00:00I think you run up against the possibility of beating teams
00:05that don't care at all and fooling yourself.
00:09So when you evaluate baseball, a GM would tell you
00:12you've got to take some of the September numbers sometimes
00:14with a grain of salt.
00:15This has changed a little bit.
00:16It used to be rosters would expand to 40,
00:18and you'd have random dudes that belong in double-A getting innings,
00:23and you're hitting home runs, and you're thriving.
00:25You also have teams that are checking out, players that are checking out.
00:28So you had to take some of those end-of-season numbers as a grain of salt.
00:32Similarly, I think in football, when you beat the Tanner McKee-led Eagles
00:36in Week 18 when they've benched their starters,
00:38that goes down as a win on the ledger.
00:40We say they've won four of their last 20, and people go,
00:43well, they've won four times.
00:44One of those was against an Eagles team that didn't bring their starters
00:48to the game.
00:49You see what I'm saying?
00:50Yeah, of course.
00:50So I think if you let him stay, he's the kind of guy that is so popular
00:54in the locker room that players like so much, they will play hard for him.
00:58We have seen this.
00:59They're not good enough to win because they're so badly coached
01:02and because they don't make the plays they need to in winning moments,
01:05but they play hard for him.
01:07Playing hard against the Eagles, if you play them at the end of the year,
01:10or the Titans who are coming up, or the Cardinals now with a third-string quarterback,
01:14you're going to accidentally win some games that you might not
01:17if you were to move on from him, which actually positions you better
01:20for the next head coach and draft positioning.
01:22That's why I think when you decide he's not coming back next year,
01:27you make the decision right then and right there.
