only Steve Weiss is here,
he was on the line,
he saw some of the list for, let's bring my list back, my top 10
NF l-- players for the 22 season and Beyond and Beyond
because Steve good to see you brother. I'm trying to think
of I'm trying like and second what you tell your kids, I'm
trying to think of your future.
I'm thinking of your future. I'm trying to
I'm trying to try to be a little futuristic and Visionary
here,
but I like the rationale. So your rationale is the first
thing. The NFL network list of the top, 100 is always a ball
of confusion because we asked the players to vote on it and
they tend to reflect on what a guy did in the previous year as
opposed
to projecting
the 2022. It. So it always leads to this ball of
confusion. I'm kind of over like a j Tyrell. The Falcons
Corner. Second-team All-Pro, wasn't on the top.
Hear the joke in terms of that. Yeah, but your list. Yeah,
your list is fantastic. Okay, so
here's what I probably look at your list
and I would probably
have to add using your rationale. Lamar Jackson
on to your list, you take him off the Ravens.
I mean, what their one yard to cloud of dust,
right? Holly you don't like, you don't like, how you're not
a Huntley fan? I like him. I like what I've seen from now.
Okay. All right. Yeah, go ahead and go ahead and win
the division.
I like him but Lamar is a little different. You know.
It's right, you don't still don't like him,
you don't like him that much.
Now this is this is using your this is using your rationale
like if you took a player off of a team and with a can be ten
quarterbacks if you wanted to go ahead and do that. I but
I love the fact that Aaron Donald remains at To because he's a
dude. If you took him off the Rams defense, you can say,
well, you know, you can survive a couple games, no team's game
plan specifically for 99 in the hell, he Rats on their
offenses. So I absolutely love that, you know, Mahomes again,
you
know. Let's let's go non quarterback. But I also like
the fact that you know running back you say well what would
the Titans be without Derrick Kenny. Well you know they
finish up the as a number one. See a lot of Of games out there
it
right. Okay, what exactly what would the cold Speed without
Jonathan Taylor? Well, that's a great question, but
last, I checked, they weren't a playoff team.
So they can't,
you know, be added to the mix. So, again, I look at this list
and I'm trying to think of another maybe defensive player,
like you the Raiders make the playoffs on Max Crosby last year.
Probably, not only that,
you know, we're struggling with four straight down
but how about
How about one of the guys who's in your town?
How about Justin Herbert?
All the children.
I mean, they had, okay, mom off at the end of the season. So,
you know,
dudes a great player. He's one of the, he's one of the seven
or eight best players in the NFL. But so, if we're
projecting
again and we can go 10, quarterbacks, and we could just
we could just, you know, stick our hand in a raffle hat. Well,
it's an quarterback teams going to fall apart, you take him off
the Chargers. They're they're not a very good football team
but
yeah, he is. How special
And I don't necessarily think is 10 core. I know we think it
is and we think that every team's quarterback like every
playoff team,
you know, if you take away their quarterback, the whole
organization falls apart. I don't believe that. You know,
I think that the elite guys clearly
but there are some teams that will be all right, they be all
right,
especially if you're like the 12th or 13th or 14th team in
the playoffs, all right.
I don't know about that man.
Take jerk off the Raiders great. Take jerk off
the Raiders where they got.
I mean
where they been probably who the major players last year.
That's our guy.
Yeah, yeah, they did. They did,
we're about to find out what the Niners are going to be
without. Jimmy Garoppolo they were layoffs, make sure they
were in the conference Championship last year.
There was a conference Championship last year. Now,
they're making a decision to go with Trail. And, and I compare
this on
Are today on NFL Network go situation.
They were in oh let's say about 10 years ago
when Jim Harbaugh took a very capable and very good starter
and Alex Smith who got hurt. Open the door for Colin
Kaepernick to come in. Cap had just one start the year prior.
Okay
freelance had to
cap that one starts here and his second year Midway through
the season after an injury said we're rolling with cat and when
Alex Smith came back like on
Now Jimmy Garoppolo just sign that deal
to return to the 49ers
with Jim Harbaugh. Do
he stuck with Kaepernick and allowed him to play through his
mistakes? That's what Kyle Shan has. Got to do a trail and
because they're going to be some tough times, you know, and
like Alex Smith, Jimmy Garoppolo is a wonderful human
being. He is loved in that building.
He cannot yield to the temptation to go to Jimmy if
he's going to make a move like this.
