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Nightcap Podcast Episode Summary
Episode Title
Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Steelers Waiting on Aaron Rodgers Decision + Jim Schwartz Resigns
Hosts
- James "Deebo" Harrison
- Joe Haden
Episode Overview
In this episode, NFL legends James Harrison and Joe Haden dive into various pressing topics surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, including Aaron Rodgers' retirement decision, salary cap issues, and the resignation of Jim Schwartz as the Browns’ defensive coordinator.
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Key Discussions and Highlights
- Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers' Future
- Current Status: The hosts discuss the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Aaron Rodgers, who is reportedly contemplating retirement.
- Team Direction:
- Deebo expresses frustration with the Steelers' mediocrity, suggesting they need a fresh start rather than relying on Rodgers.
- Joe concurs, emphasizing the need for a new quarterback to avoid losing in the playoffs repeatedly.
- Player Development:
- The conversation shifts to the potential of backup quarterback Will Howard and the need for the Steelers to evaluate new talent instead of sticking with older players.
- Cleveland Browns Updates
- David Njoku's Departure:
- Njoku is set to become an unrestricted free agent and has publicly stated he will not return to the Browns.
- Deebo and Joe analyze Njoku's decision as a logical choice based on team dynamics and his contract status.
- Jim Schwartz's Resignation:
- Jim Schwartz’s departure as the Browns' defensive coordinator is discussed, along with the implications for the team's defensive strategy moving forward.
- Joe highlights the need for a solid replacement, given Schwartz's historical performance.
- Sam Darnold and the Super Bowl Financials
- Tax Implications:
- Discussion on how Sam Darnold could lose money due to California's jock tax when playing in the Super Bowl.
- Deebo and Joe argue that the NFLPA should advocate against future Super Bowls being held in California until the tax situation is resolved.
- Player Pay:
- The hosts express disbelief over how players could end up paying more in taxes than they earn during the Super Bowl, particularly drawing attention to the unfairness of the current taxation laws.
- Offensive Line and Player Developments
- Offensive Line Performance:
- Both hosts agree on the inconsistency of the Steelers’ offensive line, noting that improvements are necessary.
- Recruiting New Talent:
- Emphasis on the need for better wide receivers and linebackers to strengthen the team.
- Joe laments the lack of investment in positions that need bolstering.
- Future Outlook
- Discussion on the upcoming draft and the potential for the Steelers to acquire new talent, with 12 draft picks rumored for the upcoming selection.
- The hosts express hopes for a successful draft that addresses key team needs.
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Conclusion This episode of Nightcap provides a candid and insightful look into the current dynamics of the Steelers and Browns. With the looming decisions regarding key players and potential coaching changes, Harrison and Haden’s expert perspectives shed light on the future of both franchises.
Key Takeaways
- Aaron Rodgers' decision is critical for the Steelers' immediate future.
- The Browns face significant changes with Njoku’s exit and Schwartz’s resignation.
- The financial implications of playing in California need to be addressed by the NFLPA.
- The upcoming draft presents an opportunity for both teams to reshape their rosters significantly.
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Next Episode Teaser The hosts will return next week to discuss further developments in the NFL, especially the outcomes of the draft and any potential trades during the offseason.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VODiscussing Aaron Rodgers' Future
4:23 to 7:20
Discussion on the implications of Aaron Rodgers' potential return to the Steelers.
“And the big thing that I like about it, as I see us going that route, is that we did get Angelicho.”
Evaluating Offensive Line Consistency
7:20 to 8:20
Analyzing the performance and consistency of the Steelers' offensive line.
“Right, right, for a long time, dude, long time.”
Wide Receiver and Linebacker Needs
8:20 to 10:40
Debate on the need for better wide receivers and linebacker coaching.
“So you're telling me that the rookies they had at the Patriots had worse year than the Campbells?”
Understanding Player Interviews
18:09 to 20:41
Learn how in-depth player interviews can reveal their character and background.
“And be like, yo, I want to go through the interview process of doing the interviews for the players and get an understanding of that player.”
Draft vs Undrafted Experiences
20:42 to 22:39
Discuss the challenges faced by drafted and undrafted players in the NFL.
“You got the coach that just don't even really.”
David Njoku's Contract Situation
22:40 to 24:01
Analyze David Njoku's decision to not return to the Browns and its implications.
“He's going to be an unrestricted free agent.”
Jim Schwartz's Resignation and Its Impact
24:02 to 28:00
Examine Jim Schwartz's resignation from the Browns and potential future moves.
“Because they got it like he was like, yo, I ain't returning.”
Coaching Contracts and Resignation Consequences
28:00 to 29:00
Discussion on the implications of coaching contracts and resignations in the NFL.
“And then he go get And how does it work if you just resign and you're under contract?”
Ego and NFL Decisions
29:00 to 30:00
Exploring the role of ego in NFL decisions and coaching dynamics.
“and they had to give something to New England to get him in Tampa.”
