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We will dive in to Belichick and the New England Patriots and talk about some other stuff that we saw today. Sean McDermott was a pepper today over I guess. An article came out from TYG Dunn on the Sean McDermott era and I guess an instant an instance that happened in twenty nineteen about nine to eleven, which it's behind a paywall. Wasn't able to read the article, but I do think it's fascinating. With the Buffalo bills these next couple of weeks, is the guy coaching for his job the Jags were robbed of twenty two million dollars. My main takeaway is, God, the NFL is flushing cash if it takes them years to find out that they're missing twenty two million dollars. And the bold take of the week, which I'm excited. But before we dive into that, all subscribe to the YouTube channel, Appreciate everyone that has subscribe to the podcast three and out Spotify, Apple, iTunes, same thing. Make sure you subscribe, Tell all your friends, tell all your enemies, Appreciate everyone that has. 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The Steelers came roman back, and the only thing I could think of, really the entire game was these two coaches. And I read an article today about Belichick about the trading trading for him. What could they get? What are the possibilities this offseason? And I've been saying forever Bill Belichick is not going to be the coach of the New England Patriots next year, not because he doesn't know what he's doing. He's lost three games this year where his team has held the opponent ten points or less, first time that's happened since nineteen nineteen thirty eight. Honestly, I didn't know football really existed before, like nineteen sixty. I don't claim to be a historian here, but it shows you Bill Belichick really knows what he's doing. He's an excellent defensive coordinator. He's very dependent on his offensive coordinator, and he's very dependent on a quarterback, which he had Brady for two decades, and he had Josh McDaniels for the majority of it, and they kicked the shit out of basically everybody. And listen, I like Alex Smith a lot. I actually have a lot of respect for Alex Smith because when I was in college, the forty nine ers were the equivalent of who's the worst team in the league right now, the Carolina Panthers. I mean, there were a lot of bad teams, but they were as bad as anybody. They had bad ownership, they had bad coaching, they had bad players, They just had a bad organizational philosophy. They were a joke, and Alex Smith somehow just survived. He didn't play well, it wasn't all his fault. Sometimes you get kind of caught in the swamp of dysfunction. When Alex said the other day that they benefited a lot from the division, he wasn't wrong. The division for the most part, the Dolphins were awful, the Jets were awful, and the Bills were putrid. The Jets had a couple of years with Rex and the Dolphins had like one year with Tony Soprano and the Wildcat. But for the most part it was an embarrassment. He was right, But they also any team they played that mattered they beat, specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers for decades, and Bill Belichick still knows what he's doing defensively when I watched the Steelers, and we'll get to Bill in a minute, like cause I don't think this changes much. I've been saying this for a while. I think it was two weeks ago. They ended up beating the Bengals, and it actually aged pretty well because Jake Browning had I don't know the game of his life on Monday Night football, but they were losing the game for a minute and I thought, is this it for Tomlin. They ended up winning the game, and I thought, well, they were seven and three, and then he looked at their schedule. They had four games, and They're like, they're a lock to win. I'm like, they're gonna be eleven and three, and people are gonna go, how in the world does a team with Kenny Pickett as their quarterback, a team that sucks on offense gonna go eleven and three and be in position to like compete for the number one seed. Let alone they're I was like, what, well, they're not because they lost to the Cardinals and they lost to the Patriots, who I did the math coming into the game were four and twenty. Mike Tomlin at home at home, just lost to two teams in December when his team was seven and three, and then seven and four to two teams who were combined four and twenty. So listen, I think Mike Tomlin's good at his job, not counting this season's not going great. But let me rephrase that. I think Mike Tomlin would have a lot of people who would be very interested in making him the head coach. If Mike Tomlin was fired, he would immediately a lot like Bill have a job. Before you could blink, he would become a head coach instantly. I do think it's over in Pittsburgh, like it's time for a change. And I threw it out on social media and a lot of people are like, you think the Rooneys. The Rooneys are never firing Tomlin. For a long time, I always supported it. You can't have a time when you have a team that lose back to back games in Thanksgiving in early December to two teams who are fucking terrible. You're allowed to lose the Ravens, You're allowed to lose the forty nine ers. You're allowed to lose the good teams in big spots. It's football. You can't lose the Cardinals and the Patriots in a four day span and still be taking seriously when they were already major question marks. You haven't won a playoff game in forever. And again, I'm a Mike Tomlin fan. I do think, and I've been saying this for a while. I was in Philadelphia when Andy Reid fired or was fired by Jeffrey Leary, and it was just time now. It was easier because he had a four and twelve season. But like your shelf life as a head coach is not infinite. It doesn't last forever. There comes a point in time where it's just we need change, We need depress the reset button. Whether you are Bill Belichick, whether you are Phil Jackson, whether you are Joe Tory. I saw it with Bruce Bochie and San Francisco. I'm talking about guys who have won to combine like twenty five championships, and they move on and they go to new places. It's healthy. I've changed jobs. I'm sure many people listening have change jobs. It is. It's like a reset on your life in a good way. And I watched Mike Tomlin and listen, I respect the shit out of this guy. And I listened to a couple podcasts with him coming into the season, and one thing he said is he was very very excited to kind of prove his worth with a new quarterback, and prove his worth, you know, with the non like Hall of Fame guy, and kind of start fresh. I said it from the jump when they draft to Kenny Pickett, it was never gonna work. And then the moment he got injured. Mitch Trubisky sucks, he really does. And there are certain backup quarterbacks where you can win some games, and then there are guys like Trubisky where I don't care how good your team is. I don't care if JJ Watt or excuse me, TJ Watt get you ten sacks a game, or you know, Minke of Fitzpatrick picks off a couple of picks. I