Broncos Future After This Year (Hour 2)

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That's right. It is the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. I'm still stunned from last night's ending between the Denver Broncos and the Buffalo Bills. If you watch that game, it felt like Denver was going to win the game. And as the game is playing out, and even with the signs where it appears that Denver is the better team, at the end of the game Sean Payton tried to basically eject himself right off the seesaw on the rollercoaster ride and basically say, I want no part of this anymore, and I don't want to win this football game. Because that play on the game-winning field goal attempt, where there's 23-24 seconds left, and you say to Russell Wilson, we don't got a timeout, take a knee, and then have your field goal kicker run onto the field to attempt a game-winning field goal, you were asking for problems. And I said this earlier, I'll say it again, everyone has that moment in sport where you go, no, no, no, no, no, what are you doing? This is stupid.

And then it's, yes, it actually worked. There were a lot of curse words. There were a lot of bad things being said about the Broncos' head coach, because the kicker misses the kick through all that just chaos and mayhem. He misses the kick and everyone's given right, Sean, the double middle fingers and everything. You're just crushing, absolutely crushing the coach, because it was stupid.

Everyone knew it was stupid. And he got bailed out. He got bailed out because another team head coach did not have his team ready. When you have 12 players on the field, it's just inexcusable. And we've seen it now, both ways, not enough guys on the field and too many guys on the field. If you go back to that Ohio State Notre Dame game this year, Marcus Freeman didn't have enough guys on the field on the final play of the game. In this case, Sean McDermott had too many guys on the field.

Would have been better for Sean McDermott if he only had 10 guys on the field. So when that kick misses, you think the Bills just survived. And it's one of those moments where the Broncos just snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, but they got bailed out. And the moment where you get bailed out, you move the kick up a little bit better.

But more importantly, you get to wait, you get your timing down, you get some patience, you don't make it a circus. You knew the second opportunity, Lutz was going to make the kick and that's what happens. So from there, there's two takeaways. Takeaway number one we've already did. That was it for that was it for Sean McDermott in Buffalo. You can get rid of Ken Dorsey today.

You can maybe get a little bit of a run, inspire hope. The Buffalo Bills need to get rid of Sean McDermott at the end of the season. McDermott took you so far. McDermott's been a really good coach. Did it make the playoffs 18 consecutive years?

He walks in with Tarod Taylor, of all people. Remember that putrid football game? It was Jacksonville and Buffalo down in Jacksonville on wildcard weekend during his first season. Then they get Josh Allen and they made the right move, bringing in Staphon Diggs.

And McDermott's time as the head coach has led to five playoff trips in six years. Multiple AFC East championships. But ever since losing that game to Kansas City, not talking about the AFC Championship game, I'm talking about the divisional round, the famous one. Maybe one of the best football games you've ever seen in the divisional round. Looks like Kansas City is going to go down. Bills up with 13 seconds left and Kansas City somehow gets into field goal range. Then they get the game winner in overtime with Travis Kelce.

Ever since that moment, we may not have known it then because we still went into the next season. All the Bills are going to win the Super Bowl. The Bills are going to be everybody's pick to go to the Super Bowl out of the AFC.

Looking back on it, they were never able to recover from that moment. Because even at times during last year, the Bills looked legit. The Bills looked awesome. But then come playoff time, they were flat. And this year, you're seeing the signs that part of this regime needs to go.

And you need to really not do a hard reset, but reset some parts of the organization, some important parts of the organization to advance this thing forward and to get the Bills back on track. Because a lot of people today are going to get on the air and they're going to say, oh, the Bills are dead. Oh, the Bills don't have a window anymore. The Bills suck. The Bills are awful. The Bills are terrible.

That's not true. The Bills could still win. The Bills could still be a good team. But we've seen them be a good team before. It's now capitalizing with the quarterback was to cut down on the turnovers, but it's now capitalizing, still having that quarterback. And you can't punt that once again with problems in that organization and allow McDermott, who's good, but clearly has reached his limit in Buffalo and allow him still to be the head coach.

And let me be clear, I'm not advocating that today you've got to get rid of Sean McDermott today, like right now, this second. But you look around, it's starting to be the Will Smith kind of meme where he's standing around in the French Prince of Bel-Air house, and it's just him with the carpeting in the big mansion. And there's no people.

