terms of the the person. And
I think this guy was a great, great football player. And
I think he
he knows the game. Really, really? Well, I would assume
again, I'm not in their building, so I don't really
know. But I would assume that they're going to let
the coaches that have been there to coach,
you know. And the scheme isn't going to dramatically change on
offense defense or in the kicking game.
And we talked to this morning, they're going to be ready to go
because Jeff will have them ready to go. You know, he's
a football player at heart. As a football person at heart and
he knows what goes into winning and losing,
you know, he was a tough player, when he played
there a tough football team,
they're all about field position and trying to take
care of the football trying to create turnovers on defense.
So we're going to be we're going to be ready to go. I know
he'll have them ready to go and I don't expect that the scheme
will dramatically shift.
Josh, McDaniels coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
He won't be the coach on Monday
if he loses to Saturday
on Sunday.
Been trying that one out but it's true. I think
hey, this experiment in Las Vegas, hasn't been working with
a guy who was a coach at decade ago, goes back and becomes
a great offensive coordinator. This may be just another Norv
Turner Wade Phillips, great coordinator.
Great enough to keep getting opportunities. Be a head coach,
but not good enough to be a head coach. Now, Comes the even
more ridiculous experiment of plucking, a guy out of
the Wilderness who hasn't played in more than a decade, who
was a high school coach for three years and went 20 and 16
doesn't scream out Vincent Lombardi and you drop him in
after the owner bad-mouths all NFL coaches by saying they're
afraid of their own shadow and now they got to throw it all
together in
five days from the day that this all went down. It's
amazing to me six days. Technically they've got to do.
Do it all on the Fly and who's calling plays and how are we
going to get the players a comfortable to what's happened?
Frank Reich is gone and this guy they don't even know is in.
If it works,
I love chaos.
And if this Jeff Saturday thing works it unlocks a new universe
of potential coaches of teams you don't have to be on
a staff. You don't have to be a coach, just get some former
player to come in and be the coach of the team
and hey, if it works with Jeff Saturday can work with anyone.
Yeah, it's interesting. Mike and I'm with you, this is
a game that it's almost like watching a NASCAR race, right?
You waiting for the wreck? Like, I want to watch this game
just to see if there's a train wreck
during the game, just to see what's going to go wrong,
possibly for the Colts
in this game, you know, the Raiders are terrible on
defense.
They're given up 25.1 points per game, that's 28th in
the NFL, but they're playing the team that's last in the NFL in
scoring at fourteen point seven point. For game. So, yeah, I'm
with you if the Raiders go out there and give up their average
25 points and lose this game, I think Josh McDaniels could be
in trouble. Come Monday. This is a game that the Raiders
should win and they should win easily. It shouldn't be
a contest, they should get
up by 17 and guess what? They should hold. That lead.
Something they haven't been able to do this year and lost
three games when they've led by 17 or more points. But I think
in this game, Mike
You have to be able to hold that lead.
Raiders. Now, favored by four and a half, it was 6.
So there are some folks out there who believe in Jeff
Saturday and Company sammelan, who's getting his third, start
with this third different offensive coordinator Parks,
Frazier,
30 years old, who three years ago was the assistant to
the head coach. And his Simms said was basically getting his dry
cleaning in his coffee is now calling the plays for
the Indianapolis Colts in part because
Scott Milankovitch decided to pass on the opportunity to do.
So he's the quarterbacks coach and You know, one more point
before we move on to the next game, this idea of, Matt, Ryan
playing again, when
Frank Reich, made the announcement two-plus weeks
ago, he said Sam ehlinger is a starter for the rest of
the season, and it was obvious that this was a business decision,
because
if Matt Ryan, can't pass a physical by the middle of
March. He's got 17 million. More fully guaranteed on top of
the 12 million or so, he's got fully guaranteed for next year.
Now, you got our say, pushing back
that was never the case
and whoever gives the best chance to win and
It'll be something.
If Matt Ryan plays again. After the last coach of the team
said, Sam ehlinger is the starter for the rest of
the year. But with the Colts right now, given what Jim irsay is
doing
all bets are off
and it's entertaining.
We get to see three of the final eight games Standalone,
to on Monday night, one on Sunday night in
in Dallas or Arlington against your Cowboys and that ain't
getting Flex because it's the Cowboys.
Yeah no we're going to see the Colts and we're going to get to
see this train wreck and and see what happens with Jeff
Saturday. Maybe it's not a train wreck, like you said,
maybe if it works out, this is a
whole new thing that teams go to and Jeff Saturday. Gets that
job after a Rooney Rule search that we know, won't really be
a Rooney Rule search if they finish out well, but,
you know, you look at the Raiders had a similar situation
last year with Rich facade. Gia came in and this is about
the point when they turned it around.
