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The medical professionals, you know, I want to start with this. I don't know why this is. I've never really been a conspiracy theorist. I don't. I'm not lonely, I'm not board. I think that's part of it. People just sit home, they get a conspiracy theory they got on YouTube or to a reddit board or a message board, and it kind of, you know, social media provides the inertia, the momentum that you know, a conspiracy theorist wants, need seeks whatever. It used to be that if you were a conspiracy theory you were just kind of the crazy uncle that showed up for the holidays, tried to talk everybody into man did not land on the moon, and then you went about your merry way back to your small town and annoyed your friends there. But now it becomes a thing. Joe Rogan's got a wildly popular podcast. I've listened to it a couple of times, and it's mostly conspiracies, at least the times I've checked in. It's his right, it's very popular. But I saw this story, and this is this is a great example I get. It's remarkable how often I get on social media. I don't read all of them. I don't read most of them, but occasionally you'll get the responses. The NFL is rigged, that game, the umps on the take the officials on the take, I'm it's it's numbing to me. A lot a lot of people think that, or maybe just a lot of people on my feed, But this is interesting. So the NFL had a choice, and they put the Packers hosting the Lions on Sunday night. Now, Seattle in the Rams play earlier in the day. If Seattle beats the Rams, the Lions are up. It did incentivizes, arguably the Lions against the Packers. So Green Bay then faces a team that season is over and the game is less relevant. Now. Detroit fans wanted the games to be played simultaneously in the one o'clock window, right, so like you don't know, and they wanted their Lions team believing to the last whistle they had a chance to get into the playoffs. But again, if Seattle beats the Rams, Lions are out right, And this cracks me up because this is your classic. This thing has conspiracy theory written all over it, that the NFL fox the NFL they want Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs. Well, first of all, we do, yeah, I mean we do. We also want the Yankees in the World Series and they didn't end up there. I guarantee of the network that has the national championship would prefer having like Michigan Georgia or Ohio State Michigan over TCU. It's a small or brand. That doesn't mean it happens. We're gonna get George to TCU and it's not going to get a good rating. So board people, let me try to explain why the NFL did this. I think most of you get it, and maybe I shouldn't lead a show as something that only fifteen to twenty five percent of the people think. But green Bay's a massive brand, so they love putting him on Sunday Night Football. Aaron Rodgers is a superstar. They like putting him on Sunday Night Football. There's a huge audience on Sunday Night Football. And the green Bay story now fighting to get in is actually captivating. They usually walk away with this division for years, but they started out, they were bad, stumbled. Now they've caught fire and it's actually a fascinating story. I said the last couple of weeks green Bay games are really really interesting. Also, so yes, everybody wants green Bay in over Detroit. If you had an opportunity, Networks would It's more fun but remember this, if you put say you put green Bay Detroit early, and if green Bay wins, then on Sunday Night football you'd have the Seattle Rams game, and that's a total dud. So and the other option would be all to put Jacksonville in the Titans on that's got playoff implications. Jacksonville has no national brand. Jacksonville's very borderline popular in Jacksonville. They're not even popular there for a long time. They tarped off the upper deck at their stadium. And the Titans are injury ravaged. They've been a mess all year. They're not dynamic offensively, they're a tough watch. So I know probably people in Michigan thinking the Lions are getting screwed here. And you know, my takeaway would be just because networks do want green Bay in the playoffs. It is fun Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs. Packers brand's great. This is the right call. If you ran a network, you would put green Bay on Sunday Night with Aaron Rodgers, not the Titans Jags, and you wouldn't put them at one o'clock. So this is the world we live in now where it used to be crazy Uncle had a theory. It was Zany and he would just go home after Thanksgiving dinner. Now reddit boards YouTube conspiracy theory, lives breathe explodes and just get used to that. If Green Bay gets in, you'll hear about that, and I do think they'll win. So the second story today is Jim Harbaugh. So I'm always kind of suspicious when stuff leaks in my business. It's not just about the story, but why the story is out. Who's leaking the story? The Lakers can't keep anything private. Anything that happens in the meeting's out fifteen minutes later because everybody's protecting their butt. That's why it's not a well run franchise. When stuff leaks, it's usually for a reason. So Harbaugh, the story is now Carolina talked to him White at leak last year in Minnesota? Did White at leak? The Broncos are wide at leak. Sean Payton's getting talked to. None of it's leaking because Sean Payton has a job. Sean Payton has a TV job and he doesn't need it as leverage. He's great, He's got a Super Bowl and their offering him a lot of money. So the question becomes is Harbaugh trying to drive up his Michigan salary or his NFL salary. And my guess is he's driving up his NFL salary. He's going to the NFL. I wouldn't I would stay. I don't think Carolina has got a quarterback. You can't win in this league without it. I think he's got a quarterback at Michigan. He gets the Buckeyes at an Arbor. I wouldn't take the job. I would let somebody else take Denver twenty million dollars. Harbo's net worth is over seventy five million dollars. He'll be miserable in six weeks with that situation in capell No draft picks and Russell Wilson may be washed. But my guess here is is that there's unfinished business. He was forty four nineteen and one in the NFL, and he did it mostly with Colin cow Pernick. Colin Kaepernick's career passer ratings in the eighties and his career completion percentage is under sixty percent. And Harbaw went forty four nineteen and one with Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick, and the record would have been better, and he would have had more success. He got to a Super Bowl, except for the best roster in the NFL during his time was in Seattle in the same division, and so three different times in his quest to win a super Bowl, he lost to the team that won the Super Bowl. He lost to a Seahawks team in the playoffs, won the Super Bowl, he lost to a Giant's team, went to the Super Bowl, won the Super Bowl, he got to a Super Bowl, lost the Ravens who won the Super Bowl over that Niners team. So he could have been a lot better had he had an elite quarterback, had he not had the Seahawks in division. I've always thought we sort of say, yeah, Harbaugh was pretty successful in the NFL. He was wildly successful. Many great college coaches Spurrier bombed, Saban bombed, Matt Rule bombed. Most college coaches do not work in professional football. Harball works everywhere. But I also think this is something is that Jim probably realized very early in his professional playing career. He wasn't Joe Montana. He's not delusional. I think Jim also realizes that it's very hard in northern college football powers powers to a national championships. There's one in nineteen years, Ohio State one. I think it was twenty fourteen. That's it in nineteen years, and so you think Harbaugh, it's getting the national championship. But Jim smart, Jim recruits, he realizes the sec that footprint, there's more great high schoolers. Jim Harbaugh maybe totally satisfied this morning that he has made Michigan the number one power once again in the Big Ten, that he has momentum over Ohio State. The game is back, the quarterbacks back, and he can hand the program to somebody else that has JJ McCarthy gets the Buckeyes has the power blueprint to win it. Not every coach thinks they can win a national championship. Brian Kelly Notre Dame came to a conclusion, I'm probably not going to national title here. I'm gonna go to LSU first year ten wins, NFL guys everywhere. So the guy who's coaching Tulsa or Oregon State probably doesn't see a national championship. He sees, hey, at Oregon State, can I beat the Ducks and can I win a Pack twelve championship once in six years? That's an amazing goal. You don't have a state that produces enough Division one high school football talent to beat an Alabama or an LSU or a Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, whatever it is. So I do think part of it is we view it as unfinished business for Hardball, How do we know Jim, who loves