NFL talk with Slush, Pro Bowl debate, Super Bowl prediction

And the beat goes on. Yeah, girl, don't go away. Yeah, girl, just go away. Hodgards, L.A. Pro Bowl, missing it. I don't know why the Pro Bowl gets so much hate. Talk about that in a little bit. Missed the Senior Bowl because I was stuck at a JV wrestling tournament out in frigging Anaheim. Brutal. JV kids just don't have the same commitment as varsity athletes. JV kids are more content with sitting in the stands eating nachos and watching people and cheering them on. Just happy to be part of the team. Beautiful day once again out here in Southern California, although it rained on the way in for about 15 seconds. It was the most rain we've seen in months. I was watching the news with my girlfriend and little cousin the other day and they're talking about the cold weather throughout the country. They're taking out winter. Oh, young lady, you do not know what you speak of. They can have the winter. I'll take the 80-degree days and the dry. I'll take the drought. All we want. All right. Right off. Off the bat. We're going out to speak of the cold weather. We're going out to Nashville, New Hampshire. We're going to go out and we're going to talk to Flusher. That we're going to get his opinions on what happened with the Patriots and where the league is going. We got a few trip back questions for him as well. So, yeah, well, hold on. I'm just a little technical glitch, if you will. But we're about to bring on slush for that. Slush, are you there? Slush, are you there? Coach, how you doing? What's up, kid? How you doing? How you been? I'm pretty well. Freezing your balls off and bringing in Nashville, New Hampshire, I take it. Yeah, pretty much. You like that shit, though. You're a hibernator. You sit in and watch all types of Netflix movies and shit. Yeah, it just kind of validates my laziness. Speaking of Netflix movies, before we get into football, I got fricking a ruse pulled over me. I went and watched Silver Blinders Playbook last night. Have you seen it? I've never seen it, no. Don't. Don't. Somebody need to give me a warning. I thought it was going to be about this crazy guy. He was an Eagles fan and watching football and shit. It turns into fricking Dirty Dancing about halfway through. It's brutal, kid. I heard it was a ballroom dancing angle. That kind of turned me off. It's a bait and switch. It's brutal. You know, it got Playbook in the title. I see the guy wearing a Sean Jackson jersey, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro. I'm all in. Fricking. The soundtrack's magical, too, but I'm not going to bite on it. Let's talk Patriots. Give me a synopsis. I'll give you some time. What do you think? How do they improve, first off? I think the improvement is you've got to make up for all those offensive weapons you lost. You know? I mean, you can't just turn over that kind of... The defense, even with all the injuries, I thought still did pretty well. If you're telling me you're holding Denver to 26 points, you're not going to be happy about that. I'm certainly going to be happy about it. So, I think they've just got to fill in some offensive weapons. You know, I think they've got to go after... You know, you don't know what you're going to get from Gronk. I think they need some other type of tight end. They need someone that can exploit the middle of the field. Maybe a wide receiver on the outside of the field. And, you know, I mean, they need that. I mean, so... I don't think they're too far away. There's just... There's a few missing parts that they really need. I mean, I think this is probably one of the weaker teams we've fielded in a while, and it was good enough to get us that far. So, I think there's just a few things you need to plug in and kind of make the most out of Brady. The time that he has left, I think it's kind of encouraging. I mean, it's just far with that team. I don't think so. I disagree wholeheartedly. And I'll give you a couple reasons why. One, pitchers lost the game up front. And we've continued to watch this team for the last five to six years having a mediocre pass rush, to steal a phrase from Richard Sherman, a mediocre pass rush. Average players on the back end... I mean, Kaleeb, you know, I guess, you know, one time, it's bad luck. Two times, three times, it's a fucking trend. You know, and again, Kaleeb is just not the guy. He's always something with them. You know what I mean? And how often are we going to sit here and watch the Patriots avoid getting premier pass rushes and avoid getting playmakers on the back end that can be there when it matters? And, oh man, it's just amazing the Patriots got zero pass rush in that game. None. I mean, it's a need, but... I mean, you had them at... They scored... This is the best defense offense in the history of the league, right? And you held them to 13 points in the first half. Well, part of that was just a long, sustained drive. The Patriots only had the ball, I think, eight times. And it was just a long, sustained drive. They couldn't get off the field. Denver just bled them to death. And what happens is people look at the game and... I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. From all the bullshit I've read over the years about advanced stats and all that shit, but one thing I've taken away from it, the first drive is just as important as the last drive. And on the first drive, in your third and three, you're throwing a fade route to Matthew Slater. I can count on one hand how many times Matthew Slater's been targeted in the last, what, four years, five years? And then you're throwing the ball to Austin Colley, a guy they cut. They cut him four times this year. And this is what they expect to go in and win the Super Bowl or go to the Super Bowl with? Yeah, I agree. Those are spots they need real talent. I mean, what does that tell you about Amandola, too? He, Austin Colley, usurps you on championship games? I mean, where is this fucking guy? And Vereen, you know, Blount, I knew they weren't going to be able to ride that train all the way through. It was a nice little, you know, he did what they needed him to do. But Blount was, you know. They were going to catch up to it. But it's amazing. I can't stand Josh McDaniels, as you well know. It's amazing to me that Josh McDaniels has a job. And people just think that he's doing a good job because he's not. Yeah, in these defense, we turned out with tissue paper. And week 16, Buffalo didn't exactly feel like tackling anymore. So I agree. It wasn't like they were going to be able to run. But that's the thing. If they can't do that run, I mean, that was just masking problems. Who is it really? He's going to