The Herd with Colin CowherdColin explains how Kyler Murray is a pure instinct quarterback rather than being a prepper, every professional athlete has a process that works for them. The Cincinnati Bengals are starting to realize the new normal for high priced quarterbacks, if Arizona could take five more amazing years with Kyler, they absolutely will take it. Plus, Russell Wilson has just dropped from a Tier 1 quarterback to a Tier 2 since he's been called a diva.
Guest: Brian Billick
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You know, with Arizona, there's an addendum to it that he has to do four hours a week of prep or study at home away from the facilities. I'll get into the leak part later, but it raised quite a stir. Let me start with this. Not all quarterbacks are the same. Some are athletic and instinctive. Some, like let's say, Peyton Manning, are prep animals you'll find in my life. And I think you could look this up. The more gifted a quarterback is athletically Michael Vick, Brett Farve, Kyler Murray, big Ben, Cam Newton, they tend to relye a little more on their instincts over prep. Drew Brees small and not as athletic, prep animal. Tom Brady struggled to start in college prep animal, Peyton Manning prep animal, whatever works. Big Ben, before his first Super Bowl, sat down with a buddy of mine, a friend, Mike Silver, a reporter, and he told Mike Silver, you know this film study thing. I don't know, it's kind of overrated. Big Ben won two Super Bowls. Brett Farve, All you guys out there ripping Kyler Murray, Brett Farve had a nickname Joy. Do you remember what the nickname for Brett Farr Wasner? Wait a minute, what does gunslinger mean? Ad libbing off script, making it up as he goes. Brett Farr, five years into the league, did not know what a Nickel defense was. Look it up. Brett would not a prep monster, Brett relied on Brett ad libbing, hard to coach at times, and the late great John Madden romanticized gun slinger, making it up as you go. Michael Vick, friend of mine, has admitted he won much of a film junkie in high school, college, early NFL career. Breeze, Manning and Brady, those guys knew we gotta be great before the snap. That's where we have to win to become legends. All three much more limited athletically, so they couldn't just rely on playmaking and instincts. You see this in all forms of entertainment. Jerry Seinfeld legendary for refining his stand up act to the word. My favorite stand up comedian, arguably of all time, was Gary Shandling, passed away a couple of years ago. I love Gary Shandling. Shandling used to call Seinfeld give him his joe, and Jerry would sad and move the the I'd pause here, I mean Shanley was like you called Jerry to clean the joke up. Yet Larry David and Robin Williams always felt more improvisational. I mean they prepared, but they were a little more improvisational. Look at actors, I mean Ryan Reynolds plays himself, so does Kevin Hart and the Rock. Daniel day Lewis is a character actor. He literally takes his character home. He was Lincoln full score and seven years ago. He goes home, Honey, what do you want for breakfast? Full score seven years ago? In his Cinnamon roll. He never changes. They're both mega stars Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Big Ben Brett, Farve, Tom Brady. There's no one way to do stuff, and the more gifted people are athletically, it makes sense that they'll rely more on that number two. Um, it's working forty two and on high school Heisman winner, Rookie of the Year in the NFL, got in better h each year and just got the bag. It's working. He hasn't been forced kind of hasn't been forced to do it your way because it's working at every level. Well, colin that playoff game, folks, I watched Peyton Manning's first couple of playoff games. Not great. Look him up. He's so athletic. He's such a beautiful delivered distributor of the football. I've said this for two three years. He throws the prettiest ball I've ever seen. It is a beautiful ball, and he's so instinctive that he kind of leaned into that. But Colin, you can't win that way. Oh it's funny. Brett Farve won a super Bowl. Big Ben won two Super Bowls. Do you know who led the NFL last year in fourth quarter backs and game winning drives? Big Ben, who was never known for much prep, who told Mike Silver my friend before the first Super Bowl? You guys are in the film study. Come on, man, I'm not into that. I was told years ago, and Big Bennett was my criticism that his audible system was a couple of hands signals and that was it. In the summer, he can't hung out with his family. And Big Ben's first ballot Hall of Famer. This idea. You have to do things one way as a comedian, as a quarterback, as a singer, as a songwriter, as an entertainer, whatever your pross as is to be great. But Colin, that