Rob Ninkovich calls in after hearing Wiggy talk about him!

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Rob Ninkovich calls in after hearing Wiggy talk about him!  Do you agree with Ninko, that Brissett should remain the starter for the time being?

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00:00After Wiggy has mentioned him countless times this morning, Rob Ninkovich, hello Rob.

00:07Hey guys, you know I love having a nice cup of coffee in the morning and getting text messages.

00:11Wiggy's talking about you on the radio. I just, you know, I want to just throw my two cents out

00:18there. I want to say what I have to say. I want to ask Wiggy a question. Okay. I want to ask you

00:23a question Wiggy. You got it. What is secondary to the physical side of football? What is very

00:29important? There's physical. What's the next thing? Mental. Mental. Right. Mental. Physical.

00:36Mental. Okay. So I want to take you through, you know, a little bit of statistics here. So

00:42you look at quarterback sack percentage. Okay. The number one team in the NFL right now is Denver

00:48at 2.8, 2.82% sack rate percentage. Okay. They got a rookie quarterback in there. Right. Who

00:56was struggling? He's struggling, right? Like he's throwing, you know, I should have

01:01threw it to the other team. You know, he's struggling. Okay. So now you're talking about

01:06Williams in Chicago, 28, 28 in the NFL, 10%. He's 10.19%. Okay. In the NFL.

01:15Now, what do you think his quarterback rating is? It's probably very low.

01:2072. 72. Let me ask you, Jacoby's quarterback rating. What is it?

01:26I would probably guess 77. It's 77. It's better than Caleb Williams in Chicago. 77. Okay. Now

01:3532 in the NFL at 13.49% is the New England Patriots. Okay. The mental side of going in

01:45there when you're a young guy and you're trying to learn an offense and get the timing down and

01:49you're running for your life and you don't have a chance to set your feet up and throw a perfect

01:53pass that can mess you up, right. With confidence, with learning, you know, how to play in the NFL.

02:00Now I get it. So I'm out there. Let them play. Okay. But then you're putting at risk a potential

02:06Sam Darnold situation. And with New York, where you got a guy back there that says on live

02:11television, he's seeing ghosts, right. So you have to protect your investment, not for this

02:17year. And we talked, I talked about this patience. Everyone needs to be patient. This isn't a snap

02:21your finger and we're back in the playoffs. And I know New England Patriot fans are spoiled. You

02:25know, they boot us at halftime when we were winning Superbowl. I get it, right. You want to

02:30win right now, but this isn't a car lease where you turn it in and you get a new car or a cell

02:35phone that you turn in every two years. It takes a little bit of time. Number one, you got to

02:40evaluate where the roster's at. I mean, Mayo, I think he's done a great job as far as coaching.

02:45He hasn't done anything where you're like, Oh, look at the coaching decisions. No, he's doing

02:49his best right now because he's trying to evaluate the roster, make appropriate moves where what you

02:54have on the roster right now, defensively. I mean, you lose your best inside linebacker, they're

03:00dealing with injuries. So, you know, there's no excuses in the NFL, right. I get it. But at the

03:05moment right now, you don't have David Andrews, who's helping you make all the checks, right.

03:09And the protections and the slides and who to pick up and blitz pickup. That's a big problem,

03:15right. So your corners, the edges of the offense, sorry, I don't say corner. I say the corners of

03:20the offense, your tackles, you know, they have some injuries there. You're not being, you're not

03:25able to put a lineup in front of a young quarterback where you could feel confident that he's not going

03:31to hit his back foot and get smashed from behind, right. From the back blind side hits. So I think

03:37at the moment right now, you're still got to make sure that you protect the mental side of a young

03:44quarterback and it's got nothing to do with the physical side. Can I ask, can I ask Nick one

03:49question, one question? Do you think you brought up Bo Nix and Caleb Williams? Do you think this

03:55experience that they're getting, learning and from all these mistakes that they're making this

03:59season is going to help them out next year? I don't know. I saw Caleb Williams roll his eyes

04:05to a quarterback that told him, you got to make sure you don't take so many hits

04:09after a football game. But I asked you, do you think, so maybe it doesn't matter. You know,

04:13the guy's going to be out there. He's going to have his own opinion of how he plays.

04:17He's if he doesn't take coaching and doesn't learn anything from this year, it doesn't matter,

04:22right. But that's on the matter, but that's on the player. But is, is he in situations

04:27that are teachable moments that he is going to be able to learn from and make better next year?

