Saints-Rams Reaction: Matthew Stafford & LA offense shines vs. Derek Carr & New Orleans | 3 & Out

John Middlekauff reacts to the Los Angeles Rams’ 30-23 victory over the New Orleans Saints. John breaks down the reasons Matthew Stafford and the Rams are a dangerous playoff matchup and why the Saints are stuck in QB purgatory with Derek Carr’s massive contract. Later, John discusses rumors that Detroit Lions OC Ben Johnson is seeking a $15 million per year contract to become a head coach, Aaron Rodgers being elevated to the New York Jets active roster, and he shares his plans for the holidays.

Timeline:
00:00 // Introduction
02:55 // Rams 2nd best team in NFC
13:57 // Saints are in a tough spot
19:42 // Steelers are in trouble
22:44 // Ben Johnson about to get paid
28:20 // Aaron Rodgers back on the active roster
40:36 // Bold take of the week

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Andout podcast right here on YouTube make sure you subscribe right now well it turned out a little closer than I think we all thought it was the Rams take down the Saints and are now officially you know one of the hottest teams in the NFL they win the game 30 to

22 we’ll dive into that um you know kind of some of their playoff hopes I want to look in and give some flowers to some people on the Rams obviously the coach and the quarterback get a lot of play but the front office deserves a lot of

Credit and let’s face it Shawn pton quit on the Saints they were in a tough spot they went with Dennis Allen and then after a rough year they double down with Derek Carr and let’s face it it’s kind of been a disaster and then we’ll dive

Around to some other stuff in the NFL uh something I noticed today with the Steelers um some other thoughts Aaron Rogers officially activated to the uh 53 man roster I saw I saw some people that covered the NFL that were up in arms uh we’re going to have to touch on that and

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Dallas two over the Rams but let’s face it the Rams are playing just as well as like the Lions which I got news for you if you look ahead I think it’s very very possible that the 36 matchup is Rams at the Lions Matt Stafford Shawn McVey

Going on the road to play Detroit and obviously Philly right now is in complete shambles we’ll have to see how if they can get it together with kind of their easy schedule down the stretch but there is no disputing when you watch the Rams they have a couple things going for

Them headed into the playoffs they have a quarterback who’s playing at an extremely high level a guy who’s a Super Bowl champion and when he’s on like he has been for the last you know I don’t know 45 days is as good as anybody in the NFL he’s making throws these last

Three or four weeks like he’s 26 27 28y Old Matt Stafford with the Detroit Lions who you know people used to talk [ __ ] about because his team didn’t win a lot of it was because he played for the Detroit Lions never forget Aaron Rogers used to pound the table and was like I

Think this guy’s one of the best quarterbacks in the league and obviously the Rams thought that they acquired him and it changed their franchise but the way that guy is playing right now and their offense and their defensive unit I mean if if Raheem Morris instead of being a defensive coordinator was an

Offensive coordinator and his unit was having the succcess it’s having with a bunch you know Aaron Donald and a bunch of random young players he would be a lock coaching candidate he’s been a head coach before easygo people like him obviously he’s had a lot of success with

Shawn McVey but he’s a defensive guy so I think he’s going to get a bunch of interviews this offseason it just it’s hard to feel great about defensive coordinators you know feeling confident that they’re going to get a job we’ll talk about Ben Johnson a little bit

Later some rumors that he wants $15 million a year but he’s got one thing going for him he’s an offensive coordinator he impacts a quarterback he coaches the quarterback and he calls the offensive plays but Raheem Morris that that team is just listen they’re eight

And seven they they feel more if you put them in the NFC south I mean that’s a 12 13 win team I I know the final score turned out to be a little closer block Punt and a couple big throws for the most part the saints were terrible that

Was JV vers Varsity the majority of the night and those two teams coming in tonight same record you watch those two teams they’re not even in the same universe I mean honestly the Saints feel more like a 67 win team and the Rams feel more like an 1112 win team and they

Deserve a lot of credit I was wrong I thought they were GNA suck what did I underestimate this is where I got to give the front office and Les need a lot of credit that team puka nakua is one of the better young rookie wide receivers I

