Thanks for listening to the Best of Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from twelve to three eastern nine to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS one. Find your local station for The Herd at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Herd. This is the Best of the Herd with Colin Cowhern on Fox Sports Radio. Here we go on a Monday, a full slate of NFL preseason games this week. Yes, football is officially here. It's going to cool down over the next ten days or so fourteen days in America, hopefully for some places that desperately need it. It's the Herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening iHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio FS one, one hour from now. Where Colin was right, where Colin was wrong, plenty of both. Joy Taylor is back and looks splendid as usual. This is a new This is Joy a CEO of a major foundation or hair changes. You know, this is very upscale, like like a tech company or something. Yeah, you're very in control, very powerful, a lot of leverage in the industry. It's great to see you. It is. So. The thing about success is the more you have, the danger is you start believing that you know more than everybody. And success is based as many of you known a lot of factors. You know, it's it's timing, it's support. I was talking to somebody the other day about what is this person's ceiling. It was a young kid in college, and I said, don't worry about your ceiling. Your ceiling can only be realized with help. Nobody reaches a ceiling without help. Brady had Belichick and then he went to Tampa with those receivers. If he never had Belichick and those good receivers in Tampa, he'd have no Super Bowls. Everybody's ceiling. You need alliances and help. If you show up, you work hard every day. That's really who you are. Don't worry about the ceiling part. And the Patriots for the only time in the history of the National Football League. Maybe the Packers did this way way way way back, but the Patriots had like two dynasties. They had like a twenty year run which included two dynasties beginning and end. So it's very human. It's very understandable if you start believing that you just are better than everybody else and smarter than everybody else. So the last two years has been very weird in New England since Tom Brady left, Thomas succeeding and New England is not They're a five hundred team. Belichick now has multiple kids on his staff. His kids. Their drafts have been, to say the least, odd and they can't score. So a story coming out over the weekend that from legitimate sources, Mike Girardi at the NFL Network, guy's been doing this a long time, that they've looked bad. Mac Jones looks uncomfortable this year. Mike Reese ESPN reporter again excellent reporter. No, Mike not well, but know him is. They've had real struggles in camp and it reminds me back in twenty ten. Josh McDaniel was the coordinator of New England. He was this young, brash coordinator and he got the job with Denver. And listen, sometimes when you're really talented, you get jobs early in your life. Lane Kiffen is one of these coaches, Lane Kiffen, and you're just not ready for it. It's a big job, face of a franchise, and that's okay, But The one thing Josh McDaniels did that was not okay is he drafted Tim Tebow in the first round in twenty ten, twelve years ago, and it was I'm smarter than everybody. The sources I've had in this league for a long time, and the people I trusted on Tim Tebow, most of the people I trusted didn't even know if he was draftable. Didn't know if he was draftable. That's okay. By the way, Tommy Frazier is one of the best college quarterbacks I've ever seen it. Ne Brass didn't get drafted. Charlie Ward was great quarterback. Florida State didn't get drafted. Tebow's much closer to them than he is. Peyton Manny right, like my guys were like, I'm not I'm not really sure with his delivery. I don't know if he's a he's a draftable quarterback. Maybe I'd take him in the seventh round and just get him on the roster. Denver took him first first round. He bombed. He was at one point fourth on the depth chart in Denver, and so again McDaniels from New England. And when you start looking, one of the things we know to be true, and it's sort of odd, right, is that Balichick's coaching tree has a lot of failures and not just failures disasters Matt Patricia, Joe Judge, Charlie Weiss at Notre Dame like disasters, and with all of them, what's the criticism Josh McDaniels arrogance. Charlie Weiss came out said he had a schematic advantage at Notre Dame. Arrogance. Brian, who I think is a pretty good coach, took over Houston really kind of strong armed people got fired. Arrogance. Matt Patricia had to be told how to dress. Remember he showed up hat backwards, got ripped after week one. He thought he could just get away with it. Joe Judge, We've got a certain system and a culture in all of them. There's an argument to be made is they brought in this sort of we're smarter than everybody else. And I do think you're seeing it post Brady. I think Brady's humility, I mean, for a superstar married to a supermodel worth a billion dollars, Tom's pretty humble, can laugh at himself, pretty funny, good self awareness most of the time. And this organization. Now in an offensive pivoting league, there's just not how many playmakers I saw stat this morning. The guys looked up in