Michigan, doesn't feel like mission accomplished. My number one goal was to make Michigan football better than Ohio State. He hates Ohio State and he loves Michigan, and he has made then Kim of that king of that conference. Brian Kelly realized, I'm not gonna win a Natty at Notre Dame. I don't have the recruiting power here, the recruiting leverage juice. I think Jim Harball looks up and says, I see my classes. I'm losing a lot of guys to George Obama. I don't want to coach George Obama. Michigan is the only college I want to coach for the rest of my life. I got him back on top of the Big Ten. I'm gonna go to the NFL, take the loot, and win a Super Bowl. So I think I'd stay at Michigan for another year. I don't think unless the Chargers job came open, there's a great job out there. But when it leaks, like it's leaking every time he interviews somewhere, he's either trying to gas up the Michigan money or the NFL money. And my guest today is, since it hurts recruiting when this stuff gets out, and we live in a world of transfer portal where everybody's recruiting today it's year round, he's probably going to the NFL because these rumors are not good for recruiting. And recruiting is the lifeblood of college football. That's why Ohio State and Michigan dominate their conference. They dominate recruiting. It's why Georgia right now in Alabama and LSU are dominating their conference. They dominate recruiting. It's why Oklahoma for years has dominated the Big Twelve. They're great at recruiting. It's why USC got really good, really fast. They got Caleb Williams and Jordan Addison recruiting. So if this stuff is constantly out there, it's not good for recruiting. It tells me he's trying to up the anne and he's going pro. I wouldn't. I'd stay at Michigan for another year or two. I think JJ McCarthy, I think they'll get back to the playoff next year. I don't think they'll beat the best SEC team because I just don't think if you look at the Big Ten, you look at the footprint one championship in whatever it is, nineteen years, it's just we tend to think it's championship or bust. For all these coaches and in my life discussing this stuff with them, there are other goals. Someone will win the conference, the big rivalry, the se See East. They know their Missouri's football coach knows there's limitations. He understands that he wants to win a bowl game. He wants to win eight games. He wants to get his assistants better jobs. Everybody's got different goals. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio I Cowboys played the Commanders this week. Dallas can actually still improve their playoff position. There's a lot of things here. We go in the last week and there's a lot of positions. You can change seating and stuff. So Jerry says the Cowboys are not gonna arrest any players this week against the Commanders to have the best advantage going into playoff, which is the best scheduling. I'd like to have a home a game, and we all know the and certainly would love to have a buy Okay, So if you're one of those people, this would explain me that doesn't think the Cowboys can win the Super Bowl. Remember, happiness is about expectations. Are you unrealistic in life, you're bound to be unhappy. Are you realistic in life, you're bound to be more grateful and happy. So my Super Bowl bubble, I do this about once a month, usually has about eight teams. This year it's got five. I think the top's very strong. I think the Niners, Bills, Bengals, Chiefs, Philly are most likely to win. I feel strongly about that. I do think the Chargers, Packers momentum in Dallas have absolute either momentum, personnel or an identity that could be very dangerous if you believe that to be true, that those teams are favored. And then the three on the periphery, I don't think Minnesota in big spots, they have no history, they're gonna win their defense is absolutely atrocious. Hard to win a super Bowl with a terrible defense in Minnesota's is terrible. Jacksonville doesn't have the big game experience. I think they could maybe get in win a playoff game. That's about it, especially when you've got Burrow and Alan and Mahomes and Herbert. So if you believe that is a reality, that's a one playoff win team in Dallas. You're going to go to Tampa and open and win. You'll be favored, and you'll win over an anemic offense, but you're most likely in your second game to go to like a Philadelphia or San Francisco and lose. Now you can get a break if Green Bay beat San Francisco. I think that's unlikely. San Francisco's got far more offensive weapons and I think a better offensive coach. Now. If Green Bay beat San Francisco, though, then Dallas could play the winner of the Minnesota New York Giants game. Then you're a two win playoff team. You'd beat those teams. I think they just don't. You know, Minnesota's defense is atrocious, Giants offense is pretty weak. But with the Cowboys, everybody's gonna want Mike McCarthy fired, right if they don't win this level or that level. If you believe based on if you go back to my Super Bowl bubble, those are mostly the best rosters in football. I mean San Francisco and Buffalo's rosters, Philadelphia roster stacked, Cincinnati offensively stacked with an underrated defense, and we got Reed and Mahomes. Those are the best rosters. The Chargers defense not great, not as great, green Bay weapons not as great. And Dallas, let's be honest, Dak tends to be a complimentary player, not a driving force. Two wins, So if you think that's true, you're gonna win one playoff game. That's it, and that's okay, and then you won't want the coach fired or Dak shipped off. Dak's there to stay. McCarthy's probably gonna win one playoff game. You could get a huge break of Green Bay beat San Francisco. Certainly possible. It's a big stage for brock Purty. It could absolutely happen. Then after you beat Tampa or if you do, you could play Minnesota and the Giants. I think those are great matchups for Dallas. But expectations create happiness. If you have crazy ones or delusional ones, then you'll want everybody fire. And I think Mike McCarthy is going to win a playoff game this year, one which is one more than Matt Lafleur, who replaced him in Green Bay one last year. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd Weekdays and Noon Easter nine a Empacific. So right now, the Packers are a very good story, but I also think their reality is their run games great, their time of possession is up, their defense is more arrested. Therefore their defense is playing very well. Green Bay has got a cool story going on, but I think their team and the data matches the story. San Francisco's interesting. I saw another Brian Balding or very smart guy, does great job on the internet breaking down plays talks about how brock Purdy is very special and he is elevating this team and has some superior abilities to Jimmy Garoppolo. I think this is now becoming a the story is becoming better than the reality. So let's go to Jimmy Garoppolo's last four games and Brock Purdy's first four games. Garoppolo's better everything except winning. They're both four no Garoppolo is significantly more accurate. Garoppolo had no turnovers and a slightly higher passer rating. Now Deebo Samuel is not available to brock Purty, although they're using Christian McCaffrey more now than earlier. So debo. If you gave brock Purty debo, his numbers probably tick up, and the numbers are equal. So I think the only difference between the two is this is a cheaper version of Garoppolo with slightly more mobility. And I'm in on brock Purty. I think he's done a terrific job. But this goes again to show that Jimmy Garoppolo is the most disrespected starting quarterback in this league in years. Brock Purtty because he's the last guy taken in the draft, or expectations are low. Oh, he's unbelievable. His numbers aren't as good as Jimmy Garoppolo's. Garoppolo had no turnovers for a month. You throw a single pick. Now he had debo, and so you were if you bake in Deebo two brock Purty, his numbers all tick up five, ten percent, whatever it is, and their numbers are even, and he is a cheaper version of Garoppolo, and he's a slightly more mobile. Neither one of them as a playmaker. Both are accurate, both are coachable, Both have physical limitations. Purties a little smaller than you'd want. Garoppolo can't throw the deep ball munch. But it is interesting. The story now is surpassing the reality, which is pretty is just a cheaper version of Jimmy g not quite as accurate. Accurate, but not quite as accurate as Jimmy Garoppolo. Hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, with mean a lot to have you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking what in God's name is the Fifth Hour. I'll tell you it's a spin off of that Ben Maller show could hit overnights on FSR. Why should you listen? Picture if you will a world will We chat with captains of industry in media, sports and more every week explore some amazing facts about a human nature and more. Let'sten