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00:00Spreadline's coming to you on a Wednesday morning hump day right here on the Early Live.
00:05On the Sports Grid Network, it's your boy DRS along with Joe Ranieri in the game.
00:08We're going to start off, of course, we're going to start.
00:10We're going to do this every single day, leading right up to the Super Bowl to let you know exactly what's going on.
00:15If you look at the ticket count in this game, about 75% of the tickets coming in on Seattle.
00:20Early here in the Super Bowl betting process, the number opened up minus four and a half.
00:25As a side, towards Seattle, most outlets still sitting at minus four and a half.
00:29The total.
00:30Does have a little bit of a difference here.
00:31Forty six and a half or so at the opening number.
00:33Now we're down to most outlets.
00:35Forty five and a half and forty sixes across the board.
00:38Each and every day we'll get little tweaks.
00:40We'll wait for the weather reports to come in next week and also the injury reports to both of those.
00:45Quarterbacks, if they're completely healthy, heading into Santa Clara, Joe, what's that early spread?
00:50Redline once again on a hump day Wednesday for Super Bowl Sunday next week.
00:55Well, Donnie, I mean, we're starting to get to the point where we're going to begin to see a lot.
01:00of the especially one of the the bigger books out in Vegas that generates.
01:05That prop book, you may have heard of that, that's been legendary.
01:10in the industry and that's when all the props start to come in.
01:14I mean, there are guys.
01:15guys lined up around a sports book right now waiting for the ticket window.
01:20We're supposed to open to go in and get their prop bets.
01:22So limits will begin to rise, Don.
01:25Donnie, over the next 24 hours.
01:27And if we're going to see a big push, we're.
01:30going to start to see it soon because a lot of those prop bets get correlated to how people think.
01:35or they should anyway, Donnie, but they get correlated to what they think is going to happen in that.
01:40game, who the winner is going to be, whether we're going to get an over where they're going to get an under all of that.
01:45That gets going here, more public money expected, Donnie, over the next week.
01:50than we have had, of course, in any other single game event, it is.
01:55is that big and we're going to start to see some line movement.
01:58We just have not seen.
02:00We have not seen it yet.
02:01We're still going back between four and a half and five and I'm still a little.
02:05I'm shocked there's 45 and a half out there more so than 46 or 46 and a half.
02:10But that could all change, Donnie, over the next 48 hours.
02:14Upheaval and.
02:15the AFC East.
02:16Why is that?
02:17Just about everybody fired their head coaches and you're moving on.
02:19You're trying to.
02:20find new coaches and who's going to land in the right spots and maybe the Buffalo Bills
02:24are the most coveted job.
02:25opened up in the NFL.
02:26You could talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers in the stability or the Baltimore Ravens.
02:30Some.
02:30Two good jobs are out there, but a job was handed over yesterday by the Buffalo Bills
02:34to office.
02:35And a Jordan Schultz report yesterday.
02:38The main reasons why.
02:39The main reasons why.
02:40They hired him.
02:41The CEO portion of their interview really stood out to them.
02:44His vision for.
02:45How everything would be structured from head coaching seat all the way down viewed as a
02:49home run.
02:50He also nailed the importance of alignment between coaching and player personnel.
02:54A five year deal.
02:55Brady's their guy.
02:56No, honestly, what were they going to say?
02:58We had nobody left over.
02:59We were stuck.
03:00Brady had to be our guy.
03:01He was an okay interview.
03:03We'll see what happens.
03:05Again, and this was a guy that, you know, was.
03:10He was an assistant at one point, quarterback's guy, and then of course.
03:15When of all people, the guy you just fired was the one that actually promote.
03:20And he voted him a couple of years ago.
03:21Well, kudos.
03:22He voted him a couple of years ago.
03:23Well, kudos.
03:24You know, that's.
03:25Great stuff.
03:26But.
03:27I just don't know.
03:28I mean, keeping it in house like this and.
03:30replacing Sean McDermott with the guy that, you know, wasn't good enough to get the.
03:35job a couple of years ago, but was good enough after they had to move on and.
03:40replace him and he's done a decent job, but he's been on the hot seat.
03:45in Buffalo, Joe Brady, because there have been stretches over the last couple of seasons where.
03:50Boy, that offense got stagnant.
03:52It just wasn't working.
03:53They couldn't push the ball down.
03:55on the field.
