 Bart Scott and Alan Han and then that leads right into us and then Carl on after that and Bart Scott joins us now right here at the Cue What's up, man? This is my hood to I'm usually around at the W really get my massages no happy ending is included Not but you're right around the corner. They shut it down man. Really they shut it down because of your business or lack They're up. What's because what you I wasn't I wasn't a great tipper. Really? Oh Bart Wow, how were the massages there though depends on who you get it was excellent I know fancy people like you when they massage they don't go to some little joint. They go to a fancy hotel Why do you somebody that can get in there? Yeah, like orchid's of Asia? Yeah No, no, no, not that deep I won't get in that deep just surface level. You'll get just a little below the tissue I with Bart we're gonna start the big game preview brought you by to buy London the engagement shop at London Jewelers So I heard your show today, and you think it's gonna be the 49ers So tell me how the 49ers win. No, no, I didn't think oh, no, I'm sorry that the chiefs. That's my bad I'm sure listen. This is a pick-and-game. You can you can throw this game up And what I love is about the Super Bowl how intriguing the matchups are is you never really know who's gonna come out with that game Playing that first 15 script that's gonna kind of get their team going and it's about who can handle the emotions The moment and I just think that Kansas City has more room for error because they can win defensively Maybe I think their defense is underappreciated for what they've been able to do for the last 10 weeks And I just believe that my homes and Andy Reed is just their moment And I think maybe San Francisco is just early to the party But I thought that this I felt the same way about Seattle When Seattle win and they played the best offense of the year, which was paid manning here and You know in New York and they came out and improved me wrong So I just I'm conflicted I can you can you can flip a coin But if I had to be pressured to take a take an opponent, I mean or take a take a team I'm going to say that the Kansas City Chiefs could win it could win convincingly. I think The Super Bowls that had the defense putting pressure on the quarterback Yeah, the defense always did well as you mentioned Seattle against Peyton the Giants against Brady, but I think the big difference is that my homes could beat you with his legs Yes, as a former linebacker. What do you do to try to contain him as a possible to contain? Well, the thing about the 49ers is they rush for so when you rush for even in a just a traditional formation It's five gaps. So my homes is good at being able to identify those gaps in the same windows that he throw through He also runs through but now he's not as fast as some of the other mobile quarterbacks that San Francisco struggle with But if I'm San Francisco, I'm saying you know what? I'm going to dictate to you where you can escape and you think about you know these tackles They they got to be you know fearful of the fact that Ford and Bolsa can beat you around the edge So they're going to get off on the ball really fast and kick and kick slide really fast It's going to create opportunity for them to come underneath now What makes them different than what potentially what Tennessee was trying to do when my homes have the big run to Up the sideline is they have defensive tackles that aren't just your Casey Hampton Saragusa fat guys these are guys that can run my homes down So I would try and dictate that okay my homes I'm going to make you roll to your left which he does well because of the baseball He's able to square shoulders and throw across his body Which is usually a no-no for most quarterbacks But I'm going to say you know what I have a better chance of making you run and escape to your left And I'm going to set these traps and when I get you especially early It's important for the 49ers to make sure that they hit them and they hit them often What we used to try and do we face a quarterback that we feared we wanted to get body blows early In the game, but also you want you're usually when you're you know Going to make a tackle we were taught to kind of bring it from the hip and shoot from your hip like you're Old Western and you're in a gunfight against guys like my home Do you want to try and come really wide and tackle his arms? You're probably saying why would I want to tackle his arms well if you tackle his arms when he falls down He can't protect his face So what you try and do early on you tackle his arms make him hit his head a couple times Hope that you can pin his arms against him and hope you can put some damage on that shoulder Remember Saragusa against rich Ganon. I'm not saying hurt anybody, but it's about establishing blows You want to land some really good body shots early so that he can have hesitation about leaving that safety net that he has Because when he leaves the pocket, he then becomes a runner He doesn't have the same protections as a traditional quarterback in the pocket now just from a This a Super Bowl standpoint style of play Yeah, do you do you see this going the way all Super Bowls seem to go or the first quarters awkward and sometimes? We don't really get into what feels like a football game until 10 minutes left in the second quarter You know it depends on who gets the ball first