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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Boom, What Up America, Doug gott Leave Show Fox Sports Radio, Man, what a what a day we got for you here, final show on Radio row as. Uh, we're getting you ready for the Super Bowl. Look, here's the deal. H Levyan Bell is gonna join us in like three minutes. He's given depths and hugs. The Doug got Leave Show is brought to you by Black Rifle Coffee. Veteran on veteran roasted. Visit Black Rifle Coffee today and use the code Fox Sports twenty off your first order. Levian Bell with Pittsburgh Steel is gonna join us in your moments r G three. Boy, he didn't know anything about quarterback changes in Uh in d C. He's gonna join us in twenty minutes. Then Jared Golf quarterback, Uh the l a Rams who everybody bailed on. He stinks he's a bust now like, oh, he's really good. Good that Jered Goals gonna join us at half past the hour, Sean Payton. Later in the show, Baker Mayfield joined us on on set. Sold Christian McCaffrey and ju Juice Smith Schuster. We are locked and loaded. Uh, everybody ends their show with a super Bowl prediction. I'm gonna start mine with a super Bowl prediction. Okay, the Philadelphia Eagles defense is nasty and no, I don't think Nick Foles is your traditional super Bowl winning quarterback. But when we've seen defenses that are this dominant, this good up front, this built to win in the fourth quarter, um, it's the type of defenses that have given given uh given Tom Brady trouble in the past. So I have no I have no stake in the game, but I think the Eagles are gonna win. I don't think the Patriots defenses is great, let alone, not sure it's all that good. And I think the Eagles defense is nasty and like look like one of the things that we've had this year is we've had so many teams we about the a f C playoffs. Chargers should have been there, probably Houston should have been there. J j Wie, Deshaun Watson didn't get hurt. The Patriots probably should have lost to Pittsburgh if not for the catch ruling against Jesse James. And if all those things happened, we probably have different teams here. Now. You may not like the ifs and and butts. It only points out that the Eagles, though they lost Carson Wentz, they're the best team in the NFC most the entire season, and because of that, I like the Eagles. I think this one reminds me of the Super Bowl with Peyton Manning against the Seahawks in New York. Everybody talked about the greatness of Peyton and no one's taken away from that, but that's Seahawks defense. I believe it was the poet laureate Marshawn Lynch who said, we got some dogs. They had some dogs. They dominated that game. I don't know if it'd be that level of dominance, but I'm picking the Eagles. Let's sell welcome in one of the great running backs in the National Football League, a guy who everybody's gonna be talking about in the offseason because of the contract situation, because of the offensive coaching chain, assuming that Pittsburgh won't let him go. Lady On Bell joins us here on the Doug Golla Show. You do man, I'm feel good? How are you good? Um? What's it like to get the respect and the love from everybody? Like? It's look, it's one thing to get it on the fields. The whole other thing. When you have the players, agents, fans, radio, row and you walk in and get the type of money. It's amazing. You know, as a as a kid, you know, you kind of never really you know, really realize that you can do it. You know what I mean. You kind of say it. I always dreamt about it, but you know the fact that has actually happened and I'm living it. You know, it's amazing. You know, just interacted with the fans, the players that you play against, and you know they respect you to interpect your game. Um, just getting to norm off the field is amazing. How are you gonna lose with the Jaguars? Dude? Come on man, all right, look man, the Jaguars was a good team, you know what I mean. Um, obviously we didn't play our best game. Um, I don't think we played a good second half. We played second half. Explained to me this, Okay, you first half Cleveland Brown's first game of the season, Indianapolis Cults. You picked the game and it was like it was almost like of the guy who goes like, all right, we'll go to ten, I'll spot you five. That was kind of like you guys had so much talent and yet so often times you get off the sluggish start. Is that I don't know, man, maybe maybe you know, it might have been a little bit of the offense, maybe a little bit of defense. I think for us that switch up at the off the coordinator, uh, that that I hope, we hope without a lot. It's not taking away from Todd and what he's done for us, but I just think that switch up a wrinkle or something that may have you know, in better situations better um you know, positions to make make plays and things like that make it easier on me or a b perfect example is and like, look, Todd Haley is a well regarded offensive coordinating right, but didn't you guys starting empty against against Jacksonville, right, Like I mean so, I mean, like, look again, I'm not saying I know more about football than Todd Hay. I know that I know that when they've gotten you like this is not rocking science, right that was might say, like football the simple game, and it's so simple because Jacksonville Jacksonville figure that out, Like we're gonna run the football and then eventually, when they over commit to running, we're gonna run some play actions exactly and worst case scenarios say you get stopped three straight times, that's okay, you punt and you get it over your defense. He played fuel position football. Yes, so so, um so you do get the sense that that's that the coordinator change. And they talked to you about it, they said, this is what this is what we're kind of looking for, is what's gonna change. Well, I mean I was at the pro bo with Randy, you know, and he gave me a whole bunch of you know, different things and situations and how they're gonna use me and what he's planning on for next year. And I'm excited about it, you know. So, and I know Randy's the quarterbacks coach before he was O C. And I love Randy. You know, he has a good camarade with everybody in the locker room. Everybody loves Randy and respect him. So, um he's a great you know pick for the office, the coordinator and you know, I'm excited for Okay, so they're gonna tag you at I hope not. I mean it it's guaranteed money. It is guaranteed money. But you know I need some long time, um you know security. That's that's that's the biggest thing about contracts. You wanna get a long term deal with a nice guaranteed money. So when you say something do happen like look, you said, look you got hitting the knee, like anything happened, hit in the knee, and and and then you went over and you tested it. It It was middle of the season you went and tested and yeah, I'm sure you had to be freaking out. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. And the thing about it is like at any moment, like you may not be the same player anymore. Okay, So can I give you the Devil's advocate? What what people will say when you say I think I should get a long term deal, They'll say, look, man been injured and he's been suspended. Yeah, absolutely, okay, So so why would why should the Steelers invest long term and a guy who's now getting up for twenties and has been injured spending what's the counter to that? Because the Steelers know what type of person I am. Yeah, the suspensions happened, and the second suspension they know exactly happen, and it's a lot of things that it shouldn't have happened. And the Steels understand that they were behind the scene everything, so they know exactly what's going on. Um the injuries, freaky injuries, you know, a little a little weird stuff, but they understand what type of player. I yeam and I'm a different type player even even with all the injury suspensions. Now I'm the number one player after five years in screaming yards. All right. So ever, so do you, uh, do you sit training camp if they if they franchise Taggy, do you because i mean, you know, somebody asked you once you thought about retirement, you said to think about it. You do know what I'm saying. You know I'm saying, Uh, if they tag me training camp, I'll see you one maybe. But but that that sets you back, or at least they didn't give you the ball as much in the season because they just didn't give you the ball. But like I came in out of shape, I was ready. They I mean, they want to give me the ball, you know, six or seven times against the Browns because they know it's the Browns. That's what it is. It is what it is. But I'm going out there a long as I finished. See the healthy. I'm good. Help me out with the Patriots. Um, the defense is ben but doesn't but don't break. Now they have allowed you know, up until uh their last game, they a lot the fewest uh but fifth fewest h but fewest points in the in the league since the week five, right, so they've they've been better. But it's the defense good or it's just they just don't make mistakes. That's what it is. They play real disciplined football. They don't get out of gaps, want to play, you know, play opportunity presents itself, they make the play. But you know the reason why they're so good because they're not gonna go out of the gap and try to be greedy and try to make a tackle if there if it's not their tackle, it's not their gap. They didn't worry about making that tackle. You know, you've got guys in the league who's individual guys who like worry about making every tackle. You want a guy who had heard fifty tackles over the course of the year. They have no guys like that. They go out there and play sigmon football and that's what make those all good. Um, what about Brady in that offense against this Eagles defense? Eagles defense pretty nasty, isn't yeah. Yeah, their front their front seven is really well. I think the Eagles can win if they don't let the Pages get a run game going, if they just have to sit back and the Patriots just got the past with Tom Brady five wide, the Eagles gonna rush four. They're gonna play man to man and put personal time Brady, before you came, it's Tom Brady at all. You gotta literally play man a man, no, not so physical too, right, Yeah, you gotta play man a man, not zone and rush four and your four have to get personal time, Brady, not blitz anybody. You gotta just rush four and play coverage. Uh so who are you picking? Man? Look, I know the Eagles are so good. Eagles, amazing team. They've been good all year. Um, it's just so hard for me to pick against Tom Brady. Man, it's just so hard to do it. Like, um, so I'm gonna go and go to go with the Pagriots. You're gonna started eating avocado ice cream and stop lifting weights and start stretching all the time. That's his deal, right, He's like he's all about flexibility and diet and sleep. I mean yeah, I mean, I guess it's working for he's also a position where you can get away with that, right. I mean, I don't eat meat. So you're a vegan or vegetarian, pescatarian, pesterarian, so you only eat fish, only fish? What's your favorite fish? Salmon? How? How? How? How How do you like it? Cook? Uh? Man, I like it everywhere? Did you eat everything growing up? Like? Man, I'm be a pescetarian. I'm only gonna eat Never never thought that. I never thought that. It got to a point where I actually went on the date and uh, this girl kind of talked me into it. You know, but what's your name? Name? Why was it date? Then? Not a date? Now? Yeah, but I don't want to say that name. You canna mess up on other dates. Man, But it's an old date. It was a long time, even long even pestarian for about six months. Oh well, they like this is okay? You don't. You don't miss a good steak? Come on, you want really you walk back? Come on, you gotta pass Ruce Chris and you smell some of that steak cooking, like I don't really want. I know what's going to kill my stomach. It will kill your stuff, I know, will, I know? Will That's what that's what like. It kind of give you out, like cheeseburgers and stuff like I came like I'm straight, okay, alright. I like good swordfish as well. Tune is pretty good. Sort fish really really good bass. That's my that's my favorite one. Probably. Um you're here with Mountain dew Ice. When I think ice, I think, is it beer? Is ice? Like? I think no? But I think I like remember but ice? But but ice. That's before your time, man, that's back when I was in college. Uh, Mountain dew Ice supporting team Ice Cold. In the showdown between the Mountain dew Ice team hashtag Ice Cold and the Doritos Blaze team was the rat battle. Yeah, the ra battle. I'm with Morgan Freeman though free Morgan Freeman rap. You ain't know no what, No, you gotta see the rap battle. Morgan Freeman is like voice of God from Truman Show. Right, No, no, no, uh, Bruce, that's Bruce Almighty. You can wrap no no who uh? And then Peter Dinklich is the is for Doritos or for he with the Ritos. He with the Ritos. So I'm t mice. You know what I'm saying. You look where I'm rocket and that shirt is awesome. You know what I'm saying. It's a shirt with Morgan Freeman, white hair, white goatee, big kerchief, holding a mountain dew ice soda. He is caffeine. That's the biggest thing that'll wake that'll wake up. You do your due. Wow, wet little pesctarian getting that maut and do uh. We hope they don't tagging and you get paid, although we all know they're gonna tag you. We kind of know that. We don't. Come on, dude, we might get it done. Come on, man, you think we get it done? They did say. Okay, so reports were last week that two sides were progressing towards the deal. How accurate are those reports? That's accurate? Okay, that's accurate. Is it imminent? We're progressing? Man, break you don't break your own Storyett like it's done, nine ain't done? Though it ain't done? Is it about? Is it about? What is it is about? The guaranteed number is about the guarantee is the guaranteed number in years? The guaranteed number, um, the A P y ye and then um you know how long you know said how long? How how engaged in it are you do you guys? You you want to be engaged in every part of it, or just tell me when it I gotta be. That's that's you know what I'm saying that. No, I know, but sometimes like look, I've been a contract negotiation. Sometimes you hire a guy because they you want them gonna kinda do everything for you. He's gonna kind of report back to you. I don't every call enough, I don't see on every call. But you know what I'm saying about a little underfitty maybe like all right, give me give me percent hopefully you'll get it done. Percent hopeful or percent you think he gets done? I say about Sandy far percit alright, progressing, he's confirmed that it is progressing. All right, let ter and great? All I appreciate it. He'll be eating salmon all weekend long. Here. Uh. The third. Robert Griffin, the third is a Heisman Trophy winner. He's a Pro bowler, he was a Rookie of the Year. If he doesn't have a job in the NFL, but he did probably win twitter uh two days ago, We'll ask him. Will we see him again in the National Football again? If not, it next If you could change anything, what would it be? R G three up next Live. 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He leads the Redskins to the playoffs, and of course you remember him playing on a bad wheel in the playoffs. But since then it's been tough sledding a couple of different teams and now RG three. Robert Griffin the Third joins us on the set here at Radio Row at the side of the Super Bowl. How you doing, man, I'm doing great. How you doing good? Man? You got your baby? Yes, what's happen? Looks just like her mom. She's seven months old. She's sleeping a little better at night, but uh, you know, we're still having to wake up pretty often. But it's a blessing. And you know, she's got an older sister too. I got two beautiful baby girls that I get an opportunity to to raise every single day. And that's a lifetime job and I'm I'm blessed to be able to have it all. Right, So um, let's just let's just get the the my career as of now. You're going to camp? You are you done? Like, what do you want to what do you want to do? I know, you know you feel like you have football in you. What's your game plan? Yeah? I think God's blessed me with an ability and a talent to be able to showcase and have a platform and and just the ability to inspire men. Uh and I think I've been able to showcase that. So um, my plan. I moved to Orlando just recently. Um, I'm getting ready to marry my soul mate. Uh. Football wise, I've spent the entire year making sure my body is healthy, my mind and healthy, that I get back the explosiveness that I had from my my rookie season. And Uh, that's what I've been laser focused on, is just making sure that when my opportunity comes, I'm ready to go. Uh. It's not just something that you say. It's when you get that call and they say, hey, we want you to come work out. Hey, we want you to do this, We want to do that. You can do it and show them, Hey, give me an opportunity to compete, and I'll make you right. What what went so wrong in d C? Because because you know it's I want to get to your tweet earlier about about about the trade this week, which is hilarious. But there there's some similarities there with Kirk and with you in that like, man, it sure feels like this should be working out, and it didn't work out with him, but that's it kind of it's different, but the same when it was with you where there was leaks about how you were perceived and what the reality of you. What what's so wrong with you in in DC? What you get this? I get this question all the time, and I feel like I've answered every time. But now it's time for me not to answer those questions anymore. Um. You know, the one thing I will say about d C is the people who have to realize I'll always be connected to Washington. I was drafted there, who went to the playoffs in my first year? Um didn't. Things didn't go quite as well down the stretch, and then change of coaches and all these things happened. But I'm always gonna root for the rest Kings. I'm always gonna be a fan, and I'm always gonna be a part of it. So I love him, I wish him the best, but I'm not gonna continue to answer those questions about what went wrong there because I don't want that to define define my career. I want to be able to go out and UH get it with a team, grow with a coach, grow with the team, and UH be able to showcase said, hey, I'm in this for the long haul. Fair Enough. Um, Okay, how about this? Is there if you could is there something you could change, If there's something you could do different or do better, it would it be Yeah, I'm mean, uh, obviously i'd still be there if if I if I would have had those answers then, But um, I think as a player, there was nothing that was gonna prepare me for for what ended up happening in d C. And I wasn't ready to handle what happened in d C from a negative standpoint. Um, And I think that's what I learned the most, just how to handle certain situations and not not make them worse, not compound those situations. But uh, that's part of growth, that's part of maturing in the NFL, and and giving yourself an opportunity to to have more opportunities. It's also I think fair to say that you're a a victim in many ways, not just have your own success, but also of kind of what we do as a society, Right, Like we celebrated your emergence as a superstar in college, and then we find as many any flaw we can find to kind of bring you back down like that. That's the same with so many different players, right. That's and I don't know if it's I would say from your perspective, you'd probably say that's media driven. But I think the media also is a reflection people, right, That's how people sometimes they It's not that they don't want people succeed, it's that when people succeed, they want to feel as though they're on They're as flawed as superstars are flawed. But what's that like emotionally to hit Like like you're not blind, deaf or dumb, and you're like, look, wait, just last week you were telling me I was the greatest thing ever, and now dudes are taking shots emotionally? How how does that? How do you process? Yeah? I think it just you have to have thick skin when it comes to I think our world is inherently negative. Right. If you see a good story on TV about someone donating the charity or saving kittens, uh, it doesn't spark your interests as much as hearing about somebody doing something bad. They're making fun of somebody, or you know, someone gets hurt and now you've got all these pictures about them while they're injured. That that tends to get more attention than the good stuff. So I think as a player, the only time it gets to you is when you quit. Right that some people say you win and you learn. You know, it's it's the old cliche, but feel like you really only lose when you quit. And I think that's the one thing that's sitting out of football. This entire year showed me that there's no quit in me. God built me and and bless me in a way with with great parents, great foundation, and great people around me that there is no quit. So even when it doesn't look good, you still gotta push through because you never know when that opportunity is gonna come. So I'll be ready. So did you did you watch? Is it like when you're not playing football and you're out of it, you watch as much as you've always watched or was it? Was it hard and you're like I can't this Sunday I can't turn the TV. Yeah, I mean I feel like when you're not in, when you're not playing, you have to watch um because when you're playing, you don't have the time, but when you're when you're not playing, you kind of do have the time. But what I tried to do with schedule my schedule for the offseason, working outlifting, watching film as if I was playing, so that when I got into it, it wouldn't be a shock to my system. So I continue to study the film, I continue to do the workouts just to prepare for my opportunity. And I think that's made me, uh, you know, realize a lot of things when it comes to the game and just seeing how the game is reverting back a couple of years to how things were being run when I was Shaun Watson right, Like, all they did with Deshaun Watson was like, hey, let's run that stuff that they ran with r G three and he took over the league. It's crazy because they tried to make put you square peg into the round hole of the traditional West Coast style quarterback. Meanwhile, the rest of the league's like, hey, we should do these r I mean, that's what change with Nick Foles. They start running these rpt're like wait wait, wait, wait wait, you're doing what they told me I couldn't do. So I was able to watch that throughout the course of the season. I'm saying to myself, man, you know, if the league is going back that direction, that is a big opportunity for me to get back in and be able to help a team win games where this compete as QB one come in solidified QB two and or help some of these young guys that are walking around and not make the same mistakes that I made. But at the end of the day, I want to get in with the team. I want to be able to compete, grow with the coach, grow with the team, and just prove it every single day. Robert Griffin, the Third Man, Great to see you, Great to know that you're still fighting. Can't wait to see what the next step bring Man should be. It should be really really cool. Obviously, those of us who watch you, uh, take over the Big twelve, takeover college football, take over the Redskins. We want to see what r G three two point oh has has bring. Keep us updated. Okay, that's Robert the third soon to get married, just had a beautiful baby, daughters, second little girl has conditions on the field change. So can your insurance needs talk with a farmer's agent today so you can assess with your policies. Game ready. Find agent at farmers dot com. We are farmers, all right. Let's bring in Dan buy or find out what else is going on tomorrow Big NFL Honors Show and you We're gonna find out the m v P. And we think that it's gonna be Tom Brady just because of the speech that was apparently leaked yesterday. But there are more awards given out today, including Saints running back Calvin Camara to the PEPSI NFL Rookie of the Year. There will be different honors throughout the next eight hours or so, but Camaro wins the PEPSI Rookie honor. The New York Game of the News says that the Eagles actually tried to acquire running backs Sean McCoy from the Buffalo Bills in a trade last offseason. Remember the Bills and Eagles did a deal that had Jordan Matthews going to Buffalo with Ronald Darby coming over to Philadelphia. But originally the report says that the Eagles were looking to have a reunion with Lashawn McCoy. That didn't happen. They signed the Garrett Blunt and of course, acquired j h I E in the middle of this season. The father of three girls who are assaulted by Larry Nasser won't face contempt of court charges after he charged at the convicted sex sexual predator during a court hearing today, Randall mar Graves asked the judge for five minutes in a room with NASA, and after repeated requests, then attempted to physically harm the disgrace doctor. Shortly after he was restrained by officers. Mar Graves apologized for his actions Doug and the judge today said that there was no way she was going to penalize him for those actions today. Crazy scene that we've seen throughout social media of the video of him trying to attack NASA. Some and some NBA notes Calves forward Kevin Love won't need surgery and his broken hands still gonna miss eight weeks of action. Celtics rule reportedly signed free agent center Greg Monroe. That's according to whoa. Bucks forward Jabari Parker comes back tonight from his torn a c l he'll face the Knicks and Caps for Lebron James calling the rumors of him joining the Warriors nonsense and a non story that from the King himself today. Big news, little news, big deal, little no deal. He said, that's no deal. They said that's a big no deal. All the fake news and all of that he went fake. I don't think he did fake news. Fake We know who, we know who he called the tarrying fake news, and uh that is uh yeah, that's that I knew who he is. All right, thanks, thanks so much, Dan Doug Outlive Show, Fox Sports Radio. What if you could get up to thousand dollars in a little as forty eight hours with tax Layer, Well now he can introducing refund now only from tax Layer. E file your taxes get up to the thousand dollars in a little forty eight hours, but no upfront fees. Visit tax layer dot com for details. Um boy, what a special second season. This guy had hundred yards, eight touchdowns, only seven interceptions and this after the first year which people they were bailing, they thought he was a bust um. He's Jared Goff of the l A. Rams. He joins me on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. And Jared, you know, confidence is such a huge part of having success in the NFL. How much do you think that first game against the Colts, how much do you think that kind of propelled you guys confidence wise to have the season you had. Yeah, it was it was a good it was a good game. It was a good start. You know, we didn't get to play them without Andrew, which definitely helps. But uh, you know, we played well. We we executed, we execute on defense, we executed on special teams, and we executed on offense. So when you do all those three things, most time you win. And uh that thing like they we did. How much does you want to like go around TV channel the TV channel? Don't when you start when you start winning and you I mean, like, I really don't, I really don't. I just I have fun with it now. I think it's it's kind of funny to see the reactions of some people. But I've always, you know, believe in myself. But I know there's plenty of people who haven't, and I know that'll probably continue the rest of my career. And just something that I got a good experience of dealing with. Was there ever a moment to which you didn't like in the first year? Never, there wasn't any oh my gosh, this might I might not be what I think I was, but I think am I didn't. Where does that come from? How do you maintain when when everyone is saying, oh my gosh, they that this might not work. How did you maintain your focus and your confidence. We'll try to not pay attention to any of that, because, um, they're not in the building. They don't you know, see what's what's going on or any of that. So just try to remain confident. I know what I've done my whole life. I played football my whole life. I played I think pretty well my whole life. Um, you know, just try to try to get back to that. And I was lucky enough to get some good pieces around me this year, and um, grow grow in this offense, and grow and mature and continue to get better and hopefully, you know, keep keep trending in that direction. Jered Goff joining us in the Dug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Last year, this time you sat down, we talked a little bitbout Sean McVeigh. You said you're excited. UM, give me at least one thing that kind of surprised you. But you know, either surprised you about McVeigh that you didn't know when you first your first couple of days, first couple of weeks working together. Um, who I think. I think how intense he is on game day because you know, he comes on the radio shows, he's very calm, cool and collected, and you know, very meticulous and throughout the week years as well, and then on game day he is a different dude, and he is a competitive, competitive guy and very intense and a lot of fun to play for. Um, what about you? Uh this this this year obviously you blew up and UM, you know your offense kind of took over that division. What's next for you? What's the next step that you look at yourself and even though you're confident, you never lost your confidence when things were bad. You're also not an arrogant dude. You know you gotta get better. What what's the what's the next step for uh? Just continue to get better. I don't know if I can put my finger on one thing. I just want to continue to be the best quarterback I can be, be the best leader I can be, continue to get better in those aspects, and continue to try to be trying to help our team win. I think that's ultimately what you do as a quarterback is you're the facilitator of winning. Is is kind of what you try to do. You know, I've got Todd behind me, I got so many good whiteouts, We've got a good line. Just try to get the ball to them and continue to elevate my game mentally and physically. And UM, trend in that direction. You know, as long as I keep doing my thing, hopefully everyone else is as well, and we'll we'll be ready to go next year. All right. The Falcons came in and jumped down in the playoffs, and they're a team that's experienced in the playoffs. And look, it's no different than high school Playoffs are played at a higher level than regular high school football. College the college football playoffs or college football intense bowl games are played at a higher level. What what what would you learn? Would you take from that experience that the heightened uh intensity of the playoffs taught you for the future. I think you take away from it like you do any other big game. I think you kind of get that experience in that atmosphere which we which we did have a few of in the regular season, But it is different the playoffs. You you realize, you know, this is the last game for both teams. You can't. You got treat it that way. You know where you're this is your last game and if you when you move on. If you don't, you don't. And um, I think getting that experience of being in that atmosphere and in that environment and in that mindset of this is a winner go home game? Is is uh good for us moving forward? Um? What when you see Brady as as a quarterback? What do you marve? What? What do you say? Man, I, by the time I'm done, I want to be able to do this like he does. How accurate he is is unbelievable. I mean, he's obviously forty, so he's that's unbelievable in itself. But I think his ability to stay at that high level of accuracy of puts the ball exactly where he wants? Does that come from? What does that come from his footwork being consistent? Does it come from his his throwing being consistent? Because because when I've seen you a couple of times, Um, there's been a couple of times where your where your feet, You don't get to feet, your feet exactly where you want? Right when when anybody, when there's somebody and if your feet is not gonna be the same? Is that? How does he I'm I'm marveled at it as well, right, Like, how do you maintain the same level accuracy as you age and your arm strength is going to change a little bit? Is it the feet? Is it the hands? What is it? I don't know. I think he's he works his ass off, he he does his he does it all he does in the off season, and um, I hear him say all the time he wants to be as long as he's continuing to help the team win, he's gonna continue to play. And I think he's just gonna do that for a little while longer you can start pounding avocado shakes. I don't know. I I'm a big fan of his and what he does, and I think ultimately what he does in the off season, all the work he puts in allows him to stay at that level one. Um, he's an awesome guy to watch and I'm glad to be in the league at the same time as him and somebody that I can say I played against. Your favorite win of the year was what uh New Orleans at home? Why? Because there were nine game winning street coming into our place. We had just lost him Minnesota on the ode tough one, came back home, pulled out a hard one. This or Tennessee. The clincher was fun too. Tennessee was that was a tough game at Tennessee, a little little weather. Um you didn't say Seattle, I didn't, I didn't. I don't know. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't have too much of a role on that one. I just kind of handed off to Todd. He went for about two fifties. Still still though, it was a sweet one. Yeah, it was fun. I know, I'm I'm no, It's like, I'm not trying to put words in your mouth. I'm just I'm interested in You mentioned playing in Minnesota. This is a tough place to play. I know the Vikings aren't playing here, but it's pretty sick stadium. It was one of my favorites, one of my favorites. Great atmosphere, great fans, loud as hell, awesome, awesome stadium architecture. All that's awesome. Yeah, but you don't do you do you actually get a chance to take that in when you're playing. You're just like football field. I tried a pre game, you know, especially the new stadiums, and with me being young in my career, I try to if it's in stadium, I haven't played that at you know, I try to look around and see how it is, you know, take it in. Played at Lambeau this year in the preseason game four the preseason I wasn't I wasn't playing, so I got to really take it in. Yeah, kind of sit there and look around. It's unbelievable. They have sold it out for a preseason game, preseason number four, I know. And and they're they're all, I mean, just drinking out there and they're it's it's it's it's so nice, all of them. They are nice. It's so not California right in that California. Don't think people people aren't like New York. There's the people can be nice. People could be nasty. California. I don't think they're not necessarily not nice. There's an urgency about everything though. Yes, it's it's it's it needs to be done done quickly. Um. All right, you're a Wild Wings guy. You're here with Buffalo Wild Wings. What's your style of wing man? Mild traditional, little buffalo sauce. I like Buffalo. I like Buffalo Uh, dipping in some ranch. If you can't make it into the store, you can order online at Buffalo wol Wings dot com or you can call it. But I'll be in the store. Oh, I'm a I'm a dry guy, like I like their dry right, the dry rubs. Yeah, sure, there's the salt and vinegar is really good. Sure, but there's also like a Chipotle type deal or something kind of spicy dry one. There's a honey barbecue too, if you like that. Yeah, that's like that's that's that's wet. Don't I like the dryness because I also don't like going through my hands and like everything sticks when your wife on the napkins, it's like everywhere, and I'm gonna get it everywhere. Guy, my wife can't take me anywhere. If I'm eating wings, I'm eating you know, so you get twelve piece wings, I'm eating them all without touching my face and then I'll clean up. Did you see this number that Buffalo wowings so pame point five million wings on Sunday last year. That's crazy, Like thinking about how many pounds of wings that is? Um? Are you like me? Do you have less respect for people who order the boneless wings? Right? Like if you're yeah, no, I go bone. You can't do that. Boneless is just like a chicken nugget. Yeah, that's like, huh, chicken nugget. That's exactly what it is. Now. It's still tastes good, but it's not a wing. You need a wing to be a wing. 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A lot of questions for the psychic about Super Bowl fifty two, such as the Philadelphia Eagles are the road team, they will get to call the coin toss. Will the Eagles call head or tails? People always do tails, never fails, but I think you should call heads. Uh, they'll call it tails. Tails never fails. Okay. So then what will the coin toss me? Head's okay, so the Patriots will They'll choose and they'll defer. According to my guests, who throws the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl fifty two on Sunday? Uh? Boy, I would love it to be a non quarterback, right, that would be a really good prop pet. Danny Amondola obviously don't have Edelman. Who's did you know Danny Edelman was a quarterback? Um, I'm gonna go with Tom Brady. I think it's gonna be the opposite of Super Bowls in the past, where they actually get off to a relatively fast start. Okay, Then the question is if he's throwing the first touchdown pass, who scores the first touchdown? Could be the person who catches that pass, could be a run who actually scores the first touchdown? Who scores the first touchdown? Uh? These are all prop bits, by the way that you can get in Las Vegas. I'm gonna go with le Garrett Blunt scores first Alright, alright, La Garrett Blunt on the ground against his former team. This is something that's uh near and dear to my heart. Doug. You know, in the Super Bowl they'll have one end zone that says Eagles it's gonna be painted in green, and the other one that says Patriots painted in navy blue. When the Garrett Blunt scores that first touchdown, will it be in the green painted Eagles end zone or the blue painted Patriots end zone? I'm gonna go with the green, green and green zone. A little sharper, Can I just point out the Patriots have a terrible helmet. Yes, absolutely, like bottom five helmet in the NFL flying Elvis. I mean that's not that's not it's not a great helmet. That's the see pat The Patriot is such a good logo. The problem is is it's very difficult to be duplicated because of all of the details on it. I wish they would go back as well. What about this Eagle's helmet? Do you like the new the new Eagles helmet can't go wrong with the wings in the side. No, it's just updated from you know, past versions. Yeah, I like it fine. I don't mind the kelly green, the you know, the brighter green that they would have the more of the Irish looking instead of the deeper, the deeper. I like the deeper green. Okay, Well, who gets the first turnover in Super Bowl fifty two Eagles defense. Yeah, I can see that fumble. Maybe a sack of Brady stripped him with the ball. Oh, this is an interesting one. How many special guest special guests will appear with Justin timber Lake during the halftime show. Well, we know Jane Jackson won't be there, that's true. That's true. If in Sync shows up, that's four guests. So you could have if there's an I don't think I don't think in Sync. I don't think Chris Chris Kilpatrick will be there. We can I can text Kilpatrick find out if he's doing it. Um, it's good. I actually like if he's funny, funny dude. Um, I would love some Jason too special guests. Yeah, I think so too. I think that there'll be somebody that we Oh wow, they're getting back to NBC. It's an NBC UM NBC super Bowl. Correct, Yes, so Failing is gonna be on there. Oh that's a really good point, right, I hope not. He's doing his show from Minneapolis. I bet he's gonna I'm gonna go three. Then, Okay, what running back has the most total yards from scrimmage? Rushing and receiving combined in this game. You've got La Garrettlant, You've got Dion Lewis, James White, J G I E. N. Back. Yeah. I think he's played a little bit more of a role in the running game for the Patriots this year. And even though Rex Burkhead could be used at the goal line, Dion Lewis is a guy who can rack up the yards. Okay, final two. What does Bill Belichick where as a top tomorrow? Will it be nothing? Nothing? Nothing? He's gonna he's going out. He's going out commando on top sand's shirt. Yes, that would be amazing. What's gonna? Well? I think that there's times where he's more than windbreakers, like it just a short sleeve windbreaker top. Be funny to wear a wind break in the dome. Well, because you never know you're gonna wear a hoodie, he'll wear a gray hoodie. Maybe Matt Patricia breaks wind and he'll need it. Finally, will this be the last Super Bowl call for Al Michaels? Yeah? Yes, yes, this is game time on the duck Gotliep show. How many chicken sandwiches not I need to buy you to get you to get me a Chick fil a sandwich. I just had it an hour ago. Um, you didn't go like, hey, man, can you want you want to chicken? You want a chicken sandwich. We're live at the super Bowl actually the food Court, the Mall of America. Baker Mayfield, Sean Payton. Next hour on the Dug Gottlieb Show, One off Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Brought you by Black Rifle Coffee. Veteran owned, Veteran roasted. There's a Black Rifle Coffee. Dot Com today used the code Fox Sports twenty Fox Sports Off your first order. All right, let's get back after man, we got a great Sean Payton's wayde good with Sean Payton in a moment um. First, so let's catch up with the dude who just won the Heisman Trophy. Potentially a first round draft pick, and he is, without any question, the most polarizing prospect in the NFL draft. He's Baker Mayfield from Oklahoma. He joins me in the Doug Gotlieve Show on Fox Sports. Tradeo. We'll talk about Oklahoma and getting ready for the draft. Take me back your time at Texas Tech. Um. There's there's like a misconception of who was in the quarterback room when you were there as the starter. What was that quarterback room like when you were there? Everybody gets it confused, though Pat actually was not there when I was. He got in right after it. So we had Michael Brewer, uh, Davis web and I and then you leave and then Mahomes Mahomes comes in and and uh, I mean, like, look, it's it's a well spring of quarterback talent. Obviously, you make your way to Oklahoma. The greatest stat and I told I'm not gonna tell you who it was at an NFL coach up here and he goes, Man, I like that Baker Mayfield, And I said, the greatest that I've ever heard. You did not lose a true road game in Oklahoma. Um, what tell me about your mentality? Because I think people see how fired up do you get on the sideline, and um, you know the references. They want to want to make you into Manzell, They want to make you into something. What is it that you do in your preparation and in your play that's allowed you to be so successful in the road, which is college football, even maybe more so in the NFL. The hardest place to win. I Uh, it's a mindset, it's preparation. You carry yourself with a driven mindset that I want it more than anybody else, that I'll do anything, anything, whatever it takes. And so but going on the road, I love it. Going into somebody else's house. Being able to have the power to silence a crowd of close to a hundred thousand is a is a good feeling. So m you gotta you gotta want it. You gotta be able to execute on the road. You gotta be able to block out the extra noise on the outside. So it's a it's a few things that come into play. How can you be the best version of yourself and yet you know, NFL guys you'd be like, hey man, you can't do that stuff. You can't do that jumping up around and going crazy and head button dudes in the NFL, like nobody does that. How can you be you and yet fit into the style of what I guess NFL quarterbacks you're supposed to be. Ah, well, I'm not gonna conform to anything. And there's things I can you know, draw the line and not do absolutely. But at the same time, if I didn't have passion for the game, I wouldn't be playing it, and if I was playing without it, I wouldn't be myself. So I'm gonna stick to what's gotten me here, playing a trip on my shoulder, you know, making other guys around me better, pushing them to be better, and uh, you know, being a fire guy on the sideline. How how do you how do you go from a walk on in two different Big twelve schools to being a Heisman Trophy final there's two times and a Heisman Trophy winner and competing for a national champion. Like how what? What has have you changed? Like? What what they'll happen? How does that happen? No, that's I've had the same mindset the whole time. And it's kind of like what I said about road games. You gotta one it more than everybody else. When when nobody's watching, what are you doing? And so, uh, everybody's seen the stuff on camera, they've seen I got three years of tape. But the stuff that's gotten me here, the reason I have success is because of what's happened behind the scenes, Like what just work ethic? You know, I put in an extra hours. How I carry myself around my teammates, how I pushed them to be better. Just demand excellence overall. Okay, so, uh six ft and three quarters um, which is bigger than you know, Russell Wilson. Some people want to say Russell Wilson. Some people want to say Drew Brees. Some people want to say case keenum Um because it's the air raid offense. Some people want to say, man Sell Um, you know you better than anybody else knows you. Who do you think you're most like? I think I have a little bit of everything when it when it comes to uh, picking and choosing from some of these guys. And that's what I try to do. You know what. I would have to have the pocket presence and the accuracy of Breeze. I'd love to have the mobility and the escape part of Russell Wilson's game. Uh, the command that that all those guys have, Tom Brady, and it's just kind of the electrifying stuff of Rogers. I would love to have a combination all those. And so that's what I think is unique about me is I don't necessarily have one trait that's better than the others. I think I try and you know, be a complete guy. How the Senior Bowl. Go. It was really good. It went really well for me. Got to you know, sit in front of some of those teams, some of those g ms, and uh, you know, address the stuff that happened in the past year, the arrest, the Ohio State, the flag plant, and the Kansas situation. So I was able to address a lot of stuff. So going forward, I'll be able to talk about ball. I love the flag plant. I don't get it like I love it every and and then you know, you guys give you by I always staying iwa was state flax plant plants facts like you know, all right, that's kind of cared about that one. Nobody cared about that one, right, But I love I love the flag plant. I thought the whole thing with the arrest, I thought it was like, dude, like maybe you didn't have SEC escapability? Is that is that? Is that that? The issue is that what happened? Right? That's the big thing is if you're an SEC, dude, they well you would have alluded before Georgia I was undefeated against the SEC. That's that's that's very true. How how how do you how do you process that? Because you're such a competitive dude, you got to the college while playoff twice. Any guys couldn't couldn't get over the couldn't get over the hump. How do you how do you process all the things you personally succeeded in and frankly your team succeeded and win in the Big twelve. You know when Lincoln Riley first first year head coach, but you couldn't win a national championship? How do you process that? We had a great year, but uh, yeah, the Heisman, all the individual stuff was was very nice. But I didn't come back to win any of that. I came back my senior year to win the national title. So that's something that's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. We got close. But the thing is, I will say we had such a special team and I wouldn't trade any of those guys. We went through a lot together, the coaching changed. Like you said, having linked his first year, um something I'll be forever grateful for having uh played for him and his first year as a head coach, and just a group of guys. The way we you know, came together, had great in chemistry is something I always cherish. All Right, you're here with Panini, which is the officially licensed collectibles. So do you have your own bobble head? What do you got with? What do they what do they make up for? You know, I cam to announce that I've signed an autograph trading card deal, uh, and so I'll have obviously the classic is the Sooner's jersey, and then after the draft will be able to have whatever NFL team I'm on have those trading cards. And so it's an exciting thing for me, like the kid growing up, right, you with your own autograph on it now? So um like you had to at some point, like in high school. You're working on your autograph right, absolutely now? So have you changed it and tinker with it here during your time? I know you if you took my high school signature and now, oh absolutely, it's so much better now. Not that it's I'm still working on it's still trying to perfect the craft, but uh yeah, I know it's something I had to work on. Okay, all right, now, can you do it like blindly? And do you do that? Is there is there a difference between the ones you care about and the ones you're like some dude stops you when you're at the urinal, you know, somewhere normally like, uh, here is it? There's a difference in those two signatures. Is there is the difference. There's a lot of difference of personalizing message to being able to make sure I'm you know, using my my handwriting that I was taught in elementary school and then uh, let make sure it looks nice, you know, because there's there's a difference, and like you said, scribbling one out real quick and then being able to sit down first, stay in for the game, going home, going home. Aren't you going to Cali though? Right? Were going back to train? Yeah? Okay, because you know, the weather is just a little bit better where you've been training than it is than it is in the Twin Cities. I went from eighty to negative eight. I mean, it's it's crazy. I just it sounded like a good idea, like Minnesota, a great new stadium, like yeah, yeah, yeah, le's do it. They're like, oh my god, it's really cold. It's really and it's been cold in Oklahoma's you know, there's winter has been like ridiculous. We actually haven't been back. It's a good decision. We went back for around the holidays and we were like check please get get me back out getting back out of the seven one for the nine four nine. Again that's uh. Pannini the officially licensed collectibles UM and of course Panini has pop warners skills. Did you play popcorner growing up? When did you start playing? Fifth grade? Was my first year? So always quarterback? Always, so I played baseball. Is huge baseball guy. That was That was my true sports second or short? What short and third? And so playing in Lake Travis community the uh, some of the coaches that did the popcorner draft, whatever you wanna call it. I knew that I could throw the ball, so they drafted me to play quarterback. That was my my first year. Do you remember your team is called We're just like drafts. Wildcats were the there was a red, black and a white squad. Were the white squad? How how crazy is that? You got Nick Foles, who's a like he's Lake Travis, Well he's Westlake, which is Austin area kind of same Breeze went and then Breeze went to Westlake as well. Right, you got three three and none of them played for Texas. I want to I want to point out that did they asked you played defensive back. They did not. I was a little too small. Baker Mayfield, Heisman Trophy winner. He'll be in the NFL Draft. We'll see where he goes. He's the guy everybody's talking about big. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate it. Baker Mayfield joining us in the Doug Gotliep Show, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next, Sean Payton, head coach of the resurgent New Orleans Saints, to be our guest. They were owing too and I declared them dead. Turns out they were more than somewhat alive. That's next. But first, Um, I have had the same Valentine. Now, this is I'm getting boring kids. Nineteen years, nineteen years, married seventeen of those years. 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Uh, you know immediately the biggest challenge is is just seeing the game we're at covering today and reach and then all of a sudden like ah, you know you got this far up the ladder and and you didn't get to the NFC Championship game on a final play. Um, I think the the real positives you fly back and you regroup, and as a staff, very quickly we start grading and evaluating our own team. And one of the one of the things that never really gets discussed a lot. We go right into free agency, but we'll spend days on our roster. And the encouraging thing is the amount of young players that we have coming back. We're a real young team. In the last two drafts have been outstanding force. These guys have been playing. So when you look at a Lattamore, and you look at Ryan Ramcheck and Marcus Williams and Chimera and anz Alone and Hendrickson. These are all guys in this year's draft that played a ton of snaps. Um, so you build on that, and and you know, guys will get away. Our players are away for a while now, and that will be important. Uh. But I think when they come back, uh, there will be that that sense of urgency, if you will, of knowing that, hey, let's find a way to play those games at home too, you know what I mean? And and I think that, Uh it's exciting. You know. Um, I left you guys for dead the start of the year. And I think a lot of us make this mistake as fans and guys that cover the NFL, if we take that first month as the gospel. And yet it seems to have changed. I mean, even look at the New England Patriots. They lose two games at home in the first month of the year. Uh. Is it is it that you I changed something? Or is that because of the preseason the first month is really more like the preseason than the season used to Listen, paying attention to the first month is important, Um, our first two games were losses, and we knew the next two had to be different. You know, we were gonna go to Caroline and go to London to play in Miami, and that was gonna be the most important because we went right from Carolina to London. And look, we said it, and I said it to the players. I said, look, this two game ron't stretch is going to define our season. Really. In other words, you can get eliminated in the first month. I mean, uh, you know we've been where you're recovering from such a slow start that the minute you get a little momentum, then you have another setback. Uh, it's too much to overcome. So fortunately we left it at two games. But uh, did you change anything? So yeah, yeah, well we did. We did in a lot of areas. I mean we came up here in in our first game in minutes soda, first game of the year, Monday night, and and really played poor football. Um also kind of walked into a buzz saw. I mean, like they were fired up. It's at home. That's a tough place to play. Sam Bradford played the game of his life. Yeah he did. And but when you look at it from a coaching perspective. You know, our two minute defense at the end of the first half was awful. You know, we give up a touchdown right before halftime in a close game. When you're on the road early, you just want to, all right, make sure you're you're you're matching and and being smart. So we gave up some chunk plays. We busted coverage four times, and we started looking closely at what we were doing and who we were asking to do it with and and uh and I think Dennison's staff and collectively offensively the same way. Um, you know. Week two we played against New England ironically at home and and didn't fare much better. And I think we really spend time defensively looking at how do we utilize our talent and and who needs to be on the field, and then what we're gonna do with them, and then offensively trying to figure out that combination. At that time, there were three running backs and I think, um, you know, sorting through their roles uh so very quickly. And look it's cliche, but man, you are ongoing as the year goes, improving or not. And if you're not, you're probably going up and down. And very quickly we begin to win some games, and everyone can talk about confidence, but it only comes from demonstrated ability. In other words, you have to do some of these things you're talking about doing before you can have confidence. And it's amazing. Any good team that we've seen, any good team that wins ten eleven, twelve, thirteen games stretches four wins together, five wins together, and we finally were able to do that. You know, It's it's been like it's been a five year process of trying to rebuild this defense, right, I mean, and you've tried throwing everything at it. Um. I felt like, though, and you tell me this is unfair. When you won the Super Bowl, that defense had to take a lot of chances, how to create a lot of turnovers. Whereas this one feels like it will last more. It's it feels more solid that one. It just look if you you go for a pick or you you don't get it, that's find Drew is gonna go make it up. Whereas this one actually got stops three and outs, which I think shows that you've you've truly rebuilt the defense. Uh inside, now, is that is that fair? Perceive? I think it is? And and yet I would say there's some priority positions in this offseason that we have to to uh to to address. But but yes, we're younger. Um, I think that we were a little bit more of a veteran defense back in O nine and ten and eleven. Uh And I think we're younger at many of the positions now. Um, you know, it's still about red zone defense, is still about your third down numbers. There are a few areas that UH are end a half, end of game defense needs to be better, entirely better than it was this year and and it ended up, you know, costing us even in the last game. UM. So closing out games that way, I mean, how many times do we watch and you watch whatever channel, red zone channel or the end of game, and they all end in this two minute drill. You're you're defending one to win or you're in one to win, and they end that way. The the the the latter is the exception. You know, you're up eighteen points in the fourth quarter, it's generally a score or field goal. And that's what it was against Minnesota. Okay, let's take me to the Minnesota play. I know how it works where you see it over and over again, your eyes and like like you're you're watching the VCR rewind constantly. Um, is there anything you would have done different? Well, Marcus is in great position. And look, as a team, there's three things that lead up to that. First off, he played outstanding in the game. He's the interception that that puts us back in at There were two halves to that game. The first half they controlled. In the second half, the momentum swung. But we're third and one offensively before the field goal, and and if we're if we convert that third and one, then we're gonna center this ball and take that clock to three seconds. And so that field goal really ends the game as opposed to ends the possession with seconds, we give up a dig twenty yard in cut you know, uh, they take a time out and then look, he arrives early, Marcus his imposition, He arrives early, and I know what he's thinking. He's avoiding an interference and obviously you want to play up and high through the ball. But when he falls and when he goes to the ground, he actually clips Ken Crawley. It was like a domino effect. And I can still remember the Frank o'haris play. I mean, I can remember watching that game as a kid, and I can remember certain snap snippets like that, and I think this one, unfortunately, was one that went against you. And uh, you know, those guys made a big play when they needed it. But man, it's it's hard when that when and then the worst part is you gotta send your p A T unit out. You're all in the locker room and you gotta that's crazy now, it's I mean, I can't. I just can't imagine about it. Well, I who do we? Who do we talk? We talked to Stefan. Stefan was up here yesterday and I and I was telling him, like or no, it was Rick Spielman and I, you, Rick and I used to work together at ESPN and uh and I said, Rick. My wife said, well, they're not gonna win. And she went, she said, this game is over. And she goes to get in the shower, going out for the night. And my kids just happened to be watching and all of a sudden, you know that, they start running, three little kids, they start running around the house. They can't believe what just happened. And I just, you know, my heart goes out because I'm just like, you know, like kind I hate to see how people there's a million ways to lose. Again, my dad was a basketball coach, and he would just say, like, every time you think you've seen it all, you haven't. There's just another way to lose the game. I was wont to heat, so you don't. I've always thought that one of the issues that football coaches, UH talk about now is so many times guys don't see what they're hitting. You know, we saw the Chaisier injury. Do you think that's why he had his head down or do you think that was more when the picture was taking What happened is he arrived way too early and then tried to avoid a hit because he knew it would be an interference call and in possession would be there, and so uh, it was really not his attempted tackle. It was almost his attempt to avoid a tackle. And really, when when you look closely at the situation, anytime you're in that sideline scenario, it's not hail Mary, but it's sideline. You want the player in bounds, clock ins and but you also can go up high through the ball and you're never getting an interference call there and I just think, you know, in that case, he's arriving early on the play and he's trying to avoid an interference call. Uh Drew his said he wants to come back. You guys obviously want him back, but there's also kind of that sweet spot. And he's been really well come and said rightfully so for the last couple of years. How hard is that discussion gonna be? I think relatively easy. I mean hopefully. I think Mickey and Tom, those guys to get together and uh, you know when Iron and out and I say that because they've just done it. We've we've been here so many other times like where hey, we're gonna work on this deal and and and so I think that, uh, that makes it easier. How much fun is it for you with Kamara in that Joker position where you can just mad scientist it, you can just well and I can put him out wide here, well, I can put him in the back. It's really smart, you know, it's different. I Mean the thing that struck me in his pro day or in his private workout we had was how intelligent he picks the game up. I mean he's very very sharp. He's a bright kid. You've ever visited with him. He's got a warm smile to