Jonathan Gannon, the Eagles. Defensive coordinator
reportedly has been told. He's no longer in the running now
that's unconfirmed. And who knows by the time this airs on
Monday morning, what else will be out there? But as of right
now, 5:19 p.m. Eastern time to 19 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, as
we tape
this, it's reportedly down to Brian Flores
and Josh McCown.
There is no way in hell
that the Texans can hire
Josh McCown if they do. I mean
Hema for is literally but put should put that on his
lawsuit as well.
Right above the Bill Belichick thing and go
wait a guy who hasn't coached and any level of anything.
Maybe is kids, you know 7i school-wide
High School, right?
Whatever.
He's going to be a head coach before me the guy who led
the Dolphins to to winning seasons in a row for the first time in
20 years eight out of nine games to finish a season
that to me would just be the ultimate and the mic. I don't
know. Am I crazy again? Maybe I hang out. Do too much. And even
within this, I know Flores knows that caesarea there with
the Houston Texans. They
were all in New England together. But as like, it's
War, as I'm gonna, you know, conspiracy. Chris is going to
go, is he in the final two only? Because the NFL is saying
to make sure he's in the final two right now with this subject
or
man. Hey, Hey, listen, there may be some high-level backroom
negotiations going on. Along the lines of things. We've
heard in the past where the NFL You know, maybe Houston gets in
the Super Bowl rotation. Yeah, right, you know, maybe eight.
I mean who knows what the NFL will offer
to get the Texans to do this? But at the end of the day
count, McNair was going to do what he wants to do. Yeah, and
Jackie used to be has a hell of a, hold on McNair and and
look what we've talked, plenty about. Jackie's to be.
I have my opinions about him. I have a feeling Brian Flores
is not that kind of more inclined to agree with my
assessment of Jackie's to be and not fall for that crap.
Would have been in crap. I wouldn't react if it's routine,
right? You know, I think Flores is not going to is not going
to take that bait
and and and that may make Easter be more inclined to to
hire the guy that he wants to hire that that friend Josh
McCown. Absolutely. Nothing against Josh McCown. Not at
all, but it's so he kicks butt, but it's so weird,
isn't it? If you're Josh McCown, don't you have to say
is probably isn't a good idea for me to take this job.
I'm sure Willie isn't a good idea. But he's also gone. What
you're going to give me 6 million dollars a year to do it
and I did. Is a good idea. I mean
jobs and I'm not qualified to do. Somebody wrote for me to do
it. I convinced myself overnight that I'm qualified to
at least try to I can't hate him, you know,
you know, you know don't hate the player, hate the game,
right? Like we always talked about, it's not his fault and
I'm certainly again,
I'm rooting for him. But to your point Mike, I do want to
say that I'm with you. That's the other thing that made me
think this thing sounds fishy and where I've because
Easter be nicus Aereo
got, I don't know. Jackie. Sorry. I know Nick. Serio's
a real football guy. No, he's a little bit more soft spoken in
his ways. There is even a little bit of a religious
element down there with
the Houston Texans. And again
a lot of it. You're right. I'm not judging
but also Brian Flores. I know is a religious guy. I just
don't know if I see him as their kind of guy there. Brian.
Floors is mmm. He's
like every good coach is brutal. And that was one of
the complaints. We got in Miami. He was too tough on us a quiz
particularly all because he didn't kiss ass. Ass and say
yes to the owner and the GM all the time.
Like how prickly was he? Come on.
He was with a staff of people from New England who worked for
Bill Belichick. They knew what the Bryan Fuller was about. So
these are people that were anti Flores that are putting this
out there, right? Coats
away. Good. Coaches are Shanahan was prickly to when
things weren't going good. Belichick is Prickly to when
things don't go. Well, I mean good coaches are good ever
since John Harbaugh is empirically, come in. Yeah, and
you're trying to change call exactly. You're trying.
To improve the team, you're trying to hold people
accountable. You're trying to expect more right then what
already was there? Because that's why they're changing
coach exactly wasn't good enough, right? So you have
somebody who comes in and is demanding and his coaching
everyone. Exactly. And
people get threatened by it. No doubt like that. Never. And
I think that happened. He story. I think so, too. I'm with you
and that my point the button that up was that's why I don't
know if that works with the Texans. I don't know.
I just because Brian Flores
he's been there and done that. Now he'll love that nicus area
is running the front office because he's gonna Oh, well,
it's being run. The way I was taught the right way. The New
England way, he'll love that, you know, but the personalities
of something I
do question and if you made me bet,
I think I'd bet the Josh McCown is going to be the head coach
down in Houston. I thought Gannon would be the compromise
candidate. I really did and and here's the other reality
if they give Brian Flores a job. Yeah.
He has said, the lawsuits not going away, right?
So there will be, while he's coaching. We talk about
distraction coaches. Don't want distractions from the locker
room.
He's bringing the biggest distraction to, Texas. Going to have
with this lawsuit that he
uses to dismiss Michelle Watson having to talk about that too.
And with, and really you think about it. There will be
developments.
There will be testimony.
There will be allegations. Look at how strong the statements
were that were issued by the Giants last week by John Elway
last week and by Stephen Ross, and we're going to talk about
this in a minute, the allegation of a hundred
thousand dollars being offered her
loss to Flores in, 2019. I think that's where and we've
had. We've nailed this. That's where the relationship went.