Can remember that guy is a Flatout stud that young running back baller the middle linebacker 53 now he’s a third-year guy stud the pass rusher they got from Wake Forest in the fifth round really really good player so they had some core guys right all-time great defensive pass rusher in Aaron Donald

Cooper cup one of the better players in the league went healthy and Matt Stafford obviously a Max quarterback but their ability this off season and never forget last year when they sucked and they had to give their pick to the Detroit Lions because of the Stafford

Trade it sucked I mean it’s it’s a big you know kick in the nuts it’s not ideal to be awful and not have your first round pick right look at the Panthers this year it’s it’s a rough year to go through because you’re trying to win these games and you’re losing them and

Even the benefit of losing those games you don’t even get to reap but where you do is once you get past Thursday night of the draft you pick high in all the other rounds and that’s listen we’re very critical sometimes of successful GMS this guy’s not drafting well this

Guy’s not drafting well it’s hard to draft 20 th in every round when you have a team that’s winning 12 13 games going to the second third round or the Super Bowl you don’t have a good draft pick in any R so when you get that opportunity

And like we said with the Rams they did have their first round pick well they’re drafted high in all the other Rams and look what they did I mean puka noua now I know he was a later round pick but still holy canoli dude the dude could

Play for my team any day of the week I mean you look at the way Shawn McVey looks to that guy he’s he’s in football love I mean you put that guy with super cup Kieran Williams and the way Matt Stafford’s playing in their young offensive line Ryan Wendell former

Patriot offensive lineman former Fresno State Bulldog hired him as his offensive line coach this year they’ve been good and you watch the Rams right now and you go this is a you know whether they end up with 10 wins or not we’ll see that you know week 18 is against the 49ers

Who knows what’s going to be on the line who knows the Rams might have seating locked up by then they might rest guys the Niners might not have anything to play for maybe they do I I don’t know it’s hard to predict how that’s going to

Shake out but clearly the Rams are very very scary team going into the playoffs because if they were to play Philadelphia or the Lions their offense can light them up like a Christmas tree and defensively beside Aaron Donald you go who are some of these guys they play

Really really well as a unit and maybe in a year or two we’ll be talking about a couple of those guys as Pro Bowl NFL players and like I said Raheem Morris the front office anytime you can reset your franchise with young players AKA cheap labor to kind of uh surround some

Of your star higher price guys it’s a great example and this is why we are so hard on the Chargers coaching matters so much it was on full display tonight one guy who has no business being a head coach he’s a good defensive coordinator shouldn’t be a head coach and another

Guy who’s a Flatout Superstar and clearly the Rams got very lucky that he didn’t take Amazon’s money a couple years ago cuz he’s a football junkie and we’re better off you know as football fans with Shawn McVey coaching because he’s a fantastic football coach and you watch the way his team plays how

Explosive they are on offense uh how good he is his concepts of getting guys constantly open uh The Crossing routes that he runs getting the ball in the hands of Puka and Cooper cup and obviously anytime you have a great quarterback a guy with his talent who

Can bail you out of shitty plays and when the plays are there he’s not going to miss them and I find them very very enjoyable to watch I mean they easily could have beat the Ravens a couple weeks ago that was where I I think I don’t know if I’d been underestimating

Them but I definitely hadn’t been taking them seriously and I watched that game start to finish and I went holy [ __ ] the Rams are real and obviously the way they’ve played these last couple weeks and moving forward I I think they’re very scary and like I said if I had to

Make a prediction right now if you told me the lions are going to end up at three and they’re G to end up at six that’s Monday Night Football and that’s you know the the Wild Card Weekend and that sucks for the Lions not saying that

The Lions can’t beat them I think they are also very similar but I think a lot of people would bet on McVey and Stafford in that game obviously McVey has a much longer resume than Dan Campbell would be Dan Campbell’s first playoff game the lions like listen it’s

It’s hard to quantify but let’s not act like they got a lot of experience they know what they’re doing in these playoff situations that building would get very tight you know in a close game in the second half where they were down it’s not a place that’s used to winning