throw the ball to. Who is it really? He's going to move the sticks. Yeah. There's not much there. And I'm tired of hearing, especially coming out of the Northeast Corridor, I'm hearing that Brady just hasn't played well in big games. He missed two throws. He missed that play action, which was not really an easy throw. He threw it back across the field. Missed Edelman on that. That would have been huge. I think it was the second series of the game. And then he missed that one there at halftime where Austin Colley kind of put a hand up. But other than that, Tom was spot on. And two huge drives ended in sacks when Guy just got beat. Beat clean inside. Oh, you know, I'm not as optimistic about the future as you are. I don't think. I think they're flawed. And I'll say it. I think they're flawed coaching-wise. You know, Belichick's supposed to be this defensive freaking guru. The defense has been average at best since what? Well, it started like it was going to be a lot better. I mean, I know we weren't. We weren't exactly playing offensive juggernauts. But when everyone was healthy in there, it was playing like a fairly top D. At least top half D, which I think was the whole plan. We don't need to be top ranked, you know. But at least when everyone was there, we were playing, you know, above board. But like you said, Tlaib seems like he's another one made out of fucking paper mache here. I hope they don't sign him. I don't know if he comes back after an injury like that. But, you know, Mayo's one of those guys you don't really give him all that much credit until you realize how much you miss him when he's gone. I think the linebacker position was solid all the way through. And I hope that this wasn't, this Brandon Spikes thing wasn't about him not being able to make it through a freaking blizzard. Kid, you know how hard it is to drive around there and freaking win the weathers. You know, especially a guy from Florida. You don't freaking know. No, I don't fucking know. My fucking employer's point of business every day on fucking time. I don't know what his problem is. I fucking make it to where I got to go, dude. Please. They probably have cars. They have car service. I'm not giving him a pass on that. And that's my favorite defensive patriot, too. I know, and they're going to let him go. Seems like they're going to let him walk as well. Yeah, I agree. Jamie Collins is probably the mold that he was. Yeah. You know, he would have been an awesome linebacker to have in 1987. But now you need a guy that can drop deep in coverage. Who, Spikes, you mean? Yes. Oh, Spikes is a great linebacker. I think you'll miss him. I love the attitude that he brings to the team. And I think he kind of sets the tempo. But let's face it. I mean, it got to the point where he'd come off the field every third down. You know, I mean, I think you need a guy that can cover. Well, I think you hit the nail on the head. I think Collins is a freak athlete. I think where the league is going was you take the guys who are secondary type players with just tremendous athletes and put them at the linebacker level. And when they brought that guy, man, he brought it. You know what I mean? And it just seemed like they didn't bring him at all. It seemed like they couldn't get to Peyton. And. I don't know. I think that's why. I'll say my predictions later. I'll throw it at you. Who wins the Super Bowl? I think it's pretty hard to handicap because I think Seattle's got serious problems scoring points. I don't think they come that easy for them. So I think I just naturally am geared towards offense. Everything's rigged towards the offense. So if you have a team that scores points, they take them. But since it's being played in a fucking frozen tundra and Manning doesn't come out of the turtle shell for that all the time. And they do have the rush. I think it's Seattle on a squeaker. I do too. I think with push comes a shove. Are you watching the Pro Bowl right now? I'm recording it. I watched a little bit of it. No, I'm not. Are you one of the Pro Bowl haters? Yes, I am. How? Why? Because I'd rather watch a fucking little kid's soccer practice. There's just not much contact. And just as much action. Oh, I disagree. I watched the first quarter and a half before I left. And they were getting after it this year. Yeah. I think Dion. I think Dion. And Jerry Rice put a fire under their ass. Oh, God, no. When I even heard that that's what they were going with, I couldn't even stomach it. No, I skip it every year. What does it do with Dion Sanders' beard? He looks like Grady from freaking Sanford and Son with his freaking white beard. I would think he would have some kind of stylist. Look at guys like that and just make me feel old. Prime time with a white beard? What the fuck? True story. I like the Pro Bowl. I like seeing athletes play. It used to be better back in the day when you weren't so inundated with football. And it was a chance to see some guys that you never really saw play. But now you see them all play. But still, it's freaking football, kid. I'll watch that shit over World Cup action any day, twice on Sunday. It's just the meaningless of it. I don't know. It loses it for me. I got a question for you. And I'm pulling it out of the twit bag and I'm pulling it out early. And I just want to get your opinion on this. If the NFL gave you Cote Blanche to change any of the rules in the NFL, what would they be? Well, I guess I would... I don't know in terms of a rule I would eliminate or create, but I would certainly want to change the enforcement of the past interference rules. Yeah. You know, I mean, they've become so subjective and they're at such the key moments and it just seems like they're so ticky-tack now that the defense... The defense of players are at such a disadvantage. So I don't know what the easier way to combat that is. Maybe if you let them have a little more contact up front or what. I don't know. But I certainly don't want to fix a rule by adding a new rule saying the wide receiver has to make an attempt to catch the ball or something. But I just think that it's so rigged toward the offense that you have to let defenders play a little bit more. Either that or they're allowed to hit quarterbacks more freely. Something on that end. Something that tilts the scale a little more. In a just manner for the defense. I'll give you my five and I'll let you retort. Here are my five that I really want to see happen in the next few years. One, I think they should make past interference reviewable. I think in any of these freaking... These huge, you know, these 40-odd past interference penalties, I think they should be challengeable. Second one I really don't