to the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast wherever you get your podcast. Very interesting discussion before we went on the air with Albert Breer, lead content guy for MMQB. Let's bring him on cover the NFL for seventeen years. I want to start with Damar Damar Hamlin situation. I've tried to follow medical people, and this morning the news felt a little more encouraging. That was my takeaway. What are you hearing on Damar? Yeah, you know, I think there's cautious optimism right now. Now. You know, we're not talking about him as a football player. We're talking about him, you know, as a human being. And um, you know, I think that there have been, you know, small but good signs. My wife's a cardiac nurse, so I've talked to her a little bit about this too, And um, you know, the fact that you know, he's on fifty percent oxygen now versus one hundred percent oxygen, the fact that they were willing to turn him over onto his back, like those are those are good signs for his survival. Now, you know, we don't know what his brain is going to be, We don't know what he's going to be physically like when he comes out of this, and you know, from everything I can gather, you're really not going to know that until he's conscious and breathing again. And God, willing he will be conscious and breathing again. Yeah, but I think they're they're a little subtle good signs here. And you know, I think the information you know has been good thus far, but we probably don't have the best information until you know, they get him conscious and breathing again again, God willing that he is conscious and breathing again. So I said this earlier. My gut feeling is the reason all those stories on Hardball Carolina Denver are leaking. He's either driving up his Michigan price or his NFL price, because Sean Payton's getting the same calls and that's not leaking. So my takeaway is Jim wouldn't leak this, or is people wouldn't if he was staying at Michigan because these things always hurt recruiting and staff building. Is that if they're getting out, he's trying to drive up an NFL number, that's might take away. Am I wrong? You tell me no, I don't think so. I mean, I think we have to look at the history of this two colon. You know, I think I came on your show five six years ago and said that there was temptation then, and I think there was You know, and this was at a time and you know in fifteen and sixteen and seventeen when Michigan was ascending, you know, and and there there was NFL interest based on what he did in San Francisco, you know. And then shortly after that, NFL interest sort of cooled, you know, and in nineteen and twenty, there weren't a lot of people calling him, and when you know, Michigan was asking him to get the pay take the pay cut, he really didn't have anywhere to go, you know. And even last year, like that interest was more outgoing than incoming, you know, like that the Minnesota thing I think was more driven by him than it was by the Vikings. And so this is the first time in a few years where the interest is incoming and not outgoing, you know. And we know he's had that you know, level of unfinished business in the NFL really going back to when he left the Niners, Like there was a question of whether he wanted to go back to college at all back then, and so you know, I think that's all stuff to consider here. Um, and you know, I think he's got an NFL ready staff. You look at the guys that are on his staff, guys like Weiss and um, you know, and then on the defensive side, jesse mentor who you know came from the NFL, who came from the Ravens. Um, you can see where it'd be easy to kind of transplant that. And I do think, you know, there's some degree you know, his name has been restored in NFL circles where you know, it's just you look at the success and he's forty four to nineteen and one as the coach of the Niners, went to three NFC title games. Um, you know, I I think there's a reason why. You know, some teams, you know, like the Panthers, like the Broncos, who have taken swings recently on guys with less experience, would look at it and say, well, wait a minute, like is he a little bit of a different guy. Yeah, but look at the track record, So, um, I think they're there there. There's gonna be opportunity out there for Jim, you know, for the first time, there's gonna be I think, you know, competition for his services. Yeah, and you know, we'll see whether or not this is when he wants to scratch that NFL ch because I don't think that NFL. Itch is going away for him based on you know, really where he's been over the last seven years. I think that's always been something that he's wanted to do, is go finish the unfinished business. He hasn't. Yeah, forty four wins, nineteen losses, and did this with Kaepernick and Alex Smith, so you know, if he can get the right quarterback. We were saying during the break, I said, Jay Mack was arguing. I said, I if the Raiders could get like a second or a third rounder for Derek Carr and j Mack said, why would the Jets do that? And my takeaway is because they're desperate and Robert Sala gets fired if he doesn't win next year or they you know, this organization runs coaches off. And you said, you said, I think he may get cut. I don't know. You tell me what's the I thought the market for Derek Carr would be I will get him tomorrow for a third round pick. Well, let me say this first of all, right, never say never, because the Colts were able to get something from Carson Winz last year, and I thought that was going to be really difficult, you know what I mean? Like so like I wouldn't say that. No one is going to be out there with a deal for a quarterback as accomplished just Derek car and with a track record that Derek Carr has. But he didn't have a great year this year. True, true, you know, and then you sort of like start to look at it all, right, like, look at the logistics of it. The Raiders have to make a decision on this by February fifteenth. They cannot have him on their roster without either a deal agreed to or you know, an agreement to cut him after fifth February fifteenth, because that's when it's guarantees best and so like to get a trade partner, you'd be asking for that team to move way ahead of the market and say we're gonna lock in with Derek Carr as our quarterback on Valentine's Day, Okay, Like that's when you have to make the decision by and then you look at what else is going to be out there. Well, you know, for the Raiders or the Niners, it could be Tom Brady, right like, so you know, like there's there's one spot that's gonna be taken off the market. Then you look at some of the other names out there, Jimmy Garoppolo, Daniel Jones, Gino Smith, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold. I'm not saying these guys are you know, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. But if you're weighing, do I spend a second or third round pick on Derek Carr or do I go get a Geno Smith or a Daniel Jones or a Baker Mayfield without having to go up any draft compensation, and those guys are younger, maybe I do go with the other, with the with with with the guy I don't have to give up a traffick. That's interesting. I think this is difficult for the for the Raiders. The other thing that complicates it too is the no trade clause, Like he doesn't have to go anywhere, and he doesn't want to go. So I just think that there's a very real scenario where we get to Super Bowl Sunday, and you know, with all of our reporting on the morning of that of that game, we're all talking about Derek Carr potentially getting cut within the next seventy two hours. That's Ralbert Brier making me think, Okay, let me ask you, let me throw the Jets guy crazy. Jets fan, if I could on the market Garoppolo, Derek Carr, Come on, I take Derek okay, so he would take okay, so here but here, But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Jay mac Garoppolo played for Robert Saw and good call. So he's got So you're not guessing, you're not you're not guessing on how Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna fit also with your coaches. You know. Also Garoppolo has played in so many big games. He's always hurt though oh everywhere. It's a little overstated. He plays more than people think. There is you can see I think I like Garoppolo. How many big games has he played in? Derek Carr's not played in when's the last big game he played in? So there's a value you go to New York City. We saw how it gobbled up Zach Wilson. I mean, there's there's an argument if you're this Albert brids got me thinking. Now, I don't know. This is the February fifteenth thing. We only have like thirty seconds left here, but the February fifteenth thing. It's a really good point because the Super Bowl wol have just ended well and here here's the other thing. If you're Derek Carr, like just that, this is the other layer of it. Like, you have a chance to hit the market a month before everybody else, so you're not subject to the same market conditions that