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That's BetterHelpHELP.com slash grow. Wake up! Would you rather I yell at you or just let the music go? People must hate me for that reason.

Jay, would you hate me if, let's just say for the sake of argument, you didn't work on this show, which of course you're never allowed to do from now until the end of time. But you didn't work on this show and instead you were one of those people who woke up at 5 a.m. Eastern Time or 4 a.m. Central Time and I don't know if people still do this. Do people still have clock radios? To wake up?

I actually do have a clock radio in my room but here's how much I use, well first of all I never use the radio, but the clock never got turned back in the fall. Fall back, yeah. Clock never got turned back in the fall and so it's an hour ahead and I just leave it that way. Oh my gosh, that would mess me up all day.

Really? It would screw with me. I mean I know it's an hour ahead so I just do it in my brain, whatever. It's like the first thing I do in my car clock because mine doesn't automatically go back, I have to do it.

So the first thing, right when it messes me up. Yes, well Princess Leia I have to like manually change it, it doesn't automatically change but the clock radio in my room is not, it's operational but the most I ever pay attention to it is when the power goes out and it starts blinking, it's one of those and the green light just blink, blink, blink, blink. Anyway, clock radios. If there's anybody out there who still uses the clock radio, would that be just the rudest awakening? Would you hate me? I kind of would like it, because see I'm like, I'd be like let's go, bang, like start the day, right into it, let's rock, wolf mother, come on.

No you wouldn't, there are times, multiple times in the past where I get a phone call and you've just woken up and that is not how you wake up. That's true, that is true. Especially on a manic Monday, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio, we are buried, we're knee deep in it now as we come out of Wild Card Weekend and all I'm asking, all I'm asking football is if you just don't inundate us with the news that we had last week. But I have a feeling it's going to happen, because teams are admonished by the league, and this is a real thing, I'm not making this up, teams are admonished by the NFL, don't upstage our games with your news.

Meaning, last week when Vrabel was fired on Tuesday, there was a reason for it, right? The college football national championship was taking place the night before. The NFL and college football, they try to work together, so the NFL doesn't hold games on Saturdays until the season is done, blah blah blah.

Don't upstage our action. So last Tuesday, it started a waterfall of shockers, stunners from the waterfall, the football waterfall. We had Mike Vrabel on Tuesday, we had Pete Carroll and Nick Saban on Wednesday, we had Bill Belichick and Bob Kraft on Thursday. Then we had the Alabama higher over the weekend, right? So that actually got lost a little bit, I think, just in everything that was happening with the NFL. It's kind of odd, you don't generally get an introductory press conference on the weekend, but Alabama does what it wants. College football belongs to Alabama, it's Tuscaloosa's world, we're just living in it, they do what they want. And so that was kind of happening over the weekend, and the dominoes falling in college football. Now you had these three consecutive days of wildcard games where, yes, there are interviews going on, but teams are, they're not supposed to be announcing big hires or big news on the same day as a game.

Because the NFL doesn't want the headlines to be stolen away from the action on the field. Strongly worded emails land in your inbox if you do that. Speaking of strongly worded emails, Eagles fans may have some for Nick Sirianni. Do people still email coaches? I know that I still get emails telling me that I'm the worst host in the history of the world, or giving me advice about how to handle my show. I get emails, because we have, right, so we have on our CBS Sports Radio website, I probably shouldn't share this, we have some type of a contact us option. And there are times where David, our PD, program director, will pass along emails, people write to me with all kinds of suggestions. Everything from something to do with my house to how to host my show. In fact, that's how the Peach Belt Conference got in touch with me.

Not on Twitter or Facebook, but the assistant commissioner of the Peach Belt Conference got in touch with me via the contact us button on our website, and that's how I got invited to be the keynote speaker at next week's conference. Wow, look at that. So it works. Well, one time it worked. One time it was something positive. So I wonder how many strongly worded emails are going the direction of Nick Sirianni. I hope he doesn't have a Facebook page, or if he does I hope the messages are turned off.

I hope his DMs are not open. Because this was an epic collapse by the Eagles. They were 10-1, and then they weren't. They were 10-1 until they lost, what, six of their last seven games. They fell out of the lead in the NFC East.

They tumbled all the way to number five. They won on the road. And then they got blasted by the Bucks. This was the final and most depressing chapter for the Eagles, if you're a fan.