03:56There were question marks.
03:57I mean, the running game has improved.
03:59It's been great.
04:00But.
04:01I mean, I don't know.
04:02Now you're talking about a guy with a relationship.
04:0530.
04:0536 years old with your 30 year old franchise quarterback.
04:08How much respect does he have?
04:10in that locker room?
04:11And what is he going to do differently than what Sean.
04:15McDermott did with the same quality of players.
04:18I don't get the move here.
04:19If you're going to.
04:20Make that move.
04:21Clear house and bring in a fresh perspective.
04:23But.
04:24Since you can't do that.
04:25I guess.
04:26Well, he's the next best thing.
04:27Yeah.
04:28By the way, like he really turned into like.
04:30Boy genius from that 2019 LSU season.
04:32All of a sudden.
04:33Oh, he might be able to get a head coaching job.
04:34Right around the.
04:35NFL goes to Carolina.
04:36Did a decent job there.
04:37Went to Buffalo.
04:38Did a good job.
04:39But also.
04:40It seems like he was.
04:40Probably going to be a head coach much sooner than later.
04:42On what he did at LSU.
04:44Finally gets a chance to do it.
04:45But no excuses now.
04:46That Josh Allen.
04:47One of the best weapons in football.
04:48They're probably going to retool your offense for you.
04:50Had a couple playmakers here.
04:51No excuses moving forward because.
04:53Just as much if it's an indictment.
04:54And.
04:55Sean McDermott getting fired.
04:57Now the onus is on the general manager and the owner.
04:59Like, well, you fired McDermott.
05:00So clearly he was the issue.
05:01You thought this better turn into a suit.
05:03At least.
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05:30your franchise quarterback to have a say in who his boss is going to be because players need to be
05:35coached. They don't need pals. And unfortunately, that's the dynamic.
05:40You've got going here. And my question is, who's calling the offense now?
05:45So you're a first time 36 year old head coach is also going to be calling.
05:50The plays and because who, what OC is going to take this job?
05:55Knowing that he's not calling to play. He's got no play calling duties.
05:58So what do you do? You're going to be a glorified.
06:00Assistant. Like, so I, this is, again, you've created.
06:05This entire nightmare situation here builds by being reactionary and emotional.
06:10And not thinking this through because a first time head coach and now play caller is.
06:15Well, yeah. What could possibly go wrong with that?
06:18Got to bring over another play caller for the.
06:20Defense now. Cause certainly it's not going to be Sean McDermott or anybody underneath him.
06:23How about Jim Leonard, the Broncos.
06:25Defensive pass coordinator looking to be the leading candidate for the Buffalo Bills defensive coaching.
06:30Job here. How about that?
06:32I love Jim Leonard, likely going.
06:35To be a head coach, I believe one day as well. So yeah, I think that.
06:40That would be a great hire if they can, if they pull it off. But again, he's only as good as.
06:45The players you put around them and you still don't have that one dominant pass rusher.
06:50And I don't know where you're going to get them next year either.
06:53Brady Cook. How about that?
06:55Network out where for the Jets? How about a little Justin Fields?
06:58No, it was clearly Tanner.
07:00That offense was injured all year without a quarterback and he gets let go.
07:05Three days after the season ended, because clearly they couldn't move forward on offense with this guy.
07:10And maybe the best part of all of this yesterday with the Jets is that they also.
07:15reached out to John Gruden to see if he would like to be part of the staff here.
07:20Yeah, I'm dying when I tell you, taking a role.
07:25With the staff. I don't know what that means.
07:27I think Aaron Glenn just put his house up.
07:30for sale as well.
07:31He is, there's no chance, no chance.
07:33Where you at, Polymarket?
07:35You want to buy tickets to the Super Bowl each and every year you find yourself.
07:40probably taking on a small mortgage.
07:41It used to be back in the day.
07:42I was a season ticket holder from 03 to 20.
07:452017 for the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.
07:48And all I ever wanted to do was win the Super Bowl lottery.
07:50so I could buy tickets and then probably not go to the game and sell them for thousands of dollars
07:53to help cover.
07:55my season tickets the next year.
07:56I never was able to win that lottery, man.
07:58It seemed like it was always rigged.
07:59But if you did want to.
08:00buy tickets and people would go to the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles fans
08:02or whoever was in the Super Bowl, he paid it.
08:05a lot of money.