Because they don’t play in these games so I I I got that thing circled coming from a mile away and I I truly as a football fan would love for it to break that way because I I think that would be just a fascinating watch uh you know one

Thing that the NFL truly has is they they hit you from every angle they have a lot of off the field drama coaches getting fired guys getting traded players complaining players doing stupid [ __ ] but the games matter the most and the urgency in these games is second to

None and the storylines in that game with the Stafford trade Goff McVey uh the Lions would just be freaking awesome and kudos to the Rams for putting themselves in this position they started really shitty and like I said I I I strictly bet against like they’re these

Young player who are these guys and it’s not often that you can get and they benefit a little bit the NFC is clearly way down you look at that you know the teams buying for the six and seven seed let’s face it mainly suck but it’s

Pretty clear the Rams are by far the best group of those teams you know Tampa New Orleans Seattle Green Bay you just go down the list Minnesota um so kudos to McVey kudos to the front office and let’s face it this this is a real real organization right now and to me this

Year like any team when you’re super loaded with star players and you’re humming you know has a chance when you’re on has a chance to win the Super Bowl right Eagles last year the Niners in years past even if you don’t win it Green Bay several years with Aaron

Rogers but what does it look like when no one’s picking you when everyone thinks you’re gonna stink when everyone goes who wait you’re starting a fourth rounder a fifth rounder a sixth rounder a fourth and a fifth rounder from the previous year who are these guys and you

Coach them up and you develop them and by the end of the season in the stretch run they aren’t just like starters they’re impact players it’s why in this league coaches get paid so much money it’s why assistant coaches when they’re good are worth seven eight $900,000 it’s why

Defensive coordinator like rahee Morris is making two3 million a year and guys are making that too on the shitty teams it’s why the owners can’t wait to get rid of them and Stan Kony uh should thank his lucky stars that he signed and and hired McVey back in the day because

This is is impressive and the other thing moving forward they’re not a team that’s going to go away now they are equipped with young guys kind of energizes your franchise looks like Aaron Donald’s having fun out there Cooper Cup’s having a blast like Matt Stafford where’s he gonna go he might as

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Instantly in bonus bets only on draftking Sportsbook with code John the crown is yours and on the flip side The saints were in a tough spot they really were Ju Just Like honestly the Rams would have been if McVey would have gone to Amazon anytime you have a star coach and he just Taps out whether to go to TV you know whether just to quit and

Take the year off you’re kind of [ __ ] and they they had some positive momentum they clearly like Dennis Allen because he had resurrected their defense Dennis Allen isn’t a head coach I mean let’s he’s terrible he really is because anytime you’re a good defense def coordinator and you’re not a good head

Coach the moment I make you a head coach but you keep your defensive coordinator responsibilities the defense is going to slip and I’m gonna take such a huge step back with my head coach so it’s like it’s it’s a double negative right I’m I’m not making any strides forward and I

I don’t blame him for running it back and giving him a chance to see that he could if he could write the wrong from last year but they doubl down on the wrong guy and Ted nwin who’s written for the athletic who’s I think a Raider fan

Uh listen I I I’m not trying to bash Derek I I like him personally he’s a really good guy he’s just not a very good player anymore and the moment it was like 20 to 14 uh and the Rams had the ball excuse me it was I think it was

20 to se or it was 27 to7 I’m getting the the score confused they they were up huge and he tweeted like get ready for the Derek Carr Hollow stats and here they came he threw a touchdown then they blocked a punt he threw another touchdown he got a two-point conversion

Like he didn’t play that well he he just he’s dumping it down on fourth down uh he’s throwing it behind the sticks like that just can’t happen and there’s a fine balance of being a robot and just playing with instincts like on Fourth and seven I don’t care if I’m getting

Pressured I can’t throw it to a Crossing route that’s essentially my checkdown or you know wheel route that is eight yards behind the sticks my guy is going to have to become like Barry Sanders make three guys miss and break a tackle to even give me a chance to get the first

Down and he’s been doing that his entire career and Dennis Allen on I think it was like fourth and five around Midfield toward the end of the half the Rams chose to play defense even though they won the toss so they were getting the ball coming out of the second half well

