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to book today. Peter, how are you? Peter,

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how great, doing great, I took

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in a football game yesterday with

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my grandson, Freddie. We were in the were

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in the crowd

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at Stadium in Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. Before

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the game, he got a fist

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bump from TJ from TJ Watt, little Freddie King, so he's

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only seven and a half, he's

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become, and he lives in the Bay

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he lives in the Bay he's become a

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he's fan. So that was dealer fan,

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so I've really enjoyed going to

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football games as a fan. games

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The only things I don't

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enjoy. enjoy. is waiting in line

1:06

25 minutes for a a hot hot dog.

1:08

And that's the only thing. So the the only

1:10

thing. So the next game I go

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to. I go. And gonna eat. have a

1:15

before I go. but I'm not standing in those

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I'll have a beer at the game,

1:19

but I'm not standing in those concession

1:21

lines time, the But anyway, we had a really

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good time, the King family. years old. What

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a half years old. think What half think

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about the national football league? League? He

1:29

just can't get enough of the

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Steelers. When they beat the beat the my

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daughter, my daughter me and said

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he's now said he's now watched the highlights.

1:37

Bengal Steelers 35 times. And

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last night they're gonna fly west.

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I'm gonna fly gonna fly east. And

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I said to said to Freddie you know, you

1:46

know don't don't have an easy schedule the

1:48

rest of the way of the way. recited.

1:51

the schedule along with home Holman

1:53

Road of the last four games of

1:55

the Steelers. Steelers. I mean, I mean, it's one

1:57

of those things. He's got a got a

1:59

little... got a little stealer nut

2:02

job in him and I'm afraid

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I'm not going to be able

2:06

to get it out of him,

2:08

but it's all good. How did

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that happen? My wife grew up

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in Pittsburgh, Jim, and I was

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on the road every Sunday when

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my kids were growing up. I

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was never home on a Sunday.

2:22

And so Anne King puts the

2:24

Steelers on. occasionally, roots for them,

2:26

loves them, is a terrible towel

2:29

waiver, and basically the kids grew

2:31

up to really like the Steelers.

2:33

Now my daughter Mary Beth lives

2:35

in Seattle, so she likes the

2:38

Seahawks now, but Laura will never

2:40

give up on the Steelers. All

2:42

right, let's talk about something here.

2:44

Before we get going on all

2:46

this. Yeah. $765 million to play

2:49

baseball. Yeah. Well,

2:52

these contracts to me, Jim, I

2:54

don't look at them and I

2:56

don't want to be a fuddy-duddy.

2:58

at all, but the athletic did

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a really good story. It was

3:03

in the New York Times today

3:05

or yesterday with all the contracts

3:08

that look absolutely terrible in baseball.

3:10

Anthony Rendon, you know, Trevor's story.

3:12

And these are just like 10

3:14

of them. And these are just

3:17

like one third, one quarter. you

3:19

know, Javier Baez, Chris Bryan, these

3:21

are contracts that are nowhere near

3:24

Soto. And look, I'm not saying

3:26

anything can go wrong, but I

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just think it's, I think it's

3:30

absurd for a team to sign

3:33

a player for 15 years. Absurd.

3:35

Look at Mike Trout. Everybody thought

3:37

that was the greatest contract in

3:40

the world. You know, you got

3:42

to have Trout. You never get

3:44

rid of them. Trout can't stay

3:46

healthy. What have they got? Seven

3:49

more years left to pay him.

3:51

It's just, it's not smart. I

3:53

would rather let somebody like that

3:56

go. And I would rather try

3:58

to build a... the guys who

4:00

are the fourth, fifth, sixth best

4:03

free agents out there. And again,

4:05

look, the Mets are going to

4:07

look fantastic in the next year

4:09

or two. They will. Maybe in

4:12

the next four or five years.

4:14

But Jim, I don't know. I

4:16

don't know a deal at the

4:19

end of it. Not Miguel Cabrera,

4:21

not Trout, not anybody, really. Tell

4:23

me a deal that looks good

4:25

in the eighth, ninth, tenth year

4:28

of it in a baseball contract.

4:30

I don't know of any, but

4:32

we'll see. I think the Yankees

4:35

are winners here. I do too.

