The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Steelers beat Ravens, Kevin Stefanksi & Raheem Morris Fired, Transfer Portal Madness | 01.05

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Bomani Jones starts the show by breaking down the insane game between the Baltimore Ravens & the Pittsburgh Steelers & why Lamar Jackson & John Harbaugh need to go their separate ways. Later, he reacts to Pete Carroll, Kevin Stefanski & Raheem Morris being fired, and to why teams might not have better options. Finally, he reacts to the madness happening in the transfer portal, Indiana's beatdown of Alabama in the Rose Bowl & much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We got some NFL coaching moves to talk about. We'll get to them in a second and I'm going to be honest with you.

We are currently recording at 921 Eastern Time. and we're going to wait a little while before we talk about the coaches because we want to give a little bit more time for people to get fired. Ryan, I don't like, I don't know what this says about me, what this says about us, but like I was watching the TV before we came in here, Adam Schaefter hadn't to get up and get off the set and like go take phone calls in the middle of the show,

which I mean, I got to say it's a little weird, but whatever. Interesting television for sure. It is, but the thing is, like, whenever he come back is real disappointing if somebody ain't get fired and that's that and that like

I don't feel that bad because they're going to get their money. Correct. Right. Like it's not, the problem we getting fired isn't getting fired is where my check at?

Yes. Right? Like that's all this comes down to where my check at. And if they're like, yo, but the check's still going to come they're like,

you know, it's a big deal for your kids and everything. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, man. I mean, when Pete Carroll gets fired in the next couple hours, you know, yes. No one's going to feel sorry for his family.

He's fine. Yeah, yeah, we ain't got time to wait for the sun to come up in Las Vegas before we start doing this show. Like, I think we all feel pretty confident that he is going to wind up getting fired. But we'll get to the fired people in just a second. One of them we think eventually will be Jim Harbaugh. Right. John Harbaugh.

Big difference. Boy, this is the Jordan, Justin Jefferson situation all over the game, except the consequences are much more serious. in terms of what phrasing. We happen to choose. But, I mean, we had talked about their Ravens Steelers game. Well, I guess we didn't talk about it on the show because we just got off taking a couple weeks off.

But we had talked about it beforehand, the possibility of a loser leaves town match in that week 18 matchup, right? And it really came down to the last playoff spot was who was going to win that game and who was going to lose it. And I'll be honest with you. If the Steelers had lost that game,

I don't even know if they would have let Mike Tomlin come and talk to the players. I mean, they probably would have, because it would have been somewhat beneath his dignity to not allow him to do that. But they let Lamar and the Ravens just get huge chunk plays walking down the field on them in the fourth quarter in a way where if your job is on the line and these sorts of things happen, you're not going to have a job. Right? Like, that's the game. that's how that happens to work. Instead, it wound up being the Ravens who, you know, let a pretty nondescript offense take them down the field.

And then we don't talk about this nearly enough, Ryan. I guess it's because we don't think about the Ravens as being one of these star-cross kind of teams. And that's fine. But they got a long track record of everything going wrong at the end, right? When Lee Evans dropped that pass way back when and then Lee Evans dropped a pass and then Billy Cundiff missed the kick. Right.

This kick that they just missed with the rookie in this game. Zay Flowers was the way he fumbled up the game, you know, while they still had a chance against the Chiefs in 2023. What happened last year with Mark Andrews? Right. And you have to remember, like John Harbaugh has this insane record. I think it's now 18 double-digit leads blown. Yes.

Yeah, which he added to last night. But if this was Boston in the 1990s, right. We would be talking about, like, if this was back of the day, man, somebody would have brought a goat to the stadium, you know, like all kinds of things. It had been the curse of, of, I don't even know, right? Best sports debate topic there is. Yeah, oh, yeah. Do you believe curses are real?

Yes. It would have all been there for the things that had happened with them. And Lamar Jackson is in this somewhat interesting space to me. And I'm asking, I don't know if you remember this, okay? 2010 NBA playoffs, second round, game five. Celtics, Cavaliers. It's hard to argue that LeBron quit. It's hard to say he didn't quit.

Right? It looked very much like he quit. He was so good that he looked quit-ish in game six. With the triple double. Right, right. Like, it's hard for me to say he quit when he got the triple double, right? But I saw where people are coming from. 2011, I don't think he quit.

I just think they ran out of gas. It was, yeah, it was all here. Like, it was a lot for him. And that version of him reminds me a lot of what we've seen in Lamar Jackson and a lot of these playoffs where he's come up short where you've seen the stress, right? You've seen him coming to the sideline and slamming the helmet and everything else, right? Like he gets tight. I think enough has happened for us to say that with a measure of confidence. Last year against Buffalo was tight early, brought it back together.

And I thought if you were a Ravens fan, you had to feel good about that, right? That he did not become imprisoned by whatever was going on in his head. He shook it off. And then, of course, Mark Andrews was like, oh, I want to win. What's what you're talking about? Oh, oh, I want to win. It wasn't that, I remember people thinking that somehow there was a Trumpy element to what had gone on. I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember either.

But it was a whole, oh, I can't remember exactly what went down, but it was a lot of people who were saying that they thought that he chose country over party. He chose country over team in that moment. I wish I could remember the detail, but I remember, and somebody, y'all going to get in these YouTube comments and y'all going to talk about it, but I remember joking with people about it

and then realizing it, the replies that they weren't joking. No, that's the thing when you start alleged conspiracy theories. There's always people who really believe it. Oh, no, no, no. But that was, it was, it was tense times, right? Yes.