There's no furniture. There's nothing because you had Leslie Frazier. Leslie Frazier is no longer there, the defensive coordinator.

You took over the defense. Brian Dabel departed because people wanted to be like Buffalo and the Giants wanted to copy Buffalo. So they get Joe Shane. They get Brian Dabel.

And the replacement who was close with Josh Allen in Ken Dorsey, he's now gone today. And he's sent packing because the offense isn't good enough. So the defense is not good enough. That's all McDermott. The offense isn't good enough. McDermott, even though he's not an offensive guy, he's in charge of the coaching staff. And this team ever since losing Brian Dabel has gone the wrong way. How many more excuses does Sean McDermott get?

To me, zero. No more. You don't get this right. You don't find a way to turn this around from now until the end of the season. You missed the plaster.

You make the plaster. You have an embarrassing performance. There should be no way if the Bills are serious about winning, why Sean McDermott would be back next year. And that's why I opened up the show saying it should be Jim Harbaugh as the next head coach.

You need a guy that's been accomplished in this league, has been successful in this league. And in four years in San Francisco, Jim Harbaugh, three NFC title games, and also got to a Super Bowl appearance. So let's set aside the Bills part. Now going to the Broncos part. It's kind of funny when a conversation derives for the majority of the season. And for most of this season, the conversation around Russell Wilson was that him and Sean Payton don't have a good relationship. And at the end of the year, there's going to be a split.

There's going to be a divorce. That was one conversation. The other conversation was Kyler Murray with the Cardinals. Oh, coming off the ACL, who knows if he's going to play? The Cardinals will easily be picking top three in the draft. And yeah, they'll go draft the quarterback and move on from Kyler Murray. It is funny to me, after nine or 10 weeks of that conversation, as we just wrapped up week 10 of the NFL football season, that you have a Broncos victory where Russell Wilson plays well. You have a Kyler Murray return with the Cardinals, where they beat the Falcons, that now this week, we're going to be spending time. Yesterday, we did this with Kyler Murray. Today, we're going to do this with Russell Wilson, where the opinions have now changed.

The opinions have now shifted. Where nine, 10, those last nine, 10 weeks, it was Russell Wilson. Russell's gone in Denver. Russell's screwed in Denver. The only thing that's going to keep him there is his contract. And with Kyler Murray, most of the conversation was he's getting traded. He looked good in Minnesota. He looked good in Atlanta, where they trade him inside division to Seattle. Like those are the conversations we've had.

Those were conversations I've had and thoughts that I've had. But Russell Wilson now, and you have to evaluate the entire body of work. And we know this Broncos team still has a long ways to go.

And there's been some good, there's been some bad, but the facts are statistically, even though Bill Belichick will say, stands are for losers. You do have Russell Wilson throwing for 1,806 yards right now. And that's not like the greatest thing in the world, but he's completing nearly 68% of his passes. That's pretty damn good. And also with Russell Wilson, it's 18 touchdowns to four interceptions.

That's pretty damn good. And he's been hit, but they got to beef up that offense line. He's been sacked 30 times this year.

And he got sacked quite a bit last night. But Russell Wilson is going to walk away from this season, even if you don't think he's great. And I don't think he's great right now.

And he's great in the first half, the second half, he could be better, but he did his job last night. You're going to walk away at the end of the season saying, Russell Wilson doesn't need to be traded. And if that's the conversation with the team that has a lot of holes, their offense line's not good. Defensively, that defense, they need more talent, even though we went into that year praising the secondary, but they could get better up front.

There's a lot of holes here with the Broncos. We know the coach, even though he put his foot in his mouth to start the year going after Nathaniel Hackett. And actually maybe the best thing to happen to Nathaniel Hackett, because Nathaniel Hackett became a victim. Nathaniel Hackett became someone that people felt sorry for. And notice now, when they look at the putrid state of the Jets, no one's crushing Nathaniel Hackett.

It's all Zach Wilson. So I think people have let Nathaniel Hackett off the hook. So maybe you should be thanking Sean Payton, even though Sean did something very stupid and said something stupid that was unnecessary before the start of the season.

