1 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:12,240 me? What's going on, everybody? 2 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,200 BT unleashed in the house on this snowy Monday. 3 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,960 A little fancy intro. J Rod, BT Unleash. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,360 Can you hear me? Well, hopefully you guys can. 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:22,440 I know you can't. I like it. 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,160 J Rod, he told me there's more to come. 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,000 By the way, he's actually building out that song. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,280 So hope everybody had a weekend, whatever you can make out of it. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,440 Obviously, a ton of football. We'll get to it all. 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,280 We'll hammer in the comments here. 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,760 We'll go for about an hour and 15. 12 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,160 Got a couple of really good things for you. 13 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:37,760 Yeah. And the first thing, too, that I 14 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,000 find really interesting. Right. 15 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,120 So the Giants just went through this obviously with Horrible and 16 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,840 all the previous coaches they had before him, you know, The 17 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,440 Jets, which I'll get to much more extensively in a moment, 18 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,200 and their charade circus of, you know, procession of, of of head 19 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,040 coaches. We talked about these coaches 20 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,400 like if you get the right coach, if you get an elite coach right, 21 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,000 you're going to, you know, win, you're going to win big. 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,519 Well, the crazy thing is that yesterday, both 2 and I mean 2 23 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:06,520 Super Bowl winning coaches. So they've already proven that 24 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,000 they can crack through, had egregiously bad moments that 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,920 cost their teams probably a chance to get to the Super Bowl. 26 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,080 Certainly in like in the case of Sean Payton, you know it, you 27 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,240 could you first of all, you've got to know the weather is about 28 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,040 to really, really change, which you did, which I think is fun 29 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,880 for TV. It's fun to watch all this 30 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,960 nonsense like, well, you got to play these games in a Dome. 31 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:30,640 It's not fair. The other team had to deal with 32 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:31,840 it as well. It's called football. 33 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,880 That's called being outside. It's called elements. 34 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,080 I had no issue with that. But Sean Payton, they jump out 35 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,160 to A7-O lead with Stidham, which is amazing in itself. 36 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,280 Geez. And then they're, you know, 37 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,160 really short, tight red and 4th down and and they go forward and 38 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,400 instead of going for the three and obviously going up two 39 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,640 scores at that .10 zip against the young quarterback, albeit a 40 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,920 very, very good quarterback, Drake May, who eventually was 41 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,640 able to use his legs. You know, he goes a little 42 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,760 aggressively there, doesn't work out. 43 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,800 And instead of 10 zip and seven nothing, they lose by three 44 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,200 points. So Mass and and to Sean Payton's 45 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,120 credit, he owned it after the game. 46 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:13,440 But but and go Tony Romo, who I think is 1 hell of a really nice 47 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,960 guy, but God almighty, he is awful on these games. 48 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,000 He's terrible. The contrast between Brady and 49 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,400 Romo like Romo sounds, it's really tough to describe what 50 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,680 even sounds like anymore. It's just very strict. 51 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,520 The whole dynamic with Jim Nance, it's almost like they 52 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,840 trust each other. It's goofy, it's just a little 53 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,080 weird, whatever. But Romo's defense, he nailed it 54 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,120 like he was on a right. There's, I don't know about this 55 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,000 Jim, you got to go for it. He was right and they didn't get 56 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,720 it. And then you go to McVeigh here 57 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,720 now, different spot, different circumstance. 58 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,960 I think a bit of a different call given the moment because at 59 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,480 this point you down 4, there's about 6 minutes to go in the 60 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,600 fourth quarter. You go for it on 4th and four or 61 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,280 fourth and five. Stafford incomplete. 62 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,880 Now the thought is, and I myself, I was thinking field 63 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,560 goal. I know why McVeigh was doing 64 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,480 that number when you got Stafford #2 you know, Darnold 65 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,360 and the Seattle Seahawks offense was moving the football. 66 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,640 So if you take the three, you still down a point. 67 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,440 There's no guarantee that you stop them there. 68 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,760 So I, I understand the mechanics of the thought process, but it, 69 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,160 it just seemed like the more prudent play would have been 70 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:23,720 take the three, cut the deficit from 4:00 to 1:00, get a stop 71 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,760 and then obviously have a shorter field to go with 72 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,440 somebody who can bang at least a 50 yarder on turf and, you know, 73 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,240 win the game on a field goal. I I don't understand. 74 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,680 Well, I do because it's analytically driven. 75 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,360 I guess I should say I don't agree with this pension for just 76 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,400 leaning on numbers like sometimes these these great 77 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,280 coaches, Peyton champion, Sean McVay champion, who knows, I, 78 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,040 Mike Grable might do something in a couple of weeks that's a 79 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,200 breaches and a greach is blundering the Super Bowl. 80 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,280 Or Mike McDonald, who has been terrific as a young coach for 81 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,920 Seattle. He might do something where 82 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,560 we're like, wow, you just cost your team a chance to win the 83 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,280 Super Bowl. I'm not saying that they're 84 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,640 robots and that they should never make mistakes, but I feel 85 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,120 like too often, even best coaches, they fail to calculate 86 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,840 what they're watching. Like it's one thing to be 87 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:17,440 beholden to a statistic or a trend or some analytical 88 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,760 direction and advice because there's, I mean, matters number, 89 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,080 pardon me, numbers matter and, and I agree with that, But I, I 90 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,960 do think when there's something in front of you, you've got to 91 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,960 have the adaptability to change on the fly based on the Intel 92 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,760 that you have. Think about this too. 93 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,920 It's it's very similar to say, all right, say, say you have a 94 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:46,200 guy like say you have a guy like Dominguez who was not hit well 95 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,160 as a righty. He's done pretty well as as a 96 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,760 lefty hitter. And obviously they've got to 97 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,040 sort that out for the Yankees, right? 98 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,360 And maybe he gets it at that. Maybe he's in the middle of a 99 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,920 nice three-week run where he's hitting 290 is a lefty and maybe 100 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,760 a game or two. We actually, you know, he's in 101 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,560 the game and they bring it a lefty and he's got to hit righty 102 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,760 and he shows a little penchant. OK finds his righty stroke. 103 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,160 Well, what's the smart thing? You know, are you going to then 104 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,360 bench him against a tough lefty because he hasn't shown a great 105 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:19,040 ability in terms of a big like a big swath, a broad swath here to 106 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,120 to hit right-handed? Or you going to react to this 107 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,040 little three-week binge where he's feeling himself and he's 108 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,600 hot and the numbers are backing that up and your eyes telling 109 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,720 you that maybe he's turning the corner and maybe he's able to do 110 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,120 something righty that you didn't think that he was able to do 111 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,960 based on the small amount of evidence he's giving you so far. 112 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:38,760 Like, that's what I mean. I don't, I don't even know if 113 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,160 that's the greatest example. But like, there's too many 114 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,400 coaches that just react to, you know, the the broad, the broad 115 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,520 direction, the broad numbers. Well, you know, sometimes you 116 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,440 got to cut through that and you've got to know now whether 117 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,800 it's my quarterback, whether it's my defense, whether it's 118 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,240 the weather, whether it's the officiating, whatever it might 119 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,040 be. And I thought both coaches, 120 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,640 which is absolutely, colossally messed up. 121 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,640 And it's amazing too, right? Think about this. 122 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,920 I want to debunk an NFL narrative here. 123 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:09,840 All right? And then we'll get to Darnold. 124 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,040 We'll get to The Jets. We'll get to Aaron and Glenn. 125 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,240 Oh boy, wow. Think about the two coaches who 126 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:17,720 are coaching in the Super Bowl here. 127 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,040 All right, Mike Vrabel is a former player and a defensive 1. 128 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,600 And obviously McDonald is a is a is formerly A coordinator couple 129 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,080 of years with the Ravens, former defensive coordinator for Jim 130 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,080 Harbaugh at the at the University of Michigan. 131 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,320 And we know that his background is obviously rooted in defense. 132 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,480 And if you think, and this really applies to The Jets, I've 133 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,160 heard this a lot. And not just The Jets, but I, I, 134 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,880 the noise is louder with The Jets, as you can imagine, right? 135 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,560 You hear this a lot when the team's looking for a new coach, 136 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,280 you got to find that young hot assistant, that young offensive 137 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:52,360 minded assistant coach. And then, you know, ideally you 138 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,080 find that that young offensive assistant to pair with that, 139 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:59,800 that young top five drafted quarterback and you marry them 140 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,040 together and boom, you go and win. 141 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,400 Well, it's funny because Rabel's defense, McDonald's defense, 142 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,480 Donald's a transient nomadic, He's got a nomadic NFL existence 143 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,720 who's bounced around team to team to team to team. 144 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,880 And you know, Drake Mays is the one component. 145 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,400 So the four components, the two coach the and the two 146 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:23,040 quarterbacks, one of the four, 25% actually fits the model that 147 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,000 most of you and by the way, to an extent me on occasion 148 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,280 subscribe to. So it's not really rooted in 149 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,640 reality. It's rooted largely in 150 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,720 perception. Now, the numbers are a little 151 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,080 different and the names and the backgrounds a little different 152 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,760 in the AFC. So check this out. 153 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,120 You go to the AFC, right? And I'm looking at the seven 154 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,120 playoff teams in the AFC. Why are these things fogged up 155 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,280 and the, and I'm going to go to the seven teams in the NFC very 156 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,200 quickly, right? There's a a much bigger 157 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,320 disparity in the AFC favoring offensive background coaches. 158 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,320 But it does go to show you that a lot of the things that that 159 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,080 you hear and are kind of pre programmed and rotely stated 160 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,320 without giving much thought isn't necessarily true. 161 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,840 Which is why I always, I always encourage you to be an 162 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,440 independent thinker, not just take what's force fed to you, 163 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,760 whether it's sports, whether it's politics, whatever. 164 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,760 Learn to think for yourself because a lot of the stuff they 165 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,000 tell you is bullshit. All right, AFC, right. 166 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,200 When I say that, I mean everybody. 167 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:32,400 Broncos offense, Peyton got it. We know about Rabel defense, 168 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,159 Pats, Liam Cohen did a great job with the Jaguars resuscitating, 169 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,960 you know, a young quarterback who was a little all over the 170 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:40,679 map. Trevor Lawrence, offensive 171 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,200 background. Obviously, now the Steelers made 172 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,520 the change here. Mike Tomlin, defensive 173 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,800 background. D'amico Ryan's three straight 174 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,000 playoff appearances. If his quarterback was well, now 175 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,960 you want to make the case that maybe if he had an offensive 176 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:54,200 coach, the quarterback would be better. 177 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,480 But that's three straight really good years. 178 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,040 That Texans defense, not the Broncos, the best in football. 179 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,960 D'amico Ryan's defense, I know he was just fired. 180 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,160 All right, McDermott defense and then the Chargers horrible 181 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,800 former NFL quarterback. So in the AFC, the seven playoff 182 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,800 teams, you got offense, defense, offense, defense, defense, 183 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,360 defense, offense. Interesting. 184 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,760 Now the NFC is very different. Seven teams, one has an offense 185 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,960 or defensive background. That's the guy who's going to 186 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,880 the Super Bowl because you look at Ben Johnson and what he did 187 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,560 for Caleb Williams, great hire Bears offense. 188 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:28,280 You look at the Eagles, I know they've been a mess, you know, 189 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,520 very erratic in terms what they put up. 190 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,760 But Super Bowl champions, say what you will about Sirianni, 191 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,120 offensive background, Panthers, Dave Canales, really good young 192 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,440 coach offense, McVeigh offense, obviously Shanahan offense and 193 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,520 for the Green Bay Packers offense. 194 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,400 So you know what, what does it mean? 195 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,280 I mean, maybe a little circumstantial, whatever. 196 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,560 You know, maybe if McVeigh plays it a little differently, maybe 197 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,960 we don't have two defensive coaches in the Super Bowl, as I 198 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,240 talked about. I think some of the mistakes 199 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,160 that both coaches made yesterday, you know, maybe maybe 200 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,120 if they if McVeigh coaches a better game, it it it isn't 201 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,800 quite, you know, what we have here, but it is what we have 202 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,720 here. So anything that you know, has 203 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,680 been told to you and you have pretty much just, you know, 204 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,880 taken, you know, chapter and verse, not necessarily true. 205 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,920 Now, let me just get something off my chest here with Sam 206 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,080 Darnold. First of all, the yo yos out 207 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:26,080 there, the oversimplification of some of these Sam Darnold jet 208 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,360 takes. I mean, I tell you, there are so 209 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,600 many people out there that just really don't know what they're 210 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,680 talking about. Like they just lack creativity, 211 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,080 they lack substance, they lack intelligence, they lack depth. 212 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,560 The amount of dumb tweets out there. 213 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,000 Oh, let me tweet this and they look how witty I am. 214 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,160 Look what I'm going to put out there and I read this stuff and 215 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,680 I'm like not even remotely funny. 216 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,520 Like and I'll give you one of the things that's the problem. 217 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,080 I got 2 pairs of glasses and one of them that's the right one. 218 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,200 The other one is a little, a little bent and a little brand 219 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,960 new. It wasn't feeling feeling right 220 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,200 going on the Dome. Anyway. 221 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,880 Everybody thinks they're a stand up comic, Sam Donald. 222 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,000 The other Jets ruin them. So the easy thing to do with Sam 223 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,920 Darnold, by the way, who I am so happy for and played such an 224 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,400 amazing game, man, Sam Darnold was phenomenal. 225 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:22,120 And if you've ever had that oblique or that intercostal or 226 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,640 that RIP strain, I mean, you listen to the pregame stuff. 227 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,000 I mean, he wasn't even throwing shots down field in practice. 228 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,840 I mean, this guy's been basically rehabbing who knows 229 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,280 how many needles he took to numb the pain. 230 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:38,680 Like that is a very invasive, you know, very tough thing to 231 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:40,560 everything. Think about it, everything that 232 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,400 you do in terms of throwing, I don't know what side it's on, 233 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,000 but it really doesn't matter. We're trying to escape the 234 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,840 pressure. You just, it's a quick turn. 235 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,800 Like that is not fun to deal with. 236 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,720 I remember that happened to me playing golf years ago, right? 237 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,120 One of my many injuries, which I won't bore you with, but took a 238 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,120 swing. I'm like, I didn't. 239 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,000 I didn't really feel right. What had happened was that I was 240 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,640 playing quick little Side Story was playing lefty because that's 241 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,000 what I play. It was a lefty batter in in in 242 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,320 baseball and I didn't start playing golf until after 243 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,160 college. So naturally I grab a club and I 244 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,720 start playing lefty. Anyway, after about 3 or 4 years 245 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,320 I'm playing whatever could hit it off the T, but a mess 246 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,760 someday. 80, eights, 89 some days 90 sevens all over the map. 247 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,000 Nothing, Nothing really good, but I could hit it pretty far. 248 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,720 So I take a swing of my my my back's not feeling right. 