The volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing? John Middlecoffe Three and Out podcast, Hopefully you're doing well. Hopefully I have a good day, good morning, good afternoon. Better than Joe Douglas, who was fired as the Jets GM on Tuesday. We will dive into that why he was fired, where it all went wrong for the Jets, who now don't have who have an interim coach and an interim GM. Phil Savage, on one of my close buddies in the NFL. I'm fired up for Phil. Keep an eye on Phil. Phil's former GM works for the Ravens forever good hire there would he but in he's very good, close with Joe Douglas. So just just a disastrous situation with the Jets. I also want to dive into some of the coaching changes. Schefter mentioned potentially seven or eight openings this year. We already got a couple. We have three that are inevitable as well, so I got five that are locks, and then it just you know, we got some swing ones. So we will dive into that. I do want to touch on the Netflix, the fight and just all the negativity surrounding it. I don't know why everyone's complaining so much, and then we'll go on campus. Cough on Campus. I'm adding a little intern and his name is Jackson. Met him at the golf course. He played football at Montana, loves college football. He's working in the sports business. It's at the local radio station here in Arizona doing some producing. He's doing his own content. This guy is just a junkie, and I've been thinking for a while I want to add some other voices to the show. So we will bring him on for cough on Campus and he'll ask me some questions things that he's interested in college football, and then we'll kind of riff off that fun show today. Always looking to expand here. Three and Out can never be content, but man, people getting fired left and right. But before we dive in, obviously, make sure you subscribe to Three and Out podcast. If you listen on Collins Feed, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. All of our content is up there as well. I think we'll do a big mail bag probably for Thursday. Probably do a big mail bag for Thursday, So at John Middlcoff, fire in those dms and I'll try to answer a bunch of questions tomorrow. Think I'm about to go out and shoot a golf video on Wednesday afternoon, so I'll probably record it in the morning on Wednesday. So if you want to get into that mail bag, fire into those dms U and yeah, but before we dive into football, you know, I got to tell you about our friends, my partners, and the official ticketing app of this podcast. Sometimes, you know, listen what Marshawn once famously said, you got to keep your mentals. You gotta focus on your mentals and listen, we all get caught up in the rat race of life. We're just working. We're working, and then it's family stuff and it's just the same rat race over and over, and our life can get monotonous, and sometimes you got to mix it up. Sometimes you gotta throw a curveball. Sometimes you gotta get out of the house and go do something fun, whether that's a game, college or pro search by the team, or search by the venue. Maybe it's a concert. Go see one of your favorite artists, maybe they're coming to a town or a venue near you, and get a couple of cocktails and sing your little heart out for hours. Nothing like it to just put a smile on your face. Maybe it's a comedy show. I haven't been to one of those in a long long time, but the couple that I went once when I was in college, Dave Chappelle actually came to cal Poly. They sold that. It's crazy looking back that he did because it was in like our little where we had pick up basketball or like innermural basketball. It couldn't have fit more than three or four thousand people, but that was awesome. And that was in the heyday too of the Chappelle Show. He had to be making some good coin on the side traveling. But if you get the opportunity, go enjoy yourself and take your guess where you got to. Buying tickets with game Time. Download the game Time app today, create an account and use the code John for twenty dollars off your first purchase terms of play again, create an account, redeem the code Jagen for twenty dollars off. Download the game Time app today, last minute ticket's lowest prices guaranteed. You know, here's the thing. In the NFL, whether you're Belichick, whether you're Andy Reid, whether you're you know, Bill Parcells or Bill Pollion, ninety nine percent of people get fired. You are hired to be fired. It's an extremely competitive job. In twenty twenty four, guys are getting more money than they ever have. The owners have more capital than they've ever had, and that number only goes up by the year. So the reason they don't just cut players more often is because of the salary cap and the implications of dead money. But that does not exist when you talk about coaches their coaching staff. In the front office, you can hire and fire them at will, and if you are willing to buy another guy two days later and quadruple his salary, it doesn't impact your team at all. And Joe Douglas at the time in twenty and nineteen got a pretty historic GM contract. It was six years and it was well over twenty million dollars. Now he had a lot of leverage, the Jets were desperate, and he got paid a premium and that's all the money he ever got because he didn't get a contract extension. And now he is no longer the general manager. And I don't think this scenario of what happened is that complicated. Now, like anytime you go to work for certain franchises, you know it could be very rocky, and there's a reason that a lot of people and listen, I knew a lot of people that worked for him in philadelph He is very very well thought of in the NFL. People liked the guy and he was getting advice at the time before he accepted the job. Hey, man, use this leverage while you have it and drive up the amount of money they're going to pay you, because this is the type job that you might not make it out, you know, professionally alive, and typically gms get one shot. This is not coaching, where you know, usually guys get a second job. For the most part, guys get their one opportunity. And if you're gonna get your one opportunity, you better take it all the way to the bank. And he did. But Joe Douglas's job performance is going to be defined by one thing and one thing only. He couldn't get the quarterback position right. And I was told when he interviewed Robert Sala and Robert Sala was bringing along the floor with him from the forty nine ers that they were all in on coaching Sam Donald. That the scheme was going to be conducive to helping Sam Donald just to become a solid player and time has proven who liked them, Shanahan, Kevin O'Connell. What scheme do they run, you know, versions of each other exactly what Lafleur wanted to do. Now I don't know what changed, but I have been told something changed once they got there, and they ended up getting rid of Sam Donald and drafting Zach Wilson. And if I gave you, let's say a million dollars, and I said, listen, you have to invest all of it, but there's a caveat. You can invest it in whatever you want. You have to split in half, take five hundred thousand dollars and go all in on something. So take half your funds and go all in, and you can invest the other five hundred grand. However, you want one hundred grand here, seventy five grand here round here, diversify your portfolio. Well, if you lose that five hundred grand, that you go all in on the one thing, invest in a building, invest in one stock, invest in whatever, and that goes to zero. Even if you double the other five hundred thousand dollars, you didn't make any progress. And the reality is when you draft a quarterback number two overall and then because that fucks up, you have to trade a first round pick and another second round pick and pay that guy a boatload of money. That is a disproportionate amount of the capital within your organization. Because is Howie Roseman once famously said in a press conference. Every team is allotted the same draft capital. Every team gets to decide how they want to use their first, second, third, four, fifth, sixth, seventh round picks. The reason that all these teams have a different amount of cap space in draft picks is because they divvied up different ways. And when you have the number two overall pick, that's worth a lot. And he drafted Zack Wilson, and it turns out that Zach Wilson a lot like Trey Lance, who Jerry Jones said today, Yep, Cooper Rush gives us the best chance to win. These guys went two to three in the draft. Four years later, they can't even win a backup job. Those are historic bus And then you get the opportunity to trade for a legend. The problem is he happens to be thirty nine to forty years old, and then he rips his achilles, and now he looks dramatically worse than he did. A couple of years ago when he was on the Packers, when he didn't look that great and he was the that was the main reason they wanted to get rid of him. So Joe Douglas took a large portion of his assets and invested it in the quarterback position. Once he traded Sam Darlan into Zach Wilson, and then he had to chase his losses with Aaron Rodgers and they both went belly up. And he has nothing to show for it because, as a wise man in the NFL told me, probably within the last couple of years, he said, listen, John, let's just say we have eight or nine draft picks slash moves, and Joe hits ninety five percent of them. Sauce Gardner, Garrett Wilson, this kid from Penn State to tackle Breisee Hall. You know, investing giving Quinn Williams a big contract. DJ Reed, like all the players on our team that just trading for