and that'd be interesting if Kansas City Gets the ball would do they want to defer and Figure it out or do they want to say you know our offense is the strength of our team Andy Reed has a tremendous record when he has two weeks come off a bye week, which is pretty much what this Super Bowl is He probably has a great 15-play script that can get his team in a rhythm and against a team like San Francisco You don't want to be having to play from behind because of this tremendous run game is how they get their explosive plays So I mean I can see it moving fast depending on who gets the ball first trick plays are in You know, I think the key of this game is you know Can this defense contain my homes and can they can Jimmy G? If acts to drop back traditionally and and and serve you up and will it be death by a thousand paper cuts now Jimmy Johnson newly elections of all the fame did a guest column in the post that I was shocked He said that Patrick Mahomes is the greatest quarterback. He's ever seen now You faced a lot of great quarterbacks for this guy in that level. No prison of the moment, right? We say that about everybody just last year we're saying that about golf before that We said it about Russell Wilson. Remember the first golden golden child At least this era was Aaron Rogers He's been a back. He's been the Super Bowl once won a Super Bowl, but he hasn't been back then, right? I think this is the best team that Mahomes ever have especially if he take 40 million dollars Then we'll be able to evaluate if he's the best that we've seen because right now because he's cheap He probably arguably has the best weapons He has a he has a he has an Olympic sprinting team on his on his roster right now and when he takes that money He's definitely going to lose Sammy Walkins. They got to try and sign Chris Jones right now He can go out and get hired guns because they they picked right they got a quarterback that's young and cheap We see the two teams in this town trying to do the same thing and use that type of strategy But is he the best I've seen no not at all. I don't think he's the best that we've seen I don't even know if he's the best in the league right now. That's your shame I mean the best I've seen is to me is Tom Brady No, but no quarterback put more mental stress on me than Peyton Manning. It was different Going against Peyton Manning opposed to Tom Brady. Tom Brady is all about execution Peyton Manning Did all the little things right keep you in your stance for for two minutes You know going to the line create pressure on you you would try and steal some of his Omaha or yellow what that meant But he had his team so prepared that yellow meant something in the first quarter But meant something totally different or second quarter so he would use your football acumen against you So in that terms instead of just going on and trying to beat the man Cross from you like you did when you went against Brady Peyton had you thinking and when you think you move slow You can't react so things that you would normally see you don't see does it surprise you that like experts not not just non-football players Football players too or are going this far with the Mahomes because don't break don't get me wrong I'm excited to see him and I made this comparison on the air and I think a lot of people have done this Patrick Mahomes in football to me is Steph Curry in basketball He's not the greatest player of all time, but he plays the game in a different way than we've seen before So when you see it you're you marvel at it But I can't believe the level of experts that have already Coronated him the best in the game for prisoners of the moment, right? I mean because I think right now if you take the shine Watson and you put him on that same roster You get the same productivity, right? I think right now you just and go back to my Aaron Rogers analysis, right? Remember who Aaron Rogers had when he was the baddest man on the planet, right? He had Donald driver. He had Jordy Nelson. He had Jennings Yeah, Jones, and I think I forget the tight end that he had but he had like a Finley Michael Finley Michael Finley. I mean like you you take those guys right there He has pretty much the same thing that Mahomes had right and he was only able to get to one because you're gonna start to lose those Pieces right and what happens when you lose those pieces where people try and break down guys that are the it guys right now They start taking your coaching staff, which they've already started to do and then they start taking some of your free agents Which people are going to come back to Chris Jones Tyrone Matthews How long can he play and eventually Sammy Watkins is going to be gone and you know then he's going then we're going to see What he really is that's why I believe in Russell Wilson, right? Because Russell Wilson won with the Legion of Boom, but now he's not the team's reset and they're still Right there, so I mean I'm not ready to put Patrick Mahomes above Russell Wilson right now Let alone some of the other guys I think are dying well We can have a conversation five six years from now talking about that. He is clearly the we could we're still talking about a young kid Granted, he's got a ton of talent But most great quarterbacks outside of maybe Tom Brady have had great talent around him But he's on the fast track to be that people are rushing him that way Yeah You have to