The Dilemma of Coaching Rights
30:00 to 31:20
Analyzing the complexities surrounding coaching rights and contracts in the NFL.
“I know you and your feelings you wanted to be the head coach, but come on.”
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Understanding Jock Tax and Player Salaries
31:20 to 32:20
Discussion on the jock tax's impact on player salaries during the Super Bowl.
“When a player sit out, sit out, you just sitting out.”
Taxation on Super Bowl Players
35:51 to 37:15
Delving into the financial implications players face due to California's tax laws during the Super Bowl.
“Boomer said, Boomer said that Sam Darnold lost money playing in the Super Bowl because of California taxes, bro.”
NFLPA's Role and Responsibilities
37:15 to 42:00
Discussion on the responsibilities of the NFLPA and the need for reform regarding jock tax.
“Dude, it don't even matter if I am being paid my salary.”
Discussing NFL Player Leadership and Taxes
42:00 to 45:55
Learn about the challenges NFL players face regarding player association leadership and tax obligations.
“I got a red shirt because I only got a red shirt on because it's camp day.”
Fan Loyalty and Coaching Aspirations
45:55 to 47:35
Explore the dynamics of fan loyalty and the possibility of coaching in college football.
“I know I can't get enough money in college.”
Transcript
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2:23Joe Haden:Hey, Joe, man, let's get back over here to Pittsburgh, man. Listen, Rodgers, they still waiting on Aaron Rodgers. Oh, Lord. Like, 100%. We're here. We're in the offseason. You have the opportunity to bring him back or not bring him back. What are you doing? I'm putting you as a GM owner. What are you doing? Head coach. You're head coach. But that's got, that got to be the first person that want him back. He wants to come back. What are you doing? He wants to come back? He wants to come back.
3:03If,
3:05James Harrison:I want to start anew. I mean, I love A-Rod. I love him to death. I'm ready, like I said, I'm ready for the ship to sink or swim. We're going to get Will Howard and we're going to see like another court. We got to bring, Bring another quarterback in. He showed us what he could do last season. I'm not mad at A-Rod, and that's as far as we're going to be able to get. I'm tired of the Steelers just being medium of the pack. That's as best we're going to get. We're going to get A-Rod back again, and then we'll lose in the first round, and then we'll still be sitting there in the same position. Let's either lose so we can figure out what we got to do, or I just don't think that we're going to ever really be able to get back to the top until we find a real quarterback.
3:46James Harrison:and just making, putting band-aids on it and just being like, no, A-Rod's going to hold it down for this season. And then we got, nobody's getting any younger. You know what I'm saying? TJ, Highsmith, we talking about these dudes. We talking about Jalen being on the team. So it's going to be a complete rebuild or like this, like last year, I felt like that was a big shot. We're going, we got DK, we got Jalen, we got everybody, we got A-Rod. Wouldn't try to do all that. And you saw what happened. So now I'm like, what, we going to just run it back and we going to keep riding it, doing it again?
4:14James Harrison:No, I'd rather not. I'd rather start somewhere different. I'd rather just try anew, start anew, start fresh.
4:22Joe Haden:Yeah, I'm with you on that 100%. And the big thing that I like about it, as I see us going that route, is that we did get Angelicho. And he was the passing game offensive coordinator for Minnesota. when your boy was there to just won Super Bowl. Yeah, Sam. And Sam Darnold was there when they made like he was done. He couldn't do anything. And he ended up being what we just saw. And he's the person that was there helping to develop him. You know what I'm saying? Giving him the ins, outs, all that other stuff. So I like it. And I'm with you. I'm like, yo, let's see what we have with Will Howard and run it from there.
5:14Joe Haden:and pick up whatever it is that we need to pick up to fill out the rest of those two spots or one spot, whatever it is. I just I don't I mean, I like who we got. What's his name? Who's the backup right now? Will? No, that was played last year. Mason Mason Rudolph. Yeah, like I'm you know what you're going to get with him. I don't like what I'm going to get with him. And if that's the case, if Will don't work out, I need to have something else. That either I don't know what I'm going to get with and I'm going to take a chance of seeing what I can. They got to be planning.
5:58James Harrison:They have to be planning right now for somebody else. There has to be somebody. They got to be doing the research, something. They got to know a plan. Because right now, I mean, if Will's not in the locker room, We got Aaron Rodgers, 42, undecided. He's still chilling, trying to figure it out. We can't just be sitting there waiting on A-Rod. You know, we got to move forward. That's just still going to put us in the past. What are we waiting for? Like, we already got a new coach. We got the new coaching staff. We got the newest here, McCarthy. And then you're bringing it back from 12 years ago, trying to run it back with the old Green Bay?
6:32James Harrison:No, I want a new. I'm like, let's get some new shit going, new energy. Like, all that, like, waiting on this. No. No, no, no. None of it. Yeah.
