Rob Ninkovich calls in after hearing Wiggy talk about him!
Rob Ninkovich calls in after hearing Wiggy talk about him!
Do you agree with Ninko, that Brissett should remain the starter for the time being?
Do you agree with Ninko, that Brissett should remain the starter for the time being?
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00:00After Wiggy has mentioned him countless times this morning, Rob Ninkovich, hello Rob.
00:07Hey guys, you know I love having a nice cup of coffee in the morning and getting text messages.
00:11Wiggy's talking about you on the radio. I just, you know, I want to just throw my two cents out
00:18there. I want to say what I have to say. I want to ask Wiggy a question. Okay. I want to ask you
00:23a question Wiggy. You got it. What is secondary to the physical side of football? What is very
00:29important? There's physical. What's the next thing? Mental. Mental. Right. Mental. Physical.
00:36Mental. Okay. So I want to take you through, you know, a little bit of statistics here. So
00:42you look at quarterback sack percentage. Okay. The number one team in the NFL right now is Denver
00:48at 2.8, 2.82% sack rate percentage. Okay. They got a rookie quarterback in there. Right. Who
00:56was struggling? He's struggling, right? Like he's throwing, you know, I should have
01:01threw it to the other team. You know, he's struggling. Okay. So now you're talking about
01:06Williams in Chicago, 28, 28 in the NFL, 10%. He's 10.19%. Okay. In the NFL.
01:15Now, what do you think his quarterback rating is? It's probably very low.
01:2072. 72. Let me ask you, Jacoby's quarterback rating. What is it?
01:26I would probably guess 77. It's 77. It's better than Caleb Williams in Chicago. 77. Okay. Now
01:3532 in the NFL at 13.49% is the New England Patriots. Okay. The mental side of going in
01:45there when you're a young guy and you're trying to learn an offense and get the timing down and
01:49you're running for your life and you don't have a chance to set your feet up and throw a perfect
01:53pass that can mess you up, right. With confidence, with learning, you know, how to play in the NFL.
02:00Now I get it. So I'm out there. Let them play. Okay. But then you're putting at risk a potential
02:06Sam Darnold situation. And with New York, where you got a guy back there that says on live
02:11television, he's seeing ghosts, right. So you have to protect your investment, not for this
02:17year. And we talked, I talked about this patience. Everyone needs to be patient. This isn't a snap
02:21your finger and we're back in the playoffs. And I know New England Patriot fans are spoiled. You
02:25know, they boot us at halftime when we were winning Superbowl. I get it, right. You want to
02:30win right now, but this isn't a car lease where you turn it in and you get a new car or a cell
02:35phone that you turn in every two years. It takes a little bit of time. Number one, you got to
02:40evaluate where the roster's at. I mean, Mayo, I think he's done a great job as far as coaching.
02:45He hasn't done anything where you're like, Oh, look at the coaching decisions. No, he's doing
02:49his best right now because he's trying to evaluate the roster, make appropriate moves where what you
02:54have on the roster right now, defensively. I mean, you lose your best inside linebacker, they're
03:00dealing with injuries. So, you know, there's no excuses in the NFL, right. I get it. But at the
03:05moment right now, you don't have David Andrews, who's helping you make all the checks, right.
03:09And the protections and the slides and who to pick up and blitz pickup. That's a big problem,
03:15right. So your corners, the edges of the offense, sorry, I don't say corner. I say the corners of
03:20the offense, your tackles, you know, they have some injuries there. You're not being, you're not
03:25able to put a lineup in front of a young quarterback where you could feel confident that he's not going
03:31to hit his back foot and get smashed from behind, right. From the back blind side hits. So I think
03:37at the moment right now, you're still got to make sure that you protect the mental side of a young
03:44quarterback and it's got nothing to do with the physical side. Can I ask, can I ask Nick one
03:49question, one question? Do you think you brought up Bo Nix and Caleb Williams? Do you think this
03:55experience that they're getting, learning and from all these mistakes that they're making this
03:59season is going to help them out next year? I don't know. I saw Caleb Williams roll his eyes
04:05to a quarterback that told him, you got to make sure you don't take so many hits
04:09after a football game. But I asked you, do you think, so maybe it doesn't matter. You know,
04:13the guy's going to be out there. He's going to have his own opinion of how he plays.
04:17He's if he doesn't take coaching and doesn't learn anything from this year, it doesn't matter,
04:22right. But that's on the matter, but that's on the player. But is, is he in situations
04:27that are teachable moments that he is going to be able to learn from and make better next year?
