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00:00 Mike Fisher, you have covered a lot of playoffs in your day.
00:04 You've also covered the Cowboys for a while.
00:05 I think we're going to our Super Bowl number 23 in my career or something like that.
00:09 Wow, okay, congrats. That's huge.
00:12 In those 23 seasons, what changes during the postseason that you've witnessed in the locker rooms, at practice, just in general, among the league?
00:21 The smartest thing is when they do their best not to change.
00:25 And obviously we all understand the stakes are higher.
00:29 We talk about must-wins in the regular season, but the only time there's a literal must-win is when your season ends if you lose.
00:37 And that's now.
00:39 But the guys that can maintain it.
00:42 And I'll say this, and I mean no disrespect to Nick Sirianni, for instance, in Philadelphia.
00:47 To me, and it's not that he's not a successful and outstanding coach, but the way he wears his emotion on his sleeve.
00:56 In an almost, no offense, Philly, an almost cartoonish way.
01:03 He's almost a cartoon character.
01:06 And he's just being real.
01:08 That's the way people say he was that way when he was six years old.
01:11 He was cocky.
01:13 That doesn't play well when things are going poorly.
01:16 When you're overly emotional and you're the captain of the ship and you've got your hand on the wheel and you're spinning the wheel like this.
01:23 What happens to the other people on the boat?
01:27 So the ability, if you're a Jack Prescott or a Mike McCarthy, Sean McVay in Los Angeles.
01:34 Sean McVay, he's the same every day.
01:37 Every single day.
01:39 You could put Josh Allen in the other camp.
01:41 The roller coaster camp.
01:43 Josh Allen, certainly in terms of his performance, can be roller coaster-y.
01:47 And maybe that does explain.
01:49 And of course right now the Buffalo Bills roller coaster is going in great shape right now.
01:53 But there's something.
01:56 Obviously I'm not saying that a coach shouldn't be passionate.
01:58 But there is something to be said for when there's stressful times and turbulent times and the ups and downs.
02:05 That the guys on the boat just look up at the captain and he's just going like this.
02:09 He's just steering the boat like he always steers it.
02:11 And that's an advantage in San Francisco.
02:14 You don't see Kyle Shanahan screaming and yelling and waving his arms at the other sideline.
02:20 Again, and I don't mean disrespect to Nick.
02:23 He went to a Super Bowl.
02:25 He might go to another one.
02:27 But I think their adversity in Philadelphia and their mishandling of their adversity is a direct response to the way that the head coach, the boss, handles adversity.
02:39 Which is screaming and yelling and making fun of people on the sideline.
02:43 I don't think it's the greatest look for the Eagles.
02:47 And I don't think it's beneficial to the Eagles when times are tough.
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