Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Head Coaching Vacancies & Bowl Game Observations

Episode Date: January 4, 2020

19:00 - kids on a plane. 24:55 - Great new music (Marcus king band). 26:35 - Bowl Game Observations. 56:34 - NFL Head Coaching Vacancies. 56:50 - Macon rapping. 1:17:40 - quick hitters. About Chalk Media: Following the unfiltered voice and vision of Chris Long, Chalk Media is the interactive online community for you, the intelligent and humorous sports fan. Driven by access, Chalk delivers a unique perspective that cuts through the canned talking points and provides a variety of content from your favorite sports and entertainment celebrities. Here at Chalk, we don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are rooted in challenging the perception of professional athletes. We embrace the “real” with a unique combination of humor and intelligence. Chalk is a community with a voice beyond 240 characters that brings a perspective and vibe to a traditionally brash and boastful sports media space. Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more. Nothing is off limits at Chalk - hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. 🌍🏀🏈SUBSCRIBE NOW ⚾🏒⛰️ http://bit.ly/chalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can we draw a picture in the blank space? Yeah, let's draw a picture. I don't know, we probably took the chalk, though. It's all good. What picture are you going to draw? Draw these sabers. Yeah, that's cool. We can just make this the open.

What should I draw? Oh, I could draw a lightning bolt like on your hat. Yeah, that's cool. God, it looks like you're going to scratch the chalkboard. That's a lightning bolt. boat. Awful. That's an awful drawing.

I don't think anybody watches this part anyways. Okay. All right. Let's keep it moving. All righty. Hey, man. Hey, man. We're back, dude.

Thank you. The band is back together. Yep. It had been a while. Green Light episode 19 here. We hadn't been together since Green Light episode 17. Right. Spent some time in Florida.

it's a new year. We haven't done a pod together all year long. Yeah, all decade long, except for the folks who will tell you that the decade doesn't start until 21. I don't understand. I don't know where to stand on that. You got to stand with the folks

that this is the start of the decade. It's the 20s. Okay. The other folks who argue that there was no year zero or not folks who want to keep in your company. It's just so confusing to me. And maybe it shouldn't be more confused. Our production team, Cowboy Reed, he's stuck in 2019.

He had episode 17 written up. I think Cowboy Reed had a good NYU. I didn't even ask him what he did, which is kind of fucked up. And with that mustache, he might be stuck in 1982. It might be. Speaking of mustaches, we'll tease at the top of the show. We're churning content out. Churning is the verb here.

The only appropriate verb we've got, Brian Westbrook, Eagles great, Villanova legend, Philly legend, talking about, I interviewed him, talking about the, the Birds game coming up this weekend, also having Jeff Fisher on, my coach for a long time, awesome dude, awesome mustache.

To talk about the Tennessee Titans, that's one city that he is good wherever he goes in Nashville. And that's a good place to be good. It's a great city. You though, not as high on the city of Miami. Golly Day. Do you want to get into it? Why don't we get right into it?

First, though, I want to wish everybody a happy New Year in all seriousness. And I couldn't find the word, so I just let Dan Snyder pick it up. First off, happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. Yeah. When you have climbed to such heights in your career and your life. Yeah. Granted there been some lows for Mr. Snyder.

I suppose. How do you get that nervous? I don't think he's nervous. I just think he's fatigued. Sometimes when I'm really tired, I say things that make no sense. Fatig from what? Doesn't he just fly back and forth from the Bahamas? Well, that can be tiring.

And also presumably he drinks a lot of expensive champagne and Cavasier or whatever they're drinking. So happy, although when we landed in. Charlottesville, we were told Merry New Year, somebody being cute. Somebody said Merry New Year? Yeah, just being cute. I'm not, that's not cute to me. So Happy is attached to New Year. Yeah, yeah.

It's also attached to Thanksgiving. Yes. No, I don't get it. It's just, that makes no sense. It's like, well, it can happen to any of us. You go to the airport and they say, you know, at the desk, have a nice flight. I've done it 100 times. You two.

Yeah. Makes no sense. Dan just decided to do it as he was in. introducing his new head coach, Riverboat Ron. Yeah. We'll see how that goes. Also on New Year's Eve, I hope you didn't do this. That's a guy that tried to kiss a girl on New Year's Eve.

For those of you listening and not watching, maybe you've seen the video. Evidently, it's old. Yeah, you sent me the video. I enjoyed it as much as you can enjoy something that awkward. And then the next comment is old video. Not old to me, hadn't seen that video. And it never gets old to see somebody leaning in

for a makeout session at midnight and not getting it. I mean, the guy looked like a, like a, like a, a, a, a trout trying to get, get the bottom lip there. And that girl was not interested at all. What, how do you, how misguided do you have to be to enter the friend zone so violently on New Year's Eve? Yeah, on national television, no less.

Yeah, did you see Gronk on New Year's Eve, by the way? I've seen, I haven't clicked play on that video. I've just seen it over and over and over. It's a good thing not to clip the hit play on. Now let's get to the main event, which is our Miami experience, because of course, making Gunner, my wonderful co-host here, he also works closely with Virginia Sports and got to make the trip down. You love Miami.

I can't stand Miami, and I don't want to. I love Miami. I don't want to offend anybody, but I put Miami in quotation marks. I was told when the Orange Bowl was announced that great team hotel on South Beach. That's all I needed to hear. I didn't look into it any further.

Push comes to shove. I bet you could tell me in what city you stayed. Yeah. Fort Lauderdale. Lovely place. I couldn't tell you. I was either in Hollywood, Florida, or something called Hollandale Beach. Both fine places.

And both roughly 45 minutes from South Beach. Yeah, it's not South Beach. I went to a football game, as did you, in Miami Gardens, Florida. Not South Beach. I never stepped foot in Miami, Florida. Okay? It was impossible to get... Also, South Beach isn't really Miami downtown.

That's a different area as well. It was impossible. to get anywhere. Orange Bowl put on a good show. Orange Bowl reps. Top notch. Ten out of ten would recommend would go back if extended an invitation. But Miami, I don't think there's a city in America that suits me less.

Wow. In Miami, Florida. Well, it's not a great place to wear a V-neck sweater with a button down under it. You can't layer the way you like to layer. By the way. Khan, this is a crew neck. Crew-neck, sorry. Do you have the V-neck in your ensemble? Oh, my gosh, yes. Yeah, that's the point.

Several. You're layering, you are an elite layerer. Thank you. I layer, I'm like a zero out of ten at layering, you know? Thank you. Graphic t-shirt game's great, or depending on what you think of it. You can't layer down there. It's too hot, it's too sweaty.

Had you seen me, which was another problem about Miami, oh, we didn't see each other. Oh, we're only seven miles away, great, 35 minutes. Easily. Yeah. And I got two kids. It's hard to move. what's your excuse and so you would have seen me i was wearing um cool clothes yeah what's that entail uh you know

like those short sleeve collared shirts yeah bomb yeah i was wearing like a Nike um short yeah cool one yeah cool one good i'm proud of you and if i'd have seen you more i would have really soaked it in. And you know, the humidity does stuff with your hair. With your hair and you're very particular about the way that's amazing. And so I had a bunch of flow coming out the back of the V-Saber hat. Yeah. Climate deniers. I recommend you go to the diplomat hotel in Hollywood or Hollandale Beach, Florida, because that beach is about six feet wide. I mean, you cannot stand side by side. I'm not laughing at the actual on that beach. It's just again, not complaining,

lovely trip, but we watched a video of this hotel before going down. It's like, who, never stayed at such a place. And then you get there and you see, do you want to see my hotel room? Yeah, can we show the hotel room? Yeah.

So Roland, that's my view. That's the only window. Is that the beach? I had in my hotel room. 36 floors. We get floor number four. Again, I'm not complaining. as I continue to complain.

That's an HVAC unit of some sort. Somebody died in that room. There's no way somebody hasn't died in that room. That room just looks haunted to me. For those of you listening, that's a room with zero natural light, even though it's a large window because what he's looking at

is a giant HVAC unit and then behind it, it's not even like past the HVAC unit. There's like palm trees. Convention Center. There's more concrete, the back of a convention center. Yeah.

If you pressed your face all the way against the window, look to your left, could get a sliver of the Atlantic Ocean. It probably smelled like garbage juice up there on that landing with the HVAC unit in the back of the convention center, just heating in the sun. Pro of the fourth floor took the stairs every time, got my steps in, didn't have to use elevator. Good.

Now, there was a bathtub in the room, which you had a direct shot at the TV. Nice. So I got to check out a bowl game or two from the tub. Actually doesn't sound bad. I really liked the hotel I stayed at for the most part. And I love Fort Lauderdale Beach. Great actual beach, if you're into actual beaches, more family-oriented than South Beach.

I could do either one. For the record, I love Miami. You're not a fan of the city as much. Because I don't know if I've ever even been to it. You haven't been there. Now, we would both go back in a heartbeat. And the game, we don't have to get into the game too heavily, but we hung in there.