But when you look at financials, and I know sometimes people will say, oh, financials don't matter. In the NFL, to some extent, they do because of the dead cap. And even though you could have all these stat geeks tell me how it's easy to get out of the contract, blah, blah, blah, with how much money and how many draft picks they just invested in Russell Wilson, I got to think with the season that he's having this year, at the end of the year, when they do their evaluations, when Sean and the GM talk, and when they talk with ownership, and when they look at what Russell Wilson did, they're going to say, we're content giving him another season.

We're curious what he could do from here on out. And Russell has a long ways to go. You know, if we go through right now who the top 10 quarterbacks in the league, I don't think Russell Wilson's a top 10 quarterback. He's just on the outside of it. But he is starting to salvage his time in Denver, where last year it was a disaster.

Last year, he was the punchline to every joke. I'm not telling you this is going to work. I'm not telling you that you're going to be doing somersault in the streets for the next few years if you're a Broncos fan. But with Russell Wilson right now, I don't think they're going to divorce barring just an epic, and I mean epic failure down the stretch. And I'm not saying this team's a playoff team.

I don't think that for a second. But his stats are going to be good enough where you're going to say, all right, our draft pick isn't top five. So are we just going to get rid of a guy and have no plan?

Because that's the part that doesn't make sense. You can't get rid of Russell Wilson without having a plan. Because not that it's got this bad for the Broncos in terms of the individual quarterback play, and Russ has not been good. But look at what the Raiders did. The Raiders got rid of Derek Carr.

They had no plan. They're like, oh, we'll hope to get that Brady guy. Oh, Brady retires? I thought Josh McDaniel was like best friends with him. Oh, it didn't work out with Aaron Rodgers.

We didn't really pursue that. Oh, we'll give three years to Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, that's going to work. Now Jimmy Garoppolo, as Stu is catching some strays here, and I apologize about that, Stu. Now Jimmy Garoppolo's bench for Aiden Bleepin' O'Connell. So don't just get rid of the quarterback just for the sake of getting rid of the quarterback. Get rid of the quarterback if there's a need to get rid of the quarterback. And if you do get rid of the quarterback, you better have a plan. And I don't see the name out there that's going to be good enough or the move that you can make in the draft where the Broncos are going to be now sitting at four and five, where I go, aha, I got to get rid of Russell Wilson.

And I do believe Russ will get another season, and next year may be his last, but he will get another season with the Denver Broncos. So the Broncos now four and five, winners of three in a row, taking down Green Bay, Kansas City, and the Buffalo Bills. They're scheduled the rest of the way. They play Minnesota.

Huh. If you would have told me two, three weeks ago, we were getting Broncos, Minnesota on Sunday Night Football, I would say, flex, get rid of that. That's Sunday Night Football game this week.

I'm curious about Josh Dobbs. I like the story of the Minnesota Vikings. And now Russ and Sean have been like, okay, you know, maybe I want to see a little bit more of that team. Then after that, you get the Broncos and Browns, Broncos at Texans, three good games coming up, Broncos at the Chargers, Broncos at the Lions, Broncos, Pats, Broncos, Chargers, and then they wrap up the season in Las Vegas, up against the Raiders. So you got some good opponents coming up and we'll see how far the Broncos could take it. I don't think this team is making the playoffs, no shot, in my opinion, but when you have the coach and the quarterback and what they've done in this league before, they'll be able to beat some teams that they're not expected to beat.

As you've seen the last two weeks with Kansas City, and then also their performance up against the Buffalo Bills. Russ will be back next year, and I never thought I would say that at any point this season, but that's where we are. And it's the same thing with Kyler Murray.

Writing was on the wall. This was it for Kyler and Arizona. Now coming off both of their week 10 performances, the return of Kyler and Russ starting to steer the ship back in the right direction and having good stats, it's like, okay, I think both those teams are going to give those guys another opportunity. It is the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. You're there with me that Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson will both be back next year with the Arizona Cardinals and the Denver Broncos, respectively.

855-212-4CBS, 855-212-4227. We'll take a break. When we come on back, we'll update you on some of the biggest stories in the world of sports with some audio with the news brief. Ew, got to get rid of this old Backstreet Boys t-shirt. Tell me why. Because it stinks, boys. Tell me why. I've washed it so many times, but the odor won't come out.

