to the extent that there is a potential upgrade out there
that the Cowboys don't want to trade for, there is a potential
upgrade out there that they could pursue at Michigan. There
were dueling reports yesterday from the athletic.
One from Bruce Feldman, that Michigan sources, believe Jim
Harbaugh. The head coach there and Chris's, I think that's
probably your favorite head. Coach have
a poster on her wall would take the Raiders job. If it was
offered vikt, a fur of the athletic who covers the
Raiders calls that total noise. Now, that was before I think
before the Feldman report came was the taper report that this
isn't any discussion that's within the Raiders building.
This is all external.
Here's what's going on with Jim Harbaugh. I can tell you, plain
and simple. Harbaugh wants to come back to the NFL. It's all
the same. Just the Raiders right now. I'm just afraid. Oh,
I know he wants, he wants the right spot. He wants in. Right,
he wants to win a Super Bowl, right? And I think it's as
basic.
As I've said this all week long. It's very simple.
My brother's got one and I don't. Yeah, and we know how
Competitive. Those guys are with each other and everyone
else and every time I'm around John. What do I see? I see that
ring on his hand. Not that he wears it around and Flash is
it. But even if he's not wearing it
Jim sees it because Brothers got a Super Bowl ring and
I don't, well. Yeah, I want one. And another. Yeah. Yeah.
Brothers. Got a ring at the expense of me to. That's what
the exact he's got. My ring,
my ring, right? Exactly. He whooped our but I had
the better team in the Super Bowl with more Talent on it and they
whipped us. Us. That's, that's probably what are some and
drives them crazy too.
That's how I think.
So. What, what's going on Chris? He's just waiting and
I don't look what he's fishing. It seems like the word is out.
Yeah. And so, whether it's the Broncos, whether it's
the Bears, whether it's the Vikings, whether it's the
angle, be the Jaguars, because you're not going to work with
Trent baalke again. Yeah, that that's one of those situations
where past relationship does not mean. Future relationship
is desired. By anyone involved? They hated each other. By the
time it was over.
Over in San Francisco, but all of the vacancies,
starting with the Raiders. That's how this all got rolling,
the Harbaugh rumors. First surfaced
with him, potentially coaching
the Raiders, but, you know, he Autumn Ali wants to go to
a spot where he feels like between ownership and general
manager. Whoever the GM is will create a situation where he can
go win a Super Bowl and
it was 44, 19 and one we saw it on the graphic, that's
impressive. It is. The 49ers were six in ten when he showed
up and but for A couple of Kyle Williams muffs. Yeah, against
the Giants in the NFC Championship. They go to
the Super Bowl in
his first year. What a turnaround. That would have
been his second year. They go there and they're almost win
it. His third year. He was still good. But that's when
the Jim Harbaugh expiration date started to creep the right and
Seattle. Sorry to jump on the scene. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
And and look, folks, when you have a great coach give him
some latitude, give him a little room and I'm not just
saying
Jim Harbaugh, you know. Josh McDaniels in Denver when you
got a guy who's pushing hard and trying to change things and
no McDaniels didn't have the success right away that
Harbaugh did. But,
you know some of these guys they're not getting, they're
not getting the ladder not getting a shot. No, I agree.
Guess what? Good football coaches can be jerks at times.
They may say things that you don't want to hear. That's
right. Those are trying to get you to be better at your job,
whatever your job in the organization. Maybe you got to
give these guys, just
a little bit of room. Not a lot of room. We'll talk later about
why you don't want to give me. A lot of room but you want to
give me a little room. You want to give a little room so they
can do their thing and turn your team around and horrible,
did it immediately? Yeah, I mean, you know, drastic turn
around.
So usually takes drastic measures to get that to turn
around that way, you know, and I think you said it right, you
go through the lures of time in the NFL at the head coaching
position and you take the great ones.
I mean, none of them are Boy Scouts or bandleaders. I mean,
that's just not what they are. They're not the reason they're
successful is. Yeah, they
Walk in the building every day and light a fire under
everybody's butt and they're all over the details and then
within that they're all over their coaches because they want
their coaches to be the details because that's how it funnels
down to the players to.
And yes, I mean,
you know, again, I how many coaches have I talked to
Through Time who, you know, you know, I mean, Belichick, I'll
gosh
working for him. Holy crap, but at the end of that, like, holy
crap, is it hard and all that? He looks up and man. It was
good. We won a lot of games. I mean, he and he taught me
a lot.
Same thing with like Bill Parcells and I'm around coaches
that are coach her him, man. He was a pain in the ass, man. He
called me a lot of four-letter, words, and all of that.
But, man, there's nothing like working for Bill Parcells and
what he could do and he could rally the troops and come
through a game plan, you know, so
yeah, it's not, it's not easy.
You know, it's not, I'm sure. Jim Harbaugh,
John Harbaugh, and Baltimore. I'm sure there's coaches there.
