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Bears yesterday were sellers? I loved that Ravens were buyers, win win for both teams there, But Colum, we could have a lot of breaking news this show. If there are trades happening fast and furious. Listen. It was an exciting Halloween night for me last night. I should note several people came up to me and we're mentioning your donuts. Comment to me yesterday selling me out for the donuts. I was cracking up in the streets. Well, the streets. You hang out on the streets, I do. Let's start with this. I begged the Chicago Bears. I begged the Chicago Bears before the season. Trade Roquan Smith. I know he's a great player. You're spending too much money in the front seven. Defensively, it's not winning enough games. Trade him. Go get Justin Field's help. See if the kid can play. Go buy him a left tackle. Spend money on offense. My entire life, the Chicago Bears have been the irresponsible family member that's spends money on the wrong stuff. And yesterday, by getting more good draft picks for a linebacker, the Bears yesterday finally went and said you know what, I think I'm gonna start a four oh one k and put money on a nice house they grew up. Listen, Baltimore gets a really good player, but Baltimore is in the Super Bowl bubble. Chicago has a young quarterback. They don't know what they have offensively, It's an anemic roster outside of maybe tight end, one back, and one receiver. We don't know if any of their offensive linemen are any good. But due to this trade, now they have a first round pick, two seconds, a third, two fourth, two fifths. Oh what do you know? And a hundred plus million cap space. Go buy the best left tackle in the NFL. Go buy two receivers. You don't have to spend top of the market, but go get two real, nice receivers to play with Darnell Mooney. Then go draft another wide receiver for Cole Commet. Get another running back, another interior offensive lineman. I would have hired an offensive coach, but Matt Eberflus appears to know what he's doing, and Luke Getsy, the offensive coordinator with smoke and mirrors, I think is doing a pretty good job considering they have one legitimate wide receiver. I think Luke Getsy at Oc has done a really good job. But Chicago's entire football identity in my life is we're tough guys over here, and your losers get smarter. How about get people that can catch a football, highly trained and skilled offensive people. How about innovate. Don't go nostalgic. This is a great move. You've got to figure out if Justin Fields can play. It's not a coincidence that the minute they gave Josh Allen Stefon Diggs he got real. The minute Jalen Hurts got a j Brown pow to get its. Tyreek Hill, whoa DeAngelo Hopkins, Skyler Murray. Oh that's interesting. You gotta give Justin Fields a chance. Now, you've got lots of draft picks. By the way, you know, Seattle this year hit on like their first five picks. That's unheard of in the NFL. It's a math equation. It's a numbers game. Now Chicago's got, you know, a couple of seconds, a couple of farce, a couple of fifths. They can still make more moves. Get three seconds, you're gonna hit on one, miss on another, and in the middle on another. It's a numbers game. You need draft picks, you need capital. You don't want too much of one. Chicago now has quickly built both and they're looking through the windshield, not clinging to the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears, and three times a year for a home game, bringing them out to celebrate. It's over. It's over. It was over in the nineties, it was over in nineteen eighty six, it's twenty twenty two. Love the move by the Bears. Who knows if they spend the money wisely. Who knows if the players they draft offensively work. Who knows if Justin Fields is the guy? But there's something there with Justin Fields. I see enough. I like that he just needs a little jet fuel, like a second receiver, maybe a third, a second tied end. This is not a knock on the Ravens. I think for where they are right now, they got a tackling machine and a playmaker. I like it for them too, But Chicago's the story here. Baltimore always wins, Chicago never does. And I love what the Bears. Finally we're willing to do spend the money wisely? All right? Charles Robinson smart Guy, writes for Yahoo. He had an article today saying it's the NFL trade deadline. What do the Packers do in His take was smart guy that he says green Bay's not one move away. Don't sell out your future, and it made me think a lot about green Bay. It really did. We were talking about this as a staff this morning. Green Bay is in a weird spot where they've been stuck ever since they drafted Jordan Love, the green Bay Packers have been stuck in do we care about the present or the future? Right? They got Jordan Love to protect their future. They could have gotten a receiver. They could have gotten a star left tackle. They could have gone out and gotten a star. They gave up the first round of the draft for a Utah State quarterback. That was a fifty fifty proposition at worst. They moved up for it. They gave up picks for it. So they really weren't into the present. They were really protecting the future. And then they found out, oh hell, Aaron's still great loom, wasted draft pick. Are you into the present if