coincidentally, Tom Brady, he's going to come back this year or
next year, but sooner than later, he will be coaching
again. One of the Practical realities
is you've got to go where the openings are. And even though
there are 67 or 80 year, it's got a line up. Just right to
get a feel good about the money. Obviously, we got to
feel good about the power that you have or don't have
the opportunity. Can you put together a team that will win
a Super Bowl? Bowl
coaches who have won a Superbowl.
Are very aware of the fact that no one has won a Super Bowl
with two different teams. No one
Bill, Parcells close em, close, right? But no one is pulled it
off.
No one's pulled it off.
Sean Payton. I think would like to pull it off as would
any coach? That's won a Super Bowl with one team. If you ever
leaves he'd like to be that one to do it.
so,
there are some openings this year, currently three Panthers,
Colts Broncos. He's not going to the Panthers. I'd be
surprised if he goes to the Colts.
Although, it would seem like a place where, maybe he could
make something happen, if Jim irsay would let him do his
thing.
He'd have to find a good quarterback Broncos. We kind of
talked about it yesterday. II don't know, Chargers isn't
going to open up now that they've made the playoffs. That
was the spot where we all thought he would land.
And, you know, Chris the Cowboys is the one
that is just kind of hanging out there. I think, if they go
one and done again, this year, after all the expectations,
they build up through a great season, I think Mike McCarthy
could be
in trouble. If Jerry Jones is willing to buy out his
contract, that's one of the things Jones doesn't like to do
is, I don't like, it doesn't like to buy out. Doesn't like
to pay guys to not work, but if he's willing to buy out Mike
McCarthy and pay Sean, Payton,
hey, I mentioned Playmakers earlier. Let me mention it
again. There's a whole chapter in there about this Dynamic of
Coaches and trading for coaches and
Sean Payton, four years ago was a day away from becoming,
not officially the coach of the Cowboys. But today away from of
the process activating itself that would have resulted in
Sean Payton becoming coach of the Cowboys, so to me of any of
the jobs out there,
With
teams that he hasn't coached before the Cowboys, is the one
that I would be keeping an eye on. And it depends upon what
they do in that first round of the playoffs.
Yeah, I hear that. I mean it seems to be the most sensible,
you know, connection with Sean Payton. It's been a rumor for
a long time. So I understand that Mike McCarthy has done a good
job. I'm,
I guess I feel like
the year they're having men. I mean
I'd have a hard time thinking that Jerry would fire Mike.
Aarthi even if it was one and done
but but I don't know again, he's getting there to an age
where maybe he's impatient and he wants better results right
now to kind of what you're saying.
The Sean Payton rumor with the Saints to me that it is
shocking like you said in the t's going to the break it's
shocking that rumor.
I have a hard time kind of getting behind it trying to
build to that I was trying to I started building that point.
You just ripped the sheet right off of it, I wanted to exhaust
all no no Saints options before we got to you know Mike Mike
I wasn't sure because I was sitting here like looking
things up and I wrote something on my notepad and I was like
wait did he actually say the Saints thing yet or not? And
I kind of took it that you had. So that's on my that's
on me. My dad there. Mike, I'm sorry. So do I had, do you want
to lay it out there? Full transparency here.
This is, this is this is all happening in real time as we
have this conversation. But let me just say this about
the Cowboys me. Yeah, pivoted the Saints are, that's what
the parties was about. Yeah. There's a, there's a sense in
League circles that he's going back to the Saints, okay?
If the Cowboys go one and done. And if at the end of the day,
there's a post mortem, like the one there was last year, after
they lost the 49ers where it's all about, how they coached,
and practiced and prepared for
that outside. The box deck, runs the quarterback draw.
And the whole thing is premised on having enough time to spike
the ball and they forgot to allow for the reality that
the Umpire has to somehow like run to transport through
multiple bodies.
To get in position
that they, you know, it was just a failure of coaching,
a failure of practice men, we asked CD lamb about it. The
super, how much you guys practice is not very much or
did you have an official out there? That's what it was.
