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"But the, you know, these next three weeks here, you know, we're going to have to start seeing the rubber meet the road. And I thought Bryce made a lot of good throws in this game. It's just, are you, are you, let me ask you this. So are you worried about his ability to be a great quarterback? You don't know. Are you worried that in other words, are you worried that maybe we're looking at Teddy Bridgewater here? You know what I mean? No, although he almost speaking of like 90 yard pick sixes came dangerously close to one in this game. Uh, they tried to set him up with like a, like a quick out or a quick screen kind of to his left and forget it was Vikings defensive and almost jumped up and picked that. Uh, I mean, the only reason I asked that is like, it's sort of striking watching CJ Stroud and Anthony Richardson against, and then watching Bryce young. You're right. Just cause like physically, physically. Yeah. It's, it's hard to not, it's, it's hard not to see it. You know what I mean? Like you watch them and it's just, it's hard not to see it. Like where it's just, you wonder if there's just a cap on how far he can go, you know, as a, as a five, eight male, I am a, you know, maybe predisposed to believing in Bryce young a little bit, a little bit more than I should. I think it will work. I think that they can make him in. Right. I think that the, the here, here are the bookends, right? On one end, it's going to be Teddy Bridgewater on the other end. It's going to be mobile Drew Brees and that's exciting. I think it can go there. I still think it can get there. Um, uh, we are, uh, we're doing horribly on this, by the way, we're on our second six minute timer. Um, but, uh, 34, 31 Eagles over, uh, the commanders. Uh, you know, I think the same thing we say about the commanders every week, they're like slightly better Cardinals. I'm very happy that they're performing well, but this is one of those games where I think the Eagles sort of flex the depth of their personnel, where not a lot of stuff is working for them early on. Deandre Swift comes back to earth and they got away from the run a little bit in this game, but you have your AJ Brown sledgehammer game, nine receptions, 175 yards, two touchdowns. Like this team can beat you in so many different ways. Let's like leave it at that. Cause I do think like this to my, my one takeaway cause the Eagles can, and they're so strong in the lines of scrimmage, which I think is what's like floated them through some issues of linebacker safety. You know, what's the passing game early in the year. Yeah. The AJ Brown trade was a height was an absolute height, like, Holy crap. Like, I mean, like his ability to win games for you this way. Um, like that's sort of my takeaway is like, and you have to give Harry Roseman credit because it seems obvious now, but like there are a lot of teams that like will. There are a lot of teams that will hold onto their mistakes and that will chase their mistakes and there'll be three or four years into their mistake and be like, well, maybe we weren't wrong. Harry Roseman spent a second rounder on JJ Arkega white side in 2019, a first rounder on Jalen rager in 2020. Right. And neither of those worked out. What do you do? He kept swinging. He took Devante Smith with his first rounder in 2021 traded up for him and then spent his 2022 first rounder on AJ Brown. Can you imagine if that team had Justin Jefferson, AJ Brown and Devante Smith? How cool that would have been. Um, anyway, uh, Buccaneers, uh, saints, uh, Derek Carr ended up making it to this game, ended up playing, but the Buccaneers rolled. It was 26 to nine. I mean, break up the box. It's awesome. I love it. I think it's fantastic. Um, three touchdown passes from Baker Mayfield. Um, Chris Godwin was in this game. Eight catches, 114 yards. Like this is one of these teams that I think were just so hesitant to say, okay, they're pretty good, but this is still the core of that Brady Superbowl roster. Yep. Uh, a lot of guys, a lot of guys with the rings there. Yeah. So I don't know. Why not? Why not the Buccaneers? Right. But by the way, only person that was in on the Buccaneers this preseason with my buddy Tyler Dunn over at go long. The only one I think them was tying them to go three and 14. So I was, I was all over it. Ty Ty was Buccaneers are going to make the playoffs. I thought he was crazy. And, uh, that's why Tyler Dunn's Tyler Dunn's smart guy. Yep. And I, I think like Baker is such the perfect quarterback for that group too. So really I'm. Yeah. Yeah. Just, just perfect. Exactly. Exactly what that group needed. Like the overlooked championship group gets like the hair across his ass quarterback and let's go Tennessee and Cincinnati 27 to three. We had a vintage Derek Henry game. I just think the, I just think the Bengals are exhausted. Like I think the Bengals receivers are exhausted. I think Joe Burke, the receivers are in, we saw that, uh, Jamar chase's quote, I'm always F and open. I think that there's some frustration there. It's always tough to talk to people who look like me 10 minutes after the game and try to explain to them what's going on. You know what I mean? Like I, I just a bunch of, a bunch of a holes and quarters. Yeah. I mean, you know, I, I have a punchable face. I get it with, you know, with ketchup stains from the halftime hot dog. Yeah. And you know, why aren't you getting the ball more? It's like a, yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm surprised there aren't more, uh, um, I'm surprised there aren't more face punchings and I'm not saying that Bengals beaker is great by the way. They're, they're, they're all good people, but, um, yeah, uh, they're tired because they're running a lot of routes and they're not getting the ball. Joe burrows tired because he's trying to play on a busted calf and that defense is tired because they're out on the field all the time. And then you add the Derek Henry sledgehammer effect. This is the perfect game for him to get rolling. Uh, it was, you know, and from there on out, you have the game that you have and good for the Titans kind of staying in contention here. But the Bengals, I think we're cresting, like we're, we're, we're, we're entering the universe of lost season territory. We're one week away from lost season territory. Was it your tweet that was the skill position tweet? Somebody tweeted something. Was that you? I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't have good tweets, so probably not somebody, somebody tweeted yesterday. Oh, it's Kevin Clark. I think who, who does have lots of good tweets. He's, he's sort of the, sort of the tweet King. He, uh, he said the Bengals are gonna last season their way until like, uh, into a season. They're gonna wind up with a skill position player in the draft. Like, yeah, they're going to wind up with like Brock Bowers next year. Right? I mean, it could, you know, and this has happened with Kyle Shanahan in the 49ers, right? Where they had a couple of bad seasons. He ended up with Bosa and you know, that works out. I mean, it's okay. Um, and whatever, who cares? We picked them all to win a Superbowl and they didn't win it. All right. They're going to come back next year with probably a replacement receiver for someone that they're going to have lost. Um, they're going to have Jamar chase at the peak of his athletic ability or placement for Joe Mixon and away we go with a healthy, your borough. I don't think there's, you know, what else do you do? What else are you going to do? I mean, I think you got to let Joe burrow get healthy. They're going to be fine longterm. It's just, yeah. Uh, you know, it's, you know, it's actually interesting though. Like the Niners had another loss season where if they hadn't traded up for, um, if they hadn't traded up for Trey Lance. Yeah. Trey Lance, you know, who went in the draft slot that they wound up in? Who? Micah Parsons. Oh my God. So they had the 12 pick that year. That's where they try. They try it up from 12 to three. Micah Parsons went 12. Can you imagine if they had Micah Parsons and Nick Bosa together? That is so good. Um, Baltimore 28 Cleveland three consider myself shocked here. I mean, uh, you could say, oh, they didn't, uh, Brown's didn't have Deshaun Watson, but they've kind of been winning games without Deshaun Watson all season. And I thought that, I thought that the way that Jim Schwartz's defense is playing, they were going to eat Lamar Jackson alive. Now, you know, Dorian Thompson Robinson throws three picks. You're giving the team a lot of extra possessions. Baltimore can grind you down. But this is a really good Lamar game, uh, 15 and 19, one 86 for two and then 27, uh, rushing yards and two more touchdowns. Uh, the Ravens are three and one.
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"But the, you know, these next three weeks here, you know, we're going to have to start seeing the rubber meet the road. And I thought Bryce made a lot of good throws in this game. It's just, are you, are you, let me ask you this. So are you worried about his ability to be a great quarterback? You don't know. Are you worried that in other words, are you worried that maybe we're looking at Teddy Bridgewater here? You know what I mean? No, although he almost speaking of like 90 yard pick sixes came dangerously close to one in this game. Uh, they tried to set him up with like a, like a quick out or a quick screen kind of to his left and forget it was Vikings defensive and almost jumped up and picked that. Uh, I mean, the only reason I asked that is like, it's sort of striking watching CJ Stroud and Anthony Richardson against, and then watching Bryce young. You're right. Just cause like physically, physically. Yeah. It's, it's hard to not, it's, it's hard not to see it. You know what I mean? Like you watch them and it's just, it's hard not to see it. Like where it's just, you wonder if there's just a cap on how far he can go, you know, as a, as a five, eight male, I am a, you know, maybe predisposed to believing in Bryce young a little bit, a little bit more than I should. I think it will work. I think that they can make him in. Right. I think that the, the here, here are the bookends, right? On one end, it's going to be Teddy Bridgewater on the other end. It's going to be mobile Drew Brees and that's exciting. I think it can go there. I still think it can get there. Um, uh, we are, uh, we're doing horribly on this, by the way, we're on our second six minute timer. Um, but, uh, 34, 31 Eagles over, uh, the commanders. Uh, you know, I think the same thing we say about the commanders every week, they're like slightly better Cardinals. I'm very happy that they're performing well, but this is one of those games where I think the Eagles sort of flex the depth of their personnel, where not a lot of stuff is working for them early on. Deandre Swift comes back to earth and they got away from the run a little bit in this game, but you have your AJ Brown sledgehammer game, nine receptions, 175 yards, two touchdowns. Like this team can beat you in so many different ways. Let's like leave it at that. Cause I do think like this to my, my one takeaway cause the Eagles can, and they're so strong in the lines of scrimmage, which I think is what's like floated them through some issues of linebacker safety. You know, what's the passing game early in the year. Yeah. The AJ Brown trade was a height was an absolute height, like, Holy crap. Like, I mean, like his ability to win games for you this way. Um, like that's sort of my takeaway is like, and you have to give Harry Roseman credit because it seems obvious now, but like there are a lot of teams that like will. There are a lot of teams that will hold onto their mistakes and that will chase their mistakes and there'll be three or four years into their mistake and be like, well, maybe we weren't wrong. Harry Roseman spent a second rounder on JJ Arkega white side in 2019, a first rounder on Jalen rager in 2020. Right. And neither of those worked out. What do you do? He kept swinging. He took Devante Smith with his first rounder in 2021 traded up for him and then spent his 2022 first rounder on AJ Brown. Can you imagine if that team had Justin Jefferson, AJ Brown and Devante Smith? How cool that would have been. Um, anyway, uh, Buccaneers, uh, saints, uh, Derek Carr ended up making it to this game, ended up playing, but the Buccaneers rolled. It was 26 to nine. I mean, break up the box. It's awesome. I love it. I think it's fantastic. Um, three touchdown passes from Baker Mayfield. Um, Chris Godwin was in this game. Eight catches, 114 yards. Like this is one of these teams that I think were just so hesitant to say, okay, they're pretty good, but this is still the core of that Brady Superbowl roster. Yep. Uh, a lot of guys, a lot of guys with the rings there. Yeah. So I don't know. Why not? Why not the Buccaneers? Right. But by the way, only person that was in on the Buccaneers this preseason with my buddy Tyler Dunn over at go long. The only one I think them was tying them to go three and 14. So I was, I was all over it. Ty Ty was Buccaneers are going to make the playoffs. I thought he was crazy. And, uh, that's why Tyler Dunn's Tyler Dunn's smart guy. Yep. And I, I think like Baker is such the perfect quarterback for that group too. So really I'm. Yeah. Yeah. Just, just perfect. Exactly. Exactly what that group needed. Like the overlooked championship group gets like the hair across his ass quarterback and let's go Tennessee and Cincinnati 27 to three. We had a vintage Derek Henry game. I just think the, I just think the Bengals are exhausted. Like I think the Bengals receivers are exhausted. I think Joe Burke, the receivers are in, we saw that, uh, Jamar chase's quote, I'm always F and open. I think that there's some frustration there. It's always tough to talk to people who look like me 10 minutes after the game and try to explain to them what's going on. You know what I mean? Like I, I just a bunch of, a bunch of a holes and quarters. Yeah. I mean, you know, I, I have a punchable face. I get it with, you know, with ketchup stains from the halftime hot dog. Yeah. And you know, why aren't you getting the ball more? It's like a, yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm surprised there aren't more, uh, um, I'm surprised there aren't more face punchings and I'm not saying that Bengals beaker is great by the way. They're, they're, they're all good people, but, um, yeah, uh, they're tired because they're running a lot of routes and they're not getting the ball. Joe burrows tired because he's trying to play on a busted calf and that defense is tired because they're out on the field all the time. And then you add the Derek Henry sledgehammer effect. This is the perfect game for him to get rolling. Uh, it was, you know, and from there on out, you have the game that you have and good for the Titans kind of staying in contention here. But the Bengals, I think we're cresting, like we're, we're, we're, we're entering the universe of lost season territory. We're one week away from lost season territory. Was it your tweet that was the skill position tweet? Somebody tweeted something. Was that you? I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't have good tweets, so probably not somebody, somebody tweeted yesterday. Oh, it's Kevin Clark. I think who, who does have lots of good tweets. He's, he's sort of the, sort of the tweet King. He, uh, he said the Bengals are gonna last season their way until like, uh, into a season. They're gonna wind up with a skill position player in the draft. Like, yeah, they're going to wind up with like Brock Bowers next year. Right? I mean, it could, you know, and this has happened with Kyle Shanahan in the 49ers, right? Where they had a couple of bad seasons. He ended up with Bosa and you know, that works out. I mean, it's okay. Um, and whatever, who cares? We picked them all to win a Superbowl and they didn't win it. All right. They're going to come back next year with probably a replacement receiver for someone that they're going to have lost. Um, they're going to have Jamar chase at the peak of his athletic ability or placement for Joe Mixon and away we go with a healthy, your borough. I don't think there's, you know, what else do you do? What else are you going to do? I mean, I think you got to let Joe burrow get healthy. They're going to be fine longterm. It's just, yeah. Uh, you know, it's, you know, it's actually interesting though. Like the Niners had another loss season where if they hadn't traded up for, um, if they hadn't traded up for Trey Lance. Yeah. Trey Lance, you know, who went in the draft slot that they wound up in? Who? Micah Parsons. Oh my God. So they had the 12 pick that year. That's where they try. They try it up from 12 to three. Micah Parsons went 12. Can you imagine if they had Micah Parsons and Nick Bosa together? That is so good. Um, Baltimore 28 Cleveland three consider myself shocked here. I mean, uh, you could say, oh, they didn't, uh, Brown's didn't have Deshaun Watson, but they've kind of been winning games without Deshaun Watson all season. And I thought that, I thought that the way that Jim Schwartz's defense is playing, they were going to eat Lamar Jackson alive. Now, you know, Dorian Thompson Robinson throws three picks. You're giving the team a lot of extra possessions. Baltimore can grind you down. But this is a really good Lamar game, uh, 15 and 19, one 86 for two and then 27, uh, rushing yards and two more touchdowns. Uh, the Ravens are three and one.
