The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 3 - Mark Sanchez stops by The Herd

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

Colin talks about being surprised by Mike Tomlin and the Steelers, the Chiefs still being undefeated, the Eagles and Vikings season so far, and more   Guest: Mark SanchezSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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J-Mack with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. All right, this first story is, I don't know how to characterize it, Colin, but it's not a great look. Now, it's only coming from one source, but it's about Ronnie James. So, according to Brian Winhorse, very credible reporter, I actually listened to his podcast on the way into work, and he talked about this. He said, LeBron's son Brani will not be traveling with the G-League team, the South Bay Lakers.

From my understanding, according to Winhorst, he's only going to play in the South Bay Lakers home games. Why? He will only be a part-time G-League player. Oh, God. So, again, it's just one source. Let's not freak out. Let's wait for maybe the Lakers to say. Does he not want to fly like?

Commercial? I'm in serious. That's my first thought. Does he not want to fly commercial with all the other guys? He's never flown commercial in his life. Oh, come on. He surely has done one commercial trip in his life. No way.

No way? No way. Okay, maybe you're right on that. I have no idea. But like, it just isn't a great look. It's a terrible. It's a terrible. Playing basketball.

By the way, I asked you about two weeks ago, when he goes to the G league, what kind of player would he be? I figured he'd be about, 10 points a game. G-League is a higher-end college basketball. He's scoring like six. Well, it's one or it's really early. Dude, so he's not an exceptional G-League player. I mean, we know it would be one thing if he scored 14.

Six points is not exceptional. LeBron never scored single-digit points in his career. He's a young guy. Listen, I really wanted to be successful, but this report is one of those like, all right, what are we doing? No, what are we doing? He's got to play basketball. You've got to play basketball to get better of basketball. He's a good gamer.

You guys all bang on Kyler Murray for that. Kyler Murray can play. Kyler Murray is exceptional. This dude, like, I'm sorry, but how does LeBron want this to land? So once everybody else hears about this, I don't know that this story is out there that much yet, but, Kyle, this is just not going to reflect great on the league. He only wants to play home games.

Well, I don't know. It's just unclear why that would be the case. Like, there's no injury risk. I don't know what it is. He doesn't want to fly commercial is. my first gut feeling. But I mean, if you're trying to connect, what it tells me is he doesn't really want to connect with teammates.

He views himself as above the G League. Well, also, this is a guy who went to USC, who's in LeBron's backyard. Now he's with the Lakers. So he's like always around the family. This would be like the first time he's going away from the nest, if you will. We're speculating. I'm, again.

If you're trying to connect with teammates, this ain't the look. This is bad. I think that's a good point. We'll see if the Lakers comment. We don't know enough to have strong opinions, but mine is, if this story's true, it's a terrible one. Yeah. All right, let's move on to a positive story, and that's Drake May in New England. How about this guy?

I loved him coming out, and now Brian Hoyer, the guy who was Tom Brady's longtime backup, Hoyer said there's one aspect of May in particular that reminds him of. I like his demeanor. He comes across as a very humble person. and at a quarterback position, obviously I'm biased because I was in there day in, day out, with the greatest of all time, and he couldn't have been more humble.

I think you kind of feel that from Drake, too, like, okay, I'm going to do the right thing. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to do the right thing. Humble, sort of like the guy with the jets. Humble. It kind of matters. Listen, when you're a young, ascending talent,

you've got to stay humble. So, like, when I join this show, I know you're kind of on the Mount Rushmore radio host. Yeah. I got to be humble. For about two shows. Didn't last long, correct? But listen, I compared Brock Purdy to Tom Brady.

We're now hearing Drake May. I think Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert, yeah. Joe Burrow. There's nothing wrong with wanting to emulate greatness, right? No, I mean, I just, I think humility and gratitude are big, appealing personality traits. Look at the guys who are struggled. Johnny Mansell, when you come in with a little hot.

Caleb. Whoops. Caleb Williams, there's a feeling he's a bit hot. Sorry to go after, he's very cold, right? He's quite cold in Chicago. Jayden Daniels, everybody loves him. One of the guys. Bo Nix.

