Fox Sports Analyst (likely Colin Cowherd or co-host) (4:10)
All right. Urban Meyer will be joining us in about 30 minutes. He is live from Columbus, Ohio. The Buckeyes take on Penn State. Penn State's got the athletes, I'll tell you. They got the players. But that, that program's in a bit of turmoil right now as they're looking for a coach. So is lsu, so is Florida, and Lane Kiffin's the leading candidate. But I'll tell you to Nobody's surprised the Ravens thumped the Dolphins last night, but Miami has officially started the rebuild process after parting ways this morning with general manager Chris Greer, which is exactly what they need. They also announced they're going to keep Mike McDaniel for the rest of the year. Very smart. Don't put an interim guy in who reels off four or five wins and everybody goes, I'll hire the interim. Okay, don't do that. You know what Miami's got to do next? Go hire Lane Kiffin. Everything about Miami's empty calories last night Time of possession, yards, first downs. Miami as many as Baltimore, and they got blown out. They got no alpha. They got no culture. Mike McDaniel is a great offensive coach. Yeah, come on. I'll get the two later. Here's why you go higher. Lane Kiffin, number one offense in college football, last several years. Half the SEC quarterbacks this year, all that first round draft quarterbacks. Everybody's talking about what a great quarterback draft is going to be for the eight best quarterbacks are from the sec. Lane recruited him. Lane faced him. Lane's looked at film of him. Nobody knows the SEC quarterbacks better than the current best offensive coach. So you get all the Mike McDaniel innovation, but you get an alpha. He played the position. He's a guy's guy. He's got an attitude. That's what Miami lacks. They got a smart guy in the building. They got no culture. They got nothing. They're flimsy. It's empty calories. Last night, you look at the yards, you look at a lot of the box score, you're like, I must have been a close game. And just all empty calories. And by the way, for college coaches now, it used to be college looked one way, the NFL looked another way. But now college coaches like Kiffin, they have free agency. It's called the transfer portal. They pay the players. So Lane Kiffin. And Ole Miss doesn't have a great football program. They're good with Kiffin. They've led college football and offense. The NFL is an offensive league. He has been a CEO. Because in the NFL, you want your coach to be a CEO. Everybody's always like, get the GM first, then the coach. Ah, nonsense. Chargers got Harbaugh first. A week later, they hire the gm, go get Lane Kiffin. At the end of the year, Kiffin can keep bouncing around. Florida, lsu, Ole Miss. It's college football. Take a big swing. Lane Kiffin, take a big swing. College coaches like Harbaugh, they are CEOs. They, they got the transfer portal, the nil. It's all different now. It used to be college coach, he went to high schools. Belichick now coaches college. He just write a check to get guys. So college and NFL is much more similar in style. This isn't about to that. Ship has sailed. They got a clean house. I would. I would move off tua. I would move off the coach. I would move off the gm. Do not put an interim coach in there. Do not do it. Because the guy reels off five out of six wins and everybody in Miami is Like, oh, my God, that's how the Raiders, you know, Antonio Pierce, you get hot, you win a couple games. It's the substitute teacher rule. Everybody's great to the substitute teacher. That's not what you do. So you want the innovation. What does Miami have? Innovation. Don't lose the innovation with Lane Kiffin. You keep the innovation. And the other thing is, I don't. This idea that the GM selects the coach and the GM selects the quarterback. I got news for you. Lane Kiffin knows the quarterbacks in the SEC better than any gm. Season ends. Write a check, get Kiffin. Let Kiffin make sure he likes the gm. I'd have Kiffin pick the quarterback, then have the GM pick everybody else. Remember, folks, I know a lot of these GMs. I think they're really good. I think they're nice guys. They're smart. Half of them like TUA more than Justin Herbert. Half of them. I mean, when Justin Herbert walks into a room, six, six, good looking, strapping guy, four, two, biology major, howitzer for an arm. TUA walks into a room, it's like, are you working Accounting? Certain guys look like pro athletes. Half the GMs wanted Tua in the AFC where the best teams are like, you know, Baltimore, Kansas City, when Burrell's healthy. Cincinnati, it's going to be New England. TUA in the