Under the two-minute warning what does Dennis Allen do he goes forward on Fourth and five it’s like bro this just try to get to half time down a score take a deep breath what does he do he goes for it they don’t get it the Rams immediately go and score they get the

Ball out a half they drive right down the field and if it wasn’t for Matt Stafford ball slip out his hands they might have scored it might have been a 14-point swing turned out to be a 10-point swing and honestly it felt like the game ended right there so I listen I

I I think Dennis Allen is a dead man walking I think the Saints situation is a disaster and the CAR contract is a disaster they gave him you know essentially $60 million guarant guaranteed he’s guaranteed $30 million next year he has a no trade clause so he’s going nowhere what they’re going to

Do is they’re going to fire Dennis Allen they’ll probably try to hire an offensive coach and hopefully that he can when I say resurrect Eric just make him a little bit better than he’s been the last couple years I think usually when you get into your early mid-30s and

You start playing poorly you see this with Jimmy Garoppolo you usually don’t battle back out that’s kind of who you became and I think this is kind of who Derek is he’s very average the problem is they’re paying him a decent amount of money like listen we can be critical of

Jared Goff he has his moments especially outside but on the aggregate throughout the 17 games he’s pretty damn good and if you build a good enough team around him you’re all locked to win 12 plus games and that’s what the Lions won nine last year and they’re going to win 12 or

13 this year right so jarro gof is a good example of a guy making similar money who’s just way better than Derek you watch Derek tonight the Gap like I said the gap between McVey and Dennis Allen is the size of the Grand Canyon You could argue the gap between Matt

Stafford and Derek Carrs the same I know you’ll look up and he threw you know three touchdowns like no he did not play that well didn’t play that well at all I’ve seen Derek play well what I witnessed tonight is just not a very good player it’s a lot it’s Hollow stats

It’s Hollow touchdowns they they don’t actually mean anything they were never going to win that game but if you just pull up his box score it doesn’t look nearly as bad as if you just watch the game start to finish and uh I think Derek Carr will be one of the main

Reasons that Dennis Allen’s going to lose his job I I see under no circumstances if the Saints don’t win the division which I don’t think they will that he’s back next year I don’t think you can bring him back give you a little bit of a pass when the Shawn

Payton situation happens you give him a couple years pretty clear he’s I mean a below average head coach and you have no chance even in a shitty division they put it up on Amazon tonight the divisions like 22 and 34 that’s my thing with the rants if you put the Rams in

The Lions division or you put them in the south I I mean that easily they’re getting to 10 11 wins so you put the Saints in the easiest division by a mile I remember coming into the season the reason I picked the Saints to to win pretty easily is because you looked at

Their schedule they’re playing a bunch of bad quarterbacks and they’re going to struggle to get to eight wins think about that they play Tampa next week in Tampa I got news for you I like Tampa in that spot and uh yeah it’s just not a very very good team so a little Varsity

Versus JV tonight one team that just feels like a playoff team that can make some noise and another team feels like it’s just kind of stuck in neutral going nowhere uh and that probably is going to feel changes when the offseason comes so Props to the Rams for you know kind of

Kicking ass and taking names at the right time of year okay let’s get into a couple other things uh I’ve talked a lot about Mike Tomlin and the Steelers in the entire situation but I was looking at it today because I saw a headline I don’t know if the Steelers announced if

It was leaked I I don’t exactly know how the news broke I just saw that Mason Rudolph’s going to start and mitz trabis is the backup and I I went immediately because we’ve talked a lot about Mitch trabis that if you make him your backup quarterback it’s one thing if you make

MIT trabis your backup quarterback and your starter like momes or burrow or one of those situations and you only have like a million dollars or two and and you kind of have to go cheap I I I I understand it like you’re you’re kind of limited the Steelers paid Mitch trabis

They gave him a contract extension this offseason they gave him a signing bonus of $6.9 million $6.9 million his salary this year is $8 million they guaranteed him $8 million it’s one of the highest paid backups in the National Football League whoever is in charge of that if

I’m the roonies like who pounded the table for this guy and listen everyone makes mistakes not every GM every head coach Personnel mistakes it happen happens this guy had already been on your team like and and I understand the hard part about a backup is for the most

