I feel like he has the right to express how he truly feels.

Um, he's invested so much into that organization that he's earned the right toe, have that voice and they should listen to him.

And I feel like it's OK for him to express how he feels.

And if he wants to go somewhere else with his career, then, uh, I'm all for that.

We see this kind of stuff happening, Darren and welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, but we see this kind of stuff happening primarily in the sport of the National Basketball Association.

It's rare that we've seen something like this happened in the National Football League as a player in the National Football League.

What enters your mind when you hear a player particularly of his caliber?

Take this kind of staunch position?

How does it resonate with y'all?

Not necessarily about him, but about the team he plays for and how players in the National Football League are getting treated by some organizations.

What do you thought?

We see something like that, you just know that there is a divide.

They're the best organizations in the league.

There's there's a camaraderie.

There's a togetherness.

There's the front office, the coaches and the players on the same page.

When you see a guy like this on, you know, take that stance.

You know there's a divide like he's a champion.

We know that we know his pedigree.

Um, there's something there in that organization that isn't sitting right with him.

With all that he's put in, he feels like there's no change that's going to be there, and that's a tough place to be as a player, because you could do all that you can and control what you can control.

But when it's not being met on the other side, it's very frustrating.

Meantime, the Shawn Watson I've been saying is probably the second most trade value in the NFL.

Given his age and his ability and everything behind Patrick Mahomes, who's the guy who's gone 25 1 or who's on a team that just went 25 1 in their last 26 games?

There was one team that beat them.

I don't know if you know who it is off the top of your head, but I suspect that you do.

What is the key to beating the Kansas City Chiefs?

Um, you gotta be firing on all cylinders for sure.

When we beat them, we had explosive pass plays, a few that were over 50 yards, explosive runs out, roar 50 yards.

Defense had multiple turnovers, so it has got to be every part of the game that's contributing.

You can't just be one part because there's such a good team at this point in the season, their defense is always playing their best at this time.

You know what they're often brings to the table was just, you know, it's a freak show over there, so you know, you got to be on top of every aspect of the game.

One small slip in any small area can be that what breaks the game open for them.

So I would say explosive plays on offense and turn the ball over and getting sacks on defense.

What the hell happened to y'all, man?

Y'all was six and four.

Y'all looked like y'all were en route to go into the playoffs and then you ended up two and four over your last six games, finishes a 500 team.

What happened?

What happened to the Las Vegas Raiders?

Um, when you look back over the last two years like a similar trend happened, so I would probably say that goes into the attention to detail as we go down through the season.

Got the small things, what separate those games that we lose and you can go by and cruise by off energy and, you know, enthusiasm and things like that early in the season.

But when it gets tough in the later half and it gets cold and you know the road gets tougher, you know, we've got to be on top of the details and come to work with, uh, that same level of energy, even increased energy, to be a championship team and be considered in those playoff games.

So, you know, things like that gotta change.

We step up our ball.

Security on offense can be turning the ball over or, you know, falling short in the red zone.

These are things that we have to fix in order to get where we want to go.

You've played both teams in the Super Bowl this year.

Eso you face both defense's.

Which defense is more of a problem?

The Bucks or the Chiefs?

Um, I had to go with the bucks.

Um, you look at the front, you've got Shaq Barry, who led the league in sacks in 2019.

You got Pierre Paul, who I think was the toughest person I had to pass protect against this year and is playing from the best of his career.

You got those line back the linebacker duo in there, which is the best I probably ever played against at any level on their TVs can make plays as well.

Like Murphy Bunting.

Um, you know Carlton Davis Whitehead flying around back there.

So they've got talent on every single level and guys that can make impact plays.

Uh, I'm not gonna sell the can't see defense short, either.

Not with tire Matthew out there.

Frank Clark.

You know, guys like that there.

They get better as the season goes along.

Better than anyone I see in the past couple years, Um, what's it like to play for Chucky?

That's what we get.

People affectionately called him.

He's the great Jon Gruden.

We miss him here is the voice of Monday Night Football.

He did an outstanding job for us for many years, even though Luis, Riddick and Crew, doing a great job now, wanted to know your thoughts.

Because when we think about the Raiders, you think about Jon Gruden, Chucky, as they call them from time to time.

From that doll, they always look at his face.

Was messed up all of that stuff anyway.

Chucky, what's it like playing for him?

It's amazing playing for Coach Gruden, Uh, he's got an infectious energy about him, and it's always positive, you know, speaking greatness into people.

Like when I first got to the team, you know, I was just, you know, a guy trying to keep a job because I was always in trouble and things like that.

But he was speaking greatness into me and that kind of planted seeds for me.

Thio, you know, take off with my career and is always things like that.

He'll give.

He'll get after you if the effort and things like that aren't there.

But he's a guy that loves everyone, is a part of the team a part of the building, a part of the franchise, and he just makes it fun to come in and come to meetings and come to practice every day.

Darren, huge.

Congrats on an incredible season by you personally.

And let me ask you this because I'm gonna be asking folks this quite a bit over the next week.

But you're the first person I get to.

I'm super excited for the Super Bowl as we mentioned you played both teams.

Who's winning it?

Is it Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs?

Or is it Tom Brady in the Bucks?

I'm going with the bucks, Andi.

I think if the Bucks win, I feel like there's gonna be a defense of Super Bowl M V P.

Mhm.

Interesting.

I didn't expect to hear you say that.

You do know that you got this face the Kansas City Chiefs twice next year, right?

You You know that, right?

You just picked against you.

Okay, Right.

They might remember that.

You know that, right?

It's okay.