249 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,800 I wind up having back surgery. But in my crazy competitive mind 250 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,640 back then, I'm saying, well, maybe if I try to play, this is 251 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:39,800 true story. Maybe if I try to play right, 252 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,440 right golf right-handed, the way the vertebrae stacked and the 253 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,360 pain, maybe it won't hurt as much. 254 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,360 So anyway, I start playing golf righty out of nowhere. 255 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,480 Literally out of nowhere. And because I wasn't used to the 256 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,840 swing and I'm still swinging like a maniac, I'm in my early 257 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,440 30s. I basically tear my intercostal 258 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,280 muscle right. And I remember driving into work 259 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,040 going over speed bumps and it felt like somebody was plunging 260 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,120 a knife into my basically right below my heart. 261 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,440 That's how much that injury hurt. 262 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,640 So for Sam to go out there and you know me, I'm just trying not 263 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:14,640 to Shank a ball on the tee in front of everybody. 264 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,880 This guy's trying to elude the fenders and, you know, spin it 265 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,760 in there between a linebacker to safety and get his team to the 266 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,000 Super Bowl. Massive balls by Sam Darnold. 267 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,480 My God. So I am incredibly happy for Sam 268 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,360 Darnold. I think he's an awesome human 269 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,720 being. I think he's I always knew he 270 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:29,720 had talent. You knew it. 271 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,640 You knew that Darnold had talent. 272 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,440 The first game that you watched him as a Jet and he knew that he 273 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,160 had stones. The first game that you watched 274 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,680 him as a jet because the first play that he ever made, first 275 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,960 play from scrimmage Monday night. 276 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,040 Remember, they do the two games on Monday night. 277 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,400 Monday night, Ford Field, Jets, Lions pick six. 278 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:53,320 I'm like, what got my my son who was at that point was 1 1/2. 279 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,040 I don't know whatever he was sitting on. 280 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,880 I'm like, Dad, don't look, buddy, we got our next 281 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,960 quarterback here. Yeah, This is the guy that's 282 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,440 going to win you the Super Bowl. This is the guy that's going to 283 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,920 give you everything that daddy hasn't had in his lifetime. 284 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,680 First play of the game, pick 6. But then look at the look at the 285 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,200 the box score. Look what he did after that. 286 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,320 He had a great game and he actually had a pretty good 287 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,800 rookie year. And he showed some visible signs 288 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,400 even that last game out in Buffalo. 289 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,760 There's one play, like I think it's late in the game. 290 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,200 He just runs around. Like I think he ran 47 yards 291 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,080 combined, like moving left to right. 292 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,880 And he finds somebody out, maybe Jeremy Kerley, wherever the hell 293 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,120 it was. So you knew that he had talent, 294 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,920 all right. And I think you knew that he was 295 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,240 like emotionally reliable and he wasn't soft and he wasn't like a 296 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,520 diva. He wasn't into the wrong stuff. 297 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,680 He was a football player that if he got in the right spot, he 298 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,080 would have a chance to be to be good. 299 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,120 I mean maybe not like this, not saying I thought that, but he 300 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,720 could at least be functional and with the right coaching and all 301 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,080 the other stuff better than that and maybe like a top 15 ish 302 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,080 quarterback more towards 15 obviously than 10. 303 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,440 Well, if you want to beg on The Jets with those witty tweets 304 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,080 about all this is The Jets and the only The Jets could ruin the 305 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,360 San Darnell. Don't you think somebody like 306 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,520 Carolina or San Francisco and especially Minnesota has got to 307 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,680 take more of a dent for this than the New York Jets? 308 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,680 I mean, what are the reasons why The Jets had to move on from San 309 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,920 Not well shouldn't say had to elected to move on from Sam 310 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,960 Darnold was because of the contract. 311 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,800 When you draft somebody as they drafted him third overall, you 312 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,880 got a big, big, big rookie contract and then that fifth 313 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,920 year option which you either exercise or you don't. 314 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,840 And once you do that, you're going to have to give him big 315 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,080 money. But if you don't think he's the 316 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,240 right guy, why would you do it? Really? 317 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,400 Why would you do it? So I understood it at that 318 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,840 point. I did. 319 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,880 So not that I fully exonerate The Jets, of course. 320 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,760 If The Jets have this offensive line for Sam Darnold or if The 321 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,280 Jets had Garrett Wilson for Sam Darnold, I promise you Sam 322 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,640 Darnold would have been a little bit better and Sam Toner 323 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,400 probably still have The Jets. But he went to Carolina. 324 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,520 He sat for the most part, he went to San Francisco. 325 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:04,160 It was a mental, you know, revival, mental rehabilitation 326 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,320 and exercising of all the demons that plagued him from his first 327 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,720 spot with the dysfunctional loser Jets. 328 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,800 But really, the team that's got to get smacked around here is 329 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,960 Minnesota. I mean, he won 13 games with 330 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,840 Minnesota. He threw 35 touchdowns with 331 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,560 Minnesota. They willingly elected to say, 332 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:28,080 Nah, we good go in a different direction when let's see 892 win 333 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,040 5 fewer games and their four quarterbacks that actually took 334 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,120 snaps this year, not 1234 quarterbacks had 18 touchdowns, 335 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,920 which is almost half of what the guy had that they told to leave, 336 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,440 what he did for team that you know. 337 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:43,920 Oh, yeah. By the way, is in the same 338 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,280 conference. So I get it. 339 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,080 It's an easy narrative. The Jets mess everything up. 340 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,480 The Jets are a joke. Yeah, The Jets, that's our joke. 341 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,320 This is one thing that's not funny to me, and this is one 342 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,840 thing that is not really, at least for me, I'm not going to 343 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,720 leave at their doorstep. The Carolina Panthers had him in 344 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,040 the building, had a had a chat him on, basically no money. 345 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:07,520 I mean, just no, whatever. And then the Niners had him on 346 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,280 low muddy and the Vikings had him on low muddy, you know. 347 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,720 So I just think it misses the mark. 348 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,400 I think it's easy, but I also think it's very lazy. 349 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:21,599 I don't think it's very funny. Now, if you want to get on The 350 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:24,119 Jets, there's obviously a lot to get on The Jets. 351 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,599 About what? What an absolute clown show. 352 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,400 I swear to God. I have tried my best to stay 353 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,240 positive with this team. I really have not. 354 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:37,360 Not like positively or or positivity where it it's just 355 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,320 not applicable at all. Like I'm not going to be 356 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,400 delusional and say things are good when they're awful. 357 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,240 That's never going to be me. But I'm also not going to be the 358 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,520 guy, as I've chronicled many times, hence the whole 359 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,920 unkillable speech. I'm thinking that was born out 360 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:53,240 of never going to die, never going to give up, never going to 361 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,480 say, all right, hey, I did. I'm done here. 362 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,480 Just take me away, Jets. They'll never do it. 363 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:58,840 Like I just don't subscribe to that. 364 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,160 That is a loser mindset. That is somebody that just walks 365 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,120 around predisposed to thinking that nothing favorable can come 366 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:07,440 their way. And that's not me. 367 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:11,800 That's not now to be rooted in, you know, head in the sky 368 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,160 positivity. That's not the right way to go 369 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,520 through life either. Somewhere between, right, you 370 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,320 know, react to what you see when it's bad, say it when it's good. 371 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,040 Say it. When it's somewhat positive, say 372 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,200 it. When it's egregiously bad, yell 373 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,320 it and scream it. All good, all good. 374 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,560 But as much as I try to give these losers the benefit of the 375 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:34,080 doubt, you just can't because every time they do something, 376 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,520 it's Dumber and more stupid than it was the previous time they 377 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,280 did something dumb and stupid. And here we are. 378 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,280 So The Jets over the weekend, right? 379 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,800 They basically fired everybody except the head coach. 380 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,640 So they bring in Aaron Glenn and nobody really knows the extent. 381 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,440 I believe it was strongly rooted in Woody. 382 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,320 I can't quite prove it. I've heard that, but I can't 383 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:58,920 fully prove it. But I have heard that from 384 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,720 people that I do trust whatever that Woody's hand was very heavy 385 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,880 and getting Aaron Rodgers out of the building. 386 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,920 All right now I believe also that Aaron Glen subscribe to 387 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,000 that. To what extent I don't know, but 388 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,640 I think he wanted to start over, which by the way, I I kind of 389 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,520 understood like where you going? Like even if you had a 10 win 390 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,000 season with a 41 year old, that a 42 year old Aaron Aaron 391 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,920 Rodgers like you just going to be back to square one in year 2. 392 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,480 So which by the way, think about what happened to Brian Dabel. 393 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,160 Brian Dabel's first year with the Giants was really good. 394 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,680 They won nine games. They won a road playoff game. 395 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,760 Daniel Jones gets the money and Jess Aquan with a big year and 396 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,440 all this stuff. And then it gets progressively 397 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,760 worse and worse and worse. And I remember saying with Sal, 398 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,000 we talked about this a lot on the fan. 399 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,280 Like, you know, man, maybe it would have been a little 400 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,400 different if he came out and he was like three wins or four wins 401 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,440 and incrementally get to 6 and 7:00 to 9:00. 402 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,360 And then eventually you have a full roster, you know, your 403 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:53,960 fingerprints all over the franchise. 404 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,920 Well, now it's different. And maybe that was Aaron Glenn's 405 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:58,520 philosophy. And by the way, it's not, it's 406 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,040 not really a bad one. It's really, I get that like 407 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,480 when you're that bad for that long, it's not going to be a 408 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,240 Band-Aid. It's not going to be some stick 409 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:10,000 em or spit or glue or rubber. And let's take the Wrecking Ball 410 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,640 kind of like the Mets did to their core. 411 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,360 Let's start over. Let's build up a foundation 412 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,880 rooted in offensive line play, running the ball, discipline, 413 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,800 culture, etcetera. So, you know, Macro Lee, if that 414 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,640 if, if you will, speaking, I, I agree with it. 415 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,640 OK. But that doesn't mean that we 416 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,920 can't go back. And, you know, look at some of 417 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,920 the things that he didn't say. I may have agreed it with it in 418 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,760 real time, but it doesn't mean that he was right now. 419 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,040 I did not like the Steve Wilkes hire for a minute one. 420 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,080 Find it, look it up. I don't know anybody that did. 421 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,120 That's the greater challenge. Find somebody that lauded the 422 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:44,920 Steve Wilkes hiring. Did anybody find that? 423 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,000 Nobody, Right. He's the 1st to go. 424 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,720 And it was a big hireright big hire. 425 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,560 And it was an unmitigated F. It was a flat out, straight up 426 00:20:54,560 --> 00:21:00,520 failure of the highest order. A truck as bad as it gets right 427 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,880 now, you got to find the DC. But then over the weekend, now 428 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,200 everybody else is out. All right, so since Wilkes was 429 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,960 shown the door, now you got to find a quarterback coach. 430 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,600 You got to find a passing game coordinator, you got to find AD 431 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,360 line coach, a linebacker's coach, 2 defensive assistants, 432 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,760 whatever the hell that means, and an assistant to the 433 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,840 defensive backs. So you basically got to retool 434 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,840 the entire coaching staff. Who knows what Angstrand's role 435 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,320 is going to be? It might be a little different. 436 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:35,080 OK, so I don't understand what they're thinking here. 437 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,520 And I am somebody who got on, whether it was the fan when I 438 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,360 was still there or the early like Unkillable doing the Sunday 439 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:46,040 postgame reactions. I'm getting on the air in the 440 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,320 same office saying I'm going to bring back Aaron Glenn for 441 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,120 second year. I'm going to run him back 442 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,120 because they had just they had no talent. 443 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,400 I mean, their backups were starters. 444 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,880 They're taxi players who they should have been on the taxi 445 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,680 squad and originally were were backups and then based on 446 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,200 injuries, forced into starting roles in too many spots. 447 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,440 Like, what do you expect? You got an undrafted 448 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,000 quarterback. You got nothing. 449 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,800 Garrett Wilson hasn't played in seven weeks. 450 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,480 What are we doing? How can you judge somebody who's 451 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,400 got no weapons around him? So I was trying to be fair to 452 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,800 Aaron Glenn. But now all this and now the 453 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,200 tweets and the tech start coming in AG EJ Bertle 2. 454 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,520 The bigger joke about The Jets was we all thought that Joe 455 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,600 Douglas was a genius because of that one trade. 456 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,160 Yeah. I mean, listen, Joe did some 457 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:28,800 really good things. I appreciate the text there. 458 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,720 Thank you. Joe drafted a couple of good 459 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,000 players. If Joe would hit on the 460 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,760 quarterback, Joe would have been a phenomenal general manager. 461 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,360 I mean, Joe actually did a lot more right than he didn't. 462 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,760 Now I think that Muji is going to be very good as I've said, so 463 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,840 I'm not just going to turn this into like 1 sweeping demolition 464 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,080 of The Jets. I like the general manager. 465 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,360 I do, I like their offensive line. 466 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,840 I I know they've got a bookend on the left side in fashion. 467 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,880 Oh, they got a bookend on the right side and Armand Membu, 468 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,280 like they have made some picks there. 469 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,800 They got a #1 receiver. They got a young interesting 470 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,840 tight end. Like they got a couple pieces. 471 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,920 They got two first round picks this year, 3 next year, boatload 472 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,400 a second round. There's $73 million in cap 473 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,160 space. I'm not just going to again, 474 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,120 take the lazy train and just shit all over The Jets because 475 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,920 it's easy to do. What I'm telling you is I'm 476 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,000 absolutely confused by the inconsistency of this. 477 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,520 And This is why The Jets this right? 478 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,320 This not because they're cursed, not because Joe named it said 479 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,200 we're going to win. None of that. 480 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,520 The reason why The Jets are The Jets is because their owner is 481 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,520 clueless and an idiot pertaining to football stuff. 482 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,200 And he allows he allows the people that he hires to do dumb 483 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,240 things over and over. Now you look at Robert Kraft. 484 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,320 What does Robert Kraft do right? Well, first of all, he creates a 485 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,440 dynasty number one. And then, you know, as dynasties 486 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,960 Peter out, ask the Yankees from the mid 90s forward dynasties. 487 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,080 Obviously, you know, they go away, whether it's the Celtics 488 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,360 back of the day or Toronto Maple leaves or the Canadians back 489 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:02,880 then, whatever. But Lakers of the 80s dynasties 490 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,280 always die. They elevate, they ascend, then 491 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,640 they just dominate, then they die. 492 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:07,920 It's it's called the world, right? 493 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:11,280 The cycle, the cycle of dynasties, the cycle of life. 494 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:16,320 But the Patriots, they hire somebody Mayo, they give them a 495 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,160 chance, all right, They look right away. 496 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,600 They're like, Nope, not it. And behind the scenes as Rabel's 497 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,160 using The Jets for leverage, pretending he's interesting in 498 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,880 the interest in The Jets job, which I wanted Rabel. 499 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,560 Now I was OK with Aaron Glenn and he was on my list. 500 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,560 Mike Rabel was the guy. Go look it up. 501 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,120 That's the guy that I shouted about. 502 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,600 I wanted Rabel because you win 11 games with Ryan Tannehill. 