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00:00I want to get your reaction to this Pete Carroll hire, and I'm not even going to tell you what
00:07I think.
00:08So, I just want to hear it from you, because you can imagine what I think.
00:12You know me now.
00:13I'm not even going to tell you what I've said over and over about this hire, but I want
00:20to see what your opinion of it is from the jump.
00:24I don't think it's the most exciting thing that's ever happened.
00:27Let's get that out of the way.
00:28I think Ben Johnson was the one that they wanted, the slam-dunk, the home-run guy.
00:31That was the way to go, in my opinion, that I thought would have been great.
00:35But this team needs stability.
00:36Like, Pete Carroll does bring that.
00:37I don't think anybody's going to be overly excited about it.
00:38I don't think anybody's going to think they're going to win Super Bowls right away with Pete
00:42Carroll.
00:43But I think this franchise needs credibility and stability, and if he's the guy for two
00:46or three years that can bring that and set up the next guy, I think that might be the
00:50right thing right now.
00:51I don't know.
00:52I don't know what the right move would have been, necessarily, but I don't think it's
00:54the worst thing that could have happened.
00:56I think it's pretty much a dead average hire, to me, in my mind.
00:59So it's like a bridge hire.
01:02Exactly.
01:03Exactly.
01:04That's my thought on it.
01:07What they have right now is nothing good.
01:08There's not a good roster in place.
01:09There's not a quarterback.
01:10They're not making the playoffs.
01:12They're buried behind three teams that have quarterbacks and coaches combinations in place
01:15for a long time.
01:16They're not going to win the Super Bowl right now.
01:18They're not going to win the division right now.
01:20But they need somebody that's going to put the thing in the right spot so that the next
01:24guy can make that move.
01:26And I think Pete Carroll can do that.
01:27Can he make the playoffs in two years?
01:28Maybe.
01:29I think that's probably what you want.
01:31So do you like the Brady involvement and the Spytek hire from the business end of it?
01:41So I'll put it this way.
01:42I think Spytek is a much better hire than Carroll is.
01:45I think Spytek is going to change the thing around here.
01:47I think he's going to change the culture.
01:48I think he's going to change the roster.
01:49I think he's really, really good at what he does.
01:51I'm more excited for the Raiders about the Spytek hire, and that's all Brady.
01:54I mean, college teammate of Brady, guy that he worked with in Tampa.
01:57Brady got him in here.
01:58And let's not forget, Brady did give him an interview with Ben Johnson.
02:00I don't think Ben Johnson was ever taking the job.
02:03But Brady got them that interview.
02:04He got them in the door.
02:05And I think that's what he's going to do for them.
02:06He's not going to be here day-to-day.
02:07I don't think he's moving to Vegas any time soon.
02:08He's going to live in Florida, be with his family, call games.
02:09But he is going to be part of the big picture.
02:10And I think he was a huge part of this hire.
02:11He was a huge part of both these hires.
02:12And I think what he does is, he changes the impression of what the Raiders are.
02:22I don't think Mark Davis opens as many doors as Tom Brady does.
02:25And I think that's clear in this interview process.
02:27I think you're brilliant.
02:29And that's exactly how I saw all of it.
02:32I have a problem.
02:33I'm going to come out with it now.
02:34I have a problem with 20, you know, 24 to 28-year-olds listening to some 74-year-old
02:40Grandpa Jones.
02:41Like, they don't listen to guys that are 50, let alone some guy that's 74 years old.
02:47I don't care who he is.
02:49I don't listen to my grandma and grandpa.
02:50They're dead.
02:51I don't listen to my dad when I was 23.
02:54I don't get it.
02:56They act like he's great with players.
03:00There's no 25-year-old kid listening to some 75-year-old guy do anything, let alone cut
03:06his hair at the barbershop.
03:07I don't buy it.