you are, I go get a receiver? Or is it about the future? Zadarius Smith? You let him go to a rival in division. He is crushing it. Okay, so you don't care about the present. But then you paid Aaron fifty million large you do care about the present, but then you drafted a linebacker in the first round last year instead of getting him a receiver. It's about the future. And Davante Adams you got draft picks with him, so it's about the future. But you didn't pay Aaron fifty and you got him Randall Cobb and he didn't have a future. So Green Bay, you're at an inflection point. You're one game out of the playoffs and you have Aaron Rodgers. It is about the present. You have a roster full of talent, of guys. You have a back to back MVP. Go get Chase Claypool, DJ Moore, even a Jerry Judy would help. Go look it right now to prove my point. Go look and we all know this to be true. Best quarterbacks win, the division's best quarterbacks win Super Bowls. Best quarterbacks usually end up in conference championships. Look at the quarterbacks right now in the NFC playoffs. Daniel Jones, Marcus Mariota, Jalen Hurts, Jimmy Garoppolo, Geno Smith, Dak Kirk Cousins, who shrinks, and Aaron Rodgers. You're telling me it's not about the present. Ever since that Jordan Love pick. You've waffled on this. Are we building for the future? Is it about now? Listen a minute. You paid Aaron Rodgers fifty large and he's waffling back and forth on retirement. You can talk about the future. You're always protected. You're the classic. You know, you never pull out of the four oh one K. The NFL, to some degree, is the opposite of a four oh one K. If you're the Super Bowl bubble, pull money out for a short term solution only screw the future. You're not going to draft another Aaron Rodgers. You're not going to go from Far to Aaron Rodgers to Mahomes. You know how lucky and rare it is to go from Far to Rogers. Make a move, keep going back and forth? Does the present matter? Does a future matter? You let Zadarius Smith go. You won't go get a wide receiver. You drafted Jordan Love, so it must be about tomorrow. You do get that for the next two years, probably maybe three. But let's say two, you have a quarterback that's top five in the league in talent, and you're not going to draft that again. You're gonna be too good to get the draft pick to get it right, You're not gonna get a top seven or eight draft pick. And that's where a lot of the Hall of famers come from. All Right, So I disagree there with that writer for Yahoo. You can be a smart guy and I can disagree. Start looking at those NFC playoff quarterbacks. I mean, it's a lot of guys that I have to defend. Jimmy Garoppolo and nobody likes him. I'm one of a few people that like him. I defend Kirk Cousins, nobody likes it. Those are two of the better guys you could face in the playoffs. Right now. It is a steady diet this morning of Genos Smith and Marcus Mariota and go for it. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. J McK and I both liked the Cleveland Browns and the Points yesterday. I thought Cincinnati would pull it out, didn't, but we were three and two, are blazing five back to back to back winning weeks. We're on a role. We feel good about that. But Cleveland went on. They have dominated this mostly because Myles Garrett is unblockable in the O line for the Bengals has struggled with Myles Garrett. They did again Jamar Chase was out star receivers matter ask Aaron Rodgers. But you look at the Bengals this year, they're now four and four, are really talented four and four. And you look at the Rams and they're really talented three and four, and they were both in the Super Bowl once again, proving for the umpteenth time it is a year two year league. This is why I defend the Niners going for Christian McCaffrey, and the Eagles forgetting Robert Quinn, and the Ravens forgetting Roquan Smith. It's why the Bills got von Miller this year and why the Rams got ob j and von Miller last year. If you believe you're in the Super Bowl bubble, go for it. It's like I said last segment, it's kind of the opposite of a four oh one k. In the NFL, sometimes you pull money out just to win now and only now, and the hell with the future. And that's why Owa's support teams like the Niners and the Eagles and the Ravens who go buy a playmaker. But it also speaks to how impressive Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are. They've been together five years, but let's count four because that's when they started working together every Sunday. In four years, two Super Bowls and four conference championships. And what makes that really impressive in a year to year league. In three of those four years they've had an absolute rebuild. One year they had to rebuild the defense. Another year that being last year, they had to rebuild the entire offensive line. This year, no Tyreek Hill. They had to rebuild the wide receiving corps. And yet, once again for the Chiefs, there is no drop off. That is when you have a Hall of Fame coach and a Hall of Fame quarterback, when you have to do annual rebuilds of units, and there is absolutely no drop off. What Cincinnati is realizing and the Rams are now. If you think you're in the bubble, go for it story. This morning, the Rams offered two first round picks for Carolina Russi end Brian Burns. Their takeaway is Jalen Ramsey prime, Aaron Donald Prime, Cooper Cup Prime, Matt Stafford prime Sean McVay prime. Let's go get a prime edge rusher. We didn't want to pay for Von Miller. We can afford Brian Burns. I'm not against it. I don't know if they in the Super Bowl bubble, but I will say this, Brian Burns better pass rush, get the ball back, you'd be closer to it. So when people are freaking out about draft picks, just remember this. It is a year to year league. Belichick Brady weren't exception. Mahomes and Reader and exception. And you may be looking at the two best coaches ever and the two best quarterbacks ever. That is an outlier. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd week dayson noon Easter nine a Empacific. Okay, so we talked trade deadline, Jamax said, Colin, we could have moved during the show. We just had a biggie. Do we have a siren or anything that we could just set up. The Vikings super talented young tight end from Detroit, TJ. Hawkinson. The Vikings get him in a couple of fourth round picks down the road. The Lions get a second round pick this draft and a third round pick next draft. But you don't know what d picks are going to be. The Vikings with an offensive coach now have Adam Feeling, Justin Jefferson, very talented, Big T. J. Hawkinson, Kirk Cousins, Dalvin Cook, an offensive coach that now knows how to make this stuff bake and work. They already lead the division. They're pulling away. But by the way, Green Bay, you just sit back there idly. I got news for you. This is a This is a what we talked about the NFL at times. If you're in a Super Bowl bubble, it's the opposite of a four oh one k You just pull money out, spend it for the short term only. And that's my Kings are saying. We don't care about these draft picks. We want to star tight end. Hey it's me Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker, for twenty two minutes of pipe and hot baseball talk featuring the biggest name to newsmakers in the sport. Whether you believe in analytics or the eye test, We've got all the bases covers. New episodes drop every Thursday, So do yourself a favor and listen to Inside the Partner with Rob Parker. On the iHeart radio app or wherever you get your podcast. It just so happens. We, you know, hang out in this little beach community not far from here, and Steve Nash occasionally has spotted there playing tennis. He's a great tennis player. And Steve Nash and the Brooklyn Nets have parted ways. This I can tell you from what I've been told by people that know Steve Nash. During the summer, he was at wits end. You got James Harden quit on the team. Kyrie wouldn't get a vaccine. Kevin Durant is great, but go ask Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr was walking on eggshells with Kevin Durant. And I love Kevin Durant, but Kevin is prickly and difficult, and Steve Kerr struggled with him. And remember in August, Kevin Durant met with the owner with the Nets and said me or Nash, choose one. And then you know, Kevin wanted to trade. He wanted Steve Nash out. There's a lot of denials, but it was true. This is I'm actually happy for Steve Nash. Congratulations to Steve Nash for no longer coaching the NBA's biggest tire fire. You've got egos overpaid players. I mean, this is just now there's increased pressure on Kevin Durant because once he left the Warriors and they want a title, it makes him look worse. And so now Kevin Durant feels that absolute pressure. Kyrie is just becoming. I said about Kyrie last year, He's the only superstar I ever remember in my life that I would trade for rotational players, bench players. Get him out of the building. He's a culture killer. So Steve Nash is one of the single smartest athletes I've ever interviewed in my life. He's a brilliant guy. This is and I'm happy that he gave it a run. I think he can coach, whether you think he can or not. This is a mess for a million reasons. I think you have to just keep KD move everything else, almost start over. But I actually feel this is one of those a coach loses a job, and I'm happy for ye. He just got off the Titanic Colin the Titanic is the Brooklyn Nets going down, and Nash got off. The story about how Kyrie Irving kept Steve Nash waiting in the rain at his front door for thirty minutes is just an abomination. The way Kyrie treated him at practice. It's it's awful, Nash big win for him to Yeah, I've heard practice with this group was a circus practice. One more Heard. The Herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week within the iHeartRadio app search Heard to listen live or on demand whenever you like. Heard Hierarchy. The top ten of NFL teams according to College Number ten Cincinnati. Listen, the Chiefs lost to the Colts. It's okay on the road to have a bad game. Three of their four losses have come on the road. They struggle to block Myles Garrett. Jamar chases out, but Joe Burrow's been sacking ninety nine times in the last two years. They got to get that old line fixed on the edges. They have helped it on the interior. Now they got the Panthers a buy and the Steelers coming up. They're gonna be fine. But listen, they Cleveland owns them. And it's just one of those things where Miles Garrett right now, the Bengals don't have the personnel to block him. Jay McK and I both thought