08:05He said he said like, ooh, sticker shock, $600 for a face value.
08:09Ooh, we can resell it.
08:10like $3,000 Joe tickets are insane here for Santa Clara.
08:15We're looking at the top of the stadium going for as much as $10,000 to watch.
08:20a football game here.
08:21Now, there must be a lot of demand.
08:23I'm assuming that from New England page.
08:25Patriots fans who they spent all their money over decades going to Super Bowls
08:28and that's seven years to save up.
08:30And the same thing with the Seattle Seahawks who haven't been here in some time either.
08:33West Coast Super Bowl, which mean.
08:35Easier for, I guess, Seattle Seahawks fans to get there.
08:37And then if you are paying for New England, you're coming.
08:40across country, that's an expensive ticket.
08:42Single tickets as much as that much?
08:44Come on.
08:45Now, stop.
08:46Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
08:47And then, you know, you don't even know what you're getting.
08:50half the time because every Super Bowl, Donnie, we get the scam stories where people get.
08:55These fake tickets can't get in and they spend all of this money.
08:59It's like.
09:00Like, the Super Bowl is not for Patriot fans or Seattle fans.
09:05It's for everyone else who can afford that never watched a football game all year long.
09:10just to say that they were at the Super Bowl, Donnie.
09:13That is exactly what those ticket.
09:15prices tell you.
09:16Yeah, I always miss because it's more digital now.
09:18So the, you know, getting.
09:20tickets to get them transferred over is the issue.
09:21But you always see those horror stories from like, hey, Miami Super Bowl, 1980.
09:25And I'm supposed to meet this guy in his hotel room to pick up my tickets and.
09:30Yeah, the hotel room never existed there.
09:32You sent him three grand and there's nobody there to get.
09:34We have those horror stories.
09:35every single year because, sure, you're going to get a ticket for two grand when the face
09:39value is going for 10.
09:40$10,000 and you think you got yourself a deal.
09:42Congratulations on that deal here.
09:44That's wild.
09:45The amount of ticket prices that are going up.
09:47And again, it's not.
09:48Sometimes it's like, okay, it's Miami or it's.
09:50And freezing cold will get out of it.
09:51You're not going to get great weather in Santa Clara as it is anyway at this point, but maybe.
09:55What do you think those tickets going for though?
09:59Game day.
10:00What do you think they're going for?
10:01Because they ain't going for 10 grand.
10:02Exactly.
10:03No way.
10:03That's, I mean, that's.
10:05You fly out there, you get your hotel, you hang out around the stadium.
10:08They just kicked off.
10:09Boom.
10:09I just got.
10:10I got a 75% discount on my ticket so I can go in and actually watch this game.
10:15We're talking about Oracle's out here.
10:16No, we're not talking about San Francisco and the Oracle, the actual company.
10:19How about.
10:20Justin Farkas, he tweeted, holy crap, Drake Mays, the best athlete I've ever seen.
10:24Well, yeah, we.
10:25Watch him each and every Sunday here.
10:26He's a pretty good quarterback in the NFL playing up a league and still the best in the league.
10:30Timestamp, August 25th, 2012 at 353.
10:353 p.m.
10:36Drake May, like 10 years old.
10:37Goodness.
10:40My goodness, is that faked or what was that?
10:43And where did he see Drake May?
10:45At that point, that it was the best athlete he's ever seen.
10:48Like that's.
10:49Hmm.
10:50Yeah, something wrong with that, Donnie, unless he's some sort of time traveler.
10:54I don't know what's going on.
10:55With that said he was nine years old, four and a half feet tall, maybe 80.
11:00Hounds playing up a league with 11 and 12 year olds, stiff arming them and running circles around.
11:05Pop Warner football back in the day playing up a league should have saw this coming at this point right now.
11:10Drake May dominating at all levels.
11:13Wait a minute.
11:14You got a dude.
11:15That was actually posting about Pop Warner football.
11:18Like that was.
11:19Yes.
11:19About.
11:20A nine year old kid.
11:21Wow.
11:21We got to look more into this guy.
11:23We got to look more into this guy.
11:24Must be.
11:25Something might be more there.
11:26How about Jay Kuda here out on Twitter?
11:28He says no start.
11:30A quarterback with the last name of five letters long has won a Super Bowl before and also.
11:35Starting quarterbacks with initials DM are 0 and 2.
11:37Dan Marino and Donovan McNabb.