DeVante, Like, our team just looks really good on paper. If all of them hit and the quarterback whiffs were fucked. Yet if it's the opposite, if we hit on the quarterback and he whiffs on a bunch of those, we will get contract extensions. It's like, listen, if I go back to the analogy of the million dollars, if that diversified five hundred thousand dollars doesn't really do much, you don't make any money on it. But the one that you go all in on is Navidia and you one hundred extra money. Who gives a shit about that other five hundred grand. That's the power of a quarterback because when you nail it, it changes your franchise. The forty nine ers did the same thing. They Whift and then they struck oil with Rock Party because if Rock Party didn't exist and they were doing the same things that the Jets are doing, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan would be in trouble. Why Because you can't win with no quarterback play. It is literally impossible. You need functional quarterback play just to compete, and to compete at the highest levels, you need good quarterback play. Obviously, there are other variables. You could make the argument like the Bengals are getting outstanding quarterback play and they're losing games. Now, they're losing a lot of one score games. But you know what I mean. But Joe Douglas's job thirty and sixty four is truly defined by bad quarterback play. And you could also make the argument and listen, he's become a sympathetic figure because once they fired him, the team got worse. If your job security is most dependent on either who you draft or the quarterback you sign in free agency, I would say, right there, hand in hand is the coach you hire. And you hired a defensive head coach that was a little over his head when it came to offensive stuff, and it wasn't going well on offense. And in a league that is predicated on the quarterback and offense, it can be a struggle. And clearly Aaron Rodgers didn't like Robert Sala and that's a huge reason I think he got fired. I don't know why he would have anything against Joe Douglas, given that Joe Douglas capitulated everything he wanted, But like Aaron Rodgers, is ultimately Joe Douglas's problem, and Aaron Rodgers' failures and him looking like he's ninety five years old is the reason that Joe Douglas today was told like you're done, and listen, Joe Douglas was done the same day Robert Sala was done. It was over. His contract was up at the end of the year. He wasn't getting renewed. And it all comes back to the quarterback And listen, do you know what it turns out if you could ask him, if you could have one move over, what would it be. It wouldn't be not trading for Rogers. It would be just keep Sam Darnold another year. Take a deep breath because looking back, Trevor Lawrence goes one, Zach Wilson third string, Trey Lance third string, Mac Jones should be a third stringer, and Justin Fields got bench for a guy who you know, I'd say on a good day is like fourteenth the best quarterback in the NFL, somewhere between like fourteen and twenty. So it was a really bad quarterback class. And that started the drip drip process of what led them to where they're at today. Because it's pretty clear, like Joe Douglass has a pretty good idea for talent. There's no disputing that, Like he's a good GM in terms of non quarterback position, but he went all in on Zach Wilson, and I saw Coward talking about it today and he's not wrong. That year in twenty twenty was it turned out to be the twenty one draft. But the twenty football season in college is one of the greatest fugazis we've ever seen. Trey Lance played one game and no one considered it of any value. Zach Wilson's schedule, and BYU schedule is usually pretty good, especially before they joined the the Big Twelve. They were an independent team, but they would play a lot of like legit squads. That thing was a joke. I mean the best team they played that year was Coastal Carolina, so I mean mac Jones. Alabama won the national championship and they're one of the greatest programs of all time. But one huge advantage that team had is when the whole world was locked down, well not the whole world, I mean half the states in this country were rocking and rolling by the summer. I know the state that I'm living in definitely was. But you know, in the South, you know, it was very difficult to bring guys on campus. College campuses were pushing back. Nick Saban and Alabama had a workout program going on at you know, LANDA Dickerson's house, and that thing was rocking and rolling. It's why when they played everybody, they looked completely normal and these other teams looked fucking lost. Mac Jones had one of the more manipulated seasons in the history of college football. Now prop Sabama, they never kept their foot off the pedal. That's what successful people do. But Mac Jones, I mean, I remember when it was discussed about Kyle Shanahan taking him third over. It's honestly one of the most embarrassing conversations we've ever had in the history of the NFL. Not that he took a different guy that was correct, either, but at least he took a swing on a guy with some traits. You know, Mac Jones, most of my life is like a fourth or fifth round draft pick. Like he doesn't even get drafted on the second day. But that's a conversation for a different day. But regardless, like the Jets now don't have a head coach, they do not have a GM. And I promise you this, Rex Ryan is going to be a name you're going to hear more about. I'm not making this up. I don't know. I'm not saying he's going to get the job, but he wants the job. I've been told very reliably that Woody Johnson never wanted to fire him in the first place, and they have a good relationship and just one big picture thing, like who is going to be lined up for this gig? I know Rogers said the other day that, like, you know, I plan on returning next year. It's no longer up to him. Whoever, the new coach and new GM will determine that, like we don't want you around, and maybe he retires, maybe they trade him somewhere else. I don't know who would trade for him, but I would say, as of right now, I'd be a little surprised if Aaron Rodgers on the Jets next year. And I'd also be a little surprised if coaches with options, coaches that have teams that want them, would choose the Jets if they could choose other teams. Now, money talk, shit walks. Woodie Johnson no longer has to pay his general manager after another month, you know, Robert Sola and his staff. I don't know the contract situations, but it's not like he's gonna be paying those guys for years. So if what he goes, hey, listen, I want Mike Vrabel. Here's seventeen million dollars a year. Be hard to turn that down. So obviously, if what he wants to get really aggressive financially, he can't. And people listen when you get aggressive. The Denver Bronco job two years ago was an awful job, and they said, hey, Sean Payton, here's ninety million dollars, and you know what Sean Payton said, where do I sign? So money is a huge, huge curve ball always in these discussions, but I truly believe Rex Ryan is a name to keep an eye on. Okay, the NFL season is rolling along and contenders are separating from the pack. But one thing hasn't changed. Baby. Draftking Sportsbook, an official sportsbook partner of the NFL, is the number one place the bet touchdowns. Listen. 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The volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing? John Middlecoffe Three and Out podcast, Hopefully you're doing well. Hopefully I have a good day, good morning, good afternoon. Better than Joe Douglas, who was fired as the Jets GM on Tuesday. We will dive into that why he was fired, where it all went wrong for the Jets, who now don't have who have an interim coach and an interim GM. Phil Savage, on one of my close buddies in the NFL. I'm fired up for Phil. Keep an eye on Phil. Phil's former GM works for the Ravens forever good hire there would he but in he's very good, close with Joe Douglas. So just just a disastrous situation with the Jets. I also want to dive into some of the coaching changes. Schefter mentioned potentially seven or eight openings this year. We already got a couple. We have three that are inevitable as well, so I got five that are locks, and then it just you know, we got some swing ones. So we will dive into that. I do want to touch on the Netflix, the fight and just all the negativity surrounding it. I don't know why everyone's complaining so much, and then we'll go on campus. Cough on Campus. I'm adding a little intern and his name is Jackson. Met him at the golf course. He played football at Montana, loves college football. He's working in the sports business. It's at the local radio station here in Arizona doing some producing. He's doing his own content. This guy is just a junkie, and I've been thinking for a while I want to add some other voices to the show. So we will bring him on for cough on Campus and he'll ask me some questions things that he's interested in college football, and then we'll kind of riff off that fun show today. Always looking to expand here. Three and Out can never be content, but man, people getting fired left and right. But before we dive in, obviously, make sure you subscribe to Three and Out podcast. If you listen on Collins Feed, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. All of our content is up there as well. I think we'll do a big mail bag probably for Thursday. Probably do a big mail bag for Thursday, So at John Middlcoff, fire in those dms and I'll try to answer a bunch of questions tomorrow. Think I'm about