Cleveland would give him trouble last night. They did, But don't sell the farm. Carolina beat Tom Brady. We get this every year where you just you have a game, you don't show up, it's a bad matchup and you get whacked. The Bengals are still a top ten team. Number nine. Listen. Are the Seahawks a good story or a good team? I don't know, but their number four in the league in scoring. They had the best draft I can recall in years two tackles, star running back, star corner, star, pass rusher or semi star. They have fourteen sacks over the last three weeks. They lead the NFL. Their defense seven games with multiple takeaways. They hit it out of the park. Pete Carroll's has done very well with young players who buy into is relentless energy. They're now scoring. Shane Waldron a great oc higher Seahawks at nine. Number eight. You know, I love the Ravens. I love the Ravens. They drive me nuts, but they have the easiest remaining schedule, the number two rushing offense in the league, the highest rushing average. They can control the clock, and by the way, Lamar Jackson wins seventy five percent of his games, and yes he can win it in the fourth quarter two like he did last week. He's had back to back games without a turnover. There are so many things I like about this franchise. Starts with Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson. They're always going to be in my top ten unless they literally go off a cliff. Still have Baltimore at eight, number seven right now. The Dolphins are good. Now. I do think post Thanksgiving, cold windy weather, it'll be a different looking offense. But they're five and oh this year. When two starts, they are terrific on third down? Do you know the only offense is in the league that passed the ball better in terms of numbers are the and the Chiefs. So between the coach, the tight end, Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, this is explosive. And also, you know what, you gotta give two a credit on third down. He has been unbelievable this year. He's completed seventy two percent of his throws on third down. Some of that is schematics, but he deserves credit. They're five and oh when he starts Miami at seven number six, but I probably take Dallas to beat him. The only loss this year for this team is Game one when Dak was injured and at Philadelphia, and Philadelphia is really good. Their defense is fantastic. They lead the NFL with thirty three sacks. Sometimes they get him without bringing that much pressure. They take the ball away. Now, can they come to terms with Tony Pollard is their running back. He's their star running back, not Zeke Jerry, You're just gonna have to step aside. I know you love Zeke, you paid him a lot of money. Do I have questions about Mike McCarthy and crisis, Absolutely, Questions about not having anybody I trust beyond Cedee Lamb at wide out. Absolutely, But this defense, this run game, they're six Cowboys number five. Vikings added t J. Hawkinson another weapon to this offense. One of two teams in the league with ten touchdown passes and ten rushing touchdowns. The Eagles are the other. Yes, they're winning close games. That's why they get t J. Hawkinson, so you can't double up on Justin Jefferson and take them out of game plans. Listen, I like them, Do I love them? I'll tell you this. You had a great tight end to Dalvin Cook feeling Justin Jefferson. By the way, Zadarius Smith they got from the Packers is crushing it. They got a lot of the elements. They got a lot of the elements. Vikings at five, number four. If you don't get the Niners, I can't help you. Okay. They lost to Kansas City after Kansas City came off a lost to Buffalo. It was a buzz saw. But Jimmy Garoppolo hate to break it to you. Fourth straight game with multiple touchdown passes, four games with one hundred plus passer rating this week crushed the Rams without Debo, without their fullback. Every week they get another healthy player back. Eighth straight regular win over the rival Rams. Now it's Christian McCaffrey, Elijah Mitchell's coming back. Keep your eye on the Niners in the NFC. They're going nowhere. Number three Buffalo Bills, I know they want and everybody loved it. Does anybody bail on their running game faster than Buffalo? They're getting too cocky, too much chatter. You don't have any wins. Where are your super Bowls? Couldn't get them with Jim Kelly, You're not getting them now. I like the team, but they bail on their run game. They're overly Josh Allen centric. Sometimes you gotta take the ball out of your best player's hands to protect him from himself. Now, they do have the number one offense in the best yardage differential, but Josh Allen's accounted for twenty one to their twenty three offensive touchdowns this year. Stop bailing on your run game. Bills at three. Number two Chiefs were idol, So I'll put him at two. What do you want me to say? They're nineteen and three off of bye with Andy Reid, so you know they're winning this week best third down offense. Why I put him at two. They're susceptible on the back end of their defense. They've allowed the most passing touchdowns in the league. Some of that is because they lead late, some of it is because they gave up a really good corner to the Niners. I do worry in the AFC that they're vulnerable on the back end of that defense. It