And I'm not saying the Bucks aren't a good team, only that the Bucks themselves have been on some kind of an interesting journey where the defense has kept them in games until the offense could find its footing. And so to lose to the Buccaneers in Tampa is just adding insult to injury. Oh, even worse, to have your tush push stopped on the half-yard line so that you don't get the two-point conversion. Although, to be fair, one of the Buccaneers had two hands on Jalen Hurts' face mask. It was just grabbing him and pulling him backward. Not sure how that was missed, but it was. Adding insult to injury. The Eagles are ousted, and it's not close. It wasn't competitive. Here's one stat.

I could give you many, but here's one that just blows me away. These are the Eagles. They were the NFC champions. 0 for 11 on third and fourth down. Yes, the Todd Bowles, Buccaneers defense, or as my sheet says here, Jay, the Todd Bowles.

Does it? Uh-oh. Let's play that on the intern. The intern was typing up names. The Todd Bowles defense has been really good at the line of scrimmage, and they've made a point of stopping the run.

So I get it. The defense is a tough challenge, but 0 for 11 on third and fourth down, a lot of times they were in longer yardage situations on third down. Jalen Hurts was getting blitzed. He was getting harassed.

He was getting chased. It's not long ago that we would have said the Eagles offensive line was one of the best in the business and maybe the strength of their team. But that is not the case anymore.

Certainly not the case in this last month and a half. So this is embarrassing for the Eagles. Now, does that mean Nick Sirianni should fear for his job?

Please make me roll my eyes. I would be stunned, stunned if the Eagles made a change at head coach, and I think it would be dumb to do so. They've been to the playoffs all three years under Nick Sirianni. They just changed coordinators. I don't love the Matt Patricia piece. This may be the last stop for Matt Patricia. Unless he goes with Belichick to wherever Belichick lands.

Either way, this was a stunning collapse. And Nick Sirianni right on the heels of this loss to the Bucs was asked about his future. There's a lot of guys in that locker room, all the guys in that locker room, every single one of them that put their heart and soul into this. I'm not worried about me. I didn't know he was going anywhere.

I didn't know that. Where's the confidence level in him then to fix his team? I have a ton of confidence in everyone in this building. It's just a matter of us going out there and playing clean football. That's been something that we have not done.

I would agree with Jalen, and of course he's part of the issue. A lot of turnovers, a lot of issues in the red zone. They've been good on goal-to-go situations, but you're not always right on the goal line when you're in the red zone. And could they have tackled any more poorly than they did against the Buccaneers? 157 yards after the catch by the Bucs. By the way, this is a Bucs team that couldn't even score a touchdown against the Panthers last week. Was it last week?

Man, that feels like a long time ago. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. How do you fix the Eagles? That's the question. A lot of people calling for the ouster of Sirianni.

I think that would be a rash decision, and one made by fans, not by Howie Roseman and the front office. But certainly there's a lot to address in the offseason. We were just a little out of sync, obviously. We had the big play to Devontae. Besides that, we were just a little bit out of flow.

That's always going to start with me. I wasn't good enough. Obviously, we're not putting them in good enough positions. Whenever you're out of flow like that and not in sync like we were, it's going to be hard to get your carries when you're behind the sticks. And we had a two-minute drive there as well.

So, hey, listen, we need to be able to run it more. Obviously, we weren't able to today to get into a flow, and that's not me. Who are the Eagles? That's a good question, because I kind of felt like this year they didn't have the identity. They didn't have that confidence in who they were and who they wanted to be when they got out there on the field. A.J. Brown was missing in this game.

That's obviously a big deal, but I don't think he would have made enough of a difference. As Sirianni points out, they couldn't get a whole lot done on the ground, and they were playing from behind. And I don't just mean score. They were playing catch-up. They were playing from behind.

They were playing a game really dictated by the Bucks all evening. But why? That's the question. Why?

How did this happen? And what do the Eagles need to do moving forward? For us to put the output that we want on the field. Obviously have the results that we want and have the opportunities we want. It takes consistency in that.

There's no point to identity, no more than execution. The reality is we have to be better, and that starts with me. It's one of those things where you never expect it to end. You never know when it's going to end. It's always super disappointing when it does, whether it's regular season, post-season, Super Bowl. It's never fun to know that this is going to be the last time with a group of guys that are in this locker room.

