Jason McIntyre (41:57)
Yeah, I, I think that's true. I, I have a very strong belief. Owner should own. GM said gm. Coaches should coach, players should play. Now there, there are occasional players who have a good sense of personnel, but athletes, an athlete's prism is selfish. To be an athlete, you have to be selfish. You give up stuff, right? And an athlete's prism is what's good for me and what's good today. And a general manager obviously has to have a more comprehensive view. That's why even as smart as LeBron is in terms of basketball, every team LeBron leaves is a shipwreck. Why? Because you build the team for the moment and the minute he leaves, you don't have any depth, you don't have draft picks. So it's all about winning. Now in his prime, I'm for that. I remember in Miami, I think there was a basketball player, I forget it was a Yukon player or something. There was some guard that LeBron liked that had a really good Final Four or a really good tournament. And LeBron reportedly like, liked him and he didn't do anything in the NBA. This is like the minute owners start meddling Jerry Jones, it goes sideways. The minute GMs start putting pressure on their coach or their quarterback, it goes sideways. One of the reasons Green Bay has worked for all these years in The NFL is that Murphy runs the operations, Guten Kunz running personnel. Their coach is an offensive guy, runs the team. And you get into problems when passive aggressive Brett or passive aggressive Aaron want to be like a little bit of coach and personnel guy. That's when the problems happen. Early Favre didn't. Early Aaron didn't. Anytime Green Bay has struggled. It has been a quarterback that wants to usurp certain power dynamics. And I just, I just don't think it works. You know, you can go and be, you know, conciliatory. Hey, listen, what do you think? Listen, we really care about your opinion, but I think, and I'll give you an example, Belichick's a brilliant coach. The minute Belichick took over personnel, the last seven drafts in New England were awful. I've said this. I can. I had a phone call. I was driving home two days ago, I had a phone call with the GM in the NFL, and I said, the San Francisco 49ers draft has Kyle Shanahan's fingerprints all over it. And this GM agreed. I said, I love their first pick. And then it looked like a bunch of picks that could help Kyle Shanahan. Now, that was not a John lynch draft. That, that Kyle has too much power. I felt Denver this year with Sean Payton. I didn't love Denver's draft. I thought there were a couple of reaches that felt like, this will help Sean now. And I love Sean. I think the best draft was Seattle. Why? Because McDonald has no power. Therefore, it was a John Snyder draft. The coach doesn't have any power yet. And it was a strict, by the way, what other coach doesn't have power? Todd Bowles, Tampa. Look at their last couple drafts. Really strong. So I, I, it's not one of these shut up and dribble things. Like, I, I, I think you should. LeBron in his prime or Brady in his prime, hey, what do you make of this guy? But I think it's better to ask LeBron in his prime, what do you think of this current teammate? Not how do you project this kid from Kansas who's an off guard. How does he know he's watching the NBA? But I do think you can go to a LeBron or a Mahomes and say, hey, man, how is this guy in the room? Do you trust him on routes? Is he a worker? Do the guys like him? I think that's when you go to a star, how does this guy play in the room? Tell me if you know. And that's why most great coaches in Every sport will have like a council, like a player's council. Players have player only meetings. That's the value of the star. Give me the temperature of the room, I'll keep it private. Who's not working. But I think asking a pro athlete to project, hell, that's hard enough for general managers to project who's going to be in the pros. You don't have any idea. Now, Rich Paul did say, and LeBron in his prime, you know, when his ceiling was unlimited, it's different. But right now, LeBron is a lease, not a buy. He's a lease. He's not even a lease to own. He's just a lease. It is very hard to plan your future around a player that doesn't know his future. So there's, there's. I think you. LeBron is squeezing every last ounce out of this career. But at this point, I'm not, I'm not terribly interested in like his plans going forward. You want to make sure when he bolts, when he jettisons the team. And that could be, you know, after this year, he's more into playing with his sons mode. He's more in the business mode, which I'm here for. He's earned it. But I'm not asking him for big opinions on personnel. Earlier today I said, I think it was Bleacher report came out and they listed a player on every team. That is the most dangerous new addition. It could be free agency, it could be the draft. I think it's coach, quarterback, league. I think there's four people that will change losses to wins. Cam Ward, quarterback for the Titans, Mike Vrabel, Geno Smith. Quarterback play was so bad last year. And by the way, if you notice what I'm saying here, all of these people, whether it's Cam Ward, Mike Vrabel, Geno Smith, Ben Johnson, what do they have in common? They are replacing somebody, either coach or quarterback who was bottom of the league. So competency to slightly above competency will change outcomes in these four players or coaches. Cam Ward, Mike Vrabel, Geno Smith, Ben Johnson. Matt Hasselbeck joined us earlier. The, the. I, I think you got to put a pretty quick timetable on Caleb Williams. I think generally, if a quarterback has a smart offensive coach, Tua got Mike McDaniel, Goff got Sean McVeigh, you saw it in three weeks. But Hasselbeck's taking a bit more of a practical approach.
