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Dan Byer's alongside Jason Stewart's alongside we got a cast of a bunch of a bunch. You know what we do is we like to reflect. And last week was a big reflection week, right, New Years and et cetera. Well, now we reflect on the weekend and so so every Monday. And by the way, Ben Bollen's going to join us about midway through the hour. Ben covers the league for the Boston Globe, but he's been the beat reporter for the Patriots. So why Girodmeyo got fired? I think he'll know and does it? Is it directly correlating with the fact that Brabel wants the job?
Is that the plan? Well we'll find out.
But every Monday we kind of take a breath, look back at the weekend and decide what we love what we hated from the weekend.
We call it love and hate.
What did you love?
God? I love you?
And what did you hate?
Needles play?
Hey?
Is okay?
The love segment feels like it feels like a Dan Byer thing right. Dan's got a lot of love in his heart, loves sports, loves his family, loves his job.
Danny, what'd you love from the weekend? Dog?
This one may be hidden in the weeds a little bit, but there's there's just something There's I could go with the Seahawks great ten win season, which ten end up in a playoff berth, which may just as well be my hate. But there's something that happens throughout the holiday season and really gets ramped up around this time, and especially because of the college football playoff that ends up being on ESPN, Doug, it's been the rolling outs of the Masters promos. Now, the first one actually had happened in late mid to late December where we get the video of the drive down Magnolia Lane and the Great Green Lush Fairways that is Augusta National. But it really does get amped up here around the New year and in this final part of the season, because it's like the networks, CBS and ESPN specifically, are just trying to tell you it's twenty twenty five, you know what I mean, Like this is we are in the new year. Let's look ahead. And it had been the unveiling of the Masters promos and commercials that they have to hype the event coming up in April. I know, parts of the Midwest are, you know, kit with this horrible storm of snow and ice and hopefully they can be safe, but it gives you that little bit of spring, that hope of spring.
You know.
The commercials that I'm talking about, you know, the ads just it's not it's not anything you know, out of the ordinary, but everything is extraordinary when it comes comes to the Masters so it's just the unleashing of the Masters promos that I just felt that I saw a lot more over this past weekend.
All right, Jill, let's go to Ryan Smith.
Ryan, thanks for the response. Guys, nobody else saw. Thank you. Move it on. Jim Nantz is no longer doing it correct or No, he's not four.
No, he's not doing the Final Four. He's doing the.
Yes, which I think is the reason why he's not doing the Final Four because he can spend more time doing because it's that same week.
Yes, that's just that's what he loves.
I mean, he loves he he's been synonymous with the Final Four, but Iron Egle deserves a shot. But the Masters his like the Masters, I have no, I just didn't have anything to talk to it.
I wasn't trying to top Rad's what you loved.
I remember.
I remember once Jim Natz came on a show that I used to be a part of and he came on right in the pocket there between the Final Four and The Masters, and my host at the time gave him credit for making himself available during a busy time, like you got balls for coming on the radio show, And I'm thinking, yeah, he's got balls. He went from a very very heavily produced Final four where he stayed at the best hotels, took a private jet to Augusta, where he was very heavily produced on the other end. So yeah, it took a lot of balls for him to create ten minutes for radio.
But he was nice, wasn't he? Great guy?
I don't think there's a broadcaster more synonymous with an event, right, Uh?
Probably not?
No, you know that, you know, you know Jim Nance's ultimate gift is right he can come and go through a room of people, go speak at room people three four hundred people and get introduced to them, and then come back around to those people at the bar hours later, remembers everybody's name, what they do.
That's a gift. That's a superpower. Yes it is.
It is. Ryan Smith.
What do you got, Robert Kraft? What's up, Bobby?
Remember when he said he found Bill Belichick's successor and like he did lots of research and he was ready for this and it was gonna be great, and uh yeah, may only lasted what one season? Matter of fact, he got fired what an hour after the game? No exit interview, no nothing. He didn't wait till the next day, and I just pictured Bill Belichick in a dark room just laughing his ass off, and that just made me love life. I couldn't stop laughing at that image in my head.
