Steelers beat Ravens, Kevin Stefanksi & Raheem Morris Fired, Transfer Portal Madness | 01.05

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. A wave original. My name is Beaumont Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We got some NFL coaching moves to talk about. We'll get to them in a second and I'm going to be honest with you. We are currently recording at 921 Eastern Time. And we're going to wait a little while before we talk about the coaches because we want to give a little bit more time for people to get fired. All right, Ryan, I don't know what this says about me, what this says about us. But I was watching the TV before we came in here. Adam Schefter had to get up and get off the set and go take phone calls in the middle of the show, which I mean, I got to say is a little weird, but whatever. Interesting television for sure. It is. But the thing is, like, whenever he come back, is real disappointing if somebody ain't get fired. And that's that. And that, like. I don't feel that bad because they're going to get their money. Correct. Right. Like, it's not the problem with getting fired isn't getting fired. Is what? Where my check at? Yes. Right. Like, that's that's that's all this comes down to. Where my check at? And if they're like, yo, but the check still going to come, you know, it's a big deal for the for for your kids and everything. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, man. I mean, when Pete Carroll gets fired in the next couple hours, you know, yes, I know no one's going to feel sorry for his family. He's fine. Yeah, yeah. We ain't got time to wait for the son to come up in Las Vegas before we started doing this show. Like, I think we all feel pretty confident that he is going to wind up getting fired. But we'll get to the fired people in just a second. One of them we think eventually will be Jim Harbaugh. Right. John Harbaugh. Big difference, boy. This is the Jordan Justin Jefferson situation all over the game, except the consequences are much more serious in terms of what phrasing we happen to choose. But I mean, we had talked about their Ravens Steelers game. Well, I guess we didn't talk about it on the show because we just got off taking a couple of weeks off. But we had talked about it beforehand. The possibility of a losing leaves out match in that week, 18 match up, right? And it really came down to the last playoff spot was who was going to win that game and who was going to lose it. And I'll be honest with you. If the Steelers had lost that game, I don't even know what they would have let Mike Tomlin come and talk to the players. I mean, they probably would have because it would have been somewhat beneath his dignity to not allow him to do that. But they let Lamar and the Ravens just get huge chunk plays walking down the field on them in the fourth quarter in a way where if you're job is on the line and these sorts of things happen, you're not going to have a job. Right? Like that's that's the game. That's how that happens to work. Instead, it wound up being the Ravens who, you know, let a pretty nondescript offense take them down the field. And then we don't talk about this nearly enough, Ryan. I guess it's because we don't think about the Ravens as being one of these star cross kind of teams. And that's fine. But they got a long track record of everything going wrong. And they all got the end, right? When Lee Evans dropped that pass way back when and then Lee Evans dropped the pass and then Billy Cundiff missed the kick. Right. This kick that they just missed with the rookie in this game. Ze flowers with the way he fumbled up the game, you know, why they still had a chance against the Chiefs in 2023. What happened last year with Mark Andrews? Like and you have to remember like John Harbaugh has this insane record. I think it's now 18 double digit leads blown. Yes. Or so. Yeah. Which would you add to last night? But if this was Boston in the 1990s, right, we would be talking about like if this was back in the day, man, somebody would have brought a goat to the stadium, you know, like all kinds of things. It had been the curse of, of, of, I don't even know. Right. That sports debate topic there is. Yeah. Oh yeah. Do you believe curses are real? Yes. It would have all been there for the things that had happened with them. And Lamar Jackson is in this somewhat interesting space to me. And I'm asked, I don't know if you remember this. Okay. 2010, 2010 NBA playoffs, second round, game five, Celtics, Cavaliers. It's hard to argue that a broad. A broad quits. Yes. It's hard to say he didn't quit. Right. It looked very much like he quit. He was so good that he looked quit-ish in game six. And he had triple double. Right. Right. Like it's hard for me to say he quit when he got the triple double, right? Yeah. But I saw where people are coming from. 2011, I don't think he quit. I just think they ran out of gas. It was, yeah, it was all here. Like it was a, it was a lot for him. And that version of him reminds me a lot of what we've seen in Lamar Jackson and a lot of these playoffs where he's come up short, where you've seen the stress, right? You've seen him coming to the sideline and slamming the helmet and everything else. Right. Like he gets tight. I think enough has happened for us to say that with a measure of confidence. Last year against Buffalo was tight early, brought it back together. And I thought if you were a Ravens fan, you had to feel good about that, right? That he did not become imprisoned by whatever was going on in his head. He shook it off. And then of course, Mark Andrews was like, oh, what a win. What's with you? Dumbbell. Oh, oh, what a win. And what in that? I remember people thinking that somehow there was a Trumpy element to what had gone on. I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember either. But it was a whole, oh, I can't remember exactly what went down, but it was a lot of people who were saying that they thought that he chose country over party. He chose country over tea. In that moment, I wish I could remember the detail. But I remember and somebody y'all go get in these YouTube comments and y'all go talk about it, but I remember joking with people about it and then realizing in the replies that they weren't joking. No, that's that's that's the thing when you start a legend conspiracy theories. There's always people who really believe it. Oh, no, no, no. But that was it was it was 10 times. Right. Yes. This is after the latest around inauguration. Yeah. This is this is a tough situation for the people, anything. But