00:00Here in a week, we will see the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks do battle in a game that I think is going to be one of the most compelling games that we've seen in recent memory here.
00:10Obviously, the storyline starts, of course, with Sam Darnold.
00:14I mean, Sam Darnold, I've been talking all week long about how this guy is maybe changing the way you look at how you're going to build your football team.
00:26We'll talk more about that in a little bit here.
00:28But that's a storyline there.
00:30Or how about the emergence of Drake May?
00:33He becomes just the second guy at the age of 23 years of age to make it to a Super Bowl.
00:42You know who the other guy was?
00:44The other guy was Dan Marino.
00:46How about Drake May?
00:48Here he is, a young football player that was taken in the first round.
00:54The Patriots had fumbled the ball with Mac Jones, and all of a sudden now you have this young player making plays in an AFC championship game to punch their ticket to get to Santa Clara.
01:05And here he is here at the age of 23.
01:08I mean, it's a great run for him, and could we possibly be seeing another run by the New England Patriots?
01:16Could it be another 20-year run?
01:18That's another storyline going into this.
01:20Look, the Seahawks running game is going to have to be really a factor in this ballgame.
01:25If this football team is really going to push the gamut, Kenneth Walker is going to have to really carry the mail because Charbonneau is no longer in the lineup here because of injuries.
01:36He's going to have to really carry their mail and keep time of possession, field position, because that's one of the great things that this Seahawks team does.
01:44This Seahawks team has built and has been built so great by John Schneider, the general manager.
01:49They built it with defense, they built it with an offensive line, situational play calling.
01:56Clint Kubiak has done an absolutely sensational job with this football team when it comes to moving the sticks.
02:02JSN, take a look at what JSN has done.
02:05JSN, what I love about him, they move him around the entire lineup.
02:12They put him in a slot, they put him at Y, they put him at Z.
02:14And if you really look at the other personnel on the field for the Seattle Seahawks, make no mistake about it, okay?
02:22There's not a lot of frontline guys that are on that offense where you see that they're going to be able to move the sticks with superstar talent.
02:31JSN is a superstar talent.
02:34And I think Clint Kubiak, who I believe is going to become the next head football coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, has done such a spectacular job at moving all those guys around.
02:43It's one of the most proficient offenses that we have in the National Football League.
02:48I love watching that offense.
02:49And then on the other hand, you have the trouble, Stephon Diggs.
02:53Folks, he's brought to New England for one thing, for games like this.
02:59Stephon Diggs, in my opinion, has to be a superstar.
03:03He's got to be Randy Moss in this football game.
03:06He's got to be the guy that carries the football team through the air because they really don't have a lot of stars on that football team.
03:16I mean, Stephon Diggs has to be the star.
03:20You know, we saw him when he was at Buffalo.
03:22He has the capability of being that type of guy.
03:25But will he have the focus in this game that they're going to need?
03:30Look, I think Josh McDaniels has done a fabulous job with this offense.
03:35You know, you can say whatever you want, the offensive coordinator.
03:38I happen to think he's one of the best OCs in all of pro football.
03:41I know.
03:42You know, failure as a head football coach.
03:44You know what fans sometimes seemingly do?
03:45They tie in to a fact that if a guy's a failure as a head football coach, what they'll do is they'll go, well, this guy's not a good coach.
03:56Being a head football coach and being a positional coach is absolutely two different things.
04:01Bill Parcells told me this a long time ago.
04:04When he made that transition from being a position coach to being the head football coach of the New York Giants,
04:10he said that was one of the biggest transitions that he ever thought that he was going to have to make and how hard that transition was.
04:18Think about it.
04:19When you make a transition as a player from the college ranks to the pros, there is a learning curve, right, for all of those players.
04:27Well, there's a learning curve also for a coach to learn how to become a head football coach.
04:32And that's exactly what Josh McDaniel has been able to do is go back to his roots.
04:38Hey, look, he's a play caller, plain and simple.
04:42Is he a head coach?
04:43No, he's not a head coach, but he's a play caller.
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