to go out and shoot a golf video on Wednesday afternoon, so I'll probably record it in the morning on Wednesday. So if you want to get into that mail bag, fire into those dms U and yeah, but before we dive into football, you know, I got to tell you about our friends, my partners, and the official ticketing app of this podcast. Sometimes, you know, listen what Marshawn once famously said, you got to keep your mentals. You gotta focus on your mentals and listen, we all get caught up in the rat race of life. We're just working. We're working, and then it's family stuff and it's just the same rat race over and over, and our life can get monotonous, and sometimes you got to mix it up. Sometimes you gotta throw a curveball. Sometimes you gotta get out of the house and go do something fun, whether that's a game, college or pro search by the team, or search by the venue. Maybe it's a concert. Go see one of your favorite artists, maybe they're coming to a town or a venue near you, and get a couple of cocktails and sing your little heart out for hours. Nothing like it to just put a smile on your face. Maybe it's a comedy show. I haven't been to one of those in a long long time, but the couple that I went once when I was in college, Dave Chappelle actually came to cal Poly. They sold that. It's crazy looking back that he did because it was in like our little where we had pick up basketball or like innermural basketball. It couldn't have fit more than three or four thousand people, but that was awesome. And that was in the heyday too of the Chappelle Show. He had to be making some good coin on the side traveling. But if you get the opportunity, go enjoy yourself and take your guess where you got to. Buying tickets with game Time. Download the game Time app today, create an account and use the code John for twenty dollars off your first purchase terms of play again, create an account, redeem the code Jagen for twenty dollars off. Download the game Time app today, last minute ticket's lowest prices guaranteed. You know, here's the thing. In the NFL, whether you're Belichick, whether you're Andy Reid, whether you're you know, Bill Parcells or Bill Pollion, ninety nine percent of people get fired. You are hired to be fired. It's an extremely competitive job. In twenty twenty four, guys are getting more money than they ever have. The owners have more capital than they've ever had, and that number only goes up by the year. So the reason they don't just cut players more often is because of the salary cap and the implications of dead money. But that does not exist when you talk about coaches their coaching staff. In the front office, you can hire and fire them at will, and if you are willing to buy another guy two days later and quadruple his salary, it doesn't impact your team at all. And Joe Douglas at the time in twenty and nineteen got a pretty historic GM contract. It was six years and it was well over twenty million dollars. Now he had a lot of leverage, the Jets were desperate, and he got paid a premium and that's all the money he ever got because he didn't get a contract extension. And now he is no longer the general manager. And I don't think this scenario of what happened is that complicated. Now, like anytime you go to work for certain franchises, you know it could be very rocky, and there's a reason that a lot of people and listen, I knew a lot of people that worked for him in philadelph He is very very well thought of in the NFL. People liked the guy and he was getting advice at the time before he accepted the job. Hey, man, use this leverage while you have it and drive up the amount of money they're going to pay you, because this is the type job that you might not make it out, you know, professionally alive, and typically gms get one shot. This is not coaching, where you know, usually guys get a second job. For the most part, guys get their one opportunity. And if you're gonna get your one opportunity, you better take it all the way to the bank. And he did. But Joe Douglas's job performance is going to be defined by one thing and one thing only. He couldn't get the quarterback position right. And I was told when he interviewed Robert Sala and Robert Sala was bringing along the floor with him from the forty nine ers that they were all in on coaching Sam Donald. That the scheme was going to be conducive to helping Sam Donald just to become a solid player and time has proven who liked them, Shanahan, Kevin O'Connell. What scheme do they run, you know, versions of each other exactly what Lafleur wanted to do. Now I don't know what changed, but I have been told something changed once they got there, and they ended up getting rid of Sam Donald and drafting Zach Wilson. And if I gave you, let's say a million dollars, and I said, listen, you have to invest all of it, but there's a caveat. You can invest it in whatever you want. You have to split in half, take five hundred thousand dollars and go all in on something. So take half your funds and go all in, and you can invest the other five hundred grand. However, you want one hundred grand here, seventy five grand here round here, diversify your portfolio. Well, if you lose that five hundred grand, that you go all in on the one thing, invest in a building, invest in one stock, invest in whatever, and that goes to zero. Even if you double the other five hundred thousand dollars, you didn't make any progress. And the reality is when you draft a quarterback number two overall and then because that fucks up, you have to trade a first round pick and another second round pick and pay that guy a boatload of money. That is a disproportionate amount of the capital within your organization. Because is Howie Roseman once famously said in a press conference. Every team is allotted the same draft capital. Every team gets to decide how they want to use their first, second, third, four, fifth, sixth, seventh round picks. The reason that all these teams have a different amount of cap space in draft picks is because they divvied up different ways. And when you have the number two overall pick, that's worth a lot. And he drafted Zack Wilson, and it turns out that Zach Wilson a lot like Trey Lance, who Jerry Jones said today, Yep, Cooper Rush gives us the best chance to win. These guys went two to three in the draft. Four years later, they can't even win a backup job. Those are historic bus And then you get the opportunity to trade for a legend. The problem is he happens to be thirty nine to forty years old, and then he rips his achilles, and now he looks dramatically worse than he did. A couple of years ago when he was on the Packers, when he didn't look that great and he was the that was the main reason they wanted to get rid of him. So Joe Douglas took a large portion of his assets and invested it in the quarterback position. Once he traded Sam Darlan into Zach Wilson, and then he had to chase his losses with Aaron Rodgers and they both went belly up. And he has nothing to show for it because, as a wise man in the NFL told me, probably within the last couple of years, he said, listen, John, let's just say we have eight or nine draft picks slash moves, and Joe hits ninety five percent of them. Sauce Gardner, Garrett Wilson, this kid from Penn State to tackle Breisee Hall. You know, investing giving Quinn Williams a big contract. DJ Reed, like all the players on our team that just trading for DeVante, Like, our team just looks really good on paper. If all of them hit and the quarterback whiffs were fucked. Yet if it's the opposite, if we hit on the quarterback and he whiffs on a bunch of those, we will get contract extensions. It's like, listen, if I go back to the analogy of the million dollars, if that diversified five hundred thousand dollars doesn't really do much, you don't make any money on it. But the one that you go all in on is Navidia and you one hundred extra money. Who gives a shit about that other five hundred grand. That's the power of a quarterback because when you nail it, it changes your franchise. The forty nine ers did the same thing. They Whift and then they struck oil with Rock Party because if Rock Party didn't exist and they were doing the same things that the Jets are doing, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan would be in trouble. Why Because you can't win with no quarterback play. It is literally impossible. You need functional quarterback play just to compete, and to compete at the highest levels, you need good quarterback play. Obviously, there are other variables. You could make the argument like the Bengals are getting outstanding quarterback play and they're losing games. Now, they're losing a lot of one score games. But you know what I mean. But Joe Douglas's job thirty and sixty four is truly defined by bad quarterback play. And you could also make the argument and listen, he's become a sympathetic figure because once they fired him, the team got worse. If your job security is most dependent on either who you draft or the quarterback you sign in free agency, I would say, right there, hand in hand is the coach you hire. And you hired a defensive head coach that was a little over his head when it came to offensive stuff, and it wasn't going well on offense. And in a league that is predicated on the quarterback and offense, it can be a struggle. And clearly Aaron Rodgers didn't like Robert Sala and that's a huge reason I think he got fired. I don't know why he would have anything against Joe Douglas, given that Joe Douglas capitulated everything he wanted, But like Aaron Rodgers, is ultimately Joe Douglas's problem, and Aaron