admit that he's on his way to being that he wins the Super Bowl on Sunday two three more years I'm a level yeah, he's gonna surpass everybody I mean can action Jackson take the next step next year when they get him more weapons Could you imagine if action Jackson had the same type of weapons he had to your imaginative to shine Watson had the offensive line and Bill O'Brien not being his culture general manager what that team would look like as well, but will they I mean There's been a lot of great players in this league that never became great because of the team They were stuck up I mean maybe Archie Manning would have been Terry Bradshaw, but he was stuck in New Orleans and couldn't be that But so we'll see but I'm telling you man I think I still don't think he's better than Russell Wilson right now I think we're pretty good as a moment what happens is if he wins this Super Bowl if he doesn't win the Super Bowl Defensive coordinators will break this system down and it's gonna be a lot harder next year to have this same productivity Perfect storm right now. This is your moment. That's why you have to capitalize on this moment We remember Dan Marino right Dan Marino had a message from my home when now because there's no guarantee that you're gonna get Back to this game. I mean, I'm sure Aaron Rodgers when he won the Super Bowl thought that he was gonna be You know be back over and over again That's what makes what Tom Brady and the Patriots did it so special because with the expectations with changing teams with guys Going to get paid somewhere else with you know failed free agents. They still managed to get six I was talking with Bart Scott. Can you hang a little bit? I got no life Hey, Donald Greco Peter Rosenberg coming to you from the house of Q here in Hoboken our special guest Our colleague is former jet and Raven Bart Scott I was thinking about this because I heard you guys talking and joking around with Chris Canty Everybody thinks Everybody in sports wants to make money. Yeah, but just being around baseball players for over 30 some odd years I'll tell you what super seeding money is championship. I think everybody wants How much of a haul did that leave that you didn't play for one? It's tough It's like it's like I was good luck Chuck, right? I went to three consecutive AFG championships and I probably have more road wins probably than most people that even played in the League I got at least eight road wins because I was always the sixth seed and if I could do it all over again I wouldn't chase the money. I didn't chase the money because I gave up money But I would have chased a Franchise quarterback Yeah, I tell a lot of these young guys when you when you're able to add a Super Bowl on your resume that type of You know pelt on your belt, you know, it makes everything right with the world It's like I it's like I died the athletes deaf And it's like my spirit can't rest because I watch a lot of bums walking around with Super Bowl rings They couldn't play dead in the country Western And it's like one of those things is like I'm just as deserving and I put it on the line I paid the price just like everybody else but sometimes it's just about timing, you know My window was there for a while and we just wasn't able to close the deal And you know, that's that's one of the regrets because that's when you start going back and saying What could I have done better to get there? I mean, I'm sure Carl I'm not putting myself in the same vein as or the same lane as Carl Malone You know Gary paid Gary paid and all those other players that paid the price Barclay. Just sometimes it's just it's just right place Right time. I mean one of my teammates that we cut because you know Rex Rex was like, oh, listen man Kind of big big big how you kind of fat, right? All right, so when you go to break I need you to lose 12 pounds. I need I need you to lose some weight He came back game 12 pounds Rex cut him. He went to Green Bay won a Super Bowl Right place right time. Yeah, you know and it's like one of those things So like my soul is like unrested and they can't it can't properly go because I didn't get the championship So, you know what I'm trying to do now. I coach my son's kids, you know I'm blitzing the hell out of 12 year olds. I'm trying to get I'm trying to get a victory anywhere I can't that must be hard though because like I mean you look at you physically and You look like you can still go out and play right now. Yeah, that's my design And then I'm sure it is and I you know, I was saying this on the show this week about Kobe I saw Kobe at the Staples Center a month ago and all I kept thinking was I know how he looked at the end of his career And it wasn't the same guy, right? But I'm watching him sitting here right now, and I'm like this guy She should go play in ice cubes league like he could dominate basketball right now It must be so hard to be so young in life. Yeah, and have this this this thing that you didn't get That was 32 and what happens is that transition man I had to go start doing a lot of therapy because your body still wants to play But you know, you can't compete but potentially at that level because that everybody's getting faster stronger and they're younger than you And also by the way your branch and you cost more than anybody else It's like you know what Frank Gore is doing. I wasn't willing to do I wasn't willing to be a hired