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Find it wherever you buy laundry products. Time for your daily news brief. We get you caught up on the rumors, reports, and reconnaissance from the day in sports. J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets. Maybe get him back Aaron Rogers? Maybe, maybe not. Here is the Jets quarterback Aaron Rogers on a potential return date via the Pat McAfee show. No, there's no set date. I mean, it could, it could change. If I have a great week, you know, this week and next week, that could be accelerated.

If we are not in it in three or four weeks, that could, you know, that could take it a different way, but I expect us to be in it and I expect to come back. So that's about all I can tell you at this point. Aaron Rogers is a bad man. Here's why. He's continuing maybe the biggest hogwash of a story and a name story I've ever followed. You know, outside of the whole Manti Teo and the girlfriend that never existed kind of story. I'm just talking about an agenda a player is pushing, trying to make people believe it so his name stays in the news.

That's what's going on here. I don't care what Aaron Rogers thinks, what ayahuasca he does, what darkness retreat he goes on. There is no way outside of pure stupidity that Aaron Rogers returns to play for this team this year or is even clear to play. Talking about, oh, if I have a good week and then another good week, then maybe the timeline gets accelerated. You know, maybe I'll play.

Maybe I won't. You know, we got to have something to play for. Oh, but I fully expect to be back this year and I fully expect us to be in it. Not that the Buffalo Bills are world beaters. I've clearly torched them today. You play Buffalo next week. You already beat them earlier in the season. You're not going to beat them twice. Then you play Miami. There is a good chance right after the lasagna served or your turkey served on Thanksgiving and you watch that game on that Friday that the New York Jets are four and seven after these next two games. There's a good chance of that.

So I think they're going to be out of it real soon. The last little hope that this team had was up against the Raiders. And if you can't beat the Raiders, then you got some problems and you got some explaining to do. But also for Aaron Rodgers, if you're playing, you're probably not going to be fully healthy, I would imagine, with how fresh of an injury this is in Achilles tear going back to week one. So you're going to get on the field behind a garbage offensive line when everything is setting up for next year for you to be the guy and potentially risk either further injury here or a new injury. This would be the dumbest thing in America.

This would be the dumbest thing maybe in the history of sports in like the last two, three weeks of the season. Aaron Rodgers comes back for what? What are you accomplishing this year? Nothing. So I get it. He gives himself the out of, oh, no, we got to be in it.

Oh, I got to be healthy. But the fact that this is a story week in and week out, it's a joke. And I blame all of us because we're all stupid suckers at the end of the day. That's what we are. Aaron Rodgers defends Nathaniel Hackett, his buddy Nate Hackett on the Pat McAfee show. Hackett's taking it hard on the shins. You hear that? You see that noise or no? Yeah.

Yeah, I see it. I won MVP twice in the same offense. So I'm a believer in this. I'm a believer in the offense.

And there's a lot of positions together. You got to play better. I don't know about you guys.

Stu, maybe I'm lost on this one. Have you heard a lot of people going after Nathaniel Hackett? I think it's more so Zach Wilson stinks.

I'm not saying he's getting no blame, but I think most of the blame is getting put on this line being horrible and Zach Wilson being an inept quarterback in this league. I don't think, I'm not saying that there's no one saying anything about Nathaniel Hackett, but if I had to give Jets fans the three biggest reasons right now why this team isn't performing outside of Rodgers being injured, it would be Zach Wilson one, the offensive line two, and then I think the third one, oh yeah, and the offensive coordinator is no good in Nathaniel Hackett. I think part of the reasoning for the question was there was a meme or there was a video going around where Hackett called a questionable play on third and short that the Jets didn't get and the cameras panned then to Aaron Rodgers right after the call, shaking his head in disgust and people were, you know, seemed like disagree with the play call. Yeah, so maybe there was like this drama where Rodgers was almost doubting Hackett.