Got respect for each and every one of the people in this room, the organization. We're going to find a way to come out stronger. Dallas got it with the only touchdown for the Eagles on Monday night. The Buccaneers, meanwhile, looking like world beaters on offense.

And honestly, a lot of it was the missed tackles. There are problems on both sides of the ball. So that's the Eagles question.

And how do you fix it? So we'll ask John Kincaid. He'll help us deliver the Eagles eulogy. The 2023 eulogy coming up in, hmm, we'll call it 25 minutes here on CBS Sports Radio. As for the Buccaneers, I have done a complete 180 on Baker Mayfield. I used to roll my eyes at him. I was so snarky and sarcastic about Baker, and I'm not sorry. He was cocky. He was cocksure. He was arrogant and annoying.

Real G's moving silence like lasagna. It was all about Baker, always. And not just that, but his whole social media persona was just social media, the podcast, all that jazz. It just oozed arrogance.

I would love to show up in somebody's cubicle and just boo the **** out of them. He cared so much what people thought of him. Again, it was all about Baker, and then he got humbled, which is not a bad thing for any of us ever in our lifetimes. I suck today. We suck today. It was awful. He became more accountable after he got dumped by the Browns, and I don't love how they handle their business.

I don't. But that's what happened. He got dumped. He didn't get picked up by the team he wanted, which I think at the time, remember, he said he'd love to be an Indy. Maybe he dodged a bullet there. Goes to Carolina.

That doesn't work. Ends up in L.A., but only to keep the seat warm for Matthew Stafford and then gets a one year deal, which is kind of an insult for a quarterback in the NFL. I mean, it puts you in a lower level tier, does it not? If you get a one year prove it deal as a quarterback. This is the number one pick, a Heisman Trophy winner. Are you kidding me? And yet this Baker Mayfield, he's a better leader.

Takes nothing for granted. He's wiser. There's no doubt that the last two years, they've changed him. He's still a warrior. He still, for some reason, desires to bang helmet.

Well, to bang the helmet of his offensive lineman when he's got no helmet on. I feel like the the independent spotter should be flagging that. You should probably keep an eye on that. It cracks me up. Maybe that's why he's mellowed. Maybe.

Maybe things are moving around in there. I like this Baker Mayfield. I wouldn't say he's the top ten quarterback, but I would say he'll give you one hundred and ten percent. He can still make most of the throws on the field. And I love the connection that he's established with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and Kate Otten.

He's worked hard with these guys. These are no longer the Bruce and Brady books. This is Bowles and Baker, but they're one of the hottest teams in the NFL.

I know it sounds crazy. They don't get the headlines they used to. It's not as flashy. They're not on national TV because it's not the greatest quarterback of all time. But they've now won six of their last seven. They're into the divisional round. They ousted the reigning NFC champions and it wasn't close.

It's a new day. Baker's back from wandering the wilderness in the NFL and Todd Bowles has reestablished themselves. There's no hot seat for Todd Bowles. It's good to know you won't go 0-17. Good for the Bucks. I mean, they've had to remake themselves, their identity and certainly the personnel since the Super Bowls.

But I mean, this is a fun story. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. The other raving about Baker, who had ribs and ankles and aches and pains and three touchdowns and over 330 yards. I said immediately after the game, we worked extremely hard to get a chance to be in the playoffs. And we just wanted an opportunity and our guys came out and played really, really well. Special teams, defense. Once again, Chase is a stud. Defense played lights out.

Yeah, we should have had a lot more points on offense, but we did just enough to get the win tonight. And yeah, we're happy, but still got more to go. He's a dog.

No, he's a super tough guy. Incredible competitor. You know, he's been doing everything he can to be out there with us. So it's awesome to see. Sometimes that's just what you need in your locker room.

You can use that chip, you can use that energy, you can use that determination. And honestly, for Baker, it's got to be double what it used to be because now he's out to prove to everybody. One of his touchdown passes is a candidate for TD of the week. This is the Trey Palmer, 56 yarder. And I don't know if he got this from Baker Mayfield.

Maybe Baker came after him to headbutt him with no helmet. But Palmer, he was playing with a different kind of a toad. It's just my mood. Like, I just woke up mad. Like, I don't like birds, you know. Trey Palmer doesn't like birds. What do you got against birds? What the hell is he talking about?