6:45Joe Haden:I'm, like I said, I'm with you 100 % on that. I just don't. Nothing against Aaron or anything like that. Zero against Aaron. Zero. Zero. We got to ride it out, bruh. Like, we either go rise or crash and burn. And, you know, whichever process that is, I'm hoping it rises and we're able to, you know, do what's necessary to bring back that seventh Lombardi. But if it crashes and burns, that'll be an opportunity to be able to go get something that, you know, will be able to be, you know, one of those franchise quarterbacks. For a long time. Right, right, for a long time, dude, long time. What about the offensive line, brother?
7:38James Harrison:They show flashes. That's the thing. A lot of the times when we said, come out there, establish the run, win on first down, we would win on first down. And sometimes we would look, and it wouldn't look like we could win on first down. So it's consistency. It's consistency. They would do the right plays. They could show us that they could do it. I can't sit out here and be like this. No, offensive line was trash. They weren't trash. They weren't trash. They executed better than they did at certain times than others. You know what I'm saying? My thing is just consistency. Like you said, too, it's another year.
8:10James Harrison:Rookies that they had in the goddamn Patriots, those dudes look trash. These dudes look like they had good spurts and bad spurts. So, like, if our team could just lock in. So you're telling me that the rookies they had at the Patriots had worse year than the
8:30Joe Haden:Campbells? Yep. Did?
8:35James Harrison:That's what you're saying? Yep. Okay. Yep, that's what I'm saying. Okay. So, I'm line, line, line, line, we can still, maybe a lineman or two, but that's not, a line, I'm not even going to say a lineman. No, no. Wide receivers. Okay. Straight up. Straight up. Like, if we can't. But we also got to be able to get the ball to them. I understand. I understand that. But, God damn it, if they're nice enough, they're going to be open. You know what I'm saying? Maybe we'll get some better route trees and stuff going in there, too. but our receivers weren't good enough to get open on one-on-one. I love DK.
9:10James Harrison:I wouldn't have signed him back. I would have made him void at that 30. And when I got a number one legit that I think is out there on that island, a real live ex, like that, go over there, run a slant on him, you're going to be open. Run a dig on him, you're going to be open. Run a little stutter and go, you're going to be open. Like, that's what I, so we need some real go-getters at the wide receiver position, I think. And then linebackers, some people that are going to come knock some shit backwards.
9:36Joe Haden:Do you know what I'm saying? I understand that. We got that. We got that in Harrison, but we only got that.
9:42James Harrison:No, but Harrison still -
9:42Joe Haden:We ain't got no coverage. We ain't got no real movement. It's just straight downhill.
9:49James Harrison:When you say Harrison, I don't want to hear that. He's just going to talk about he could just run in there and just hit. That's it. Can you do both? No, we need to get nice. You got to do both. You just can't be in there just running. It's a runs game. Boom, put your head down. I need you to be aware. Be able to know. Don't come down. Don't bite the cheese. You need to be able to come down and feel, and then don't bite the cheese and intercept the dig. We need to be dug another year.
10:14Joe Haden:Are they being taught that? We've seen that same thing happening too much every time. Like, maybe they get an opportunity now to actually be like, yo, damn, this is an epiphany. We supposed to do this? When did that happen?
10:29James Harrison:That's what I'm telling you, too. we're going to be getting a chance to really be on the coaching staff because is it being coached? When we keep seeing dudes run down and. .
10:39Joe Haden:.
10:39James Harrison:Who's our linebacker coach? Hmm.
10:42Joe Haden:Do we have one yet? I don't know. I think he might be waiting on me. Mike, give me a call, baby. I'm telling you. Debo, that's what I'm saying.
10:49James Harrison:Hey, look, as soon as you be the linebacker coach, I'll be on this journey like this. Debo, your linebackers was taking the fucking cheese. Oh, no. He was biting the cheese.
10:59Joe Haden:Never that. Never that. I don't, man. I don't keep no rats around like cheese, man. Okay, okay, okay. You're going to coach them all nice. If they go catch us, it's going to have to be some peanut butter on there or something. You know, we ain't biting the cheese, bro. We ain't biting the cheese. Hell no. Uh-uh. We can't do none of that, man. We can't do none of that. No, I'm telling you, though.
11:19James Harrison:You're going to have to keep the – hold them. Look, it's the accountability. The coaching staff is going to have to keep the – We don't have a linebacker's coach, do we, bro? They're way – all this talking you keep doing, And I think they're waiting on you.
11:32Joe Haden:No, no, I'm dead serious. I'm dead serious. Who out there? I didn't think about that. Bro, I'm not coaching, bro. I know, I know, I know. Bro, I can't do it. It won't happen. They don't pay enough, man. They don't pay enough, man. Listen, I'm trying to tell you, man. Listen, that's one of those things where, like, you're like the goal of, you know, you had a distorted view because you were over here in Cleveland, okay? I got a distorted view because I actually played the game. I won Super Bowls, and I was paid a certain amount of money to do that. And I spent probably the most time in the facility and training and everything than 99 % of the people.