4:37

I think they both win. You

4:39

know, it's just... Look,

4:42

I genuinely root for the player

4:44

because it's a short term, short

4:46

effect and they should be able

4:48

to maximize the amount of money

4:50

for the talent and the time

4:52

that they're putting in. So I

4:54

applaud him and I'm happy for

4:56

him and others, you know, genuinely

4:58

for the performer, for the artist,

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for the coach, because, you know,

5:03

things change in a hurry and

5:05

then, you know, they're not allowed

5:07

to practice their profession. Having said

5:09

that, this is obscene. It's

5:11

obscene. And when a guy has

5:13

to go and pay $18 for

5:15

a beer and he's being priced

5:17

out in the tickets and the

5:20

boxes and the whole thing, somebody's

5:22

got to grab a hold of

5:24

this. I don't know who can

5:26

or who will at this point.

5:28

But it's just... Well, Jim, baseball's

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too far gone to have a

5:32

salary cap. They had a chance

5:34

two generations ago to have a

5:36

salary cap. George Steinbrenner and partners

5:38

or whoever they were in baseball

5:40

basically stopped it. And look, when

5:42

Pete Roosevelt became the commissioner of

5:44

the NFL, you know, 60 plus

5:47

years ago, 64 years ago, one

5:49

of the first things he did

5:51

is he got the owners in

5:53

the NFL to agree to share

5:55

television revenue. Now that's long before

5:57

the cap days, but that was

5:59

a net. thing to

6:01

do. to tell the coach in Green

6:04

Bay, to tell Vince Lombardi, you're

6:06

going to get the same amount of

6:08

television money as the New York Giants.

6:10

And so you're going to have the

6:13

same chance to win as the

6:15

New York Giants. Then when they got

6:17

the cap in, everybody has criticized Gene

6:19

Upshaw over the years for giving in

6:22

and doing all that. Look, you

6:24

know, the salary cap is the best

6:26

thing that ever happened in the NFL,

6:28

period. Because you know what would have

6:31

happened by now, Jim. Jerry Jones

6:33

would have paid somebody 15 years 700

6:35

million or whatever and he would have

6:37

just said hey it's cost to do

6:40

in business I can do this

6:42

maybe not 15 but more years than

6:44

anybody else. And that is why the

6:46

salary cap is so good and so

6:49

smart. And I think baseball blew

6:51

it and will pay for it forever

6:53

by not having a cap. Let's go

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All right, let's talk about some football.

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How about these chiefs we just heard

7:11

from Andy Reed. When you go

7:13

down and you look at how they've

7:16

won these games and the margin of

7:18

victory, particularly in the last five games,

7:20

Peter, at some point that's just

7:22

who you are and you know who

7:25

they are? I hate

7:27

to steal it from a division

7:29

rival, but just win, baby. They

7:31

just figure out, just win. That's

7:34

what they do. You know, Jim,

7:36

honestly, you know, there's been, I

7:38

think I heard, I heard this

7:41

somewhere last night, after this, after

7:43

the game, that it's been maybe

7:45

40 years since a team has

7:48

had 10, one score victories in

7:50

one season. and just think their

7:52

last four wins they win when

7:54

they block a field goal as

7:57

time expires against Denver they will

7:59

they kick a field goal as

8:01

time expired to beat Carolina. They

8:04

win when the Raiders botch a

8:06

snap with 11 seconds to go

8:08

before kicking what would have been

8:11

a winning field goal. And they

8:13

beat the chargers when their third

8:15

kicker of the year to kick

8:17

a walk-off field goal. uh... don't

8:20

sit off the left upright and

8:22

it goes over the crossbar it's

8:24

just you know it's one thing

8:27

to live a charmed life but

8:29

after a while you just have

8:31

to say i'm not a believer

8:34

gym in luck all they're so

8:36

lucky i just don't believe it

8:38

i believe in the nf l

8:41

you make your own luck and

8:43

look this offense is not very

8:45

good. We know that we see

8:47

it every week and it's weird

8:50

that it's not very good. But

8:52

their offensive line is really hurting

8:54

Patrick Mahomes. They're not able to

8:57

do everything they want to do.

8:59

But... They have a great, not

9:01

good, but great, one of the

9:04

great coaching staffs of our lifetime.

9:06

And I just don't mean, it's

9:08

easy to say, oh Andy Reed,

9:10

he's great, he is great. Steve

9:13

Smagnolo is great. Dave Tobe, special

9:15

teams coach, is great. Those guys

9:17

are great. Matt Nagy, as an

9:20

offensive mind. Maybe nobody's gonna give

9:22

him a shot to be a

9:24

head coach again. He is a

9:27

great and imaginative offensive mind. And

9:29

so they have the perfect. combination

9:31

of coaches to try to eke

9:33

out wins every week. And I

9:36

believe in them. Now, does that

9:38

mean they're beating Buffalo in the

9:40

playoffs? I don't care where the

9:43

game is. I have my doubts,

9:45

especially watching Josh Allen, but they...

