The Herd with Colin CowherdHour 3 - What should the Bears do with Justin Fields?
Fox Sports NFL analyst Mark Sanchez joins the show in studio to tell Colin what the Bears should about Justin Fields after another disappointing loss
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By the way, you can lose in the NFL and retain your job, but the Jets have an impulsive owner. They blow stuff up very quickly and start over. And the thirty nothing lost to Miami when Tyreek Hill wasn't available and they still couldn't stop him. And the Jets are supposed to have elite corners. That's about as bad a loss as a team could have. With the Coats, that's trying to retain his job. So the defense didn't show up four yards of offense in the first half. Lousy, fake ponted, fooled nobody. I wonder this morning if Robert sala is in big trouble. Defended Robert sala but I'm watching these defensive coaches. Ron Rivera late in that game was completely worked like I didn't know how to situationally speed the clock up, no urgency, huddling against the Rams. It was painful watching Mitch Trubisky under Mike Tomlin painful. Belichick offense painful, and I'm watching Robert Sala and I watched Brandon Staley. The Chargers offense has talent regressed. I watched Solo. That quarterback carousel is a mess. That couldn't handle the head injury to Zach Wilson. So that you can lose games, you better be careful about losing them, like the Jets lost them, because that owners that ownership group moves off to the Mets and the Jets. You know, Giants and Yankees tend to be more patient. Aaron Boone's been under the pressure for a lot of years. You know, Tom Kaughlin stayed for years. And the Giants and the Yankees tend to be a little more patient with their quarterbacks and their coach is a little more Jets match will blow stuff up in thirty seconds. I thought that loss that I mean, right now, they look like the Chargers. What do they do well with a young, unproven defensive coach, What do they do well? They're They're literally start of the year doing things well sort of. The Chargers, they've all gotten worse. That was a bad loss then, word, what gutlass?
That's what it was.
They didn't show up coming off a big win, go to Miami.
Pathetic.
Can we not talk about the Jets anymore?
Place?
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I'm trying to just put the season in the rearview mirror.
It's over.
Let's go to an actual good team, the forty nine Ers and my guy Rock Party two hundred and forty two yards, four touchdowns. He is now the favorite in every sports book in America to win the MVP. Now listen, I will do my diligence and tell you don't bet rock Perty minus two hundred.
There's a big game against the Ravens.
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Lamar Jackson is number two on the odds. Here we go on the screen. I'm just telling you Lamar.
Has back to back weeks with massive gains. If he shows out against the Niners and Dolphins, he's gonna steal the award from Purtty Because you and a lot of other people are like, oh, McCaffrey, McCaffrey. You see there down there plus two thousand. If you feel like lighting money on fire during the holiday season, go bet Christian McCaffrey.
Sam, where you bet?
Where are you betting?
Right now? Coh, I would to me the MVP of the league would be Christian McCaffrey. I'm not a big Awards guy, but I think he is literally having one of the great running back years ever in an era where running backs don't get loved, don't get fed, don't get embraced. And I think he's a I think he's a wizard. I think there's nothing else like him in the sport. I think he's incredible.
Is there a lesson to be learned from the Niners trading for a running back when nobody wants to pay them, nobody wants running backs?
Niners traded again.
They have a brilliant offensive coach who was seeking a top chess piece. This would not look like this for the Steelers. Looks like this with an offensive coach who is first of head of class. So and I think the other thing is I think the two best chess pieces in the league are on the same team with the coach who's best equipped to use them Deebo Samuel and Christian McCaffrey. So those are such unique, historic players and the coach best, most capably aware of how to use them has them both. This feels like a super Bowl team.
Sneaky, but Shane Stikeen you, you and I love what he's doing in Indye. He knows how to scheme stuff up for running back Jonathan Taylor next year healthy with Richardson, I would just say, keep an eye on Indianapolis Colts Fusures. They look like they have something cooking there. Next up Man Cadarius, Tony boy, Colin. Have you seen this drop? This is absolutely broad. I need his butterfingers galore now right after it obviously the past is intercepted. Mahomes is seen on the bench really upset, should be cursing under his breath.
I mean, at some.