There were plays to be made, and we didn't make them at times. And that bodes well, though, for the future. I mean, I feel pretty good about our program. I feel better about our program walking out of that game than I did walking in. Yeah. You look forward to 2020. You got almost the entire defense coming back. Yep.

Five out of five on the old line. Brendan Armstrong's name you're going to know here shortly. Great quarterback. Throws darts out there. Yeah. Just a lefty dart thrower. Yeah. Compared to Taysam Hill by Coach Mendenhall.

It's not a bad comp. Which means the receivers who really came on this year, thanks to our buddy Marcus Hagan's, among other things. Shout out to Hassees Dubois, who is a total fucking stud, bro, a gamer. So have you heard about McShay? What? I'm in the radio booth and scroll on Twitter during our broadcast,

and people are just lighting up McShay. Right. Friend of the program. Yeah, he is. You scared me. Well, apparently. he talked noise about our receivers. So I had taped it, I went back and watched it last night.

It's not so bad. He was talking about Bryce Perkins accounting for 78% of the Virginia offense, and he said, look, they don't have great receivers, they don't have great running backs, they don't have a great offensive line. It wasn't as bad as Virginia Twitter was making it out to seem, but the fact of the matter is, Virginia does have stud receivers. They do, they do. That's the only thing I would disagree with him on.

Like, listen, the running back position of Virginia, the last great one was probably Thomas Jones. Yep. So there's been a while, and I think that's something that they're going to work on. And also, I think, listen, the receivers aren't necessarily eye-poppingly talented. I mean, Dubois is not going to run well, but I think he's got a chance to play on Sunday. He catches everything. The best drop rate in college football.

And again, so shout out to Marcus Hagan's job. He's done. I think he's maximized their talent. I don't want to speak for McShea. But yeah, there's a lot to look forward to. Also, I got to do the coin toss, right? So, do you like the Canadian tuxedo? I threw in a button down under it.

Did you see my tweet? I didn't. You get a lot of tweets, huh? I wrote you sick UVA outfit, Chris. Exactly as you described it on the pod. I don't think there was any orange or blue, no V-sabers. It was truly something to behold. Yeah, you know what I love is people tweeting me saying they're disappointed in me

for not wearing Virginia gear where I've shortened my life. life due to CTE and Al Groh training camps in the baking sun staying at the Cavalierian for over four months of my life traveling with my entire family down to the Orange Bowl to sit there until the final gun and watch the team that I love so much anybody that's critical of me not wearing a V fucking saber can kick rocks that's fair I'm just not on board with the lying on the green light pod the lying what did I say that I find a hat Nobody gave me a hat. Orange chuck teas.

Oh, that was a problem because when you try to ship something after Christmas, because like for me, Christmas is cool, but Christmas, all it does is illuminate what I need. I'm like, damn, I didn't get that. Yeah. So I need the, you know, I need to go get the orange chuck teas. I need, you know, I need more button downs or I need, you know, less graphic teas. So you put in this rushed order the next day and then you realize that they're not doing overnight shipping.

So no shouts out to any of my favorite. fashion websites, I couldn't get the Chuck T's on time. But I still thought I looked pretty decent. I had a number of individuals in the stadium asked me if I was a country singer. They saw me on the field before the game. Nice. That's a compliment. I don't know about that. Yeah. I do get Chase Rice sometimes. You know who that is? I do know who that is because we hung out with him. Yes, we did hang out with him. He opened for Kenny in Pittsburgh back in something. That was after the, uh, the, the Chesney concert. Chase Rice is a good guy. Yeah. Chase Rice Rice played college ball at UNC.

That's right. People forget that. Did they ever know it? I didn't know. But he's a really chill dude. And I'm not mad when I get Chase Rice. Now, when somebody gave me Chris Young at the bar at the ACC, these two women walked up to me and asked me if I was Chris Young.

Because I think they heard somebody say, that's Chris Long. but they still wholeheartedly believed I was Chris Young and in fact became infuriated that I wouldn't take a picture with them as Chris Young. Yeah. Chris Young has some... There's a difference in the facial structure, among other things.

Also got to hang out with Steve Spurrier, if you call it hanging out. I got to talk to him like twice for two minutes. He was super cool. That guy's got juice. Yeah. Like, you know certain people walk in the room? and there give a fuck meter is low enough that you're just like this guy's got juice

that guy's got juice what i would have guessed i mean it's exactly what you would guess you could tell he could recruit you could tell he's his players probably enjoy him uh or it did enjoy him and you know when i asked him you know what kind of setup he's got there he gave me an office and everything you know like he's got his joke and then he moves on three out of ten yeah uh yeah So, um, I need to say this, too. This didn't make the broadcast, the telecast, but you were recognized pregame along with Coach Spurrier. They gave you a ball?

Yeah, I got a ball. Did you keep the ball? Yeah, Meg, my wife was carrying that ball around the orange ball because I don't want to be seen with it. High and tight? Yeah, it was mostly high and tight. Okay. I want to say to you that, um, you were on the, the jumbo trons.

and your handshake, your acknowledgement of the recognition, your thank you, and your wave to the crowd, all excellent. Good. And this is, this is good because,

what was it? Maybe the SB's, they showed you on something for like maybe past man of the year. Yeah, they were showing you a man of the year. Yeah. And oh, was that awkward?

Cameron in your face and you were like, nothing more awkward than them putting you on national TV. being like, look at this great fucking guy. Yeah. When it's not necessarily true. You've come a long way is what I wanted to say. Thank you very much.

And I try to get across gratitude, humility, and I don't deserve to be here. So hopefully that came across. Yeah, you nailed those while getting booed by 50,000 Florida fans. Did Florida fans boo me? Well, I just think it was like, you know, Virginia was out traveling. Like, oh, yeah, Chris Long. And then Coach Spurrier gets the rousing. Spurray got the ovation and I got no problem with that at that point and by the way the orange

bowl committee was tremendous they have sick jackets yeah they're orange yeah they're cool uh another another oh and tiki was there so your boy tiki yeah uh we caught up in the suite um also wearing v sabers shout out tiki yeah he had a he had a he had a v saber tie a gray vest and a buttoned out when's the last time you saw me dress like that it's not going to happen It's just not going to happen. But Tiki was nice enough to give me a Meg a ride home. And, you know, it's pretty funny that Tiki walking through the crowd on the way out, like concourse full, didn't get stopped once.

He is so incognito with that little derby hat. Oh, yeah. And the fact that he's a smaller guy, you know, he just knifed through. It was like, it was amazing. It was something to behold. And is he driving Uber's now or what's the deal with the ride home? No, well, we didn't want to get an Uber. and he had a parking pass and we were going the same place.

He also stayed in Greater Miami, aka Fort Lauderdale. Also a quick rant. Kids on a plane. You know, when kids go on vacation, a lot of times the drive is too long for small children, so what parents will do is they'll buy plane tickets and bring their kids on the plane.

I'm familiar with this. Yeah, and so a lot of people who are like businessmen who spend $300 on a ticket think they're in the Taj fucking Mahal. They're not. you're one of a billion passengers on American airline enjoy your pretzell your pretzels American Airlines

yeah one singular there enjoy your pretzels enjoy your cheap white wine or cheap red wine and shut the fuck up about kids nobody cares that you're annoyed a kid is crying six rows behind you like as long as parents have control of their kids

not acting completely out of whack, just letting them run amok. They're children. If you're so rich and you're sitting in first class, get some Bose noise-canceling headphones and shut the frick up. Did you get holler at? No, but I just,

every time I'm on a plane with kids, I feel certain, like you get some looks. I'm like waiting. Like, I'm going to be on a viral video. This would be a good resolution for you. What would it be? Well, just your anticipation of...

Of negativity. Yeah, the worst. Yeah, but you can't relate. I can certainly relate to... No, you can't. You can't. No offense. Pessimism.

No, you can relate to pessimism, but social anxiety. And I've also seen a number of parents get like under their breath berated over the years on flights for having an infant that imagine imagine that kids cry imagine that

yeah the country song so my blood boils a little bit when I see impatient travelers who are adults with babies now my kids were very well behaved so we didn't have a problem but sometimes even carrying a kid

onto the plane you'll get a look from some old person that's just mad at the world because it's the fourth quarter no offense to old people Can I hit you with a couple of final orange bowl quick? Yes. An arrival, a big moment, a big stage moment.

I was sitting on our bench before the game. Looked up. Good year blimp. Nice. I don't know if I've ever been at a sporting event where the blimp was present. Well, definitely not a Virginia game. That's not a slight. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. You know, we go from, and, you know, this just prompted, we should say, thank you to the seniors, right? Thank you to Bronco Medin-Hall, thank you to this entire group. You go from 2 and 10 to what you just did there. You get drug in the military bowl two years ago to what we just did there, which was hanging in there, toe-to-to-to-against a Florida team. Cover City. Cover City, which was big.