everybody else is going to be subject too. Yeah, you could have teams bidding on you, then you know, and then you're gonna be able to pick your home and maybe you recover the money that you lost. Right. I just I think that there's some benefit to Derek car sitting there and saying I don't like, I'm not gonna let you try. I'm not gonna give you that favor. I'm gonna sit here on my hands. I'm gonna exercise my no trade clause, and I'm gonna force my way to free agency on Valentine's Day. Okay, we gotta go. Great stuff. Albert Breer got me thinking one more. Heard The Herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week within the iHeartRadio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like. Decades ago, I remember being told if you go on a date and she crosses her arms, that's bad body language. That's a rejection. Change the subject. She's not into you. So for you people out there, if somebody crosses their arms, that's rejection. They don't like what you're saying. It's a defensive pose. So body language. They're body language experts out there. Attorneys tell their clients dressed nicely, don't roll your eyes, don't shrug your shoulders for this or that. So body language matters. And I've been saying this for years on this show, and I'm always amazed at the pushback. Jay Cutler was somebody I used to bang on all the time for terrible body language. We later found out a lot of teammates didn't like him. It was a tell in poker, they call it a tell for years. Aaron Rodgers ten years ago, I'm like, his body language is awful. We found out Aaron's difficult and prickly and moody. Kayler Murray's body language stinks. We found out he alienates even Larry Fitzgerald. Body language is real, so Boomerassias and on radio in New York w fa N said he just can't stand the Patriots body language with Mac Jones. Here's the thing that I really dislike about Mac Jones. If you want to get to the root of it. His body language, his facial expressions, his gyrations on the field piss me off. Body language for a quarterback is so important. And I hate when quarterbacks sulk on the sideline. You know, they can't. They have to be above all of that. They have to have the backbone, they have to have the leadership bone. They have to be able to look guys in the face, not what they're doing. You know, don't come off with your hands in the air. And now it's easy to say, and I have defended mac Jones saying they're screwing with his career. I understand he's he's angry, But Trevor Lawrence was dealt a horrible hand with urban Meyer first year in Jacksonville. His body language wasn't awful. Let's be honest about Tua the first two years. I mean, his coach wanted him out of the building, didn't want him in the franchise. He was always great at the podium, he was always great with body language. That's never been an issue. So I do think it's it's gotten worse and worse. Sometimes Matt comes off as a spoiled bratt. I do like I have always defended quarterbacks on being um emotional, like I like them. If they have to yell to ohacher yelled at teammate, I'm okay, Brady's done it. I'm okay with that. But the body language for Mac, there's a lot of finger pointing. I don't think it's great. He defended himself on Boston Morning Radio. For me, it's just trying to channel my competitiveness in a good way and just continue to be Mac. Obviously want to have a respect for everybody that plays in this league and coaches in this league. So I'm definitely thinks I can get better at it. Just like with executional football players. It's the same idea, just trying to grow and earn the respect to people, obviously most importantly in the building. I mean, we have to be honest about it. He went he was a child actor. He goes to Alabama. He's a great high school quarterback. He had a very good rookie year. This is the first time, maybe in his life, he's losing a lot. Things aren't going his way. They called him McEnroe Jones at Alabama. So he's got a temper. So you know, he grew up, you know, pretty good life and a lot of wins, a lot of support, a lot of momentum. Now he's not getting it, so but I could make that same argument for Trevor Lawrence. His body language is great. But I appreciate Boomerossias and saying this, it does matter. Quarterback is different. I've said for years I don't care about the Wonderlick test, but I kind of do want to know the score if you're a quarterback, Like if it was eight or nine or ten, I'd be like, wow. Cognitively, that's a hard position to play. You got to you gotta memorize a lot. That's I don't love. I don't love that number. So they're they're everything I think as a quarterback counts. I think your body language counts. What was your upbringing? Were you were? You were spoiled bratt I mean I always said this. Zach Wilson reminded me of Johnny Manziel. Both grew up with lots of money. I didn't like it. I was not a fan of it. I liked my quarterbacks. I like the fact that Aaron Rodgers had to go to a junior college and Tom Brady went to the sixth round and Russell Wilson told he ran too much and was too short, and Dak went to the fourth round and Big Ben had to go to Ohio Miami of Ohio, Matt Ryan didn't get a lot of great offers, had to go to BC Philip Rivers NC State. If you go look at the history, not a lot of big USC quarterbacks crushing and Alabama quarterbacks crushing in the NFL. The guys that have are doubted, are mocked falling the draft, have a chip on their shoulder, do very well in this draft. Very few quarterbacks were number one in high school, number one in college, number one pick. Star Peyton Mannings an outlier. You think it would be like that, right, Well, he's the best high schooler, best college quarterback, number one pick. Very rarely happens. Matt Staffords had a very good career, but he had to go to Detroit and go through that tunnel of losing. Most of you, there was a time in the NFL when there were no USC quarterbacks, no Alabama starting quarterbacks, and three from NC State. So is Mack a little spoiled? A lot of these Alabama quarterbacks they don't get hit. I mean they don't get sacked. They got number one. You know, they got two first round on wide receivers, a first round left tackle, a first round running back, the best college football coach ever. You know, maybe that's part of it is this is the first distress. He's really really faced, and he's not dealing with it. Well. I don't know, but I do appreciate Boomerosias and coming out and saying, yes, this stuff matter. Everything matters. For quarterbacks, I don't give a if my corner has had made mistakes or did this or did that. He's a corner. Shut your guy down. I'm not gonna worry. Corners don't generally speak for a franchise. They don't call the plays. They're not a coach on the field. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine a Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. So. I thought it was a great college football season, but inevitably, over the last fifteen twenty years, we're back to how all college football seasons end. A dominant Southern program, heavily favored to in the national Championship, an SEC team loaded with talent. If you go to the last five national champions twenty seventeen Bama, followed by Clemson, LSU, Bama, Georgia. Those teams, these are the first round picks. Those teams have five six, five, three four. This year's Georgia team is projected to have four. TCU has won. So when Jim Harbaugh's name is out there, I think Jim Harbaugh looks at this and sees the obvious stuff because he's losing a lot of those players. He's recruiting to those schools. And when you're at a decided NFL athlete disadvantage in college, winning the Big Ten, putting the stake in the claim Michigan runs the Big Ten, that's it. You leave Head High Michigan. Since Harbas got there become the Michigan coach, has averaged one first round pick a year, and they're a power in the North, the North where there's fewer great high school players. Penn State over eight years has averaged half a first round pick. That's why I think Hardball's leaving is that Jim looks at it. I wouldn't, but if he does, I get it. Brian Kelly, he just looks at those numbers. You got to have about five first round players. And by the way, all those SEC teams LSU, George Obama, they got another five that are sophomores. So they got ten guys who will be first rounders. In a two year period, Michigan will have two an eight pro disadvantage. Ohio State is the best northern program in the country. They also have to go to Texas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana get some of their players. They average about two two and a half first round picks. So when you hear about Jim Harbaugh, why would you leave. It's all numbers, same reason Brian Kelly did. It's just data. If you really want to win an championship, it is hard not to do it. Even the football factory Ohio State is. They've got one national championship in watch seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years, twenty fourteen,