don't care. You're gonna lose way more than you're gonna win. And the moment you have to start this guy, and it's not their choice because they're starting quarterbacks up in the booth. You know, with the coordinators, you're screwed now who I don't know who was behind giving him a second contract extension with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But that's beside the point. Like this team needs new blood, This franchise needs new blood. And I actually think Mike tom blind benefit a lot from just being like the coach of the Chargers next year, the coach of the Bears next year, the coach of the Washington Commanders next year. I think it'd be your classic win win. Look at the Eagles. They fired Andy Reid, he went to the Chiefs. He's had a Hall of Fame career as the Chiefs coach alone. They've gone on to win a Super Bowl with Doug get to another one with Sirianni like, sometimes just going your separate ways in a divorce professionally is the healthiest thing for every party. And I've been watching the Steelers and I thought this a couple of weeks ago. With the Bengals, I've thought it way more of these last two weeks. It's over, where is this team going? Even if somehow they still make the playoffs? What is gonna happen? News flash, nothing, Nothing is gonna happen. They're not gonna win a game. They're going nowhere. I think the easiest thing to do in football is like, well, how do we upgrade? And I got this the other day in a mailbag question Well, because this guy basically was saying that Pete Carroll is one of the most overrated coaches in the NFL over the last couple of years, when you know their defense is terrible. He's a defensive head coach. They've invested all this money, and it's so easy for everyone in the outside to go, well, how are you gonna upgrade over Pete Carroll? How are you gonna do better? Well, if you always have that mindset, how are you ever gonna make any progress? And I think the Steelers really hang their hat on. Well, we've had three coaches in a seventy five years. Okay, that's good. Uh and over a couple of them. You want a bunch of super Bowls. But the last I checked, you guys haven't won Dick in a long time. So how about we make a change. Not because we think Mike Tomlin sucks. Jeffrey Leary didn't think Andy Reid sucks. He just knew it was time. And I think when you watch the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I'm someone that picked them to not only win the division, but compete with the Chiefs to win the conference. I had so much belief in this team in the preseason and believe the hype and Kenny Pickett and I feel like an idiot and I watch him, especially these last two weeks, I'm like, it's over cut the cord. I don't mean fire him now, but at the end of the season, like go your separate ways, He'll immediately get another job and go get another coach, because guess what your job offer would immediately be. The Chargers, if they were willing to pay anything, would be number one because they have justin Herbert right that job immediately would be sweet just because of the quarterback. But there is no job that would be better than like, you want to be the coach. I don't know of a team that never fires anybody that you'd be really high, even with some of your flaws. So Tomlin orded me to get a job, and everyone would be lined up to be the head coach of the Pittsburgh fucking Steelers. It's like the New York Yankees, like the LA Lakers, like the Dallas Cowboys, like Alabama football. It's like Duke basketball, Like people want that job. It means a lot. It's why Mike Tomlin never wants to let go. I don't blame him. It's an elite job. It's why he was so offended a couple of years ago when they're like, hey, would you want to take a hundred million dollars to be the head coach of the USC Trojans? And he was, I mean he was. I've never seen a guy so angry over being rumored for another job. And I understand it because you would never take the USC job. You're the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But I just think it's time. And then when you watch the New England Patriots. Bill is not some idiot. Listen, He's old, and we can question how good of a GM is. He clearly has some issues, but when just look at his ability to influence the game as a defensive head coach, he's been excellent. Like he's still really good and you can only like Bailey Zappi. He's playing with Bailey Zappie. Now, if you want to crush him for drafting Mac Jones, I gladly will. That's not in a million years. If I would rather like, hey, I want you to draft this guy at fifteen, I'd say fire me. I would never take that guy. And I said it with Kenny Pickett at twenty. I'm not a believer in taking that guy in the first round. I can't do it. I won't do it. To quote Mike Singletary, but he did it, and he was desperate for a quarterback, and this year's bit him in the ass. And I was thinking when they were kicking the Steelers' ass and it was like twenty one to three or something, if he just had a decent offense. With how good his defense has been in some of these games, I mean, they're probably a five and seventeen, and then they win the night. All of a sudden, they're like, like, they're not They're not an embarrassment. Now I still believe what I've been saying for a while. It's time to end this. No different with Tomlin. Some things come to an end, right. Some divorces are inevitable. And in coaching, you don't get to like go out like John Elway like I'm going out on top. It's not the way it works. You get fired. Check the history of any coach they get shit canned. I think Belichick. I read this article on The Athletic about his trade value. They basically polled and talked to a bunch of anonymous gms and executives around the NFL, and some believe like you'd still get a first round pick for Bill Belichick. Some believed to be complicated because you know, he doesn't necessarily have a GM that comes hand in hand. He's the GM and most people don't want him to be the GM. But as a coach, it can't be really disputed. You would take especially let's use the Commanders as an example. If they got Belichick, Let's say, let's let's do it this way. If if I ran the Eagles and I ran the Cowboys. Would I rather have the Commanders hire anybody or Bill Belichick? Right, Ben Johnson or Brian Johnson or whoever. Mike McDaniel's guy is just go around in the league, all these quote unquote hot shot offensive coordinators. I would pay them to hire one of those guys because history would say a lot like a quarterback, that that guy is a fifty to fifty proposition at best, right, Bill Belichick, Like if they actually have some players there, And like I've been saying forever, I was asked this the other day, like, what do you think happens with Sam Howe? Do you think that the Washington would they draft a quarterback? I said, until I know who their coach is, I don't think we can speculate on what the hell they're gonna do. Because if you tell me that Bill Belichick is their head coach, I could see him being like, I could win eight or nine games with Sam Howe.