him. He's great to be around. But he can handle some of these satellite positions and sometimes it's not the case. So he learns exceptionally well. And that that's what struck me. I remember leaving the workout saying, we have to draft him. It's it's it's what you did with Reggie, right, I mean, isn't that to some degree? And yet I would say, man, there's some things he does that that just come easier. And like as a as a receiver, it's it's more not just as a receiver, you know, pick a route, you know, in other words, the days full of practice, the receivers are doing this, the running backs are doing this, and then the cross train positions, we bring the tight ends and a couple of runners over to do some receiver work and timing wise, and he can run, you know, the sluggoes and and he in the Minnesota game, it's you know, we're twenty yard line going in and he runs a little like you know, stutter stutter rail on Kendricks and you know, in in just the repertoire, the route tree is broader, I know, but and for you I have widely been considered, if not the best, one of the two or three best play callers in the league for the last twenty years. To to have that guy as well as all the other guys and have Drew who can still make the throws and make the plays, it's gotta make it fun, right, Like it's still you know, it is fun right, like if you have to win the way like like a Jacksonville has to win like to where there's just things we can't do, so we have to be close to the vest. It allows you to like, all right, what if we did this, and what if we did that. Listen, it's third and a half a yard in the fourth quarter and we row the ball to Snead who catches it and takes a step and then he throws it across the field in short yardage and there's Camara, I'm running wide open. And we've got those type of players to do those type type of things, and we just miss on the play. But um, but we're gonna be aggressive that way and and but you need to have the talent and the playmakers you do that, Um Belichick obviously, same you know, same Tree obviously with you Parcels tree, and I'm there is something that he's been able to do. You know, coaches so oftentimes they want to leave a year early, that is opposed to leave a year late. Right, they want to get out and make it look like it's a parade and sending their marching out of town. But he's been able to stay and be consistent. That's a really hard thing to do. Um, and you've been able to stay like so many other coaches have. All Right, it's out, they've lost. My message isn't getting through anymore. But that's not the case with you. It's not the case with Belichick. UM. Coach to coach, what what do you see when you see Belichick's ability to con assistently be competing for the title? Well, clearly he's the benchmark. I mean, and I say this watching the episode last night built the Two Bills and and seeing his personality early in his career. Uh, every one of us in this league looks if we aren't studying New England as closely as possible, then we're foolish because it would be no different than one of these mall owners here, you know, and down the road someone else is selling milkshakes. You know. Ten times as many you'd want to figure out what they're doing so well. And I think they've done a great job with their formula player procurement, you know how much they're paying players, and and then system wise, he's done a great job within the framework of his staff. I mean, it's confined to Hey, it's team first. It's all the things we initially preached when we got into this industry, and that are pulled at times with the contracts, the agents, the money, the media. There's a lot of reasons why you can be pulled apart as a team. But he addresses those things very well, uh and very intelligently. And you know, I mean we we try to every offseason get a chance to practice with those guys and and just be around him. Uh. It's been unbelievable to watch and and when I watched that episode last night, you just get angry that you're not in this game, like you know that to to have another opportunity, because you feel that competitive nature to get back here and you realize how hard it is, but you also realize how exciting and how rewarding it can be. There was some talk last year about you going to elsewhere, being traded they're gonna trade Sean Payton. He's gonna be head coach if pick a team. Um, how solid do you feel in your ability to get New Orleans back to the super Bowl? You want good? Real, I mean real good? Uh shoot, coming off of this this last year. Um, We've got a great group, a great young nucleus, and and yet we're gonna have to put together another good draft and and do another good job in free agency. But I've got three years left. Um, you know, it's exciting. It's exciting again. You know, you look at the age of our team. It's kind of a rookie class that these guys and I don't want to say these millennials, but they don't know what they don't know, and they feel like they can win right now. And you're kind of like the understand how hard it is to win and to win consistently. We went up and played Buffalo and I gave him this whole like power point on how hard it is to play Buffalo in October, November, December. They've only had three losses in the last four years, that you know, the whole thing, And they're listening and they hear you, and you go through the numbers, and then you go up there and and you're up forty something to whatever, and you're looking around and they're looking at you like and you're like, uh, now they never believe in what I said the rest of the air, that's right. Uh hey, Zebra Technology has this cool stuff, this on field player tracking. Uh now, do you guys use this? We do, um, well, the whole NFL does. It's where we get our next gen numbers. You know where we get uh oh, the players that run x and umber of miles per hour. You know the um you'll see it. Leonard Fournette ran twenty two miles per hour. The teams have it and we're able to get our personnel how many snaps we were in eleven twelve personnel one personnel where they were. We also use it for our practice and in a third of the teams in our league use it for practice, and it allows us to measure data from a standpoint of look tracking our players movements, how long they were on the field, how fast they ran. I mean, there's two chips in the shoulder pads that track everything. And the company has been around for thirty years. It's relatively new with the league four years with the league. But you go to target and you're gonna get a coffee maker, and you want to know do they have it? It's on Aisle three, there's four of them. It's because of these little chips that we see everywhere, the little bar codes that's Zebra. When they can put the chip in the football so that they get so they get the placement right, it's it's in the ball right now, the placements coming. I mean there's a ton of things the sideline, the end zone, all of those things that we see in other sports that we're close to, uh solving here. Last thing you want to solve problems? How do you fix the catch rule? You know what, I'll be honest with you. I thought the catch rule was crystal clear. I thought our interpretation this year, quite honestly, in New York wasn't crystal clear. There's a handful of times where replay went back to New York, uh, where it came back in surprise not only me but but the fans. So the catch rule became blurry because of maybe some interpretations of what we were considering a catch. I think it's hard for one person to be in New York being up catch or no catch, and I think, uh, you know, expanding that to a larger group would be important, you know, something that could help. But I didn't feel it was blurry and until I until like all the fans did this year, and started watching some of these get overturned, and then it was like, well, now I don't know, but I think it's pretty clear. Um, hey man, listen, I can't tell you how much how great it was to watch your team play and turn the thing around. I apologize for declaring you guys dead, I said, I said dead like I don't know, and then all of a sudden I looked like the dumbest person on earth. Uh and obviously maybe one play away from being here. Thanks so much, Thank you, appreciate you. All Right, that's Sean Payton joining us here at the Super Bowl on the Doug got Leaf Show, Fox Sports Radio's Conditions in the Field Chain. So can your insurance needs talk with a farmer's agent today, so you consess with your policies. Game ready, find an agent Farmers dot com a farmer. All right, let's bring in Dan Buyer. What do you have for me, Dan? Well, do you know last night we went and saw the Bucks and Timberwolves over at Targets, and uh, the Timberwolves dominated throughout, so it wasn't good for me, and it just got worse. Buckscard Malcolm Brock then out six to eight weeks with a partially torn left squad recept ended suffered in the second quarter of last night's game, right when Ryan Music and I were going to buy pretzel? How was um? How was the Target Center? They redid it, They redid the concourses. They've read one. The outside it's very nice. The inside of the arena is like any arena that was built in the late eighties and early nineties, So the outside, not the inside. They did. The bowl is the same, but the concourse is inside are redone. They did the outside they're gonna do. Are they gonna redo the inside? I don't know there's much that you can really do. Like with the seating bowl, it's just a very normal seating bowl there. There's you know, one level lower level in an upper level, and that's what you got with a lot of arenas built in the you know, nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties kind of like you know, I was gonna say New Comiskey, but it was new Comiskey when they built in Chicago, was the last park before all of the new or the Yeah, that's kind of what you got with some of these, you know arenas. Nowadays they're just kind of well, you know, Milwaukee's got the same one as well. But Malcolm Brogdon out six to eight weeks Calves forward Kevin Love won't need surgery and his broken hand, he'll still miss six eight weeks of action. ESPN says that Greig Monroe is gonna sound with the Celtics Calves forward. The bron James called the rumors of him earning the Warriors nonsense in a non story did you hear Hi about the story that Steve kerg on himself into the Warrior's head coach Today says his tweet calling the lack of traveling calls on James Harden's step back move. He sent out a tweet that said it was embarrassing. Well, he meant to send that as a d M. He was given the video clip and wrote it's an embarrassment, adding that the league is happy with scoring, so they are happy to look away. But he says it's a bad move. It's a traveling but they won't call it on James Harden. It is says that his new iPhone X was the reason thought he was sending a d M to someone and then realized that it responded to the NBA on T n T clip that was from Steve Kerr. Some other news to pass along scenes running back Alvin Camary, you were just talking with Sean Payton, his head coach named the PEPSI NFL Rookie of the Year. Injury report clean for the Eagles and Patriots heading into Super Bowl fifty two. I believe they will be touching the innavalal uh next off season. Of Yeah, it's a what is it is a multi year, multi hundred forty million dollar renovations the Target Center pasted h to the past couple of years, touch every surface in the building, so there's more to come. You know those arenas that I mean, some of them are just so big and cavernous. There's all of the seats apparently have been redone. Yeah, there's seats were fine, but you know there's not like if you go to say Gunda Arena or which it was now Quicken Loans Arena, but when it first came out, it at a different level like the levels were different and gave some character to inside the seating bowl. This is just the normal one and there are a lot of arenas like that. Nothing bad about it, just the way it is, all right. Wouldn't you love a bigger tax refund? Tax Slayer was recently rated number one for maximum refund So you have more cash to spend omena the heck you want to spend it on this tax in season, go out and slay it maxu refund at tax slayer dot com. What if Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake if the what if the jazz Janet Jackson justin timber Lake halftime show happened today? Clay Travis thinks it would be a career ender. We'll discuss upcoming next. Online shopping can be confusing, well not anymore. With True Price from Truecar, now you can know the exact price you'll pay for your next car. So visit Truecar and enjoy more confident car buying experience. Show Fox Sports Radio special. Thanks go out to view Sonic. They decked out our set here with twenty massive four KME monitors, easily making Fox Sports Radio the very best set here at Radio row You Sonic see the difference every day. At this time, we'd like to bring back a portion of something you may have heard earlier on Fox Sports Radio. We call it the Fox Say Uh. Clay Travis out kick the coverage with recently rated at one of the top ten national radio shows. He um. He had this to say regarding Justin Timberlake performing at halftime, and of course last time he was at half time was the wardrobe malfunction. That's what Clay's thoughts were on the wardrobe malfunction. It was about fourteen years ago that Justin Timberlake made the decision to pull the top off of Janet Jackson. Fourteen years later, I don't think there's still the same level of oh my god, think of the children, because I think pornography in general has become so much more prevalent that the idea that a kid wouldn't have seen a nipple is different now than it would have been in two thousand four. I think with the growth of social media in general, and certainly the growth of pornography, everybody has become desensitized in some level to nudity. But I actually think Justin Timberlake would have been in worst position for doing the same thing if he did it today. For this reason, I'm not sure Justin Timberlake survives in his career. If he does this in a modern era of v Weinstein and me too, this would turn into racism and sexism. If a white guy pulls the top off of a black performer without her consent, does he get charged with a crime? Think about the fallout from Justin Timberlake doing the exact same thing with Janet Jackson in eighteen that he did in four. I think that this story goes instead of it being like, oh my god, I can't believe the kids saw a boob, I think it turns into maybe Justin Timberlake getting charged with a crime. It's crazy, that's crazy to think about it that way, But he's probably right in terms of the freak out. The one thing that should be pointed out is because if it was to occur now, would it have not occurred in two thousand and four? Right? Like? Are we eliminating the previous? And part of it was just so alarming? It should also be pointing out it wasn't a surprised that Janet Jackson. Otherwise, why was she wearing a star covering her nipple? Right, like that doesn't it felt like that was part of the performance art from MTV who that was their time in which they used to per They used to uh uh produce the halftime show. Obviously that was the last halftime show I believe that they produced. Like here's my thing on halftime shows. Okay, they are in fact for the women, for the children, for the non traditional NFL viewer, I mean, heck there for the fans that are in the stands. The ticket prices are ridiculous, you know, upwards of nine hundred and something dollars for any seat in the house. And so what you can at least you can justify it by hey, it's the Super Bowl and you get to go to a Justin Timberlake concert all at the same time. Uh. My advice to Timberlake who came out and said that his son would never play football, and like, look, when your dad's Justin Timberlake and your mom's Jessica Bill, you don't ever have to play football. And also it's not like Justin timber Lakes the type of build to where he's gonna have a football playing son. But when timber Lakes says that, um, you know, you start to. I'm I'm sure the NFL people will feel like they're rubbed the wrong way by Jake. He's a ridiculous town. Can sing, can dance, can rap, cann act, can produce, can do just about everything. But don't you want to just hear his five best songs, his five biggest songs, and not in medley form. However much time they give you. Those are the pick a number of songs that fits that amount of time, and that's what I want to hear. I wanted to be like a Justin Timberlake concert, only you have to do it in a shortened period of time. So come out play your five songs. We don't. I don't even want other people to join him on stage. You know why. Justin Timberlake by himself, he is good enough, or however you know he normally performs. He is good enough to which he doesn't need help. He doesn't. Let's just and you know what if it's if it's close to the album sound, as long as he's singing it, I'm cool with that too, you know why, because that's the way I heard it when I wanted to be a top forty show. So the idea that Justin Timberlake has to go and do something different or sing a medley or singing his new song like that's gonna help. I'm sure they'll help downloads if he's gonna sing filthy I hate once from the new album, right. I came to see Justin timber Lake because of his three or four previous albums. And that's what the Fox said, Say, do you think that we're um, you think that we've I mean, obviously we become desensitized annuity. I would disagree with Clay in terms of uh, in terms of pornography. Now, part of it is Clay kind of lives on the Internet, and he understands that on the Internet pornography is readily available. I actually think some of it has swung back in the other direction, in which we are more hesitant to show people things kids things earlier because we understand the desensitization which occurs. I don't know. I mean, like, look, I understand that it exists, but well, when I was a kid, it used to exist in playboys and hustlers, and everyone knew a kid in their class who had an older brother or you know, or a dad who kept him under their mattress or brought them with them to school and tucked it away safely in their backpack. So it's not like pornography is new. It's only maybe more readily available, but only readily available if you're constantly searching online. Your parents haven't put any protections up on screen. Uh. Kirk Cousins had something interesting to say, you know it joined us the day before or hours before. He was the trade for Alex Smith, essentially ender the question as to would he be a redskin next year. He told USA Today that, um it shouldn't it Being the trade for Alex Smith shouldn't hurt his his um, his trade value. I think the tape is what you go off of. If you're not gonna go off the tape, I wouldn't really want to be there anyway. I want to be with the team that's gonna evaluate the table, watch film, no football and make the decisions based upon that. Now, like that sounds good, but when they have you under contract, and for the last three years we've understood full well that they're not in love with Kirk Cousins. You can throw on the tape and you see some stuff, but there's probably something underneath the surface to which you're like, there's something we don't know. And then when you go out and get Alex Smith, some of it is who you go out and reach out and get to be honest, right, doesn't that shape We'll wait if they like Alex Smith better than Kirk Cousins, even if Kirk Cousins was gonna um was was gonna cost them more money, doesn't that say something about Kirk Cousins. One last thing, and I know we got a bunch of things to get to talk about super upcoming top of the hour. A fan on the court last night in Denver and Russell Westbrook gave him a little bit of a shove. Okay, The first thing is, can we all agree that not all shoves are are contact with fans doesn't rise to level of assault, right, just like all fans on the court are not equal. Right, guy celebrates, the guy makes a game winning shot, celebrates with his fans. Fans leak out a little bit unto the court. Not that big a deal. Fan yelling at a at a player, you know, as long as he's not cursing or stepping onto the court, not that big a deal. At the end of a game, though, Russell Westbrook dribbling the basketball, holding the basketball, and fans steps to him. That's the type of thing that that usually is going to end poorly, and frankly, as as hard as Rust plays, as an emotional as a player he is, the league should probably be happy. Nothing super emotional spilled out. Generally, stay off the floor. Generally Russ shouldn't push anybody. But in that particular case, guy had to come into him. Who's gonna win? I'll tell you next. What up? Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio, coming to you from the Mall of America. Brought to you by Black Rifle Coffee, vetro known venturd Roasted. Visit Black Rifle Coffee dot com. Use the code Fox Sports twenty and off your first order. All right, we got to Marcus Marioto just around the corner. Christian mccaffriel join us. Juju Smith Schuster will also be our guest. And look, one of the things that happens with two weeks off is we begin the process of over analyzing. And we also have it. We also have a tendency to not necessarily misremember. But we we are a highlight driven culture. We are last thing we see driven culture and the fact is the fact is that the Falcons blew that game last year. Don't let it get twisted. Okay, was tom Brady great? Yeah? It was the most remarkable comeback I've seen in a big sporting event ever. Because the game was over, my kids went to bed. Don't worry, kids, it's over. Three run the football, take a knee three times, kick a field goal. They don't. Julio Jones made the best catch I've ever seen the Super Bowl. That thing was a rap. Should have been thirty three at at least run the football, take care of the ball. It's a rap. They didn't open the door. A couple of things go bump in the night. Now tom Brady regains his confidence, But there was a time in which Tom Brady, who is the most accomplished quarterback in the history of the game, look human, looked old. And though he gets Rob Gronkowski back, that's not a surprise. Though he's been here now seven times before and has more experience than everybody. Even at this point in his career, you would pick him ahead of Nick Foles. The fact is that if there was a defense that appears to be Taylor made, Taylor made to take down the paths. It's the Eagles like look defenses that have two great cornerbacks and blitz like crazy. That's not how you take down the Patriots because they don't have superstar wide receivers. They try and find mismatches, they try and pick you apart, and they're gonna find some mismatches, but they also score late. They also just kind of hang around the game and hope Brady bails them out. But they do show against defenses like last year with the Falcons that gets hired that have four really good players up front. The Seagules team is built with seven or eight really good players up front. They have speed and hybrid players that that can cover the Gronkowskis that can cover the Dion lewis Is. It doesn't mean they shut them down. You don't have to shut them down, but you get the Brady a couple of times, he becomes a different quarterback. If you don't believe me, check out the couple of Super Bowls he lost, or even check out the first three three quarters of the Super Bowl last year. In our effort to find a way to affirm the greatness of Brady, because he just came back and beat the Jacksonville Jaguars. We're going crazy. Look the Jaguars stink at quarterback. Stink. Bottom five starting quarterback in the league is Blake Bortles. He was better this year, but better was only good enough to be bottom five of the top thirty two starters. All right, And I mean the truth is the a f C was a mess because of injuries and dysfunction, and even then a f C NFC was as well. But one thing that was true is that when the Eagles, when you were healthy, it didn't matter when you heard it didn't matter that Eagles defense was pretty salty all year long. I'm I'm taking the Eagles to win this game. I'm not going crazy and saying that Tom Brady is not an all time great, just like I didn't say it with Peyton Manning when he lost the Seahawks. But the Seahawks defense was that much better than the then the Broncos uh offense was like the best offense against the best defense. The best defense almost always wins. All right, let's get to our next guest. Yes, yes, rhyme music. I know you think the Eagles are gonna win. Let's just say they win their sixth who's more likely Brady or Belichick to walk away at the end, or do you think if there's no chance either of them are done now? I don't think. I'm not gonna say no chances. I don't know Brady would be the guy. Brady would be the guy Giesel wants to retire. Um, And I don't know what Belichick would do losing all three of his coordinators, like that would be crazy. But let's say so you lose all of the coordinators and Brady walks away. If you're Belichick, perhaps you weren't considering it, but then do you I think you have to. I think you absolutely have to. I mean, look, I would I would absolutely consider. You know, if I'm Brady, you win, you walk away. I don't see that. I don't think that's crazy at all. But these guys, they convinced themselves that they just have more and and asking once you stop playing quarterback, like it's just not the same, all right, And if you're a quarterback now you're you're not. He does take some shots, but nut shots like he you used to take. They do a really good job protecting him. Um Belichick, I think should be more likely, should be more likely because he's losing everybody. But I don't think either walks away. I mean they're both. I think they're both selfish enough because if they win, they think, why not go get three in a row. No one's ever done that. If they lose, they say, you know, we're close, let's go get another one. We're not that far away. What about Belichick giving up the and endless grind of game planning and just going official because we already think he's basically the g M. What if he gives up the head coach position and just goes, look, let me handle the personnel stuff. But there's no energy to that. That's not that much fun, right, Why the coach in the games is the fun That's the fun part. Fun part is going in at halftime and fixing it. That's the fun part, all right. He threw a touchdown pass to himself in a playoff win over the Chiefs. He's the tightest quarterback. Marcus Mariote's joining me on the Doug Gottliep Show. So we usually have the plug at the end of the interview. Let's reverse it, Um, I have to start with the plug at the start. Why do you have spam? Yeah? Absolutely, big things. So growing up man spam was a big deal back on Hawaiian big in Hawaii, and uh funny it kind of worked out being here in Minnesota. The headquarters for spam are here, so it just kind of sparked the relationships. Okay, So now here's the here's the question I have. Um, Look, I've done a bunch of tournaments in Hawaii and I've I've called u h is n C a tournament game where they beat cow and then they lost in the second round. And like, I go with Hawaii, but I think it's supposed to be Hawaii, right, Okay, So but how should like us bring go uh you know, contiguous forty eight states? Like I don't want to try too hard, Like Hawaii is fine the way that you play, okay, alright, good, good enough? And I know you love the weather in the Twin Cities, right this is it's it's a great negative four degrees right now. It is. Okay, So spam, like, how do you how do you eat it? So there's um, there's many ways to do it back home, we really have it with like every single meal, but really you can do it with breakfast. People chop it up, putting their eggs um. A lot of times. What my family has done and a lot of different times have done is they make it what's called spam musubies And basically you take some rice, you put spam on top of it, and then you wrap seaweed on it, and uh it's a quick little snack. Some people put egg in it, some people do some other things with it to change it up, but uh, it's a quick, easy little meal. I've been watching Tom Versus Time. I haven't seen him use it in Tom Versus Time, like, you know, maybe that would extend his I also, I was in Eugene last week. Was in Eugene last week called a basketball game. There's a Hawaiian spot there. Oh yeah, there's a bunch. There's a few. How is that? What is that? Was that there before you got there? Yeah? You know what, there's there's always been kind of a h a good amount of people from Hawaii that they go to school in Oregon, um, whether it's in you Gina at the University of Oregon, Oregon State, or even some of the smaller schools. So it's been there for a while. All Right. It is wild. You guys win a playoff game and there's a coaching change. And take take me back to the Kan City game where the story was that there might be a coaching change, you know, regardless of the outcome of the game. I'm sure you heard that in your locker room. That did that any effect in your preparation? No, And I really you gotta give credit. Uh so coach Malarkey and and uh really the older vets of our team, the way they the way they handled that. Um, you know, you could have really let that creep in and and cause some distractions, but guys just kind of flushed it out and we're able just to go out there and play one and get a win. I mean not just that. I turned off the TV. I thought it was over. What what what was said? What did you say? Something? Was there? Schematic change? What changed with you? Guys? Honestly, Uh, we we had kind of been in those situations before during the season. Um, we kind of had we had four or five of those comeback victories and uh really, guys, don't blink a lot blink and I we understood what what was in front of us. We had to make one play at a time, go get go down there, get a score and uh see what would happen and we ended up coming back. I don't think there's any secret that one of the reasons, uh for the coaching changes, they want to get the best version of you on the football field. They want to get more out of you. Um. Now you know the new staff is getting into place. What in your mind, now that you've been in the league for a couple of years, what's the best version of you? What's the what has to change in the offense to allow you to take another step? Well, I think when it comes down to it, um, just putting putting us in the best situation as possible. Um, you know, helping our receivers out um, giving the ball to guys like Delaney and Derek, lend them go make plays. UM. So for me, I just think of myself as as a point guard. Just distribute, let those guys go out there and and find ways to make plays. And I think if we're able to do that, uh consistently, we can be we can be pretty good. You're somebody who you you You learn from every experience. What you learn from that Patriots experience? You know what I learned from from the standpoint that if we want to be competitive, we want to go and get to these places. Uh, it takes a whole lot more, uh, scheme wise, and also I think out of the players to beat good teams like that. And at the same time, I think we came out, we came out and fine, we played well I think for the first quarter and a half, and uh, you kind of let your guard down, you kind of put it into like okay, we can, we can play with these guys. And then once you put your your guard down, they come after you. Yeah, they just they just blit you right Like I said, wait, wait, wait, we just like hold on and you go into the half you're like, wait, we were we were good and now we're not good. And that's and that's where I think for us as a young team, being able to learn from that experience, um and just take take it for what it's worth, and um, you know, we gotta be better and we gotta we gotta improve in order to be competitive and to get into places like these games. And there's also something kind of magical about what Tom does, right you you know, like we've been talking to everybody says, you know, how he finds the mismatch. But also all of a sudden they go tempo, right, They're they're going at one speed and then they see something they like and now they down shift. Uh. That sort of command within the offense, that's something that you had to go, Hey, I want to do that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. And along the lines of that, I think how he has taken care of himself the way that he prepares um, A young guy like me can learn a lot from that. Yeah. I mean, first you have to have the spam, mix in some avocado with the spam, right, throwing into a milkshake, have a guy coming massage you at all hours of the night. And then and then you last year like you're like fifty years old. Uh it's uh. So you go to spam dot com for easy, delicious recipes, including the one that Marcus gave you that his folks make back home. Hey, congrats on making the playoffs, on winning the game and continue health and successful man, Thank you very much. Appreciate it alright, the pleasure is all mine. 