High school football playoffs and NFL bullying scandal

And the beat goes on Yeah, on the days of my youth I was told what it was to be a man How much you'll be on a year Hi, Jods, L.A. November 10th Playoffs, baby Playoffs are starting for my squad Finished up an undefeated in-league season 9-1 record overall Got a playoff seeding today Two overall seed, not bracket So I've been game planning All afternoon I didn't get a chance to watch as many games As I would like Of course, I did watch first half of the morning games We played Thursday night Won 25-15, which is an odd score We survived Giving up a blocked punt A snap over our punter's head And then he turned around and kicked it Through the back of the end zone Which is actually a really good play, he's been told to do that Otherwise, we would have gave up the ball And both The seven And they probably would have scored And we gave up a pick six Essentially We tackled them about the four They ended up putting in two plays later Still won 25-15 Over the Bonita Bearcats Whom I can't stand Is probably the team I like least On our schedule There's something about them Of course This is a classic Example Two different styles Similar to the And of course, we play on Thursday night First time all year We play on Thursday night Because they wanted the extra day For the CIF The parents For the playoffs We play on Thursday night And this Thursday night happened to be Like the greatest college football Thursday night In the history of college football Thursday nights Oregon Stanford West Virginia Baylor Not West Virginia Baylor What am I talking about? Baylor, Oklahoma Oklahoma There's some good basketball games too On that I missed But I did record them But it's not the same You record a game Then you watch it later And you already know who won Of course, you get to fast forward Through all of it But the game we played Our game Getting back to my game this week Similar to the Oregon-Stanford game In the fact it's just contrasting styles We like to come at people Double tight end Eye formation Straight ahead Power Blast Dive Power Pass Overwhelm you That team The team we played The Bonita Bearcats You know, this This spread option If you will For lack of a better term Four wide receivers Everything in shotgun Everything's lateral Their run game is lateral Of course, first play of the game They get the ball They have to start back I'm going to talk about I won't talk by name But it's just a It's a story I think That's very Telling of high school football Not only in California But throughout the country But anyways The kid gets the ball Boom First play 80 yards Gone Untouched After that though We settled down After that They settled down And stopped giving them the football You know what I always say The best defense Is the other team's Offensive coordinator There's very few Very few Offensive coordinators Out there that are patient But this kid Who busted off He only carried the ball 17 times I don't know if he got dinged up Or whatever I think he was 17 For like a year or so Like 140 or something But this kid had transferred From San Dimas High School San Dimas High School Football rules Sort of Bill and Ted Anyways The kid transferred out Because Essentially has an agent I talked about this before A few weeks back A couple months ago now But this kid essentially Has an agent Which a lot of these High school players do A lot of these high school kids Have agents Through this Seven-year-old Seven-year-old Seven-year-old These combine services Which are Destroying high school football But this kid transfers out Transfers to Benita Because San Dimas Is a wing T team And this agent of his Convinced him And a lot of people say this And it's foolish Backwards thinking Oh wing T teams Don't get kids scholarships It's a freaking lie If a kid Is a stud Someone's gonna give him A scholarship Doesn't even matter What offense they're running in Reggie Bush And Alex Smith Both played in wing T They were teammates In high school They both played In a wing T system And check me if I'm wrong But Alex Smith Was the number one Overall pick And Reggie Bush Was the number two Overall pick And both of them Had successful NFL careers So they convinced this kid To transfer out Meanwhile San Dimas Has just won six in a row They went undefeated In their league They go into playoffs With the high seed And Benita Who we played last week We knocked them out They're done Five and five So We didn't enjoy Your senior year Where's your loyalty To your teammates too? What kind of Kid just up and leaves You know When I went to high school Back when I went to high school Kids wouldn't just leave You know You went to school With your kids With the guys you grew up with Why would you just Up and leave them Because your agent Tells you to do so It's a great piece On that very thing On 60 minute sports You know I'm not sure when it was I had it recorded But I just watched it this week But talking about These seven on seven Which if you don't know What seven on seven is I'm sure you do It's Essentially touch football Quarterback Six receivers Versus seven defenders Three linebackers Four DBs Or however you want to swing it You know Really what's happening These games have become So bastardized And competitive It's You know There's no running backs In the field And it's all DBs No running backs And linebacks It's not real football But The restrictions There's not as many restrictions As there is On tackle football Real football With physical teams Which Usually win games But these seven on seven camps They're coming up with these Elite teams These teams Where they're showcasing kids And guys are acting As the de facto agents For these These players And what's happening Is these agents For lack of a better word Coaches I guess Even though they don't coach For anybody They Act as liaisons Between these major college programs And these kids So They sell These colleges Give these guys money To essentially Pimp out these freaking kids Crazy system National Underclassmen Combine