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We will dive in to Belichick and the New England Patriots and talk about some other stuff that we saw today. Sean McDermott was a pepper today over I guess. An article came out from TYG Dunn on the Sean McDermott era and I guess an instant an instance that happened in twenty nineteen about nine to eleven, which it's behind a paywall. Wasn't able to read the article, but I do think it's fascinating. With the Buffalo bills these next couple of weeks, is the guy coaching for his job the Jags were robbed of twenty two million dollars. My main takeaway is, God, the NFL is flushing cash if it takes them years to find out that they're missing twenty two million dollars. And the bold take of the week, which I'm excited. But before we dive into that, all subscribe to the YouTube channel, Appreciate everyone that has subscribe to the podcast three and out Spotify, Apple, iTunes, same thing. Make sure you subscribe, Tell all your friends, tell all your enemies, Appreciate everyone that has. And the Volume dot com. The Volume dot com we have merch. I'm rocking an hat right now, and before we dive into some football stuff, here's what I need to do. Next week. I'm going to a concert for my girlfriend's birthday. And I'm doing it because I have friends, I have partners, and I have the best ticketing app I think in America, and it's called the Game Time. You download the game Time app, you search tickets football games, basketball games, hockey games, concerts, comedy shows, any event you want to go to. Download the game Time app and search and when you find it, use the promo code John. Promo code John John, John Ram Jon. He's at liv I'm John Middlecoff John, and I'm I'm here. Download the game Time out promo co John twenty dollars off and buy yourself a pair of tickets Holiday season, give a gift and enjoy yourself and do it on us. Promo co John A lot of angles. You go this game? Really, I mean it's funny. I mean the Patriots were kicking their ass early. The Steelers came roman back, and the only thing I could think of, really the entire game was these two coaches. And I read an article today about Belichick about the trading trading for him. What could they get? What are the possibilities this offseason? And I've been saying forever Bill Belichick is not going to be the coach of the New England Patriots next year, not because he doesn't know what he's doing. He's lost three games this year where his team has held the opponent ten points or less, first time that's happened since nineteen nineteen thirty eight. Honestly, I didn't know football really existed before, like nineteen sixty. I don't claim to be a historian here, but it shows you Bill Belichick really knows what he's doing. He's an excellent defensive coordinator. He's very dependent on his offensive coordinator, and he's very dependent on a quarterback, which he had Brady for two decades, and he had Josh McDaniels for the majority of it, and they kicked the shit out of basically everybody. And listen, I like Alex Smith a lot. I actually have a lot of respect for Alex Smith because when I was in college, the forty nine ers were the equivalent of who's the worst team in the league right now, the Carolina Panthers. I mean, there were a lot of bad teams, but they were as bad as anybody. They had bad ownership, they had bad coaching, they had bad players, They just had a bad organizational philosophy. They were a joke, and Alex Smith somehow just survived. He didn't play well, it wasn't all his fault. Sometimes you get kind of caught in the swamp of dysfunction. When Alex said the other day that they benefited a lot from the division, he wasn't wrong. The division for the most part, the Dolphins were awful, the Jets were awful, and the Bills were putrid. The Jets had a couple of years with Rex and the Dolphins had like one year with Tony Soprano and the Wildcat. But for the most part it was an embarrassment. He was right, But they also any team they played that mattered they beat, specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers for decades, and Bill Belichick still knows what he's doing defensively when I watched the Steelers, and we'll get to Bill in a minute, like cause I don't think this changes much. I've been saying this for a while. I think it was two weeks ago. They ended up beating the Bengals, and it actually aged pretty well because Jake Browning had I don't know the game of his life on Monday Night football, but they were losing the game for a minute and I thought, is this it for Tomlin. They ended up winning the game, and I thought, well, they were seven and three, and then he looked at their schedule. They had four games, and They're like, they're a lock to win. I'm like, they're gonna be eleven and three, and people are gonna go, how in the world does a team with Kenny Pickett as their quarterback, a team that sucks on offense gonna go eleven and three and be in position to like compete for the number one seed. Let alone they're I was like, what, well, they're not because they lost to the Cardinals and they lost to the Patriots, who I did the math coming into the game were four and twenty. Mike Tomlin at home at home, just lost to two teams in December when his team was seven and three, and then seven and four to two teams who were combined four and twenty. So listen, I think Mike Tomlin's good at his job, not counting this season's not going great. But let me rephrase that. I think Mike Tomlin would have a lot of people who would be very interested in making him the head coach. If Mike Tomlin was fired, he would immediately a lot like Bill have a job. Before you could blink, he would become a head coach instantly. I do think it's over in Pittsburgh, like it's time for a change. And I threw it out on social media and a lot of people are like, you think the Rooneys. The Rooneys are never firing Tomlin. For a long time, I always supported it. You can't have a time when you have a team that lose back to back games in Thanksgiving in early December to two teams who are fucking terrible. You're allowed to lose the Ravens, You're allowed to lose the forty nine ers. You're allowed to lose the good teams in big spots. It's football. You can't lose the Cardinals and the Patriots in a four day span and still be taking seriously when they were already major question marks. You haven't won a playoff game in forever. And again, I'm a Mike Tomlin fan. I do think, and I've been saying this for a while. I was in Philadelphia when Andy Reid fired or was fired by Jeffrey Leary, and it was just time now. It was easier because he had a four and twelve season. But like your shelf life as a head coach is not infinite. It doesn't last forever. There comes a point in time where it's just we need change, We need depress the reset button. Whether you are Bill Belichick, whether you are Phil Jackson, whether you are Joe Tory. I saw it with Bruce Bochie and San Francisco. I'm talking about guys who have won to combine like twenty five championships, and they move on and they go to new places. It's healthy. I've changed jobs. I'm sure many people listening have change jobs. It is. It's like a reset on your life in a good way. And I watched Mike Tomlin and listen, I respect the shit out of this guy. And I listened to a couple podcasts with him coming into the season, and one thing he said is he was very very excited to kind of prove his worth with a new quarterback, and prove his worth, you know, with the non like Hall of Fame guy, and kind