9:47

Can Buffalo get there? Well,

9:50

Buffalo's going to have to get

9:52

there on the road. It looks

9:54

like now. But I mean, can

9:57

Buffalo get there? I mean, if

9:59

you're giving up 44 points. I

10:01

know. To the Los Angeles. I

10:03

agree, I agree, but hey Jim,

10:06

when the Rams are healthy, they

10:08

can score on anybody. And I

10:10

mean the Chiefs, I mean the

10:12

Steelers, I just, I think when

10:15

they have, when they have Stafford

10:17

and Cup and Nakua and Kyran

10:19

Williams, that is a hard team

10:21

to stop. But anyway, be all

10:24

that as it may. Buffalo is

10:26

gonna be a fascinating team to

10:28

watch down the stretch. And I

10:31

think the one thing to look

10:33

at now, because look. This is

10:35

a team that had a four

10:37

and a half, five hour flight

10:40

home, probably got home three o'clock

10:42

in the morning. Their reward for

10:44

playing that incredible knockdown dragout fight

10:46

is to get home at three

10:49

in the morning and say, oh,

10:51

by the way, you're playing the

10:53

best team in football this week

10:55

on the road and you're not

10:58

going to hear yourself think before

11:00

one snap on offense, the entire

11:02

game. Buffalo at Detroit. And I'll

11:04

tell you one thing. Jim, there's

11:07

only four weeks left. There's not

11:09

going to be a better week

11:11

than this one. Pittsburgh at Philly

11:14

and Buffalo at Detroit both in

11:16

the 425 Eastern Time window, one

11:18

on CBS, for people who don't

11:20

know this. What's interesting to me

11:23

is that the NFL always had

11:25

a week one dual double header,

11:27

a double header game on Fox,

11:29

a double header game on CBS,

11:32

but this year the NFL said,

11:34

hey, let's put the dual double

11:36

header in a week when the

11:38

pennant races are going to be

11:41

red hot. and it's amazing how

11:43

it fell. They put Buffalo and

11:45

Detroit on CBS and they put

11:47

Pittsburgh and Philly on Fox both

11:50

at 425 and then they really

11:52

lucked out a month ago it

11:54

didn't look like this would be

11:57

so great. Bay in Seattle, right,

11:59

in the Sunday night game is

12:01

a great game. And all of

12:03

a sudden, look at, look at

12:06

what, look at week 15. What

12:08

a great, great week of football

12:10

it is. So that's gonna be

12:12

a lot of fun. And the

12:15

television executives are gonna be happy.

12:18

I should hope so, especially I

12:20

would assume there's going to be

12:22

a lot of Christmas and Hanukkah

12:24

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12:27

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was the hidden story of Sunday

12:53

in the NFL? It's with Buffalo

12:56

going to 10 and 3. and

12:58

Kansas City being 12 and 1.

13:00

And look, Kansas City goes to

13:02

Cleveland this week. Look, anything can

13:05

happen especially the way Kansas City's

13:07

playing. Buffalo goes to Detroit this

13:09

week. Anything can happen when you

13:11

have Josh Allen at quarterback. But...

13:14

If we exit next weekend with

13:16

Kansas City 13 and 1 and

13:18

Buffalo 10 and 4, you know

13:20

what that means? The chiefs would

13:22

have to go 0 and 3

13:25

and Buffalo would have to go

13:27

3 and 0. It's not happening.

13:29

It's over. It's over. It's over.

13:31

It's over. It's over. It's over.

13:34

It's over. It's over. It's over.

13:36

And so they're going to have

13:38

to go back through Kansas. And

13:40

so Here we

13:42

go again. Yeah, but you know

13:45

we talked earlier we talked with

13:47

Andy and with Bill Patrick Mahomes

13:49

just figures out a way to

13:51

make a great play when he

13:53

has to make a great play.

13:56

It's the expected. The spectacular has

13:58

become routine. you really can't say

14:00

that you can say that with

14:02

very very few people in sports

14:04

you can say that with Julius

14:07

Irving and Michael Jordan and Kobe

14:09

and Steph and Brady but it's

14:11

rare and now look at what

14:13

he did on that big third

14:15

downplay to run out the clock

14:18

yeah looks like he's running run

14:20

and run and run and run

14:22

and they all come up and

14:24

converge and he flips it and

14:26

there's Travis and so You know,

14:29

even when they don't look good,

14:31

he looks good. Right. Jim, I'll

14:33

tell you why I think that

14:35

is. All right. And so this

14:37

morning I was talking to a

14:40

friend of mine, it's a New

14:42

York giant season ticket holder, and

14:44

he wants everybody gone. He wants

14:46

Joe Shane fired his general manager.

