Rob Ninkovich Joins the show! Thoughts on Brissett!

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Two-time Super Bowl Champ, former Pats' LB, Rob Ninkovich, calls! What are his thoughts on the Brissett starting choice? Was the choice mostly made by HC Jerod Mayo?

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00:00Good morning, Robert.

00:01What's up?

00:02Good.

00:03Hey, good morning.

00:04I got an issue with all you media guys.

00:05Can I, can we talk about it real quick?

00:07Yes.

00:08Yes.

00:09Okay.

00:10Okay.

00:11Here we go.

00:12First of all, the, the whole Mayo and me and him talking and giving all everybody information.

00:19Weren't you all complaining about bill and how they gave, he gave nothing to anybody

00:24for years.

00:25And now you have Mayo who actually gives you something that you can talk about, right?

00:32Can you be happy about that?

00:33I got, you listen to all these radio shows where people are like, why is Mayo telling

00:37everybody?

00:38So he's just giving you guys something to talk about.

00:41Perfect.

00:42Great.

00:43And then the quarterback thing.

00:44Okay.

00:45You want to put Drake may out there, a rookie quarterback to get baptized and killed by

00:49an offensive line that they're trying to figure out.

00:51No, you have to protect.

00:53You protect the young guy.

00:55You don't throw them out there in the fire and get them killed and get them beat up and

00:58emotionally and physically and mentally killed.

01:01No, you go with the veteran guy, put the veteran guy out there first.

01:06You try to figure out your offensive.

01:08It takes the first month of September to figure out your roster, your lineup.

01:12Maybe you can claim a couple guys off of other teams and bring in a couple of tackles and

01:17you get a better offensive line in place.

01:19You feel more comfortable.

01:21And then at the time, the right time, you, and you put in the young guy, you have more

01:26confidence in your offense, your offensive line.

01:29He has more confidence and things work out in a better manner than putting them out there

01:35and you get them killed.

01:37And then the whole fan base is going crazy.

01:39Like why'd you pick them at three, blah, blah, blah, just relax.

01:42But the veteran guy stinks.

01:44And if that's the case, why, why is every other quarterback that was drafted in the

01:48first round who's behind Scribine's quarterbacks?

01:51Why ain't they sitting?

01:53Wiggy, you think he stinks?

01:55Jacoby Brissett?

01:56Yes.

01:57You don't stink?

01:58He's had, how many reps has he had?

02:00He's practicing with the team.

02:02You go in there in the preseason.

02:03Okay.

02:04So here's another thing.

02:05Wiggy.

02:06He got one.

02:07When you were playing, they put.

02:08He started it.

02:09Don't cut me off, Wiggy.

02:10Wiggy, don't cut me off.

02:11Listen.

02:12Go ahead.

02:13Listen.

02:14Wiggy, you're out there at your first team tight end.

02:17How do you go against the twos or the threes?

02:19How are you going to make them look?

02:21If I'm the first team, I should dominate.

02:25You should dominate.

02:26Okay.

02:27Right.

02:28So you're seeing all these guys, you're seeing, uh, you know, quarterbacks and linebackers

02:32and receivers against second and 13 guys.

02:36You have to look at these guys and you have to look at the players against number ones.

02:41We really haven't seen anybody against a true starting offense or defense or anything.

02:46My point, Nick, is this.

02:47Why don't we wait?

02:48My point is this, Nick.

02:49Bursette got reps against the twos in the preseason games and was throwing interceptions.

02:55He stinks.

02:56Why isn't Jaden Daniels sitting then in Washington?

03:00Why isn't Caleb Williams sitting in Chicago?

03:03Why isn't Bo Nix sitting in Denver?

03:07When you're a bad team and you draft a guy that high, just like Carolina did last year

03:12with Bryce Young and CJ Stroud.

03:14You play that guy.

03:16You don't sit in behind a journeyman backup who's not very good when we talk in the other

03:21day about the commander's O-line and how bad it's thanks for it's worse than the paper.

03:25Yeah.

03:26Wait till the commanders.

03:27Wait till we watch the commanders in Denver on a couple of weeks.

03:29You're going to Holy, this is terrible, but I'm telling you, I would ask you to be bad

03:35Bo Nix.

03:36And then also to Bo Nix.

03:38Right.

03:39Still.

03:40Is that who he's competing with?

03:41Yeah.

03:42Like, come on.

03:43All right.

03:44Like you got Bo Nix.

03:46You put Bo Nix in.

03:47It's also you certain, certain places, certain teams, they're going to tell you who you're

03:52going to put in there.

03:53Right.

03:54They're going to tell you who to put.

03:55Like, okay.

03:56Certain teams.

03:57You're like, okay.

03:58The teams are going to constantly.

03:59You think the commanders are going to be a playoff team?

04:00No, no.

04:01I'm not saying that.

04:02I just think on one question.

04:03I just figured this out, by the way.

04:07Is there some sort of opening on the defensive staff over there?

04:10Oh, if there is.

04:11Just what?

04:12Nope.

04:13Not this year.