This is after the, this is a round inauguration. Yeah, this is a tough situation for the people or anything. But this game, game. Lamar Jackson, I saw a stat. And I mean, of course, this is like, you know, this is what I call a database stat where somebody just takes everything for the game, puts it into a database, and asks it to do calls and like what's never happened before. But this is the first time

anybody had taken the lead in the fourth quarter with two plays over 50 yards and they still lost the game. Man, that feels impossible. Now, now, I want to be very clear about this. Good on Lamar Jackson for making those throws. But it would be like, like me throwing the ball to somebody in my apartment right now. Where nobody is, nobody else is. Like, like, Zay Flowers was butt-negged open. I don't know what the Steelers were playing, right? Zay-Flowers out there butt-negged open,

but the plays were getting made. The Ravens got it done. And that's why I'm saying that if the Steelers had lost that game, it would have been really hard not to fire Mike Tomlin. In fact, if I was the Steelers, I might have even considered being like, Hey, hey, hey, everybody, fans, fans, if you could please stay in your seats. We have a very special ceremony.

Come on out of here, Mike. You didn't know we were going to do this. No, no, no, no, no. It's okay. Chill out, chill out, chill out. Look whose name is in the ring of honor. I thought you were going to give him the watch. I guess we could do that next.

Hold on, no, no, no, we're not finished. We're not finished. Look at this. It's black and it's gold and it's got diamonds hit it. Yeah, you like that. you. Come on, come on. Bring your wife and kids out. Come on down to the field. Dad needs you right now. Dad's going to need a hug, right? Like, you go ahead and do that right then and there. The players on the sideline, you do that shit like they did when Sheski

retired. Yeah. Remember when they lost? Yes. And then they still made the kids sit out there. Oh, my God. That is, that'll never get old. And I think that's interesting with Lamar, right, is like similar to Obron, we have all the simmering reporting about his contract and renegotiating and figuring out his future and his unnappiness of horrible. And then he comes out and has a, no, a weird into the season is a, is a talk to describe it. But this was actually, this is what I meant to say with it relates to LeBron. And I don't know if you remember this, but in 2012, where he was comically good, right? Like, they came off that lockout. And 2012 and 2013 LeBron James, it's like,

2012 is that's the 23 or 24 game win streak, correct? I think that's 2013. The 2017 game win streak. Yeah, but it was what happened in 2012, though, they had a run of games because I don't, for those of you who weren't old enough to remember this or who weren't around, America has never been fixated on one sports team

the way we were on the Miami Heat for those four years. Nothing has ever been the same. Like, they were A1 on highly questionable, basically. Every game they played, unless it was the Super Bowl. Like it was that level. But they were playing a lot of games that were coming down late

and LeBron was hitting a lot of game winning shots except they were losing the games. Right? Like it was these shots with two seconds left and LeBron is nailing them week after week after week. But none of them counted, at least in terms in the eyes of people who questioned whether or not he was clutch,

because then they would come back and somebody would hit like a half-court shot or like a fadeaway 27-footer. I was watching, I mean, I was in college, so it was watching a lot of NBA basketball and a lot of sports TV. Yes. I mean, it just kept happening over and over again. And that's what it feels like now in Lamar. Like, he got it done against Buffalo last year, but they lost the game.

He kind of pulled it together against the Chiefs the year before, but they lost the game. And he made huge plays. He was treating the Steelers like they were like the Bengals, getting those plays, and they still managed to lose. They got them down there into field goal. range and they still manage to lose that game. Like, that's a tough go. It really, really is. But either he or the coach has to go.

I talked about this on Dominique Foxworth's podcast the other day. I believe, and if you have not seen the Mike Preston reporting, Mike Preston of the Baltimore son, he's talking about Lamar Jackson, falling asleep in meetings and all the changes that the Ravens have made to work around him and how it's caused this kind of simmering sort of, between him and John Harbaugh.

And the truth is, if you have to pick one of these, it's no question. You take Lamar. This is it. Lamar Jackson, who, by the way, has no more guaranteed money left in his contract. I have seen the reporting that his mother, who is his de facto agent,

would like for him to be back in Miami. I have heard other people say the same thing. I'm just saying, we're trying to get back to Miami so we can handle some business. Unless your business is okay. Nah, no, that's not wise.

It's going to throw it out there. That's not wise. So yeah, my guess, John Harbaugh is going to be out of there and, like, take somewhat of an example from my own life, if it does happen. You know, I did a lot,

I spent a lot of time of my career working on around the horn. And it's obviously very, very important to where I wound up, a reason that a lot of you even have any idea who I am. It's a very important show to me. Around the Horn had been on for, I want to call it, 21 or 22 years when they decided to let it go. And I would talk to Tony, Reilly,

and I would talk to Aaron Solomon, who was the producer, coordinator producer of the show. And when it was all over, I always said congratulations to them, but I never said, I'm sorry. I never said that I felt bad about the show ending because it's just like, what? You, 23 years? You know what I mean? Like, you get 22 years in this business. I congratulate you on getting 22 years. Like, you can't really lock in on what didn't go right at the end when you got to do this for 22 years. You know what I mean? I did my show in HBO, and we got two years. And do you know how excited I was

about the second? You know what I mean? Like, this is what it is. John Harbaugh has worked that job for 18 years. Congratulations to you, Big Dog. If they let you go, it is not sad. It is not sad at all if they let you go. You have been victorious in the course of this. You might be

a little bit salty that the guy who saved your fucking job seven years ago is the reason that you got fired. Like, I know why maybe that wouldn't feel so good, but what did I just say? you know what I mean? Like, good for you. And by the way, remember this. When the Steelers have to play the Houston Texans at the crib.

