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So Thursday here we go. This is the herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening we are live in Los Angeles. I heart radio. Fox Sports Radio and FS1. One hour from now to get you ready. If you play fantasy football if you bet the games you just want to see is going to win this weekend. One hour from now Greg co sells stops by.

Joy Taylor joining me in a Thursday. Joy Howard you. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I'm so happy today. What a week for us. What a week. This is the best time of the year. So I happen. Oh God. I got four in. I mean just in credible games this weekend. I'm going to have a blazing five tomorrow. By the way, I am. I'm going to have a blazing four tomorrow actually. Maybe I'll pick a volleyball game or something as the fifth. Let me start with this. So green Bay went out and hired Matt LaFlure. I don't know. I don't know.

He's going to be a great coach. I don't but I know this. If he gets the air and Rogers thing right, then it'll work. And yesterday the Jets hired Adam Gase. Why? Because Adam Gase and Sam Darnold had a better connection during the discussion. Then Sam Darnold and Mike McCarthy. Who did Baker Mayfield want his coach Freddie Kitchens. He got it. And why did Arizona hire Cliff Kingsbury? Because they thought he and Josh Rosen would get along. Four for four so far.

And so the defensive coaches hired were the choice of the quarterback. Because due to rule changes, the quarterback now is more important than the coach. So you got to get it right. It did not used to be this way. Think I'm wrong. John L. way and Mike Shanahan won Super Bulls together. Sometimes not a great relationship. Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Null had major issues. One for Super Bulls. Phil Sims and Bill Parcells were not best buddies. It was ugly and they won.

They used to be a head coach and quarterback league due to rule changes. It is now a quarterback and coaches league. By the way, look at the teams and the quarterbacks and the relationships this weekend. So the Rams are in the playoffs. You think it's a coincidence that golf and Vey are like dad and son. Super tight. The Cowboys will face the Rams. Here's what we know about the Cowboys. Dak and Jason Garrett are all in together.

By the way, the MVP is Patrick Maholmes. Super tight with Andy Reed. He'll face Andrew Luck and Frank Wright. It's apparently it's an incredible bond. Oh, there's also Nick Folls and Doug Peterson. Tight facing Sean Peyton and Drew Breeze, Titus in the league. Are you seeing something here? If you do not have a relationship work quarterback and coach are symbiotic. It doesn't work.

By the way, tell me the two teams in the NFL this year that you are shocked. Didn't make the playoffs. Pittsburgh. Big Ben and Tomlin. Not a great relationship and Green Bay Aaron Rogers and McCarthy imploded. Also teams that disappointed us. Carolina. Cam and Ron Rivera. My sources tell me they both frustrate each other. By the way, Matt Ryan Dan Quinn. It's okay.

Kirk Cousins Mike Zimmer. Do not see eye to eye. Zimmer drives, you know, Cousins drive Zimmer crazy sometimes.

It didn't used to be this way. You could have the demanding yelling coach Mike Dicca didn't like half the like Jim McMahon. It didn't matter. A buddy Ryan didn't have to love his quarterbacks. You could win Super Bulls. You could win your division for years. Doesn't work that way anymore. The rule changes.

If the relationship is even a little off between coach and quarterback, it doesn't work. Pittsburgh and Green Bay. By the way, do you want to know why Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rogers did not get along this year? Okay, I got this one sourced. They got along fine for years because there was a middleman. There was always a middleman. But Alex van Pelt got run off. The middleman. So this year Rogers and McCarthy had to deal with each other constantly.

And the minute it didn't work, the team folded and the coach got fired. Okay, so yesterday all these teams name the only team by the way that didn't hire an offensive coach. Denver.

Now, why would Denver not worry about that whole quarterback thing? They hired big fan geo because Denver doesn't have a franchise quarterback that John L. Way thinks is going to be around in four years. So they didn't give a rip.

They didn't care. They got Gary Kubiak being the offensive coordinator. He will eventually have to get along with the quarterback, but they don't think much a case. Keenum. So it didn't matter. They went and got a defensive coach. Who by the way, Vic Fangeo's a good coach, not much of a personality, not much of a talker.

Doesn't have role relationships with quarterbacks. They didn't care. Even Tom Brady this year. Tom Brady was always subservient to Belicek. We all know that right for years and years. It was Belicek's team and Tom did what he said. He got rid of Wes Welker. He got rid of Randy Moss. Bill ran the show. What happened this year?

Brady said, you resign, Groanck on my terms and you get rid of Garoppolo or I'm out. And Belicek said as the greatest coach in football history. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.

Even in New England for the first time the last couple of years, Tom has flexed. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not getting rid of Groanck.

Resign him. Belicek. All right. Belicek didn't do that for 17 years. Brady is like get Garoppolo out of town. I'm not getting grub. All right. All right. All right.

It is no longer a coach quarterback league. It is a quarterback coach league. Four for four yesterday. Aaron signed off on the floor. Darnold preferred gays. Baker wanted Freddie and Cliff and Rosen connect.

All right. Let's ship to this. So, um, a dynasty could end this weekend. And I just want to say this.

Joy and I have said this multiple times. She's been in this business a long time. I've been in it longer just because I'm older.

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