I have no idea what he meant. Did a bird poop on your car? Poop on you? I once went to a concert, an outdoor concert. Actually, I think it was at Gillette Stadium. I was at an outdoor concert at a big stadium that I remember and a bird pooped on my arm.

No joke. It's not like the bird was right above me either. Can you imagine how far up the bird was and how precisely he had to aim the poo to be able to land it on my arm? They say that's good luck, actually. Really?

Yeah. Because what are the odds of that? Getting pooped on by a bird. So if it happens to me, maybe it's just a way to look at it. Do you think it's greater or lesser than getting struck by lightning?

Odds are greater of getting pooped on. I would think. You would think. You're just guessing here. More birds in the air, cover more surface area than a lightning maybe. Have you ever seen lightning strikes?

They're not as crazy here as they are in other places. Alright. Either one. I guess I'd rather get pooped on by a bird if I had to choose.

So Trey Palmer doesn't like birds. You'd rather get struck by lightning. Stop it. I could live to tell the tale. You don't get to choose that.

A bird poop is not going to kill you. Well, no. But that would just be, I wouldn't like, I don't know. I wouldn't like that. But if I could strike struck by lightning and tell the tale, I would like go on talk shows all the time. But you don't get to choose.

You could like be the guy who lived. Alright. He's such a contrarian.

Okay, coming up. Josh Allen. This Josh Allen. Monday's Josh Allen. Best quarterback in the NFL. At me.

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Music Here's the snap. Blitz coming. Allen steps up in the pocket. Going to take off and run.

Has the first down and more. To the 40. To the 35. 30.

Breaks away. 20. 10.

5. Touchdown Josh Allen. Yeah, give him a flex, Josh. You just scrolled them with their back turn for a huge touchdown run of 47 yards. It's 53 yards. He was on his own side of the field.

Faster than a speeding bullet. They played man. Didn't have a great man call on. So decided to try to find a lane and got 15, 20 yards downfield and, you know, there's a lot of guys screaming slide and didn't slide and scored. So it worked out that time.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Absolutely one of our candidates for TD of the Week. Physical, tough. He's a tank. He will truck guys. But then he's also got speed.

He's a rare combination of speed and power and moxie, too. And this Josh Allen, the one that we saw on Monday against the Steelers, I know the defense was missing T.J. Watt, but you can't spot them a pair of turnovers not on their own field. So the 14 points off turnovers turn out to be the margin of victory for these Buffalo Bills. There was no place to circle the wagons in the parking lot or in the stands because there was so much snow.

But it was cool. And the opening drive was like a blast right in the face of the Steelers as well. An 80-yard touchdown drive. And the reason I highlight it and going backwards is because there were chunk plays.

They started there. If I remember correctly, there were three different plays in that opening drive that went more than 10 yards. And Josh Allen was working the ball around to Dalton Kincaid and Stephon Diggs and then Dawson Knox with a TD. The rope he fired to Kincaid for a second touchdown.

Perfect. And while the Steelers did find some footing and were able to score a couple of touchdowns, once they established the run a little more, but they really they just couldn't climb out of the hole that they dug for themselves with the points off turnovers. And then the Khalil Shaqir moment where he breaks out of the tackle, what appeared to be a tackle from Minkovich Patrick, stays on his feet, keeps his balance, and then scampers the rest of the way for the touchdown. I mean, there were moments for these Bills where you thought, or I thought, I won't put words in your mouth, where I thought, wow, this is the team that they were expected to be to start the season. Now they continue to lose members of their defense. Obviously, the change with Ken Dorsey at offensive coordinator either gave them just a fresh perspective, or maybe it sort of noticed that no one's. Inexpendable. No one's, no one's in the clear, right?

Everybody's job should be evaluated and everybody should be on notice. But certainly we've seen a freer locked in Josh Allen the last six games without the mistakes. Without those moments where he's tried to win the entire game with one throw. And man, does he look good right now. That Josh Allen that we saw on Monday, best quarterback in the NFL.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. So they're the hottest team in the league right now, and they get to host the Chiefs next weekend in the divisional round. It's almost a sense of our breath of fresh air and knowing that everybody's in the same position that we are. We have been, you know, win or go home.

And to be in that situation, like I said, the dividends that it's going to pay off. And I think you kind of saw that tonight of, you know, we were cool, calm and collected and nobody, nobody blinked. And we just kind of went out there and did our job and we're going to need to continue to do that. Bill's mafia showed up.