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The medical professionals, you know, I want to start with this. I don't know why this is. I've never really been a conspiracy theorist. I don't. I'm not lonely, I'm not board. I think that's part of it. People just sit home, they get a conspiracy theory they got on YouTube or to a reddit board or a message board, and it kind of, you know, social media provides the inertia, the momentum that you know, a conspiracy theorist wants, need seeks whatever. It used to be that if you were a conspiracy theory you were just kind of the crazy uncle that showed up for the holidays, tried to talk everybody into man did not land on the moon, and then you went about your merry way back to your small town and annoyed your friends there. But now it becomes a thing. Joe Rogan's got a wildly popular podcast. I've listened to it a couple of times, and it's mostly conspiracies, at least the times I've checked in. It's his right, it's very popular. But I saw this story, and this is this is a great example I get. It's remarkable how often I get on social media. I don't read all of them. I don't read most of them, but occasionally you'll get the responses. The NFL is rigged, that game, the umps on the take the officials on the take, I'm it's it's numbing to me. A lot a lot of people think that, or maybe just a lot of people on my feed, But this is interesting. So the NFL had a choice, and they put the Packers hosting the Lions on Sunday night. Now, Seattle in the Rams play earlier in the day. If Seattle beats the Rams, the Lions are up. It did incentivizes, arguably the Lions against the Packers. So Green Bay then faces a team that season is over and the game is less relevant. Now. Detroit fans wanted the games to be played simultaneously in the one o'clock window, right, so like you don't know, and they wanted their Lions team believing to the last whistle they had a chance to get into the playoffs. But again, if Seattle beats the Rams, Lions are out right, And this cracks me up because this is your classic. This thing has conspiracy theory written all over it, that the NFL fox the NFL they want Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs. Well, first of all, we do, yeah, I mean we do. We also want the Yankees in the World Series and they didn't end up there. I guarantee of the network that has the national championship would prefer having like Michigan Georgia or Ohio State Michigan over TCU. It's a small or brand. That doesn't mean it happens. We're gonna get George to TCU and it's not going to get a good rating. So board people, let me try to explain why the NFL did this. I think most of you get it, and maybe I shouldn't lead a show as something that only fifteen to twenty five percent of the people think. But green Bay's a massive brand, so they love putting him on Sunday Night Football. Aaron Rodgers is a superstar. They like putting him on Sunday Night Football. There's a huge audience on Sunday Night Football. And the green Bay story now fighting to get in is actually captivating. They usually walk away with this division for years, but they started out, they were bad, stumbled. Now they've caught fire and it's actually a fascinating story. I said the last couple of weeks green Bay games are really really interesting. Also, so yes, everybody wants green Bay in over Detroit. If you had an opportunity, Networks would It's more fun but remember this, if you put say you put green Bay Detroit early, and if green Bay wins, then on Sunday Night football you'd have the Seattle Rams game, and that's a total dud. So and the other option would be all to put Jacksonville in the Titans on that's got playoff implications. Jacksonville has no national brand. Jacksonville's very borderline popular in Jacksonville. They're not even popular there for a long time. They tarped off the upper deck at their stadium. And the Titans are injury ravaged. They've been a mess all year. They're not dynamic offensively, they're a tough watch. So I know probably people in Michigan thinking the Lions are getting screwed here. And you know, my takeaway would be just because networks do want green Bay in the playoffs. It is fun Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs. Packers brand's great. This is the right call. If you ran a network, you would put green Bay on Sunday Night with Aaron Rodgers, not the Titans Jags, and you wouldn't put them at one o'clock. So this is the world we live in now where it used to be crazy Uncle had a theory. It was Zany and he would just go home after Thanksgiving dinner. Now reddit boards YouTube conspiracy theory, lives breathe explodes and just get used to that. If Green Bay gets in, you'll hear about that, and I do think they'll win. So the second story today is Jim Harbaugh. So I'm always kind of suspicious when stuff leaks in my business. It's not just about the story, but why the story is out. Who's leaking the story? The Lakers can't keep anything private. Anything that happens in the meeting's out fifteen minutes later because everybody's protecting their butt. That's why it's not a well run franchise. When stuff leaks, it's usually for a reason. So Harbaugh, the story is now Carolina talked to him White at leak last year in Minnesota? Did White at leak? The Broncos are wide at leak. Sean Payton's getting talked to. None of it's leaking because Sean Payton has a job. Sean Payton has a TV job and he doesn't need it as leverage. He's great, He's got a Super Bowl and their offering him a lot of money. So the question becomes is Harbaugh trying to drive up his Michigan salary or his NFL salary. And my guess is he's driving up his NFL salary. He's going to the NFL. I wouldn't I would stay. I don't think Carolina has got a quarterback. You can't win in this league without it. I think he's got a quarterback at Michigan. He gets the Buckeyes at an Arbor. I wouldn't take the job. I would let somebody else take Denver twenty million dollars. Harbo's net worth is over seventy five million dollars. He'll be miserable in six weeks with that situation in capell No draft picks and Russell Wilson may be washed. But my guess here is is that there's unfinished business. He was forty four nineteen and one in the NFL, and he did it mostly with Colin cow Pernick. Colin Kaepernick's career passer ratings in the eighties and his career completion percentage is under sixty percent. And Harbaw went forty four nineteen and one with Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick, and the record would have been better, and he would have had more success. He got to a Super Bowl, except for the best roster in the NFL during his time was in Seattle in the same division, and so three different times in his quest to win a super Bowl, he lost to the team that won the Super Bowl. He lost to a Seahawks team in the playoffs, won the Super Bowl, he lost to a Giant's team, went to the Super Bowl, won the Super Bowl, he got to a Super Bowl, lost the Ravens who won the Super Bowl over that Niners team. So he could have been a lot better had he had an elite quarterback, had he not had the Seahawks in division. I've always thought we sort of say, yeah, Harbaugh was pretty successful in the NFL. He was wildly successful. Many great college coaches Spurrier bombed, Saban bombed, Matt Rule bombed. Most college coaches do not work in professional football. Harball works everywhere. But I also think this is something is that Jim probably realized very early in his professional playing career. He wasn't Joe Montana. He's not delusional. I think Jim also realizes that it's very hard in northern college football powers powers to a national championships. There's one in nineteen years, Ohio State one. I think it was twenty fourteen. That's it in nineteen years, and so you think Harbaugh, it's getting the national championship. But Jim smart, Jim recruits, he realizes the sec that footprint, there's more great high schoolers. Jim Harbaugh maybe totally satisfied this morning that he has made Michigan the number one power once again in the Big Ten, that he has momentum over Ohio State. The game is back, the quarterbacks back, and he can hand the program to somebody else that has JJ McCarthy gets the Buckeyes has the power blueprint to win it. Not every coach thinks they can win a national championship. Brian Kelly Notre Dame came to a conclusion, I'm probably not going to national title here. I'm gonna go to LSU first year ten wins, NFL guys everywhere. So the guy who's coaching Tulsa or Oregon State probably doesn't see a national championship. He sees, hey, at Oregon State, can I beat the Ducks and can I win a Pack twelve championship once in six years? That's an amazing goal. You don't have a state that produces enough Division one high school football talent to beat an Alabama or an LSU or a Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, whatever it is. So I do think part of it is we view it as unfinished business for Hardball, How do we know Jim, who loves