gun to go from team to team to team Frank any regrets about that I do because It was one of those things that what are you willing to sacrifice? And I kind of mentioned like how I paid the price to be good not great, you know Because it's selfish. It's a selfish act to try and you know pursue greatness because you have to shut everything else out and You being great has to be the primary goal So, you know, you got to go work out by yourself You can't really spend as much time with your kids as you want you miss out on all those moments And when I when I got released from the jet because I had reconstructive toe surgery You know the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City teams wanted me to come play But I had my son was born, you know, July 1st And it was like one of those things am I gonna leave my family go my way across the country Upload them from school and these start asking yourself am I being selfish, right? Because for you to be great everybody has to try and cater to you so that you can live your dream in the caution that most players have to Ask themselves are you willing is it time for you to start supporting their dreams, right? Because we all get here because everybody, you know does things for us Well as your mom taking you to practice sacrificing her money so you can have personal trainers Rather, it's the dad like Alan who's driving all the way uptown to take to you on traveling Hockey and all those things and I just felt like that would be selfish of my self And I was comfortable with how my career had went and Seattle just happened to win a Super Bowl that year So yeah, great call by me But it's interesting because we were talking about it the other day the comment that you made about being good You know to great and the sacrifices you have had to make to be great Does it bother you that the narrative around sports and talk radio is well, you know Bart If you were a little bit more dedicated, maybe you would be in the Hall of Fame if you cared a little bit more Maybe you would have won that Super Bowl. I mean how unfair is that? I mean you decided to have a family earlier, you know So you're gonna be able to see your kids grow a lot older than that I'm gonna be having a kid at 49 But does it bother you that the narrative says you know what Tom Brady cared more? Because he made sacrifices that maybe you weren't willing to make and and that puts you in a poor light in that kind of Context well, that wasn't the case for me and I can live with that but because That just because I wasn't selfish doesn't mean I didn't put the work in I put the work in but I wasn't willing to go to Arizona to go train an altitude with other other great guys What I had to do is if I went somewhere and went on vacation I would have to pay my trainers to fly with me But I wasn't able to be at the best places that needs to be right It's like one of those things a hundred yards is a hundred yards and I had to you know make do with what I had You know what I had available to me where I was located because it was important for me to make sure that when my kids had a play Or my kids had a you know a field trip that their dad was there because well, yeah, I'm absolutely And I know you put in the work. I've worked with you. I've seen it But like to the coaching aspect we were at we're talking Adam Gates He's missing Thanksgiving with his family because he's preparing for the game. Yeah on Sunday But that's possible But you know the perception is the whole Jimmy Johnson you have to put football first above God above family if you're going to win Tony Dungey bucked that trend right but for the most part in the perception of the fans is is the guys that make the sacrifices But it's but it's the ones that should be exalted for pure greatness and I know what you're saying now That is unfair because it's all happenstance. Yeah, if Bart ends up on Seattle instead of the Jets He's a Super Bowl champion and it's a I mean I'm a runs a damn ball. I get to the Super Bowl take care of this. We just run the ball for a straight time You got a 260 pound tail back You trying to be cute so you get a head coaching job But you mad cuz Rex got the coaching job and you interviewed for this is So now you trying to be a great coordinator just like Kyle Shanahan did when Julio catches the ball Run the ball two times kicked a damn field goal But you're trying to show everybody how smart you is and then you you sacrifice my championship I wish you would just tell us how you feel. I can't die. I don't at least you're over it though We're gonna break down this game We're gonna lead right into Rex Ryan So when we come back when asked Bart exactly some secrets about Rex that we could throw out of some of them We know this portion of the Michael K show on 1970 as being as much by the New Jersey lottery with 155 million mega millions jackpot win you could fly your entire family to a villa in the south of France and throw in a Separate chateau for the in-laws take a chance on mega millions after all anything can happen in Jersey Did Rex go to the hospital and you had your toe surgery You know what? No, he told me um two weeks later that he had to he had to let me go I'm just playing is it just one who fired me. I wanted to talk about listen I want to beat the hell out of John is it first of all he didn't bring me in Like the general manager coming after you played with a torn