Part he doesn’t play that much and if you like the guy and Mitch is a very likable guy but from a football standpoint you paid a guy $8 million to back up a quarterback who was Young Who hadn’t proven he could stay healthy he hadn’t even proving he was that good and

Obviously this year had to play a lot moment he started having to play a lot he gets benched for Mason Rudolph so to me if I’m the roonies they’re playing the Bengals this week which listen there is absolutely no excuse to not win that game Jamar Chase is now out they just

Lost a defensive tackle to uh you know to a broken leg or bad ankle sprain I forget the exact injury but this Steeler team is in chambles and I had a buddy in the league text me probably within the last month who’s like you know an underrated part about the Steelers right

Now is they turned over you know Kevin colber retired essentially he’s like their front office isn’t great and one thing that Tomlin always had is a really good front office office and we’re seeing all the stories come out about George Pickins saying he doesn’t want to block because he doesn’t want to get

Rolled up on all night long you’re watching McVey just talked clearly to Herb street now about how much he loves his wide receivers blocking how hard Cooper cup how hard puka NOA block obviously the 49ers are defined by wide receivers blocking to me the culture and

Everything is all out of whack and it starts with the cohesion of the front office the signing of players my everything’s out of whack in Pittsburgh and I think Mitch trabis is just a perfect example of that like who the [ __ ] is signing off on paying him $8

Million as an extension when he’s already been on the squad just a horrific horrific Personnel move another story today that the agent shot down Ben rumors out there that Ben Johnson wants $15 million a year the Lions offensive coordinator I went and watched his press conference because I’m like I don’t

Really even know what this guy sounds like or what he looks like did a little did a little research walk on quarterback at North Carolina watch his press conference looks the part easygoing guy I mean I can’t really take much from the press conference he was

Kind of he wasn’t asked about the money but he was just ask about his head coaching opportunities he immediately like refuses the answer says you should be talking to Aaron Glenn about that too he clearly just a little uncomfortable like any assistant coach is when it comes to talking about being a head

Coach during the season but I actually don’t think it’s that unrealistic and even though the agent shot down we are not asking for that money all it takes a little bit of a bidding war and think about all the coaching jobs that are going to be open and listen I say it all

The time there is no guarantee any coordinators going to be good absolutely none Ben Johnson might be the next K Shanahan he could be the next flop like you you you have no clue it is so much easier to just call plays and manage the

Offense than it is to be the head coach a guy gets a DUI a guy gets arrested uh you know you’re starting defensive tackle shatters his leg your your punter gets a concussion like you have to deal with everything everything in the organization you got the owner talking

To you you got the GM in your ass you got sales and marketing asking you questions it never ends you have so many different obligations that the coordinator doesn’t so it’s impossible to even project back in the day when I was with the Eagles one of the famous

Stories was the reason they hired Andy Reid from the Green Bay Packers who technically wasn’t even the coordinator is because they had done a study there is no guarantee that just hiring the best offensive coordinator equals a good head coach and we’ve seen that over the years I mean sometimes special teams

Coach sometimes a position coach sometimes just failed head coaches just turn it around I do think he’s going to get an astronomical amount of money though because if Sher is correct then up to 10 head coaching jobs are open there aren’t 10 head coaching candidates and the

Other thing like I mentioned with Raheem Morris like we’ve talked talked about before with Brian Flores who is clearly a really good defensive coordinator and there are several others Dan Quinn a lot of guys owners in GMS and rightfully so are just going to be inclined to hire

The guy that [ __ ] with the quarterback because we’ve seen Dan Quinn when he had K Shan when he was awesome when he didn’t he sucked right we’ve seen Brian Flores he he hated Tua he couldn’t interact with his offensive staff the offense pays the bills in the National

Football League I’m not saying a defensive coach can’t be successful and I’m not saying the defensive coaches aren’t going to get hired but just put yourself in the shoes of an owner of GM you are going to be more inclined to lean offensively it’s why everyone’s gonna want Harbaugh right it’s why

