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It's the Herd. Wherever you may be, however you may be listening. Ryan Day, Buckeyes head coach stops by Nick Wright, Albert Breer Our final Herd hierarchy moving into the season. We're all a little tan, ready to roll. J. Mack so that was about as bad last I knew what today's lead was going to be and for at least five to seven minutes it was a masterpiece for UNC M, Michael Jordan and Roy Williams. That ended up being an all time conquer. I mean that is as bad 29 to 10 first downs. So there was a lot of hope. Even TCU's social media team is mocking Carolina football today. So of all the discussion about Bill Belichick, the big concern I had was, remember I Talked about this, 40 transfers. It's like a friends and family coaching staff. There's three Belichicks and Mike Lombardi and his son. And then there's Belichick's girlfriend. And then there's Jamie Collins, who's never been a coach, but he played with Belichick. It kind of feels like a friends and family staff. And I saw that with Bill Belichick at the end of New England. He didn't hire the best coaches available. He hired the guys he was most comfortable with. Young Bill Belichick would have fired this Bill Belichick. He's seeking comfort. You can't coach in a gated community. Nick Saban goes out and hires Lane Kiffin as the oc. They were at each other's throats. Saban was not seeking the most comfortable guy to hire. He brought in Lane, Lane's ego. But Lane's a great coach and Saban continually would go get the best coach available. After the first drive, they had a really nice scripted first drive. After that, six drives without completing a pass. Because the game has changed. You have to take offense. Seriously. Freddy Kitchens is the oc. He was already on staff, you know, so why put any effort into going out and getting the best OC on the market? We'll just move up Freddy Kitchens. Was Freddy Kitchens up for elite offensive coordinator jobs in the NFL or college. He wasn't, but he was on staff. You know, let's. This is like what they did in New England where they made the DC the offensive coordinator. We'll worry about offense tomorrow. This offense isn't good. This is when Belichick interviewed with the Atlanta Falcons. Remember, he laid out his plan and one of the reports or two of the reports were, well, he wanted to hire his guys. McVeigh, McVeigh coaches his guys. Then they go on and become good head coaches. Andy Reid, he'll coach his guys, then they leave. You ever notice with Belichick, it's a lot of the people that stick around, they may leave. They always come back. So I watched last night. Sonny Dykes, by the way, the coach at tcu, his dad was a legendary coach. You know what, they never worked together. They didn't want the nepotism. They didn't work together. So as I watched the game unfold, the longer it went, you could see the gap in coaching. And some of this is 40 transfers. I mean, I got to be honest, the transfer portal feels a little like bitcoin. Everybody thinks they're going to get rich and it's a lot of nonsense and hope and hype and I'm not really sure you're ever going to be able to buy a really nice house with it. But hey, it sounds great. Let's bring in all these new. But I. But I think Belichick has become the chef that won't change the menu. Bill, in his career, if you count the Browns, the Patriots and Carolina last night without Tom Brady, has averaged 19 points in his career. Forget the record, which is unimpressive. Sub 500. He doesn't move the ball. He doesn't take offense seriously enough. Change the menu. Update the wait staff. It's a new menu. It's a new area of town. And they're all the hipsters around. You are taking offense seriously. So I watched tcu, I watched their quarterback, I watched their offense. They dabbled just a little in the transfer portal. That was a well coached team. And the longer the game went, the more they pulled away. But, you know, this is again, it feels like Bill has moved into a time in his life where he just wants to work with coaches he's comfortable with and people he's comfortable with. You know, there was a years and years ago on this show, I think it was Urban Meyer had said he had talked to Bill, you know, and at one point Bill had said, you know, there's certain players I'm just not going to coach anymore. That is the opposite of the early Bill Belichick. You took guys that could be a little crazy. You took guys that didn't make you comfortable. You had to be a mentor to some of the coaches. They didn't know your system, but that's okay. That is how you grow in life. With a little discomfort. You have to bark occasionally. Things go a little sideways. I, I just, I, I, I had concerns coming into this thing is that TCU came in with a staff that'd been around. They knew college football, but this was way worse than I thought. At its worst it could be. And here's Bill after they just outplayed us, they out coached us. I mean, they were just better than we were tonight. That's all there was to it. They controlled both sides of the line of scrimmage. Their skill players played well and, you know, they, and