J.J. Redick (29:41)
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And my take on that is if brock Purdy wants $57 million a year. And his agent, not necessarily a well known agent, want 57 million a year. It should not be close now. Do not cave. He's got a year left on his contract and there are people like a Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen. I will pay early. Max Crosby. Oh, you can identify certain players after a year in a camp. Oh yeah, he's beating all of our tackles. Yeah, he's got 11 sacks. Let's sign him early and get a better deal. That's not Brock Purdy. But let's be brutally honest about here. The Niners biggest rival is in their division, the Rams. And it felt like three or four years ago the Niners had the edge. The Rams have passed them and blown by them. McVeigh eight years, missed the playoff once and he's got a trophy. Shanahan eight years, missed the playoffs four times. Last year was bad, no trophy. And by the way, the rosters right now, the Rams have far more good, young, inexpensive players. And that's why, that's why you can keep Matt Stafford. So I'm looking. One of the primary reasons I think the Rams have blown by him. The niners pay Christian McCaffrey, Patreon Williams, I get George Kittle. You gotta, you gotta start making decisions here on safeties and linebackers and right tackles and, and you can't pay every receiver. You can't pay Debo and Iuk. Right. And so the Rams have a much better defense and they're paying nobody on that side. They have the better quarterback, I think they have the better coach, arguably they have the better offensive line. You have to use discretion on this stuff. And I think this is a classic example, is that, you know, the Rams are a little like McVeigh is, a little like the Godfather. It's not personal, it's business. And they've told Vaughn Miller that and they've told Jalen Ramsey that, and they told Jared Goff that, and they've told multiple people that. They told Matt Stafford that. We really like you. It's not personal, but this is the number. I'm not letting Brock Purdy push me around. And I say this all the time, you know, like your sports, love your family. Don't run onto the court like Halliburton's dad, you know, shoulder. Hire an agent. Right? Like, like love your family, like your sports. And this is the way when I look at The Rams and McVeigh and Les need, they like their players, but they move off Todd Gurley and Cooper cup and Jalen Ramsey very quickly. The Niners fall in love with players. Yeah, maybe Trent Williams in his prime. Just send me the check, I'll sign it. But I. You go look at the Dallas Cowboys. They're the example here. Dallas Cowboys pay a good quarterback A plus money. And look at that roster right now. Once you do that, you cannot whiff on draft picks. And it looks like last year Cowboys may have whiffed on a first round pick. And this year people are saying they overdrafted another offensive lineman. You start paying your big stars. The Niners have missed on some draft picks and the Rams have missed on like one interior lineman a couple years ago. So the Rams are drafting, they're hitting on more draft picks, they're using more discretion, and they're not top heavy. And so when I hear this story on Brock Purdy, people think, I don't like Brock Purdy. No, I don't like paying Brock Purdy 57 million. I love Brock Purdy at 31. I like him at 41. I'm not caving at 53. So. Okay, the Bill Belichick Jordan Hudson story has taken an interesting turn. So I had two strong opinions on this story. I now have three. My first opinion was bit cringy. He's 70 plus, she's 24. Then I watched the CBS interview, which she stepped in front of and like a professional, said, you're not talking about our private relationship. My second opinion was, it's still age wise, a little creepy. But in college football, old Bill needs this. He just happens to be dating it too, but he needs this. Then another story came out and skeletons are starting to be unearthed and reporters are starting to report. There was a story in the New York Post yesterday that Jordan Hudson has amassed $8 million in real estate, multiple homes, starting at the time she started dating Bill. Who am I to pry? Another part of this story is looking back at her family who had a fishing business that went bankrupt. Her mother moved to Cape Cod. And now I'll only say this once manages a sex toy shop and museum. Didn't know they existed. The museum part doesn't sound like the Smithsonian, but who am I to be snarky? The family's a little different. It does appear now I'll have a third opinion, which is they are both benefiting in multiple ways from each other. Whatevs. It's gone from cringy to crucial to crypto. I don't know what the hell I'm going to get tomorrow. That's why I don't invest in it. And here's the