Point, what are you going to do? Though they need him, you can no. I mean, Rashi Rice is your one along with Travis Kelshana one. You've gotta have another guy, and he's an explosive playmaker. What are you gonna do? Just I think you need him. I think in a perfect situation you'd move off him. But Watson and Sky Moore, not game breakers. Tony can give you those one or two twitch He plays a game that nobody else can. But this is why you know you're watching why the Giants moved off him. But I don't think it's not perfect. You just sometimes you go in and you have a team that's got a bad corner. But he you know, he's a risk taker and gives you picks but gets burned. What what are you gonna do? Move off him? Tony will make a play in a playoff game to help you win a game, and he'll have a key drop. But that this is an imperfect team. This is not the three year ago chiefs Now So I think you have to just deal with it.
Side note, there is video here Taylor Swift was at the game and they put her on the jumboats on She's in New England.
She was booed by the meat balls in Boston. Here's the video.
Who brus Taylor Swift?
They really had her on the screen for a while there in enemy territories.
Meat Balls would die for a selfie with her.
Of course they probably are going up for selfies after it, Like, come on booing Taylor Swift.
It's like, I hate Santa Claus. You know, next up, final story.
Jalen Hurts tonight not one hundred percent with the illness, Glazer said yesterday on Fox. If they if this game was Sunday, Hurts probably would not have played. So it be Hurts against Geno Smith. Both questionable. I just looked at the line. It is as you see on the screen up to three and a half. So some late day Eagles money. He flew separately. Jalen hursted to Seattle from the team. That's why they you know, that's how bad the illness was. Gino Smith sat last week. Seattle is in a desperate spot here two bad secondaries.
Now Seattle is this is the season with the Rams winning? Well, hold on, let me look at this real quick. So the Rams right now have an easy schedule down the stretch and are seven and seven. Seattle is six and seven. Six and eight is a tough spot for them.
Maybe a death sentence.
Yeah, so this is Seattle at home. Has probably a healthier quarterback, or at least a non sick quarterback. I think Seattle wins. Wins. Here's the thing is a year ago, we thought they were so clever moving off Russ. Here's where they are a defensive coach with an average quarterback, gonna miss the playoffs and the weaker conference.
And an overrated defense. I took a shot at the secondary. I like Jamal Adams in coverage. You know they're gonna attack him. He can't guard anybody. I just this feels like a thirty twenty seven last with the ball wins. So I would take the three and a half if I were a gambling man.
Last time I saw Seattle play, it was a shootout with Dallas. It was wildly entertaining.
Yeah, how's it going to be any different against here?
Maybe you're maybe right.
I mean, now, unless the weather, I haven't seen the latest on the weather, it's probably raining, because well.
Yeah December in Seattle, it has to be raining them. Yeah right, So I'll.
Thirty twenty seven Eagles.
All go, all go, twenty eight twenty three Seahawks.
So Eagles dropped to ten and four.
Oh wow, well, listen, you'd be lucky in life to be drop to ten and four.
I don't know if they drop the defensive coordinators losing privileges to call that was a crazy move.
They literally just in the mid week fifteen or fourteen they change coordinators.
And that gets Dallas off the mat for winning the division. Now Philly can't lose this game.
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Lie all right, let's bring out Mark Sanchez. He and Kevin Coopler did the game yesterday Chicago bears Cleveland. So as Mark six down, I do want to show everybody this was as beautiful a hail Mary pass as the sports ever had. This is how you throw a hail mary. Roll the tape, this is the field.
Game is there? Change by Garrett fis time. Excellent job.
Three men she knows gets out most importantly, keep the ball in bound, don't throw it out of the back of the which he does.
What don't accepted?
Just rips their heartouse.
And as you said, kept it in bound. Time to position.
That's right, and you can do that with a physical guy like that. Sorry for all my profits today. I got an overhead projector coming in at some point, probably to break some of this stuchdowns.
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There is something to be said about throwing three picks and having a great fourth quarter. Flacco is just you. I think you said it. He's an adult, no doubt. A lot of good games, bad games, good halfs. I watched that and I'm like, Flacco has a short memory.
Yeah, and it wasn't perfect.
