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The MMQB NFL Podcast

Would You Take This Job? NFL Head Coach Edition

The MMQB NFL Podcast

SI NFL

Football, Sports

3.9944 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We were shocked by Brian Flores’s dismissal. We were shocked by the lack of a Joe Judge dismissal until he was dismissed. Conor and Gary discuss the very strange situations with the Dolphins and Giants, and what’s fair and what isn’t when it comes to longevity in the NFL coaching world.

Then, an assessment of the six head-coach openings in the NFL. Which jobs are good? Which jobs were bad? Which one would allow you to most closely mimic the work-life balance of Craig T. Nelson in Coach?

Then, a preview of the six wild-card playoff games, from the suddenly underrated Raiders, the realness (or lack thereof) of the Bengals, why Mac Jones should consider sleeping in a meat freezer, the issues the Eagles present for the Bucs, the Cowboys dealing with the 49ers’ wide-zone running game, the chances T.J. Watt can literally throw Patrick Mahomes out of the stadium, Eric Weddle Fever grips L.A., and more.

(“More” includes a discussion of the 2007 National League MVP voting and Mehmet Okur’s presence on the world champion Detroit Pistons.)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and we are going to be

0:04.7

Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Gary friendly

0:08.7

I'm Conoror and we are going to be previewing the wild card playoff games a little bit later in the show

0:15.0

but we're going to start with some of the coach openings and some of the

0:18.0

developments over the last two days and we're starting with

0:22.0

well the most recent of these openings and that is the

0:25.2

Giants did indeed move on from Joe Judge after I don't know a couple days of look like

0:32.4

he was going to be safe after all.

0:35.4

Yeah, really strange, um, really strange situation there, but not completely out of character for the Giants. I think the Giants fancy

0:47.0

looking like the most pragmatic franchise, you know I remember every time we had an

0:51.7

embattled coach I mean I covered a lot of the Tom

0:53.7

Coughlin teams especially towards the end and they would do this a lot they would

0:59.6

wait like two or three they would kind of soft leak at some point that he was probably

1:04.0

leaning towards safe, but then there was like a two or three day waiting period and

1:07.6

then you would wait for the white smoke to come out and then you'd go over to the

1:10.8

facility and you'd hear them talk about how why they believe in him or why you know whatever and if I had to

1:15.7

imagine you know they had a meeting with Joe Judge I think they probably heard what his thoughts were

1:22.1

for the future but I think ultimately they they probably

1:25.0

first dove in to the GM hiring process and probably

1:30.0

probably talked to some people who were in the know there and everyone said there's a 0% chance you're going to get a good GM if you keep this

1:37.1

guys the head coach. You're just, you know, unless you get Monty awesome for it from Tennessee who kind of knows Joe Judge, there's a 0% chance you're

1:44.9

getting anybody that's worth, uh, worth salt. Whereas if you get rid of Joe Judge,

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