I think this was McAfee's way, you know, to kiss up to his friend while also asking a question about Hackett getting some negativity around the two, but I think it kind of stemmed off of that. Okay, I think for the most part Hackett's received a pass this year and what I would say to Aaron is outside of you being with Nathaniel Hackett, what great success does he have in this league? Now I'll give him credit and Jacksonville did a good job of Blake Bortles, but what recent successes he's had without Aaron Rodgers? Because this year the offense is crap. When you have other offensive coordinators making Josh Dobbs look good and you look around last year the biggest joke of a head coach that we've seen, well maybe not in for maybe not in ever because also you had Urban Meyer, but he was a big-time joke of a coach. So let's pump the brakes here on the Slobberfest between Nathaniel Hackett and Aaron Rodgers, makes me sick. Let's go to Dan Campbell and going for it on fourth down, fourth and two.

Could have taken the field goal, left some time on the clock. This is via our friends Stoney and Jansen, a 97-1 the ticket in Detroit. I had a feeling going into that game we needed to be aggressive and I loved our matchup offensively and I just knew our guys would respond and here's what I would say for because I've told my family this, just wear a diaper before some of these games.

Put them on and be ready to roll. Can we adopt the Lions on this show? Can we adopt the Lions, Stu? You really have to say here, because Samter's real football team, the Jets, I know he's now a Chiefs fan, but his real football team, the Jets, where his actual heart is at, they stink. My football team has the fewest wins in the AFC, the New England Patriots, and somehow between all of us losers, the biggest winner out of all of us losers are Stu with the Las Vegas Raiders. Go figure. Can we adopt the Lions as a show?

I think so. I think the Lions are very lovable, especially the fact they haven't been very good up until the last couple of years and now Campbell's great, Goff, it's a really good story. It's hard unless you're a Vikings, Bears, or Packers fan. I think it's hard to dislike the Lions, so I think we could do that. Now as a show, if we were going to show our support to the our support to the Lions, and we would all wear diapers maybe later in the week, can we wear like sweatpants underneath the diapers or do we have to like clearly show the diaper is on the like the body part directly and you've got to walk around with our legs out and everything like that?

I'm just wondering. I think we'd be doing everyone a favor if we had sweatpants under the diapers. I don't know if they make a diaper my size, so that could be tough. I may need to get a custom diaper, but I would contemplate wearing a diaper to show support for Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. I got some diapers at home. They might not fit you.

They might like fit over your elbow. You're a beautiful baby girl. What was she born at? Let me, can I guess? Seven pounds, two ounces? Not even close, but nice. Six?

No. She was a small little nugget, but she's got very cute diapers and they have like little bears on them. Some of them are Disney. Some Lions? Yeah, like some Lion King diapers for you.

I think that'd be really cute. I don't think your daughter's diaper would fit around my big toe if we're being honest here. Ack just walked into the studio and he walked right out with that line. Ack walks right in the studio. I said your daughter's diaper wouldn't fit around my big toe. Ack goes what the heck are we talking about and he walked right out.

Typical Ack right there. Here is Sean McVay. Will Matthew Stafford play in return for the Rams this week? No, Matthew should be ready to go. He was out there taking part in individual today. He's making great progress and so we're operating with the anticipation and expectation that he is going to be good to go. He'll be pushing through, but we expect him to be able to start and play and do his thing and lead the way this week.

So here's my question. This late into the season, if your anticipation is that Matthew Stafford's going to be coming back, why'd you bring in Carson Wentz? Now Wentz would take any opportunity and maybe he thinks he'll get in at the end of the season. They could shut down Stafford or they weren't anticipating Stafford to come back. I thought the Wentz move was very unnecessary and when they brought him Wentz it made me think that Stafford was going to be out even longer, but it doesn't seem like that's going to be the case. Here is Matthew Stafford and how much longer he would like to play this courtesy of the Pat McAfee show.

I don't know. I don't think I'll go until the wheels completely fall off. They're wobbling a little bit right now as we speak, but no, I love playing this game. I love competing. I love being in the locker room with the guys.

I'll never get that again, so I want to make sure I get as many opportunities to do that as I can, but I enjoy playing too much to hang it up. So Les Snead once said, bleep those draft picks. And since you didn't have those draft picks, yes, you won.

You went all in. You got a Super Bowl, so it's worth it. But this entire organization is now falling off because you didn't have the draft picks to kind of get younger and continue this thing. And here's my great concern with the Rams.