And Ryan, I don't think that's going to work out well for the Steelers at all. Like, good for them that they'll get Metcalf back. But the Texans are your great example of a team that caught up to the point differential, right? A team whose record caught up to all the advanced numbers. If I was Aaron Rogers and I'm out there. looking not trying to get hit. The thing I don't want to see is Will Anderson on one side and DeNeil Hunter on the other side

and Derek Stingley guarding my best receiver. Yes. Oh, this is, are these guys of LSU's backup team? Well, that's two LSU guys and, I mean, William Anderson was, you know, an Alabama All-Star. Yes, yes, he was. Yeah, so like that is, um, and again, D'Amico Ryan's scheming up

how to stop my very bland offense. Yeah, yeah, the Arthur Smith special. Hey, man, Arthur Smith figured out how to hand it off to the tidy in now, boy. All right, like, that's what he's got. By the way, nobody, I give Arthur Smith credit in the sense of that. I don't know if I was Arthur Smith, if I would have a real job. No. No.

And for those of you who don't know, Arthur Smith's father is the founder of Federal Express. I think it's a grandfather. No. It's the father. Yes. His daddy is. That's his dad. it's so interesting because Arthur went to Carolina.

He was at Carolina in the time that I was there. They had another son named Cannon, who I want to say played quarterback at Miami. And I don't know how good any of these guys were. But I imagine they had to be the hottest recruits. Because you're just like, yo, man, we can get you on board here. We got a chance that they're going to give us some money. Right? Like just, you know, what's a little bit of money to him is all the money in the world to us.

Like, just you watch out when Memphis football gets good if it ever happens. It's going to be because of that. But anyway, yeah, DeBico on one side, Arthur Smith, look, say what you want about Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin is not beating you with scheme. No. On offense or defense. Right.

That's not the game that he plays. That's not what it is that he provides. And I think they are going to be out talented in this game. They're going to play. And their quarterback is a million years old. Do not believe that he is out of the woods. But do believe this. I couldn't believe how happy he was about winning that division.

Did you see how happy? they were at the end of that game? Like, has he maybe recalibrated expectations? Did they felt like that was a win? I mean, that looked like a guy who thought he was coaching for his job. Yes. Like who, I mean, there was some rumblings about some of, you know, whether or not they'd renew his contract, whether or not he was already looking at.

Television is another option. Like, that looked like a guy who was, you know, again, thought he saved his job last night. Yeah, but here's the thing about that to me. we never know what they're doing. Every time we thought the block was hot on Mike Tomlin, it wasn't. They were like, oh, yeah, we extended this contract 18 months ago. Y'all ain't know?

We're not. I do think the Steelers understand this part. If they would be changing coaches, it would be for the sake of doing so. Right. It would do it be probably for the- Especially this cycle when it's not like they could go out and change their whole identity and get Ben Johnson like last year or something. Right, right.

This is what I'm saying. Like, who do you want to get it? and B, and this is an important part, what makes you think they want to change their identity? Right. Like the identity of this franchise is not a byproduct of Mike Tomlin. That's coming from up top. Like Mike Tomlin was a like a 4-3,

Tony Dungey sort of dude on defense. And they brought him in and were like, yes, you're going to run our defense. The defense that we've been running for all this time, it's a little cheaper to get linebackers than it is to get defensive ends. Right? So, yeah, we're going to do that. Like, you can make this change,

but who's Mike Tomlin for them becomes the question. And you know what? Put a pin in that thought. Three, two, one. All right. So now we get into talking about our Black Monday conversation. And I got to be honest with you, at least as of this moment at 9.38 Eastern Time on Monday morning, Ryan,

Monday ain't been as black as we thought it was going to be. So far, just Rahim Morris. Yeah, I mean, there were some other people who, you know, might go down, but they haven't gone down yet. Yeah, yeah. So for the Black Monday with Black and Italics, we got, as far as candidates go, I don't,

we got six, but like, it's kind of like five. Yes, I'm talking about Mike McDonald. Mike McDonald's. Mike McDonald is actually doing a very good job. Very good job. With the Seattle Seahawks. Yes, yes.

And has anybody else, asked Mike McDonald or the Seahawks if he can sing. Anytime you're here. Anybody ask him to do that? No, just, hey, just, just, just say, hey, all I'm saying is this. If Mike McDonald can sing like Michael McDonald, he might wind up on the Black Monday list

in his own way, kind of like Michael McDonald did. Michael McDonald's still in the league, still torn. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. By the way, if Mike McDonald can sing as good as Michael McDonald, we might trade Mike McDaniel for Mike McDonald and maybe even give you guys a late round pick to go along with it.

But anyway, Mike McDaniel might still be keeping the job. And do you think Stephen Ross knew it when he hired him? I'm sure he was told about, he might have doubted it. He was told about who? The only person that could tell him is Mike McDonnell. Like when they went through when he got the list from the Fritz Pollard people,

And he was like, hey, you guys got a mistake here. Someone's in the wrong column. Yeah, this says Mike McDaniel. Like, what are you talking about? We just met him. He just came in here. Like, that's not, like, no chance. Like, Mike McDaniel does not have to own this.