11:39How about that?
11:40You're going through some, it's almost like some astrology type stuff here.
11:44Yeah.
11:44No.
11:45It's all about the numbers done.
11:45It's all about the numerology right of it.
11:48It's very.
11:50That's strange.
11:50I would not use that in my handicapping though.
11:52Absolutely not.
11:53That's not something I would.
11:54The best part of.
11:55About is to like, he lists that like, oh, nobody ever likes thinks back.
11:57And then somebody puts, yeah, have a Bart star, which had five.
12:00Letters in his last name and he won, you know, a couple of Super Bowls early.
12:02And then somebody else, does anybody else have to listen?
12:05Like Nick Foles, F-O-L-E-S is five.
12:07Like he won a Super Bowl.
12:08Like people just think.
12:10I think you could just throw it out there.
12:11Now I got to do is hit that.
12:12Hey, at Grok, what do you think about this?
12:14And you probably get.
12:15Spoiled right there.
12:17Yeah.
12:17Right.
12:18You got to love the internet always.
12:20Because they will, they will, anytime you say this has never been done before, somebody
12:24will find.
12:25Find a situation and post it that, yes, it has been done before.
12:29You got to love it.
12:30And another one here in this century, every time the Super Bowl has been played.
12:35In between the two teams, one team traveling east, one team traveling west, the team.
12:40One team traveling west has won.
12:41This is good news for the Patriots.
12:42Now, in between, so what, how much.
12:45In between do we have with Seattle and, and San Francisco or Santa Clara?
12:50How do these guys make stuff up on the fly?
12:52There's a lot of stuff on it.
12:55Power number two is back.
12:56They got more stuff.
12:57Denied Bill Belichick.
12:59Entrance into the.
13:00Hall of Fame, at least right off of the bat.
13:02Now, Bill Belichick getting into the Hall of Fame, probably going to be a form out.
13:05But when you think of which coach should be in the Hall of Fame, the very first one that
13:09pops to mind, maybe.
13:10Vince Lombardi, and outside of that, it's Bill Belichick because of how many times he won
13:14and over the past 25.
13:15years had a dynasty year after year after year after year after year in New England.
13:19But the.
13:20The fact of the matter that the writers hold it against him, that he did cheat and he did cheat,
13:23which is OK, but he's still a Hall.
13:25Hall of Fame, there's no penalties here.
13:26Oh, not everybody voted for Babe Ruth, so therefore nobody can be in a unanimous.
13:30Hall of Famer in baseball either.
13:31Stop the madness.
13:32Correct these issues.
13:33Find out these idiots who vote.
13:35vote in a different direction and kick them out so they can never have a vote again.
13:39Sound good, Joe?
13:40It's just it's it's ridiculous whether it's the baseball right.
13:45Or these former executives that they put in charge of.
13:50Deciding who is a first ballot Hall of Famer and who's not, it's just.
13:55And for somebody like Bill Polian to be the most vocal in.
14:00In the room about sending, you know, having Belichick serve some sort of penance.
14:05Because of, you know, because of what, you know, happened during his.
14:09It's absurd.
14:10Bill Polian never liked Belichick.
14:12Bill Polian couldn't beat Belichick.
14:15No matter what he did with his teams in Indy and Buffalo.
14:18But you know what?
14:19Somehow.
14:20Now or another at 90 years old, this is this is the I finally gotcha, you know.
14:25Guy in the hoodie, like, give me a break.
14:27It's the most absurd thing.
14:29And it's just.
14:30Terrible look.
14:31That's usually what we leave to Major League Baseball in Cooperstown.
14:35But welcome to the absolute craziness there on Cannes, Ohio, because now.
14:40You're a bigger joke than they are.
14:42And by the way, Sean Payton probably going to get into the Hall of.
14:45Fame is the Denver head coach.
14:46And they say he was part of, you know, Bounty Gate where he can't get in now.
14:49And all.
14:50Also, how about Drew Brees going into the Hall of Fame?
14:52Where it's like, well, no, no.
14:52You played for a coach who had Bounty Gate a couple of those years.
14:55You can't be in.
14:55Nobody should be in that because somebody was a part of a scandal somewhere with a franchise.
15:00That unless they were called out on it and the Patriots were and they paid those penalties.
15:03But you still.
15:05Way into the mix, all that stuff.