of start fresh. I said it from the jump when they draft to Kenny Pickett, it was never gonna work. And then the moment he got injured. Mitch Trubisky sucks, he really does. And there are certain backup quarterbacks where you can win some games, and then there are guys like Trubisky where I don't care how good your team is. I don't care if JJ Watt or excuse me, TJ Watt get you ten sacks a game, or you know, Minke of Fitzpatrick picks off a couple of picks. I don't care. You're gonna lose way more than you're gonna win. And the moment you have to start this guy, and it's not their choice because they're starting quarterbacks up in the booth. You know, with the coordinators, you're screwed now who I don't know who was behind giving him a second contract extension with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But that's beside the point. Like this team needs new blood, This franchise needs new blood. And I actually think Mike tom blind benefit a lot from just being like the coach of the Chargers next year, the coach of the Bears next year, the coach of the Washington Commanders next year. I think it'd be your classic win win. Look at the Eagles. They fired Andy Reid, he went to the Chiefs. He's had a Hall of Fame career as the Chiefs coach alone. They've gone on to win a Super Bowl with Doug get to another one with Sirianni like, sometimes just going your separate ways in a divorce professionally is the healthiest thing for every party. And I've been watching the Steelers and I thought this a couple of weeks ago. With the Bengals, I've thought it way more of these last two weeks. It's over, where is this team going? Even if somehow they still make the playoffs? What is gonna happen? News flash, nothing, Nothing is gonna happen. They're not gonna win a game. They're going nowhere. I think the easiest thing to do in football is like, well, how do we upgrade? And I got this the other day in a mailbag question Well, because this guy basically was saying that Pete Carroll is one of the most overrated coaches in the NFL over the last couple of years, when you know their defense is terrible. He's a defensive head coach. They've invested all this money, and it's so easy for everyone in the outside to go, well, how are you gonna upgrade over Pete Carroll? How are you gonna do better? Well, if you always have that mindset, how are you ever gonna make any progress? And I think the Steelers really hang their hat on. Well, we've had three coaches in a seventy five years. Okay, that's good. Uh and over a couple of them. You want a bunch of super Bowls. But the last I checked, you guys haven't won Dick in a long time. So how about we make a change. Not because we think Mike Tomlin sucks. Jeffrey Leary didn't think Andy Reid sucks. He just knew it was time. And I think when you watch the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I'm someone that picked them to not only win the division, but compete with the Chiefs to win the conference. I had so much belief in this team in the preseason and believe the hype and Kenny Pickett and I feel like an idiot and I watch him, especially these last two weeks, I'm like, it's over cut the cord. I don't mean fire him now, but at the end of the season, like go your separate ways, He'll immediately get another job and go get another coach, because guess what your job offer would immediately be. The Chargers, if they were willing to pay anything, would be number one because they have justin Herbert right that job immediately would be sweet just because of the quarterback. But there is no job that would be better than like, you want to be the coach. I don't know of a team that never fires anybody that you'd be really high, even with some of your flaws. So Tomlin orded me to get a job, and everyone would be lined up to be the head coach of the Pittsburgh fucking Steelers. It's like the New York Yankees, like the LA Lakers, like the Dallas Cowboys, like Alabama football. It's like Duke basketball, Like people want that job. It means a lot. It's why Mike Tomlin never wants to let go. I don't blame him. It's an elite job. It's why he was so offended a couple of years ago when they're like, hey, would you want to take a hundred million dollars to be the head coach of the USC Trojans? And he was, I mean he was. I've never seen a guy so angry over being rumored for another job. And I understand it because you would never take the USC job. You're the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But I just think it's time. And then when you watch the New England Patriots. Bill is not some idiot. Listen, He's old, and we can question how good of a GM is. He clearly has some issues, but when just look at his ability to influence the game as a defensive head coach, he's been excellent. Like he's still really good and you can only like Bailey Zappi. He's playing with Bailey Zappie. Now, if you want to crush him for drafting Mac Jones, I gladly will. That's not in a million years. If I would rather like, hey, I want you to draft this guy at fifteen, I'd say fire me. I would never take that guy. And I said it with Kenny Pickett at twenty. I'm not a believer in taking that guy in the first round. I can't do it. I won't do it. To quote Mike Singletary, but he did it, and he was desperate for a quarterback, and this year's bit him in the ass. And I was thinking when they were kicking the Steelers' ass and it was like twenty one to three or something, if he just had a decent offense. With how good his defense has been in some of these games, I mean, they're probably a five and seventeen, and then they win the night. All of a sudden, they're like, like, they're not They're not an embarrassment. Now I still believe what I've been saying for a while. It's time to end this. No different with Tomlin. Some things come to an end, right. Some divorces are inevitable. And in coaching, you don't get to like go out like John Elway like I'm going out on top. It's not the way it works. You get fired. Check the history of any coach they get shit canned. I think Belichick. I read this article on The Athletic about his trade value. They basically polled and talked to a bunch of anonymous gms and executives around the NFL, and some believe like you'd still get a first round pick for Bill Belichick. Some believed to be complicated because you know, he doesn't necessarily have a GM that comes hand in hand. He's the GM and most people don't want him to be the GM. But as a coach, it can't be really disputed. You would take especially let's use the Commanders as an example. If they got Belichick, Let's say, let's let's do it this way. If if I ran the Eagles and I ran the Cowboys. Would I rather have the Commanders hire anybody or Bill Belichick? Right, Ben Johnson or Brian Johnson or whoever. Mike McDaniel's guy is just go around in the league, all these quote unquote hot shot offensive coordinators. I would pay them to hire one of those guys because history would say a lot like a quarterback, that that guy is a fifty to fifty proposition at best, right, Bill Belichick, Like if they actually have some players there, And like I've been saying forever, I was asked this the other day, like, what do you think happens with Sam Howe? Do you think that the Washington would they draft a quarterback? I said, until I know who their coach is, I don't think we can speculate on what the hell they're gonna do. Because if you tell me that Bill Belichick is their head coach, I could see him being like, I could win eight or nine games with Sam Howe.