It's another one of these things These are In conjunction with the seven on seven There's also combine drills To do one on one pass block Without pads Which is fucking dumb Cause a D lineman Should be able to go around An O lineman without pads on But they do these On all these freaking drills And their freaking bra and panties And they showcase these kids But this national underclassmen combine In 2005 They had 140 kids That they worked out with In 2012 They had 20,000 kids Working out for them And they're salesmen They're fucking snake oil salesmen These guys come in And they sell all these kids On these You know Give us a couple hundred bucks And you can be on this elite team That's something that happened That's happened in soccer too This is really You know shit If it's exploding that much In seven years This is something they got You know High schools need to look out for It's killing soccer There's a bunch of kids In my high school That are really good soccer players And They're not playing for the soccer The soccer team They're playing for these Elite club teams Where they're paying Fucking 500 bucks To play for these guys It's happened in basketball It's happened for a long time In basketball AAU Although high school basketball Still has a presence Kids are still playing High school basketball Excuse me while I drink This freaking Cisco I found in the fridge Which is ridiculously bad Ugh Orange pineapple Tastes like freaking Mouthwash with Trident gum Mixed in Jolly Rancher Anyhow These teams You know They're Ruining They're really emasculating The coaches Because they're just Bypassing coaches And there's a perfect example Of this kid At Benita In San Dimas He undercut the coach A guy who was a very good coach At San Dimas Undercut him Pulled the kid out Senior year Still ended up doing well These talent scouts though It's spiraling out of control I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know One of the guy Members of I forget what What organization But he put it right It's a cesspool of corruption It's becoming like basketball Yahoo Sports And Rivals.com And shit And all these people That follow it It's huge business Imagine fucking being a guy And your job Is to sit around And evaluate 15 and 16 year old kids Huh It's a system It's a system That needs to be It's a monster That's exploiting kids Mississippi State Actually had to go On probation this year Because they were Paying guys Paying some One of these pimps And they got caught And they had to go On probation More money More problems The more money You pump into the business The more headaches You're going to get The more people Are going to come out From the woodwork And look to exploit it Needs to be stopped Will it? I don't know I think the coaches We If you will Need to get together And put it Try to Put an end to it somehow But I don't think You ever will The thing When you're building These high When you're building High school programs You know There's There's It's a double edged sword It's why I don't know If I want to be A head coach again In order to be good You have to have Good players right Most of the time These good players A lot of the time Have parents Who are pain in the ass They don't have These parents That think their kids Do no wrong Parents that just think The kids should be playing Every snap I head coach My head coach And my team After a game He'll have something like 150 text messages From parents After games It's kind of freaking It's no fun When I The team I was a head coach We were terrible I took over a team That was 0-49 Which has The longest losing streak In the history of California high school football But the beauty of it Which I liked is The parents really didn't care You know They didn't bother me It just was a pain in the ass Not having talent So therein lies the rub You either have a team With talent You got headaches Because their parents Are all over you Or you got a team With no talent With no parent No parental problems I'm kind of starting to see I think I like The no talent No parental problems But we got parental problems now We're 9-1 Looking to win a championship We were lucky on my last team To win 3-4 games Ended up 4-6 And then there's people say Oh you gotta go out And recruit talent Anytime you go out And recruit You gotta go And just It's like college You gotta go meet the parents You gotta deal with the parents You gotta promise The parents thing And every time That happens At least the school I work at now You bring a kid in You get a kid in Parents a pain in the ass Every single freaking time What are you to do? Moving on in the In the high school game I'm going to junior high school Corbett Middle School In Oregon Finished up the season And of course that means banquet There's another freaking Pain in the ass thing Have to have a fucking banquet For every Every team Celebrate mediocrity Every team doesn't have to have a banquet But It's evolved that way So every team has to have a banquet This coach at Corbett Middle School I didn't get his name Insisted they have it at Hooters Needless to say They didn't go for it Got into an argument And they fired him Hooters Decided that they They heard about the story They decided they were going to Throw a party anyways For the kids All the wings you could eat And all the orange short shorts And asses you could grab too Lake Weir High School Florida I'll say the kid's name Trevante Taylor They caught him With a pocket knife In his pants In his uniform During the game I don't know how they saw it But they saw it The kid had a freaking pocket knife In his freaking uniform They arrested him What the hell? I don't know Is this just a symbolism or what? Did the kid think he was actually Going to be able to Shank somebody on the field? And get away with it? You might, I guess I don't know Other news in high school football Coachella Valley Out here in California The mascot is the Arabs And they're getting a lot of heat Because at games they go Let's go Arabs And the symbol is his real Sinister looking Terrorist