If you saw his postgame interview with Laura Oakman, who asked him some great questions, but he was just He's like, gott, I have this pit my stomach, Like he knew what was at stake and what was happening, but at a certain point he knew, I'm gonna get this ball back and we're gonna make it work. And that's two weeks in a row a team has tried to pressure him and he's known the answer. He's had the answer the week before was Jacksonville. They bring a little extra pressure off the edge, he knows where his weakness is, starts to drift, drift by time Nadjoku huge play.
Okay, this week, gets a little.
Pressure, he starts to pump and holds the ball for one more second because they brought they brought simulated pressure, essentially bringing linebackers and defensive backs and dropping out a defensive end or tackle. And there goes Nujoku and he's trying to navigate. Okay, where do I go? And so he holds it for just a half second to Lockey's with Nadjoku so he can see him throw it and avoid the pressure. Two weeks in a row. But I called him Elf on the shelf man. He shows up after Thanksgiving. Suddenly the house is in order, everybody's on notice, the kids are behaving, you know what I mean, Because he's got they report to Sanda.
They got their magic. And his magic is.
His instant credibility because he's been there before, everybody respects him. And then the way he plays to finish the game, the way he can finish a game in that stadium. I mean, he's got like ten comeback wins, fourth quarter wins in that stadium, mostly for Baltimore. So he's used to ruining the Browns fan Sundays. This time he gave him two Sundays in a row that were amazing.
But and I think it's a younger league, and so when you bring on these elder statesmen, Yes, I think there is a certain grav a toss to him walking in the room and.
Everybody's on notice. Oh man, he knows what it looks like. I'm following him, you know what I mean. But they have the hail mary before halftime.
Did you see that?
Okay, you got to see this hail mary before halftime because one I thought they were going to kick the field goal.
It's a fifty four to fifty five yarder. Yes, okay, watch this.
Justin Fields gets absolutely pummeled by Zadarius Smith late. That's a free play. That's a fifteen yards free untimed down before halftime that they missed. That's an automatic field goal. So that's three more points. Then when you go to the fourth quarter, they have a well let's go big picture here first. And I had to write some of these notes down because there's a.
Lot to Chicago. This was a big game.
This was a huge game for Chicago.
But of seventy plays, they ran seventy total offensive plays. Eighteeny of these plays are third downs, two of them are fourth down. So that leaves you fifty plays that aren't third or fourth down. Those are normal down and distance, first and second down. Now take out all the goal line plays, all your short yardage plays and okay, of those fifty, where do you want to be We're just talking about Josh Allen.
You were just talking about Josh Allen. He only threw it fifteen times.
Right, Justin Fields threw it forty times for a little over one hundred yards or whatever he threw it for. Josh Allen threw it for ninety four with seven completions. You see what I'm saying, Like, I'd rather have him closer to fifteen than forty. Yes, right, And the game started to get away from these guys the sequencing in the fourth quarter. You're up ten points and you start giving this thing away. The fourth and one with Justin feels that he doesn't he scrambles for it ends up being a sack. I mean, that's a he makes in his sleep watch. He's on the edge and he just starts to slow down, gets tripped up, huge play, just tapping his foot and he doesn't get this play. Boom the Browns go and they kick a field goal right there. Yeah, okay, so then the Bears are up seven. Then they get stuffed on the jet sweep. The reason I brought this up here is because just to show you Okay, when guys get the ball a lot, this is my call sheet. This is what I use during the game. Yeah, okay, when guys get the ball lot there's numbers all under their name. Okay, rushes, receptions, rushes, receptions, all this stuff. They handed it And this is no offense to Tyler Scott. But it's third and one in the fourth quarter. You're trying to win the game. His kids are rookie out of Cincinnati. Look at he's he doesn't have all these red numbers down here because he doesn't touch the ball that much. So on third and one, I'm like, what are we doing, Deonta Foreman downhill speed option, which so you have at least two options with justin fields run quarterback power, get the extra hat in the run game something. I was just a little shocked on that one, right, And on that fourth and one, by the way, they were on the plus thirty three, they kind of kicked a field goal again, those two field goals, he's, I mean, I was getting all worked up because it was our game, and I was fired up about it. But you felt the game start to, oh, to lose it, to kind of give it away. And then Joe Flacco took over and then the offense finally made a play. But if you're gonna give him six chances to make a play, well one of them they might just make a play. And you see what I mean? Like those that's where good teams figure it out. They understand their sequencing, they understand what numbers they have to hit in the run game versus pass game.