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Thanks to Lidz for outfitting our set with football's helmets and pennants. Uh Man he was a stud at Stanford Right Highsman Trophy finalists. He scored seven touchdowns in his rookie season with the Carolina Panthers, and of course he's Christian McCaffrey. He joins us in the Doug Gotleif Show, Fox Sports Radio. Christian give me Your give me your Way. How you would characterize your rookie season, Well, I had a blast, you know, I have fun playing ball. It's what your dream of as a kid, obviously playing in the NFL, but um, you know, obviously didn't in the way we wanted. UM. But but I I can't, you know, imagine myself, you know, in a in a better organization. I love the Panthers, and I think I had I had a good year. Obviously wasn't the year I wanted. Um But but you know, I know what I gotta work on now and I'm looking forward to getting after an the offseason. What is it? I think, just continue to become a complete back, you know, and not just being a pass catch and you know back. And you know, I obviously I ran the ball a little bit, but I really want to develop as an as an every down back. So I think that's that's the goal, and we'll continue to work for it towards that. It also, though, felt like it took them a little bit of time to figure out how they wanted to use you, right like he had, Cam wasn't really ready in the preseason, so you guys, so he and then he was kind of inaccurate to start the year, and then you guys had some personnel changes trade and Kelvin Benjamin away you know mid season as well, and then I don't know, like to to the viewer, to to the fan, it was like took them a while to figure out how they wanted to use you. Was that your understanding of the league that improved or their understanding of you you did improve? Well, I think, uh, you know, the best coaches and the best players can meet halfway. You know, the coaches can adapt to the player and the players got to adapt to them. And I think that's that's not an easy thing to do. You know, it doesn't come in a day. And so, um, I think later in the year we started to to to kind of jell a little bit more, and you know, some ups and downs, but I think it's and you know, at the end of the day, it's my job to give them the confidence to to you know, do what they want to do with me. And so I'll continue to work and and and continue to have conversations. And um, I mean I'm excited because I know there's a lot to look forward to. Okay, so there's there's gonna be a new system, right, new offensive coordinator. What do you what do you know about what you guys are gonna try and do do differently? Well, I know coach Turner's resume and all the backs that he's coached, and so that's been, that's been, you know, exciting for me just to see that. So so I know he's an unbelievable mind, and just to be able to learn from him and play for him, I'm for sure excited. And uh, I know there'll probably be a lot of motions, a lot of shifts, but but overall just an efficient, you know, hopefully explosive offense. Christian McCaffrey joining us on the Doug Gottlip Show here on uh Unfoxed Sports Radio. Um, this is an Eagles team that they got a pretty nasty defense. I'm wonder what what what about the defense though? Uh that you see that we miss on? What makes them so effective? Well, I think I think they play so well as a team. Uh, you know, they got a great, great uh front. You know, Fletcher Cox is an unbelievable player. You know, Malcolm Jenkins in the back kind of runs runs a secondary and so to have you know, a guy up front and a guy in the back who who you know are pro bowled players, and uh, you know, they have so many great, great talents other than them as well, and they play so well as a unit. I think that's you know, that's that's what's tough to to do on offense, to to you know, be efficient against as a defense that plays well together. What's your reaction to Bryce Love decided to come back for another year at Stamford. Oh? Man, I'm excited for him. I know he made the best decision for himself and that that's what he felt in his heart. So he's gonna have unbelievable success whether he came out this year he comes out next year. I know. But there's like, look, you you didn't play the Bowl game, obviously, protecting your body, getting you ready self ready for the draft. And there's a lot of there's, you know a lot of people like, look, he had a great year, You're gonna be a top draft pick. I mean, why would you put yourself in harm's way having been through it? Do you do you like the idea of coming back and risking you know, so much just to return to play for Stanford? Well, I think, you know, it's a it's an individual decision. You know. Obviously I made my decisions based on what I thought was best for me, and he's doing the same with him so you know, whatever he decides to do is the is the right thing for him and not the you know, nobody can argue because he he felt it it was best for him. So you know, like I said, he's gonna have success regardless. Have you gotten to the place where you can bust Cams balls about the hats? Absolutely? Absolutely? So did he take it? Okay? Oh yeah, man Cams the man. Man. He he jokes around a lot, you know, obviously, Um, you know, he's he's a funny guy and he's unique in his own way. But at the end of the day, he's funny. Man. We have fun What's the worst one? The worst one that he's got to stop wearing is the ones without the bills where it's just the hat part. So that's I mean, he rocks it and he does well with it, and he makes it his own. But that's something that I probably couldn't put in my wardrobe. It's really remarkable though, how big a human being he is, right like, I mean, right like it's one of those things to which I know on on on camera he looks he looks like, you know, like big, super athletic guy. But in person, I mean an unbelievably imposing, posing dude. And obviously, you know, one of the things that changed with you guys is you guys started using more as a runner second half of the season. That that took away your carries, you know. But uh, but that's that has to be something to which I don't know, as like, when you first get in the locker room, you gotta be what trying to figure this guy out as this bigger than life figure that you're trying to can I bust his chops? Is he a regular dude? How long did that take? I mean it, I mean it wasn't different with him or anybody else. I think that's that's the thing. You know, people misunderstand about Camas. At the end of the day, Man, he's he's a great guy. Uh. You know, people don't get a see is off off the field self. And uh, you know he's a great teammate, he's great in the locker room. Um, you know, he vibes with kind of everybody on the team. So uh, you know, he's a great guy to be around. Um, coming about your you've teamed up with Visa and their technology of course, uh you know you can complete payments. There's a bunch of different ways to use Visa other than just the old fashioned Visa card, right right, Yeah, No, I'm in a couple of days in these last few weeks and got to show a lot of people, a lot of different people to the speed and efficiency. If it's a contactless car, it's all you gotta do is just put it up to the to the monitor and you can hear the Actually they call it the sound of Visa uh, an actual sound that comes out, and you know it's great. Actually, uh got to spend some time at a curling rink, which I've never been to before and saw some fans there, got to sign autographs and actually pay for some some of their pizza while I signed the autograph. So it's great with Visas doing their unbelievably innovative and with this new card, it's it's pretty cool. Yeah. Well, so can you curl? Did you know how to do it? I was absolutely terrible? I uh I, it's unbelievable to finesse you have to have when you curl. They had some pros come out and there's a lot of techniques to it. You gotta know when to sweep it, when not to sweep it. It's like a big shuffle board. Hey, you're like you you have You're an unbelievable spinter. You have like remarkable speed and agility. How much of that obviously both your parents great athletes. How much of that has God given? And how much of that is development over time? I think it's definitely a little bit of both. You know, I hit a hit a good gene pool, But you know, it takes a lot of work and um, a lot of consistency of keeping up with it, keeping up with the training and just trying to find the best new new stuff that works for me. Yeah, I look at uh I watched this you're talking about curling. I think of the the sprinters that are ice skaters like have you have you ever? Like they are freaks, a freak shows that's an unbelievable sport that that gets taken for granted because if you you know, you hit the boards going as fast as that, I mean, they're going you know into you know, you fall into the boards. You know, you're that's that's serious. So it's it's pretty impressive. You had an impressive first year. Man looking for big things in the future. Christian, thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate you having me pleasures are as Christian McCaffrey, the Carolina Panthers joining us and has conditions in the field change. So can your insurance needs talk with the farmer's agent today so you can assess with your policy. Is game ready by an agent at farmers dot com a farmer Dan by a wading out working While those speed skating quads are impressive, dude, seriously, Christian right, yeah, they're ridiculous. Music is like sitting there laughing like I'm not kidding. Have you ever seen those speeds get like they're ridiculous. It's it's no kidding, it's Music's Torso that's the size of like one quad of a speed skater. We will see that. Uh. The Anton Apollo on No was put in my ear by Gavin short track speed skater. I prefer the long track. The Dan Jansen Bonnie Blair sort of Dan Jensen feldough right twice, but then in a lulahammer he brought home the goal. D do play a little hot little hummer. By the way, that was kind of impressive. You didn't go lily hammer, you went a little hammer. It's because I'm a quarter Norwegian Doug. I'm not sure what Steve Kerr is, but I know one thing. He is not good at Twitter, at least with his new iPhone X, accidentally tweeting out that the NBA is an embarrassment as they aren't calling James Harden's travels when he does his step back move. Kerr explaining to reporters today that yes, he meant it as a d M and not an actual tweet, and then didn't know how to delete the tweet because you're still getting used to his new iPhone anyway, A little bit of embarrassment, but maybe a lot of truth in what are you saying you have the EX or do you have the eight? When I still have the seven? But you see, didn't get slowed down like everybody else got slowed down, So then you I panic freaked out, went got the eight. I didn't get the X. People have the X, they try and get like, no, it's really worth two dollars more. I think the eighth grade. Plus he's got the home button. The X has no home button. I think they'll probably come out with a better one next year. Isn't that what they always do? Yeah? I have to you have to have the deal or every year you get to do. I'm on the two year plan, like a lot of guys are. It's just the way it goes um, just the way Kevin Love is his plan, The eight week plan cast forward, Broken hand won't beat still eight weeks. Malcolm brogten out six to eight weeks after it tour a quad tendon last night in a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Couch Bucks get Jabari Parker back tonight, making his season debut against the Knicks. Saints running back Calvin Kamara tabbed as the PEPSI NFL Rookie of the Year. Tons coming up in the press at the end of the show, including your Super Bowl pick, Tug, but no Eagles or Patriots on the injury report bow, no excuses, no question. Everybody knows that that's it. That is it. That is it, and that's all here from Dan in a second with the press. All the things you might have missed from the world of sports upcoming. First, He's a great young wide receiver. Laid U laid out one of the toughest linebackers in the NFL with one of the blocks of the year. He's Steeler's young wide receiver Jujuice Smith Shustree. He joins me now in the Dug gott Leap Show, and U all right, we got a bunch of things to get to with you, ju ju. But I ain't gonna lose to the Jaguars, man, I tell everybody, mane, we dug a hole to deep, you know, for us to come out. I feel like, you know, every game that we play that we're down, we always play better when we're losing. I think, you know, moving forward, when we start on top, you gotta stay on top. Yeah, but you guys, I know you guys did that all year, like Cleveland to start the year. Any of you guys are down to like you go through all these games? What is the deal with with falling behind? Like it's almost like that that kids, like that guy who's at the park playing pick up basketball, Like, all right, we'll go to ten, I'll spot your five points. That was the Steelers this year. Yeah, that's a good one. Man. Definitely us this year. But I mean, just moving forward, we gotta, you know, stay focused. What you learn. I learned a lot um, I know, So give me give me some bullets on first year. I don't know if you're taken you've taken like mental notes or physical notes like first year, like I've learned these couple of things about the league, one mental note and one physical note. Good go. So one mental note for me is, uh, you know the game every was a lot smarter um. You know, being able to dissect you know the cover, the coverage of the play, you know seconds before the boss and that whether whether it's man or his own. I've learned that you run across the middle against linebackers, if his zone, you better sit down. If you keep running your light it's knocked out of you. Um. Physically, I've learned that. You know, in the NFL it's a lot you know, slower pace. You know, in practice you gotta learn how to you know when a goal full speed win or out to um. And I've learned that pretty fast, you know, going against you know the vets. You know. So it's uh, I'm taking both things. Okay, explain to me this a b thing because I don't understand how he's so so good, Like he's so much better than everybody at that position. I mean, Antonio brown Is It's crazy. They put two guys on him, he still gets open. They're physical with him, he still gets open. They put speed on him, he still gets open, Like, how does how it? How does it work? A B is open? Seven? How do but how how does it? How that that's not that goes counter to everything you think of, like alright, two guys on him, we somewhere else, but big Bend just waits and eventually he's open. And I don't know how to explain it because every day in practice that's what they do. The double team him, they try to press him, they try to be physical, and a B still produces. And it's crazy because he does it every year. So what can you what in how he does what he does? Can you take and go like, oh, I'm gonna add that this offseason? Is it? Is it footwork? Is it hand hand fighting? Like? What is it that you're gonna try and take from watching A B every day and go, I'm gonna try and do some of that his releases and his toes, his toes catches, toe taps. You know that's something that we learned in practice. Every day that we do is that every time you catch the ball top one toe and against great great explanation, Uh, Green Bay Packers, you know we're down you gotta get a fire to win the game. It's covered to two people on a b he throws like a circus round a bender in the smallest window that big bend puts it on. He catches it, drags the right or left toe. Everyone's like, no, that's not a cant. It's a catch. Win the game off a field goal. Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy. I mean he's so ridiculously good. Um. Hardest thing about being a rookie staying up playing video games all night. You can't do it anymore or just that's the problem. I need to go to sleep. I stay up. That's the hardest thing, you know, being being up? And uh, all our friends are from Cali, so that three hours back, the headset on, head set on high. What are you playing? You playing a lot of call of duty? Your call of duty? Guy? Not a mad guy, not an NBA. Nah man, I'm two k guy, We're not. What about the pup. Does the pup stay up late or does a pup shut shut it down? Like eight now the pup is going to bed? Yeah, I know right. Dogs are amazing. Dogs are come in and come in and go, you know, like, hey, we're going to bed. We're going to bed, Like now I'm not going to bed, all right, I'm peace out this bogie. I know it's bougie sleep on the bed in a crate and a crate. You don't sleep from me. He has his own master bedroom. How big it's Uh, it's about this. It's probably like half of this. Uh? Now, where's boogie? Did you lea boogie at home? I love you don't like the snow because he used to Cali Weather, I know, but he's now in Pittsburgh. Just I mean, I know offseason you're gonna be He's gonna be back home, uh in Cali. Okay, So Panini's the exclusive trading card partner of the NFL and Jujue Smith Schuster. You're gonna uh participate in the Pop Warner Skills Clinic? Did you play Pop Warner growing up? Starting went great? I started about I wanna say about sixth grade, fifth grade tackle. Sixth grade fifth grade, I was playing tacle flag. It's kind of all the way around and always wide receivers. You play quarterback, played quarterback? Yeah, you kid plays quarterback? Well, all the good kids play quarterback, right, Like that's how he doesn't mean you're eventually you're always gonna be a quarterback, but you start playing quarterback and then they're like, because you want the best athlete to touch the ball as often as possible. Most definitely, Um, Levy on, what's what's the story with the contract? You get involved? Late? Leby on we need you back? Yeah, I mean there's my CM, like, come on, lady, let's let's man, let's get this ring. Um. But it's tough, man, And that's the thing that's that's the NFL for you? How um, how tough was it? How tough? Is this the chas your thing to process? Right? Because I know, like I played football Pop Warner growing up as well, and I know they always told you like this was a possibility if you get your head down or whatever. But to see a dude, who's I mean to see Ryan Shay's here, like a bigger than life guy lay on that football field motionless, what's that like? Emotionally? Man? It's tough, um. And even to this day, you know, just recently he's he's able to stand and you know, being able to move. Um, it's a blessing, you know. Um, we're not worried about if he's coming back, you know, to play ball with us. But we're worried about if he's able to you know, be able to walk around, play with his kids and you know, have that lifestyle back again. So I mean, uh to see that. It's tough, but we know that we call it say leave, and you know, we believe that he's gonna come back. New offense coming this year. Have you been told what's gonna change with the offense? Um? Not yet? Just get get you drew the ball more, that's right. Yeah, I'm just gonna have to get out there more. Uh. Well, listen, you show that you can block as well as as well. Let's catch Congrats on a great year. By the way, you can go to uh instant go. Be sure to get your Panini Super Bowl trading card set next week at Panini Instant instant dot com instant dot com. You ever think you have your own trading card? Like that's so sick. Now, it's crazy. And it's cool because I'm able to connect with kids, you know, who are young, who are in school and uh, you know, it's all over the world and it's pretty cool because like I'm not so young. I mean, I'm young, You're not so yeah, I'm young. So so just right now, I just did the Hunt Top one hundred and I thought I'll never do that, and I was like, wow, this is pretty crazy. And when I'm want to fill against like guys like, uh so it's our you know, uh Xavier Road, I'm like, dude, like, I'm a fan Road, but I gotta you know, I gotta run these ros cash footballs to you. But I'm a fan of you. So it's crazy. So yeah, I think it's pretty cool that Ponini is able to you know, give me a card and uh, you know, connect with kids around the world. Tell the Tell the truth. Patriots, Steven stinks. Doesn't it get let to them? Boys? Thanks for showing us. Best answer of the week there from Juju Smith Schuster. Why wouldn't wouldn't you love a bigger tax refund? Tax Layer was recently rated number one for maxim refund So you have more of de cash to spend on whatever the heck you want this tax season. Go out and slant maxtu refunded text slayer dot com LaVar ball could be sliding into your d m s. Find out why next. Online shopping can be confusing, well not anymore. With True Price from True Car, now you can know the exact price you'll pay for your next car. So visit Truecar and enjoy more confident car buying experience. A couple quick thank you's here Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Uh, Dave, We's did an incredible job setting up our set. I was just absolutely beautiful. Um. I'm sure he went over budget, but that's not really my concern. So Dave, thank you. Scotch Shapiro, who's our boss, and I got to meet his brother who's They're a lot like I don't know if you've ever seen Dispicable Me three right where Grew's brother group Grew and I think Drew is the other one that's like him and his brother. Um, yeah, I was anyway about the whole Shapiro family, even the grandparents who've been married sixty eight years. Like the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my life. Anyway, Davey, Scott Sapiro, Cindy Kats, who booked all the guests. She may have lost my laptop this morning, she may not have. I'm not really sure. The longest I've ever had to wait for an uber Um Sydney was in charge of that, but she she did an incredible job. We're gonna post all these interviews on the Facebook page, the Twitter page, and of course on our on our podcast. Cindy of course very much responsible for most all of them. Uh. Dan Buyer, who has been alongside all week long grinding just like the rest of us, does great work. You'll hear him on the weekends. Ryan Music who of course this team producer who aten't too much Um. Yeah. Elijah Samuno of course is new to the crew and any of the digital stuff you're seeing posted, including our digital wall, also a resident fotag. Uh, Elijah, thanks so much for all the hard work. Candice Comminis who she's miss upgrade. I'm sure she's flying back first class at some point in time quickly to uh to Los Angeles. Nonetheless, she took care of us, brought us a great dinner and uh always fun to hang out with in Kirk kresh Marrow of course, two handles our affiliates. We continue to add the hundreds of affiliates. Uh. Some people have us as a pretty good show, and Kurt's gonna continue to get get us into more radio homes across the country coming on a couple of big stations, Big news stick coming on in the pack Northwest to to be announced very very soon. Uh in Minneapolis, Jared Jeff you guys did a great job here and back in l A. John Ramos, we don't let him out of l A much because he can kind of, you know, creep some people out. Uh you know the fandom. Uh Jared Goff is here that would have gotten really uncomfortable. Wait till I tell him the Jared Goff News of the spring in summer where Jared Gossip hanging out. If I tell Ramos, it's over. But Ramos, he didn't screw up many times this week, which is good. His uh, his screw up to not screw up ratio is getting better. Gavin Kinsel and Mike Lingard, Um, you guys did a great job editing all of these interviews that we had taped and of course making sure that we stayed on air. So thanks the entire staff. This is a great week. Now. We always want to leave you knowing more than you did before you started listening to the show. That's why we bring you the press. Dan Byer, what he got, Dan Buyer, Ladies and gentlemen, he'll be here a week. Try the veal we did. We can show from here we go. I will be doing it live from Minneapolis and nine o'clock Eastern time Sunday morning, a special three hour edition of Fox Sports Sunday where you could hear my interviews with Patriots wide receiver Chris Hogan. And he goes running back Corey Clement bowl Chris Hogan as he's six too, because he's a Patriot white wide receiver. Everybody thinks he's like five eight, right, Like, yeah, you're like a little little dark over there. Like, actually, I'm really fast and long and you know, the opposite of what you saying. Anyway, you can hear that Sunday morning on the sports radio Big News Today on Twitter. And you may have seen the video of the father of the three girls who were assaulted by Larry Nassa, the gymnastics coach well in a Michigan court today. Randall mar Graves asked the judge for five minutes in a room with Nasa so he could well, you know, beat him up. Well, asked for a minute in a room. Judge said no. Finally, mar Graves took matters into his own hands when after Nassa in the courtroom was restrained by multiple sheriff's deputies. However, he will not be facing any contempt of court charges. Judge saying no way she is going to charge mar Graves, who was obviously emotionally moved as his three daughters were victimized. Is actually a really hard one. And I know this is unpopular, but I kind of think you gotta, I mean, he's gotta. It's gotta be at least some low, low level misdemeanor slap on the wrist, just be not not because we don't understand how he feels. But if if there is no punishment, what's to stop the next guy and the next guy and the next guy. Look, Larry Nasser is evil. He is evil. What he did to these young women. Uh, it's gonna take years and years of therapy. I I can't imagine I have two little girls where I mean you don't, and you don't have to have two little girls to understand, uh, what a sick human being he is. Uh. That said, like, look, we're a first world country. We're a country of laws, and we we even we even protect our criminals in this country. And I do I think it's the worst thing in the world. No, but I do think that not charging with anything does set a very dangerous precedent. I think if you would ask the cops they wish they would have delayed their response about ten seconds and then at least let him get a shot in before. That's what I'd like to see, I understand. I'm like again, like we all understand, but the cops are only doing their jobs. The judge actually has to do her job. I think let's let's get onto other matters where we can have some fun. How about this LaVar Ball doing it again, Doug trying to start the Junior Basketball Association. LaVar Ball and the j b A are now d m ng top high school basketball recruits around the country, asking them and telling them that they are interested in the player to join the j b A to become the first part of a groundbreaking league that can take players right out of high school. This is this is this is look, there's something uh genius about it, but it's also this is some au stuff like do these guys are still playing high school basketball? What are you doing? Like? What are you? What are you doing? Um? And this is the kind of stuff that Eventually we'll get him to where this this league will never take off off the ground. Interesting to see US d m NG recruits that are going to Creighton in Boston College according to the CBS reports, So not even the top guys. Doug just taking even four star guys trying to get them in caps. For Lebron, James didn't go to college. We know all that worked out for him. The rumor of him joining the Warriors nonsense, and the non stories saying that's pretty much disrespectful as he's trying to win another championship for the Calves. Um. Look, I told you it was kind of a non story yesterday. My thing is this, I do think that Lebron's people are putting out there that he's gonna talk to whomever wants to talk. I don't think it's just a drum up interest to motivate the Calves. I think it's actually to motivate the Lakers, to give them to have some concessions so they can pick some of the things. Like Look, part of the thing is with with Lebron. Remember you know, pat Riley, this this is what Phil Jackson got in trouble for. Was was mentioning that pat Riley used to let his guys fly on the plane and they shut that thing down. Now in Cleveland, his guys kind of have the run of the place. Lebron James doesn't just come and he's not like, Hey, I'm just here play basketball and nothing else. There's a lot that goes to it. And the only way to get that with the place like the Lakers or maybe the Spurs is to get some kind of leverage. I think that's what this was a leverage play. As we transition to the NFL. This news out of Baltimore, Ravens g M as he knew, so I'm gonna step down after the eighteen season, with Ravens owner Steve Baschatti saying today that he actually did consider maybe making a move at head coach, but John Harbaugh is gonna stick around next season, and Baschetti did lend his support the quarterback Joe Flacco in today's press conference. Um do you think this was like One of the things I said is, hey, this has been planned for a long time, right that Ozzie knew some signed a five year extension and he's been They've been grooming, grooming this guy to be the general manager. Of the whole time. But let's also be honest. The Joe Flacco contract, the bad recent draft picks. Ossie knew, some who did a great job for a long time has swung and missed a lot recently. It's not his fault they didn't make this. Should have made playoffs anyway this year. Um, but I kind of think that this was though this was supposedly according to plan, feels like the plan was sped up a little bit because of because of some of the in and the biggest issue I see is more of the support for Flacco than anything else. I don't know how you can be fully behind Joe Flacco we've seen as of late. Yeah, but I don't know what's your other plane. You gotta go draft day quarterback, Yeah, I would be. I would support John Harball more than Joe Flacco. That's just me Joe Flacco. Yeah, But Joel said that also means that maybe John Harball was the one who supported Joe Flaco, and that's why John Harbaugh is in the position that he's hid. Look, he said he considered it. He didn't say they were gonna do it. I think all things are considered, and that's suppressed backing out there impressed. That was the press by who are you taking? Buddy? You're hearing the chance of the Eagles, and I just think that their past rushing getting after Tom Brady is gonna cause problems. And the toughest thing for New England to do is shut down the Eagles running game. I like Philadelphia to win on Sunday. I've said that all week. I liked him as well. Music. You're gonna make a pick, I'm gonna go opposite. I'm going Patriots, Brady and Belichick, John Ramos formula, but back in I mean, like, look at it. Yeah, you know, um Ramos, who you got. I'm gonna take the Patriots as well. I'm with Ryan. I'm a millennial guy, so I'll take what Ryan says out a boy, Ramos, you're a millennial guy talking about because you're not a millennial. No I'm not. But I like what they say. The Ryan said the Patriots, I will say the Patriots and also say ten seconds, all right, ten seconds. I'm gonna take the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm with I'm with Dan. You know. Anyway, We'll talk to you Monday. 