Michigan, doesn't feel like mission accomplished. My number one goal was to make Michigan football better than Ohio State. He hates Ohio State and he loves Michigan, and he has made then Kim of that king of that conference. Brian Kelly realized, I'm not gonna win a Natty at Notre Dame. I don't have the recruiting power here, the recruiting leverage juice. I think Jim Harball looks up and says, I see my classes. I'm losing a lot of guys to George Obama. I don't want to coach George Obama. Michigan is the only college I want to coach for the rest of my life. I got him back on top of the Big Ten. I'm gonna go to the NFL, take the loot, and win a Super Bowl. So I think I'd stay at Michigan for another year. I don't think unless the Chargers job came open, there's a great job out there. But when it leaks, like it's leaking every time he interviews somewhere, he's either trying to gas up the Michigan money or the NFL money. And my guest today is, since it hurts recruiting when this stuff gets out, and we live in a world of transfer portal where everybody's recruiting today it's year round, he's probably going to the NFL because these rumors are not good for recruiting. And recruiting is the lifeblood of college football. That's why Ohio State and Michigan dominate their conference. They dominate recruiting. It's why Georgia right now in Alabama and LSU are dominating their conference. They dominate recruiting. It's why Oklahoma for years has dominated the Big Twelve. They're great at recruiting. It's why USC got really good, really fast. They got Caleb Williams and Jordan Addison recruiting. So if this stuff is constantly out there, it's not good for recruiting. It tells me he's trying to up the anne and he's going pro. I wouldn't. I'd stay at Michigan for another year or two. I think JJ McCarthy, I think they'll get back to the playoff next year. I don't think they'll beat the best SEC team because I just don't think if you look at the Big Ten, you look at the footprint one championship in whatever it is, nineteen years, it's just we tend to think it's championship or bust. For all these coaches and in my life discussing this stuff with them, there are other goals. Someone will win the conference, the big rivalry, the se See East. They know their Missouri's football coach knows there's limitations. He understands that he wants to win a bowl game. He wants to win eight games. He wants to get his assistants better jobs. Everybody's got different goals. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio I Cowboys played the Commanders this week. Dallas can actually still improve their playoff position. There's a lot of things here. We go in the last week and there's a lot of positions. You can change seating and stuff. So Jerry says the Cowboys are not gonna arrest any players this week against the Commanders to have the best advantage going into playoff, which is the best scheduling. I'd like to have a home a game, and we all know the and certainly would love to have a buy Okay, So if you're one of those people, this would explain me that doesn't think the Cowboys can win the Super Bowl. Remember, happiness is about expectations. Are you unrealistic in life, you're bound to be unhappy. Are you realistic in life, you're bound to be more grateful and happy. So my Super Bowl bubble, I do this about once a month, usually has about eight teams. This year it's got five. I think the top's very strong. I think the Niners, Bills, Bengals, Chiefs, Philly are most likely to win. I feel strongly about that. I do think the Chargers, Packers momentum in Dallas have absolute either momentum, personnel or an identity that could be very dangerous if you believe that to be true, that those teams are favored. And then the three on the periphery, I don't think Minnesota in big spots, they have no history, they're gonna win their defense is absolutely atrocious. Hard to win a super Bowl with a terrible defense in Minnesota's is terrible. Jacksonville doesn't have the big game experience. I think they could maybe get in win a playoff game. That's about it, especially when you've got Burrow and Alan and Mahomes and Herbert. So if you believe that is a reality, that's a one playoff win team in Dallas. You're going to go to Tampa and open and win. You'll be favored, and you'll win over an anemic offense, but you're most likely in your second game to go to like a Philadelphia or San Francisco and lose. Now you can get a break if Green Bay beat San Francisco. I think that's unlikely. San Francisco's got far more offensive weapons and I think a better offensive coach. Now. If Green Bay beat San Francisco, though, then Dallas could play the winner of the Minnesota New York Giants game. Then you're a two win playoff team. You'd beat those teams. I think they just don't. You know, Minnesota's defense is atrocious, Giants offense is pretty weak. But with the Cowboys, everybody's gonna want Mike McCarthy fired, right if they don't win this level or that level. If you believe based on if you go back to my Super Bowl bubble, those are mostly the best rosters in football. I mean San Francisco and Buffalo's rosters, Philadelphia roster stacked, Cincinnati offensively stacked with an underrated defense, and we got Reed and Mahomes. Those are the best rosters. The Chargers defense not great, not as great, green Bay weapons not as great. And Dallas, let's be honest, Dak tends to be a complimentary player, not a driving force. Two wins, So if you think that's true, you're gonna win one playoff game. That's it, and that's okay, and then you won't want the coach fired or Dak shipped off. Dak's there to stay. McCarthy's probably gonna win one playoff game. You could get a huge break of Green Bay beat San Francisco. Certainly possible. It's a big stage for brock Purty. It could absolutely happen. Then after you beat Tampa or if you do, you could play Minnesota and the Giants. I think those are great matchups for Dallas. But expectations create happiness. If you have crazy ones or delusional ones, then you'll want everybody fire. And I think Mike McCarthy is going to win a playoff game this year, one which is one more than Matt Lafleur, who replaced him in Green Bay one last year. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd Weekdays and Noon Easter nine a Empacific. So right now, the Packers are a very good story, but I also think their reality is their run games great, their time of possession is up, their defense is more arrested. Therefore their defense is playing very well. Green Bay has got a cool story going on, but I think their team and the data matches the story. San Francisco's interesting. I saw another Brian Balding or very smart guy, does great job on the internet breaking down plays talks about how brock Purdy is very special and he is elevating this team and has some superior abilities to Jimmy Garoppolo. I think this is now becoming a the story is becoming better than the reality. So let's go to Jimmy Garoppolo's last four games and Brock Purdy's first four games. Garoppolo's better everything except winning. They're both four no Garoppolo is significantly more accurate. Garoppolo had no turnovers and a slightly higher passer rating. Now Deebo Samuel is not available to brock Purty, although they're using Christian McCaffrey more now than earlier. So debo. If you gave brock Purty debo, his numbers probably tick up, and the numbers are equal. So I think the only difference between the two is this is a cheaper version of Garoppolo with slightly more mobility. And I'm in on brock Purty. I think he's done a terrific job. But this goes again to show that Jimmy Garoppolo is the most disrespected starting quarterback in this league in years. Brock Purtty because he's the last guy taken in the draft, or expectations are low. Oh, he's unbelievable. His numbers aren't as good as Jimmy Garoppolo's. Garoppolo had no turnovers for a month. You throw a single pick. Now he had debo, and so you were if you bake in Deebo two brock Purty, his numbers all tick up five, ten percent, whatever it is, and their numbers are even, and he is a cheaper version of Garoppolo, and he's a slightly more mobile. Neither one of them as a playmaker. Both are accurate, both are coachable, Both have physical limitations. Purties a little smaller than you'd want. Garoppolo can't throw the deep ball munch. But it is interesting. The story now is surpassing the reality, which is pretty is just a cheaper version of Jimmy g not quite as accurate. Accurate, but not quite as accurate as Jimmy Garoppolo. Hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, with mean a lot to have you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking what in God's name is the Fifth Hour. I'll tell you it's a spin off of that Ben Maller show could hit overnights on FSR. Why should you listen? Picture if you will a world will We chat with captains of industry in media, sports and more every week explore some amazing facts about a human nature and more. Let'sten