like is the intentional grounding outside the quote-unquote tackle box. Okay? Because the tackle box can be changed, especially if you went unbalanced formations. Okay? Split your line down. It cannot stand the intentional grounding rule. It's too ambiguous. The biggest one that really freaking raises my rent, I'll tell you right now, is when a defensive player jumps and an offensive player fakes like he jumped and starts pointing at the defensive player and it goes against the defense. That one really freaking raises my rent. And the last one that really gets me, it's only four, I know I can count, is I think holding should be five yards the first time. A guy does... A guy, offensive lineman or anyone who creates a holding penalty, I think it should be five yards. I think it should be 10 yards the next time. And then I think it should be 15 yards the third time. Because they cripple drives on these arbitrary holding calls that... You can call a holder on every play. I know it's a Chris Collinsworth, you know, tried and true statement, but it's true. And they just decide to call a holder on certain times. If it's a blatant egregious hold, I think they should go 10 yards. They can go 10 yards. But some of it, there should be a discrepancy between five-yard hold, and 10-yard hold, and similar to roughing the punter, which they fucked up in the last game. Agree? Disagree? Did I throw too much at you, freaking slow, Ed? Well, the one... My only question is the one about the intentional grounding. You're saying more of those should be intentional grounding, correct? Yes, yeah. And I call that such? Yeah, yeah. Well, then I completely agree with you there, and I think you should fire off an email to get that. On the holding one, I think you need a strong deterrent, because like I said, everything's rigged for the offense anyways. So I think you need a pretty strong deterrent to stop them from doing that. Because, yeah, you exactly, you can and do hold on every play. So why you want to make it more likely, I don't really completely agree on that one. It kills drives, though. The pass interference review, I guess if it's a challenge, I'm all for it. But, man, these games are getting into, like, MLB territory. You know, we cannot grind them to a slower pace than they already do. Yeah, but they're doing that on purpose. There's so much shit they could take out of it that, you know what I mean? It's a constructed thing because they want the ad revenue. You don't need to, you know, kick off, go to commercial. You know, you've been to plenty of pro games. How much do you sit around and they all stand on the field and shit? They could change that. Yeah, I agree. If they can just message down whether it's something, a confirmed touchdown or not a touchdown in the end zone, why can't they just shoot it down that it's either a fumble or not a fumble or something else? I don't know why someone has to go and run and jog, you know, over to a booth. And then, jog and then spot the ball. It seems like there should be an office where a bunch of team of people are doing that and just shoot it down by radio. Oh, yeah, amongst other things. But really, you know, these 40-yard penalties and 50-yard penalties, they got to go. They got to find a way to get rid of it. Those things change games. People only remember the last two, three minutes of games. But like I said before, every fucking drive counts. Every possession counts. So, you know, go ahead. Yeah, maybe they should go, like, more like college. Just make it a 15-yard penalty then. The only thing with that is, I could be talked into that, too, if we had more time to talk about that. The only thing with that is you can really just tackle guys if they're freaking gone. But, yeah, I mean, I would have my problem. I think it's just egregious, you know, because the pass interference and the hold-in are so subjective because they fucking happen every play, you know, and then all of a sudden they're going to decide to call it. And, well, shit, my sixth one would be the pick routes. Make up your mind with that. Shit, you know, we can talk about that forever. What do you think about Belichick calling out Welker like that? I just think he went too far with it. He showed he was just so sensitive about Welker in the moment because, you know, absolutely 100%, that was fucking intentional. He was not trying to get open. I don't think he was trying to hurt him. I think he was trying to take him out of that play, though. But the thing is, you know, it was totally intentional, and it was at full speed. A lot of those picks are not happening at that speed. So I don't think that's one of these happens on every play type situations. But Belichick saying it was the worst thing he's ever seen, I thought that might have been a little bit of an overreach. Petty. Petty. And I think Belichick's petty, you know. It's well documented on these airwaves that I do not drink the Kool-Aid of the Bill Belichick, you know, philosophy. At least have a fucking play sheet in front of you. You know, you want to call a play to win. I've been watching on the NFL network these old Super Bowls are showing, and at least Bill Cowell, even a guy I don't have, you know, the greatest respect for, at least he had a play sheet, and they're showing him talking. He's like, hey, let's run this. I don't think Belichick does that. I really don't. I don't think he calls offensive plays at all. And I think he's saddled us with the mediocre, and I say us, like I freaking play for the team, but I think he's saddled the Patriots with the mediocre defense, and he's just been living high off the hog off one of the greatest quarterbacks, if not the greatest quarterback of all time. Well, I think Belichick, the GM, I don't think many people are drinking the Kool-Aid on that around here. I mean, I think his personnel, people question, you know, when you start stockpiling record guys and all that, people start to wonder, where are our studs? Belichick, the coach, I think you're lucky to have him. Fuck that. I mean, I see all sorts of guys that just blow my mind. I mean, Chip Kelly, you love his offense. I watch that guy piss down his leg every fourth quarter. He personally cost him two games, and he's a fucking moron. You're talking about a rookie head coach. You want to go back and watch the films on Billy Belichick with the Browns in the mid-90s? You know, you're talking about first-year head coach. It's stability. The reason the Patriots have done well is stability. And even though Bobby Kraft's running around with his friggin' girlfriend half his age who's going to be owning the team, even though you defended me, defended, uh, you said, oh, he's a