04:14Nope.

04:15Not for Ninko.

04:16I'm in coach.

04:17I am coaching eight, eight-year-olds.

04:18It's like football.

04:19Okay.

04:20I don't have time for this professionally.

04:21Did you say not for this year?

04:23Yeah.

04:24No, not for, not for these, not for this 40 year old man.

04:28No way.

04:29I might only got, you know, Hey, I hit my head a lot.

04:35I might only have 10 or 20 years left.

04:37I'm not going to just.

04:38While you're on the phone.

04:39Forever.

04:40Forever.

04:41Did you, did you text Mayo and say, Hey, I'm on the radio defending you right now.

04:44Tune in.

04:45The only way.

04:46No, the problem.

04:47I have a problem with everybody listening to interviews and saying, Oh, Mayo talks, you

04:56know, he gives you all that.

04:57Listen, you guys had 20 something years of a guy being like, um, yeah, get out of here.

05:03Like get away from me.

05:04You media guys.

05:06But I think I think Mayo wants Drake may to play.

05:13He just doesn't have the power and Nick has nothing to worry about when it comes to defense.

05:17Alex Wolf said, Hey, you can go hot.

05:20Elliot Wolf, whatever the hell his name is.

05:21You can hire defensive guys.

05:23Every offensive guy has to be an Elliot Wolf guy.

05:26If I was going to, you know, say, Hey, any chance may you can hire me next year?

05:30He's probably like, listen, I got no control over that one.

05:33This is just the way I look at it.

05:35Mink.

05:36It's a shame because I don't think that Mayo Wolf and van Pelt are on the same page.

05:45Are you in the building?

05:46No, I ain't in the building, but I can connect the dots.

05:49Everybody that's connected us through what?

05:53No, no.

05:54In the training camp.

05:55We don't even hit each other.

05:56They got freaking guardian cats on their head.

05:59Here's how I connect the dots.

06:00The Elliot Wolf was in Green Bay with Alex van Pelt.

06:04Alex van Pelt hired pretty much everybody from the Cleveland staff.

06:09Every guy that Gerard Mayo interviewed for the offensive coordinator that had

06:13connections to him got passed up or didn't get the job.

06:17So the offensive coordinator was hired, not by Gerard Mayo, but was hired by

06:22Elliot Wolf because of the relationship that they had in Cleveland.

06:26And I believe those two, because Alex van Pelt said it himself.

06:31Jacoby Brissette is our starter.

06:33When Mayo told us last week that May is outplaying Brissette.

06:38All right.

06:39Well, listen, Niko, you are, you're okay with this decision.

06:41You think that Gerard Mayo made the right decision, right?

06:45I taught, I've said this from day one, that no matter what it looks like, you

06:51don't throw them out there right away.

06:53You don't throw them out the right.

06:54Especially, now especially, now this is the main reason for that.

06:59Their offensive line, to me, is a work in progress, right?

07:03They need to get a few pieces in.

07:05I thought they should have tried to, instead of going after a receiver, they

07:10should have tried to trade or get a big-time tackle in here because you need

07:14a tackle, blindside guy, protect the quarterback, because we know that these

07:18young quarterbacks, you've got a couple of young guys on this roster

07:21quarterback-wise, can move and get out of some situations.

07:24They have the ability to scramble.

07:26So, what I would do is try to get the offensive line solidified.

07:32You have more of a moving pocket.

07:34Hey, okay, if this breaks down, receivers, go backyard football, get open,

07:39quarterback, move around in the pocket, extend the play, because that's really

07:43hard as a defender to stop a mobile quarterback that can move in the pocket

07:47and throw the ball down the field.

07:49That's what I want to see out of this offense, but you can't have a guy

07:52hitting his back foot and getting the back of his head caved in, right?

07:55You've got to have some type of offensive line, and it especially matters

07:59on the edges.

08:00The interior, I'm not worried about the interior, guys.

08:03They've got some interior pieces.

08:05I'm talking about the corners, which, nowadays, good pass rushers are making

08:09$25 million, $30 million a year.

08:11They're paid to get to the quarterback.

08:13You've got to protect the quarterback.

08:15All right, and then just to be clear, because we've got to go, but you would

08:20be okay as a player without playing somebody all training camp and then

08:25sitting for the year?

08:28It's outplaying is all subjective, right?

08:32Okay.

08:33I'm just going by what the head coach said on the show.

08:37Exactly.

08:38You all are just tuning in and taking it and running with it.

08:41All right.

08:42Maybe it's a psychological thing.

08:44He's boosting up the kid.

08:45Maybe, hey, you had a great camp.

08:47You outperformed the veteran, but guess what?

08:50We're not going to throw you out there to the wolves.

08:52We're going to protect you.

08:53Keep doing what you're doing.

08:55Keep balling.

08:56It's going to be yours one day.

08:58You're going to get the keys, but not today.

09:00Not today.

09:01Rob Minkovich, as always, a pleasure.

09:03I'm so glad you called.

09:05We'll see you soon.

09:06All right, bud?

09:07All right, see you guys.

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