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Hello, beautiful people.

That's like my M-Rob introduction.

I'm trying my best.

Did I bring it like you would?

Your voice conveys way more emotion than mine does, but I was trying to do the intro like you would do it.

It's a brand new edition of NFL Explained.

Mike Yam, Michael Robinson's with me.

I'm trying to match your energy level and your positivity.

So I promise, as we are teasing head coaches and saying they don't really do anything, I'm going to say it with a smile on my face. There you go, man. People can hear the smile through the sound waves, through the airways, man. But I'm doing great. It's another football week. Can't wait to talk some ball with you, brother. Yes. Well, part of that conversation, and I'm touching on it a little bit, is the fact of we watch all these games. We see these head coaches on the sidelines. And I know what you're thinking. Like, what are these dudes actually do? Right? Like, it's game day. They got coordinators. They got, you know, different dudes running around position coaches. The whole thing,

we've all seen hard knocks. We've seen how big the coaches' rooms actually are. It feels like

they're just dudes, like CEOs almost, just saying, hey, point in one direction, get this done for me.

It's getting a little bit more CEO-ish as we, you know, evolved. But I'm glad I get to talk about

it today. I can finally say what I want to say about head coaches without getting fined. You know what I mean? You know, when you're a player, you can find you say some negative things about the head coach. Yeah. Do we do we, do we, I know, even when, and I've heard from you, you've actually gotten phone calls after some of the things that you've said about head coaches in commercial breaks on my television.

Yes, but I'm not even getting paid by him anymore. I'm in the media and I still get the calls.

And you told that coach, you can't find me this time. Can't find me, coach. No, not going to happen. look and there's some coaches that are out there you got the old heads the o g so to speak the bellichicks

of the world that certainly come to mind you got the mcvay's on the other side it feels like it runs

the gamut in terms of personality, style, the whole thing. Is there really a need, though? I think that almost might because we always hear this phrase, like, oh, they're professionals out there. Do you actually, like, really need a head coach? I know that sounds sort of ridiculous because

of what we're used to, but like to not really know some of the intricacies, I think someone

might ask that question. I'll start by saying this. I believe, Mike, that every human being

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