addendum tells you. That addendum tells me that the Arizona Cardinals invested a lot of money and they want to keep a little pressure on that money because they do believe that there is a way to do it. Historically that wins more. Okay, But ideally I wish Dak threw a prettier football, but Dak knows he doesn't throw a pretty football. His intangibles maybe the best in the league. That being a comedian, an actor, a talk show host, a quarterback. We all know the process that works for us. Kyler Murray is wildly instinctive, incredibly incredibly accurate, a beautiful thrower of the football. Got a little diva. Yeah, I've been saying it for years. It's not perfect. I've said for years. I like Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray even says things when he gets mad at me on Twitter. He says, I know you got my back, Colin. I do some things, a little bit of ego. He's got a little bit of a baseball guy in him, a little bit of an iso solo act. I don't love it. There's not one way to do anything in life. Brett Farve was romanticized for being a gun slinger. His prep eye roll. He didn't know what a nickel defense was, and we romanticized it because well, we liked him. He said, y'all, he wore wranglers went to Walmart. Kyler's a little more aloof, a little different. You're not gonna play those games. We romanticize one, we're outraged by the other. The Arizona Cardinals were a franchise in utter disarray. Now they're a playoff team. Every single year they've been better. Don't tell me everybody's got to be a prep animal. Breeze Manning, Brady yet Russ Wilson, Yep, yep, Big Ben farv Vic Kyler, Jay Cutler another one. Relied on a big arm, pretty big brain. Jay Cutler not much of a leader. Now again, in a perfect world, when you get these athletes, Kobe Bryant is one where you get great instincts and this insane work catholic. Yeah, you get one of the greatest players of all time. And I don't think Kier is going to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But in the state of Arizona, he's really good, the best one they have in one of the toughest divisions. I think the story this morning that's also fascinating is why it was leaked. I say this all the time, not just what stories the media covers, but why are they able to get information. I'll get to that in a couple of minutes. My second thought, more brief, is that Mike Brown of the Bengals owns the Bengals and they've they've been known for years as as fairly cheap, frugal is a nicer word. So he came out yesterday and he said, yeah, we're gonna give Joe Burrow a contracted. We're working on that puppy right now. So that's really unique. So, I mean, Burrows had a couple of big injuries, Joe was last year, was only a second year, and they're already working on it. So my takeaway when I read this story is you think the Kyler Murray contracts big, You wait till you see what Justin Herbert gets and Joe Burrow gets, and Lamar Jackson gets, and Russell Wilson gets. Fifteen years ago, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys, sat down, I was told with a commissioner and said, you got to protect our quarterbacks. You've got to protect our assets. And the commissioner at the time listened. And since then everything's changed in football in America today. If you're a defensive lineman or a linebacker and you are pushed, accidentally pushed into a quarterback's knees, that is a personal foul. If you walk by the quarterback at the end of a play and touch his helmet, that's personal foul. And the billionaires love that you're protecting their asset. We know what this all means. Though. Quarterbacks are now protected, marketed and have elevated, and so you got to pay them, and you gotta pay him early, and you gotta pay him a lot. And that's part of the game in the NFL today. Quarterbacks are goal bars. And when you get one, and I think Joe Burrow and Kyler are two of like nine to ten to eleven great ones on the planet, you gotta pay them early. And I'm gonna give Cincinnati a lot of credit here. Cincinnati has always been a little tight spending money. They quickly understand quickly they're now building an indoor practice facility. They are quickly realizing the new NFL three hundred million dollars is the that's kind of the new normal with the next batch of contracts. And Cincinnati always been tight, is like, yeah, this this you pay and that's the price of doing business now because the NFL has changed all these rules. Cincinnati last year at a battle line and mediocre linebackers and came within a player two winning the super Bowl. That's the new league. Pam, pay them early, Pam. There'll be some misses. I mean, Jared Goff got paid a little early. Jared Goff did get to a super Bowl. Let's not go crazy here. Carson Wentz got paid early. He's big, he's strong, he's talented. He had twenty seven touchdown seven picks last year. Wasn't the worst contract of all time. But it's the new NFL and I'm here for it. Driven by Quarterbacks. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in newon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. All right, so Kyler Murray signed a new deal. It leaked out. There was an addendum to the contract which does not make Kyler Murray look great. That says he basically has to give at least four hours of film study at home. So you know, somebody's trying to make him kind of pay a price for that big contract. My guess is the owner Michael Bidwell is fairly bitter about having to play him early about how you know, the agent put stuff up there. It went public, the social media stuff. You know, billionaires like to control things, and you know Kyler and his agent had little control, kind of poked the owners in the Ribs, the team in the Ribs that went public. And so Michael Bidwell is gonna let that thing out there. You know, Kyler didn't put it out there, and his agent didn't put it out there. So Michael Bidway and I don't think anybody in the organization would do it without Michael Bidwell's okay. If Michael Bidwell saw that and didn't okay it, he'd fire somebody. And those are good jobs. Nobody wants to lose him. So it's the owner who put it out there. And I think what he's saying is, we want to put the pressure on Kyler Murray. And here's what we're dealing with in Arizona. Kyler Murray did admit to The New York Times seven months ago. He admitted he said, listen, I see so much. I'll read this exact quote to you. He said, I think I was blessed with the cognitive skills to just go out there and just see it before it happens. I'm not one of those guys who's going to sit there and kill myself watching film. I don't sit there for twenty four hours and break down this team and that team and watch every game because in my head I see so much. Whether you agree with it or not, he's honest, he's upfront. He said it, and that's why they put the addendum in, and that's why it's leaked out. Now. I just ended Kayler and instinct leaning quarterbacks. I defended Ben and Cam and Vic and far and Kaider. Now this needs to be said, Historically, they don't last as long. They don't. The guys that are great pre snap and can audible out of blitz is and audible out of trouble tend to last longer. And so you know, Michael Bidwell sitting there and thinking, I spent two hundred and thirty million dollars, Brady's playing to forty five. I'm just trying to get you to thirty five. Throw in the fact that Kayler's five foot nine and a half or five foot ten and a half. He's smaller, he runs, he'll get hit. But this is my argument, and I use this argument all the time. If my wife and I, if she's getting stressed out, I always say this to her, would you sign up when we first met fifteen years ago, would you sign up for today? We got this this this kids are healthy, none of this, none of this, none of this, we got this, that this, all these qualities that we have are kids out of college, they're healthy. They would just sign up for it. And the answers always, oh, yeah, of course. Okay. So let me ask you the Kyler question. You spent two hundred and thirty million dollars, he's twenty five. Would you take Remember there's four first round quarterbacks every year. Would you take he's twenty five? Just five more years of his level of play and then one declining year where you draft another quarterback. He starts, but he's kind of fallen apart. I would remember. Some people day trade, some invest for the long term. Some of you lease your cars, some of you buy. Some people buy houses, fix him up and flip them. Some people buy houses, fix him up. It's a long term play. In each instance. It's all about knowing your timeline. Would you take a quarterback capable of winning every game? He plays for just six more years, five at this level, and then a declining year and he is out of the sport at thirty one. I would. I would. That's why'd pay Lamar Jackson. That's why I pay would have paid Michael Vick, That's why I would have paid Brett Farve, big Ben Camp. I wouldn't even a cam fan. But we didn't talk about that franchise before he was there. We don't talk about it after. So what not everybody? Not every quarterback is Brady plan forever. Okay, that's that is a complete historic outlier. Not every quarterback is Dak Prescott, intangible, summer prickly like Aaron Rodgers. But would you take Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay today? Yep? I would, And I'm in critical of Aaron. I'd take him. I would I take Kyler Murray. Yes, even if you told me today I get five more of these years and then a declining year. Yeah, because all then in a declining year, we've probably made a ton of money. We've sold