Thing. She is providing a service. Take your mind out of the gutter. She is providing a service as his social media director, and she'd like to be compensated for it. That's, I think, where we are. But let's go back to the beginning and my skepticism when this happened. What was my first opinion like, the day it happened? Bill doesn't even watch much college football. I can tell from his drafts he's terrible. Bill's an NFL guy. He's not spending Saturdays on the couch like his contacts. Like he'd call Urban Meyer or Nick Saban. What do you got for me? Herm Edwards. But I never thought of him as a college football guy. College football coaches. Nick Saban may seem grumpy. Nick Saban's funny. Nick Saban, social. Nick Saban's personal. I've been around Nick once or twice. He lights up a room. Nick is funny. He's a good storyteller. He can laugh at himself. That's not Bill. Bill's a pro football coach. And. And that's not a bad thing. But Bill never had this. Like Urban Meyer to me, always been a college football coach. Urban Meyer told me years ago, I love Urban. He's a friend. He told me years ago, I don't watch pro football on Sunday. I watch Ohio State game tape. Like, Urban took the job, made his money. He was always a college football coach. The NFL thing didn't fit. Bill was always an NFL coach. Then he brings Mike Lombardi, who I know he brought him over. Lombardi's an NFL guy. And I said this when it happened. I said, you think Bill Belichick had no patience for Robert Kraft? He had no patience for NFL owners. You think he's going to sit around and have an SID run the show or an athletic director or some goofy donor? Or that this was always an uneven relationship? The minute UNC gave him $10 million a year to a guy who'd never coached college football. Yeah, his dad coached at Navy, but he never showed any great inclination for it. In fact, the only reason this thing makes sense is because of nil, where Bill can now buy players and doesn't have to hop in a jet every 15 minutes and recruit guys. So I do think it potentially could work through nil, but this was an uneven relationship. Carolina was desperate, and Bill's like, all right, I want 10 million bucks. And, oh, by the way, if I want to leave in a year, I can. No other college contract is paying a guy 10 large a year plus, and he can just leave whatever he Wants to. It was always an uneven relationship. So Bill's going to do what he wants. And again, I do think Jordan Hudson. I mean, these stories, I don't know what to make of it. I just, they're both, they're, they're both benefiting. And you know, my wife does, you know, you know, she's, you know, I get a lot of. This is just inappropriate. Yeah, I get that crowd. Like, like. But this, you know, people get into relationships, whatever. I'm not here to judge. I do think she is providing something that he would not tolerate. Having some SID chase him around the field telling him he's got to talk to this radio station and that it's not going to work with Bill. That's just not his personality. And that was always my question. I'm like Mike Lombardi and Belichick. These are NFL dudes. Remember when Charlie Weiss came to Notre Dame and everybody was like, he's an NFL guy. He's a little gruff. And my take was Charlie tried. Charlie would go on shows. Charlie played the game. If Charlie Weiss was in the nil era, maybe it works better. He could just buy players. I think this, this model now can work for NFL guys. But this stuff that's coming out now, it's. Okay, I'll say it one more time. I don't know what a sex shop slash museum is. It doesn't sound like the Guggenheim. I don't know what it is. I. And here's the other thing. I don't, I don't want to know what it is. I, If I go to that town, I'm not stopping for red lights. If I, I'm just driving straight through that town on Cape Cod. This thing's getting weird. It is. It is bitcoin. Nobody knows what's happening tomorrow. Don't listen to anybody. There could be six other stories cooking on this. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, Weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the iHeartRadio app. His name is Ethan Strauss, author of the Victory Machine, the Making Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty. House of Strauss is his podcast. So I don't call out coaches a lot, especially basketball coaches, but over the course of a seven game series, as you know, you covered the warriors in the dynasty. Steve Kerr often pulled the right levers in a close series. And J.J. reddick's a kid. He went from player podcaster, coaching the biggest brand in the sport and he's gotten real defensive. What did you make of his game? For no subs. His reaction before last night's game and last night's game. Just your thoughts on the entire kind of moment for J.J. redick in the last 48, 72 hours?
