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[Assistant] I got the Titans winning, you got the Patriots winning, I'm taking the Eagles, you're taking the Seahawks. You know an eagle beats a seahawk in a fight every time, right? You know that, right? I mean...


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[Assistant] And a titan beats a patriot too. I don't know what a titan is, but he sounds a lot bigger than just some guy with a musket, so I just like a titan.


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[Assistant] When a bird team, this is next level shit right here, okay? Pay attention. When a bird team plays a bird team in the playoffs,


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[Assistant] In January, okay? You don't do it! Haven't you seen the crack?


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[Assistant] Florio hates America. I love it. I love bald eagles. He doesn't. This sounds like it's a great weekend for me. Alright, I love you Florio. You better love, you better love


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[Assistant] Alright, peace out dude. I'll see you Sunday. Safe travels. Everybody have a great weekend. PFTPM, Chris Sims, Unbuttoned Joint Collaboration. Please rate, review, send us your comments. We're outta here. Peace. Everybody enjoy the football and wild card weekend. Later. See ya.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what's up? Come on man, subscribe on YouTube to Chris Simms Unbuttoned Podcast. I need you, please hit the subscribe button, please!


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[Assistant] The marquee match of the weekend, my friend. Liverpool vs. Man Utd. One minute, mate. Just for our YouTube followers.


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[Assistant] This desk, by the way. I know, it's Mickey Mouse, mate. We have a special desk, two Robbie's desks, nice bits and pieces on it, and I'm told Chris Sims...


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[Assistant] The Premier League title of Liverpool 30 years away. Chris Sims, we're coming for you. We want it back. We want it back.


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[Assistant] Pick a situation and there's good chance they won that situation. Third down, they were better both sides of the ball. Penalties, they were better. They outplayed us, they out coached us, and they deserved to win.


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[Assistant] I would take the trophy back to my room, I would take a shower with it, and soap it down, because a lot of dirty hands and mouth have been on that. I can see that, that's understandable.


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[Assistant] Hey, what up? Chris Sims on button, Ahmed Paredes here. What up? We got a Thursday podcast. We're gonna do a little bit more Super Bowl recap. We got an AMA, ask me anything going on. We got some questions there. Now, I only got to what I would do


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[Assistant] Yeaah, baby, it's the offseason, alright? And, uh, like I said, ask me anything today. We got Big Phil coming on, we got some things. We wanna, I wanna discuss the game. I have yet to really talk to my dad about the game. Really? Yeah, I've been, like,


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[Assistant] Kind of holding them off on our natural phone calls during the week a little bit lately, so we can keep things fresh for the pod.


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[Assistant] Uh, like I said, we're gonna do that. We're gonna have some fun about some of the drunkenness and drunk stories we saw in Kansas City yesterday. And that's really about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's good. I want to continue to do this and keep, you know, keep the fans involved in the questions and the conversation and everything like that and, uh, keep me honest, keep me self-scouting thyself.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we got Big Phil on there. Big Phil's on the phone, aka Mr20Pullups, aka SuperVolt21MVP. Dad, like, seriously, in all seriousness, I'm proud of you, man. Like, that was amazing. It really was.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, so. No, no, no, we're having one more talk about the con- alright, first off, at number five, I was nervous for you when I was watching on TV, cause you'd like five, I was like, oh crap, dad's in trouble at number five. And then number sixteen,


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[Assistant] But you gutted it out, and this is the best part of it, and I want to know if you felt this.


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[Assistant] You know, and I don't know, you tell me if you think there was another game this year, but I thought it was the only game this year that the 49ers didn't clearly win the physical we're gonna out hit you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, they didn't win that category. Maybe the Baltimore game would be the only other game I would look at all year where I went, ooh, the 49ers weren't definitively the more aggressive physical team on the field. Do you feel, do you feel that way the same as I do there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's a, he's an old school middle linebacker. 255, like guys like you had on your team of the Giants.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, right. I think yeaah, I think he was 19 of 21 at some point, yeaah. I think he was 19 of 21 at some point.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Chris Jones, so many times. His value of what he did in that game will be overlooked, but he was one of the stars of the game along with Mahomes and Nick Bosa, who you already mentioned. Alright, so we're on that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's stay on that. I mean, that's the next thing. We hit Garabolo. Now, you know, of course the next thing is, is oh, oh wait, Kyle Shanahan. Like, is there any...


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[Assistant] Any of those decisions, anything there that you look at, like I've said, you know me, I don't think there's anything wrong with a lot of the game management decisions. If I was going to sit here and complain about one thing, Kyle, I'd go, ooh, I wish we would have saw maybe a


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[Assistant] Few more of those Debo Samuel runs in the second half or something like that. And that's being nitpicky. Uh, but I'm not gonna sit here and second guess some of his decisions. I think they were the right decisions. They just didn't work out. Where do you stand with some of that stuff?


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[Assistant] That's right. I'm the one with the better defense and the run game and everything like that. Why give Kansas City the chance to Mahomes to go down and score a late touchdown before the half and go in with all the momentum at 17 to 10 and then have the pressure on your offense to start the second half to go, you got to answer the bell or we're in trouble.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're gonna nitpick, especially with Kyle, because it's a 10.4th quarter lead, blown. And it happened before with him, so this is the easiest conclusion to come to.


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[Assistant] The defense of the team was built around the defense and they didn't come through in a moment where the game was served up for them on a platter to go 10 points, 3rd and 15. This is why we have 5 first rounders on the defensive line and they didn't come through.


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[Assistant] Okay, now that's the next place I wanna go. Because, you know, you've mentioned it a little already, you know, the pass rush, it dies out. We've seen three 10-point fourth quarter leads blown in the last five Super Bowls. Never happened before in any Super Bowl. We've seen three in the last five.


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[Assistant] All three have been the Seattle Defensive Scheme. You know, you talked about Spags. He was doubling people and doing crazy shit in big moments. You know, to me...


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[Assistant] Okay, so now my point with this, yeah, with the 49ers thing, and like, I don't know, do you think there's merit to what I'm saying? To me, like, I, I feel like there, there is an issue there. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's too pass rush reliant, it's, it's, it's too much where I just look at it and go, a guy like Mahomes and Andy Reid go, okay, you know, we've had the ball 60 snaps, they've played this coverage 50 times, let's take a shot on this play that we think's gonna work against this coverage. To where, and the big moment for the 49ers, to what you were just saying,


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[Assistant] Spags did something where it's hard for Kyle to really prepare for what the hell he's gonna do and know what he's gonna dial up.


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[Assistant] Give me, give me your State of the Union on Patrick Mahomes. I mean, you know, I know you and I kind of like texted and talked briefly earlier in the week. Like, I think we both agree that he's the only quarterback in football that could have pulled that game off.


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[Assistant] But just like right now, after two years of him playing, you know, what are we seeing? What do you think it projects to be? Just give me your State of the Union on my homes and then uhm, you're done with us.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well this is, I try to explain this, this is where you hear me go off the rails on the quarterback shit sometimes about all the blame and all the credit and all that, you know.


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[Assistant] Football is the worst sport sometimes. You could be on the worst team. You could be the best player in football. And if you're on the worst team, nobody's gonna recognize it. Nobody's gonna see it. It's gonna affect your play, your performance. Look at Minka Fitzpatrick. He's a bust.


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[Assistant] He's horrible. He goes to a defense that uses him the right way. He's the MVP on defense. Yeah. I mean, it happened in two weeks. He went from being a bust to this is the MVP of the NFL on defense. I mean, it happens all the time. And yes, system.


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[Assistant] Fit, everything like that is very real. You know, that's why I always hold people like Rogers and Mahomes in a different category, because I don't believe that any of that matters with them. They're that talented, right? Deshaun Watson would be in that list. You know, Brett Farb, Elway, just didn't matter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for most of football and certain positions, like, yeaah, you need some help. You need a team around you. You need a scheme that knows how to use your talents and limit your weaknesses.


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[Assistant] It's just, there's stories like that every year. And, and it's, that's, that's the brutal thing about football. We're too easy right now in this generation of, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh, they've won, he's the best. Oh, they've won, he's the best. And I wanna go, no, they, they, you just said they won, he's just part of they. He's really good, but, you know, I'm not just gonna say he's the best because he was on they and they won, right? You know, that's where I fight back against.


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[Assistant] Right, I believe it, but these guys have mastered it and they do great work and not only do they understand players, they understand football.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're good dudes, and although the fantasy season is done, Roto-World's still putting out podcasts. They're still doing work throughout the offseason. Yep.


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[Assistant] This week, they posted Super Bowl Week interviews with Jordy Nelson and my buddy Gary Vee. I'm burping my coffee as I'm saying this. Gary Vee. But Gary Vee, social media star. Alright, but check that out, the World of the World football podcast. It's a good group of guys led by our friend Josh Norris. Congrats to them. Awesome stuff. Keep tuning into that everybody. Really good team.