right-to-relationship any way he wants. Bullshit. When she's running the friggin' franchise, kid, and she moves the franchise to Providence, Rhode Island, you'll be the first one crying about friggin' days of Myra Kraft. You know, I can guarantee you that much. That's neither here nor there. Yeah, you're neither here nor there. Hey, thanks for stinking up my airwaves. I appreciate it. I can smell your breath coming through the friggin' microphone. Good talking to you, Slush. Hope all is well. Thanks to your patronage. All right. And I'll hit you up in the next few weeks. All right, you're welcome, America. Take care, Coach. See you, man. Later. All right. Now that we can clear. Clear up that ringing garbage spewing from Nashville, New Hampshire. Let's get into the notes this week. Whatever we got. Big stuff coming around this week. First and foremost, Notre Dame joining up a partnership with Under Armour. Ten-year deal worth $90 million to get the Golden Domas back into relevancy. I pray, and pray might be a strong word, that Notre Dame will not go to the uniform of the week, a la Maryland, a la... Oregon and Oregon State. I pray, I hope Notre Dame sticks with the traditionals, but I have a bad feeling they're not gonna. I think they're gonna stick all types of leprechauns and shamrocks, which I like. Hey, look. I got a friggin' hidden shamrock tattoo somewhere. But I just hope Notre Dame sticks with their traditional colors and color scheme for the rest of the time. But ten years, $90 million. And the NCAA claims that they're, what, they're unsuitable because they're an educational program with the colleges. Alabama. How about Alabama? How about Nick Saban's daughter? Man. She got no fight with a girl at Alabama. First of all, she goes to Alabama. Nick, you would think common sense-wise, you wouldn't want her as a student at Alabama. It's just too much there. You know? I mean, there's a big bullseye on her chest. You know, proverbially, you know, someone's gonna try to do something to her. She's going out with the tight end of the football team. Talk about an awkward situation. Nick, couldn't you send her to some liberal arts college somewhere in New England? Send her to Colby College. Send her to Williams. Send her to Alabama. But evidently, Nick Saban's daughter beat the hell out of one of her sorority sisters because she was claiming that Nick Saban's daughter was claiming that her sorority sister was, uh, nobody liked her on Facebook, so she confronted her and Nick Saban's daughter knocked her freaking cold. Nick Saban's being sued and so isn't the daughter. She's thinking it's too much. Why would he even bother with that? Moving on in the college ranks, what else do we have? Well, ESPNU, 11 hours signing day coverage. They're gonna have reporters at over 15 schools on signing day, which is February 5th, which should be here before you know it. And you know, if you follow that stuff, do you know how many, how many commits happen between the All-Star games and February 5th? Do they sign binding contracts? Every kid in my school verbally committed to Arizona State, and now he's pulling the offer. It's just become a joke, but you got 15 reporters at the, you know, at the schools throughout the country reporting on this stuff. Talk about building kids up. Talk about building, you know, making these kids more feel more important than they are. Speaking of which, segue, Justin Bieber. How does he relate to football? Keyshawn Johnson and Eric Dickerson both came out this week saying about damn time that Justin Bieber got pulled over for drunk driving. Evidently, Eric Dickerson and Keyshawn Johnson live in the neighborhood and they bring in, they see it all the time. And Bieber's running around. He's going like 70 miles an hour and 25 mile per hour districts and stuff like that. And then there's people out in the Twittersphere and out in public saying, Oh, you're going to catch Justin Bieber some slack cause he's 19. Forget that. I'm going to cut that kid slack cause he's 19. We were all 19 at one point. Granted we made mistakes, but we weren't going a hundred miles an hour flying around drunk. Well, I kind of take that back. There was an incident one time when I was 19, I was taking my mother's Chevy celebrity and we were drag racing back roads, but nobody got hurt. And I wasn't an international star. I didn't have, not yet. Anyway, but I didn't have all types of paparazzi following me, but forget that. But Keyshawn, Eric Dickerson, neighbors with, Justin Bieber. I don't understand if I would Justin Bieber, I would go live somewhere by myself and some kind of palatial homestead where nobody was around. I won't even have neighbors if I was any of those guys, to be honest with you. I don't know why they continue to do so. Let's jump into the pro game, special ed teacher. And you always, in this time of year, you always get these stories about Jersey selling and fandom. The fandoms come out, the word work people, you know, the, the bandwagon bowl, Seattle, Denver, it's where there's more people from the Pacific Northwest and Denver these next week and a half. And then I've ever seen in my life, but special ed teacher buys jerseys for all the kids in the whole school. The 500 kids they bought Seahawks jerseys for and about 50 bucks a piece. I'm free. Yeah. Good idea. You couldn't buy anything better than Seahawks jerseys for all the kids. And speaking of every year we come to this point, there's always the story of the guy in the enemy territory who wears a uniform or wears a Jersey that he's not supposed to wear. And again, we get it this year with the kid who was in Tacoma, Washington teenager was working at Nathan Wentz was working at Odyssey one, which is a family entertainment shirt. They said, Hey, you can wear jerseys as long as the Seahawks jerseys. So what does he on Nathan do? He wears his Bronco. Jersey. He's always that kid growing up. And it was always the contrarian, you know, growing up when I was, you know, in Massachusetts, it was the Red Sox fan, the kid who would always wear the Yankee gear, you know, and nobody likes those kids were always pompous. They're always a little bit too smart for their own good. And this kid comes in walking in with the, with his Broncos. So he's been a Broncos fan since he was three. Never been to Denver in his life. Just to mix it out of the blue. It wants to be contrarian sent home for wearing it fired. And now he's just, you know, now, I'm saying, I'm saying his name over the airwaves. It's always, always is. Oh, every year they got that story of that kid who decides he wants to wear the Jersey. Whatever, whatever happened to local pride, right? We wouldn't just, just, you