regarding the emotions that he was feeling two days. After
this was Locker clean out day when you get one last
opportunity to talk to these guys. Here's a little AJ Brown.
I don't know,
it's kind of
tough will put it out.
Oh no,
I really don't really
know what to say. It's cause I was kind of dreading this
interview.
I just tuck tough right now.
What was the toughest part about the game Sunday night?
We went up 2721.
I knew
deep down
that it was probably
a chance we were going to lose.
Yes. Absolutely right. We talked about this yesterday if
not the day before Abraham do the video unit Trot it out.
Yeah.
When the field goal unit trotted out
and and this is this is where
a Nick suriani doesn't quite have.
A Pete Carroll post Super Bowl 49 issue but I hear you.
There's some just have an issue. I hear you. I hear you
does have an issue. You can't be aggressive. Aggressive.
Aggressive aggressive aggressive going to go for it
on fourth down, going
to go for it on fourth down, going to go for it on fourth down,
and then you're up, three points in the Super Bowl after
the team
that you were leading by 10 at. Intermission scores,
a touchdown on a 10-play. 75-yard drive to re-establish
themselves.
You don't send out the field goal unit and go up six and
allow them to have the flip side. Side of the pit of
the Epiphany that AJ Brown had because as AJ Brown is taken,
oh,
we may have a problem,
the Chiefs, as we've said Chris or thinking,
oh, we have a hell of an opportunity. You mean to tell
me, all we gotta do is score a touchdown and convert the extra
point and we're going to be leading the Super Bowl
that we should have been losing by 20 or more points
will sign up for that any day of the year. Yeah so
I appreciate the Candor. Yeah me too Dixie Rihanna
beyond the fact that he's lost both of his coordination.
There's Nick suriani
better. Make sure everyone in the locker room is okay
with the fact that twice
in the second half, he went against that aggressive
aggressive aggressive went for the field goal, instead of
the touchdown from 4th and 6 at the 15-yard line of the Chiefs
and that three and out. It was fourth and three
and punted.
And, you know, give him one of the risks of punting is you're
gonna have a long return, which is what happened in hindsight
they
Surely would have gone for it in for site. That's the kind of
move that Nick's arianny in the past would have gone for it.
I'd love to know why he got tight in the second half of
the Super Bowl. Well, those are tough decisions. I don't
think they read it. 4th and 6 is
it's a lot of yards,
you know? And again you know I think people would have been
mad at all if he went for it on Fourth and six everybody,
a minute ago,
that was too far. What you're going to give them a homes? The
ball. Now they're going to go up. I mean, it just, you know,
that that was a hard one and his team other than that dry
before. For had controlled the football game. So I
think he was thinking ahead, we're just going to keep
leaning on them. We're gonna wear him out, you know,
the fourth and three. Yeah, that was, it's a tough one to. But
damn, they were way back in their own territory. You don't
make that, man, you're going to hear it too. Like what you gave
my home's, the ball, and the 30-yard line,
right? So they were tough ones. I hear you their MO their team.
I will agree with you. Mike though, it'll is, there is
a little Seattle
ich - and here's the biggest reason.
The Eagles are there devastated? You can see there.
It's more devastating to win the Super Bowl to when you know
you were the better team. They know they were the better team.
I mean there's a reason Fox pregame
all the experts pick the Eagles to win by 7 and 10 points
there's a reason Greg Olsen start of the thing. When gun,
this is the roster of rosters. You talk to people in
the league. This is the roster. This All-Star team.
They lost the Super Bowl
as the best offensive line we've seen in 10 years.
Ears. It's supposed to be one of the better D lines. We've
seen in 10 years.
There's secondary was awesome.
It's maybe the best duo of receivers and football
other than Tyreke and W. Oh, it's right in that
conversation. It's an awesome tight end, right?
You were up by 10 in the in the second half
and you blew it. They're going to be devastated. This is
the kind of one that can like filter into next year. You
know, they're there. It's going to hurt for a while.
And I think this is,
you know, as we get accustomed to an NFL in which coaches
are going for fourth down like never before because it wasn't
that long ago where
if you do the unconventional thing and it fails you get
killed. If you do the conventional thing and it
fails, nobody ever says, boo about it. The unconventional
has become conventional.
Most of the time
for Nick suriani, the unconventional has become
conventional except when you get into
These critical moments with a championship on the line that's
where, and I think that's what's fascinating about it.
That's where he backed off from the ledge. He's always dancing
out there on the line willing to take those chances.
He backed away because he knew the broader circumstance,
we got Super Bowl rings riding on this.