looking Arab So they're trying to get him To change the mascot I say don't do it Stick with it Is that really that bad? Arabs? You know It's not like Redskin Which I don't I don't want I don't want to revisit that one Oh, Redskin They're doomed They're on borrow time That name is They're going to put an end to it And I bet soon I digress I've already spoken my piece on that And I have other things I need to get to College football Made up for last week's lackluster effort With some generally entertaining games Highlighted, of course By Alabama and LSU Got a chance to watch the Nick Saban piece on On 60 Minutes That Saban's Freaking humorless man I've talked about him before He's a humorless man But he talks about this process thing Which You know, I think there's some validity to it Talking about just taking every play Not focusing on the end score But focusing on winning every play And you know Love saying do your job Like every other coach in the world That's popular coach speak these days Do your job But he talks about this process And the guys had success with it But let's not mince words here Did not do a great job at Miami And I ran out of goal If he had a quarterback He would have done great at Miami The Dolphins No shit If you have a good quarterback You're usually going to do pretty good Unless you're completely incompetent LSU with a rabbit about football Michigan State where it's Take their football really serious And Alabama which is This is actually a factory But it was a pretty good program But Nick Saban coming up this week as well Talking to say His agent came out And there's a little bit of flirting going on with Texas But Mack Brown won again Shit, Texas is 7-2 You know They They! Media's got it out there Mack Brown's down Mack Brown's done 7-2 He's got them winning Granted they're not winning pretty But they're recruiting Still recruiting Still recruiting well Got a really good shot Still making the Big 12 championship But if Saban's people come out and say that Why would he be flirting? Why would Saban want to do that at this point? I mean he's got it all Alabama He's what 62 years old? He's got it all And getting back to the LSU Alabama game They looked good I know I've been waffling back and forth If Alabama's gonna run the table I think they're gonna run the table I think they're gonna win it again LSU looked good But Alabama on the fake punt Which was an old single wing play by the way The old snap to the halfback Almost like an inside reverse Which is a staple of my offense by the way But Alabama Bama you know Saban's got this Stigma that he's this Super conservative Every game they always run a flea flicker You see him run some little bit of trickeration Dial it up As Gary Danielson loves to Every freaking color commentator They just That word has become so commonplace When you're watching games Dial it up Nick Saban has dialed up another one Shit What word did they use before they came up with that? Cause it feels like it's only been in the last Four years Four or five years That dial up has become such a Popular term But LSU Seven and three LSU is Done LSU Texas A&M next week Texas A&M was a good game to watch this week as well Fucking A There's still assholes And I was talking to one last night There's still assholes out there Oh Johnny Manziel threw three picks For 440 yards Five touchdowns You know they were showing His numbers His passing numbers actually Yardage wise And touchdown wise Better than they were last year Russian numbers are down a little bit But still Damn that guy's fun to watch You know Marcus Mariota getting hurt Who knows Johnny comes in Lights up LSU Which he got a shot to Might win it again Although Jameis Winston Looks really good But you know Winston's numbers last week Weren't great I think it's all more about numbers But less about numbers Rather I think it's more about winning But I think the voters get swayed with numbers Johnny Manziel's right there Speaking of the Oregon Stanford game Stanford style Hats off to David Shaw man That's the way you win football games You pound people Speaking of which I left out a huge point in the game Getting back to my game Spread offenses versus I-formation football games All downhill football But either the team we were playing Get the ball They drove it down Regardless if we get the back story What the secret to plays was Get the ball down to the one yard line Third down At no point during the season Did I ever see him go under center With the quarterback going to center For the snap So it was obviously We're going to try to run the freaking sneak Kid looked like he had never Never taken a snap before Like I don't want to get under his balls He was like I don't want to get under his balls I don't want to get under his balls He pulled out early Ball kicks back about another five yards We stop him on fourth down You have to be able to get up on the center And be able to run plays A quarterback sneak is the toughest freaking thing to stop When you're talking Third, fourth and short Fourth and one, third and one Quarterback sneak is still the toughest thing to stop You run the ball out of center The play action pass is so much more effective Because the ball disappears You don't see the ball When it comes through the Center's legs In the quarterback's hands So you can play action more And it's really not that difficult Of a thing to freaking practice Make sure your quarterback Gets 50 Snaps with your center I mean there's a lot of standing around In football practices folks Especially with quarterbacks Because they don't want to get hurt So they're not doing a lot of things Practice the fucking QB center exchange It's amazing you saw it today Carolina Trying to ice the game Versus San Fran And they're not doing a lot of things Same thing Cam Newton goes on the set And bobbles it Tom Brady's bobbled a few this year too But it's a simple thing That you take for granted That needs to be perfected In the old linemen for the Patriots Bitch I mean this is High school pop wonder shit No kidding