Jason Stewart, So I like it.
When the Chargers beat the Raiders. The Raiders have always been the rival, and it's always good to beat the Raiders, no matter how piss poor they are as a team.
Watch your mouth.
And for the first quarter or so yesterday, the Raiders are really trying hard, and it was a game, but the Chargers did something that they never do, and they put their act together and they won going away. You know, Charger teams have never done that. Jim Harbaugh. Charger teams do put it away. And now we're going to Houston and we all have to have an honest conversation about CJ.
Stroud.
Guys, since the second tank Dell went down and we saw some gen Z quarterback crying on national.
TV, dude stopped.
He has not has not put a good quarter together.
No he was. He hasn't been great all year. Do you see what happened? To think that's ne Bro.
No, That's what I'm saying.
Like gen Z, like come on, man, no, no stop.
Gen Z is Caleb Williams and C. J. Stroud crying on the sidewines. We expect more from our field general.
You stop your charges.
You gotta stop.
I expect more from my field general, more than you. I don't think Patton was crying when he lost troops. You can't.
It's the same analogy.
No no, no, no, God no no. I look, my favorite part is what brought me pure joy this weekend was you know what's happened to Quinton Johnson. Quinton Johnson had thirteen catches on fourteen targets.
Quentin Johnson had the.
Reputation come out of TCU as being stonehands from necessary roughness.
That's a reference.
I think buyer gets that reference because it feels like a movie of the few that Byer has seen necessary rough That was Quinton Johnson all of a sudden two years. Some of it's just time and reps. Everybody bailed, myself included on Quinton Johnson and the GM of the Raiders, Tom Teluska. When he drafted, I was like, dude, quin Johnson can't catch. He's like, actually, his catch rate is way higher than a.
Lot of the guys.
Taken above him, and I was like, and then last year he couldn't catch, And you know what, He's had a good year this year, had a great game on Sunday against the Raiders. Of all the tricks that Harball has pulled, making Quinton Johnson able to catch.
A football is the greatest. I was so happy to see that for Quentin Johnson.
It's great to see.
I agree, and they get they get those Texans coming up in the wild card round.
Those Chargers.
Man, you got to stop with a gen Z like the dude's leg almost fell off and it's his boy, and Tank Johnson's been through a lot.
I don't That's not a gen Z thing. He's just a human being.
Have we have we seen a quarterback crying on the sidewines? Until then, we've seen players cry on the side of the Yeah.
Quarterbacks, man, I don't know. It was pretty nasty and anything was pretty nasty, bro. And again, I have a I'm the guy who watches those injuries over I've seen the Tank. I've seen Tank's injury fifteen times because I like that stuff on repeat. But when it's your boy and you see it in person, and you think, oh my God, he may never play again.
Like that's what goes through your head. Let's get to what we hated from the weekend. If you couldn't, all of them are love segment.
Our hater is also our producer, Jason Stewart, What's day from the Weekend.
I need to rope Dan Byron on this conversation because if if I'm wrong about this, you need to let me know down.
So when the.
Oilers wear their throwbacks, sorry, the Tartans were the throwbacks, which is the Houston Oilers against the Texans. To me, it strikes me of one of two things. They really love their throwbacks and they want to pay tribute to the former Houston the city of Houston, or it's like a world class troll that they're saying, we left your city and we're gonna wear your jerseys against your newer team. What's the background there and is it not in bad taste for them to do that against the Texans.
Yeah, it's it's absolutely one planned and done to rub it in their face. The Oilers wanted a new state. The Astronome was a dump, didn't feel they got the support, so they left for Tennessee. And if you remember, actually played two seasons as the Tennessee Oilers, in one in Memphis. They played the next season in at Vanderbilt Stadium. I attended a game Jaguars oiler Tennessee Oilers nineteen ninety eight, late September of nineteen ninety eight to be specific, and it was so there is an oiler connection, but just very very thinly veiled if you will, to Tennessee. But yeah, absolutely, it is to troll the Texans. It is patrol the fans of Houston. That is exactly what it is all about.