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"jim schwartz" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"So I am going to take the Bills for one reason. The Dolphins, I picked them to win the AFCs before the year started. I'm obviously on board with that pick. This game feels like one of those games where everybody and their mother is like, The Dolphins, they might be the best team in football history. Look at the offense. Look at what they're doing. Those things have a tendency to come around and whop you in the face. I mean, just everybody's talking about, oh, this is amazing. And I think the Dolphins deservedly are getting all the praise in the world. I also think that the Bills play them all the time, and the Bills are going to be higher than all get-out for this football game. I also think that stadium, that is one of the loudest crowds in football, and they are going to bring it. Because that is it. Look, the funny thing about this game, it's a much bigger game for Buffalo. They're already back a game in the division. They already lost a game in the division. This is a home game for the Bills, and they're one back in Miami. If they lose this game, they're two back of the Dolphins, and they have to play them again in Miami. Best they can do is split at that point, and they can very easily get swept. And at that point, you're not winning the division, I wouldn't think. If Miami loses this game, okay, you're tied. And you're temporarily losing the breaker, but you can break back in your own building. I think for Miami, you lose this game, you're still fine. If you're Buffalo and you lose this game, you're not fine. You're not fine, at least not for the division. So I think this is a far bigger game for Buffalo, and I think that's going to be reflected. Now, would I be shocked if Miami wins? No, absolutely not. Not at all. I think Miami, frankly, is a better football team. But I think that this game, this scenario, the Bills are going to be higher than all get-out for this game. I think the Dolphins will also be up for it. I just think it's so important for Buffalo. I think that desperation kind of gets them over the finish line. All right, two more to go. We've got another divisional contest in the AFC, the Ravens at the Browns. We talked about the Browns' great defense. The defense has been absolutely off the charts here with Jim Schwartz coordinating it. The Ravens come into town off of a very surprising loss to drop from the ranks of the unbeaten. They are 2-1. Browns are 2-1. In fact, everybody in that division is 2-1, except for Cincinnati, who's 1-2. The Browns are 2.5 points favored in the game. Do you like the Browns at home here against this Baltimore team, or do you think that the Ravens bounce back and they get a road win inside the AFC North? Yeah, I think this is probably one of those games where they're like, hey, the Browns may have figured it out because they beat up on the tight ends. Or you look at the stat sheet, hey, Deshaun Watson actually went over 200-something yards, and you watch that game, he wasn't that good. But at least the stats were better. So I think that one game is kind of like, just keep it to one game. And for me, if I'm going to bet on somebody, I'd rather go with John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson. They let one get away, and I know they have injuries and they haven't been the same defensively. But it's going to be fun to see that offense, the Ravens against the Browns' defense. But for me, I'm not ready to kind of say, all right, I think the Browns are going to be a special defense. If Deshaun Watson, you do enough, you'll be okay. I saw them struggle against the Steelers. The Ravens don't have Kenny Pickett, so I am going to take the dog here. I'm going to go with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. And the reason pretty much is I think maybe the last week's game for the Browns was deceiving. And I think they're going to be a clunky offense for the whole year. And if you're a special defense, you're always going to be in the game. So when you're playing a tough offense like that, it won't be as easy for Mouse Garrett to get to Lamar Jackson. I'm sure he probably will a couple of times. But it won't be as like going in and getting Ryan Tan and every play, and it's going to be pretty easy for you. Yeah, I'm thinking Baltimore. Listen, I get that the Browns' defense has been great. The Ravens are also a very unique offense to go against because of the different things that they can do. Now, they've got to get healthier. That is the one thing in this game that scares the hell out of me. If they don't have Stanley and Lindenbaum up front, that could spell doom in Cleveland. But I trust John Harbaugh. And I trust Lamar Jackson way more than I trust Deshaun Watson. Like, I get to see this being one of these games where the Browns were out coached. And if you watch the Browns, they crushed Cincinnati. Cincinnati has been a mess offensively. They lost to the Steelers largely because their offense couldn't stop getting in its own way. Then they handled the Titans. I'll be the first one to say this. I would not be shocked if I'm wrong in this game and the Browns come out and they win and they win handily. Then I think we have to have a different conversation about the Browns. Then it becomes, okay, they're 3-1. They look really good. And then we've got to have that conversation about where do they rank in the AFC's elite and so on and so forth. And that's fine. But for one more week, I am going to take John Harbaugh and say, I just believe in the Baltimore culture and their way of playing and their understanding of how to win this type of game. I think they come out with a lot of energy and I just don't trust Watson in this game. I could just see this being one of these games where he throws three picks and it's just downhill from there. Give me Baltimore in what could be a very hard-hitting, physical, rock-em-sock-em type game. And then lastly, in a game that is decidedly not going to be physical or a rock-em-sock-em type game, or a game that anybody should watch, a game that may set back football 500 years. In fact, it's been in the news, maybe even set back past the Roman Empire. The Broncos are at the Bears in a true clash of the Titans here. The Broncos somehow on the road and laying three and a half points to the Bears. Thoughts on what should be a Titanic struggle and maybe a game that resembles the Titanic, as everyone just screaming watching it happen. Yeah, what does that say about the Bears? The team that just lost by 50 points coming to your place and you're still the underdog. So yeah, this is definitely probably a game for the right to get Kayla Williams in April, because the loser is definitely on track to be having the number one pick here. So for me, I guess I'm just going to take the home team. These are two very bad teams. I think maybe the Bears have more problems, but they did not lose by 50 points, and they're at home. So for you to shake that off from your mind and say, let's get on the plane now, and we just got beat up. Maybe it is the Bears, and it's a lot of emotions. So give me the Bears. I think at some point you can't just force Justin Fields to be a pass-heavy quarterback. Let's develop him that way. It's year three. After a while, you know who he is. He's going to mix it up. He wants to run the football. So if you're 0-3, in that scheme, whatever you were doing, it's not working. Just let the guy play freely. And if you feel like, okay, that's not the style of quarterback that you want to have for your franchise, figure that out in the offseason. At least let the guy play right now, and then you have the two first-round picks. You have the one from the Panthers. You'll get a Drake man, Caleb Williams, whatever it is, a lot of quarterbacks. So for right now, maybe the style of playing free eventually wins games. It hasn't so far, and it's not Justin Fields' entire fault here. But you got to make some changes. I think being at home, playing a very bad Broncos team that can't really score points, I think it's going to be one of those days where at least Fields does something on the ground. He's electric, and I think people quiet down for a day for Chicago.
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"jim schwartz" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Like I've always noticed when I'm overloaded with work or stress or some other stuff. And also if I'm not exercising, I'll just wake up at like two 30, three o'clock in the morning. I'm like, why am I up? Why can't I fall asleep? And then you're just sitting there with your thoughts. So one thing that can help get a little more exercise. Another thing that can help therapy. And that's where better hope comes in. They make therapy easy. It's entirely online. So it's convenient and flexible no matter where you are. You just fill out some quick questions to get matched with a licensed therapist. And then if you don't click, you can switch in any time for no extra charge. Get a break from your thoughts with better help. Visit better help.com slash bill Simmons today to get 10% off your first month. That's better help. H e l p.com slash bill Simmons. All right. Michael Lombardi is here. We grabbed him. He's been promoting his new book. There's a piece in the new book that I'm so excited to talk about with you, but it has the book promotion going. I think it's going good. I don't know how you'd measure this stuff. You kind of did a lot of interviews, so it's good. It seems to be, I love, I got one review where a guy says, I can't read this book. He doesn't have Deacon Jones in the top 100 players. Deacon's number 10. So obviously he didn't read the book. So, you know, I love those things, but I mean, it's been fine. I think it's, it's fun. It stirs conversation, you know, and you know, from writing books, you, you, you, you know, to get people to buy books today is not an easy chore. You know, there's not a lot of book buyers out there. People like to kind of have it in a condensed form. So I think it's, it's been going well. I'm really happy with it. I can't complain. That's good. Um, when you were on the last time, I forgot to bring this up with you. And now I have a reason to bring it up. You had this whole thing in your book that I feel like I remember everything in sports that's happened since the seventies. And even I had forgotten this about the Rams defense in the mid seventies, absolutely was destroying everybody for five straight years. And, you know, it comes and goes, they never really have their moment. By the time they finally get to the super bowl, it's with Vince Ferragamo, but they're not really the same team defensively. And, uh, we see this happen in football sometimes where these teams will have these runs and then it just, for whatever reason, they never can get over the hump and that's it. This Browns defense, which you were calling out before the year, you were saying like, watch Jim Schwartz. He's got a lot of toys. This is going to be really interesting. They have been so dominant in these three games that I'm starting to wonder, everyone's talking about Miami this week and we're going to talk about them in a second. You wrote about them for Vista today. Everyone's talking about Miami. Oh my God, historic offense. A historic defense is more sustainable in December and January. And I guess my first question is, are we focused enough on the Browns right now? I don't think we are. So let's go back. So Chubb gets into it, right? And everybody mails the season in on poor Chubb. Well, then they played Tennessee and that line was three and a half. It was a, it was a really stupid line. Tennessee can't move the ball against Ocean City High School. I mean, they're not a good offense. I know they beat the Chargers, but that's the Chargers. And so they had to throw the ball. And this was a coming out game, I think, for Watson. He threw the ball effectively, but this defense, they would have, they could have won the game 12-9. They could have won the game 12-3. They're really that good. When you study Schwartz's career, you've never, when he plays the wide nine, you've never been able to run the ball on him because he's really good at teaching run fits. You know, everybody, you hear this rhetoric, Bill. Oh, they're in a diamond or an eight man front. Okay. That's great. But sometimes if you're, if you're on the not on the same level of the eight man front, you're really not in an eight man front. You know, your levels are distorted. Everything gets kind of, it's like a zone. If you're not playing it correctly, it gets messed up. So his run fits are really good and you can't run bootlegs or naked on him because his ends are too wide. So you take away a whole element of some easy throws for a quarterback and they run to the football. And then when they get into a passing situation, now he's taken Garrett and moving them all over the place. And he says, okay, who's your worst lineman? Okay, I got that. Here comes Garrett. Now you block him one-on-one. The other misconception about football is it's like basketball. If you have a bad line and Tennessee doesn't have a good line, don't rush three and don't rush four because somebody can double team somebody on three. But if you have a shitty line rush five, because that means somebody has to block one-on-one all the time. And that's what Schwartz did. And then it gets Garrett. I mean, he had him on Ted Karras. I love Ted Karras. We drafted him in New England, great kid, tough guy, but one-on-one with Miles Garrett, you know, driving to the lane, that's going to be two points every time. And that's what he did. So this defense is good enough to carry them. They're fast, they're athletic. All Watson has to do is not screw it up. So I was looking at the 2000 Ravens, which I think is the benchmark team for, can you just win with a great defense and by not making mistakes, they scored 333 points and gave up 165 in a whole, in a 16 game season. In the playoffs, they only allowed 23 points in four games. So they allowed 188 points total in 20 games. They had seven games of nine points or less. They had four games that year of nine first downs or less. Cleveland has three games of nine first downs or less already. Nobody's gotten a 10 first downs from them. And you can go through and you can say, all right, week one, Burroughs hurt, right? Bad spot for Burrough. Nobody realizes Cleveland's team was that good. Week two Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh scored two touchdowns with their offense, but I, you know, Pickett, he's still figuring it out. They can't run the ball. Nadja Harris looks like Trent Richardson right before he traded him. All right. That makes sense. Then Tennessee, Tannehill, their line stinks. So they haven't really, so Lamar will be the first real test, but I'm looking at that game and I'm going, well, Baltimore's as banged up on their offensive line as anybody. And they have the speed to stay with Lamar, especially if he tries to move around the pocket. Like to me, this feels like a terrible matchup for Baltimore. You agree? I agree completely. Especially if Lindstrom and Stanley are still out and you know, you got Schwartz is going to attack. One thing Schwartz is always very good at doing is attacking the protection. So not only does he know how to get the matchup, he knows how to attack the protections on third down. Then it becomes a really complicated game and he gets free runners. Yeah. This'll be a hard one because you know, now they won't have Gus Edwards to the running back. He's in concussion protocol. And what we've learned about concussion protocol this year with this five step rule that they have is you go with it. You're not coming out for at least another week. You're good. You're going to out a week. You're not coming out like in three days, you know. We like that, right? I like the way they're doing it this year. I think it's the right way to do it. I think it solves the coach's problem from guessing. You don't have to coach now no longer. I have the guy that will not have the guy. He doesn't practice all week. So it eliminates all that crap. One thing about coaching for a gate, once you know you don't have the guy, you can work around it. It's when you think you have the guy, you can't work around it. Right. That's the problem. So I don't have a problem with it at all. And I think what we see there, Edwards in concussion, they don't have a, you know, is Lamar going to be the guy? It's going to be hard to get on the edge. I think with, I don't know if they'll get Newsome back their corner, but look, Martin Emerson Jr. is a really good corner. Ward's an outstanding corner. You know, I mean, they've got talent on all levels on this Cleveland Brown defense. They really are. And that grass in Cleveland is thick. It's going to be a slower track and it helps the Brownies. And the fans like the team and they have a good home field advantage if the fans like the team. They're only favored by two and a half, which I was surprised by what you said about Watson. I thought it was three and a half, really it's two and a half now it's down to two and a half. Down to two and a half. What you said about Watson, I felt the same way and I couldn't tell, you know, once you, that game was over almost to me, once it was 13-3, I was like, that's it, Tennessee can't do anything. They can't run the ball. They're not going to be able to throw it. This is a wrap. But he did gain confidence. And there's still, he still has that physicality to him when he's moving around and guys are bouncing off him. And, you know, this doesn't look like a, you know, the stereotypical like, Oh, we traded for this older QB. He's 34 now. He could sell like, he's conceivably physically in his prime. But that was the first time I felt like, Oh, that kind of looked like Deshaun. Yeah. Right. Did you? Oh, I thought completely. And he was confident. He was moving around. I thought he really was backed out. You know, I wrote about him this week. I think he misses Will Fuller. I think he, he needs a down the field guy that makes plays. Remember when he was good with Will Fuller? Oh yeah. Will Fuller bailed him out a lot of times and maybe Cooper can be that guy. But I think the pressure being on him, they, he has to throw the ball more effectively. Yeah. I mean, look, they didn't run the ball. You couldn't run the ball against the Titans. I mean, that was the one thing people say, well, they don't have Chubb, how are they going to beat the Titans? Well, they weren't beating the run of the ball with Chubb anyway, the Titans are hard to run the ball on. You've got to throw it on the Titans and you got to prove that. And he did. So that's a huge step in Baltimore. Look, I mean, I wouldn't mince you at like 44 pounds. I mean, it was, it was a thousand paper cuts, but they were really good at it. 22 third downs in that game, Indianapolis. So they didn't really make an explosive play, but they made a lot, they got a lot of first down. They were in third down quite a bit, which tells you they were holding onto the ball. So if the 2000 Ravens is kind of your, your North star for this team, do you coach it differently? If you're Stefanski, do you become way less aggressive once you have a lead that does, are you just doing everything safe? What do you do? I think if you, if you're Stefanski, you know, that unless we turn this thing over, first of all, on Monday, today's Tuesday, right? You sit in your office and you're playing a team. Like, let's say you're the, you're playing a team, but Cleveland's playing Baltimore. You say, how many points do you think it's going to take to win the game? And, you know, let's say if we score 24, we can beat Baltimore. Well, then you've got to manage the game because they're gonna have a hard time scoring 24. That's what makes the 49ers so good. Think about this. Nobody talks about this at all. Was Nuske the punter for the 49ers is the best inside the punter kicker in the league by far. He gets, he's unbelievable. So they always move the ball. They get it to midfield. They get it to their own, maybe their own 40. Okay. They punt. Now you have the ball first and 10 at your own. I guess that defense it's hard to go 12 plays down the field and score. It's hard. You're going to screw it up somewhere along the way. And if you do it once, God bless. Can you do it three times for 21 points? No chance. You're not doing a three. I don't care how good you are. And that's the way the Browns have to play play field position. Make them go on a long way. They're not throwing the ball over our head. They don't have enough time and you can win a lot of games. It's, it's, it's a lot like, you know, the, the difference between professional tennis and amateur tennis, the amateur hits the ball into the net. The pro hit shots that the other guy can't return. That's the way you have to play. Like you're not playing conservative. You're playing a professional game. You're just letting them screw it up. And that's what I think the Brown should do. And they can do enough with Watson throwing the ball. They have more as a weapon. They've got Cooper and Joku. The tight end is a good player. I mean, and this offensive line is good too. Now they like, they're not bad in the offensive line. I know they lost Conklin, but Jones stepped in and played well for him. So yeah, to me, I thought they could win the North this summer. And even though without Chubb, I think if they could make a trade for another runner, I would do that. But they're really good. I had them as a playoff team too. The more I watch and I do feel like the AFC is wide open and we're going to talk about Miami in a little bit, but we've seen these great offense September, October teams and then as the season goes on, it doesn't look as great. Casey, I've heard you talk about, uh, how, how much you've liked Casey's defense feel the same way on this end. Um, I think that's been a real surprise, like how active and physical they are. So if I'm looking at like who I like in the AFC, um, I think Cleveland's in the mix for me. You know, I want to see from Buffalo this week, how good they look against Miami. I think Buffalo's defense has been a little better than I thought. Casey, never going to rule them out. Cleveland, um, maybe Pittsburgh, if they can figure out how to move the ball, um, how to, how to throw it deeper than just like these, uh, whatever the hell they're doing on offense right now, nobody in the AFC South, right. That you would have. And that's maybe