503 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,080 You could come coach my team any, any day of the week. 504 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:45,280 I'll take you any day, right? So the Patriots can transfer 505 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,760 them to The Jets. They evaluate after one year, 506 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,840 they say now this is untenable for our standards, you are gone. 507 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,320 But before they do that, and you know how this works, cuz you got 508 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,720 to have connections. Connections in life are a good 509 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,240 thing. Whether it's business, football, 510 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,360 anything, you need connections. And Woody's got none. 511 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:04,440 And to me, that's the ultimate issue. 512 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,400 I'll get back to him in a minute. 513 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,640 But Robert Kraft pivots and is able to gather information. 514 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:11,800 Get us. Hey, Mike, you want to you know, 515 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,960 would you want to come back here and coach, I'm not saying like 516 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,560 nobody's told me that. That's common sense. 517 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,560 That's how you do it. It's how smart people operate, 518 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,000 right. So they get the answer before 519 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,760 they fire Mayo. Hey, Mike, if we if we fire, if 520 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,520 we move on from from Mayo, you coming like we can't be holding 521 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,480 the bag here firing this guy. You going to The Jets and us not 522 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,960 really knowing what to do. So that was all done and that 523 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,560 was all unlocked before they actually fired Mayo and 524 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,440 introduced Mike Brabel, step one. 525 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,760 Now look at him two years later after back-to-back miserable 526 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,480 seasons, going to the Super Bowl. 527 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,800 Where is The Jets? The New York Jets have an awful 528 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,960 season. Matter of fact, the worst month 529 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,400 in terms of point differential disparity in the history of the 530 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,640 NFL, not the history of The Jets. 531 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,440 Like when you talk about the history of The Jets, that's 532 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,720 generally bad enough. Anything outside of Joel Namath 533 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,760 that's referenced about The Jets is not good. 534 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:10,240 So that's not a statistic guys, that illustrates how bad The 535 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,920 Jets have been based on the vadnais of The Jets. 536 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,640 That is a statistic that illuminates and further 537 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,080 illustrates how bad The Jets were in December against every 538 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,080 other team in every other season in every month in the history of 539 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,120 the NFL. Not just The Jets stat, that's 540 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,560 an NFL stat. Think about that. 541 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,840 So contrast that to what crafted and now look at what he did. 542 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,400 Yeah, that would go alright, we'll give another shot, which I 543 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,160 was OK with, as I said, because of the circumstances. 544 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,080 Now he had a bad year, but I wanted like the the recycling in 545 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,120 the constant. You know, you're gone, you're 546 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:48,800 gone, you're gone. There's no stability, no 547 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,280 culture. Like if you're going to talk 548 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,360 about culture in a non nebulous term, like, oh, you know, I was 549 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,600 sitting at a yes, it is who had a press conference. 550 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,640 Welcome to the Welcome to The Jets head coach press 551 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,520 conference. Now we are after culture. 552 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,000 Like, you know, all these people who have the word culture and 553 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 like, yeah, like it's just I culture. 554 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,400 You know it when you have it, you know when you don't, right? 555 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:15,000 But the the chance for culture to root and then actually 556 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,440 prosper is basically non existent. 557 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,240 When you keep whacking people, you just you can't do it, right. 558 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,960 It's the same like same. I'll give you an example, same 559 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,320 with radio, right? You have a team that you think 560 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,200 two people that you think could be good together. 561 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:36,600 And you know after six, 7-8 months and I actually think me 562 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:37,800 and Sal are pretty good example of this. 563 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,400 Because if you look at our last year together versus our first 564 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,120 year, it, I would say it was night and day because I think 565 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:43,880 they were really good moments in the first year as well. 566 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,000 But like year 2 just took off and just became an incredible 567 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,520 show, just a very different great show. 568 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,840 They were great moments the first year, but there were 569 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,800 things that we were working through and figuring out. 570 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,560 It's called real life, right? So, you know, if you don't give 571 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,720 something a chance to prosper and to go through some growing 572 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,000 pains, I'm not a big fan of that unless it's just untenable. 573 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,840 Like if it's on immediately untenable, like if somebody has 574 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,360 no professionalism, if they're always late to work, if they 575 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,440 don't show up, if they don't do their homework, whatever it 576 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,160 might be pertaining to whatever craft it might be, then that's 577 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,440 different. Like, not that you are now 578 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,280 poisoning the building. You have to go now. 579 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,200 You gots to go now You can't leave. 580 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,800 Now you must leave. You know, to reverse the quote 581 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:30,280 in the movie right now, you can't leave a great soundtrack 582 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,760 to just comes in, closes the door, click, we got trouble 583 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,520 here. Those bikers get their face 584 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,960 kicked in. So I just don't understand how 585 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,040 the New York Jets are an appealing destination at all. 586 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,920 And I really want to know how the revamping of the coach, even 587 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,960 if it's Wayne, whatever you know it's going, it's going to be AI. 588 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,160 Guess it's going to be a decent name. 589 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,880 But for at least for the defense coordinator. 590 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,720 How are you supposed to attract quality coaches when Aaron 591 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,600 Glenn, if he has one bad game in Week 1, his flame, his seat will 592 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,720 erupt in flames immediately. That's the problem at 15 years, 593 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,320 Jay, we're we're so doomed with Glenn. 594 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,560 Football's basically dead. If you're a Jets fan, McDermott 595 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,240 sitting out there waiting now. All right, I get that. 596 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,880 Appreciate it. But I don't think that you're 597 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,440 doomed with Glenn. I think you're doomed with 598 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,280 Woody. What is the problem? 599 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,640 Like it all funnels uphill, you know what I mean? 600 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,520 It really all funnels uphill. So we could talk here and we can 601 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,640 think about, you know, whether it's a Darnell, whether it's a 602 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,720 Geno before that to a lesser extent, you know, whether it's a 603 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,360 Joe Douglas, maybe it's a Robert Sala, you know, 2 point O watch. 604 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,200 He'll probably be better than he was with The Jets. 605 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,720 You can almost book that. So to me it's not an Aaron Glenn 606 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,640 problem. Now he might not have the 607 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,560 shoulders that are broad enough to actually work around that 608 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,880 looming figure of losing that Woody Johnson is forever and has 609 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,360 been until dispelled like Woody Johnson is an owner is a loser 610 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,000 period. Like that's I'm not trying to be 611 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,720 mean. That's not personal as an owner, 612 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,680 he is a loser literally based on his record loser and as bad 613 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,440 about as big a loser record wise as you could possibly be in the 614 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,880 NFL. Now, what you can do is you 615 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,000 could scream about coaches and GM getting fired at or retained 616 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,800 or whatever. You could and, and there might 617 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,920 be change. Sometimes teams react to that 618 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,480 noise. Owners don't react to you 619 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,480 banging the the door down for them to, you know, sell the 620 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,000 team. So I don't really waste a whole 621 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,400 lot of energy on Woody except to say he's awful. 622 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,520 And as long as he's here, I believe any success that The 623 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,680 Jets have will be #1 intermittent, cuz you'll get in 624 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,240 the way of any success early. And I think it will be kind of 625 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,720 by accident and like good fortune, you know, I don't I 626 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,200 don't know that The Jets I don't think that The Jets will unless 627 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:50,720 Mooji is even better than I think. 628 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,400 And that that's possible. Like, you know, if if he just 629 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,520 does something that is completely unexpected and 630 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,920 maneuvers somehow the draft and uncovers a quarterback or maybe 631 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:03,480 it's Ty Simpson, whatever at whatever pick, or maybe he uses 632 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,200 a second round pick, maybe not even the Colts pick, but maybe 633 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,680 he does something that changes the fortunes of The Jets. 634 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,680 All right, I'm going to leave the door open for that because I 635 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,440 believe in his a valid is evaluating talents and I believe 636 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,920 in some of the moves he's made already. 637 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,000 He's been bold, he's been proactive, he's shown a a nice 638 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,960 sense of, of modern, I get modern adaptability and and 639 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,680 modern aggressiveness in the NFL. 640 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,640 Like he's a younger GM who's willing to deal and not just 641 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,040 sitting around while I've got the I've got the, you know, 642 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,280 second pick and I've got the 16th pick and nothing else I 643 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,960 could do. No going to go out there and 644 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,080 look at everything and see who I like and if there's something 645 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,280 out there that is very, very bold and some might not be 646 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,400 willing to do, but I believe it's best for this team. 647 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,640 We're doing it, you know, so I don't understand what I do. 648 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,280 But this is not the problem here with The Jets. 649 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,640 Like, how are you supposed to attract good coaches? 650 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,920 And I just said this before, but I need to get back to this 651 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,760 because this is the reality of where The Jets are. 652 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,960 The coaches. Yeah, you'll have a coaching 653 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,600 staff. What good coach? 654 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:10,800 What credible coach is going to willingly say? 655 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,960 Meaning when I say willingly, meaning you've got other 656 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,280 options. And if you're a good coach and 657 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,240 you're a credible coach, you got options. 658 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,320 Like The Jets aren't the only team that's calling, but why in 659 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:27,120 the world are you going to hit your wagon to that circus where 660 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:37,600 let's say The Jets lose Week 137 to 1040 to 13 that day, Week 1 661 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,560 hot seat already. He's on the hot seat. 662 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:47,080 And when I say hot seat, I mean flames to the ceiling Week 1 and 663 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,520 you're going to say, yeah, that's a place and I'm going to 664 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,080 go willingly work when I could go here and work maybe a lesser 665 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,360 role, maybe 5070 thousand bucks less, maybe $100,000 less, 666 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:58,920 whatever the pit might be more, whatever. 667 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,080 But I'm going to go to the do a healthy building with a 668 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,160 reputable coach and say if I'm on the offensive side of the 669 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,920 ball with a young quarterback that I can help. 670 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,800 Or if you're defensive background, you know, with a 671 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,080 good pass rush, maybe a good cover corner, with a good 672 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,000 linebacker that you know that you can mold, you're going to go 673 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,120 to The Jets. You're going to opt for that. 674 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,320 When you have options. No, when you don't have options, 675 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,240 you are. But people who are desired 676 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,400 generally have options. Generally, especially in the 677 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,960 coaching ranks when there's so many different positions, you 678 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,720 can create a position consultant. 679 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,240 Think about what Rabel did. Mike Rabel did it last year when 680 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:41,200 he was fired. So it's it's very depressing and 681 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,360 it's depressing for the wrong reasons. 682 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,680 Not that The Jets are cursed and they'll never win because of Joe 683 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,160 Name. It's guarantee that it's 684 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:55,440 depressing and it seems hopeless because the owner is lost. 685 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,840 No vision, no connections, no authority, no clue. 686 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,080 He's awful. He's awful. 687 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,640 That's what's going on with The Jets. 688 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,400 I mean, I'm happy for Sam Darnold. 689 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,719 I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting a little 690 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:12,920 softer as I get a little bit older. 691 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:14,560 I think he's an awesome young man. 692 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,159 What the hell did Sam Darnold do to US? 693 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,080 Well, I'm going to root against Sam Darnold. 694 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:19,639 Yeah, I'm going to root for the Patriots. 695 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,840 Go get them pets. Yeah, I'm going to root against 696 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,679 the guy who was drafted by The Jets, who I really like the 697 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:26,760 night that they drafted him and I really liked for the first 698 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,639 year or so. I'm going to turn on the kid 699 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,679 because and and I'm going to root for the Pats. 700 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,320 I can't remain agnostic. You can't hope that nobody wins. 701 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,199 Somebody's going to win the Super Bowl. 702 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,320 Let's go, Seattle. Let's go, Sammy. 703 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,960 All right. At TRIPWIRE 5590. 704 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,719 Let's see here. I can't help but feel The Jets 705 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,600 are doomed, especially when you see these other teams hiring new 706 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,719 coaches and The Jets are stuck with Aaron Glenn. 707 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,000 Well, they're not stuck with Aaron Glenn. 708 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,239 They are electing to remain married to Aaron Glenn because 709 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,200 what you could easily do. I know it's a little late in the 710 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,760 cycle, but this is what I mean. If The Jets like if Woody, if 711 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,280 Woody had NFL connections, right? 712 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,080 Think about. And I hate to do this because it 713 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,440 just further illuminates how lost and said the team that I 714 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,160 inexplicably all those years ago decided to root for. 715 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,840 Like a loser, like an idiot. I wish I was a Giants fan, but 716 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,640 the Giants have had this horrendous run. 717 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,160 But when it was time to bunker together, what happened? 718 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:26,000 They coalesced, right? John Mara, Chris Mara, Tish, Eli 719 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,760 Coughlin, even Dabel, the guy that you fired. 720 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,840 You think Robert Sala would say anything nice about the New York 721 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,200 Jets? You think he would? 722 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:38,680 Would you? So they coalesce and as a unit, 723 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,160 as a force, as a central force in the NFL, like a figure that 724 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,960 was always respected big time, the brand was diminished. 725 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,960 But God, Eli, not to mention Gifford annoyed. 726 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,960 Why a Titto? Come on, man. 727 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,600 Parcells, Coughlin, Eli or Strahan Banks, you name it, do 728 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:02,040 what was Phil do this all day, all day, right, Hostetler 729 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,360 stepping in and winning a Super Bowl. 730 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,640 What do you got for The Jets? What do you what do you have? 731 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,720 They got your name it. And that's pretty much it. 732 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,800 So when it's time for The Jets to coalesce and to get out their 733 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,000 big guns and line them up to try to do something big and 734 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,880 something that will ultimately change the like the direction 735 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,080 and the trajectory of the team. Who the Hell's Coleman to speak 736 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,480 on the virtues of The Jets? Vinnie Testaverde. 737 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,760 I love Vinnie. Vinnie's going to call. 738 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,800 He's played for 9 teams. You know, Adam Gase. 739 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:36,440 Maybe Adam Gase could pick up the phone the hell out of here. 740 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,960 So they're not doomed because of Aaron Glenn. 741 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:45,320 They're doomed because the owner, unfortunately, is 742 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:51,120 incredibly wealthy, and that wealth enabled him to permeate 743 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:56,120 the NFL family. But his inability to understand 744 00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:00,320 anything about, I don't mean third and seven blitzes, I'm 745 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,160 about constructing a healthy building. 746 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,200 Is 00. Woody Johnson? 747 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,120 No clue. None. 748 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,000 So if I thought that Woody Johnson could make a call and 749 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,600 have a conversation with Sean McDermott. 750 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,040 Hey, Sean, listen, we weren't going to do this. 751 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,360 We didn't know if he would get fired. 