Those uniforms are so awesome.
Because it's the same ownership family.
It's the Adams family, but Adams has passed along, but it stayed within the family.
So that is why.
Who looked better the Titans or the Broncos.
Well, the Broncos because they won. That's like when you're that you are when you're the Titans wearing those.
You just did your uniform breakdown which ones you like better?
The Broncos just looked really good yesterday with the field and the whole deal. So I would put Denver as much as I love the Baby Blues, and I'll get those uniforms. Look, maybe it's something too with the fake field turf in Tennessee. Not quite sure their end zones were painted in as well, but Denver seem to pop more. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give the edge to Denver. And I'll also say this with Denver, like when they wear those uniforms, they look right correct, like they're like, You're like, Okay, this is the Broncos.
Yet we've had thirty years of that.
Other pattern and design and Super Bowls won by the Broncos, three of them in that pattern and design. Yet when they wear these, they're just like, Yep, that's the Denver Broncos.
At least that's how I feel.
I agree, I agree, okay, Dan, would you hate from the weekend?
Well, I hate that they are fifteen to ten win teams in the NFL and only one, the only one that didn't make the playoffs were the Seattle Seahawks, and that's just oh man, what can you do. Somebody's got to be left out, and unfortunately it is my favorite team. So a ten win season. If you would have told me at the beginning of the year. Seahawks, by the way, fired offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb today, if you would have told me at the beginning of the year that this team is going to be a ten win team. I would have taken it on the spot and said yes, I would have assumed that there'd be a wild card, maybe a chance at a division. In the end, they tie the Rams for the best record in the division, with the Rams win the division because of the tie breaker. But yeah, it stinks when there's every team in the playoff picture as double digit wins and the one that is left out of the Seattle Seahawks.
I'll tell you what I hated is that the Miami Heat are going to listen to trade offers for Jimmy Butler. And I hate it only because you know, Jimmy Butler had the press conference with Jason Stewart called what'd you call it?
You said it pathetic?
Oh, I thought it was pretty pathetic.
Yeah, yeah, I thought pathetic was a little strong. But then I'm equally pathetic as the Miami Heat suspending him for seven games. The seven games and January fifteenth. January fifteenth is when all these players had signed deals this past year.
Can then be traded.
They even went out on Twitter and said that now they're going to listen to deals like just let him rot.
Just let him rot.
Jimmy Butler is a diva, and you know he went to the NBA Finals with you. If he doesn't like it, you don't have to acquiesce and trade him.
Let him rot. That'd be my thing. I hate that, Ryan.
Well, I hate the fact that the only AFC West team not to get into the playoffs were my Raiders.
That hurts.
What hurts even more than that is the Raiders kept on shooting themselves themselves in the foot, and now they have the sixth pick overall. I don't know why they kept on winning, and now I'm realizing that they're probably not gonna be able to get a good quarterback because they kept winning these these stupid games they had no business in winning.
So yeah, that's what I hate.
All right?
Any other hate hatred? You guys want to get out from the weekend. Jason, I know you have more things than you hate.
No, I'm good.
I mean, I've got a lot of things I hate, but I love staying on the clock more than I love voicing what I hate.
I know you vented. I just want to give you a chance to make sure you vented. You know you don't want to It's like any relationship, right, you don't want to keep in that stuff in and that is love and hate.
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It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Not a great weekend for the Patriots. They win the game, but lose the number one pick in the upcoming NFL draft, and then they summarily fired their head coach to Rod Mayo. Ben Bolan joins us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show. We're live at the Tyreck dot com studios. For people don't know, Ben has covered the Patriots for years. He's the national NFL writer for Reporter and insider covering the National Football League for the Boston Globe. What is your reaction to Rod Mayo only get in one year.
With the Patriots.