to the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast wherever you get your podcast. Very interesting discussion before we went on the air with Albert Breer, lead content guy for MMQB. Let's bring him on cover the NFL for seventeen years. I want to start with Damar Damar Hamlin situation. I've tried to follow medical people, and this morning the news felt a little more encouraging. That was my takeaway. What are you hearing on Damar? Yeah, you know, I think there's cautious optimism right now. Now. You know, we're not talking about him as a football player. We're talking about him, you know, as a human being. And um, you know, I think that there have been, you know, small but good signs. My wife's a cardiac nurse, so I've talked to her a little bit about this too, And um, you know, the fact that you know, he's on fifty percent oxygen now versus one hundred percent oxygen, the fact that they were willing to turn him over onto his back, like those are those are good signs for his survival. Now, you know, we don't know what his brain is going to be, We don't know what he's going to be physically like when he comes out of this, and you know, from everything I can gather, you're really not going to know that until he's conscious and breathing again. And God, willing he will be conscious and breathing again. Yeah, but I think they're they're a little subtle good signs here. And you know, I think the information you know has been good thus far, but we probably don't have the best information until you know, they get him conscious and breathing again again, God willing that he is conscious and breathing again. So I said this earlier. My gut feeling is the reason all those stories on Hardball Carolina Denver are leaking. He's either driving up his Michigan price or his NFL price, because Sean Payton's getting the same calls and that's not leaking. So my takeaway is Jim wouldn't leak this, or is people wouldn't if he was staying at Michigan because these things always hurt recruiting and staff building. Is that if they're getting out, he's trying to drive up an NFL number, that's might take away. Am I wrong? You tell me no, I don't think so. I mean, I think we have to look at the history of this two colon. You know, I think I came on your show five six years ago and said that there was temptation then, and I think there was You know, and this was at a time and you know in fifteen and sixteen and seventeen when Michigan was ascending, you know, and and there there was NFL interest based on what he did in San Francisco, you know. And then shortly after that, NFL interest sort of cooled, you know, and in nineteen and twenty, there weren't a lot of people calling him, and when you know, Michigan was asking him to get the pay take the pay cut, he really didn't have anywhere to go, you know. And even last year, like that interest was more outgoing than incoming, you know, like that the Minnesota thing I think was more driven by him than it was by the Vikings. And so this is the first time in a few years where the interest is incoming and not outgoing, you know. And we know he's had that you know, level of unfinished business in the NFL really going back to when he left the Niners, Like there was a question of whether he wanted to go back to college at all back then, and so you know, I think that's all stuff to consider here. Um, and you know, I think he's got an NFL ready staff. You look at the guys that are on his staff, guys like Weiss and um, you know, and then on the defensive side, jesse mentor who you know came from the NFL, who came from the Ravens. Um, you can see where it'd be easy to kind of transplant that. And I do think, you know, there's some degree you know, his name has been restored in NFL circles where you know, it's just you look at the success and he's forty four to nineteen and one as the coach of the Niners, went to three NFC title games. Um, you know, I I think there's a reason why. You know, some teams, you know, like the Panthers, like the Broncos, who have taken swings recently on guys with less experience, would look at it and say, well, wait a minute, like is he a little bit of a different guy. Yeah, but look at the track record, So, um, I think they're there there. There's gonna be opportunity out there for Jim, you know, for the first time, there's gonna be I think, you know, competition for his services. Yeah, and you know, we'll see whether or not this is when he wants to scratch that NFL ch because I don't think that NFL. Itch is going away for him based on you know, really where he's been over the last seven years. I think that's always been something that he's wanted to do, is go finish the unfinished business. He hasn't. Yeah, forty four wins, nineteen losses, and did this with Kaepernick and Alex Smith, so you know, if he can get the right quarterback. We were saying during the break, I said, Jay Mack was arguing. I said, I if the Raiders could get like a second or a third rounder for Derek Carr and j Mack said, why would the Jets do that? And my takeaway is because they're desperate and Robert Sala gets fired if he doesn't win next year or they you know, this organization runs coaches off. And you said, you said, I think he may get cut. I don't know. You tell me what's the I thought the market for Derek Carr would be I will get him tomorrow for a third round pick. Well, let me say this first of all, right, never say never, because the Colts were able to get something from Carson Winz last year, and I thought that was going to be really difficult, you know what I mean? Like so like I wouldn't say that. No one is going to be out there with a deal for a quarterback as accomplished just Derek car and with a track record that Derek Carr has. But he didn't have a great year this year. True, true, you know, and then you sort of like start to look at it all, right, like, look at the logistics of it. The Raiders have to make a decision on this by February fifteenth. They cannot have him on their roster without either a deal agreed to or you know, an agreement to cut him after fifth February fifteenth, because that's when it's guarantees best and so like to get a trade partner, you'd be asking for that team to move way ahead of the market and say we're gonna lock in with Derek Carr as our quarterback on Valentine's Day, Okay, Like that's when you have to make the decision by and then you look at what else is going to be out there. Well, you know, for the Raiders or the Niners, it could be Tom Brady, right like, so you know, like there's there's one spot that's gonna be taken off the market. Then you look at some of the other names out there, Jimmy Garoppolo, Daniel Jones, Gino Smith, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold. I'm not saying these guys are you know, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. But if you're weighing, do I spend a second or third round pick on Derek Carr or do I go get a Geno Smith or a Daniel Jones or a Baker Mayfield without having to go up any draft compensation, and those guys are younger, maybe I do go with the other, with the with with with the guy I don't have to give up a traffick. That's interesting. I think this is difficult for the for the Raiders. The other thing that complicates it too is the no trade clause, Like he doesn't have to go anywhere, and he doesn't want to go. So I just think that there's a very real scenario where we get to Super Bowl Sunday, and you know, with all of our reporting on the morning of that of that game, we're all talking about Derek Carr potentially getting cut within the next seventy two hours. That's Ralbert Brier making me think, Okay, let me ask you, let me throw the Jets guy crazy. Jets fan, if I could on the market Garoppolo, Derek Carr, Come on, I take Derek okay, so he would take okay, so here but here, But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Jay mac Garoppolo played for Robert Saw and good call. So he's got So you're not guessing, you're not you're not guessing on how Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna fit also with your coaches. You know. Also Garoppolo has played in so many big games. He's always hurt though oh everywhere. It's a little overstated. He plays more than people think. There is you can see I think I like Garoppolo. How many big games has he played in? Derek Carr's not played in when's the last big game he played in? So there's a value you go to New York City. We saw how it gobbled up Zach Wilson. I mean, there's there's an argument if you're this Albert brids got me thinking. Now, I don't know. This is the February fifteenth thing. We only have like thirty seconds left here, but the February fifteenth thing. It's a really good point because the Super Bowl wol have just ended well and here here's the other thing. If you're Derek Carr, like just that, this is the other layer of it. Like, you have a chance to hit the market a month before everybody else, so you're not subject to the same market conditions that