Again I find, wait, well, I, I need to be ready. Is this substance or sizzle? What should
I be prepared for? A mason can occasionally jump on a speedboat. You can do both. Um,
a plumber can drive an occasional convertible. I may be a masonry 24/7, but
you know, occasionally I like to have a little fun. All right, let's go, um. Bill Belichick,
and this is a, this is a, it's, it's a cautionary tale in life. If you want to grow,
don't, don't seek comfort. I got 3 Belichicks, I got 2 Lombardi's, I got girlfriends in
the program, Jamie Collins played with him, never coached. This staff is a staff that is
comfortable for Bill. It's familiar faces and familiar voices, and it's friends and its
allies, and that's fine, but that's not what is working with Andy Reid in Kansas
City. He doesn't always have to love Eric B Eey. He can disagree with Spas. I find this
Carolina thing about Bill is this staff did not, the longer they played.
The worst Carolina, like they had their first offensive drive. I, I think that that's, I, I
think that's too much. I, I think that's an overheated. I think it is. I think it's an
overreaction. Too many kids on the staff. I think he had too many new players. Yeah, OK.
You know, I, I mean, he had 70 new players. I mean that That game, they did nothing
well. I mean, the first series they go down and score 6 plays, 7 plays. I mean, come on,
you gotta do better than that. You've had I totally understand. And, and listen, look at
these, there's nobody there. The things that they struggled with. In a lot of ways, are
fixable, OK? Like, like being gap sound on defense, that's fixable. Quarterback making a,
a terrible decision on that out route that leads to the, the pick 6, you know, those are
things. And, and here's the, the other part of this is that I don't think that there's going
to be a lineup that will change more from week 1 to week 2, week 2 to week 3 than North
Carolina because he's gonna evaluate the film and, and he's not gonna just say like, well, we
got to play this kid because he's been in the program. And so I'm, I'm not gonna push the
panic button on North Carolina because the expectation for North Carolina was never gonna
be that they were going to be great right away . But it wasn't to get humiliated. I know, but
TCU is a really good team. They're, Josh Hoover threw for over 300 yards a game last
year. TCU was a 9-win team, but you're on the road. I saw road quarterbacks disintegrate. He
ate them alive. I, I saw young quarterbacks disintegrate, not just road quarterbacks dis
disintegrate. I think that the, the, the biggest, um, the biggest tell for whether a guy
will play well is experience and, and Hoover has the experience, um. Listen, it, I'm not
trying to say North Carolina is going to be great, but if you look at their schedule, the
two toughest games are clearly Clemson later and, and this TCU game. This was the 2nd best
team they're going to face all year long. They have to do it week one with 70 new players. I
don't think they're going to look a lot better . I mean, they're gonna look better against
Charlotte and Richmond and UCF, Cal. I, I mean , that that is not a daunting schedule. Still
think that they can get to 5 or 6 wins. I don't think I'm being unfair. Well, what's your
expectation? That's my question. Like, if you're not being unfair, what were you
expecting them to win 9 games? Well, then, yeah, I was expecting them to be competitive. I
thought TCU would win the game. I told JAC this. I thought TCU would win 18 starters, um,
better staff. Uh, but, but don't you get what I'm trying to say? If you think they were going
to be competitive with TCU, then you, then you're. Telling me that you expect them to win
9 games this year. Well, I think that that's an outlandish expectation for what they're,
what they are. By the way, I don't think this is not Dion, by the way, in his first year who
had Shadour and Travis Hunter, and they had real talent. They're trying to build this from
scratch. So I'm just gonna, I'm gonna wait and see for the record. I don't think I'm unfair
when I bring up, you know, Belichick's got kids and Lombardi's kids. This is why I'm not
being fair. I've seen general managers in the NFL not allow their coaches. John Snyder had a
problem with Pete Carroll and his son. He didn't want him, he didn't want him as a scout.
Pete put him on the staff. That was a fissure in the relationship. Years ago, uh, uh, Marty
Schottenheimer wanted to put his son on, and I think the GM was AJ Smith. I don't think I'm
taking a shot here. When you, when you start putting your kids on the staff, sometimes it
works. Owners and GMs are very reluctant to do that. They push back. I think I'm being totally
fair on that. I think that's fair. I just, I'm not going to throw dirt on, on this one yet
because again, I think that this was a perfect storm of the wrong opponent at the wrong time
for this team. This team is likely to be. The team that develops the most
from week 1 to week 6 or 7 in this season. And so, and, and again, with that schedule, if you
were expecting them to look competent and be in a close game in a competitive game, that
means you're telling me that they were going to win 9 games this year. I just don't think
that it was that roster. All right.