00:00But there was also a general manager decision made in Minnesota
00:04that I think it would be a bit silly to pretend
00:09the Super Bowl appearance from Seattle didn't have an impact on.
00:16Mensah, who has been in Minnesota for four years,
00:19made the playoffs, and half of them was fired by the Minnesota Vikings.
00:26There's, you know, we ended up seeing a number of reporters say,
00:28hey, there was a lot of chatter about this.
00:31Okay, that's fine. That's fine.
00:35But I think what we ended up with was a situation
00:38where Adolfa Mensah could not have a two-piece parlay come in
00:44of J.J. McCarthy look horrendous,
00:48and Sam Darnold be incredible,
00:52and it ended up cashing because McCarthy was awful,
00:56and in a way, I'm not – the Vikings probably should believe
01:02if they had Sam Darnold, they at minimum would have been a playoff team.
01:08I think that's a totally, totally fair belief in Minnesota.
01:13So do you agree that Darnold and the Seahawks making the Super Bowl
01:17is a part, if not a big part, of why Mensah has been fired?
01:21I don't know if it's a big part.
01:22I think it's a cherry on top.
01:24Okay.
01:25The reports that were coming out, now maybe this is in reverse.
01:29Maybe you're right, and it was Sam Darnold's emergence
01:32and how he stepped up that they said,
01:35now all of a sudden we're just going to throw the kitchen sink
01:37about, you know, his methodology
01:40and how he broke down utilizing PFF rankings
01:43and not, you know, really watching college football
01:48and utilizing the information from scouts.
01:51I find that unbelievable to me.
01:55I do, if that's – and these GMs, and I've said it,
01:59and Joe Douglas was another one when he was with the Jets,
02:02that, you know, he fell in love with Zach Wilson
02:05because he watched the Thursday night game
02:09of when BYU played Houston, and that was the game for him
02:14that really decided Zach Wilson needed to be a Jet.
02:17These GMs are complete jokes, okay?
02:21I do an NFL show, I do a college show.
02:23I watch 18 hours to 20 hours of college football a weekend.
02:27And I'm not even a GM.
02:29It's my job to break down the – that's what I do.
02:32I watch football now.
02:33What are these GMs doing?
02:36What are they doing?
02:37If they're not watching college football, what –
02:40if you're paying me $10 million to be a GM
02:43and I can't watch 10 hours of college football on a Saturday,
02:48it's your job.
02:50I don't understand.
02:51Then your job on Sunday is to watch the league
02:54and watch your team perform.
02:56I don't – what are these guys doing?
02:59Yeah.
02:59I don't know.
03:01Look, I hear you.
03:03I just –
03:03Come on.
03:04I watch college football to 3 a.m. in the morning on the West Coast games.
03:08These guys are relying on PFF.
03:11And not to take away from PFF, but I'll throw a cherry on top as well.
03:16PFF grades it, right?
03:18I'm going to throw an outlier to all these people that utilize PFF.
03:22I'm grading the game, okay?
03:24Oh, guy gets a pancake block.
03:27Is the same guy breaking down all the offensive linemen?
03:31Because what if I grade a guy with a pancake and you see it differently?
03:36Mm-hmm.
03:36So how do we get consistent rankings that we all – oh, the PFF rankings.
03:42I'm just saying.
03:44Yeah, I mean –
03:45Well, I'm just – there are – there can be errors.
03:49So if that's what you're relying on, I mean, give me a break.
03:52I don't think it should be the end-all, be-all only piece of your analysis.
03:56No, but you hear it all the time.
03:58Oh, the PFF – this guy's the 62nd player, right?
04:01Sure.
04:01Okay, great.
04:02I think that –
04:03What does that mean?
04:05What does that mean?
04:05A guy's 62nd – okay.
04:08He's the – 147th wide receiver running routes.
04:12All right, great.
04:12That doesn't sound very good.
04:14Listen, could he catch a football?
04:15That's all I care.
04:16Probably not.
04:17If he's ranked 147.
04:18Come on.
04:19I'm just saying.
04:20Probably not.
04:21Give me a break.
04:22This is the problem now.
04:24This is the problem.
04:25We got GMs.
04:26We got – everybody's analytical.
04:28They don't want –
04:29They're afraid to actually do the nuts and bolts.
04:32Watch the game yourself and make a decision based off your own eyes.
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