should, you should root for the teams that you live in the area for, unless there's some kind of extemporaneous circumstances. Speaking of extemporaneous circumstances, how about the Raider rats? This is one, this is an interesting one because this can, this can, this can divulge into a political argument. The Raider rats, the Raider cheerleaders check this out. They're making, they're making a one time stipend of $1,200 a year for being cheerleaders for a professional cheerleaders for the Raiders. They're making $1,200 a year. It comes up to like $3 and something cents an hour. And they're suing the team for lost wages because also they have to pay. There's very strict standards. They have to have their hair a certain way. They have to have their hair cut. They have to have their hair cut. They have to have to make up a certain way. They have to pay for their own traveling. It's amazing to get $1,200 a year. This is capitalism gone astray. All right. And I'm going to go on a little political rant here for a minute because you know why? Because there's always those people, those free market people, free marketeers who will say, Oh, if they don't want to do it, they get someone else. Sure. They get what they can get some other cheerleader and exploit them as well. We got a billion dollar franchise like the Raiders. We got a billion dollars paying these cheerleaders who bust their ass and more ways than one. They make $1,200 a year and nobody says a damn thing about it. You know, the NFL and her good doll. They think this is fine that these girls because they don't want to do it. They won't do it. Forget all that. This should be some kind of baseline wage. These poor girls get paid because those girls work hard. I tell you what, as she leaves in my school, we're just as hard as the football players. It is a sport nowadays. I'm telling you, there's a serious year round commitment that cheerleaders put in and to pay them $1,200 a year is a freaking disgrace. And it's amazing that they let them get away with it. But nobody says a damn word about it. Hopefully, hopefully they win. And I like the Raiders and I, you know, but hopefully they win and hopefully some kind of standard and some kind of livable wage can be developed from these girls. I'm not saying that to be full time, but shit, they should at least be paid, compensated for the time. And they're reference. They shouldn't have to pay for their own hairdressers and things of the like. Mike Pedden, new coach of the Browns. His daughter came out this week and tweeted, Oh, my dad's a new NFL coach. It's the Browns though, but that's okay. You know, just the age, a day and age of having teenage daughters and trying to keep them off the Twittersphere. Might be very difficult. How do you, how do you keep that away from your daughter? If you become a head coach, you're going to see, you're going to see this stuff more and more become more and more, uh, likely, I guess is the word I'm looking for through the years. Poor guy, but I gave a lot of credit for Mike Pedden. I think it's actually a decent hire, even though he, he, well, first of all, he's a high school coach. He came from the high school ranks, which I appreciate it. But I don't know if anybody watched that documentary with that 99. Mike Pedden was the head coach of his high school team. Just a vicious bastard to these high school kids. Just, just degraded them all over the board. It was uncomfortable. I remember watching him as a young man, just getting the coaching myself. I was watching this guy. He's breaking a jack off, just ripping high school kids. So we'll see what happens. The Browns, all the mock drafts. I'm surprised. I'm shocked how many mock draft experts that are on the Twittersphere. How many people to dedicate their lives on the Twittersphere to rate ranking kids at the senior bowl, which I didn't, I didn't watch, which I wanted to watch, but I didn't, you know, those people ranking kids. But anyways, I'm going on a tangent. They all got Johnny Manziel going to Cleveland. You got Johnny Manziel going to Cleveland. You never know. And all of a sudden Cleveland can turn it around. And Mike Pedden is going to have the proverbial genius title thrown onto him. You know, they're talking about hiring Cam Cameron to the Cleveland Browns, but Cam Cameron, you know, even though he got fired, how quickly we forget. He got fired. From the Ravens last year and the Ravens go on and win the Super Bowl. Cam Cameron this year, though, was the offensive coordinator at LSU. He's the first, the first team in SEC history. I was reading this first team in SEC history under the Cam Cameron, Les Miles to have a 3000 yard pass, a thousand yard Russia and 2000 yard receivers on the same team. First team in SEC history. Cam Cameron is like 60 something year old retread. Supposedly he's going to Cleveland Browns to be the next offensive coordinator. Speaking of retreads How about Joe Lombardi Vince Lombardi's great grandson Or no His grandson rather Is now going to be the offensive coordinator for the Lions Talk about nepotism Talk about having an inside track on the job You know Talk about something that gets the foot in the door Don't even tell me oh he earned it Yeah His last name was Lombardi as in bringing Vince Lombardi So now he's going to be the next Offensive coordinator for the Lions And watch the Lions go to mediocrity Who knows Still might be alright Moving on the pro game Josh Brent defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys Convicted of intoxication Manslaughter Wednesday Ended up killing his teammate In a manslaughter In a drunken accident Killed his best friend Jerry Brown But he only ended up With 180 days in jail You know to me that's I don't know I mean I don't know I understand people make mistakes But 180 days in jail For causing that type of destruction He said he had 17 drinks Over the course of the night He was twice the legal limit And he was speeding Ended up killing his best friend Nothing funny about that Just something worth Wow wrap your head around Something I thought was a little funny though Brandon Jacobs Former running back for the Giants In the 49ers Calls out Jim Habba this week Quote he's a bitch And that's why they never win anything Good for Brandon Jacobs Like when guys retire And just let it all go And say whatever they want Speaking of let it all go How about Richard Sherman I talked about it last week of course But you know He's going to get inundated With Richard Sherman stuff For the next Next week until the game's played It's a tough thing with Richard Sherman It's like I talked about They caught the guy in the heat of the moment If anybody's ever played