752 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,200 What do you think about coming? And if Sean said I'm interested, 753 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,080 I want to come and fix you guys. You fire Aaron Glenn today, you 754 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,160 fire him right now. But that dope won't do that. 755 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,840 He's not even thinking about doing that. 756 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,240 Instead, he is allowing somebody who won three games and whose 757 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:37,920 team was inept 95% of the season, 90% of the season firing 758 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,360 all the coaches he willingly brought in one year ago. 759 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,640 You can't make this up, man. You really can't at keep it 760 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,560 simple. RCBTI. 761 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,880 Remember when Leon has made Pete Carroll A1 and done coach? 762 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,720 Yeah, probably because of the fake spike that was 94. 763 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,600 So so he went in the Iron Coat site. 764 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,200 History is not in our favor. Making guys one and done well. 765 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,120 I don't lean on that. That's an interesting historical 766 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,560 reference. I appreciate that too. 767 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,600 That was ironically Aaron Glenn getting burned on the fake 768 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,720 spike. That was Boomers team. 769 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,960 That was Pete's first year. Jets were really good and then 770 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,400 they went winless in December and I think it was O15. 771 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,760 I don't even think it was O 14. I'm pretty sure they were O15. 772 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,400 They were a lot to be a playoff team. 773 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,000 I thought that team was good and then lost, lost, lost, lost, 774 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,280 lost. They're out. 775 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,760 Carol's gone. Yep, that was 94. 776 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:29,680 And then Kotide comes in and Rich goes 3 and 13. 777 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,240 So the regression continues. And then the next year they go 1 778 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,600 and 15. And then Parcells comes in nine 779 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,560 and 7:12 and 4:00 AFC Championship. 780 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:42,800 And think about the staff that think about the staff that Bill 781 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,520 Parcells brought in. Think about the staff. 782 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,920 I think Belichick was there, Weiss. 783 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,840 I mean, think about some of the names on that staff. 784 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,640 And now think about some of the names, some of the scraps that 785 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,880 Aaron Glenn is looking through now to try to save his job and 786 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,120 to resuscitate a franchise. You know, it's like this is so 787 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,800 you guys ever get the like the rotisserie chickens right from 788 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,720 the supermarket? Well, I don't know. 789 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:15,080 For some reason, like my wife has this aversion, like even 790 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,800 when she gets steak any like veal, she can't eat anything on 791 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,960 the bone. But she's from Texas. 792 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:21,720 I mean, I don't care how big the bone is. 793 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,160 I'm eating it. So it's my job when she gets it 794 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,680 and I'll buy it sometimes as well. 795 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,600 But it's my job to take all of the meat off of the chicken, the 796 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,600 chicken off of the bone, right? And I put it in a little 797 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,160 separate pots. The kids could eat it, whatever. 798 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,200 Now as I'm doing that, I'm also eating, I'm also eating some of 799 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,920 the good juicy stuff because when you get it, it's still a 800 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,080 little bit warm because it's got the, the, the lamp on it. 801 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,960 And there comes a point invariably when you get down to 802 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,080 the core skeleton of the chicken, right? 803 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,680 And there's not, not a whole lot to eat. 804 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,880 And you got a nice big bowl of of of chicken for the house. 805 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,960 And then you're like, I'm still hungry. 806 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,040 I'm like, you trying to like whittle away a little Is that is 807 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,360 that meat F bone skin? Throw it out and you get very 808 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,400 little, little teeny tiny pieces of meat. 809 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,160 But you're looking hard. It's like he's like a scavenger, 810 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,240 right? That's what he's looking. 811 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,800 That's that's what he's trying to do with his coaching reboot. 812 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,960 I mean, how is this going to work out? 813 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,520 And without a quarterback and let's listen, whether it's Malik 814 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,600 Willis and we've already talked a little bit about the 815 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,280 quarterback options for The Jets and we'll do it more extensively 816 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,480 getting into the draft and all that stuff. 817 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,800 Not necessarily today, but like, does anybody think that The Jets 818 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,480 are going to just transform themselves into a 10 or 11 win 819 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,400 team next year? Now, I'm not saying that they 820 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,200 they can't be a lot more competitive with a couple of 821 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,960 good draft picks here. I think they could be because 822 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,640 the old line is good and at least you get a chance to be a 823 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,600 functional offense. And if the defense is a little 824 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,520 bit better with some of those picks and free agency, yeah, I I 825 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,200 do think that The Jets could take a nice step in the 826 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,080 competitive direction. But until that happens, man, I 827 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:02,240 I, I, I, I, I don't, I don't know how we avoid catastrophe in 828 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,120 the first month of September if it doesn't go well immediately 829 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,640 for Aaron Glenn coming up this season, 2026. 830 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,240 I mean, again, if they lose ugly in Week 1, it's on. 831 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:15,120 It's already on. I am in the I'm in and I'm like, 832 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,960 my faith is dwindling by the moment with the staff stuff. 833 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,960 But while I was never all in on bringing Aaron Glenn back, I 834 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,080 certainly need more just to give him a chance. 835 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,000 I do think he's a good football man. 836 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,560 I do think he's a leader of men. And I want to give that a chance 837 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,240 to root, as I've said a couple of times here. 838 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,280 But this is just so disheartening because now it's 839 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,920 like, man, oh man. You look at what works in the 840 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:42,120 NFL and let's face it, what The Jets are doing, what The Jets 841 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,840 from the process of doing is completely counter to what 842 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,360 generally works in the NFL. It's absolutely nuts here. 843 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,160 What's this all about? This was about, I don't think 844 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,320 you just dropped one in there as well, but keep it simple. 845 00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,120 I see AG bringing in right to mentor Engstrat. 846 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,520 All right, Yeah, I mean, I've seen that a little bit as well, 847 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,160 we'll say. So you think you think you're 848 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,280 making the firing of their since it's a big deal that it needs to 849 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,440 be? No, I don't think so because 850 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,480 what it does, I appreciate the text there, but I don't think it 851 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,520 changes my point at all. But I think it only reinforces 852 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,080 it. I'm not saying that you can't 853 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,360 get a good option out there, but although I do think that the 854 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,200 percentages decrease dramatically when you have a 855 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,240 coach going into Year 2 on a hot seat, as hot as anybody. 856 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,040 Just go to, you know, go to go to any website, Google any 857 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,160 engine and type in coaches on the hot seat entering next 858 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:33,720 season. Who's hotter than Eric Glenn? 859 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:38,920 Who? So the fact that, you know, he 860 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:45,640 already constructed a poor staff year 10 for one, in terms of the 861 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,160 record. Oh, for one, in terms of really 862 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,200 did he cleaned it up a little bit at the back end, but 863 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,880 certainly the first couple of months was a mess dealing with 864 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,920 the media, which is a big part of the job here. 865 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,440 Dabel always kind of kept his his wits about him there, even 866 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,000 when things were going wrong. Dabel never sweat Dabel never 867 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,880 chirp back. Really Dabel, I thought 868 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,400 presented himself in a way that I know he was burdened inside 869 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,320 because he's a competitive guy, but he didn't let the media see 870 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,920 that. Whereas you know you, you had 871 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,760 the antagonistic approach by Aaron Glenn, which is good if if 872 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,280 you're winning and when you're not, when you get in smoked as 873 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,680 as he was in the second-half, it comes across as very hollow and 874 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,800 very feeble. So he didn't hire the right 875 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,720 staff. He didn't win and he didn't 876 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:26,960 really deal with the media very well. 877 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,200 So what did he do? Well, I mean, it's a very short 878 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,320 list. He really didn't do much. 879 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,480 A special teams was very good. There were fewer penalties, you 880 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,160 know, not an incredible amount, but you got to start somewhere. 881 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,920 And and I do appreciate that. And I don't just gloss over that 882 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,360 or ignore that like some people do. 883 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,360 Is they just bury Aaron A-Z. I'm not saying that. 884 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,840 And when The Jets, you know, when they entered the season, 885 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,600 they were ready to play football, which tells me they 886 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,840 had a pretty good training camp because they should have beat 887 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,200 the Steelers early. You know, really outside of the 888 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,040 Bills in the Dallas game, The Jets were incredibly competitive 889 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,760 up until really after the Browns game. 890 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,080 So well. So they win before the yeah, 891 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,640 they win. Before the bye, they win after 892 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,160 the buy and that's where things really start to implode. 893 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,640 But that's where the injuries and the trades with Q and sauce. 894 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,240 So I, I just try to be fair and react to you know what he's 895 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:16,720 trying to coach and weigh it all the good, the bad, the stuff 896 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:20,080 that I'm not really sure about and put it in a blender and hit 897 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,760 a button and see what comes out and what comes out as a hot 898 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,200 mess. Because right now you're now 899 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,080 asking him to go and hire people. 900 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,960 I, I just don't know why they would want to. 901 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,440 Why do you want to work for this guy? 902 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,360 I, I, I don't know, you might love Aaron Glenn, but how do you 903 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,040 believe in him? It's a stable situation, you say 904 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,720 if you live in Chicago or out West or Indiana or down South, 905 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,840 you're going to move your whole family to Florham Park to coach 906 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,640 for Aaron Glenn's Jets. That instability, I'm going to 907 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,240 pass. I'll do a little TV for a year 908 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,040 or I'll be a consultant and I'll go somewhere I've got a chance 909 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,160 to stick at Land Corleone. Thank you for that, buddy. 910 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,400 What's going on? All right, How long is the Aaron 911 00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,880 Glenn timeline if he doesn't win in 2026 to give him a new 912 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:04,360 quarterback if he might not be here in 2027? 913 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,200 Well, listen, first of all, thank you for that. 914 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,920 Appreciate you hopping in there, Don Good stuff. 915 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,040 I would think that anything that The Jets do from a quarterback 916 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:16,280 point of view would be with the intention of finding the right 917 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,240 guy independent of who the head coach is. 918 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,400 Like you're and I think this is pretty basic stuff. 919 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,560 You're not looking at the at The Jets quarterback possibilities 920 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,240 and saying, well, this guy looks like somebody who can flourish 921 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:29,920 on their Aaron Glenn. I don't even know what that 922 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,520 means. I mean the the offense or what 923 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,120 is it? So you're just looking for 924 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,600 somebody who's Got Talent and you're looking for somebody like 925 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,680 Drake May who you know, a new coach comes in. 926 00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:40,240 Yep, I want to work with that guy. 927 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,080 Yep, that guy's good. Yep, I can win with that dude. 928 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,760 Yep, your job as a so that's number one, so it's not 929 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:51,120 dependent upon Aaron Glenn and what's the timeline if he 930 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,480 doesn't win? Thank you, J Rod, you can get 931 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:53,760 that down. Thank you very much, buddy. 932 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,080 What's the time look at J Rod on top of it, my man, if you if he 933 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:01,400 doesn't win in like he's not going to get into November. 934 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,160 I mean, if The Jets are not, I don't even know, honestly. 935 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,560 No, I don't have the schedule yet, so I can't even play the 936 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,280 schedule game, which I would if I had it. 937 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:17,960 Like if The Jets are, you know, one in six, I mean, one in five 938 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,080 O and four. And it's ugly. 939 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,600 He's getting fired early. Eric Glenn will absolutely be 940 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,680 the first head coach that's fired and he should be at that 941 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,400 point. So no, you're not doing anything 942 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,960 to save Aaron's job. And you know, that's one of the 943 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,960 things that we spoke about. It was a common theme for the 944 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,520 Giants situation when they elected to bring back Joe Shane 945 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,160 and Brian Dabel. Like, all right, man, you know, 946 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,880 are you are you are you going to run Jackson Dorton to the ground 947 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,560 to save you job or blah, blah, blah. 948 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,120 And you know, those are dynamics that you don't really want 949 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,000 hovering over team anything, anybody that Muji drafts while 950 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,600 he wants his guy to succeed because they came in together. 951 00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,160 Muji's distinguished himself more than Aaron. 952 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:02,640 So I would think if Aaron Glenn is fired during the season or 953 00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,920 right after the season, and at this point, take your bets 954 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,000 collecting them right here, that he will be well, then I would 955 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,680 also collect bets that Mooji stays because I think Mooji's 956 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,720 pretty good. I think that he's viewed as more 957 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:15,040 of an asset. But then then Aaron, because 958 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,720 he's earned that so far in a small sample. 959 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:19,280 But then again, you never know what Woody Johnson's thinking. 960 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,880 So I could think that it could be the practical football 961 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,240 thought by people who actually know football. 962 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,360 And then you got Woody and his Dolby Football theories and 963 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:32,680 nonsensible and nonsensical football thoughts and irrational 964 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,240 moves. Who knows what he's going to do? 965 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,920 I, I really don't know. I'm just telling you what I 966 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,320 would do. So we got a little bit on the 967 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,040 some of the coaching mistakes from yesterday with Peyton and 968 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,040 with McVeigh. Definitely rooting for Sam 969 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,520 certainly debunked the the thought that you have to have a 970 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,880 young, hot offensive coach like that's who you should be looking 971 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,360 for. And you have to marry that that 972 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,880 young offensive minded coach with a with a top quarterback 973 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,800 prospect. You get to and win a Super Bowl. 974 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,680 Well, I mean, again, if you just tuned in, look who's coaching 975 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,480 this weekend, McDonald defense, Rabel defense, Darnell bounce 976 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,400 around what, half a half a dozen, basically half a dozen 977 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,560 teams at this point. And Drake May is the one who 978 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,400 does fit that model. So a very interesting weekend. 979 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,760 I don't mind snow games. I know it certainly takes away 980 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,280 from the playbook, but man, there's something so appealing 981 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,320 when you sitting there and you just you can't even see what 982 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,200 like where's the first down mark or what? 983 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,640 Where are they? Are they at midfield? 984 00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,520 Are they at get their own 40? Did they cross midfield? 985 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,600 You know, balls popping loose out of players hands because you 986 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,480 can't get a good grip. It's just it's really it. 987 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,200 It's amazing. I mean it just brings you back 988 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,000 to when you play football on the street when it snowed, that's 989 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,680 the first thing we would do Couldn't wait. 990 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:47,920 I'm not saying it's just fun for those guys. 991 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,280 I mean they're playing for their livelihoods, but I wouldn't 992 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,280 money and prestige and legacy and all that stuff. 993 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,680 But I would imagine on on certainly from a defensive point 994 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,040 of view, you probably relish that. 995 00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,560 You don't think an offensive lineman you think he minds being 996 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,160 you know, seeing all that snow? I don't think so. 997 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,520 What else do I got? Yes, The Jets situation is 998 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,640 awful. I got one really, really, really 999 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,480 quick New York Knick issue or item All right, so the Knicks be 1000 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,800 I was in I was and I got something on Pitino. 1001 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,960 So I was in Cincinnati over the weekend. 