Baltimore. I can't figure out Jackson though. Here's what about Buffalo. That's a 16 to nothing game in the fourth quarter against Washington. And then, uh, Robinson fumbles and then they break their back. And then, and then it becomes a 30 to nothing game. I mean, they watch the Buffalo's defense. I don't know, like in the matchup this week, or even against a good, is there safeties, are they fast enough in the backend? And if you can block them, like they got nine sacks against Washington, but Washington is trying to throw the ball against them. And that's what they want you to do. You know, they want, they want to play nickel. That's what they're in. And they were in a nickel defense the whole game. You know, they got, they've got the kid Bernard, the second year kid from Baylor. And they got Milano, those two guys, if you saw them walking down the street and you think they played free safety in the NFL, you know, you don't think they're linebackers. You say, there's no way that guy's a linebacker. And yet they are. Who would you, if you had to do your top three defenses, what would you say? One, two, three right now for you, San Francisco or one, two. I think Cleveland, San Francisco and Kansas city. I mean, Kansas city holds Detroit to 14 points, you know, and without Chris Jones and they go down there and they play Jacksonville, hold them to nine. I'm not sitting there saying Jacksonville, but Jacksonville has got some weapons. They should be better than they are. And then, you know, and last week, I mean, it was too easy for them against the bears. So I would probably say, you know, those three are the best by far. I mean, San Francisco, again, it's not that you can't move the ball, the Rams move the ball. You just can't move the ball consistently on them. Like and then what happens to the Rams is what happened last night. They lose Alaric Johnson, the left tackle and the game, all this shit falls apart for them, right? They have no margin for error. I mean, as good as Stafford looks, as soon as he lost the left tackle, he looked like crap again. And Dallas's defense would have been in there, but we're crossing them off after that Arizona game. I'm sorry guys. You give up seven yards of carry. That's kind of hard to do. It's hard to stay in there. And I think without digs, it's hard to look, the hardest thing with Dallas, you got to block them. Like Dallas's back end, you can attack. The front is where the real issues come in, especially with Micah. I mean, you got to block him. If you don't, then, you know, obviously he's going to take the game over, but then you got to match the physicality too. That's the other thing about the Brownies. Like people don't realize the Browns are physical. Like this isn't just like Buffalo's an undersized defense that moves around. Even Ed Oliver's not a big man. This Browns team's big. I said to Sal on Sunday night, they've passed like every eye test piece too, where these guys make, there's a swagger to them that really reminds me of the 2000 Ravens. Like they make plays and the guy jumps up and does like a, you know, a little whirlybird motion or three guys come over and headbutt them. And like, they know they're good. This is not like a fluke thing. I can't wait to see them play an awesome offense. I don't know. They know they're good. And they know the coach is good too, Bill. You know, they're not blowing coverages. They don't like, last year, the Jets, they had 13 point lead with under two minutes to go and they lose the game. How do you do that against Joe Flacco? Like they have that, like, that's what, that's why coaching matters so much in the NFL. You get a really good rock star coach, like, like Schwartz for the, it's the perfect matchup. He had, he's got Miles Garrett, you know, they, they get in Smith, you know, they've got Tomlinson inside. I mean, they're good. So Garrett has, do you think he has a chance to grab the championship belt this year from who'd you have Chris Jones last year? He took it from Donald. Who's going to win the belt this year? Parsons is in there? Parsons. Yeah. I mean, it's either Parsons or Garrett. I, you know, TJ Watts still really good too. I mean, my Lord, you know, they, they're, they're hard to block too. Now, you know, you're right. Offensively. I don't quite know what they're into, but they're better. They're they're tough to play in Pittsburgh. Cause he's so hard to block. And they like, they played, they played nickel, they played regular base against the Raiders and 11 personnel. And they just dared the Raiders to say, okay. Cause they weren't gonna let the Raiders run the ball. They were saying like, we're not letting Josh Jacobs get going. And they did it. Steelers might need the, uh, mid 2010s Flacco offensive. Just like every seven plays, just throw 40 yards downfield. Just be a passing interference. Pickens will make a play or be incomplete. Just, just play the odds. Um, can you give the listeners a little seventies Rams history lesson from the book? Cause you, the way you wrote about that team and talked about them, I was like, he's right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about this team? Well, I mean, it started with, you know, they, it started with the premise of we're going to win the defensive front and they've got, you know, they've got Deacon Jones. They got, they, well, he was pretty much done. They got Merlin Olson inside of defensive tackle, which was one of the best defense people think of little house on the Prairie and him being in the booth. But this was a credible player, right? I mean, father Murphy, you know, and then they got Jack Youngblood, who I think is one of the most underrated, I put it in my top 100 players, you know? And so they were just, I mean, they had this ability to take over the game and this is when you could head slap. And this is when you could do a lot of things to the opposing quarterback. And I know they had Ray Malavicius, the coach after Allen left, but George kind of started this a little bit after he got fired in Washington, he kind of started this and they were really good. And you know, all through the sixties and the seventies, I mean, they were, they just took over games. And, and that, to me, when you have a nickname with your team, with your defensive front, you've got a good team, the fearsome foursome, the purple people eaters, right? The snow curtain. When you start with nicknames for your defensive front, to me, that should be in your draft room. Like we have to come up with it. We have to draft a nickname team. Cause if we have those four guys up front, we're going to be like, you can't believe it. Like it's, it's going to be so good. And so, uh, Well, shit, the Eagles might have that potentially after watching baby rhino, last night, run a mock. Like, I mean, yeah. I mean, yeah. I heard all the bears fans are complaining that they traded down from, I mean, look, everybody's concerned about the off the field stuff, but the kid was, you know, he was always, he was always about, he liked football. And if you like football, I mean, they're like coin bacon, coin bacon was one of the guys that like, no one talks about how good coin bacon was and Merlin's brother, Phil was on the team too. And everybody remembers Freddie dryer. I mean, here's the thing that's so great about that team. Nobody knows who the corners were, right? Nobody knows who the corners were. Everybody talks about, Oh, we've got to have rate. No, when you can rush, I mean, football is a real simple game. If we count the three Mississippi, no one gets open. If you count the five Mississippi, people get open. So if you build a defensive line that reacts to three Mississippi, it's a problem. And that's where they're really good. They were really good. So they had from that five year stretch, they were 190 points allowed or less for five straight years. They went 12 and two, 10 and four, 12 and two, 10, three, and one, and 10 and four, the 76 Rams. Uh, I'm sorry. The 75 Rams gave up 135 points for the whole season. And it was 14 game season. It was less than, less than 10 points a game. Um, and it was weird that they belatedly get there after the owner dies, leaves the team to his wife, Georgia, who I think became the inspiration for first and 10, right? That HBO series, the widow who inherits the team. And they make, they make the super bowl with Vince Ferragamo, who's this handsome Italian guy. So all the Italians are, my whole family was in a Vince Ferragamo. It's like, Oh my God, we, we, one of us might win the Super Bowl. He was the Jimmy G before Jimmy G. He really was. He was the prototype. And they just couldn't make it last. It makes it even better. Isn't the 75 draft that Mike Fanning was their first round pick. They drafted a defense alignment, which is the most important thing. Like when you build strength, you build strength on strength. Right? And so that's the me where, where you kind of like everybody, Oh, we got to get a receiver. We got to get them. No, well, when you're really good up front, you know, you got Cody Jones, you got Al Cowling's. They had Al Cowling's. Wasn't he the driver of the O.J. He was. This is AC. I got O.J. in the car.
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"jim schwartz" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"I don't just don't know where to land on Dak. We watch football for 12 hours a day. When he has awesome protection and weapons, he looks solid. He's certainly better than Zach Wilson and Mac Jones and all those dudes. But I don't really see much of a difference between him and like what I watched in that Minnesota Chargers game with Cousins. They're still like decision-making at the worst possible times. Cousins, you were texting me right after the game about Cousins, they get a first down and goal from the six. Down four points. What was it, 41 seconds left? And they could have spiked it? Not in the Kirk Cousins world. They're not spiking that. He's just gonna run off. Yeah, it looks like a rookie quarterback. Because he doesn't have to spike it, even if he gets the playoff at 25 seconds. That's plenty of time. You shouldn't take more than 16 seconds. He's grabbing his helmet furiously. He's like, you might as well just submit it right there and not even play the rest of the downs. But yeah, that sucked. I don't know, I just feel, and that's the other thing I think about. I like that you think Dak is greater than Zach and Mac. But I feel like all these quarterbacks late in the third quarter, they're all 13 for 26 with 109 yards and an interception. Isn't that like 20 quarterbacks, especially in the early game? So I don't know what happened. I don't know how long we could keep blaming the preseason. But it looks pretty dismal, doesn't it? Just overall? I can't say the quarterback play has been spectacular, with the exception of Miami, who is the 99 Rams, reincarnated. I was thinking, we love to come up with gambling theories and takes on things that then we don't actually follow with common sense and our actual money in a smart way. But is there some sort of formula where a team that has a ton of smoke blown up their asses and played really well the week before, heading into the next week, favored by seven points or more, because this happened to Baltimore too. Lamar's back, MVP. Oh my God, here come the Ravens. And then they blow that ridiculous Indianapolis game where Minshew pulls the Orlovsky. The game seems like it's over. Then Baltimore can't get a first down. All of a sudden, Matt Gay's having the game of his life, and then they lose an OT. But do you think there's something there with the smoke up the ass, let down game the following week, seven points or more? Like, I gotta get somebody to research this. I think there is something. Teams who have won by 20 plus and then are double digit favorites the next week aren't necessarily go out there like gangbusters. But yeah, you're right. That Baltimore game, well, I always, I thought that was weird anyway, because it's sort of a sandwich game. It was, you know, they played Cincinnati last week. They go to Cleveland next week. Why do they care about beating up on Indianapolis? But you're right, when Minshew stepped out of the end zone, the game should have automatically been over. Yeah, Lamar is gonna get, Lamar's, well, you think the game should have been a fourth down? Yeah, the policy, I think it should be over. If the backup walks out of his own end zone with less than five minutes left in the close game. Rest of the game. He's like, that's it, the game is over, please go home. We're gonna cut down on injuries here, that's it. But yeah, that was an odd ending. I don't know, I know we get weird results all the time in the NFL, but I really feel like we, nowadays it's like, okay, which bad quarterback is gonna screw us in a bet, right? Or which one's gonna carry us? Or which mediocre quarterback? Or in the case of Stewart's Raiders, where they just kept doing calls for Vegas to keep them in the game. There was a helmet to helmet call on Micah Fitzpatrick that, how many replays did NBC show? And calls were like, ah, I think right there, you can kinda see maybe the face mask raised a little bit. But it's like, no, that didn't happen. And then the field goal leverage play, which I feel like happens on every single field goal, and they can just conditionally call that on every play or no plays or whatever, and they're showing replays of that one too. And then they're like, yeah, you can see that. They throw it to Terry, the referee booth guy, who's just gonna agree with whatever the referee call is, right? He's like, yeah, that was definitely a leverage play, no question. It's like, I didn't see it either. First of all, you got these old men watching 12 hands or 24 hands as it is, and like, yeah, yeah, no, that was on his back. Secondly, I don't know why that's not a rule anyway. Keep the guy from jumping off your back, right? I'm not sure. Well, so the refs are catching that play, this obscure play in the middle of the line, right? Out of nowhere. Then in your stupid game, there's just an obvious unbelievable pass interference that is called, it was in the same drive that Dak eventually threw the pick into triple coverage, but it's a lot of passing the end zone. Yeah, we needed it at the one, absolutely. We watch football. I mean, you watch football day Saturday and Sunday. I watch football day Sunday. The only thing I fully understand about pass interference is if the D back is turned away from the ball and he's basically face guarding the receiver and he hits the receiver, but doesn't turn his head. That's PI. That's the only thing I've learned in 30 years. Never rewarded. And this was the play. This is the only time ever I've ever seen where it was like, nope, he's just facing the guy crashing into him. I'm with you. Under throws are rewarded all the time. Eli Manning, God bless you. But the face guarding thing where the guy does make contact first, I know you could face guard, but when he makes contact first and doesn't ever intend on turning around, that should have been called. I also don't know if that extra point went in either, the one before, but whatever. I didn't think that went in either. We screwed ourselves. That was just a terrible outing. Well, Dallas drops the 10 to one on FanDuel for Super Bowl odds. And the Super Bowl odds are really interesting. So Casey and San Francisco are the co-favorites now, six to one. And we've been there. This is like our 17th year doing this. September, there's always like the rabbit team that jumps out and maybe it's Miami this year, but there's always, if you go back and you look at these odds in January, like, oh my God, so-and-so was six to one, that's crazy. Casey, San Francisco, six to one. Philly, seven to one. Buffalo's plus nine, 50. Dallas and Miami, both 10 to one. Baltimore, 13 to one. And then it drops all the way to 23 to one in Detroit. So basically they're saying we have seven contenders and a drop off. And I was looking at all of those and I was like, the only one I felt good about for the odds even a little bit was Miami 10 to one, but then you have the Tua concussion thing hanging over that. But Miami's looked like the best team through three weeks. And it's hard for me to believe they're not six to one. Do you feel like that's completely Tua related? Well, it's funny, I'm looking at it. If you had to pick one of the 10 to ones, let's say the Bills are 10 to one. I know it says plus nine, 50. Bills, Cowboys, and Dolphins, essentially 10 to one. Yeah, Miami's much better. Questionably, you're taking Miami. I think so. But to go back to week one, remember when we were saying, oh, the narrative is wrong about the AFC being best. The NFC might have the three best teams. I think it's back. I think it's back the other way. It's curved back the other way. It's back. Well, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Chiefs, Bills, and Dolphins are gonna be a great game next week. But those three are just as good as anybody, I think. I'll tell you what's still alive is my Pittsburgh, all of our Pittsburgh predictions. Were you in on those or were you in on them? I still hate them. I still don't know how they score points and win. So Pittsburgh's 45 to one for the Super Bowl, but they survived. They played, it looks like now, the two best defenses in the league, San Francisco and Cleveland in week one and week two. They finally played a normal team today. They got 23 points, but I thought I liked the way they looked offensively for the most part. But just in general, that division where Cleveland's offense, God only knows, their defense is so incredible, but their offense is, I can't say I was knocked out by their offense today. Baltimore, they just lost to freaking Gardner Minshew in Indianapolis. And then Cincinnati is 0-2, and we have no idea what to make of them either. So to me, that division is wide open. I'm still a Cleveland guy. Do you agree with that or do you like Cleveland the most? No, I'm still a Cleveland. I think they should be 3-0. I think they survived that pick six, first play of the game against Pittsburgh. Chubb goes out and then just craziness at the end. Watson's bumping refs and face masking everybody, the things that quarterbacks don't do. And whatever, that's their quarterback. But you've done research on their defense too. They gave up 94 yards. All right, it's against Tennessee, but 94 total yards? 94, if Henry has 94, it's a bad game. But 94 total yards, they've allowed a league low 3.2 yards per play this season for 61% three and outs. It's insane what they're doing defensively. And they hold everybody to under 10 first downs a game. So that might be enough to carry them, but it is a good division. Cleveland's 24 to one to win the Super Bowl, which is low only because it's Cleveland and the Browns have never played in the Super Bowl. But the D is ridiculous. As you said, six first downs today for Tennessee, 94 yards total. Pittsburgh, nine first downs. They scored 12 points their offense. Cleveland, I'm sorry, Cincinnati in week one, six first downs, they scored three points. Their defense has given up 18 points. Their offense has given up 14 points. 21 first downs total. And I'll tell you this, the eye test not only backs it up, I've watched every one of their games. Not only does the eye test back it up, this is one of those themes that every time they make a play there's a guy doing some sort of personalized celebration. There's a swagger to this team and it feels like they got 15 guys in the field. I can't wait to see them play a really good offense, but Tannehill had no chance. Once that game was 10 nothing or whatever it was, that game was over. We'll know better this week. They play the Ravens and they're home for that. But they do have, and I'm way jumping the gun here, if they made it to the playoffs, they wouldn't be favored in maybe any of the games. But isn't that the kind of defense if it carries a couple of months that the Chiefs have 13 points through three quarters and you're like, oh, what the hell happens? Like, well, they're playing the Browns. This is what's going on. And if they stay healthy, I know that they're not fun. The masses don't want to root for them, but they're exciting to watch on defense. Well, they're built to protect leads and the defense is good enough to continuously give them lead. Lombardi was on this on his podcast and some of his appearances about how important Jim Schwartz was going to be when they hired him. And you could really feel it. And they made some really smart picks. They made some smart signings. Garrett's one of, what, the four or five most impactful defensive guys in the league. There's speed everywhere. And it is one of those defenses when you're watching it, you're like, man, what's the answer against this team? Because brute force isn't going to work. Speed's not going to work. Tannehill's not going to work. Tannehill's definitely not going to work. But Miami doesn't play them this year. I'm going to look that up really quickly. Uh, yo, they do. Is it late? Oh, the Jets played it. No, no, Miami doesn't play them. God damn it, it's the Jets that plays them. But they have some- That'd be a nice matchup. Yeah, with Zach Wilson. The Jets might have to forfeit, like when a youth team forfeits because they know they're going to get their ass kicked. I'm with you, that defense is so good that maybe there's ways, like if they can trade for some sort of running back or maybe Kareem Hunt can blossom into something and maybe they can get one more piece. Watson had some moments today where I was like, ah, that looked a little Watson-y, right? He was okay. Yeah, yeah, decent stats I think today. Yeah, I think he was close to 300 yards, right? That might be the secondary where you play to get right. But yeah, I don't know. Compared to Monday where he just seemed like, I forget about his extracurriculars, he seemed like there was no remorse and he's just, I'm throwing it where I'm throwing it. He did have that lateral play, which was crazy, that went viral, where he threw it 15 yards to the back trail today. That was one of the worst plays of the year, yeah. But he had 289, 27 for 33. You're not going to do better than that with two touchdowns, pretty good. Their defense was so good in that game today that I put more money on Pittsburgh because my theory was- Interesting, yeah. The Pittsburgh Lions stayed, basically they were getting two and a half or three in Vegas, I don't believe in the Vegas team, but people are like, just Pittsburgh, their offense, it's a mess, not Canada.