A good point. One of the guys. Look at a lot of the guys that miss badly. It's a lot of, look at me, look at my new commercial. It's a lot of that stuff. All right, final story is, let's go to the Philadelphia Eagles. Pletcher Cox, who played for the Eagles forever, spent 13 seasons. reasons in Philly said he thinks head coach Nick Siriani is getting a bum rap.

Let's look at Nick's history. What he got, uh, playoffs, Super Bowl. Playoffs, playoffs. I mean, all he does is win, right? He finds a weight. And, you know, with a coach like that, you know, that can get rally up a team of men and do what he's doing every year, year in and year out. Even with Swapping Coordinators, the last two years, you know,

the way that things have been going. you know, they're still finding ways to win. And I think this team could get scary within the next few weeks. I think that's fair. I've had my questions about Sariani, but it is also duly noted that people do mature on the job. Not everybody that gets a job is ready for a job and that coaches grow into a job. I mean, I think that's very fair. I think Nick Sariani was over his skis at his opening press conference was over his skis the first two years.

May have been over his skis six weeks ago. but people do grow into their jobs. Not everybody, you should take a job, honestly, that challenges you, you should have to bail water. Now, you don't want to do it for three years. No. But I think it's also, if you're self-aware, if you're reasonably bright, you can grow into a job. You're not necessarily. I mean, they took a chance on the kid anyway.

Right? I mean, Detroit took a chance on Dan Campbell. He'd been a coach once, didn't work. I think Dan Campbell's gotten better as a coach. I thought he was a little overly emotional. It felt like a player coach. I think he's grown into a sturdy, solid, excellent coach. This is year four for Siriani.

He went 9 and 8, 14 and 3, 11 and 6, and now he's 7 and 2. So, Colin, in 3 plus years, Nick Siriani is 41 and 19. That's pretty good. Robert Sala would have killed to go 41 and 19. Well, Robert Sala didn't have this roster. He had Aaron Rogers. Also, he had old Aaron Apakili surgery. And he didn't have Howie Roseman.

He didn't have Jeffrey Lurie. He didn't have, I mean, let's be honest. Okay. That's all fair. I'm just, like, it's weird that the numbers say Siriani is damn good, but it's the perception, the sideline antics, the comments in the post game. He's kind of, the narrative's building that he's kind of buffoonish. Well, if you go, if you go to Pat Riley, you're one, two, and three with the Lakers,

and Pat Riley, you know, if you go 12, 15 years later, like people, do, they change. Yeah, he's a young guy. He's still 43 years old. That's pretty young in the coaching industry. It's not McVey, but he's young. I agree. Jay Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

And thanks for stopping by. The Heard Lye News. I've talked to him in a couple of weeks. We always love having them on the show, and he always brings tape. Mark Sanchez, 10 NFL seasons. He's got a great one this week. Rams Patriots is fascinating because the Rams had a stinker on Monday

night, and New England's playing actually really, really well. I'll start with that. It was weird because the Rams finally had their interior O-Line right. You had Pooka back. You had Kairn Williams. And it was just one of those games. Nothing

up front went right. Nothing went right. And that was their best combination that you mentioned. I know Havenside was playing at the right tackle spot. But getting a Vila back, getting these guys back, that should be your chance. And that should be they've shown in spurts that they can run the ball successfully. It's just

doing it on a more consistent basis. And then when you don't get Karen Williams involved, you see what happens. When they're, you know, the full strength, everything's firing, that's a scary team. And they can jump out on you. But it felt like they were chasing points. They had some pre-snap penalties, the tipped interception,

and a couple things where, you know, I think Stafford said it. We just shot ourselves in the foot and couldn't get out of our own way. And that was a team where, you know, the defense did, played pretty well. And this is a young group. I love the way Verse is playing. The Braden Fist kid, both of those kids out of FSU, Florida State,

they look awesome. For rookies, they're doing so well. So they got the pieces, and it's going to be a tight race with them in Arizona, I think, in the West. So they'll be all right. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeard Radio app. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but in Encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth.

