Tommy some suggestion yesterday that you weren't happy with how
the last couple minutes played out. It was that an inaccurate
cake by people.
And did you say anything to Zach? Taylor about your
feelings on that was less couple minutes.
Alright, I don't really know that's coming from
and really not. I don't necessarily appreciate, you
know, having to address, you know, there was a feeling out
there kind of questions. I think that's kind of absurd.
I don't know where it comes from,
but it does. That can add a
Good conversation. Just like you always do. We always have
good conversations as mutual respect. There
was fun. Obviously, when apologetic about throwing
late in the game and you wanted to get first downs and close
out the game. They John Harbaugh take exception to it
at the end of the game there. I know there's a clip of you two
when you shook hands and deep,
get least looked
from my untrained eye, that he was a little frustrated.
No,
never. Smile and no further comment and they gave him time
to keep talking but
Zach, Taylor had nothing more to say about that. Look, here's
what happened. And
one of the realities is it was kind of a slow boring weekend.
So something like this will tend to stick out, but we got
to the point in the
Bengals Ravens game. Where two minutes remained.
It was third and fourth. Yeah,
Joe Blow was very aware that he was closing in on 500, passing
yards for the day.
They dialed up a deep all. They had to run a play there.
Its third and four, you can't take any.
You can have to punt. You got to run a play. Yeah, so they
dial up a pass of Joe Mixon lined up out wide runs a deep
route and jail. Bharo finds mixing down the field for
a 52-yard game, giving
burrow 525 for the day.
So then after the game,
that's when
we see Harbaugh
come across the field and visit with Zach Taylor, now, here's
the reality.
Nine out of a hundred times the interaction. At the end of
the game between the coaches is handshake smile or, you know,
something it's unremarkable. The most remarkable handshake.
This year, was the latest Urban Meyer hurt, puppy routine where
he just kind of sticks out his
hand and keeps going. We hadn't seen anything that was, you
know, awkward or hostile at all this year. It happens, rarely.
Maybe I'm forgetting something, Chris, and tell me if I am, but
it happens rarely that it stands out and it's not like
it.
Jim Schwartz and Jim Harbaugh, right, but it was John Harbaugh
approaching here, Zack Taylor
with a demeanor.
That, that suggested he had something on his mind and he
did, and you can see why did you run that play right there?
Why'd you run that play? Now
In fairness to Harbaugh? There's a chance
that he was referring not to the 52-yard catch and run but
to the first and goal from the 6 I'm with the next play. Yeah,
with a minute 10. Left and they called a run play there instead
of taking knees and getting out of Dodge that that very well
could be what
Harbaugh was referring to. So
it it's not 100% accurate to say was upset about the pass.
He was upset about something else.
So to say, there was no issue at all, is not accurate to say
that it was about to pass. May not be accurate.
It may just be, he was upset that they didn't take Annie,
you know, kind of like the Ravens, didn't take a knee back
in week 4,
but This is the play,
that, that was unnecessary.
That's the NSA. That's the point where you can take knees
and in the game. And that's was the beef. I had with
the Ravens, Chris back in week 4. When they ran the ball to try
to keep their streak of 100-yard, rushing games alive,
when they clearly should have taken a knee,
the prior play, you got to run a play. You gotta pass it. You
gotta run. You got to do something. You get to that
point. You're, it's, it should be all knees. So that maybe
what he was?
I don't know. Upset, not upset, idiot. It's something caused
him to say what he Ted has a cocktail when when we got
the rundown last night, you know, just as far as the subject
we're going to talk about
II went like, all right. Let me turn on the film here and just
watch these plays. All right. So the first thing you watch
and then, yeah, I know, I base level, we all go, like, how
could John Harbaugh will be mad
after he did that earlier this year, to the Denver Broncos?
I understand that seems hypocritical, right, but then
you look at it. All right. So here's the first thing and we
could show the long pasta Joe Mixon
that the play wasn't intended to go to. Joe Mixon, Joe
Burrows, looking down here, you know, rewind it one more time,
guys, if you can,
he's looking to the slant routes to his left
where you could see, they're trying to throw a short pass.
There's Boyd, there's Chase. There's Higgins. They're all
like running for yard routes, but there's good coverage,
Patrick Queens in the middle, kind of going across the board
there, to take away the short route.
Then borough has to move. He gets out of the pocket and he
just sees mixing going down the field. One-on-one. I don't
know. How John Harbaugh could be really mad at that,
they weren't calling that play going.
Hey, let's call the 50 yard bomb and screw over the Ravens,
right? And that's where I get to. I think what you're kind of
saying here, Mike. I don't think it has anything to do
with that play. Absolutely nothing to do.
I think it does have to do with the next play. That's the one
that's really weird. I think from the you know, the the
the the
what do I want to say the unwritten rules of football or
whatever. That's the one where a coach would go.
Wait, I got three timeouts. I'm not calling timeouts. You just
made a big play. Why are you running the ball with Joe? Mix
it up, the middle there.
That's the one I think. Would pit would piss. Sorry, London
would piss John Harbaugh off and I can understand him asking
about that. One,
that certainly and, you know, again, I don't know, but that's
kind of the feel. I got after kind of dissecting it myself.
So, I mean, the bottom line is, this whichever play it, was he
clearly wasn't happy. So let's not folks and, you know,
I don't know how you can be mad at the first one. I really
don't see how that's her. I'm hoping my
point is, right. I hope you're right. But, but my point is,
you know, you got people out there saying, oh, he wasn't mad
about anything. Well, he clearly was not thrilled right
about citing, right? Mean,
we have eyes. Yeah, and I know we live in post truth America.
Where what? We actually see no longer matters. It's what we
believe that supersedes any and all objective evidence,
but he clearly wasn't happy.
He and so when he gets a little indignant about the idea,
I don't know where this is coming from, its kind of absurdity
came from you, Johnny came from you.
One of the great coaches in the NFL Bound for the hall of fame
done, a phenomenal job this year, under adverse
circumstances, but don't wonder where these came from. It came
from your demeanor.
It came from the amateur efforts to read your lips. This
was not the usual. Postgame that's meet and greet. That's
right, was not happy. And if you claim that he was happy
there.
You don't know John Harbaugh.
You're right. I think you're right. I mean that you're
right. That's not the normal circumstance. And also hey at
a base level. I think we were all kind of looking
for the interaction after the game because you know, as we're
watching all those games at 1:00. It was easy to go. Oh
wait, they're just throwing the ball there to get the 500 yards
and do all that. So that
doesn't have the great, the greatest Optics in the world.
So we were all kind of paying attention to that
now where I lost,
you know, in real-time on
Sunday because they got that. Oh great. He's got 525 passing
yards. I started watching other games. I mean, the game was
over. So I wasn't where I lost track of some
kind of the context of the situation
was, I didn't see the first down run,
you know, so that's where
I think people maybe everybody lost a little bit of track of
that. But but and my heart of hearts or my football World
Knowledge, I would think that's really the play that made
Hardball more mad than
the mixin scramble. I didn't really mean to throw it to that
guy. It kind of just happened. Type of play.
But again, it wasn't heel down situation and week for where
the Ravens ran the ball to. That's hard. I know, hurry up
rushing game. So that's that's one of the reasons why I think
John Harbaugh has not, you know,
even if you was mad, he can't say. Yeah, that's right.
That's right.