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"jim schwartz" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Baltimore is another slight under for me. The over under is 10 and a half, which I just think is too high. It's plus one Oh four to go over, which tells you that there's action on the under. I just have questions. I have questions on the defense. Humphrey's already hurt. I wasn't sold on the defense to begin with. They're bringing all these different weapons in. They're relying on Zay Flowers, who is, you know, is young. I always get nervous relying on young receivers. Lamar's health. Not sure about that. Yeah. Lamar just got this huge contract. Never totally know what that, what happens to somebody. And really tough division. They're loaded on the offensive line. They still have Andrews, but this division, I don't, I have them kind of fourth for talent. Yeah. Is that crazy? I don't think so. It was, it's a very different team, right? I think it was like a mass exodus defensively. They lost JPP Peters, Chuck, some of these guys are like, Oh, a little older, but they were like clubhouse guys. So yeah, Clay's Campbell, obviously Justin Houston, all of them. And so that's one thing. The other thing, and by the way, did we talk too much about Lamar Jackson? He got paid. It was fine for months. We were like, well, now are they going to do right by him? He got paid and he's up there with the, with the best. So now he has to play football. And I don't know, this is another thing where Hobart is a great regular season coach, right? He'll usually get you to double digit wins, but I like it slightly under cause I think the division has gotten better. And my surprise to win the division, I can't have four teams at nine wins in this division. So I get it. The thing when I said about how he got paid, he got the contract. Yeah. That brings a whole different level of pressure. Like a year for a year ago, it becomes, they got to take care of Lamar. He's so, you know, it's all positive. Now he has two bad games. It's like, my God, we're paying Lamar all this money. What's happening. And it's just different. And we've seen like, he definitely hears stuff. Yeah. Right. He's definitely attuned to what people are saying. Yeah. I mean, he had to go, he couldn't get out of the bathroom that way. The one thing I want to say is, and like a lot of the experts will laugh at this, but how much is Justin Tucker worth to win total a half a game? Like, you know, in my rankings, I had him as a two point guy and he was the only like special teams person. Cause it's like, he has to be worth two wins. Yeah. So if they're in a, an eight and a team, he gets them the ninth win or, you know, nine and seven when he gets them the 10th one, that's the only thing I worry about with them. Their schedule is a little goofy where they're at Cincinnati week two at Cleveland at Pittsburgh week four or five. And then they go to London and play Tennessee in week six and they kind of have to get through those first six being like three and three. If they're going to get double figures, it gets a little easier after that. Stroud and Richardson, two of the first three. Yeah. The defense is, I think my biggest question mark of anything in the AFC North. All right. Make your case for the Browns over under nine and a half plus 400 to win the division. Do you have money on this? I do. I have too much. I don't know why. I don't know if it's, uh, if it's, you know, because we, we know new people who work with the Browns and maybe this is my little dig, but I don't, I have them at 11 wins. I think, you know, DeSean, I'm throwing it out. Like most people are saying, well, you know, we had a good sample out of Watson and uh, he wasn't good. I was like, no, I don't think he could have been thrown back in there like that and expect to pay dividends. And you know, Elijah Moore's added Goodwin, Cedric Tillman, this rookie out of Tennessee. You got Chubb focused, not splitting carries now with Kareem Hunt. No longer. Yeah. Um, they pick up Thornhill, the safety from Kansas city bookend. Miles Garrett was a Darrius Smith. I think this defense is going to be amongst the best in the division. So I have them. Stefanski is good enough and they now they have Jim Schwartz. Like I said, the fancy is good enough. I think so. What does that mean? Well, he won his most important two arms and two legs and a head and he could hold a clipboard. Listen, he was at home resting. Um, when, uh, with COVID when his team won that playoff game, that's what you wanted. Just get out of the way. Let them do what they can. Their first five, four at home against Cincy, Tennessee, Baltimore, San Fran, and then at Pittsburgh week two, Monday night. Yeah. And that's it. And then they got at Indy week seven and I don't think any is going to be very good, but they have some stinkers on their schedule at Indy home, Arizona. They have an at Denver. If you think Denver's not going to be that good at the Rams Jacksonville at home, Chicago at home at Houston. So there's some wins they can kind of grab and then just try to split everything else. I have them at least 10 and seven nice. And you could talk me in 11 and six, but I have them as a playoff team. They're also kind of loaded and everybody's talking about their pass rush. They have, I think a top four offensive line. Yeah. Chub. You said pass correctly. Pass pass. You got to work on that. Pass rush. I don't like when you say it right. So it's the thing with them. I think they're that one of the high ceiling, low, low floor teams, right? Cause if Watson's actually like good, I'm not even saying four years ago. Good. But if he's just good and makes some plays and does some stuff, I think they're no question. They're a playoff team. Sure. If he's a C plus, they might still be a playoff team. If he's last year's Watson, then I would change my mind. You say low ceiling and I know you said the NFC East had the most wins last year, but if you were to, if FanDuel will make a prop about which, I want to know how to say it's like total wins. Which division is least likely to have a last place team with six wins a lot. Like I, I would say AFC North. Yeah. This is the one, right? Cause NFC East it's probably Washington. Right. Yeah. By the way, I want to ask you when you did your win totals, did you, did they add up to, I didn't do that. I didn't want to do that. I can't take you seriously. I think that's psychotic. Really? That's psychotic. You added everything up. How do you know if your numbers add up? I'm okay. This year I'm a little under on my wins.
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"jim schwartz" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"But let's go ahead and spend the money because other than that, we have not been good at getting the quarterback or developing one. So that's why the overpayment happens. And I think people, about 75% of the fan base understands that. Well, it's even worse than overpayment because he didn't want to go there. And the only way he wanted to go there was if they guaranteed his entire contract, which had never happened before. I think it's, it's so funny looking at all their, uh, they're gambling stuff because like they're plus one 12 to make the playoffs, right? They're almost even they're over under is nine and a half, which is such like the perfect cutoff for 10 and seven is probably good enough to make it nine and eight is a classic Brown season. They're 30 to one win the super bowl. They're 18 to one win the conference. They're plus 400 to win the division. And they were seven and 10 last year. And then you could go even bigger dude, like on Fandle, it's 12 plus wins is plus three 40. And you could just talk yourself into, Hey, if the Sean's back, this team might be loaded. They got the, they got the biggest variance. So, so I could talk myself into, like, if, if, if I have, you know, one too many cocktails, I could talk myself into 12, 13 wins for the Browns just because I, because I look at it and say, okay, if you got a coach of the year, Kevin, some fancy has shown that he can, he can call plays. He's won a coach of the year before miles Garrett is playing under Jim Schwartz. You look at it, the cornerstone pieces, they got a nice secondary. You got one of the best pass rushers in the league, best running back top five line. We've gone over that bonafide route runner. And we like Elijah more. Um, we love what he's going to bring. You look at that and say, okay, well, you put all that together with that 2020 Deshaun Watson. That's a, that's a bonafide, uh, uh, AFC championship contender. However, on the other end, I could talk myself into six and 11. I could see six. If you, you, you, we got three division games starting off, you got the bangles, you got the, uh, Steelers, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. So think about this degree off. We get off to a bad start or so say for instance, Deshaun Watson plays poorly. Uh, and we lose to the bangles week one, you got to come back short week. You got the Steelers. Now you really know it's worse than a short week. It's a Monday night game week two at Pittsburgh. Think about it. If you start off one in three, you know, two and four, how many people are going to be satisfied with that? People, I told them, they had six games to prove it. Um, and Kevin Stefanski is under the, the, the hot seat. And I think that's why we've already turned over our kicker already. Cause I think the pressure's on a little bit. Yeah. They go Cincy at Pittsburgh Monday night, home, Tennessee, home, Baltimore, home, San Francisco with a bi-week in there. And then at Indianapolis at Seattle. And that's probably the toughest part of the schedule. And you, you, you kind of have to come out of there four and three, if you're thinking about when the division, which is a tall task. You got, you got to, and, and, and we peek around a little bit. I've been watching the Steelers. I always ask people, you know, how do you know if you got a squad or not? How do you know the Browns are for real? And I said, well, okay. I always ask myself if Mike Tomlin was coaching his team, what would you expect them to do? I say, if Mike Tomlin was coaching the team, I think that we play all solid day. Okay. Well look, uh, John Harbaugh, if he was coaching his team, I could give you, I can go down the line about seven, eight coaches that if they had this roster, I believe that they would be playoff contenders or Superbowl contenders. So my question is not only is it the staff and not the roster, but also if it comes down to a championship game and I, and I have to beat a Patrick Mahomes in Andy Reid, do I have the coach that can do that? I personally don't think so. That's my biggest fear other than Watson. I haven't seen it from Stefanski. I don't, I don't know if I trust it. I made a list of top 32 coaches. I didn't have them in the top half. And I'm like in the high twenties. It's and I think the knock on him is he looks great when he has a mediocre guy, like if he has case Keenum or he has, I wouldn't call Kirk cousins mediocre, but the bucks still out on him. That's what his thing is. People think he can't win, but he looked great with Baker. He looks good with bootlegs and tight ends and, and he'll run play action. And he has the best looking high school playbook I've ever seen. He had who runs a solid high school playbook, but when it comes to the bonafide superstars, when you got to play a Kyle Shanahan or McVeigh or, or Andy Reed, are you going to be able to go play for play? And you're going to be able to go pass for pass innovation. And are you going to get the most out of Deshaun Watson? Now they've told me, as I talked to people in the organization, they said they put a lot on Deshaun Watson and say, look, give us 40 plays. If you don't like those 40 plays, we'll rip them up and we'll, we'll we'll get you 40 more. So they're trying to be more lockstep at the hit with Deshaun Watson calling the plays he likes along with Stefanski. My thing is, I don't know if they have enough time together to kind of pull that off in a very short period of time. I can't say I've loved Stefanski's game management over the last few years. All right. Since we, we never have Cleveland diehard people on this pot, I'm going to throw some, some Cleveland questions at you. Just walk us through Cleveland's relationship with Pittsburgh. I don't think you, I don't think you've finished the head of Pittsburgh in the standings. What, since you came back in the league, like is it, is big brother, little brother, like not even strong enough to, to say what it is, what is it? Man, it's, it's the, it's the difference between having everything and having nothing. Um, to me, I, you know, a lot of people don't get it. There's, we've lost a generation of Browns fans, um, in our state that, you know, if you would, if you uphold people and you go to certain period of prices in town, there's Pittsburgh Steelers fans who have their gear on. Um, the terrible towels are here and you got to think about it. When Ben brought this burger, I played against him in Miami. I went to OU. He went to Miami Ohio. When Ben Roth, this burger, um, got drafted by the Steelers, it was for years. He had a better, more wins than any quarterback in Cleveland hat and, and at our stadium. And so they would, they would flood and, and wave their towels. And I just hate those doggone towels. I don't like the colors. I just don't like, I don't even play with the Steelers on man. So when you run into a Steelers fan and you tell them you're a Browns fan, they just look at you with complete disdain. Cause we used to have this with the Yankees as Red Sox fans, where they're just like that. Like it, what, it isn't even disdain. It's kind of like they don't pay you attention because you haven't done enough to make it a rivalry. It's a feud. It's a feud. It's not a rivalry. You're like, why would you wear that? Why would you wear Brown's colors? Those are Halloween colors and ugly anything. Like why would you, they never win. Why like more so than ever, we get a lot of you guys are tortured, man. Why do you feel bad? The pity? Yeah. They have pity. That's even worse. Yeah. I've been there. I've been there with the, with the Red Sox with all that shit. But then is Baltimore higher or lower than Pittsburgh with the pure hatred? No, this, this one is different. This one hurts a little bit more because it's like, let me give it to you like this. It's like, it's like breaking up with your ex, right? But then she upgrades on you like she upgrades. She's like, yo, I broke up with you. My life is better. I shop more. I want to got my degree. I work out every day and my new husband is great. He's such a good guy. And you think he's a good guy. There's nothing you can say about it. You're like, you know what? You've completely upgrade for us. It's like the Baltimore we left in 95, Baltimore, you know, they come and they, they, they, you know, leave, go to Baltimore 96. They start doing their things. They get Ozzie Smith or excuse me, Ozzie Newsome, one of the, one of our four file fathers. They get him. We put them in hall of fame. He's the GM and, and, and right out the gate, he goes and gets, he goes and gets Ray Lewis. He goes and gets Jonathan Ogden. He drives head read. And then they went to super bowl with one of the greatest defenses of all time. And you're just sitting there like, how did this happen? This was us. That was my story. It's just crazy. Well, and then on top of it, then you have the Bella check piece. The Bella check thing is even crazier because if you go back, I think ESPN had the thing about 1995, um, where the Browns were built in the roster and you go back and look at that. Right. I think they had current parents. I think they, they had bill Bella check. His staff was crazy. Um, it was one of the greatest coaching staffs and collective of young minds in the world. You know, the Browns run him out of town, Bernie, you know, first he ran Bernie out of town. Bernie goes and gets a super bowl with the Cowboys run Bella chick out of town. And he's the greatest thing ever to move as a coach. And it just seems we left holding a wet bag again. Come on, bill. It's like, how does this, you can't even, you can't write this man. You can't write it. It's crazy. So if you had to pit the Browns against the bills and the lions for the most tortured championship and we'll throw in the Vikings too. Okay. Those four, like who would you have? You're going to have obviously make the case for the brands. You lost a team. None of those other franchises lost a team. That's the worst thing that can happen. They didn't pack, they didn't pack a team up. Like, like, you know, I make the correlation. People talk about those great Indians teams in the mid nineties with bell and all those guys, man Ramirez and told me the reason why those guys are as great as they are. And they had to sell us because the Cleveland Browns left. There was a void in the city. There was kids growing up in 1996. I was, I was a freshman in high school and I never, I didn't watch football to again to 99. We had no team, no direction. That's why baseball was so huge and the tribe was so huge during that time period. But no one had, no one has gone through what the Browns have. They, you know, they took that team. Um, I could make a case that the Cleveland Browns have like really been at least the cat, at least the lions got Thanksgiving. At least I got Thanksgiving. We like, if you look at it, we didn't even have an opportunity because we had to black out in our