But more than anything, you look competent and you look like a program this. going somewhere. And, you know, from Bryce Paul to Joe Reed to Bryce Perkins, to handback, like, you know, a bunch of guys, different roles. But, like, thank you to that class because they stuck it out. And they're doing something that's, like, so culturally different. Like, I've got this head coach from Utah. He's Mormon.

He's going to bring his entire staff out here. they're Mountain West guys and we're going to recruit in the Mid-Atlantic in the ACC, which the SEC has got its idiosyncrasies culturally, but the ACC and far behind, at least in the bottom half. So this guy's going to try to recruit,

you know, Newport News, he's going to try to recruit, you know, Virginia, North Carolina, places like that, and of course he's smart enough to keep guys like Biscuit on, Marcus Higgins. But these players took a leap of faith with the coaches, and the coaches have done.

a great job. And to get us to this point, I just, I appreciate it. Bryce Perkins, man. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah, for me, he's going to go down as one of the single most important people player-wise in our program's history. I mean, you're talking about a guy who on his back, and the other guys did a great job as well, but there's no denying, as McShea said, that he carried offence at times, and we were an offensive football team. Yeah, certainly by the end of the year. And I think Virginia fans will be happy with what's coming behind him. But Bryce, awesome. Thanks, man.

Awesome, two years. Accounted for more yards than anybody else in program history in just two years. Quick fact check. BYU, of course, an independent, not Mountain West. Yes, they were in the point stands. Yes, point stand. And I would want to say the loud unicombo, which didn't look great on paper, I thought pop. I think it popped at night.

I thought it looked great. It did look great. I was worried that it was going to be like Spider-Rubborn. man meme. Yeah. You sent me that meme? Not well, not recently. And kids, for the kids out there, life is all about confidence. When you have a press credential that says press box only on it, and you get stopped by one security guard, start jogging to the next security guard with purpose, look focused, look like you're about to go coach some young men, and run right out onto the field and you can have a pleasant pregame experience. That's what you did. Yeah, I was somewhere I wasn't

supposed to be. So you just act like you've been there before. And that works for a lot of coaches in the NFL, and we'll get to that in a bit. Music this week, I want to give a big shout out to the Marcus King band, Marcus King, who you've enjoyed whether you know it or not, some of his music on my shuffle. Are you familiar? No. Marcus King, the front man, I think he's got a huge future if people could could fuck

around and get some good musical taste in America. This guy, just go give him a listen. Five songs I'll give you, and this is the one that prompted this. I mean, I've been a Marcus King fan now for almost a year, and I'm late to the party because he's been making music for a little bit. The song Dian popped up on my shuffle this week, and that was probably my most played song of the week, one of the most played songs of the year so far.

So like side door, homesick, goodbye, Carolina, and Rita is gone. This guy is tremendous. Says goodbye a lot. Yeah, he's big on goodbyes. I was like big upper. No, there's a lot of up in this music. But just go give it a chance.

I'm not even going to spend too much time on it for the listeners. Go check those songs out. Check out the Marcus King Band. Hey, he'll be in Seaville, November 12, 2018. Okay, good. Little internet research there for you. Who's playing in February? Cowboy Reed, didn't we say there was somebody playing in Richmond coming up?

Wood Brothers. Oh, the Wood Brothers. I also want to shout out the Wood Brothers. The Wood brothers are awesome. I mean, there's a whole host of songs that I could give you on the Wood Brothers. I don't want to spend too much time on music today because we are kind of behind and we are doing a lot here at Chalk today. So I wanted to spend a couple minutes on just like the last weeks. We haven't talked, really.

We really haven't. About the bowl games and what you've seen, what I've seen. You want to go one in one? Do you have enough content? Enough content to carry this thing on a one-on-one ratio? Just observations we had watching these bowls. Sure, if you would start. Yeah, I'll start.

The Big 12 sucks. And I quit the Big 12. I cannot. What I do in these bowl games is, is I bet almost all of them because it's coming to an end and I'm not gonna be NBA betting guy. I'm just not. Like mark my words, blood oath, you heard it here, shake.

I still got that bicep deal. Hold on. Oh my god. I'm not gonna be NBA betting guy. Hold me to that until the playoffs. You know, because when the fall finishes, you're like, holy shit, I'm betting a lot of games. I don't really, I'm, it's not happening.

But the Big 12 will not be a conference which I will be siding with much anymore. They have showed me in watching bowl games and embedding on them once or twice that they are not up to standard, bro. That's my first observation. Oh, but what I was gonna say is that I usually cancel title sponsors. When I lose a bet,

I usually cancel the title sponsor of the game. I take it out, I can't take it out on the team because these kids really have no earning power. So I'm gonna take it out on the title sponsor. So like, for instance, when I lost a bet on Auburn this week, which I should have known better. Should have.

PJ Fleck, rows the boat. And he did it in front of the Buccaneer ship. I mean, that was the mecca of rowing boats. You shouldn't, I should have known. And I guess my thing is that the most painful boycott I'm going to have to do is the Outback Steakhouse boycott. That's tough. Yeah, dude.

I haven't had Outback in a while, but I'd like to keep my options open. Now I can't. Got to take it out on the sponsor. I'm going to miss the blooming onion. You know, one of my takeaways, I don't gamble. Yeah.

Some of these were easy money. Iowa blowing out USC had that. A mile away. Typically a great game. That holiday bowl was 4924. I don't, my one for one isn't going so hot off the jump here. Okay, you want me to pick it up?

Well, Joe Burrow. Did you see he had seven tutters in the first half? Bro. Of that national semifinal? Yeah. I mean, it was, it was the most dominant performance I've seen in college football history. Is that hyperbole? I don't know.

On a big stage relative to the stage. I mean, that half of football was stealing. It was playing a video game on All Madden with like a first. first-time player. Speaking of, did you or did you not have a Twitter video talking about Boomer sooner before that ball game? I did. Here's what I thought, and it turned out to be relatively true.

And by the way, I lost money on one of my picks for Bet America was Oklahoma because, you know, LSU's MO this year was get out ahead, give up some points. And I just thought, besides the whole fact that I believed in the Big 12 more than I should have, because that proved out to be across the board. I mean, they had like the worst bowl record as a conference to be untrue that they were competitive with anybody else. But, you know, it was also, I got the second half,

which I knew that if I took Oklahoma in the second half, I'd probably get my money back and I was right because they shot Burrow down. They did start to give up some yardage. So, listen, had Burrow not thrown seven touchdowns, how would I account for that? It was so fun to me. I had people shitting on me.

Gambling, gambling Twitter, like all other Twitters, is just like the most annoying Twitter in the world. Don't ever make a bad pick, right? I mean, they're like,

well, I could have told you Oklahoma's defense sucked? I'm like, oh, could you have told me that bro is going to throw seven touchdowns this half?

Like, we know they sucked. I've got a 30-minute timer on my Twitter.com application on my mobile phone. So you don't have to use it, past then. Yeah, for the year 2020. Nice. Here we are taping on the

third day of 2020. Haven't hit my limit yet once. Nice, good for you. I've been deleting the app off my phone and then just downloading it when I need it. Okay. Is that working for you? Sometimes, sometimes not. But like during games, you kind of live tweet, so it's hard for me. But yeah, the fact of the matter was lost money on the LSU game, but actually netted almost zero. I actually netted zero because

I loaded up on the second half in Oklahoma. So it wasn't so bad. 14 apiece in that second half. Yeah, it wasn't so bad. No. Here's one. The Birmingham Bowl looks awful to play in. Not only is it in Birmingham,

and I got nothing against Birmingham, but Birmingham in the winter, you just shit on Miami. So Birmingham and the winter. Did you see some of the pregame attractions? No, I didn't. They were not lit, as the kids would say. and the rain started right on top.

Yeah, I was really rooting for Boston College to have consecutive bowl games canceled. Really? Yeah. No offense to those kids. Yeah. Just that would be remarkable. That would have been some,

I don't know, divine intervention, the opposite of positive divine. Can divine intervention be terrible? Let's move on. I just, to me, that is, you make a great point. It's one of the most unlikely things like, like just the fact that one got canceled and I read it yesterday and I was like,

I forgot about that. Yeah. Kids actually trained for a month for a contact football game and had to leave and just go home. Yep. And it almost happened years in a row. Well, that would have been lucky for them because they got shellacked and I did hit that one.

I hit Cincinnati. Bickle's done a good job. Yeah. Yes, he has. You're up. Oh, okay. I'll go to the Rose Bowl. Yeah, I'll go there with you.

And top takeaway would be that freaking awesome sunset. The sky reflecting in the chrome lids for the ducks. I mean, I've been to the Rose Bowl, the actual stadium when the Hoos went out there to play UCLA a few years back I haven't been to the Rose Bowl game I mean

talk about doing it right it's like putting a filter on a football game yes I mean the most beautiful spectacle in all sports would you say probably because we get it once

yeah and also probably because the lighting's always right you know it's predictable they do the end zones right they do the end zones right screw up the end zones. They do the end zones right.