And if you have fifty of those plays and.
You're gonna call thirty runs and twenty passes on normal down in distance, I want those twenty passes, five of them to be actual drop back, five to seven step, go through a full progression. You know, five to six man protection. Fine, but they're giving up sacks on eight man protection on second and seven with the lead late in the game. That's that's crazy to me. You only got two guys in the route. How are you getting sacked? So you know, Montez Sweat kept him in the game.
He's been a great The guy's leading two.
Franchises in sacks, by the way, are you kidding me?
So?
Like there's pieces there, there's enough there. And I think.
Think of justin fields a little more like Cam Newton, Like he's hard to bring down, he can run, run quarterback power. They used to do that all the time on third and short, fourth and short.
With Cam.
We talked about a mock draft earlier. Chicago was in a unique place. They could still get Jaden Daniels or Drake May and get a ton of extra picks by moving.
You just don't get everything out of Justin fields. If you bring in a guy like that, not in that town, maybe in Jacksonville, maybe in Kansas City, maybe in another place, no chance.
Then Justin's like, am I the starter? Am I not the starter?
If you're gonna wait, if you're gonna go get one of those guys, go get him and they're your guy.
That's a good point.
But if you're gonna keep Justin, then get him some guys, man and make him like Cam Newton the year he won MVP and took him to the Super Bowl against Peyton.
Manning.
Put players around him, stack the defense, keep getting rusher pass rushers to give him the ball back, and he's gonna have to run the ball a lot. That's what they did the last three games, and that's why he was so effective. But when he goes for over one hundred yards rushing, good luck, good luck playing against those guys.
So they have pieces, they're really close.
It's just what's their formula of their identity and they can't get away from it.
And that's how the Browns took over.
So explain to me. At college, I can remember USC teams you played with teams generally because the players you're younger are different at home and away. You know, it's just different when you go even when you go to Pullman or Cort Vallas, it's.
Different Cowboys, Browns.
Dallas is a completely different franchise on the road. Now. I've argued that as the league's gotten younger and Dallas is a glamour franchise. The minute they win, all these shows talk about them, and all those young guys are like feeling it. And that's a little bit of it. It's like Texas football for US fe football. You win, you're on shows. Sure, you can win a lot of games in Jacksonville and nobody cares otherwise. I can't figure out Dallas. How are you this great here in this bad here consistently?
Well, I think Buffalo just took the fight to him.
I mean they it's one of those things where when they're at home they're a little nasty too. When it gets late, when it gets cold, Josh Allen seems to turn it on. Protects the football. That was the biggest thing for Buffalo. They had been giving away games routinely.
You know what I mean.
He throws three four picks in a game. It's like, come on, man, defense. You saw how hard it was for the Browns to win. The other team has to have just a calamity of errors for you to win games like that, and it overcome mistakes like that. Buffalo didn't do it, and they ran it right at him. They ran it at him multiple different ways. With Josh Allen, with James Cook.
Like it was.
You could tell Joe Brady had the game plan he wanted. He saw where the Cowboys were vulnerable in the past. Said this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna invite him in. It's gonna be a little little cold, a little different. We're gonna be playing outside in our kind of place, in a blue collar, russ Bilt kind of place.
Right, We're gonna let them in the tunnel. We're gonna lock the.
Door, slap them around for a couple hours, and then tell them when to leave. That's kind of how you have to play those guys when you see a team with a lot of flash, when we got to beat them up physically, this is gonna be this is gonna hurt them. It's got to hurt them, it's gonna hurt us, but it's better hurt them more. And you could tell they just had the physical game plan and it got away from the Cowboys, right. They weren't able to jump out to that lead. They weren't able to stack points at the end of the first half and opening the third quarter like like they've done before, and that's how they kind of lap a team and then just they're off to the races and all you see is the back of their jersey, like, dang, how do we catch these guys? They're too good. So it was just the way the game shook out. But Joe Brady had an excellent plan for that game.