Everyone’s GNA want this guy even if Jim Harbaugh comes to the NFL he can only go to one team so let’s just say there were eight openings Ben Johnson is easily gonna be the number one candidate in two or three of them and to me all it takes

And this happens all the time in free agency to gain a bidding process on you know your services it takes multiple teams if you just have one team bidding on you the number is not as high well if you have two or three teams that want you that number starts maybe at five

Years $40 million and can easily when it’s all said and done end up four five years $65 million so maybe he doesn’t get 15 but I don’t think it’s out of the realm possibility you’re looking at a 1213 million coach you watch when Ben Johnson becomes a head coach in the NFL

I feel very confident in this the number is going to be huge it might not be $15 million a year but I bet it I bet it’s closer than 15 to5 than it is to eight and a half nine and it’s crazy how far we’ve come with these coaching contracts

But if you go well hey what if this guy is the next sha mcfay because if he is then he’s worth $25 million like I watch Shan McVey tonight whatever he’s getting paid he’s undera right Watch Andy Reid watch k shanan whatever they’re making they’re underpay it’s why everyone’s up

In arms about serani like what’s he doing can’t call the plays right doesn’t do anything with the defense like how many motivation speeches can you give I I need you to out scheme my opponent I need you to motivate and scheme it’s why these offensive head coaches make so

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This is a paid advertisement uh Aaron Rogers he was activated today to the 53 man roster or earlier this week and they had to cut some random fullback that I’ve never heard of and I saw a lot of people like Ross Tucker I mean people that played in the NFL that covered the

NFL they’re like this is insane a guy loses his job for Aaron Rogers who’s not even gonna play who literally said on Tuesday that he’s done he can’t play this year yeah of course you paid Aaron Rogers $75 million partly because he gave you a haircut he’s your franchise

You clearly are getting an excuse this year because he’s injured you’ll do anything obviously you don’t want to just put him on injur reserve right because the 21-day window ends you have to make a decision on his roster status you want him to come to practice every

Day even if he’s going to be limited you want him with the quarterbacks with the wide receivers with the offensive line if that’s worth maybe an extra win if that’s just worth his psyche I I got news for you no one gives a [ __ ] about the 50th the 53rd guy on a roster

Because at any if there’s an injury he’s the first guy to get cut and this is a good example he got cut he didn’t just get cut for the coach’s son for the owner’s cousin he got cut for Aaron Rodgers yes Aaron roggers isn’t GNA play

A game just like that guy would not have played a game you were basically cutting a guy who is going to be inactive on game day for Aaron Rodgers for a lot of stuff that’s hard to quantify that’s the easiest move Joe Douglas has made all

Season so some of these NFL people up in arms and I get it it hits at home to a lot of guys whose career end with getting cut and they’re sensitive to that type stuff especially with a guy who you know every game check is a big

Deal I I I I understand that but that not really the way the world works right if somehow they you know three and out is taking up coward spot we gotta we gotta put coward over you like what do you think would happen to me bye-bye

John I me that’s what are we talking about so sometimes the reaction uh whether it be former players or by the media is just very uninformed when it comes to the business of football I mean like I said I think that is easily the quickest move that no one had to think

About that the Jets have made in the last couple years so Aaron Rogers officially now on the active roster and he will be inactive obviously on game days uh let’s see what else I I guess the last football thing before we dive into a couple other little things is Florida

State officially wants out of the ACC like of course they did when Florida State got left out of the playoffs the ACC officially died unofficially it had been hanging by a thread officially it’s over same thing with the big 12 everyone knows like oh they’re they’re going to

Expand the playoffs it’s going to be much more fair you do know when the playoffs get expanded that the SEC in the Big 10 probably have between eight to 10 teams every single year in the playoffs they’re going to dominate they’re going to have like a Google uh

You know Netflix level Monopoly on this thing and Florida State knows it and Florida State knows the only way they can have future success sustain it financially is to get out of the ACC there are a lot of complications I did a little reading the Clauses the contracts

They have they’re Ironclad since till 2036 I think they will find a way to break them and the moment they do and that that damn breaks get ready for Clemson get ready for Miami get ready for maybe North Carolina to join them and go to the SEC and that’ll officially