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[Assistant] Like to me that's not, hey listen, I know you want offense and you gotta be able to put up points, and it is Kansas City, but I think your better bet is to


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, you wanna look for pass rushers and some lockdown corners. You know, or some difference makers in the secondary. Whether that's safety or corner, it doesn't really matter. But to improve those two units, yeaah, I look at that. Mainly being the pass rushers though. The best way to ever beat a great passing offense and an explosive offense like that


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[Assistant] Is to be able to go, we have depth and we have a really talented front four and we got two guys on the edge who can cause problems and get there by themselves where we don't have to blitz and compromise ourselves in coverage. But then Mahomes just does a 20 step drop. Well, hey, that's right, that's gonna be tough. You know, to what my dad said, the amazing thing about Mahomes in that third and 15 play too is not only the drop, he spent the first few


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[Assistant] Steps of the drop, just looking at the rush to make sure he was going to have the time to unleash that ball. And then it does, it puts a lot of stress on you physically, mentally, everything, to always have to be looking at that.


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[Assistant] And Shanahan finds running backs that are no nonsense. I want one cut downhill, pedal to the metal, that's it. You never see them dance, right? You never see these guys like...


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[Assistant] Doing this behind the lines. They don't. If they do that, it's like, oh, you're out of the game, Tevin Coleman's in. Right. Oh, you're out of the game, Rohan Mostert's in. Oh, you're out of the game, Breida's in. Like, that's not, so, he's got a great vision for that and then teaching them.


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[Assistant] Offensive lineman, athletic. He's more into the, look at them.


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[Assistant] You know, look at his own line there, with the Falcons, with the Redskins, with the Houston Texans back in the day. More about athletes than physical size and domination, right? We see the Baltimore Ravens, the Ravens are like, we're bigger than you, we're stronger than you, we're just gonna plow downhill and just move you out of the way.


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[Assistant] No, the 49ers are a little bit more like, we're athletic and we can ask our own line to move and within that inside outside zone scheme, we have guys that can really run down the line of scrimmage and stress these D linemen who are trying to stay in the gap.


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[Assistant] While the guard and tackle are running to their right, and pretty fast at it too, you know, those are the issues. And then the biggest thing is this, to my man Nick.


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[Assistant] You know, Shanahan is Shanahan cause he's not gonna, you know, people don't know how he's coaching some of these things.


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[Assistant] You know, he didn't like teach Sean McVay and Matt LaFleur every trick about his running scheme. He knew he might have to play them again one day. This is what goes on in football. You know, I've talked about Josh McDaniels used to lock himself in the room in New England, come out with a game plan. He wasn't going to tell the whole staff.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, Chad O'Shea, this is what I did to screw this defense over so you can come back and use it against us when you go to Miami, right?


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[Assistant] Where they're just more advanced that way than other coaches because he's just smarter and more creative to think of the different ways to do it. That leads to Freddy who just said, how is Kyle doing? Have you talked to him at all? Uh, just a text so far and I mean, I know he wrote back, but he's, I, I don't need to ask him how he's doing. I, you know, this, he lives this, his family lives it. I know they're heartbroken.


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[Assistant] You know, I know my wife saw Kyle's sister in town the other day, because Kyle's sister lives here close to us.


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[Assistant] You know, and she went to Texas with me and Kyle as well, so I've known her for a long, long time. She was heartbroken.


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[Assistant] You know, I know they are. You know, he lives this. He puts his soul into it. And uh, you know, he borderline kills himself every year to coach a football team. I mean, he does. He used to lose a patch of hair on the back of his head because he would stress out so much. I mean, that's, that's how much he loves it and cares about it. So I know he's down and he's still working right now and uh, he'll rebound.


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[Assistant] They are, I mean, they are. You know, I've had to have this con- it's a good question by Adam, because I've had this ques- I've had to answer this question on the radio a few times this week, because now people are questioning if he's top five, because they saw Sammy Watkins run by him. And I want to go just, you know, it's blatantly wrong. I mean, top five, top ten, it's- it's insane to think that about Richard Sherman. It's insane. He's not in that category. Now, why do people say that?


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[Assistant] Because they don't study. It's an easy take. Oh, it's a big name and he's on the best passing defense we've seen in a decade. It has to be because of him. People like to draw conclusions without ever looking up like facts of matter. That's what I've come to in this business. Oh, this team won, this team lost. Let me look at the stat sheet and see what makes sense and then I can blame or give credit to that.


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[Assistant] One guy on TV says it, and it filters down, and everybody starts, all of a sudden it becomes... Groupthink. It does. And you just go, wait, I just saw one guy say this on this channel, and now seven other guys are saying it throughout the week, and they're all wrong. Every one of them.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, I'm not, I'm trying to say this with respect. I'm just trying to give you guys some 2020 scouting here. Yeah, he's going to the Hall of Fame, I gotta let. But he also had like the best pass Russian football around him, right? So that's gonna help his numbers out and do things like that.


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[Assistant] Teams are reluctant to throw the ball outside the numbers. They weren't always that way in the 80s and 90s, but this day and age, with formations and coaches being more creative and movement and things like that, they find more ways to attack the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] Yes, he is not one of the top 10 corners. And really, hey, maybe I'll come out with a list here soon of the top corners in football. But in my heart of hearts, I have a hard time thinking he'll be in the top 15. It'll be a borderline whether he's top 20 or not, really. Just thinking about it right now off the top of my head. We're going to be talking about Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, yes, there's a ox-, there's offensive explosion and firepower there, yes, for a guy like Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] You know, I just think the big thing is, alright, I'll say this, is Tampa a high profile enough city for him to go to? I don't know about that. That's what I mean. First off, I really think it's like LA or Miami for Tom Brady. I really think that's it. Or New England. And I would still bet on New England.


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[Assistant] You know, to go to a place with Bruce Arians, too. That's gonna be two big egos. Right? And you got that.


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[Assistant] Brady's gonna want to have some of the things he likes in his offense. Bruce has a way. He wants things to be done. Does Brady want to sit back there and hold the ball for nine seconds every play? Because Brady didn't like holding the ball this year. So now you're gonna sit there in a court, in an offense where the coach literally tells you


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[Assistant] You're gonna get up this year, but just hang in there and keep throwing the ball down the field. I mean, that's what he tells them. He told James Winston to put on 20 pounds last year because I'm going to throw the ball deep and you're going to get pounded. All right. So yeah, I don't, I don't see that happen. I, like I said,


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[Assistant] You know, that's a team that still has a lot of work to do. And I just don't know if that's the right scenario for me and where Brady and Giselle would live. I don't know about that either. There's probably some good restaurants in Tampa. There is. I lived there. Listen, Tampa, I was all for it. There's plenty of good restaurants. There definitely is. As you're talking about


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[Assistant] Manning is not Brady. Brady is not Manning. Okay? Manning was truly...


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[Assistant] Adam Gase was there, you know, it was like, oh, and, and, uh, you know, I'm blanking on, um, the other coach that was there, but they knew what they were getting. Oh, Payton has his formula the way he did. You know, Brady, of course, if he goes somewhere, is gonna want some plays that he's had in New England installed, sure.


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[Assistant] Brady was created to be like the ultimate sergeant, right? The general told him, hey, here's our plan on the battlefield. I'm giving you a lot of different plans. You need to be really smart to digest all this. And then, hey, you need to go out there and execute it. And Brady's very


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the greatness of Brady. Executing a really detailed, intricate, deep pie book with so many rules and then making all the big throws and the big moments.


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[Assistant] He's not the kind of guy that comes in on a Tuesday afternoon and is like, alright, hey Bill, here Josh, here's my, here's the plays I like, here we go.


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[Assistant] No, that's not. They're going, hey Tom, here's the plays we like.


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[Assistant] And, is there any that you strongly disagree with, because we're gonna move on? Yeah. And he looks at it, and oh, you know, I like this. Hey, did you, you know, he might add one. Hey, I like maybe this play this week. Okay, yeah, okay, that's a good idea, Tom.


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[Assistant] But it's not like Peyton Manning where he comes in on a Wednesday and it's like, hey guys, here's the offensive game plan for the week. Peyton, Peyton's been collaborating with Adam Gase and everybody else and this is what we came up with. It's just a different dynamic that way. And that's why I don't think ultimately he'll leave.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I don't think it's going to affect draft status or anything like that. Now, will coaches evaluate him and go, I'm going to have to flip this around.


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[Assistant] The charisma, you know, the way, the, the, the, the, what we'll see on tape from Tua, I think is, yea, it's too good. Nobody's gonna be deterred by him being a lefty other than just talking to themselves and going, oh, this is a pain in the ass, I gotta switch this around.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is a good question, and there's a few here that jump off to me. I mean, first off, hey, Captain obvious, okay? Yeah, I wanna see Chase Young.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's built like the predator. So yeaah, I'd like to see what he's gonna do. He looks like Judevion Clowney and Miles Garrett and a guy that's gonna be able to put up like Greek God type numbers, right? So yes, I wanna see him. I mean, without a doubt. He looks like one of the more freakier people we've seen come out in the draft in a long time. Isaiah Simmons.