worries me. Kansas Idiot two number one said Philadelphia played and won by a route. They are no longer just a great story. They appear to be a great team. They take the ball away, they don't give it up boy, when you give a young quarterback a star receiver, Josh Allen gets Stefon Diggs, pops. Jalen Hurts gets a J. Brown pops two against Tyreek Hill pops. Hey. J Brown stretches that field. What a get by Howie Roseman the GM. I'll put him at one. They played and they won in a route. The Chicago Bears did something yesterday I loved. They moved off a great player role Kuan Smith and said, you know what, we want picks. So now you know we entered the morning they had a one, two twos, They had a three, two fours to fives and one hundred million in cap space. Well one of those two's their own, not the Ravens. One one of their own. They said, we want to go get Chase Claypool. This just happened. So here's why Chase Claypool to the Bears is good. J Mack Darnell Mooney their best receiver. Who's I think a two is small. Claypool's a house. He's like six four two whatever he is. He's a house. He is a big physical present. You can use him on jet sweeps. He can put him in traffic. Claypool is a man. He is a big body. Mooney is more clever. Right, you don't want him taking a beating. So now you have Armstrong, Herbert backs nice Backs. You may draft another one nice Backs. Cole Commets good solid. I'd go spend money on another tight end. Now you've got two receivers that are legit, been in the league for a couple of years, can make plays. Claypool the big physical guy, kind of a Michael Pittman. You know what his nickname was, what a Poltron because he's from Canada and he's kind of built like Megatron a little bit. He could do the jet sweeps. No, he's a big and he's very emotional player, and some people have criticized him. Big strong minds me a little bit physically of a Michael Pittman of Indianapolis. Maybe a two buck is a big, strong, physical presence. And by the way, Mooney's a young guy. Clay pulls a young guy. Commence a young guy, Armstrong's a young guy, Justin Montgomery's a young guy. Fields is a young guy. The old line is young guy. So you're building this thing. You don't have disgruntled veterans. You don't have it's a bunch of young kids. Most of them haven't been paid yet. They want to They're ascending. Chicago's building an offense now, not a lot of big money on the offense. Yeah, okay, so what does that mean? You're not gonna have disgruntled you know, diva on the team. It's a bunch of young kids want to get paid, working their tails off, building an offense for the future. And by the way, I was thinking about this j MC Josh Allen popped. Year three, he got Bon Diggs two US pop this year year three, Tyreek Hill, Jalen Hurts, Year three pops A J. Brown, Joe Burrow, year two popped, Jamar Chase, Kyler Murray, DeAndre Hopkins popped. By the way, who has him popped? Mac Jones, Zach Wilson. I mean, seriously, where's their star receiver? Yeah? So what Chicago now? And I don't know if Chase Claypool. He's not Tyreek Hills or Jamar Chase. But what I'm saying is he's a really he could be a one, could be, but he feels like a great two. He's a big, physical kid. So now you've got this young slot gets He's a super smart offensive coordinator. I think he's really doing it with smoking mirrors. Now you don't have to do with as many smoking mirrors because once now if Chase becomes Mooney and Chase win games with those guys. Now the all the Dante Pettis guys, they become threes and forced they they now should draft another receiver, and I would go buy a left tackle or buy a center. The offensive line needs a lot of work, but it wasn't regionally fits in Chicago, Notre Dame kid right, he's kind of he can excel in the bad weather games. He's perfect for that city. And remember Eberflus built an anonymous defense in Indie with not a lot of star players, and they were very good. I think he thinks he's a Roquan Samantha. We can get him out of here, Robert Quinn. We can get about it. I can fit fine guys to fit my scheme, and we could spend money on the offense well. And it's interesting. Usually I like giving whatever side of the ball the coach is best at. Andy Reid defense, Sean McDermott, Andy Read offense, Sean McDermot defense. I like giving them toys on their side of the ball. But Chicago's like, we're so depleted, we may have to put the toys on the offensive side as the league is pivoting the offense because Eberflus, I think has done a great job with what he has. Defensively, they drafted a cornerback, he's excellent, a safety from Penn State. He's a star. So this is this is like this in Chicago. This maybe you know, this may not translate. They're not as good as Minnesota, and Minnesota just got t J. Hawkinson today, a really really good tied and he's had some injury stuff. But now the Vikings. Vikings now feel there in that seven eight team Super Bowl bubble, like the Niners do, like the Bills do, like the Chiefs who went and got Tony. When you that's when you give up picks. Like we feel like we are in this elite bubble. Baltimore, by the way, it feels that they go get a star playmaker defensively, So I love what the Bears did. Bears did. Albert Rare earlier talked about Hawkinson, and it is interesting the Green Bay Indivision gave