I think we have to give him, I don't think people give him nearly enough credit for the fact that telling us that, telling us that he was black, he didn't have anything to gain from that in his industry whatsoever. He chose to. We might go to his house and find out that, like, he might be like Louis Armstrong. Little did you know, he hates the white man's guts. Who's the same? Have no idea. Anyway, our other candidates in this discussion are Mike Tomlin, who not quite out of the woods yet. Domingo Rines, you straight.

We saw what happened with Rahin. I feel like I miss one, but I'm kind of scanning through the list really fast. Oh, Aaron Glenn, who I really don't understand how you justify not firing him. him after the team didn't get no interceptions the whole year. And they, look, they mailed it in for the rest of the year, like when they traded Sous Gardner and they traded Quinn and Williams. But, Ron, I couldn't believe how, and we've, I've been living here for a long time. I could not believe how bad they were.

I mean, again, we already threw around the quit word. That team this month. I mean, I don't know how much I would try if Brady Coke was my quarterback, but that team. Hold on who was the quarterback? Brady Cook. Who is that? He played from Missouri. Missouri. Like, recently? Yeah. I think he was a seven-front pick, but again. Wow.

I mean, again, you went from Justin Fields to Tyrod Taylor to Brady Cook. Yeah. Look, man, if you had asked me if Brady Cook was a quarterback for the New York Jets, the goaltender for the Winnipeg Jets, or the quarterback of the Akron Zips, it could have been, you could have told me that he was the hottest quarterback in the portal. Hell, for all we know when NCAA rules, he might be the hottest quarterback. He might be the hottest quarterback in the portal right now, baby.

Like, y'all, they offering me a little bit more money to go back to Missou, which y'all got to say about this. But my question, if, generally speaking, and this is why the Rahim firing in Atlanta was a little strange because they didn't quit. They won their four straight. They won their last four to, by the way, finishing a tie for the division lead and while being a little.

from the playoffs for the last month. Right. That is a strange year as it went down. They have a weird roster of somewhat mismatched parts. They still haven't figured, they got a quarterback problem. I don't think there's any way around that. They have heavily invested in a man whose body probably can't get,

and two men whose body bodies limit what you could do. They did a great job drafting this year, and they got a lot of good players on defense. But if you look at that team, how exactly are you going to make things better. Now, from what I could tell, though, about the Falcons is, as is often the case when a coach get fired and the record doesn't look so bad,

the people who watch the team all the time are like, hey, it had to be done. Like, they were a team that the more you watch them, the more you believe that they were not well coached. And you kind of know it when you see it. And quite frankly, Arthur Blake is too old to be trying to be patient. did he want to see what happens?

Like he don't already put himself in the ring of honor, for example, right? This is not, he, he, he, he, he, he ain't, he, he, he ain't talk about no five year playing. I mean, he famously didn't bring in Belichick because he's like, I don't want to, you know, cycle through coaches two years later and look what they're doing now. They're like, the coach and the GM. Right. And by the way, they're getting hell for not hiring Belichick. And I'm like, they made the right decision.

Say it again? Sounds like they made the right decision. Yo, that's what I was about to say. Like, if you're looking back on it was, we could have. had Bill Belichick, what are you talking about? Right. Like, were you not paying any? Here's my question, what would Bill Belichick done on Michael Pennix and Kirk Cousins in a quarterback situation?

Like, what, I think the Falkis problems are somewhat fundamental. And by the way, the Brown's problems are similarly fundamental. The coach decided to keep Stiking and Chris Ballard. And I think in large part, you had to look at what are we offering here? Their quarterback situation is what, what are you going to be? Daniel Jones off the Achilles? You think that's going to be the answer?

Or, I mean, the best path to Shane Stike is saving his job is Anthony Richardson. The problem is, is he going to be able to see? Like, literally, after what happened with his face getting busted up and everything else, like, who knows what happens next when it comes to this guy? The Falcons, Pennix, I don't expect Pennix to play next year. I mean, it doesn't. You can only blow your knees so many times. That is correct, right?

imagine Kirk Cousins winds up coming back. The Raiders, I got people asking me. And like, yo, so it's Fernando Mendoza. Like, is he what the Raiders need? And okay, I watch Mendoza. We'll talk a little bit more about that game later. But I watch Mendoza there. And Mendoza looks like something I've seen very many times,

which is a very good college quarterback. That is not, I know what the number one pick in a draft look like. that ain't it. Like even if you think Cam Ward's not going to be that guy, you look at Cam Ward with the Titans. And you're like, oh, that guy was the number one pick in the draft. Like, you see that. Mendoza?

Ugh, oh, I don't know. I don't know what you're going to do. But Pete's going to wind up being out of there. Who else we think going to wind up getting tossed on Nick Keister? Like, at least with the Ravens, you better jump on that job fast if you got that opportunity. Arizona, what are they going to do? Like, I don't mean, I haven't heard about it.

I haven't heard about it. they're going to fire Gannon, but I don't know how much longer they're going to keep doing that. Apparently, since Cincinnati, Joe Burrow and the receivers really like Zach Taylor, and I don't know what kind of, you know, me and they enjoy. Yeah, but I feel like those guys need to be happy. They got their money. Yeah. Shut the fuck up.