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[Assistant] The linebacker safety corner for the Clemson Tigers. I mean, I don't, number 11, if anybody wants to just watch one of the freakier athletes I've seen in college football the last two years, it's that guy, number 11. And I, you know, I said those positions because Ahmed, when you watch Clemson, he's 6'3", 230, and he does all of them.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's linebacker, he's defense end, he's nickel corner running down with a receiver, he's safety on one play. I mean, he really has some skill set and I think he's another guy that like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, at 6'3", 2'30", I think he could run a high 4'4", and jump like 43 inches in the vertical. I think we could see freaky numbers like that. Jerry Judy from Alabama, hands down, want to see him. I mean, to me, he just popped so many times on, uh, watching games this year. He looked like one of the most explosive, fast people in football. Uh, and Justin Herbert, the quarterback for Oregon.


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[Assistant] You kinda, you like him. I like him. I have a man crush on him. I think he has superstar potential. You know, he's a guy that I really think would benefit, like Mahomes, just be a year on the bench and then play. But I think he has a chance. I mean, he's 6, he's 6-5, borderline 6-6. He's 240 pounds. He can really run.


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[Assistant] And he has a big time arm. Is there a chance Justin Herbert could be your number one quarterback? Uh, yeah, I'm gonna say there's a chance, yes. You know me, I'm not gonna be like cornered into like, oh, everybody thinks Joe Burrow is the best quarterback. You know, I already heard this shit before.


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[Assistant] I heard this in the Mahomes, like the one my dad just said on the podcast. Everyone, oh, I made those comments. I had NFL people texting me like, you're crazy if you think Mahomes is a, you know, by the end of the springtime, everyone was like, damn Chris, you were right.


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[Assistant] I had the same shit with Lamar Jackson too. I'm still pissed about that. Cause I went to the NFL owners meeting and had people in the media and people in front office people. Lamar Jackson, huh? Cause I said he was the best quarterback originally coming out in that draft. And I backed off of it a little because of the public pressure a little. And I went, ooh. You're like all these people can't


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[Assistant] Right, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it doesn't need to be there, you know, and I'm pissed about that I backed off and I also want to see those people and be like, kid, that's right, remember you, Lamar Jackson, you, let's move on with the owners meeting. That's what I want to say to some of these people.


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[Assistant] They need another, they want to be able to run the ball and maximize Rodgers. They need a guy that scares the shit out of you on defense. Like Tyree Kill does for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Devonte Adams is real good.


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[Assistant] But again, he's not that kind of guy that's like, oh, we gotta double team him. Oh, he's gonna beat us for 70 yard touchdowns if we don't do this all game long. He's awesome. I'm not trying to, it's just not what he is. Yes, I would like to see them do that. I would. I would love it. Jerry, Judy, or just somebody who's a game changer.


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[Assistant] You know, we, yeah, that would be awesome. And to me, it's a real need for, for the Packers. If they think they want to like...


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[Assistant] I mean, I think that's fair. You know, yeaah, you talk, you know, the Clemson kid, you know, the Jefferson from Alabama, I mean, from LSU, the two Alabama kids, the kid from Colorado who I haven't seen a lot of, I mean, I think there is, I think there is.


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[Assistant] Like this is a big make or break year for the Detroit Lions. It really is.


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[Assistant] I wanna say they're one of, you know, they're one of those teams that I kinda got a little like, you know, star next to to go watch out. Cause I don't think they're totally far off. I mean, hey, Stafford was playing really well.


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[Assistant] You talked about them getting screwed over in a few games. Man, they had the Chiefs on the ropes. They had a bunch of games where they played well and didn't come out on the end. And I think a lot of that was cause Stafford wasn't playing. Then Kerryon Johnson got hurt for a number of times. They need some difference makers on the defensive side of the ball. I think that's where they gotta go. I think this is a big year for Detroit.


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[Assistant] I think of course, you know, right, Martha Ford, you know, she's let it be known already that this is, this is it for Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia. I think they know that and I don't think they're far off. I don't.


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[Assistant] I think they need difference makers on the edge of their defense on pass rushing and they need some legit corners. If Patrician wants to play defense like the New England people play, he's got to get some more shut down guys and we'll see because Darius Slay I believe is a free agent as well.


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[Assistant] You know, does somebody just want Chase Young? You know, they're in a spot where, man, let me just say that Alabama boys in the middle, Daron Payne, Jonathan Allen, that's special. You got Montez Sweat in the first round last year too. Freak of nature on the edge. Ryan Kerrigan?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's coming to an end. It's coming to an end. This was the worst year of his NFL career, I thought, in my, you know, so that would be one guy where I'd go, man, yeah, you get a guy like Chase Young and Montez Sweat, those two, like, you're going to be the best even as a line of football. And that's going to be a game changer.


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[Assistant] Now, does anybody offer you a King's ransom?


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[Assistant] To where maybe you drop down to 8 or 9 and is there another pass rusher in the draft that maybe is not Chase Young but just a smidgen below that you can feel like fits that role too. Like I know the kid from Penn State is very high regarded. I haven't watched him on film yet, I can't tell you that. But that to me is the things they're gonna have to flush out about how they want to attack this draft.


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[Assistant] And the helmet! Andrew Blair, I love Scotland, Sky Sports, Braveheart, love it all, okay? You'll never take my freedom! Yeah. You're crazy, okay, Andrew Blair? It's the ugliest helmet in football, alright? It's the ugliest. Do you have one that's uglier?


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[Assistant] It symbolizes loser, alright? That's what it symbolizes. I'm saying they just need to rebrand.


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[Assistant] Like the Broncos have done and other teams have done that have changed their uniforms and have changed the outlook of their organization. That's all I'm saying. And my biggest point is there's no bangles in Ohio. So let's just, why don't we just come up with a new nickname in general. Where the hell did they get that from anyway?


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[Assistant] Yes, can we find something that's relevant to the state of Ohio and Cincinnati other than an animal that doesn't live on our continent?


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[Assistant] I like it. I kinda, you know, for the Jaguars and being still a, you know, a fairly new team as far as the NFL is concerned.


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[Assistant] You know, again, you know, of course there's money involved here.


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[Assistant] You know, you, you watch Jaguars games. I mean, they have, you know, it's a fake sellout. It's a tarp over like 15,000 seats every game, right? Where they say, oh, these seats aren't available, so we can still say it's a sellout. Yeah, okay, right.


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[Assistant] So I have no issue with it. I don't. Now I don't think a team can work out long term in London. I really don't. I don't see how that happens. I agree with you on that. How does that happen?


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[Assistant] And if I was a free agent, I don't want to go there. You're going to uproot your family, get into a different school system. How is the pound to dollar going to work? All those things. How is the travel schedule going to work? Everything like that. That's an issue for me. But for this,


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[Assistant] You know, I like it. The Jaguars are kinda got like two homes and I'm cool with that.


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[Assistant] You know, little things like that and that is one of the go-to breakfast sandwiches that


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[Assistant] I would never eat, so it's not dank at all. Not dank, it's schwag, okay? That's what that is, schwag.


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[Assistant] No, I don't, the best part of growing up in New Jersey is just like the in your face


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[Assistant] It's just, it's ultra competitive. Speak your mind. It's a bunch of people crammed into a small area. Usually a gym. Gyms, cultures, meatheads, everything like that. To me, yea, that's Jersey. I mean, you know, I heard a comedian once say, like,


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[Assistant] Definitely not, no. If he's got gold tips, right, and a gold chain, and he's wearing a white beater and has really big muscles, just be like, oh sorry, nothing, excuse me, just say that. I don't even have eyes, to be honest with you. Jersey meat has grown.


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[Assistant] They were having a very fun time. They definitely kicked back some beers there, uh, this past week, for sure.


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[Assistant] That outfit took, that outfit took 70 pounds off of him. I mean, that's pretty amazing. And then he's making the bold statement, right?


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[Assistant] Definitely over 30,000 on that coat and hat match right there.


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[Assistant] He was going all wrestle. I mean, hey, him and his brother, they got the two best post game Super Bowl speeches I've seen in a while. He was going total WWF. And then did you see the tweets from the police department? Well, I want to like point out first off. I mean, we were on jackets, that jacket.


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[Assistant] A Louis Vuitton blanket and a Louis Vuitton jacket and the same thing. And I know how much this coat costs. How much? 20,000. This one was 20,000. That one was 20,000. For Kelsey. Right. So that leads you to believe that yes, Andy Reid's wife's jacket is definitely more than 20,000. Now that I know that piece of information, I'm going over. You're going over, right? Right.