locally where the game went sold out. You didn't even get to see the Browns. So even when they were here, you didn't have an opportunity to see them. Um, you know, I've always told myself, I think I would literally cry if I got an opportunity to see the Cleveland Browns jerseys, just on, just for the super bowl. Right. I just want to see it come out of that tunnel. That's it. All I want to see is come out to tunnel bill. I'll be golden. I've talked to different fans from the fan bases about this. And I mean, you had the Biner, the Biner game, which is one of the worst losses of all time. Certainly one of the worst ones I've ever seen, but the bills have, they have the Norwood game. They have the four in a row, music city, miracle. They have the 13 seconds game. So they, they add up. And then the Vikings have some of the great losses we've had over the last 50 years. The, the, a case that Alliance fan made to me was like, all right, the bills had all those super bowls. At least they got there, you know, and saying the Vikings, they've had all this heartbreak. At least they got there. And the Browns, like at least they were good in the eighties. Like we've had nothing. We had Barry Sanders. We made round one of the playoffs once and he was good in video games. And do you realize year after year, we just get our asses kicked on Thanksgiving. I thought that was compelling, but I still feel like losing a team is still the worst. But then on top of it, that team becoming the Ravens they went to and Belichick winning another six. And then the fact that you've been incompetent since 1999, like incompetent. We were known for how many quarterbacks we have. Um, like starting quarterbacks, you look at a guy and shout out to Joe Thomas, bless his heart. You know, I, one of the best dudes I've ever met in my life. And, and they just wasted his career. They just wasted it. And they're throwing on top of that. You got to think about it. Like before LeBron came back, it was worse because we're just known as the place that lost the greatest basketball player ever that lived there. Like it was just so coming back was, was a crazy thing, but obviously you left again, but on a better circumstances, but yeah, it's been a strange one. Um, that's why I think I call, um, the Browns America's team. And the reason I call them that is because when you take a look at Brown's backers, I do a small little ball going to barbershop or whatever. And I didn't even, when I started doing this, like I just woke up off my mom's couch being unemployed and was like, listen, I think I want to do that. And so I started a little blog or whatever, and I started doing stuff that I was passionate about. And it was, it was the Browns and no lie. There have been people who have reached out to me from every corner, this globe from Ireland and South America to Hawaii, shout out to why and the people in Hawaii going through some stuff right now, it's Brown's back is out there too. But those people reached out so passionately and was like, listen, I love listening to you because it makes me feel like I'm at home in Cleveland watching my Browns. And there's so many passionate fans around Brown's backers everywhere that it feels like we, we like one big Legion. And if we do win, we will have multi simulcasted parades all over the, all over the globe, uh, celebrating the Browns. And I think, and to be truthful, I think America will root for us because they do know we've been through a lot. I would 100% route unless, unless the line was tasty enough for the other team. And then I thought I would just take the other team. Um, the LeBron thing. So if, if they don't fix game five of the 2016 finals and suspend, dream on, um, and you never win the title that year, what's the psyche of the, of the Cleveland fans at that point, LeBron leaves. He never, he never took care of business. He leaves, and now he's on the Lakers and then he wins in 2020 and you guys still haven't won anything since 1964. Is it like just way darker? Like does the mood of the city just feel different? What happens? It's so crazy about LeBron. It's it's when I try to tell people and explain people how, what it is like on the ground, it's almost being like when he came back and he won, um, it was like one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Uh, you know, playing Steph Curry, you know, and how good they were, um, they, we won that championship. And I think that it was so devastating because after that happened, there had already started to be rumors and whispers that Kyrie wanted out and the machine was already working in us. So at that point in time, like we're, we're a little old Midwest Cleveland, right? You're in Boston. So you know how this thing works. You are the first people detailing the max players and how they move. And you guys were in the cutting forefront of the way the player movement was working. So you guys understood that we never saw it coming. It was, it was totally outside the rim of our possibility that we were saying we just beat one of the best teams ever. LeBron came back and we came back from three, one and it was already working behind the scenes that we were going to lose Kyrie. And so as that season goes along, it w we never even really got a chance to celebrate because soon after that, the 17 season comes around and the warriors go get Kevin Durant and they just dropped a nuclear bomb on everybody. And it was like, we were delusional in our little space. It was like two weeks after you won the title, right? All of a sudden Durant's on the warriors. And then it was just done. It was like, there was no, if you play basketball or if you know the game, there was no way anybody was beating them. And so Durant came, that kind of, you know, you know, pulled Kyrie away a little bit. And then that thing kind of developed. And then it was one of the things where we were looked at LeBron for staying so long. We were like, yo, it's LeBron come back or leaving. We couldn't even prepare for the Kyrie leaving because enemy to me, one of one of the Lebron's best acts was I think it was a 2018 when he beat the Celtics in game seven. Yeah. He was amazing. I mean, the way he might strode that thing. Um, the way he just, I mean, one of those things you don't really understand it until you watch it. But this guy didn't have no, but he had Larry Nance Jr. Yeah. Tristan Thompson. Yeah. But the way he came in game seven and was like, hold on, let me control the pace. I'm down six. And he LeBron does this cool little thing where he's like, oh man, he's keeping it close. He's keeping it close. And then all of a sudden you look up, he's up four with like three minutes left and you're like, what the heck happened? He just morphed in front of us. He had game winning shots against the Raptors. That series. Yeah. I think he, he played well. He, it just Raptors. He'd be someone's game seven. And by the way, by the way, he played all 48 in game seven against the Celtics. And guess what? That game one against the knit or not the next game. One of the warriors, the 51. That was his best game. That was the best game. Yeah. I think that's his best game. Without the charge, without the return to the charge, which I think LeBron got there. I just watched the game over about two weeks ago. If you say he can go in there and steal game one against the greatest team ever assembled in my opinion that I've seen play, um, that's just something to be, behold. But I think it was like a double loss cause they, they probably should have won. So now it's like, all right, we got to beat these guys five times in a seven game series. That's never happening. Like he knew it was done when they lost game one, he punched the wall and broke his hand. And he knew he had, he, you know, there was a small little sliver of where he could go, um, and how he can do that. And he did it. Um, and they just lost the game. And I think he knew he was leaving from that point. But as far as it goes with the fans, we kinda, it was a whirlwind, like I think, and he did, we did in LeBron said it before. Um, he kinda, he kinda, uh, you know, spoils you a little bit because at that point we were on a stage where we were going to go in the finals. It was just a foregone conclusion. We'd be there with the warriors at the end of the season, he turns around and leaves. And then I think after that happens, we start to look and focus at our other teams and say, okay, well, what do we have here? And we realized the calves are going to have to rebuild again. We realized the guardians aren't going to spend any money, but that's a whole nother program. And then we got, we got our Browns. And at that point, the Browns I think was starting to come around a little bit. We had Baker, Baker brought a Jota energy to the city. Um, you know, he just, he was that guy. That's the biggest thing I've learned in this, in this talk so far is that I didn't realize Baker was that past popular to the bitter end. Still is still, listen, people, there were guys, there were guys last year, we started ultimate Cleveland sports show and I was talking, I think he worked with Jay Crawford is on our show as well. And Jay's like, look, if Baker B Baker's going to win his starting job in Carolina, there were actual Browns fans that drove down to Carolina to watch Baker and was like, it had the jerseys on and everything. That's unbelievable. What did they, what did they like? What was, what resonated with Baker? What was it? Well, so what resonated with Baker was he's kind of, it's like, kind of like our country, right? Right. He was a guy who, he wasn't a quarterback. He wasn't one of those button up guys. He told you how it was. He was a guy's guy. He drank beers. He, he said how he felt and said, and felt how he said, and to a certain extent, he came along the time period where we had just left one in 31 with Hugh Jackson, you know, one of the darkest periods in our, in history of the Browns. And he was the guy to give you a little bit of confidence. He gave you a little bit of swagger. He said, nah, listen, I'm not going to take it as us versus everybody. And so that resonated. And on top of that, he won. So he did things, other people, he won, you know, he broke the rookie passing record. He eventually got to a point where the one year to coach the fans, he did win during the COVID year coach of the year. He goes into Pittsburgh and they put it on Pittsburgh. Like we've never seen, you know, the game ended up, ended up being close, but at one point in time, it's 28 nothing in the first quarter and we're sitting around locked in our, in our houses, not going anywhere. Like I can't believe my Browns are doing this to big Ben. We made Pouncey retire. Wow. It sounds like we need a Baker Mayfield Cleveland 30 for 30. Let's get the documentary crew for the comeback. It'll start with those bear coolers. We had won a game. We were one in 31, Tyra Taylor. Uh, it was a Monday or Thursday night. I think it was Thursday night. Tyra Taylor's playing against, uh, Jeff, Sam Darnell and Tyra gets hurt. Uh, he gets injured. Baker comes in, throws a rope down the middle to Jarvis Landry. He catches the ball. Uh, they do the Philly, uh, the Philly special Baker catches the Philly special touchdown. And basically this, this at the stadium, they're running a promotion that where they had these beer coolers filled with beers. And when the Browns would win, they were going to open the beer coolers and it had been almost two years since we won. They win that game coming back and come back fashion. The beer coolers open Baker Mayfield is now like he's Johnson. No, he's the king of the North. He's riding in on his dire Wolf. It's crazy. Like he's the man. And that, and the crazy part about it was, that was like the high point. Like it was here. Like you told us we didn't find it. And he got injured. He got hurt. Uh, you know, the team kind of turned on them, you know, it just, it was evident that he needed to go somewhere else to start over. And I think one of the things that you, you will see in the backdrop of everything going on is this it's it's, you know, you don't never really know what you've got to is gone. Cause I remember coming up and a lot of people talking about Bernie, right. And now Bernie's one of my good friends and he's a, he's a hero because we've had nothing since him. So in the same way of Baker Mayfield, people loved him because he gave him something to, to think about and get through, um, during the tough times. But Deshaun Watson is coming in at a, a very, uh, so difficult task, but I think he's the best quarterback they've had. He has the most talent. Um, and I do think that the Cleveland Browns, this unit is rallying around him. I think this year, he's more of a captain figure than he was last year. I don't think he could have led that way last year, but this year, I think he gets it. What you just laid out made me almost certain that Baker Mayfield, when he retires from football comes back to Cleveland and has like a 25 year media career. Lock it down. Baker on Fox college football. I think Baker Mayfield is a star. Like I, I could see him doing like, you know, the, the, the Fox game day shows or whatever the case may be. He's a star on screen. You can't get around that. Like, so if you watch him, that that's part of, I guess, you know, having that it factor, um, people want to watch Baker. I think he will, he's a, he's a slam dunk star on TV. All right, before we go, can you give me your Cavs prediction for this season in 40, 45 seconds? Wait, what are you expecting? All right. 45 seconds. Um, Donovan Mitchell, this is a big year from him, from him. I like Imani Bates. Um, wait, is it a big Donovan Mitchell year because he completely shit the bed in the playoffs? Oh no, because I think he's completely not going to be here after next year. So you're signing up on that because that's been the whisper campaign for a while. Yes. He's not, he's not going to be here. Um, I think they, they signed up with that knowing that I do like the Niang George being, I like streets. I like, they need some shooters. They need some guys that can spread the floor. Little concerned about Jared Allen playing four B or, you know, stretch four. He's not a guy that could spray the floor. I'm also concerned about Mobley. We met all bodies of unicorn. I need to get him better than 27% behind the three point arc. I want to see more of that. I want to see more dribble into the basket. Um, I think he may play better without Allen. I'm not sure. Um, I think, I love Darius Garland. I think he can take another step forward. You know, 22 small guards is kind of, but what I will say is, I think this team can be anywhere from a one to a five. Um, I would expect them to get past the first round this year. Um, and then from there, it's just all about how well they play in the playoffs at that point in time. Maybe they have enough shooting, but, um, I would pick them somewhere in between one or five. I think the ceiling is a number three C in the East. So why wouldn't they just trade Mitchell now if you think he's going in a year? I think, I think they don't like the packages that they could get back. If you trade him now. Also, I don't think they would trade them because I think that would signal that they made a mistake. I think if you trade him now, it basically says, yeah, we screwed up and we thought we were better than we were, but we just kind of, uh, you know, he was available. We got him, see if it worked. It didn't work. Now we're going to have to trade them pennies on a dollar. So I think they're willing to ride it out because they believe that Mobley can be a unicorn. And if they lose him for, I wouldn't say free, but if they lose them and don't really get much for him, I think that they can really save face because Mobley will be good. Garland who is already locked up. Yeah. All that matters is Mobley and Garland. But I wonder, I just wonder if the Knicks would get frisky and jump in and just try to get them. And you're basically taking all the pics you gave up and getting a bunch of them back. RJ Barrett and quick. Yeah. And you're getting a bunch of stuff back in. Yeah. Um, all right. By the way, before we go, bill, I had to shout out to your daughter, who goes to Emerson college. Correct? Yes. Uh, my producer on ultimate Cleveland sport show, Mikey McNuggets, he's a former basketball player there. So he says, shout out to the Emerson people. Like he's, he knew good one. I said, how long did you do research for that? Mikey, you know, I was going on here. I shout out to Emerson college, right? I love the shout out to Emerson. Uh, all right. So you Brown's final prediction. You're going playoffs. Sounds like your playoffs. Okay. All right. I'm a playoffs guy. All right. I don't want you to jinx anything. Let's just say, all right, there could be one of the seven playoffs. There we go. We'll take one of the playoffs. All right. If you enjoyed hearing Garrett, tell us where we can find you. You can find me on, you know, I'm on a ultimate Cleveland sport show every single, uh, every single day, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 1 PM. You catch me on my barbershop show radio show 92, three defend WKRK FM in Cleveland, Ohio. I'm on there Saturdays from 8 AM to 12 PM. Catch it on the Odyssey app. You can follow me on Twitter at G Bush 91. And of course you can find, um, some of my work on the bleacher report as a Brown's content contributor over there as well. 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The MMQB NFL Podcast