1002 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,880 I did not get a chance to watch the the Knick game obvious I was 1003 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,520 following when I got on the on the St. 1004 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,440 John's plane. I was able to see, you know, 1005 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,160 what was going on and Knicks win could win. 1006 00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,040 Interesting though, you know, as they beat Philly, Knicks have a 1007 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,400 world of issues still. Knicks are not going to win 1008 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,440 anything with this group. I don't care what anybody says. 1009 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,160 And what I find interesting about this is that the two 1010 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,280 players that I'm most down on, like the two players that I want 1011 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,360 off the team, Cat for sure and Mikhail Bridges more and more 1012 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:50,800 and more think about how non how much of A non impact they had as 1013 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,880 the game went on. Cat played 16 minutes 16 and had 1014 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:59,840 six fouls and Bridges was 3 for 16 and shot one for 9 from 3 1015 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,000 point territory. So now the Sixers aren't the 1016 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,320 Thunder or or Denver whatever, but pretty good, got some talent 1017 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:07,880 and the Knicks have not been playing well. 1018 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,000 So you certainly not going to thumb your nose at any win. 1019 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,960 But how about Mitch? How about Shamit, my guy? 1020 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,480 Shamit, you know, I love him. How about dudes playing well? 1021 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,120 I mean, maybe there is a way to salvage this, but they still got 1022 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:19,960 to make a trade. Like there's just there. 1023 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,640 There's just no evidence that it's going to rectify itself 1024 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,680 here with Kat and with Mike Brown and his usage and the 1025 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,480 things he's not good at. And then, you know, and I talked 1026 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:31,920 about this extensively a week ago. 1027 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,240 If you guys are new to the pod, go and find it on the on the 1028 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:36,160 YouTube page there. It's right there. 1029 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:40,840 The the national media was parachuting in strongly. 1030 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,840 I know Ramona Shelbourne, Shelburne, you know what I'm 1031 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:46,760 talking about. A good reporter, not trying to 1032 00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,600 mess her name up intentionally. She's good. 1033 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:52,520 She had a good report that some of the Knicks were very unhappy 1034 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:56,760 with Mike Brown hugging Draymond after what went down with CAD, 1035 00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,880 grabbing his ankle, tripping him and all that smack that he's 1036 00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,760 been talking all these years. No kidding. 1037 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,800 I mean, what did I say? That's common sense. 1038 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,800 Now she's got the report. I told you that six days ago. 1039 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,360 So there are issues that are not going to be resolved with the 1040 00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,440 New York Knicks, right? One of them is Cat and is is 1041 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,680 pension for dumb fouls and sloppiness. 1042 00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:17,760 And the other one and he's soft at times. 1043 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,960 And the other one is Michael Bridges, who simply is not the 1044 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,360 guy that we thought we were getting. 1045 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,000 Not that we thought we were getting Scottie Pippen, but did 1046 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,400 anybody else think that Bridges was at least just a little bit 1047 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,840 better defensively? A little bit, you know, and I 1048 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,000 know that OG escaped some of the heat and he played well the 1049 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,920 other day too. But at least OG plays with like 1050 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,160 a tenacity that he doesn't chirp, doesn't talk smack, but 1051 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,800 he bodies you up and he plays hard and he dunks and he like he 1052 00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,040 just plays with a vengeance, like a controlled vengeance, a 1053 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:49,320 controlled rage and inner fire that I appreciate. 1054 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:50,720 So I'm not looking to get rid of OG. 1055 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,000 Bridges, do whatever you want and you get rid of him. 1056 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,960 Cat, do whatever you want, get rid of him. 1057 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,280 So I just thought it was interesting the Knicks finally 1058 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,920 had a good win and, you know, two of the guys, especially Cat. 1059 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,280 But if you're really no basketball, you did not absolve 1060 00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,600 Bridges from any sort of blame. I think everybody just kind of 1061 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,480 parachutes in lazily and pounds on Cat. 1062 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:17,280 He's an easy target, like the big kind of goofy center, you 1063 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,280 know, who we perceive to be a little soft, whereas the other 1064 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,520 guy who plays every night, the NB as Iron Man, kind of escapes 1065 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,440 any sort of criticisms. No, what not for me. 1066 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,840 I think Bridges is soft. I think he's just a different 1067 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,640 kind of soft there. So that was interesting. 1068 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,320 And I get to get a win. I just don't think it changes 1069 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:34,240 much. I really don't. 1070 00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,160 I don't think it changes anything, as a matter of fact. 1071 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,480 So that is that for there. I mentioned St. 1072 00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,520 John's, Willie under score, 185 BT Where do we listen to you for 1073 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:43,520 the St. John's broadcast? 1074 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,600 All the best from Downtown Brooklyn. 1075 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,800 I actually lived in Downtown Brooklyn, not far from Montague 1076 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:49,800 St. Thank you for that. 1077 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:54,920 It was my first apartment right out of college and the only 1078 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,760 reason I was able to afford it was because my best friend, his 1079 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,440 dad, owned it. And you want to talk about a 1080 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,360 score? I mean, his dad and his dad's 1081 00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:08,600 brother bought brownstones in Downtown Brooklyn and like I 1082 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,080 think the early 70s, I think certainly 70s, I think it was 1083 00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,920 the early 70s, maybe mid either way that owned the whole 1084 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,760 building and we had the top floor and I think we paid 300 1085 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,840 bucks a month. Oh my God, that was right out of 1086 00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,360 college. Man attended bar. 1087 00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,560 I was interning at WFANI was trying to get into the business. 1088 00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,720 So I know Downtown Brooklyn pretty well. 1089 00:53:29,720 --> 00:53:32,960 I got, I must have gotten towed. I must have had my car or 1090 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,360 somebody else's car towed at least five times when I lived 1091 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,040 there for about the year and a half that I lived there, 1092 00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:40,960 couldn't park and I had no money to pay for a garage. 1093 00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,240 So, you know, you come home, you, you know, you want to get 1094 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:46,040 on with your night, you just park the car wherever you park 1095 00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,520 the car, you get home in the morning. 1096 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,040 It's not there. That is an unsettling feeling. 1097 00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:54,120 But where do you listen to Saint John's? 1098 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,240 We are now on the radio. So last couple of years we have 1099 00:53:57,240 --> 00:54:00,480 not been, which I thought it was a major disservice to, to the 1100 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,880 school and the profile and they were trying to get on, they were 1101 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,320 trying to get on the fan, as a matter of fact. 1102 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,960 But you know, there's a relationship which I got and I, 1103 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,280 I respect and I, I get it with Rutgers. 1104 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,800 So there was some conflict there. 1105 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,360 But I know that at one point they were trying to get 1106 00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:15,920 something done and it just didn't work out. 1107 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,120 St. John's used to be on the fan. 1108 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,920 I used to, used to listen to him on the fan all the time. 1109 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,720 So now it's 880 and it's 1050 ESPN or 10:50 AMI don't know if 1110 00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:28,440 it's still ESPNI know 880 is ESPN 1050. 1111 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,360 ESPN used to be ESPN when I was there. 1112 00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,280 I don't think it's still ESPN might be Deporte's. 1113 00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,840 Whatever it is, it's 1050. All right, So it's it's either 1114 00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,240 on 880 or 10:50 and then it's still on the varsity app, which 1115 00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:41,640 by the way, is really, really good. 1116 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,520 So what you hear coming out of your speakers in the car with me 1117 00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,400 and Mink, you will also hear on the varsity app, which is 1118 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,280 terrific. So if you're not in the area or 1119 00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,120 if say, you know, because I know the AM signals, signals a little 1120 00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,640 spotty in certain, certain spots to be redundant. 1121 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,440 You know, the app, it's free downloaded, stream it right into 1122 00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,200 the car. Boom. 1123 00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,400 Good. Like until we got on the radio, 1124 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,480 that's how my kids would really, most of my son would really 1125 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:05,640 watch the St. John's game. 1126 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,240 He wanted to hear dad calling the games. 1127 00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,520 And we weren't on the radio for a couple years, which was 1128 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,360 driving me nuts. Good to be back on. 1129 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,080 So he would watch the game on TV and he would just put the app 1130 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:16,360 on. So that's really good. 1131 00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,800 But yeah, that's where we are. So one more thing, and I'm going 1132 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,960 to do this a little bit more extensively at some point 1133 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,280 because I think there's so much there, right? 1134 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,920 And by the way, J Rod, any more comments that pop in, whether 1135 00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,600 it's about the NFL, The Jets, obviously Arnold Super Bowl 1136 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,240 match up, debunking the NFL narrative about offensive 1137 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:38,040 coaches, a little something on the Knicks, the Johnnies, 1138 00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:39,440 whatever. I mean, you can just fire them 1139 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:40,360 up. We're going to go a little bit 1140 00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,760 more here. So over the weekend, as I 1141 00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,440 mentioned before, I'm in Cincinnati, OH for Saint John 1142 00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,720 Xavier. Now, back in the day, I used to 1143 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:50,720 love this. I used to travel all the time. 1144 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,400 So the previous configuration of the Big East, whether it was, 1145 00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,440 you know, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, you know, 1146 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:03,560 obviously Syracuse and Pit, like I've been to all those venues, 1147 00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,680 Miami back in the day, and I loved it. 1148 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,400 Like that's when I was younger. I was single, I have no kids and 1149 00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:13,960 I could travel and really the reason why I was able to do it. 1150 00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,800 This was the biggest impediment not I could still travel as I 1151 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,080 traveled this weekend with with a family. 1152 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:25,520 But for a long time Saint John's radio games were on with within 1153 00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,400 the family of the station that I used to work at. 1154 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,720 So when I was at 10:50, ESPN Radio, Stephen A, you know, 1155 00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:34,520 Michael, Don Greedy and goal Mike and Mike in the morning, 1156 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,880 Colin was there that that that time stamp, right. 1157 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,560 Well, St. John's was on either 1050, 1158 00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:45,240 either, you know, on the main station or like I think radial 1159 00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:48,760 Disney, which may have been 560 or some other subset of the 1160 00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:52,200 company. So it was easy to justify, Hey, 1161 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,600 St. John's is going to Notre Dame. 1162 00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,800 Can I make the trip? Yeah, because the game was going 1163 00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,160 to be on our station. And you know, I was, I was doing 1164 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,960 night shows and for the most part, I wasn't really full time 1165 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,600 in the day part yet, like 1:50 like or whatever, like I was 1166 00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,840 with Jody Mack or Stephen A. So I would travel all the time. 1167 00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,200 I travel now for the NCAA tournament. 1168 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,440 You know, I'll drive down to Philly for Villanova, I'll drive 1169 00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,360 up to Providence, do a Rhode Island game. 1170 00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,000 I'll obviously go out to Seton Hall, do Seton Hall games. 1171 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,440 But it's just now it's easier. I'd make my own schedule now. 1172 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,480 But that which is why I traveled this weekend, but the last bunch 1173 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,760 of years I've not been traveling and man, I miss it. 1174 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:34,040 It is awesome going to these other venues and the Cintas 1175 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:38,640 Center is absolutely fantastic. It's fantastic and I always do 1176 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,400 was good. Matter of fact, the last time I 1177 00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:44,880 was at the Cintas Center, which is Xavier's home was 2015. 1178 00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,760 And I mean that's jeez, that's so long ago. 1179 00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,160 And they won and that was I remember right. 1180 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,560 She Jordan hit a massive 3 late and I think Jamal Branch, if you 1181 00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,560 remember you were a big St. John's fan, had a big steal in a 1182 00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,400 bucket and that was the win that kind of punctuated St. 1183 00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,840 John's resume. They needed a quad one Rd. win 1184 00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,680 and they got it and it now the metrics kind of split or or 1185 00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,760 tilted favorably. Saint John's got in the big 1186 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,720 dance and that was the first NCAA game I ever did. 1187 00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,320 So that one meant so much. They lost. 1188 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,160 Of course, the San Diego State won it done. 1189 00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,080 But it was awesome because, you know, I started doing these 1190 00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,760 games in O3O4 when Mike Jarvis was the coach, and then all 1191 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,000 those years with no tournaments, it really meant the world to me 1192 00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:26,240 to finally sit there and go to an NCAA tournament. 1193 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,680 I really did. So I'll never forget that 2015 1194 00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,080 game. So anyway, it was a fun weekend. 1195 00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,160 St. John's was down a bunch. 1196 00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:37,160 They found a way to win which which was amazing and and now 1197 00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,000 Saint John's is like they're going to be ranked that should 1198 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,520 be coming out in 2 hours. Their numbers are great. 1199 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,360 There are five seed right now moving up big win, but bigger 1200 00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,040 picture. All right, let me just get this 1201 00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:47,560 in here real fast. Robert Huertas. 1202 00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,440 What up Rob BT just a baseball mansion sort of change for 1203 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:51,200 football. That's all right. 1204 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:52,360 I was going to do a hot stove anyway. 1205 00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:57,400 When you do when you do hot stole news play gathering proud 1206 00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:02,600 song, the gathering crowd song from this week in baseball as 1207 00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,200 the opener. Listen, there's certain things 1208 00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,000 like certain songs you can't play based on trademark stuff 1209 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,080 and and all that. So I've got to be careful. 1210 00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,440 But man, oh man, I I I mean this week in baseball, Oh my God, 1211 00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,400 I'll give you a little aside here, very quick aside. 1212 00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,160 I know I always say that I'll give you a quick aside and then 1213 00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:20,800 nothing I say is ever quick. I can't help it. 1214 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,480 I can't help it, but I'll try to make this quick. 1215 00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:26,640 So I want to get back to Pitino. So anyway, so baseball, when 1216 00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:31,160 this week in baseball would come up, you'd hear the theme song. 1217 00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,120 I would be in my basement watching that, right? 1218 00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:38,200 And I remember we had just put down the tile and it was, you 1219 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,920 know, it was very modest. You know, if you live, you know, 1220 00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,280 the homes in in Brooklyn, not the brownstone that my buddy's 1221 00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,520 dad owned. I mean, the homes that the home 1222 00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,320 that I was in, it's like home, home, home, home, very close, 1223 00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,640 you know, a little tiny driveway, you know, just just 1224 00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,040 average homes, right? The value now is ridiculous. 1225 00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,200 But back then just nothing fancy at all. 1226 00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,360 A little teeny backyard. I told you about the basketball 1227 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,800 court, the dead trap where you had a dunk because you couldn't 1228 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,960 take jump shots. That was my my yard, the 1229 01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,800 basement. I guess my dad finally came up 1230 01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,240 with a few bucks and start. And because what I most of the 1231 01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,720 years it was like a boiler, like you go down there. 1232 01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,040 It was scary. Like I when I was like 5-6 years 1233 01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:16,360 old, I wouldn't want to go down there. 1234 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,760 I was scared to go down. It was there was no lights, 1235 01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:23,640 there was no bathroom, just as big as boiler and like hammers 1236 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,120 and wrenches and I don't know whatever else was there. 1237 01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:27,600 I didn't really go down there. Too much. 1238 01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,240 I didn't even want to go down there and play hide and seek. 1239 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:30,720 It was I was, it was scared right? 1240 01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,520 Anyway, they put down this tile and they start to refurbish the 1241 01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,040 basement. Nothing fancy. 1242 01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,240 But now we got a little TVA little bathroom perfect like I 1243 01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,800 loved it. That's where me and my dad 1244 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,920 watched all the knit games and all the baseball and stuff. 1245 01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:47,200 It was pretty much our man cave. My my sister very rarely went 1246 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:48,920 down there. It's just me and my dad and my 1247 01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,440 mom will watch a movie down there sometime. 1248 01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,800 So when baseball and this weekend baseball would come up, 1249 01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:58,080 the theme song, Oh my God, that I love it, I would actually run. 1250 01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:01,000 And the reason I tell you about the tiles because it was so cold 1251 01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,800 down there and the tile was so slippery. 