I like your reference to Kaepernick, I'll just let you
know just as an aside I saw an excerpt
of the Kaepernick documentary Spike. Lee's excellent
Kaepernick documentary on Martha's Vineyard. Martha's
Vineyard film festival
and was Steve wise came on said I'm Steve Weiss representing
the real hu. The room was like oh okay because
there was a there were a lot of Howard people in there. There's
a lot of Hampton people in there too. So it was like
Like it was a buzz for like two or three minutes.
But anyway, great job in that documentary, brother, I can't.
Well, thank you. I haven't, I haven't I haven't seen that
clip yet. I'm not like you. I'm not going to Martha's Vineyard
and all white party was kind of been tea and
crumpets.
No, no, no, it's not. That kind of place. Like people think
that it's not
want to ask you about San Francisco. And the Niners.
It just your surprise level.
Because this was like the big. I couldn't believe this.
Turnaround I call it the Incredibles like what? Because
I mentioned it before on the show and
that I think to maybe to Mike and to Charles as he was
Charles Robinson or Jim Trotter. I said Hey what if
they just bring back you know Garoppolo like
that ain't gonna happen.
Look, what are you saying? Wait max level.
So here's a surprise level
but it comes to the caveat. If you would just share they're
going to bring Bring him back. Sorry the lights just went out
in this motion sensor room. So there we go.
If anything it back at that 24 million dollar contract, he was
on no way he restructured his deal
which is a very tradable deal now,
right? But he's got a no-trade clause.
So he was struck, she's a deal and say, some team
like Seattle Came Calling. He can see, I don't wanna go play
preciado because I don't know if they're going to be very
good or, or I don't want to go play for
a certain team because I don't think they're going to be very
good.
But if you guys an opportunity to go someplace, let's say
they've got a situation in Tampa Bay where their
quarterback gets hurt or maybe just retires in the middle of
the Season.
Okay I'll go
I'll go down there and play okay so
you know maybe maybe that's a situation
where that happens but otherwise honestly if you're
Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49er you honestly hope you don't
play a snap this year because his
his free market value.
Sheer will be greater
looking guy like lit strabinsky.
Well decent career in Chicago
sits all year in Buffalo and he's one of the first quarter
backs off the market. If free agency this year. That's just
like the coach who wouldn't who gets fired or on retires goes
and stays away from a year. He's the hot dude,
the year after that. So maybe that's what happened to Jimmy
G. If he doesn't play a snap this year,
the only difference between a player and a coach is coach,
has even coached here late in your career as a player, you
have a very fine Night
length of career.
You know, we've talked so much about up
off the field stories and are plenty of those still
always happen but before we get to those, it's wonder
if you know, it's cut down day today
we're on the doorstep of September. The games are going
to happen, fairly soon. You just step back. Steve why steps
back and looks at the entire league,
like who do you look at and say,
hmm,
they gonna be a problem. That team is great.
That is a great football team who's that?
Or why don't you three teams but who are you look at? Wow.
Well, you know, it's intelligent it being someone,
you don't think it's going to be right? So you look at
the bills, I
mean, I look at them. Like where's, you know, where's
the hole? Where's the flaw,
right? When people say out a going to be great, they could
be but they have all these issues with their offensive
line,
you know, as Tom Brady, good. I think, you know, a lot of
people like a that either look grid that press conference. He
seems like,
you know, maybe he got too much stuff going on and stay
focused. Because I think once the games go on Tom Brady's
going to be going to be fine
but their offensive line, there's a concern the Rams
you're like they are loaded. Where's the weakness? Well,
maybe Matthew, Stafford zobo but if he commanded
they're loaded. So when I look at teams right now and I'm like
man you know they're
you know the Indianapolis Colts to me our East potentially
scary team and I'm going to talk about a team. I don't
think we talked about enough the Cincinnati Bengals.
What are they got worse? Where have they gotten worse? Now,
they're going to play a tougher schedule. I've cover the sling
League. Long enough to know when a team goes from like
worst to first or comes out of nowhere and they get five Prime
Time games.
A lot of these guys can't handle that change when you're
used to playing these 1:00 games every week and you're on
the schedule and then you got to sit around all day and play
in front of the lights.
Some guys can adjust.
But as you know, I've said on the show before
I am the President of the Joey Baroque Pearl fan club.
This Is a player.
