is old just like the Colts right now. They are narrowed
down to three
finalists, reportedly, Brian Flores, the assistant coach,
with the Steelers and former head, coach of the Dolphins
Mike Africa. The Giants offensive coordinator and Lou
and Oromo
late arrival onto the scene. The Bengals defensive coordinator
Flores do and have a second interview on Wednesday. Look,
we talked about this at length, I just think that
if you're not going to hire Sean Payton you better hire
Brian Flores because he's got headphones. Coaching experience
in the others don't and he's got a very viable lawsuit
against the NFL and now if you don't hire him, it
looks like you didn't hire him because
he engaged in a legally protected activities
and he's being retaliated against.
I don't, you know, proven coach versus two coordinators
who have yet to coach
I'm going proven coach 100 out of 100 times.
I mean I would too probably but at the same time like we all
know that owners are just going to do whatever the hell they
want and that's why they're in. Lawsuit in the first place.
So I mean we can sit here and say yeah, like Brian Flores
makes a lot of sense to be the next head coach of the Arizona
Cardinals. And I think that he does. I mean, look at what he
did with Miami. Look at how we kept that team going
last year when they were really, really crappy what they
want in 61 and seven and they end up with 9 and 8. So there
is reason to think that Brian Flores is a very good head
coach in the NFL.
But I mean, at the same time, like we've seen in this
coaching cycle, I like Frank right to and I don't mean this
as a shot against Frank Reich.
When you look at what Steve wilts did with that team,
keeping that team as competitive as they did,
a great hard for me to sit here and be like, well, it's
obvious, they should move on from him, really, why? Yeah,
I get pushed back her time to time on Brian Flores record and
I say to people, do you work? Do you realize his first year
his owner wanted to lose game? Yes. Yeah. And and it looked
like he was going along with it for the first couple of months
of the season and realized how can I in good conscience
operate this way?
How can I do that? And that's when it all turned and then he, he
Comes the guy that Stephen Ross doesn't want anymore. I mean he
won with a team that has been dysfunctional for
most if not all of Stephen Ross. Is 10 years owner Shireen.
Well that's what I like is he would bring that discipline to
this team that obviously needs and you wrote about this Mike
how different he is from Kliff Kingsbury. Now what I don't
like is that he's from the defensive side of the ball,
they're going to have to hire a good offensive
staff to try to do something with Colin
Murray. Who by the way, you're not going to have for The first
half of the Season, who's not going to be able to learn
the offense which is a new offense that concerns me a great deal.
So you're going to have to work that side of it. If it is Brian
Flores. Yeah,
my base thing is
these are three good choices Flores. Yeah, sure is
more proven but none of these are Kliff Kingsbury. Let me
just throw a dart at the board and go. Well, he wasn't that
good at college but my quarterback likes him and
he was been going Hannah fell.
Yes, bad think, it'll words of coordinator at USC. And
Belt up into an NFL head coaching job, how the hell does
that? It is actually amazing when you, when you speak it in,
say it out loud. You're like, well, how the hell did that
happen but Flores you hit on all the right points and it
will be a culture shock. Listen, I don't think Lou in
a room is going to be much different there either. I think
he's a, he's a hard-ass. Just like Brian Flores is gonna be
like, no. Hope we do things this way. We're going to do it
that
way and you know it's getting line or get the hell out of
here and Kafka.
He's definitely one of the
young up-and-coming minds. And again, even though proven is Is
a good thing we've seen, you know, Shanahan three of
the last four NFC championship games, right? We're seeing Nick
searing on E and your to Super
Bowl and calf has been around day ball and Andy Reid. And
some guys where you go. Well, this isn't from Texas Tech
College world and
all the sudden he's in to be a head coach. He's, he's been
training the proper way. I don't think you can go wrong
with any of these three candidates in my opinion and
miles to your point. The owners are going to do what they're
going to do. But the fact that Michael Bidwell
is at second interview level with Brian Flores, yes it is.
Telling to me, he's a lawyer.
He was a former prosecutor.
He knows that.
There's danger in getting your hand close to the fire. It's
almost better to not even consider Brian Flores. Although
I think when the dust settles on this coaching cycle, Brian
floor, it doesn't have a head coaching job
and Steve Wilkes
obviously isn't going to have one either
the Colts all those people. They interviewed the Colts
didn't bring in Wilkes or Flores, especially if they
hired Jeff Saturday. There's gonna be some blowback on
the back end, but I think that at that
Flores is very viable. I've been hearing that for weeks now
and I won't be surprised if he ends up being the next coach.
The Cardinals would be good for the Cardinals. May not be good
for calamari because you can get coach like he's never been
coaching before, but you make him better on. That's right, he
needs it.
He needs somebody to say, you don't need a homework clause in
your contract. You need a coach, it's going to say, do
you want to be great? Exactly. Right help you get. There's
been too many red carpets and rose petals on the ground for
Kyler Marie.
And I love Kyler Maria. And do you do to this is not. I'm not
trying to say this to be - it's just been it's been too
comforting for Memory.
Football's not supposed to be comforting,
you're supposed to have a guy as we talk about all the time
with a hot poker up your butt going. Hey, let's go. You gotta
get better. You got to lead the team, you're not good in this
area. That's, I mean, you Brady, of course, had that and
I'm a homes. As we talked about earlier in the show, Andy Reid
be enemy.
They're always challenging him.
You so that to me with this is going to be a good thing.
I think overall for Kyla Marine great players want that they
want to be coached hard like that, right. It's exactly what
they want. They don't necessarily need the flowers
and rose petals, really
all you're just talking about there.
Well, like it, you think you've seen the rose petals? I'm
from the Eddie Murphy movie
Coming to America.
I've actually seen that movie. Yeah. Strangely, it kind of,
are you do not a movie Watcher? No, not the 80s, but coming
coming to a head when he was born
King, Johnny, Johnny
Jones, they put rose petals at his feet all the time and
that's where I feel like Kylie rumor. He's had that going on
for a while.
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