the Vikings Zadarius Smith. He is now their pass rusher phenom and the Lions in division give the Vikings Hawkinson. It used to be a no no, maybe they don't respect Minnesota or something, but Albert Brier on that deal. What Rexpielman and Mike Zimmer left for them in Minnesota was pretty good from a cultural standpoint, pretty good from a talent standpoint, and that was one of the big reasons why they didn't tear anything down. They said, we're going to build on this, and we're going to invest in the locker room that we have because we believe the right guys are already here and the six and one start reinforces that. I don't think people realize there's three games up on the Packers right now in the NFC North, Like a couple more things happened and that thing could be over. You look at the Vikings now and this is really just more or less moving two picks down, like you said, it's moving a second down to the fourth round and a third down to the fourth round. And to get a guy who's got the ability to be an elite tight end who was a top ten pick. You know, I really love to move for the Viking. By the way, this morning This is really funny. I just noticed this. So this morning is a staff We put about an hour and a half in every morning, two hours do prep and what do we want to talk about? We knew we were going to do the Bears topic, and one of the things I was talking about in the morning meeting was you got to give Justin fields chance. Do you guys remember this? Ryan and j Mac I put down on a piece of paper. If I was the Bears, I would draft Jordan Addison with my first pick from USC at wide receiver. Can you see that? And I'd go get Chase Claypool. So we put the I didn't notice it until that was like four hours ago. So our my takeaway was Chase Claypool was going to be available because Kenny Pickett loves this rookie receiver from Georgia and he also appears to love the tight end for the Steelers, and so it's like, you know, the odd man out is Chase Claypool. He's like, hey, come on, I'm not going to get in the ball here. Our offensive line stinks and I don't trust our quarterback and he likes the other receiver on the tight end. So Chase Claypool was there for the taking and the Bears jumped on it. Does it say anything to you that Kenny Pickett was again Kenny Pickett just announced, Hey, maybe we're not studying enough, We're not ready. And now they trade Claypool like twenty four hours later. Is he the guy that's not studying? I don't know, doesn't know the place. Not a great look for Claypool. And I'm a Claypool guy. I had one of the Jets to draft him when he was coming out of Notre Dame. He has big moments. Ll Mims instead Mims a bust. Thanks for reminding me, Colin bust. And oh, by the way, the Jets down, I'm so excited. The Jets did try to get Tyreek Hill this past off season, so they have the quarterback on the rookie deal and they were going for the receiver Tyreek Hill just one of the Miami Dolphins because of the taxes, and you know it's worked out for him. What a day for the Bears. You know what, You're gonna find out if Jeffin Fields can play. You're gonna find out if he can play, because now you got pieces. This is fun. So what sport. It's all about the other thing is that Steve Nash. Basically, the Nets and Steve Nash have mutually agreed to part ways. That means Steve said, you know, you can fire me, but if we mutually part I'll give you back some money. That's the usually how that goes. You know, I'll give you a little this, this, we'll end. It's a nice pr thing. It's not as ugly as I got fired. I'll give you some money back. Steve Nash's probably got a net worth over fifty million. So Steve Nash basically had told people that I know that he was. It was really struggling. It was a really hard team to coach. This would be a hard team to coach if you were Phil Jackson or Eric Spoelstra or Ty Lou or Greg Popovich, if you're a rookie head coach. Because let's be honest about this, Brad Stevens was a great coach. Kyrie Irving didn't respect him. Why he didn't have rings. So Steve Nash like Brad Stevens, plenty bright enough. But in the end, you know, Kyrie. Kyrie only worked in this league when Lebron took over the Cavs and said it's my operation. That's when Kyrie was good. Kyrie star in Boston doesn't work. Kyrie star in Brooklyn doesn't work. Kyrie Cleveland pre Lebron doesn't work. Kyrie at Duke played eight games. So Kyrie Irving's history is you can't build around him. He's just talented and you know he pushes back. Remember Kyrie Irving and Kad before the season started. Remember what they said before they hired Nash. Remember this a couple of years ago. We don't really meet a coach. God, I mean that they dismissed the position. They dismissed coaching. We don't need a coach. You don't think the Warriors as talent as they are. You don't think Steve Kurrad's value to that team with all the personalities. It should be noted Kyrie Irving met with the Nets owner yesterday. Remember Kyrie Irving had that insane anti semitic tweety and the owner called him out. So they met yesterday. And now Steve Nash has gone today, Colin, I'll just I'll just put that out there for you and let it sit. And now there's a lot of reports from some NBA reporters who have been on the show before that Ema Udoka from the Celtics is the front