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got some pretty big targets now. I kind of buy, you know, there's elements to winning teams. Veteran coach, defense, run game, good O.C., deep ball. Like, I kind of buy into the Steelers. And Russ, I mean, are you surprised by how efficient it has been? I think you're seeing all those veteran leadership qualities mesh up, whether it's him and Tomlin, him and the coordinator coming to different places. Look at all these second chance coordinators and head coach.

in the league for that matter. Dan Quinn has those guys believing. That's a huge game tomorrow night. But, you know, these teams, when coaches leave a place, you know the good ones make a list of stuff. They talk to people in that building, in the new building. What does it look like? How do we do things? All those things matter for these squads. And when you get a veteran like Russ who can still extend plays, he's still, you know, he hasn't completely fallen off a cliff athletically. He's plenty of athletic enough to get them those second chance opportunities, and he knows what he has. He knows exactly they're taking one-on-one shots down the sidelines

to Mike Williams and George Pickens. And man-to-man, when that quarterback's not looking at me, and my quarterback throws one of the prettiest deep balls in the NFL, he just lets it glide up. It just kind of floats, and those guys have such a huge catch radius. It's okay, just get it near them. Just get it near their jersey in their catch radius and let them do the rest.

but he's taking care of the football, getting out of trouble, and they're riding the run game and that tough Steelers defense like we're used to. So, you know, T.J. Wad just seems to, it's like, hey, we need a big play, dial up, TJ. Yeah. They have so much going for them. You know, it's them in Baltimore, I think.

You know, also, there was a moment Mike Tomlin deserves respect. So Justin Fields, four and two. I know. And that's not an easy switch. And Big Ben's on his podcast saying, what are you doing? I know. and he made the move.

I think that's tougher than fans. People think, that's Mike. I don't know if all the players bought into that. Yeah, I'm not totally sure. And I think this kind of tells me that Russ was slated to be the starter, obviously, and that injury was severe enough to keep him out for that amount of time.

Maybe they, because he was playing so well, Fields was winning a few of those games. It was like, okay, let's just make sure he's fully healed. So we don't have to do this back and forth all the time. I think that was the, not indecision. I don't think there was any indecision. I think he knew what he wanted, but because Justin was playing so well, you give Russ another week, let him completely heal, and he's our guy moving forward like we plan from day one. So I commend him for it. That's not an easy move to make as a head man.

So I've said this, people grow into jobs, just like players do. And so Nick Seriani's opening press conference, he makes fun of it now. I wasn't ready. I had talked to a couple of people in the league, and they're like, I'm not sure he's ready yet to be a head coach. and early on, Colin play as didn't work. He gives it to Siriani. Smart enough to know that. Self-awareness. Then it works.

Then he leaves. Coordinators don't work. It's been a bit of a roller coaster. Stiken. Yes. Yes. So it's been a little turbulent except for the fact they win a lot. He's had one bad streak. So I want to be fair.

He's young. People get better in every industry. Is this potentially, I don't know if you've seen this in your career from a coordinator or a coach. It feels like he's been asked to grow up very quickly. He's very public. Philadelphia is loud. The owner and the GM are strong-willed people. Did you ever have a coach? I mean, I love their roster mark, and I'm starting to think, hey, they're playing too well to have a bad head coach. They're too consistent. I think they're benefiting from a couple of really good

draft classes. Their defense looks legit. The young players on defense are playing really Cooper dejean is awesome. I mean, and he's asked to play nickel. You know how hard it is to play nickel as a rookie? You got to worry about run fits. You got to get in the briar patch and go knock people's heads in. That is a really tough job. Not just, then you've got to cover guys in the slot who are all so shifty.

Some of them are big. They'll just push you around. I mean, this kid's an absolute monster. So I love his game. I love the way they're developing. I think Kellyn Moore has really helped the development of Jalen Hurts. Remember some of the stuff we talked, the film I showed you in here. Some of those reads, he's starting to pick up,

and they're going to go as far as he goes and as far as he progresses. I think as far as Siriani's concerned, this stretch that they're on, these five games, those are five very winnable games. None of those teams are world beaters. Those teams are going to be fighting to make the playoffs barely, like they're going to be hanging by a thread. This one tomorrow night against Washington,

this is going to tell me a lot more about Coach Siriani and the culture, and if everything is. Short week. Solidified. Short week, it's a high mental rep, full-speed mental rep kind of preparation. So is your team locked in or not? And I learn a lot about teams on Thursdays. It's really tough physically, 10 times harder mentally,

because you've got to really key into those. They're supposed to be full-speed mental reps. And imagining the play, essentially, in these walkthroughs, because that's all you do for a Thursday week, you don't really practice. So you don't get extra throws, you don't get to do much. You got to be ready to go between your ear. years and this game's going to tell me a lot. You know,

I don't want to beat up on a young player, Caleb Williams. How difficult would it be to go from an O.C. To a coach you know on the staff to another O.C., now Jets have done this. It has not been great for the Jets with Aaron. Right. Like the offense is getting worse.