And let's figure something else out. I can't believe that man's had that job as long as he has. Right. I mean, regretting he's been to a Super Bowl, but nobody came away from that. Like, hey, man, you know, we've really been underestimating that Zach Taylor. No, that's not how that felt. Oh, Todd Bowles. I forgot.

He was also in the Italic Black Monday. That's what we forgot. Yeah. Yeah, but they say they're going to keep everybody. Yeah. Good for him because he is not a great coach, but he is a much better coach than he was when he was with the Jets. Oh, so much better.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he learned some things in Atlanta. Like his OG is Bruce Ariens. And he, uh, he picked up some things. Anything anybody else, are we sure Matt LaFlego is going to keep his job? If they go out there, I mean, they were the seven seed. They go out here and lose to the bears. Are we two?

And the game they're favored in. Yeah, by the way, that job, I would jump on that pronto. Right. And then another coach that might lose his job if they lose is Sean McDermott. Yes. And they've given it as long as it could go. But they don't feel like a team that needs to fire their coach. But what else you're going to do?

Like if you're at the point of trying to make a change to make this happen, I don't really know what else you're going to do. Kevin O'Connell is not going to get fired this. year, but he's got to be on the high seat for next year, right? I mean, they're going to have to bring in another quarterback, and if he doesn't get figured out, like, the part of the reason they let Sam Darnold go, and someone else we're going to talk about later in the show, is Kevin O'Connell can, you know, is the quarterback whisper, and he might be, but, I mean, he certainly didn't fix J.J. McCarthy.

They hate that kid. Did you see that press conference, not this last game, but the week before where they were, where McCarthy did the gritty in the end zone, and apparently he had been told not to do that? I did not see that. Okay, so he did a gradient into the end zone. The coaches had told him not to do that. And he said, well, they told me not to so that made me want to do it more. Son, you have to grow up, right?

And did O'Connell's after- I have that conversation every day. Right. And so O'Connell is talking after the game and he says something about, yeah, and JJ, he, you know, he always talks about that 40-yard dash that he brags about how he didn't have to run. and I heard that and I was like, I said this on FossoRodcast too. This is the way people talked about Austin Rivers when he was at Duke. I'm just saying that to say that they don't like him.

And I, they are so sour on him in a way. The guy's only been there for it, like played for a year. He's been consistent. They are down on him. But what are you going to do to fix that? Who, who's arch it and coming out? And by the way, Nate Tice looks like he was. was right. Right. He looks like he's the best of those guys. Did you see that run? Yes.

He was he's he's not fast for a manning. He's fast fast. Dude, what people forget, he's, he's not fast for a manning because the OG manning was fast. Every day Archie Manning had to be so ashamed at how slow those last two boys were. Right. And the oldest boy was a wide receiver. That's right. Coop was a wide receiver. And that is Arch's dad. But no, this is in the Archie Manning archetype this right here. I think Archie was like, look, man, I haven't been able to feel my left thumb for 30 years because of all that running.

Learn how to do the pocket, son. It'll be, it'll be betting for it. It's been so long. And Archie Manning is a generation that's so removed for me that people just don't understand what the Manning thing actually is. No, no, no. Arch is in line with the actual factual archetype of the Manning quarterback. But he's not going to be in this draft.

There's a small chance Trinidad Chambles would be in this draft, but he's small. Like, what is that going to turn out to be? This is a weird year that if there ain't been so many coaching jobs. But remember, Cleveland still got Deshaal Watson on the payroll next year. Yeah, we haven't even mentioned Cleveland.

Yes. Like, I mean, Stefancy got canned about a half an hour ago and talk about a situation you do not want to walk into. No, because, hey, man, Shador was good for vibes. He was bad at football. it just wasn't like I've heard the people make the argument that it watching him that it was at it's obvious that he shouldn't have been a fifth round pick no no no I don't think that's true

at all I don't like it wasn't an optimal situation as I said from the very beginning of course he wasn't set up for success he played for the Browns I no it wasn't but he did seem like he was better than Dylan Gabriel that that's what they offering you if you get that job maybe you're the that decides to figure out a way to get Kyler Murray, for example. Like, I guess I still say, Trey Lance is there looking for somebody. But there's, there aren't many attractive jobs that are out there to be taken.

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Again, that's ziprecruiter.com slash Bobani. ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. All right, Bo, quick stories from over the weekend. The transfer portal is open. Over one third of D1 players are in it. Texas Tech just got the biggest recruit in the portal, got in Brendan Sorsby. from Cincinnati.

What is your reaction to this? Who? And look, this is the thing for me with the Transport Portal because it's added this interesting wrinkle in terms of being a fan

or observer of college football. Like, it's free agency now. Right. But it's a different kind of free agency. It's free agency that anybody can choose to participate in.

Anybody can get out here and just be like, oh, okay, I'm out here. The problem is, Ryan, I can't keep up at all who all these people. are? Of course not. I don't know who they all are. I don't think it's necessarily wise. Like I think that there's a segment of guys that this is your chance to get some money.