ligament for a whole year for 13 weeks I played with a torn ligament and the general manager that just got hired is the one who fired I want to smack the taste out as well. That's another one on the smack list All right, we got a smack. I love you you guys should really relate Michael's isn't a smack list I have a laminated. He is a laminated. I will get a few people that have done me wrong that I will get back Back list sounds well. We don't want you to hurt those brittle hands man If you need somebody to bring that smoke, I got you guys could combine your smack list and Glaminator. What's that? What's that movie? My name is Earl when he had to go back and write the wrong Yes, yeah, I got a hit list for all the people that roll me. I'm a smack the hell out Basically and I'll bring him down somehow. I don't think I'm too old to smack Well, give me a little band gun you on a hold the hold angle. I hit it with the Ric Flair chop Okay, LaGregg a Rosenberg Scott you right here on Bart Scott's been so great hanging with us. You could hear him every single day We're so happy with our new show. We're proud of the new show on our station Alamon Bart Scott from one to three and boom right into us And he's nice enough to join us here in Hoboken at the house of Q So you think the 49ers will lose and the chiefs will win if the 49ers win What happened Kansas City? Even though they shut down Derek Henry won't be able to handle this complex running game Me and Rex always just have this thing when we ever we went against teams that shift in motion like you think about San Francisco They shift their motion 79% of their snaps Okay, right all that is to do is to grab the eyes of the defenders as they run simple runs, right? All this ghost reverse motion shifts and all that stuff and we should have this thing that whenever teams did that to us We would just sit back say you so crazy, right because you know once you dress that down, right? And see what it really is. It's easy to stop now The caution is can specknola create a defense that's balanced on both sides We're because the running backs in this on this on San Francisco are average But it's the system just like when you think about Mike Shanahan his dad you think about Terrell Davis yet He's in the Hall of Fame, but you think about Mike Anderson you think about Gary some of the other guys that came behind that system They were able to put up a thousand yards So now when you see a guy like most dirt or somebody like breeder guys that have been cut six times There's a reason why they were cut six times because they can only play in certain type of system They weren't elite running backs So if if specknola is able to be able to set the edge have balance because when I think about most of their big plays Especially when you think about the trap later They were able to get on third and eight that went for 30 yards. They're all open side runs Why is it why am I talking about open side runs and open side defense? It's because they set the defense with the formation and they see the pre or post snap where they change the math It's all about math because what happens is they'll set the defense to one side you over shift You have a linebacker with bad eyes that see everybody go this way they go this way They don't see the guys pulling or the guy coming in the ghost reverse that oh in turn becomes the lead blocker So you don't have to be a big guy because they're going to cut whoever's there left You just run out of guys and you end up one short So if you go balanced and say, okay, we're balanced on both sides We may give up more rushing yards, but we're not going to give up the big explosive plays So if you get jimmy g and that offense behind the sticks Can jimmy g then pick up third and seven consecutively can he pick up Second and six. Do you look at a guy like speck know as a good defensive coordinator? Well, I thought he was until I talked to one of his former players and said he I talked to one of his former players and he said like some of his principles are just Not fundamentally sound. Okay. Now can Kyle Shanahan exploit that? I don't know But he he kind of gambles and hedges his bed on certain defenses Where it's voided zones where it's not even fundamentally sound But can jimmy g find it because if jimmy g can't come off a play action and get in a rhythm Is he able to throw people open? See, it's one thing when you you you're running a ball and you're averaging five yards to carry And the linebackers are coming up. We saw nick foals do that, right? But if you shut that down and those linebackers are maintaining their depth and closing those windows Can he be what people say a window thaw like can he can he throw dimes like trendilford says? I don't know. I haven't seen him do it. I saw him against minnesota and he looks suspect and I don't I don't have the exact stat But I heard somebody on on this on radio say that he's like third or fourth most turnovers behind Winston and other guys that's five dollars. Is that me? No, I don't have my phone. Okay Now I have a question for you. Sure at what point being a football player two questions One how many of your colleagues Can legitimately talk football the way you do like have this level of an understanding of it And at what point does it go from you're playing the game you listen to coaches to this ridiculous I mean honestly, it's like listening to a mix of art and