It is for a young quarterback rookie year, if somebody would have gotten rid of a play caller and giving you the quarterback coach or somebody else, does it help? Is it new energy? What do you make of that move? Well, just because the coordinator's gone, whether you agree with the firing mid-season or not, if that's going to, no matter what happens, it's going to delay his development a little bit,

I think. I think this system wasn't, it's completely different from what he's used to in college. There's, when I was a rookie coming from USC, we had protections and a playbook that was almost the exact same size as my NFL playbook, almost identical. And they were protections. One was called, you know, Action 2, and in the NFL, we called it A-42. That was it. That was the difference. Exact same rules. I knew protections. I can draw up fronts. When you come in as a rookie quarterback, you better know how to protect yourself. How do you protect yourself? You got to know defenses. You got to know protections. So as quickly as you can study those fronts, coverages and pass pro rules,

Caleb clearly hasn't gotten there yet. He got sacked nine times last week, and a couple guys are just free runners. If there's a free runner on the quarterback, and the quarterback gets up and is looking around, like, what was that all about? And not looking at a specific halfback to, like, go block that guy? He doesn't know.

He didn't know, and he didn't see it. And there were a couple of them last game where they just get free runners on the guy, and he's getting up, like, whoa, what just happened? Well, a lot of this is because that's not the system he came from in college. So he's learning this for the first time against the best

players on the planet. It's one thing to learn it in college and he kind of flush it out a little bit, get to run the system for a few years, but I've been running a pro system for four years. So getting in walking in a huddle, talking to players, understanding how to communicate calls and all that, that's all new

for him. This is all new. Under center footwork, turn your back to the defense? He's never done that. So this is a real learning curve for him. And this will potentially stun his growth a little bit. It's going to take time to recover from this kind of move. But who knows what happens at the end of the season. They got eight games later, or whatever it is, nine games left. And that's a grueling schedule. They're in the toughest division of football. So I don't know. That's going to be tough. They were the hottest

team in the NFL for the first month. The Vikings have cooled off. It feels like they escape Jacksonville. Sam Darnold. Mark's got taped. What's happening? Some regression to the mean. We'll talk about that, Mark Sanchez. Live at L.A., it's The Hurt. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes

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reckless in his career I've always said he reminds me a little of Carson Wentz although very good in the locker room there are just sort of moments where you're like the minute he lets go of it you're like Sam a lot of that so you got some tape on this

yeah and I think you know some of these issues they've had in the red zone especially this last week were when the space gets condensed it's spacing and timing, which ties into your footwork and your eyes, and some of that stuff has gotten a little off-kilter. I also think these defenses that they played, Ryan Nielsen, the D.C.,

you got to credit him down in Jacksonville, I thought he did an excellent job of masking these coverages to make them look like man, but they're really zone. So when we show this first clip, I know they say all sin is equal sin. Not all sins are the same, okay? Like, they're a little different,

and not all interceptions are the same, but you see this. The back's going to motion in. It's just a little motion indicator, and the cornerback, Campbell at the bottom, stayed with him. The backer just adjusts. He's letting the defense know, hey, we're going to play quarters down here, a quarter zone. Everybody gets a fourth of the pie, and this backside safety is going to cheat up top to the bunch.