I know that there wasn't always clean seats to sit on, but it didn't seem like it mattered to them. So I applaud, applaud Bill's mafia for, for showing up the way that they did in the fashion that they did. I do too. And I'm jealous. I would have loved to be there, but not without a shirt or without long sleeves and a coat.

I do still do not understand. I'm waiting for some explanation about why, why and for what anyone would ever show up in an atmosphere like that with no shirt. So I did get a call a little earlier from Buffalo. They didn't hang on the line, but he said, I forgot his name. He said, that's just what we do in Buffalo. That's just what we do.

That's what he said. We dive bomb on tables and we, we, although I didn't notice that it was the majority of the fans. We show up without our shirts at a playoff game. That's what we do. Okay.

All right. Frostbitten parts on this Tuesday morning, but at least they come with a win. They do that.

Frostbitten parts. Yeah. Really amazing to just to see the way the bills performed. And like I say, you can't make the mistakes the Steelers did and then recover from them.

Really just being on the road and they already know they're offensively challenged. What about the future now? I mean, people are already asking Mike Tomlin. He walked out of the press conference. He's got one year left on his contract. A woman broached the idea of his future.

And he with a Tomlin look on his face, like it looks could kill. And yeah, he wouldn't answer the question, which I wouldn't either. But it seems like a lot of them right now are thinking about the future. Well, trying not to think about the future, I guess. I have no idea what's going to happen. I mean, none of us in there know what's going to happen tomorrow, much less next year. So sort of, you know.

Yeah, I, I'm still thinking about the game and the loss and it hurts and it stings. To me, the question is not. About Mike Tomlin, it's not replacing Mike Tomlin, it's about the quarterback position. Is Kenny Pickett still a project worth investing in?

Can he stay healthy next season? Because that was part of the issue. What about the OC? What do they want to do there? Do they want to find someone else besides Mitch or Mason? I mean, I think Mason's earned a job, if not a starting job.

He's earned a job there or somewhere. They've got a lot of questions to answer, but Mike Tomlin is not one of them. Again, feel free to at me on Twitter. A law radio. I'll have this conversation up one side and down another. Also on our Facebook page.

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Have some opinions, I've no doubt. You are listening to the After Hours podcast. Seconds will come off the clock and the Eagles have not just been beaten. They have been taken apart. They have been just brought to their knees by the Tampa Bay Bucks. The final score, the Tampa Bay Bucks 32, the Eagles 9. As disappointing a conclusion to a season that you can ever find.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. It was stunning to watch, even as it was unfolding during the end of the regular season. I still wasn't expecting this exit from the Philadelphia Eagles. Merrill Reese with the cold hard truth on Eagles radio out in the wild card round and we will have a new NFC champion. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. To help us deliver the eulogy for the Eagles. A friend who never holds back and in fact specializes in uncomfortable radio. John Kincaid who's getting ready for his own show on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia. Dealing with snow.

Hello. Yeah, where they told us we're getting like two inches. We've ended up probably like four, five, six depending on where you are and it is a mess out there this morning. But I don't think anybody's thinking about it. Everybody's thinking about the mess they saw last night down in Tampa, which was absolutely a disgrace, Amy.

What happened? How do they go from ten and one to that disaster? Well, I think what happened is ten and one was a bit of a mirage. But when you beat Buffalo and you beat Dallas and you beat Miami and you beat Kansas City. It's not like you were just getting lucky and it was just, you know, you were a bad team that was winning these games. I think at some point there was a severe disconnect and for what I'm hearing from people who cover the team on a daily basis. I'm not reporting that there was a big disconnect between the head coach, the offensive coordinator and the quarterback Jalen Hurts. As far as what offense they wanted to run, how they wanted to do it. And I believe that the head coach fell on the sword for the inexperienced offense coordinator and Brian Johnson. Who somehow is getting head coaching interviews.

I have no idea what these NFL teams are watching. If they're interviewing the Eagles offensive coordinator because he was responsible for calling the plays. He was responsible for feel of the game and last night Troy Aikman literally took apart Nick Sirianni and this coaching staff with his analysis. I thought it was very fair.