everybody else is going to be subject too. Yeah, you could have teams bidding on you, then you know, and then you're gonna be able to pick your home and maybe you recover the money that you lost. Right. I just I think that there's some benefit to Derek car sitting there and saying I don't like, I'm not gonna let you try. I'm not gonna give you that favor. I'm gonna sit here on my hands. I'm gonna exercise my no trade clause, and I'm gonna force my way to free agency on Valentine's Day. Okay, we gotta go. Great stuff. Albert Breer got me thinking one more. Heard The Herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week within the iHeartRadio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like. Decades ago, I remember being told if you go on a date and she crosses her arms, that's bad body language. That's a rejection. Change the subject. She's not into you. So for you people out there, if somebody crosses their arms, that's rejection. They don't like what you're saying. It's a defensive pose. So body language. They're body language experts out there. Attorneys tell their clients dressed nicely, don't roll your eyes, don't shrug your shoulders for this or that. So body language matters. And I've been saying this for years on this show, and I'm always amazed at the pushback. Jay Cutler was somebody I used to bang on all the time for terrible body language. We later found out a lot of teammates didn't like him. It was a tell in poker, they call it a tell for years. Aaron Rodgers ten years ago, I'm like, his body language is awful. We found out Aaron's difficult and prickly and moody. Kayler Murray's body language stinks. We found out he alienates even Larry Fitzgerald. Body language is real, so Boomerassias and on radio in New York w fa N said he just can't stand the Patriots body language with Mac Jones. Here's the thing that I really dislike about Mac Jones. If you want to get to the root of it. His body language, his facial expressions, his gyrations on the field piss me off. Body language for a quarterback is so important. And I hate when quarterbacks sulk on the sideline. You know, they can't. They have to be above all of that. They have to have the backbone, they have to have the leadership bone. They have to be able to look guys in the face, not what they're doing. You know, don't come off with your hands in the air. And now it's easy to say, and I have defended mac Jones saying they're screwing with his career. I understand he's he's angry, But Trevor Lawrence was dealt a horrible hand with urban Meyer first year in Jacksonville. His body language wasn't awful. Let's be honest about Tua the first two years. I mean, his coach wanted him out of the building, didn't want him in the franchise. He was always great at the podium, he was always great with body language. That's never been an issue. So I do think it's it's gotten worse and worse. Sometimes Matt comes off as a spoiled bratt. I do like I have always defended quarterbacks on being um emotional, like I like them. If they have to yell to ohacher yelled at teammate, I'm okay, Brady's done it. I'm okay with that. But the body language for Mac, there's a lot of finger pointing. I don't think it's great. He defended himself on Boston Morning Radio. For me, it's just trying to channel my competitiveness in a good way and just continue to be Mac. Obviously want to have a respect for everybody that plays in this league and coaches in this league. So I'm definitely thinks I can get better at it. Just like with executional football players. It's the same idea, just trying to grow and earn the respect to people, obviously most importantly in the building. I mean, we have to be honest about it. He went he was a child actor. He goes to Alabama. He's a great high school quarterback. He had a very good rookie year. This is the first time, maybe in his life, he's losing a lot. Things aren't going his way. They called him McEnroe Jones at Alabama. So he's got a temper. So you know, he grew up, you know, pretty good life and a lot of wins, a lot of support, a lot of momentum. Now he's not getting it, so but I could make that same argument for Trevor Lawrence. His body language is great. But I appreciate Boomerossias and saying this, it does matter. Quarterback is different. I've said for years I don't care about the Wonderlick test, but I kind of do want to know the score if you're a quarterback, Like if it was eight or nine or ten, I'd be like, wow. Cognitively, that's a hard position to play. You got to you gotta memorize a lot. That's I don't love. I don't love that number. So they're they're everything I think as a quarterback counts. I think your body language counts. What was your upbringing? Were you were? You were spoiled bratt I mean I always said this. Zach Wilson reminded me of Johnny Manziel. Both grew up with lots of money. I didn't like it. I was not a fan of it. I liked my quarterbacks. I like the fact that Aaron Rodgers had to go to a junior college and Tom Brady went to the sixth round and Russell Wilson told he ran too much and was too short, and Dak went to the fourth round and Big Ben had to go to Ohio Miami of Ohio, Matt Ryan didn't get a lot of great offers, had to go to BC Philip Rivers NC State. If you go look at the history, not a lot of big USC quarterbacks crushing and Alabama quarterbacks crushing in the NFL. The guys that have are doubted, are mocked falling the draft, have a chip on their shoulder, do very well in this draft. Very few quarterbacks were number one in high school, number one in college, number one pick. Star Peyton Mannings an outlier. You think it would be like that, right, Well, he's the best high schooler, best college quarterback, number one pick. Very rarely happens. Matt Staffords had a very good career, but he had to go to Detroit and go through that tunnel of losing. Most of you, there was a time in the NFL when there were no USC quarterbacks, no Alabama starting quarterbacks, and three from NC State. So is Mack a little spoiled? A lot of these Alabama quarterbacks they don't get hit. I mean they don't get sacked. They got number one. You know, they got two first round on wide receivers, a first round left tackle, a first round running back, the best college football coach ever. You know, maybe that's part of it is this is the first distress. He's really really faced, and he's not dealing with it. Well. I don't know, but I do appreciate Boomerosias and coming out and saying, yes, this stuff matter. Everything matters. For quarterbacks, I don't give a if my corner has had made mistakes or did this or did that. He's a corner. Shut your guy down. I'm not gonna worry. Corners don't generally speak for a franchise. They don't call the plays. They're not a coach on the field. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine a Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. So. I thought it was a great college football season, but inevitably, over the last fifteen twenty years, we're back to how all college football seasons end. A dominant Southern program, heavily favored to in the national Championship, an SEC team loaded with talent. If you go to the last five national champions twenty seventeen Bama, followed by Clemson, LSU, Bama, Georgia. Those teams, these are the first round picks. Those teams have five six, five, three four. This year's Georgia team is projected to have four. TCU has won. So when Jim Harbaugh's name is out there, I think Jim Harbaugh looks at this and sees the obvious stuff because he's losing a lot of those players. He's recruiting to those schools. And when you're at a decided NFL athlete disadvantage in college, winning the Big Ten, putting the stake in the claim Michigan runs the Big Ten, that's it. You leave Head High Michigan. Since Harbas got there become the Michigan coach, has averaged one first round pick a year, and they're a power in the North, the North where there's fewer great high school players. Penn State over eight years has averaged half a first round pick. That's why I think Hardball's leaving is that Jim looks at it. I wouldn't, but if he does, I get it. Brian Kelly, he just looks at those numbers. You got to have about five first round players. And by the way, all those SEC teams LSU, George Obama, they got another five that are sophomores. So they got ten guys who will be first rounders. In a two year period, Michigan will have two an eight pro disadvantage. Ohio State is the best northern program in the country. They also have to go to Texas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana get some of their players. They average about two two and a half first round picks. So when you hear about Jim Harbaugh, why would you leave. It's all numbers, same reason Brian Kelly did. It's just data. If you really want to win an championship, it is hard not to do it. Even the football factory Ohio State is. They've got one national championship in watch seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years, twenty fourteen,