Now, down to the bottom, it's going to look like man-to-man because the backer plays the half-back, the corner plays the tight-end. Well, that's where Sam wants to go with the ball. He wants to start to his left, tight-end, half-back, and then all these crossers that's start crossing the field from the opposite side. So his eyes are in the right spot. The back gets hit immediately. The safety's pushing over, collecting routes, and playing that back end, just waiting

for people, hunting up people and going to double potentially Jefferson. So Sam's looking at the corner route to the tight end is covered by Campbell, young cornerback, who I really love, by the way, and played really well the other day. Boom, covers the tight end. Now his eyes go to the rest of the read. This is like, if the tight ends won, this is like a two A and two B. shallow crosser and then a deeper crosser in the back end zone and then here comes Justin Jefferson this last option right so Sam gets through this progression Justin's got to cross behind that safety

find the dead spot in the zone or race away from somebody watch Sam's eyes this entire time this is what's going to tell us the story the back gets hit so hard he goes to the right underneath and you're thinking Sam's going to throw him the ball well he's still waiting for Justin Jefferson watch his eyes as this play develops You can see him. The decal shows you the details are in the decal, or you can see it in the stripe, right? So he's looking, and then he kind of looks back to the right,

and then looks back again. So he's a little off. The picture doesn't look right to him. So he gets into desperation mode here, and he feels Justin Jefferson, and watch how he tricks the quarterback. This is on Justin. He looks like he's going to go.

His body language tells him, I'm going to the bottom of the EU, put it on the goal line, low, down and dirty throw, right at my belt loop, and I'll catch the ball. but he ends up going to the G he shows like he's coming straight down the line

back to the quarterback and then goes to the G he goes like another man to the left and Sam's already thrown the ball based on his original body language I mean that's you can't fault the quarterback for that he went through the entire read found an open guy the guy showed him body language saying throw me the ball here and then he jumped out of the way

so they're on different pages right that's not all that's not completely Sam but this next one is 100% Sam. So roll this one. This is another one in the red zone. We're talking about deadly sins. The seven deadly sins, interceptions in the red zone are a deadly sin, right? Cannot happen. This time, they run a backer out with the back. Same formation, tied into the bottom. But the back and the backer, oh, wait, that's a man indicator. Okay, we could get man to man. I might alert Justin Jefferson on this corner route that he's going to have. But if they really were in man,

everything would have to match the man demeanor, the man-to-man defensive demeanor. Those guys would have to be up pressing those guys or pressing at least the point and figuring that out. It's zone all the way, but it looks like man. And that indicator motion tricked him. So he's thinking, I got Justin Jefferson running this deep bench cut, and if you're going to throw that deep bench cut, that ball has, you've got to save the quarterback some space. See how he's touching the paint of the 10-yard line right there? His toes are on the 10-yard line.

need a minus one inside the paint. You can't touch paint and break out because I need all that real estate. And that real estate just went from Bakersfield to Beverly Hills. Look at how much better that is, right? So, no offense to Bakersfield. Love you guys. So when he makes that outcut, there's not enough space. And this ball has to be a frozen rope about eight feet off the ground, eight and a half maybe, just a, you know, trajectory two throw, and it should hit that guy on the sidelines. It's basically what you're doing. You're throwing this ball essentially out of bounds. And you're your receiver will go catch the ball. If you're going to throw this ball, because it's number one, in zone, what do we say?

Timing and space. He hits his back foot. He's got the nice forward lean. He's like a pitcher coming off the mound. Ball has to come out. And then he props up. He puts his feet close together, loses all of his momentum, completely stops, and then bounces again and then throws this ball.

So there's the ball I want. There's the ball I get. Not only is it light. no juice behind it, no hips behind it, like nothing. And that's not, like that can't happen. Not there. If that ball's coming out to number one, I need that thing, 105 mile an hour fastball, baby.

What I see with these two picks is self-doubt. I think he's just still learning to process. He's still learning to get to that next level of how these things are happening. Is it truly manner zone? Is he still getting fooled on a couple things? And listen, some of these defenses would fool Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Breed.

I mean, it happens to some of the great players too. It's not just Sam is like terrible or something, but these are some of the things that he's got to clean up if they're going to make this serious run because you turn over the ball in the red zone, you ain't going to win many games. Okay, so Jay Mack and I had at least a five-minute disagreement this week. Oh, boy.

So I don't believe, here's what I think is luck in football. You fumble and you recover it. I think some years you get the recovery. some you don't. You're running back, you fumble it, it bounces right back to you. That is luck. You shouldn't fumble, but it happens. Luck isn't always winning close games when you win them several different ways. Kansas City now has won, what, 15 straight weeks? Watch this block kick.