15:06If Bill Belichick won one Super Bowl and it was found out he cheated.
15:10That Super Bowl?
15:11I go, yeah.
15:11The guy was like a four-year head coach stunk, got lucky with the Super Bowl and cheated.
15:14He's not.
15:15He's not going to get into the Hall of Fame.
15:16Not every coach that wins a Super Bowl makes it into the Hall of Fame.
15:19But when you have that.
15:20That many rings here, chances are like, all right, he might have did some of the various
15:23things, but he probably still won five.
15:25Fair and square at that point, right?
15:27Yeah.
15:28Yeah.
15:29It's a lot.
15:30Donnie, it's just amazing to me that we're still seeing.
15:35And again, we've seen this with Cooperstown for years, right?
15:38And we've always said like.
15:40This is just absurd.
15:41Too many people have a say in this and every one of them has.
15:45An axe to grind against these guys, right?
15:48Even though none of them, Donnie, have been.
15:50Proven to do anything.
15:51And then you have over here where Belichick was fined.
15:54The paper.
15:55Patriots were fine.
15:56Listen, it was investigated.
15:57It was settled.
15:59You move on.
16:00You don't hold that for a guy's entire career and body of work.
16:04Either he's work.
16:05He's not worthy of being a first ballot Hall of Famer or he's not.
16:08And there aren't many guys.
16:10But now that if he's not, then how is Tom Brady?
16:15He's not a first ballot Hall of Famer because everything Belichick was accused of comes right
16:20back to Brady.
16:20So is that what we're saying here?
16:22Or do you like Brady more?
16:25Yeah, Brady's a nice guy.
16:26He's on TV.
16:27Let him go.
16:27Yeah, then nobody should be in the Hall of Fame at this point.
16:30Now, let's take a look at this next one, which I love.
16:32Matthew Stafford is going to be the MVP.
16:35Of this previous football season.
16:37Matthew Stafford continues tells you how much fun he had.
16:40He's going to play football season this field, but all on football field this season.
16:43But he also is a businessman.
16:45He understands that and it's fun to be loved as well.
16:47If I come out right away and say I'm coming back to the Rams.
16:50I'm sort of out of sight, out of mind.
16:51But you know what?
16:52My owner is one of the richest in professional.
16:55My coach absolutely loves me.
16:57This fan base and this team wants me back and I'm.
17:00Playing at an ultra high level.
17:01Yeah, I just got some new money on a contract.
17:03You know what doesn't hurt, Mr.
17:05Dranky, throw a little bit more money my way here before I say I'm actually coming back.
17:10And every time I go out with my wife, we're going to be the talk of the town.
17:13I wonder if he's coming back.
17:15No doubt in my mind, Matthew Stafford's playing this out.
17:17No doubt in my mind, Matthew Stafford will be the starting.
17:20And quarterback for the Rams come September.
17:23Yeah, I.
17:25Listen, if he wants to play, he will play and the Rams will.
17:30He'll do whatever they want him.
17:31They'll give him whatever he wants.
17:34It's not like.
17:35Donnie, there's any questions that they're bringing back Devante Adams, right?
17:39They got.
17:40They have everything in place.
17:42They just need to fix some things on the defensive side.
17:45Of the ball and upgrade that secondary and they'll be fine.
17:49They'll be ready.
17:50The only reason a guy at 37, 38 years old is coming back, Donnie, is because he believes
17:54he has.
17:55He has a chance to win another Super Bowl.
17:58That's it, right?
17:59I mean, we've seen this.
18:00It's time after time.
18:01I got to believe Stafford's not a guy that's going to hang on a year too long.
18:05Should have retired a year early.
18:06I think he is only coming back if he truly believes.
18:10He believes that he can win a Super Bowl.
18:12And that'll tell you everything you need to know about what he thinks of that organization.
18:15If he comes back or not, Mike Tomlin stepped down as being the head coach of the.
18:20Pittsburgh Steelers and some in Pittsburgh, maybe a majority at this point, like, you
18:23know what?
18:23This is going to be awesome.
18:24New regime.
18:25Change, finally.
18:26Love you, Mike Tomlin.
18:26Got a little stale at the end.
18:28I can't wait to win the day.
18:30With our new head coach and say, you know what?
18:31I'm excited about next season.
18:33Those are the easy press conference that you're supposed to.
18:35As an NFL owner, let me introduce my new coach who everybody can't wait for.