out the stadium, we sold merchandise, we've been to the playoffs, we've been on national TV. The brand. You could sell the Arizona card for three billion today, it probably sell them for four and a half billion, because you've been on TV for five years. If I was the owner right in the checks and then I get one declining year where I'm kind of trying to draft the next quarterback and find him, I would take it. So I always ask the question everybody. There's outrage all over the internet. Everybody freaks out. I am watching a show last night, and this is my criticism of twenty year olds and young thirty year olds in the media. You have no idea how many improvements society has made. I'm watching a show on Netflix last night. I'm not even to get into it because it's so gruesome. But what you were allowed to get away with in New York City, the treatment of women in the seventies, if I set it to you on the air, you would not believe me. And my takeaway is there are a lot of improvements. There are a lot of things going on. When I when I look at all the constant outrage about stuff, I always ask myself this question. Would I take my life today if you'd have given it to me fifteen years ago? Would I in Arizona this morning? This morning, Arizona, people freaking out. If I told you five more great Kyler years, and that's it. It's over at twenty nine, it's over at thirty. Absolutely, Arizona has been irrelevant for ninety percent of my life. Outside of the Kurt Warner Calsro Palmer years, they've been irrelevant. They got mcvahan that division, You got Pete Carroll in that division, you got Channahan in that division. You don't even know if your coach is any good. Like, take a deep breath, Take a deep breath. Five years of Kayler Murray at this level totally worth it, and then you'll find another quarterback. I mean, Arizona's had Carson Palmer's real good, they had Kurt Warner's real good, and Kyler Murray. There are franchises like the Bear that have never had three great quarterbacks. Arizona's on their third. They've gotten that, they've made mistakes, they've gotten the quarterback right a lot. They've been Carson Warner and Kyler. And as we notice in sports, what's happening in college football right now, and all these all these high school academies and the quarterback machine that is high school football right now, quarterbacks have never been better. They've never been better. Sooner. Next year they project they'll be six first round quarterbacks. One will be a star, two will be starters, one will be a bust, and two won't be very good for very long. So take a deep breath. I feel like a yoga instructor somedays. Just take a deep breath and all this stuff. Arizona is in good shape. They got their quarterback. You wish he did more prep. I wish to act. Threw a part of your ball. It's life. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon Easter nine am Pacific. He was everybody. It's me three time pro bowler LeVar Arrington, and I couldn't be more excited to announce a new podcast called Up on Game. What is up on Game? You asked, along with my fellow pro bowler t J. Hushman's Otta and Super Bowl champion. Yep, that's right, Plexico birds. You can only name a show with that type of talent on it. Up on Game. We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me, LeVar Arrington, t J. Hushman's Otta, and Plexico Birds on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast from. So yesterday I spent a lot of time on the quarterback tier by Mike Sando. He does it every year. He talks to fifty executives and scouts and it's really I think he does a great job on it. And he had his quarterback tiers and I thought it was mostly very very accurate. I mean I had I had really no complaints. The only thing that I did notice his Tier one quarterbacks, and this is according to scouts and executives were Aaron Rodgers, Mahomes, Brady, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, and Joe Burrow. The top two second tier quarterbacks were Stafford and Russell Wilson. And I was thinking about this when I got home yesterday. If you're Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson was a quarterback at North Carolina State dominant. His coach said, Nope, I'm gonna go with Mike Glennon. He goes to Wisconsin, puts up the greatest single year in the history of Wisconsin football for a quarterback, thirty three touchdown, seven picks. Nobody drafts him in the first two rounds and he goes to Seattle, and he's in Seattle ten years, eight playoffs, fourth highest quarterback passer rating ever, and that's with the defensive coach and mostly mediocre offensive lines. So Russell Wilson will see this list, and I was thinking it. Russell Wilson looks at this and things, Justin Herbert been in the league two years, never made the playoffs. I below