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[Assistant] So many fascinating things here. Yeaah. I mean first off, it's like, how did the guy come to this? Where did he ride this horse from? Yeaah. Is he even from Kansas City? Did he like ride it like from 20 miles outside of town? And like honey was like, his honey was like, don't drink and drive honey. Don't worry honey. I'm riding the horse in. We'll be good.


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[Assistant] How, that to me is, that's, you know, life at low point right there. You gotta get on the tree and show your ass for one. Like, come on. It's low for everyone watching too. Like, that's not a fun moment. You go to a victory parade, you don't, you don't wanna see that. I don't wanna see his ass. No, I don't. You're exactly right. And then,


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[Assistant] To be that drunk and fall out of a tree and then get arrested, I mean that would be a funny story at some point when he breaks open a bunch of beers with his friends, but.


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[Assistant] You gotta listen to me and Frank Gore go at it. Frank Gore was pissed at me that I said he wasn't a Hall of Famer earlier this year. He wanted to fight me on, and we had to hug it out on this show. Jake Fromm, who was Jake from State Farm, was doing a thing there. We had a little catch on the field, you know, threw the ball together, really enjoyed being around him.


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[Assistant] Krosby a.k.a. Jared Allen 2.0. Yeaah. And he was on there. And then Tori Cohen, the Hebrew from Chicago.


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[Assistant] The, the Hebrew number 29, my buddy Lahayam, we had some fun and caught up. Uh, so that'll, those'll be the things you hear next week, but I am getting the week off. I'm going to the Caribbean with the wife and kids. Oh wow, cool. Don't bother me, alright.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what's up? Come on man, subscribe on YouTube to Chris Simms Unbuttoned Podcast. I need you, please hit the subscribe button, please!


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I need to stop it. It's one of the worst things I do for the environment. I take too many showers and I love being in the shower while I'll sit under the hot water for like 10-15 minutes and that's not good and it's not good for my skin either because it drives me to hell and I get brashy.


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta take it all into account. I think too many times people just turn on the film and they just go, oh wow, great throw, oh, he's open, great, that's awesome. You know, alright, but, you know.


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[Assistant] Right, I mean, I watched ten quarterbacks. I'd say I studied, you know, in depth.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe to be in that, that, that fifth spot in the conversation. But, uh, got a little bit of everything in this class and I'm excited to, to, to break these down.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I'll stick to Jacob Eason. I'll go into some other stuff later on. But Jacob Eason is a huge man, right? I mean, he is more of your prototypical type pocket passing quarterback.


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[Assistant] Now, does he have a big arm? Yes, he does. Definitely. But...


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[Assistant] And yeaah, that's gonna lead to Aaron throws, don't necessarily like that. And, I'll tell you one thing, for a guy that's 6'6 and as tall as he is, he leans forward a lot as he throws.


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[Assistant] And that's not to take away from Tua, but those are some of my concerns right off the bat. And yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yo, well, I don't disagree with that. I mean, he's a natural at playing the quarterback position. He really does understand it. Now, he's had the great advantage, like we just talked about, of having talent around him.


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[Assistant] You know, that accuracy does become compromised there. So, you know, again, I love the player in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I came away going, Oh, I'm not so sure about this Jordan love guy. You know, I kind of went into watching film with a little bit of a, you know, what do I want to say? A negative thought in my mind about well, because there were a lot


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[Assistant] Alright, first off, he has good size. He's a good athlete. He does a great job of staying and throwing position in the pocket.


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[Assistant] The big question with Jordan Love is going to be, man, he threw a lot of interceptions this year. You know, what happened? Why was there a drop off between 2018 and 2019? Well, one, you know, they had a coaching chain.


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[Assistant] You know, 2019, that just didn't happen. Didn't have talent around them. Not a real good offense. You know, I looked at a lot of the interceptions, right? I looked at every one of the interceptions. Hey, there was out of the 17.


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[Assistant] And the fact that, hey, the guys trying to win games and a lot of times Utah State was on the field, they weren't the better team on the field. And he had to force the issue a little bit to help his team out.


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[Assistant] So, those are the negative aspects that I just kinda wanna squash, right? Now, the positive aspects though, you know, the arm is, it's like a rubber band.


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to meet the guy a little bit to see what's in between the ears and what's the makeup of the player. Now from what I saw on film,


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[Assistant] And, cause I just think I'm Superman. I don't see that type of stuff from Jordan Love, and that's where I would just say it's a little different. I really like the potential of this kid. He has an incredibly high ceiling. I mean,


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[Assistant] You know, every ball is kind of like 75, 80%. And he's like, well, that's all I had to do.


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[Assistant] Herbert, you know, also showed me the ability to move around and extend some plays. He's got pretty good feel in the pocket. And when he does run and opens up, right?


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[Assistant] I would blame offense, or there's just so many plays where I'll go, okay, yeaah, it's an incomplete pass, but...


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[Assistant] And acted there. So I think that should go a long way to calming some of those rumors or concerns.


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[Assistant] Sometimes he just stuck on, stuck on the number one receiver too long, right? Hey, you know, you're supposed to go one to two to three and he would just sit there and be like, come on one, kick it, get open, get open, get open. You're not open? Okay, I'm still going to try to throw a rifle into the perfect spot and fit it in there. You know, again, those are things I don't love.


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[Assistant] But I think those are things that if it's a smart guy who we know can take coaching, those are easy to coach out of a player. You know, that's sometimes the curse of having a big arm. You just think you can always fit it in there. And I think this is not some idiot kid. I think he'll learn how to adjust and he showed me enough on film that he is capable of doing.


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[Assistant] Can do that every bit as well. It might not look as cool or as sexy, but man, I was impressed with his ability to dance around the pocket, make throws with people around him, hanging around him at his feet, never lost his accuracy.


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[Assistant] And then the size and strength to throw with, you know, a mosh pit around him and not be affected. Very, very special that way.


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[Assistant] Now, I think his size and throwing in chaos is much better than Tua. That's where, you know, I would say there's a difference there.


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[Assistant] And I'll say I don't see him throw off a whole lot of different platforms either. I don't know if he's a guy that's going to be able to like throw a sidearm ball off his back foot for a 20 yard completion down the sideline on like a deep outrout. I don't know if he's going to be able to do that. That's not going to be his game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yes, there's no doubt that he had big time talent around him and a really good offense.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have like, yea, the best, greatest year ever, his first year there at LSU, expected. I mean, they're a team that couldn't throw the ball ever in their history, and they were trying to change under Joe Burrow and change drastically.


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[Assistant] And that's what I'm trying to do here. And two, it just scares me for the reasons I mentioned earlier. The size, the style of play, the type of hits he takes, has a hard time.


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[Assistant] I would, yes, I would. I would have Kyler Murray. You know, Kyler Murray to me is, was a special, special talent.


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[Assistant] I mean, this kid's special. I, you know, I was, I was already sold like, oh, this is the number one pick in the draft. I mean, you know, the, the power in his arm.


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[Assistant] Kyler Murray is like as fast as we've ever seen at the quarterback position. He wasn't scrambling a whole lot this year. You know what I mean? I mean, Joe was not in the class of Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] And then who am I? Oh, James Morgan from Florida International. Those were two guys to me that I saw and said,


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[Assistant] Before I would say he's a second round type pick. I think he's more of a mid-round.


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[Assistant] He might be a fourth or fifth round pick, where you go, we're gonna play him in some different positions the first few years of his career, and maybe he can become a quarterback for us down the line.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, no, definitely. I think it's going to be an interesting conversation altogether.


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[Assistant] You know, that's a top 5, top 10 type play or throw. You know, and then the Jordan love aspect.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, why didn't he do that? But you're also going to see a lot of other throws where you're going to go, damn, whoa, that was a throw right there. Ooh.


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[Assistant] Man, look at that release. You know, so that's where it's all impressive and uh,


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[Assistant] Type of fit, they got some salary cap issues.


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[Assistant] He hit one of the greatest athletes in our country who was wide open and just threw it into a big pool and the guy caught it and ran for a touchdown. Whoa, first round pick. Like, you know, that, that, that's the kind of shit that I think people get too infatuated at times.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna wait a while. I'll warm you up. We've got the live show Wednesday night, first ever live production, PFTPM, Chris Sims Unbuttoned. Will you swear at the venue? I can't wait.


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[Assistant] I am Chris Sims on Button, the Playwright Irish Pub. Yep. Miami Beach.


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[Assistant] Eventbrite.com, there were some additional tickets released. It was sold out until it wasn't. Yep. And, uh, that's where we will be. Wednesday, 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern, which is


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[Assistant] Well, see, and that's the thing, they get, the beauty of this is, and people complain like, oh, you're just going to have a bunch of guys plugging their sponsors. Well, it's a fair trade off to ask them one question about whoever it is that is paying them the fee to be here all week so we can talk to them. So in a 15 minute interview, if we have to spend one minute talking about their partner that has them here, that, I'm fine with that.


