00:00Something caught my eye that I thought was really interesting.
00:05And I'm not interested in the who's going to be Washington's next head coach conversation, right?
00:12They got a game tonight that could turn around their season.
00:16Could not.
00:17It could throw gasoline on the fire of who's going to be the next head coach.
00:22But it could do, it could make a big difference tonight.
00:26All right.
00:26But there is a coach out there that has had tremendous success for a lot of years that
00:33stepped away from the game and for health reasons, I believe.
00:38And the coach is Bruce Arians.
00:40All right.
00:41Arians came up as an offensive play caller.
00:44He was with the Steelers when they won their Super Bowl.
00:49Frankly, when Bruce Arians left Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin, those Steelers teams,
00:56really never recovered offensively.
00:58They were still very, very good defensively and still going to playoffs and stuff.
01:02But offensively, Roethlisberger was never the same.
01:04All right.
01:06In Arizona, as a head coach, Arians went 49-30 and won.
01:11I think Arians was the head coach when they went to the Super Bowl and lost.
01:18I think that's right.
01:20I may be incorrect on that.
01:22From Arizona, Arians took over the Bucs when Tom Brady signed down there and they won the Super Bowl.
01:29So he's got a ring.
01:32Arians is a real deal.
01:33And it was thought that he was out of football because of health issues.
01:38Let's hear from Bruce Arians now.
01:40Coach, I remember when you retired in 2022 pretty abruptly and it really shook up the NFL.
01:46What went down during that process?
01:49And are you itching at all to come back to coaching?
01:50Well, yeah.
01:51I had torn my Achilles early in that season.
01:54And I was wearing these prosthetic high heels.
01:57And it threw my back out.
01:59And I couldn't stand on the sideline for four hours anymore without a lot of pain.
02:02And I was also monitoring an aneurysm on my heart.
02:06And so I had some health issues.
02:08We did everything we thought we could do in Tampa after we went in the Super Bowl trying to get
02:12two.
02:13And then it was time to give it to Todd, you know.
02:15And now that I'm all healthy again, I got the itch again.
02:18So we'll see.
02:20Really?
02:23Love to hear that, Coach.
02:24Let's get you back in the game, brother.
02:27Yeah, we'll see.
02:28We'll see.
02:28Never say never.
02:30All right.
02:32That is interesting.
02:37Because he will have a pick of jobs, I would guess.
02:43Just with his track record?
02:45Maybe, maybe not.
02:47People are going to the younger coaches now.
02:49Do they automatically just go to him because he was good?
02:53And then, look, when you, he said aneurysm on his heart.
02:57Couldn't stand on the sideline.
02:59They may look at that and say, okay, he may not be able to do everything we need him to
03:02do.
03:03So I understand what you're saying, but this league is changing, even on the coaching.
03:11I agree with that.
03:13I like Bruce.
03:13I hung out with him at, what's it called, Old Memorial.
03:16That's my dude.
03:18You know, but I'm just saying, I know how they're changing stuff now.
03:22Now, B, one owner that has a track record in one of his teams of hiring veteran coaches is Josh
03:33Harris.
03:33With the Sixers, they continue to hire veteran coaches.
03:36And with the commanders, whatever ended up happening, there were young guys they looked at, Ben Johnson, Mike McDonald, kind
03:46of first-time guys, right?
03:47That didn't work.
03:48And they went with the veteran, a guy that had coached before, in Dan Quinn.
03:54So I agree with you that the trend in the NFL is hiring younger guys.
03:58Although, this past offseason, you saw Harbaugh get another gig, Mike McCarthy get another gig.
04:05Bruce Arians is a vertical passing savant.
04:09He is about moving the football.
04:11And I think, I don't know, if he's out there and really actually want, it's very different, I would say,
04:21to feel healthy and have the itch to want to coach again versus, like, he knows the time and effort
04:29and what is required to actually do the job.
04:32Like, those are different, right?
04:34But should he want to get back into football, that would be a very, very interesting hire.
04:39And there is not a candidate out there, whoever you think the hottest OC is, whether it's somebody from, the
04:48Jags dude's getting a lot of hype, and that'll only continue if they win more games.
04:52He doesn't call the plays down there, by the way.
04:54There is not a young, handsome offensive coordinator I would want over Bruce Arians.
05:00Because he not only is an offensive guy that you would think would maximize a young quarterback.
05:06I'm not speaking specifically to here, but, like, wherever that young quarterback may exist.
05:13Carolina.
05:13I think Bryce Young becomes better the day Bruce Arians walks in.
05:17Do I think Jaden Daniels becomes better the day Bruce Arians walks in?
05:20Yes.
05:21But he has the offensive mindset, but he also has a proven track record of being that leader that a
05:30lot of NFL owners want as well.
05:34But, I think there will be a line around the block if Bruce Arians decides he wants to get back
05:39into coaching.
05:42Will that happen?
05:43I don't know.
05:44But, damn, it is interesting to watch.
05:47We had Pat Leonard on the program.
05:49He mentioned Jaden Daniels has never lost to the Giants, which is a crazy stat now in year three.
05:54He has missed – he didn't play in one of the Giant games last year.
06:00But, beyond Jaden, thinking about kind of the X factors in tonight's game, I want to give credit.
06:08The Sleeper Commanders account on social media has their crazy stat of the day.
06:13Did you see this, B?
06:15Uh-huh.
06:16Dan Quinn has faced the Giants 15 times as a head coach or a defensive coordinator.
06:22Twice as a D coordinator in Seattle and Dallas, and then twice as a head coach with Atlanta and Washington.
06:29So, 15 times over four different teams, two different roles.
06:33Uh-huh.
06:33Dan Quinn against the Giants, 14 wins and a tie.
06:36No losses.
06:37Damn.
06:38Let's go 15, baby.
06:40That's the way I look at it.
06:42Is it crazy to think DQ is on the right side of things tonight?
06:50No.
06:53I don't think what we saw in those two games or in that game is what he really is.
07:04Because, you know, your biography is rewritten every time you step on a field or whatever in this day and
07:13age because you get millions of people talking about it, whether it's right or wrong, and people just forget about
07:19all the other stuff you've done.
07:22Totally.
07:25Quinn is really good at building cohesive locker rooms and having guys come together on the field.
07:32They need their most cohesive effort of the season tonight because the Giants aren't going to lay down.
07:38You're not going to catch the Giants on their back foot.
07:42No, they're not going to lay down.
07:44You're not going to catch them on their back foot.
07:46I happen to just look up and I saw the player Nick Cross had with the interception against Matt Stafford.
07:52This is what I look at this, too.
07:54We said we were missing Nick Cross.
07:56We were missing Frankie LeVue.
07:58You watch Nick in that game.
07:59Nick made play after play after play.
08:02I would sit here and say, that's just who Nick is.
08:07Most people would say, oh, he was coached up.
08:09No, no, no.
08:10Other players came back.
08:12They didn't play like that.
08:13You look at, what's it called?
08:14Van Jefferson.
08:15He came back on the field, boom, made plays.
08:18Some guys make plays when they're out on the football field.
08:22Some guys understand that the coach is going to be blamed if they don't make a play.
08:26So they don't make the plays consistently.
08:29I need to see players step up more than anything.
08:33Big time players make big time plays in big time games.