I'm not surprised to see him get fired because I think it was pretty clear throughout the year that Trod Mayo was probably in over his head and wasn't ready for the job, and that was kind of what everyone was saying when he got the job. He didn't have really nearly as much as experience as all the other coaching candidates out there. The Patriots didn't really surround his staff with much experience, and the roster will looked bad. So everyone kind of knew that the Patriots were going to be in for a long year. I guess where I am surprised is that Robert Kraft was willing to rip off the band aid and make the move, even though it made him look pretty bad. You know, Robert Craft made such a big deal last year about Girod Mayo's our hand picked guy. We identified him years ago to be Bill Belichick's successor, and we think he's going to be great, and I trust my instincts. And they didn't go through an interview process, they didn't talk to any outside people, and they just elevated this very inexperienced coach. And I give Robert Kraft, you know, some credit for at least being willing to make the move, even though it doesn't make him look good right now. But you know, when the fans are barely showing up to the games at the end of the season, and they're booing the team for winning yesterday because they blew the number one pick. It would have been a really bad move for Kraft, I think for just the business of the Patriots to bring Mayo back. And I think he could see all the season ticket holders starting to cancel their deposits and things like that. So it was it was a move that Craft had to make just to save face. And I do give him some credit for being, you know, willing to take a little egg in the situation and be willing to.
Move on Mike Vrabel. How where is he stacked in the candidate's list.
I mean, I definitely think he's at the top. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. The Patriots, it does seem, are actually going to go through a full process this time. They've already put in a request to interview Ben Johnson. I wouldn't be surprised if they try to look at like Brian Flores, maybe a guy like Liam Cohen from the Buccaneers, who has a lot of Massachusetts and Rhode Island ties. So it sounds like they're going to do a full search. But Rabel, I mean I was sold last year that Rabel would be their home run higher, and you know that's a higher to me. That makes I mean so much sense. He's got obviously a former Patriot here from the glory days, you know, won three Super Bowl Championships, has the gravitas of being a you know, accomplished coach, former Coach of the Year. Came into New England with the Tennessee Titans and beat Tom Brady and the Patriots in the playoffs, tom Brady's last game here in New England. And then you know, Brabel is a member of the team's Hall of Fame. Last year, when he was still the coach of the Titans, he came to New England on the Titans bye week and sat with owner Robert Kraft in his box during the Patriots his Patriots Hall of Fame induction. So I think it's a very it's an obvious connection. I think Brabel wants to come here, work for a stable owner and a good franchise with the Patriots. I think the Patriots obviously like Brabel, but they're going to go through a process first and see if they get wowed by anyone else out there.
What's the likelihood of Tyreek Hill playing with the Dolphins next year?
I will say this that I think Tyreek Hill's Twitter bio it says something like he likes to just like start trouble and then walk away. So he does do this a lot where he just kind of drops a bomb and then enjoys watching the aftermat that said, I do think there are some big changes coming to the Dolphins this offseason. I've heard that Jalen Wattle wasn't thrilled with being second banana on the team, So I think one of those two receivers is probably not going to be with the Dolphins next year. And if for them, I would choose the younger Jalen Wattle over you know, Tyreek Hill, who has a lot more miles on him at this point. And I just don't know how reliable Tyreek Hill is. And boy, you know the Dolphins, they made him a team captain, and I'm not surprised to see that team completely fall apart this year and especially come up small in a big game on Sunday when they needed to win. So yeah, it seems like big changes are coming. They're not changing the coaching staff for the front office. The owner down there has decided to keep Mike McDaniel and the general manager, So they're going to have to make some changes. It's going to come to the roster, and definitely, I think Tyreek looks like he's probably on his way out.
Got It shows here on Fox Sports Radio San Francisco forty nineers.
What are they gonna do with rock forty?