Kind of end like this has always been inevitable the super conferences that’s how it’s going to end Notre Dame and someone else will end up in the Big 10 this thing’s been a wrap from the jump none of these other conferences were going to be able to keep up with the

Money rolling into these other uh you know to the two big ones they’re going to financially such a big Advantage they’re going to have such a big advantage on the strangle hold of the power of the playoffs and it’s only going to continue to separate and I know

Chip Kelly went on this rant and everyone loved it I thought it was the stupidest rant ever why would Ohio State Michigan Alabama LSU and like and Georgia want 64 teams on the main level they don’t want to share the revenue the NFL is 32 teams 64 teams financially

That doesn’t make any sense the only teams that rate in this country are like Ohio State Michigan and whoever they’re playing and some of the main SEC teams and occasionally if they’re good like the Oregon Washington USC’s and obviously Texas and Oklahoma well they’re all playing together now why the

[ __ ] are they gonna want to share with all these other random teams I that’s again I get why he got a lot of credit and this is I’m not even trying to take a shot at Chip Kelly he’s just trying to do the right thing but financially it

Makes no sense to me there should be about 40 teams in the top conference and then everyone else if you want to have three tiers you know three a 40 a 30 and a 30 keep uh the d1aa and like the Mountain West level conferences however

You want to do it but the 40 however that shakes out and it’s pretty clear how that’s going to shake out the teams that are already in the Big 10 the teams that are already in the SEC Clemson uh Florida State Miami Notre Dame add some

Of those that’s it that that’s a wrap you know everyone else is kind of so and uh it’s always been like that clearly for the last three or four years the moment Oregon and Washington officially jump ship but but like I said it officially ended when Florida state was

Left out because if in the same situation an SEC team or a big 10 team had had the same thing happen with their quarterback they’d be in the dance they just would and I think Florida state knows that and they’ve known it for a while but they got to experience it

Firsthand and uh now they realize the ACC is dead couple other quick things uh peacock has a peacock game only on Saturday night the bills Charger game only on peacock I currently don’t have peacock but I’ll be at my mom’s house she’s a Comcast uh she still has old

School cable she has peacock for free so I’ll be able to watch it and my first reaction was this is so stupid th this is such a hurdle for the consumer and the NFL is the most consumer friendly business and then I started thinking I’d be a little bit of hypocrite because I

Was the one really supporting Amazon Prime though I think Amazon Prime if I pulled every single person listening to this right now are you an Amazon member every single one of you would say yes and the amount of you that have Amazon Prime and that definitely got it over

The last couple years because of Thursday Night Football would probably be close to 100% if you’re listening to this podcast and you’re a football guy and obviously Amazon Prime brings other stuff to the table but then I was thinking like here’s the thing is NBC the way it’s currently constructed and

Set up going to be around in 10 20 years maybe they know everything’s going to be on these streaming services and I’ve been saying this forever now I assumed that eventually it’ll all be like Amazon has one package uh Netflix has another and it’ll kind of Be Shaken out that way

But maybe the NBC game which currently is the number one television show in America you know in in the next television deal in 2031 will just be on peacock because we all have peacock and if we don’t all have peacock if you want to watch the NFL you will get peacock

And that’s essentially what they’re doing they’re giving you a little dabble they will have a boatload of people buy the peacock for the day or for the month or however you can short term but eventually like that game will be there so my first reaction was actually kind

Of angry I was kind of pissed off because I I honestly didn’t even I remember reading about this at the beginning of the season but it kind of slit my mind and then I saw peacock only I was like uh but listen this is the

Future and the NFL is going to be on the Forefront of this part of the reason that they didn’t go heavily on the streaming services this last time around because they would have been able to get more money they were very loyal to their Partners

NBC Fox CBS This is going to D think how much television has changed in the last five years think how I was thinking about this the other night I was like me and Maria were looking for something to watch I was flipping around I was like because the writer strike there’s just

No television shows it’s like I’ve tried to get her to watch Reacher she’s kind of bored I’m like you know it’s actually kind of an overrated show so like flip it around I’m like why don’t I just turn on the television I’m I’m just going to all these streaming platforms I I don’t