Before we get to tape, on the other side, we were talking about Christian McCaffrey. You know, I'm old enough that I remember Walter Payton, and then there's Barry Sanders and his elusiveness. McCaffrey has the ability to make cuts without slowing down.
Oh yeah, while he's accelerating yeah, yeahs.
Accelerating into the cut. So he's so quick. I don't know, what do you when you watch him. He can be a receiver in this league.
I think, no doubt.
And he's been healthy every time he touches the ball.
Look out, he's got the home run threat.
But him and Brock Purty, it's like, i mean, say what you want about bro Oh, he's a system guy.
He's this, he's at.
He knows where to get the ball and it comes out on time, and he anticipates these throws so these guys can run after the catch.
Uh.
He gets them in and out of plays. Good plays, you know, potentially bad plays. Dirts the ball when he's supposed to and gets him in the right position. And then when you have a guy like Simak, he knows man, just feed him the ball. It's Kobe and shack Man, just feed him the ball. Whatever, you know, something good is gonna happen when that guy touches the ball. I'm just curious about this MVP race, Like, are they gonna split votes?
That's what's gonna happen.
And then I'm just saying, Lamar Jackson, Fine, I'm just telling you and I got he for this because I'm a Stafford supporter. But if he gets this team in the playoffs, the Rams come on, now, are.
You kidding me?
No, I think those votes might split. He might go right down the middle, seven to ten, all split.
You've done Rams games this year, plenty of them. I have seen McVeigh. They should have won that Baltimore game.
Oh, I know.
That was just the best coaching jobs I've ever seen.
And he should be running like Stafford should be runner up for MVP and McVeigh should be, you know, runner up for a coach the year because nobody I mean four wins, five wins or whatever they were projected early in the year.
Now who knows.
They got a game Thursday night against New Orleans who just beat up on the Giants. So you know, this whole thing is coming down to the very very end, which makes it amazing for us and and the players and coaches.
In the league. But I don't know, man, there's something to be said about Stafford.
Yeah, all right, We've got tape. On the other end. We taught Kansas City and New England and Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey may be Taylor Swift next.
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You know a game we have not talked about because New England's awful and unwatchable in Kansas City, well, I mean they're just hard to watch. But I would say with Kansas City, I really think this is just what happens when you go stage one to stage two with the Dynasty. You pay the quarterback a lot, little choppy, still love them. Everybody, owner, GM, coach, quarterback all good. They're just trying to teach young guys how to play receiver under a very sophisticated, fast moving complex offense. That's really hard. So she rise over six seven weeks. You're like, oh, he's he's learning it.
So it's happening in the right direction.
Tony tends to be a little you know, he can be immature. Details drops. It's it's a process. But I don't sell anything. I think they are what they are. These are young athletes this summer learning on the job. Oh yeah, okay, so you got some tape and this is fun for us.
Go ahead, so the quickly on the Kadarius Tony point. I think you know, when you're in a slump as a hitter, go back and watch some of the big hits you've had. Go back and hit some of the fundamental stuff. Like go watch a highlight tape. Dude, he had some huge plays in a super Bowl that got him a ring.
You know what I mean.