And it's one of those stadiums I feel like, and this is in general true about stadiums, they look bigger on TV. I'm sure when you get to the Rose Bowl and you stand on the field, you're like, this is small. Yeah. And I like that about some stadiums.

Other stadiums that I thought might enter the conversation. Are there others that can compete with the Rose Bowl? I'm talking about the cityscape or, you know, the landscape behind it off the top of your head? Notre Dame was pretty cool. Just because you have, and I'm going to butcher what's there, the basilica, I want to say, off in the distance. Yeah, it's a lovely basilica. Touchdown Jesus.

That's got to be one of the top five basilicas in the world. It's an elite basilica. Did you see the Pope smacked that lady's hand? No. The lady almost ripped the Pope's arm out of his socket. The Pope is old, mind you. Most popes are. The lady went to shake his hand and damn near pulled him in the crowd like this on

year's Eve and he smacked her hand like get the fuck off me he didn't say that yeah he had to apologize the next day honestly maybe he could have been a little bit less forceful with the hand smack but that lady's out of line people say the uh the pope uh motion picture on netflix is is dynamite oh really the two popes yeah believe i have heard that actually i'm gonna hit that up it's anyways you were on the basilica Yeah, that's a cool setting. BYU is awesome with the mountains in the background. I raise you Folsom Field in Boulder.

Yeah, looks great. I think that's better than BYU. Okay. Humble brag, I'm also naming places I've been. Oh, nice, I haven't been to any of these places. I've been there on Google. Boise is a cool look. Not at the turf, which is disgusting, but the backdrop.

Yeah. Mountains. I'm going to expand other sports. T&T Field, San Francisco, park, whatever they're calling these baseball stadiums. Really cool. You can hit home runs into the drink. The drink.

And if you're bold enough to kayak around Great White Sharks, no problem. You couldn't pay me enough money to jump in the water outside that ballpark. Plenty of people are doing it. Yeah. Plenty of people are doing illicit drugs. Not going to do it.

Bush Stadium, St. Louis. Pander. No, no, honestly not. I'm not a Cardinals fan. I, in fact, kind of always resented the love the Cardinals got. It was like we were just afterthoughts, but I also realized that we sucked. But the stadium, and I don't really like going to baseball games,

I'll just say that right out the gate. That arch looks really awesome. And for anybody that knows St. Louis, if you're looking, through that arch, you know what's through the gateway, which is East St. Louis. There's some attractions there too. PNC Park in Pittsburgh, that's a nice baseball field.

Yep. And then I had Seattle. Seattle and football, that city's game is electric. It's at night, it's damn near Rose Bowl for me in a different way. And then I found one, New Zealand's cricket ground in South Africa It's right under Table Mountain. New Zealand and South Africa?

Yeah, they have a cricket ground down there. It's kind of like the Yankees have a ballpark in Arizona that they do their training at. Yeah. You seem skeptical, but we can get to it in the corrections. Also, there's a stadium in Switzerland called Otmar Hitzfield. Look that bad boy up. Look them both up.

This soccer stadium in Switzerland, I spelled it right. I think it's like 2,000 meters up, which would mean it's like 4,000 feet, but it looks way higher because it's like in the Alps. And it's right on the side of a mountain. In fact, they have a net so the ball doesn't go over the edge.

I got a guy for Otmar Hitzfield. You do? Yeah, he's a soccer player. He's named after him. Not his old gentleman, 70 years of age. Yeah, but it's named after him. Okay. Yeah.

Atmar Hitzfeld is a German former football player. Yeah. And you're telling me there's a stadium named after him today. Yeah, it's in Switzerland. And it's gorgeous. Lord of the Rings beautiful. So go ahead and fact-check me. You do?

Yep. What is it? Beautiful. No, I'm seeing it. Oh, you got it. Isn't it gorgeous? Yes. Look at that net.

If the ball goes over that net, it's like in a... It's in a... When you're a little kid. Frid raging river 3,000 feet down. Yeah, you got to go retrieve it. Yeah. It's wet. Yeah.

Everybody hold on. There's St. Bernard's everywhere. Yep. Also, because we're still in the Rose Bowl, what do you think about Herbert's finish? I don't think either of us, I don't want to speak for you. I don't know that he's going to be like all that as a pro, but. I think he might.

You think he might? Yeah. Or is he Josh Allen? Oh, I'll take Josh Allen. No, I will too, but I think some people are hyping him to be more than Josh Allen. How many people are hyping him to be more than Josh Allen? How many people listen to this pod? Read what, like two million?

At least two million. In a private moment, I was saying to myself, gosh, Sequin. Okay? Yeah. Somebody else last year. Perfect. Maybe Herbert at four this year. Wow.

Yeah. I don't know. He just, the mobility looked like it could translate. No, listen, I mean, Josh Allen has not been a negative, but you could argue that he's also limiting that team. Maybe. I mean, let me ask you this. Let me pose this question to you.

Would you rather have Darnold or Allen with that team right now? Or on... Playing on Buffalo. For the rest of time? Yeah. For the rest of their careers? I'd rather have Darnold.

I knew that. Yeah. And I like Darnold too. Yeah, I guess Darnold. Yeah. So I guess I'm saying, Well, there's tantalizing skills that Alan brings to the table. I don't know if your comp being Josh Allen is the best thing in the world.

Anyways, he had this, you know, I didn't realize he was like a Eugene kid. Yeah. He was like a hometown kid. And just the Rose Bowl has got to be, I mean, also a big fucking kid. You saw him at the coin toss. You lose that during the game. I'm seeing him standing there at the coin toss, which by the way, Rita Moreno killed it with a dab. And I usually hate dabs.

In fact, dabs are unwatchable to me. I hope kids aren't doing them anymore. I got a bicep deal, so... Yeah, you can't do a dab. And also, Chris the ball, he means business. He's gonna turn... That thing does not look like a Pact 12 team. I mean, they're built for power,

and he is an authoritative cat. You can tell. They might be one of the biggest conference outliers. I mean, them and Utah are not built like Pack 12 teams at all. Yeah, time will tell with Manny Diaz and Coral Gables, but Christobal, a Miami guy from Miami. Do you think he leaves there first chance he gets? No.

No. I think that's what Taggart did, went to FSU and Flamed out. Yeah. Stan Eugene, a lot of support, Nike, Unis. Yeah, it's a great job. And by the way, on the Unis, I thought that they dropped the ball. a little bit on the Unis, but at sunset, it was magnificent. Yeah, I think

they were, they're great, I love those Unis, but they just worn them in the Pack 12th title. I would have liked to see the bright green pop. Yeah, we were on the same page there, especially because you're playing the all-white Wisconsin. I had a funny mention. Somebody's like, well, there's black guys on Wisconsin too. I mean, like, no, the uniform's all white, asshole.

Wisconsin, by the way, go back to those Ron Danes. Under Armour has modernized that font. They've gotten skinny stripes. Yeah, not good. Go back to the thick stripes. Go back to the thick numbers. Yeah.

Go back to the brighter red with Ron Dane. I can keep talking if you want to spit into that bottle. But overall, that Rose Bowl, we were five minutes deep and haven't talked about the ball game, which was also. It was a tremendous ball game. Now, the OPI thing, that's going to mar it. It will. Bad call. Bad call.

But bad calls happen all the time, as you guys might have noticed, if you're not. you spend any time on the internet. Can we go to the V-V-V-V-O? Yeah, who knew? What the-F? It's VRV-O until that bowl game. What was that the Citrus? Which goes to show you that their branding project is failing.

And yes, it was a Citrus Bowl. Or perhaps it's a rebrand. Because that was a new logo. No, they're rebrand. That's what I mean. I'm not, you know, I'm no technician with this thing, but their rebrand is not successful because evidently it started like way earlier this year. and I had never heard anybody call it Verbo.

And by the way, did you know that VRBO, because I refuse to call it that new thing, has been around since 1995? No, well, I knew it about six seconds ago because I Googled it. Yeah. Can you believe that? How were people securing these houses in 1995 on AOL?

I don't know, it's a good question. In a newspaper? Good question. Were they like VRBO ads in a newspaper? Airbnb, now most people think of that as the lead dog. Airbnb hasn't been around longer than that. No. So I was surprised in that game at how many players risked it for Alabama.

A ton of players played. A ton of guys that have really bright futures played, and a lot of them are coming back, it looks like. Yeah. One of the receivers did go off dinged. Rugs, yeah. I mean, you rarely do see injuries. Go play the ball game.

Go play the ball game. It's easy. He's from college football Reddit, which is a great follow that I just came upon. Somebody at the game on Reddit described as Michigan fans look like they're here for a convention of neurosurgeons, Bama fans as you'd expect, concessions on one side should serve sushi and the other side should serve pigs feet. Tides fans outnumber Michigan fans three to two and outweigh them three to one. Yikes. That's the kicker.