Simple things that need to be Perfected Stanford Pounce Oregon 26-0 at one point And Marcus Mariota Getting hurt like you touched upon Not going to help in the Heisman Too bad I like Marcus Mariota He's a great player as well Hopefully he's not that bad What else in the college game Anything I really want to talk about Nebraska, Michigan What a freaking snooze fest Brady Hoke Has never been a coordinator At any of his jobs in college He's a coordinator one year His first job at a high school Never been a coordinator That's a good thing That's why he fucking sits on the sideline He's kind of like you know A cheerleader Cheerleader slash recruiter It's a joke Both those programs It's unfortunate You think college football You think Nebraska, Michigan It's a boring freaking game I tried watching it It's just It's becoming relevant And it's funny because Michigan feels like they're terrible And I don't think they're good That was the first home loss Brady Hoke has ever had In the last two games Michigan's had Minus 69 yards Russian You just can't win football games If you can't run the football Texas over West Virginia I was talking about Those West Virginia uniforms West Virginia Virginia has succumbed To the uniform of the week Speaking of which The Northwestern uniforms I don't know if you got a chance To see those ones Covered in blood There's There's There's 10% of the proceeds of Something I don't know Going to the Wounded Warrior program Helps out Wounded soldiers You know Which is fine Which is cool But you think a Football uniform Needs to be covered in fake blood That's a little much A little look at me This is fucking Halloween Carrie I just Think somebody would step in And say alright I think that's a little much When we're playing football here We're not We're not killing anybody Not killing anybody Not killing anybody Not killing anybody Not killing anybody Unless, of course, you're Richie Incognito. I'll get to that in a second. I don't know how you can't. It's all over. Everybody wants to talk about that. I'll have to talk about it again. Even though I touched on it last week, that story just got weirder and weirder. Finish up the college game. Anything else of note? Just next week, LSU, Virginia Tech, USC looking good. Higher at O. Keep at O. Guy can recruit. He's just got to go out and get the coordinators. He had three punt returns in a half. 17 all-time to do that over the course of a whole game. Posting 62-28. I knew what I had to talk about. I knew there was something. Vanderbilt, my boy. My two friends, Ricky Ronnie, Sean Spencer. Two coaches on Vanderbilt staff. Big win over Florida, 34-17. The first time in the history of Vanderbilt football they beat Florida and Georgia in the same year. Now, granted, Florida and Georgia have had significant injuries. But who gives a shit? It's week, what, eight, nine? Everybody has injuries. That's a huge part of the game. Oh, there's another one I wanted to talk about. Eastern Michigan coach Ron English was fired this week because of his profanity. Somebody recorded, unbeknownst to him, somebody audio recorded one of his rants at his defensive backs. And the reason I take a little special interest in this is because the affleck, I mentioned high school I was the head coach of, Ganesha High School in Pomona High. He is one of the, he's an alumni. And look, this area is not the most high class area. I always say that. It's not like freaking, it's not like downtown LA where I just was walking in here and freaking reeked of piss in the street. And lo and behold, I'm walking down the road and some guy, there's a freaking major, second biggest city in the country. And there's this guy who's freaking, he's freaking pissing in the middle of the street. Swear to God, I just saw it. Walking down the road. Anyways, I digress. Ron English from Ganesha High School. Some of the language was great. Calling them quitting ass bitches, faggot ass motherfuckers, playing shit bird football. Shit bird football. I love that one. I want to steal that. Some shit bird football. Of course, what do you get? You expect to have, I mean, Ron English was a defensive coordinator. I mean, he was a defensive coordinator. Michigan for a while. You go to Eastern Michigan and I guess Eastern Michigan, you're going to get some shit birds, I think. But what does Eastern Michigan do? Turn around and beat Weston Michigan 35-32 in OT. Kudos to the shit birds. Dropping shit bombs in the, whatever. A couple of game day signs because it's great. Get ESPN game day signs. Can't spell Obama without Obama. Alabama, all right, you know how LSU uses go, G-E-U-X, it's a good one, go is not a word, but the best one was someone held up a sign, said no means no, Mettenberger, and no, of course, N-E-U-X, N-E-U-X, because Mettenberger, of course, was kicked out of Georgia for sexual assault on a young lady, I think Mettenberger's a good quarterback, though, I think he's gonna be good in the pros, all right, for what, Sipo, my fiscal, all right, let me get out of college, because I got to get into the pressing matters of the pro football game, and the story that won't die, at least for another week or two, and you know Greg Sciano's loving it, because at least it gets a little bit of heat off that fool, although those two teams, the Dolphins and the Bucks play tomorrow night, in the NFL's two most toxic locker rooms, both figuratively and literally, that Mercer stuff is no joke, but Richie Incognito, Richie, who is on Fox, Jay Glazer, I guess, him and boys, they train in mixed martial arts together or something, so Glazer broke the story, broke the interview with Richie, Richie O'Doyle, O'Doyle rules, Richie Incognito looks like, this story gets stranger and stranger, first of all, things coming out during the week, Richie was holding offensive line meetings at strip clubs, in 2012, he sexually assaulted at a golf, at a Dolphins golf tournament, one of the girls, you know, they put girls at holes, the whole, you know, I don't know, hostess or whatever, he, I guess he assaulted