Luke Kuechly's surprise retirement, offensive coordinator carousel, plus Conference Championship preview

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sunday brings two incredible conference championship matchups in Tennessee at Kansas City and Green Bay at San Francisco, but before Terez Paylor and Charles Robinson break down those games, there was a flourish of interesting offensive coordinator moves to address from the first half of this week.Before they get to the OC carousel, Charles and Terez address the late-night surprise retirement of Carolina Panthers LB Luke Kuechly. Continuing the trend of great players in their 20s to hang up their cleats early, Charles and Terez address his legacy and chew over whether he and other recent retirees should make it to the Hall of Fame. (0:20)The Carolina Panthers made a big splash on Tuesday afternoon before Kuechly's retirement, announcing that LSU passing-attack coordinator Joe Brady would be assuming the role of offensive coordinator in Matt Rhule's new staff. What does this mean for the Panthers and Cam Newton? (14:30)In Denver, the Broncos surprisingly fired OC Rich Scangarello after only one season in the middle of last Sunday's Chiefs game and replace him with former Giants coach Pat Shurmur. The guys talk about how this signals a new arms race in the AFC West. (23:10)The Jacksonville Jaguars fired OC John Defilippo this weekend, as well. Does this mean the Jags are making a commitment to Gardner Minshew? (29:30)Wrapping up the OC moves, the Chicago Bears hired former Bengals coordinator Bill Lazor. Does this signal that the Bears could be interested in the very available Andy Dalton or just a change of offensive philosophy for Mitchell Trubisky? (33:40)And now to the big games, Charles & Terez break down what the Tennessee Titans need to do to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs (38:35) and what they're looking forward to when the Green Bay Packers face off against the San Francisco 49ers (52:10).Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:15.2	Yes, yes sir, welcome to the Yaku NFL Podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior NFL writer Torez Payler. Here are my main man and fellow senior NFL writer Charles
0:19.3	Robertson and Charles. With you all pro, future Hall of Fame inside linebacker, pulled the Barry Sanders
0:26.6	retired too early trick the best. Luke Kekley or Patrick Willis.
0:31.3	Ooh, that is a good one.
0:34.0	Um, man.
0:36.0	You know what, that's a tie, man.
0:38.0	I think it's a tie because they're both guys that, um, I would say probably Patrick Willis because at least at that time I feel like we've seen a number of guys
0:48.0	retire early in like the last year like if you think about okay so Keekley's 28 he retires right?
0:54.1	Yep.
0:55.1	Andrew Luck 29 retires.
0:57.7	Rob Grunkowski 29 retires.
1:00.0	Doug Baldwin 30 retires.
1:02.4	We've had a number of Pro Bowl or All Pro Bowl level,
1:06.3	you know, and, you know, two of these guys,
1:09.0	are Hall of Fame caliber guys, Grunkowski and Kiekli.
1:12.5	So I would say that at least his comes at a time
1:15.5	where I think we're starting to have that conversation
1:17.7	a little bit more about, you know what,
1:20.2	walk away while you still can, you know,
1:22.4	and I think when Willis did it, it was just more of sort of a stunner in that period.
1:28.0	Guys were not yet really doing this the way they have been the last few years.
1:32.0	You're correct.
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