They saved it to the last play of the game. They could have done this second quarter. They saw a huge weakness. they've sent everybody to the right side or to the left side of the Broncos. That to me is coaching. I mean, that's a coach seeing it, either on film, and if you put it on tape,

you're either coaching it or allowing it to happen. So somebody saw that and said, hey, yeah, we're going to heavy rush right for the defense to the offenses left. But it's a team with a nucleus that's been together for a long time. Right. seeing a ton of football. The ball is not always going to bounce your way.

It's a funny-shaped football, right? And sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn't. It seems to go their way more often than not because of the way they prepare, because they've had the guys together, because they've been in those moments, they rep those moments over and over and over. And they've had success at it early, so there's a belief, right?

And now it's just a machine. We've got to keep oiling up the machine. Well, to do that, you've got to put in your work each week, and you can tell their players do it. They have a selfless attitude. You know, Kelsey goes through a drought and then comes back the last couple weeks has the most catches for all tight ends, right?

Leads, tight ends, and reception. So it's, this is who they are, and they're going to find a way to win, and it's not always going to look the same, but we're going to figure out a way. And they're almost like that team where they're so good, they don't really lose, they just kind of run out of time,

and they almost feel like that. You know what I mean? They're just like, ah, another quarter we'd got them. Yeah. We needed two more plays. okay, we'll make him next time. And they just have that demeanor. And it starts with the headman.

There was a moment before the Chargers game and during the Chargers game with Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert. And it's all over the video. And he calls him half man, half beast. Harbaugh's so quirky and odd and funny. He loves him. Punches the shoulder pads.

Did you like that from your coach or were you in his zone? I think Herbert initially didn't know what to make of job. So Harbaugh's like one, you know, completely different end of this spectrum. They're like extreme with this kind of, you know, raw, raw stuff, right? But a coach like me, uh, or that I had was Steve Sarkeesian and Pete Carroll. And they both had different ways of getting you fired up where Sark would kind of give you a look. He had a little gruden to him, like a little, hey man, you ready to go? And just kind of like nudge you a little bit. Not like in

front of cameras and stuff but kind of like in the in the walkway out to the game or like you know you're walking out to the grass and it's like right before you hit the field like let's do this baby and you know like he's locked in and fired up for you where Pete Pete would tell you a story the night before and gets you jacked up and then during the game something would happen and he'd remind you of it like what did I say last day hey this is exactly what we wanted baby other people get nervous we know what to do we know exactly what to do let's go let's go baby, come on. You know, like, you just have different ways of connecting with those guys. And that's a hardball thing. He wants to be physical, you know, like physical touch is obviously his love language.

And he just, and it's, uh, it's very like college recruiter, you know, when you meet these kids and stuff. Like, when you go through that whole recruiting circuit, all these coaches see your measurables, but they want to feel like, are you a legit, like 285? Are you like a little flabby? Like, what's going on? They touch your arms, you know? And that's a very hardball thing. You know, kind of big tough handshake, kind of grab the back of your triset, make sure you're, you know what I mean? Like that's, that's very him. Yeah, I find him, first of all, all of his rebuild jobs, he had to go find a quarterback. This is the only one.

I guess in San Diego, maybe not the first college job, but you know, he had to go recruit. Sure. Andrew Luckin, Jay-J. McCarthy, and he had to recreate some stuff. I think he's just so grateful that not only did he inherit a quarterback, but he's really special. And I mean, you heard him, he's obviously not lacking self-confidence, Jim Harbaugh, but he said, you know, I like to think of myself as the toughest quarterback ever, you know? So like, I'm like, okay, he knocked himself down one and put Justin up like, yeah, okay, that's fine. Let's see that kind of stuff.

I think it, you know, he's trying to put his blueprint on this, his thumbprint on. Oh, it's working. On this team, because they've been more of a finesse unit since we can remember, right? The Fouts is the river. Yeah, like throwing for 400 yards a game, not ground and pound and, you know, punching the mouth. So he's changing the culture. Mark Sanchez, absolutely money. Thanks to Joel Clatt.

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