And ended up making the postseason. Your look at them.
Maybe they should a cap rich basashi and maybe they would
have been in better shape right now than then, where they are.
Because I at to me this is the most disappointing team in
the NFL. I thought they were going to win that Division. I thought
they were going to be better than
Kansas City. They're not
and they're not the worst team that Division. I still think
it's the Broncos but they have the worst record in that
Division and they don't look like a real NFL team. They just
don't look very good and you can't blame that all on
injuries might
you can't say well we haven't had Darren waller for most of
the year. And now now he and Hunter Renfro and I are
big deal, go out and win games. Anyway, you have enough Talent
there to do that
prediction. Jeff Saturday will be the coach of the Colts in
2023 and I hope that all other candidates who are approach to
interview, say no, thank you
because I can already feel
the Jim irsay wants
Saturday to be the coach
Beyond this year, Broncos coming out of there, by at
three and five taken, on the Titans five and three trying to
get their their balance. After losing a game, they could have
and should have won in Kansas City, Ryan Tannehill, fully
participated in practice on Thursday.
He's expected to be back, but this is
still about that Broncos
offense. How much better do we really expect it to be after
the by? And
and you know, does Russell Wilson, get any motivation out
of this wristband talk, which is kind of made him, thanks to
Pete, Carroll. And the way he framed it, as made Wilson, look
a little stubborn and petulant
refusing to wear a wristband
in a way that may have helped.
Streamline the offense in Seattle and could streamline it
in Denver as well,
but here's the funny thing. He wore the wristband in the Last
game for the Broncos Mike and they did. Well, he passed for
252 yards and a touchdown. So maybe he needs to wear that
thing
all the time because
he's played well, apparently, when he
warned that thing but yeah, he wouldn't wear it in Seattle and
and now it's at me being made a big deal of it. So what are you
going to do when he goes out there and Sunday, you're a look
to see if he has a wristband on, he's worn it in a handful
of games
and probably should wear it more and there's nothing bad
about wearing it and I don't know if he thinks Maybe There
is
the fact that he doesn't wear it all the time proves that
there is some push and pull, there's some tension, he
doesn't want to do it. There's this outdated mindset, that it
makes you look stupid. If you don't if you have it on
Donovan, McNabb
with Washington,
with Mike and Kyle, Shanahan
didn't want to wear it, that was a story for a while.
Hey, Tom, Brady has one and has had one forever and Sims
explained. This yesterday,
very simple reason for it
when Have these Long play calls.
If the coach simply has to say 27, instead of saying the whole
play, you get things moving faster and what's been
the problem with the Broncos this year. They don't move things
fast enough. So once the
Daniel Hackett pick supply, all he's got to say, is 27
and Russell finds number 27,
and he says it instead of
Hackett saying the whole play call,
and then Russell Wilson repeating the whole play. Call
you streamline the operations, so it's amazing. This has
become a thing, but thanks to Pete. Carroll who made that
little comment the other day? There was resistance, that's
all I had to say.
The media did the rest and I will see what happens to
the other thing, too. About this game, I'm stunt Titans are only
favored by two and a half. I was stunned last week that
the Titans were 12 and a half Point underdogs.
Why is there? No respect in Vegas
for the Tennessee Titans
or among the betting public that would put the money on
the Titans and drive the betting line in their favor. It really
is weird to me the Titans don't get more respect.
Vaughn to the Cardinals and the Rams
three and six Arizona, three and five
La. Matthew Stafford in the concussion protocol for
something that we still don't know what it was. We don't
know. If he'll be back,
they have Bryce Perkins and John Wolford. Wolford is
technically the number two, but was shot McVeigh. Who knows
what he'll do? If he can't get Stafford on the field, can
the Rams win if they don't have Stafford Shireen?
Well, you know, they did that what John Wolford
once before when they needed to win the game and, and they did
that? These Teams Mike are a lot different. You think back
to last year that met in the Wild Card round of
the postseason, they don't
look anything like themselves.
Rams now have lost four or five.
I think they have a shot just because I haven't seen anything
out of the Cardinals. That tells me that they're Contender
that that you can count on them week in and week out to win
a game. And you know what? If Connor Marie's hamstring?
Doesn't allow him to run. He's a completely different
quarterback. If he has to sit in the
in the pocket and make plays out of the pocket, so Yeah,
I give the Rams a chance in this one.
It's not a game that I'm particularly looking forward to
something because neither team has shown me much this year to
say, they can get this thing turned around and and have
a chance to win that division.
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