one of four teams still looking for a head coach quickly, put
in the request for an Oromo. And for Brian Callaghan,
the offensive coordinator of the Bengals. After the Bengals,
lost the game now that
it's over, obviously, both are free and clear to be
interviewed and or hired by any of these teams looking for
coaches
and and we praise Luann room. Oh
well, okay fine, let's see if one of these teams is going to
bring him in at reminds me of Mike Zimmer finally getting
a job in Minnesota when he was the Bengals defensive.
Her under Marvin Lewis,
there's been talk because he's using it to get a chance. Is he
going to get a chance? And he finally did Helena room. O
hadn't gotten an interview.
Yeah.
Now, well, I mean that happens. I don't know.
Look, I understand the, the stumping for an aroma that we
have. But, you know, I,
I also understand if you are an owner, if you're a David
Tepper, type and you clearly want somebody who is
offensive-minded, even though that their defensive Minded
guys out there who do a really good job and ostensibly you
should be looking for the best leader of men on your
football team. Sometimes, that's not really what you
want. And, you know, if Eric be enemy
can't really get an interview except with the Colts. Like,
you know, what are we doing with lure in a room? I don't
know. I mean, it doesn't seem like, he's a bad coach. I don't
know what his plan would be for offense. I mean, what is his
plan
for getting Kyler Murray to be the best that he can be? Even
though he's going to be coming off this ACL, right? I mean,
this is,
it's just one of those things where owners Ears are going to
do what they want to do. They're going to hire
the coaches that they want and so if they don't want to hire lure
in a room, oh I don't know. I don't know what to expect. How
to explain that.
And I'm not saying he should be hired. I just think that there
are people out there that deserve to be considered me
wise, be enemy only being considered by one team this
year, and I know that there's only so much that can be done.
The human
capacity is limited to a certain number of people, you
can talk to, but it really is weird how these lists get put
together. And there's this, in fact,
shoot a video. From the ladder into his plane with the engine
running
talking about how after
after interviewing all of these candidates, it has only made me
more convinced. That Jeff Saturday is the right man for
the job. I firmly believe that's why they're interviewing
all these candidates and I think that unless someone
can take the keys away from
from dad who, you know, maybe shouldn't be making these
decisions.
Hey,
that's the decision that's going to be made. He wants to
To show that he was right all along about Saturday and all
that Saturday needs is on the job experience and he'll get
better and he will eventually become a great coach. So
it's just the whole process fascinates me
and we all have time to delve into it today, but
you've got people who own these teams, who don't know what
they're doing. And that's what I love about this business. The
oligarchs, who amassed the money, or inherit the money, or
marry the money to own and operate. These teams
are in a position.
To make these big decisions
and they don't know what they're doing
and the hubris that goes along with having that much money and
power prevents them from admitting to anyone including
themselves that they don't know what they're doing.
So it creates a recipe for all sorts of crazy s***.
And that's why I love this game because you've got these
multibillion-dollar operations
that have analytics and all this high-level analysis and
all of these different Current things that are done and then
you've basically got a bunch of monarchies that own the teams
and their bumbling around not knowing what they're doing or
who to hire or what to do or who to listen to and you're
afraid to even ask someone for advice because you don't want
to expose to anyone that you need advice because God forbid
anyone would
think I don't know what I'm doing.
Even though I don't know what I'm doing.
It's I do. I love that part of it. And I hate that part of it
because it creates these situations where we're asking
ourselves. How are these people getting interviewed? How are
People not getting interviewed. Why are we obsessed with
coordinators? Who have never done it before. We've got
plenty of former head coaches out there who have done it at
a high level Bill O'Brien. Jason Garrett, Mike Zimmer Marvin
Lewis,
Jim Caldwell
guys who have proven they can be leaders of men, not X's and
O's, guys, you need leaders of men, you hire X's and O's guys
to work for the leaders of men. It's just the whole thing,
the whole thing
and it's we could spend two hours on it, that's how
fascinating it is.
Well, what that? But that's what I mean, when I say, Owners
are going to do what they want. Right there. They're going to
bring in whoever they have to bring in. They're going to
interview people that they want to interview and they're going
to satisfy the
Rooney will because they have to. But at the end of the day,
they're going to end up hiring. Whoever the hell they want to
hire and that's their prerogative. So,
I do, that's why it's kind of like, when we start talking
about well, Luann room, oh, I, why isn't he getting
interviews? Like, I don't freakin know, man. Like
the owners don't want to do it. It's the same reason why
why doesn't Eric be enemy have a job?
He has helped Patrick Mahomes to the level that he has.
Right? Why is my calf could go?
And he's from the same kind of tree as Eric. Be enemy and
Patrick homes, Andy Reid, and all that. Then he goes to
the Giants and now he's being considered for head coaching
jobs. It's
like well now he called plays lalala. It's like okay, but he
was the quarterbacks coach last year. Now Zach Taylor goes from
being
the Rams quarterbacks coach where he wasn't called a damn
play so the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals and he's
great. But I mean great and that's I'm not trying to put
Zach Taylor down when I say that at all. I mean, it's just
owners, have whatever criteria that they
have to hire, whoever they want to hire and look at whoever
they want to look at. So I'm Bryan. Callahan is also getting
looks for his job. He ain't Callin plays either. And so,
I don't know.
It's just, it's it's very random.