18:39And we're going to have so much.
18:40We're going to have fun with this, and it's going to be a fresh outlook.
18:42And then the Pittsburgh Steelers hired Mike McCarthy as their head.
18:45Coach, let's get a clip from that McCarthy press conference.
18:48All right, here we go.
18:50Thank you, Art.
18:51I think...
18:55I thought at least we'd be able to get started.
18:58You know, oftentimes, Coach...
19:00Coaches and players, you know, you put on new team colors, and it takes a minute.
19:05You feel comfortable in those new colors.
19:08But to be blessed beyond...
19:10Any measure one day to put on the colors you wore since you brought home.
19:15I apologize.
19:18Bro, I told you not to save my...
19:20My family not here in front.
19:20This is so unfair when you come home from Mercy Hospital.
19:25I do want to thank Art, Art Rooney, Omar Khan, Dan Rooney.
19:30And the entire Steelers organization for the trust they placed in...
19:35And me to represent one of the most storied franchise in all sports.
19:40I understand and embrace the responsibility, the privilege, and the weight that comes with
19:43this stewardship.
19:45Oh, this city, this franchise, this fan base.
19:50It means the world to me.
19:52Because Pittsburgh is my world.
19:54And...
19:55It's just awesome to be back here.
19:56It's just awesome to be back here.
20:00So let me get this straight here, Joe.
20:01If I read the room correctly.
20:03He's crying tears of joy.
20:04He's the Steelers.
20:05He's the Steelers head coach, and the Steelers fan base is crying tears of anger because he's...
20:10He's their head coach.
20:10We got a nice little storm brewing out there in Pittsburgh.
20:14Oh, yeah.
20:15I mean, some of these moves.
20:16But, you know, listen, the beautiful thing about all of this...
20:19Oh, that's choking.
20:20What is that?
20:22Listen, and Chokes, we've seen this.
20:23How many times?
20:24We've seen...
20:25We've seen college coaches do this.
20:26We've seen everyone's crying tears.
20:28You know who's not?
20:29You know who did not?
20:30Cry, Cignetti.
20:32Cignetti did not cry at a press conference as...
20:35An introduction to a new head coach.
20:36That's what I want from my football coach, by the way.
20:40But, listen, I get it.
20:41He grew up a native of Pittsburgh, right?
20:43He loved Chuck Knoll.
20:45He was a big Steelers guy.
20:47I get it.
20:47That's fine.
20:48But, my goodness, dude.
20:50Just win some games.
20:51All you have to do is win games, and trust me...
20:55The Pittsburgh fan base will love you.
20:57If you don't win games...
21:00Yikes.
21:01It is going to be a very short run in Pittsburgh for you, my friend.
21:05So, win and you are in, Donnie.
21:07That's basically how it works with fan base.
21:10By the way, if there's one fan base you're not supposed to cry in front of.
21:13Is it the Pittsburgh Steelers fan base?
21:15Like, the steel mill, the steel workers, you know, hardened America out there.
21:20In the heartland.
21:21I mean, what are we doing here for this point?
21:22You're supposed to...
21:23You know what?
21:23What would you rather have, McCarthy?
21:25McCarthy sit up there, and you know what I would rather have to say if I was a fan base?
21:27I know a lot of you don't want me here.
21:30Give me a chance.
21:30We're going to put that Lombardi back up where it's supposed to be.
21:33We're going to actually make deep runs.
21:35We're going to win big football games, and our offense isn't going to be set in stone.
21:40It's 1983.
21:41I'm like, whoa!
21:41I'm going to stand up in my seat right now and give this guy a standing ovation.
21:44Instead...
21:45You got McCarthy like, I just sold another fan base here that I'm going to make tens of
21:49millions of dollars.
21:50It's a year, and I'm back in Pittsburgh, and away we go.
21:52Oh, come on, Joe.
21:53I needed a little bit different at that press conference.
21:55I needed a man up there, Joe.
21:57Yeah, yeah.
21:58And, you know, not while...
22:00You know, you wouldn't have seen Tomlin crying there, so maybe they're just going completely...
22:05The opposite, right?
22:06I mean, when you think about it, they've never...
22:08He's going to be the third...
22:10They're the oldest head coach in the league now.
22:12That's what the Steelers just hired.
22:14Here we go.
22:15Here we go, Steelers.
22:16What are they thinking down the middle, huh?