Mean? Yeah, it is mean. Because some of us have like, my BMI says I'm obese, by the way. Yeah, it's just not true. And I think it's insensitive to talk about people's weight. So I'm not laughing at or with that guy. I'm not laughing at the Bama fans

and I'm not laughing with that guy. You just tune into like episode 13 of Greenlight Pop where my weight has made fun of over. You can make fun of people. You can make fun of. slimmer people oh you can I want to be 190 pounds do you yeah I got an idea

huh get some fucking creatine bro now is creatine that's safe it's real safe I don't know I don't like honestly I used to take creatine sometimes I thought I was afraid of muscle pulls which you got a bicep deal

yeah darn it um so that was that that was the uh the verbo bowl do you have any other games that you wanted to hit because I got a couple more. Do you know where Todd Grantham coaches? No. All right, we don't need to get into it,

but Todd Grantham, it'd be great, it'd be killer if you stopped coaching your players to fake cramps to stop drives. Oh, yeah, you're talking about Florida. I am, but I wasn't going to mention specific schools. Oh, Dr. Fax is here.

Oh, Dr. Fax. Fantastic. How you doing, Dr. Fax? Oh, Nate. Hold on. Dr. Faxe come out here and just get in here and give us Dr. Fax. Happy New Year, Dr. Facts. Happy New Year. What's up, buddy? Hey man, I got a bice up. This is the only going easy. This, he gave me a wildlife fact file and I am jazzed about this, bro. Random facts from Dr. Facts.

The first one I'm going to open up. Oh, the Atlantic Puffin. Hold on. looking like a relative of the penguin or a marine version of the parrot the squat atlantic puffin is in fact related to neither family it is a species of ock i don't even know what the hell that is dude thank you looks kind of like a two can this is super cool here thanks bro appreciate it dr fax you smell great it's um i bought a christmas gift for myself and it's curve YSL actually Oh YSL

Is it a curve like female I don't know what curve is I don't make sense Curve is what people Used to wear in college Yeah Anyways Dr. Fax

We're just going through the bowl games here I want to talk about the Tennessee comeback Can you believe That a team would blow that lead This is a stat that blew me away Teams that were down

13 plus in the final 5 minutes of games this year were zero and four 71. God damn, Dr. Fax. Teams, we got a move today, Dr. Fax, so we can't be doing all this stuff. Teams that were down 13 plus in the final five minutes of games

this year in college football were 0 and 471. If that's real, is that real? That's real, winless. But there were 471, a lot of games. I guess there's a lot of college football games. Yeah. And most of them are blowouts. A lot of them. There's a lack of parity, which is spelled P-A-R-I-T-Y. That's right.

That was the, her one in 471 now. Thanks to Indiana, who hasn't won a bowl game in 28 years, and I'm sorry, Nate Sudfeld. Yeah. Onside kick. Roger Saffold, too? Yeah, Saffled, I'm sorry. Daffled. Onside kick, Spur. or did the Gator Bowl chomp? Saw that. The Gator chomp. The Gator chomp at the Gator Bowl.

Gator chomp at the Gator Bowl. You had an onside kick. You had me losing on a parlay that would have won me $5,000. Wow. This was like the eighth game if they hit the over. I was shocked to see Tennessee in a ball game.

I last checked in with Tennessee when they were in Tuscaloosa, losing by 22 to fall. to two and five. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They won five in a row. They rode off a bunch.

And now six with the comeback over IU. And they started their year getting dumped on by Georgia State and BYU. Yeah. And if my mom listens to this pod, mom, when I say I lost the $5,000 parlay, it doesn't mean I lost $5,000. It means I lost like a couple hundred dollars.

Like not a not a huge deal in the big scheme of things. And I did pretty good. He's lost far more than that, D. Lowe overall. Nice con attempt. I mean, he still talks about, he's still talking about Cowboys Jets this year. Cowboys Jets was bad. Anyways.

Yeah, so also one thing I love was Kentucky beating tech. I know you love that as well. The way it happened. And then for me, another gambling note was I had Kentucky LiveLine minus 3 and a half. So they went up one in the final seconds and I'm like, oh God, I'm not going to get my money.

Hook and ladder, bad beat for anybody who had the opposite. Scoop and score. Scoop and score. Kentucky Wildcats. And again, I'll say this, I've said it three to five times. Just for people who are

accusing me of being a biased homer, respect, Bud Foster, great career. I hate it ended that way for you, but it had to. I had to support my family. You beat up on us four times while I was there. The least I can do is make some money on the tail end of your illustrious career.

Yeah. I would love to host Bud Foster right here one day. I don't think he's done coaching. Huh? I don't think he's done coaching. You don't think so. Where do you think he goes? Maybe Virginia Tech.

Oh, you think he's going to get the head coaching job when Fuentes Flames out? No, I don't think he's a head coach, but maybe under the Shane Beamer regime in Blacksburg in a couple years. A little hot take. So he's, okay, that's a good call. We might pull that one out. And is that a popular hot take?

No, no, no. Okay. I was like, did I miss something? Because everybody's saying he's done. Yeah. I didn't see it either. He's youngish. Yeah.

He's 0 and 1 and his last one against the whoos. Yep. I like that stat. But hey, listen. 60 years old. Listen. From Somerset, Kentucky. Well, there you have it.

Also, the Sugar Bowl. was the game I watched closely because of my big 12 obsession. Yeah. Pickens, man. George. That cat was in high school recently? Yeah. I mean, like, what was he doing?

Might be a handful on Labor Day 2020 when the hooves and the dogs tangle. He might be. He might be. And you could tell Georgia won in that game. Like I heard multiple guttural like grown man screams, not just from players. I heard players screaming after they made plays that sounded like Madden and NFL players. Right.

On the microphone on the sideline. Now the problem for teams who might face Georgia moving forward is a lot of those guys were twos because they had a ton of dudes sitting out. A ton of dudes out. So the guys who were in there, yeah. Yeah. Motivated. We start our season.

Labor Day. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Fax. We should go. Where is that game?

Mercedes-Benz. Oh, yeah. We should go down there. Is that Atlanta? No, ATL. ATL. The new. New Jersey.

So Georgia was missing a ton of players and still pulled it out. The brewerer concussions, that was scary. That was the scariest moment of bowls for me. That was like his fourth concussion. And when he got up, he did not look well. It took him a while to get off the field. I'll take your word for it.

When you start a bowl game at 9 p.m. After I've just committed four hours to the Rose Bowl, you're not getting me for four quarters. Well, maybe you should have tuned in just to see a rule spit on himself. my next head coach yeah maybe look at this watch him this is look at that yeah so they had just got done they they scored twice out of the gate and baler fans are going nuts they're doing the crowd they're second half out of the gate in the second half so they scored twice see i actually watched the game did you

yeah i watched part of the game oh my god so anyways they scored twice out of the gate and the second half Jesus Christ, dude. So they score twice out of the gate. And now it's like either 2614 or it's... Don't want to tell you what the score? Yeah, what was the score? 1914. 1914.

If they scored twice out of the gate. So they were down 19-0 at the half. They scored twice out of the gate. No, no. They cut it to one. 197, 267, 2614, with 14 to go in the third quarter. Okay, 2614. So it was a big moment.

and they're showing the crowd, people are freaking out. This is like the tides are changing. You could feel, if you believe in momentum, the momentum shifting, and rule ruins this entire Baylor hype video by hawk and a luggy on himself. And this is a guy who I don't think is necessary. I think he might be a good head coaching candidate in the NFL.

I think he made some great offensive halftime adjustments. But you got to know, you got to have the awareness on game day that you just hawk the fat Lugie on your, your dry fit vest. Smock. You're smock. And then two quarters later, late in the fourth, when they zoom in on you, like a full 23 minutes later, the spit's still there?

Yeah. Somebody, who is his guy? Well, and there's so many people upstairs in the booth with television monitors, probably two of them. You got to have a guy saying something. Bro, if someone called down and during the game that I'm losing and say, Hey, you have spit on your shirt. I'm cursing them out.

So Dr. Fax says he's going to, are y'all picking that up back here? Sort of. So, so Dr. Fax says that if somebody calls from the booth to tell me that you have, to tell you that you have Lugie on you

on national TV, you're going to get mad at them. Yes. And I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, good looking out. I'm giving you a promotion.

Imagine, imagine Diaco or someone calling down the garage. Also, RIP to the guy named Mike Ennis on my Twitter who sent me his ticket for a parlay that was 50 bucks and it was like a 12th team parlay. Baylor plus 11 and a half. They lost by 12.

It would have hit for $1,050. So RIP to Mike Ennis. Oh my God. You had to be really mad staying up to watch the game. I was mad and I didn't have that much on it. Shout out Paul Christ tucking his sweatshirt into his pants with the belt, a la AMG.