I thought it was one of the best color analyst jobs I've ever heard on a game of that magnitude. When you think about the identity, and we've heard that word a bunch with the Eagles, what is the best fit for them? Because last year it was running the ball and stopping the run, but that's not what they were able to do this season.

No, I think they were pass happy. I think Nick Sirianni, remember when Nick Sirianni started with the Eagles. He was calling the plays for the first seven games of the 2021 season with Jalen Hurts. He was having him pass 40, 50 times a game. It was stupid. It was ridiculous. And then he turned over play calling to Shane Steichen. Shane Steichen takes over.

They go nine and eight. They were run heavy, like two thirds run, and they make the playoffs that year. Then last year, of course, they go to the Super Bowl with Steichen, with Gannon, and he lost his coordinators.

And honestly, the emperor has no clothes. Nick Sirianni's been exposed without solid coordinators, without coordinators that were ready for it. And I blame the organization, though, in a way that they allowed that they went with two inexperienced defensive and offense coordinators that I think cost this team. Not to mention the fact that they doubled down on old Amy. And it's something that the Eagles never did in the past, never did under Andy Reid, never usually do under Howie Roseman. They doubled down all the guys they were bringing in this offseason that they were bringing back were all guys above the age of 30. That was not the organization's philosophy for a hell of a long time. And for some reason, I think they went with the nostalgia toward thinking we were tied in the Super Bowl with 30 seconds to go.

We were just going to roll it back and this thing's going to work. They didn't realize everybody's going to everybody's going to adjust to you. And your two new coordinators were not up to the challenge. So where do they start?

Oh, I think they start with the head coach. I really do. And it's going to sound crazy. It is crazy. But I got to tell you right now, I would not trust Nick Sirianni to fix this. And so this is just me. This is just my opinion.

This is the uncomfortable part. I would not trust Nick Sirianni to fix this because when you have a ten and one football team and you have a talent that the Eagles have on that roster. And you see a collapse of one and six down the stretch and you weren't even competitive. Honestly, it's like for your last six games.

To me, that is absolutely inexcusable. And I would start with the head coach and I would have no problem seeing them move on. And I believe a complete housecleaning of the coaching staff is necessary. And I have no no doubt they would be able to attract a top notch candidate who would look at the roster and say, wait a minute, I got AJ Brown. I got Devante Smith. I got Jalen Hurts. I got Dallas Goddard. Oh, I can win with this team. And I think that's the big deal.

John Kincaid, are you serious? So take away the fact that he was a brand new head coach. They made the playoffs all three seasons.

They went to the Super Bowl. Maybe he made some poor hires. OK, so you I mean, I never liked the Matt Patricia hire, but whatever.

He made some poor hires. You seriously would take all of that and chuck it out the window? I would absolutely do so, except none of the windows in this building open because that's very lucky on a day like this because there'd be people out on the ledges. Amy, Amy, my mom, my mom taught me something and taught me a life lesson that I've tried to follow. She says, when you make a mistake, fix it.

When you make a mistake, when you have an error, fix it. Don't keep thinking, oh, you know, it'll get better. It'll just rip off the bandage, fix the mistake. You'll it'll be more painful in the immediate.

It'll be less painful in the long term. And I truly believe I do not trust Nick Sirianni to fix this. The man speaks in Dick's Sporting Goods T-shirt slogan. He had no answers. He has a 10 in one team. He's your you know what? Nick Sirianni is he's he's supposed to be an offensive like guy. That's the guy they brought in here to be the head coach.

When when his play calling when the play calling by Brian Johnson was terrible and the offense wasn't working. Nick Sirianni, I described it the other day. He was sitting in seat 11 A and Brian Johnson is the pilot. And it's not. And he's passed out. And the plane's going to go. And they say, is anyone on here a pilot? And Nick Sirianni sat there in row 11 A and he just sits and looks and goes, oh, no, I can't take the wheel because I believe if he had taken the wheel and he had started calling plays, he would have driven them right into the Andes faster.

They would have went into the mountains much faster. So morbid. It's macabre, very macabre.

It was a movie I just saw, though, where I just saw about a plane going into the Andes. It's the only thing I got for you this morning. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio and John Kincaid, who's clearly fired up, which is good because he's going to need to handle the fear in Philly on this Tuesday morning. OK, so after Nick Sirianni, whether that happens or doesn't, what about personnel?