If I'm the wide receiver coach there, if i'm you know, anybody who's in his corner, if I'm Patrick Mahomes, like, bro, get in here for fifteen minutes. I want to talk to you and show you how good you are. And don't forget you had that beautiful super Bowl super Bowl ring from last year and you're a big reason we have that ring on the partment turn on the touchdown. He caught left a dude in the dust, Like that's who you are. You've got a couple drops. That is not who you are. These plays are you, you know what I mean. That's how you get these guys out of a slump. And because they're gonna need them to make plays down the stretch, so either you let them yeah, yeah, almost almost like a Tony Robbins speech. But whatever it is, just just be in his corner. But I was shocked in this New England game. It's a third and ten and you're gonna play Patrick Mahomes and cover two man. So cover two you know there's two deep safeties, five defenders underneath, generally playing zone, but in cover two man, those five defenders underneath are locked onto a specific player, okay, and they know they have help over the top, so their number one job is to guard their guy. But they're gonna play a little soft and a little inside. You can't get beat to the inside. You have to block them off to the inside. No routes can cross your face inside because that gives a quarterback an easy answer, and there's no one there. Also, quarterback scramble is all live because the safeties are deep. Everybody else is locked onto their guy. Nobody's accounting for the quarterbacks, so you normally muddy up the rush with pit and stuff like that. With the d linman you're gonna see on this third down. I mean this shocked me a little bit. But Patrick Mahomes, they show them one safety down in the box. They're gonna disguise on third down. Typical Bill Belichick. He's gonna show you one thing, give you another. There goes the safety. He's gonna retreat. Patrick Mahomes checked with his running back to make sure he knew. But look at this scramble. Room for Patrick Mahomes and no looping d Liman. He sees the two deep safeties. He knows there's help, extra help on Kelsey. There's two right, he's off and inside boom, I'm off of Kelsey and no picks on the rush game. That blew my mind that they're rushing straight out. Now, what do these guys run out of this set? A ton They usually run that en route or a deep crosser and then a shallow cross underneath by rice. But what do they do They run the crosser off of it because they know they're getting two man. They're off and inside. Let's run our counter. Let's run speed down the middle like they used to do with Tyreek Hill, leak the back outs of the flat, and it just becomes a three level high to low read flat defender read so it's level three, level two, level one. You work your way down and Patrick Mahomes hits his back foot and nails this. Basically, it's like a corner or a deep out that's a counter off of the shallow and basic that they normally run. That shallow basic to the back checking down. I mean that is a staple in the West Coast offense. They run it three to four times a game. This was an amazing This is how game plans and playbooks change. On third downs. You show a CounterPunch, they know you.
Got a job.
Okay, what else you have off that job? Boom and they show it. I thought that was awesome. The next play I thought, this is an old school West Coast. It's a run. No, it's an end around. No, it's a play action pass. No, it's a screen. So it's like three layers of deception. It was the old ninety four. Why back ninety four is the run Why back tells the why to cross the formation, kick out the end Z ghost, half back, slow screen right, so check this out. There's three keys to a great screen. But Kelsey's right inside on the right. He feels that tigh end, the safety fields a tight ends who he's gonna run back and man to man. And the three keys to a good screen are the kick, the alley, and the rat kill and its guard center guard in this setup, but he fakes the ghost dumps it off. Here's the kick guy. Well, there's nobody there because they pressured. There is nobody there, so he's got nobody to kick. Normally he's kicking out a corner or a safety or a backer or somebody. Nobody's there, so he just Number one in the convoy. Number two is the alley. Think of him like the personal protector. He's guarding the guy with the bag. The bag's the ball and he's just running behind him. He's kind of finding daylight behind him. There's nobody in the alley because they pressured. That's why Mahomes got this playoff and then the rat kill. This guy's almost as important as the other two because he's the one who peels back and his eyes got to look back and find that defensive lineman or linebacker who sniffed out the screen. He's the rat who's gonna go to the cheese and ruin your day. There's nobody there, there's nobody even chasing it. So this thing turns into a punt return or a kick return, and one of.
The biggest plays for Clyde Edwards.
A layer Satrick Mahomes gets this ball out early, understands that he has to get it out early. He's got a three man convoy, looks like a put return man and a huge play for Clyde Edwards. Hilayer, this is I mean two old school plays. One they run a counter off of two they do the three layers of deception. It's a handoff. No, it's an end around. No it's a pass, it's a screen. And they had some huge plays off of these.
But yeah, and if you go back to the Super Bowl, the reality with Kansas City and their defense now their games are more low scoring. So one or two plays like this, oh yeah, win games.
They change the game. They flip the field, they get you into field goal range. And those are the kind of ways that you avoid giving away the game. You know what I mean, You stick to what you know, you plug in new pieces. Before we talked about that guy screaming down the middle of the field on the third and ten. Patrick Mahomes might have looked at that, if that's Tyreek Hill, Well it's not. So he gets off them, knows Kelsey's doubled, and Boom knows exactly where to go.
But man, it's fun to watch. Man.
They always have something every week. They'll have their staples, but they always have something with the little sizzle.
So I saw it yesterday. Is that it's one thing if your wife and you argue on the way home from a party. If you argue at the party.
It's uncomfortable and it's.
