
Trevor Lawrence was all washed up. I did too.
Trevor Lawrence is not washed up, but I don't
think he's championship material. I need to see
more consistency out of him before I can think
of teams. He's going to lead a team to the promised
land. I don't even know if he won a playoff game
either. Playoff. Good question. But in the big
games. He can handle a lot of them, but on the
national stage with playoffs, I don't know if
he can handle it. Yeah. Because so far, I think
he's a zero on playoff games. Playoffs. Yeah.
The franchise has won playoff games because they
went to the AFC Championship one year. Mark Vernell
and Tom Coughlin is McCaukey's stepdad. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. They just changed the name a little
bit. There's a clerical error. They misspelled
it. And great cousins of Phil, my cocky. Yeah.
Yeah. All right. Okay. That's all I got. All
right. All right. We're going to end this piece
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