"jim schwartz" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"Let's bounce into the best part of this, Mitch, which is the AFC North. Obviously, the first place Cincinnati Bengals is going to win this division at 13-4. You're a biased fan. I think we can just skip right over the AFC North. Baltimore at 11-6, Pittsburgh 9-8, Cleveland 8-9. My only kind of kick myself moment there after seeing Kenny Pickett in the preseason and I knew this and I wrote about this. I heard a lot of great things about Kenny Pickett this offseason. I really liked the way he looked. I could flip Baltimore and Pittsburgh. I could see Pittsburgh going 11-6 and Baltimore going 9-8. I'd be OK with either of those. And listen, Cleveland ultimate bet hedge there. I have them finishing last place at eight and nine. There was a moment in the preseason where Deshaun Watson was running a lot. I think that might be something he leans on this year because it doesn't seem like he's jibing with the offense as its design. I mean, if he takes off and he uses his legs with reckless abandon. This team could be 13 and four, you know, they could win the division by a mile. Jim Schwartz is really good at his job, so that's a tough division to project. But, you know, as a dyed-in-the-wool Bengals fan, I really can't go back on my Bengals. All right, let's move on to the AFC South because this is another interesting one. Because the listeners can't take another two-hour podcast. We can't spend as much time on every division as we did on the AFC East. So let's move things along a little bit. But AFC South is another one where you are against the trend a bit. So I want you, if you want to read through your team records and then defend your division OK, Tennessee in first place at ten and seven, Jacksonville in second place at ten and seven, Indianapolis in third place at eight and nine, Houston five and twelve. My one major regret there is I wish I knocked Houston down a couple more wins, maybe make them like a three win team, which is going to be an absolute banner trade for the Arizona Cardinals who could end up with the first two picks in the draft. Tennessee at ten and seven. Here it is, Mitch. They signed DeAndre Hopkins and I don't think that makes them good. But I think Mike Vrabel thinks they're going to be good. And if Mike Vrabel thinks this team is going to be good, I have no reason to doubt him. I think he's a top five coach in the NFL. I think they can, you know, it's like the end of true detective. Woody Harrelson is old. He's broken down, but they still get the Yellow King. Derek Henry's coming back for one more run. Ryan Tannehill back for one more run. Love the Titans. So what's interesting here, you have them ten and seven, but you actually have them starting one and three and then two and four heading into the bye week. That's right. You envision this Tennessee team because there was talk in the off season about should they trade Tannehill to the Falcons or to wherever else? Should they trade Derek Henry while he still has some value? Should they sort of tear it down and rebuild? You think they can turn around and win the division even if they start the season one and three, two and four into the bye? You think they hold on to their guys, make a run at it, go for it. You don't think this is a team that if they start slow, the wheels could totally fall off the season? No way. Even with the mounting pressure of having two pretty good backup quarterbacks, I mean, Malik Willis has looked good in the preseason. I think they ride it through with Tannehill. I'm all in. I mean, Tennessee was another finalist for Conroe's future favorite team, but that was largely a Mike Rabel pick. So that's what I'm going for. I think Jacksonville is good. But how many times, Mitch, have we gone through a preseason where it's like, oh, this is the trendy team. This is the team. If you pick against them, you're an idiot. You don't know football. How many times did people say that about the Chargers every year and the Jacksonville Jaguars are the new Chargers? I think they're going to be good. They're going to be fine. There's going to be nothing wrong with this team. I have them making that they do sneak into the playoffs, correct? Yes, you do. Ten and seven as the six seed as the the second wild card. So they're going to get in. Relax. Maybe they mount a Super Bowl run, everybody. But I didn't get that far yet. Leave me alone. But yeah, so I don't know. That's that's my take on this. I think the Colts will be a very good eight and nine. Very fun to watch eight and nine. I like Jacksonville a lot as a long time. I don't know how loyal the listeners of your show are to the the old gambling episodes we used to do, but I was on before the Super Bowl with Gary Gramling and Jimmy Traina and Connor, you should know I have I'm I'm tied up in Jaguars making it to the Super Bowl. I placed that that wager even before Super Bowl 57. I was in on Super Bowl 58 and it would be nice for me if the Jaguars go on a little run. I believe in them quite a bit. I like them a lot this year. OK, AFC West.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jim schwartz" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"By one tenth of 1% ten year up ten 30 seconds ten year yield 2.86% spot gold 1824 the ounce West Texas intermediate crude up 3.4% one 1420 a barrel I'm Charlie pellet detro Matthew This is a Bloomberg business flash All right Charlie thank you Imagine watching your own election results from bed That's the likely reality tomorrow for John fetterman the democratic lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania is the democratic candidate for Senate there The FrontRunner posted a video from the hospital with his wife gisele may have saved his life listen to this Hey everybody it's John and gazelle as you can see we hit a little bump on the campaign trail It was on Friday I just wasn't feeling very well So I decided you know what I need to get checked out So I went to the hospital 'cause I was right as always Yes as always Fetterman 52 had previously canceled weekend campaign appearances without explanation And as I read on the terminal said he was able to reach Penn medicine Lancaster general hospital within minutes of first having symptoms on Friday He had a stroke The mild stroke but stroke He said caused by a clot from his heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long This is where we start the conversation about a wild primary day that we're looking forward to tomorrow With Greg giro always a pleasure to spend time with Bloomberg government's elections expert Greg fetterman's a big tough dude but a stroke is serious business are voters talking about his health in this late stage of the campaign or is he expected to recover and we'll forget this somewhere down the line Yeah I think there are probably talking about it given such a big news to occur in the winning days of the campaign but I think partly veterans fetterman's lead in the polls over his democratic opponents led by representative Conor lamb was probably substantial enough where he's probably going to win the primary anyway But certainly health issues really underscores people's mortality as you mentioned is only 52 years old We've had news of a stroke by Maryland senator Chris van Allen who's three Earlier this year Ben ray lujan center from New Mexico suffered a stroke He's just as early 50s and the 50 50 70 average center is about 65 years old So this is certainly a serious news but I think federal probably still advanced the general election 6 foot 8 former college football player he's known for wearing Jim Schwartz and hoodies at his campaigns Like I said he's clearly kind of a tough guy but does that give him an edge here In not looking like someone who's on the other side of the hill and might need to worry about this going into a longer term arrangement Greg Certainly has this image of being kind of a looking like a non politician I followed him for years he ran for the Senate in 2016 and again he sort of had that casual look and he likes to campaign pro Trump counties overwhelmingly Republican counties of Pennsylvania and I think part of his strategy in the general election is to not only hold the typical democratic margins in areas like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and do okay in the suburbs But maybe eat into those typical Republican margins in a heavily Republican areas I'm guessing if I had a stroke my wife would not call it a bump on the road but I realized we're on the campaign cycle here and life is a little different Greg talk to us about the other side of the Senate contest here the Republican match has been pretty wild and we've talked about this a bit because it includes a celebrity You've got Doctor Oz running here David McCormick a Wall Street celebrity But the story of Cathy Barnett has been quite remarkable It's conservative commentator we saw photos of her today in Washington on January 6th People have been digging through her record She's in many ways more trumpy than McCormick or Oz both of whom of course sought the Trump endorsement And it's interesting because people in a lot of cases Greg don't know a lot about her Doctor Oz and David McCormick were both asked about Kathy Barnett's history her personality her character by CBS News listen to their reactions We may not have that If we could get that in a moment that would be fantastic because they're questioning her strength as a candidate here and whether she could win a general election Greg is that something that could hold her back She's packing these rallies that she's holding The question is is she peaking a little bit too soon I was in Philadelphia on April the 29th April the 30th So just about two and a half weeks ago and I had my television on for better or worse during some TV shows I was just an innovation of commercials I did not see anything by Kathy Barnett it seemed to be mehmet Oz who was supported by a former president Donald Trump and Dave McCormack the former Bridgewater associates CEO It was them or their allies kind of pounding on each other And sometimes when you have races where you have two frontrunners beating up on each other sometimes a third candidate can kind of sneak up there by surprise But Barnett did a rise in the polls in the last 7 or ten days and she's gotten the attention of the frontrunners in that race So the question is can they arrest her rise in time to hold her off in the primary Listen to what Osama McCormick were telling CBS News about her over the weekend You've called Kathy.
WGR 550 Sports Radio
"jim schwartz" Discussed on WGR 550 Sports Radio
"Want to say. I want to I want to almost give them Don't sleep on status. No. Their coach is good, not coaches. Yeah, their coaches, good coaches. I think their coach is a good smart coach is his message in the preseason, I think was great. Zach Wilson, from what I hear from him, comes across as like head on right about practice versus this and that he's got the arm talent. There's not a lot of pressure on them. They've got they've got a couple. Good weapons. Elijah More for for, you know, don't sleep on just means I bet they're a pesky out. Yeah, Okay. That's fair enough because I was going to say Honestly, they're going to be last in the division I would think, But there are very interesting, intriguing tree team to watch because at the very least because of Zach Wilson, but if you look at their offense Well, they have Tyler Kroft listed as the number one tight end. If you look at their offense and their wide receivers and what they bring in Corey Davis, you know they have Jamison Crowder. They have killing coal. They had Elijah Moore, who everybody was saying. Was, you know, opening eyes up all summer long. They still have Denzel men's. You know, they had Michael Carter to their backfield. I think the Jets offense and they've at least 4 to 5 what they hope the left side of the offensive line. I think, and they've got to be better getting better coaching than Adam case. So I think the Jets offense will be actually really interesting to watch to see how good they could be. I want to do the old. Sometimes coaching can be so bad. You have to adjust a certain number of winds or improvement just off of getting rid of that old coach. Yeah. They had Adam Gates and Greg Williams. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Right? I forgot about Greg. Yeah, exactly. You just got to get along and doing more of a team concept when it came to his defense. Donald and the Panthers hosting the Jets, Chargers and Williams. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Charters in Washington football team. Very interesting game either. Could be sneaky, Good game. Absolutely. Yeah points scored. I mean, you've got Justin Herbert Keenan Allen. You've got fits, and Terry McLaurin. It's got some. It's got a lot of fantasy power, I think potentially, and for God's sakes, Austin Ekeler Heal your hamstring. He didn't practice yesterday. Uh, you really might need him. It's going to be so poetic when you go out week one in the guillotine League. Wow, It's just gonna be poetic. What does that mean? Because just because they don't want to be there to begin with. You kind of and all I want is for you to last long enough to have fun and you go out in week one and I had fun at the draft. I did I enjoyed the draft night It was fun. There. I had my fun. Arizona at Tennessee. Mhm. Very intriguing for two reasons. Not even including 10, Arizona, where maybe, uh, Kingsbury's on the hot seat. We'll see what you know Kyler. Murray does, but Um Ryan Tannehill gets the big new piece on offense He's got Julio Jones has got a J. Brown. They still have Derrick Henry. Are they going to run the ball 40 times with the two receivers they have for their quarterback, Plus The whole thing about Tennessee and whether they're a Super Bowl contender in the bills piling later this season. I'm not sure I'm not expecting much from their defense. They have been not good on defense, and they shredded their secondary in the off season. So I think that's a Who the Titans are to me is really intriguing. I'm not sure they could win the division. They can miss the playoffs raw, You know, I mean, anyway, go ahead. Arizona here. Maybe if you want to thought on Kyler Murray Kingsbury's interesting Murray's interesting There's definitely some talent. They've They've had some Some success. I guess the question you would ask is, Are you stuck in the middle? Yeah, They were good last year, and then he kind of Murray got a little bit banged up right and their season went south pretty quickly. Tennessee, you know, you say you might not be able to count on their defense and I get that Tannehill with those two receivers. Julio Jones is 90% Julio Jones. Then those two AJ Brown and Julio. I mean it's That's that's dangerous. It could be really, really good. I hope they take advantage. I mean, they should take advantage of those guys. I know they like to feed Derrick Henry the ball. I just gotta find of all your weapons. The Fox early Games. Eagles at Falcons in the debut of Kyle Pits. I don't know if you know this, Howard, this is now a Kyle pits show. I did not realize I did I miss the men want it. Yeah, That's right. One of my dynasty leagues. I made a big move up and I went and got Kyle pits. Really? Because it's because it's dynasty. Move. Yes, well, you know, it's good discount. You're looking for Kelsey Kittle Wallert. If you don't have one of those three tight ends, you're off a shelf. So I made the move up to try and get the next great tight end as a rookie. I've Kyle pit. This is now a Kyle Pit show so pits hosting the Eagles off to add this little Monday feature list. Yeah. How did Kyle pit? How did Kyle Pitts Pitts is not my guillotine leagues, So we'd better do a segment like that. Alright. Philadelphia, Atlanta, I would say Atlanta I want to put as they don't sleep on their last said coach did what Dan Quinn and they go to Arthur Smith, who has had a lot of success is offensive coordinator with Tennessee. He gets he walks into Matt Ryan, Calvin Ridley and al Khail pits. Okay? Yeah, that division will be Tampa's to lose. But New Orleans should be down Carolina Who knows? I think Atlanta could finish in second that division. Their defense is also a mess. Also curious to see how Jalen hurts looks, and I don't Really expect much from the Eagles. Um, so I wouldn't think they're better than third in that division. But I'm curious to see how he does at quarterback. And, but sure Kyle pits. Sure I got it. It's a carpet show. Gotcha. I'm all about carpets. Yes, that's right. This is a Kyle pits show going up against Kyle pits on television Seattle at Indianapolis playing at the same time, of course. Seattle at Indy two Good teams here, right? Yeah. Somebody's coming out of this. We think we think too good. No, I just mean I call you think I'm not sure I think I think we should be more confident The Colts are good in the Seahawks are really maybe it's not really his fault. The Seahawks have Russell Wilson and two great receivers and they're talking again about wanting to run more. Yeah, why? Um, no, no. Yeah, that's a good one. I mean, India. Of course, everybody's wondering what the heck you're getting out of Carson Wentz. It's a huge question mark for the Colts, San Francisco at Detroit, probably the first time the Niners have visited the Lions since Jim Harbaugh. And Jim Schwartz almost got in a fight. That was awesome. What's your deal, right Wasn't what's your deal? What's your deal? Yeah. Um, so that's a fun one. Niners and Lions. Boy Detroit is going to wouldn't surprise me..