That's a real problem in the relationship. We've all argued in the car. So when you're when you're banging on your quarterback in the film room, that's one thing happens that happened with Grady and Belichick. When you're yelling on the sidelines, that's an animosity that's a bit too palpable. My takeaway is these guys are just different dudes. One is intense, one is relentlessly optimistic. I watched this and I was uncomfortable watching it.
Was it was right after that goal line play, I want to say, right, they were down in tight and it looked what they had been doing. And this is all just from my vantage point. I don't have any inside information, so I don't know what was said. I can see the tone of what was said, and it was upset and disappointed and you know, enraged.
But that listen, that happens in these moments. These these moments are heated.
Right, And to me it appeared that there was some sort of check or some sort of decision that was supposed to be made by the quarterback.
Ramatically, that was just.
Like assumed and it was either miscommunicated, misinterpreted. Something was off with the communication there, and clearly coach Paydon is like, dude, what are we doing? And so he lets out a little anger and aggression and that whole deal. Well, part of that is this game is going to get you to those situations a lot in practice, in a walkthrough in a game, the idea is you have to have enough rapport with those guys to understand that it's never personal and it's hard not to take that personally, you have to be pretty thick skinned, skinned like an armadillo, not a deer. And if you can absorb that, learn from that, and move on from that without getting embarrassed even though it's getting played on every you know news feed today, then you can make up some ground. And sure, was coach paid probably a little strong and it's a little embarrassing. Well yeah, sure they're also getting paid a lot of money to do it. And this is the highest level of this. That's what happens. You know, blue heads become redheads and the top blows off, right, So.
What do you do?
Do you have enough rapport to understand that he's not attacking me, Russell Wilson the person he's attacking me Russell Wilson the quarterback who made a bad decision that I should have made a different decision.
Now do they move on from that? Hopefully? But you know, I can't speak for either side.
I don't know them personally enough to know exactly what went down. But that's just playing the position for as long as I did being around coaches, some of them yell, some of them don't, you know. I can see how those things happen, and sometimes they happen behind closed doors. Sometimes they happen right out in the front line for everybody and all the neighbors to see.
And it's a little embarrassing. So we'll see how they bounce back. Yeah.
You know. The other thing is Russell is very much on social media and this stuff, and Shawn's kind of old school.
Oh yeah, he's yeah, yeah.
Brady really didn't do a lot of that stuff untill he beat at Land in the Super Bowl. Yeah, and Russell does a lot of the social stuff. So when something goes wrong, situationally, I can see an old school coach thinking, well, if you're not on Instagram all day, and I'm not saying that happen, but I can see an old school coach thinking, yeah, it's funny you didn't pick that up, but you had thirteen social media posts. And I know that sounds ridiculous, but I can see situationally that happening.
It's so funny because you know, when when you forget little things like that, like I can it's almost like a parent with a kid, right, you know, and and you forget to take out the trash, you forget to you know, pick up after the dog, you forget to do whatever.
But you spent the.
Night at Johnny's house last week and had a great time and went to the dance. Whoa, you had fun doing what you were doing. Those were obviously priorities, but doing your chores at home was not, you know what I mean. And so I can see how those kind of things get equated. And we're like, oh, well, you're having a great time in this you know world that doesn't even matter.
That's not even real.
Well, he said, you know, you know what I mean. So it's like it's a real thing.
They're just different personalities, different uh, you know, different generations, and and they they don't see the world the same necessarily, but that doesn't mean they can't be a good quarterback and coach Combo just you know, we got a lot of cameras nowadays.
He gets a lot of stuff. He gets a lot of audio.
And I see Lebron eating all the time, and I don't care you had I'll bite them a hot dog. Once in the world imploded, I'm like, it's off.
That happens.
It happens sometimes, it happens. Oh yeah, and you get caught and uh that was during the time out too.
So Lebron eats every other home game. Lebron literally orders a concierge comes about once again to eat like nobody.
Caresuber eats showing up on the court. I was ahead of my time.
Thank you, you were all right, Mark Sanchez, thanks for stopping by. Brian Billick was here earlier today. Tonight Eagles Seahawks. I think I like Seattle a little bit at home. Their season is on the line with the Rams surging. They gonna turn that puppy around. Will see tomorrow live in La. It's to herd.