And so you're going to go ahead and get, especially with a lot of these quarterbacks, right? Like you get paid more for being a college quarterback than you get paid for being a backup quarterback in the NFL. This is your chance to get that bread in an economy that's not going to provide many opportunities for you to get a couple of million dollars. ever, right? So I get it if you have your opportunities to go and to make the moves. But everybody's in this portal, man. Fran Brown, the coach at Syracuse made the point, like we're all swapping seconds, right? Your number two's for my number two's. There are situations that make perfect sense. For example, when James and Williams

transferred from Ohio State because they had three first round ride receivers over him, so we had to go to Alabama to be a top 15 pick and wide receiver. Yeah, yeah, we get that, Right. You know, if you are behind somebody at quarterback where you don't think you're going to get your opportunity to play. Okay, cool. Go ahead and do that. I still think for most of you guys, you need to understand it. The long money for you is to stay at one place and build some relationships with some rich people. And those people will take care of you and make sure that you got a job for the rest of your life. Rich people who are clearly out here willing to spend money. Yes. Like, but this is what it is.

it is now, man. Like, like this, the game is to get into that network and to have some people who look out for you. That's the way it goes. But I look up and they, it's these alerts and trackers and everything. Like, you know what it feels like, Ryan? It's like trying to keep up with recruiting. Right, but it's, it's even more condensed. Right. It's even more condensed, but it's still just as many truly relevant people. Right. So if you are just as an observer, if you're trying to keep up with recruiting, you can really keep up with it on two levels. Keep up with like the top 100 list kind of sort of.

Or your school. Your own school. Right. And then from your school, you will kind of find out where different people are going, like the offshoots of the guys that you're looking at. But that's about the only way that you can keep up with this. There's no way in the world I can keep up with every goddamn player in the NCAA because they all might be including division twos and division ones and everything else.

I can't do it. No, it's insane. It's, it is, I don't think anyone when they thought the transfer portal was created that, again, a third, nearly a third of D1 players would be in it. And so, but what's going to wind up happening is two things. One, a bunch of these young guys are going to wind up when the musical chairs is over with no place to go, right? And I understand the argument that is made that a lot of these guys are being forced off their scholarships. No, I think some of these guys are being forced off their scholarships. I don't know how many of them necessarily being told there won't be a place for you here.

I will make the note, though, that there is one guy who has made it fairly clear that he's trying to stick with his own guys and not run people off of their scholarships. And the results haven't been that great. And y'all laugh at him all the time. And that's Dabo. Right? Dabo's trying to run a program that keeps it together the way y'all say it should be kept together. and he winds up being ridiculed, and then when the guys get out here, you mad at the other people for forcing them out.

You understand what I mean? Bottom line, and I'll keep him moving from here, I said this from the beginning. I mean, you can go fine. I've written this in places you can find it 15 years ago I was saying this. There were changes that needed to be made because the previous status quo was morally wrong and indefensible. But we were not going to like what we got as a result.

And I personally don't like what we've gotten as a result. You could argue that in some ways the football and the sports have gotten better and they're better players, guys are more likely to stay. Okay, cool, but it's too hard to follow, man. It's too hard to follow. And there is a certain charm to the idea of like going to senior night and being like, yo, I remember what it was like when he first got here. And this is what it is now.

That's a big part of the appeal of this. and that's gone, man. Like, this is just something to watch. It's becoming more and more simply something to watch on television, which I guess that's what these conferences are, just basically TV negotiating packages, right? That's what it is. And you've taken something that has a great cultural significance

and maybe it will have this significance forever. We will see. But you just basically reduced it to a television show. Or that is what we are in the process of doing. And I don't think that's good business. All right. Speaking of a big TV show, Indiana blew off Alabama is doors at the Rose Bowl 38 to 3.

But this said more about Indiana or Alabama. Okay. The answer is yes. This is what I did not realize, however, about Indiana. They are old. Yeah. Like this is the Bill Snyder, Kansas State. I mean, Bill Snyder are almost like Gonzaga.

Yes. Yeah, like just old, old guys. Yeah. Like now the guys can stay in school forever. Because this is what is amazing about watching Indiana and what they've pulled off being Indiana is that it's Obe Tric's real name, no gimmicks. They are just lining up and hitting you in hard, by the way. Like, and they got some orange some bitches on that teeth. That dude that broke Ty Simpson's ribs is 5'9, 170 pounds.

Yeah. Yeah, they used to have a name for that. Yeah. He's that guy. Yes. You know? But they are out. here knocking the hell out of people.

Like, that's the game they're playing. They got, like, hey, one of those running backs in there, and I saw him going. I was like, oh, you're not getting him with no arm tackles. Like, like, they, they were clearly better than Alabama. They made Alabama tap. Like, by the time the third quarter came around, Alabama tapped. They quit. They gave up.

They were, they was standing across with something big and better than them. it was bananas to observe and watch. So I do think it says something about Alabama. I think Indiana, they figured out an approach. And by the way, I don't know if you've seen it, but they're cleaning up in the portal. Yeah, they just got one of the big QBs from TCA. They got a QB.

They got a big time receiver. They got a bunch of other dudes that, again, I've never heard of these people, but apparently they're all very good according to the transfer portal tracker or whatever it is that they've got. But yeah, they've decided we're going to get big old dudes. Because one thing that's very important in college football is discipline. And older dudes is just a little bit more mature.

Big difference between 23 and 19. Yeah, yeah. And I think that matters, right? In terms, essentially if you're going to try to play the type of ball that Indiana is trying to play. I think that matters. As it relates to Alabama, Kailom DeBore is going to really wish they had lost that game against Oklahoma. And he could have just gone

and taken that Michigan job. They were getting blown out too. They were down 17-0-0 in that game. Yes. Did I send you the guy from the message board that said that this shows what a big, how important coaching is? And I want to, what is the exact quote?