Yeah. Did you have an official out there? Who was,
who was, you know,
playing that same role to fully simulate what you're trying to
do? And when you talk about, those kind of details,
some coaches are obsessed with those details. Like Sean,
Payton,
and some coaches aren't that could be the thing. Chris right
here, you would get Jerry Jones. I think to seriously
consider
if we lose this again
because of some coaching Nuance
that Mike McCarthy doesn't appreciate, doesn't understand,
doesn't execute. And I know Sean Payton would that could be
the Tipping Point for Jerry Jones. Yeah. Well, and of
course, it's also been a part of Mike McCarthy history
a little bit those answering or us questioning some
game management issues or the way the team's coach tour,
you know, like last year.
They held on every play in the Thanksgiving Day game. They
were mad at so many penalties called. You were go watch
the game and I go, no, there should have been 20 more penalties
called they held on every play,
right? Those are those are coaching failures. And I think
that's where, you know, I don't disagree with your statement,
there.
It was a blunder like that again. Then that I would go,
oh, he might be in trouble tomorrow if they lost the game.
And it was met, bad clock management, or whatever,
situational management at the end of the game.
Yeah, I Here you there.
And of course Sean Payton makes a lot of sense because there's
a lot of pieces in place data and Dallas right there to win
right now and go.
The Saints thing is shocking to me, you know, from from a
lot of different angles
because it's just to me the Saints. Are
there a team? That's, it's going downhill.
And I don't think it's going to turn around here anytime soon.
This is going to be a tough fix. They are on the cusp of
major
major. Major rebuild their team has gotten old, we're seeing
that
they don't have a quarterback,
they have huge salary. Cap issues like huge
to where they're going to have to let go. A lot of guys in
the team next year. They're not going to make it under the cap,
from everything I know and researched about it. So
that's where I just would be shocked. That Sean Payton goes
back to the New Orleans Saints. I feel like he's going to want
to pick a team. That's a little more like Miami. That's why he
wanted to go there last year,
so I Freddy wanted to go there, they went and went oh my gosh
this looks like it's an All-Star team about to you know
be accumulated here.
So that's where I envisioned is something where he's got
a little more you know, wiggle room to play with money and
players and all that Mike.
Three important points. Number one, when you said the Saints
are going downhill, it reminded me of that classic interview
between Larry King and Jerry Seinfeld where Larry King
doesn't realize, Seinfeld wasn't cancelled. And King says
don't all shows. Go downhill and
Seinfeld said some people do two
diagrams that was good. Second Point,
second point. The Saints are in
this salary cap supposed Purgatory. Every freaking year
every year. It's the same thing. Yeah. And every year
Mick. E Loomis does something. I don't know what the hell he
does, but he does something to fix it and push it all to next
year. And meanwhile, the cap keeps going up every year. So
you have that wiggle room. You push
dollars into a future year
and you make it work. Third, and this is the most important
point in. This is why, because I hear stuff all the time that
I don't mention that, I don't write that, it doesn't just,
it's okay, fine, people are
talking about it, but that shouldn't be the bar.
Yes, because general managers and coaches and other people
connected to the owners who ever are.
About, it doesn't make it worthy enough itself of mentioning,
I think
the reality is this of all the jobs that could be available to
Sean, Payton, this year, there is no where he can go
and partner up
like, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman,
Tom, Brady, and Sean Payton. I think that's the motivating
factor. I think these guys are determined
at some point before their football Epitaph is written.
To work together
and the only place they can work. Together
20:23 is New Orleans. That's why I believe that there is
reason to pay attention to this.
And you know what Tom
Tom Brady on what's
now he may have to rebuild his portfolio after the whole you
know FTX collapse. I don't know how over-leveraged he was or
wasn't in that business. It's gone belly-up and nobody's even
asked him about his Equity standing in one of the biggest
frauds of all time,
but I digress again,
he can take whatever.
