Football GM: Raiders bench Derek Carr, Commanders to start Carson Wentz, Sean Payton’s future & more
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Mike Sando and former GM Randy Mueller talk about the Raiders decision to bench Derek Carr and what’s next for the team at QB. They also discuss Nathaniel Hackett’s firing, Sean Payton’s future, Carson Wentz’s return to the starting lineup and J.J. Watt’s retirement. Plus, they review the film for Desmond Ridder and Malik Willis before sharing their Week 17 picks.
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3:12 Raiders bench Derek Carr
12:23 Could Tom Brady land in Las Vegas?
18:57 Mac Jones & the Patriots offense
25:11 Reaction to Broncos press conference following Hackett firing + Sean Payton’s future
39:14 Carson Wentz to start for Commanders
43:11 J.J. Watt announces retirement
48:44 Film Review: Desmond Ridder & Malik Willis
55:21 Are you buying the Chargers?
58:08 Does Steve Wilks have a shot at Panthers job?
59:35 What’s going on in Tennessee?
1:01:15 Tua Tagovailoa suffers another concussion
1:03:21 GM Notebook
1:07:25 Week 17 Picks
1:13:42 Thoughts on Dallas entering the playoffs?
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| 0:48.0 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sandow here from The Athletic along with the GM, Randy Mueller. |
| 0:55.1 | Randy, happy holidays to you. How are you doing? |
| 0:57.7 | Thank you, Mike. Happy holidays back to you. I'm doing great. Never a dull week in the NFL, |
| 1:02.7 | as we always wondered how this was going to go moving to midweek for the podcast. |
| 1:07.3 | And it seems like we've had plenty, plenty on our plate every, every midweek we've actually taped |
| 1:12.4 | the show. So I'm looking forward to getting into some of these topics. You know, we got a ton of |
| 1:15.9 | stuff. One of the things I was thinking about, I was talking to someone else about earlier today, |
| 1:20.2 | is, you know, as they make the season longer, it opens up the possibility for meaningless games, shenanigans, decisions. |
| 1:30.2 | You can suddenly now have two weeks where you, like the whole Jacksonville Tennessee thing this week is ridiculous. |
| 1:36.8 | They could actually rest their starters because the only game that matters is when they play each other next week. |
| 1:43.1 | The idea that you would do that, and I think as they keep adding weeks to the season, |
| 1:48.1 | you just open up the possibilities for there to be meaningless games or decisions made for the wrong reasons. |
| 1:57.5 | Even this whole Derek Car thing that we're going to lead with, they have a flickering chance of the playoffs. They're not out. They're not out of the playoffs. No, they would have to beat Kansas City and San Francisco and they would need, you know, Miami to lose out and the jets to lose to Seattle. They need some things to happen. But usually, Randy, when you're in this thing, if you had a flicker of |
| 2:18.2 | hope, isn't that, isn't that you hang all your hat on it, don't you? Yeah, the flicker of hope |
| 2:24.4 | thing is one thing. And yeah, you would keep the pedal to the metal until you were completely |
| 2:29.4 | out of it in every regard. The other thing to go back what you just said, though, as the season gets longer, |
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