they just, they did a lot more things right than we did. We're better than what we were tonight. So. But we have to go out there and show that and prove it. So nobody's going to do it for us. We'll have to do it ourselves. And that's what we're going to do. All right, so the second story, and this happened several days ago, but ESPN threw a slew of reporters at it. It's a very interesting read. It's inside the Cowboys decision to trade Micah Parsons. And so I'm always a little and I think all the reporters on this. Don Van not is very good. Seth Wickersham has a lot of good reporters. Jeremy Fowler, these really talented people. I'm always a little gun shy about crushing the player because I know where the leaks come from. There's a lot of leaks from the Cowboy side, you know, protecting the enterprise and protecting the brand. And there's stories here that he wasn't good in the weight room, he didn't get treatment regularly. He participated in walkthroughs. But his behavior could be odd. And, you know, in the locker room, he was kind of a deflating energy. A lot of this stuff I don't want to get into because I know where it's coming from. The Cowboys got crushed for this move, and now they want to make it look like, well, the packers are getting damaged goods here. The packers are getting a playmaker. But I still support the move. Now, I don't think I talked to somebody over the weekend. I don't think Micah was the most popular guy in the locker room. Albert Breer reported that Zach Martin CD Lam And Dak are more popular. That's okay. Not, by the way. Jalen hurts, believe it or not, is not the most beloved player in the Eagles locker room. Saquon Barkley is loved in that locker room. Jalen hurts a little hit and miss, does his own thing. Not everybody loved Peyton Manning. He would bark at his friends. Jeff Saturday. I don't care if the quarterback, Troy Aikman, legendary. Barking at coaches, barking at players. So I don't, I don't care if you're the most loved guy. But I will say this. When you pay a guy 47 million and that's what, that's what he wanted, you got to have the cake made, right? Like you like, like they needed in Dallas, because they're not Green Bay. They don't have the culture right now or the leadership. They needed Micah Parsons to be more than just C ball, go get it. And that's largely what he was. He's just going to go wreck a play. The problem is they have a weak coaching staff right now in Dallas. It's not a great roster. It, it may not be a great culture. And here's the thing. When you're going to give 47 million to a guy and you're still kind of, you're kind of in a soft rebuild, you need him more than just have IG followers and some sacks. And Dallas now to me, has flexibility. And Jerry Jones has always played himself off as a big deal maker. And he's an oil catter, kind of a maverick, right? He was a pushback guy. If you watch the documentary on Netflix, he's a wildcatter, they called it. So he was a deal maker. The problem is the last two years, they can't make any deals. They have no flexibility. They had the worst running back room in the league and they couldn't go buy Derrick Henry for $8 million, which we kept pounding the table on this show and Baltimore did. So they couldn't make any deals. That was only going to get worse, paying Micah 47 million. And so now they've got four first round picks in the next couple of years and they have real flexibility. That's what Dallas needs. Because in this sport right now, is there any greater deal maker than Howie Roseman in their division twice a year with the Eagles? No. I mean Philadelphia is tweaking, they're doing chess. Dallas is checkers. And they couldn't even make moves on checkers over the last couple of years in free agency. So it gives them flexibility, it gives them multiple first round picks. I Would certainly look at drafting another quarterback next year in the first round if I could. I know you're all in love with Dakota, but this insistence that Dallas got hosed, folks, I've seen Dax, CD Lamb and Micah in the playoffs. Yeah, I saw those guys get housed by the Green Bay packers in Dallas and that was the youngest playoff team since 1970. Buffalo Bills, remember Green Bay walked in that thing. About three series in was over. The packers came with a bunch of 23 year old kids, blew them out. Jordan Love blew them out. So I've seen this. I don't get the rinse and repeat factor or this insistence. I mean the thing about Micah, he's a really good fit for what Green Bay needs now. But Dallas needs flexibility more than an edge rusher who disappears at times against the best left tackles he goes up against. He's never been a guy with great instincts or great eyes. That's why you can't use him in a stack linebacker, inside space. You need him to just go and wreck plays. I'd have trouble paying 47 million. So I, I think it, it two things can be true. I think he works right now for Green Bay. But this idea that, that I've seen CD Dak and Micah, I got one playoff win. That's it. And this coaching staff in my opinion is worse than that coaching staff that got housed by the Packers. Here's Micah.