Justin Herbert. Hey looks at Joe Burr. He's like, I like Joe Burrow, but he had one great year. And this is the thing about Russell Wilson. Nobody gave him respect at NC State, at Wisconsin when he entered the league. And now last year was the year he got hurt. Remember it. Last year was the banged up. It was kind of the who Russell Wilson declined. He made the Pro Bowl last year twenty five touchdown, six picks, passer rating one h three, with a lousy offensive line. That's Seattle's now rebuilding. He has got to look at that list and say to Ciara, baby, what do I gotta do here? What does Russell Wilson have to do to get your respect? Eight playoffs, ten years? I have never seen now, I pump up Derek Carr, But Derek Carr doesn't have the list of a comishments of Russell Wilson. I saw this, so I went to this Mike Sandeal piece at the Athletic and I looked up the Russell Wilson part. Here was one of the criticisms. This is this is I'm gonna start laughing on this. This is one of the criticisms. I can't even believe I'm reading this. He's gotten very high maintenance. I mean, he needs an office at the facility. The are we talking about quarterbacks don't have an office at the facility. Wasn't everyone complaining today that Kyler Murray had to have a clause for doing extra prep. But then if you do too much prep, that's wrong too. So it's say prepy amount of prep you're allowed to do. So Russell Wilson, Joy, he's become very high maintenance. He needs an office at the facility. Well, yeah, he's the coach on the field. I am shocked if in an Indianapolis, if Matt Ryan does not have an office in the field cause your act together. Of course your quarterback has an office in the field. Oh, here's the other one. Oh oh oh, he needs an extra hotel room on the road. Oh hey, Marriott, we've got a fifty million dollars a year quarterback. Can we get room two O seven and two h eight. This is outrageous? Are we kidding ourselves? Has there ever been? I mean, these are if a quarterback comes back, what puts him in the lower tier? Yeah, they said he's they said, he said. You know, the difference with Russell is now he was a Tier one guy, but he's a lot more high maintenance. Now he needs an office at the facility, you know, the extra hotel room on the road. Oh boy, oh boy, listen. I know he's a little robotic, and I know a lot of you think he's a little polished. I'll take that over Moody, Aaron both great, I'll take that if that's the knock on him. He's a little pola, he's a little robotic. You know, I'm on live with that. If that's the criticism he's posishim robotic Off the field, he certainly is not. That's not his style of playoff. No, he's a playmaker. I don't think he's necessarily polish robotic. I know that that is a criticism of him, but he's certainly not that on the field. I cannot believe. I'm actually shocked by this. That's that's a little embarrassing that a quarterback in the NFL does not have an office. Okay, but that's for that to be the reason why he's not a Tier one quarterback. What you're getting now, and I'm feeling this in the NFL with the Kyler's story too. We romanticized Farv's gun slinging, ad libbing and inability to read a defense. Now we're not really comfortable with it. I mean, come on, let's be honest about this. We I literally had to hear how Brett Farr was a greatest quarterback ever did not know what a nickel defense was five years in the league. Yeah, I mean it's that that old school, you know, rub some dirt on it mentality is very romantic. It's great for movies and things like that. And it's not like that didn't work for Brett Farve. But I'm confused because everyone's mad about Kyler not quote unquote prepping enough, and now that Russ preps too much. Like I just need to know what the standard, like, what is it that people want and and he is the face of the organization. Like I have a dressing room here, you have a dressing room the office, I have a desk. I have an r question. I've heard this. He has an entourage. What is an entoge? I'm serious here, I don't I've never had an entourage. What is what qualifies because you're you're hipper and you get this stuff, what qualifies as an entourage? If I if I come with a trainer and my trainer assistant Brady and as social media Brady and Belichick had their issues because he wanted to bring his trainer and get a room for him, right, So, which is outrageous, brave? So I mean Belichick struggle with it. What I so my takeaways, I bet you that Russell brings a trainer on the road and an assistant for all the media crap. That doesn't feel like an entourage. That's not an entourage. An entourage would be like friends and people that you just want hang out to hang out with you. That's not really Russell Wilson's. But I mean, if if you're Tom Cruise or Russell Wilson or Denzel, I