this game Lamar Jackson, I saw a stat. And of course, this is like, you know, this is what I call a database stat where somebody just takes everything for the game, puts it into a database and asks you to do calls and like what's never happened before. But this is the first time anybody had taken the lead in the fourth quarter with two plays over 50 yards and they still lost the game. Man, that's that feels impossible. Now, now, now, I want to be very clear about this. Good on the bar, Jackson, for making those throws. But it would be like me throwing the ball to somebody in my apartment right now where nobody is nobody else is like, like Zay flowers was but negative. I don't know what the Steelers were playing. Right. Zay flowers out there but negative open. But the plays were getting made. The Ravens got it done. And that's why I'm saying that if the Steelers had lost that game, it would have been really hard not to fire my time. In fact, I if I was a stillness, I might even consider it being like, hey, hey, hey, everybody, fans, fans, if you could please stay in your seats. We have a very special ceremony. Come on out here, Mike. You didn't know we were going to do this. No, no, no, no, it's OK. Chill out, chill out, chill out. Look whose name is in the Ring of Honor. I thought you were going to give him the watch. I guess we could do that next. Hold on, hold on, hold on, we're not finished. We're not finished. Look at this. It's black and it's gold and it's got diamonds in it. Yeah, you like that, don't you? Come on, come on, come on, bring your wife and kids out. Come on down to the field. Come on, dad needs you right now. Dad's going to need a hug. Right. Like you go ahead and do that right then and there. The players on the sideline, you do that shit like they did with Shieshski retire. Yeah. Remember when they lost? Yes. And then they still made the kids sit out there. Oh my God, that is how to never get old. And I think that that's interesting with Lamar, right, is like similar to LeBron. We have all this simmering reporting about his contract and renegotiating and figuring out his future and his unnappy, high-pitched of hardball. And then he comes out and has, I know, a weird end of the season is a talk to describe it. But this was actually, this is what I meant to say when it relates to LeBron. And I don't know if you remember this, but in 2012, where he was comically good, right? Like they came off that lockout in 2012 and 2013 LeBron James. It's like 2012 is the is that's the 23 or 24 game win streak, correct? I think that's 2013. The twenty thirteen is the second year. Yeah. Yeah. But it was what happened in 2012, though. They had a run of games because I don't for those of you who aren't old enough to remember this or who weren't around. America has never been fixated on one sports team the way we were on the Miami Heat for those four years. Nothing has ever been the same. Like they were the A1 on highly questionable. Basically every game they played, unless it was the Super Bowl, like it was that level. But they were playing a lot of games that were coming down late and LeBron was hitting a lot of game winning shots, except they were losing the games. Right. Like it was these shots with two seconds left. And LeBron is nailing them week after week after week. But none of them counted, at least in terms in the eyes of people who question whether or not he was clutch, because then they would come back and somebody hit like a half court shot or like a fade away twenty seven. Yeah, I remember this. I was watching. I mean, I was in college, so it's watching a lot of NBA basketball and a lot of sports TV. Yes. They made it was just it just kept happening over and over again. And that's what it feels like now with Lamar. Like they got he got it done against Buffalo last year, but they lost the game. He kind of pulled it together against the Chiefs the year before, but they lost the game. And he made huge plays. He was treating the Steelers like they were like like the Bengals. They're getting those plays and they still manage to lose. They got them down there in the field goal range and they still manage to lose that game. Like that's a tough go. It really, really is. But either he or the coach has to go. I talked about this on Dominique Fosser with the podcast the other day. I believe and if you have not seen the Mike Preston reporting, Mike Preston of the Baltimore Sun, he's talking about Lamar Jackson falling asleep in meetings and all the changes that the Ravens have made to work around him and how it's caused this kind of simmering sort of feud between him and John Harbaugh. And the truth is, if you have to pick one of these, it's no question. You take a Lamar. This is it. Lamar Jackson, by the way, has no more guaranteed money left in his contract. I have seen the reporting that his mother, who is his de facto agent, would like for him to be back in Miami. I have heard other people say the same thing. I'm just saying we trying to get back to Miami so we could handle some fitness. Unless your business is cocaine. No, no, that's not. That's not wise. It's going to throw it out there. That's not wise. So yeah, my guess, John Harbaugh is going to be out of there and. I take some of them an example from my own life. If it does happen. You know, I did a lot. I spent a lot of time of my career working on around the horn. And it's obviously very, very important to where I wound up. A reason that a lot of you even have any idea who I am. Right. It's a very important show to me around the horn had been on for, I want to call it 21 or 22 years. When they decided to let it go. And I would talk to Tony Reali and I would talk to Aaron Solomon, who was the producer, the coordinator producer of the show. And when it was all over, I always said congratulations to them, but I never said I'm sorry. I never said that I felt bad about the show ending because it's just like, what, 23 years? You know what I mean? Like you get 22 years in this business. I congratulate you on getting 22 years. Like you can't really lock in on what didn't go right at the end. When you got to do this for 22 years. You know what I mean? I did my show in HBO and we got two years in D. You know how excited I was about the second? You know what I mean? Like this is what it is. John Harbaugh has worked at job for 18 years. Congratulations to you, big dog. If they let you go, it is not sad. It is not sad at all if they let you go. You have been victorious in the course of this. You might be a little bit salty that the guy who saved