1252 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,560 And back then I had those feeding pajamas because I was 1253 01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:10,040 young, you know, like, you actually just dig in like a 1254 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,520 whole uniform and your feet are covered not with socks, but that 1255 01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:13,520 look, you know what I'm talking about. 1256 01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,360 A lot of kids still have them, like the onesies, I guess is a 1257 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,840 better way to put it. But they would slid so 1258 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,280 perfectly. So I would be like Pete Rose 1259 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,560 sliding. And as the montage of this week 1260 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,920 in baseball is going sequentially through, I am 1261 01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:33,360 emulating each player. Not like Dwight Gooden's wind 1262 01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,120 up. I remember Steve Garvey running 1263 01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:38,160 a front round first base when he when he hits first base, when he 1264 01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,800 hits the home run of the World Series for the Dodgers in 84. 1265 01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:42,920 I mean, I, I know the entire sequence. 1266 01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,280 Donnie, of course, right. Oh my God, Mike Schmidt, when he 1267 01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,640 hits his 500th home run and he starts doing that little dance 1268 01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:51,480 before he gets down the line. And I would do that over and 1269 01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:53,320 over and over with that background. 1270 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,320 But for, you know, purposes of of this, I, I, I can't just use 1271 01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,440 that without permission, But that would be absolutely money. 1272 01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,000 All right, That wasn't as long as I thought it be. 1273 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:08,520 So Rick Pitino won his 900th game this weekend, 900. 1274 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:13,080 Now, when you look at this, and I've said this before, but I 1275 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,120 want to try to substantiate just a little bit. 1276 01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:18,360 All right, you think about, all right, who's the greatest coach 1277 01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,520 of all time? You really, it's obviously a 1278 01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,920 subjective exercise, but when you really think about the 1279 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:26,640 names, there's really not that many. 1280 01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:28,560 And listen, I could rattle off four or five without working, 1281 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,000 looking down the notes. I want to be sure I don't miss 1282 01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,400 anybody. Of course, you can go Wooden, 1283 01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:32,920 Coach K, that's everybody's top 2. 1284 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:39,240 But when you look at them, you you have to understand what I 1285 01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:44,320 think elevates Rick Pitino to possibly the number one spot. 1286 01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:47,040 All right, possibly. Let me flush through it here. 1287 01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:51,000 So John Wooden, all right, generally for the book, the 1288 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:56,280 pyramid of success, you know, 10 titles, 12 years, the godfather 1289 01:02:56,360 --> 01:03:00,440 of college hoops, right coach K5 titles, most wins ever. 1290 01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:05,800 I think it's 12102. Dean Smith, UNC, right, a couple 1291 01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:08,560 of the championships, Adolf Rupp back in the day, University of 1292 01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,600 Kentucky 4 champions now pre segregation. 1293 01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:16,680 So it's you got to measure that. You got to throw that in or, or 1294 01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:17,920 when things were still segregated. 1295 01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,840 Bobby United, Indiana, three titles, undefeated and 76. 1296 01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:25,040 Roy Williams, three titles, Kansas UNC. 1297 01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:27,360 Those are the names that generally if you're having a 1298 01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:31,000 conversation and people understand the history and they 1299 01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,720 know about the game, they will throw that name out. 1300 01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,000 Those those are the names. If you don't hear those names, 1301 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,120 it's a conversation you should just check out of. 1302 01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,080 Now, to be fair to the conversation, I know you've got 1303 01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,920 to also throw Jim Calhoun out there with three championships. 1304 01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,480 Jim Calhoun three, I think you've got to throw in there at 1305 01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:48,560 least. Again, just have the 1306 01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:51,080 conversation. Jay Wright with two 1307 01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,920 championships at Nova and think about who knows what he I mean, 1308 01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:55,440 he's young still just checked out. 1309 01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:56,720 He's like, I'm done with this nonsense. 1310 01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,880 Tom Izzo, great coach. Denny Crum with a couple of the 1311 01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,440 championships at a bunch of Final Fours. 1312 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,480 Louisville great Bayheim, ton of wins. 1313 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,800 I think Bayheim underachieved more than he should have a great 1314 01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,080 coach, but we'll throw Bayheim in there anyway. 1315 01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,920 When you look at those guys right, you know Wooden was at 1316 01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:18,040 one school, Coach Ki know he was an army, but primarily one 1317 01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:19,640 school. Dean Smith, one school. 1318 01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,680 Adolph Rupp, one school. Bobby Knight, 2 schools. 1319 01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:26,280 Texas Tech, but mostly Indiana. Roy Williams 2 schools, both 1320 01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,160 blue bloods. UKUNC and then obviously 1321 01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:31,600 Calhoun. I know he went in coach D3 after 1322 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,880 that and Northeastern before UConn, but UConn, Jay Wright, 1323 01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:38,160 Hofstra, but pretty much Villanova is old Michigan State 1324 01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,080 and behind Syracuse and Denny Crumb, Louisville, right? 1325 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:45,440 So when when I when I ask the question who's the greatest 1326 01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,120 college coach of all time, I'm not looking at like 1327 01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,040 championships. I'm looking at context, right? 1328 01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,000 And when you incorporate the context of what I'm about to 1329 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,600 incorporate, you can't tell me. Rick Pitino doesn't have a seat 1330 01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:01,080 at the table for the best coach of all time in college. 1331 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:05,520 You can't tell me that. So #1 longevity. 1332 01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:09,280 And if he now some of the issues he created himself, like there's 1333 01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,800 a reason he had to go to Greece. We understand that, right? 1334 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:15,240 But think about the years, couple of years after Providence 1335 01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:17,960 coaching the Knicks, right? Couple of years and he was good 1336 01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:19,480 with the Knicks. They made the playoffs after a 1337 01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:22,080 down lean run with Hubie Brown, etcetera. 1338 01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,480 Early, you know, couple of years into Patrick's career, if you 1339 01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:26,840 don't really know the timeline, if you're too young, but he made 1340 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,400 the playoffs his first year with the Knicks, right? 1341 01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,040 And set the Knicks up to be very good eventually when Pat Riley, 1342 01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,480 even though they were coaches after him, that came in like 1343 01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:38,360 that was the core, right? So if he didn't coach the Knicks 1344 01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:40,240 for a couple of years, two years, if he didn't coach the 1345 01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:43,960 Celtics for a minute, if he didn't go to Greece, Rick Pitino 1346 01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:45,880 would have the most wins of any coach, right? 1347 01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,600 So, but that doesn't even matter. 1348 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,800 Like if you want to tell me Coach K's the greatest college 1349 01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,320 coach of all time, I respect that. 1350 01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,440 I'm not here to downgrade others. 1351 01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:55,960 I'm just here to properly position where I think Rick 1352 01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,280 Pitino should be. And I think it really depends. 1353 01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:02,120 And this is sometimes frustrating to me when I had 1354 01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,080 these conversations, like some people are so bottom line and I 1355 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,880 was doing this the other day, like whether it's an Aaron Judge 1356 01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:12,920 or a Stockton or a Barkley or Ewing or a Malone, like can you 1357 01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,480 be an all time. I'm great without a championship 1358 01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,200 ring is validation. I believe that you can, but many 1359 01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,960 of you don't, especially if you're a quarterback, right. 1360 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,000 I didn't win. I didn't win. 1361 01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,160 You're such a bottom line assessor. 1362 01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:27,440 I don't I don't really just go to that. 1363 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,440 I incorporate many other elements and and different 1364 01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:32,520 criteria to help me get to my answer. 1365 01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,280 Now, I don't know the answer to this, but I think it's very 1366 01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,480 fascinating. Do I think that Mike Schefsky 1367 01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:43,000 could have gone to five schools and had the success that Rick 1368 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,880 Pitino did at all those schools? I don't know the answer to that, 1369 01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:47,760 but I know that Rick did it all right. 1370 01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:50,440 I know that Rick Pitino did it. So I think that Roy Williams 1371 01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,000 could have bounced around and and gone to a moribund Big East 1372 01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,080 program like St. John's has been forever. 1373 01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,480 And I know Nils helped clearly, but and and elevated them the 1374 01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:00,920 way Rick's elevated St. John's. 1375 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,440 I don't know. But I know that Rick has, you 1376 01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,440 know, Bobby Knight went to his second spot at Texas Tech, was 1377 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:08,600 competitive. But you know, where they. 1378 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,000 Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I I don't know that he's doing 1379 01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:12,600 it beyond that. I think he had an expiration 1380 01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,320 point on how he coached and he wasn't very adaptable. 1381 01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,960 The thing about Rick. And he's always, always talked 1382 01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,640 about that. What's Jack saying here at Jack 1383 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,280 Benstead? Jack Benstead got a quick story 1384 01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:24,680 for you talking about college ball. 1385 01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:29,640 My uncle used to coach Pitt and Navy back in the 80s and 90s and 1386 01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:34,680 his name was Paul Evans. Evans, who was the coach at 1387 01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:36,200 Pitt? Was it Meyer? 1388 01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:39,960 Why do I have that name to pull? Either way, nice coaching 1389 01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:40,720 family. I love it. 1390 01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:42,680 That's why. And the 80s nineties biggies was 1391 01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:45,040 was the stuff of legends, the requiem for biggies. 1392 01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:49,480 You have to see it anyway. Like what makes a great coach? 1393 01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:51,280 Well, all right, how many championships do you have? 1394 01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,480 I'm not saying you can't, you can't start there. 1395 01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:55,640 That's fine. It can't be the only thing that 1396 01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,720 you look at. How many wins whatever. 1397 01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:01,840 To me, I think, and I've always said this, I'm consistent with 1398 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,280 this might not be right for you, but it's right for me. 1399 01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:08,920 Adaptability and there is nobody that has adapted more and one 1400 01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:14,200 more and and like and one on on such a grand scale at so many 1401 01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:17,960 different places so many different ways during so many 1402 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,600 different iterations of the sport than Rick Pitino has. 1403 01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:24,920 Are you telling me that if Bobby Knight was coaching that he put 1404 01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,600 up with this nonsense the transfer port of the get. 1405 01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,960 It's no way the way he was wired, he couldn't do that, you 1406 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:36,279 know, And this is not the shade John Wooden, But you know #1 1407 01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,840 everybody thinks that, you know, John Wooden was all the UCLA 1408 01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:41,960 squeaky clean. Let me tell you something about 1409 01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,240 UCLA. Read some books, all right? 1410 01:08:44,279 --> 01:08:47,279 Educate yourself about the history of this stuff if you 1411 01:08:47,279 --> 01:08:48,680 want to pop into the conversation. 1412 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,200 Because UCLA and John Wooden had a money guy as well. 1413 01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,640 They had a money guy who was handing out money the old school 1414 01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,600 way, which is part of the reason why they built up the roster the 1415 01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,720 way they did. And when you built up the roster 1416 01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,880 the way they did, that's part of the reason why you win 10 titles 1417 01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:07,080 in 12 years. Now, that's not to say that his 1418 01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:14,560 team first mantra, his, his, his, his unwillingness to be to 1419 01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:18,640 compromise certain virtues. Like I believe in most if not 1420 01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,479 everything that John Wooden was espousing, like the principles 1421 01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,080 of leadership and all those things that pyramid of success, 1422 01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,399 which I have read. I believe in that for sure. 1423 01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:31,560 But that doesn't mean that he would do what Pitino has done. 1424 01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,960 Like we can only theorize. We can only guess, right? 1425 01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:38,720 But with Pitino, he's done it. That's why I think it makes it 1426 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,720 so interesting. Dean Smith, Dean Smith's had 1427 01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:43,640 some of the greatest players in the history of college 1428 01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:46,080 basketball. And Dean Smith was a gentleman. 1429 01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,479 And Dean Smith was a pioneer in the sense that if you know about 1430 01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,080 college, bet like now, I would not want to watch this, nor 1431 01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,640 would I want to play here, like under the system. 1432 01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:58,440 But Dean Smith created the the four corners offense. 1433 01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:01,280 Just spin the ball around the corner, keep it away like hot 1434 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,400 potato, you know, no shot clock, kill the timer. 1435 01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,120 I mean, does that sound fun? Yeah. 1436 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:07,920 We're going to go out there. We're going to pass it all 1437 01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:09,800 night, and we're not going to look the score a ton. 1438 01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,840 Now that that's an oversimplification of what Dean 1439 01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:16,640 Smith did, clearly, but you got Jordan, you had Worthy, you had 1440 01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:17,920 Perkins. Think about all these players 1441 01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:19,920 that he had won two championships, all right? 1442 01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,280 Now, 2's better than one and one's better than none. 1443 01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:24,120 Could you make the case to Dean Smith? 1444 01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,440 And at that point, when you were the head coach in North 1445 01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:33,080 Carolina, they were probably 567 teams you had to fend off for 1446 01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:36,800 the top players in the country. You had to fend off Coach K 1447 01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:41,680 maybe for a year or two in the ACC fend off Maryland, maybe one 1448 01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,040 or two teams out West. Not Gonzaga then, but like a 1449 01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,560 UCLA, all right, maybe UNLV when when they were doing what they 1450 01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:51,800 were doing when with, with Larry Johnson and Stacey Albin and 1451 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:56,640 that crew, you know, maybe a beheim, you know, for a couple 1452 01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:58,600 of years in the Big East. But it, it's a short list is 1453 01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,880 what I'm saying. When you're a blue blood, you 1454 01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,800 get whoever you want and a 2 championships is great, but it's 1455 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,840 not like it's, you know, 345, you know, Bobby Knight's not 1456 01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,680 adaptable. Who knows about Adolf Rupp? 1457 01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:12,320 I mean, you've heard horror stories about Adolf Rupp as Rupp 1458 01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:15,080 as a human with certain things. I, I never met the man. 1459 01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:17,720 So I, I don't, I don't want to label him something there, but a 1460 01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:19,520 lot of people said it. I, I don't know. 1461 01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,240 And then Roy Williams, you know, was phenomenal. 1462 01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:25,240 There's no doubt three titles and he went to two blue bloods, 1463 01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,080 Kansas and UNC and he filled big shoes at UNC. 1464 01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:29,640 That's not easy. So you can points there. 1465 01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,000 But Rick Pitino, think about this guys. 1466 01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:36,000 I mean, you go to Providence, it was a nobody. 1467 01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,920 You get to the Final Four, all right, You win national 1468 01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:41,320 championships at Kentucky and Louisville. 1469 01:11:41,480 --> 01:11:44,160 When you go to Kentucky, you're on the you're a step away from 1470 01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:48,200 the death, the death sentence where they like SMU football, 1471 01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,800 where they pull the plug and there is no basketball. 1472 01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:54,480 He goes there within a couple of years, championship goes to 1473 01:11:54,480 --> 01:11:56,920 Louisville, Louisville's down championship. 1474 01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:00,760 And by the way, he won very differently at Kentucky. 1475 01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:04,120 It was more about offenses, at Louisville, more about defense, 1476 01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:08,600 more grinded out adaptability. Who was the first coach to 1477 01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,160 really embrace the math behind the three-point shot? 1478 01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:14,520 Rick Pitino, innovator. Not to mention pressing and 1479 01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:17,120 trapping and playing 94 feet of defense. 1480 01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:18,840 Rick Pitino was up there as well. 1481 01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:22,440 So you talk about that, you know, you go to St. 1482 01:12:22,440 --> 01:12:24,200 John's and before that you go to you go to Iona. 1483 01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:27,040 Now Iona, I don't give him a ton of credit for what he did at 1484 01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,760 Iona, only because Iona has had some really good teams over the 1485 01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:31,800 years. It's not like he went to the Mac 1486 01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:35,320 and he took over my school like Marist, which is doing well this 1487 01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,840 year and has a really good coaching coach done, but hasn't 1488 01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:41,320 been to the NCAA tournament since Rick Smith's in 1987. 