runner. He's a great coach of the job. He's a great coach. I wonder if he knows what he's getting into in Brooklyn. Apparently he's close with kad You know, coaches are very fun about this when they lose jobs. They have this like self esteem. I gotta get a job back. I would not take. I would not take the Brooklyn It's the number that would get you the Brooklyn Nets. There is ten million dollars to coach and for the rest of the year, would you do it? Well? If he gets fired again, do you get a third opening? So because of the situation in Boston, he blew a great opening. So if Imaadoka goes to Brooklyn, and I don't think he could work with anybody. Phil Jackson, now you're over two. One a personal transgression, the other one is a mask and you'll get blamed for it, by the way, right because the star players see no coaching. You did great with the same I'm not doubting it's coaching. Yeah, But based on how Boston ended and the ugliness, and he looked not mature enough for the job. You better make sure the second job works. Yeah. And oh, by the way, and people say, oh, I'll coach the Nets, Shirley, give me ten million bucks. You gotta be a shoot around with these guys before the games, after the games, on the team flights. You gotta be around Irving for like the next six months, maybe eight if you go to the finals. I said good, I said this last year. Kyrie's the only superstar in my life I would trade for rotational players. Get it. He is a toxic culture killer. Nick Wright earlier on Steve Nash and how he was absolutely doomed from the start. Both these things can be true. Steve Nash was in an impossible position, and Steve Nash, in two plus years as the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, has done a miserable job. Both of those things are true. I feel for him. Everyone likes him. He was an abysmal NBA head coach for two and a half years. They have been an awful defensive team and they don't run an offense. The offense is simply gave the ball to Durant, let him do something. Give the ball to Kyrie, let him do something. And his playoff adjustments were simply, can Kevin Durant play all forty eight minutes? Maybe let's try it. So he was not doing a good job. He was also dealt an unwinnable hand. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays at noon Easter not a Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. Let's go to Trent Dilfer podcast Beyond the Access and All with Trent dilfor All. Right, so you know the Bears justin Fields pretty well, I'm sixty forty it's gonna work. I don't know, but I do think getting Chase Claypool with Cole Comment with Mooney with David Montgomery. Now I look at it and I think, okay, Now I can tell in the next ten weeks do I have something or not? Does that seem reasonable why they made the move? To you, I think it's reasonable. I'll go one step further. I'm ninety five five that this is gonna work with Fields. In fact, clip this right now and let's play a week next year. I believe the Bears are in a playoff of contention. I believe they'd come one of the better teams in the NFC neck this time next year, and I think the rest of this year they're still laying a really strong foundation. I've been watching every single snap of the Bears offense. I do a radio show out of Chicago, and to study them. You really understand their limitations upfront, why they play the way they do. You understand their limitations in the passing game. When Mooney's really the only guy that can get open on his own, comet is a really interesting piece. He's a true in line tight end that also has a threat in the passing game. And now you at a Claypool who I'd call it push receiver. He's a guy you push him down the field. He's to get his gate opened up. Use that big size, use that length. He's a vertical middle of the field eater, upper type guy. Yeah. The other thing too, the Bears want physical blocking receivers. They run a lot of the truck played, the toss crack played to the strong side. They need that Z receiver to be big, physical, almost like an HVAC tight end presence. Yeah, I think this is a great fit, and I really think the Bears are gonna be good at this time next year. T. J. Hawkinson, Lions tight end is now a Viking. So the Niners get McCaffrey. I think Minnesota looks at that and thinks, all right, if you want to keep up with the Joneses in the NFC, you go get another weapon. I'll tell you something. I I'm surprised Greenbay if they don't make a move here in the next hour and a half. Hawkinson's a good player. Vikings have some I mean, this is a real team, right, This is the Vikings Division. I mean, at some point people want to stop talking about the Packers. This is the Vikings Division Bears. Obviously rebuilding Packers have proven this. This hasn't worked. Losing Davante Adams. They haven't played as good at defense. I think as they thought they were going to play. This is the Vikings Division. They're rolling. Kevin's done a great job with this team. They have an identity. Kirk Cousins has played incredibly efficient and still has splashed play in him. He's a guy that not everybody loves because he isn't the great athletic traits. He just continues to deal and surgically take apart as opponents. So I really like the Vikings like what they're doing. I think this is a big pickup. Okay, so