the last two years. They're like bottom of the league and everything with the receivers, receiving receptions, receiving yards, receiving TVs. They brought in DeVante Parker. That's not going to solve it. He doesn't separate from anybody. Talented, but not really a separate guy. So, and here's why it's arrogant, because you have Mac Jones in his second year. Mac Jones isn't Lamar Jackson. He's not Justin Herbert like there's there are limitations to what he can do. So what he needs is support and help like Burrow's getting in Cincinnati. They just keep getting him weapons and offensive linemen, like like Justin Herbert is getting in LA with the Chargers. First thing they did get a left tackle. They went and spent a fortune on a center, draft another running back. They're just constantly upgrading New England. We're gonna use a defensive coordinator as an offensive coach. Joe Judge a special teams guy. Yeah, he'll call plays too. It's by committee. And the stories are out that mac Jones is not comfortable. Well why would he be. I mean, if you were in a year two of a really hard job and you got less support and they were your it was boss by committee. To me, that just smacks of arrogance. Is that we're just smarter than everybody else. And if you start looking at all these missus. Eric Mangini got fired, but it wasn't an arrogance thing. I mean he went to the Jets and Browns. Those are enigmatic franchises. But I think this is unfull display. I think, and I think the ego and the harshness of Belichick wore out Brady. And we know that he was unhappy two years before he left, because the stories are out now. He was talking to somebody in division, the Miami Dolphins, about going to play for them. He wanted to come back and burn New England like he was already talking to Miami, their rival in division. The differences. Mac Jones doesn't have that resume, he doesn't have that leverage, he doesn't already have a strong voice in the room. And this is what he's left with. And this is why Brady left, is that they just everybody's too smart. They know their own stuff. We do it our way. Well, your way's not working. You're a five hundred team that cannot force Josh Allen the last two years to punt. Can't forget beating him. You can't force him to punt in any game played against Josh in decent weather the last two years. So Joy often laughs at the fact that I love practice video, absolutely love practice video. Now now now, not all video is credible. I mean UFO is a great example, like what's the angle, what's the clarity? You can't get two in love with video, right, but there are sometimes you see video and it's the truth, Like that's fast, that's urgent, that's passionate, you can see crowd, you can see people. So if based on video that we have seen clips of practice so far, Tua is going to be the MVP of the league and Daniel Jones is going to complete twenty three percent of his throat? So how much of it is true? When you watch these videos and you know, is video telling you the truth with Tuah? And is it similarly telling you the truth with Daniel Jones? Because the clips coming out of Miami are unbelievable. It's just one fifty five year, perfect strike after another for Tuah. He just looks absolutely great in all the video that's been on the internet and been on blogs, and it's handheld stuff and it comes from fans. It's perfect. Well, here's my thing. If you look at two his history, he was accurate in high school, accurate at Alabama, and he completed like sixty eight percent of his throws last year. He's always been accurate. Then I see these video clips where he now has an elite left tackle and elite receivers, he remains accurate with better help. I buy that video. I think he's gonna have a very good year. And Daniel Jones similarly, has never been that accurate is college. Even with David Cutcliffe, here's a throw, he just wasn't that accurate. In the NFL three years, he hasn't been accurate. So when I look at Daniel Jones clips a video, I say, well, this is what he is. And when I look at two his clips, I say, well that is what he is. So I do think Two is gonna have a big year and Daniel Jones by about week eight they'll be done with him and Tyrod Taylor will be playing. So in this instance, I have data combined with video, and I think these are real video clips of note and they are telling you stuff because I think I think if you look at two his history, I went back and looked at high school stuff and college stuff and NFL stuff. Two has never had an accuracy issue. He's Drew Brees, That's who he was comped with. His issue is I got a bad left tackle, and nobody's ever opened offseason acquisitions. Both problems solved Armstat Waddle, Cedric Wilson, Tyreek Hill. So I think Miami is gonna have a very good year. Not everybody thinks that I do, And I think I think the Giants are going to be an absolute wreck. The other thing I think about when I see practice video for quarterbacks is that the one thing a quarterback doesn't have to worry about in practice is getting hit. That is a huge, a significant psychological edge. In practice, you never have to worry about getting hit. Translation, you should be more accurate, you should be more confident. I mean, if you played football in the NFL, as are running back in new You're not gonna get hit today. You'd run harder, you'd you'd run with more conviction. So yeah, to a big year, Daniel Jones Nightmare, and I think it's both true. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon Easter not Ampacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeart Radio app. So when I was a kid and I want to be a sportscaster, and I don't know if Joy thought this way, but I never wanted to be a homer for my local teams because when I was a kid eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old and I watched sportscasters, I always like the guys that were honest with me, even if my teams stunk. Because when you're a kid, even when you're a kid, you know in your team stink, right. And so when anybody says to me, Colin, you're you love all your LA teams, I always say, because I live in LA now, I'm like, well, they're all winning. I ripped the Lakers NonStop because they're mess executive suite roster, like the Rams with the Super Bowl and Lincoln Riley's a really good coach at USC and the Dodgers like draw more than anybody in baseball and they won their division like nine straight years. What do you want me to say, what do you want me to say? You know, the reality is I'm a Pacific Northwest kid, and for years I always lamented the Seahawks, and then they got Russell Wilson and then they were great. But I have been really, really hard on the Seahawks for a couple of years because I don't think they understand the value Belichick's finding out about it now, the value of Russell Wilson. Figure out a way to get along with a star quarterback if he's needy, not saying Russ is, but if he's needy like Aaron Rodgers can be deal with it. It's gotta get along with Aaron Rodgers. He drives me nuts. You gotta get along with him. Yeah, get along with Russell Wilson. You gotta get along with Brady. Gotta treat mac Jones. Better. Deal with it. We know now, especially post Brady belichick divorce, that the quarterback, if he's a star, is the seventy thirty part of this equation. Now, I do think Andy Reid in an offensive league or a McVeigh can really elevate people, but in most cases, seventy thirty quarterback over the coach in Pro maybe not in college, so Drew Locke apparently it's gonna win the job in Seattle, Geno Smith or Drew Locke. Drew Locke is outperforming him, and Pete carrolla defensive coach, won't put his arms around Drew Locke and just say Drew's better. Pete wants him to compete. Drew is better, Drew is more talented. Pete, put your arms around him. He won't, just like he wouldn't with Russell Wilson. So what's gonna happen here in Seattle? And I don't think Pete's ready for it. It's one thing. Remember Kevin Durant left the Warriors and for the first year he dog Golden State. How do we view it now that he's crazy? Why? Because as he was losing, simultaneously the Warriors win the championship. That's two different stories at the same time, both going against you. It's like having two jets flying toward each other. They get there quicker. So Durant's flailing in Brooklyn at the same time the Warriors are winning. There's no market for Kevin. People are like Golden States. Culture is better without him. He's difficult, he is needy, fair, or not. I don't think Kevin ever understood what was going to happen if he didn't win and they did. It's bad for his brand. This is Belichick was the best coach ever literally two years removed from it two years and he made the playoffs one year. We think less of Belichick two years. Well, Seattle's offense in the three games they didn't have Russell Wilson last year he got hurt. Remember, was the worst offense in the league in every category there. It is for our TV audience terrible, and there's a lot of narratives. So you're going to see an offense Seattle this year that will be the worst in the league in a tough division. It'll be the worst in the league. The Rams defensive front, Arizona's defensive front, and the Niners defensive fronts have great pass rushes. They're gonna start two rookie tackles and Drew Locke. Seattle's offense is going to be awful simultaneously like Katie and the Warriors. Russell is going to be crushing and scoring points in a tough division. And he's got seven National TV games And here's Russell rolling out making plays Jerry Judy, these two great young running backs, a better offensive line, an offensive clever head coach, and Pete's gonna be sitting there as a defensive coach one in eight with the worst offense in the league. And I don't think Seattle's ready for it. It'd be one thing if Russell got traded or got injured and disappeared for a year. Kevin Durant did get a break for a year because the Warriors fell apart. So for the first year when Kevin left the Warriors, we were all like, KD is winning and they got bounced in the first round. But we really didn't crush KD for two years because the Warriors were awful. Now the minute, the Warriors are good. Simultaneously with Kevin, his market shrinks. We all think he's a little off, difficult and needy. Did he get needier? No, the Warriors won while he was struggling, and so I think, I think, what you're gonna have and it's gonna be like the Brady Belichick situation on HGH. Because New England's not terrible, Seattle will be. At least they have Mac Jones and a good defense. Seattle is going to be awful, unwatchable simultaneously seventy year old head coach who couldn't get along with Russ as Russ is crushing it with an offensive guy. And I just don't think Pete's ready for the tsunami. If Kevin