04:33There's always, there's, when you're on the field, you're always learning from your,

04:37your play. Yes, I agree with you. That is the, that can happen. Yep. Rob,

04:42would you sit him all season? Now I don't think I'd sit him all season, but this is what I would

04:48do. I would make sure that if he is going to touch the field, we're not having them in situations

04:56where other teams are pinning their ears back. And, you know, when you come into the game at

05:00the end of the game and you're, you're getting blown out, the defensive line is just looking for

05:04sacks. They're not running. They don't care about the run. They don't care about, they don't care

05:07about anything. They just want to get to the quarterback. So if he does enter the game,

05:12I would rather see him at the start of the game than coming in at the end, right? Because at the

05:17end of the game, when guys are up and when defenses are up and they know that they're

05:20going to win the football game, they don't care about the run. They're just trying to get to the

05:24quarterback. That's money, right? They're trying to make money. So what do you say to people that

05:29say when you bring up the mental aspect of it, if you can't handle it mentally, then you shouldn't

05:33be in the league? No, that's, that's, I've seen plenty of really good football players get, get

05:41down on themselves mentally and they don't play at the level that they should play. I mean, and

05:46it happens and some guys are out of the league because of it and other guys get another opportunity,

05:52Sam Donald, and they ball out. It's, it's your, it's, it's how in that particular season,

05:58how are you, how are you utilized? How is, how is your self-confidence and how you're playing?

06:03Because, you know, Wiggy knows this. There's times in a football season where you're like, man,

06:08can I even do this? You know, and it's a very, very, very tough mental game to try and get

06:15yourself to play at a high, high level every single week. And it takes everybody. It's not

06:19just yourself. You got to count on the guy next to you. You got to count on the tackle to,

06:23to do his job. You got to count on the center to get the ball to you. So there's so many factors

06:27that go into winning football. It's never just one guy. And if everyone mentally is confident,

06:33that's why you practice so hard. And, and, you know, go back to when we were winning Superbowls

06:37here, we had a group of guys that mentally were sharp, ready to go. And they were confident and

06:42they knew that the guy next to him was going to do their job. When you don't know how that's going

06:46to play out, it affects you. But Nick, they're never going to get to that point where they

06:50believe in all that this roster is awful. Like you're trying to create a scenario that is just

06:54not going to be possible in the next year. Well, you're not, you're not, like I said before,

07:00it's not a snap of your fingers and you're just snapping your fingers and things are going to

07:04happen. It takes, it takes time. And, you know, the roster where it was at when Mayo took over

07:12wasn't great. Right. And who was the one that built the roster up? Right. So it takes time to

07:19draft and to bring in free agents. And you're not just going to waste, you're not just going to

07:23spend money to spend money with. You don't feel that the money that is appropriate for somebody

07:28is worth it. Why would you spend it when you can get, you really have to build through the draft.

07:32That's pretty much now, like now modern football, if you draft well, and you get key pieces through

07:38the draft, it helps you long-term contract. What week you start, what week? I don't know why you

07:46put me on a spot right now. Maybe. Well, first of all, they got to figure out who their center is.

07:53What week would you start them? Cause you said you'd play at least I would, I would like to see

08:00six to eight weeks of him on the center. So you'd start them by like week 12. No,

08:05he said six to eight weeks, 68, 68 games total, like under his belt. Yeah. Total. Yeah. Oh,

08:12total. Okay. Nine or something. So week nine. Yeah. So what's going to be the difference

08:15between week four and week nine with the offensive line? It's still going to be the same.

08:19So you make them my point, Nico, put the guy in, let them get experience and start them early,

08:24run the ball, move, put them on the move. There's so many things you can do.

08:28Well, good thing. We're not the head coach. All right, Robert, thank you for calling.

08:34Can't wait to see, are we going to see you soon? You're going to come Friday, by the way,

08:37you left. I got to go to, I got to go to Atlanta Friday. I wish I could be there. I'm leaving at

08:41one ATL. All right, well, we'll see you soon. We'll, we'll do a show soon. Come in anytime you

08:47want. There he is. All right, Wiggy. Okay. See you guys. Take care. A lot of guys on the other

08:53side of this. He said week eight. He said week eight, eight, nine, maybe. All right. We got to

08:58go. Great show today. Great show. Great show. Hopefully nothing on the show today gave you the

09:03ick, but we will be back tomorrow morning at six with bill O'Brien, the head coach of Boston

09:09college football at six 45 Jones and Keith next. Thank you for.

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