Rodgers' failures and him looking like he's ninety five years old is the reason that Joe Douglas today was told like you're done, and listen, Joe Douglas was done the same day Robert Sala was done. It was over. His contract was up at the end of the year. He wasn't getting renewed. And it all comes back to the quarterback And listen, do you know what it turns out if you could ask him, if you could have one move over, what would it be. It wouldn't be not trading for Rogers. It would be just keep Sam Darnold another year. Take a deep breath because looking back, Trevor Lawrence goes one, Zach Wilson third string, Trey Lance third string, Mac Jones should be a third stringer, and Justin Fields got bench for a guy who you know, I'd say on a good day is like fourteenth the best quarterback in the NFL, somewhere between like fourteen and twenty. So it was a really bad quarterback class. And that started the drip drip process of what led them to where they're at today. Because it's pretty clear, like Joe Douglass has a pretty good idea for talent. There's no disputing that, Like he's a good GM in terms of non quarterback position, but he went all in on Zach Wilson, and I saw Coward talking about it today and he's not wrong. That year in twenty twenty was it turned out to be the twenty one draft. But the twenty football season in college is one of the greatest fugazis we've ever seen. Trey Lance played one game and no one considered it of any value. Zach Wilson's schedule, and BYU schedule is usually pretty good, especially before they joined the the Big Twelve. They were an independent team, but they would play a lot of like legit squads. That thing was a joke. I mean the best team they played that year was Coastal Carolina, so I mean mac Jones. Alabama won the national championship and they're one of the greatest programs of all time. But one huge advantage that team had is when the whole world was locked down, well not the whole world, I mean half the states in this country were rocking and rolling by the summer. I know the state that I'm living in definitely was. But you know, in the South, you know, it was very difficult to bring guys on campus. College campuses were pushing back. Nick Saban and Alabama had a workout program going on at you know, LANDA Dickerson's house, and that thing was rocking and rolling. It's why when they played everybody, they looked completely normal and these other teams looked fucking lost. Mac Jones had one of the more manipulated seasons in the history of college football. Now prop Sabama, they never kept their foot off the pedal. That's what successful people do. But Mac Jones, I mean, I remember when it was discussed about Kyle Shanahan taking him third over. It's honestly one of the most embarrassing conversations we've ever had in the history of the NFL. Not that he took a different guy that was correct, either, but at least he took a swing on a guy with some traits. You know, Mac Jones, most of my life is like a fourth or fifth round draft pick. Like he doesn't even get drafted on the second day. But that's a conversation for a different day. But regardless, like the Jets now don't have a head coach, they do not have a GM. And I promise you this, Rex Ryan is going to be a name you're going to hear more about. I'm not making this up. I don't know. I'm not saying he's going to get the job, but he wants the job. I've been told very reliably that Woody Johnson never wanted to fire him in the first place, and they have a good relationship and just one big picture thing, like who is going to be lined up for this gig? I know Rogers said the other day that, like, you know, I plan on returning next year. It's no longer up to him. Whoever, the new coach and new GM will determine that, like we don't want you around, and maybe he retires, maybe they trade him somewhere else. I don't know who would trade for him, but I would say, as of right now, I'd be a little surprised if Aaron Rodgers on the Jets next year. And I'd also be a little surprised if coaches with options, coaches that have teams that want them, would choose the Jets if they could choose other teams. Now, money talk, shit walks. Woodie Johnson no longer has to pay his general manager after another month, you know, Robert Sola and his staff. I don't know the contract situations, but it's not like he's gonna be paying those guys for years. So if what he goes, hey, listen, I want Mike Vrabel. Here's seventeen million dollars a year. Be hard to turn that down. So obviously, if what he wants to get really aggressive financially, he can't. And people listen when you get aggressive. The Denver Bronco job two years ago was an awful job, and they said, hey, Sean Payton, here's ninety million dollars, and you know what Sean Payton said, where do I sign? So money is a huge, huge curve ball always in these discussions, but I truly believe Rex Ryan is a name to keep an eye on. Okay, the NFL season is rolling along and contenders are separating from the pack. But one thing hasn't changed. Baby. Draftking Sportsbook, an official sportsbook partner of the NFL, is the number one place the bet touchdowns. Listen. 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Him a new contract. I feel pretty confident saying Eberflus will not be the Bears coach next year. So that's four. I think it's pretty clear that Doug Peterson will not be the coach of the Jacks next year. That would be five. Then we start getting curveballs. Is Antonio Pierce one and done? Nick Sirianni, who's eight and two, and they're having a good season. They look good. They're clearly right now a top four to five team probably in the NFL. But a little like James Franklin, like he's gonna get judges in the big game, So like, what do you do if you're the two seed? You better win that game in the first round. Like they're they're gonna make the playoffs, they're gonna win the division. But if you tell me the Eagles are the second or third seed and they were to lose in the first round, I would say Sirianni's fired depending on who they play in the second round, like there would be pressure on them to win that game as well. So I believe he's the one coach of this group, probably because he's the only coach of this group that's going in the playoffs. I don't think he is just a lock to keep his job if they go to the playoffs. I do think what happens in the playoffs matters to Sirianni. The Browns a lot of buzz out there about Stefanski. I would fire him, but a lot like the Jets owner's nut job, and you have no clue on any given day what the hell Flying j is gonna do. So I think it's fair to say, yeah, Kevin Stefanski's job is just up in the air. Would I be surprised if he's nothing happens, No, not at all. If you tell me Stefanski is a coach of the Browns twenty twenty five, yeah, I could see that. But if you tell me they just don't win another game and he gets shit canned because the owner's are nut like, I'd also believe that as well. The Giants. I don't know. I know the owner came out and said, these guys are not going anywhere. Well, a couple weeks later, Tommy DeVito is now their starting quarterback, So obviously Daniel Jones stinks it's hard to win games with them. It's gonna be hard to win games with Tommy DeVito, So all of a sudden, you lose like Cooper Rush on Thanksgiving. Who knows Cincinnati the quarterback is. I mean, you could argue he's playing as well as any player in the league any position. Jamar Chase has been a dominant force, and you're four and seven, So I think it's fair to say that Zach Taylor's job is in major jeopardy. I'd say Tampa is a little bit of a wild card. I think Todd Bowle is doing a good job as a head coach, But what if they think they can get Belichick. So then so you get the Raiders, the Browns, the Giants, Sincy, Tampa, and who knows, maybe I'm missing some wild card team. I know if you spend enough time on the internet, ninety of forty nine er fans on the Internet think Kyle Shanahan should be fired. One he shouldn't be fired. Two he's not going to be fired. And three, if Kyle Shanahan was fired, every single team I listed would line up to hire him, as well as teams would fire their coach to hire the guy. But here's what I think would happen. I think the Eagles would immediately fire Siriani and if for Shanahan like a five year contract, but Shannan is not gonna get fired again, nor should he. I would give Shanahan a contract extention because when you look at this, let's just say, I'll just pick a number. Let's say there's seven openings. Are there seven candidates do you feel good about hiring? If we assume Belichick is gonna get a job, and I would say, I'm not one hundred percent that Bill Belichick is gonna be a head coach in two isy twenty five, but I'm I'm above seventy five percent. Mike Vrabel, who pretty clearly probably wants to be a head coach. Again, let's say he's got a job. Let's say Ben Johnson finally goes it's my time to quote fabulous, it's my time and takes a job. Okay, there's three guys. Aaron Glenn goes to the Saints, or the Jets. Okay, that's four, Like, are there enough candidates to satisfy these openings? And I think the answer is I'm not sure. Like the reason you get so many of these coaches hired and then three or four years later fired because were they really great candidates? Like is Bobby Slowick right now maybe it would be in three or four years an excellent candidate right now, he's called plays for two fucking years. When the forty nine Ers hired Kyle Shanahan in twenty seventeen, he had been a play caller for close to a decade. Some of these guys just started calling plays because they were never able to