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I remember Jim Harbaugh got that head coaching job for the forty nine ers. Alex Smith was a joke. He's like, I want Alex Smith to stay here. What happened the next year? They won thirteen games, they made it to the NFC Championship. So I think Bill Belichick's offseason is going to be fascinating. Now. I don't know the crafts. I'm not saying that it's a one hundred percent lock that they fire him. Maybe they look there's no better options, But I do think it's time to break up, and I think they get some for him right now. And I think he's gonna have a lot of value in the open market. Like I said earlier this week on a podcast, he has his offensive coordinator available. Like part of Bill Belichick, the power that is him. We talk a lot about Brady, it's actually Josh. When you give Josh to Bill Belichick. Two years ago, they made the playoffs with Mac Jones. Mac Jones is terrible. So I think you're looking at two franchises here. I think they got new coaches next year. I think both of them have new coaches next year. And it's easier for me to say that with New England because of everything that's trans fired over the last couple of years. It's easy to argue, like, oh, Pittsburgh's not gonna I think we're no different than them. We all see it like it's kind of over. I saw Sean McDermott. I didn't have access to the article. I don't subscribe to the sub sac that tied Dunn Wrights. But there was an incident in twenty nineteen where Sean McDermott said something about nine to eleven, which I watched a press conference today, that he had friends DIY in nine to eleven. He's a New York guy. To me, I don't even I have no take on that. I can't. It was hard for me even to follow the story. But one thing's pretty clear because something I said about Brian day Ball a couple of weeks ago, which I stand by that his coaching staff is not big believers in the guy, not a huge fan of Brian Dabele is someone that covers the Giants. A couple of days ago text me and said, you got pretty good sources on Brian Dable and we started texting, like you think Brian da Ball could lose his job with the Giants? And he's like, oh, it depends on the maras. But the one thing I could see if Sean McDermott were to lose his job him try to get back to the Bills of course. I mean, you'd rather be with Josh Allen than anything the Giants have. And I started thinking that Sean McDermott, like to me, given their history, even if this year gets weird and they miss I believe he's earned enough these last three years, thirteen eleven and thirteen wins to maintain his job. But that's not the way football works. These owners have never been richer, they've never been less emotionless when they turn on a coach. It's never been easier for them to get rid of a guy, regardless of his contract. So if the Bills were to end up, let's just say, look at their schedule eight and nine, it's not inconceivable that Sean McDermott is fired. And for the first time, when I watched Sean again, like I didn't know all the contexts of this nine to eleven story in twenty nineteen, it was kind of irrelevant. All I know is there was a lot of heat when it comes to this organization. There is a lot of urgency to win, and win now in these next two weeks at Kansas City and then play in Dallas might be the guy's Buffalo career. And I've known Sean for a long time. Whenever I see him, he's cool. When I text him, he texted me back. I'm a Sean McDermott fan. Now, I've never worked for him as the head coach. Like Listen, I can only speak to my relationship with him. I like the guy. I think he's I've always thought he was one of the most impressive guys in my thirty nine years of life. I've ever been around his discipline, his work ethic. You know some of these stories that come out that he can be a dick. I never really saw that. He's always cool to me, but clearly sometimes a defensive head coach when you have an offensive oriented I mean, they're a quarterback driven team. Things can splinter fast, and there are a lot of stories anytimes. But I think this guy needs to win. I think he needs to win fast, and I think these next two games, because all of a sudden, you beat the Chiefs and the Cowboys and you're eight and six and headed toward the playoffs to be a ten or eleven win team. Everything's okay. Help Maybe you win a playoff game in a big upset fashion and everyone likes you again. But you go eight to nine. You miss the playoffs, things can turn on your fast and these owners have so much money. You could kind of feel the tension when he was answering this question about something that happened. At first. When I was watching this press conference and trying to figure out what was going on, I like, he said this last week, trying to galvanize the team when shit was hitting the fan. No, this happened a long time ago. I'm like, God, when that type stuff happens, I got red flags on your operation. And I do think that there's a legitimate heat. So this is a massive, massive weekend for the Bills, and listen to Andy Reid and the Chiefs, whose team is not as good as it's been. But to play them after a loss at home is not an ideal spot. I know a lot of people are like, oh, it's a great spot for the Bills after a loss, I mean at home in Kansas City. I don't know. I think it's gonna be very tough. A couple more things. The Jags were robbed of twenty two million dollars over four years. I saw someone tweet out that said, if anything has ever symbolized the success of the National Football League, over the last decade, an NFL team could be robbed by an employee of twenty two million dollars and it took them years to notice. And it's one thing the Cowboys, the Niners, you know, some of these the packers, some of these huge brands, the Jags, which got to be a bottom five quote unquote brand. Pretty wild story. I mean I read some of the athletic stories. This guy's buying cryptocurrency, he's buying poor. I mean, this guy twenty two million dollars. And listen, anytime, I've known some people that have had some small businesses, some really small, you know, talking maybe a million or two in revenue, and others that were probably way more than that that have been robbed by people that had worked for them. Money's all relative, and whether you own a company, you're not accounting for every dollar, you're not getting daily printouts. It's not as crazy as you think getting robbed by an employee. And I know I had a very very close friend get in one of these situations for less money than this. And I think sometimes the employee feels they look at you, they're envious is probably the wrong way to put it. They go, I'm doing just as much work as you. What we're equals. Why don't I have any access to this money? And I think sometimes you get a convoluted, especially if you're a little crazy. I would imagine this happens more than you realize, because for every public incident this happened to the Sacramento Kings years ago and the Jags, I think it happens to a lot of companies with a lot of people. I know the two people that had it happen to them that I know they trusted these people like to the end degree. I know one of them was a girl, and they would have trusted their lives with this girl. I actually went to high school with her, and she robbed them of hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I do think that this stuff is a little more prevalent than most of us realize. And other than that, before we get the bull take, Roger Goodell called Vegas Sportstown, USA. One thing that's pretty clear in my lifetime for the majority, like in the nineties, the last fifteen years up util the last couple of years, it's crazy how anti gambling all these leagues were, and it just shows you, like most of these people don't actually care. Like I've said this forever, with marijuana and the NFL testing for it, Like half the owners are probably high as I speak right now. They don't care about weed. They just care about the insurance premiums, the reason that they have to test the guy. It's all based on money. It's all just a spreadsheet. It's not there's no emotion involved. It's not because they actually care that their starting wide receiver dB is getting high three times a week, the owners getting high seven times a week. It's irrelevant. It's all about the bottom line. And I think the owners most rich people. If you've ever gone to Vegas, hell, you don't even need to have money. I went there, you know, poor as a guy on the street. When I was in college. I had no money. I had to take a credit line from my credit card to get one thousand dollars to gamble that weekend for my buddy's twenty first birthday. And I was like, this fucking place is in the first time I ever went to Vegas, I was twenty four one years old. I had one hundred dollars in my name. The only money I had was like my three thousand dollars credit card that I had to use to get some actual cash. This place was incredible. I can't even imagine that I've been since when I have more money. But being an NFL owner obviously the NFL player people love Vegas. If you have money, it's very fun. There's a lot to do, and they don't even need to hide it anymore. And the Super Bowls there this year. I think more big events are going to go. They remember when Kamara got in trouble for beating someone up at a club. They had the Pro Bowl there. This place is gonna be the mecca sports. So when Roger calls it Sportstown, USA, I don't think necessarily it's Sportstown, USA. But it's a vent in town, USA, and it's big event town USA. It's cool shit happens USA and the NFL. While they have a team that is not very good there right now, it's kind of irrelevant. Stadium's cool and they have access to it, and it's probably the best thing they've done in recent memory. Because the Oakland area has now lost three teams in six seven years. And if we were starting any franch from scratch, we could list one hundred places Oakland would not be one of them. They will never ever get another professional team ever again. And Vegas is gonna have all four teams within the next three or four years. Right, they got a baseball team, They're gonna have a basketball team. They obviously have a football team, and they have a hockey team. And I was someone, now, I was close to it. I was working with the Raiders. I didn't want to see them go. It's the best thing that ever happened in the NFL. It's obviously the best thing that ever happened to the Raiders financially. But the NFL use them right, the Chargers. It didn't matter where you put them. Throw the Chargers with the Rams and put the Raiders. I think it worked out really, really perfectly. Now, ideally, I think if you could do it over again, if I was in charge, I would put the Rams in La I would have kept the Chargers of San Diego, and I would have put the Raiders in Vegas, and then I think we would have had something. But regardless where the Chargers are, it probably doesn't matter. Before we get out of here. My bold take of the Week brought to you by my friends at Guinness. Now I'm hot, right, I just had Alabama beaten Georgia and they took care of business. There's the Army Navy game is this week. Is the only college game which I got to go to when I was in Philadelphia. I would highly recommend it is you know, the football, both teams run like basically the wing tea, but the entire event, the pageantry, the opening equivalent of the acts and everyone flying, it's badass. It's if you like football like America, just it's fucking incredible. But no, take there. I've never I haven't watched one snap this this year of Army and Navy. Obviously both programs are down. I do think, you know, listen the Texans, what they've done this year is incredible and I would buy if they were a stock, I'd put one hundred grand into them yesterday for the next five years. I think they are like a rocket ship. I don't think they're a lot to make the playoffs this year, even how things are shaping now, I don't think that basically, could they may end up eleven and six, They could end up ten and seven and be in the playoffs. I also think it wouldn't shock me if they end up nine to eight. I think this week is the perfect storm. Big win against En Brickney at home. Obviously the Jags win, everyone's feeling each other. And then you go to New York and everyone, including myself, Jets sock terrible organization, just fold the franchise. Zach Wilson doesn't want to play. I could see Zach Wilson having a big game. You know why, None of it fucking matters. It doesn't matter. What does anyone have to lose anymore? Clearly, no one's getting fired, the offensive coordinators coming back from Rogers, Zack Wilson's not gonna be there whatever, He's got nothing to lose. I think the Jets win this week. Listen, it's the ultimate trap spot. But I also think it's just it's just a weird spot that they would be one of the last teams I'd want to play on the road given the situation. I just think things get weird and I think the Jets win, and I think Zach Wilson listen, I think it's a one off situation. My guess is Zach Wilson looks good this weekend. That is my bold take, brought to you by Guinness. Gather your friends, raise your glasses and toast to al Win Guinness drafts out imported by Diagio Beer Company USA, New York, New York. Please drink responsibly. Okay, let's talk about my friends at Morgan and Morgan. Do you know that getting in an accident is hard? 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Okay, back at it with my main man, Stucky. If you're watching this on a little thing called YouTube, make sure you subscribe. If you're listening to the pod, go subscribe to his podcast Big Bets on Campus. We got bowl games, we got a lot of bull games, and I already got a strong bull take for the Final four in terms of one of the games that I don't like, I love. You can just find him on Twitter hammering out winners, because that's what he did last week forty nine Ers winner, Houston Texans winner, Green Bay Packers winner, and if you threw in my logic with Nick Saban winner, I mean we were just handing out some cash last weekend, Stucky.