math Listening to you talk about plays. When does it become that? I mean, I was just fortunate enough to be around some of the greatest defensive minds rex ryan was one of them Mike nolin You think about uh, who's my guy? I can't think of him right now. Blame to cte um Chuck oh chuck chuck bagano chuck bagano You're also around somebody Dennis thurman and what happens the the strength was our complexity, right? Because we understood what offenses were being taught. So we knew where the ball was going So we're able to play a certain way when I talk to most guys and even in this business When I talk to most former athletes, they're dumb as a box of rocks Like they like they can't articulate this because they don't see the game this way Right, so was there one what's better to be is it is it better to be super unbelievably athletic talented or really smart The game is 80 mental right because we we're all big and fast See so what happens is and I always use this quote all the time is from bernard hopkins And he says what what is built last longer than was born So at some point we all hit the apex of how great we're going to be athletically right So then what you can lean on is your fundamentals. That's why I got like philip rivers Felt right off the cliff Right because you always have bad mechanics and what happens is when you don't have that super strong arm Can you can you fundamentally figure out ways to still have a fastball even though physically you can't throw it? So you I see that same thing with brady That's why brady's been able to stay at the top for so long because you hear about The work that he does as far as being fundamentally sound making sure that he's not wasting motion and things of that sort Right, so like, you know, it's a it's a lot of guys out there That just don't have the discipline to be disciplined right because as you get older it gets harder You know what I mean so and the homework I mean, it's it's real sounds like real homework. You don't figure this out I'm guessing you didn't show up to college and understand the game the way you do now Not at all that requires sitting and learning and and also being around great players, right? Mike singletary is my linebacker coach. I played with ray louis. Was he good? But what was he really good at linebacker? He's really good at motivate. He might be the dumbest football players Singletary mic singletary only understood. Oh man. Michael's man. Michael's tough man It was it. Mike was tough man. I mean, if we were teaching a bear's defense, he's he's a genius You teach anything else just something similar like cover two It's hard man. It's hard to listen to Mike man, Mike But to your point about About the smart really what team is one of championship inside shot to that overcame bad coaching Said again, I said what team is one of championship that overcame bad coaching Like they could be physically talented and just were so much better than the opposition They were able to survive having a coach that didn't know what they were doing that that rarely happened So it has to be game planning and the mental aspect of it more because Right now, especially with a salary cap, you can't be that much more talented than everybody else Well, sometimes sometimes you got to overcome your coaching, but that's why you know, but they don't win You have a switcher. How many dudcoats it was already made for him But it was smart not to touch jimmy johnson if barry switzer came before jimmy I think he would have gotten exposed how many dud coaches have won the super bowl when you look at the list of winning They're a couple Yeah, but for the most part those are all guys who had great careers and that's what you have in this matchup You have guys, you know solid as a guy that's up and coming he asked these guys doing something very well Um, and he it wasn't broke. So he didn't try and fix it, right? He brought the seattle type of rex to tell you that that's just our sting package that they probably stole from him You know, I think rex doesn't get enough credit for what he's you know given to this game You know because for years I remember watching him and dick labo Steal stuff from each other, right and something works there in the next week You look up and pittsburgh is running it and I think he's responsible for a lot of these great defensive concepts That people you know using the league and it's unfortunate to me that he's not out there You know coaching are you surprised that it's two years and he's not coaching and he pretty much said on the air Last week you said, I know I'm never going to get another job Well, he would have to do what what peak curl did he would have to go back to college reinvent himself So that he can reconnect with the modern day athlete rex's problem has always been that he loves too hard And he trusts people too much Right, he trusts people to have the same passion for the game and have his back like he had them And sometimes he hired some guys that I felt like really didn't Have his back and he trusts them too much, but he's an excellent coach And I think some of the false narratives out there is that we didn't have discipline You don't run the type of defense every ran You don't have the type of success that we've had in an organization that hasn't had success If you don't have a guy that holds his guys accountable I mean if I gave you okay, I feel like this right I'm