call plays because they worked for play callers. Now, it doesn't mean that you won't be good at it. I would say, we all think Kevin O'Connell's pretty good. And he never really got to call plays when he worked for Sean McVay or Jay Gruden because he was the quarterback coach or the offensive coordinator where those guys were calling plays. But still, like, I just don't know. This is why I brought up the names like Kirby Smart. That's why Dan Lanning's name got thrown out there. The other day, it's like, who are we really competing against? Who are now there are some older coaches who are coordinators. Would you sniff around, like, is anyone interviewing Steve Spagnola? Is someone interviewing and hiring Jesse mentor harbass defensive coordinator? Advanced Joseph Sean Payton's defensive coordinator. We've seen him be a head coach before it did not go well. So I don't know. I think it's easy to fire your coach because you think he stinks. And I'll never blame an owner if you don't take the guy seriously. You don't take the guy seriously. You just pray to God that you're not firing the next Belichick or like Dan Snyder in twenty twelve when he fired Mike Shanahan and that crew, you're just hoping you fire, you know, some rando like Joe Judge, like this is gonna age, Well, but who do you hire? I think it's so easy to be like, fire the coach, Okay, who do you hire? Really quick? On the Netflix thing, I watched a decent amount of it. I did have a hard time buffering, which really threw me off because when we remodeled this house before I even moved in. I made this company a lot of money to hard to wire my house. Obviously it's my business. I was gonna go all YouTube TV, so you could not It's it'd be hard, given the size of my house to spend any more money on the electrical operation that I got set up in my pad with all the TVs wired, I have this huge box in a closet that I don't even know what it is from the you know, it's like Fort Knox with cameras, the whole thing. But I had to have the fastest Internet set up humanly possible. And I remember turning that thing on, you know, right as it started, and it just would not load. And it really threw me off and didn't know what was going on. And obviously a bunch of people experienced it, and then you just topped on Twitter and everyone complained, and everyone complained till the moment that thing end ended. And I didn't quite understand that I get as a consumer if I buy a pay per view and I go back. And I mentioned this to Colin being in college. When Oscar de la Hoya fought Floyd Mayweather, it was such a terrible fight, and at the time whatever we paid, I mean all chipped in twenty bucks or whatever, one hundred bucks nine ninety ninety nine, we watched it across the neighbor's house, at Caitlyn's house because she had a pretty sweet setup at cal Pauly, and I remember sitting around we were all like, this fight sucks, and it's happened a lot in boxing, right, You have bought pay per views that just haven't been that good. But you tell me Floyd's fighting Connor, or We're just gonna buy it, and then everyone complains. You have a right to complain if the steak doesn't taste good and you just spend you know, three hundred dollars a dinner. But at this point in time, when everyone owns Netflix, I don't have to watch it, so I'm just turning it on. It is. It's not free because I pay for Netflix, but I'm not paying for this. You pay for Netflix for the catalog of all the bullshit that they give us, and ideally five six times a year they give you something that blows your mind. It's much more few and far between now than I think it used to be. I feel like it used to be much better now it's much more. Uh, I would say watered down, But like I have a hard time complaining about something that I didn't pay for directly and I didn't have to watch you. Also, part of the intrigue is just anytime you say Mike Tyson, it's like saying OJ Simpson. There are certain names that just like you start paying attention right, like's what's happening? And that's what Mike Tyson is. He's fifty eight fucking years old. Now, I was hoping, like most people that I hope iron Mike just hits them with one right, gets them close, and hits them with one of those famous upper cuts to the jaw and chaos. It was clear immediately that was not gonna happen. But when the thing ended, it was like I just watched a fifty eight year old What did I expect was going to happen? If you said, Hey, the Yukon Huskies are going to take on Michael Jordan and four other guys we all watch, I think it's fair to assume at sixty years old, Michael Jordan would not be good at basketball. Why he's old, I've always said, like Aaron Rodgers, why he sucks now he can't move his arm is still really good Dan Marino. If you put him in pads and the commercial where he's in pads with like Jerry Rice and Emon Smith and just had him throw an out route, if you let him warm up his arm, I bet it would look pretty good. But if you threw Dan Marino in a UFL game one of those Spring leagues. I bet if you said, hey, Dan Marino is starting for the Florida whatever they are against the Birmingham I am, you know, Rivercats quadruple, the amount of people that would normally watch would watch. I think it's fair to say that he would suck. So fifty eight years old boxer, regardless of being one of the all time legends and most powerful punchers in the history of civilization. He was fifty eight years old. So I think we're so quick to complain. I always notice this. Everyone loves doing a negative spin on stuff. Sometimes if I just need to chill, I'll just go to YouTube and just go down a rabbit hole of some music. And I'm a big like type in whoever I want to listen to acoustic like, I want to hear them just raw and real and if you go to anyone, especially my generation, right, people from the nineties. So like, I find myself just getting in these moods where I want to listen to the music that I grew up on. I think, and I will probably always think, think that that's the best time in the history of music. Why because that's what I grew up on. Just like most people, the music they grew up on usually means the most. But if you go to the comments section of anything whatever I'm listening to, Sound Garden, Doctor, Dre, you fucking name it, all the comments are with a negative spin. Remember when music was great? How much better this music is than what is playing now. These guys today could never do this. It's the easiest thing to do. And don't get me wrong, Like I can be negative as well, but on this situation, like I don't know what anyone expected, right, this was Netflix is in the business of getting a lot of people to watch these events and it worked. And honestly, boxing has been really good at that over the years because they do the circus app circus act things that draw us in and then we watch and then we immediately complain. I told Coward this the other day. I'm not a big When I was at cal Pauly, Chuck Laydell was in this heyday. Chuck Laydell wrestled at cal Pauly and trained at cal Pauly, So it was a really big deal in the early mid two thousands, and we used to buy the fights and it was awesome because the iceman he was a one hitter, quitter. And I don't buy most of the UFC cards, not because I don't respect the business, not because I don't know how tough those guys is. I also went to college with Chad Mendez, toughest little fucker I've ever seen in my life and probably the toughest guy I'll ever be around. And he obviously thought Aldo and Connor McGregor, like you getting that octagon, you have to be a complete badass. But even with the promotion and they've done a great job and they've become a mainstream success, it's not quite the hype of a big boxing match. And maybe because there are fewer of them, maybe because UFC fights a lot, Maybe because liked in the fight business like an entertainment. Like in team sports, you go as far as your stars go. When was the NBA the biggest in my life, Magic Bird, Michael Kobe and Shack When was boxing the biggest in my life? Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, no different than UFC, Chuck Lydell, Connor McGregor. You need stars, and Mike Tyson is a star that still has name recognition. It just happens that he's fifty eight years old. Okay, let's dive into cough on campus. And now I want to to introduced a young man who I've run into a couple of times at the golf course and he works at TPC Scottsdale. And he was just wearing me out on the driving range, a place that I go to about seven times a year, and just question after question on football. And then we started bsing and we became buddies, and I realized that he works, you know, he played football at Montana. A little walk on Wanta be Julian Edelman Historic program. And this guy I see him hustling on social media. He introduced me to my video guy Luis shooting the golf videos. I was like, this Jackson, guy's going places. And I've been thinking for a long time. I'm like, you know, I want to I need to get some other voices on the podcast, some young, some young fervor and fire a football guy and jackson' basked me over the last six months, hey man, anything at the volume, anything going on? And I've been thinking about it for a while, and the other day I was I was actually in the sauna. It's where I do some of my best thinking. I'm like, I just let's just do it. So I text him the other day and uh, I'm gonna call him intern Jackson. But he's going to this guy loves college football and he's gone your your college, your college wide receiver coach is at Texas now, right, you and your dad went to the Texas game. Yeah.