football Especially at that level You're in a manic state at that point The guy's a bitch at that point The guy's obviously going to be Running his mouth So just you know Have Aaron Andrews sticker Microphone on the guy's face And be like He's talking about you Of course the guy's going to run his mouth But it's amazing the Twittersphere The racism that's been thrown out But Richard Sherman Gets paid And I talked about it a little bit last week $600,000 a year How does a guy who is arguably The most famous player in the NFL right now Maybe Peyton Manning Tom Brady usuals Get paid $600,000 a year You know I equate that with the rate of cheerleaders Getting paid $1,200 a year In a sport that is by far and away The most popular sport in the nation Matter of fact they just came out with a Stat this week They polled I don't know who they polled But the Harris poll These are professional poll people Said 35% of the country says the NFL Is their favorite sport compared to second place Which is Major League Baseball at 14% Well even this PE teacher can do the math And is twice as more popular The NFL is twice as more popular Than Major League Baseball Thought this was interesting moving forward though Third Third place of most popular sports is College football at 11% Fourth is auto racing at 7% Fifth is the NBA at 6% Six is the NHL at 5% Seventh is NCAA hoop So I'm just going to tell me You know soccer is my most popular sport Me alright it's the most popular sport in the world But I'd rather watch grass grow I digress My show I can have that opinion Although a perfect example today I stopped at the I stopped at the AM PM When I came into the place And I don't know I guess I'm wearing soccer type gear And the lady's like Oh are you a soccer fan? No not at all She's like oh I love soccer I just don't like American soccer I don't even know what American soccer is Evidently According to her It's you know MLS Like LA Galaxy But to me you like the sport You like the sport Same thing with the With the pro ball It's amazing to me How many people come out and say Oh pro ball is terrible I can't watch pro ball But they're supposedly fans of the sports Of the sport How does it even work? How do you say Oh I love the sport But I don't like the pro ball It's an all star game There's going to be some concessions there I actually like the little tweaks They did this year Kind of mixing up the rosters And all that You know At least it adds a little bit of spice to it I think they should make I think they should make the teams And I you know I've been around football my whole life As a coach and a player I think they should make the losing team Run more at the end I think if a team loses They should have to do like 20 hundred yard sprints at the end And the other team gets to Catcall them And talk trash to them the whole time While they're running Talk about incentive Nobody wants to run No football player wants to run I'm telling you People will do Bend themselves backwards To avoid Extra running It happens all the time Just got a chance to watch A little bit of the pro ball Watch Jimmy Graham try to You know Something about Jimmy Graham Jimmy Graham that rubs me raw I just think he's a big body I think you get big bodies in the NFL And throw the ball up to him And make plays But The one thing I am on Jimmy Graham's side is They're trying to New Orleans is trying to America's feel good team From a few years ago They're trying to stick the franchise tag on them Which I'm not a fan of I'm an expert on the franchise tag I know a little bit about it And with the franchise tag though Evidently they pay the average salary of the They take like the highest paid player In that position Quote unquote And they pay you a percentage of Whatever that highest paid player gets And I know I'm kind of butchering that But that's the general gist of it Jimmy Graham They're trying to stick him as a tight end Even though he had a third Less than a third of the snaps this year Were at the tight end position They're trying to stick him with the tight end money Even though he's clearly A receiver And receivers on average Make four million dollars a year More than tight ends But they're trying to stick him They're trying to lock him down And make him play for the Saints next year Because they're just going to call him a tight end It's all semantics Even though he doesn't line up as a tight end They're going to pay him four million dollars A year less Amazing Getting back to the same theme Of Ergadol And the Gestapo-like tactics That are the NFL Let it go free market Let it go free market You know And again I'm not a free marketeer But let them pay players For their value Don't hold these guys hostage For these arbitrary things You know a guy like Richard Sherman Making six hundred thousand Six hundred thousand dollars a year Which in those terms Aren't that much You got Middle of the road baseball players Well basketball players You got Chris Humphries Backup center for the Celtics Makes twelve million dollars a year The only thing anybody knows That guy Because he's married to one of the Kardashians But you take that money That you're paying for That Richard Sherman's not making You know who's making the money The owner Paul Allen's making the money Not Richard Sherman It's a scam Oh the whole thing is I digress Speaking of money Let me take a drink first Speaking of money Vince Young Who had a twenty five million dollar Guaranteed contract Signed eight years ago I don't know who he got that contract I'll tell you how We got it before this Collective bargaining agreement That they had a few years ago Anyway Vince Young is now ten million dollars in debt And now he's filed for bankruptcy Thirty years old There's a guy who kind of got robbed Of the system of the way the things are in the NFL There's a guy with talent That could play Could play well But just never got in the right system Never gonna hear from poor Vince again In bankruptcy For the rest of his damn life Moving on Super Bowl Mike Adams Safety for the Denver Broncos Claims that the Broncos win the Super Bowl He's gonna walk home From the middle of the road To the lands of New Jersey To Patterson, New Jersey It's over fifteen miles He's gonna walk home In the rain and snow I hope they put a camera on him And follow him in the hallway That'd be great television To watch this guy Walk through the streets Of New Jersey All the way back home With the camera on him I kind of hope the Broncos Win for that fact Alone What else do we got? Saban Josh Brand All that Well it just seems like It's all economics And it's all economics NFL minimum Ricky wage scale Is $480,000 You may say Oh You know I would do anything