South, you nailed it, Mike. Ross went into 2019. Yeah.
Wanted to full season tank, right? He wanted to be
the worst team in the league and get the first overall pick in
the draft. Sometimes, you got to take your lumps. Yep, and
Brian Flores decided at some point during that season. He's
not going along with it. Yeah, and he alleges as part of this
lawsuit that he was offered a hundred thousand dollars per
lost. Brought by Stephen Ross, and I think his resistance
is, what got Ross thinking,
this isn't going to work. No doubt this.
Not listen to me. I'm the boss. I'm the owner. It's my team,
and he's not doing what I want to do with my team. This guy's
got to go at some point. I think, you know, I know
I confirmed you. I don't think Brian floors have been mad.
I think he feels the same way. He shared those sentiments
with me personally,
that he felt like things went South after that. That it was
he.
If he had a little after he got fired. He looked back at
the situation a little bit. I think that was one of the first
things that jumped out to him about where it started. This is
wrong, sister, peel back the curtain right. Articulated this
thought. And he reached out to you and said, he's absolutely
right. Exactly. Right? Exactly. Right? So it's all laid out in
the lawsuit now
made out set it to public. That's what I mean. So, I'm not
really worried about Sharon it that way. But yes, I think
there was that, that stands there
and it goes into something that I know you. And I have talked
about a lot to wear. This is why these coaches don't want
a tank because here they are.
A lot of situations. They tank or do what the owner says.
But three years later, or two years later, that record gets
held against them back. When you get fired, you go will be,
you told me to lose. Well. You know, and then they end up
getting fired. It goes on the gravestone
and, and people don't understand the context of the situation.
And that's where it becomes really difficult for the head
coach. That's another reason why the circle back to
the Texans for one last minute. Have another reason why it
would be difficult for the Texans to hire Brown floor. As
there is an entire section of his complaint where
he talks about the treatment of David Kali by the Texans
that they brought him in to fail.
They brought him in to preside over a Lost season. And then
when the season was lost right then they said we have
philosophical differences and
We can't continue what philosophical difference is all
IDs, that right, called power or the teens in the morning to
good. And we're a little scared of where this is going. You
actually did better than we wanted you to. It's going to be
hard for the Texans
to look past that.
They it's not quite a direct shot at them. They're not sued
but it's a shot across the bow at them and they're going to
have to forget that if they want to harm and I just I don't
think at the end of the day, cow McNair
who won the 23andMe Lottery and inherited his team for daddy.
That's what it is. Sorry. It's truth.
Yeah, he's not going to do it.
I'll be stunned if he does it and he's only going to do it.
I think if he could some sort of promise from the NFL and we
start seeing
a la Las Vegas Houston. Miami La Las Vegas Houston, Miami
Super Bowl. Rotations going to take something like that. It
probably will take one for the team. It's shocking that we're
down to Flores versus this team. Like you said, because
this is a team in the
NFL who,
you know, again just accusations, but it's been
accused of, you know, not necessarily the right.
Mayors and things being said behind the scenes by
ex-players. DeAndre Hopkins. Dwane Brown, DeShaun Watson.
There's obviously something there that they don't like
the way things are handled even the
the comments that,
you know, were released, you know,
earlier this year from Cal McNair and the last offseason
at the golf outing or whatever. So it's not the greatest
history. So now we have here, a guy, the African American coach
who's standing up for all African American coaches,
and he's a finalist for the organization where
most American players don't even want to play there.
They don't even like the
Mojo down there and here we got that. I find that ironic Peter
King made a great point on Friday. When he said, hey, if
they would hire Brian Flores
all of a sudden, if they change their thought of that team,
you're right and and players
may want to go there. Right? Right, but but it's going to
take a lot. It's gonna take a lot of arm twisting for cow
McNair
to point him in that direction
and Jackie's to be who's got
some sort of bizarre, hold it appears
in In my opinion on cow McNair, where McNair does whatever
Easter be wants him to do. So, obviously,
it's you remember, it's like Jafar in the song. It's I mean,
he's as somebody's got to take that to staff and break it in,
half to break that spell. That needs to be as over McNair.
What is that? Jobar? And so, the mother said, Aladdin
Aladdin,
it's okay that he had that staff, right? It's like stick
it in his face. Keep him in line. Yeah, right. So, we're
not saying that Jackie's to be is Jafar. We're just making
the comparison between the hold that Easter be seems to have
over.
McNair and Jafar and the salt so I guess we are
sorry. Oh, well, let's take a break.
I think we've exhausted that top. I think so you can't. But
look in all seriousness. And I know it's Super Bowl week and
we spent a half hour talking about it. This is the biggest
news in the NFL. It's not going away. Yeah, the NFL has taken
body blow after another As It Gets
Ready for its signature event of the year. It's it's being
held to reckon for
the racial issue
the tanking problem. Yeah, and there's a clear incentive to
tank. They I've created a system that is set of eyes is
tanking
and now I don't even think we're going to talk about it
today, but the stuff that happened late last week with
the Washington football team and what we learned about
the investigation.
It's a bad time for the NFL when it's supposed to be a good
time for the trial, but
bright shiny object. Just look around. Look at your son. Get
that bright shiny objects. Forget about all this stuff.