I can't decipher it. I'm not an honor, I'm not a billionaire,
nobody gives a crap what I think. So they're gonna do what
they want. It's one of the the the conversation surrounding
blue in room. Oh, just confuses me for That reason it's like we
we already know that billionaires just going to
do whatever the hell they want. So why are we kind of
questioning low? Why don't they want to look at him? I don't
know.
Well, and, and look, I've said time. And again, in recent
years, especially if you have a franchise quarterback, you want
an offensive head coach? Because if your offense works
well, with that franchise quarterback, the offense of
coordinator ends up becoming a head coach somewhere else. Then
got to find a new coordinator and you setback, whatever,
progress, whatever trajectory your quarterback is on now, on
Friday,
Peter, King. And I to the Chagrin of some who wanted us
to be talking, only about the looming Conference Championship
Game. Spent roughly an hour unpacking, all the issues
related to the decision by David Tepper,
too high. Hi, Frank Reich, instead of Steve Wilkes and how
it becomes not just another issue. As it relates to
the NFL's ongoing race problem, which the league office has
acknowledged. But the owners I think their attitude is,
well, will let one of the other owners
be the one? We're, I'm still want to hire who I want.
I don't care. But now, the other issue is
whether or not Steve Wilkes and Brian Flores or the victims of
retaliation
by owners who resent the fact that they have dared to take on
big shield and if you don't think that's an issue, you A
damn thing about how the NFL Works, how dare you
stand up to us? How dare you call us out? How dare you
create problems for us.
How dare you say anything other than football is family?
So that is going to result in Wilkes
joining the Panthers, to the ongoing litigation for retaliation
for not hiring him in whole or in part because of his
protected activities against the Cardinals. And I'm watching
the Cardinals, very Flee to see if they hire Flores because
nobody else has interviewed Flores and all those other
teams
have vacancies may be in the same boat as the Panthers are
going to be in,
not giving Flores consideration
in whole or in part because he's a troublemaker.
He's given us a hard time.
He's daring to stand up to Big Shield. That's the other issue
that is layered over. This current search miles.
Well, the other thing is, why isn't Steve Wilkes received
an interview somewhere at least I we haven't, we heard it, you
know, especially now that we know At the against
having or going to hire him again,
he's a troublemaker. Don't you show us? I know. Don't you dare
stand up for yourself even if you're a hundred percent,
right? Don't you dare do it. Don't hold us accountable. We
are big Shield where the Great and Powerful Shield
being powerful Shield has spoken.
Yeah exactly. But I mean, I don't I meant
look Steve Steve Wilkes came into a situation
where he was the defensive pass game coordinator. I think for
the first year right there in Carolina
Ah okay. So he has to take over this team that was set up for
Matt Rule
and he goes six and six down the stretch and had them on
the brink of an NFC South title. And yeah, I'll be at, they were
over under 500 and whatnot. But he's dealing with Baker,
Mayfield
and Sam Donald as your quarterbacks to impeach
a walker.
And I'll changes the entire defense.
Basically says, I'm going to if I'm gonna go out I'm gonna do
it my way and again it's not a team set up for him not to
play.
He picked that he still
does in my view, an incredible job
and that was this bar that he had to clear in order to even
be considered for the job by David Tepper. That's like
yeah. Then the guy who got replaced by Jeff Saturday who
goes 1 and 7 as the biggest comeback in NFL history against
him. Also because of 33 points in the fourth quarter to
the Dallas Cowboys, he sits there
and he says said, well,
I didn't do this my way because, you know, I just got
here. These weren't my players, and this isn't the Way that
I would set up anything and out of that arises if Steve walks
wasn't dealing with the exact same thing. That bothers me,
Mike. I mean,
and it's again, owners get to do what they want and
I understand that and there's nothing I can do personally to
change that, but it's not going to not bother me when you look
at that situation and
you see this is ridiculous.
They get to do what they want with a caveat. The caveat is
their decisions must comply with the relevant laws of
the country in which they are doing whatever they want. And I see
these tweets all the time. Any time I talk about this issue,
it's America, its freedom people can hire whoever they
want.
No, they can't. There are requirements that there be fair
process. Is there are requirements that decisions be
free of discrimination and or
retaliation. And people need to understand this is separate
from
The racial discrimination issue that is embedded in the floor
as lawsuits of Troy. Vincent has legitimised with
the comments. He made after the lawsuit was filed a year ago
tomorrow, tomorrow's the anniversary and we're still
trying to figure out where the case is, even going to
be handled and process. That shows you how long it takes to
get to the bottom of these situations. This is now about
retaliating against those, who dare to stand up to us. And
look, we need to take a break and maybe it's smart that I do.
Every time I say something, like, Like that, that is
negative toward the league. The Shield, the people that run,
I have. This
this concern rattle around. Inside my brain,
who's going to call, how am I going to get in trouble? I'm
going to spend two hours, cleaning up this mess. The mere
fact that I go through that exercise of wondering what
I say,
what that's going to do on the back, and that just shows you.
They're going to be pissed off
when somebody Sue's them, if they get pissed off about
the stuff I say.
Here
in this setting that causes them. No Financial expense
whatsoever. They just don't like people saying those
things. You damn, right. They're not going to be
in a position to take kindly to those, who would dare
to sue them in court and expose and challenge years of
discriminatory practices.
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