Jason Kidd says he knows exactly what he’s doing and that people who never played at his level don’t get to criticize him. We break down whether that’s confidence or deflection, look at Cleveland’s situation and ask if the gap between Kevin Stefanski and Todd Monken is organizational failure or a coaching one, and then turn to the latest James Harden trade noise in Los Angeles, where confusion is constant and the one thing that never changes is Harden himself.

A conversation about Bill Belichick without Tom Brady, Syracuse football’s culture problem, and the early energy shift with Shedeur Sanders in Cleveland. Different levels, same theme: leadership always shows itself.

It's about finding the right man for your team, not the biggest name,

Bill Belichick not being in the Hall of Fame right now isn’t confusing. His record without Tom Brady is losing. His playoff record without Tom Brady is losing. New England declined every year once Brady left. Other coaches have won Super Bowls without Hall of Fame quarterbacks. When you remove Brady from the equation, the results speak for themselves.

Then I shift to the Duke NIL lawsuit and why it was such a bad look. Duke didn’t resolve this quietly. They sued their player publicly. I break down what NIL contracts actually control and why that level of control should alarm people. When a school owns your name, image, likeness, persona, jersey number, and signature, the question becomes simple: what part of the athlete is actually theirs?

This is about NIL moving from opportunity to ownership, about institutions using legal power to restrict movement and labor, and about how college sports now operates like a professional system without professional rights.

Buffalo has done a terrible job at literally everything over the last week and a half.

This show starts in Buffalo, because something is clearly off. The Bills firing Sean McDermott has created more questions than answers, and the reaction around the league says plenty. Philip Rivers backs out. Mike McDaniel doesn’t even interview. That doesn’t happen unless people see instability. When your owner sounds emotional at the podium, coaches notice. I think Buffalo made a panic move and now they’re paying for it.

From there, I get into Deion Sanders and why Coach Prime is doing real work at Colorado. You can nitpick wins and losses all you want, but structure, accountability, and development matter. He’s building young men, not just depth charts.

We hit quick soundbites after that:
• UFC ad complaints — $9 for a card beats $100 PPVs or a bar tab every time.
• Cardi B’s postgame moment — completely overblown and not worth the outrage.
• Stefon Diggs audio — still that guy, still productive, still changing offenses. He’s helped Drake Maye, helped New England, and a 1,000-yard season on 85 catches doesn’t lie.
I close with Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford, and a simple point: if you watch three and a half hours of football and the best question you can ask is whether Stafford should still be around, that’s not analysis necause it's lazy.

Denver didn’t lose to the weather. They lost to preparation and physicality. New England controlled the interior, ran the ball straight up the middle, and let Drake Maye’s legs keep drives alive when things broke down. Denver’s fumble, interception, and missed field goal mattered, but those mistakes only widened a gap that already existed.
The gap was Sean Payton. One system. One approach. No adjustment. It doesn’t matter if it’s Jarrett Stidham , Drew Brees, Bo Nix, or a broom at quarterback. The offense looks the same. Everyone knew the weather was coming, and Payton coached as if it wasn’t. That’s not bad luck. That’s a lack of flexibility

Seattle VS Los Angeles was decided by coaching. Sean McVay’s fourth quarter choice to pass on a field goal tightened his own margin. 

Then there’s Mike McCarthy and Pittsburgh. He was seemingly a safe hire. But he has strange patterns that could make or break his time there.

The fake outrage machine is in full force at ESPN through Stephen A. Smith about Notre Dame. This isn’t really about Notre Dame at all. It’s about optics, contracts, and theatrics. If Stephen A. actually explained why expanding the College Football Playoff to 16–20 teams makes sense, he’d accidentally expose ESPN’s financial ties to the SEC and ACC. And why Notre Dame being independent complicates that business model. So instead, we get the easy headline, the loud emotion, and the performative anger. The irony? Notre Dame, as an independent, still ranks top-15 nationally in viewers per game. Something that’s incredibly hard to pull off without conference backing. That’s the real story.
From there, I get into Mike McDaniel and the coaching carousel chaos. Did he pass on Buffalo because he looked at the situation and thought, You just fired Sean McDermott over Josh Allen, and I already lost my job because of a quarterback/front office marriage I didn’t fully control? I’m not saying that’s definitively the reason...but it’s absolutely a possibility worth discussing. McDaniel’s name is floating around Vegas. Reportedly he accepted a position with Los Angeles as an OC role under Jim Harbaugh. Nothing is settled, and everything feels fluid. And that uncertainty tells you a lot about how coaches are now evaluating job security in the NFL.
Cameron Smotherman a fighter for the UFC, fainted immediately following weigh-ins and multiple others missed weight. This isn’t just about discipline it’s also about biology. Cutting extreme weight pushes the body past limits it’s not designed to handle, impacting the heart, brain, kidneys, and long-term health. If you want to talk about sustainability, ask Tom Brady. He’ll tell you it’s not about getting bigger because it’s about flexibility, recovery, and taking care of your body instead of constantly breaking it down.