22:18What are they thinking there?
22:20More NFL news and notes.
22:21This is an interesting one here.
22:23ESPN put out a tweet yesterday.
22:25And it reads,
22:25Sean Payton said that Bo Nix has a pre-existing ankle condition.
22:30That made a fracture inevitable in a season-ending press conference on Tuesday.
22:35Nix broke a bone in his right angle in Denver's divisional round win over the Bills.
22:38What does that mean?
22:39We were all...
22:40Just waiting for his ankle to snap.
22:42It was only a matter of time.
22:43What are we hearing here?
22:45Yeah, Donnie, I'm kind of head-scratching here.
22:50Isn't this the kind of degenerative issue that you probably should have figured out?
22:55Before you drafted him or right after you drafted him, how does this all of a sudden come into...
23:00And it's not like, you know, he only played two years of college ball, like...
23:05Nobody knew this prior?
23:06A very strange situation to me.
23:09And what do you...
23:10What are you supposed to do with that now, Donnie, exactly?
23:13I don't know.
23:14Maybe...
23:15Is there any other bones that it needs to break before we get to next season?
23:17Right.
23:18So it was a good thing, or this was going to snap...
23:20At any time, it's kind of an interesting thing.
23:21I'd like to hear more about, like, well, in his career, we thought that he...
23:25Might snap his ankle, or was this...
23:26Hey, by the way, in the last three weeks, we expected him to break his ankle.
23:29That's why we got...
23:30I don't know.
23:31But how about the New York Jets?
23:32I don't know what world they think they live in, where they're...
23:35Their head coach and their disaster organization was going to be like,
23:38You know what?
23:38The perfect offensive coordinator...
23:40Is John Gruden here?
23:41Gruden's like, yeah, no, thanks.
23:44Yeah.
23:44Yeah.
23:45Exactly.
23:46Listen, Gruden's about being on the NFL here.
23:48Yeah, yeah.
23:49He's got...
23:50He's going to own the NFL before it is all said and done here.
23:53But I think he did consult...
23:55With the Saints, too, I think, this year.
23:58So he's kind of had...
24:00He's got an upside influence, but obviously he's got a big lawsuit going in against the NFL.
24:05Which is, by the way, moving along and every ruling that comes down...
24:10In his favor, so there could be a settlement in the near future here, but...
24:15I mean, would anybody argue he's still probably one of the best offensive minds in...
24:20Football, I mean, you can do worse than having a John Gruden in the room.
24:25Especially with young offensive players.
24:28And how about this?
24:29His agent probably...
24:30He picked up the...
24:30Got the phone call.
24:31He's like, hey, what do you think?
24:32Jets?
24:32Nice little match here for John Gruden?
24:34He's like...
24:35Yeah, you know what?
24:35That's a good match.
24:36Yeah, we meant for offensive coordinator.
24:37Yeah, who?
24:38New phone?
24:38Who this?
24:39Click.
24:40New dial tone right after that.
24:41Stop the madness.
24:42He's listening to the head coaching job.
24:44I'm going to come in and be an op...
24:45Offensive coordinator with no head coach that you want to actually, you know, perform under
24:49more specific.
24:50Who the heck is your quarterback here?
24:51Stop the madness.
24:52Funny story altogether.
24:53How about the Chargers?
24:54They got...
24:55They're O.C.
24:55It's Mr. McDaniel.
24:56Let's go to that press conference.
24:57Get a quick clip up here.
24:58What's up, um...
25:00Not really an opening statement guy, but I will open with this statement.
25:05I'm fired up to be here.
25:06Family's fired up to be here and shoot from the hip with whatever question.
25:10What questions you got?
25:11Like, just to start out, what attracted you about this job?
25:15There's a lot, um, that I found very attractive.
25:18Um, you know, I was very fortunate.
25:20To have some opportunities, um, but, you know, I think it started with...
25:25Coach Harbaugh, um, uh, you know, then to, to be a part of, uh...
25:30You know, an organization that has a legacy, um, talking about Sid and, and, uh...
25:35Eric Coriel, um, that, that's super attractive too.
25:38Uh, you got a quarterback...
25:40Who have always admired, um, and just a lot of young players.
25:45Great situation for me and my family to go, um, to the next chapter, which we're very...
25:50Very excited about.
25:52Capri pants do fit in well in L.A., though.
25:54Like, he's going from...