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[Assistant] with the 49ers who is responsible for, and you may not know the answers, but there's gotta be a guy who is the self-scout-thyself guy to look at their defense and figure out


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[Assistant] Flaws that can be girded up based upon the specific opponent they're gonna fight.


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[Assistant] They always rush with four guys. Could you see them maybe blitzing more often? Just to force the issue. Get after Mahomes. If it blows up and they score, so be it. But let's rattle him.


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[Assistant] You can't let him get comfortable. You have to make him wonder on every play. Is somebody else coming? Is somebody going to pop through? Is it going to be a delayed blitz, a straight blitz? Where will the running lane be? You just need to make him think a little bit longer.


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[Assistant] Then maybe you would need to make another quarterback thing. Yeaah. Because if you give him that comfort, he's gonna pick you apart. That's what we're saying. He's got the answer for everything right now. Alright, that leads to the next question. Atlo Lip McGee 1. Not to be confused with Atlo Lip McGee 3.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes is known to regularly shred zone defenses and seeing as how the 49ers run mainly cover three zone, are they going to switch up and try to run a lot more man coverage or just run zone and try to contain him? The challenge being, of course,


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[Assistant] Can your guys in the secondary play man coverage against Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins, Travis Kelsey, Demarcus Robinson, Nicole Hardman.


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[Assistant] They lost it home to the Texans. Did you see anything in what those teams did that made you think there could be some breadcrumbs there that would be relevant to the 49ers?


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[Assistant] You see changes because you self scout yourself. You see what you've done. You see what maybe you have let other teams believe that you are and you see where the openings are on their defense and you try to anticipate where's the opening going to be. And that's just part of that chess match.


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[Assistant] Get a touchdown and just kind of begin the process of breaking the wheel and it's not going to be the shootout. You know, we're all hoping for another Rams chiefs. Yeah, sure. November of 2018.


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[Assistant] But I just, I feel like that there's gonna be so much of the build up and so much angst and so much frustration and so much concern and anxiety and worry that somebody could snap easily if they get exploited early on.


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[Assistant] I feel like if it's gonna happen, it's more likely to happen to the Chiefs than to the 49ers because they've been in every game they played this year. They haven't been blown out. They haven't been handled. They haven't been manhandled. And I think one of Kyle Shanahan's strengths is he won't allow himself to get freaked out if his team falls behind.


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[Assistant] There's the Jimmy G factor that we continue to talk about. If they can't run the ball and if they do fall behind, Jimmy G is going to have to get it done with his arm. And there's confidence he'll be able to do it. We just haven't seen it recently. So.


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[Assistant] There's a question and concern as to whether or not it can get done. Alright, where'd you just leave off there? I left off at Low Lip McGee 1. I don't know what's next. Okay. Pete, what do we do next?


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[Assistant] What, what, what was the big takeaway from 2018 and what was the concern for Patrick Mahomes going into this season? Taking away the big, dramatic, dynamic plays and forcing him to be patient. And if they drop everybody back, keep everything in front of them, it's going to force him to be patient and that may be.


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[Assistant] That may be, and then just squeeze it down in and try to get to him before you can get rid of it, but only given that look up close where you're going to look down the field. It's not going to be there. And can they get to him before he finds that guy open underneath? And if he does, so be it. We tackle him and we go on to the next one.


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[Assistant] He is just because of his longevity, because of the fact that his teams have always been competitive. He's done it for 20 years. He does have one Superbowl appearance. Would it be better if he wins one? Yes. But I think that, you know, it's a combination dominance, championships, statistics.


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[Assistant] For that reason alone, no matter what happens on, on Sunday, it's two Super Bowl appearances. They can't take this one away from them. It may be a Super Bowl win, we'll see, but I think he's already in. And this whole go in as a Chief or an Eagle, it doesn't matter. That's not how it works in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You just go in. You don't go in with any specific designation.


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[Assistant] And Shereen Williams, who's one of the Hall of Fame voters, mentioned this earlier today on PFT Live.


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[Assistant] Contributor category that they use for coaches. They're talking about having a separate


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[Assistant] There's enough coaches out there that are worthy of it. I think there's one coach a year that deserves to get in. And if it's one year where there just isn't one, then so be it. He doesn't get in.


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[Assistant] That's how you get Mike Shanahan in. That's how you get Mike Holmgren in. I mean these guys should be in.


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[Assistant] I don't because I may not be alive then, but let's say 30 years from now.


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[Assistant] Your tattoo buddy Kyle Shanahan gets in. Will his bust have his trucker hat on it?


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[Assistant] Uh, probably the 49ers because they have Nick Bosa. Yeaah. I think it would be like Nick Bosa, like the other guys would stand back. Let me, let me go ultra nerd. If we're going to talk Hunger Games, I'm going to go Lord of the Rings. I would say Nick Bosa would be the Balrog that would just show up and everybody else just freezes. The Balrog.


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[Assistant] I think if it went down, I think if it went down, I think that Nick Bosa.


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[Assistant] Would, would. Would it prevail? Yeah, I think he would. I think he would. Do some research on who his great grandfather was. He would, if it went that way. Hey. Where weapons were involved.


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[Assistant] We've been around Aaron Donald. Aaron Donald is carved out of granite, immovable and too fast. We've seen the videos of him practicing with fake knives. I think that


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[Assistant] I don't know anything about the overall physical abilities and endurance qualities of lions and bears. All I know is- It's a thing. I had an image of Aaron Donald being here with us this week. Right. And last year we did whether or not George Kittle could push you off the stage. This is a bigger stage. Oh, Aaron Donald got more- No, thank you. With no step.


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[Assistant] Transcripts from Kyle Shanahan on Friday. And he was talking about his relationship with Jimmy Garoppolo and he said,


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[Assistant] Banished him from the offseason program and, and it had a very ominous feel to it. Would they have taken Hardman but for what happened with Hill and if they wouldn't have,


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[Assistant] You said something about not having Sammy Watkins after this year. He's only under contract for one more year. He's got a huge cap number, he's got a huge salary, and if they're gonna pay...


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[Assistant] If he's gone, but remember when he signed that contract, we said, this is a better deal. But they may have to put the squeeze on it because once you put.


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[Assistant] 40 million or more per year in the pocket of Patrick Mahomes, you're gonna have to make some tough decisions. And if you think there's not that big of a gap between Michael Hardman and Sammy Watkins,


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[Assistant] Right. Because you can't win. No. They're never going to accept your explanation. And that's kind of where I've gotten to with this whole question of what I said last week about defending against a mobile Patrick Bahomes and what the 49ers may do differently and what the Titans did who were afraid to go touch him.


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[Assistant] If people are gonna come to the wrong conclusion about what I said, if people are gonna assume that means I don't like Patrick Mahomes, I don't like the Chiefs, if they, boy that could really be taken out of context, if they're gonna come to the conclusion that I feel that way, they're in a damn thing I can do about it. I know how I feel, Mahomes knows how I feel, Chiefs know how I feel. I know how you feel, you love Mahomes.


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[Assistant] Right. He was eclipsed by Lamar Jackson for a while this year, but when it became money time, what happened? Mahomes comes back from a 24-0 deficit.


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[Assistant] And that's what I said. It's amazing. You see the words on paper and it's like, how are people interpreting when I say if he's close to the sideline or if maybe he started into a slide? Because here's the thing, if a guy's running at you and you decide you're going to lock on and go get him and you're going into that tackling posture,


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[Assistant] And so uhm, and so the point is when you are fearful of the gray area, he's gonna run


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[Assistant] I disagree with him on the concept of whether or not players should represent themselves. I don't think he represented himself well. And his ego is preventing him from admitting that he did a bad job of negotiating his own contract. Ego gets involved, and that gets in the way, and he chooses to be very hostile and aggressive. Exactly.


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[Assistant] It's okay to have differences of opinion with people. It's okay to have a rough assessment, uh, uh, an aggressive assessment, a strong view. That doesn't mean you dislike somebody. You're just giving your viewpoint on the way things are and maybe the way things could be or should be. That's all it is. I, I, I hate all teams equally.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, when we lock in, we have a competitive thing with our picks. And MDS and I have had it for years. You want to be right. If I'm gonna pick the winner of every game, I am rooting to be right. That's it. That's who I root for. And I'm like, wow, you only picked the Packers to win because you don't like the 49ers.


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[Assistant] That was stupid. I admit it. I'm stupid. Uh, but uh, yeah, it's just, it's, that's alright. If, hey, if that's the worst, see, here's the thing. I practiced law for 18 years. And when you practice law in a litigation environment, half the people you deal with, half the people,


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[Assistant] The lawyers, the witnesses, the parties, you're always fighting, you're always accusing, you're always arguing.


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[Assistant] And it's the willingness of the coach to spot the talent


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[Assistant] To run the ball, to use him in the running game. That's one of the ways these guys buy in.