Durant can see his market shrink, if Belichick now is looked at cynically, what's what's two and fifteen gonna look like with Russ? And remember, Russell Wilson bizarrely has never gotten an MVP vote, which is kind of weird, right, like dot one not one. So I do think there is a little bit of sympathy for Russell Wilson that there's kind of a sense like, come on, It's like when Westbrook got jettison by KD. The story was poor Ruscott, like you know, his partner left him, and there was a sympathy vote for Russell. I think Russell Wilson's gonna get if it's closer, it's a tie with like an Aaron Rodgers or a Brady Russell would get the sympathy vote, like dude's never gotten an MVP vote. So the media is gonna be very pro Russell Wilson this year. Watch I always have been, but they're gonna be very pro Russell. They're not going to give another MVP if it's close to Aaron or another one to Rogers or you know, Mahomes has go give Rush the vote, Rush the column, Rush the discussion, Rush the talk show segment. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noun Easter nine am Pacific. I went back and looked, as I'm kind of kind of simplifying, like the simplify stuff because I'm a simple guy. And I went back to last five drafts, and I asked the staff, let's go back and look the last five final standings in the NFL. And I don't care about the middle outside of sandwiches. I don't care about the middle of anything. Give me the great, give me the lousy. Fascinating. When I was a kid, I loved lousy teams and baseballs. Fascinated by the Podres winning sixty nine games, and I wanted the Reggie Jackson Yankees. Like middle is boring, I want great or bad. So I went and looked over the last I went back one to five years, half decade. The bad teams in the NFL. How many bad teams are there in the NFL. Now, bad is four games under five hundred. So in a sixteen game schedule, you were six or ten or worse, and the average is about ten. Now, last year was a little bit of an outlier where it was seven, but on average you get about ten. Like bad teams. These are bad teams, some really bad. Now, how many teams are excellent teams? Team double digit wins? Now in a seventeen game schedule, I consider excellent eleven or up. I don't think ten and seven now counts. But for the to simplify this, the teams that win ten plus games, those are top of the top of the game. It averages like eleven and a half twelve. So that's what you get. What you get in this league is ten crappy teams, eleven twelve good ones and ten in the middle. It's evenly split. So tell me the lies is. I don't care about the middle, but I'm gonna give you the ten bad teams. So that's the average over the last five years. These are the bad teams. It's either a coach, a quarterback, Jets, Giants, Jags, Texans, everybody not named Tampa. In the NFC South Falcon, Saints, Panthers, Jameis Winston hurt his ankle today, Lions, Bear, Seahawks. Now, I do think Detroit has some really really tasty offensive people. Receiver, tight end, left tackle, running back. Goff's fine. I think Detroit, But in that division, Green Bay Minnesota are simply better. Those are bad teams. Those are four games under five hundred this year or worse. I think Detroit's arguably the best team of that group, but I think they're gonna be four games under five hundred. Here are the teams that I think are gonna be the good teams now with a seventeen game schedule, eleven wins or up, potential Bills, Chiefs, a lot of AFC lot AFC, Bill's Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Bengals, Ravens, Niners, Rams, Cardinals, Bucks, Packers, Vikings. You know, I'm hot in the Vikings this year, so I see them as that team. And I do think Trey Lance will be good enough to be like eleven and six. I don't. I think the roster's too good. I think the offense in Sandracisco is very quarterback friendly. So there you go. I've simplified it. I don't care about the middle outside of sandwiches, doesn't matter to me. Ten bad, twelve good. That's the number I came up with. Ten bad, twelve good, and that's over the last five years. That is the average. Show me the lies. Well, you have the Dolphins as a playoff team, Well, I do, but I have them at ten. Okay, So you're saying, in a sixteen game schedule, ten ten and six feels like it's a good team. In a seventeen game schedule, eleven and six feels really high end ten and seven can be you're in a Wonky Division. I mean, Dallas could go ten and seven. I could hate the coach. They could have no pass rush outside of Michael pars Ten and seven doesn't feel. Yeah, it's the extra game team, but you get to eleven wins, even of Wonkee to If Dallas wins eleven games, I'm wrong, Like that's a good team. I don't care. I looked at Dallas' schedule. They played Burrow, they played let Brady. I think they play the Chargers of the Rams. They win eleven games. That's a good team. So show me the lies on that. Can you see the good teams again? Let's go the good team the bad teams. The only one that I feel like could and it will depend on Jamis, is if Jamis stays healthy. Okay, now, Saints, Okay on this you say, where are the Raiders? I think they're ten and seven? Maybe where are the Dolphins? I have them in the playoffs, but I don't think the Dolphins are special enough to win. Love them, I won't hear otherwise. I think Minnesota's gonna shock the league. And it's all based on a simple piece of data. They