your fucking job seven years ago is the reason that you got fired. Like I know why maybe that wouldn't feel so good. But what did I just say? You know what I mean? Like good for you. And by the way, remember this when the Steelers have to play the Houston Texans at the crib. And Ryan, I don't. I don't think that's going to work out well for the Steelers at all. Like for them that they'll get Metcalf back. But the Texans are your great example of a team that caught up to the point differential, right? A team whose record caught up to all the advanced numbers. If I was Aaron Rodgers and I'm out there looking not not trying to get hit. The thing I don't want to see is Will Anderson on one side and Daniel Hunter on the other side and Derek Seenley guarding my best receiver. Yes. Oh, this is are these guys of LSU's backup team? Well, it's two that's two LSU guys. And I mean, Wollternson was an Alabama All-Star. Yes, he was. Yeah. So like that is. And again, D'Amico Ryan scheming up how to stop my very bland offense. Yeah. Yeah. The Arthur Smith special. Hey, man, Arthur Smith figured out how to hand it off to the tidy and now boy. All right. Like that's what he's got. By the way, nobody I give Arthur Smith credit of the sense that I don't know if I was Arthur Smith, if I would have a real job. No, no. And for those, and for those of you who don't know, Arthur Smith's father is the founder of Federal Express. I think it's a grandfather. No, it's the father. Yes. His daddy. That's his dad. And so it's so interesting because Arthur went to Carolina. He was in Carolina in the time that I was there. They had another son named Cannon, who I want to say played quarterback at Miami. And I don't know how good any of these guys were, but I imagine they had to be the hottest recruits because you just like, yo, man, we can get you on board here. We got a chance to get you on board. Here we got a chance that they're going to give us some money. Right. Like, like just, you know, was a little bit of money to him is all the money in the world to us. Like, just you watch out when Memphis football gets good. If it ever happens, it's going to be because of that. But anyway, yeah, to me, go on one side, Arthur Smith. They look, say what you want about Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin is not beating you with scheme. No, that's this. That's an offense or defense. Right. That's not that's not the game that he plays. That's not what it is that he provides. And I think they are going to be out talented in this game. They're going to play in their quarterback is a million years old. Do not believe that he is out of the woods, but do believe this. I couldn't believe how happy he was about winning that division. Did you see how happy they were at the end of that game? Like, has he maybe recalibrated expectations? They felt like that was a win. I mean, that looked like a guy who thought he was coaching for his job. Yes. Like, I mean, there was some rumblings about some of, you know, whether or not they'd renew his contract, whether or not he was already looking at television is another option. Like that looked like a guy who was, you know, real again, thought he saved his job last night. Yeah. But here's the thing about that to me. We never know what they're doing. Every time we thought the block was hot on Mike Tomlin, it wasn't. Everybody go, yeah, we extended this contract 18 months ago. Y'all ain't know. We're not. I do think the Steelers understand this part. If they would be changing coaches, it would be for the sake of doing so. Right. It would do it be probably especially this cycle when there's it's not like they could go out and like change their whole identity and get Ben Johnson like last year. Right. Right. This is what I'm saying. Like, who do you want to get and be? And this is an important part. What makes you think they want to change their identity? Right. Like the identity of this franchise is not a byproduct of Mike Tomlin. That's coming from up top. Like Mike Tomlin was a like a 4-3 Tony Dungey sort of dude on defense and they brought him in and were like, yes, you're going to run our defense, the defense that we've been running for all this time. It's a little cheaper to get a linebackers than it is to get defensive ends. Right. You know, I think so. Yeah, we're going to we're going to do that. Like you can make this change, but who's who's Mike Tomlin for them becomes the question. And you know what? Put a pin in that thought. Three, two, one. All right. So now we get into talking about our Black Monday conversation. And I got to be honest with you, at least as of this moment at 9.38 Eastern time on Monday morning, Ryan, Monday ain't been as black as we thought it was going to be so far just Raheem Morris. Yeah, I mean, we there were some other people who, you know, might go down, but they haven't gone down yet. Yeah. Yeah. So so for the Black Monday with Black and italics, we got to be honest with you. We got as far as candidates go. I don't. We got six, but like it's kind of like five. Yes. I'm talking about Mike McDonald. Oh, Mike McDonald. Mike McDonald is actually doing a very good job with this Seattle Seahawks. Mike, welcome to the air. Yes. Yes. And, and has anybody asked Mike McDonald or the Seahawks if he can say. Anytime you hear anybody ask him to do that. No, just a just just just say I'll a. All I'm saying is this, if Mike McDonald can sing like Michael McDonald, he might wind up on the Black Monday list. It is own way kind of like Michael McDonald. Did Michael McDonald still in the league still tour? Yes, he is. Yes, he is. By the way, if Mike McDonald can sing as good as Michael McDonald, we might trade him Mike McDaniel for Mike McDonald and maybe even give you guys a late round pick to go along with it. But anyway, Mike McDaniel might still be keeping the job. And. Do you think Stephen Ross knew it when he hired him? I'm sure he was told about he might have doubted it. He was told about who the only person that could tell him is Mike McDonald is Mike McDaniel. Like when they went through and he got the list from the Fritz Pollard people and he was like, Hey, you guys got a mistake here. Someone's in the wrong column. Yeah, it says Mike McDaniel. Like what are you talking about? We just met him. He just came in here. Like that's not like no chance. Mike McDaniel does not have to own this. I think we have to give him. I don't think people give him nearly enough credit for the fact that telling us that telling us that he was black, he'd have anything to gain from that in his