I think they have to bring him back. You know, this is a team Kyle Shanahan assuming he's back, and I think he will. I don't think the Niners are gonna do anything crazy like trade him or whatever this offseason. But Kyle Shanahan has been on that quarterback carousel so many times in his tenure with the Niners, and it has really, you know, it has cost them, you know, like a lot of a lot of seasons, a lot of games where if they just had a little bit better quarterback play, Kyle Shanahan would probably have a ring or two. And now they've found a guy in Brock Pergy who can really run their system. And you know, I know he's not perfect, and I think this year proved that when there are some injuries, he's not a guy that's necessarily going to overcome and elevate the rest of the franchise. He does kind of need pieces to be in place to be really successful. But we've seen him do a really nice job of running that offense. I think he's only improving, you know now that he's in year three, going into year four of that offense, and I just he can't keep riding that carousel. If you're the forty nine ers, it's a lot of money for brock Party, but you got to do it, and you just, you know, you have to go into the draft now and find your next wave of playmakers and find ways to save money that way. But I think you've got to bring back brock Party and you just got to pay him the going rate. It's just the cost of doing business in today's NFL.
Ste got I'm shore here on Fox Sports Trader. That's the voice of Ben Vollen. He covers the entire league for the Boston Globe. Okay, there's some other jobs obviously open. Jacksonville's interesting, New Orleans is interesting. What do you think the best open job is?
Not to sound like a Homer, but I do think it's the Patriots because I think they've got a young quarterback in place, a pretty stable ownership with the Crafts, and a team that knows what it's like to experience success. And they've got the most cap space in the NFL going into next offseason. So as bad as this season was for the Patriots, it should be an exciting offseason where they have a lot of money to spend. They have a top five pick. You know, New Orleans, you're not quite sure who your quarterback is going to be. Jacksonville, you know, you're you're going to have to work with Trent Balky, the GM who they're keeping there, So that is going to affect their candidates. Plus, you know, Trent, Trevor Lawrence might be a little bit of a coach killer. He's now gone through two head coaches in four years, and you know you're going to be saddled with a fifty five million dollar quarterback who hasn't proven a whole lot yet in the NFL. So I just you know, I don't see the Jaguars as being as attractive as the Patriots, just because you know what, Trevor Lawrence I think still has a lot to prove, and I don't know, you know, coaches with options, I don't know, are going to want to saddle themselves with such an expensive quarterback who did not do well for Doug Peterson the last couple of years.
Stut Gottlieb show here on Vox Sports. Sure, that's the voice of Ben ullin Boston. Globe covers the entire National Football League. All right, let's get ready for the playoffs. Who do you have the most confidence in the AFC Chiefs?
I mean, how do you not have the most confidence in the Chiefs right now? And I mean I'm sick of them. I really I'm hoping for a Super Bowl that features a team like the Bills or the Ravens, just to get something a little different. But you Andy Reid, to get that team to fifteen to one before last week, where their offense wasn't playing that well throughout the season, It's just a phenomenal accomplishment. Now the Chiefs have the bye week, they have home field advantage. I mean, Josh Allen and the Bills fans have to I don't know about Josh Allen, but Bills fans have to be feeling so nervous about having to maybe play Lamar in the second round and then having to go to Kansas City for the AFC Championship game. On paper, the Chiefs don't look like the best team, but with that defense as well as Steve Spagnolo has been playing. When you have Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Andy Reid, I mean, how do you not pick the Chiefs at this point? So I'm riding them until they prove otherwise.
Okay, what about the NFC. We've seen the Lions, big win yesterday against the Vikings, but still banged up on defense a little bit better.
Who do you have the most faith in?
Yeah, the Lions again, and that faith had been tested in December when they had that what was it the loss of the Bills, like forty eight to forty two, and it's like, wow, their defense is really starting to get decimated by injuries and exposed a little bit. But they give them a lot of credit. Dan Campbell and Aaron Glenn, the defensive coordinator. They've they've short things up. It was a tremendous performance last night against the Vikings, a very efficient offensive team usually like those struggles in the red zone. That was I was eye opening defense from the Lions, and it seems like they've worked through their troubles while still continuing to win games. And just like the Chiefs now the Lions have locked up the by the home field advantage, and that's that seems to be a really significant advantage for the Lions at Ford Field. I mean that place is just so electric now for home games. Unconcern is that, you know, they play in a dome where the conditions are always really good, and their defense, you know that both their losses this year have come at home, and their defense can maybe get exposed in good conditions under a dome, whereas the Lions are undefeated on the road this year, and maybe a weather game might be a little bit better for them because their defense could maybe play better. But the Lions are rolling right now. Maybe the Eagles could, you know, I definitely, you know, the Eagles will give them a game. But the Lions look really good for the super Bowl right now.