you've been a big fan of Tuah, there's no question when the Bill's got Josh Allen Stevon Diggs and when Jalen Hurts got a j Brown and TWA gets Waddle and now we may see it with Claypool and fields. Is that you get Burrow, got Jamar Chase, they'll pop. And my guess is a young quarterback as he's learning progressions, you give him a star receiver and that's the easy one. Tyler Murray's like, I know where I can go fifteen times a game. It creates a simplicity and a clarity that's my game. Not only are they great players, but I could argue a young quarterback Trent could use it more than an old quarterback in his eleventh year. But it seems like the star receiver with a young quarterback like changes the quarterback as much as the team. It really does, especially when have that type of beepep speed with Tyreek Hill and Waddle, and these guys are two of the most explosive athletes in the league. You had Mike McDaniel, who don't forget Mike McDaniel's calling card is the run game. I mean, he's the run boy genius in the Shanahan tree, So they want to have a high volume of runs. They're very creative in the run game. And now you had that type of beep beep speed on both sides or the same side, and you put the defense in a ton of conflict, even the great left tackle, so the left side is lockdown. It's what twa NIS two is never going to be the guy that drops back nine yards in the pockin throws it fifty five yards in the air, but he is going to absolutely shred you from twelve to thirty yards in the middle of the football field with his timing, with his vision, with his quick release, his accuracy. And now you've put people around that can catch the ball at twenty and turn it into forty five. And that's what you're seeing. You're seeing these mid range action plays putting a lot of conflict in the middle of the football field. Defenders and Waddle and Tyree Hill just dominating that space. And then the tight ends a good player in the red zone. He's an adequate blocker. I think they'll upgrade to another big, big in line tight end to pour some gasoline on the run game. The Dolphins aren't going away offensively. There's no precedent for Geno Smith bust backup star. How do you explain it? Why? I actually think there is a precedent. Actually, as doing a show this morning, Matthew hasselback. So Matthew was traded to Green Bay, I mean from green Bay, do Seattle. I was signed there after the Super Bowl. Did not work out for about a year and a half. I get his contract, I become the starter. Matthew did one thing I'll never forget. He went and did the lonely work instead of feeling sorry for himself every day. In practice, he got better. He bought in, he studied other quarterbacks, he recognized his flaws. And then when I tore my achilles and he took over, he was a different player in every realm. He was already talented, but now he became a quarterback. He became a leader, he became a dude, and he played eighteen years a league. My opinion, Matthews are the most underrated player at quarterback in the last two decades. Geno's kind of taken on that same thing. He got kicked in the face. He went to work. He didn't whine about it. He studied other players. He did the lonely work, and now you're seeing the benefit of that. Now. Is he a nine time pro bowler? I don't think so. But I think he's a high quality starter in this league because of the lonely work he did when he was kind of kicked in the teeth and pushed to the curb. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he went to work. Finally, you're a coach. Lipscomb Academy had football coach Nashville, Tennessee. You have an off season, you know what you have. You know who graduated if in your league, if you got all right, we got this kid. He plays like Christian McCaffrey. Make it work. I was surprised how quickly even the first game, like two days later, he had like ten touches. Are you surprised what he's like? He became debot in like twelve days or whatever it was. So here's why I'm nods. Normally I would be, but I'm not with this situation. Kyle and his coaches are some of the best coaches in the league, and they're great teachers. They value teaching. They're not just raw raw guys, scheme guys. They actually teach football at the forty nine ers. Christian McCaffrey is from the Stanford tree. He's got a great pedigree with his family, not just his dad. People get his mom is the best athlete in the family. So he's got this great athletic pedigree. He's a learner. At Stanford, David Shaw put a ton on Christian McCaffrey. He was a receiver, he was a slotback, he's a running back. He did everything, so his eye capacity to learn. The forty nine ers know this. They're in David Shaw's backyard. So there's this teaching element of the Niners staff. There's this Christian McCaffrey's not just a great athlete, he's also a great learner. It's not unrealistic to think that he can absorb this entire playbook in a matter of a couple of weeks. It might take some guys four to six weeks. Give Christian a couple of weeks in here going to feel like he's going to feel as if he's been a Niner for the last two years. He has a great story, a great background on that Trent Dilfer, super Bowl champ beyond the XS and those with Trent Dilfer's podcast. That's why we bring him on. Great seeing Trent. Thanks brother,