Maybe I won't be aggressive, maybe I won't go for it. Maybe
I won't take that chance. That I ordinarily. Wouldn't even
blink
at taking in the first quarter. I'll do it in the second
quarter. I'll do it. But hey,
second half of the Super Bowl when I was up 10 and now I'm up
three. I'll just take the three and go up six, that won't come
back to bite me. Well, at me while you got guys on your
team, who feel that pit in their stomach.
Oh, we're only up six. Now we got a problem, we got a real
problem and it and it buried itself out. So two guys, you
don't have to worry about that Chris or Shane. Steichen and
Jonathan Cannon, they're leaving. They're gone. They're
head coaches, and
that's part of the issue. Now,
the Knicks are only has to deal with on top of everything else.
Yeah, they got a lot about the free agents earlier. We showed
you the graphic that was just some of them. Got to hire two
new coordinators. Now, where do you go in? Which one, let's
start here. Which one do you think he's going
to miss more? Oh
gosh,
hmm. Well, I'm going to say he's going to, you know, help
Miss Gana, you know, because he's an offensive coach
syriana. He's a guy like, like Shane steichen. I was the same
way. I kind of had my eye on Syria knee as he was and very
raising up the ranks going, man. I kind of like what this
guy does, you know, on the offensive side of the ball
and her love that.
So he I have faith in him to be able to kind of
Continue their offensive dominance defense. Someone is
the one where? Yeah, I don't know if there's somebody
on the staff already
or does he have another vision for what he sees on
the defensive side of the ball? So I find that one probably to be
the little harder spot. Mike let alone. Not only repair that
but like you're talking to repair the team, the Mojo, the
belief get everybody going that way. Its,
that's, it's a crushing one.
I mean, like you said on Monday, right? It's only
the second time, a 10 point. Halftime lead has been
squandered in the history of the Super Bowl and
you were the better team
and one of the better teams we've seen really in recent history
and you lost that is like, you always talk about those are
the ones that hurt the most.
Brian Johnson, the quarterbacks coach in Philadelphia is
the favorite to be the new ioc. He actually played for jail and
hurts father in high school. That's one of the three black
quarterback coaches in the NFL and this is one of the problems
when
it comes to under-representation of black
head coaches because the pipeline on the offensive side
of the ball, doesn't include as many minority candidates who
develop and grow and become, although it didn't help. Eric
be enemy will see if it helps
Brian Johnson, working with Jalen hurd's directly if he
gets that job.
Pensively,
there's a little bit, a little bit.
And I don't think we've seen the announcement yet. That Vic
fangio has landed in Miami. There's a little bit because
fangio showed up to consult for the final two weeks.
There's a little bit of a Vibe out there that maybe the Eagles
are trying to give hot sure, little bit little bit. Who
wouldn't want that fangio. That's right. Little bit.
So he hasn't signed a paper in Miami. There's a spot.
I don't I don't, I don't know, I don't know if he's signed
anything. All I know is this
I started to fish around a little bit. Yesterday about
maybe fangio in Philly, and everybody was very quiet about
that. Yeah.
The Tweet, the announcement, whatever, maybe. Yes, on
the paper, maybe hasn't I don't know, all I know is I got my
eye
on Philly to see whether or not fangio ends up sticking around
as the defensive coordinator. Well, we're watching you.
That's right. All right, all right, I like that. I mean,
I mean yeah. I
I would understand that here real quick before we go to break.
Well, I was going to bring it up. I
don't like the teams can hire a coach consultant, you know,
two weeks before the Super Bowl.
Again, I'm not mad at the Eagles. Hey, the rules of even
let you do it, you do it. But if I'm the NFL
that doesn't seem right to me, it doesn't, you know, the teams
are set your coaching staffs are set, right? I mean,
we're going to,
you know, pillage, a guy that was in the division and do,
I don't know. It just doesn't seem right within
the competitive nature of the game. I'm not again, if the rules
were that way and I was a head coach, I do.
Do it too. I'm just saying I don't know if it necessarily
seems right to me.
I want to take it a step farther. There are plenty of
Consulting Arrangements. We never find out about, Yeah, by
Executives and different people who have their hands in
different pots and they get paid by different people. And
there's no transparency about the people in the
media who are Consulting and getting paid and have these
biases baked into what they're doing. It happens
but the fact that we found out about it was this a precursor?
Are we being
basically told in advance there's reason to keep an eye
on Philly, if Gannon his out how did we find out about it?
Why did we find out about it? All I'm doing is saying, I'm
paying very close attention to the announcement from Miami
that we
all have been told over and over again, is coming and
the possibility that that announcement will be coming
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