I'll cash. It is, Harbaugh walking in. Here we go.
Although that's part of it. Sean Payton. He's certainly, no
not going to be easy, though. Play either.
But that's what it takes to be a great head coach to your point.
But I do. I agree. Like,
I haven't heard anything substantial as far as
any team. That's
really, like, actually, considering Harbaugh at this
point, Maybe. I'm Wrong. Maybe. I don't know the route. You're
right. You're right. I ever write any of that.
It does seem like he's just looking for somebody to take
some interest in him. And it does seem like he wants back in
the NFL for sure. And I understand that he was
a quarterback in the NFL. I think that's really where his heart.
It is, you know, he got to an AFC Championship as
a quarterback. He's never got that. Super bowl ring as
a player or as a coach and I would Envision that was,
that's really his dream,
but I don't know if it's going to happen. I really don't. You
know, he has a he has a bad reputation. He's a different
guy.
He's weird. I don't know any other way to say it, let alone.
I don't like him. You know that, even if I don't like him,
he's still weird.
I mean, the guy is like this.
The first time I met him. I walked up and I said, hey,
coach Harbor. Great to meet you. How you doing? He went.
With a capital G. And I was like what I looked around and
I was like, I'm just Chris and I'm here to meet you. What do
you do? Ha ha ha,
you're not pumping.
He's weird. There's a reason like
everybody gets sick of them after two or three years.
I think it goes beyond a little bit of the what we're talking
about with great coaches can be tough on their guy. I mean
the to me, I think he's sometimes crosses. The line is a real
jerk
that way
and I know that because I've heard that from coaches who
have worked for him and people have been around him. So that's
where it's Different. And I have a hard time thinking
anybody in the NFL is going to go after him and this hiring
cycle
everything with Jim Harbaugh. Feels like a competition to
the point where and I picked up on this early in his time with
the 49ers when he's at a press conference.
It's like,
you know, every question and answer is is some sort of yeah,
I agree. It's uncomfortable
and he comes up with tentative answers and he projects them
onto an invisible teleprompter.
And reads them as he's saying them to make sure one last
time. These are the words. I want to say. I mean, it is
incredibly awkward
to see him in those settings. So
you're right, but but but
but he won't,
exactly. He can go to the ball. You know,
what, a, what a Super Bowl.
They all say. They wonder what a Super Bowl.
And I feel like this year, the teams are being so deliberate
and so expansive. And so methodical and comprehensive.
I feel like They are overlooking some pretty obvious options.
We still have yet to hear
of any of these eight teams.
Now. I know the Broncos wouldn't do it,
but the other seven nobody, I was talking to Josh McDaniels.
I'm shocked. I know I'm shocked. I don't, I don't
understand it either. You're right.
It's a different cycle. Here. It really is. I mean,
again, there's certainly some guys who have never got
an opportunity who I think are very deserving. But
yeah, I'm very surprised by that aspect. Certainly. I mean,
I think Josh McDaniels, one of the best coaches in football,
cert and And to your point I was there in Denver with them.
There was I know I can't even
tell you all the circumstances that were going on there behind
the scene. The biggest one. And I know I've told you this
before was the team was going broke at the time. So therefore
he wasn't the amount of money
able to be spent on free agents and players like that either.
So there was some issues there. So, you know, hey,
you can come here and be the head coach will give you, you
know, this much amount of money to rebuild the team and get it
where you want to, you get there and everything gets
an order and now they go well, you know know that money we told
you you could spend on pliers to go get
will let you do like 1/4 of that
because we got some cash issues here.
And okay. Whoa. Okay, that's a little different ballgame here.
Now. I was going to be able to spend this amount of money to
get players that change over the roster
and get guys that I need from the,
you know, that don't fit the Mike Shanahan era that fit my era
and that didn't happen. And I think that was one of the big
issues, you know, like I told you that year. I was on that
team. I
my signing bonus, the Broncos.
Me when I signed
the contract, they had to wait until cash came in from
the tickets during the season to pay me. So those are things
sometimes that go on behind the scenes with some of these
coaches
that really, that really handicapped them. That way, it
kind of happened to Bella check in Cleveland. The first time
around, they were going broke too. He couldn't spend any
pliers at all. That's why they moved to Baltimore
and that kind of hurt his whole issue there as well. So,
you know, those are the things sometimes to your point where
it doesn't help out these guys and you can't just go
Oh, oh wait, it didn't work for him.
Screw them. Don't ever give them a chance. Again.
He got to the context matters and this kind of thing
and as to Belichick, he's surprised. I believe
the Patriots are surprised. I know and they're pleasantly
surprised. They don't have to worry about Josh, McDaniels
leaving the
one of the best offensive coordinators in football. Who
did incredible work with Matt Jones? This year, right?
Staying put by all appearances, right? Is his name is yet to
come up. That's subject to change at any time.