He relates to the guys in his locker room
I think he's going to be one of the great ones when everything
is said and done
and I think everything he's able to translate to that team
to me there's no reason why they can't be back where they
were last season.
All right, when you look at alright. So if you look at
Borough and Cincinnati and they wanted a vision last year,
I mean, they really
they put it on the Ravens a couple of times and they really
put it on the Ravens. They put it on the Steelers.
We weren't used to that.
Do you think they can do that? You think they're they're so
good that they now like Buffalo. You mentioned Buffalo?
Yeah. Buffalo is A Cut Above everybody else in the AFC East.
Do you say, do you apply that? Same thing to Cincinnati, where
they you now put them A Cut Above everybody in the AFC
North, that's a great question. That is a great question
for me this look at the Gap
right between, let's say the bills and my number two team
that division is going to be the Dolphins up to me. That's a
Pretty sizable Gap. I don't know
if the Bangles have that much of a gap
over the Ravens
over the Steelers, you know, the Browns, our quarterback
situation, you know, I have to give them the Bangles a bigger
Gap, but
I don't know if I could say the Bangles Gap over. The Ravens
is a sizable as I think it is the bills
with the dolphins and I think all four of those teams are
going to be playoff team possibly possibly because
the AFC West you might get three teams coming out of the Our
to be playoff teams. But
I just think the Bangles the way they're constructed, man.
I think they can rock with anybody. I'm not talking week,
six matchup, I'm talking a week. 17, playoff matchup
And I wouldn't know board. Last year. Michael Smith told me, he
went down there. He said, man, I talked to the security guy
and Cincinnati's security guy was like your boy
on your boy on board yet.
Has he has? He has he accepted that we're good and like okay,
yes I do accept it. I finally finally figured out
the Cincinnati is good. The old days. No, no longer matter
but I do want to ask you this.
This is an old days comment because I'm just,
I'm just racking my brain. I can't remember. Maybe it's
something obvious and I need To help Mia football mind like
yours to help me out.
Can you think of any situation?
Like Bill Belichick is trying to pull now in New England
where you don't just name
and offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator for
like nobody really knows
like sometimes you know who the offensive coordinator is but
they don't have the title.
That's right. What's Happening Here?
Yeah, I guess I
don't have to look, we do not have to look far back at all.
What if Bryan Fuller has
the same thing last year at the Miami Dolphins?
Remember, they had two offensive coordinators? He
wouldn't and he brought in
another offensive coach,
right? He wouldn't tell us, who was going to call the plays,
the first eight games, their offense
was a disaster because
Whoever was running the place calling to put a tin was not
working. They change play callers
and things worked out, fine. Am I only made that great late
season run? So this is
I won't say it is eerily similar. But yeah, we've got
that example to draw from with what New England is doing.
You can always say like, hey defensive guy
knows how the defense is think. So this is what I would do in
that situation
but a lot of times, things are so fluid during a game. How do
you adjust
At how do you get your quarterback to feel
comfortable? You know, they say that they're there re
numerating their offensive system. Okay.
Do you say you tell your receiver? Okay, I want you to
make an out cut at 14 yards or do I want to make an out cut at
six steps.
There are certain guys who compute things differently.
If you're drinking
one way and they're understanding it another way.
There can be some Communications issues there.
Now
when it comes to the Patriots,
we've seen them struggle sometimes offensively for five
games into the into the season and you're Bill Belichick, come
on the other day. He's gonna hey, we're still have
white tissue again.
Motion sensor issue again,
but Belichick say, hey, we're,
if we're into this thing,
if it looks bad, five games
into the season, then we have an issue
right now. He does not seem to be stressing over it, so
we'll see, but I don't think the Patriots have the type of
grace period
where they can be uncertain about their offense, five weeks
into the season with Buffalo potential earning away my
Amelie in Miami making moves in that division to
exactly our first four games on, they got two on the road,
the three of the first four games on the road.
Hey, got Miami and Pittsburgh on the road Green Bay
and in between the Ravens at home.
You can see that
you just trying to.
If you look at that, if you're a really good team, you say we
come out of that two and two,
we're pretty good, you're a team. We didn't really have any
certainty and Clarity, you could be staring down
the barrel of one and three or dare. I say it Owen for
Steve wise,
man. Always good to see you. You representing the real.
Ain't you the only the only not the real? The only,
the only the only eight you the one. And only Steve wise,
always going to talk to you brother. Take care.