04:33There's always, there's, when you're on the field, you're always learning from your,
04:37your play. Yes, I agree with you. That is the, that can happen. Yep. Rob,
04:42would you sit him all season? Now I don't think I'd sit him all season, but this is what I would
04:48do. I would make sure that if he is going to touch the field, we're not having them in situations
04:56where other teams are pinning their ears back. And, you know, when you come into the game at
05:00the end of the game and you're, you're getting blown out, the defensive line is just looking for
05:04sacks. They're not running. They don't care about the run. They don't care about, they don't care
05:07about anything. They just want to get to the quarterback. So if he does enter the game,
05:12I would rather see him at the start of the game than coming in at the end, right? Because at the
05:17end of the game, when guys are up and when defenses are up and they know that they're
05:20going to win the football game, they don't care about the run. They're just trying to get to the
05:24quarterback. That's money, right? They're trying to make money. So what do you say to people that
05:29say when you bring up the mental aspect of it, if you can't handle it mentally, then you shouldn't
05:33be in the league? No, that's, that's, I've seen plenty of really good football players get, get
05:41down on themselves mentally and they don't play at the level that they should play. I mean, and
05:46it happens and some guys are out of the league because of it and other guys get another opportunity,
05:52Sam Donald, and they ball out. It's, it's your, it's, it's how in that particular season,
05:58how are you, how are you utilized? How is, how is your self-confidence and how you're playing?
06:03Because, you know, Wiggy knows this. There's times in a football season where you're like, man,
06:08can I even do this? You know, and it's a very, very, very tough mental game to try and get
06:15yourself to play at a high, high level every single week. And it takes everybody. It's not
06:19just yourself. You got to count on the guy next to you. You got to count on the tackle to,
06:23to do his job. You got to count on the center to get the ball to you. So there's so many factors
06:27that go into winning football. It's never just one guy. And if everyone mentally is confident,
06:33that's why you practice so hard. And, and, you know, go back to when we were winning Superbowls
06:37here, we had a group of guys that mentally were sharp, ready to go. And they were confident and
06:42they knew that the guy next to him was going to do their job. When you don't know how that's going
06:46to play out, it affects you. But Nick, they're never going to get to that point where they
06:50believe in all that this roster is awful. Like you're trying to create a scenario that is just
06:54not going to be possible in the next year. Well, you're not, you're not, like I said before,
07:00it's not a snap of your fingers and you're just snapping your fingers and things are going to
07:04happen. It takes, it takes time. And, you know, the roster where it was at when Mayo took over
07:12wasn't great. Right. And who was the one that built the roster up? Right. So it takes time to
07:19draft and to bring in free agents. And you're not just going to waste, you're not just going to
07:23spend money to spend money with. You don't feel that the money that is appropriate for somebody
07:28is worth it. Why would you spend it when you can get, you really have to build through the draft.
07:32That's pretty much now, like now modern football, if you draft well, and you get key pieces through
07:38the draft, it helps you long-term contract. What week you start, what week? I don't know why you
07:46put me on a spot right now. Maybe. Well, first of all, they got to figure out who their center is.
07:53What week would you start them? Cause you said you'd play at least I would, I would like to see
08:00six to eight weeks of him on the center. So you'd start them by like week 12. No,
08:05he said six to eight weeks, 68, 68 games total, like under his belt. Yeah. Total. Yeah. Oh,
08:12total. Okay. Nine or something. So week nine. Yeah. So what's going to be the difference
08:15between week four and week nine with the offensive line? It's still going to be the same.
08:19So you make them my point, Nico, put the guy in, let them get experience and start them early,
08:24run the ball, move, put them on the move. There's so many things you can do.
08:28Well, good thing. We're not the head coach. All right, Robert, thank you for calling.
08:34Can't wait to see, are we going to see you soon? You're going to come Friday, by the way,
08:37you left. I got to go to, I got to go to Atlanta Friday. I wish I could be there. I'm leaving at
08:41one ATL. All right, well, we'll see you soon. We'll, we'll do a show soon. Come in anytime you
08:47want. There he is. All right, Wiggy. Okay. See you guys. Take care. A lot of guys on the other
08:53side of this. He said week eight. He said week eight, eight, nine, maybe. All right. We got to
08:58go. Great show today. Great show. Great show. Hopefully nothing on the show today gave you the
09:03ick, but we will be back tomorrow morning at six with bill O'Brien, the head coach of Boston
09:09college football at six 45 Jones and Keith next. Thank you for.