I want to make sure I get this right because it was just that funny. But they said, damn, I can't fight it. But basically he said, we are being, is an Alabama fad, we are being abused by three-star whites. Right.

Right. Right, right, right. Like, just like, like, like, did, was desegregation that important? Yes. Yeah. Like, that, that's the kind of thing that has, they have Alabama fans saying now. This is what has happened, though, I think, very clearly to Alabama. Here we go.

This game shows how important coaching is now that college football is so weaving at the top. A bunch of three-star whites abusing us. Yeah. White people have so low athletic self-esteem. But what has happened, though, with the SEC, and I've seen people mention this, that these SEC teams have been getting molded in the bowl game and in the playoff.

And what the SEC used to have, where they had comparative advantage over the rest of the country, was really with defensive linemen. Big and fast. Yeah, especially depth. Depth. That's it. They could stack them.

We just wave after wave after. wave a big, strong, fast defensive linemen, and now those guys are going everywhere. And that, to me, is the biggest change. Is there at the line of scrimmage, right? Like, this is not back in the day where, like, the big 10, teams can win because they can put together good offensive lines. Like, they've been able to do that. But it's still the SEC where those big boys are just a lot more athletic, just a lot more

athletic. And now everybody's got a few of those. And that has completely altered the game. I mean, we'll get Texas Tech. Like that was their whole, like, playing in the portal. We're going to get big, fast defensive linemen. Yeah, they did. But you know what, though?

They ain't have enough on the other side. Right. And they got mauled. Like, that was, for them, that was embarrassing. All right. Let's move on to the NFL. Sam Donald will be playing this weekend because the Seahawks got the number one overall seed. He becomes the first quarterback to go have 15-14 win back-to-back season since Tom Brady.

Bo, do you believe in Sam Donald? Nope. My brother sent me a test because he don't really follow that close. And he was like, Sam Donald is, dare I say cold. And I was like, hey, big dog. I can't even let you get out in the streets talking like this, man. That's a full time out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, no, no. I can't even allow you to put yourself in this position saying these things. He is talented. There's no question about the fact that he is talented. Did you think he was great in that game on Saturday, though? Because I did not. He's had a bad, last month of the year.

Yeah. I came away from Saturday impressed that Kyle Shanahan got that team as far as it did, especially they had 11 starters on defense. I ain't never heard of 10 of them. And the 11th is that big old swole dude with the Arabic name that Patrick Mahomes put his shoulder in his chest at the goal line that one time. You remember that? Right.

And built like a tank and got run through by Patrick Mahom. I can't believe that they have gotten this as far as they have with the players. that they have left on that team. It has been shocking. However, Seattle, it's so funny. Their play offensively, feels a lot like Pete Carroll football. Yes.

Maybe not like. I mean, Jackson's Evanjing was the best wide receiver that they've had in a long time. Well, since Steve Largent. Yes. That's how far back we're going. But the way they run the ball, like I don't know enough about schematics

and stuff with a run game to be like, oh, are they running a Pete Carroll type of run game? No, but they're playing like Pete Carroll would prefer to run the ball. Play, run, run, and then when we need to, we'll make big play throws with our athletic, strong-arm quarterback, which is what Russell Wilson was, just of a different size paradigm. But no, man, I ain't trusting no Sam Darnel, baby. Like, I'm okay with being second. You know what I mean? I ain't got to be the first one to get on board with this.

Y'all let me know. If it happens, I would give you guys all the credit in the world. I promise you that I will. same time, I root for a team with Jared golf as the quarterback, which is to say, I understand if you choose to believe in Sam Garnel, because it beats the alternative. Belief is a choice. Belief is a choice.

All right, Bo. Getting the voicemails here. A lot of good ones off the break. Here's our first one. Yo, Bumani Jones. This is Rob from Delaware. So check this out. He's got a real quick one for you here, right? So I'm always into what words, enter,

and exit our popular lexicon or what phrases and stuff, right? And there's One has been in our lexicon for a while, and nobody really has talked about it much, right? That's been widespread, and that's people saying, I have the idis, right? Now, this used to be just a, you know, it used to just a black folk thing. I remember the original comic stand up where it came from. And then, you know, as it became its popularity, gain its popularity, people just use the suffix. Oh, it's the idis, but people don't have the entire full term or original version, as we can put it, right?

So I want to know, do people outside of black people know the full original terminology? Or it's okay with using the suffix because, like, I feel if it's what people knew the entirety of it, it wouldn't be so widespread. What do you think? That actually is not a question for me. I don't know. That is a question for right. I do not know. Oh, you do not know the origins?

I do not know. And I have a good rule if I don't know the origins. I try not to use it. Wise play. Wise play. Defense wins championships. Yeah. So it's very similar to, I've talked about this on this show before.

Let us say that there's something that is broken in some form of fashion. And it needs to be repaired very quickly or perhaps haphazardly with a certain ingenuity. There is a phrase that what might use. Yeah. Copy. similar to that, except it's theitis. Copy. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie bamboozled with the character named Sleep and Eat.

Yes. It's a long time, but yes. Yes, yes. So we're in line with that. And so to answer your question, brother, I assure you some people know exactly what they're saying. Some. But also, this is a dangerous thing. Never forget that they can hear you when you talk.

And they are. They're kind of like AI. They'd be learning. They be soaking up game. Now, don't get me wrong, they use it in clumsy ways that might make you want to throw them out the window, but they can hear you. All right, here's our next one. Bomani, Ryan, this is Brady from Montana. Thanks for taking my call.