The Rich Eisen Show
"jim schwartz" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"The way we're look at you with natural look at that old is greg olsen for college. He's you happen. Look look at the before and after because that was like when i was sitting there thinking of like a like walking out on the espn because there's just no one knows who i am. That's not true. I was like. I was walking out there and i was like i was either going to do this thing about the curling guys i i was going to be like. This is what greg olson will look like after. This is your future greg olsen. You're staring into the future. Look at that toilet. The padding now is the thing. So you played with jim schwartz. I played with jim schwartz. And by the way. The jim schwartz. And i were both people thought. We had pie in the sky ideas. What do you mean. He wanted to be a coach. And i wanted like. I don't think you know like like in college. If he said. I would like to be a professional football coach. People would laugh at them and if i said i wanted to be a comedian. People laughed at me. It's just it's unrealistic. So there is some. There's a bonding there. And i i've run into a couple times. I think we actually kind of vacation near each other too. But i have no life and then also by the way no life. It's like these. Nfl coaches oh. Yeah i mean it's it is insane. It's insane right now. They're about to become off vacation and for ten months for ten months. Yes yes sir. That is fact. that's that is fact. That and they love it and they they they sleep breathe study well. Comedians lawyers are frequently very glamorous. Because you're constantly working your ass off. Yeah but you know some of it is. I have to concentrate on peaking at nine o'clock at night so like one of my assignments for the day is to nap. You know. that's a little different from like developing a defensive scheme against the latest surprise.
Bleeding Green Nation
Philadelphia Eagles sign linebacker Eric Wilson
"Eagles have made some news over the last couple of days that we should pass along. The birds have made a couple of free agent signings Over the last couple of days and will run those down for you here. You can tell. It's a totally new eagles regime by the way when they go out and prioritize adding a linebacker in free agency although the eljay fort fiasco tells us not to count our chickens before they're hatched. The eagles signed former vikings linebacker. Eric wilson to a one year deal this week worth up to three and a quarter million dollars. There is a connection to the eagles. Here with wilson a linebackers coach. Nick rally spent time as wilson's assistant position coach for the last three years in minnesota. So you know so much time when you're adding free agents who your trading for players. There's always some kind of coaching connection especially here with the eagles over the last few years and that continues to be the case. Now wilson turns just twenty years old in september so he's a younger player and became a full time starter for the vikings last year. How do you really solid season for them to record it. One hundred twenty two tackles eight passes defended three interceptions in one forced fumble clearly. He's the number one linebacker on the roster. Right now. he'll be atop the depth chart he'll be the guy starting at middle linebacker unless something totally unforeseen happens. And i'm still kind of trying to figure out how the eagles got their hands on them at this stage in the off season for it for as little as they did and considering the salary cap situation that they're in and we know that this is not a position. The eagles have prioritized a whole lot. In recent off seasons they did again. Like i mentioned a sign eljay for contract very early in the offseason. Two years ago when it seemed like their third free agent off the board and they gave him a lot of guaranteed money. And then jim schwartz never played them and they cut him in midseason in the baltimore. Ravens picked him up in a hurry and he played great for them in the second half of the two thousand nine hundred and season to the point where they signed him to a contract extension before the season was out and eljay ford would have been a very big help in the eagles on the eagles. Defense these last couple of years and so we're kind of. I don't think this is going to go that way Eric wilson has has has a little bit more to his resume than eljay ford did when the eagles picked him up
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"jim schwartz" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"Admire about Dan Campbell is that He was willing to say things that other coaches because they're trying to be PC or not set too high expectations are unwilling to say, because it could make them look very stupid. We're gonna punch in the mouth. The city's been down. Detroit needs a winner. They got themselves back up a zit town. We need to reflect that The lions will be pushovers all of these things. Look, if the line's end of going forward 12 we play that clip time and time again and make you look foolish. You hang your head in shame if you do not turn this around, So we put a lot out there and fans. Lion San's been beaten down for a long time, so just somebody that can win a press conference somebody they could actually go out there not sound like Some type of nerdy rocket scientists that you know, has marbles in his mouth like Matt Patricia or a guy like Jim Caldwell, who's always very, very close to the vest or think about some of the other wacky people that they've had behind The podium with head coach is Wayne Funds and Bobby Ross. And I mean, these are not exactly Jim Schwartz. Not exactly commanding the room all that much So Dan Campbell gives you a refreshment. It's like, Wow, this guy's got juice. He's got energy. He's got life. The issue is Dan Campbell hasn't been a coordinator Dan Campbell's only Head coach. So if something goes wrong with the offense Oh, If something goes wrong with the defense. Oh, Dan Campbell. You can. You can get people's attention by talking tough by having charisma by winning a press conference, you can get their attention. But you can't win football games that way. I hope Dan Campbell works. I'm worried. This is the next Matt Millen. Matt Millen can talk the talk. Matt Millen sounds like football. Matt Millen was a very good color analyst in terms of sounding like he knows what he's talking about. But when it came to building a roster, assembling a coaching staff, etcetera He.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"jim schwartz" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"On the Goodyear. Line. I will go live to Philly in just a second with Sal Paolantonio. But first we have some news on this is it? No, it just is what it is. I will read you These tweets from Adrian War, Janowski. Will read them verbatim sources telling woes and our Mallika Andrews as the MBA is expected to begin examining online videos circulating of a massless Kyrie Irving At a family birthday party. There's no belief that Carrie will return to the Brooklyn Nets lineup this week. Irving has missed four consecutive games for personal reasons. He's been ruled out tonight versus Denver, and sources expect him to continue to be sidelined at least through Wednesday, when they play the Knicks and Saturday when they play Orlando again. That is a video that started sort of making the rounds this morning. Rhodes has now Oh, Jin Malika have now acknowledged it. So, um They are doing. They're digging into this and it is obviously something that bears watching closely. The situation with Kyrie Irving is a unique one and I have a lot of thoughts on it, but I will save those for another time. So I got Sal coming up here. But I'll just say again. It is something that bears watching very closely. So again. These videos are out there. The N B. A is investigating them. But there's no reason to believe Carrier thing will be back playing at least anytime in the next few days. Meanwhile, let me go to Philadelphia. The school. Sal Paolantonio was the man with the scoop. When everything's in Philly happened. Sal is always the first person I think of it. So Sal welcome is always and let's go right to it. So, with the Eagles making the decision they did yesterday to fire Doug Peterson. Many of us from afar will look at it and say This was the organization choosing Carson went over the coach. Is that the right way to look at it? I don't think it's definitely the right way to look at it. I think there's a new element to it, Michael Because if they do decide to reach out the Lincoln Riley The coaches in Oklahoma. It's because they're interested in making Jalen hurts their quarterback. Over Carson. What's I know they are interested in Lincoln Riley. There's a report out there that they have already contacted weakened Riley or agents for him. I know they have contacted Todd Bowles, the defensive coordinator. The champ of a box, and he is expected to interview with the Eagles after the divisional round game. In New Orleans Bulls is already interviewed Atlanta and we'll interview with alliance and they've got to have some interest in Costco, My Kafka in Kansas City. And it comes down to what that coach wants at quarterback. I mean, Listen, let's be real here. You have to be able to marry the two right its owner, coach quarterback. That's the way it works. That's the way it worked in the Wayland for all those successful years. That's the way it's working in Tampa. That's the way it's worked in New Orleans. That's the way it's working in Green Bay and Kansas City. So why did it go wrong? Salome again? You're the person who knows it so well, you wrote the book Philly special you literally when I say you wrote the book about this team. I mean it literally. You wrote a book about this team that won a Super Bowl less than three years ago. Today on the calendar. How did they get from there to this? You know, it always comes down to control. You know, I've been at this long enough sad to say that I was in the room when Bill Parcells said about Bob Kraft. In New England. If they want you to put the dinner. At least they should let you pick out the grocery shop for the groceries. Yeah, that's the most famous line of all about this situation controlled by the coach or somewhat semblance of control, so go back to last year, Michael Micro was the offensive coordinator Doug Peterson says in a press conference. Micro staying on a day later Micro is gone, and I think that was the genesis of it. Now at the end of this year, some offensive assistants are out not brought back morning Live scan Gorilla press. Taylor is the quarterbacks coach and passion game coordinator. Peterson wants to elevate him to offensive coordinator Don't Peterson doesn't have a really good handle on who's next going to be for the defensive coordinator with Jim Schwartz, retiring. And so that Jeffrey Lori and Doug Peterson, We're not on the same page. As far as the vision is concerned, Let's look at also one other aspect of it. The money issue regarding the coaching the quarterback. So it's going to be really tough to trade Carson Wentz. Also, Doug Peterson has two more years on his deal. So if you bring him back and 2021 They don't get it done. They don't go back to the playoffs. You're not bringing him back in 2022 is a lame duck. So if you're Jeffrey, or you say to yourself off, I know that situation. And it's gonna be a rare occurrence that I bring him back in 2022 as a lame duck. Why not get rid of them right now? So that's what he does Greedy in Sal, Pal Antonio on the Goodyear Hotline. Okay, then let's work our way to Peterson. Who was someone that I know, you know? Well, what is your sense about his desire to get right back into coaching meaning in this cycle, where they work? Well, I guess in his case there were six vacancies because one of them was created by him. So what is your sense of his desire? You get right back at it. I talked to a source close to him yesterday, he said. Doug Peterson is but it takes some time at his home in Florida. With his wife, Jeannie. They're going to discuss it. They're gonna pray on it. They're very state based people. And they're going to see where they are where they're at regarding coaching in 2021. So I don't see a natural fit. Doug Peterson. Just looking at the landscape. Yes, There are six openings. But where does Doug Peterson fit? I don't think it's easy for him to go to Florin Park and coach the Jets, right what I Well, the whole thing of what happened with the Giants missing out on the playoffs. There's a you know. You know, the New York market? You live there, you know it inside and out. It's gonna haunt him. Certainly at the beginning of his tenure. And I think it's going to be tough for him to just make that transition to the Jets job, and I know the Jets are very interested in Brian table and I know there is mutual interest day ball going to the Jets. So he's the office recorded, as you know, in Buffalo, so I'm not sure he fits with the Jets. Clearly Jacksonville is interested in urban Meyer. I think there there are other opportunities out there, but there are better fit for coaches. So it'll be very interesting to see where that goes. A lot of people are connecting him to the Jets because of the relationship with the general manager Joe Douglas, who came from the Eagles organization should is that putting two and two together and getting five? Well, it is kind of Michael. You don't agree with me on how how difficult it would be for him to coach in the New York market in the aftermath of what happened. I think it would. But I also think there's an element of Anyone who follows Adam Gaze is going to be viewed so favorably by people who follow the team and care about the team initially that they'll be a honeymoon period, even for the guy who kept the Giants out of the playoffs. Interesting. I just think there's a whole lot of giant stands in the New York metropolitan area that are gonna fill the airwaves and social media with a home a lot of negativity..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"jim schwartz" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Some NFL coaching news Now you and I were talking about this earlier today comes up a lot on the show. Because you're You're a big fan of Gen. Sherman the pellet on teaching. I did her. Uh, sorry I was no. Yeah, I did her her 60 minutes. Football ride yesterday. Uh, 60 minutes a long one. For me, buddy. I usually have 30 is a big deal. 40 fives. Massive. I did. A 60 was killing me Distinguishing. Where's an Eagles jersey during the during the ride. Oh, is that the only kind of football? Not she's wearing a journal, And then she does. She does break down to the games. I was thinking about cutting some of the sound for the for the show, but it's funny. I thought maybe I just got a space out. Our Jen's when all I was saying that it wouldn't shock me if Jen Sherman herself chimed in on this story pretty soon because we've got ourselves a surprise opening now in the NFL. Head coaching carousel. How about Philadelphia Eagles firing Doug Peterson kind of surprising there? I think he led the franchise to its on Lee Super Bowl championship only three years ago. But I guess the downward spiral this year's spiral this year with the offense and Carson Wentz convinced owner Jeffrey Lori that Peterson didn't have the answers. Wow, the popular Peterson is immediately now a candidate. I would think, Murph to go land to get someplace else. We could go over to our good buddy and NFL. Consultant Adam Schefter on the story. They're a combination of factors that contributed to lure his decision. We start the fact of the season with the team winning four games in a division that was right to be one, and the Eagles had the worst record in the division. Then you mix in the Sunday night debacle against the Washington football team, in which the egos laid down on national television and essentially gift wrapped the NFC East title to Washington. And then in the postseason meetings and was Jeffrey Lori wanted to hear those Peterson's vision for the franchise move forward the assistance he planned to hire to replace Jim Schwartz on the defense's side of the football, the assistance they elect on the offensive side of the football. Don't think Jeffrey. Lori loved what he heard. I think that don't Peterson was happy to promote from within. And I think Jeffrey Lurie was looking for a broader, bigger, more ambitious vision from Doug Peterson. And so three seasons after Doug Peterson becomes the first coach and Eagles history to lead them to a Super Bowl title three years later, he sent packing fire now a coaching free agent..