12:17Joe Haden:Now, you're telling me that every coach actually does more time than I did, at least the good ones, do 90 % of them, do more, 99%, I'm sorry, do more and spend more time there than I do. And you telling me you want to cut me down to less money? Nah, bro, I can't. I'm sorry. My love for the game of coaching it and being able to deal with players. So now you need some money. What? I got to deal with and manage people that aren't going to be the same mindset as me.
12:56James Harrison:Dude, that will drive you crazy. See, you got to, that's what coaches do. Look, that's when you say great coaching is what you have. You're going to get it out of your players to perform better than what they do.
13:06Joe Haden:I understand that too. And I think you can do that, Debo. No, no, no, no, no. You got to understand something too. You got to get players that have that mentality too. So when you go to drafting and picking up players, you need to be able to see that, read that, understand that, and be like, okay, this is the player that I can get to do what I need to have done because they have the drive and motivation to want to do it. Not the player that just got the talent and don't want to do nothing, but be like, hell, I'm talented.
13:34James Harrison:I can't stand that player.
13:38Joe Haden:I can't stand that player. It don't, yeah. I can't, bro, I couldn't do it. I don't even know how. Yeah. You got to have a true love for the game or, you know.
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18:10Joe Haden:And be like, yo, I want to go through the interview process of doing the interviews for the players and get an understanding of that player. I want to talk to your family. I want to talk to your mom. I want to talk to your daddy. If you got a long-term girlfriend, I want to talk to her. If you're married, I want to talk to your wife. I need to understand the whole character or the person that I'm going to either draft or bring to this organization. Oh, yeah. If I can know that what I see on the field is just, oh, that's great and gravy. But if you, behind the scenes, is a person that don't nobody want to deal with, you know best, everything is your way, you can't take no coaching.
18:51Joe Haden:I was that dude, dude. I couldn't take no coaching, bro. And the reason I couldn't take coaching is because I was so insecure to let people know that I didn't know what I was doing. I just used that as my shield of, oh, okay. Okay. You know? Damn. That's what it was, bro. Like, I had to get over that and just be like, you know what? It ain't no problem to ask for help. Yeah. I'm like, you know what? I'm just so, you know, I don't want to let them know I don't know what I'm doing. I don't want to look like the person that, you know, is asking a bunch of questions, you know.
19:31James Harrison:Chico, that's crazy. I would expect, look, because I was the opposite. Like, and I normally knew the stuff, but when I went to Florida, I never played corner a day in my life. So I got switched and started playing corner my freshman year at Florida. I had no choice but to ask questions. You know what I'm saying? I just wanted to coach, and I had a great DB coach, Vance Bedford, and he taught me. He played the game, and he taught me the game. Stance, alignment, assignment, technique, and all that stuff. I look like a robot. I'm not going to lie. The first year I learned the game, because I just wanted to be in my spot.
20:05James Harrison:I wanted to make sure my job was done exactly right. You told me to jam him inside, coach. I'm going to jam him both sides. I'm going to do exact. I look robotish, but I was doing exactly what I needed to do. So, action, being able to understand. It's a big difference, though. You came into the league, Joe.
20:22Joe Haden:You're a draft. You're a draft. Yes, I came in high, Debo. You came in high. It's a big difference between what you get as far as an attention and what I get as far as an undrafted dude that they just like, yo, you a fucking roster spot. You're just to fill this void until the camp is over. Okay, no, I feel you with that. On that side. No, bro, stop, bro. Listen to me. You know you need to come ask. You got the coach that just don't even really. My coach, my first coach, dude. That dude run over everything. And I'm like, hey, hey, hey. Before I can get a question, boy, I'm about to run.
20:55James Harrison:Okay, no, no, no. And I'm looking at me like, I don't. I get you on that. I get you on that. That part, that part when you scare your coach like this. What do you mean you ain't get it? When you're like, you're not, you're an undrafted dude. It's a different situation. I completely understand. That's when you'll want to see you hopefully then had a cool vet that knew the game and wasn't worried about his job, wasn't worried about getting this plot took in. They ain't no worried about getting my spot took it from you. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm talking – look, no, no, this is what I'm talking about.
21:23James Harrison:Oh, yeah, you? I'm talking about you in the league and you a young player that comes in and you don't really know. You want to go ask a vet that's – some vet's like this, man, get out of here. Not trying to help. Or you got a vet that's comfortable in his own skin, knows he's chilling his job. Cool. Here, man, give you some game. Tell you what's going on. Like, no, this is how you need to do it on this defense. Boom, boom, boom. So that's what I would have tried to look at then. Because I know the young dudes, when they come in, coaches, maybe not. A quality control guy, a vet, hopefully that's cool.
21:51James Harrison:Those would be the dudes that you could probably ask the question to. Because, you know, I know exactly what you're saying. You're looking at the coach like, man, if you don't get your dumb out my face, you just get out my way. They're not looking to help you. They're looking to help the draft picks. Completely understand.