No question that, no question they look good for the Super Bowl. I do wonder, though, Viking second, if they get another shot at him, third shot at him after Sam Donald doesn't play well. You know they've been to that building before. I'm fascinated by by by what what that looks like. Okay, Aaron Rodgers as he played his last game.
I tend to think so, you know, it's funny you heard Joe name it come out saying, boy, you know, Aaron Rodgers looked pretty good yesterday, and he still looks like he had some good football left. I just don't know how many teams are gonna want up to want to sign up for the Aaron Rodgers experience, because when you bring in Aaron Rodgers, he can't he can't just be one of the guys. It's got to be you know, it's his team. He's a big persona and given everything that, you know, he didn't play all that great this year, he's a year older next year. It really didn't work out in New York. I just have a hard time seeing a team wanting to, you know, sign up for that instead of going young at quarterback or you know, finding a different option. So I tend to think that Rogers has thrown his last pass. I guess the one the one scenario I could see is if the Jets aren't able to draft a quarterback, you know, this year high in the first round, the new coach comes in says, you know what, Aaron Rodgers is probably still our best options. Let's do it one more time. But I think Rodgers probably feels it. I think everyone kind of feels it yesterday was probably his last NFL game, and good for him for throwing the four touchdowns and getting over five hundred for his career. And good for him for I think hitting the right notes the last week where he said he's just been filled with a lot of gratitude that these have been the best two best years of his life. So I give Rogers a lot of credit for handling these last couple of weeks the right way.
Yeah, I don't buy it for one second it's the two best years of his life. But other than that, I'm with you and everything else. Hey, Ben, great stuff is always. Happy New Year to you. Thanks for joining us, all.
Right, thanks a lot, Doug.
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Let's get to the press, the press. Okay there, Dan Byer.
Tug, let's start out with some spice. Here is.
The Chicago Bears have reportedly asked the Dallas Cowboys for permission to speak with their head coach Mike McCarthy about the bears head coaching vacancy. McCarthy's contract to the Cowboys. We'll wrap up on January fourteenth, that's next week. Cowboys have yet to respond, according to ESPN about the request by the Chicago Bears. But the Bears may be putting a squeeze on Dallas and what they're going to do with their head coach.
Fascinating. What do we think the Bears?
The Bear's got to hire somebody offensive minded, don't they have to hire?
Yes, But I will give you a list of names that the Bears want to talk about or want to talk to people with, or Mike Kafka the Giants, that's what they want to talk to. Brian Flores of the Vikings, Arthur Smith of the Steelers, Todd Monkin of the Ravens. I actually think Aaron Glenn maybe getting an interview at Glenn's going to meet with the New Orleans Saints. But it's the fact that they're speaking with everybody, but none of those guys are currently head coaches of an NFL team with a week to go on their contract, So it does the Cowboys could say you can't speak with him, which then I then would we would think that McCarthy is getting a contract extension, or if they would allow him to speak, then it doesn't seem like there is that much of a commitment to McCarthy. So it just seems like the Bears have just put the Cowboys first up in the batting order. All right, let's make a decision now, because they've got plenty of other guys they could talk to, and if McCarthy doesn't return, they could talk to him next week if they wanted to. The likelihood of the Bears finding a coach this week is actually probably pretty slim. But yeah, I just find it funny that they're kind of putting the Cowboys putting the screws to it is.
I mean, but most signs point him being back with the Cowboys anyway.
But we'll see.