had by far and away the most close games and the most close losses. What about the Eagles again ten and seven? Yeah, by the way, I'm not saying I think the Eagles, Raiders, and Dolls are middle. By the way, I don't know that Tennessee was a number one seed I had. I don't have them up though. I think there are ten win team max because I think they're having a contract dispute with one of their better defensive players. They lost their best receiver. I think that division. I think Jacksonville and Houston have a can can beat them this year, maybe at home. So, by the way, a lot of the middle is nine and ten win teams. New England, the Raiders, the Dolphins, the Colts, the bad that a West Division is in. It was impossible. I'm not using the model that has been consistent, maddeningly so in the NFL for years. This appears to be the other thing that jumped out to me today. I feel very good about this is that according to well, what is this heavy dot com? I've never gone there. Um, there are those inside the Lakers organization that would move off Anthony Davis at the trade deadline. Thank you. I don't know how you can cover the NBA and watch Basically, Anthony Davis has told you exactly what he is inconsistently committed and inconsistently available. I do not know how you can make an argument otherwise. His only big year in LA was the pandemic year when he got a four month hiatus in the middle of the season. Therefore, he was healthy for the playoffs. So I've said it before, I would cross my fingers. I think he will be in good shape this year because he's gotten so much criticism from that comment. Ut in touch a ball for two months. He's gotten crushed in Laker Land by that the organization was going to bring in Rashid Wallace. Then they let him go, like the organizations on Anthony Davis, They're like over it. This kind of inconsistently committed. So I think he's gonna have a really it's gonna be a classic by low Sell High. He's gonna have a very good first half. But as I've said before, Lebron's smart as Lebron has aged Lebron's reluctance to play with the younger players who get hurt less and if they do, they return quicker. Lebron's got a pivot, and Lebron's been a great pivot. Lebron's got a pivot. He cannot have older banged up players and a D's got an old body for a young guy. That's not what Lebron can play with anymore. He can't because Lebron can't play more than sixty. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball. We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more about the stories about what made these people love their sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We talked to coaches, we talked to players. We tell you stories. You download it, you listen to it. I think you like it, Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast. He had a great career two rings with the Patriots thirteen years. He was an undrafted wide receiver out of Texas Tech. I have a soft spot. We talk about this all the time. The NBA's the NFL is the only sport. Half of the guys in the league are undrafted, which just shows you how much talent football talent there is in America. And I also think it speaks to you gotta have the right mindset to play in this league. It's not just talent. You gotta put in the hours. You gotta be tough. You know, it's talents part of it. But it's a hard league. Football practice is fundamentally hard in the summer with pads on, football practice is hard. So it's such a mental game. And Danny Mndola Texas Tech undrafted, Look at that, played eight games with the Texans. So you're officially retired. So I just watched Gray Man last night and I'm just gonna say this one time. Don't get a big head, but you remind me of Ryan Gosling. And you've been told that, right I have. I have, Yeah, ever since the notebook came I actually since um since remember the Titans. My friends always used to ragle me. I was you know, I think he played receiver too, so we I get that resembluence a lot. Yeah, but he can't catch or run run a Z route, so screw him. He's no good. Okay, so let's talk. But let's talk about this. Um. So, Matt Stafford is a guy that you know well. And I always feel bad for guys who are really talented, Danny, and then they end up in a bad organization and they're really talented and you're just banging your head against the wall. So when Stafford, who you know, goes to the Rams, I take it you weren't shocked by his success. Oh, man, no question. He's such a talent. Uh. You know, we see it every week just in his arm strength, ability, his ability to spin the ball, you know, his accuracy. Um. But how he really excels is mentally his IQ of the game. You know, he sees every coverage, he's seen every blitz. You know, all run back to the huddle and he'll be you know, you'd be like, you know, did you see that guy coming off the edge? I mean, of course, you know, it's like, I'm amazed by how much he sees on the field head and shoulders, above, above, you know, three quarters of the league. And and that's why he's so successful. Yeah, I mean, you you've arguably played with two of the smartest quarterbacks ever, Brady and and Stafford. Now, Brady's legendary for kind of pre snap adjustments. Is Stafford more about talent or did he at the line? Is Matt doing the same stuff before the snap? He's doing a lot of the same things. Um, you know, we're really trying to locate what coverage it