22:05Joe Haden:Yeah, they look – yeah, don't let me waste my time on you. And most of the time, they done vouched for the dude they done picked up anyway. They done vouched for him? Like, yeah, can't come in there. Dude, I sat behind the cat for like three years, bro, because he was like a second-round draft choice, brother. Let's go over here to Cleveland, though. Your boy say he not returning to the Browns. Tight end. How you say that name? David Njoku. Njoku. David Njoku. David Njoku said he is not returning to the Browns, brother. What's going on?
22:37James Harrison:You know why, man? You know how it goes, man. It's time. You know my man David Njoku.
22:42Joe Haden:He ain't put out no cryptic statement. That boy said, you know why? First of all, I love you.
22:47James Harrison:His deal is up, my brother. He's going to be an unrestricted free agent.
22:51Joe Haden:That boy said, don't call me.
22:52James Harrison:Don't think I'm coming back. No, no. No, no. He signed a four-year, but I can tell you. I think this is more to the city. He signed a four-year,$54 million deal. And the season we just played was the last year on it. Harold Fannin Jr., rookie. He's on a four-year, 6.7, 1.6 a year. and he just went to the, basically went to the Pro Bowl. So, I mean, it's nine years. I know Joku, baller, been great for the Browns and great for the city, but it's kind of how the game goes. You know what I'm saying? Like times they're not going to resign. I mean, it seems like he doesn't want to come back for maybe they talk to see what he got some fillers out.
23:32James Harrison:Like, hey, man, I thought about bringing me back. This looks like they already had the conversations. They look like they didn't want to deal. So he knows he's going to be unrestricted free agent. It's just a buy to the city. You know, he's still playing. He got plenty of options of places to go. But with Cleveland right now, you know how that gets. When it gets to the later end of your career, you just finished, closed it out. You trying to figure out what's going on? That looks like to me, they talked to him and his agent. The agent reached out to them. They reached back. It's like this. Don't look like too much going to be going down in Cleveland.
24:01James Harrison:So he's like, all right, I'm going to go ahead and say my goodbyes.
24:04Joe Haden:Okay. It makes sense. That makes sense. Because they got it like he was like, yo, I ain't returning. Like, your approach, reasoning it out, me sitting back, instead of, you know, just making like everybody want to get out of Cleveland, which they do. Which they do. Which they do. No, which they don't. No, not they don't. They don't unless they get their bag, Miles.
24:31Joe Haden:Man, listen, everybody want to get out of Cleveland, but we had somebody that wanted to stay, man. Your dude wanted to stay. Yeah, dude. But to stay back. And he had to go ahead and give in his resignation a couple days ago. Jim Schwartz said, you know what, man?
24:51James Harrison:That man Jim Schwartz said. I'm resigned.
24:53Joe Haden:I'm resigned, man. Brown still ain't got a DC. What y 'all going to do, Joe? We going to get a DC.
25:00James Harrison:We going to get a DC.
25:03Joe Haden:Who you going to get to come to Cleveland? I don't know, Debo. I don't know. Who would you like to come to Cleveland, Joe? You want to go be D coordinator? No. Wow. You don't want to help your team. I do want to help my team. You love so much that you was running your mouth to me when y 'all actually had a, y 'all beat us. It was, what? You don't want to go? I love my Browns.
25:30James Harrison:I do. I do. I do. I don't want to just, look, I need to get my, I want to, I'm not.
25:37Joe Haden:You're doing a lot of stuttering, Joe. I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready yet. I want to be the DB. You do a lot of that.
25:42James Harrison:I'm not ready yet. We need to get a solid DB. We need to get a solid defensive coordinator. I'm just, look. Oh, you said you ain't ready. So you come in as a DB coach. I'm not going to come in there after Jim Swartz and come down there and just, like, I don't got my scheme all set up yet. I got it. No, I'm not ready.
26:00Joe Haden:I'm going to use his.
26:04Joe Haden:I'm going to use his.
26:06James Harrison:That's a good idea. That's a great idea.
26:06Joe Haden:Stay there. Stick with what works. Why am I going to come in there and try and change the recipe? Everybody want to put their own twist on shit. And look what happens. You can't change something that has a platen. It's platen. This is how it works, dude. It's ruled out. And every offense, defense, no matter how it's ruled out, has a weakness. And if they blitz too many, the quarterback got to know the hot and get it out. And if they hit a spot, you got to know that, hey, they going to get 10, 12, tackle the catch. go in there, take his defense, and make it your defense, Joe. Listen. Listen. Also, man, I don't know, man.
26:45Joe Haden:Where was Schwartz's head coach at? Where was his head coach at? Wasn't it the Detroit Lions? Yeah, it was Detroit. Hey, hey, I'm hearing the man got a little ego, too. I'm hearing the man got a little ego. I mean, by little, I say little ego. And like this right here, man, just took off on him.