14:48

He wants Brian Debo fired his

14:51

head coach. He wants somebody new.

14:53

He wants them to go after

14:55

Ben Johnson. He wants it, you

14:57

know, and all this. And I

14:59

said, listen, can we just settle

15:02

down for a second? And I

15:04

just want to tell you one

15:06

thing. I'm not saying that Brian

15:08

Dable is going to be Andy

15:10

Reed. I'm not saying Joe Shane's

15:13

going to be Brett Veach or

15:15

John Mayer is going to be

15:17

Clark Hunt. I'm not, or that

15:19

whoever, you know, is the new

15:21

quarterback is going to be Mahomes,

15:24

but I'm just simply telling you.

15:26

Do you realize right now? We

15:28

are going to be in year,

15:30

or we are in year eight,

15:32

okay, of Patrick Mahomes as the

15:35

quarterback of this team. We're in

15:37

year eight of Andy Reed being

15:39

the head coach of this team.

15:41

We're in year eight of Bred

15:43

Beach being the GM. And Karkon

15:46

obviously has been the owner since

15:48

his father died. But there is

15:50

a reason why these things happen.

15:52

These things do not operate in

15:54

a vacuum. Once you get people

15:57

who you believe are competent, I

15:59

don't care if they're flying planes

16:01

over the stadium. I don't care.

16:03

You cannot keep firing people and

16:05

expect different results. like I knew

16:08

somebody pretty well with the Patriots

16:10

during their dynasty. And he used

16:12

to just totally laugh every year

16:14

when the Jets would either hire

16:16

a new GM or a new

16:19

coach. And he used to say

16:21

they're doing us the biggest favor

16:23

they could ever do. All these

16:25

teams, always changing their coaches, changing

16:27

their GM. And look, people are

16:30

down on the Giants guys right

16:32

now. Keep Shane, keep Dable, draft

16:34

either should do or Sanders, or

16:36

I don't know who any of

16:38

these guys are, draft a great

16:41

college quarterback and give these guys

16:43

time to develop him and to

16:45

develop a good team. The problem

16:47

is nobody has time. Yeah, well,

16:49

then you're going to keep losing.

16:52

So you know what you got

16:54

to do. I mean, I know

16:56

what you say exactly is accurate

16:58

and I believe the proper formula.

17:00

But when the fan base goes

17:03

sideways, and when the chatter becomes

17:05

so loud, at some point it

17:07

affects your business, your boxes stop

17:09

selling, your waitlist disintegrates. You know,

17:11

look at what happened to the

17:14

Redskins slash commanders. Okay? And they

17:16

didn't have incompetent people. There's nothing

17:18

wrong with Ron Rivera. But

17:21

people just get tired of the

17:23

losing. And in that instance, it

17:26

was the ownership and so forth.

17:28

But what I'm saying to you

17:30

is when the fan base starts

17:32

to disintegrate and you lose all

17:34

that, what do you do? Even

17:36

if there are good competent people

17:38

in there, if you don't have

17:40

the players and they don't perform,

17:42

you're not firing the whole team.

17:44

So what do you do in

17:46

that instance, Peter? I'll tell you

17:48

exactly what you do. You take

17:50

the crap. And you tell the

17:52

fans, listen, Brian Dable's in his

17:54

third year of being the coach

17:56

of this team. In his first

17:58

year, you know what he did?

18:00

He went to the playoffs, went

18:02

on the road. playoffs and beat

18:04

the Minnesota Vikings. This is not

18:06

an incompetent man. This is not

18:08

an incompetent general manager. These are

18:10

good guys. Has every pick been

18:12

right? Has Evan Neal been good?

18:14

No. Not every pick has been

18:16

right. Look at the best people

18:18

ever to be in this game.

18:21

Look at Bill Bellichek's last six

18:23

years picking talent. Not good. But

18:25

you just have to at some

18:27

point say to your fans, we

18:29

are not going to be the

18:31

Brooklyn Nets. We're not going to

18:33

change our team every 10 minutes.