Him a new contract. I feel pretty confident saying Eberflus will not be the Bears coach next year. So that's four. I think it's pretty clear that Doug Peterson will not be the coach of the Jacks next year. That would be five. Then we start getting curveballs. Is Antonio Pierce one and done? Nick Sirianni, who's eight and two, and they're having a good season. They look good. They're clearly right now a top four to five team probably in the NFL. But a little like James Franklin, like he's gonna get judges in the big game, So like, what do you do if you're the two seed? You better win that game in the first round. Like they're they're gonna make the playoffs, they're gonna win the division. But if you tell me the Eagles are the second or third seed and they were to lose in the first round, I would say Sirianni's fired depending on who they play in the second round, like there would be pressure on them to win that game as well. So I believe he's the one coach of this group, probably because he's the only coach of this group that's going in the playoffs. I don't think he is just a lock to keep his job if they go to the playoffs. I do think what happens in the playoffs matters to Sirianni. The Browns a lot of buzz out there about Stefanski. I would fire him, but a lot like the Jets owner's nut job, and you have no clue on any given day what the hell Flying j is gonna do. So I think it's fair to say, yeah, Kevin Stefanski's job is just up in the air. Would I be surprised if he's nothing happens, No, not at all. If you tell me Stefanski is a coach of the Browns twenty twenty five, yeah, I could see that. But if you tell me they just don't win another game and he gets shit canned because the owner's are nut like, I'd also believe that as well. The Giants. I don't know. I know the owner came out and said, these guys are not going anywhere. Well, a couple weeks later, Tommy DeVito is now their starting quarterback, So obviously Daniel Jones stinks it's hard to win games with them. It's gonna be hard to win games with Tommy DeVito, So all of a sudden, you lose like Cooper Rush on Thanksgiving. Who knows Cincinnati the quarterback is. I mean, you could argue he's playing as well as any player in the league any position. Jamar Chase has been a dominant force, and you're four and seven, So I think it's fair to say that Zach Taylor's job is in major jeopardy. I'd say Tampa is a little bit of a wild card. I think Todd Bowle is doing a good job as a head coach, But what if they think they can get Belichick. So then so you get the Raiders, the Browns, the Giants, Sincy, Tampa, and who knows, maybe I'm missing some wild card team. I know if you spend enough time on the internet, ninety of forty nine er fans on the Internet think Kyle Shanahan should be fired. One he shouldn't be fired. Two he's not going to be fired. And three, if Kyle Shanahan was fired, every single team I listed would line up to hire him, as well as teams would fire their coach to hire the guy. But here's what I think would happen. I think the Eagles would immediately fire Siriani and if for Shanahan like a five year contract, but Shannan is not gonna get fired again, nor should he. I would give Shanahan a contract extention because when you look at this, let's just say, I'll just pick a number. Let's say there's seven openings. Are there seven candidates do you feel good about hiring? If we assume Belichick is gonna get a job, and I would say, I'm not one hundred percent that Bill Belichick is gonna be a head coach in two isy twenty five, but I'm I'm above seventy five percent. Mike Vrabel, who pretty clearly probably wants to be a head coach. Again, let's say he's got a job. Let's say Ben Johnson finally goes it's my time to quote fabulous, it's my time and takes a job. Okay, there's three guys. Aaron Glenn goes to the Saints, or the Jets. Okay, that's four, Like, are there enough candidates to satisfy these openings? And I think the answer is I'm not sure. Like the reason you get so many of these coaches hired and then three or four years later fired because were they really great candidates? Like is Bobby Slowick right now maybe it would be in three or four years an excellent candidate right now, he's called plays for two fucking years. When the forty nine Ers hired Kyle Shanahan in twenty seventeen, he had been a play caller for close to a decade. Some of these guys just started calling plays because they were never able to call plays because they worked for play callers. Now, it doesn't mean that you won't be good at it. I would say, we all think Kevin O'Connell's pretty good. And he never really got to call plays when he worked for Sean McVay or Jay Gruden because he was the quarterback coach or the offensive coordinator where those guys were calling plays. But still, like, I just don't know. This is why I brought up the names like Kirby Smart. That's why Dan Lanning's name got thrown out there. The other day, it's like, who are we really competing against? Who are now there are some older coaches who are coordinators. Would you sniff around, like, is anyone interviewing Steve Spagnola? Is someone interviewing and hiring Jesse mentor harbass defensive coordinator? Advanced Joseph Sean Payton's defensive coordinator. We've seen him be a head coach before it did not go well. So I don't know. I think it's easy to fire your coach because you think he stinks. And I'll never blame an owner if you don't take the guy seriously. You don't take the guy seriously. You just pray to God that you're not firing the next Belichick or like Dan Snyder in twenty twelve when he fired Mike Shanahan and that crew, you're just hoping you fire, you know, some rando like Joe Judge, like this is gonna age, Well, but who do you hire? I think it's so easy to be like, fire the coach, Okay, who do you hire? Really quick? On the Netflix thing, I watched a decent amount of it. I did have a hard time buffering, which really threw me off because when we remodeled this house before I even moved in. I made this company a lot of money to hard to wire my house. Obviously it's my business. I was gonna go all YouTube TV, so you could not It's it'd be hard, given the size of my house to spend any more money on the electrical operation that I got set up in my pad with all the TVs wired, I have this huge box in a closet that I don't even know what it is from the you know, it's like Fort Knox with cameras, the whole thing. But I had to have the fastest Internet set up humanly possible. And I remember turning that thing on, you know, right as it started, and it just would not load. And it really threw me off and didn't know what was going on. And obviously a bunch of people experienced it, and then you just topped on Twitter and everyone complained, and everyone complained till the moment that thing end ended. And I didn't quite understand that I get as a consumer if I buy a pay per view and I go back. And I mentioned this to Colin being in college. When Oscar de la Hoya fought Floyd Mayweather, it was such a terrible fight, and at the time whatever we paid, I mean all chipped in twenty bucks or whatever, one hundred bucks nine ninety ninety nine, we watched it across the neighbor's house, at Caitlyn's house because she had a pretty sweet setup at cal Pauly, and I remember sitting around we were all like, this fight sucks, and it's happened a lot in boxing, right, You have bought pay per views that just haven't been that good. But you tell me Floyd's fighting Connor, or We're just gonna buy it, and then everyone complains. You have a right to complain if the steak doesn't taste good and you just spend you know, three hundred dollars a dinner. But at this point in time, when everyone owns Netflix, I don't have to watch it, so I'm just turning it on. It is. It's not free because I pay for Netflix, but I'm not paying for this. You pay for Netflix for the catalog of all the bullshit that they give us, and ideally five six times a year they give you something that blows your mind. It's much more few and far between now than I think it used to be. I feel like it used to be much better now it's much more. Uh, I would say watered down, But like I have a hard time complaining about something that I didn't pay for directly and I didn't have to watch you. Also, part of the intrigue is just anytime you say Mike Tyson, it's like saying OJ Simpson. There are certain names that just like you start paying attention right, like's what's happening? And that's what Mike Tyson is. He's fifty eight fucking years old. Now, I was hoping, like most people that I hope iron Mike just hits them with one right, gets them close, and hits them with one of those famous upper cuts to the jaw and chaos. It was clear immediately that was not gonna happen. But when the thing ended, it was like I just watched a fifty eight year old What did I expect was going to happen? If you said, Hey, the Yukon Huskies are going to take on Michael Jordan and four other guys we all watch, I think it's fair to assume at sixty years old, Michael Jordan would not be good at basketball. Why he's old, I've always said, like Aaron Rodgers, why he sucks now he can't move his arm is still really good Dan Marino. If you put him in pads and the commercial where he's in pads with like Jerry Rice and Emon Smith and just had him throw an out route, if you let him warm up his arm, I bet it would look pretty good. But if you threw Dan Marino in a UFL game one of those Spring leagues. I bet if you said, hey, Dan Marino is starting for the Florida whatever they are against the Birmingham I am, you know, Rivercats quadruple, the amount of people that would normally watch would watch. I think it's fair to say that he would suck. So fifty eight years old boxer, regardless of being one of the all time legends and most powerful punchers in the history of civilization. He was fifty eight years old. So I think we're so quick to complain. I always notice this. Everyone loves doing a negative spin on stuff. Sometimes if I just need to chill, I'll just go to YouTube and just go down a rabbit hole of some music. And I'm a big like type in whoever I want to listen to acoustic like, I want to hear them just raw and real and if you go to anyone, especially my generation, right, people from the nineties. So like, I find myself just getting in these moods where I want to listen to the music that I grew up on. I think, and I will probably always think, think that that's the best time in the history of music. Why because that's what I grew up on. Just like most people, the music they grew up on usually means the most. But if you go to the comments section of anything whatever I'm listening to, Sound Garden, Doctor, Dre, you fucking name it, all the comments are with a negative spin. Remember when music was great? How much better this music is than what is playing now. These guys today could never do this. It's the easiest thing to do. And don't get me wrong, Like I can be negative as well, but on this situation, like I don't know what anyone expected, right, this was Netflix is in the business of getting a lot of people to watch these events and it worked. And honestly, boxing has been really good at that over the years because they do the circus app circus act things that draw us in and then we watch and then we immediately complain. I told Coward this the other day. I'm not a big When I was at cal Pauly, Chuck Laydell was in this heyday. Chuck Laydell wrestled at cal Pauly and trained at cal Pauly, So it was a really big deal in the early mid two thousands, and we used to buy the fights and it was awesome because the iceman he was a one hitter, quitter. And I don't buy most of the UFC cards, not because I don't respect the business, not because I don't know how tough those guys is. I also went to college with Chad Mendez, toughest little fucker I've ever seen in my life and probably the toughest guy I'll ever be around. And he obviously thought Aldo and Connor McGregor, like you getting that octagon, you have to be a complete badass. But even with the promotion and they've done a great job and they've become a mainstream success, it's not quite the hype of a big boxing match. And maybe because there are fewer of them, maybe because UFC fights a lot, Maybe because liked in the fight business like an entertainment. Like in team sports, you go as far as your stars go. When was the NBA the biggest in my life, Magic Bird, Michael Kobe and Shack When was boxing the biggest in my life? Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, no different than UFC, Chuck Lydell, Connor McGregor. You need stars, and Mike Tyson is a star that still has name recognition. It just happens that he's fifty eight years old. Okay, let's dive into cough on campus. And now I want to to introduced a young man who I've run into a couple of times at the golf course and he works at TPC Scottsdale. And he was just wearing me out on the driving range, a place that I go to about seven times a year, and just question after question on football. And then we started bsing and we became buddies, and I realized that he works, you know, he played football at Montana. A little walk on Wanta be Julian Edelman Historic program. And this guy I see him hustling on social media. He introduced me to my video guy Luis shooting the golf videos. I was like, this Jackson, guy's going places. And I've been thinking for a long time. I'm like, you know, I want to I need to get some other voices on the podcast, some young, some young fervor and fire a football guy and jackson' basked me over the last six months, hey man, anything at the volume, anything going on? And I've been thinking about it for a while, and the other day I was I was actually in the sauna. It's where I do some of my best thinking. I'm like, I just let's just do it. So I text him the other day and uh, I'm gonna call him intern Jackson. But he's going to this guy loves college football and he's gone your your college, your college wide receiver coach is at Texas now, right, you and your dad went to the Texas game. Yeah.