27:08James Harrison:I can't believe that he took off on us. I mean, I can't believe it because he wanted the head coaching job. He wanted it bad. But I would have hoped that the owners talked to him.
27:21Joe Haden:All these players talking about gym this, gym that loves gym, he said, oh, they didn't give me the job? You guys, I'm gone.
27:32Joe Haden:that ain't love bro
27:33James Harrison:but he felt like he deserved better I feel like he should
27:36Joe Haden:I understand he deserved better he only had one year left man go ahead get your boys get your boys that last year
27:41James Harrison:get that boy that last year man the Browns Miles misses you
27:44Joe Haden:you ain't about you ain't about to get a job nowhere else anyway you just resigned that's the death penalty for a coach just leave up out of there and you wasn't even a good head coach you was trash and you still under contract yes and you was a trash head coach yeah that's not a good look one of the worst to ever do it thing I'm just saying yeah with the 30th worst 300 and something worse ever and something like come on yeah man I mean I understand but I also understand that prime example like if you really cared about these dudes like yo Let's go. I'm under contract anyway. I got one more year.
28:33Joe Haden:I'm going to swallow this. Let's run it back.
28:36James Harrison:We do one more year. And then he go get And how does it work if you just resign
28:42Joe Haden:and you're under contract? Do he got to pay that back? How does that work? I don't even know how coaches Can you ever go anywhere else because I own you.
28:53James Harrison:I got your rights. Is that like a player trying to retire? to get out of a deal and then just come back.
28:59Joe Haden:Like Gronk, when he retired, he retired and he came back and they had to give something to New England to get him in Tampa. Yep. Like, do you think that they are going to allow you to come back and coach anywhere after you just did this? I'm going to tell them, hey, listen, what you want to do to keep or get this man, and then they go say, well, we're willing to do this. And I'm going to say, give me 150 million and I'll let him coach for you. You just went and screwed us over like this. You ain't going to never get another ego. My ego go talk as an owner. My ego go talk, bro. You ain't letting him go for nothing.
29:42Joe Haden:No, you ain't. I ain't letting him go for nothing. You think you left because you got the, oh, I'm thinking. You left because you were mad. They going to miss me. No, you going to miss never getting a job in the NFL again.
29:54James Harrison:That's ego talk. Yeah, he got to, Man, you got to play that deal out, brother. You got one more year left, and they balling. I know you and your feelings you wanted to be the head coach, but come on. Everybody don't get what we want.
30:07Joe Haden:Everybody doesn't get what we want. Like, it ain't nobody that thought, oh, we don't give him the head job. He just going to leave, resign, leave the contract. Now you have nowhere you can go without the Cleveland Browns that has them saying, hey, we'll allow this if you give us that. I'm going to make the price so high that nobody will touch you. Yeah. You on the shelf. You on the shelf. I don't even. He can't go pro. He can maybe go back to college maybe. I don't even know.
30:37James Harrison:I don't know. We got to look and see what his contract say. He got to look at the little fine print in that joint.
30:44Joe Haden:Like, yeah, we got to check into that. They might got to trade him. They could see if they could. Yeah, he could be traded. Right. But trade him for what? What are you... I'm going to trade him. Yep. Who is... Who's what he's going to get for? Right.
31:00James Harrison:What you going to get for him?
31:01Joe Haden:Right. What you going to give me the trading to you? I'm going to make the price so high, bro. Like you were acting out as a ego-driven, whatever you want to call it. I'm going to act ego-driven because I now have control of if you ever did a job in the NFL again. That's the craziest move ever. You got to think about it. When a player sit out, sit out, you just sitting out. You can sit out as long as you want to. It don't count until you get that year.
31:35James Harrison:You said a player can sit out?
31:37Joe Haden:Bro, you can sit out. They still own you for the next year because you ain't playing under that year.
31:42James Harrison:But don't you get – aren't you getting fined if you don't show up?
31:46Joe Haden:Yeah. I don't know coaches.
31:48James Harrison:Do the owners – do the coaches get fined? No, no. He resigned, though. But that's like, you can't get fined except if you're like a player. Can the player resign? Is resigning like the same thing as retiring?
31:59Joe Haden:It's retiring. They can ask for money back. Okay. Depending on how it is or where it is or who you are. Well, I be done. Like, that's why. Like, yeah, give me that money back, bro. Y 'all got to get that on up over here, baby. Y 'all got to get that on up over here. You left because you mad. And hey, listen, they can do that. And you know what?
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35:50Joe Haden:That ain't enough. That ain't enough. I need more. I need more. More money. Speaking of money, man. Oh, man. Boomer. Boomer, Boomer. Boomer said, Boomer said that Sam Darnold lost money playing in the Super Bowl because of California taxes, bro.
36:09James Harrison:That is, when I first read it, I didn't understand what y 'all were trying to say.
36:14Joe Haden:I totally understand it once I went through it, bro.
36:16James Harrison:I did it until I started reading it. And then I said, oh, this doesn't make any sense. Zero.
