Yes, I do with I only think that not only do I think he owes him an apology, I think he should be fired.

And and by the way, I thought that before this.

But now I I would say absolutely.

I thought that because of the Carson Wentz debacle, and I think it now, the only one thing that could save him is this.

You hear what Miles Sanders said, Listen closely.

Whoever was the main factor behind the decision if Peterson, who remember, could not choose his own staff, right when the head coach is not allowed to choose his own guys when the head coach is saddled with a quarterback who clearly won't listen, who won't follow the game plan?

Who won't execute the things clearly they must have worked on during the week, Right, like ball security symbols don't force throws stuff like that.

When all that's going on, you start to wonder, Is the head coach really calling the shots?

If Peterson, who would still owe the team an apology, were to say, Look, guys, hands are tied, I got the cuffs on like I had to do this.

I got my marching orders.

Maybe that would save his job or explain what's going on.

But otherwise listen to the players on the team.

Jason Kelsey.

Media availability.

December 19th.

Go check out what he said and imagine how he feels about this.

You just heard Miles Sanders.

Those guys.

How could you trust that, Coach?

Guys, this was not some some game where, you know, like there.

No, it's got flexed to prime time.

You were playing a divisional rival.

You had a chance to keep out of the playoffs.

And don't tell me you were trying to go from 9 to 6 in the draft.

Your GM hasn't drafted a Pro Bowler in half a decade.

He's better off drafting night.

The player of fall to him instead of making them to speak.

Pick like, what are we really talking about here?

What are we really talking about here?

Way Need toe.

Evaluate the third stringer instead of to see if the second round pick who's gonna be your franchise quarterback can win a game in prime time in the fourth quarter.

Yeah, he owes him an apology at least Nah, no.

No, they don't.

Hey, hey.

Don't hate been mad.

He'd been mad at Doug and Carson hates everybody in Philly, but, hey, definitely that he doesn't own apology.

And I'm on the side that he was dead wrong.

I'm on the side that he he didn't give his team the best opportunity to win.

I'm on the side that the decision that he had predetermined before the game is won.

You absolutely cannot make in that position, but, you know, home an apology.

I played 13 years and I can't remember ever hearing.

Sorry, You get some my bad.

You get some people taking accountability for their actions.

But I'm sorry.

Oh, I apologize.

Doug Peterson didn't didn't make this decision to spite his team.

That's not that's not what I feel.

Doug Peterson make this decision because he looked at it as this is the decision that I wanna make.

This is about Doug Peterson as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and whatever conversations that he was having with executives in his his organization.

Doug Peterson wasn't looking at this like I'm doing the thing that's going to help you all win football games I'm doing whatever it takes to get us a dove like Jason, Kelsey said in his media availability.

And he made a mistake.

Now this wasn't a mistake.

This is a decision.

This is a decision that he made knowing his team was going into the last game.

Knowing his team season was season was over.

They knew they were out of the playoffs.

He didn't make this decision with those dudes in mind.

He did this apart from them.

So when you're not thinking about me or you're not thinking about them while the decision is being made, then what the hell you home on apology for it?

This ain't about them.

This was never about them, And that's the reason Max is right about him being fired, not because he owes them an apology because he didn't think about them when he was making the decision in the first place.

Yeah, he's on the next year.

That's what that decision suggested me is.

He's already on to next season, and maybe it wasn't up to him.

But the rest of those players that were there, many of them won't be there next season and they're trying to get a job.

They want their film that look good.

Film looks better when you got good quarterback play.

It looks better for everybody when you got good quarterback play.

But I do think that it's important to understand that on all teams is probably true.

Of all organizations, there feels like there is always a divide between, like the workers and management, and it's like us in them.

You can work together, but on Sundays there are only a few people who are us.

The people that are on that field trying to win that game feel like us, and everyone who's out there needs to be doing what they do for us to succeed.

Right then, it felt like Doug Peterson was them.

At that moment, it seemed like he was the front office.

He was upstairs.

He was them.

He was Don't care about this particular yeah, he was the man.

Them don't care about this particular Sunday Onley us is care about this Sunday and I'll bring something up.

I just reminded of this by looking at Ryan Clark and thinking about the Steelers.

I remember last year when Ben Roethlisberger got hurt all of us, Dum dums in the media was like, Yeah, this is perfect.

They're gonna stink.

They're gonna go get a quarterback.

There was like, No, they would trade that pick away and get a safety.

And I'm not going to sit here in that and say that was a smart decision.

But you know what it did?

It reinforces a culture that they're trying to say.

You know what, Duck Pietersen's, um decision did.

It unravels that sort of culture, and that's a small thing.

This one thing is not gonna be enough to break it all down, but all you need is one thing, and then another.

When when Doug Peterson doesn't threats that guys don't disagree with When he says something, that else that guys don't disagree with, they're gonna look at each other.

They're gonna go in that locker room and they're gonna talk about him like he's them.

Not like he's us.

They go by man.

Your boy dug up to it again.

That's what's gonna happen.

You know what's not happening?

They going in there and talk about the dog?

Yeah, they talk about the GM.

They talk about everybody is us.

They all us that look Look, I know you two both played in the league and you're basically like my size, and that's remarkable.

But let's just keep in mind in terms of credibility.

When I simulated Madden back in like, 05 I won the Super Bowl when one of those simulations.

So I think I have seen crying standing.

Let me just let me.

Well, I didn't repeat, but repeating his hard.

You know, I thought I could, because all the things awareness, everything I bumped up, but I still didn't repeat.

But that's not the point.

Look, the fact of the matter is, Doug Peterson blew it so bad that all around the football world, people in other organizations, not just the New York football giants, are being critical.

Why do you think the league flexed it to prime time?

Because there are playoff implications and you can place ball.

Don't tell me like sour grapes is a Giants fan.

Even the Washington football team.

That's a divisional rival you're playing.

That's a one score game.

I'm not even talking about not, you know, going for it instead of kicking the field goal on fourth down.

Good.

I don't care about the negative outcome.

Don't be scared.

Be bold, Right?

Fortune favors the bold.

It didn't work out for them this time.

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