However he takes to play for if he really wants a play for
Peyton and Peyton really wants to play with him and they see
value in being together
and they can try to make chicken salad out. Whatever
limitations is the Saints roster may have. That's why
I think there's something to it because it allows them to do
what they weren't able to do
earlier this year. And I think there's a certain amount of
middle finger flashing that would go on by Peyton, and
Brady
toward
whatever it was. They got in their way and the league for
slapping down the Dolphins for And to do it. We're still going
to where you can't stop us from doing this. You think you can
stop us but you can't we're going to go to New Orleans and
we're going to work together
and it may be a short-term
stent for Peyton and Brady in New Orleans but that may be
the only place where they can do it. That's why I feel like
there may be something
to this.
It's interesting. I mean you know it's certainly worth
thinking about I don't I guess I've kind of feel like I got to
see it to believe it type of thing. There
are no one is just
for the reasons. I mentioned. I just have a hard time thinking,
Sean Payton's going to go back there. I do.
And I understand they keep
we're getting to the point and I was told by people who were
very much in the know last year that this is one of the reasons
he got out of New Orleans is that the you know
the the chickens were coming home to roost on the salary cap
issues, they weren't going to be able to wiggle around this
anymore. Alvin kamara's heard a lot. It's coming to the end.
Cameron Jordan is coming to the end
offensive lineman. That were good are getting older. It's to got
They're coming doing the end there,
you know, Marshawn Lattimore
is out of his Prime
and then and you know, he's still real good but he's not
a top three or four or five corner and football anymore.
That's where I have a hard time thinking that and then Brady
I don't think that's the type of Team he wants to go. I mean
Brady
again he wants to go to the next All-Star team that can
just you know make him look good
I don't think so
I don't think so. You think he's not gonna lie I doubt it.
I got it. I mean he's playing like crap Chris. Let's support
them in that good and he's not going to go. Anywhere. That's
not good to along with it.
I believe
that
this obsession
with getting the next ring, getting the next ring, getting
the next ring. I think now that he has
he has entered for 40 days, the abyss of being retired and come
out on the other end and gotten back into football. I think and
this comes from his weekly. Let's go podcast. I either
listen to it
or I look at the clips that are sent out the partial transcript
by SiriusXM,
I've come to the conclusion and for me the
Trigger was after they lost to the Browns and he said I'd
rather play and lose then not play at all. He said, other
things since then, that make me think
he just is happy to still
be playing and he's happy to be competing.
And even if he's losing,
he's learning something about himself through that process of
dealing with that adversity. I think he loves the sport so
much
that he would play it
even if If
he's not in a situation where he feels like he's rigged it so
that he's got that
deck that stacked in his favor.
I've come to that conclusion,
which would which it said you know I want to I want to work
with Sean Payton. I want to see what it's like
a quarterback and Sean Payton's offense for a year. I could
I could see that overcoming
I have to get another ring
or I'm not gonna play no as it goes against everything you've
ever said about, Tom Brady. Now you're saying he just cool with
playing right. He looks change herbals and share changing.
He's telling people how horrible the year is.
I mean, come on Mikey, he's not enjoying himself he could
make everything. Once I think it's been horrible for other
reasons, well, I think it's been horrible for other reasons
and I think I think that he probably doesn't want this to
end up being his final year in football given
everything he's gone through. Personally
this year I'm just telling you Chris. And again he may be
completely and totally full of s*** when he says it. Well,
he's not only one of the five.
Yeah, that he Just wants to play.
And if n he's not obsessed with getting
another championship, he doesn't feel compelled to find
a spot where he thinks it's all pointing in his favor front of
the chair. That's just a sense I've gotten
in listening to what he says. And again, he said himself, 90%
of the stuff he says, publicly is. Yeah, that's how you take
it. He doesn't eat Wonder, it's crap, Mike. Come on. He doesn't
want to make it about him.
He's trying, he's telling people,
you know, he's he doesn't want to make it like this is his last
Hurrah. So you guys don't want to make it about him, which
I respect. I think he's and he loves playing. I don't doubt
what you're saying.