They have too many guys that are one foot in, one foot out. Stafford, oh, you know, the wheels are starting to wobble. McVay, oh, maybe I'll do TV. Then I'm going to sign a new contract.

Then maybe I'll do TV. Aaron Donald for two years. Yeah, I'm thinking about retiring. I'm thinking about retiring.

Now the guy isn't even thinking about retiring. The big three of that organization, two in and out for me to believe that they're going to find a way to get it right again with the L.A. Rams. Here is Patrick Mahomes and the Manning cast last night on player jersey numbers.

Listen up. It's even crazier now because everybody can wear the single digits and like the linebackers are nickels now and vice versa safeties. And so you have to go in and we actually go in every week and we really emphasize the numbers because, I mean, whenever you got a number that like number seven playing middle linebacker, I can really mess with your tails for the alignment. So it's it's I mean, it's cool. It looks cool. I'll give everybody that.

But it makes a little difficult for the TV. Yeah, I really don't like the defensive players now wearing like what you would usually think are numbers for for running backs or even running backs wearing single digits as well. I don't like that. I saw the number. I don't know which player it was last night. I don't remember which team it was. It may be the ugliest jersey number I've ever seen. Just zero on a football uniform. Like I remember Tony Clark used to wear zero when he was playing for the Mets in a baseball uniform.

It's fine. But on a football uniform, I don't think the number zero looks good. What's your least favorite jersey number, by the way? What's the ugliest jersey number in sports right now? I think zero looks really bad.

Double zero is very weird, too. And ninety nine. I know Wayne Gretzky. Oh, I love ninety nine. Wayne Gretzky was ninety nine.

Yeah. Wayne Gretzky was ninety nine. That's what I think of. And you're like a big defensive tackle or something where something about ninety nine doesn't work for you.

But double zero is like the one that really gets me. You know, it doesn't look good when I was at the Jet game last week. I saw a large fella in the number one sauce gardener jersey. If you're a big guy, not a good look to wear the number one. It's slimming.

No, it's not. That number one was begging to escape from being on that jersey uniform with the guy that was sitting in front of me during that. We all know the greatest jersey number in the history of jersey numbers.

It doesn't matter what sport it is. What is that number? Number twenty one. Twenty one is the greatest, coolest looking jersey number in all of sports, in any sport. Doesn't matter what position.

Roberto Clemente, Sammy Sosa, Tiki Barber. Yeah. Look at Samter. Smoochie, smoochie. Tiki, did you hear me down the hall? Did you hear Samter just said he loves number twenty one? My favorite two baseball players of all time, Sammy Sosa and Roberto Clemente well before I even met Tiki.

And I was a Jets fan back in the day. Tiki, can you pat me on the head? Can you rub my stomach and give me a treat? Give me a break.

Jeez. Mike Tomlin, does he need to see more from Kenny Pickett? Certainly.

Man, we're going to need more, particularly as this road narrows. But guys like Kenny and myself, man, we're measured by wins and losses. He and I talk about that often and openly. We know what our jobs are. Our jobs are to win. That's where our focus is. I love the fact that he embraces that. Down in and down out are some things to work on, certainly.

But we've been working on those things and we will continue until we get the desired result. It is amazing that in the year of twenty twenty three, the Steelers are six and three with the quarterback that has X amount of touchdowns. Go around the room real quickly.

I don't know if any of you guys know this on top of your head. How many touchdowns do you think Kenny Pickett has on the season? Stu, quick guess. Go. I'll go eight.

Samter? Eight sounds about right. Let's go nine. Let's go. Press his right rules. Nine.

You'd both be off the show. He only has six touchdowns, passing touchdowns. If you go over, you're out. You're done. And in one of those games, he had two passing touchdowns. One touchdown against the 49ers, one against the Browns, only passing touchdowns, two against the Raiders, of course.

Sorry, Stu. One against the Ravens and one up against Tennessee. Alright, I'm going to guess Bill Belichick here. He was asked if Mack Jones is still his number one quarterback. I'm going to evaluate this week of practice and we'll do what's in the best interest of the team. But Mack's a hard worker and we've got a lot of hard workers on this team.