Anybody, you guys, anybody else, Jason, you think this is maybe he wasn't even listening.
He wasn't listening to He told me he didn't like you.
That would not surprise me, you know, in my ways. Doug Peterson done after three seasons in Jacksonville, including a four and thirteen mark in twenty twenty four.
Yeah, the Doug Peterson journey has been a weird one, hasn't it.
It was kind of a different hire.
But we thought the hire was to save Trevor Lawrence, and Trevor Lawrence didn't improve yet Trevor Lawrence got a new contract.
Team still bad.
Shad Khan today said that they were the most predictable team in the league and that is a damning indictment on your head coach, and for what they do on offense that everybody in the league would know about it.
See, it is the only thing. I the only again.
And this is where you know coaching perspective, does I think matter? You can only run with guys, know you know? So do you have guys that can't process changes on the fly?
I don't know.
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson expected to be the team starter entering twenty twenty five, according to The Athletic.
Weird Right, I mean expected to be will they draft into the quarterback? This is year three injured, year one injured, half a year two in not crazy productive, plus called out for his work ethic. I mean obviously a make or break here, but Shane Steiken must have had to go in and say, like, I can fix him.
We'll see Browns GM Andrew Berry said that quarterback Deshaun Watson had a setback in his recovery from a torn achilles.
Berry said the team is still gathering.
Information and couldn't decipher if Watson would miss any of the twenty twenty five campaign as they were still gathering information about the setback.
Yeah, I don't think you'd hear a aggravation of an injury or a set back unless it was bad.
And if it's an achilles, what does that mean? Now?
Look, one of the things when you're coming back from an achilles is that you know other things can go wrong.
But I know this.
I know the achilles is like the ACL and when you get the graph done, I don't know if you guys know this, the strongest your achilles or your ACL is ever going to be is right there after the surgery, because you literally have a graph there's no tearing it. But then and this kind of lines out timeline wise, when you get to like two to four months out, the ligament or the ten that you had replaced dies and then regenerates, and then the graph kind of continue to stakehold with it.
But that's when it's actually its weakest. Again.
I don't know, I'm only guessing, but it feels like it's during that period of time that there may be a partial tear of the same injury, and that is not a good thing.
To give props to. Rich Rebar. I believe that's how you pronounce it. I apologize. Rich at lord Reeves is his Twitter handle does work as an analyst for Sharp Football and others. Broke down a bunch of quarterbacking stuff and other stats from the NFL season. Three hundred and eighty seven interceptions thrown this NFL season. That was the fewest since nineteen eighty two. That was a strike shortened season as well, but just three hundred and eighty seven interceptions thrown in the NFL this season. Caleb Williams, by.
The way, question why do you think that is?
Dan? I don't know.
I would like to think we've seen a little bit more running of the football, but I don't think that's necessarily the case, considering how wide of a gap Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry had over everybody else that was running the football that was, I mean those two and everyone else.
I don't know.
If it's young quarterbacks taking sacks, yeah, I would love to have some sort of reason, but.
I I think it's I think teams running the football more. Could be I think Thames run the football the more.
Caleb Williams said the highest rate of inaccurate throws into the end zone forty five point two percent. The NFL average was twenty three point seven percent. And how about this one for Brock Purty, who you were talking about earlier with with TJ and Brock Perties throws into the end zone that resulted in a TV this season just thirty one point four percent of those last year fifty seven point one percent. In twenty twenty two it was sixty six point seven percent, so more than a fifty percent drop and his throws that went into the end zone that actually resulted in touchdowns.
Interesting, it's great stat.
Yeah, yeah, a lot of great numbers.
I retweeted the thread because it's just stat after stat after stat, and a lot of them revealing for the NFL season. Finally, Doug, Tennessee remain the number one team in the AP Top twenty five. Pole is the nation's only unbeaten team, but still not a unanimous number one, receiving forty five out of a possible sixty first place votes. Auburn is second, Iowa State third, Duke and Alabama round out the top five. And that is the press.
They get out there in press. That was the press.
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