And I think he is The Ultimate Fighter where he'd rather play
than, you know, and lose and not play it all that way. But
I don't think that means just go to a team and
take a beating and just, you know, try something out to
continue to play. I don't know II. Guess I do not feel
the same way, you do about that situation. I feel like it's
it's all coming to an end and I
I would be shocked at Brady's back next year. I really would
I'm still not ready to say he won't be
and and he said this week that he doesn't think about
retirement. The next time he does it'll be for good. He's
not going to do this short-term retirement. He didn't retire
last year. Mike, that's where we can put water in.
It wasn't a retirement. He already put away. The wanted to
go to Miami, right? You already got my hands and motions. It
was all Bs and just cover. It wasn't, it was nothing. It was
not a retirement.
Rodney Harrison's, comment from Sunday night also, carried
weight with me. Because Rodney knows, the guy Rodney
interviewed the guy, and I don't know if Tom Brady said
something to Rodney Rodney is just sharing his own opinion
without any specific breadcrumb Trail
back to Brady, other than the fact that he's known him for
years. And I would I would I would listen to Rodney more
than I'd listen to most other people. If Rodney has this
belief that he's going to play next year but not for
the Buccaneers,
Rodney believes that and I know that he
It all along is going to play until he's 45 and he means it
and he's not going to play again and, you know, walk away
before it all falls apart. But
Steve Young said a few weeks ago when they played the Saints
on Monday Night Football guys, retired, because they can't do
it anymore. They don't retire because they can do it and they
just choose not to
they retire because they can't do it.
And Brady can still do it. I'm out here watching and make
these throws. He can still do it.
Ronnie said something about that. Similarly, other night,
I'm out here. Watching him. He can still do it arms. Good.
Would you stop if you can still do it? Because look at
the horrible place he made the other night. I mean he played
like crap for three and a half quarters. That's why
it was horrible. I mean, that's why
they've planned a horrible team would Trace McSorley.
Yeah, his arm still good,
he can't move. He doesn't want to take a hit,
he rushes decisions.
It's just the fact of the nature and
hit you think Tom Brady's, not smart enough to know that if he
throws something out to the Rodney that Rod, he's not going
to go into the mic and say it five minutes later.
Mean, come on. So that's where I don't. I think he knows
I think he's
he's trying to span the Flames of not making it all about him
at the end here that would be my two cents on it. But yeah
again I I know we can
that's where again Mike. I mean,
you know, I know we could still throw it so he's got to go to
an All-Star team though because he can't do anything else.
That's why he left Tampa.
He, I mean why he left New England,
it wasn't good enough. He knew
he couldn't carry them. He needed somebody to help
carry him. Him and then he could put the finishing touches
on it.
And he went to a place that had awesome receivers and they got
Gronk and they had the best all line and football in the best D
line of football. And then
we all go. Look, Brady still great. And that's to me if he's
going to play, he's gonna go to that. I would just be shocked
if he just goes to play to play too, because I'm Tom. Brady,
and I like playing the game that goes against everything,
we've known about the guy.
The drive for the Rings
to me is not going to leave, Tom Brady. If he's going to
play football,
Well, it gives us something fascinating to keep an eye on
in the coming weeks and if Sean Payton would go back to
the Saints.
Maybe crazy. I'd be shocked have to happen. Is that
the fire, Dennis Sally? Yeah, it have to have the Rooney Rule
compliant interviews and have to, it would just be a lot of
stuff that happens and then Here Comes Sean. Payton riding
back into New Orleans, amazing, White Horse
to save the day
and then Tom, Brady signs in March, I just know, given what
I know and we were ahead of the curve,
we were ahead of the curve before. There was even a curve
on. Tom, Brady and Sean Payton going to Miami. I'm just
telling you the talks out there about Peyton, going back to
the same.
Saints and, and I don't think he's going back to the Saints,
to, to coach Andy Dalton
or or to finally activate taysom Hill fully and
completely as a quarterback. I think he'd be going back there
because that's where Tom Brady would go and they have that
understanding.
And they already have the agreement in place
unofficially before
the process starts to play.
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