her with his, you know, a golf club, and he was like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, golf club, lewd manner, Richie, and he came out with a couple of texts, what's the, you've seen it everywhere, I forget, he's got it written down here somewhere about what exactly he said, he said something like, I'm gonna come in your mouth or something, or you freaking half N-word, I'm gonna come in your mouth, all right, look it, now, let's put one thing on the table right away, right away, Richie Incognito was a freaking asshole. There's no doubt about that. But Jonathan Martin, this is like a perfect storm of first. They put the Ron 2 cats. It's not Ebony and Ivory here. It's not Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. They put the Ron 2 cats together on the left side of the line. Because you got this volatile Nebraska went to Oregon for one week and kicked out. You got this volatile cat and then you got this Carlton Banks freaking, would have been a fourth generation Harvard student if he chose to go to Harvard, but he chose to go to Stanford instead because, you know, Stanford's Division I football. Harvard is not. But you put these two guys next to each other and you try to make it work. But Incognito was on it today. He said, look, you know, he gave up all the text messages he had ever sent to Jonathan Martin. Jonathan Martin gave him right out to Jay Glazer. Now, another thing Incognito was, there's a TMZ video of him running his mouth. He was obviously drunk. And, you know, for some reason, Mike Ponzi, N-word. I can't, I'm not going to say that. And he's just basically challenging anybody in there to a fight. Okay, he is a madman. And he's got terrible tattoos. He's got terrible taste. But he's crazy. But lean in real close because I'm about to tell you a secret. Coaches love those type of guys. They love those fucking crazy guys. And if you see the guys in the locker room, they are all jumping on Richie Incognito's side. Now, I ain't saying the guy's right. All right? And I do feel for Jonathan Martin. But my personal... Personal take on it is, I think Jonathan Martin doesn't want to play football anymore. And I think his agent, because those agents are manipulative freaking guys, I think his agent seizes this opportunity for Jonathan Martin to stop playing football but still be able to collect a paycheck. Look, you don't like the job anymore, Jonathan? Fine. Leave. Like he's listening. Like I know him on a first-name basis. But if you don't... You don't want to do it? Fine. I mean, it's a freaking brutal sport. All right? It's not for anybody. I think Jonathan Martin straight up is probably too smart to play football. At least O-line. And I'm an O-line coach. But I know what you want out of an O-line. You want somebody physical. And any good football player I've been around has a screw loose. You know, I've been around a lot of them. I've been at this for a while now. And any one of them that's worth a shot, is a little bit freaking crazy. I think Jonathan's just a little too smart for this shit. So I think his agent sees this way out because he could have just retired. He could have just quit. You know, come back in a year or two if you really wanted to play that bad. Retire and go play in Canada. I'm sure they're doing that shenanigans as well in Canada. Or at least get somebody else on the team. Like, look. Let's sit down. We'll go to Richie and be like, God, you're freaking bothering me. I can't handle this. Of course, they went to Jeff Island. And Jeff Island's response, Jeff Island's going to get canned over this. And Philbin's going to get canned over this. Potamy feels for him. But Potamy doesn't. You have to see that these two just don't jive. You missed out on a second round draft choice. One of them had to go. They should have seen that. But he goes to Jeff Island. And Jeff Island's response is, oh, punch him? Something along the lines. Yeah, good idea. Yeah. That's just going to knock. That's just going to stop it. Like, you know, Back to the Future. Get your damn hands off me, Richie. Freaking Marty McFly. He's going to just punch him and knock him out and live happily ever after. I don't think it's going to work like that. But there's got to be something he could have done. But, you know, the, dare I say, liberal media, just bully is a bully. These are awful things, Richie Incognito said. No kidding. But you know what? That's what people, people like that talk, they talk like that to each other. I know it isn't right. But I'm telling you, I'm around freaking kids like that. But, you know, Richie Incognito drops the N-word. The word has changed. Now, I'm a little bit older. So, you know, I don't feel comfortable with it. But I'm telling you, younger people throw the N-word out like it's nothing. Because they have no context of what it is. They don't understand it. Their only context on the N-word is a Jay-Z song they heard when they were five. If that makes sense. They don't understand the history behind it and the hatred, the vitriol that is behind that word. People a little bit older, they understand that. But kids that age, well, Richie Incognito's about 30, but he hangs out with, you know, 21, 22-year-old guys in the old line. It's a perpetual adolescence involved in sports, especially at the NFL. So he throws out that word, and, you know, it's easy, oh, you know, always talking about coming and freaking and sits his mouth and, give me a, before they talk. You know, that comes out today, Jonathan Martin sent him a text that said he was going to kill his whole family. Although that's some kind of weird internet meme that was like a puppy or something dumb, but. So when they talked to each other and Jonathan Martin sent back a text two days after the thing went back, Richie Incognito said, oh, I don't blame you guys. I'm just, I'm tired of the NFL culture. There it is. Bingo. But now it's a shit storm. Joe Philbin's going to lose his job. Jeff Island's going to lose his job. Ryan Tannehill might be killed because now he's got a, bad