is before the play starts, so we can kind of manipulate the leverages and and take what they're going to give us. Um, Matt can see the leverages at his quarterback position of wherever you know, the defensive backs are playing on the receiver and and having the ability to understand coverages like he does and just see the total defense. You know, he's he's one of the best. And Tom does that. Tom would actually go in motion across the line and and Tom would actually spent out the coverage of that plan. Some of the time we got across the line of scrimmage or the other side of the formation, we already know what coverage it was. So if you got a quarterback like that, then just so knowledgeable of the game, so h such a high football IQ, then you know he you know, your your head and shoulders above the rest of the quarterbacks. So it's it's it's awesome to see. So, uh, you know Jimmy Garoppolo, Well, I've always liked Jimmy more than everybody else and I and I've there's an old Trent Dilfer used to use this line all the time that a good quarterback has what they call dude qualities, like the dudes want to hang out with him. And I think Jimmy's got that. I think Jimmy's a guy's guy is that he's he's you know, he can make fun of himself. He's a good looking guy. And I really root for Garoppolo. The media crushes him, but tell us tell me a little about Jimmy. That stuff the fans wouldn't see that. What are you a fan? Your thoughts about him? I love Jimmy. Yeah, well, you know, he's a fellow Italian first and foremost he's he's also a Scorpio. We share the same birthday, so we've always been uh. We hit each other up on on on November two, which is uh. You know, Scorpios get a lot of hate too. I don't I don't want to understand. I don't understand why. But Jimmy's a great, great dude man. He's a great quarterback. Whatever team he lands on, I know he's going through it out in San Francisco right now, but he's always working man. We've been training together for probably seven eight years now, ever since he came out of out of college in La and and he's just such a talent man. Whatever whatever team he lands with, he's going to be successful, you know. So he's a he's a good dude man. He's a he's a great locker room guy. He works really hard and he's always ready to go. By the way, Joy and I are Capricorns and capricorns. Joy, what are we known for? What's a Capricorn? We're very steady, very consistent. We're a little crazy, but we don't let everyone see it. By the way, Scorpios okay, none, none of those qualities. Dan so Gemini's Gemini Geminis. We we we don't pay that Gemini. I was married to a Gemini and they say they're two different people. So what is a scorpion? Was scorpio? What? What are they? Very scorpion like? Like? What you bite people? What are you? What are you known for? What is it? What's the trend? I think? I think, I think we're I think we're a little reserved by nature. But if you cross us, then oh boy, it's bad news for you. Yeah. You sent me an angry email once because I said something about you and you said, hey, I listened to you watch your mouth. I remember that. I remember. I remember you said I was. You said I was, You said I was a system guy, and I just I was like, you know, I you know, I played in a lot of different systems, but yes, this one was, uh was more successful than others. So yeah, I guess I am a system guy. Well you bit me. You came here scorpion tentacles and came out and bit me, and I remember it. Um, Yeah, so exactly. Josh McDaniels. We say this all the time. The downside to being young and talented in any business is that you may get opportunities earlier than you're maybe quite ready for I feel lame kill was given the USC job. He was like a kid and he just wasn't quite ready for it. Now he's an old miss. He's crushing because he's really good. I think Josh McDaniels is super smart. I don't think he was quite ready to be a head coach at his age, but he got it. Because he's smart. You sit around him, and so you work with him. What are the things you liked about him? What? What? What to you? Because I think he's gonna work. I think the second time for him. I think he's gonna work. Like Lane Kiffin. You're gonna look up and go, damn, that's a good coach. What about him stands out to you? Well, the main thing about coach McDaniels is that you know normally, you know, in a lot in a lot of different places, I've played the offensive coordinator just kind of hand you the playbook and say, hey, you know, this is your material. You gotta you gotta understand the route and and kind of follow the indicated indicated line on the page and don't mess it up. Whereas Josh McDaniels and something that he's done a great job. Is telling you why you're doing this on every specific place, so you're you're you have a great understand standing of what your job is going into every game. And then he also kind of he also says, you know, you don't you don't have to go outside your body to make crazy plays during a game. Stay within yourself, stay within the system, stay within the offense, and big plays will come. Um, you know, he's he's he's one of my favorite coaches I've ever had, just because he tell you why you're doing something. Isn't in you know, in that regard. Finally, I don't love this story. So we all know Belichick smart, blah blah blah. But McDaniels leaves and he says, I'm just gonna put Matt Patricia. He's