I remember Jim Harbaugh got that head coaching job for the forty nine ers. Alex Smith was a joke. He's like, I want Alex Smith to stay here. What happened the next year? They won thirteen games, they made it to the NFC Championship. So I think Bill Belichick's offseason is going to be fascinating. Now. I don't know the crafts. I'm not saying that it's a one hundred percent lock that they fire him. Maybe they look there's no better options, But I do think it's time to break up, and I think they get some for him right now. And I think he's gonna have a lot of value in the open market. Like I said earlier this week on a podcast, he has his offensive coordinator available. Like part of Bill Belichick, the power that is him. We talk a lot about Brady, it's actually Josh. When you give Josh to Bill Belichick. Two years ago, they made the playoffs with Mac Jones. Mac Jones is terrible. So I think you're looking at two franchises here. I think they got new coaches next year. I think both of them have new coaches next year. And it's easier for me to say that with New England because of everything that's trans fired over the last couple of years. It's easy to argue, like, oh, Pittsburgh's not gonna I think we're no different than them. We all see it like it's kind of over. I saw Sean McDermott. I didn't have access to the article. I don't subscribe to the sub sac that tied Dunn Wrights. But there was an incident in twenty nineteen where Sean McDermott said something about nine to eleven, which I watched a press conference today, that he had friends DIY in nine to eleven. He's a New York guy. To me, I don't even I have no take on that. I can't. It was hard for me even to follow the story. But one thing's pretty clear because something I said about Brian day Ball a couple of weeks ago, which I stand by that his coaching staff is not big believers in the guy, not a huge fan of Brian Dabele is someone that covers the Giants. A couple of days ago text me and said, you got pretty good sources on Brian Dable and we started texting, like you think Brian da Ball could lose his job with the Giants? And he's like, oh, it depends on the maras. But the one thing I could see if Sean McDermott were to lose his job him try to get back to the Bills of course. I mean, you'd rather be with Josh Allen than anything the Giants have. And I started thinking that Sean McDermott, like to me, given their history, even if this year gets weird and they miss I believe he's earned enough these last three years, thirteen eleven and thirteen wins to maintain his job. But that's not the way football works. These owners have never been richer, they've never been less emotionless when they turn on a coach. It's never been easier for them to get rid of a guy, regardless of his contract. So if the Bills were to end up, let's just say, look at their schedule eight and nine, it's not inconceivable that Sean McDermott is fired. And for the first time, when I watched Sean again, like I didn't know all the contexts of this nine to eleven story in twenty nineteen, it was kind of irrelevant. All I know is there was a lot of heat when it comes to this organization. There is a lot of urgency to win, and win now in these next two weeks at Kansas City and then play in Dallas might be the guy's Buffalo career. And I've known Sean for a long time. Whenever I see him, he's cool. When I text him, he texted me back. I'm a Sean McDermott fan. Now, I've never worked for him as the head coach. Like Listen, I can only speak to my relationship with him. I like the guy. I think he's I've always thought he was one of the most impressive guys in my thirty nine years of life. I've ever been around his discipline, his work ethic. You know some of these stories that come out that he can be a dick. I never really saw that. He's always cool to me, but clearly sometimes a defensive head coach when you have an offensive oriented I mean, they're a quarterback driven team. Things can splinter fast, and there are a lot of stories anytimes. But I think this guy needs to win. I think he needs to win fast, and I think these next two games, because all of a sudden, you beat the Chiefs and the Cowboys and you're eight and six and headed toward the playoffs to be a ten or eleven win team. Everything's okay. Help Maybe you win a playoff game in a big upset fashion and everyone likes you again. But you go eight to nine. You miss the playoffs, things can turn on your fast and these owners have so much money. You could kind of feel the tension when he was answering this question about something that happened. At first. When I was watching this press conference and trying to figure out what was going on, I like, he said this last week, trying to galvanize the team when shit was hitting the fan. No, this happened a long time ago. I'm like, God, when that type stuff happens, I got red flags on your operation. And I do think that there's a legitimate heat. So this is a massive, massive weekend for the Bills, and listen to Andy Reid and the Chiefs, whose team is not as good as it's been. But to play them after a loss at home is not an ideal spot. I know a lot of people are like, oh, it's a great spot for the Bills after a loss, I mean at home in Kansas City. I don't know. I think it's gonna be very tough. A couple more things. The Jags were robbed of twenty two million dollars over four years. I saw someone tweet out that said, if anything has ever symbolized the success of the National Football League, over the last decade, an NFL team could be robbed by an employee of twenty two million dollars and it took them years to notice. And it's one thing the Cowboys, the Niners, you know, some of these the packers, some of these huge brands, the Jags, which got to be a bottom five quote unquote brand. Pretty wild story. I mean I read some of the athletic stories. This guy's buying cryptocurrency, he's buying poor. I mean, this guy twenty two million dollars. And listen, anytime, I've known some people that have had some small businesses, some really small, you know, talking maybe a million or two in revenue, and others that were probably way more than that that have been robbed by people that had worked for them. Money's all relative, and whether you own a company, you're not accounting for every dollar, you're not getting daily printouts. It's not as crazy as you think getting robbed by an employee. And I know I had a very very close friend get in one of these situations for less money than this. And I think sometimes the employee feels they look at you, they're envious is probably the wrong way to put it. They go, I'm doing just as much work as you. What we're equals. Why don't I have any access to this money? And I think sometimes you get a convoluted, especially if you're a little crazy. I would imagine this happens more than you realize, because for every public incident this happened to the Sacramento Kings years ago and the Jags, I think it happens to a lot of companies with a lot of people. I know the two people that had it happen to them that I know they trusted these people like to the end degree. I know one of them was a girl, and they would have trusted their lives with this girl. I actually went to high school with her, and she robbed them of hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I do think that this stuff is a little more prevalent than most of us realize. And other than that, before we get the bull take, Roger Goodell called Vegas Sportstown, USA. One thing that's pretty clear in my lifetime for the majority, like in the nineties, the last fifteen years up util the last couple of years, it's crazy how anti gambling all these leagues were, and it just shows you, like most of these people don't actually care. Like I've said this forever, with marijuana and the NFL testing for it, Like half the owners are probably high as I speak right now. They don't care about weed. They just care about the insurance premiums, the reason that they have to test the guy. It's all based on money. It's all just a spreadsheet. It's not there's no emotion involved. It's not because they actually care that their starting wide receiver dB is getting high three times a week, the owners getting high seven times a week. It's irrelevant. It's all about the bottom line. And I think the owners most rich people. If you've ever gone to Vegas, hell, you don't even need to have money. I went there, you know, poor as a guy on the street. When I was in college. I had no money. I had to take a credit line from my credit card to get one thousand dollars to gamble that weekend for my buddy's twenty first birthday. And I was like, this fucking place is in the first time I ever went to Vegas, I was twenty four one years old. I had one hundred dollars in my name. The only money I had was like my three thousand dollars credit card that I had to use to get some actual cash. This place was incredible. I can't even imagine that I've been since when I have more money. But being an NFL owner obviously the NFL player people love Vegas. If you have money, it's very fun. There's a lot to do, and they don't even need to hide it anymore. And the Super Bowls there this year. I think more big events are going to go. They remember when Kamara got in trouble for beating someone up at a club. They had the Pro Bowl there. This place is gonna be the mecca sports. So when Roger calls it Sportstown, USA, I don't think necessarily it's Sportstown, USA. But it's a vent in town, USA, and it's big event town USA. It's cool shit happens USA and the NFL. While they have a team that is not very good there right now, it's kind of irrelevant. Stadium's cool and they have access to it, and it's probably the best thing they've done in recent memory. Because the Oakland area has now lost three teams in six seven years. And if we were starting any franch from scratch, we could list one hundred places Oakland would not be one of them. They will never ever get another professional team ever again. And Vegas is gonna have all four teams within the next three or four years. Right, they got a baseball team, They're gonna have a basketball team. They obviously have a football team, and they have a hockey team. And I was someone, now, I was close to it. I was working with the Raiders. I didn't want to see them go. It's the best thing that ever happened in the NFL. It's obviously the best thing that ever happened to the Raiders financially. But the NFL use them right, the Chargers. It didn't matter where you put them. Throw the Chargers with the Rams and put the Raiders. I think it worked out really, really perfectly. Now, ideally, I think if you could do it over again, if I was in charge, I would put the Rams in La I would have kept the Chargers of San Diego, and I would have put the Raiders in Vegas, and then I think we would have had something. But regardless where the Chargers are, it probably doesn't matter. Before we get out of here. My bold take of the Week brought to you by my friends at Guinness. Now I'm hot, right, I just had Alabama beaten Georgia and they took care of business. There's the Army Navy game is this week. Is the only college game which I got to go to when I was in Philadelphia. I would highly recommend it is you know, the football, both teams run like basically the wing tea, but the entire event, the pageantry, the opening equivalent of the acts and everyone flying, it's badass. It's if you like football like America, just it's fucking incredible. But no, take there. I've never I haven't watched one snap this this year of Army and Navy. Obviously both programs are down. I do think, you know, listen the Texans, what they've done this year is incredible and I would buy if they were a stock, I'd put one hundred grand into them yesterday for the next five years. I think they are like a rocket ship. I don't think they're a lot to make the playoffs this year, even how things are shaping now, I don't think that basically, could they may end up eleven and six, They could end up ten and seven and be in the playoffs. I also think it wouldn't shock me if they end up nine to eight. I think this week is the perfect storm. Big win against En Brickney at home. Obviously the Jags win, everyone's feeling each other. And then you go to New York and everyone, including myself, Jets sock terrible organization, just fold the franchise. Zach Wilson doesn't want to play. I could see Zach Wilson having a big game. You know why, None of it fucking matters. It doesn't matter. What does anyone have to lose anymore? Clearly, no one's getting fired, the offensive coordinators coming back from Rogers, Zack Wilson's not gonna be there whatever, He's got nothing to lose. I think the Jets win this week. Listen, it's the ultimate trap spot. But I also think it's just it's just a weird spot that they would be one of the last teams I'd want to play on the road given the situation. I just think things get weird and I think the Jets win, and I think Zach Wilson listen, I think it's a one off situation. My guess is Zach Wilson looks good this weekend. That is my bold take, brought to you by Guinness. Gather your friends, raise your glasses and toast to al Win Guinness drafts out imported by Diagio Beer Company USA, New York, New York. Please drink responsibly. Okay, let's talk about my friends at Morgan and Morgan. Do you know that getting in an accident is hard? 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Okay, back at it with my main man, Stucky. If you're watching this on a little thing called YouTube, make sure you subscribe. If you're listening to the pod, go subscribe to his podcast Big Bets on Campus. We got bowl games, we got a lot of bull games, and I already got a strong bull take for the Final four in terms of one of the games that I don't like, I love. You can just find him on Twitter hammering out winners, because that's what he did last week forty nine Ers winner, Houston Texans winner, Green Bay Packers winner, and if you threw in my logic with Nick Saban winner, I mean we were just handing out some cash last weekend, Stucky.