enough he got Bryant McKinney playing right tackle for him now, but I don't know what two shit birds he's going to go put on the left side of the line now. He's going to get hammered. What happens to Richie Incognito here on NFL? I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if a team picks him up next year though. I wouldn't be surprised if Sexy Rexy picks him up. Speaking of which, you know, I was looking at a thing on deadspin.com, which is a great website. If you don't, if you don't want to go on it, but they had a video of hard knocks a couple of years back with Sexy Rexy talking about Vern Golston. Vernon Golston was a high draft pick out of Ohio State. And they thought, he was soft. So they engineered a fight. They rearranged a fight at practice, which is amazing to me because that's a little weird, but that gets, you know, brushed under the rug, even though it's on HBO. But they set up Vernon to fight. No, Rexy's freaking all teeth and head and got a semi, I think. Seeing that Vernon got a fight and he thought, oh, Vernon turned a corner. I think he played 16 games that year and had like three tackles. It was gone. Next year. You can't change guys like that. Any good football player I've been around, well, at least when I was younger, they were mean when they were younger. It's got to be in you. You can't make somebody mean. Well, you would have to take years and years of training. I don't think you can make someone mean in the course of a football season. Maybe for a play. Like I have some kids in the old line that are soft. And once in a while, when you really get on them, they'll kind of fake it. And, you know, they'll maybe get a little cheap shot or a little push in, but it's got to be in you. Watch Richie Incognito play. I mean, he's just a mean, mean guy. I had a buddy of mine who was a nose tackle at Colorado State and went to the, went to camp with the Oilers in the late 80s. It was Tommy. You know, he was, and he's a mean guy too, but he didn't make the team. He was a good player at Colorado State, but didn't make the team. He said, look, it'd blow your mind how crazy, in particular, he was talking about Bruce Matthews at the time, how volatile those freaking guys are. And you have to be. It's modern day gladiators. You can put all your freaking bells and whistles on it and all your, you know, Keith Urban halftime shows and wholesome family entertainment, all you want on it. But, if we took all that shit out and took it down to bare bones and they put microphones on the field when the games are going on and stripped all the other bullshit away, people would be horrified. I don't think anybody would watch it other than the hardcore fans. It'd be like fans of death metal would be the only ones who really watch it. Be horrified at what the game really is. But, they hide behind it. Enough Richie Incognito. Although, I'd love to see Richie Incognito become a pro wrestler WWE style. You can hear Howard Frankel, Richie Incognito. He'd be great too. Got all the big tats and shit. Get that O'Doyle face. All right, enough Richie. We'll see what happens as the week goes on because they have to either release him or, you know, they have to release him. And, and pay him millions or they gotta let him come back. I think he could come back. There seems to be a willingness amongst the Miami players to welcome him back. See how this plays out. No more of that. Shit, speaking of WWE, I want to talk a little bit about the XFL. But it just doesn't seem like it's forcing that segue. So, I digress. I'll move on. All right, I'll talk a little bit more bullying. Remember the Cam Cleland case? Now, that shit was amazing. Remember Cam Cleland, the tight end for, for the Saints? Good player. But they made him walk what was called the gauntlet. And one of the players, Andre Royal, who was a free agent, just came into the team. Not like a guy had, you know, a ton of stroke in the locker room. He collected a bunch of change from guys during the course of the season. And they had this gauntlet where they put a sack over the rookie's faces and they would run down the hallway of the dormitory that they stayed. And they would just take shots at the guy. And he freaking hit Cam Cleland in the face. He almost lost his eye. Hit him in the face with a sock filled with coins. That's sick. Hit someone in the face with a freaking sock full of coins? That's, you know, you know, you know, seems like Richie Incognito saying he's going to come in his sister's mouth. Seems pretty tame. They said if guys didn't participate in this little gauntlet, they would piss in buckets and throw, the guys would lock themselves in their room, I guess. And they would throw piss underneath their freaking doors. And then they would kick in and try to get the guys. And when the guys weren't there, they would go in their rooms and they would piss all over their beds and their clothes. This is the 90s too, you know? Something like that long ago. Vicious. Vicious people. All right, no more. No more hazing. No more bullying. Let's talk football. Let's talk, let's just finish up, finish up what we got. Ben Roethlisberger. Supposedly talking about, he's not happy in Pittsburgh. Talking about how he wants out. But, you know, Roethlisberger, look, he's a, he's had a great career. He's a really good quarterback. But, I don't know if you really want, would you, I guess a team like Arizona would do well with Big Ben. Where was he? 32, 33? Guy with a history of problems as well off the fields. You know what I, you know, I don't think he'd born round and die square. But he, he was saying, oh, Tom Brady's the greatest quarterback of all time. Well, best quarterback player right now. Which I agree. But his rationale was a little self-serving. He said the reason he's the best quarterback is because he has the most Super Bowl reigns. Who has the second most Super Bowl reigns? Ah, you nailed it. Ben Roethlisberger. So he's implying tacitly that he's the second best quarterback in football because he has the second most, him and