25:55From a good climate to a good climate, though, Joe.
25:56He really is.
25:58I was going to say, Don...
26:00I mean, it's a good fit from Miami to, uh, San Diego.
26:04It's, uh...
26:05It's kind of perfect for him.
26:06And listen, I love the hire.
26:07I really do.
26:08I think the guy is, uh...
26:10Uh, he showed me a lot here as the Miami head coach.
26:12And more than anything, he showed...
26:15Willingness to evolve as an OC and as a head coach and change everything.
26:20That he was known for, the fit, the players he had, and, you know...
26:25That's, that's the mark of a very good coach, Donnie, because they don't all do that.
26:29It's my way or the...
26:30The highway, right?
26:31Well, yeah, he, he changed everything about the...
26:35The Miami Dolphins based upon personnel and not just his system.
26:39How about Diego?
26:40Diego Pavia lying about his height here.
26:42Back in high school football, 1995, we had weigh-ins, our running...
26:45Back to back, Jeff Palmer, put in, said his windbreaker, actual weights there, and thought
26:49he'd get away with it because...
26:50would look a little bit better if you weighed a little bit more people always have a fascination
26:53man i need to be heavier i need to
26:55be lighter i need to be taller but pavia says he's they've doubted his size his whole life
27:00yeah everybody did you lied about it well i mean when you're playing you
27:05six four um there's there you know and i'm watching you on tv going uh
27:10um how tall is he like what is like he's standing up next to some
27:15absolute monsters and you're going oh is he even six foot no
27:20he's not uh but listen it doesn't discount right not everyone's got to be six foot
27:25to be a uh good quarterback in the nfl but you know don't don't try and sell us
27:30uh that you're four inches taller than what you really are you know what you should buy here joe
27:35look nice on that mantle for you at home you could show it off to everybody kurt signetti's game
27:40word headset from the 2025 national championship game current bid 11 000
27:45coach sig's headset here you can listen in on what
27:50national championship really sounds like while judging from the amount of
27:55uh indiana fans that showed up uh here at hard rock stadium and paid
28:0010 grand a ticket or more i'm gonna guess they can afford that headset
28:05and it'll look good on a alumni's mantle for sure but who are we kidding
28:10donnie that picture right there that is going to be the number one halloween
28:15outfit this year i promise you by the way you know sometimes like in the media right now
28:20they talk about like paid protesters there's a lot of fans in the stands for all these football games for indiana
28:25but when they won the national championship joe went home to their own stadiums like three people showed up
28:30so i'm starting to buy into this fan base not being real were they paid were they paid to go to these games
28:35so i'll tell you what last night they had the ceremony before the indiana
28:40club fair five of indiana air第二 game at assembly hall there so apparently signetti is winning
28:45rubs off onto the basketball team now because that was a big win against
28:50last night so yeah i mean the guy just wins google him if you haven't already
28:55you know for decades in indiana like all that nil money which again nil
29:00been around for decades but the focus of the indiana sports program was always
29:03through their basketball good or bad
29:05name the best football team in the country here does that basketball team like hey man
29:10charter flights don't have stake on it anymore yeah that went to the football team
29:15yeah and well maybe they can afford a new assembly hall too because that thing
29:19is
29:20right uh for a bulldozing and rebuild there uh because those stands
29:25are just people views blocked from the pill like what is going on like
29:30what is going on come on give us a new assembly hall with all that money you got two chairs
29:35on each side of the arena and then ten thousand on each side of the arena doesn't make any sense
29:40hey that's indiana basketball it is what it is fantastic time to reach out to the public with
29:45one of the easiest questions you're ever going to answer here's our fave the public poll
29:50uh
29:55at sports grid on x where you find us monday through friday answering these questions
30:00on the help that we need the question was should bill belichick be in the nfl's hall of fame
30:05yes clocking in with well over 85 currently of the votes
30:10no just a lot of haters out there come on now easy question to the
30:15yes no no that's i'm sure they uh those were
30:20the voters uh in the room there how 11 of them uh felt that way that he should
30:25be in on the first ballot is hilarious here but yeah listen public
30:30i am all with them here uh donnie i think it might be the easiest question to answer
30:35of all of the fade to public poll questions we have had the answer is simple
30:40yes and he should be he should have been in on the first ballot
30:4511 people finding a way not like he was a fringe candidate like come on
30:50yeah
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