1489 01:12:41,480 --> 01:12:43,560 Like if he would have gone to Marist and taking them to a 1490 01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,360 bunch of tournaments like he did Iona, I I think I'd have more 1491 01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,800 elevation there than merely going to Iona and then kind of 1492 01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:51,000 getting them back to where they were. 1493 01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:54,320 Not that not that far or not that long ago, but still he did 1494 01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:55,840 it. And then you come to Saint 1495 01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,040 John's. You come to Saint John's and at 1496 01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,760 the press conference, I mean, you want to talk about getting 1497 01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:03,880 chills, man. And I believed it. 1498 01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:06,840 But even when I heard it, I'm like, man, that is some bold 1499 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:07,640 stuff right there. How? 1500 01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:11,840 Because I've lived it since O3 being part of the fabric of the 1501 01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:14,240 of the school, being part of the broadcast team. 1502 01:13:14,440 --> 01:13:17,920 So I've seen all the bad hires, I've seen the lack of budget, 1503 01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:19,760 I've seen the antiquated facilities. 1504 01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,080 I've seen it all, man. And that's why I'm so happy for 1505 01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:23,120 St. John's, right? 1506 01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:27,800 I've seen a school president who didn't value basketball at all, 1507 01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:29,120 right? I lived it. 1508 01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:31,200 I lived it. They weren't always doing 1509 01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:32,920 charters. Like, trust me, I, I lived in, 1510 01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,040 he's out there at the press conference and he's like, go 1511 01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:37,800 ahead, we're going to Saint John's can be back in the big 1512 01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,560 way, I guarantee it. I'm like, man, this guy's got 1513 01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:43,160 stones, man. And I, I kind of felt that like 1514 01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:44,800 he's, he's going to do it. I was pumped. 1515 01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,760 And I told you he was going to be the coach before that really 1516 01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:49,040 happened, by the way, I didn't know that. 1517 01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,560 But Saint John's had to get to a place as a university Catholic 1518 01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:58,760 background where they had to, you know, swallow some of those 1519 01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:01,800 maybe Catholic virtues that that we know. 1520 01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,880 And they did. And you know what day if you're 1521 01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:07,720 a Catholic, you also believe in forgiveness and repentance. 1522 01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,280 And Rick's talked about that. So that's just a little Side 1523 01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,040 Story. Who else has won so many 1524 01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:15,560 different ways at so many different places like Rick? 1525 01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:19,280 Now, if you think that the height of greatness is just the 1526 01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:24,320 the absolute number of championships, well, then you 1527 01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,640 might think that Bill Russell's the greatest basketball player 1528 01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:28,960 that ever lived. I don't I think that's I know 1529 01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:32,000 it's Michael Jordan. You know, I think the seconds 1530 01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,920 Kareem with six MVPS and six championships. 1531 01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:39,680 If you think that, you know, championships or the end all be 1532 01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:43,080 all, well, then you might think that Yogi Berra had no 1533 01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,120 disrespect to the yokester, but that Yogi's the greatest catcher 1534 01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:47,200 of all time. I don't. 1535 01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:50,880 I think that's Johnny Bench. You know where Yogi won a lot 1536 01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:53,480 more. Now, Yogi was with Mickey and 1537 01:14:53,480 --> 01:14:56,440 Whitey and great players, but Johnny Bench was with the Big 1538 01:14:56,440 --> 01:14:59,760 Red Machine, so he also won. But he didn't win like Yogi. 1539 01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:01,440 Nobody did. One of the biggest winners, one 1540 01:15:01,440 --> 01:15:02,880 of the greatest winners in all sport. 1541 01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,120 So it all depends what you value. 1542 01:15:05,440 --> 01:15:08,800 To me, the greatest indicator of somebody who's the best at what 1543 01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:15,400 they do right is when you take your skill set, whatever it is, 1544 01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:20,040 whatever outlet it might be, and you take it somewhere that is 1545 01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:23,480 either down or has a totally different philosophy. 1546 01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:29,600 And basically overnight there's progress and then very shortly 1547 01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:33,840 thereafter there is high levels of success. 1548 01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:37,480 And that is Rick Pitino. Now, that's not to downgrade the 1549 01:15:37,480 --> 01:15:39,920 other ones, But again, Bobby Knight didn't really do it. 1550 01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:41,240 Dean Smith definitely didn't do it. 1551 01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,040 Coach K definitely didn't do it. He didn't have to. 1552 01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:46,160 OK, John Wooden didn't do it. So when people say it's John 1553 01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:51,440 Wooden, it's Coach K, I'm I'm not here to refute their their 1554 01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:54,120 greatness. I'm here to contextualize 1555 01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:57,520 Pitino's and I'm here to get him in the conversation. 1556 01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:02,000 I'll give you an example, right? So I'm going to take Mike 1557 01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:07,880 Francesa. So think about when Mad Dog left 1558 01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:12,000 right when Russo left the fan and goes too serious many 1559 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:14,440 people. I was even curious like man, 1560 01:16:14,440 --> 01:16:15,680 what's Mike going to be without Mad Dog? 1561 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,040 Because as much as MM was the authority on on so many things 1562 01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,760 and had so many kind like he he you knew he was always connected 1563 01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:24,800 to Steinbrenner. So you knew what he was. 1564 01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,320 You knew what he said about the Yankees was on point. 1565 01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,920 Same with the Mara family. So you knew what he said about 1566 01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,680 the G men on point. You knew we had a relationship 1567 01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:36,120 with the Garden on point. So like Mike's background and 1568 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:42,360 prowess and connection to high level decision makers and teams 1569 01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,640 just gave it an element of realness and, you know, made the 1570 01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,760 show a must watch, right? But it was dog, in my opinion, 1571 01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,000 who always brought like the wackiness and the 1572 01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:56,200 unpredictability and just the zaniness and the volume. 1573 01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:59,040 And like, I left more dog than I did Mike. 1574 01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:00,800 I learned more from Mike than I did dog. 1575 01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:03,480 But I that's why it was one of the best combinations, if not 1576 01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:07,000 the best ever. You had this wacky, loud, crazy, 1577 01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:10,280 irreverent figure in in Mad Dog who also knew his stuff. 1578 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:13,360 I'm not trying to say it didn't, but he was just a wacky 1579 01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,760 combination of everything, an entertainer. 1580 01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,480 And then you had Mike, who certainly thought he knew it 1581 01:17:18,480 --> 01:17:21,360 all, didn't but do a lot. And now you fuse that together. 1582 01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:23,680 You got a home run. And when Mad Dog left, I'm 1583 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,960 sitting there saying, all right, but I'm, I'm curious what Mike's 1584 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,640 going to do with without him. And Mike was still number one. 1585 01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,080 I know that Kay beat him that last book beat him once. 1586 01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:36,000 I get that. But Mike continued to be #1 or 1587 01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:40,280 as he would say #1 #1 I bet you had a blast on the snow blower 1588 01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:43,280 this weekend as well. Number one, number one, number 1589 01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:46,360 one, number one, number one, number one without Mad Dog, you 1590 01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:49,640 know what I mean? So that showed his adaptability 1591 01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,240 and the game was changing a little bit. 1592 01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:56,680 And as Rick has adapted to different schools with different 1593 01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,920 budgets and different conferences during different 1594 01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:03,000 times, when the three-point shot was first introduced, when teams 1595 01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,320 kind of cheating under the table, you know, a couple of 1596 01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:08,040 bucks here and there to, hey, you could transfer without 1597 01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:11,280 penalty in terms of the portal to, oh, we can straight up pay 1598 01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:12,640 you now. We can do it legally. 1599 01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:14,240 Like he's been there for everything. 1600 01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,720 And even Mike was transitioning from when he got on the air or 1601 01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:21,440 whatever year was, I don't know, 89 whenever he actually started 1602 01:18:21,480 --> 01:18:24,080 full time at the fan. Like there was no social media. 1603 01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:26,360 And when Mike retired, social media was a monster. 1604 01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:30,320 And he still managed to maintain that number one grip atop the 1605 01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,640 sports radio landscape. That's adaptability. 1606 01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:37,040 Now I maybe the better example would be I think that that's a 1607 01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:42,040 good example, but maybe a deeper example would be, let's say I 1608 01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:45,520 know it's not apples to apples, but like let's say Mike went to 1609 01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:51,520 Detroit and was doing afternoon drive in Detroit and as a non 1610 01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,760 Detroiters, he's he's a New York guy coming in, he's doing 1611 01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,720 afternoon drive. Is Mike number one? 1612 01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:57,200 I mean, does he have numbers like Valenti? 1613 01:18:57,200 --> 01:19:00,880 Now Valenti's a New York guy. So the maybe the answer would be 1614 01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:02,080 yes. I don't think you I don't think 1615 01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:03,360 he would be. I think it would be different. 1616 01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,360 I think he sounds too New York. I think what he cares, even 1617 01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,960 though his football knowledge is great, but I mean, actually he 1618 01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:13,400 he does know a lot about national stuff too, but certain 1619 01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:16,320 markets are very territorial. So maybe he would do well, but 1620 01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:18,600 he wouldn't quite do as well as he did at the fan. 1621 01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:24,880 Or if you went to work in Washington, DC, afternoon drive 1622 01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:26,800 there, it might be a little bit different. 1623 01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:30,400 So I just think that that's really important to the 1624 01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,200 conversation. I think there's too much of how 1625 01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:35,760 many championships would you do this, that boom #1 And it's 1626 01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:38,800 worth restating here. If, if now he brought this upon 1627 01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,360 himself and he's owned it. You know, Rick's talked about 1628 01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,520 being more humble as he's gotten older, right? 1629 01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:48,040 And he, he would have the most wins in college basketball. 1630 01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:49,880 If he wouldn't have it, maybe we wouldn't have them right now, 1631 01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:52,680 maybe by the end of this year or into next year. 1632 01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:55,000 And he'd certainly stick around to make sure he got the number. 1633 01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,400 Like if he didn't go to Greece, they didn't coach the Knicks and 1634 01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,360 the Celtics. I mean, how many more wins is 1635 01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,440 that you're talking based on on his math? 1636 01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:04,560 Let's see. I mean, that's at least, I mean, 1637 01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:07,480 I'm being conservative. 20 wins a season times 5 or 6. 1638 01:20:07,480 --> 01:20:10,920 You talking about 120 more wins. So automatically 9 hundreds of 1639 01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,800 1000. Now you're knocking on the door. 1640 01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:14,280 And it's probably more than that. 1641 01:20:14,440 --> 01:20:17,120 So anyway, I thought it was a really, really cool time. 1642 01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:20,680 It was fun too when we got on the charter after the game. 1643 01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:23,920 You know, Rick is the energy that he has is amazing. 1644 01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,160 You know, there's some boosters on the plane and the weather was 1645 01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,880 so bad, obviously in certain spots that like Grant Hill, Andy 1646 01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:32,440 Katz, they did the game for TRU TV. 1647 01:20:32,440 --> 01:20:35,240 They did it nationally, I think. I think Grant was telling me he 1648 01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:39,120 was supposed to go to Boston to do a game to do a Celtics game 1649 01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:42,400 for for national and he couldn't get there anyway. 1650 01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:45,200 Saint John said they come on our charter and you see, Rick, I 1651 01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:48,520 mean 73 years old, just coached his ass off tight game, 1652 01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:52,280 energetic on the sideline walking up and down the plane, 1653 01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:55,600 you know, talking to Grant came over to said hi to me, you know, 1654 01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:59,280 and I'm small talk, but I don't I'm hey, Congrats, coach. 1655 01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:01,360 All good. Hey, man, good stuff today. 1656 01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:03,720 I don't need to talk. I'll I'll I'll I'll bend your 1657 01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:05,360 ear when we shoot the TV show this week. 1658 01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:07,760 Go. You know, I'm good and but he's 1659 01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,720 just walking around just up and down the plane and watching him 1660 01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,120 operate is it's amazing. And then we're getting off the 1661 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,640 plane. They had this big box Adidas 1662 01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,560 made shirts. Actually, I have it right here. 1663 01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:20,680 They made these shirts. So they gave every everybody one 1664 01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:25,640 of these as you're getting off the airplane to to commemorate 1665 01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:27,800 Rick's 900th win in college hoops. 1666 01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,080 Just a really good weekend. And there'll be more of that 1667 01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:34,480 stuff at some point. I think that you guys will will 1668 01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:37,840 challenge that. I'm not saying definitively he 1669 01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:40,160 is the greatest coach in the history of college basketball. 1670 01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:43,520 I am saying definitively he is absolutely one of the greatest 1671 01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:46,920 college basketball coaches ever. And I will say this definitively 1672 01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:48,640 as well. I got one game to win. 1673 01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,800 I have one game to win. I'm taking him. 1674 01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:55,880 I'm taking him now the other guy that I would really consider is 1675 01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,440 like I wouldn't take. I wouldn't want Beheim to win 1676 01:21:58,440 --> 01:22:00,280 that game because he's lost too many big games. 1677 01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,560 You know, I would seriously consider Jim Calhoun as well. 1678 01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:05,680 And obviously Coach Ki Mean. That goes without saying. 1679 01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:09,200 I'm not trying to get nuts here, but I think Calhoun was a 1680 01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:10,640 master. I really do. 1681 01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,200 Calhoun was great. You know, the other thing too is 1682 01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:18,000 like, and this is what's amazing about what Rick's doing, one of 1683 01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:21,040 the things that Rick does best, and you talk to people that have 1684 01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:23,360 Donovan Mitchell says this all the time, like when when he was 1685 01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:26,560 at Louisville, Rick really worked on his his release like, 1686 01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:28,920 and just I'm talking about something as subtle, like maybe 1687 01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,480 you're here, suddenly you're here, it's an inch out and he 1688 01:22:31,480 --> 01:22:33,680 just a more accurate shooter, all the mechanics kind of 1689 01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,600 streamlining that stuff. What Rick really sells the 1690 01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:40,120 program, every program he's ever been at is player development. 1691 01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:43,040 So you come to me. And this is before he could pay 1692 01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:44,560 kids millions. I'm going to make you millions 1693 01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:45,800 because I'm going to make you better. 1694 01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:50,040 And to this day, to this day, you know, during the week 1695 01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:53,280 they'll do before their team practice, they will do 1696 01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:56,400 individual sessions in the morning for like an hour or two 1697 01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,600 with Rick Pitino. Their head coaches don't show up 1698 01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:02,160 for that. And if you think about what what 1699 01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:05,960 I believe outside of like IQ and all that stuff and presents and 1700 01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:08,600 you know, cachet and all that stuff, and he's going to, you 1701 01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:10,840 know, make a fan base excited because he's just got that 1702 01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:12,200 character and that that presents. 1703 01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:14,960 I think Rick's greatest, greatest characteristic as a 1704 01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:18,480 coach is his player development aspect. 1705 01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:23,160 And now with the rosters changing every year, one of his 1706 01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:25,440 greatest strength, what I perceive to be his best strength 1707 01:23:25,440 --> 01:23:27,600 is minimize. Because back in the day, you get 1708 01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:31,800 a kid as a raw freshman, tack 10 lbs on them, bust his ass every 1709 01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:33,840 day in personal, you know, development sessions. 1710 01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,280 And then, you know, by a sophomore, he's playing a little 1711 01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:39,480 bit more and then by junior bang, first round pick, if he's 1712 01:23:39,480 --> 01:23:42,920 got that kind of upside right. And if not senior year, he's all 1713 01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:46,720 conference averages, 1314 points a game, big contributor to a 1714 01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:48,120 team that gets to the Final Four. 1715 01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,280 But when the rosters always changing, yeah, you're getting 1716 01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:55,080 players better during the year. But then it's a whole new 1717 01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:58,200 roster, which is why I think a lot of Zubi's success is 1718 01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,400 obviously attributable to to Rick. 1719 01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:03,320 And, and that's the anyway, it's just fascinating to look at it 1720 01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:06,400 and based on the fact that, you know, it's a symbolic 1721 01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:10,360 achievement #900 Congrats to Rick, Congrats to Saint John. 1722 01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:13,360 Really good. And it's, it's fun. 1723 01:24:13,480 --> 01:24:15,320 And, and I want to bring that up a little bit there. 1724 01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:16,680 What do we got here? What's that? 1725 01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:21,080 What is this? What's this, what does this say 1726 01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:23,880 at Rod Power 78? I think everybody on the first 1727 01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:27,360 take laughed at the dog, not with him, especially Stephen A 1728 01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:30,480 wait, so they're laughing at dog, not with him. 1729 01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:32,680 I disagree. I don't agree with that. 1730 01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:38,240 Now I can't I can't prove that. I don't think they're I mean, 1731 01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:42,360 that's it's an interesting read. I think that if you're on set, 1732 01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,840 well, I think it depends who you're on set with. 1733 01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:48,640 Like there's certain people on some of those shows that take 1734 01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,600 themselves a little bit too seriously when it comes to 1735 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:52,640 football knowledge. Like, all right, come on. 1736 01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:54,400 We're not splitting the atom here, man. 1737 01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:57,960 But I think if you are have a little bit of an entertainment 1738 01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:01,680 value in you, you know, and you're not just XS and OS and 1739 01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:03,800 just about, you know, societal issues and you could have a 1740 01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:07,400 little fun once in a while. I, I think that I think you love 1741 01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:08,840 Mad Dog. I think you're like, look at 1742 01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,400 this absolute nut job, banana psychopath. 