18:35

We are not going to be,

18:37

you know, we're not going to

18:39

be shaky teams. And the bottom

18:41

line is, since this team, I

18:43

think it was nine years ago,

18:45

fired Tom Coughlin. uh... put ben

18:47

macadoo in you know they've had

18:49

five coaches and you gotta stop

18:51

you gotta get off the coach

18:53

go round you got a stick

18:55

with somebody and say john mayor's

18:57

got to come out he's got

18:59

to take the slings and arrows

19:01

he's got to get humiliated on

19:03

the back pages that's it's got

19:05

to do it and he's got

19:07

to say we're going forward with

19:09

these guys i trust him we're

19:11

gonna draft a quarterback and we

19:13

will win period that's what you

19:16

do people don't want to come

19:18

along for the along for the

19:20

ride Tell them to go fry

19:22

ice, you know, it's not your

19:24

team, it's my team, and I

19:26

am sick of living year to

19:28

year, coach to coach and firing

19:30

a coach every 18 months. Sounds

19:32

like a good time to remind

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Casamigos, I'm sure there are a

19:44

lot of Detroit Lions fans who

19:46

are taking a few extra shots

19:48

trying to understand what's going on

19:50

and celebrating because it turned out

19:52

right. Didn't mean it was right

19:54

to do, but turned out right.

19:56

What's your guy Dan Campbell is

19:58

doing? I think only City

20:01

has a better record than Detroit

20:03

since that moment in the NFL.

20:05

And I think the thing that

20:07

I would say about his fourth

20:09

down decisions. is very simply that

20:12

you know when you look at

20:14

them in a vacuum it's great

20:16

to say he's got his guys

20:18

backs and you know he knows

20:20

what he's doing he's a but

20:23

in this particular game in close

20:25

proximity to this fourth in one

20:27

call you know he had two

20:29

failures one on third and one

20:31

and one on fourth in one

20:34

and obviously the Green Bay Packers

20:36

were stacking the box to try

20:38

to stop them on this fourth

20:40

and one. If they don't make

20:43

it, and obviously everybody can say

20:45

if, if, if, if, but if

20:47

they don't make it, the way

20:49

that Green Bay had been playing

20:51

on offense, you've got to think

20:54

that they're going to be able

20:56

to go down and get in

20:58

field goal position to try a

21:00

winning field goal. then everybody would

21:02

be saying something different. Hey Dan,

21:05

great to be riverboat Dan, but

21:07

you gotta know when to hold

21:09

him and know when to fold

21:11

him. Dan, you know, you can't

21:14

have a blanket policy. You have

21:16

to look at everything, you know,

21:18

in its own situation. And look,

21:20

all I will stay. is that

21:22

Dan Campbell is the best thing

21:25

to happen to the Detroit Lions

21:27

since Barry Sanders. Period. And that

21:29

doesn't mean that every decision he

21:31

makes is gold. And I didn't

21:33

like the decision that he made

21:36

at all with 43 seconds left

21:38

and forth and won on the

21:40

21. I would have kicked the

21:42

field goal. and forced Green Bay

21:44

to travel whatever, 45 yards to

21:47

try to kick a field goal

21:49

to tie the game. I just

21:51

think the cost, if you miss

21:53

it. And you know, Jim, I

21:56

don't know if you see this,

21:58

I don't know how much you

22:00

troll. web, but there are these

22:02

sites that say, you know, you

22:04

know, such and such odds say

22:07

go for it, you know, and,

22:09

and in, in that case, I

22:11

looked at those three sites and

22:13

every one of them said, kick

22:15

the field goal. I don't mean

22:18

to in any way rain on

22:20

their parade. They're fantastic. It's great

22:22

for the game. I loved last

22:24

year being in Detroit for the

22:26

playoffs. It was fantastic. Wonderful stuff

22:29

for the city that has just

22:31

been down too long. But that

22:33

doesn't mean we can't disagree on

22:35

a granular level with decisions that

22:38

are made in games. I'm with

22:40

you. Kick the field goal, but

22:42

I'm going to say this. It's

22:44

so unpredictable. and it's

22:47

so much fun. And maybe it's

22:49

become predictable that he's just going

22:51

to go for it every time.

22:53

So maybe he's even taking the

22:55

mystery out of it. But it's

22:57

fun. I mean, look, for me,

22:59

and I think for most of

23:01

the people who I'm engaged with,

23:03

not who are working professionally, and

23:05

so forth. we just

23:07

want these games to be entertaining

23:09

and fun and we want great

23:11

games and that's what he's doing

23:13

yeah and he's providing everybody a

23:15

lot of debate potential like this

23:18

and and that's I think that's

23:20

great I don't I don't think

23:22

he's dumb or I don't think

23:24

he made a dumb decision per

23:26

se I just totally disagree I

23:28

think in the championship game taking

23:30

those points off I don't want

23:32

to use that word right that

23:35

was Good God, that was just.