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"jim schwartz" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Uh, Eddie on the north side, Eddie, what's going on? Yeah. You guys can't complain about this guy dump in this game last night could feel did it for two years in the Chicago Cubs, and I didn't hear you guys complain about one kind. That's the poison that Bean spread throughout all the weeks, baseball basketball and the only thing that's going to change that is, if you change the draft pick thing where not the worst record Get number one draft pick. Well, they changed in the N B, A and the NHL. The MBA enemy shall have a lottery. Exactly it all he has to be changed. There has to be a two tier system. These teams at the end of the year that don't make playoffs. You don't reward the worst team. Your award. The king dead at least tried the best to get in there and give them And how are you? Judging that, Eddie gonna have a blue ribbon panel of former players that go? Yeah. What he tried. So we'll give him a high. There's no metric for it. So you do need a minute call terms of records, at least the guys that just almost made the jump to go to the to the playoffs or to the post. Even Italy, They'll have a better player. And guess what. If you do that, in the NBA, especially at least you're gonna have a team that getting better and better and not to all Star teams in the MBA, which LeBron things growing to begin with. Because he couldn't stick with the team. He had to go with other superstars. The win NBA titles not like Jordan did. He could walked with teams and even maybe, but again and Eddie, thanks for the call, who was well, just just lock in on the first point. The whole LeBron thing is a whole different worlds. A different world, a different culture. This is where in the NBA players Don't want to be handcuffed to one team, trusting a GM and trusting ownership that they're gonna be able to fix it. Lot of players don't want to go through that They want to be able to increase their chances to win. That's the NBA. That's not what the NFL to his to his first point, which I think is a good one. Maybe the NFL should look into a lottery system. And maybe still, maybe Jacksonville. Or maybe the Jets would still get the number one pick more than likely. Well, depends. But I just know that what we saw here we just talked about the Jacksonville thing is the Bears. That's nonsense. As eagles thing to me is nonsense. If I'm a player if I'm the Eagles, I'm pretty pissed off work hard all week because I don't care what the front office wants. Don't think about those that in those terms, maybe when I'm retired, I could see it from a different viewpoint. All I see you're trying to get a higher draft pick. Well, I don't care about that because I'm in the weight room trying to get better, right? I don't think the dif coordinator Jim Schwartz, who said he's probably gonna retire. I don't think he was Right. Let me look at my BU Denny's menu play card. Here's one would still be caught. Let's go zero blitz because that's the worst possible call. It can make here because I wanna help us lose. He doesn't think that way My Greg Williams did for the Jets, right when he got fired. I was It's not like, but you're doing that on purpose. The whole thing with the Eagles. It's not an experiment, cause you know who'd night Seinfeld is been the league for a while. You know who he is. You did that because you want to have the higher draft pick, And if I'm Roger Goodell Leave me. I'm not a good l fan, believe me, But if you're good, l you look at that and say you're just trying to do that on purpose We got tonight. We got we have customers here they're looking for compared the football game. What are you doing? You're unplugging your team on purpose, Okay? I can't deal with this right? I would. That's how I look at it so that he's point and something the NFL can look at. To be able to look at the draft system. Lottery system. Maybe differently. Yeah, I just I would be stunned if the NFL did that stunned. Yes, but he can't have games like this, though. That's not fair to the customer. I must see God forbid him a season ticket holder in Jacksonville, right and watching that every single day. I understand. On the other side, there's a rainbow. Ask your questions. I told you have Lawrence, but you Jonathan Hood. Diehard football fan could be a fan of the L. A Chargers instead of the Chicago Bears. Charges were seven and nine. He didn't make the playoffs. The Bears are eight. Nate argue with you. I'd much rather be the Chargers today. They wake up with their franchise quarterback. They know who it is. Justin Herbert. Yeah, this morning. I could tell you. You know what, Jeff? We talked about this. I said What if what? Herbert versus tour? Right? Herber was not a big fan of coming out of college. I was like, I don't know. I don't know what? Because I saw him in college. It wasn't really sure Today I could say Again. It's early. Herbert has the lead on to no doubt. Yeah, because two was not being too. It just kept getting cold. Bye, Flores. It's like, give this guy an opportunity. So maybe next year, maybe even is out. Maybe two was ahead. But if I'm a chart, if if I might brothers Yeah, I got my quarterback in Herbert. So I was listening NFL network coming in this morning and they were talking that there is some thought that the Dolphins because they have the Texans first round pick. And their own. They got two number ones. The Texans pick his number three. That they might Look to.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"jim schwartz" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"They're gonna eat something down the field, eventually five catches 26 yards for MacLaurin. Second out of five. Smith under center receivers left and right, here's the snap Smith back, you'll hand it off on straight ahead between the hash marks for nothing is Antonio Gibson back to the 23 yard line and now third down and five coming up No McLaurin back in the lineup. He was inactive a week ago, is dealing with a high ankle sprain, which generally takes 56 weeks, but he has been battling through it. Well from the NFL in receiving yards coming into this week, Second year Man out of Ohio State certainly stand out among the Washington wideouts. No question and with game with the magnitude of this game has all playoff implications You could want for Washington. They want even uniforms. He is he's got enough. Third down and five trips left two receivers to the right. Smith back in the shotgun needs 28 for a first down. Here's the snap. What's coming, spit rolling to his right being chased looking, and he's gonna have to just throw this one away, but once again, fill it out. Fear bringing pressure forcing Smith outside the pocket. Had nowhere to go. Washington goes three and out. No point it right back to the Eagles. He had Logan Thomas wide over wide open on over. Outstanding Justin delivered. Balto. There was too much pressure eagles dialed up the puts. They got Alex on the pocket. He had to throw it away. All the credit should go to Jim Schwartz Dialing up the right. Let's at the right time. Tres way will punt Break Ward waiting at his own 29 yard line. There's the snap. Two way left Footer hits a high spiraling kick ward moving. It was right signals for a fair catch, and he's got it at the 29 yard line. 48 yard punt, no return Later on, we'll select the defender of the game sponsored by Navy Federal Credit Union. Proudly serve in the armed forces, The D O D veterans and their families. You can learn more at maybe federal dot or This'll is turning into a punt pass and kick contest. It's like who's gonna put it to Andy Reid, who's gonna make a play here? We'll see if the Eagles can make the play. That was some great footage of any reading the past pick, aka Smiley Coliseum like early seventies that when he's 12 years old, looks like he's 28 2 receivers right single band left at 64 to 80 at that point Ward in motion from the Left hurts in the gun takes the snap rolls to his right throws to the sideline and that's incomplete. Ward couldn't hang on again. He had both hands on the football, but Fabian Moreau was able to get a hand in there and knock it away as he went out about It'll be second out of 10. It feels like we've seen that a lot tonight. Jaws were receivers have two hands on the ball, but just are not able to complete the process of catch. Well, you got to give credit to Washington. They are hanging with every one of these plays and I've given up because it's his ball going to the receiver's hands. They're fighting. They're battling. You're scratching. They know the magnitude of this game, a win and Washington Wins the NFC. So you're you're seeing M Ballon out there. Every staff to receivers go to the lab churches in the gun on second out of 10 into the waste stands up fence again. Play, clocking three takes the snap. Here's a handoff exploding on the right side, 35 40 at the 45 yard line and near midfield brought down at the 49 yard line. That's Boston, Scott. We all kinds of room up the right side. That time he picks up 20 intern eagles. First down. Yeah, they've gone there. Hurry up Offense. Good tempo on this plate right now. The right side. He was off into line Perfect. Told Kelsey did a great job. Two receivers go to the left. Now three to the left. Corey Clement is in the game is basically playing a tight end spot. He's one that lives up to the left. Birch is in the shotgun. Washington showing pressure. Here's the snap hurts back. Quick pass left side caught by Clement runs outside the numbers across the 50 spins across the 45 yard line, and he's all the way down to the Washington 44. Maybe the 43 Let's job that time by Corey Clement Market down at the 44 yard line, So that'll go is a pass play of seven yards and bring up second three Korean Club in a very versatile player. He come on the back touch the football he can line about widened gets football. He could get you the hard yards inside. He's a real good change a player for the Eagles second down three yards now for the Washington 44 18 to go. Third quarter Washington 17 Philadelphia 14 2 receivers of the left. Earth's goes in motion from right to left hurts under center throws it back. We're past John Hightower. He's looking to throw No one in their moves to his right Now he's gonna run across the 45 yard line, and he dives down to about the 43. Don't go with a one yard run for John Hightower. The second time we've seen the Eagles, trying to have one of their wide receivers pass. That's a high tower could not get the ball down the field he was trying to throw into Scott out of the back view that tricky Doug Peterson, how you tried to go for the home run their high tower backed up a little bit, got behind birds so he could throw the ball down the field. So it was a legal lateral, not a forward pass, but no one was open. Hightower Tuck it and ran a couple yards. Third down, two down two receivers lap two to the right. Birch is in the shot. Looking out there was right most into that side. Play clock. It's six years. The snap hurts back. Quarterback draw dangling off the right side picks up the first out of the 40 yard line, dives ahead and he's down with Washington 39. So they go to the quarterback draw and Jalen hurts, picks up four yards and moves the sticks for Philadelphia. Outstanding vision by Jalen Hurts. It was a quarterback draw play. Why did he go up the middle Washington A great job of jamming..
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"jim schwartz" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"I guess it is. Brown's was no success. Right. Kevin Stefanski Big I'm a big fan. The very group in in in this area where I'm from in Philly. And I think that what he has brought to the Browns this year has been in an extreme level of professionalism. He knows what he's doing. He does. He knows he looks in his personnel and says, I have to really good running backs. Haven't offensive line. That's pretty good. My defense isn't great. So what am I going to do? I'm gonna go out and throw Baker Mayfield 50 times from I'm gonna run the football and he did that He did, especially early on and what you saw later On in the year, Baker was able to have some big games with his arm when they needed him. Last week against the Jets and Connor Green. Our producer. Today is a is a jet fan, and I know Jets Jets fans were angry that they're winning any games this year, but now that they're actually set in the second spot Um, you know, but they work that I I'm an Eagle fan, and I watched the Browns and the Eagles They played this year E. I mean, a good team would've beat the Browns that day. A good team would have beaten the Browns that day. The defense was was okay. You know, Miles Garrett was out of that game, and their offensive line was, like, all right, Like yeah, they could run the football there a pretty good team. But as far as tomorrow against against the Steelers if Mason Rudolph stop playing I would think differently, but I can't. I mean, I guess I can imagine they just lost to the Jets. But I would I would and will give our picks later on the show. But I would hope the Cleveland with with the urgency of needing a win to get in, would be able to beat a backup quarterback in Mason. Rudolph, who, by the way, hasn't looked good when he's played. Maybe he looks differently tomorrow but third year quarterback who just to me looks like one of the just another backup. Based on what I've seen before. I mean, we'll see. I like the Steelers have been home and down the stretch anyway. Right back to the phones will go to Tim in Boise. Tim, you're on CBS Sports radio. How are you? I'm just band. Big deal said here. You probably saw Jim Schwartz stepping down just what I get the thoughts on that. And then what they should do in the off season, honey, hang up and listen right on, Tim. Thank you. Yes, Jim Schwartz, who was their their defensive coordinator? They're Super Bowl You're in 2017 has been with him since 2000 and 16. It came out today that he will he will retire or he will. He will let his contract expire and he will not be back with the Eagles next year. Peterson will be back their head coach, there is expected to be other staff changes as well, I I think Jim Schwartz kind of takes a year off, and if there's another good opportunity out there is the defensive coordinator. I think that I think that the chances of him being in a head coach in this league again or are slim. I mean, it's only 54 years old, So it's not like that he's retiring because he's getting older. I think he just kind of Needs a year off. Jim Schwartz was a was a professional coordinator. In Philadelphia. I mean, he's probably another third coordinator. I don't think it's a top five coordinator. I was actually having Twitter debates here before coming on the air about him. I mean, he was a professional coordinator. It was an upgrade over their previous coordinator, he won a Super Bowl. You know, like he will bring a level of professionalism. And then when you you're with him long enough, you're like, all right. I think I've had enough of this and that's where I wasn't as an Eagle fan. I think a change of scenery would do would do them. Very well. 855 to 1 to four, CBS 855 to 1 to 4 to 27, Who's the team to beat in the A F. C. Who's going to the Super Bowl in the FC, who's going to the Super Bowl in the NFC? It is not gonna be the chief. That's my opinion. I'm going bills. The chief's It kind of just going through the motions here. It's really hard. Just snap your fingers and get back into all right. Let's go. Up. Maybe they win the first round of the playoffs. But when you face a team like the bills, if that's who they end up playing, that is going to be a tough game. Look out for the Ravens as well. NFC. Green Bay or Tampa. They're my two teams. Green Bay. I think they make it but Tampa Look out. Look out for Tom Brady. Look at what Look at what the Patriots said this year, six wins and nine losses six and nine. Cam Newton Bill Belichick. We talked about this last week. There were there was an NFL Saturday, so I know a lot of people listening right now. Maybe we maybe had games on their stations. Last week. We talked a lot about Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Bill Belichick, who is talking about it's being the goats, six Super Bowls, all right, and listen, Great coach. I'm not trying to say he's not a great coach. But look what happens when you lose your quarterback, and now you have to rely on a guy like Cam Newton. You know what you see, You see a team that doesn't have a lot of talent. You see an offense that doesn't have a lot of talent. You have to see a defense that is Good but can't win games for you. You can't just run the ball and have Cam Newton do quarterback sneaks and throw the ball 15 times because your defense is good. No, it's not. It's not right. So you go from saying Oh, well, Bill Bell check. He'll get a Cam Newton or ah Jared Stadium or another veteran quarterback, and they'll be fine. They'll win 10 11 games. It's the Bill Bell Check system. No, it's not. It's not the Bill Belichick system. It's talent. Talent wins. Don't wins in college football talent wins in the NFL look at the games last night. I mean, is it is it really Is it really rockets eyes to look at the talent level of Alabama in Ohio State and see that's why they want. I mean real Brian Kelly's Got a Don't get mad at this press conference after the game last night, Alabama has has a roster full of NFL players and the other team's good. They're not Alabama. Look at Ohio State last night. I mean, just the talent that they have is supreme. And now you look at the New England patriots, and you're like, all right. Well, what happened? What happened was they didn't have Tom Brady. That made up for all the issues that the Patriots had for so many years. Running backs. Okay, Wide receivers, not any good. Now they have tight ends. They used at least have good tight ends with drunk. They don't even have tight end. So Tom Brady was able to get 10 wins. 11 wins out of a bad roster because he was Tom Brady Bill belt. You can't do that with other quarterbacks. This isn't about Bill Bell checks. System. This is about talent, and I don't have any talent. That's why you're seeing it with six wins right now. 855 to 1 to four CBS 855 to 1 to 4 to 27 top of the hour, Sal Cappuccio. Bills. Can they do it? What's going on in Buffalo? We will talk to him coming up top of the hour. Erica Herskowitz with an update Right now. This is John Marks in for Andrew on CBS Sports Radio. See me? Yes. Sports sports flag. Hey,.
WTOP
"jim schwartz" Discussed on WTOP
"Don't settle for less than a Honda not to Rob would fork all right, Sandy, the Washington football team getting what appears to be good news ahead of tomorrow night's division clinching game in Philadelphia. According to multiple reports, Alex Smith's Caff is feeling good. He is expected to start against the Eagles on Sunday night Football. Barring any setbacks, Smith has missed the last 2.5 games with the injury. Washington is foreign one this season when he starts in Vegas. Apparently paying attention to this is well. Washington is now a four point favorite. After Initially being favored by only 1.5. The Eagles. Meanwhile, the only team in the NFC East eliminated from the division race, and they are already in the midst of change. Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz is reportedly contemplating retirement. And we'll take a year off from coaching once his contract expires at season's end local product Joe Hayden has tested positive for Cove in 19. He will miss the Steelers game against the Browns tomorrow. And possibly miss Pittsburgh's first playoff game. And after a great night for Ohio State football, the after mention Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bangles, each dealing with positive Kobe 19 tests as well. The Browns working from home today, they close their facility for the third time this week. The Bangles currently contact tracing ahead of hosting the Baltimore Ravens tomorrow. College football coaching news Tom Herman out of Texas After 32 wins in four seasons, the Longhorns reportedly close to a deal. With Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Starkey Zeon. It's a full day of college hoops here locally. George Washington trailing do cane 44 35 that one early in the second half. The Colonials having a miserable day from the foul line, shooting just four of 12 from the charity stripe and even worse from three point range, one for 10 there minutes from tip off in Annapolis, Navy and Bucknell said toe get underway with the three and one midshipman looking to extend their win streak to three games later, It'll be George Mason on the road to play Dayton, Georgetown home against Marquette. That is a 7 30 tip off with the Hoyas hoping to end a two.
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NFL 2020 Coaching Carousel Tracker: Latest news, updates and rumors on firings and hires
"Coaching Carousel and the NFL is spinning wildly on Monday. The Dallas Cowboys Hired Mike McCarthy on Tuesday Booze Day the Carolina Panthers Hired Matt Rule and the New York giants from the process of finalizing a deal to hire the Patriots special teams coordinator and wide receiver coach. Joe Judge and NAT leaves the Cleveland Browns as the lone NFL team in this head. Coaching cycle not to have a head coach at this particular point in time. But the browns have scheduled setup. They'll be interviewing the Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz on Wednesday the Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Adams too fancy on Thursday and the Patriots Offensive Coordinator. Josh mcdaniels so many thought would be in play in New York and Carolina before they went another direction on Friday. Keep in mind. The Brown's already have interviewed Eric. The Enemy Grumman Robert Sal and I think the browns would like to have a coach in place by Saturday though. Maybe it's at some point. This weekend will see what they decide to do at this point in time