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Sold Christian McCaffrey and ju Juice Smith Schuster. We are locked and loaded. Uh, everybody ends their show with a super Bowl prediction. I'm gonna start mine with a super Bowl prediction. Okay, the Philadelphia Eagles defense is nasty and no, I don't think Nick Foles is your traditional super Bowl winning quarterback. But when we've seen defenses that are this dominant, this good up front, this built to win in the fourth quarter, um, it's the type of defenses that have given given uh given Tom Brady trouble in the past. So I have no I have no stake in the game, but I think the Eagles are gonna win. I don't think the Patriots defenses is great, let alone, not sure it's all that good. And I think the Eagles defense is nasty and like look like one of the things that we've had this year is we've had so many teams we about the a f C playoffs. Chargers should have been there, probably Houston should have been there. J j Wie, Deshaun Watson didn't get hurt. The Patriots probably should have lost to Pittsburgh if not for the catch ruling against Jesse James. And if all those things happened, we probably have different teams here. Now. You may not like the ifs and and butts. It only points out that the Eagles, though they lost Carson Wentz, they're the best team in the NFC most the entire season, and because of that, I like the Eagles. I think this one reminds me of the Super Bowl with Peyton Manning against the Seahawks in New York. Everybody talked about the greatness of Peyton and no one's taken away from that, but that's Seahawks defense. I believe it was the poet laureate Marshawn Lynch who said, we got some dogs. They had some dogs. They dominated that game. I don't know if it'd be that level of dominance, but I'm picking the Eagles. Let's sell welcome in one of the great running backs in the National Football League, a guy who everybody's gonna be talking about in the offseason because of the contract situation, because of the offensive coaching chain, assuming that Pittsburgh won't let him go. Lady On Bell joins us here on the Doug Golla Show. You do man, I'm feel good? How are you good? Um? What's it like to get the respect and the love from everybody? Like? It's look, it's one thing to get it on the fields. The whole other thing. When you have the players, agents, fans, radio, row and you walk in and get the type of money. It's amazing. You know, as a as a kid, you know, you kind of never really you know, really realize that you can do it. You know what I mean. You kind of say it. I always dreamt about it, but you know the fact that has actually happened and I'm living it. You know, it's amazing. You know, just interacted with the fans, the players that you play against, and you know they respect you to interpect your game. Um, just getting to norm off the field is amazing. How are you gonna lose with the Jaguars? Dude? Come on man, all right, look man, the Jaguars was a good team, you know what I mean. Um, obviously we didn't play our best game. Um, I don't think we played a good second half. We played second half. Explained to me this, Okay, you first half Cleveland Brown's first game of the season, Indianapolis Cults. You picked the game and it was like it was almost like of the guy who goes like, all right, we'll go to ten, I'll spot you five. That was kind of like you guys had so much talent and yet so often times you get off the sluggish start. Is that I don't know, man, maybe maybe you know, it might have been a little bit of the offense, maybe a little bit of defense. I think for us that switch up at the off the coordinator, uh, that that I hope, we hope without a lot. It's not taking away from Todd and what he's done for us, but I just think that switch up a wrinkle or something that may have you know, in better situations better um you know, positions to make make plays and things like that make it easier on me or a b perfect example is and like, look, Todd Haley is a well regarded offensive coordinating right, but didn't you guys starting empty against against Jacksonville, right, Like I mean so, I mean, like, look again, I'm not saying I know more about football than Todd Hay. I know that I know that when they've gotten you like this is not rocking science, right that was might say, like football the simple game, and it's so simple because Jacksonville Jacksonville figure that out, Like we're gonna run the football and then eventually, when they over commit to running, we're gonna run some play actions exactly and worst case scenarios say you get stopped three straight times, that's okay, you punt and you get it over your defense. He played fuel position football. Yes, so so, um so you do get the sense that that's that the coordinator change. And they talked to you about it, they said, this is what this is what we're kind of looking for, is what's gonna change. Well, I mean I was at the pro bo with Randy, you know, and he gave me a whole bunch of you know, different things and situations and how they're gonna use me and what he's planning on for next year. And I'm excited about it, you know. So, and I know Randy's the quarterbacks coach before he was O C. And I love Randy. You know, he has a good camarade with everybody in the locker room. Everybody loves Randy and respect him. So, um he's a great you know pick for the office, the coordinator and you know, I'm excited for Okay, so they're gonna tag you at I hope not. I mean it it's guaranteed money. It is guaranteed money. But you know I need some long time, um you know security. That's that's that's the biggest thing about contracts. You wanna get a long term deal with a nice guaranteed money. So when you say something do happen like look, you said, look you got hitting the knee, like anything happened, hit in the knee, and and and then you went over and you tested it. It It was middle of the season you went and tested and yeah, I'm sure you had to be freaking out. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. And the thing about it is like at any moment, like you may not be the same player anymore. Okay, So can I give you the Devil's advocate? What what people will say when you say I think I should get a long term deal, They'll say, look, man been injured and he's been suspended. Yeah, absolutely, okay, So so why would why should the Steelers invest long term and a guy who's now getting up for twenties and has been injured spending what's the counter to that? Because the Steelers know what type of person I am. Yeah, the suspensions happened, and the second suspension they know exactly happen, and it's a lot of things that it shouldn't have happened. And the Steels understand that they were behind the scene everything, so they know exactly what's going on. Um the injuries, freaky injuries, you know, a little a little weird stuff, but they understand what type of player. I yeam and I'm a different type player even even with all the injury suspensions. Now I'm the number one player after five years in screaming yards. All right. So ever, so do you, uh, do you sit training camp if they if they franchise Taggy, do you because i mean, you know, somebody asked you once you thought about retirement, you said to think about it. You do know what I'm saying. You know I'm saying, Uh, if they tag me training camp, I'll see you one maybe. But but that that sets you back, or at least they didn't give you the ball as much in the season because they just didn't give you the ball. But like I came in out of shape, I was ready. They I mean, they want to give me the ball, you know, six or seven times against the Browns because they know it's the Browns. That's what it is. It is what it is. But I'm going out there a long as I finished. See the healthy. I'm good. Help me out with the Patriots. Um, the defense is ben but doesn't but don't break. Now they have allowed you know, up until uh their last game, they a lot the fewest uh but fifth fewest h but fewest points in the in the league since the week five, right, so they've they've been better. But it's the defense good or it's just they just don't make mistakes. That's what it is. They play real disciplined football. They don't get out of gaps, want to play, you know, play opportunity presents itself, they make the play. But you know the reason why they're so good because they're not gonna go out of the gap and try to be greedy and try to make a tackle if there if it's not their tackle, it's not their gap. They didn't worry about making that tackle. You know, you've got guys in the league who's individual guys who like worry about making every tackle. You want a guy who had heard fifty tackles over the course of the year. They have no guys like that. They go out there and play sigmon football and that's what make those all good. Um, what about Brady in that offense against this Eagles defense? Eagles defense pretty nasty, isn't yeah. Yeah, their front their front seven is really well. I think the Eagles can win if they don't let the Pages get a run game going, if they just have to sit back and the Patriots just got the past with Tom Brady five wide, the Eagles gonna rush four. They're gonna play man to man and put personal time Brady, before you came, it's Tom Brady at all. You gotta literally play man a man, no, not so physical too, right, Yeah, you gotta play man a man, not zone and rush four and your four have to get personal time, Brady, not blitz anybody. You gotta just rush four and play coverage. Uh so who are you picking? Man? Look, I know the Eagles are so good. Eagles, amazing team. They've been good all year. Um, it's just so hard for me to pick against Tom Brady. Man, it's just so hard to do it. Like, um, so I'm gonna go and go to go with the Pagriots. You're gonna started eating avocado ice cream and stop lifting weights and start stretching all the time. That's his deal, right, He's like he's all about flexibility and diet and sleep. I mean yeah, I mean, I guess it's working for he's also a position where you can get away with that, right. I mean, I don't eat meat. So you're a vegan or vegetarian, pescatarian, pesterarian, so you only eat fish, only fish? What's your favorite fish? Salmon? How? How? How? How How do you like it? Cook? Uh? Man, I like it everywhere? Did you eat everything growing up? Like? Man, I'm be a pescetarian. I'm only gonna eat Never never thought that. I never thought that. It got to a point where I actually went on the date and uh, this girl kind of talked me into it. You know, but what's your name? Name? Why was it date? Then? Not a date? Now? Yeah, but I don't want to say that name. You canna mess up on other dates. Man, But it's an old date. It was a long time, even long even pestarian for about six months. Oh well, they like this is okay? You don't. You don't miss a good steak? Come on, you want really you walk back? Come on, you gotta pass Ruce Chris and you smell some of that steak cooking, like I don't really want. I know what's going to kill my stomach. It will kill your stuff, I know, will, I know? Will That's what that's what like. It kind of give you out, like cheeseburgers and stuff like I came like I'm straight, okay, alright. I like good swordfish as well. Tune is pretty good. Sort fish really really good bass. That's my that's my favorite one. Probably. Um you're here with Mountain dew Ice. When I think ice, I think, is it beer? Is ice? Like? I think no? But I think I like remember but ice? But but ice. That's before your time, man, that's back when I was in college. Uh, Mountain dew Ice supporting team Ice Cold. In the showdown between the Mountain dew Ice team hashtag Ice Cold and the Doritos Blaze team was the rat battle. Yeah, the ra battle. I'm with Morgan Freeman though free Morgan Freeman rap. You ain't know no what, No, you gotta see the rap battle. Morgan Freeman is like voice of God from Truman Show. Right, No, no, no, uh, Bruce, that's Bruce Almighty. You can wrap no no who uh? And then Peter Dinklich is the is for Doritos or for he with the Ritos. He with the Ritos. So I'm t mice. You know what I'm saying. You look where I'm rocket and that shirt is awesome. You know what I'm saying. It's a shirt with Morgan Freeman, white hair, white goatee, big kerchief, holding a mountain dew ice soda. He is caffeine. That's the biggest thing that'll wake that'll wake up. You do your due. Wow, wet little pesctarian getting that maut and do uh. We hope they don't tagging and you get paid, although we all know they're gonna tag you. We kind of know that. We don't. Come on, dude, we might get it done. Come on, man, you think we get it done? They did say. Okay, so reports were last week that two sides were progressing towards the deal. How accurate are those reports? That's accurate? Okay, that's accurate. Is it imminent? We're progressing? Man, break you don't break your own Storyett like it's done, nine ain't done? Though it ain't done? Is it about? Is it about? What is it is about? The guaranteed number is about the guarantee is the guaranteed number in years? The guaranteed number, um, the A P y ye and then um you know how long you know said how long? How how engaged in it are you do you guys? You you want to be engaged in every part of it, or just tell me when it I gotta be. That's that's you know what I'm saying that. No, I know, but sometimes like look, I've been a contract negotiation. Sometimes you hire a guy because they you want them gonna kinda do everything for you. He's gonna kind of report back to you. I don't every call enough, I don't see on every call. But you know what I'm saying about a little underfitty maybe like all right, give me give me percent hopefully you'll get it done. Percent hopeful or percent you think he gets done? I say about Sandy far percit alright, progressing, he's confirmed that it is progressing. All right, let ter and great? All I appreciate it. He'll be eating salmon all weekend long. Here. Uh. The third. Robert Griffin, the third is a Heisman Trophy winner. He's a Pro bowler, he was a Rookie of the Year. If he doesn't have a job in the NFL, but he did probably win twitter uh two days ago, We'll ask him. Will we see him again in the National Football again? If not, it next If you could change anything, what would it be? R G three up next Live. 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He leads the Redskins to the playoffs, and of course you remember him playing on a bad wheel in the playoffs. But since then it's been tough sledding a couple of different teams and now RG three. Robert Griffin the Third joins us on the set here at Radio Row at the side of the Super Bowl. How you doing, man, I'm doing great. How you doing good? Man? You got your baby? Yes, what's happen? Looks just like her mom. She's seven months old. She's sleeping a little better at night, but uh, you know, we're still having to wake up pretty often. But it's a blessing. And you know, she's got an older sister too. I got two beautiful baby girls that I get an opportunity to to raise every single day. And that's a lifetime job and I'm I'm blessed to be able to have it all. Right, So um, let's just let's just get the the my career as of now. You're going to camp? You are you done? Like, what do you want to what do you want to do? I know, you know you feel like you have football in you. What's your game plan? Yeah? I think God's blessed me with an ability and a talent to be able to showcase and have a platform and and just the ability to inspire men. Uh and I think I've been able to showcase that. So um, my plan. I moved to Orlando just recently. Um, I'm getting ready to marry my soul mate. Uh. Football wise, I've spent the entire year making sure my body is healthy, my mind and healthy, that I get back the explosiveness that I had from my my rookie season. And Uh, that's what I've been laser focused on, is just making sure that when my opportunity comes, I'm ready to go. Uh. It's not just something that you say. It's when you get that call and they say, hey, we want you to come work out. Hey, we want you to do this, We want to do that. You can do it and show them, Hey, give me an opportunity to compete, and I'll make you right. What what went so wrong in d C? Because because you know it's I want to get to your tweet earlier about about about the trade this week, which is hilarious. But there there's some similarities there with Kirk and with you in that like, man, it sure feels like this should be working out, and it didn't work out with him, but that's it kind of it's different, but the same when it was with you where there was leaks about how you were perceived and what the reality of you. What what's so wrong with you in in DC? What you get this? I get this question all the time, and I feel like I've answered every time. But now it's time for me not to answer those questions anymore. Um. You know, the one thing I will say about d C is the people who have to realize I'll always be connected to Washington. I was drafted there, who went to the playoffs in my first year? Um didn't. Things didn't go quite as well down the stretch, and then change of coaches and all these things happened. But I'm always gonna root for the rest Kings. I'm always gonna be a fan, and I'm always gonna be a part of it. So I love him, I wish him the best, but I'm not gonna continue to answer those questions about what went wrong there because I don't want that to define define my career. I want to be able to go out and UH get it with a team, grow with a coach, grow with the team, and UH be able to showcase said, hey, I'm in this for the long haul. Fair Enough. Um, Okay, how about this? Is there if you could is there something you could change, If there's something you could do different or do better, it would it be Yeah, I'm mean, uh, obviously i'd still be there if if I if I would have had those answers then, But um, I think as a player, there was nothing that was gonna prepare me for for what ended up happening in d C. And I wasn't ready to handle what happened in d C from a negative standpoint. Um, And I think that's what I learned the most, just how to handle certain situations and not not make them worse, not compound those situations. But uh, that's part of growth, that's part of maturing in the NFL, and and giving yourself an opportunity to to have more opportunities. It's also I think fair to say that you're a a victim in many ways, not just have your own success, but also of kind of what we do as a society, Right, Like we celebrated your emergence as a superstar in college, and then we find as many any flaw we can find to kind of bring you back down like that. That's the same with so many different players, right. That's and I don't know if it's I would say from your perspective, you'd probably say that's media driven. But I think the media also is a reflection people, right, That's how people sometimes they It's not that they don't want people succeed, it's that when people succeed, they want to feel as though they're on They're as flawed as superstars are flawed. But what's that like emotionally to hit Like like you're not blind, deaf or dumb, and you're like, look, wait, just last week you were telling me I was the greatest thing ever, and now dudes are taking shots emotionally? How how does that? How do you process? Yeah? I think it just you have to have thick skin when it comes to I think our world is inherently negative. Right. If you see a good story on TV about someone donating the charity or saving kittens, uh, it doesn't spark your interests as much as hearing about somebody doing something bad. They're making fun of somebody, or you know, someone gets hurt and now you've got all these pictures about them while they're injured. That that tends to get more attention than the good stuff. So I think as a player, the only time it gets to you is when you quit. Right that some people say you win and you learn. You know, it's it's the old cliche, but feel like you really only lose when you quit. And I think that's the one thing that's sitting out of football. This entire year showed me that there's no quit in me. God built me and and bless me in a way with with great parents, great foundation, and great people around me that there is no quit. So even when it doesn't look good, you still gotta push through because you never know when that opportunity is gonna come. So I'll be ready. So did you did you watch? Is it like when you're not playing football and you're out of it, you watch as much as you've always watched or was it? Was it hard and you're like I can't this Sunday I can't turn the TV. Yeah, I mean I feel like when you're not in, when you're not playing, you have to watch um because when you're playing, you don't have the time, but when you're when you're not playing, you kind of do have the time. But what I tried to do with schedule my schedule for the offseason, working outlifting, watching film as if I was playing, so that when I got into it, it wouldn't be a shock to my system. So I continue to study the film, I continue to do the workouts just to prepare for my opportunity. And I think that's made me, uh, you know, realize a lot of things when it comes to the game and just seeing how the game is reverting back a couple of years to how things were being run when I was Shaun Watson right, Like, all they did with Deshaun Watson was like, hey, let's run that stuff that they ran with r G three and he took over the league. It's crazy because they tried to make put you square peg into the round hole of the traditional West Coast style quarterback. Meanwhile, the rest of the league's like, hey, we should do these r I mean, that's what change with Nick Foles. They start running these rpt're like wait wait, wait, wait wait, you're doing what they told me I couldn't do. So I was able to watch that throughout the course of the season. I'm saying to myself, man, you know, if the league is going back that direction, that is a big opportunity for me to get back in and be able to help a team win games where this compete as QB one come in solidified QB two and or help some of these young guys that are walking around and not make the same mistakes that I made. But at the end of the day, I want to get in with the team. I want to be able to compete, grow with the coach, grow with the team, and just prove it every single day. Robert Griffin, the Third Man, Great to see you, Great to know that you're still fighting. Can't wait to see what the next step bring Man should be. It should be really really cool. Obviously, those of us who watch you, uh, take over the Big twelve, takeover college football, take over the Redskins. We want to see what r G three two point oh has has bring. Keep us updated. Okay, that's Robert the third soon to get married, just had a beautiful baby, daughters, second little girl has conditions on the field change. So can your insurance needs talk with a farmer's agent today so you can assess with your policies. Game ready. Find agent at farmers dot com. We are farmers, all right. Let's bring in Dan buy or find out what else is going on tomorrow Big NFL Honors Show and you We're gonna find out the m v P. And we think that it's gonna be Tom Brady just because of the speech that was apparently leaked yesterday. But there are more awards given out today, including Saints running back Calvin Camara to the PEPSI NFL Rookie of the Year. There will be different honors throughout the next eight hours or so, but Camaro wins the PEPSI Rookie honor. The New York Game of the News says that the Eagles actually tried to acquire running backs Sean McCoy from the Buffalo Bills in a trade last offseason. Remember the Bills and Eagles did a deal that had Jordan Matthews going to Buffalo with Ronald Darby coming over to Philadelphia. But originally the report says that the Eagles were looking to have a reunion with Lashawn McCoy. That didn't happen. They signed the Garrett Blunt and of course, acquired j h I E in the middle of this season. The father of three girls who are assaulted by Larry Nasser won't face contempt of court charges after he charged at the convicted sex sexual predator during a court hearing today, Randall mar Graves asked the judge for five minutes in a room with NASA, and after repeated requests, then attempted to physically harm the disgrace doctor. Shortly after he was restrained by officers. Mar Graves apologized for his actions Doug and the judge today said that there was no way she was going to penalize him for those actions today. Crazy scene that we've seen throughout social media of the video of him trying to attack NASA. Some and some NBA notes Calves forward Kevin Love won't need surgery and his broken hands still gonna miss eight weeks of action. Celtics rule reportedly signed free agent center Greg Monroe. That's according to whoa. Bucks forward Jabari Parker comes back tonight from his torn a c l he'll face the Knicks and Caps for Lebron James calling the rumors of him joining the Warriors nonsense and a non story that from the King himself today. Big news, little news, big deal, little no deal. He said, that's no deal. They said that's a big no deal. All the fake news and all of that he went fake. I don't think he did fake news. Fake We know who, we know who he called the tarrying fake news, and uh that is uh yeah, that's that I knew who he is. All right, thanks, thanks so much, Dan Doug Outlive Show, Fox Sports Radio. What if you could get up to thousand dollars in a little as forty eight hours with tax Layer, Well now he can introducing refund now only from tax Layer. E file your taxes get up to the thousand dollars in a little forty eight hours, but no upfront fees. Visit tax layer dot com for details. Um boy, what a special second season. This guy had hundred yards, eight touchdowns, only seven interceptions and this after the first year which people they were bailing, they thought he was a bust um. He's Jared Goff of the l A. Rams. He joins me on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. And Jared, you know, confidence is such a huge part of having success in the NFL. How much do you think that first game against the Colts, how much do you think that kind of propelled you guys confidence wise to have the season you had. Yeah, it was it was a good it was a good game. It was a good start. You know, we didn't get to play them without Andrew, which definitely helps. But uh, you know, we played well. We we executed, we execute on defense, we executed on special teams, and we executed on offense. So when you do all those three things, most time you win. And uh that thing like they we did. How much does you want to like go around TV channel the TV channel? Don't when you start when you start winning and you I mean, like, I really don't, I really don't. I just I have fun with it now. I think it's it's kind of funny to see the reactions of some people. But I've always, you know, believe in myself. But I know there's plenty of people who haven't, and I know that'll probably continue the rest of my career. And just something that I got a good experience of dealing with. Was there ever a moment to which you didn't like in the first year? Never, there wasn't any oh my gosh, this might I might not be what I think I was, but I think am I didn't. Where does that come from? How do you maintain when when everyone is saying, oh my gosh, they that this might not work. How did you maintain your focus and your confidence. We'll try to not pay attention to any of that, because, um, they're not in the building. They don't you know, see what's what's going on or any of that. So just try to remain confident. I know what I've done my whole life. I played football my whole life. I played I think pretty well my whole life. Um, you know, just try to try to get back to that. And I was lucky enough to get some good pieces around me this year, and um, grow grow in this offense, and grow and mature and continue to get better and hopefully, you know, keep keep trending in that direction. Jered Goff joining us in the Dug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Last year, this time you sat down, we talked a little bitbout Sean McVeigh. You said you're excited. UM, give me at least one thing that kind of surprised you. But you know, either surprised you about McVeigh that you didn't know when you first your first couple of days, first couple of weeks working together. Um, who I think. I think how intense he is on game day because you know, he comes on the radio shows, he's very calm, cool and collected, and you know, very meticulous and throughout the week years as well, and then on game day he is a different dude, and he is a competitive, competitive guy and very intense and a lot of fun to play for. Um, what about you? Uh this this this year obviously you blew up and UM, you know your offense kind of took over that division. What's next for you? What's the next step that you look at yourself and even though you're confident, you never lost your confidence when things were bad. You're also not an arrogant dude. You know you gotta get better. What what's the what's the next step for uh? Just continue to get better. I don't know if I can put my finger on one thing. I just want to continue to be the best quarterback I can be, be the best leader I can be, continue to get better in those aspects, and continue to try to be trying to help our team win. I think that's ultimately what you do as a quarterback is you're the facilitator of winning. Is is kind of what you try to do. You know, I've got Todd behind me, I got so many good whiteouts, We've got a good line. Just try to get the ball to them and continue to elevate my game mentally and physically. And UM, trend in that direction. You know, as long as I keep doing my thing, hopefully everyone else is as well, and we'll we'll be ready to go next year. All right. The Falcons came in and jumped down in the playoffs, and they're a team that's experienced in the playoffs. And look, it's no different than high school Playoffs are played at a higher level than regular high school football. College the college football playoffs or college football intense bowl games are played at a higher level. What what what would you learn? Would you take from that experience that the heightened uh intensity of the playoffs taught you for the future. I think you take away from it like you do any other big game. I think you kind of get that experience in that atmosphere which we which we did have a few of in the regular season, But it is different the playoffs. You you realize, you know, this is the last game for both teams. You can't. You got treat it that way. You know where you're this is your last game and if you when you move on. If you don't, you don't. And um, I think getting that experience of being in that atmosphere and in that environment and in that mindset of this is a winner go home game? Is is uh good for us moving forward? Um? What when you see Brady as as a quarterback? What do you marve? What? What do you say? Man, I, by the time I'm done, I want to be able to do this like he does. How accurate he is is unbelievable. I mean, he's obviously forty, so he's that's unbelievable in itself. But I think his ability to stay at that high level of accuracy of puts the ball exactly where he wants? Does that come from? What does that come from his footwork being consistent? Does it come from his his throwing being consistent? Because because when I've seen you a couple of times, Um, there's been a couple of times where your where your feet, You don't get to feet, your feet exactly where you want? Right when when anybody, when there's somebody and if your feet is not gonna be the same? Is that? How does he I'm I'm marveled at it as well, right, Like, how do you maintain the same level accuracy as you age and your arm strength is going to change a little bit? Is it the feet? Is it the hands? What is it? I don't know. I think he's he works his ass off, he he does his he does it all he does in the off season, and um, I hear him say all the time he wants to be as long as he's continuing to help the team win, he's gonna continue to play. And I think he's just gonna do that for a little while longer you can start pounding avocado shakes. I don't know. I I'm a big fan of his and what he does, and I think ultimately what he does in the off season, all the work he puts in allows him to stay at that level one. Um, he's an awesome guy to watch and I'm glad to be in the league at the same time as him and somebody that I can say I played against. Your favorite win of the year was what uh New Orleans at home? Why? Because there were nine game winning street coming into our place. We had just lost him Minnesota on the ode tough one, came back home, pulled out a hard one. This or Tennessee. The clincher was fun too. Tennessee was that was a tough game at Tennessee, a little little weather. Um you didn't say Seattle, I didn't, I didn't. I don't know. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't have too much of a role on that one. I just kind of handed off to Todd. He went for about two fifties. Still still though, it was a sweet one. Yeah, it was fun. I know, I'm I'm no, It's like, I'm not trying to put words in your mouth. I'm just I'm interested in You mentioned playing in Minnesota. This is a tough place to play. I know the Vikings aren't playing here, but it's pretty sick stadium. It was one of my favorites, one of my favorites. Great atmosphere, great fans, loud as hell, awesome, awesome stadium architecture. All that's awesome. Yeah, but you don't do you do you actually get a chance to take that in when you're playing. You're just like football field. I tried a pre game, you know, especially the new stadiums, and with me being young in my career, I try to if it's in stadium, I haven't played that at you know, I try to look around and see how it is, you know, take it in. Played at Lambeau this year in the preseason game four the preseason I wasn't I wasn't playing, so I got to really take it in. Yeah, kind of sit there and look around. It's unbelievable. They have sold it out for a preseason game, preseason number four, I know. And and they're they're all, I mean, just drinking out there and they're it's it's it's it's so nice, all of them. They are nice. It's so not California right in that California. Don't think people people aren't like New York. There's the people can be nice. People could be nasty. California. I don't think they're not necessarily not nice. There's an urgency about everything though. Yes, it's it's it's it needs to be done done quickly. Um. All right, you're a Wild Wings guy. You're here with Buffalo Wild Wings. What's your style of wing man? Mild traditional, little buffalo sauce. I like Buffalo. I like Buffalo Uh, dipping in some ranch. If you can't make it into the store, you can order online at Buffalo wol Wings dot com or you can call it. But I'll be in the store. Oh, I'm a I'm a dry guy, like I like their dry right, the dry rubs. Yeah, sure, there's the salt and vinegar is really good. Sure, but there's also like a Chipotle type deal or something kind of spicy dry one. There's a honey barbecue too, if you like that. Yeah, that's like that's that's that's wet. Don't I like the dryness because I also don't like going through my hands and like everything sticks when your wife on the napkins, it's like everywhere, and I'm gonna get it everywhere. Guy, my wife can't take me anywhere. If I'm eating wings, I'm eating you know, so you get twelve piece wings, I'm eating them all without touching my face and then I'll clean up. Did you see this number that Buffalo wowings so pame point five million wings on Sunday last year. That's crazy, Like thinking about how many pounds of wings that is? Um? Are you like me? Do you have less respect for people who order the boneless wings? Right? Like if you're yeah, no, I go bone. You can't do that. Boneless is just like a chicken nugget. Yeah, that's like, huh, chicken nugget. That's exactly what it is. Now. It's still tastes good, but it's not a wing. You need a wing to be a wing. Okay, give me the one big thing you're gonna do in this offseason non football? Who uh work on my golf game? Yeah, let's play. Let's play. We're down the street. Jared Goff, former number one overall pick. Great season this year with the rams. Thanks of the folks at Buffalo wh Wings Wings Beer Sports. You can't cannot beat it. Thanks so much, Jonas, Thank you. Dating can be fun when you're ready for a real relationship. This year, you need a match. Go to match dot com slash doug to search few photos and connect for seven days free. That's one week free. This free offers at match dot com slash Doug. That's match dot com slash Doug Coming up next. Who's gonna score the first touchdown in Super Bowl fifty two? Sunday? I will tell you next. Car shopping can be confusing with terms like dealer price, lizz price, and invoice price. True Car shows what other people paid for the car you want. You can recognize a good price. When you're ready to buy a new or use car. 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A lot of questions for the psychic about Super Bowl fifty two, such as the Philadelphia Eagles are the road team, they will get to call the coin toss. Will the Eagles call head or tails? People always do tails, never fails, but I think you should call heads. Uh, they'll call it tails. Tails never fails. Okay. So then what will the coin toss me? Head's okay, so the Patriots will They'll choose and they'll defer. According to my guests, who throws the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl fifty two on Sunday? Uh? Boy, I would love it to be a non quarterback, right, that would be a really good prop pet. Danny Amondola obviously don't have Edelman. Who's did you know Danny Edelman was a quarterback? Um, I'm gonna go with Tom Brady. I think it's gonna be the opposite of Super Bowls in the past, where they actually get off to a relatively fast start. Okay, Then the question is if he's throwing the first touchdown pass, who scores the first touchdown? Could be the person who catches that pass, could be a run who actually scores the first touchdown? Who scores the first touchdown? Uh? These are all prop bits, by the way that you can get in Las Vegas. I'm gonna go with le Garrett Blunt scores first Alright, alright, La Garrett Blunt on the ground against his former team. This is something that's uh near and dear to my heart. Doug. You know, in the Super Bowl they'll have one end zone that says Eagles it's gonna be painted in green, and the other one that says Patriots painted in navy blue. When the Garrett Blunt scores that first touchdown, will it be in the green painted Eagles end zone or the blue painted Patriots end zone? I'm gonna go with the green, green and green zone. A little sharper, Can I just point out the Patriots have a terrible helmet. Yes, absolutely, like bottom five helmet in the NFL flying Elvis. I mean that's not that's not it's not a great helmet. That's the see pat The Patriot is such a good logo. The problem is is it's very difficult to be duplicated because of all of the details on it. I wish they would go back as well. What about this Eagle's helmet? Do you like the new the new Eagles helmet can't go wrong with the wings in the side. No, it's just updated from you know, past versions. Yeah, I like it fine. I don't mind the kelly green, the you know, the brighter green that they would have the more of the Irish looking instead of the deeper, the deeper. I like the deeper green. Okay, Well, who gets the first turnover in Super Bowl fifty two Eagles defense. Yeah, I can see that fumble. Maybe a sack of Brady stripped him with the ball. Oh, this is an interesting one. How many special guest special guests will appear with Justin timber Lake during the halftime show. Well, we know Jane Jackson won't be there, that's true. That's true. If in Sync shows up, that's four guests. So you could have if there's an I don't think I don't think in Sync. I don't think Chris Chris Kilpatrick will be there. We can I can text Kilpatrick find out if he's doing it. Um, it's good. I actually like if he's funny, funny dude. Um, I would love some Jason too special guests. Yeah, I think so too. I think that there'll be somebody that we Oh wow, they're getting back to NBC. It's an NBC UM NBC super Bowl. Correct, Yes, so Failing is gonna be on there. Oh that's a really good point, right, I hope not. He's doing his show from Minneapolis. I bet he's gonna I'm gonna go three. Then, Okay, what running back has the most total yards from scrimmage? Rushing and receiving combined in this game. You've got La Garrettlant, You've got Dion Lewis, James White, J G I E. N. Back. Yeah. I think he's played a little bit more of a role in the running game for the Patriots this year. And even though Rex Burkhead could be used at the goal line, Dion Lewis is a guy who can rack up the yards. Okay, final two. What does Bill Belichick where as a top tomorrow? Will it be nothing? Nothing? Nothing? He's gonna he's going out. He's going out commando on top sand's shirt. Yes, that would be amazing. What's gonna? Well? I think that there's times where he's more than windbreakers, like it just a short sleeve windbreaker top. Be funny to wear a wind break in the dome. Well, because you never know you're gonna wear a hoodie, he'll wear a gray hoodie. Maybe Matt Patricia breaks wind and he'll need it. Finally, will this be the last Super Bowl call for Al Michaels? Yeah? Yes, yes, this is game time on the duck Gotliep show. How many chicken sandwiches not I need to buy you to get you to get me a Chick fil a sandwich. I just had it an hour ago. Um, you didn't go like, hey, man, can you want you want to chicken? You want a chicken sandwich. We're live at the super Bowl actually the food Court, the Mall of America. Baker Mayfield, Sean Payton. Next hour on the Dug Gottlieb Show, One off Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Brought you by Black Rifle Coffee. Veteran owned, Veteran roasted. There's a Black Rifle Coffee. Dot Com today used the code Fox Sports twenty Fox Sports Off your first order. All right, let's get back after man, we got a great Sean Payton's wayde good with Sean Payton in a moment um. First, so let's catch up with the dude who just won the Heisman Trophy. Potentially a first round draft pick, and he is, without any question, the most polarizing prospect in the NFL draft. He's Baker Mayfield from Oklahoma. He joins me in the Doug Gotlieve Show on Fox Sports. Tradeo. We'll talk about Oklahoma and getting ready for the draft. Take me back your time at Texas Tech. Um. There's there's like a misconception of who was in the quarterback room when you were there as the starter. What was that quarterback room like when you were there? Everybody gets it confused, though Pat actually was not there when I was. He got in right after it. So we had Michael Brewer, uh, Davis web and I and then you leave and then Mahomes Mahomes comes in and and uh, I mean, like, look, it's it's a well spring of quarterback talent. Obviously, you make your way to Oklahoma. The greatest stat and I told I'm not gonna tell you who it was at an NFL coach up here and he goes, Man, I like that Baker Mayfield, And I said, the greatest that I've ever heard. You did not lose a true road game in Oklahoma. Um, what tell me about your mentality? Because I think people see how fired up do you get on the sideline, and um, you know the references. They want to want to make you into Manzell, They want to make you into something. What is it that you do in your preparation and in your play that's allowed you to be so successful in the road, which is college football, even maybe more so in the NFL. The hardest place to win. I Uh, it's a mindset, it's preparation. You carry yourself with a driven mindset that I want it more than anybody else, that I'll do anything, anything, whatever it takes. And so but going on the road, I love it. Going into somebody else's house. Being able to have the power to silence a crowd of close to a hundred thousand is a is a good feeling. So m you gotta you gotta want it. You gotta be able to execute on the road. You gotta be able to block out the extra noise on the outside. So it's a it's a few things that come into play. How can you be the best version of yourself and yet you know, NFL guys you'd be like, hey man, you can't do that stuff. You can't do that jumping up around and going crazy and head button dudes in the NFL, like nobody does that. How can you be you and yet fit into the style of what I guess NFL quarterbacks you're supposed to be. Ah, well, I'm not gonna conform to anything. And there's things I can you know, draw the line and not do absolutely. But at the same time, if I didn't have passion for the game, I wouldn't be playing it, and if I was playing without it, I wouldn't be myself. So I'm gonna stick to what's gotten me here, playing a trip on my shoulder, you know, making other guys around me better, pushing them to be better, and uh, you know, being a fire guy on the sideline. How how do you how do you go from a walk on in two different Big twelve schools to being a Heisman Trophy final there's two times and a Heisman Trophy winner and competing for a national champion. Like how what? What has have you changed? Like? What what they'll happen? How does that happen? No, that's I've had the same mindset the whole time. And it's kind of like what I said about road games. You gotta one it more than everybody else. When when nobody's watching, what are you doing? And so, uh, everybody's seen the stuff on camera, they've seen I got three years of tape. But the stuff that's gotten me here, the reason I have success is because of what's happened behind the scenes, Like what just work ethic? You know, I put in an extra hours. How I carry myself around my teammates, how I pushed them to be better. Just demand excellence overall. Okay, so, uh six ft and three quarters um, which is bigger than you know, Russell Wilson. Some people want to say Russell Wilson. Some people want to say Drew Brees. Some people want to say case keenum Um because it's the air raid offense. Some people want to say, man Sell Um, you know you better than anybody else knows you. Who do you think you're most like? I think I have a little bit of everything when it when it comes to uh, picking and choosing from some of these guys. And that's what I try to do. You know what. I would have to have the pocket presence and the accuracy of Breeze. I'd love to have the mobility and the escape part of Russell Wilson's game. Uh, the command that that all those guys have, Tom Brady, and it's just kind of the electrifying stuff of Rogers. I would love to have a combination all those. And so that's what I think is unique about me is I don't necessarily have one trait that's better than the others. I think I try and you know, be a complete guy. How the Senior Bowl. Go. It was really good. It went really well for me. Got to you know, sit in front of some of those teams, some of those g ms, and uh, you know, address the stuff that happened in the past year, the arrest, the Ohio State, the flag plant, and the Kansas situation. So I was able to address a lot of stuff. So going forward, I'll be able to talk about ball. I love the flag plant. I don't get it like I love it every and and then you know, you guys give you by I always staying iwa was state flax plant plants facts like you know, all right, that's kind of cared about that one. Nobody cared about that one, right, But I love I love the flag plant. I thought the whole thing with the arrest, I thought it was like, dude, like maybe you didn't have SEC escapability? Is that is that? Is that that? The issue is that what happened? Right? That's the big thing is if you're an SEC, dude, they well you would have alluded before Georgia I was undefeated against the SEC. That's that's that's very true. How how how do you how do you process that? Because you're such a competitive dude, you got to the college while playoff twice. Any guys couldn't couldn't get over the couldn't get over the hump. How do you how do you process all the things you personally succeeded in and frankly your team succeeded and win in the Big twelve. You know when Lincoln Riley first first year head coach, but you couldn't win a national championship? How do you process that? We had a great year, but uh, yeah, the Heisman, all the individual stuff was was very nice. But I didn't come back to win any of that. I came back my senior year to win the national title. So that's something that's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. We got close. But the thing is, I will say we had such a special team and I wouldn't trade any of those guys. We went through a lot together, the coaching changed. Like you said, having linked his first year, um something I'll be forever grateful for having uh played for him and his first year as a head coach, and just a group of guys. The way we you know, came together, had great in chemistry is something I always cherish. All Right, you're here with Panini, which is the officially licensed collectibles. So do you have your own bobble head? What do you got with? What do they what do they make up for? You know, I cam to announce that I've signed an autograph trading card deal, uh, and so I'll have obviously the classic is the Sooner's jersey, and then after the draft will be able to have whatever NFL team I'm on have those trading cards. And so it's an exciting thing for me, like the kid growing up, right, you with your own autograph on it now? So um like you had to at some point, like in high school. You're working on your autograph right, absolutely now? So have you changed it and tinker with it here during your time? I know you if you took my high school signature and now, oh absolutely, it's so much better now. Not that it's I'm still working on it's still trying to perfect the craft, but uh yeah, I know it's something I had to work on. Okay, all right, now, can you do it like blindly? And do you do that? Is there is there a difference between the ones you care about and the ones you're like some dude stops you when you're at the urinal, you know, somewhere normally like, uh, here is it? There's a difference in those two signatures. Is there is the difference. There's a lot of difference of personalizing message to being able to make sure I'm you know, using my my handwriting that I was taught in elementary school and then uh, let make sure it looks nice, you know, because there's there's a difference, and like you said, scribbling one out real quick and then being able to sit down first, stay in for the game, going home, going home. Aren't you going to Cali though? Right? Were going back to train? Yeah? Okay, because you know, the weather is just a little bit better where you've been training than it is than it is in the Twin Cities. I went from eighty to negative eight. I mean, it's it's crazy. I just it sounded like a good idea, like Minnesota, a great new stadium, like yeah, yeah, yeah, le's do it. They're like, oh my god, it's really cold. It's really and it's been cold in Oklahoma's you know, there's winter has been like ridiculous. We actually haven't been back. It's a good decision. We went back for around the holidays and we were like check please get get me back out getting back out of the seven one for the nine four nine. Again that's uh. Pannini the officially licensed collectibles UM and of course Panini has pop warners skills. Did you play popcorner growing up? When did you start playing? Fifth grade? Was my first year? So always quarterback? Always, so I played baseball. Is huge baseball guy. That was That was my true sports second or short? What short and third? And so playing in Lake Travis community the uh, some of the coaches that did the popcorner draft, whatever you wanna call it. I knew that I could throw the ball, so they drafted me to play quarterback. That was my my first year. Do you remember your team is called We're just like drafts. Wildcats were the there was a red, black and a white squad. Were the white squad? How how crazy is that? You got Nick Foles, who's a like he's Lake Travis, Well he's Westlake, which is Austin area kind of same Breeze went and then Breeze went to Westlake as well. Right, you got three three and none of them played for Texas. I want to I want to point out that did they asked you played defensive back. They did not. I was a little too small. Baker Mayfield, Heisman Trophy winner. He'll be in the NFL Draft. We'll see where he goes. He's the guy everybody's talking about big. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate it. Baker Mayfield joining us in the Doug Gotliep Show, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next, Sean Payton, head coach of the resurgent New Orleans Saints, to be our guest. They were owing too and I declared them dead. Turns out they were more than somewhat alive. That's next. But first, Um, I have had the same Valentine. Now, this is I'm getting boring kids. Nineteen years, nineteen years, married seventeen of those years. 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Uh, you know immediately the biggest challenge is is just seeing the game we're at covering today and reach and then all of a sudden like ah, you know you got this far up the ladder and and you didn't get to the NFC Championship game on a final play. Um, I think the the real positives you fly back and you regroup, and as a staff, very quickly we start grading and evaluating our own team. And one of the one of the things that never really gets discussed a lot. We go right into free agency, but we'll spend days on our roster. And the encouraging thing is the amount of young players that we have coming back. We're a real young team. In the last two drafts have been outstanding force. These guys have been playing. So when you look at a Lattamore, and you look at Ryan Ramcheck and Marcus Williams and Chimera and anz Alone and Hendrickson. These are all guys in this year's draft that played a ton of snaps. Um, so you build on that, and and you know, guys will get away. Our players are away for a while now, and that will be important. Uh. But I think when they come back, uh, there will be that that sense of urgency, if you will, of knowing that, hey, let's find a way to play those games at home too, you know what I mean? And and I think that, Uh it's exciting. You know. Um, I left you guys for dead the start of the year. And I think a lot of us make this mistake as fans and guys that cover the NFL, if we take that first month as the gospel. And yet it seems to have changed. I mean, even look at the New England Patriots. They lose two games at home in the first month of the year. Uh. Is it is it that you I changed something? Or is that because of the preseason the first month is really more like the preseason than the season used to Listen, paying attention to the first month is important, Um, our first two games were losses, and we knew the next two had to be different. You know, we were gonna go to Caroline and go to London to play in Miami, and that was gonna be the most important because we went right from Carolina to London. And look, we said it, and I said it to the players. I said, look, this two game ron't stretch is going to define our season. Really. In other words, you can get eliminated in the first month. I mean, uh, you know we've been where you're recovering from such a slow start that the minute you get a little momentum, then you have another setback. Uh, it's too much to overcome. So fortunately we left it at two games. But uh, did you change anything? So yeah, yeah, well we did. We did in a lot of areas. I mean we came up here in in our first game in minutes soda, first game of the year, Monday night, and and really played poor football. Um also kind of walked into a buzz saw. I mean, like they were fired up. It's at home. That's a tough place to play. Sam Bradford played the game of his life. Yeah he did. And but when you look at it from a coaching perspective. You know, our two minute defense at the end of the first half was awful. You know, we give up a touchdown right before halftime in a close game. When you're on the road early, you just want to, all right, make sure you're you're you're matching and and being smart. So we gave up some chunk plays. We busted coverage four times, and we started looking closely at what we were doing and who we were asking to do it with and and uh and I think Dennison's staff and collectively offensively the same way. Um, you know. Week two we played against New England ironically at home and and didn't fare much better. And I think we really spend time defensively looking at how do we utilize our talent and and who needs to be on the field, and then what we're gonna do with them, and then offensively trying to figure out that combination. At that time, there were three running backs and I think, um, you know, sorting through their roles uh so very quickly. And look it's cliche, but man, you are ongoing as the year goes, improving or not. And if you're not, you're probably going up and down. And very quickly we begin to win some games, and everyone can talk about confidence, but it only comes from demonstrated ability. In other words, you have to do some of these things you're talking about doing before you can have confidence. And it's amazing. Any good team that we've seen, any good team that wins ten eleven, twelve, thirteen games stretches four wins together, five wins together, and we finally were able to do that. You know, It's it's been like it's been a five year process of trying to rebuild this defense, right, I mean, and you've tried throwing everything at it. Um. I felt like, though, and you tell me this is unfair. When you won the Super Bowl, that defense had to take a lot of chances, how to create a lot of turnovers. Whereas this one feels like it will last more. It's it feels more solid that one. It just look if you you go for a pick or you you don't get it, that's find Drew is gonna go make it up. Whereas this one actually got stops three and outs, which I think shows that you've you've truly rebuilt the defense. Uh inside, now, is that is that fair? Perceive? I think it is? And and yet I would say there's some priority positions in this offseason that we have to to uh to to address. But but yes, we're younger. Um, I think that we were a little bit more of a veteran defense back in O nine and ten and eleven. Uh And I think we're younger at many of the positions now. Um, you know, it's still about red zone defense, is still about your third down numbers. There are a few areas that UH are end a half, end of game defense needs to be better, entirely better than it was this year and and it ended up, you know, costing us even in the last game. UM. So closing out games that way, I mean, how many times do we watch and you watch whatever channel, red zone channel or the end of game, and they all end in this two minute drill. You're you're defending one to win or you're in one to win, and they end that way. The the the the latter is the exception. You know, you're up eighteen points in the fourth quarter, it's generally a score or field goal. And that's what it was against Minnesota. Okay, let's take me to the Minnesota play. I know how it works where you see it over and over again, your eyes and like like you're you're watching the VCR rewind constantly. Um, is there anything you would have done different? Well, Marcus is in great position. And look, as a team, there's three things that lead up to that. First off, he played outstanding in the game. He's the interception that that puts us back in at There were two halves to that game. The first half they controlled. In the second half, the momentum swung. But we're third and one offensively before the field goal, and and if we're if we convert that third and one, then we're gonna center this ball and take that clock to three seconds. And so that field goal really ends the game as opposed to ends the possession with seconds, we give up a dig twenty yard in cut you know, uh, they take a time out and then look, he arrives early, Marcus his imposition, He arrives early, and I know what he's thinking. He's avoiding an interference and obviously you want to play up and high through the ball. But when he falls and when he goes to the ground, he actually clips Ken Crawley. It was like a domino effect. And I can still remember the Frank o'haris play. I mean, I can remember watching that game as a kid, and I can remember certain snap snippets like that, and I think this one, unfortunately, was one that went against you. And uh, you know, those guys made a big play when they needed it. But man, it's it's hard when that when and then the worst part is you gotta send your p A T unit out. You're all in the locker room and you gotta that's crazy now, it's I mean, I can't. I just can't imagine about it. Well, I who do we? Who do we talk? We talked to Stefan. Stefan was up here yesterday and I and I was telling him, like or no, it was Rick Spielman and I, you, Rick and I used to work together at ESPN and uh and I said, Rick. My wife said, well, they're not gonna win. And she went, she said, this game is over. And she goes to get in the shower, going out for the night. And my kids just happened to be watching and all of a sudden, you know that, they start running, three little kids, they start running around the house. They can't believe what just happened. And I just, you know, my heart goes out because I'm just like, you know, like kind I hate to see how people there's a million ways to lose. Again, my dad was a basketball coach, and he would just say, like, every time you think you've seen it all, you haven't. There's just another way to lose the game. I was wont to heat, so you don't. I've always thought that one of the issues that football coaches, UH talk about now is so many times guys don't see what they're hitting. You know, we saw the Chaisier injury. Do you think that's why he had his head down or do you think that was more when the picture was taking What happened is he arrived way too early and then tried to avoid a hit because he knew it would be an interference call and in possession would be there, and so uh, it was really not his attempted tackle. It was almost his attempt to avoid a tackle. And really, when when you look closely at the situation, anytime you're in that sideline scenario, it's not hail Mary, but it's sideline. You want the player in bounds, clock ins and but you also can go up high through the ball and you're never getting an interference call there and I just think, you know, in that case, he's arriving early on the play and he's trying to avoid an interference call. Uh Drew his said he wants to come back. You guys obviously want him back, but there's also kind of that