industry. What so ever he chose to. We might go to his house and find out that like he might be like Louis Armstrong. Little did you know he hates the white man's guts. Who's to say they have no idea. Anyway, our other candidates in this discussion are Mike Tomlin, who not quite out of the woods yet. Domingo Rhyans, you straight. We saw what happened with Raheem. I feel like I miss one, but I'm kind of scanning through the list really fast. Oh, Aaron Glenn, who I really don't understand how you justify not firing him after the team didn't get no interceptions the whole year. And they look, they mailed it in for the rest of the year. Like when they traded sauce gardener and they traded Quinn and Williams. But right, I couldn't believe how I've been living here for a long time. I could not believe how bad they were. I mean, again, we already threw around the quit word that team this month. I mean, I don't know how much I would drive Brady cook was my quarterback, but that team, who was the quarterback Brady cook? Who is that? He played for Missouri. Like recently. Yeah. I think he was a seven fron pick. But again, wow. I mean, again, you went from Justin Fields to Tyrod Taylor to Brady cook. Yeah. Look, man, if you had asked me if Brady cook was a quarterback for the New York Jets, the gold tender for the Winnipeg Jets or the quarterback of the Akron Zips. I could have been. You could have told me that he was the hottest quarterback in the port on the hill for all we know when he's a double A rules. He might go back. He might be the hottest quarterback in the portal right now, baby. Like, yo, they offering me a little bit more money to go back to Miss O. Which, which y'all got to say about this. But my question, if generally speaking, and this is why the Raheem firing in Atlanta was a little strange because they didn't quit. They won the one for straight. They won their last four to, by the way, finish in a tie for the division lead and be while being eliminated from the playoffs for the last month. Right. That is a that is a strange year as it went down. They have a weird roster of somewhat mismatched parts. They still haven't figured out. They got a quarterback problem. I don't think there's any way around that. They have heavily invested in a man whose body probably can't get in two men whose body bodies limit what you could do. They did a great job drafting this year and they got a lot of good players on defense. But if you're looking at that team, how exactly are you going to make things better? Now, for what I could tell though about the Falcons is as is often the case when a coach get fired and the record doesn't look so bad, the people who watch the team all the time are like, Hey, it had to be done. Like they they were a team that the more you watch them, the more you believe that they were not well coached and you kind of know it when you see it. And quite a frankly, Arthur Blake is too old to be trying to be patient. If he want to see what happens, like he don't already put himself in the ring of honor, for example, right? This is not he. He he he talk about no five year playing. I mean, he famously didn't bring a bell check because he's like, I don't want you know, cycle through coaches two years later and look what they're doing now, the coach and the GM. Right. And by the way, they're getting hell for not hiring Bellachek. And I'm like, they made the right decision. Say it again. Sounds like they made the right decision. Oh, that's what I was about to say. Like if you're a look back on it was we could have Bill Belichick. What are you talking about? Right. Like, like, were you not paying in? Here's my question. What will Bill Belichick done to Michael Penix and Kirk Cousins in a quarterback situation? Like what? I think the Falcons problems are somewhat fundamental. And by the way, the Browns problems are similarly fundamental. The Colts decided to keep stiking and Chris Ballard. And I think in large part you had to look at what are we offering here? Their quarterback situation is what? What are you going to put Daniel Jones off the Achilles? You think that's going to be the answer? Or I mean, the best path to say Stike and saving his job is Anthony Richardson. The problem is, is he going to be able to see? Like literally after what happened with his face getting busted up and everything else, like who knows what happens next when it comes to this guy? The Falcons, Penix. I don't I don't expect Penix to play next year. I mean, it doesn't. With you can only blow your knees so many times. That is correct. Right. I don't imagine Kirk Cousins winds up coming back. The Raiders. I got people asking me and like, yes, it is Fernando Mendoza. Like, is he what the Raiders need? And OK, I watched Mendoza. We'll talk a little bit more about that game later, but I watched Mendoza there. And Mendoza looks like something I've seen very many times, which is a very good college quarterback that is not that. I know what the number one pick in the draft look like. That ain't it. Like, even if you think Ken Ward's not going to be that guy, you look at Ken Ward with the Titans, you're like, oh, that that guy was the number one pick in the draft. Like, you see that Mendoza. Oh, I don't know. I don't I don't I don't know what you're going to do. But Pete's going to wind up being out of there. Who will who else we think go wind up getting tossed on Nick Keaster? Like, at least with the Ravens, you better jump on that job fast. If you got that opportunity. Arizona, what are they going to do? Like, I mean, I haven't heard about if they're going to fire again. And but I don't know how much longer they're going to keep doing that. And apparently since Cincinnati, Joe Burrow and the receivers really like Zach Taylor and I don't I don't know what kind of, you know, me and they enjoy. Yeah. But I feel like those guys need to be happy. They got their money. Yeah, shut the fuck up. And let's figure something else out. And I can't believe that man's had that job as long as he has. Right. And the great he's been to a Super Bowl, but nobody came away from that. Like, hey, man, you know, we've really been under estimate and that's like Taylor, not that's not that's not how that felt. Oh, Ty Bowles, I forgot he was also in the italic Black Monday. Oh, that's what we forgot. Yeah. But they say they go keep everybody. Yeah. Good for him because he he is not a great coach, but he is a much better coach than he was when he was with the Jets. Oh, so much better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like he learned some things