36:23Joe Haden:Zero. NFLPA, I'm with him. NFLPA need to shut it down, never play another Super Bowl in the state of California again until it is. NFLPA needs to go to the NFL. We are not playing in California Super Bowls until you kill this jock tax. That's crazy. I got to pay you a whole percentage of my salary. And Debo, Debo. Not just the week I played there, the whole year.
36:51James Harrison:Let me start this. Debo, we want to start this off by saying. I want to start this off by saying, people, please understand this. I understand when you, like, don't talk about if you're making money, da-da-da. The hell with all that. The hell with all that. I'm just trying to break this down to you, and it makes zero sense. What it all made me come outside myself. When you, in your salary, though, Debo, in your salary, you know, during the playoffs, you're not getting paid your salary. No. Right? Like, this playoff football. Dude, it don't even matter if I am being paid my salary. They're taxing the whole year, Joe.
37:25James Harrison:That's what I'm saying. Each team makes$100 ,000. How could you get? So each team made$178 ,000, right? Each player. Each player makes$178 ,000 for the Super Bowl. The ones that lost, they lost more money. The ones that lost, oh my, yeah. So they probably get, what,$100 ,000 maybe? It don't matter. It don't even say.
37:48Joe Haden:They're still taxing their whole base. Their whole base, okay. And you're getting half the pay for the loss. So they got 178. What's the name? Probably got like 70-something. 70-something. So they're getting hit even harder.
38:03James Harrison:They're hitting you seven for duty? They call it duty days of them staying out there for seven days. They're getting hit each day that they're out in Los Angeles. On your whole check. Patrick Mahomes, if he was 50...
38:21Joe Haden:You hitting him on 50 and he only made, if he won, he only made 178. Huh? You hitting him on the whole 50.
38:30James Harrison:The thing that doesn't make sense to me though, Debo, is if you want to live out there, this is what I'm saying. How can it go over what you made there? You going to play at Super Bowl. Super Bowl is$178 ,000 you made in the game, right? You leave with a bill of$250 ,000. and you're getting taxed on your check already. So you coming out to Joe, after that$178 ,000, he might see$80 ,000 of it,$85 ,000. And then he's going to have to pay$250 ,000 because you went out there to prepare to play in the Super Bowl. That is one of the craziest things I've ever heard. You lost money going out there, bro.
39:13James Harrison:If he had to take the— He won the Super Bowl and lost money. If he had to go play and he got a check for$178 ,000 to play in the Super Bowl, and they took the whole check. That's still crazy. But you take the whole check and then tell a man he got to write you a check for$71 ,000 out of his pocket when he just came out here and played in the game. And you already took the 178. And now you're going to just be like, no, you got to write another check, Fulio, because you was out here practicing.
39:42Joe Haden:Hold up, hold up. Look at this, though. Look at this, though. Think about how much money it brings the state of California when everybody is flooding there. And now we brought the Super Bowl here.
39:53James Harrison:Hundreds of millions of dollars and you're pulling more money out the boys' pockets. You talk about everybody's money. They taking money out the MVP pocket to come out there and play. How? That's crazy.
40:05Joe Haden:Bruh. Bruh. I knew it was a reason. I wasn't going to move anyway. I like the changes of weather. It makes you appreciate a 40-degree day. You know, so. Oh. Joe. Joe. All I know. NFLPA. Who is the NFLPA current executive director? Whatever you're doing, and like I said, he will only be there for so long. I'm still waiting on them to get me the information. That's what I need to do to run for the NFLPA executive director. But I ain't heard none hide nor hair yet from it. They say they was going to notify. They ain't notified nobody. But anyway, like I said, NFLPA needs to be on the NFL's neck and let them know we ain't playing in the state of California.
40:49Joe Haden:until y 'all get rid of that jock tax. That's crazy.
40:54James Harrison:That's almost like, though, Debo, when it couldn't, like, in the Pro Bowl, if we went to Hawaii. LA. It's in LA next year. It's in LA. Yes. Are they going to jock tax people
41:03Joe Haden:being out there for the week in LA? If you play in the Pro Bowl and it's in LA, you getting jock. That's why it's a jock tax. You play a sport out there, you getting it. You getting it. And then they say, oh, it don't matter. Don't nobody care. Yeah, don't nobody care because, How many percentage of people are professional athletes? They got the money. Let's get it. Let's hit it. That's crazy. You win the Super Bowl, Sam, and the MVP. Hey, they need a tech tax. They got enough tech out there. They can get a lot of money from that.
41:37James Harrison:Oh, my goodness, Deebo. That's crazy work. I couldn't believe it. I didn't think. I thought that he got taxed ridiculous amount of money off of his 178. You know what I'm saying?
41:47Joe Haden:I couldn't believe they said his hoe. I said, what are you telling me?
41:51James Harrison:This man had to write a check for a quarter M? Huh? Why?