Though we entertain ourselves with the likes of Khan Canipal, and though I appreciate the recent reference to the infamous Peter Mann, I would like to lend my support to your years old pronunciation insistence for the quarter of who plays on the practice squad for your Detroit Lions, the young man who goes by the name of CJ. And for those who contend that his last name is Bethard, I must also assume that they think the collection of staff and editors at a magazine is called a mass feed. And when their kids are being annoying and won't leave them alone, they refer to them as little sheaths, Beaumani, I like you, am a beat hard truther.

Keep preaching the gospel. When the Providence Friars make the NCAA tournament and their seven-footer from Latvia wearing number 17 hits a game winning shot, you know where I'll be. I have to be honest with you, Ryan. I don't think that this is my gimmick, but it may need to become it. Yeah. CJ beat hard. I hadn't really, uh, it's a good bit.

I had also need to go find out who this guy is now. Same. And what do you call it? I thought that was a reference you would understand, but I, I, I, I, I ain't going to lie to you, right? Maybe just maybe. I got so much clever in me that I can't even keep it all straight.

You know what I'm saying? But I don't, every now of that I saw somebody on the internet the other day complained about some blog post I wrote like 15 years ago and the post said something like, remember when Beaumani doubled down on this? And I wanted to comment underneath.

I don't remember when I did that. Like, what are you talking about? Like, I have no idea. I can't keep all this stuff straight. All right, buddy number is 70. Oh, oh. Have you looked up number 17? I have not.

everybody needs to look up number 17 for Providence basketball. It'll ruin it if I try to say it, and it'll ruin it if I spell it. You just need to look at it and I will say to Brady from Montana. Good call, brother. Good call. All right. Here's our last one. Hey, Bo. This is Bert. Long time listener. First time caller in Raleigh, by the way, at Dayton, Ohio. My question is, if you had to build an All-SAR ensemble similar to the player-hater's

ball, who are your four haters you're picking to go with you and why? This is going to be your buck nasty. Who's going to be the Silky Johnson, pretty or whatever as you what her name was, and then the Asian dude. Who's going to be your Sart and five as your player headers ball? You can even be time travel when haters and where would you go and do the most hate you things? I mean, the truth is, brother,

I don't even know if I need four of them. I just feel like I need one. He'll be tomorrow's guest, by the way. Joe from Missouri City is, but the thing about Joel, this is very important to note. Joel does not do it for recreation. Like, when Joe get to Hayton,

it's because Joel mean it. You don't have to get ready if you stay ready. That's right. And by the way, once Joel starts, like, it ain't stopping, right? Oh, I see Joel on Twitter. Yeah, he's way high on the list. Rest in peace to Billy Packer. Billy Packer was definitely very high on the list, though, haters.

Try to think who else, who else it is we might throw out there. I mean, truth is, whether you think he was justified or not it's only discussion, but I don't think anybody don't never hate it harder than pot. Like to this day, I imagine if it was your job to produce pot on, uh, hit him up. Like, all right, I need you to do that again. He can't do that again.

He can't do that again. He just passed out. He just fell out in the corner from hating so hard. My historical hater was Jake Hoover. That's an all time. That is an all time. Racist, creeds. Yes. genders.

Hey, look, if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Yeah, Jay and Grover had that job for 50 years. Yeah, you just got through reading the Hoover book, right? Yes. Did that book get into the lie it appeared that he had been living? Well, two of them. It's a, I mean, the main one, yes.

Okay. Well, I don't even know what the main one is anymore. Well, the main one is his living boyfriend. Okay. Oh, I was thinking about the other one, which is, in that day and age, that's a black man. Oh, yeah, oh yeah. I did not get into that one.

Yeah, as I was talking about the black part, I completely forgot about the whole other thing. Yes. Like the gay wear and wear women's underwear. Yes. type stuff. Yeah. And now like had like the live in a male assistant for 45 years.

Yeah, yeah. No, that's not. And from the 20s to the seven. Yeah. It is amazing to think that people who were like adults in the 20s were still around in the 70s. Yes. And still had the same job. You're right.

That is that that is that's George Washington. Yes. On our hater list. Yeah, for sure. Oh, man. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. Happy New Year to you all. Speaking of which.

Ryan, I don't know if you know about this thing I'm about to do right now. Do you know about this thing I'm about to do right now? I do not. I have a good friend named Ryan Cortez who hates being told Happy New Year too long after the new. Oh, that's the Larry David bit. Yes, and so every year I call Ryan.

Let's see if he'll answer. Don't even say that shit. What? Say what you about to say? Why you approach me with such high, was the first time that we have talked this year. Even what? How you been, brother?

Happy New Year, man. That's not the point. That's not the point. The point is to share my cheer with you. Hold on. At least this year I did it all. Was it today the fifth? It's the first business day of the year.

You're not allowed to say it. You're one day. I love you too, man. When you say said, he hates it. I was like, okay, like, I understood. I was like, I thought you just didn't like, thought was annoyed by it. But he sounded actually mad. I mean, I don't know. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's right. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's. Ryan probably handles everything behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Remember, follow the right time. Subscribe. Like. rate us, review us, hit the voice bell live 3, 2, 3, 3, 5, 9, 6, 7, 7, 6, 7. Give us 5 stars. You only give us 4 stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We'll talk to you guys in a couple of days.

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