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[Assistant] George Kittle buys into the running game because he loves blocking. Debo buys in because he gets a couple of carries a game. It's easier to get him to go out and block for the running backs if he knows he's going to get some of the wealth. And it's identifying guys that you think can do things that you want them to do, trusting them to do it.


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[Assistant] When you think about it, these receivers, and we see more receiver runs than we used to. I remember it used to be a big deal when there'd be an end around. That was the only time you ever saw a receiver touch the football. Never lined up in the backfield, it would be an end around. But now we see the jet sweeps, we see the little touch pass, we see a lot of opportunities to get the ball into the hands of a receiver who can do something with it.


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[Assistant] All these comeback kids come in there, and okay, what do you think you are? Oh, four three.


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[Assistant] 4-3. Everybody's a damn 4-3. 350 pound tackle comes in. Yeah, I think I could run a 4-4.


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[Assistant] Not one person ever lives up to what they think they're gonna run.


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[Assistant] When they start training, now they get better. But, you know, four, three.


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[Assistant] Think of some of the linemen that ran four sevens and four eights.


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[Assistant] And you know the other thing is too, I think you guys on the podcast, well you can't do it I guess, well whatever, I like to see you throw a little since you were a high school quarterback. Yeah, well yeah, there's something there.


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[Assistant] So I just don't do it. I did it for a few times last year. I thought, oh man, this feels great. I was just doing some strides and...


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[Assistant] Man, my legs feel, I just love that feeling. And then, you know, did it again the next day, aw man, oh man. And then I had back spasms for a month.


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[Assistant] He goes, yeah, you're done. No, I said, you don't understand. I'm never playing again.


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[Assistant] I'm a Browns fan, so I was like, hey I wanna see the Browns every weekend, not the damn Bengals.


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[Assistant] Come on, come on. The ugliest helmet in the NFL. At first it was a great idea.


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[Assistant] But you're right, you know, clean it all up. Change the, change the look of the uniform. I've heard you say that.


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[Assistant] Right. I just feel better. I look better. And you know, I'll tell you what. What do most players do?


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[Assistant] Well look, I think he's a great player still, probably could be one of the top receivers in the NFL and all that. But, uh, here comes the contract.


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[Assistant] Look, I would put him on the open market, see if I could trade him, if I could get something pretty good back, I would do it. You're in a rebuild.


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[Assistant] And there's no use starting with a receiver like him and for many reasons, what do you get back? Well, look, the NFL, I haven't been watching them on tape yet. I don't know who if I had to rank the wide receivers.


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[Assistant] It's an unbelievable deep crop of wide receivers and they're gonna keep coming. So you can draft these guys every year. There's gonna be, you know, as I see in high school football,


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[Assistant] When we do all of our things, I throw around, I see these guys running and catching, I'm going, man!


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[Assistant] At this, already at this young age, they're gonna be pros. So, yeaah. I've been trading, uh,


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[Assistant] You, you could draft a really good receiver in the second round, third round. Now you're going to get a starter in the fourth round probably.


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[Assistant] I would do that, get that money and try to do more things just to build the team.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, Tyler Boyd had a pretty good, I don't know, I haven't looked at the bingles. Yea, but he had a good year.


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[Assistant] And hopefully that's the time for him, and again, to draft guys. Hey, you know, doesn't have to be receiver. Draft another lineman, because my god.


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[Assistant] So, you know, and the Bengals, they've kinda, and I looked at the, I've told you this, but I looked at the roster before the season started just going over and going,


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[Assistant] Man, it seems like I've seen this same team for like 15 years.


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[Assistant] And uh, you know, they need to really take some chances. The draft trades.


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[Assistant] Uh, the one from Oregon, the other from Texas A&M, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.


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[Assistant] And they both completely, when I saw them, they're rookie years down there at practice. I go, man, these are some good looking athletes.


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[Assistant] You know, but they're gonna make it, I think. And then I kept waiting every year.


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[Assistant] And away he was not good. So they bought, and usually, you know, I'll give them a credit. They draft, they love the SEC.


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[Assistant] My god, everybody they draft seems to come from them. You look at the roster, you just go all Big Ten, SEC, all that, but uh, those bombed out, so they really...


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[Assistant] That kind of turned, I think, was a big turning point in their franchise where they thought they had maybe two franchise tackles and neither one came out.


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[Assistant] Now Parcell sometimes emotions did get in the way. Maybe not with somebody like Tom Brady or you know, this or that, but some other guys who were just friends, players who just were just


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[Assistant] Gave it up, gave it their all and everything and he would really openly root for him.


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[Assistant] So that was a little bit of a difference between the two. But yeaah, it was business.


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[Assistant] Uh, Parcells was not afraid to make changes. After he won the Super Bowl, he would come to me and he'd go, hey, Sam's your boy. I'm not gonna name the names. Your boy. You better get, talk to him. He's...


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[Assistant] I don't know if we're even going to keep him. I said, damn Bill, we just won the Super Bowl with him. Yeah, I don't know. I'm telling you. And then I started watching him.


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[Assistant] And I went, oh my god, which is right, it is over.


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[Assistant] You're right. Nothing happened. I think nothing's going to happen until the cap is settled and free agency starts and all that. And we'll see what's out there. Who's going to make a move? You said it this morning. I heard you. I'm at eat. Tom Brady is not going to go to the Las Vegas Raiders and you know,


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[Assistant] Whatever, be, have no chance of going to the Super Bowl. Two teams, and I think it's, you guys, I've already said it, it's gotta be the Tennessee Titans.


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[Assistant] Or the San Francisco 49ers. Those are the two teams that I can legitimately say, wow, they do have a chance to go to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] I don't care what people, you know, the narrative's never gonna change. It just doesn't. People are, I'm not, I was getting ready to say people or something else, but uhm, you know, Ryan Tannehill is a talent.


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[Assistant] Holy carumba. Now, you know, once you have that great success and we put you on the pedestal,


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[Assistant] Ryan Tannehill throws the ball. I'm not going to say great, but when you put it all together, together with power, touch, uh, accuracy, and then put his athletic ability in there.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I, me, I hope it works out for him down in Tennessee.


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[Assistant] I would think so, absolutely. Listen, he's everything they like. He is, you know.


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[Assistant] He's, you know, he turned into a leader this year. You know, I never saw that in Miami.


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[Assistant] Just because, one, they weren't that good. The offense never really showed off his skills. Yeaah, he got hurt a few times and all that.


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[Assistant] You know, of course, all the writers and fans in Miami, all Ryan Tannehill, you know, nobody knew about him when he came out, didn't think as highly of him as where he was drafted probably. And it was always his fault. And I constantly would watch the games and go, damn, he looks good to me. Right. And I'll never forget, I've told you this before.


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[Assistant] And you know, I'm, don't mean to cut, but Dan Marino, I don't know what it was, maybe the second year, first year, I don't know what. He goes, Hey Phil, you know, this tanning hill can really throw. And I go, yeah, really? No kidding. I've known that I watched it. I've seen it. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if Tom Brady left, it wouldn't shock me at all if the Patriots came calling and see if they could, they, uh, could get Tannehill. Cause I don't know what's going on down there. I guess they can franchise him, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I don't think, uh, Mariota, I don't know, I don't know if he would be their type of guy either. Again, I think he lacks arm strength.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, just not a real fast decision maker. He's a decent athlete, but not nothing that like, oh wow, we gotta make sure we keep him in the pocket.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think Ryan Tannehill is every bit the athlete that Marcus Mariota is, but he's bigger and stronger. You know, he's just stronger.


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[Assistant] That's one thing I noticed, plays stronger, moves quicker, you know, with power, all that stuff. Uhm, you know, so, Teddy Bridgewater.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he's, he's a good NFL, he knows how to manage and, uh, you know, work a game and all that. But is he gonna make wild plays? No, he is not.


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[Assistant] You know, go look at all those Saints games. I watched them all. And of course they started out real slow with him, which was right to do.


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[Assistant] And they ran and they just managed games to the ultimate and then they let him go a little bit towards the end, but still it was.


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[Assistant] You know, so, it'll be interesting, but everybody's very fascinated by him, and they bought in, in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] And nothing's changed and he had good success and did a great job with the Saints.


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[Assistant] That was a tremendous insurance plan they got when they got him and it worked out great. And once again, the saints, they could have been a super bowl winner just as easy as they lost that game. You know, what is that three years in a row now? Sean Payton could be on that pedestal with Bill Belichick.


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[Assistant] Too many quarterbacks in the league that are good, they're floating everywhere.


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[Assistant] And you know, let's just judge him, let's take him away from the 49ers, their run team, their run game, all the run pass fakes and throws. I mean, come on, you know, listen.


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[Assistant] Most of those throws, he did make some good throws in the Super Bowl. People are I think very unfair against him about his Super Bowl performance.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, oh, he had the ball batted down. Oh, well, yeaah. Okay, if he was seven foot eight.