could see them taking security with me like, forget a PR person. I've seen Tom cruise twice in my life, once with nobody and once with like PR people. I also and not in football, but like I would get for like a Denzel to have a security guy with him because people are crazy. That wouldn't even be an entourage to me, because that's the other knock on. Russe Frust did want to travel with people that made him comfortable. Who cares? What is an extra hotel room to you? I understand them pushing back on people saying, you know, coming on the team plane or things like that. Yeah, I get that, and I would even still I would say that his trainers should be allowed to come on the team plane. It suits your quarterback. You're investing quite a bit of money in that position, and all people do is complaining when people don't say when professional athletes don't take caution. Kyler for not Karen and Russell because he wants Oh it cares too much? All right? One more heard 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. With that, Brian billicks a Super Bowl Champ nine years Ravens head coach. You know, there's no story about Kyler Murray in the addendum, and I don't love the fact that it's out. But boy, he's forty two and on high school, won the Heisman, Rookie of the Year, got Arizona to the playoffs. You know, Brian, it's hard to tell somebody to do something when they keep winning at every level. Would it drive you nuts if he didn't prep as much as you wanted, Yeah, because I've never had a great quarterback that wasn't good at that in some form or the other. I do question it being in the contract. I'm with you, that bothers me more than I don't know how much time. And by the time you get facility at seven in the morning, you leave by five or six. I don't have much time you have in the evening to really get anything done at home. Anyway you get you get your prep during the course of the day. But the fact that it's in the contract, that they felt compelled to put it to me, I would be embarrassed by that, Yeah, and how they enforce it, So I don't know if it's much ado about nothing. They obviously resigned him. So they believe in him, and they believe in what he's doing enough, But to put that in the contract I kind of question as well, not only for the organization, but for the young man as well. Lamar Jackson, you know, he goes a different route. He didn't have an agent. His mom's his agent. Again, I wouldn't recommend that, but to each their own. I've known people him, Ted Coppell was a journalist in my business, didn't even have an agent, which is you know, in our business, everybody I thought had an agent. So people can do about it different ways go about it. I'd pay him. I say this all the time. The worst thing in the world in the NFL is driving to the state him knowing you have very little chance to win. Lamar wins seventy five percent of his starts. Brian, I don't know if he's a good plan from behind as with a lead, but he wins seventy five percent of his starts. I think I just pony up the dough, would you, Yeah? And I think I think Baltimore will too. I think they want to. I mean, we overuse the word unique in this business. He is truly unique in what he does. Both on and off the field. Like you said, his mom is his agent and the life. I think he's betting on himself. I think the Ravens are willing to pay him. I think they're willing to own up to it. And as you know, that's the tough thing in pro sports right now because every dollar you give to Lamar doesn't go someplace else. So it's got to be structured the right way. I think he's kind of betting on himself. I think I think he's looking at it and saying, you know what, the payday I get if I should be able to go to free agency is going to pale whatever deal I agree to right now. Maybe they can get it done. I know for a fact the Ravens want to do it. They're willing to pay. The price is just getting it done seems to be the issue right now. What is your best hunch on how Russell, Wilson and Denver worked. The coach has never been a head coach. He says the right things, he said multiple times, we're building an offense that makes Russell comfortable. Whatever he likes we're doing. You're a hunch today how it works? Yeah, Yeah, that's smart because obviously we saw what Russell Wilson was able to do in Seattle. Taking nothing away from Pete Carroll on what they did in Seattle, Russell Wilson was the difference maker and the success that organization had and what he was asked to do and under the pressure that he was asked to do it. What that means is in Denver, if he's smart, coach will make sure that he's protected, that he has receivers and a running back corps. You know, I know that people were making a big deal about Russell Wilson blogs in the top five athletic quarterbacks in the league