Think I did that five years ago I had Netflix but my five first clicks weren’t Apple uh Hulu uh uh Netflix right they’re all streaming service Amazon Prime it was always just I went to the cable box I just flipped around see if a movie or

Show was on so think of how dramatically it’s going to change in the next five six seven years so listen some of us are going to be angry not myself but I I would have been if I was here and I would have had to pay for it but let’s

Let’s be real this is how it’s all going to be moving forward and I think like the ACC officially dying I think the Pro Bowl now is just completely officially dead I saw it was announced today that they have they’ve added tug ofar they’re no longer really playing the game right

They canceled the game years ago in pads because it was so terrible then they tried to do flag football it was even worse and now they’re doing essentially like a you know a bunch of screw around events actually don’t think it’s terrible like tug war with the offensive

Lineman I remember when I was a kid like Brett Favre Troy Aman Steve Young they used to get all the sweet quarterbacks and they would have like events of like hitting moving targets uh throwing it who could throw it the farthest the problem I think for the NFL is the Pro

Bowl game for as much as all of us people that watch football talk so much [ __ ] about it I I refused to watch it the last three or four years that last year when M Jones made it in the flag football game and did the I was like I

This is this is beyond dumb still got millions of people to watch I saw a clip today of the most watched sports right obviously it’s football on the average game the average NFL game does like n million people all the other major sports do under a million people for all

The all the games the NBA is like 600 Grand baseball and hockey are like two and 300,000 people so even the Pro Bowl used to do like 6 seven million people when it was was at its lowest when it was most embarrassing so it is hard you

Know your partners pay all this money and you know it’s it’s hard to get millions of people just to watch Patrick Mahomes throw the football at a moving Target so I I I think that you’re just going to have to add a lot of different events I I think a Strongman Competition

I think maybe get the four best guys who are good at golf it’s going to be in Vegas play at the win you know a little the match style have that going on simultaneously you’re going to have to do a lot of that and basically just call

It like a four hours NFL skills competition uh but but it will not be the same and I I think the NFL knows that they’re trying to kind of PEC mail it because none of the players want to play right and even when they play they

Freaking hate it and uh it it’s just it became a disaster for the NFL when everyone started making so much money I mean that legendary Shawn Taylor hit on the punter uh it feels like it’s all been downhill from there and listen I don’t blame the guys if I was an NFL

Player and I I would not under any circumstances even play in a game if they were Pats I I wouldn’t do it one because we’re not going to go hard and two I can’t risk if we’re not going hard in football some weird injury right and then even the flag football thing it’s

Like it became kind of embarrassing for the brand of the NFL um even though it’s actually kind of parallel some of the football we watch on Sundays but but I get it I mean I just think more and more there’s just so much money in the line

You can’t convince these players and I support them I I I wouldn’t risk any sort of injury doing anything stupid on something that doesn’t matter at all so uh listen prob Bowl’s dead I wanted to end with this the uh bold take of the week I have uh I’ve always been good at

Working out working out’s not my problem but my diet for the last I don’t know I’d say all of 2023 has been pretty terrible the amount of sweets I’ve eaten this year has probably shattered records but I don’t plan on stopping now so my

Bold take of the week is is I plan on not turning down any single item for the next week I’ll be home for the holidays we’re going to be eating big I’m going to about three different family gatherings uh with her family with my family the in-laws with all sorts of

People and food’s going to be flying and I am not turning down anything I plan on coming back my cleanse my my uh my my quest toward a healthy body that is my temple Once Upon a Time it no longer is start probably about mid I’m not even starting

In 2024 I’ll start about Wednesday or Thursday of next week but starting Saturday Sunday and Monday I plan on putting on a performance of eating and obviously drinking as well and watching football because we have about seven million football games Saturday Sunday on peacock Saturday Sunday and then you

Know cap it off Monday night Niners Raven so my bow take of the week I plan on eating everything in sight brought to you by Guinness gather your friends raise your glasses and toast to a win Guinness draft Stout imported by diio beer company USA New York New York please drink responsibly