Yeah, he was in my receiver coach in high school.

Yeah, he was in my receiver coach in high school.

Now he's at Texas.

Now he's at Texas.

So to see him kind of transition from high school to Texas. But no, I appreciate the opportunity. God is good man.

So to see him kind of transition from high school to Texas. But no, I appreciate the opportunity. God is good man.

I'm excited to.

I'm excited to.

Be on here and talk some college football. And I got some questions for you for cough on campus that I want you to answer.

Be on here and talk some college football. And I got some questions for you for cough on campus that I want you to answer.

Fire him out and we'll we'll go through them because it's kind of we're recording this before the uh before the top twelve reveal which you could argue doesn't really. I mean, there's so much influx. Some of these teams still play each other. We know we're gonna get some upsets once Boise it looks like is gonna probably like they're gonna get the spot. I think it's safe to say Notre Dame's gonna get the spot. But the SEC has to play itself out a little bit. And obviously Indiana Ohio State this week. But it's been a fun year. Like listen, people talk shit about the parody like there's not you know, it's wide open. I actually enjoy that, Like it's cool when Alabama's in their dynasty or Miami's in their dynasty, or Ohio State or Florida or whatever. But I think the cool part about this year, however it does shake out, is you could argue, of the twelve teams that get in, like eight of them are gonna truly feel like they can win the Natty. You know, Boise it is boys are gonna feel like they can win the Natty? Is Indiana gonna feel like they can win the Natty? Probably not. You know, you're a Notre Dame fan, Can they win the Natty?

Fire him out and we'll we'll go through them because it's kind of we're recording this before the uh before the top twelve reveal which you could argue doesn't really. I mean, there's so much influx. Some of these teams still play each other. We know we're gonna get some upsets once Boise it looks like is gonna probably like they're gonna get the spot. I think it's safe to say Notre Dame's gonna get the spot. But the SEC has to play itself out a little bit. And obviously Indiana Ohio State this week. But it's been a fun year. Like listen, people talk shit about the parody like there's not you know, it's wide open. I actually enjoy that, Like it's cool when Alabama's in their dynasty or Miami's in their dynasty, or Ohio State or Florida or whatever. But I think the cool part about this year, however it does shake out, is you could argue, of the twelve teams that get in, like eight of them are gonna truly feel like they can win the Natty. You know, Boise it is boys are gonna feel like they can win the Natty? Is Indiana gonna feel like they can win the Natty? Probably not. You know, you're a Notre Dame fan, Can they win the Natty?

I just want one game. I just want one win, John, just one win. That's all I asked for. I gotta be army this weekend though, So let's starting.

I just want one game. I just want one win, John, just one win. That's all I asked for. I gotta be army this weekend though, So let's starting.

To buy you.

To buy you.

LSU lost three straight games Texas A and m Alabama Florida. John, does LSU have a Brian Kelly problem?

LSU lost three straight games Texas A and m Alabama Florida. John, does LSU have a Brian Kelly problem?

You know what's crazy is I think when we look back three years ago, they wanted Lincoln Riley and rightfully so, and it kind of felt like when he went to USC for one hundred and twenty million dollars, they got, you know, the second girl at the bar, who was a little chubbier, not as good looking, but hey, they were desperate and she was an upgrade over what they were dating. I thought that it would work and maybe not win a national championship over the first three years, but they would you told me there was a twelve team playoff, I would have been like Brian Kelly's in the playoffs. I think this year is way more embarrassing than last year. Like they just had a situation where their defense was terrible, but they still had the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback who looks like he's going to be a star. Widers they were a really really fun watch. You know, once you lose the USC in a game that I give you a lot of credit because remember Lincoln Riley saying I want out right and Brian Kelly's like, fuck that we're playing and you lose whatever. But these three games, to lose that A and M the way they did in the second half, to get boat raced at home with Nick Saban being gone, and to lose that game at Florida. Now, Florida's a tough place to play and that team was coming, but that was embarrassing. BRO eight and four at LSU is an epic disaster. Year three, I mean with NFL players everywhere, I don't know. I mean they can't. I read like the way the buyout works, it's basically a year by year thing. So they're paying the guy ninety million dollars. He's into year three like he's not going anywhere. But I don't see how anyone serious around the program looks at him the same. And the only way that he's gonna get out of it is like next year being the final four. But just to get there, we know how hard, I mean, look how hard it is in the SEC. So does nuss Meyer come back to school? He probably does do they want him to come back to school. I mean, he's they started playing real teams, he's looked like shit, So I don't know. I mean, you're a Notre Dame guy. I think a lot of you guys are kind of dancing on his grave. The irony is that it's easier at Notre Dame because you guys play nobody. If he just there to go eleven and one every year, like, it's just way harder in the SEC.