working on an app and I don't tell you what the app is but I'm working on a football thing and rex sent me All of our all of his uh all of his intellectual property so to speak right 300 thousand files Wow That's what we would have to learn and I think I can tell you you can get 80 percent or probably 40 I pray you can probably get 70 percent of his players and they can be able to digest it and they can teach it No, it's not surprising to me that anthony weaver's a new defensive coordinator for the hueson texans rex ryan taught So he's a legitimate defensive genius. That wasn't overblown. No, he is like he's like rain man, dude Really him dick libo wade phillips You know like they're like the cream of the cream man And steve young has come on the show many times and said the problem with rex is he just He was so much on the defensive side That it eight quarterbacks up that quarterbacks couldn't grow with rex as the head coach It was the same thing with his dad great defensive coordinator, but in a quarterbacks league He just wasn't the right head coach to grow out I would push back on that because rex really wasn't over there because at that point He had Dennis thermi He had mike petten god said he trusts with it with with his system I think what he did is he trusted them too much right? He allowed them to do instead of saying hey man run the ball throw the ball He said I hired you to do a job. I'm going to let you do your job And I'm not gonna micromanage when I feel like he should have stepped in and probably held guys more accountable because at the end of the day They didn't have his best interest at heart When he got shottenheimer shottenheimer was somebody that was held over because he was a young coach rex was the first time coach So he had to you know, he was giving some of his assistants He didn't go out and be able to pick the people that he would want It's crazy to think about it now though to even act as if rex wasn't a success Think about what the team was under rex ryan. Think about where they've been since He's the most successful head coach in two decades. Should you have won either of those two championship games? We really should have we really should have You know, I think about the pissberg when we came out flat. We fell into a big hole Not how can you come out flat today or see championship game? We were beat up, man We had just played two tough games. Okay, you know, you know, they they're coming off a buy So they're fresh. I mean we're on a roll traveling airplane You know and mostly spent and and and we we just we just came out and we and they had more juice than us And they had the crowd and what happened is remember that third and 18 You know, we have put in a and that's kind of when we outsmarted ourselves because we had jason taylor playing middle linebacker We had this special package and we had everybody covered just like we wanted and being scrambled for 18 You know the reason you scrambled for 18 because you have no linebackers on the field You had jason taylor like a great player hall of fame player But fish out of water when you stand them up in the middle and say hey read these concepts And and and it kind of went downhill from there and it took us a while to kind of scramble back I was at that game. The atmosphere was just unbelievable in pittsburgh I really believed if you could have stopped them on that third down and they threw they threw to brown And he pat pat pat right and if he drops the ball throws it incomplete You're they got a they got a punt Yeah, we had him on their heels and I really believed in my heart that you would have scored had you gotten the ball back Did you feel the same way? I did and and and we had a blitz That was a safe blitz but ben ben ben right and that's what's so scary about my homes because you can do you can dial It's the right stuff But because he can fade away fade away and still have the arm strength to be accurate You know, that's what ben did he just bought time bought time bought time And eventually the great players are able to find holes in zones And there's one of those things where it's like what a shoulda coulda We're talking with barn scott here on the michael casio Do you believe that the 49ers have stopped throwing because their running game is so great? Or because they got spooked by the interception that jimmy g threw against minnesota No, no, I think they state if it's not broke don't fix it right because it's candy throw though I think he can but he's he's like kurt cousins. He's like matt shaw He's a guy that has to throw off rhythm and he's a guy that can make throws But I don't trust him consistently throwing outside the numbers I think he's a guy that you know when I whenever we went against like a kubi act team or we went against a Mike shannon hand team We understood that we can set edges from our inside tackles and you say well, what does that mean set edges? Because they're running sideways you can push them back from the inside But that that stops them from being able to get outside So it's not about the guy on the outside all the time Sometimes it's about the guys on the inside just firing off and getting up the field Which makes makes the runner either have to bounce out or cut it up And he does that that gives your linebackers an opportunity to scrape and be free hitters now now does Now the problem is does kansas city have the linebackers that can