23:37

Yeah, that was obviously a very

23:39

questionable move. And I just think

23:41

as you kind of grow into

23:43

this job, I don't know how

23:45

much he talks to Bill Parcels.

23:47

I think he does talk to

23:49

him some. But I think over

23:51

time, and again, maybe Parcels are

23:54

rub off on him a little

23:56

bit, Parcels, I covered him for

23:58

four. in the 80s. He made

24:00

some very, at the time, controversial

24:02

decisions before analytics were involved. But

24:04

Brandon Staley, Brandon Staley was a

24:06

joke. Well, he made a lot

24:08

of those decisions, but I guess

24:11

it's awful. I guess it's it's

24:13

you have to know your thing

24:15

when you have the personnel to

24:17

pull it off. When you have

24:19

the personnel to pull it off,

24:21

okay, it's understandable. Yeah. But when

24:23

you're winning like six games a

24:25

year, what are you doing? That's

24:28

part of the reason why you're winning

24:30

six games a year. Yeah, well, you

24:32

know, again, you got to know your

24:34

team. And the one thing, when I

24:37

hear a coach say, oh, I have

24:39

great faith in my players, can you

24:41

tell me the last time a coach

24:43

said, I don't have any faith in

24:45

my players? It's a worthless statement. Every

24:47

coach has faith in his players. I

24:49

don't know. I love the guy. I

24:52

think he's great. I just disagreed with

24:54

his players when the Lions win. I

24:56

don't know. That statement means nothing to

24:58

me. Nothing. Of course you have faith

25:00

in your players. You coach him. You

25:02

picked him. If you don't have faith

25:05

in your players, what are they doing

25:07

playing for you? So, I don't know.

25:09

I love the guy. I think he's

25:11

great. I just disagreed with this decision.

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25:37

described Puka? I love Puka. Puka is

25:39

the greatest thing ever. Would Bill Walton

25:41

have loved Puka Nakua? Oh my God.

25:43

I mean, first of all, not only

25:45

is he a free spirit, but and

25:47

you look at, you know, I've met

25:50

him, I've talked to him three or

25:52

four. times. And first of all, he

25:54

does not look like a wide receiver

25:56

on a football team. You know, he's

25:58

just got the body type of a

26:00

surfer dude and the hair of a

26:02

surfer dude. And we need to get

26:05

him a tie-dye shirt and get him

26:07

involved with the Grateful Dead. Bill would

26:09

have done an hour on Puka. But

26:11

Jim, you know, the one thing, I

26:13

never thought I would say this, and

26:15

again, he's got to be able to

26:17

stay on the field, but to me,

26:20

he has the potential to be better

26:22

than Cooper Cup, which is totally crazy

26:24

to think because, I mean, Cooper Cup

26:26

had two or three of the best

26:28

years, receivers had in recent years. But,

26:30

and what's amazing, Puka Nakawa, fifth round,

26:32

177th pick, imagine the 31 teams that

26:35

all passed on him four times, or

26:37

more, and now looking at him. He's

26:39

got the best, you come up with

26:41

anybody right now who's got better hands

26:43

than Puka. I don't know, Jerry Judy's

26:45

got great hands. I mean there's a

26:48

lot of guys, De Andre Hopkins, great

26:50

hands. I don't know that anybody right

26:52

now has better hands in a physical

26:54

game like football than Puka Nakua. I

26:56

just, I love watching the guy play.

26:58

Well, this is the highest compliment I

27:00

can give this young man. I live

27:03

in Los Angeles and he hasn't won

27:05

a championship yet, so I'm not putting

27:07

him on the same level. But let

27:09

me tell you something. He's got that

27:11

one name. He's gonna be that guy.

27:13

He's gonna be that Kobe, that Shack,

27:15

that Wilt, that Fernando, that Roman. Everybody's

27:18

gonna know him by just his first

27:20

name because he's that great. Now let

27:22

him go get a championship and then

27:24

he'll have that, he'll be on that

27:26

pedestal up there with him. But you

27:28

say puka, everybody's gonna know and it's

27:30

just gonna be synonymous with greatness. Agree

27:33

to King, you're synonymous with synonymous

27:35

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