sweet spot. And he's been really well come and said rightfully so for the last couple of years. How hard is that discussion gonna be? I think relatively easy. I mean hopefully. I think Mickey and Tom, those guys to get together and uh, you know when Iron and out and I say that because they've just done it. We've we've been here so many other times like where hey, we're gonna work on this deal and and and so I think that, uh, that makes it easier. How much fun is it for you with Kamara in that Joker position where you can just mad scientist it, you can just well and I can put him out wide here, well, I can put him in the back. It's really smart, you know, it's different. I Mean the thing that struck me in his pro day or in his private workout we had was how intelligent he picks the game up. I mean he's very very sharp. He's a bright kid. You've ever visited with him. He's got a warm smile to him. He's great to be around. But he can handle some of these satellite positions and sometimes it's not the case. So he learns exceptionally well. And that that's what struck me. I remember leaving the workout saying, we have to draft him. It's it's it's what you did with Reggie, right, I mean, isn't that to some degree? And yet I would say, man, there's some things he does that that just come easier. And like as a as a receiver, it's it's more not just as a receiver, you know, pick a route, you know, in other words, the days full of practice, the receivers are doing this, the running backs are doing this, and then the cross train positions, we bring the tight ends and a couple of runners over to do some receiver work and timing wise, and he can run, you know, the sluggoes and and he in the Minnesota game, it's you know, we're twenty yard line going in and he runs a little like you know, stutter stutter rail on Kendricks and you know, in in just the repertoire, the route tree is broader, I know, but and for you I have widely been considered, if not the best, one of the two or three best play callers in the league for the last twenty years. To to have that guy as well as all the other guys and have Drew who can still make the throws and make the plays, it's gotta make it fun, right, Like it's still you know, it is fun right, like if you have to win the way like like a Jacksonville has to win like to where there's just things we can't do, so we have to be close to the vest. It allows you to like, all right, what if we did this, and what if we did that. Listen, it's third and a half a yard in the fourth quarter and we row the ball to Snead who catches it and takes a step and then he throws it across the field in short yardage and there's Camara, I'm running wide open. And we've got those type of players to do those type type of things, and we just miss on the play. But um, but we're gonna be aggressive that way and and but you need to have the talent and the playmakers you do that, Um Belichick obviously, same you know, same Tree obviously with you Parcels tree, and I'm there is something that he's been able to do. You know, coaches so oftentimes they want to leave a year early, that is opposed to leave a year late. Right, they want to get out and make it look like it's a parade and sending their marching out of town. But he's been able to stay and be consistent. That's a really hard thing to do. Um, and you've been able to stay like so many other coaches have. All Right, it's out, they've lost. My message isn't getting through anymore. But that's not the case with you. It's not the case with Belichick. UM. Coach to coach, what what do you see when you see Belichick's ability to con assistently be competing for the title? Well, clearly he's the benchmark. I mean, and I say this watching the episode last night built the Two Bills and and seeing his personality early in his career. Uh, every one of us in this league looks if we aren't studying New England as closely as possible, then we're foolish because it would be no different than one of these mall owners here, you know, and down the road someone else is selling milkshakes. You know. Ten times as many you'd want to figure out what they're doing so well. And I think they've done a great job with their formula player procurement, you know how much they're paying players, and and then system wise, he's done a great job within the framework of his staff. I mean, it's confined to Hey, it's team first. It's all the things we initially preached when we got into this industry, and that are pulled at times with the contracts, the agents, the money, the media. There's a lot of reasons why you can be pulled apart as a team. But he addresses those things very well, uh and very intelligently. And you know, I mean we we try to every offseason get a chance to practice with those guys and and just be around him. Uh. It's been unbelievable to watch and and when I watched that episode last night, you just get angry that you're not in this game, like you know that to to have another opportunity, because you feel that competitive nature to get back here and you realize how hard it is, but you also realize how exciting and how rewarding it can be. There was some talk last year about you going to elsewhere, being traded they're gonna trade Sean Payton. He's gonna be head coach if pick a team. Um, how solid do you feel in your ability to get New Orleans back to the super Bowl? You want good? Real, I mean real good? Uh shoot, coming off of this this last year. Um, We've got a great group, a great young nucleus, and and yet we're gonna have to put together another good draft and and do another good job in free agency. But I've got three years left. Um, you know, it's exciting. It's exciting again. You know, you look at the age of our team. It's kind of a rookie class that these guys and I don't want to say these millennials, but they don't know what they don't know, and they feel like they can win right now. And you're kind of like the understand how hard it is to win and to win consistently. We went up and played Buffalo and I gave him this whole like power point on how hard it is to play Buffalo in October, November, December. They've only had three losses in the last four years, that you know, the whole thing, And they're listening and they hear you, and you go through the numbers, and then you go up there and and you're up forty something to whatever, and you're looking around and they're looking at you like and you're like, uh, now they never believe in what I said the rest of the air, that's right. Uh hey, Zebra Technology has this cool stuff, this on field player tracking. Uh now, do you guys use this? We do, um, well, the whole NFL does. It's where we get our next gen numbers. You know where we get uh oh, the players that run x and umber of miles per hour. You know the um you'll see it. Leonard Fournette ran twenty two miles per hour. The teams have it and we're able to get our personnel how many snaps we were in eleven twelve personnel one personnel where they were. We also use it for our practice and in a third of the teams in our league use it for practice, and it allows us to measure data from a standpoint of look tracking our players movements, how long they were on the field, how fast they ran. I mean, there's two chips in the shoulder pads that track everything. And the company has been around for thirty years. It's relatively new with the league four years with the league. But you go to target and you're gonna get a coffee maker, and you want to know do they have it? It's on Aisle three, there's four of them. It's because of these little chips that we see everywhere, the little bar codes that's Zebra. When they can put the chip in the football so that they get so they get the placement right, it's it's in the ball right now, the placements coming. I mean there's a ton of things the sideline, the end zone, all of those things that we see in other sports that we're close to, uh solving here. Last thing you want to solve problems? How do you fix the catch rule? You know what, I'll be honest with you. I thought the catch rule was crystal clear. I thought our interpretation this year, quite honestly, in New York wasn't crystal clear. There's a handful of times where replay went back to New York, uh, where it came back in surprise not only me but but the fans. So the catch rule became blurry because of maybe some interpretations of what we were considering a catch. I think it's hard for one person to be in New York being up catch or no catch, and I think, uh, you know, expanding that to a larger group would be important, you know, something that could help. But I didn't feel it was blurry and until I until like all the fans did this year, and started watching some of these get overturned, and then it was like, well, now I don't know, but I think it's pretty clear. Um, hey man, listen, I can't tell you how much how great it was to watch your team play and turn the thing around. I apologize for declaring you guys dead, I said, I said dead like I don't know, and then all of a sudden I looked like the dumbest person on earth. Uh and obviously maybe one play away from being here. Thanks so much, Thank you, appreciate you. All Right, that's Sean Payton joining us here at the Super Bowl on the Doug got Leaf Show, Fox Sports Radio's Conditions in the Field Chain. So can your insurance needs talk with a farmer's agent today, so you consess with your policies. Game ready, find an agent Farmers dot com a farmer. All right, let's bring in Dan Buyer. What do you have for me, Dan? Well, do you know last night we went and saw the Bucks and Timberwolves over at Targets, and uh, the Timberwolves dominated throughout, so it wasn't good for me, and it just got worse. Buckscard Malcolm Brock then out six to eight weeks with a partially torn left squad recept ended suffered in the second quarter of last night's game, right when Ryan Music and I were going to buy pretzel? How was um? How was the Target Center? They redid it, They redid the concourses. They've read one. The outside it's very nice. The inside of the arena is like any arena that was built in the late eighties and early nineties, So the outside, not the inside. They did. The bowl is the same, but the concourse is inside are redone. They did the outside they're gonna do. Are they gonna redo the inside? I don't know there's much that you can really do. Like with the seating bowl, it's just a very normal seating bowl there. There's you know, one level lower level in an upper level, and that's what you got with a lot of arenas built in the you know, nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties kind of like you know, I was gonna say New Comiskey, but it was new Comiskey when they built in Chicago, was the last park before all of the new or the Yeah, that's kind of what you got with some of these, you know arenas. Nowadays they're just kind of well, you know, Milwaukee's got the same one as well. But Malcolm Brogdon out six to eight weeks Calves forward Kevin Love won't need surgery and his broken hand, he'll still miss six eight weeks of action. ESPN says that Greig Monroe is gonna sound with the Celtics Calves forward. The bron James called the rumors of him earning the Warriors nonsense in a non story did you hear Hi about the story that Steve kerg on himself into the Warrior's head coach Today says his tweet calling the lack of traveling calls on James Harden's step back move. He sent out a tweet that said it was embarrassing. Well, he meant to send that as a d M. He was given the video clip and wrote it's an embarrassment, adding that the league is happy with scoring, so they are happy to look away. But he says it's a bad move. It's a traveling but they won't call it on James Harden. It is says that his new iPhone X was the reason thought he was sending a d M to someone and then realized that it responded to the NBA on T n T clip that was from Steve Kerr. Some other news to pass along scenes running back Alvin Camary, you were just talking with Sean Payton, his head coach named the PEPSI NFL Rookie of the Year. Injury report clean for the Eagles and Patriots heading into Super Bowl fifty two. I believe they will be touching the innavalal uh next off season. Of Yeah, it's a what is it is a multi year, multi hundred forty million dollar renovations the Target Center pasted h to the past couple of years, touch every surface in the building, so there's more to come. You know those arenas that I mean, some of them are just so big and cavernous. There's all of the seats apparently have been redone. Yeah, there's seats were fine, but you know there's not like if you go to say Gunda Arena or which it was now Quicken Loans Arena, but when it first came out, it at a different level like the levels were different and gave some character to inside the seating bowl. This is just the normal one and there are a lot of arenas like that. Nothing bad about it, just the way it is, all right. Wouldn't you love a bigger tax refund? Tax Slayer was recently rated number one for maximum refund So you have more cash to spend omena the heck you want to spend it on this tax in season, go out and slay it maxu refund at tax slayer dot com. What if Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake if the what if the jazz Janet Jackson justin timber Lake halftime show happened today? Clay Travis thinks it would be a career ender. We'll discuss upcoming next. Online shopping can be confusing, well not anymore. With True Price from Truecar, now you can know the exact price you'll pay for your next car. So visit Truecar and enjoy more confident car buying experience. Show Fox Sports Radio special. Thanks go out to view Sonic. They decked out our set here with twenty massive four KME monitors, easily making Fox Sports Radio the very best set here at Radio row You Sonic see the difference every day. At this time, we'd like to bring back a portion of something you may have heard earlier on Fox Sports Radio. We call it the Fox Say Uh. Clay Travis out kick the coverage with recently rated at one of the top ten national radio shows. He um. He had this to say regarding Justin Timberlake performing at halftime, and of course last time he was at half time was the wardrobe malfunction. That's what Clay's thoughts were on the wardrobe malfunction. It was about fourteen years ago that Justin Timberlake made the decision to pull the top off of Janet Jackson. Fourteen years later, I don't think there's still the same level of oh my god, think of the children, because I think pornography in general has become so much more prevalent that the idea that a kid wouldn't have seen a nipple is different now than it would have been in two thousand four. I think with the growth of social media in general, and certainly the growth of pornography, everybody has become desensitized in some level to nudity. But I actually think Justin Timberlake would have been in worst position for doing the same thing if he did it today. For this reason, I'm not sure Justin Timberlake survives in his career. If he does this in a modern era of v Weinstein and me too, this would turn into racism and sexism. If a white guy pulls the top off of a black performer without her consent, does he get charged with a crime? Think about the fallout from Justin Timberlake doing the exact same thing with Janet Jackson in eighteen that he did in four. I think that this story goes instead of it being like, oh my god, I can't believe the kids saw a boob, I think it turns into maybe Justin Timberlake getting charged with a crime. It's crazy, that's crazy to think about it that way, But he's probably right in terms of the freak out. The one thing that should be pointed out is because if it was to occur now, would it have not occurred in two thousand and four? Right? Like? Are we eliminating the previous? And part of it was just so alarming? It should also be pointing out it wasn't a surprised that Janet Jackson. Otherwise, why was she wearing a star covering her nipple? Right, like that doesn't it felt like that was part of the performance art from MTV who that was their time in which they used to per They used to uh uh produce the halftime show. Obviously that was the last halftime show I believe that they produced. Like here's my thing on halftime shows. Okay, they are in fact for the women, for the children, for the non traditional NFL viewer, I mean, heck there for the fans that are in the stands. The ticket prices are ridiculous, you know, upwards of nine hundred and something dollars for any seat in the house. And so what you can at least you can justify it by hey, it's the Super Bowl and you get to go to a Justin Timberlake concert all at the same time. Uh. My advice to Timberlake who came out and said that his son would never play football, and like, look, when your dad's Justin Timberlake and your mom's Jessica Bill, you don't ever have to play football. And also it's not like Justin timber Lakes the type of build to where he's gonna have a football playing son. But when timber Lakes says that, um, you know, you start to. I'm I'm sure the NFL people will feel like they're rubbed the wrong way by Jake. He's a ridiculous town. Can sing, can dance, can rap, cann act, can produce, can do just about everything. But don't you want to just hear his five best songs, his five biggest songs, and not in medley form. However much time they give you. Those are the pick a number of songs that fits that amount of time, and that's what I want to hear. I wanted to be like a Justin Timberlake concert, only you have to do it in a shortened period of time. So come out play your five songs. We don't. I don't even want other people to join him on stage. You know why. Justin Timberlake by himself, he is good enough, or however you know he normally performs. He is good enough to which he doesn't need help. He doesn't. Let's just and you know what if it's if it's close to the album sound, as long as he's singing it, I'm cool with that too, you know why, because that's the way I heard it when I wanted to be a top forty show. So the idea that Justin Timberlake has to go and do something different or sing a medley or singing his new song like that's gonna help. I'm sure they'll help downloads if he's gonna sing filthy I hate once from the new album, right. I came to see Justin timber Lake because of his three or four previous albums. And that's what the Fox said, Say, do you think that we're um, you think that we've I mean, obviously we become desensitized annuity. I would disagree with Clay in terms of uh, in terms of pornography. Now, part of it is Clay kind of lives on the Internet, and he understands that on the Internet pornography is readily available. I actually think some of it has swung back in the other direction, in which we are more hesitant to show people things kids things earlier because we understand the desensitization which occurs. I don't know. I mean, like, look, I understand that it exists, but well, when I was a kid, it used to exist in playboys and hustlers, and everyone knew a kid in their class who had an older brother or you know, or a dad who kept him under their mattress or brought them with them to school and tucked it away safely in their backpack. So it's not like pornography is new. It's only maybe more readily available, but only readily available if you're constantly searching online. Your parents haven't put any protections up on screen. Uh. Kirk Cousins had something interesting to say, you know it joined us the day before or hours before. He was the trade for Alex Smith, essentially ender the question as to would he be a redskin next year. He told USA Today that, um it shouldn't it Being the trade for Alex Smith shouldn't hurt his his um, his trade value. I think the tape is what you go off of. If you're not gonna go off the tape, I wouldn't really want to be there anyway. I want to be with the team that's gonna evaluate the table, watch film, no football and make the decisions based upon that. Now, like that sounds good, but when they have you under contract, and for the last three years we've understood full well that they're not in love with Kirk Cousins. You can throw on the tape and you see some stuff, but there's probably something underneath the surface to which you're like, there's something we don't know. And then when you go out and get Alex Smith, some of it is who you go out and reach out and get to be honest, right, doesn't that shape We'll wait if they like Alex Smith better than Kirk Cousins, even if Kirk Cousins was gonna um was was gonna cost them more money, doesn't that say something about Kirk Cousins. One last thing, and I know we got a bunch of things to get to talk about super upcoming top of the hour. A fan on the court last night in Denver and Russell Westbrook gave him a little bit of a shove. Okay, The first thing is, can we all agree that not all shoves are are contact with fans doesn't rise to level of assault, right, just like all fans on the court are not equal. Right, guy celebrates, the guy makes a game winning shot, celebrates with his fans. Fans leak out a little bit unto the court. Not that big a deal. Fan yelling at a at a player, you know, as long as he's not cursing or stepping onto the court, not that big a deal. At the end of a game, though, Russell Westbrook dribbling the basketball, holding the basketball, and fans steps to him. That's the type of thing that that usually is going to end poorly, and frankly, as as hard as Rust plays, as an emotional as a player he is, the league should probably be happy. Nothing super emotional spilled out. Generally, stay off the floor. Generally Russ shouldn't push anybody. But in that particular case, guy had to come into him. Who's gonna win? I'll tell you next. What up? Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio, coming to you from the Mall of America. Brought to you by Black Rifle Coffee, vetro known venturd Roasted. Visit Black Rifle Coffee dot com. Use the code Fox Sports twenty and off your first order. All right, we got to Marcus Marioto just around the corner. Christian mccaffriel join us. Juju Smith Schuster will also be our guest. And look, one of the things that happens with two weeks off is we begin the process of over analyzing. And we also have it. We also have a tendency to not necessarily misremember. But we we are a highlight driven culture. We are last thing we see driven culture and the fact is the fact is that the Falcons blew that game last year. Don't let it get twisted. Okay, was tom Brady great? Yeah? It was the most remarkable comeback I've seen in a big sporting event ever. Because the game was over, my kids went to bed. Don't worry, kids, it's over. Three run the football, take a knee three times, kick a field goal. They don't. Julio Jones made the best catch I've ever seen the Super Bowl. That thing was a rap. Should have been thirty three at at least run the football, take care of the ball. It's a rap. They didn't open the door. A couple of things go bump in the night. Now tom Brady regains his confidence, But there was a time in which Tom Brady, who is the most accomplished quarterback in the history of the game, look human, looked old. And though he gets Rob Gronkowski back, that's not a surprise. Though he's been here now seven times before and has more experience than everybody. Even at this point in his career, you would pick him ahead of Nick Foles. The fact is that if there was a defense that appears to be Taylor made, Taylor made to take down the paths. It's the Eagles like look defenses that have two great cornerbacks and blitz like crazy. That's not how you take down the Patriots because they don't have superstar wide receivers. They try and find mismatches, they try and pick you apart, and they're gonna find some mismatches, but they also score late. They also just kind of hang around the game and hope Brady bails them out. But they do show against defenses like last year with the Falcons that gets hired that have four really good players up front. The Seagules team is built with seven or eight really good players up front. They have speed and hybrid players that that can cover the Gronkowskis that can cover the Dion lewis Is. It doesn't mean they shut them down. You don't have to shut them down, but you get the Brady a couple of times, he becomes a different quarterback. If you don't believe me, check out the couple of Super Bowls he lost, or even check out the first three three quarters of the Super Bowl last year. In our effort to find a way to affirm the greatness of Brady, because he just came back and beat the Jacksonville Jaguars. We're going crazy. Look the Jaguars stink at quarterback. Stink. Bottom five starting quarterback in the league is Blake Bortles. He was better this year, but better was only good enough to be bottom five of the top thirty two starters. All right, And I mean the truth is the a f C was a mess because of injuries and dysfunction, and even then a f C NFC was as well. But one thing that was true is that when the Eagles, when you were healthy, it didn't matter when you heard it didn't matter that Eagles defense was pretty salty all year long. I'm I'm taking the Eagles to win this game. I'm not going crazy and saying that Tom Brady is not an all time great, just like I didn't say it with Peyton Manning when he lost the Seahawks. But the Seahawks defense was that much better than the then the Broncos uh offense was like the best offense against the best defense. The best defense almost always wins. All right, let's get to our next guest. Yes, yes, rhyme music. I know you think the Eagles are gonna win. Let's just say they win their sixth who's more likely Brady or Belichick to walk away at the end, or do you think if there's no chance either of them are done now? I don't think. I'm not gonna say no chances. I don't know Brady would be the guy. Brady would be the guy Giesel wants to retire. Um, And I don't know what Belichick would do losing all three of his coordinators, like that would be crazy. But let's say so you lose all of the coordinators and Brady walks away. If you're Belichick, perhaps you weren't considering it, but then do you I think you have to. I think you absolutely have to. I mean, look, I would I would absolutely consider. You know, if I'm Brady, you win, you walk away. I don't see that. I don't think that's crazy at all. But these guys, they convinced themselves that they just have more and and asking once you stop playing quarterback, like it's just not the same, all right, And if you're a quarterback now you're you're not. He does take some shots, but nut shots like he you used to take. They do a really good job protecting him. Um Belichick, I think should be more likely, should be more likely because he's losing everybody. But I don't think either walks away. I mean they're both. I think they're both selfish enough because if they win, they think, why not go get three in a row. No one's ever done that. If they lose, they say, you know, we're close, let's go get another one. We're not that far away. What about Belichick giving up the and endless grind of game planning and just going official because we already think he's basically the g M. What if he gives up the head coach position and just goes, look, let me handle the personnel stuff. But there's no energy to that. That's not that much fun, right, Why the coach in the games is the fun That's the fun part. Fun part is going in at halftime and fixing it. That's the fun part, all right. He threw a touchdown pass to himself in a playoff win over the Chiefs. He's the tightest quarterback. Marcus Mariote's joining me on the Doug Gottliep Show. So we usually have the plug at the end of the interview. Let's reverse it, Um, I have to start with the plug at the start. Why do you have spam? Yeah? Absolutely, big things. So growing up man spam was a big deal back on Hawaiian big in Hawaii, and uh funny it kind of worked out being here in Minnesota. The headquarters for spam are here, so it just kind of sparked the relationships. Okay, So now here's the here's the question I have. Um, Look, I've done a bunch of tournaments in Hawaii and I've I've called u h is n C a tournament game where they beat cow and then they lost in the second round. And like, I go with Hawaii, but I think it's supposed to be Hawaii, right, Okay, So but how should like us bring go uh you know, contiguous forty eight states? Like I don't want to try too hard, Like Hawaii is fine the way that you play, okay, alright, good, good enough? And I know you love the weather in the Twin Cities, right this is it's it's a great negative four degrees right now. It is. Okay, So spam, like, how do you how do you eat it? So there's um, there's many ways to do it back home, we really have it with like every single meal, but really you can do it with breakfast. People chop it up, putting their eggs um. A lot of times. What my family has done and a lot of different times have done is they make it what's called spam musubies And basically you take some rice, you put spam on top of it, and then you wrap seaweed on it, and uh it's a quick little snack. Some people put egg in it, some people do some other things with it to change it up, but uh, it's a quick, easy little meal. I've been watching Tom Versus Time. I haven't seen him use it in Tom Versus Time, like, you know, maybe that would extend his I also, I was in Eugene last week. Was in Eugene last week called a basketball game. There's a Hawaiian spot there. Oh yeah, there's a bunch. There's a few. How is that? What is that? Was that there before you got there? Yeah? You know what, there's there's always been kind of a h a good amount of people from Hawaii that they go to school in Oregon, um, whether it's in you Gina at the University of Oregon, Oregon State, or even some of the smaller schools. So it's been there for a while. All Right. It is wild. You guys win a playoff game and there's a coaching change. And take take me back to the Kan City game where the story was that there might be a coaching change, you know, regardless of the outcome of the game. I'm sure you heard that in your locker room. That did that any effect in your preparation? No, And I really you gotta give credit. Uh so coach Malarkey and and uh really the older vets of our team, the way they the way they handled that. Um, you know, you could have really let that creep in and and cause some distractions, but guys just kind of flushed it out and we're able just to go out there and play one and get a win. I mean not just that. I turned off the TV. I thought it was over. What what what was said? What did you say? Something? Was there? Schematic change? What changed with you? Guys? Honestly, Uh, we we had kind of been in those situations before during the season. Um, we kind of had we had four or five of those comeback victories and uh really, guys, don't blink a lot blink and I we understood what what was in front of us. We had to make one play at a time, go get go down there, get a score and uh see what would happen and we ended up coming back. I don't think there's any secret that one of the reasons, uh for the coaching changes, they want to get the best version of you on the football field. They want to get more out of you. Um. Now you know the new staff is getting into place. What in your mind, now that you've been in the league for a couple of years, what's the best version of you? What's the what has to change in the offense to allow you to take another step? Well, I think when it comes down to it, um, just putting putting us in the best situation as possible. Um, you know, helping our receivers out um, giving the ball to guys like Delaney and Derek, lend them go make plays. UM. So for me, I just think of myself as as a point guard. Just distribute, let those guys go out there and and find ways to make plays. And I think if we're able to do that, uh consistently, we can be we can be pretty good. You're somebody who you you You learn from every experience. What you learn from that Patriots experience? You know what I learned from from the standpoint that if we want to be competitive, we want to go and get to these places. Uh, it takes a whole lot more, uh, scheme wise, and also I think out of the players to beat good teams like that. And at the same time, I think we came out, we came out and fine, we played well I think for the first quarter and a half, and uh, you kind of let your guard down, you kind of put it into like okay, we can, we can play with these guys. And then once you put your your guard down, they come after you. Yeah, they just they just blit you right Like I said, wait, wait, wait, we just like hold on and you go into the half you're like, wait, we were we were good and now we're not good. And that's and that's where I think for us as a young team, being able to learn from that experience, um and just take take it for what it's worth, and um, you know, we gotta be better and we gotta we gotta improve in order to be competitive and to get into places like these games. And there's also something kind of magical about what Tom does, right you you know, like we've been talking to everybody says, you know, how he finds the mismatch. But also all of a sudden they go tempo, right, They're they're going at one speed and then they see something they like and now they down shift. Uh. That sort of command within the offense, that's something that you had to go, Hey, I want to do that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. And along the lines of that, I think how he has taken care of himself the way that he prepares um, A young guy like me can learn a lot from that. Yeah. I mean, first you have to have the spam, mix in some avocado with the spam, right, throwing into a milkshake, have a guy coming massage you at all hours of the night. And then and then you last year like you're like fifty years old. Uh it's uh. So you go to spam dot com for easy, delicious recipes, including the one that Marcus gave you that his folks make back home. Hey, congrats on making the playoffs, on winning the game and continue health and successful man, Thank you very much. Appreciate it alright, the pleasure is all mine. 