NFL Cover Zero: Coaching Changes and Wild Card Weekend!
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iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones and Drew Franklin note the coaching changes that have already happened after the regular season came to a close. What are the best jobs now available? Matt explains which moves he thinks were warranted and which look like a mistake. Drew reveals what he would like to see the Titans do moving forward.
Is one team a clear favorite for any head coach looking for a job? Matt gives his thoughts on Nick Sirianni resting the Eagles starters in Week 18. The Seahawks are the favorite to win the Super Bowl. Should there be a rule change against teams with losing records in the playoffs?
Looking back on the statistical leaders from the 2025 season, who is your MVP? The Jets became the first team to end the season without an interception. Looking at the playoff games, Matt and Drew make their picks for the six games along with a TD scorer. Matt notes one game that he could see a blowout result happen for either team!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | All right, it is Cover Zero, and it is playoff time. |
| 0:22.4 | It's the wild card round six games of excitement. |
| 0:26.7 | It is also, what do you call the Tuesday after Black Monday, |
| 0:31.2 | the melancholy violent Tuesday. |
| 0:35.7 | Drew is on vacation, but was gracious enough to leave his millionaire Beach House |
| 0:41.9 | to join us. And Drew, good to see you. You as well. You all will be proud. My first day on the |
| 0:47.7 | beach, I pretty much just scrolled through anytime touchdown scores and NFL news. So I'm ready to go. |
| 0:54.1 | That's exactly what your wife was hoping for about that when you went down there. |
| 0:57.5 | She was wanting to make sure to get her picks in. |
| 1:01.7 | So I guess what we'll do is we'll go three parts. |
| 1:05.6 | We'll start with the coaches that got fired, then sort of the news and notes, and then the playoffs. |
| 1:14.0 | So, Billy, I like that, by the way, you're doing the all-black Johnny Cash PGA look today. |
| 1:21.0 | Double logo today, hat and on the jacket. |
| 1:23.8 | So we're repping the brand. |
| 1:25.5 | But why black? |
| 1:26.5 | It's not a common golf color. It goes with the most stuff. So we are reping the brand. But why black? It's not a common golf color. |
| 1:29.1 | It goes with the most stuff. So when you have a limited number of jackets, you can wear it all |
| 1:33.9 | the time. Okay. Gotcha. But it does go with everything. It's also slimming. So that's good. |
| 1:41.3 | Yes. |
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