in that like he's like his OG is Bruce Arians and he he picked up some things. Anything anybody else? Are we sure Matt LaFour going to keep his job if they go out there? I mean, they were the seven seed. They go out here and lose to the Bears. I mean, game they're their favorite. Yeah. By the way, that job, I would jump on that pronto. Right. And then another coach that might lose his job if they lose is Sean Mcgermit. Yes. And I they've given it as long as it could go. But they don't feel like they don't feel like a team that needs to fire their coach. But what else is what what else are you going to do? Like if you if you're at the point of trying to make a change to make this happen, I don't really know what else you're going to do. Kevin O'Connell is not going to get fired this year, but he's got to be on the high sea for next year. Right. I mean, he's I mean, they're going to have to bring in another quarterback. And if he doesn't get figured out, like the part of the reason they let Sam Darnold go and someone else were going to talk about later in the show. Is Kevin O'Connell can, you know, is the quarterback whisperer and he might be. But I mean, he certainly didn't fix JJ McCarthy. They hate that kid. Did you see that press conference? Not this last game of the week before where they were where where McCarty and McCarthy did the gritty in the end zone and apparently he had been told not to do that. I did not see that. No. OK, so he did a great did a gritty into the end zone. The coaches had told him not to do that. And he said, well, they told me not to. So that made me want to do it more. You have to grow up, right? And then O'Connell's that conversation every day. And so O'Connell is talking after the game and he says something about, yeah, and JJ, he, you know, he always talks about that 40 hour dash that he brags about how he didn't have to run. And I heard that and I was like, I said this on Fossilry podcast, too. This is the way people talked about Austin Rivers when he was at Duke. I'm just saying that to say that they don't like him. And I they are so sour on him in a way. The guy's only been there for like played for a year. He's been consistent. They are down on him. But what are you going to do to fix that? Who? Who's. Archie and coming out. And by the way, Nate Tice looks like he was right. Right. He looks like he's the best of those guys. You see that run? Yes, he was. He's he's not fast for a minute. He's fast, fast. Do what people forget. He's he's not fast for a manning because the OG manning was fast. Every day, Archie Manning had to be so ashamed at how slow those last two boys were. Right. And the oldest boy was a wide receiver. That's right. Coop, I said, Coop was a wide receiver. And that is Archie's dad. But no, this is in the Archie Manning archetype. This right here. I think Archie was like, look, man, I haven't been able to feel my left thumb for 30 years because of all that running, learn how to do the pocket son. It'll be it'll be better for like I just it's been so long. And Archie Manning is a generation that's so removed from me that people just don't understand what the manning thing actually is. No, no, no. Arch is in line with the actual factual archetype of the manning quarterback. But he's not going to be in this draft. There's a small chance. Trinidad Chambles will be in this draft, but he's small. Like what is that going to turn out to be? This is a weird year that they have so many coaching jobs. But remember, Cleveland still got the Shaw Watson on the payroll next year. Yeah, we haven't even mentioned Cleveland. Yes. I mean, Stephensi got canned about a half an hour ago and talk about a situation you do not want to walk into. No, because, hey, man, Shadora was good for vibes. He was bad at football. It just wasn't like I've heard the people make the argument that he watching him that it was at its obvious that he shouldn't have been a fifth round pick. No, no, no. I don't think that's true at all. I don't like it wasn't an optimal situation. As I said from the very beginning, of course, he wasn't set up for success. He played for the Browns. I know it wasn't. But he did seem like he was better than Dylan Gabriel. That that's what they offer in you if you get that job. Maybe you're the team that decides to figure out a way to get Kyler Murray, for example, like, I guess I still say Tray Lance is there and looking for somebody. But there's there aren't many attractive jobs that are out there to be taken. And we will see if that results in teams deciding that they're not actually going to fire their coaches. Maybe that's what it is. But it's going to be bleak out there. However, it'll be bleak for a job that pay you like eight, nine, ten million dollars. It could be worse. Every Friday from six to seven thirty, it's NBA happy hour on fan duel, your pregame for the weekend. We're talking limited time specials you won't want to miss boosts, bonuses, surprises, all dropping in the app during happy hour. So before tip off, check the fan duel app to see the week special. Then make your move before the shot clock expires at seven thirty Easter. 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Of course not. I don't know who they all are. I don't think it's necessarily wise. Like I think I think that there's a segment of guys that this is your chance to get some money. And so you're going to go ahead and get, especially with a lot of these quarterbacks, right? Like the you get paid more for being a college quarterback than you get paid for being a backup quarterback in the NFL. Um, this is your chance to get that bread in an economy that's not going to provide many opportunities for you to get a couple million dollars ever. Right. So I get it if you have your opportunities to go and to make the moves, but everybody's in this portal, man. Fran Brown, the coach at Syracuse made the point like we're all swapping seconds, right? Your number twos for my number twos. There are situations that make perfect sense. For example, when Jamison Williams transferred from Ohio State because they had three first round Ry receivers over him. So we had to go to Alabama to be a top 15 pick. And why receiver? Yeah. Yeah. We get that. Right. Um, you know, if you are behind somebody at quarterback where you don't think you're going to get your opportunity to play. Okay, cool. Go ahead and do that. I still think for most of you guys, you need to understand it. The long money for you is to stay at one place and build some relationships with some rich people. And those people will take