gonna call plays, and I'm like, timeout, timeout, timeout, thank you. Being an offensive coordinator is hard. There's about six great ones in the NFL. Now, don't give me some defensive guy. And there's reports out Danny that this week that mac Jones has not been as comfortable in camp. Isn't it a little odd? I know, I know everybody loves Belichick, but it's a little odd, right, but a DC at OC, Yeah, I know. I mean you definitely have to understand defenses as an offensive coordinator. Um, you have to understand leverages and what they're trying to get to and if they're disguising it. And I think coach Patricia can offer that perspective. Um. You know, you can't replace Josh McDaniels and that's the reason why he is who he is and why he's at you know, in Las Vegas as a head coach. But he is, UM, he's you know, I think if they can kind of relate the old film that they have for ten twelve, you know, fifteen twenty years of watching Brady kind of do you know, run the offense, run the schemes, and I feel like, you know, the they can they have a chance. At least their coach, Belichick does a great job of getting his teams ready and ready to play, regardless of you know, the circumstance, regardless of the adversity they're gonna face. And that's what makes him a great coach. I don't, you know, I don't I don't necessarily necessarily understand why there's no OC or DC, but probably a tactical thing, you know, if you don't have a label on your offensive coordinator or your defensive coordinator, then you're then the game plan for the other team might not um, you know, be as accurate. They don't know maybe not know what to expect. Yeah, no, no, that's been suggested. That's actually what somebody said to us, and we thought it was a pretty good idea, which is, first six weeks of the year, you have no idea who they are and what their identity is. All right, he does look like Ryan Gosling. He November second. He's a scorpio. Now are you? Are you going to be one of these guys that retires and watches the game and keeps up to it or just do your own crap and don't really you did it. You're done with it. I did it. I'm always going to be a fan of the game. You know, I love I grew up you know, my dad's a high school football coach. It's in my blood. Uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch these games this year from my couch with a smile on my face. Man, it was it was an amazing journey. It was awesome to be a part of a lot of great teams. A lot of you met a lot of great guys, some great coaches, great fan bases, and you know, it's it's a journey. You know. I put my whole life's work into it, and to have it come to an end is is a little strange feeling. However it is. I'm very satisfied and have no regrets. Do you know in three Super Bowls, do you know how many catches you had total? It's pretty impressive. See let's see in the Super Bowls sixteen, twenty something, twenty two or three twenty one, three hundred yards two tds. That's pretty good, pretty strong. There you go. There you go, Ryan, Yeah, all right, Danny am Mandola, the Italian Stallion. There you go. Congrats buddy, nice, thank you, appreciate you coming on. Thanks call, I appreciate it. Man, have a going you bet one more. Herd. The Herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Within the iHeart Radio app, search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like. You gotta get long with people, Bucky, that's the name of the game. Yes, all right. Former NFL defensive back Fox or analyst Soul reports are Mac Jones is struggling, pulled back a little bit in camp, doesn't have an offensive coordinator. Eric man Jeanie said on the show when Josh McDaniel got the Raiders job, He's like, people don't understand that's a huge loss. See are you surprised by Mac pulling back? I think it happens. I think in your two sometimes you can have some struggles, like you're trying to put it all together. I think we don't want to kind of jump to conclusions that he's going to struggle in the regular season because part of what you're doing as a coaching staff, you're trying to stretch Mac Jones to see how much can he him do, what can he do, how much has he improved? And then when you get all of that information, then you begin to put together the game plan for here's how we need to play with Mac Jones based on where he is right now. Bill Belichick and those guys do a great job of taking what they have and finding a way to put it together. And remember, the Patriots treat the first month of the season really like the preseason. They're still trying to find their identity. They don't mind if they lose a couple of games, but at the end of the day, the last half of the season, he's going to play the best style that fits the team. The team into talent that he has. So there are certain things that you can take an athlete and teach him. I don't think you can make a corner significantly faster than he was in college. Speed is speed. I also think for quarterbacks, some guys it comes quickly, and often it's accuracy. Some guys Jake Locker never accurate. Daniel Jones not that accurate. So I see these you know, I watch these video clips on Daniel Jones, and even at Duke in a pretty average conference with an offensive coach David Cutcliffe, you know, fifty eight percent, And so I don't think Jones is a franchise quarterback. I don't think he throws an accurate football. So when