What about the roster would you address? Well, I think that it's clear from postgame comments that it would appear that Jason Kelce, barring a major miracle, is walking away. He's going to retire. And and so players were coach Sirianni, Jalen Hurts and others giving tributes in the locker room to what kind of a leader Jason Kelce is. So I got a weird feeling that we're going to see Jason, you know, hang him up.

I would guess TV is his next stop. And and to me, though, other than that, they're there. They got to make a few moves. They're going to have to they're going to have to make a few decisions. But they've got to they have so many spots in this roster that are actually fixed, that are actually OK, that I don't think it's going to be a problem if they bring in a competent head coach and some coordinators who know what they're doing. When this team had two guys who now coach in Indianapolis and Arizona as their coordinators, again, they were tied in the Super Bowl with 30 seconds to go with almost the exact same roster.

And so to me, that's a little crazy that it fell off as much as it did. C.J. Gardner Johnson was a loss that they let him go and then he ends up getting injured.

That was a loss to this team, but they didn't lose that much. And and and and James Bradbury, I honestly I pay for the movers. I honestly I'm offering right now I'll pay for the movers because it was a horrible contract to sign and I'm not doing 20 20 hindsight. I said it at the time. I didn't want to go into the season with the oldest cornerback combo in the NFL. And they signed Slay and Bradbury to extensions last offseason after that Super Bowl, both in their 30s. I thought it was a mistake. We have put this poll up on our Twitter. We've been talking about it because we're hearing that Bill Belichick interviewed in Atlanta.

And for the life of me, I'm not being snarky. I don't know why he would take that job unless they're they've offered him complete autonomy. But you've got Belichick, you've got Harbaugh. Pete Carroll maybe wants to coach again. And then you've also got Mike Vrabel among veteran coaches.

Any one of those be a fit? Oh, you never know. I mean, you know, it's it's the Eagles tend to hire a guy who's a first time head coach. Andy Reid, Doug Peterson, Chip Kelly, Nick Sirianni. So that tends to be their slogan. You know what they go with.

They want a guy that they can have a modicum of control over. And I don't think Howie Roseman is going to bring in some power broker that is going to dictate things. And to that Atlanta thing with Bill Belichick, I can tell you this. And, you know, from a long history of covering that team, talking about that team for a living when I lived in the south, I had no idea why Bill Belichick would work for Arthur Blank. Arthur Blank is one of the most meddlesome owners in the NFL. He's a guy that used to have his head coach have to take opportunities to go and have meetings with him to talk about game plans and things like that.

It's ridiculous, meddlesome ownership. And if Bill Belichick is willing to do that at this point in time, I'd be absolutely surprised. Agreed. So if it's not the Eagles, though, among those four, who do you think you would say? Let's just say we're talking about, I don't know, another Seattle. Well, the guy who the guy who fits Philly most of all would be Jim Harbaugh. That's the guy who I think fits. He would have no problem handling this city and he'd have no problem doing it.

And by the way, Nick Sirianni did not have a problem handling the city. But again, the dude speaks in fortune cookies. I mean, he just is like it's like Ted Lasso. And I've called him Ted Lasso before. That's his whole thing.

It's feel good, motivating. And look, when he has competent coordinators, he can be the Bobby Bowden type. The last 15 years of Bobby Bowden, where he's the cheerleader, he's the administrator, he's the rah rah guy. You can do that. But when the team needs answers and things need to be fixed, your head coach has to be ready to answer the call.

And he was clearly not up to the challenge. Right. It's a veritable explosion in Philadelphia this morning. So find John on Twitter at John Kincade, K-I-N-C-A-D-E, our longtime friend, well, my longtime friend. Now I was 97.5, the fanatic, Uncomfortable Radio at its finest. I can't miss this show. Excited. Thank you so much for a couple of minutes. Oh, I know.

Take care. He used to make a slogan out of Uncomfortable Radio, and now he just delivers it on a regular basis. And I knew he would not hold back. But that is the question. So we've got the poll up. And whether it's Philadelphia or any of the other coaching jobs, Atlanta, Carolina, Los Angeles, of course Seattle, there's not New England. They've already got their guy in Jerrod Mayo. But which of the veteran championship coaches would you take? Belichick, Harbaugh, Carroll, if you're interested.

Mike Rabel, he won a title as a player. So find that poll on Twitter, ALawRadio. We've got the TD of the week as well. We'll talk to you tonight.

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