Let's hear from Bill Belichick. Yeah, we got a lot of things to work on this week as a team and we'll work through those. That's what we're going to do this week. Ah, I hear that. And you bench.

See, here's the thing. You bench the quarterback and the Patriots are going to buy this week. And then they, they play the Giants coming off the bye. You bench the quarterback in the on the final drive, even going into a bye week. I don't think he started next week.

I really don't think he started up against the Giants. And finally, here is Jim Harbaugh talking about chickens. The respect that I have for chickens. I know there was, there was a time when I said that chicken is a nervous bird and I don't eat chicken. I don't eat meat, you know, but I was dead wrong.

I stand corrected. These chickens are low maintenance and high production. So he owns chickens now, Jim Harbaugh. That's what I gathered from that. And now he's praising chickens.

What the heck is going on out there? Did the chicken was, was that chicken on Connor Stallion's payroll? Did he go to like Wisconsin and film the signs? That's just something I'm wondering there. That's bizarre. Some really bizarre sound, but that's Jim Harbaugh and a guy that likes chickens probably be liked enough in Buffalo. Chicken wings.

See the signs there, folks. Jim Harbaugh, next head coach of the Buffalo Bills. It is Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. We'll come on back. You got to hear what Trayvon Diggs had to say.

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Contact Wesley Financial Group now and get a free timeshare exit information kit at Wesley Financial Group.com. You know, it's very funny. Social media reaction a few weeks ago when Emmitt Smith joined us and said that as we just played on the rejoin, that was actually met with a very positive response from Cowboys fans. Then today I see Dominique Foxworth from ESPN. He goes on get up, I think it was, and he's saying that Dak Prescott is the best quarterback in football right now. If you just go by the numbers, he's playing like he's the best quarterback in football.

So I hear that and I go, I don't even think he's the best quarterback in the state of Texas. Because right now, CJ Stroud, if you ask me which quarterback would I rather have for the rest of the season, I'd rather have CJ Stroud than Dak Prescott if all things are equal. So today, I've spent most of my day going to war with cockroach Cowboy fans, those drama Dallas Choking Cowboys because they're throwing a big time parade and a big time celebration because the Dallas Cowboys beat Tommy DeVito and the Giants. And anyone that has got back to me about the Cowboys and my take on CJ Stroud being a better quarterback than Dak Prescott, they go, oh, well, just a few weeks ago, CJ Stroud, he lost to the Carolina Panthers. And I said, well, didn't Dak Prescott throw an interception against the Arizona Cardinals? And all I'm saying about the Cowboys is it's amazing to me how dumb some of their fans could be.

It really is. Your team the last two years, let's just look at this at a small scale, small sample size. The last two years, they've been a great regular season team. How many Cowboys fans and it shows you how far this organization has fallen. How many Cowboys fans want to take a victory lap because Dak Prescott played well against a below 500 Buccaneers team on wildcard weekend on that Monday night.

It's a flat out joke. You would think they won the Super Bowl with the way that that fan base is talking about that performance. Dak Prescott in the big games does not show up. And if he plays well in one good playoff game, he never repeats it the following week. Don't look at the last two years. Couldn't get the ball snapped against the 49ers. Last year plays well up against Tampa Bay and then up against the 49ers where his defense had a championship effort, he crapped the bed. So all you Cowboys fans that are falling for the bait once again, because you have these blowout victories and Dak's putting up big numbers, who have you defeated?

And I get it. We all love an easy, stress-free victory. There's nothing better when you go up against an inferior opponent and you know at halftime the game is over. But go through the Cowboys schedule. The Cowboys beat the Giants 40 to nothing. They stink. They beat the Jets 30 to 10. The Jets are a bunch of frauds. They lost to the Cardinals. They're no good. They beat the Patriots.

Oh, let me give you a slow clap there. You beat the Patriots 38 to 3. You got smacked by actual legit opponent in the 49ers, 42 to 10. You beat the Chargers who the Chargers are the lesser version of the Cowboys where they have all this talent and they never win.

So congrats. You beat Brandon Staley by three. You beat the Rams.

They stink. You lost to the Eagles where your quarterback choked at the end of the game. And then you beat the Giants, 49 to 17.