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[Assistant] It had to throw the ball to the receivers trying to throw two. It still would have been knocked down. I love that. But you know, you gotta throw it over the top of the defensive lineman. Now, you know when they raise their hands, that's about eight feet.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, you know, it's just a dumb cliche.


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[Assistant] Listen, he's a better, it's just this, he's a better thrower of the ball.


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[Assistant] Tom Brady is on a good team. They got a very good line out in San Francisco.


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[Assistant] He'll throw it down the field and they'll have those outside throws which they really lacked at the end of the year.


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[Assistant] Which I think when you, we've talked about this probably already, but when you watch that Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Kansas City finally said, hey, you're not gonna throw it outside. So we'll just put everybody up here to stop your run and dare you to throw it to the guy outside.


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[Assistant] Well, I think his opportunities with the 49ers will be, uh, more


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[Assistant] The talent, the scheme, how they keep you so off balance.


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[Assistant] And New England does too, but in a whole different way.


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[Assistant] Look, you know, to run a bootleg pass, you don't have to be Patrick Mahomes or Deshaun. Watch this.


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[Assistant] It's really, truly not very difficult. And so, but you know, it's a great, it's a great topic, but I'm just saying, just from that, we're looking at one year, and if he plays out there, uh, and to my last thing, I'll keep it short.


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[Assistant] You know, you wanna win the Super Bowl. You know, you gotta be afraid. You can't be afraid.


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[Assistant] To win, and to win big and win Super Bowls, you gotta take chances.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, because most of the time they were probably wide open with nobody around them.


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[Assistant] You know, so, I don't know, come on. Every quarterback in the league misses that throw all the time during the year.


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[Assistant] You know, and my other point to all this is a little different. You know, you look at the playoffs.


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[Assistant] And you know, I will say this, I thought Kyle, and they put him in some tough situations. In other words,


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[Assistant] There is no reason to throw the ball eight times when you're destroying the other team.


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[Assistant] You throw the ball to give your quarterbacks more reps, more confidence.


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[Assistant] And not everybody talk about leading up the Super Bowl. You only threw eight passes in that championship game. Right. And you know, and they should have thrown more. They could have. And all that stuff. And you know.


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[Assistant] I'm just a big believer you always keep the quarterback in rhythm during football games. So that was tough. They did it really, all of them. And, you know, maybe a little more, they were a little more open.


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[Assistant] If Tom Brady was the quarterback or something, they wouldn't have pulled back that much. So that kind of told me a little something.


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[Assistant] Just, I had Dan Rees my last year, you're talking about a completely different verbiage.


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[Assistant] And everything, I was like, wow, we used to say 5 words for a pass, now I'm saying 23 words for a run!


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[Assistant] But that part of it was really fun, you know, to see how fast you could learn it and, you know, do these things. And I remember Dan Reeves, he had this one play that, to throw it outside, you know, we were, for all those years, I had Mark Bavarls, Zeke Mulwight,


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[Assistant] Well, Dan Reeves wanted me to throw it outside when the guys were running seams. We beat the Washer Redskins, I don't know what it was. I'm gonna say week five or six.


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[Assistant] And he started doing it with wide receivers and motion and things like that, which were really good.


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[Assistant] He won't, he won't mind OTA's cause he's gonna be in there grinding, having fun.


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[Assistant] Learning. Oh my god, I didn't know you could do this. This is a cool play. Right. Wish we had done this. So all those things, I think, are, that wouldn't worry me. And Tom Brady, come on, we know he's very smart.


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[Assistant] Knows everything about it and he'll do the, if he does go somewhere else, he'll learn it just like he did in New England.


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[Assistant] Christopher, guys, Ahmed, you do the same, you judge athletes.


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[Assistant] So that's all I can say. Good for him though. Raises a lot of money, that's all good. But, uh.


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[Assistant] That's like saying I can go out there right now and, hell, I couldn't break six seconds.


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[Assistant] No! I could, cause I don't think I could open it up ever even try.


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[Assistant] And for all those out there, Dwight Smith, number 26 on the Super Bowl team for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had those two pick six in that Super Bowl, uh, late in the game against the Oakland Raiders and Rich Gannon. So.


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[Assistant] I'm, uh, like a rookie, right? We become friends. He takes me under his wing. He's great to me, Ahmed, but like one of the first times ever we go out to the club, right? On a Friday night and have fun. He puts on his own Jersey, right?


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[Assistant] His own jersey and puts it on backwards. So the nameplate is right here at his chest.


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[Assistant] And he had a very similar response to you. And I, so I went, dude, you're going to wear your own jersey to the club? And I'm like, totally like, who does that? And he goes, to what?


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[Assistant] He's like, if I'm not, if I can't represent me, then who cares?


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[Assistant] How dare he ditch us? Well, he had a good re-


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[Assistant] He had a good reason today, okay. My, my younger sister Deirdre.


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[Assistant] He's not much of a daddy daycare type. All right. So, uh, either way, I'm sure he's flustered, but yeah, he just said, okay, I need a week off. I'll, I'll come back next week. That's kind of, he was already flustered at about 11 o'clock this morning. So, uh, yeah, would like to congratulate my sister.


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[Assistant] Uh, two baby boys she has now, one little girl, and I hope she's done having kids. I think she is.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, this is what I love about Tom Brady. You know, and I know people think like sometimes that I don't like Tom Brady. Listen, I love Tom Brady as I've told you many times before. I'm just gonna keep it real. That's what I do. And if Brady does something I don't like, I'm gonna say it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, first off, I just love this aspect of him. Here he is at a new team, it's weird times, and...


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[Assistant] You know, all these accolades and he could sit, he could be sitting back in a recliner with his feet up right now. But no, he's the only quarterback I see out there with shoulder pads, helmets, rallying the team together for workouts and doing things like that to get himself better and the team better.


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[Assistant] Now, hey listen, much respect to Dak Prescott. We've seen him in some videos and things throwing the football. Ben Roethlisberger started to do it, of course, you know, so that's encouraging. He, you know, Cam Newton, he set out some videos to show he's healthy. But my big thing and my pet peeve here, and please correct me if you think I'm wrong or stupid, I just want to be like,


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[Assistant] You know, all these young quarterbacks who I hear say, I want to be like Tom Brady or I want Tom Brady's career or Tom Brady has set the mold. Okay. You're saying that. So now look at the mold. He's molding it in front of you. Do what he does.


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[Assistant] I mean, let's go. Well, he doesn't need the work. We know he can throw the football and clutch moments and big moments like that. So that's just my big thing. You know, when I see certain quarterbacks of teams, like, Hey, listen, you know, I like Josh Allen and Sam Darnold, but they're out in California.


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[Assistant] And you know, hey, a coach could text message Tom Brady 20 or 30 plays, right? And then he has them in front of him and he can go out and run a seven on seven practice and do stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I think he still would be doing this. You know, do I think I would be doing this to this extent?


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[Assistant] You know, maybe not. No, this is a little different. But, you know, even within missing OTAs and things like that.


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[Assistant] I know Tom Brady has had Gronk and Edelman at certain fields. We saw Josh Gordon last year during the offseason catching footballs for him and doing stuff like that. So I think this is a very real, regular thing.


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[Assistant] Of Tom Brady's process of getting ready for a regular season.


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[Assistant] Now yeaah, do I think it's like maybe amped up to a different degree?


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[Assistant] Then maybe years past for Brady. Yeah, of course, because there is a little bit more of a rush to go, hey, this is my last one or two years in the NFL. It's a new team. I don't know any of you. I don't know the new language and the offense that way. So this is your chance to start to work out.


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[Assistant] Some of those kinks where, hey Brady, he might have thrown-


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[Assistant] So, you know, that's a very good question by you. I don't think maybe he was this, uh, aggressive maybe when he was in New England. But of course he was comfortable within the offense and he knew everything that way too. But he's always been one to get work. I mean, we've seen him on vacation putting Wes Welker on the back of a golf cart so he could throw deep ball. And he's got his shoulder pad and helmet there with him then too.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, to me, I just want to be like, hey, everybody wants to follow Tom Brady. Well, then follow Tom Brady. Look what he's doing. And especially the young quarterbacks. I think this is something that, you know, needs to catch fire with all quarterbacks throughout the NFL.


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[Assistant] Yes, well this is why he is the GOAT for sure. This is a good trick. And this is a real


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[Assistant] Real issue, okay, as far in Tampa Bay. Especially in pre-season, September, early October. You know, I know I think you and I have talked about this before, but yeaah, swamp ass is a real thing.


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[Assistant] You know, again, if you've got a center who's 305 pounds and he's working and having to block 320, 330 pounds.


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[Assistant] He would go in at halftime and put on a new pair of pants during the football game. And that was, I mean, you talk about, that's a pain in the butt. Like doing that, NFL halftime is...