Eli, the second best quarterbacks in football because they have the second most Super Bowl reigns. All right, Mr. Roethlisberger, disagree. It's a freaking team sport. Come on. So does that mean Trent Dilfer is a better quarterback than Frank? Frank Tarkington? I never saw Frank Tarkington play, you know, live. But everybody says Frank Tarkington was, you get my point. Well, I don't know. We'll see. Arian Foster, who I talked about a couple weeks ago with that whole thing about, you know, he's selling stock in himself, out for the year. Bad back, out for the year. Stock price just plummeted. What else have we got in the pro game? I know I got a couple things. Shit, time. Flying by. What else we got in the games? Oh, this is something I read. I got a, you know, I never even knew this. In the 60s, they had a playoff game for third place in the NFL. So after the, they would have the two, you know, the playoffs, semifinals, you know, they weren't conference, I guess it was conference championship, so the equivalent. The two winners would play in the championship game and the two losers would play for third place. The NFL, this was before the Super Bowl. They played it every year in the Orange Bowl. It's called the Burt Bell Benefit Bowl. I thought that was, hmm, the Rams, the LA Rams won it two times. Lions won it three times. I don't know why they wouldn't have something like that now. It'd be fun to watch or anything. Extra game. Two relatively good teams. I don't know, give a team a million bucks for playing. Hmm. I don't know. Never knew that happened, though. It's amazing the history, the rich history of the NFL and professional football in general, which I was going to talk about at length, but too much, went incognito too much. A couple games I watched, only got about five, ten minutes. Raiders, Giants, Stinkfest, Giants 24, Raiders 20. Sometimes I think Terrell Pryor looks really good. Sometimes I think he looks terrible. I think he's a guy that could play limited. I really think you can use two quarterbacks in the NFL. Hey, I don't care what anyone says. You can have a special package of plays. That's why I've been expounding the benefits of having a guy like Tebow. I really think you could use him in certain situations and use him effectively. I think Terrell Pryor could be one of those guys. I think Johnny Manziel might be better served in that role if he comes in. You know, the conventional wisdom that you can't use two quarterbacks I think is bullshit. Anyway, not a good game. Green Bay. Seneca-Walls gets hurt. All of a sudden, they're down to Scott Tolzian. He used to play for, I remember him playing at, what was it, Wisconsin. Played at Wisconsin. Average guy. Average at best. Green Bay season's going down the toilet. Philly's starting to look, you know, Philly looks alright. They're 5-5. Like I said before, Chip is not incompetent. He's not revolutionary, but he's not incompetent. I think he knows what he's talking about. He's a guy who's getting away with shit. Hey, Riley Cooper was a straight out, right, that comment he made about, you know, fighting the ring and, you know, fighting every N-word in here, which came from a place of malice. No doubt about it. That dude was freaking saying that straight up racist. He wasn't like he was making a joke or he wasn't like he was saying it to one of his homies. Straight up racist. Nothing comes of it. Now the guy, he's tearing it up. Not catching a lot of passes, but he's, he's been through the roof the last few weeks. And Nick Foles is playing great. I don't even know. Lurk was right. Lurk did have some insight. He knew a few things. Talking about hypotheticals and, you know, making predictions. Who the hell would have thought last week the AFC and NFC Offensive Players of the Week would be Nick Foles and Jason Campbell? You know, coming in, coming in, coming into this halfway point in the season, those two would be the Offensive Players of the Week for the conferences. But Nick Foles looks like a real, like, you know, not the real deal, but he's playing well. Take nothing away from him. Of course, Green Bay pulls one of my pet peeves. Run Eddie Lacy all the way down, all the way, all the way down. Throw the ball on the five-yard line, get a pick, run it back the other way, almost score a touchdown. Shocker of the week, St. Louis, 38, Indy 8. Just what you think you can find. Figure this game out. Everybody was, you know, Indy was everybody's darling. St. Louis makes them look bad. And Tavon Austin, talented freaking kid, halfway through the season, and the Twitterverse, and all these talking heads out there saying, oh, he's a bust. He's a bust. Poured up. Had three touchdowns today of over 50 yards. Only three guys in the history of NFL have done that in the same game. Tavon Austin being one of them. The other two, Randy Moss, one of the greatest receivers to play of all time, make no bones about it. And the great Kansas Comet, Gale Sayers. Those are the three guys that are the only guys that ever do that. Pretty lofty company for only being in your ninth game in the NFL. Tavon Austin flies. Again, you know, the only person who can really cover Tavon Austin is his spring offensive coordinator. The best defenders in the league. The best defenders in the league. Offensive coordinators. Putting it on Indy. Those are two teams that the owners back in the 70s swapped franchises. Just freaking never do that again. You can never just get away with that today. It was like the 70s and 60s and 70s was a different planet. Couldn't get away with that. Just swapped Robert Ursae and Carol Rosenblum. Swapped franchises. Hmm. Detroit 21, Chicago 19. Telling you, Terry Brown, Terry Bradshaw showing showing symptoms of CTE. That's a low blow. Sorry, Terry, for listening. But that may be a foolish statement today. Saying that Matt Stafford, he would rather have Matt Stafford over any other quarterback in the NFL. All right, Terry. You'd rather have him over Peyton Manning or Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers. Just because