that can really punish some of these running backs Because yeah, I know they got three of them, but you can knock three running backs out Trust me. I've seen it done before when when you're watching a football game Can you watch it as a fan or are you analyzing it as an expert in your head? I'm watching it like a chess match. You are so i'm saying to move so you're different than what we're watching Yeah, yeah, because i'm watching i'm watching i'm seeing exactly what cowell is saying So when cowell does the ghost motion and you don't respond to it I know later on he's going to come to that right? So I know that I see I see the setup Coming and i'm just trying to see if the other defense coordinator sees the setup and understands that okay First time he's just going to run it's not going to be anything second time Is he may not run the third time he's going to check and it's going to be a big play And what he's going to go to in a big moment is going to be something that you haven't seen But it's going to be off the same exact look How did Richard Sherman keep up with that speed that the uh the chiefs have he can't But the thing is he's going to press bell right? He's going to set up and act like he's press bell and the whole argument between him and rivas Is the fact that rivas is saying no matter what i'm playing every route when you play on top cover three Man pretty much what you're saying is i'm playing a deep route because the guy runs 15 yards and runs a press out Then that's your that's your curl flat guy that's supposed to undercut that So if i know that i only have to not give up the big route i stay on top That's why you see sherman getting these these Interceptions where the receiver is behind him and the in the quarterback just throws it up And it looks like he's the intended receiver because he's only playing one route and what he's doing is because he knows He's playing deep He's reading the the steps of the quarterback right because if quarterback drops back three steps That's a short pass because you have to get in rhythm and your drop has a time up with the route If he drops back five then you have an intermediate so we know that those are like Bang gates or digs if you drop back seven you're dropping back seven a time up to throw a deep route So when he sees that he's looking at the receiver and looking at the quarterback at the same time because he can see it In his peripheral and then he's just playing one route But what why did rivas have to get involved with that because this goes back to 2012 right? So he's been waiting for opportunity when sherman came in sherman. I don't know. I keep calling sherman sherman came in Rivas was the top dog and sherman wanted to be recognized. So he said that he was the best So he called rivas out. So this goes back to 2012 So rivas has been saying bro. You're a system guy. You're not a guy that can say it's listen It's a whole different category for guys that can say listen. You're my man and you ain't going nowhere I don't care if you're in the backfield Rivas like bill bellichick. He's trying to hide his receivers in the backfield to bring rivas in the box So he can get his guys away from rivas, right? So they were running their deep routes with their digs from the backfield That's how dominant rivas was you can say the same about patrick peterson You can say the same thing about d.i sanders You can say the same thing about champ belly when I see richard sherman I see ronde barber Right. I see maybe nondi. I see a guy that's great at playing a technique But I don't see a guy that's a guy that says listen I don't care. You got you got five eight routes that you can run in the route tree I'm stopping them off and listen. I don't want no help. I don't care about no safety. I don't care about no leverage Wherever you go, that's the hardest thing to do and you pay more for that And it's a different section in the hall of fame for players that were able to do that The male blunts the d.i sanders the daryl greens the nears williams It's a different category from that. I give us something for rex rex What do you want to know? What do you want to know about rex? No, you we want to ask him something that we want to seem smart. He's going to be on right after you Something about rex sometimes you can seem smart Oh, yeah, yeah, like a like a super bowl question. Maybe that makes him go. Wow These guys really only a football mind would ask what asked this question Well, he'll love if you say hey, man, I heard that uh That the uh the league stole your sting package and that's what we're going to see We're going to see your sting package featured by the san francisco 49ers Love it. Write that down, michael. I got it. That's very good. And they're plagiarizing and they're not they're not quoting their sources Oh, so it's a plagiarizing question that we plagiarized. Yeah. Absolutely. I like that Michael case on 1970 is p.m. Brightly by geico the real value and car insurance isn't how much you save It's also the kind of service you get good thing geico has been perfecting both for over 75 years We cannot thank you enough for this. You've been unbelievable. It's like going to a master's class And everybody should listen to him and alan one to three every single monday through friday. My pleasure Thank you so much. I see your son. I still I'm still invited. 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