You know what's crazy is I think when we look back three years ago, they wanted Lincoln Riley and rightfully so, and it kind of felt like when he went to USC for one hundred and twenty million dollars, they got, you know, the second girl at the bar, who was a little chubbier, not as good looking, but hey, they were desperate and she was an upgrade over what they were dating. I thought that it would work and maybe not win a national championship over the first three years, but they would you told me there was a twelve team playoff, I would have been like Brian Kelly's in the playoffs. I think this year is way more embarrassing than last year. Like they just had a situation where their defense was terrible, but they still had the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback who looks like he's going to be a star. Widers they were a really really fun watch. You know, once you lose the USC in a game that I give you a lot of credit because remember Lincoln Riley saying I want out right and Brian Kelly's like, fuck that we're playing and you lose whatever. But these three games, to lose that A and M the way they did in the second half, to get boat raced at home with Nick Saban being gone, and to lose that game at Florida. Now, Florida's a tough place to play and that team was coming, but that was embarrassing. BRO eight and four at LSU is an epic disaster. Year three, I mean with NFL players everywhere, I don't know. I mean they can't. I read like the way the buyout works, it's basically a year by year thing. So they're paying the guy ninety million dollars. He's into year three like he's not going anywhere. But I don't see how anyone serious around the program looks at him the same. And the only way that he's gonna get out of it is like next year being the final four. But just to get there, we know how hard, I mean, look how hard it is in the SEC. So does nuss Meyer come back to school? He probably does do they want him to come back to school. I mean, he's they started playing real teams, he's looked like shit, So I don't know. I mean, you're a Notre Dame guy. I think a lot of you guys are kind of dancing on his grave. The irony is that it's easier at Notre Dame because you guys play nobody. If he just there to go eleven and one every year, like, it's just way harder in the SEC.

I think it's interesting too with LSU. It's like, would you want to win a national championship or do you want to win eight nine games barely make the playoff? And then I was gonna ask you too, like they've got this five star kid. I'm sure you've heard of him, Bryce Underwood. Do they kind of are they worried to get rid of Brian Kelly because they don't want to lose his five star or do you think that they could get another Deon Sanders come in from Colorado?

I think it's interesting too with LSU. It's like, would you want to win a national championship or do you want to win eight nine games barely make the playoff? And then I was gonna ask you too, like they've got this five star kid. I'm sure you've heard of him, Bryce Underwood. Do they kind of are they worried to get rid of Brian Kelly because they don't want to lose his five star or do you think that they could get another Deon Sanders come in from Colorado?

But isn't that the guy that they he's gonna charge like ten million dollars that now Michigan's involved, and maybe LSU doesn't have the funds. Just big picture, I would be very uncomfortable always paying huge money for a high school quarterback. I mean everyone acted like Matt Ruhle was, you know, gonna win a national championship in a couple of years because he got Dylan Royola for four five million dollars, and you know, it's pretty clear the reason that he didn't go to Georgia is like Kirby's like, we're not paying it that much money. And I watched Dylan Ryola after Everyone's like he's Patrick mahonmes two point out, like he's just not a very good player right now. I mean, it's just that's just this is nothing personal. He's just I watch him and I go, like, for five million dollars, this is not gonna work. I feel much better like paying a Dylan Gabriel, paying a Panics, paying a bon Nix, like people that, you know, cam Ward, I would not be in the business of paying ten million, like if I'm lsu, I am not getting into a eight ten million dollar bidding war of over a high school recruit. I mean, look look at Oklahoma, you know, I mean Jackson Arnold Boom camp Nico can't miss. It's like you watch him, it's like this is it's a lot of pressure. So I think LSU you just got to stick it out with Brian Kelly. But man, how do you think of all the hype too, of the of the coaches in the SEC that everyone's excited about. Obviously, Georgia thinks they have Nick Saban two point zero rightfully, So if you're Texas, you're proud of Sark, like he's a he's a real coach. Ole Miss best coach they've had in my life. Alabama, You're like you were down on him, he's kind of pissing you off. Then boom, he kicks LSU's asked, and now you're feeling good. So it's like, of all the top programs, I would say LSU is like the most down on their coach, which is a problem when you're paying a got ten million dollars.

But isn't that the guy that they he's gonna charge like ten million dollars that now Michigan's involved, and maybe LSU doesn't have the funds. Just big picture, I would be very uncomfortable always paying huge money for a high school quarterback. I mean everyone acted like Matt Ruhle was, you know, gonna win a national championship in a couple of years because he got Dylan Royola for four five million dollars, and you know, it's pretty clear the reason that he didn't go to Georgia is like Kirby's like, we're not paying it that much money. And I watched Dylan Ryola after Everyone's like he's Patrick mahonmes two point out, like he's just not a very good player right now. I mean, it's just that's just this is nothing personal. He's just I watch him and I go, like, for five million dollars, this is not gonna work. I feel much better like paying a Dylan Gabriel, paying a Panics, paying a bon Nix, like people that, you know, cam Ward, I would not be in the business of paying ten million, like if I'm lsu, I am not getting into a eight ten million dollar bidding war of over a high school recruit. I mean, look look at Oklahoma, you know, I mean Jackson Arnold Boom camp Nico can't miss. It's like you watch him, it's like this is it's a lot of pressure. So I think LSU you just got to stick it out with Brian Kelly. But man, how do you think of all the hype too, of the of the coaches in the SEC that everyone's excited about. Obviously, Georgia thinks they have Nick Saban two point zero rightfully, So if you're Texas, you're proud of Sark, like he's a he's a real coach. Ole Miss best coach they've had in my life. Alabama, You're like you were down on him, he's kind of pissing you off. Then boom, he kicks LSU's asked, and now you're feeling good. So it's like, of all the top programs, I would say LSU is like the most down on their coach, which is a problem when you're paying a got ten million dollars.

Speaking of a program that's high in their coach. Right now, Colorado Buffalo's that are now favored according to the Draft Kings to win the Big Twelve assuming they went out. Assuming they win the Big Twelve championship, which could be against ASU or BYU this Saturday, can Colorado win a playoff game?

Speaking of a program that's high in their coach. Right now, Colorado Buffalo's that are now favored according to the Draft Kings to win the Big Twelve assuming they went out. Assuming they win the Big Twelve championship, which could be against ASU or BYU this Saturday, can Colorado win a playoff game?

If you win the conference means you're a top four seed. Does that mean you get a home game or by the time they plays or are on neutral sites? Do you know the answer to.

If you win the conference means you're a top four seed. Does that mean you get a home game or by the time they plays or are on neutral sites? Do you know the answer to.

That Top four would be neutral site, which would be the festival here. But it's weird because they're a two loss team. Boise State's a one loss team. So some are saying that Colorado wins, they win the Big Twelve, that Boise State would get that first round by and then Colorado would get the twelve seed going to Oregon or Ohio State.

That Top four would be neutral site, which would be the festival here. But it's weird because they're a two loss team. Boise State's a one loss team. So some are saying that Colorado wins, they win the Big Twelve, that Boise State would get that first round by and then Colorado would get the twelve seed going to Oregon or Ohio State.

But you automatically get a top four seed right when you win the conference.

But you automatically get a top four seed right when you win the conference.

Correct, correct, Yeah, but it's the top four conference champions. That's why they're kind of speculating that Boise State could slip in there as that fourth.

Correct, correct, Yeah, but it's the top four conference champions. That's why they're kind of speculating that Boise State could slip in there as that fourth.

Oh if you're saying that if Colorado has two losses, and really when you look at it, like who have they beat? And that's part of the problem. I heard Rosillo go on this rant. You know, forever it was conference aligned, you know, inside a conference, the PAC twelve, the Big twelve, I guess the Big twelve wasn't, but the Big ten in the SEC was split east and west or north and south. Now it's kind of random, like the Georgia schedule this year is pretty insane, right, and then you look at Colorado their schedule. They they don't play BYU in the regular season. Now they played Kansas State and they lost, but they don't even play ASU until they would the championship game. Did they even play Iowa State? And I'm not hating on them because they have been really impressive. I if you told me, and again, like, depending on how it shakes out, they get a home game, I think that would be a pretty crazy place. That place has been rocking this year. If it's a neutral site game, Like if they get a neutral site game against like Texas or Georgia or even like a Penn State, I think it would be very very difficult for them, Notre Dame whoever, all all the big seven eight teams. I think it would be a problem. I think a home game would be I'd give them a fighting chance because I would say a neutral site against the top seven eight teams, the Bamas, the Tennessee's, the Georgia's, Ohio State, Oregon, I think they'd be like a ten point underdog. What's been the biggest thing for maybe a little less, but I feel like they would be a touchdown underdog, don't you think?