Stafford puts up big yards. There's too many picks. Just because he faked a spike last week and jumped over the line. He's okay, but he is throwing to arguably the most talented wide receiver to ever play in the NFL. Nobody can dispute that. Kevin Johnson's going to be physically one of the top five specimens to ever play or receive in the NFL. Cincinnati keep, excuse me, Cincinnati almost pulled disappointment. And another guy in preseason I thought the Red Rocket was going to be okay. He's average at best. At best. Throws that bomb. At the end of the game, they hail Mary, they score, tie it up, send it to overtime. Then you go for it on fourth down with a horrendous play call. Speaking of horrendous play call, look, the NFL drives me freaking mad watching these guys. Like I said, I couldn't really watch the games because we were game planning for a game versus Santa Fe at home. First round playoff game versus Santa Fe and Santa Fe Springs out here. Not a very good team. We should roll them. Print it. But, end of the Texans-Arizona game. Case Keenum or, I don't know, some people say Casey Keenum. Case Keenum. I don't, regardless. I think he's alright though. I think he's, you know, I think he's okay. But, end of the game. Drive to win the freaking game. Two of the four plays are fade routes or go routes and he throws the ball two, three yards out of bounds to win the game. All he needed to go down was kick a field goal. And that was the best play they could. Dial up. According to Gary Danison. Here, I got it. Alright, I got a play for us. Just gotta run as fast as you can, as far as you can. And I'm gonna throw the ball out of bounds. Maybe you could jump up and make a play. He got staffs of 20. It's the best they can come up with when the game is on the line. I don't know. Alright, alright, alright. I gotta, what else, what else before, oh, Carolina 10 over San Francisco 9. Ronnie Rivera. How things change in this game. About five weeks ago, everybody's calling for his head to be fired in the middle of the year. I think they won five in a row. And now all of a sudden everybody's dialing and everybody's saying, oh, they could go to the Super Bowl. They could, you know, beat Seattle. 10-9 versus San Fran. With Colin Kaeper pick looking very average. Very average. I think Ronnie Jaworski sipping off a little of that same jungle juice that Terry Bradshaw's hitting on because I remember at the beginning of the year, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, he's saying that Colin Kaepernick could be the greatest quarterback of all time. All time, Ronnie. I don't know. Look a little better than he did today. He looked very average. I mean, they got a best old line in football. A bevy of backs. Solid wide receivers. Vernon Davis, a freak of a tight end. He didn't look all that hot today. I don't know. San Fran, we'll see as it goes on. Three minutes left. Let me get in the twit bag. Telly Tupac, when is Von Miller going to show up? I didn't watch Denver play today, but I caught a little brief recaps. Said he played well. So I don't know. This week, the guy's a super, he's a talent. He's going to, you know, he's going to show up. So I guess he played well this week. The guy flies. He's probably high all the time, but still flies. At Dat Puffy, hypothetical. If incognito or Martin, are you going to play? Are equally as good in the field? Which you're not. But anyway, who would you rather bring in now in terms of baggage? Good question. I'd say I'd bring in Martin. It would be easier for him to get along with everybody. Of course, that's assuming that they're equal in talent, which you're not. But you can incognito is pretty good. You can play all three positions as well. All four positions, really, if you, you know, difference between the tackles, which, yeah, I don't know. But Martin would just be easy to assimilate. Sure, he'd get along. I'm sure Richie just, one of those guys that's tough to get along with. One more Richie incognito story because I think he's funny. They say when he was in a camp when he was like 16 years old, he organized everybody in the hallway. He took that money from everybody and tried to hire strippers for the camp. He was like 16. He was a real Eddie Haskell type. You could tell by the interview he had today, you know, just, he knows what he's doing. He just, ah, fuck. All right, no more incognito. And last, quick back question, at Lionel Osborne, who are some of the best coordinators in college or the pros right now? Man, you know, that's a good question. One, I probably should, should have put a little bit more thought and time into. Of course, there's not that many people I'm that impressed with offensively. David Shaw, I know he calls a lot of the players. I don't know who his offensive coordinator is. I know he was the offensive coordinator at one point. Really like what they do at Stanford. Gotta give props to my boy, Ricky Ronnie. At Vanderbilt. I don't think he's, I don't, I don't know if he's the old quarter, but hey, for purposes of this program, he is the old quarter. I know he's a quarterback coach. He's been there for a while. I don't know if he's calling plays. I'm sure he has a lot to do with it. Ricky Ronnie at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt's playing, Vanderbilt's playing well. Hats off to James Franklin. I think James Franklin's gonna get a real major job here in the next year or two. Could end up at a school like Texas. You know, I'm assuming they give up Mac Brown. Who knows? USC might give him a shot. Which would be something. I think he deserves it. Taking a team that was, you know, perennial laughingstock of the SEC and go out and beat Georgia and Florida. Good for them. All right. That's it. I know I had a bunch more I wanted to come up with, but ran out of time. Follow us at HajjadsLA on Twitter. Go ahead and email us at HajjadsLA at gmail dot com. We are here every Sunday night at 7 o'clock. I'm the coach. I will see you next week with Bells On. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.