Yeah, yeah. Shout out of Coach Grow. Let's get to the NFL and coaches, speaking of coaches. And former NFL coach in Al Groh. And he's got a son right now who coaches in Mike Groh, whose name has actually been floating around a little bit as a head coach. I read that online. But right about now, you can find just about.

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and subscribe So you don't miss an episode That would be terrible You were saying So NFL coaches right I want to do two things I want to run down Who's out there right now

Who's being talked about I also want to ask you guys as well, since you're here, Dr. Fax, this is good. Of all the vacancies, including Washington, which are the best, which are the worst? And we'll get to that in a second. So here are the names that have been floating. I've been hearing a lot about McCarthy. And if you watch the McCarthy, what is that? What is the, that's a, I don't want, I don't want to, I don't want Mike McCarthy as my head coach.

Right. And I might get there. Okay. But the TV show, have you seen the little McCarthy Project thing? No. Which is a play on the McCarthy Project, which was what?

Manhattan Project is 1944. Oh, you did something looking up, huh? No, no, I swear to you. Was it 1944? Can you look that up? I mean, I can just figure it out based on my knowledge of history. I don't have to look everything up.

No, it wasn't 44. It was earlier than 44. Way earlier in 44. Yeah, 39. 39. The Manhattan Project. It's tweeted in 46. Oh, so I was close.

So they blew stuff up with that one. Now the McCarthy project is what? Well, it's not just whatever you're looking up. It's Mike McCarthy having cameras following him around for a year. I've never seen anything like it. And the concept is compelling to me. And the cameras are following him around and like a makeshift staff. And they're all basically locking themselves in a room and saying,

we're learning football. We're learning, we're staying sharp for our next job. And I saw coaches like Jim Haslett, who coached me in St. Louis, one of many coaches who coached me in St. Louis, to obviously Mike McCarthy, who was leading the charge. They had whiteboards, they had film,

they were talking about analytics, college trends. And it felt like we were kind of showing people what we know and like, you know, kind of, it seemed like a public relations thing, because why bring the camera? although it made for some interesting, it's an interesting concept. I've never seen anything like it. But what they should have included, of course,

is that among all the analytics and all that other stuff, is like how did you underachieve so badly for all those years with probably the best player in the game at different times in his career? And I think if he enters the interview process, which allegedly he already has in Cleveland, namely, he should be addressing that. And I think he's smart.

I think he will address that. I know that Ted Thompson didn't sign veteran or didn't sign free agents. So you weren't giving a lot of help. I know there's no ownership, so you don't have that element of accountability. But you guys underachieved, and the head coach, the buck stops there.

So I would love to hear why and how. Now that's not for the public, but I'm sure in that interview process, if you're Cleveland, and evidently he's been with them for a couple days, that has to come up. you know, I'm not a big fan of McCarthy and Cleveland. I'm actually a big fan of McDaniels,

who's evidently in the mix there, obviously Josh McDaniels, long-time coordinator, short-time head coach in Indianapolis. And Greg Roman is in the mix, too. I love just about anywhere. I love Greg Roman. Now, McDaniels would work because he's got a tinge of the New England,

no bullshit. You know what I mean? But he's not like stiff. Like you know how a lot of you assume with these former coaches in New England that they're all just robots? Well, Josh isn't a robot. And I think he's got enough person ability to manage the relationships that are necessary to be managed in Cleveland. Because as much about Cleveland is as much about the people and the personalities there right now as it is about the scheme. Now he's got to get Baker to play well.

And I believe somebody can. and he's probably the guy but you can't just be a scheme guy and walk in there and just get walked all over by everybody. Somebody's got to get control of that daycare center. Like somebody with a voice has to go in there and control the deal.

You have to worry about him skipping out like he did an indie. I'd always worry if I was like hiring him. Are you going to just leave for the New England job if Bill finishes or you're going to leave us high and dry? Well, he's an Ohio kid. So I think Cleveland will be a little bit different. And if he's winning there, he's going to want to stay

because that's an iconic job he'd be doing. Now, if he's losing, then who cares? He's probably going to want to skate, you're going to want to skate, you'll be right back where he started. I like him there. I don't like Urban Meyer there. No, that's silly. So I think, I think, so Haslam said,

and Dr. Fax asks if Urban Meyer's going to get hired, Haslm said that in Cleveland, he wants a coach with NFL experience. Now that would disqualify Urban Meyer, right? But maybe that's a smokescreen. Maybe he's calling people off the Urban Meyer sent. I just wouldn't like it there. Urban Meyer is as flaky as anybody to me.

Yeah. Hasdom also said he's going to hire coach first than GM, which I like. Yeah, it's traditionally backwards, but there's no. Now, here's what McDaniels might do. Who do you think McDaniels would bring down? And there's rumors that they would give him like a Belichick level institutional control factor

I think he bring down Nick Casario and I think that's part of why so the Browns are in a tough situation here now by the way Feldman the college football guy tweeted that Urban Meyer that the Browns had

strong interest in Irmaier which runs counter to the report that Haslam says they need a guy with Navell experience now that the health questions are there and I still remember we talked about the Dallas job. I think Urban Meyer would be a better fit in Dallas, actually, and it'd probably be a job that would move him,

move the needle more for him than in Dallas. But if Josh McDaniels brings down Casario, I think he's got a nice little setup, and what you need there is an overhaul. They already did it with Dorsey. Dorsey's out of there. So big things changing in Cleveland, and they should.

And after those two guys I mentioned in Roman and McCarthy, I think it's Sala and Dable, Dable being the former New England coach who's in Buffalo, and has done a nice job there. And obviously, Sala, who's been a force in San Francisco, spent time with the Legion of Boom, where else was he? He's been a couple places that have played good defense.

but I don't think... Be wary of flavor of the month, which is what he is right now. Yes, no, I am totally... I wouldn't hire him. I wouldn't hire him there. He was in Jacksonville after Seattle. He was in Jacksonville after Seattle.

I wouldn't hire him there. I would hire him a place where you've kind of got it under control and you've got defensive pieces and you lean into your strength. But if you need an offensive overhaul and everything hinges on Baker Mayfield, Which by the way, now Baker Mayfield is surrounded by zero people that drafted him.

You talk about a motivating factor, he's going to have to shit or get off the pot. Like, it's time. So it could be dable, it could be Salah. I think it should be Josh McDaniels. That's who I would hire there as a little look ahead. Who would you guys hire in Cleveland? It's all about Baker. I'm going Greg Roman.

Here's where I think you're leaving something on the table with Greg Roman. I think to maximize Greg Roman Union running quarterback, and I don't really consider Baker that. I think he's athletic. He's athletic, and you could build some wrinkles in. What do you like in Cleveland? He likes Urban Meyer. He wants Urban Meyer.

Are you sure, like maybe not Hugh Jackson or somebody? That's Cowboys. He didn't say Hugh Jackson. Dr. Fax likes his Urban Meyer going to Cleveland. Now, now. Can Coughlin get another coaching job? No. Coughlin should not.

not get another job. And I hate saying that because there's a level of respect for people who've done a lot in this game. And I'm sure that I'm not sure. I'm not sure he's a good person. That's not good person stuff. I cried in Cople's office. You did? Dr. Fax cried in Coughlin's office. What did you cry about? I was late twice in one week. Dr. Fax was late twice in one week. When I walked in the second time, they took all my stuff out of my locker. So I assumed that I was cut. So it was just, they just scared you straight with that? So they took all the stuff out of your locker.

Coughlin said he couldn't find another practice squad guy. He was on the phone all morning. So basically, Coughlin wanted to get Dr. Fax up out of there. Dr. Fax had nothing in his locker, but Coughlin couldn't find a practice squad. That's a great Coughlin story. So the big thing here, the big thing that people are talking about that's like the rumor now, which I'm sure will pick up some steam depending on what happened Saturday night, Tennessee at New England, 815 on CBS, by the way.

Pilsner Night in America. Pilsner Night in America. This is an epic Pilsner Night in America game. Listen, I just got done with a family vacation. I deserve a pill. Night in America. And I will be partaking, will you? Can I get a soft verbal from you at least?

Are we doing a little thing on Sunday? We're going to do, we might have a pop or two. We are going to do a live stream of the birds game on Sunday. I got to look nice for that. So, all right, maybe I'll do one or two on Saturday. Yep, you got to have, which game? Right now currently. Oh, wow.

Yeah, just so you know. The Pat's game or the? Nah, like at this very moment. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to finish up soon. He says 3 p.m. So anyways. All inside baseball.

Huh? Tom Brady's last game in New England. Home game? It could be. And that's what Dr. Fax asked if it was Tom Brady's last. I think the people can hear Dr. Fax. They said behind there that you kind of can't. They said that so-so.

It's going to be muffled. This is a game of telephone on a podcast. Listen, and I'm sure for some of the viewers or listeners, it's annoying. The viewer is not so much, but this is what we do. It's just a very organic pod here. Dr. Fax just walked up. Yes, he did. He just rolled up the stairs.