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Thanks to Lidz for outfitting our set with football's helmets and pennants. Uh Man he was a stud at Stanford Right Highsman Trophy finalists. He scored seven touchdowns in his rookie season with the Carolina Panthers, and of course he's Christian McCaffrey. He joins us in the Doug Gotleif Show, Fox Sports Radio. Christian give me Your give me your Way. How you would characterize your rookie season, Well, I had a blast, you know, I have fun playing ball. It's what your dream of as a kid, obviously playing in the NFL, but um, you know, obviously didn't in the way we wanted. UM. But but I I can't, you know, imagine myself, you know, in a in a better organization. I love the Panthers, and I think I had I had a good year. Obviously wasn't the year I wanted. Um But but you know, I know what I gotta work on now and I'm looking forward to getting after an the offseason. What is it? I think, just continue to become a complete back, you know, and not just being a pass catch and you know back. And you know, I obviously I ran the ball a little bit, but I really want to develop as an as an every down back. So I think that's that's the goal, and we'll continue to work for it towards that. It also, though, felt like it took them a little bit of time to figure out how they wanted to use you, right like he had, Cam wasn't really ready in the preseason, so you guys, so he and then he was kind of inaccurate to start the year, and then you guys had some personnel changes trade and Kelvin Benjamin away you know mid season as well, and then I don't know, like to to the viewer, to to the fan, it was like took them a while to figure out how they wanted to use you. Was that your understanding of the league that improved or their understanding of you you did improve? Well, I think, uh, you know, the best coaches and the best players can meet halfway. You know, the coaches can adapt to the player and the players got to adapt to them. And I think that's that's not an easy thing to do. You know, it doesn't come in a day. And so, um, I think later in the year we started to to to kind of jell a little bit more, and you know, some ups and downs, but I think it's and you know, at the end of the day, it's my job to give them the confidence to to you know, do what they want to do with me. And so I'll continue to work and and and continue to have conversations. And um, I mean I'm excited because I know there's a lot to look forward to. Okay, so there's there's gonna be a new system, right, new offensive coordinator. What do you what do you know about what you guys are gonna try and do do differently? Well, I know coach Turner's resume and all the backs that he's coached, and so that's been, that's been, you know, exciting for me just to see that. So so I know he's an unbelievable mind, and just to be able to learn from him and play for him, I'm for sure excited. And uh, I know there'll probably be a lot of motions, a lot of shifts, but but overall just an efficient, you know, hopefully explosive offense. Christian McCaffrey joining us on the Doug Gottlip Show here on uh Unfoxed Sports Radio. Um, this is an Eagles team that they got a pretty nasty defense. I'm wonder what what what about the defense though? Uh that you see that we miss on? What makes them so effective? Well, I think I think they play so well as a team. Uh, you know, they got a great, great uh front. You know, Fletcher Cox is an unbelievable player. You know, Malcolm Jenkins in the back kind of runs runs a secondary and so to have you know, a guy up front and a guy in the back who who you know are pro bowled players, and uh, you know, they have so many great, great talents other than them as well, and they play so well as a unit. I think that's you know, that's that's what's tough to to do on offense, to to you know, be efficient against as a defense that plays well together. What's your reaction to Bryce Love decided to come back for another year at Stamford. Oh? Man, I'm excited for him. I know he made the best decision for himself and that that's what he felt in his heart. So he's gonna have unbelievable success whether he came out this year he comes out next year. I know. But there's like, look, you you didn't play the Bowl game, obviously, protecting your body, getting you ready self ready for the draft. And there's a lot of there's, you know a lot of people like, look, he had a great year, You're gonna be a top draft pick. I mean, why would you put yourself in harm's way having been through it? Do you do you like the idea of coming back and risking you know, so much just to return to play for Stanford? Well, I think, you know, it's a it's an individual decision. You know. Obviously I made my decisions based on what I thought was best for me, and he's doing the same with him so you know, whatever he decides to do is the is the right thing for him and not the you know, nobody can argue because he he felt it it was best for him. So you know, like I said, he's gonna have success regardless. Have you gotten to the place where you can bust Cams balls about the hats? Absolutely? Absolutely? So did he take it? Okay? Oh yeah, man Cams the man. Man. He he jokes around a lot, you know, obviously, Um, you know, he's he's a funny guy and he's unique in his own way. But at the end of the day, he's funny. Man. We have fun What's the worst one? The worst one that he's got to stop wearing is the ones without the bills where it's just the hat part. So that's I mean, he rocks it and he does well with it, and he makes it his own. But that's something that I probably couldn't put in my wardrobe. It's really remarkable though, how big a human being he is, right like, I mean, right like it's one of those things to which I know on on on camera he looks he looks like, you know, like big, super athletic guy. But in person, I mean an unbelievably imposing, posing dude. And obviously, you know, one of the things that changed with you guys is you guys started using more as a runner second half of the season. That that took away your carries, you know. But uh, but that's that has to be something to which I don't know, as like, when you first get in the locker room, you gotta be what trying to figure this guy out as this bigger than life figure that you're trying to can I bust his chops? Is he a regular dude? How long did that take? I mean it, I mean it wasn't different with him or anybody else. I think that's that's the thing. You know, people misunderstand about Camas. At the end of the day, Man, he's he's a great guy. Uh. You know, people don't get a see is off off the field self. And uh, you know he's a great teammate, he's great in the locker room. Um, you know, he vibes with kind of everybody on the team. So uh, you know, he's a great guy to be around. Um, coming about your you've teamed up with Visa and their technology of course, uh you know you can complete payments. There's a bunch of different ways to use Visa other than just the old fashioned Visa card, right right, Yeah, No, I'm in a couple of days in these last few weeks and got to show a lot of people, a lot of different people to the speed and efficiency. If it's a contactless car, it's all you gotta do is just put it up to the to the monitor and you can hear the Actually they call it the sound of Visa uh, an actual sound that comes out, and you know it's great. Actually, uh got to spend some time at a curling rink, which I've never been to before and saw some fans there, got to sign autographs and actually pay for some some of their pizza while I signed the autograph. So it's great with Visas doing their unbelievably innovative and with this new card, it's it's pretty cool. Yeah. Well, so can you curl? Did you know how to do it? I was absolutely terrible? I uh I, it's unbelievable to finesse you have to have when you curl. They had some pros come out and there's a lot of techniques to it. You gotta know when to sweep it, when not to sweep it. It's like a big shuffle board. Hey, you're like you you have You're an unbelievable spinter. You have like remarkable speed and agility. How much of that obviously both your parents great athletes. How much of that has God given? And how much of that is development over time? I think it's definitely a little bit of both. You know, I hit a hit a good gene pool, But you know, it takes a lot of work and um, a lot of consistency of keeping up with it, keeping up with the training and just trying to find the best new new stuff that works for me. Yeah, I look at uh I watched this you're talking about curling. I think of the the sprinters that are ice skaters like have you have you ever? Like they are freaks, a freak shows that's an unbelievable sport that that gets taken for granted because if you you know, you hit the boards going as fast as that, I mean, they're going you know into you know, you fall into the boards. You know, you're that's that's serious. So it's it's pretty impressive. You had an impressive first year. Man looking for big things in the future. Christian, thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate you having me pleasures are as Christian McCaffrey, the Carolina Panthers joining us and has conditions in the field change. So can your insurance needs talk with the farmer's agent today so you can assess with your policy. Is game ready by an agent at farmers dot com a farmer Dan by a wading out working While those speed skating quads are impressive, dude, seriously, Christian right, yeah, they're ridiculous. Music is like sitting there laughing like I'm not kidding. Have you ever seen those speeds get like they're ridiculous. It's it's no kidding, it's Music's Torso that's the size of like one quad of a speed skater. We will see that. Uh. The Anton Apollo on No was put in my ear by Gavin short track speed skater. I prefer the long track. The Dan Jansen Bonnie Blair sort of Dan Jensen feldough right twice, but then in a lulahammer he brought home the goal. D do play a little hot little hummer. By the way, that was kind of impressive. You didn't go lily hammer, you went a little hammer. It's because I'm a quarter Norwegian Doug. I'm not sure what Steve Kerr is, but I know one thing. He is not good at Twitter, at least with his new iPhone X, accidentally tweeting out that the NBA is an embarrassment as they aren't calling James Harden's travels when he does his step back move. Kerr explaining to reporters today that yes, he meant it as a d M and not an actual tweet, and then didn't know how to delete the tweet because you're still getting used to his new iPhone anyway, A little bit of embarrassment, but maybe a lot of truth in what are you saying you have the EX or do you have the eight? When I still have the seven? But you see, didn't get slowed down like everybody else got slowed down, So then you I panic freaked out, went got the eight. I didn't get the X. People have the X, they try and get like, no, it's really worth two dollars more. I think the eighth grade. Plus he's got the home button. The X has no home button. I think they'll probably come out with a better one next year. Isn't that what they always do? Yeah? I have to you have to have the deal or every year you get to do. I'm on the two year plan, like a lot of guys are. It's just the way it goes um, just the way Kevin Love is his plan, The eight week plan cast forward, Broken hand won't beat still eight weeks. Malcolm brogten out six to eight weeks after it tour a quad tendon last night in a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Couch Bucks get Jabari Parker back tonight, making his season debut against the Knicks. Saints running back Calvin Kamara tabbed as the PEPSI NFL Rookie of the Year. Tons coming up in the press at the end of the show, including your Super Bowl pick, Tug, but no Eagles or Patriots on the injury report bow, no excuses, no question. Everybody knows that that's it. That is it. That is it, and that's all here from Dan in a second with the press. All the things you might have missed from the world of sports upcoming. First, He's a great young wide receiver. Laid U laid out one of the toughest linebackers in the NFL with one of the blocks of the year. He's Steeler's young wide receiver Jujuice Smith Shustree. He joins me now in the Dug gott Leap Show, and U all right, we got a bunch of things to get to with you, ju ju. But I ain't gonna lose to the Jaguars, man, I tell everybody, mane, we dug a hole to deep, you know, for us to come out. I feel like, you know, every game that we play that we're down, we always play better when we're losing. I think, you know, moving forward, when we start on top, you gotta stay on top. Yeah, but you guys, I know you guys did that all year, like Cleveland to start the year. Any of you guys are down to like you go through all these games? What is the deal with with falling behind? Like it's almost like that that kids, like that guy who's at the park playing pick up basketball, Like, all right, we'll go to ten, I'll spot your five points. That was the Steelers this year. Yeah, that's a good one. Man. Definitely us this year. But I mean, just moving forward, we gotta, you know, stay focused. What you learn. I learned a lot um, I know, So give me give me some bullets on first year. I don't know if you're taken you've taken like mental notes or physical notes like first year, like I've learned these couple of things about the league, one mental note and one physical note. Good go. So one mental note for me is, uh, you know the game every was a lot smarter um. You know, being able to dissect you know the cover, the coverage of the play, you know seconds before the boss and that whether whether it's man or his own. I've learned that you run across the middle against linebackers, if his zone, you better sit down. If you keep running your light it's knocked out of you. Um. Physically, I've learned that. You know, in the NFL it's a lot you know, slower pace. You know, in practice you gotta learn how to you know when a goal full speed win or out to um. And I've learned that pretty fast, you know, going against you know the vets. You know. So it's uh, I'm taking both things. Okay, explain to me this a b thing because I don't understand how he's so so good, Like he's so much better than everybody at that position. I mean, Antonio brown Is It's crazy. They put two guys on him, he still gets open. They're physical with him, he still gets open. They put speed on him, he still gets open, Like, how does how it? How does it work? A B is open? Seven? How do but how how does it? How that that's not that goes counter to everything you think of, like alright, two guys on him, we somewhere else, but big Bend just waits and eventually he's open. And I don't know how to explain it because every day in practice that's what they do. The double team him, they try to press him, they try to be physical, and a B still produces. And it's crazy because he does it every year. So what can you what in how he does what he does? Can you take and go like, oh, I'm gonna add that this offseason? Is it? Is it footwork? Is it hand hand fighting? Like? What is it that you're gonna try and take from watching A B every day and go, I'm gonna try and do some of that his releases and his toes, his toes catches, toe taps. You know that's something that we learned in practice. Every day that we do is that every time you catch the ball top one toe and against great great explanation, Uh, Green Bay Packers, you know we're down you gotta get a fire to win the game. It's covered to two people on a b he throws like a circus round a bender in the smallest window that big bend puts it on. He catches it, drags the right or left toe. Everyone's like, no, that's not a cant. It's a catch. Win the game off a field goal. Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy. I mean he's so ridiculously good. Um. Hardest thing about being a rookie staying up playing video games all night. You can't do it anymore or just that's the problem. I need to go to sleep. I stay up. That's the hardest thing, you know, being being up? And uh, all our friends are from Cali, so that three hours back, the headset on, head set on high. What are you playing? You playing a lot of call of duty? Your call of duty? Guy? Not a mad guy, not an NBA. Nah man, I'm two k guy, We're not. What about the pup. Does the pup stay up late or does a pup shut shut it down? Like eight now the pup is going to bed? Yeah, I know right. Dogs are amazing. Dogs are come in and come in and go, you know, like, hey, we're going to bed. We're going to bed, Like now I'm not going to bed, all right, I'm peace out this bogie. I know it's bougie sleep on the bed in a crate and a crate. You don't sleep from me. He has his own master bedroom. How big it's Uh, it's about this. It's probably like half of this. Uh? Now, where's boogie? Did you lea boogie at home? I love you don't like the snow because he used to Cali Weather, I know, but he's now in Pittsburgh. Just I mean, I know offseason you're gonna be He's gonna be back home, uh in Cali. Okay, So Panini's the exclusive trading card partner of the NFL and Jujue Smith Schuster. You're gonna uh participate in the Pop Warner Skills Clinic? Did you play Pop Warner growing up? Starting went great? I started about I wanna say about sixth grade, fifth grade tackle. Sixth grade fifth grade, I was playing tacle flag. It's kind of all the way around and always wide receivers. You play quarterback, played quarterback? Yeah, you kid plays quarterback? Well, all the good kids play quarterback, right, Like that's how he doesn't mean you're eventually you're always gonna be a quarterback, but you start playing quarterback and then they're like, because you want the best athlete to touch the ball as often as possible. Most definitely, Um, Levy on, what's what's the story with the contract? You get involved? Late? Leby on we need you back? Yeah, I mean there's my CM, like, come on, lady, let's let's man, let's get this ring. Um. But it's tough, man, And that's the thing that's that's the NFL for you? How um, how tough was it? How tough? Is this the chas your thing to process? Right? Because I know, like I played football Pop Warner growing up as well, and I know they always told you like this was a possibility if you get your head down or whatever. But to see a dude, who's I mean to see Ryan Shay's here, like a bigger than life guy lay on that football field motionless, what's that like? Emotionally? Man? It's tough, um. And even to this day, you know, just recently he's he's able to stand and you know, being able to move. Um, it's a blessing, you know. Um, we're not worried about if he's coming back, you know, to play ball with us. But we're worried about if he's able to you know, be able to walk around, play with his kids and you know, have that lifestyle back again. So I mean, uh to see that. It's tough, but we know that we call it say leave, and you know, we believe that he's gonna come back. New offense coming this year. Have you been told what's gonna change with the offense? Um? Not yet? Just get get you drew the ball more, that's right. Yeah, I'm just gonna have to get out there more. Uh. Well, listen, you show that you can block as well as as well. Let's catch Congrats on a great year. By the way, you can go to uh instant go. Be sure to get your Panini Super Bowl trading card set next week at Panini Instant instant dot com instant dot com. You ever think you have your own trading card? Like that's so sick. Now, it's crazy. And it's cool because I'm able to connect with kids, you know, who are young, who are in school and uh, you know, it's all over the world and it's pretty cool because like I'm not so young. I mean, I'm young, You're not so yeah, I'm young. So so just right now, I just did the Hunt Top one hundred and I thought I'll never do that, and I was like, wow, this is pretty crazy. And when I'm want to fill against like guys like, uh so it's our you know, uh Xavier Road, I'm like, dude, like, I'm a fan Road, but I gotta you know, I gotta run these ros cash footballs to you. But I'm a fan of you. So it's crazy. So yeah, I think it's pretty cool that Ponini is able to you know, give me a card and uh, you know, connect with kids around the world. Tell the Tell the truth. Patriots, Steven stinks. Doesn't it get let to them? Boys? Thanks for showing us. Best answer of the week there from Juju Smith Schuster. Why wouldn't wouldn't you love a bigger tax refund? Tax Layer was recently rated number one for maxim refund So you have more of de cash to spend on whatever the heck you want this tax season. Go out and slant maxtu refunded text slayer dot com LaVar ball could be sliding into your d m s. Find out why next. Online shopping can be confusing, well not anymore. With True Price from True Car, now you can know the exact price you'll pay for your next car. So visit Truecar and enjoy more confident car buying experience. A couple quick thank you's here Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Uh, Dave, We's did an incredible job setting up our set. I was just absolutely beautiful. Um. I'm sure he went over budget, but that's not really my concern. So Dave, thank you. Scotch Shapiro, who's our boss, and I got to meet his brother who's They're a lot like I don't know if you've ever seen Dispicable Me three right where Grew's brother group Grew and I think Drew is the other one that's like him and his brother. Um, yeah, I was anyway about the whole Shapiro family, even the grandparents who've been married sixty eight years. Like the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my life. Anyway, Davey, Scott Sapiro, Cindy Kats, who booked all the guests. She may have lost my laptop this morning, she may not have. I'm not really sure. The longest I've ever had to wait for an uber Um Sydney was in charge of that, but she she did an incredible job. 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We always want to leave you knowing more than you did before you started listening to the show. That's why we bring you the press. Dan Byer, what he got, Dan Buyer, Ladies and gentlemen, he'll be here a week. Try the veal we did. We can show from here we go. I will be doing it live from Minneapolis and nine o'clock Eastern time Sunday morning, a special three hour edition of Fox Sports Sunday where you could hear my interviews with Patriots wide receiver Chris Hogan. And he goes running back Corey Clement bowl Chris Hogan as he's six too, because he's a Patriot white wide receiver. Everybody thinks he's like five eight, right, Like, yeah, you're like a little little dark over there. Like, actually, I'm really fast and long and you know, the opposite of what you saying. Anyway, you can hear that Sunday morning on the sports radio Big News Today on Twitter. And you may have seen the video of the father of the three girls who were assaulted by Larry Nassa, the gymnastics coach well in a Michigan court today. Randall mar Graves asked the judge for five minutes in a room with Nasa so he could well, you know, beat him up. Well, asked for a minute in a room. Judge said no. Finally, mar Graves took matters into his own hands when after Nassa in the courtroom was restrained by multiple sheriff's deputies. However, he will not be facing any contempt of court charges. Judge saying no way she is going to charge mar Graves, who was obviously emotionally moved as his three daughters were victimized. Is actually a really hard one. And I know this is unpopular, but I kind of think you gotta, I mean, he's gotta. It's gotta be at least some low, low level misdemeanor slap on the wrist, just be not not because we don't understand how he feels. But if if there is no punishment, what's to stop the next guy and the next guy and the next guy. Look, Larry Nasser is evil. He is evil. What he did to these young women. Uh, it's gonna take years and years of therapy. I I can't imagine I have two little girls where I mean you don't, and you don't have to have two little girls to understand, uh, what a sick human being he is. Uh. That said, like, look, we're a first world country. We're a country of laws, and we we even we even protect our criminals in this country. And I do I think it's the worst thing in the world. No, but I do think that not charging with anything does set a very dangerous precedent. I think if you would ask the cops they wish they would have delayed their response about ten seconds and then at least let him get a shot in before. That's what I'd like to see, I understand. I'm like again, like we all understand, but the cops are only doing their jobs. The judge actually has to do her job. I think let's let's get onto other matters where we can have some fun. How about this LaVar Ball doing it again, Doug trying to start the Junior Basketball Association. LaVar Ball and the j b A are now d m ng top high school basketball recruits around the country, asking them and telling them that they are interested in the player to join the j b A to become the first part of a groundbreaking league that can take players right out of high school. This is this is this is look, there's something uh genius about it, but it's also this is some au stuff like do these guys are still playing high school basketball? What are you doing? Like? What are you? What are you doing? Um? And this is the kind of stuff that Eventually we'll get him to where this this league will never take off off the ground. Interesting to see US d m NG recruits that are going to Creighton in Boston College according to the CBS reports, So not even the top guys. Doug just taking even four star guys trying to get them in caps. For Lebron, James didn't go to college. We know all that worked out for him. The rumor of him joining the Warriors nonsense, and the non stories saying that's pretty much disrespectful as he's trying to win another championship for the Calves. Um. Look, I told you it was kind of a non story yesterday. My thing is this, I do think that Lebron's people are putting out there that he's gonna talk to whomever wants to talk. I don't think it's just a drum up interest to motivate the Calves. I think it's actually to motivate the Lakers, to give them to have some concessions so they can pick some of the things. Like Look, part of the thing is with with Lebron. Remember you know, pat Riley, this this is what Phil Jackson got in trouble for. Was was mentioning that pat Riley used to let his guys fly on the plane and they shut that thing down. Now in Cleveland, his guys kind of have the run of the place. Lebron James doesn't just come and he's not like, Hey, I'm just here play basketball and nothing else. There's a lot that goes to it. And the only way to get that with the place like the Lakers or maybe the Spurs is to get some kind of leverage. I think that's what this was a leverage play. As we transition to the NFL. This news out of Baltimore, Ravens g M as he knew, so I'm gonna step down after the eighteen season, with Ravens owner Steve Baschatti saying today that he actually did consider maybe making a move at head coach, but John Harbaugh is gonna stick around next season, and Baschetti did lend his support the quarterback Joe Flacco in today's press conference. Um do you think this was like One of the things I said is, hey, this has been planned for a long time, right that Ozzie knew some signed a five year extension and he's been They've been grooming, grooming this guy to be the general manager. Of the whole time. But let's also be honest. The Joe Flacco contract, the bad recent draft picks. Ossie knew, some who did a great job for a long time has swung and missed a lot recently. It's not his fault they didn't make this. Should have made playoffs anyway this year. Um, but I kind of think that this was though this was supposedly according to plan, feels like the plan was sped up a little bit because of because of some of the in and the biggest issue I see is more of the support for Flacco than anything else. I don't know how you can be fully behind Joe Flacco we've seen as of late. Yeah, but I don't know what's your other plane. You gotta go draft day quarterback, Yeah, I would be. I would support John Harball more than Joe Flacco. That's just me Joe Flacco. Yeah, But Joel said that also means that maybe John Harball was the one who supported Joe Flaco, and that's why John Harbaugh is in the position that he's hid. Look, he said he considered it. He didn't say they were gonna do it. I think all things are considered, and that's suppressed backing out there impressed. That was the press by who are you taking? Buddy? You're hearing the chance of the Eagles, and I just think that their past rushing getting after Tom Brady is gonna cause problems. And the toughest thing for New England to do is shut down the Eagles running game. I like Philadelphia to win on Sunday. I've said that all week. I liked him as well. Music. You're gonna make a pick, I'm gonna go opposite. I'm going Patriots, Brady and Belichick, John Ramos formula, but back in I mean, like, look at it. Yeah, you know, um Ramos, who you got. I'm gonna take the Patriots as well. I'm with Ryan. I'm a millennial guy, so I'll take what Ryan says out a boy, Ramos, you're a millennial guy talking about because you're not a millennial. No I'm not. But I like what they say. The Ryan said the Patriots, I will say the Patriots and also say ten seconds, all right, ten seconds. I'm gonna take the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm with I'm with Dan. You know. Anyway, We'll talk to you Monday. 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