1743 01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:13,000 No, I think they're laughing with them. 1744 01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:15,200 I mean, I can't prove that. I don't think that they're 1745 01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:18,640 laughing at them. That's just my that that's just 1746 01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:22,880 that's my opinion at Golf News. At Golf News. 1747 01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:24,920 Or I'm gonna assume that that's Rhode Island there. 1748 01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:26,480 Yeah, up there. Piece. 1749 01:25:26,480 --> 01:25:27,760 OK. I still root for Patino. 1750 01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:29,960 Not over PC. I thought he was gonna go back 1751 01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,680 to Providence College at one point, somewhat recently, too. 1752 01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,200 Before the Iona job. Was that before Iona or before 1753 01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:37,560 saying no, It was before the Iona job. 1754 01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:39,520 There was a thought they were going to bring him back there. 1755 01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,480 I still, I still root for Rick. Not over PC, But other than 1756 01:25:42,480 --> 01:25:45,480 that, he always talks glowingly about his time in Providence. 1757 01:25:45,480 --> 01:25:46,400 He does. So good for him. 1758 01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:48,120 He is the GOAT. Yeah, I can respect that. 1759 01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:50,200 I mean, Kim English has his hands full up there. 1760 01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:52,280 My God, they're a disaster. Providence is a mess. 1761 01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:55,040 Cooley was down, what, 2021 points he went in there. 1762 01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,120 He won that game. Providence is a mess, but 1763 01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:00,040 Providence is a good job for college basketball, you know, 1764 01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,400 and Father Shanley, who's now the president at Saint John's, 1765 01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,600 like that's the thing too. Father Harrington, who was one 1766 01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:09,680 of the former presidents at Saint John's, didn't care about 1767 01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:11,880 basketball. And if you're a Catholic school 1768 01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:15,000 with no football budget, I know Villanova's got a football team, 1769 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,560 but I mean, a, a, a big visible high money presence, high dollar 1770 01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,480 presence, you better have alignment. 1771 01:26:20,480 --> 01:26:25,040 Like to me, in terms of just fiscal, whatever, you better 1772 01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:27,680 have a president who knows the importance of of college 1773 01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:30,240 basketball. You better have an AD who aligns 1774 01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:33,200 himself with that philosophy. And you better have a head coach 1775 01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:37,000 who the AD knows to what I got to get out of the way a little 1776 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,680 bit here, like a Patino, like some of these big names where 1777 01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:42,760 the coach is bigger than the AD in certain respects and the 1778 01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:45,680 president understands that you make money by spending money. 1779 01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,600 So it's not, it's not a coincidence that Saint John's 1780 01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:52,360 profile changed when they brought in a president who 1781 01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:58,080 values and understands the value of basketball versus others 1782 01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,040 Prior to that, that that simply did not. 1783 01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:01,520 So that's been a big problem at St. 1784 01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,640 John's for a long time. Thankfully, that's that's gone. 1785 01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,120 Let me see if anything jumps out here. 1786 01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,720 Let's see here. Pitino. 1787 01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:11,480 Yeah. There you go. 1788 01:27:11,480 --> 01:27:13,640 There. Let's see them with bike it out. 1789 01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:16,400 What's OK? What's this here at Jack 1790 01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:18,400 Benstead. under score. Benstead. 1791 01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:20,520 What up, Jack? Quick story to tell you as you 1792 01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:22,160 were talking about college ball. My. 1793 01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,000 Oh, I I read this one. I'm sorry. 1794 01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:26,680 I'm sorry that that popped up before. 1795 01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:28,640 J Rod, by the way, is very quiet today. 1796 01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:30,920 Like, you know, things aren't popping up as fast. 1797 01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:33,240 What is he shoveling? Did you hit the shovel yet this 1798 01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:33,880 weekend? What? 1799 01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:37,920 What are you doing there, J Rod, hold on. 1800 01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:39,400 I can't hear you. Hello, hello. 1801 01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:40,320 Gotcha. What up, man? 1802 01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,920 Haven't hit the shovel yet this weekend. 1803 01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:45,880 I mean, I guess I don't even have to shovel anymore that now 1804 01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:47,600 that I'm in like an apartment building. 1805 01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:50,600 Yep. Just yesterday, feet deep in the 1806 01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:52,920 snow, couldn't really leave the place. 1807 01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:55,320 It was snowing inside of our hallway. 1808 01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:57,480 What? Where the hell do you live? 1809 01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:02,000 Just like a Bushwick apartment building, but there is like some 1810 01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,160 crack in like a, a ceiling glass. 1811 01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:07,600 So there's just like piles of snow in the are you? 1812 01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:09,280 Serious it. Was funny, yeah. 1813 01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:11,600 Wow. Well, I'll tell you, I took the 1814 01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:14,560 easy way out, although I, I haven't, I haven't seen them 1815 01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:15,520 yet. This is actually starting to 1816 01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,800 worry me a little bit. So my wife said she knows how 1817 01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:19,680 much I love to shovel. And I've talked about shoveling. 1818 01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:22,760 I enjoy it. Like there's an art to which you 1819 01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:24,920 got to take shifts. You got to have the salt, you 1820 01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:27,520 got to have the spreader, you got to know, you know, you just 1821 01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:30,280 got to understand what you're in for and you got to embrace it. 1822 01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:32,440 And when I say embrace it, that means pour yourself a little 1823 01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:35,360 drink, crank out the music and do it the right way, right? 1824 01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:37,880 So, but this is different. I mean, this is this is 1825 01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,360 different. This is I so, but I was going to 1826 01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:42,600 do it and I was prepared to really deal with it. 1827 01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:44,800 And I'm like, this is going to be such a bitch when I get home 1828 01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:47,400 eventually Sunday, Monday can be a massive problem. 1829 01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:49,480 So she text me while I'm in Ohio with St. 1830 01:28:49,480 --> 01:28:53,440 John's and I guess somebody on our street hired somebody to 1831 01:28:53,440 --> 01:28:58,080 come and actually plow. And yeah, like certain homes are 1832 01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:00,840 doing this and it's like $1.50. Oh, it isn't cheap. 1833 01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:03,880 I'm like, I'll pay 350, plow it. I got so. 1834 01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:06,600 But he's not here yet. So not a problem is now it's a 1835 01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:10,080 little if this guy doesn't come, I got a big problem because now 1836 01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,000 it's getting a little sleety, which means it's getting a 1837 01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,440 little heavier. And then what happens? 1838 01:29:14,440 --> 01:29:17,360 The real issue as the plow at. Well, there's the individual 1839 01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:20,880 plow that I'm hoping will come and I'm going to pay him and do 1840 01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:22,960 it. And then there's the plow that I 1841 01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:26,720 pay for with taxes that come through the streets that push 1842 01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:30,320 all the the slop into my driveway as it clears out the 1843 01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:32,200 street. And now that's heavy and now 1844 01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:35,680 that's sleety and that's icy. So if this dude doesn't come, 1845 01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:37,800 I'm going to have a miserable day and I'm going to be pissed. 1846 01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:41,240 Going to do you have one of the electric ones going or just the 1847 01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:42,680 shovel? Shovel. 1848 01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,000 So yeah, it's going to be a, it's going to be a tough day 1849 01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:49,920 shovel. So you're hoping maybe this guy 1850 01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:53,960 comes after the town plow comes so that he can clear out the 1851 01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:55,840 snow that the town plow then left? 1852 01:29:55,880 --> 01:30:00,560 I think, yeah, well, I think the plow town is done or the the 1853 01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:02,440 town plowing. The plow town. 1854 01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:05,280 What I think that that's a new that's a new sitcom plow town. 1855 01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:08,840 I think the town, the town's done because it's done snowing. 1856 01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:10,200 So I think they've done all their plowing. 1857 01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:13,000 So anytime he wants to get his behind over here and do do his 1858 01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,600 job, I mean, he's welcome. He's welcome to come. 1859 01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:16,920 I can't drive anywhere. I can't. 1860 01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,160 I want to go to the store. Like, I can't sit in here. 1861 01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:22,720 I can't, I can't, I can't stay here for 40 hours straight. 1862 01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:25,360 I mean I got even if I go get gas, go get the Gatorade. 1863 01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:26,960 Got to leave. Somewhere, dude, just got to 1864 01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,760 just got, you know, just got to stretch the bones a little bit. 1865 01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:33,760 Kids are home from school, you know, probably tomorrow. 1866 01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:37,080 No school, man, I would think so. 1867 01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:39,000 They're so soft. They're wait till you wait. 1868 01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:40,800 Now it's a little different in the city. 1869 01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:43,200 Like they do virtual. Just give the kids the day off. 1870 01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,520 Like I don't understand this and I'm not getting on educators at 1871 01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:48,680 all, but I don't understand some of the I love them. 1872 01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:51,080 I love what they represent and without it we got problems 1873 01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:54,360 right? But I just think that if it 1874 01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:57,560 snows like this, don't make kids sit in front of a laptop. 1875 01:30:57,560 --> 01:30:58,640 Let them go out there and have fun. 1876 01:30:58,640 --> 01:30:59,760 What are we doing with? Time. 1877 01:30:59,920 --> 01:31:03,720 I mean, learning today I don't even like, at least when I was a 1878 01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:06,400 kid, it was always snow day, snow day, snow day. 1879 01:31:06,400 --> 01:31:10,520 So I never even really got to experience like the later high 1880 01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:13,480 school, middle school, remote learning kind of snow day sort 1881 01:31:13,480 --> 01:31:14,720 of deal. But though that was the best 1882 01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,640 kind of day ever. You wake up, hot chocolate, put 1883 01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:20,680 on your snow pants, hit the hill, hit the town hill because 1884 01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:22,160 it's sledding. What's better than that? 1885 01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,360 Yeah, we didn't do a lot of sledding because there was, we 1886 01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:26,760 were all flat. So you're in Bush. 1887 01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:30,720 So I was in Flatbush. You know, we had a park, but you 1888 01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:32,440 know, we'd go there and play basketball and baseball, not 1889 01:31:32,440 --> 01:31:34,840 really for snow. We would just play football in 1890 01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:38,120 the street and it will be violent, I mean concrete. 1891 01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:40,680 And we were. And we would play hockey in the 1892 01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:45,680 street without snow. And now imagine this the, he got 1893 01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:49,800 a, you know, a fairly narrow St. and he got these cars that are, 1894 01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:51,360 are lining, you know, the street, right. 1895 01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:55,080 So when we play hockey and I was not a good hockey player, I, I 1896 01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:56,320 was terrible. I was like the one sport. 1897 01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:58,960 I was not, I'm gonna say the one sport I wasn't good at, but it 1898 01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:00,560 was the sport I was the worst at for sure. 1899 01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:03,960 Not a great skater, not great aptitude, didn't watch a lot of 1900 01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:05,640 it. So it wasn't really that good 1901 01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:08,120 anyway. We would play in the street and 1902 01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:11,760 the cars with the boards. So we would actually check each 1903 01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:15,320 other into the cars. Oh, my God, dude, you grew up in 1904 01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:16,960 a different way. Different. 1905 01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:20,440 Yeah. Grew up in a different era, man. 1906 01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:22,400 So I like today's show. What you think? 1907 01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:24,280 Yeah, let's get a little. I'm going to start having you 1908 01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:26,680 and I got stat boy. I'm not going to have you, like, 1909 01:32:26,680 --> 01:32:28,600 come out with mistakes. I'm going to need a little bit 1910 01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:31,840 of a grade after each show. And I want you to be honest. 1911 01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:35,360 A through F1 to 10, whatever the, your scale is there, I want 1912 01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:39,480 you to grade the show based on contact content, based on, you 1913 01:32:39,480 --> 01:32:41,080 know, maybe diversity of content. 1914 01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:44,480 So before we bounce, before we call it a wrap here on a snowy 1915 01:32:44,480 --> 01:32:48,160 Monday on BT Unleashed, what is J Rod's grade for today's 1916 01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:49,920 session? I'm going to hit today. 1917 01:32:51,400 --> 01:32:57,080 I'm going to go like a 8990 like AB plus A minus. 1918 01:32:57,080 --> 01:32:59,920 I think that's pretty good. Well, yeah, for me it was 1919 01:32:59,920 --> 01:33:02,320 pretty. Good a minus kind of deal. 1920 01:33:02,680 --> 01:33:06,240 I'm going to say today's episode I think great diversity. 1921 01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:09,200 I thought I really liked how you kind of had the two segments 1922 01:33:09,440 --> 01:33:13,400 jets in the beginning boom, big Patino push later like it built 1923 01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:16,640 upon kind of the weekend of content you were pushing out in 1924 01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:18,760 terms of the Saint John stuff. That's right. 1925 01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:22,360 So yeah, I mean, and I thought like also, you know, just in 1926 01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,200 terms of engagement, I thought people were were really getting 1927 01:33:25,200 --> 01:33:28,560 engaged with like especially the Patino talk and especially the 1928 01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:31,520 the basketball coaching. So I think, I think it's great. 1929 01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:34,440 8989's A Little Light. 8990 Yeah, I. 1930 01:33:34,760 --> 01:33:37,320 Mean if you're gonna say 8990, just say 90 and because you 1931 01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:41,720 would need 40. 92919091. Think about the difference. 1932 01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:42,960 I mean, it's literally one point. 1933 01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:44,440 Hey, would you get on the test? I got an 89. 1934 01:33:44,440 --> 01:33:46,040 Would you get I got a 90. Think. 1935 01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:47,600 I think about how it's. Big difference it. 1936 01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:50,560 Sounds think about how you present that to your parents. 1937 01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:52,320 Hey B, what'd you get on that math test? 1938 01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:55,240 I got a 89. Oh, actually, 89 would have been 1939 01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:56,520 great math. So let me think something I was 1940 01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:57,720 good at. Hey, would you get on that 1941 01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,320 spelling test 89? What? 1942 01:34:00,320 --> 01:34:02,840 You know that spelling test 90? I mean, I usually got hundreds 1943 01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:05,320 in spelling, but you understand the difference Like, yeah, yeah, 1944 01:34:05,440 --> 01:34:08,920 just the way you present the 8989. 1945 01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:11,360 So threw me for a little loop there, but it's all good. 1946 01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:16,000 I gave you the, I bestow you upon you, that official power of 1947 01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:18,560 grading. So if it's an 8990, we'll try to 1948 01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:20,080 make a little bit better tomorrow. 1949 01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:22,840 Tomorrow's 100. We always try for 100. 1950 01:34:22,840 --> 01:34:25,760 We always look for that. Now tomorrow, I don't know. 1951 01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:27,360 I don't really know what we'll do tomorrow. 1952 01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:29,440 I got to figure out how to see how this day goes. 1953 01:34:30,440 --> 01:34:32,400 Obviously, they're not going to start banging out Super Bowl 1954 01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:35,320 content tomorrow because Super Bowl is for two weeks. 1955 01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:38,920 But I'm sure they'll be a little more residue on The Jets, Jets 1956 01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:41,000 high rings, maybe a little more. I'm going to do a little more at 1957 01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:42,920 the hot stove tomorrow. That's something I do need to do 1958 01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:45,520 with the Yankees and the Mets. Is that a wrap? 1959 01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:48,000 What's about grade grading them out, giving them their official 1960 01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,080 grades for the baseball hot stove? 1961 01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:52,320 So J Rod's going to get out the shorts. 1962 01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,040 He's going to have four of those today. 1963 01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:56,520 He's going to pump it all out. He's doing a great job with 1964 01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:57,680 that. Build out the graphics. 1965 01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:01,120 They look really sharp. They look really good Jay. 1966 01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:03,440 I'll catch you tomorrow brother. You can ZAP yourself out now. 1967 01:35:03,440 --> 01:35:05,360 Really good work. Look at him right on .2. 1968 01:35:05,360 --> 01:35:06,960 No, like as you can hit the button. 1969 01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:08,800 It's the man I know he's going to hit the button. 1970 01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:10,200 Jay Rods ready to work. Jay. 1971 01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:12,800 Rods ready to roll. Jay Rod sent me a text by the 1972 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:14,720 way, I'm not going to read it because that's between me and 1973 01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:16,120 Jay. He sent me a text. 1974 01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:20,480 I was on the plane on the tarmac hoping that I would get off to 1975 01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:24,840 get off the ground there. And Jared sends me this 1976 01:35:24,840 --> 01:35:30,120 incredibly well thought out plan and structure vision for the 1977 01:35:30,120 --> 01:35:31,800 show. And I'm like, man, that's just 1978 01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:34,200 further validation. I hired the right guy. 1979 01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:35,400 I'm not going to get I'm not going to read it. 1980 01:35:35,400 --> 01:35:38,440 But even if I did the word just very intelligently written and 1981 01:35:38,440 --> 01:35:41,200 the points of focus we're so on point. 1982 01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:44,480 Exactly what I'm thinking. So we got that synergy. 1983 01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:46,880 He's going to get that rap song going as well. 1984 01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:49,320 All right, J Rod is going to start pumping that out for you. 1985 01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:52,360 Have a great Monday. If you're going out to shovel, 1986 01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:54,040 get it done. You know, good luck to you. 1987 01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:56,640 Of course, for a little something, get the music going, 1988 01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:59,160 take your time, watch your back, use your legs when you do it, 1989 01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:01,560 watch your back. Don't just bend over, use your 1990 01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:04,960 knees. Get into it and I will see you 1991 01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,200 tomorrow. Have a great, great Monday. 1992 01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:08,920 Catch you tomorrow at 10 right here, BT Unleashed. 1993 01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:10,800 I'll see ya. This is unleashed, are you 1994 01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:19,360 listening? Can you hear Can you hear me?