care of you and make sure that you got a job for the rest of your life. Rich people who are clearly out here willing to spend money. Yes. Like, but this is, this is what it is now, man. Like, this, the game is to get into that network and to have some people who look out for you. That's the way it goes. But I look up and they, it's these alerts and trackers and everything. Like, you know what it feels like, Ryan? It's like trying to keep up with recruiting. Right. But it's, it's even more condensed. Right. It's even more condensed, but it's still just as many truly relevant people. Right. So if you are just as an observer, if you're trying to keep up with recruiting, you can really keep up with it on two levels. Keep up with like the top 100 list kind of sorta. Or your school. Your own school. Right. And then from your school, you will kind of find out where different people are going. Like the offshoots of the guys that you're looking at. But that's about the only way that you can keep up with this. There's no way in the world I can keep up with every goddamn player in the NCAA because they all might be including division two. And division ones and everything else. I can't do it. No, it's insane. It is. I don't think anyone, when they thought the transfer portal was created that again, nearly a third of D1 players would be in it. And so, but what's going to wind up happening is two things. One, a bunch of these young guys are going to wind up when the musical chairs is over with no place to go. Right. And I understand the argument that is made that a lot of these guys are being forced off their scholarships. No, I think some of these guys are being forced off their scholarships. I don't know how much of them necessarily, how many of them are necessarily being told there won't be a place for you here. I will make the note though that there is one guy who has made it fairly clear that he's trying to stick with his own guys and not run people off of their scholarships. And the results haven't been that great. And y'all laugh at him all the time. And that's Davo. Right. Davo's trying to run a program that keeps it together the way y'all say it should be kept together. And he winds up being ridiculed. And then when the guys get out here, you mad at the other people for forcing them out. You understand what I mean? Bottom line, and I'll keep him moving from here. I said this from the beginning. I mean, you can go find, I've written this in places you can find 15 years ago, I was saying this. There were changes that needed to be made because the previous status quo was morally wrong and indefensible. But we were not going to like what we got as a result. And I personally don't like what we've gotten as a result. You could argue that in some ways the football and the sports have gotten better and they're, you know, better players, guys are more likely to stay. Okay, cool. But it's too hard to follow, man. It's too hard to follow. And there is a certain charm to the idea of like going to senior night and being like, yo, I remember what it was like when he first got here. And this is what it is now. That's a big part of the appeal of this. And that's gone, man. Like this is just something to watch. It's becoming more and more simply something to watch on television. Which I guess is what these conferences are just basically tv negotiating packages, right? That's what it is. And you've taken something that has a great cultural significance. And maybe it will have this significance forever. We will see. But you've just basically reduced it to a television show. Or that is what we are in the process of doing. And I'll think that's good business. Alright, speaking of a big tv show, Indiana blew off Alabama's doors at the Rose Bowl 38 to 3. But let's say more about Indiana or Alabama. Okay. The answer is yes. This is what I did not realize, however, about Indiana. They are old. Yeah. Like this is the Bill Snyder Kansas State. I mean, Bill Snyder almost like, um, Gonzaga. Yes. Yeah. Like just old, old guys. Yeah. Like now the guys can stay in school forever because this is what what is amazing about watching Indiana and what they've pulled off being Indiana. Is that it's obitrice real name, no gimmicks. They are just lining up and hitting you in hard, by the way. Like, and they got some orange some bitches on that team. That dude that broke Ty Simpson's ribs is five foot nine one hundred and seventy pounds. Yeah. Yeah. They used to have a name for that. Yeah. He's that guy. Yes. You know, but they are out here knocking the hell out of people. Like, like that's the game they're playing. They got really like, they put one of those running backs in there and I saw him go and I was like, oh, you're not getting him with no arm tackles. Like, like they, they were clearly better than Alabama. They made Alabama tap. Like by the time the third quarter came around, Alabama tap. Alabama tapped. They quit. They gave up. They will. They was standing across from something bigger and better than them. It was bananas to observe and watch. So I do think it says something about Alabama. I think Indiana, they figured out an approach. And by the way, I don't know if you've seen it, but they're cleaning up in the portal. Yeah, they just got one of the big QBs from TCU. They got a QB. They got a couple. They got a big time receiver. They got, they got a bunch of other dudes that again, I've never heard of these people, but apparently they're all very good according to the transfer portal tracker or whatever it is that they've got. But yeah, they've, they've decided we're going to get big old dudes because one thing that's very important in college football is discipline and older dudes just a little bit more mature. And difference between 23 and 19. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that matters. Right. In terms, especially if you're going to try to play the type of ball that Indiana is trying to play, I think that matters as it relates to Alabama. Katelyn DeBoer is going to really wish they had lost that game against Oklahoma. And he could have just gone and taken that Michigan job. They were getting blown out too. They were down 17-nothing in that game. Yes. Did I send you the guy from the message board that said that this show's what a big, how important coaching is? And I want to, what is the exact quote? I want to make sure I get this right because it was just that funny. But bass said, uh, damn, I can't find it. But basically he said, uh, we are being, is Alabama fed. We are being abused by three star whites. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Like just like, you know, like, like did, was desegregation that important? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Like that, that's the kind of thing that has they have Alabama fans say now. This is what has happened though, I think very clearly to Alabama. Here he goes. This game shows how important coaching is now that college football is so even at the top, bunch of three star whites abusing us. Yeah. There's no white people have such low self athletic self esteem. But what has happened though with the SEC, and I've seen people mention this, that these SEC teams have been getting mold in the bowl games and in the playoffs. And what the SEC used to have where they had comparative advantage over the rest of the country was really with defensive linemen, big and fast. Yeah. Debt, especially depth. Depth. That's, that's it. They could stack them. We just wave after wave after wave of big, strong, fast defensive linemen. And now those guys are going everywhere. And that to me is the biggest change is there at the line of scrimmage. Right. Like this is not back in the day where like the big 10. Teams can win because they can put together good offensive lines. Like they've been able to do that, but it's still the SEC where those big boys are just a lot more athletic, just a lot more athletic. And now everybody's got a few at O's and that has completely altered the game. I mean, we'll get Texas tech. Like that was their whole like playing the portal. We're going to get big, fast defensive linemen. Yeah, they did. But you know what though, they ain't have enough on the other side. Right. They got mold. Like that was for them. That was embarrassing. All right. Let's move on to the NFL. Sam Darnold will be playing this weekend because the Seahawks got the number one overall seed. He becomes the first quarterback to go have 5th, 14 win back to back season since Tom Brady. Bo, do you believe in Sam Darnold? My brother sent me a task because he don't really follow that close. And he was like, Sam Darnold is dare I say cold. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, big dog. I can't even let you get out in the streets talking like this, man. That's a full time out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, I can't even, I can't even allow you to put yourself in this position saying these things. He is talented. There's no question about the fact that he is talented. Did you think he was great in that game on Saturday though? Because I did not. He's had a bad last month of the year. Yeah. I came away from Saturday impressed that Kyle Shanahan got that team as far as he did, especially they they had 11 starters on defense. I ain't never heard a 10 of them. And the 11th is that big old swole dude with the Arabic name that Patrick Mahomes put his shoulder in his chest at the goal line that one time. You remember that? Right. That dude built like a tank and got run through by Patrick Mahome. I can't believe that they have gotten this as far as they have with the players that they have left on that team. It has been shocking. However, Seattle, it's so funny. They're playing offensively. Feels a lot like Pete Carroll football. Yes. Maybe not like. Jackson, Seven Jigs was the best wide receiver that they've had. Yes. In a long time. Well, since Steve Largent. Yes. That's how far back we're going. But the way they run the ball, I don't know enough about schematics and stuff of the run game to be like, oh, are they running a Pete Carroll type of run game? No. But they're playing like Pete Carroll would prefer to run the ball. Play run, run, run. And then when we need to, we'll make big play throws with our athletic, strong arm quarterback, which is what Russell Wilson was just of a different size paradigm. But no, man, I ain't trusting no Sam Donald baby. Like I'm okay with being second. You know what I mean? I ain't got to be the first one to get on board with this. Y'all let me know if it happens. I will give you guys all the credit in the world. I promise you that I will. At the same time, I rule 14 with Jared golf as the quarterback, which is to say I understand if you choose to believe in Sam Donald because it beats the alternative. Belief is a choice. Belief is a choice. All right, Bo, getting the voicemail is here. A lot of good ones off the break. Here's our first one. Yo, but my Jones is right from Delaware. So check this out. I got a real quick one for you here, right? So I'm always into what words enter and exit our popular lexicon or phrases and stuff, right? And there's one that's been in our lexicon for a while and nobody really has talked about it much, right? That's been widespread and that's people saying I have the itis. Right? Now this used to be just a, you know, just uses a black folk thing. I remember the original comic standup where it came from. And then, you know, as it became popular, gained its popularity, people just use the suffix. Oh, it's the itis, but people don't have the entire full term or original version as we can put it, right? So I want to know, do people outside of black people know the full original terminology or is it okay with using the suffix? Because like, I feel if people knew the entirety of it, it wouldn't be so widespread. What do you think? That actually is not a question for me. I don't know. That is a question for me. I don't know. I do not know. Oh, you do not know the origins? I do not know. And I have a good rule. If I don't know the origins, I try not to use it. Wise play. Wise play. Defense wins championships. Yeah. So it's very similar to, I've talked about this on this show before. Let us say that there's something that is broken in some form or fashion. Got it. And it needs to be repaired very quickly or perhaps haphazardly. With a certain ingenuity, there is a phrase that one might use. Yeah. So similar to that, except it's the itis. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Bamboozled with the character named Sleep and Eat. Yes. It's a long time, but yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So we're in line with that. And so to answer your question, brother, I assure you some people know exactly what they're saying. Some. But also, this is a dangerous thing of never forget that they can hear you when you talk. And they are. They're kind of like AI. They'd be learning. They'd be soaking up game. Now don't get me wrong. They use it in clumsy ways that might make you want to throw them out the window. But they can hear you. All right. Here's our next one. Bomani Ryan. This is Brady from Montana. Thanks for taking my call. Though we entertain ourselves with the likes of Conn Cnipple, and though I appreciate the recent reference to the infamous Peter Mann, I would like to lend my support to your years old pronunciation assistance for the quarterbacks who plays on the practice squad for your Detroit Lions, the young man who goes by the name of CJ. And for those who contend that his last name is Bethard, I must also assume that they think the collection of staff and editors at a magazine is called a mass feed. And when their kids are being annoying and won't leave them alone, they refer to them as little shit feeds. Bomani, I like you and the bean hard truther. Keep preaching the gospel. When the Providence friars make the NCAA tournament and their seven footer from Lot B are wearing number 17 hits a game winning shot, you know where I'll be. I have to be honest with you, Ryan. I don't think that this is my gimmick, but it may need to become it. Yeah. CJ be hard. I had really a. It's a good bit. I had also need to go find out who this guy is now at. Same. What'd you call it? I thought that was a reference you would understand, but I. I ain't gonna lie to you, right? Maybe just maybe I got so much clever and mean and I can't even keep it all straight. You know what I'm saying? But I don't every now and then I saw somebody on the internet the other day complaining about some blog post I wrote like 15 years ago and the post is something like, remember when Beaumontie doubled down on this and I wanted to comment underneath. I don't remember when I did that. Like, what are you talking about? Like I have no idea. I can't keep all this stuff straight. All right. But it number is seven. Oh, oh, have you looked up number 17? I have not. Everybody needs to look up number 17 for Providence basketball. It'll ruin it if I try to say it and it'll ruin it if I spell it. You just need to look at it and I'll just say to Brady from Montana. Good call, brother. Good call. All right. Here's our last one. Hey, Bo, this is Bert, a long time listener. First time caller. And Raleigh, by the way, a Dayton, Ohio. My question is if you had to build an all star ensemble similar to the player haters ball, who are your four haters you're picking to go with you and why? Who's going to be your black nasty? Who's going to be your silky Johnson? Pretty or whatever. As your name was and then Asian dude. Yeah. Who's going to be your star and five is your player haters ball? You can even be time travel haters and where would you go and do the most hate? I mean, the truth is, brother, I don't even know if I need four of them. I just feel like I need one. He'll be the he'll be tomorrow's guest, by the way. Joe from Joe, Joe from Missouri city is the thing about Joe. This is very important to know. Joe does not do it for recreation. Like in Joe, when Joe get to hating, it's because Joe mean it. You don't have to get ready if you stay ready. That's right. Like that. And by the way, once Joel starts, like it ain't it ain't stopping. Right? Oh, I see Joe on Twitter. Yeah. He's way high on the list. Rest in peace to Billy Packer. Billy Packer was definitely very high on the list. Haters trying to think who else who else it is we might throw out. I mean, truth is, whether you think he was justified or not as it's only discussion, but I don't think anybody will never hate it harder than pot. Like to this day, I imagine if it was your child to produce pot on hit them up. Like, all right, I need you to do that again. He can't do that again. He can't do that again. He just passed out. He just fell out in the corner from hating so hard. My historical hater was Jagra Hoover. That's all time. That is an all time racist creeds. Yes. Genders. If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Yeah. Hoover had that job for 50 years. Yeah. You you you just got through reading the Hoover book, right? Yes. Did that book get into the lie it appeared that he had been living? Well, two. Yeah, it's a it's a I mean, the main one. Yes. OK, well, I don't even know what the main one is anymore. Well, the main the main one is his living boyfriend. OK, oh, I was thinking about the other one, which is in that day and age. That's a black man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They have I did not I did not get into that one. Yeah. As I was talking about the black part, I completely forgot about the whole other thing. Yes. Like the the gay wear and wear women's underwear. Yes. Type stuff. Yeah. For an electric head like like the live in a male assistant for 45 years. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's not from the 20s to the 70s. It is amazing to think that people who were like adults in the 20s were still around in the 70s. Yes. And still at the same job. You're right. That is that that is that's George Washington. Yes. On our hater list. Yeah, for sure. Oh, man. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. Happy New Year to you all. Speaking of which, Ryan, I don't know if you know about this thing I'm about to do right now. Do you know about this thing I'm about to do right now? I do not. I have a good friend named Ryan Cortez who hates being told happy New Year too long after. Oh, that's the Larry David bit. Yes. Every year I call Ryan. Let's see if he'll answer. Don't even say that shit. Don't even say that shit. Why you why you why you approach me with such hostility with the first time that we have talked this year even what I've been waiting for this for. How you been brother? Happy New Year, man. God damn it. You would have been better off calling me and just saying fuck you. That is the point of saying happy New Year after January first time. You know that. That's not the point. The point is to share my cheer with you. God damn it. Hold on. At least this year I did it all. Was it today the fifth? The little more respectful and doing it on the telephone. It's the first business day of the year. In my record book after January first you're not allowed to say it. Give me one day. I love you too, man. All right. Love you too. Thank you. I know. I'll be right back. See you next year. Yep. When you say said he hates it I was like okay like I like I understood like I was like I thought you just didn't like like thought was annoyed by it. He sounded actually mad. I mean I don't know. That's that's that's that's Ryan Cortez default setting. Ryan probably handles everything behind the scenes. Thank you sir. Remember follow the right time. 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