For $480,000 a year That's a terrible The average lifespan In the NFL Is about A year and a half Something like that $480,000 Not enough When the fat cats Are making the money I'm beating a dead horse Let's go on to something A little bit more What else? How about Well we talked about it earlier A little bit With Slush Slush With the Egregious play Quote unquote That Wes Welker made Seattle cornerback Walter Thurman Says he got away Because of his status Said Wes Welker is one of the Golden boys Anybody else Didn't know they would've Been suspended or fined In the Legion of Boom In Seattle Walter Thurman I agree Same type I still don't think Wes Welker really did it On purpose though Talked about that earlier Another rule change I talked about Rule changes Earlier Another rule change Has been big this week Is talking about Getting rid of extra points In the NFL Which I think is An egregious mistake How can you even think about Dropping the extra point In the NFL Why are you going to Take the kicking game And last year at this time They were talking about Just taking away The kickoffs I have a hard enough time Trying to defend To my British friends At the bar I go to Which I live right down the street I hang out with a bunch of Brits Like why is it called football Anyways They don't use their feet Why are you going to Try to take away Of course they use their feet The kicking game Is a huge part of football But why you got to Try to take away The kicking game By getting rid of The extra points That's not even possible I won my first game As a head coach 7-6 Because we blocked Their extra point Granted it's high school It's a little different But how are you going to Penalize guys Because they become Great at their job Become efficient At their job You're just going to Give points like a gimme How are you going to Tell that to Tony Romo When he botched A 19 year old 19 yard field goal 19 year old field goal 19 yard field goal 20 yard field goal 2006 Left the Cowboys Out of the playoffs And started beginning The downfall That was the Romo Is the Romo era Even though I kind of Like Tony Romo I think he's a good quarterback Or 2010 Week 14 The Redskins Botched one Or 2006 Kept the Bengals Out of the playoffs As well Botched a field goal If Roger Goodell Thinks it's that easy I think they should have Roger Goodell Go out there And try to hold An extra point They should add Something like that Into the Pro Bowl Have Roger Goodell Come out there And put a little Helmet on him And have him Hold an extra point That'd be fun to watch That shit ain't easy That ball is Whizzing back there Kid I'm telling you Not easy to catch An extra point They just make it Look easy Gotta keep it in the game Move it back If you have to But don't just Get rid of it I don't know why They would even think About something like that Getting back to The college game Five star recruit Ricky Town He's a great guy He's a great name By the way Ricky Town From St. Bonaventure Out here in Ventura Committed to Alabama And now all of a sudden Because Alabama Takes Takes Slav Shit Lane Kiffin Thank you Lane Kiffin Is now the Offensive coordinator All of a sudden Upton leaves And goes to USC Don't blame them This is That was the biggest Quarterback recruit That they had ever gotten In Alabama In the Nick Saban era Just Upton leaves And goes to USC Good decision Why would you Why would you leave Beautiful Southern California And go to Alabama Forget that Fight on Even though I'm not A big SC fan I'll take USC Over Alabama Any day of the week You know Last thing before We get into the Twit bag Mike Wallace Came out today Said he Should have had 20 more touchdown Receptions than he did have What a thug Nah I'm just kidding That's the Richard Sherman Thing Richard Sherman Saying anybody Who calls him a thug Just kinda It's really an innuendo It's kind of a euphemism For calling him the N word Which I kind of Yeah I see his point But I disagree I think I I believe on this Very program I called Richie Incognito A thug So There goes that Richard Sherman But Mike Wallace Comes out and says He should have 20 more touchdown passes 20 more touchdown receptions My point being All these guys Talk shit And Richard Michael Wallace Mike Wallace Didn't even have a kid Hammering his face After the game Just said that's very You know Under control All these guys talk mess What are you gonna do? It's part of the game You're gonna throw a microphone In these guys faces Especially in the heat of the moment They're gonna Freaking Throw out whatever they say And then you're like Oh Terrible Terrible How dare you Disrespect the game John Madden came out And said that too John Madden said that a few times About Disrespecting the game I don't know I don't think the game I don't think it's that I don't think it's that High and mighty I don't think it's on the pedestal We put it on I think it's just a game I think we've put We've put way too much into it Shit I drive all the way out here Every Sunday Just talking on a microphone About it And then my whole damn Professional life Is coaching the sport I still think we do too much With it We had a banquet Last weekend Or this week Monday Four and a half hour banquet Talking about the season Granted if you've been listening We've had a decent season But for Christ's sake Four and a half hours About anything You know enough is enough Just a game People Why are we so hyped up about it I would be remiss Not to give you some kind of Super Bowl prediction Even though I gave you My Super Bowl prediction About five months ago Which we will not talk about But I tell ya I talked about this A little bit with Slush I just think When push comes to shove Good defense beats good offense This will be the fifth Super Bowl Since the merger In 1936 With a number one scoring Offense Plays against a number one Scoring defense In the previous four times Three of the four times The defense won 1990 Giants versus the Bills One of the times Bills Shit the bed again 84 Niners Number one defense Niners versus number one offense Miami Niners won 78 Steelers Number one defense Beating the Cowboys Number one offense The only time The number one offense Beat the number one defense Was the night Niners had the number one Oh Versus the number one defense In the Denver Broncos Back in the Kyle Mecklenburg days Tom Jackson days Good defense However The Niners had the number three Defense in the league So that being my Proof positive I gotta say The Seattle wins this game I think Seattle just Too fast defensively Especially the weather conditions Saying that's gonna be ideal Although I think that's a little bit overrated I just think Seattle's defense Is too fast I think