afc. What are we doing? So I think. I think this is the way to do it. Now. Mike McDaniel, after getting blown out. This was not about Baltimore last night. I told you yesterday. They're going to win. They're going to win comfortably. Lamar Jackson's back. They're going to reel off six straight wins or thereabout. We knew they were going to win that game. This is about Miami. GM's out. They're going to keep smartly, keep the coach to the end. And I got nothing against Mike McDaniel. I think he's smart. I'd hire him in a New York minute to be my coordinator. He's not a head coach here. He is after. Listen, the bottom line is you have to cross your T's and dot your I's in the International Football League or. Or you get made pay. So there's. It's a very, very dis. I mean, these are the things that will constantly occur in the National Football League. You won't like the results. No presence. Absolutely. Dan Campbell hit you like a strong drink. Mike Vrabel, intimidating. You know, like Sean McVeigh walks to the podium. He's. He looks and feels like he's six, eight. Horrible presence. Presence. I said this about Kiffin. Kiffin can be snarky. He can be a smart aleck. Oh, you offend the donors, you offend the athletic director. Yeah, get out of that world. I love college football. Get out of that space. Just deal with one owner. You know, you gotta deal sometime. You know, Miami actually isn't that impulsive. Miami, you know, they gave Mike McDaniel a long Runway. I mean, they gave Chris Greer a decade plus to be a gm, and I don't think he's very good. I got nothing against him, but if you have two as a quarterback, you have to have a good backup quarterback and a great O line. They have neither. So a lot of these GMs, you don't major at GM in college. You're a scout. You work your way up. I mean, I. First step, GM's out. Second step, keep McDaniel. Third step, get Lane Kiffin. Let him choose the GM. Because these quarterbacks in the SEC, the eight best quarterbacks going into the draft, four Kiffins either recruited him, faced him, watched film on them. All right, Secondly, Mahomes and Josh Allen faced this weekend again. They've faced nine times. Mahomes has won five, Allen's won four. So when these guys came into the NFL, they had a lot in common. Both came. They didn't win a lot in college. They both went to small markets, Kansas City, Buffalo. Both the teams had coaches that had led their team in a previous season to the playoffs. Both are insanely gifted. Our two most gifted quarterbacks, they played nine times. And there have been wild shootouts. The difference to me is that Mahomes has the best offensive coach in league history. Bill Walsh is the only other one in the running. And Josh Allen has a very good coach. And I last year when these teams played, remember that push, push thing Buffalo tried to do? And it looked unorganized. Remember that? It looked like they just told Josh Allen, hey, Josh, you're six. Six. Just reach the ball over and get a first down. And that's the difference. I believe if Josh Allen gets Andy Reid and Mahomes gets McDermott, they both win a ton, but somebody else has the trophies. I really believe that Kansas City, when they played Buffalo last year, were better on third down, were perfect on fourth down, outscored Buffalo in the fourth quarter. Mahomes and Reed do not beat you in the opening drive. They beat you late. When Brady and Belichick were running around winning super bowl after super bowl, they weren't blowing people out. They dominated the Rams, but every other Super Bowl Belichick and Brady were in were won or lost on one possession. The colder the weather gets, the later it gets. In the season past Thanksgiving, small becomes big. The minutiae matters a ton. Situational football is the key to all of it. Again, when the weather's warm, Tua looks like a Pro Bowler. When the weather's warm at 72 degrees and everybody's healthy and comfortable, that's not what the NFL is. The NFL is December. Half your defense is banged up, three or four guys on the ir. The weather stinks, it's cold and the games come down to inches, not feet, feet, not yards. And so to me, I look at McDermott, I think he's a very good coach. I look at Andy Reid as the league gets pivoted to offense as the greatest offensive coach along with Bill Walsh of all time. And so the meetings are always superb. They're the two most gifted guys that have played the position in a long time and perhaps ever. And here's Josh Allen ahead of the matchup this weekend. I think we've played them, I mean, damn near every year since I've gotten here. So yeah, I mean, I guess you.