41:58Joe Haden:They out there stealing. No. They raping. I was out here raping them boys. You know, 34, I was murdered. I was killing them. Them boys couldn't touch me.
42:13James Harrison:Ain't never got no red shirt. Bruh.
42:16Joe Haden:Ain't that red shirt mean?
42:17James Harrison:Red shirt, me? Huh? Who? I got a red shirt because I only got a red shirt on because it's camp day.
42:24Joe Haden:You know what I'm saying? Bruh. Yeah. They got to fix that. That's all, all, all on the NFL PA leadership and making sure they're doing what is best for the players. The players and not what is best for the league. You know what? That's when they started making it to where, like, You know how you got to file taxes in every state you're playing? Yes. I used to be the NFL had to do that. The teams, they switched that on over to us. To the players, it makes you have to do it. Oh, yeah, buddy. Oh, man. Oh, yeah, buddy. No question, Joe. Joe, it's 12. Hey, we got Super Chats. What we got, dude? What we got right here, we got Michaela Randall, 8843, donated$10.
43:14Joe Haden:Tell us, keep it real, Debo. Will you still learn D-line defense and start coaching? What's D-line defense? What's that?
43:28James Harrison:Will you still learn D-line defense and start coaching? Don't let me out Baltimore. Do you think you're wrong?
43:37Joe Haden:Hey, Joe, I don't know what they said. I ain't going to lie.
43:40James Harrison:So, don't let me out. Joe, it's me being out Baltimore. or do you think it's wrong for me to be a Steelers fan? 43 is the reason I'm a fan. 43 over 28. Wow. I mean, look, to each its own. I ain't going to lie. I'm from Maryland. They keep wanting me to be a Washington, D.C. It was a Redskins fan back in the day. My grandpa was a big Redskins fan. But be a fan of who you like. If you like Troy, Troy one of the best safeties to ever do it. So if that's who you like and that's why you started rocking with a team, rock with your team. Don't let nobody tell you who can be your favorite team because it's your favorite team.
44:20Joe Haden:I got you. Listen, this got to be somebody young because my sons be writing like that and I'll be like, yo, what are you saying? Appreciate you. Appreciate you. No question. Oh, it came back again with another one. Oh, they say we got 12 drive picks?
44:38James Harrison:Yeah.
44:38Joe Haden:They say we got 12?
44:40James Harrison:That's what I'm saying, Debo.
44:42Joe Haden:Hey, we got 12? For real?
44:47Joe Haden:Dude, we're going to have to dive into that and check that out for sure.
44:50James Harrison:That's what I'm saying. Line receivers. Linebackers. Fire. And if it's 12, it don't got to always be 12. We can make it. 12 sounds good. But a good eight is better than just 12. If we could trade to get two of those to get a good one or somebody that we really like a better pick, yes. Don't just be getting just people to have people. If we see that we can make eight of those picks be really, really good, don't just get 12 guys. Don't just get 12 guys. Let's figure it out. Let's make it work. Let's make it make sense. Let's get the best players. Let's get what we need.
45:27Joe Haden:No, we're going to get 12 of what we need and what's the best, but if we got 12, that is for sure. That is for sure. We will definitely, we're going to check that out. And if we got, we will definitely be talking about that coming up on the next one. But I got another one right here from Foxy Mama. Four, three, two, one donated$5 said, would you go coach with Coach Prime? Would you go? Yeah. Would I go coach with Coach Prime? I'm not, we just talked about this. I know I can't get enough money in college. I just you know it ain't it ain't about who I'm coaching for it's about uh how much I'm coaching for it ain't who it's how much for me I ain't I ain't got that much love for the game to be honest but it's one way that that could happen only way that could ever happen is if my sons wanted me to coach them.
46:25Joe Haden:That's the only way that could happen. And it was allowed to happen because my sons have wanted me to coach them. It just has not been allowed to happen. It ain't allowed yet. Yeah, it's just not allowed to happen. Okay. That's it. But if my sons wanted me to 100%, they would have me in. That's no question. Joseph, We don't want a little over. We got some sad news to get to the people, though. Yeah, man. We will not be here on Friday. Dang. Yes. A little, a little. I got some things that I need to do. And I will be unavailable at our normal time of 11. Kevin, so we will see you guys next week on Monday.
47:28Joe Haden:We will have plenty to talk about, especially if we got 12 draft picks. We're going to have an old bunch to talk about on Monday. So we hope you guys have a beautiful, beautiful weekend. We will be back here on Monday. Joe?
47:45James Harrison:Yo, I'm going to let y 'all know y 'all have a pleasant Valentine's Day. have a blessed weekend be safe and we will be back on Monday
47:54Joe Haden:what's Valentine's Day bro Valentine's Day man what day is that I think it's Friday Friday yep that's shoulders that's shoulders for me hey and we want to thank you guys for joining us on this episode of D-Boy and Joe please make sure you like subscribe and download where you get your podcast we'll be back here on Monday morning and we out
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