I saw a figure in the door. I got to get my appearances up. Yeah, you got to get your appearances up. Can we lave them? Is that a pod term? Well, I don't think we have enough time left in this pod to lave him. So we're going to rapid fire through this stuff. Bella checks the big rumor.

So especially if they lose, they're going to be, everybody's going to be like, it's Tom Dunn, he's going to Chicago. I've heard the Chargers now. you know, Bill's going to the Giants. Well, I don't believe that because they're keeping Gettlement on. The Paul Schwartz article in the post is really what got us talking. I don't know why he'd leave necessarily, but I think if he's going to leave,

Dallas is another job that he would covet with the Parcell's thing. And, I mean, they are ready to win now, and the window is now. So that's another thing you have to keep in mind there. Now, again, circling back to McDaniels and the New England thing, consider a guy who ducked out on Andrew Luck for Mitchell Tribusky or Will Greer is what it could end up being. Not the best decision making, but also, depends on how you look at it. If you look at it like this, maybe Josh knew something we didn't know when he went.

Right, ducked out for perhaps a promise made. Yeah, or a good reason on the other end. He could either be succeeding. Bill. Or he could have gotten to Indianapolis and gotten an inclination that Andrew Luck was close to the end of his road. And what everybody killed him for is maybe he knew

that Andrew would be out of football within a year or two. And why would you take that job then? Yep. And that leads me to, you know, we could real quick, let me real quick ask you this before we get into the other news around the league.

You guys know the openings, right? We've got Dallas, Carolina, Cleveland, the Giants in Washington. What's your favorite job? Dallas. Dallas, even with a meddling owner, a short window. Dallas is the worst job. Dr. Fex says the worst job.

Just because Jerry, I just think, like, just not knowing how you're going to handle and be handled with him, that's like, how can you, like, confidently, like, take a job? But you like Dallas, then which job do you like? The Giants. You like the Giants shop. And I actually might be inclined to take the Giants' shop. You have another high draft pick.

Giants two for me. Yeah. You have Sequan. And just to save the guy's career, I'd want to go in there and play hero because he's so sensational. You've got a young quarterback, it depends on what you see in Danny Dimes.

And Gettelman's not going anywhere, so I don't love that setup. You don't like Jerry Jones. I don't love the Gettlement married to Danny Jones. But you also have a low... You don't see her here... You also have a low bar there. I think the last two coaches have set a bar

where if you go like nine and seven there, people are going to be like, okay, big deal, we're rolling a little bit. May I name my Giants coach? Yeah. Dave Tob, 10 times out of 10. Really? Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. I mean, I've heard rule. Odds on favorite. By the way, the odds on folks going to, in literal Vegas odds, on folks going to Dallas, you've got in order,

Josh McDaniels Salah Riley Ding ding ding that's who you think it's going to be Nah that's who I would hire Riley might have coached himself out of

I need to say something Lincoln Riley as a fellow thin-necked human being You can't go with the just long-sleeved tea Nike dry fit

You need a collar To hide the neck For sure After that it's Greg Roman, who I would like down there. You talk about, man, the pieces are there for Greg Roman. If Greg Roman got the Dallas job, look out the rest of NFL because you've got a quarterback who's mobile. You have a top five running back. You've got a big offensive line. It kind of feels like a little bit of what you had in San Francisco, not as talented as that San Francisco offense,

believe it or not. And you could figure out what you want to do with Cooper and Gallup and all that stuff. you've got one tight end and Jarwin. I mean, Witten's definitely going back to the booth. How tall do you think Greg Roman is? Not tall, maybe 5'10? 5'8. Really? Ghali.

Not a big man, but he coaches big. Now, he's got the same odds as Urban at plus 600, then Biannesty and Rule. Now, I like Biena Me a lot. Now, I've said this all week. The enemy hired almost anywhere, including Cleveland would be really good. Supposedly he doesn't treat players like celebrities.

He doesn't think of himself that way. Obviously, the scheme speaks for herself. You're going to see Andy Reid type offense. Now, him without Andy Reid, I don't know, but it's worth taking a chance. We all know the elephant in the room there. I think he would have had a head coach job a year or two ago. Mullen and Kubiak are in there in Zimmer.

Now, Kubiak is a dark horse here. I think Kubiak could be decent. Kubiak could be decent. You transform that run game just a little bit, get the play action going even more. And, you know, his offenses have been proven. and he's got head coaching experience because that's what they lacked. And I know that Jason Garrett had a lot of experience,

but he wasn't acting like it in big situations. Can we just get somebody that we've never heard of? Yeah. This coaching fraternity where you get one job and then you have one for the rest of your life. Yeah. I'm over it. Yeah, but you know what?

On the Josh McDaniels thing, he already had a head coaching job, but it's been a decade. Yeah. I think he's paid his dudes. Like Joe Brady at LSU. Give me somebody you've never heard of. That'd be great.

Yep. Yep. Here's somebody you have heard of. Let's do Mike Petten to Carolina. Mike Petten to Carolina? Not bad, and that's a job I'm just not sure what to make of it on, because I don't know what Cam's deal is. Maybe that's too Ron Rivera like for them.

Maybe. Like Mike Petton. But I like the owner there. And I think they're going to, they might have to do a little bit of a full rebuild, but I think eventually they come out on top. Smart guy, that owner in Tepper. So, yeah, and keep in mind, as you hear about all these coaches being interviewed,

they're not all getting interviewed to be head coaches. A lot of it is APA research, and a lot of it is knowing that, hey, I'm going to want this guy as a coordinator. Let's see how we interviews. So a couple other little blips. There's been a lot of talk about Tua. Is he going to declare or not?

There's no, you don't take another chance with that injury. I don't care if you get the best insurance policy in the world. You're not going to make as much money as you will. Damn. That's dumb. Yeah, his little brother's there. His whole family relocated. Yeah, his little brother's there, so get out of the way.

Well, his family didn't get him an insurance policy. That was disappointing. There's a high risk with that injury. You can make tens of millions if you go in the draft, and if you're a bust, oh well. Or if you get hurt, oh well. You get hurt next year. You make whatever the insurance policy pays out,

and you're just not going to be set up the same. You don't take another chance. And plus, Mack Jones and two his numbers are nearly identical. Their first couple starts. Go look at Orlovsky's tweet this week. It's got all those numbers. It was eye-popping to me. I think that Bama will be just fine,

and I hope that Tua is just fine because I really, really like him. If you can stay healthy, I'd pick him high. But I'm really afraid of that injury. That's what I'm saying. What if he's really hurt? And that's the mask. They're going to bring him back. Well, go get picked in the first round.

Just go get picked in the first round. And just sort it out later. There's another blip this week where Ballard says the jury is out on Jacoby Brissette still. When you say that as a GM, that means something. So maybe your Herbert guy comes into play here. Yeah, 13. Now 13, there's going to be a lot of teams by my count that are looking at quarterbacks, including Sincy, Miami, and Jacksonville all picked before him in Detroit, the Chargers,

Carolina and Oakland could all be in the mix. So you probably won't get him at 13. You might have to trade up. Again, you're wondering if it's if he's Josh Allen or somebody else because if he's Josh Allen, he's not quite worth it. Listen, I love the run game stuff. I love a lot of the pieces they have in Q and Marlon Mack and you know, you've got TY, but. You don't want to waste all these guys' primes figuring this stuff out. You've got to make a move. You've got to decide.

And, you know, it's not for Jacoby. I think Jacoby would be just fine on a team that's just loaded and got a good defense. Like, that's fine. Yeah. And he was great. His first, his first bunch of games,

he was like 15 touchdowns, four interceptions, 64 completions, 1099 yards per game. First nine. Last six, one and five record, three touchdowns, two interceptions,

55% completion percentage, and 1901 yards for game. They got to either figure out what it is, people got to beat on with them, or they got to move on quick, because you don't want to waste the core of this team. I love Frank Reich, but I don't think he can get it done

with just the pieces they have there. They got to get better. Let's talk real quick about the playoff games. You want to give me a minute and a half on each of these? You want to give me the quick hitters, so we got to get out of here. Yeah, hut, hut. Hawks Eagles.

Okay, so this game's interesting. So we're going out of order, huh? Yeah, okay. Buffalo Houston. Put up. In the patented Saturday early wild card weekend slot that Houston loves. Last year's meeting, the bills held the Texans to a, the last meeting, the bills held the Texans to a season low, 216, and 3.8 yards for play. And the bills are looking to end this streak where they haven't won since, like, 95 in the playoffs.

It's been 25 years, just a short 25 years. And McDermott has experience. He's coached in 26 playoff games. He was in Philly for their, or no, not Philly, sorry. He was in Carolina for their, no, he wasn't Philly in 04, and Carolina the last time he went to Super Bowl. So he's got experience. And I like the bills.