they end up winning I think they end up winning the game I'll give you a score What the hell I say Seattle 21 Denver 17 Alright let's get into the twit bag Does the NFL even need the Pro Bowl anymore? From Kachia80 Does the NFL even need the Pro Bowl anymore? I I'm a Pro Bowl fan Like I said I'm one of the few out there That still enjoys the Pro Bowl I don't know why there's so much hate Against the Pro Bowl Why You know if you like to see me play I don't know why You know if you like to see me play You know if you like to see me play You know if you like to see me play You like the sport You like the sport Yes There was some serious consideration this year From Gadal Gadal Who's had some serious consideration this year Of getting rid of it But overwhelmingly The players are for it Players like the Pro Bowl I guess it's a week off in Hawaii I didn't You know I didn't do my due diligence I apologize to my listener I didn't do my due diligence When they had the Pro Bowl draft I didn't watch it I was stuck in some wrestling meet Some I was stuck in some wrestling meet But the players love it Players love going to Hawaii And playing So what the hell I tell you one good change Is why don't they bring the Pro Bowl to LA Why don't they put it in the Rose Bowl Don't they watch Didn't they watch the National Championship game this year It's glorious Can't they watch Why can't we play the Pro Bowl and the Rose Bowl It's another thing they talk about Playing all these exhibition games in London Why don't they have an exhibition game out here in LA The birthplace of the Super Bowl But they refuse to do it Come on people Rise up We need a team in Los Angeles It's evident But Talks have come to a grinding halt I've heard nothing about it I don't think it's going to happen yet again At least if not next year Probably not the year after that These things take multiple years to actually go through So to get back in a roundabout way about the Pro Bowl Yes they need the Pro Bowl It's closure It's closure to a season It's closure to a season It's closure to a season It's closure to a season It's closure to a season If you enjoy watching players play Which I do Let the players play What are you going to do? Moving on I already addressed this At B Weather Johnson NFL gave you cop launch to change three rules What are they? I'm not going to be redundant Already talked about them Thanks for the question B Weather Johnson And last question Brian P Hickey What's the bigger legacy changer? Peyton Manning winning two Super Bowls With two different teams? Or Pete Carroll winning a championship In both college and NFL? Great question I thought about that after I read it for a while There's only two coaches to ever win National championship at the college level And a Super Bowl And it's kind of It's kind of an asterisk Asterisk Nest to that Next to that because It's Jimmy Johnson Winning with Miami And obviously the Cowboys And Barry Switzer winning with Oklahoma And obviously the Cowboys But it was the same team The groundwork was laid And it was the same team And it was the same team So I'm going to have to say Pete Carroll As much as I've talked some mess about Pete Carroll And the fact that he's a 9-11 conspiracy theorist Which I have no time for If Pete Carroll can pull it off Because this is Pete Carroll's vision He took a USC team that was floundering He took a Seattle Seahawks team That had been floundering Although they did go to the Super Bowl In what, 06? But they were not The crown jewel model franchise Of the NFL And they were not If he can go out and win a Super Bowl With this team And have the previous championships One of them in Asterisk as well That he had with USC Took a team that was floundering I gotta say it's gotta solidify Pete Carroll as a football hall of fam Now I know the NFL hall of fame is a little different And that might be a bold statement But Peyton's already solidified Unless you're a complete asshole Peyton Manning is in the top 5 quarterbacks You can split hairs and talk about the greatest quarterbacks Quarterback of all time He might be there And if he wins He might cement that even more But I think He's already there He's already in the pantheon of great quarterbacks He's gonna put Pete Carroll as a chance to shoot himself Into legendary status If you're a fan of the game You cannot deny what Pete Carroll done If he goes ahead and wins the Super Bowl You know Gotta give it to him Even though he's a 9-11 conspiracy theorist Gotta give it to him Alright what else do we got? Couple other things Ah and you're on this note NFL finally came out this week And said they're looking To possibly allow medical marijuana For people who have concussions in the NFL Talk about a Pandora's box Look I really don't care about all that I don't wanna get into my feelings on medical marijuana And the legalities of marijuana But if you're gonna say Oh we will only use marijuana If a guy shows signs of concussion Good lord Fuck I was watching the Brian Gumbel Real Sports with Brian Gumbel Which is 20 years old by the way Another thing that makes me feel as old as Deion Sanders' gray beard 20 years old They're talking about medical marijuana And they were saying upwards of 75-80% of NFL players Use marijuana I don't know why they're even fighting this battle anymore Especially if they're gonna concede That there's a lot of medical research out there That says that helps with things like concussions Every friend of mine Is a freaking kid in the NFL They're gonna be claiming concussions After every practice So screw it Just let them freaking do it What's it matter at this point anyway? For the children Please Both these states Represented in the Super Bowl You can buy recreational marijuana So I don't know why you're even fighting this battle At this point You can buy it in the bandwagon bowl Or the stoner bowl The crunchy bowl between Seattle and Denver You can buy it in the bandwagon bowl You can buy it in the bandwagon bowl The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou estou The estou But I really don't feel like it Alright I'm not going to be here next Sunday I'm going to be watching the Super Bowl Obviously and it bleeds into this And I want to have some beer So I'm not going to drive all the way down here To do my podcast next week So that's that I'll be back the following Sunday To recap the Super Bowl And give you all the things that The fans out there want My fan out there is asking for Alright follow us on Twitter At HajjadsLA Email us at HajjadsLA at gmail.com I'm the coach Hopefully your Super Bowl party Is Satisfying I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I'm going to estou estou Thank you.