right now. I don't think he wants to be a rushing quarterback. He's run the ball better than a hundred times in this league. He doesn't want to do that. He's brilliant inside the pock. He'll make some plays on third down for you, But I don't think he wants to do it with his legs. He wants an offensive line, he wants a receiving corps that allows him to do it from there. Particularly, you know, he's getting to be a little bit older. He knows taking those hits as a little problematic. So when they say they're going to wrap the thing around Russell Wilson. It's going to be a solid running game, protect him, giving the weapons down the field. And they realize because they got to keep him upright. He's been very good at that, very little injury of any at all, So he knows how to keep himself, keep himself healthy. But I don't think he wants to be look up there at the end of the year and see that he's had to run the ball eighty ninety one hundred times. Yeah, so Belichick's not using an oc or at DC. It's yeah. I mean, you were an offensive coordinator in Minnesota for years. I always thought, you know, sometimes in college a coach will like kind of you know, he'll recruit and he'll take care of his side of the ball, and he'll still call plays. I don't love it. I like when a coach sort of as a walk around coach, you kind of use your expertise, and Jimmy Johnson always calls that kind of a walk around coach. Bounced to bounce to bounce. Does it worry at all? No, coordinators, not for Bill Belichick. You talk about unique in the way you do it. It flows through Bill more so than any of the coach probably in the league, they have a structure, there is a coordinator per se, if not entitled. I think Bill simply is going, look and I'm tired or losing my coordinators, So I'm just gonna make anybody a coordinator. You're gonna have to figure it out how much each has to do with what we do offensively or defensively. I think he's doing it that for as much as anything. But within the building there's going to be a clear hierarchy, a chant of command of who this goes through. Of course, ultimately it all goes through Bill. So finally he's in an undisclosed location. So I don't want to give that away, but it sounds unbelievable. Mike McCarthy got a little prickly yesterday when his first press conference was about his job security. In your career Minnesota as an OC Ravens, as a Super Bowl winning coach, was there a year that either your head coach or you was a little bit on a coaching hot seat, And did it affect you, your thought, your prep? You does it weigh on you? No? Because to answer your question, yeah, every year, every year, either the head coach or you or something going on around you, you know, the other than maybe a Bill Belichick, maybe now a Sean McVeigh. I don't know that anybody in the NFL could say, oh no, I'm fine, I'm untouchable, I'm good to go. That's just not the nature of the league. It's you know, what are you doing for me? Now? Mike McCarthy understands that. I think what he bristled up at was not the idea that he might be on the hot seat, because of course he is. It's well, why are we talking about it? This is non news. I know it. The whole league knows it. It's the way we all operate. It's a non story. I know you want to talk about it. Unfortunately for Mike, he's got to understand, you know, he's not in control of this because we're going to talk about it, and particularly in a city like Dallas, it's going to get talked about. So less of an effect on him and his team than everything that's going on around it. But everybody in that organization knows, particularly it being Dallas. Of course he's on see yeah, finally X Tech pads. You've been with them. They're celebrating their ten year anniversary. The Rams wore them in the Super Bowl. It's a growing, ascending company and in try how many teams now in training camps are using them. Eighty percent of the NFL has X Tech pads. You know, Bob Roderick put this thing together ten years ago, been with him from the beginning. So proud of what they've been able to do. Number one pad and professional football, major college football. The thing that I'm liking now is young people can order this pad, the same pad Aaron Donald or Josh Allen is wearing, and we can have it shipped within a day. One hundred percent American made it, and it's and it's filtering down into the high schools. We got to protect our young people online at x tech pads or on Instagram ad ex tech pads. This is the way to go because this is the best protection you can have for our young people. Brian, enjoy your summer. You got a couple of weeks remaining. I'm not giving it away, but I'm gonna google it after the show and check out where you live. I gotta be honest, I can't wait. You gotta see us, all right, Thanks Brian, You're bet