Yeah, it was good weekend. It's been a good month plus in the NFL, good season. So hopefully we can close strong. Are you gonna share the vulger apoletic? Are you gonna save that for our episode?

Yeah, it was good weekend. It's been a good month plus in the NFL, good season. So hopefully we can close strong. Are you gonna share the vulger apoletic? Are you gonna save that for our episode?

No? No, well it'll be I mean, we got we got a month, so we might as well a month, right. So here's the thing. And I regretted it immediately when I saw it.

No? No, well it'll be I mean, we got we got a month, so we might as well a month, right. So here's the thing. And I regretted it immediately when I saw it.

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I'm a Frisno State guy, so I've been watching Kaylan Dubor's career. The guy's a fucking ass kicker. Now, his team looked weird at times, but he's proven this a big game, that guy can really coach. Now he's got a month if I believe that Kaylin Dubor is a top five ish coach. It's happened pretty quickly the last but I think if you just project him right where he's gonna be viewed schematically. His staff, grub his offensive coordinator that Saban tried to hire. I'm a Sark hater historically, I'll give him his credit this year team stacked conference sucks though, and he does have a high payroll right with the nil, but his team looks good. I cannot after watching what he did against Oregon and Dan Lanning and Tosh Lupoi. I mean, Oregon's got a high priced staff with a bunch of players. I thought he took it to him on Friday night, and that was a game. I would imagine they say it's fifty to fifty. That place was rocking with green and Kaylin Dubor is just a big time coach. You give him a month. You know, it's like Saban as an underdog in that game. You had to be thinking, like, of course his team was ready to roll, you know, against Georgia, who's not as good. Now, this to me, the talent discrepancy of Texas and Washington. You know, you could argue it's a coin flip because obviously Texas is loaded, but Washington's pretty loaded too. They got a ton of guys are gonna get drafted in the first round. They got a ton of draft players. I'm just betting on the coach. And when you're gonna give me five and a half six, I mean the number is pretty high, bro. And I for a guy that look at historically on Steve Sarkizi and it's not like he's banging out ten and eleven win seasons. This is kind of This isn't kind of. This is an outlier year for him, and he's really benefited That conference sucked this year relative I think like two years ago last year was really good. So I'm just I'm I'm gonna hammer. I might put an uncomfortable amount of money on Washington within the next week as long as that number stays about where it is and it hasn't budged, So I what do you think about the logic there? Just Kaylin Dubor against Sark getting a lot of points like that seems crazy to me.

I'm a Frisno State guy, so I've been watching Kaylan Dubor's career. The guy's a fucking ass kicker. Now, his team looked weird at times, but he's proven this a big game, that guy can really coach. Now he's got a month if I believe that Kaylin Dubor is a top five ish coach. It's happened pretty quickly the last but I think if you just project him right where he's gonna be viewed schematically. His staff, grub his offensive coordinator that Saban tried to hire. I'm a Sark hater historically, I'll give him his credit this year team stacked conference sucks though, and he does have a high payroll right with the nil, but his team looks good. I cannot after watching what he did against Oregon and Dan Lanning and Tosh Lupoi. I mean, Oregon's got a high priced staff with a bunch of players. I thought he took it to him on Friday night, and that was a game. I would imagine they say it's fifty to fifty. That place was rocking with green and Kaylin Dubor is just a big time coach. You give him a month. You know, it's like Saban as an underdog in that game. You had to be thinking, like, of course his team was ready to roll, you know, against Georgia, who's not as good. Now, this to me, the talent discrepancy of Texas and Washington. You know, you could argue it's a coin flip because obviously Texas is loaded, but Washington's pretty loaded too. They got a ton of guys are gonna get drafted in the first round. They got a ton of draft players. I'm just betting on the coach. And when you're gonna give me five and a half six, I mean the number is pretty high, bro. And I for a guy that look at historically on Steve Sarkizi and it's not like he's banging out ten and eleven win seasons. This is kind of This isn't kind of. This is an outlier year for him, and he's really benefited That conference sucked this year relative I think like two years ago last year was really good. So I'm just I'm I'm gonna hammer. I might put an uncomfortable amount of money on Washington within the next week as long as that number stays about where it is and it hasn't budged, So I what do you think about the logic there? Just Kaylin Dubor against Sark getting a lot of points like that seems crazy to me.

Yeah, I would leave. I haven't dove in fully yet. The bull market and those games are they're the market will be pretty settled, like it's not it's not gonna go to Mission, it's not gonna go to Texas three. So and they're like big betters who would move the market. They're not gonna tie up credit for that long and so. And you know they have the Michigan Alabama line, which is it's not going to get the three either way, and this is going to stay a buff Brey. So you have time as of right now, you know, I have like weeks to dive into this matchup in depth. Yeah, I would lean Washington for a couple of reasons you mentioned de war. I mean, not to get two into the weeds. But yeah, I just don't think that the market properly accounts for how good he is, even if you go back to his days as in OC at Indiana Fresno, Eastern Michigan, and then even take his time at FCS Southern Illinois I think.

Yeah, I would leave. I haven't dove in fully yet. The bull market and those games are they're the market will be pretty settled, like it's not it's not gonna go to Mission, it's not gonna go to Texas three. So and they're like big betters who would move the market. They're not gonna tie up credit for that long and so. And you know they have the Michigan Alabama line, which is it's not going to get the three either way, and this is going to stay a buff Brey. So you have time as of right now, you know, I have like weeks to dive into this matchup in depth. Yeah, I would lean Washington for a couple of reasons you mentioned de war. I mean, not to get two into the weeds. But yeah, I just don't think that the market properly accounts for how good he is, even if you go back to his days as in OC at Indiana Fresno, Eastern Michigan, and then even take his time at FCS Southern Illinois I think.

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Oh yeah, Southern Illinois as a coordinator head coach since twenty ten, his teams are like sixty eight percent against the spread. I mean he has just been a consistently good bet from a matchup standpoint too. And number one, look, Washington did look weird. There were some rumors that they were dealing with the flu for a couple of weeks. Their defense had a ton of injuries. They were finally healthy, they started playing brunermore at linebacker. Blah blah. I won't get two into weeds. But and then they also they have three Sunday receivers who are now finally all fully healthy. You know, you got McMillan polk in the donsday, all finally healthy for the first time in a while.

Oh yeah, Southern Illinois as a coordinator head coach since twenty ten, his teams are like sixty eight percent against the spread. I mean he has just been a consistently good bet from a matchup standpoint too. And number one, look, Washington did look weird. There were some rumors that they were dealing with the flu for a couple of weeks. Their defense had a ton of injuries. They were finally healthy, they started playing brunermore at linebacker. Blah blah. I won't get two into weeds. But and then they also they have three Sunday receivers who are now finally all fully healthy. You know, you got McMillan polk in the donsday, all finally healthy for the first time in a while.

The running back that Mississippi State transfers pretty good too, Like, yeah, I would throw him out.

The running back that Mississippi State transfers pretty good too, Like, yeah, I would throw him out.