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[Assistant] You know, he used to be over the ball, strep, dripping it with his face on it and then snap the ball and I would get ass juice that would fly up into my face. And of course the ball would be very wet. Yeah, it's very gross. So this is really a good trick. This is one I have never heard about or learned about or anything like that. But you never use baby powder.


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[Assistant] But the other thing is, uh, you know, I wish I would have thought that even just for the natural feel anyways, to have a little pad there for that hand instead of like,


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, you're right. I mean, Brady at 9 and Breeze at 10 were the ones that I got the most flack of and I want to just sit there and go, eh, I was right. So let's back off Chris Simms on that one. Uhm, you're right. The most egregious one there is Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's no teasing going on there. He's going to be in the top five this year. I can tell you that much, certainly. You know, just between the way he ran and threw the football, much improved in that area too last year. So, uh, I can say that I certainly was wrong about that one, no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] And then I did think that maybe the, that the defenses would catch up to that offense a little bit. So I wondered where it would go and could he make it all happen? So yeah, that, that, that really was my reasoning for it. And obviously, uh, I was wrong there. There's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I understand people like pushing back against that.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, I've been around enough and seen enough college quarterbacks and high school quarterbacks and great NFL quarterbacks and been around it to know sometimes that, hey, listen, I don't have to see this guy play.


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[Assistant] I know he's better than some of the backups in football right now. I'm not worried about that.


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[Assistant] And even you could see his speed and quickness that I thought, that's still going to translate to the NFL and he'll be one of the better runners in football at the quarterback position. So yeah, it's never easy those guys, but I would think a few of them certainly get in the top 40.


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[Assistant] Hey, one, Kyler Murray, because yes, I mean to what you just said, Ahmed, you, you've seen it. You're not an NFL scout or a coach, but you know, damn, that guy looks good when I watch him on TV. Right. And I would expect him who's a very motivated, mature young man.


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[Assistant] To do all the right things, to be better, let alone you're two in the NFL being used to that. DeAndre Hopkins on your roster now to help you out. I would think Kyler Murray makes a huge jump. And then the other guy is someone we talked about right off the start of the podcast, Drew Locke.


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[Assistant] I think anybody that watched any of those Broncos games, you would come away going, man, there's something to this kid. You know, the ball looks, you know, special when it pops out of his hands and he can move around and make some plays on the run and do those types of things. And then again, like Lamar Jackson or anything like that, who we've seen make big jumps, there's a support system there.


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[Assistant] And that Denver offense is one that I'm about as excited as any offensive football. So those would be two right off the bat that I look at, you know, because when you talk about Jerry Judy and KJ Hamler and Noah Phan and Cortland Sutton and getting Melvin Gordon with Phillip Lindsay at running back.


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[Assistant] Hey, I feel like you put me a quarterback there. I can do some good things, not drew lots of good things, but could do something. Uh, but I think those are two that jump out to me maybe more than any other, uh, for big years and I'll throw.


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[Assistant] Me or the media or the public have given him credit for, you know, I think the fact that we don't think he actually, his, his, his style or, you know, his personality meshes with John Gruden. We're all just waiting for that moment to say, ah, see, I knew it wouldn't work, you know.


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[Assistant] And it hasn't been perfect, but it hasn't been bad by any stretch of the imagination, let alone


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[Assistant] It hasn't been a great support group around him either at the wide receiver position.


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[Assistant] So they've made some improvements at that position. Of course, drafted Henry Ruggs.


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[Assistant] You know, Josh Jacobs being in year two, that offensive line's good. They got one of the best young tight ends in football and Darren Waller there already. So I just look at that and go, okay, Derek Carr, another year in that system. They put some more pieces around him. He's played better than people realize to begin with the last two years.


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[Assistant] And now they have Stefan Diggs and they got a Zach Moss running back to go with Devin Singletary and it's his second year in that system. So I think those are four that really jumped out to me to make big leaps.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to give up on that. I think there are things to like about Trubitsky's game, but


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's some things that certainly need work. There's no doubt about that. You know, we've talked about it many times, just not a consistent enough, accurate throw or the ball where you just go, that should be a slam dunk completion and it's an incomplete pass.


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[Assistant] You know, some carelessness at times, things like that. Uhm, I think, okay, if I was going to put the blame, right, so rookie year,


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[Assistant] I wanna say, I wanna blame Ryan Pace a little bit in his rookie year. I think that led to the start


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[Assistant] Of the negative conversations around Mitchell Trubisky because as a rookie, as a rookie, Mitchell Trubisky had nobody around him to help him. Nobody. I mean, there was no, there was nothing. I've said this many times on the podcast where I've gone.


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[Assistant] Like you have to go back and watch film of Mitchell Trubisky's rookie year where you'll go, man, they started.


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[Assistant] You know, that's never gonna give like the public and the team following and everything like that a ton of confidence in a guy right off the bat because yeaah, it was a little bumpy that year.


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[Assistant] You know, there's a lot of bumps in the road. They weren't smooth offensively. It didn't look good. And as you know, and anybody that follows football, people start to blame the quarterback when that happens and that's not fair. So I think that gave everybody the jump off.


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[Assistant] Right? And then, hey, Nagi came to town and things went well and did all that that first year. It was a great defense.


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[Assistant] And I think the offense caught people by surprise, but the second year in the system, you know, people caught up to it. Matt Nagy did not evolve in his first or second year in Chicago. Basically just ran the same exact stuff.


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[Assistant] And I think within that, you know, to answer the question specifically, yeaah, I blame Matt Nagy the most for, for two reasons. One, I don't think he's been supportive enough of Mitchell Trubisky, especially early on his first year. Hey, I always pointed that graphic in that Green Bay game and Matt Nagy's first game as the head coach.


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[Assistant] Trubisky's running on the field and there's a quote on the bottom from Matt Nagy that says, can't put in my full offense with this quarterback.


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[Assistant] You know, oh, that's great. That'll really give the fan base confidence in your guy. You know, so I never looked at that as being a real confidence builder for everybody. Alright, but either way, the point is last year, they,


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[Assistant] And they acted like they were the Kansas City Chiefs, except wait, oh, uh, oh, that's right. There is no Tyree Kill, no Travis Kelsey, no Sandy Watkins, Nicole, no McCole Hardman, and no Patrick Mahomes on the roster. And the offensive line is not as good as Kansas City either.


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[Assistant] And you know, that to me is where they messed up last year. They tried to still throw it and spread it around and do those types of things where they should have been playing more of a ball control, run Mitch Trubisky, high percentage passes, play through the defense and win games 20 to 17. And, uh, they didn't do that. And of course it led to a lot of losses.


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[Assistant] You know, if they start him week one, if he doesn't come out and throw for 300 yards and three touchdowns.


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[Assistant] You know, everyone's gonna blame him. I mean, no matter what it is. If he even plays good and they lose, he's gonna get blamed.


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[Assistant] If I'm the Bears, I'd rather go the other way around. Let's go with Nick Foles. Let's see what he does. If he fails, then the fans have no...


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[Assistant] Like, there's no, nothing else they can do. Hey, Trubisky's the guy, he's gotta come in now, the other guy failed, he's not that good, and now maybe the fanbase can get behind that. But I think he's kind of in a no-win situation if you throw him out there as a starter right now.


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[Assistant] Great stats, first off. Those are great references, right? You know, they really are. And it's great, you know, because it doesn't always tell the whole story. You know, people, if they just heard your first stat, they would have gone, oh, see Ryan Tannehill, he just throws the ball short and the other guys run. And then you go, oh, actually, no, he was in the top three in ball yards travel in the air too.


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[Assistant] So, you know, maybe it was a little bit of both. You can do both. That's, that's very real. And really good quarterbacks are great in the short passing game to throw a ball right pinpoint accuracy to where the wide receiver can run after the catch seamlessly, right? And not have to slow down or stop or regather himself or any of that. So that's real. So those are great stats.


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[Assistant] You know, one, I think it is Kyle Shanahan's offense. It is. That's always been part of his offense. Whether you go back to Washington, Houston, whatever it may be, he's always recruited, drafted the type of receivers that, you know, like I always say, can snatch the ball out of the air.


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[Assistant] Be aggressive over the middle and have no fear and adjust the pedals of the metal 100 miles per hour like you see with Devo Samuel. The big part of his game. We know the running game of...


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[Assistant] Shanahan's famous. His play action passes off it are also famous. And a lot of them hit right over the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] I know that you and I during the season last year, when we talked about defending the San Francisco 49ers, I always used to say, I'd crowd the middle of the field. I'd make Jimmy Garoppolo throw the ball down the field or outside the numbers, one of the two, because you don't see it a lot. And I don't think


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[Assistant] of, of, of, you know, needed improvement from Jimmy Garoppolo. It is. He has some mechanical issues of throwing the deep ball that


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[Assistant] I've never liked, you know, the first thing I'll talk about is he's not aggressive enough with his lower body with a lot of the deep balls down the field. He has this