I see these clips on the internet where he's spraying it, I'm like, I believe that's what he is. I mean, a lot of times like you are wish you are when you come into the league, and the job of the coaching staff is to find a way to take what the player is and to put him in a situation where he always can play to his strengths. The only guy that we've seen improved, maybe dramatically when it came to accuracy was Josh Allen. But part of that is not only him improving, but what they put around him. Normally, when you have a young quarterback, you want to put veteran receivers around him because one, they're going to be in the spot where the quarterback expects them to be, so there's a level of trust that can develop. Too. They're going to be able to create more separation, so now the accuracy issues aren't necessarily as big of a deal because they can either expand the strike zone or they're so wide open that it doesn't matter. For Daniel Jones, I don't know if he has enough weapons around him to really flourish, but it doesn't matter. The excuses are off the table. He is going to have to play at a high level with what he has around him to justify or to validate his status as a Giant starting quarterback, and so it's on him. He has to play better no matter what is around him. He has to perform. When the Seahawks traded Russell Wilson, Joy could not believe. Her takeaway is you just don't understand how much harder this job is if you don't have the guy. Matt Rules, a really good coach, I think, and he doesn't have a star. And I said, I think Seattle is gonna have to fight two battles, two rookie tackles, tough division, and they're not good at quarterback. And Russell's gonna flourish every Sunday at four o'clock. And by the way, maybe owners hear that stuff. They see it, and it's like Eric Mangini says, billionaires, you think they'd be stable. They read their friends, their golf buddies are like, I think Seattle's in for a rude awakening. How much Russell cleaned up? See I see it differently. Tell me, I think sometimes in this business is better to get rid of a quarterback or a player a year too early rather than a year too late. Because one thing about Russell Wilson, for all the great things that he does, he's not a timing in rhythm quarterback. The best that we saw from Russell was when he was able to improvise and make plays outside of the pocket. When now Russell is thirty three years old, he's no longer the super athlete that he once was, and so now you're asking him to play a little more on script than you need to. And as he became a bigger voice within that locker room, and as he began to kind of impart what he wanted to do offensively, it became harder for Pete to play the way that he wanted to play Because I heard you guys allude to the two super Bowls, But those years when they were going to the Super Bowl and they won a Super Bowl, the run pass ratio was more decidedly in the running favor as opposed to the passing favor. So I think for Pete Carroll, he would rather reshape the team and the vision that he sees fit. He wants to run the football, he wants to play great defense, and then he wants the passing game to be a compliment. The thing about what they have and Drew Locker, Geno Smith and those guys, if they don't turn it over, it would give them a chance. They puts more onus on Pete Carroll to get the defense up and going in the running game. But I think he is more comfortable playing this style because in Pete's mind, he's seen it work. He's seen it go to two Super Bowls. I don't think he could live with the passing knowing that it's still not making these deep postseason runs. All right, Trey Lance arm fatigue, not sure story today. They're not letting go a Garoppolo until the final cut day. How can I not be a little cynical? I mean, why what are you cynical about? Like I think the biggest thing this is on Jimmy Garoppolo, Like no one has made a deal to come and get Jimmy crazy, Like I mean, I don't know. It just depends like he's fine. It's fine, boy, he's fine. I don't think he's fine. Is he's a bottom third quarterbacks? You and Nick right, I want more. I want more from a franchise quarterback. I just want more. And so I think what people are doing is they're trying to wait and see. They know that the San Francisco four to nine is at some point half to part ways. What the Niners are doing is they're hoping that there's a catastrophic injury. Four team with a starting quarterback didn't needs it, so they could pony up. A couple years ago, they did this Sam Bradford. Philadelphia had Carson Wentz, they still had Sam Bradford. Teddy Bridge would have gets hurt. They able to get the first round pick, So the Nighters want to wait until the last possible minute to see if they can get a pick. But this shouldn't be any urgency to necessarily deal him. They still can do it. But Trad lances a certain quarterback. I wouldn't worry about that it was better Ryan Tannehill or Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean, that's just like a push. It's like a push. Will Ryan Tannehill got him to be the number one scene last year? He did push though it's a push. I don't know. Jimmy's always hurt. Availability is a huge quality. He's never he's never available, He's always hurt. Seventeen game season, he's gonna play thirteen hard. Frestlay's quarterback gotta be around. I think you should sleep on that whole thing.