I would assume that's what the war is going to do here. You cannot run on Texas. Nobody can't do it. Don't try it. I mean, Alabama could not Allie Gordon with Oak State. No one can. And their d line is unbelievable. It can't run. But their secondary has some weaknesses that's typically a corner. So Washington come out, spread them out with your three Sunday receivers, and I think that they'll have some they'll have success there. So yeah, I think that this probably should be a field goal. I think it's too high. I would I would lean Washington with you coaching edge for sure for Washington, especially with this much time to prepare. And uh yeah, I don't. I don't hate your take it all. Xavier Worthy to for Texas one of the best receiver returnment in the country. I doubt he plays. I mean, Sark's going to not give anything away, but he's on crutches after the game, after their their big twelve championship game, so we'll see on his status. He's really important with their most explosive receiver, one of the best returnment in the country as well, so that would be a big loss. But the weakness on this Texas team is their secondary and with your three healthy receivers now with Pennix in a month of prepare that Texas defense could be in trouble. Texas is gonna get its points as well, even though Washington's defense is playing better. I would lean your side, and it should be an awesome watch should be a highly entertaining game. There's a reason that the total is a sixty four.

I would assume that's what the war is going to do here. You cannot run on Texas. Nobody can't do it. Don't try it. I mean, Alabama could not Allie Gordon with Oak State. No one can. And their d line is unbelievable. It can't run. But their secondary has some weaknesses that's typically a corner. So Washington come out, spread them out with your three Sunday receivers, and I think that they'll have some they'll have success there. So yeah, I think that this probably should be a field goal. I think it's too high. I would I would lean Washington with you coaching edge for sure for Washington, especially with this much time to prepare. And uh yeah, I don't. I don't hate your take it all. Xavier Worthy to for Texas one of the best receiver returnment in the country. I doubt he plays. I mean, Sark's going to not give anything away, but he's on crutches after the game, after their their big twelve championship game, so we'll see on his status. He's really important with their most explosive receiver, one of the best returnment in the country as well, so that would be a big loss. But the weakness on this Texas team is their secondary and with your three healthy receivers now with Pennix in a month of prepare that Texas defense could be in trouble. Texas is gonna get its points as well, even though Washington's defense is playing better. I would lean your side, and it should be an awesome watch should be a highly entertaining game. There's a reason that the total is a sixty four.

When I think it's the primetime game. I think the Alabama Michigan is the first game, and they put that one out.

When I think it's the primetime game. I think the Alabama Michigan is the first game, and they put that one out.

That might not be the most exciting watch. So yeah, I think they got it.

That might not be the most exciting watch. So yeah, I think they got it.

Yeah, because last year wasn't Ohio State and Georgia was the second game, and it was it was pretty unreal. I think if you substitute, now, we got a ways to go. He's got to prove that he could do it for a long period of time at this level. But if we just look back in five years and let's say he's won the Big Ten and he's viewed as like no one even argues it. Like if you just put Kirby or Harball or you know, some Brian Kelly or just a guy with a lot of name recognition as the coach of this Washington team, do you think you could shave two points immediately off that spread just the initial number?

Yeah, because last year wasn't Ohio State and Georgia was the second game, and it was it was pretty unreal. I think if you substitute, now, we got a ways to go. He's got to prove that he could do it for a long period of time at this level. But if we just look back in five years and let's say he's won the Big Ten and he's viewed as like no one even argues it. Like if you just put Kirby or Harball or you know, some Brian Kelly or just a guy with a lot of name recognition as the coach of this Washington team, do you think you could shave two points immediately off that spread just the initial number?

Yeah, I mean I could tell you that in like the very very deep sharp betting groups. De Borr is one of the most highly respected coaches in all of college football. So and you know, those groups and people tend to be a little ahead of the general market and in the general public for sure. So yeah, there's a reason he garners a ton of respect in some of the sharper circles that follow college football the closest. So yeah, I would agree with you. There's no reason to believe that his reputation and market guy is just only going to climb.

Yeah, I mean I could tell you that in like the very very deep sharp betting groups. De Borr is one of the most highly respected coaches in all of college football. So and you know, those groups and people tend to be a little ahead of the general market and in the general public for sure. So yeah, there's a reason he garners a ton of respect in some of the sharper circles that follow college football the closest. So yeah, I would agree with you. There's no reason to believe that his reputation and market guy is just only going to climb.

Well, even if you know, let's say, you know, there was a recording this right after a story about Harbaugh being offered eleven million dollars, but he can't interview with NFL teams, Like, guys, you do know NFL teams pay like fifteen to twenty million dollars, So it's like it sounds like a lot of money to ninety nine point nine percent of people. But relative to his profession and his like he can make, someone would gladly pay Sean Paygne's got eighteen million dollars a year. So if you don't think Harbaugh someone would give him a number in that world, you're out of your mind. But let's just say he leaves to the NFL, now I know, the assistant offensive line coach or not, He's not the assistant officent. He's the old line coach O C. Sharon Moore, who did an awesome job with Harbaugh out. You know, at a job like that, you're not just a lock to give it to someone like that. To me, Debor is the guy that Michigan would immediately call. Now you could argue Seattle great place, are going to the Big Ten, But let's face it, I mean, Michigan is just a better job than Washington. I'm a West Coast guy, honestly, is probably not even close. So and Washington's an awesome job, right, So I mean Michigan's like fucking coaching the Cowboys or something, you know, the Yankees. I mean, it's a top two or three job in all college football. And you have to wonder, you know what he like? If I told you in a month that he's the head coach of Michigan, it's not the craziest thing to happen, right, if you factor in some of the variables of Hardball leaves.

Well, even if you know, let's say, you know, there was a recording this right after a story about Harbaugh being offered eleven million dollars, but he can't interview with NFL teams, Like, guys, you do know NFL teams pay like fifteen to twenty million dollars, So it's like it sounds like a lot of money to ninety nine point nine percent of people. But relative to his profession and his like he can make, someone would gladly pay Sean Paygne's got eighteen million dollars a year. So if you don't think Harbaugh someone would give him a number in that world, you're out of your mind. But let's just say he leaves to the NFL, now I know, the assistant offensive line coach or not, He's not the assistant officent. He's the old line coach O C. Sharon Moore, who did an awesome job with Harbaugh out. You know, at a job like that, you're not just a lock to give it to someone like that. To me, Debor is the guy that Michigan would immediately call. Now you could argue Seattle great place, are going to the Big Ten, But let's face it, I mean, Michigan is just a better job than Washington. I'm a West Coast guy, honestly, is probably not even close. So and Washington's an awesome job, right, So I mean Michigan's like fucking coaching the Cowboys or something, you know, the Yankees. I mean, it's a top two or three job in all college football. And you have to wonder, you know what he like? If I told you in a month that he's the head coach of Michigan, it's not the craziest thing to happen, right, if you factor in some of the variables of Hardball leaves.

Yeah, And I also could see if Harball stays, Big Ten gets tougher next year, Ohio State still doesn't have a reliable quarterback situation. If they disappoint again, day is gone.

Yeah, And I also could see if Harball stays, Big Ten gets tougher next year, Ohio State still doesn't have a reliable quarterback situation. If they disappoint again, day is gone.

And disappoint could just be you know, he'd go eleven and one, he loses that game again.

And disappoint could just be you know, he'd go eleven and one, he loses that game again.

He's that game again. I could see the wor going there. I definitely think he's going to eventually get a bigger job. He's probably the top name I would imagine if one of those spots opens up.

He's that game again. I could see the wor going there. I definitely think he's going to eventually get a bigger job. He's probably the top name I would imagine if one of those spots opens up.

You watch a lot of college football, you know, I guess I'm a little biased. I don't watch as much Big Ten. Besides, you know, the two main teams that matter the most, I'm just not Wisconsin Iowa. I'd fucking rather watch paint ry. You know, games like that, just given the way they've played lately, are Oregon Washington going into the next year just gonna clearly be like the three and four teams right behind Michigan Ohio State.