This is not a small sample size. Nine games into the season and there's not a win on the schedule where I go, wow, I got to look at the Dallas Cowboys and say, hmm, maybe this is going to be their year. The Cowboys ceiling is going to be getting to the divisional round of the playoffs. They will not be in the NFC title game this year. They will not win multiple playoff games this year. But it's amazing how when that's said, and I don't think it's the majority of the Cowboy fan base, but you have a loud, and I mean a really loud vocal minority. It's just ridiculous. The Cowboys go get 11, 12 wins. We've seen the same song and dance the last two years, but when push comes to shove, they will not be good enough. Now getting to Trayvon Diggs, the brother of Staphon Diggs, it's amazing to me that he's popping off in the last 24 hours.

And I think this is calculated. Staphon Diggs tries to say, oh, I want to be in Buffalo the rest of my career. I love the Buffalo Bills. What happened in the off season was no big deal. Nothing to see here. That's a bunch of baloney.

It is. And Trayvon Diggs knows the truth or he knows the Staphon Diggs side of it. So Trayvon Diggs last night tweets out after another loss by the Buffalo Bills, man, 14 got to get up out of there.

And then today follows it up with saying, let's not forget he didn't start going off till Bro got there. Let's just be clear about Staphon Diggs. Staphon Diggs didn't start going off until he got to Buffalo. Josh Allen didn't start going off until he got Staphon Diggs. When Staphon Diggs got traded to the Buffalo Bills from Minnesota, he was a good wide receiver, but he was not perceived to be a top five receiver in this league. He had some good moments.

Don't get me wrong. He's a damn good player, but we didn't know he was a great player. And he went to Buffalo and to his credit, he became great and he helped Josh Allen. But I also think Josh Allen helps Staphon Diggs as well. But it's funny considering the source here with Trayvon Diggs that it's, oh, my brother has to leave Buffalo and let's trash the quarterback and say, let's not forget.

He didn't start going off till my brother got there. Trayvon Diggs, like, can you focus on your own team? Because the last time I checked, the Buffalo Bills have accomplished more recently than the Dallas Cowboys. We've seen the Buffalo Bills get to an AFC championship game, something the Dallas Cowboys haven't done since the 1995 season.

So I don't want to hear this nonsense that Staphon Diggs has to get on out of Buffalo. And if you're advocating for you guys to team up, which would be a nice family affair in Dallas, why the heck are the Cowboys this great destination? You guys are very similar to Buffalo Bills. You're both good teams. You're not great teams and you're not going to win Jack. So let's stop with this nonsense from Trayvon Diggs, where he's trying to make a push to get his brother out of Buffalo.

How about your brother be a better teammate? And how about they find a way to figure it out, Josh Allen and Staphon Diggs? But this is just nonsense.

It really is. And it's laughable to me that it's coming from Trayvon Diggs because it means two things. One, it confirms what Staphon Diggs said was no longer an issue, that 14 isn't happy and he doesn't like this Buffalo Bills organization. And then two, it once again shows how delusional the Cowboys are where one of their players, who I know is hurt right now and is out for the year. And I wish a speedy recovery to Trayvon Diggs, but he's tweeting, his brother's got to get on out of there.

And I know he said before how much he would love to be on the same team as his brother. Like that's a fine thought, but why the heck should Staphon Diggs, if he wants out of Buffalo, go to Dallas outside of the family connection. Isn't it a similar spot where both of those teams could be good, but they're not great.

So I don't really like this stuff coming from Trayvon Diggs. And quite frankly, the Cowboys do a lot of talking this year. They do a lot of talking for a team that's six and three, and they've beaten every opponent that sucks. But when they go up against good teams, the Eagles and the 49ers lose, lose. And that's what they're doing.

They're going to lose, lose. So I did not like the tweets last night, especially his last two, man, 14 got to get up out of there and let's not forget. He didn't start going off till Bro got there. And I don't know if it's the fun digs has commented on this. I haven't seen anything, but if your brother's trashing your quarterback, I know he's your brother. But if what your brother was saying you disagreed with, wouldn't you publicly say that today? Cause I don't know about you. If my family was doing this, I reach out to them and say, stop, that's not right. If you felt that way, but I don't know if it's the fun digs feels that way. And I think what his brother's saying, he actually agrees with it.