I really do. They got Singletary going. He's come on big, you know, over 50% of the runs outside the tackles. You got to watch for that. Josh Allen, there's a lot of deep balls. And guess who that's not good news? for is Houston. Their bottom third of league and defending, you know, big plays through the air. I think Brown's going to have a big game. I think Hughes has a big game on defense.

You know, Deshaun likes to extend plays. Hughes is one of the most underrated rushes in the league. And I think they limit to big plays. That's what Buffalo does really well. It's going to be low scoring, slow starting. Both teams have only scored once on their first possession. So look for it to be a slow starting game. Big question for Houston. Can they get Hopkins going? He's got under 70 yards in all. four of his playoff games. I just don't trust the Texans. Red zone's going to be big. Texans bottom in the league in red zone. Buffalo's pretty good. So what's the next game? Oh yeah, next game is Tennessee at New England. I'm in a pool, which is different than gambling.

Yeah. I had a bad year, but I finished the last three weeks. You got to pick five games a week. Finish four and one, four and one, four and one. You have to pick every game in the playoffs. I was Buffalo all week until I had to make my pick. Going Houston minus six. Two and a half. Oh, is that right? I hope JJ plays a bunch. I hope Will Fuller plays. I think we're underestimating

to Sean Watson. Listen, love Deshawn. Just don't trust the Texans. Gosh, and Buffalo is like legit. They play every team close. This is going to be a close game. Houston by field goal. Okay, I got Buffalo.

I got Buffalo by four. Okay. 2420. Texans, 19. It's going to be a boring, low-scoring game indoor, but it's playoff football. Hud. Oh, yeah, the next game, Tennessee, New England. You know, it's the Bill Disciple game again.

You know, you had B-Flow last week, which, by the way, I was in a sports bar all by myself in Miami watching Dolphins. And he wasn't because he was in Fort Lauderdale because you can't navigate Miami because Miami isn't a real place. You're cutting into my minute and a half. But I was really happy for B-Flow. He's a really good dude. And that had to mean the world to him to go up there and be Bill.

Because I know he respects Bill. And Vrable. Do you know where he coaches B-Flo? B-Floo? Yeah. Miami Dolphins. No, he coaches Miami Gardens. Miami Gardens.

Miami isn't a real world. You're right. The Titans and Vrabel, this is Vrabel's first playoff game, by the way, as a head coach. And Vrable seems to have less of a kiss the ring attitude, ironically. Like for somebody who's Mr. Patriot, doesn't seem to give a fuck. Seems to want to go up there and kick their ass. did kick their ass last year, 3410. In the regular season, though,

look for Henry to pound the ball off tackle. That's the key. That is the key, because if they can get that run game going, you know, Tanna Hill, the Titans, they average like 13 yards for attempt, play action pass. They get that going, that could be a problem. It's going to be really interesting in the matchup to watch. They already said,

Gilmore's going to be on AJ Brown. A.J. Brown is ridiculous. She's had 45-yard gains the last month each game. So he's had a big month, big play machine. Adams got after Gilmore last week. So trend to keep an eye on. Adams? Gilmore?

Oh, sorry. Devante Parker? Parker, sorry. Yeah, Parker. You got your Devonte's mixed up. Yeah, I got my Devonters mixed up. It's an easy thing to do. Hey, let me ask you.

Yeah. Remember when New England's defense was the best thing in the world? Always remember that. I always remember that. What if that comes back? and you realize you're playing Ryan Tannahill and you're at home. Now so this is the big...

And it's snowing. The biggest game here, and do you know it's snowing? Yeah. So here's the biggest thing here. The biggest thing here is that it's believe your eyes or believe what you see or believe history because it's completely Titans, seven and three since Tannahill took the helm. Highest passer rating in the league, right? And maybe we got to go over on that.

this one. We are. The Patriots, goat coach, goat quarterback, historic defense for the first eight weeks. That just turned out to be pretty damn good, not historic. They all got the flu. Now, yeah, boogeymen. So if I believe what I see, I'm looking at the team that's, that's won seven of ten and is the most prolific offense in the team the last like six weeks, basically. I mean, they're averaging basically north of 30 points a game. I mean, and, and Henry just heats up as the year goes on. I think this is the day they get them. I think it's going to be close. Titans have been dominant compared to New England offensively since week seven, but the biggest difference is in the red zone. So New England's like 50% in the red zone. Titans are like 87% in the

red zone. So they're really missing gronking company. And if the pads struggle to stop Henry, that play action pass gets going. Now the one thing I, the Titans are bottom third passing defense. Titans are bottom third passing defense. I don't think New England has enough to exploit that. I think they're going to try to shorten the game, get the run game going,

and try to get some of these long developing routes to hit, a trick player or two. The pats are 0 in 4 when teams score north of 20 points on them. Snow. Pat's 2410 just because everybody's zagging. I'm going to stick with the zig. I'm going to go 20. 2717.

Titans. I'll go 2417. Titans. Yeah, Titans. Okay. Hut, hut. Oh, yeah, yeah. So Sunday, we got Minnesota in New Orleans.

It's the Minnesota Miracle matchup, right? A rematch. And Diggs has crushed him. He's got six plus catches, 90 plus yards, and a touchdown every time he's played the Saints. So the big key is if you take him away, I don't know if they have enough to keep this game in phase. Now, is Dalvin healthy?

That's a big question. And I'm certain, though, that the one thing they can do defensively for Minnesota, who has really poor corner play right now is they can take the tight end away. So take cook out of it. Another thing is the Vikings are 10 and 1 when they're allowing under 125 yards rushing. So that's something that I know Sean Payton knows. He's going to try to get that run game going. I think early on, if New Orleans gets out ahead, it's over.

The line's like eight. I like the Saints to roll. And Camaro's heating up at the right time. He's got four touchdowns the last two weeks. He had none the last 10 before that. So the biggest guy that needs to have a big game is Anthony Harris. Yeah. Who's?

Yeah. I mean, he's had a great year. But those corners are bad and he's going to have to clean up a lot of the mess. I like the Saints, let's say, 3rd. 31 17. Ooh, I got 3127 Saints. Vikings cover, best game of the weekend.

Wow. But hut. Okay. And in the final game, Seattle, Philly. I know a little bit about that, but I've talked at length about Philly and Seattle,

and I don't want to offend Macon, so I'm not going to spend all day on this. Eagles defense at home, though, it's been totally different than on the road. I mean, they're giving up 10 less points. They're giving up like 100 less yards at home. Their top five in third down,

their top, they're first in a run defense is like, 77 yards a game. The game went 17-9 the first time. By the way, I love the under more than I love anything here. I don't know who I like. I'm pulling from my birds. I don't know.

It could go either way. First time, it was 17-9. And sure, Russ missed two touchdowns, one over Hollister's head and one de-caf, Metcalf, dropped at the goal line. I had to drop my Twitter handle this week because we are playing de-calf-met-calf. Things have changed, though, since that game.

By the way, if those two touchdowns hit, the under still would have hit, because it's 46, I think, right now. Here's the things that have changed. The right side of the line is still decimated, but clownies back. Seattle's still going to try to run the ball. They did for 176 the first time,

but Penny and Carson are out. So you replace him with a guy you've never heard of and a guy who's been on the couch but is a Hall of Famer. And then Ertz. He's probably out with a lacerated kidney, as you would be. 14 targets the first game

You got to find another way So can they continue to push 12 personnel With Perkins and Goddert They've been running at 60% of the time That's like Tops in the league last month Another thing is the first time they played The Seahawks and I wouldn't advise Jim To do this twice

They blitz Russell 61% of the time That's a lot on dropbacks So I'm worried about that I'm worried about the deep balls He's throwing him at the second highest rate in the league I'm worried about Rasul a little bit. They've been picking on him a little bit. But I think Philly has just enough to make this happen.

I really do. Seattle's limped into this thing. And it's not, it's not, they're not playing up in Seattle. It's like totally different. I actually like the Eagles, if they don't turn the ball over five times like they did the first time. 21, 17. I'll go 22, 21, ugly, Eagles.

The Hawks are 70. and one on the road, which is nuts, but probably a big letdown after Hollister comes up short, and they have to go on the road. Yeah. So those are our picks for the weekend. I'm excited to drink some beer and watch some playoff football. I'm excited to watch some playoff football. Let's do it.

Live. Fuck it. We'll do it live. Nice. How do folks watch that? How do folks watch that, read? YouTube. Just hop on YouTube live.

Shock Media. Shock Media, YouTube Live. Nice. Watch it. Also watch our interviews we have coming out. And that's going to be Westbrook. It's going to be Fisher. And we're going to talk a lot about all the games this weekend and beyond.

Huh? I think I'm going to watch the game here. Yeah. Dr. Fax is in the building. And thank you for the cameo today, buddy. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy Singular New Year to everybody.

Which one is it? Happy New Year. Okay. And I, we, we, we, I'm going to have to pay Stanford Steve double for this segment because he's been waiting a while. Y'all take care. Y'all take care.