Steve Young
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Jul
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when you have to go hit people, it makes it that much harder to get them to go do it. And so as a coach, you know, a lot of coaches use threats and cause they're under, if they're out of it too, they're probably a little under duress as well. So a losing locker room that's out of the playoffs is actually a kind of a dangerous place to hang out because you go to play and not everybody's committed.
You get yourself hurt. Right. And so in that way, um, you, You pray that you're in a locker room like the 49ers this last week and go, hey, look, no way. And then there's leadership in there and there's a commitment to it and we're not going to go down that way. It's probably a little bit of a DNA thing that they've had for a while.
But teams that have lost for a long time and it's part of their culture and their dynamic now, it is brutal when you get out of the playoffs and now you have to go figure out how to go play and show who you are. Like the idea that I'm going to go play quarterback on a losing team that's out of the playoffs. How do I – Let's say I'm all in 100%. I need five linemen that are all in 100%.
I'm not going to say they're not, but human nature says, I really don't want to ram in anybody this week. So, you know, and so I'm not going to be tip of the spear, you know, ready. It's hard. I feel for teams that are in that mode all the time. I saw it in Tampa Bay for one season. I was there for one full season and there were no losers on the team. But it was a losing place. Right.
And it was impossible to change. I mean, some of the toughest human beings I ever met, James Wilder, I don't know if you ever read that name before, running back. I mean, tough. I mean, passages. These guys are, all years I played, some of the toughest people I knew were down there. But the culture and the feeling, you just couldn't get over it. And it gets, it's infectious. It's infecting.
And I feel bad for teams that can't get out of it. And teams that are constantly in it, I blame ownership. And unfortunately in this league, you can't, because equity ownership is not going to change. You can't, People don't really talk about it because they can't feel like they can't change it. They can get the coach fired. They can get the general manager fired.
They can get the quarterback fired. So people, that's where they talk. They can't get the owner fired. But the problem, 99% chance is the owner. How do we hold the owner accountable? How do we do that as a, as a city, as a fan base, as a, I mean, we need to be thinking about how we help ownership be accountable. Yeah. Make the team.
If they could feel that accountability and answer to it, it would help the team. And so I don't know how to – you guys figure it out. How do we figure out – Fly an airplane with a banner behind it.
Well, if you feel that way, then it really doesn't matter who is the general manager, who the coach is, who's the quarterback. Yeah. like you can't overcome apathy yeah that's what you guys are saying if you guys are saying that chicago bear ownership is apathetic then you guys got to figure out how to address it.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just know that the league would be an even better league. We're a great league right now. We're an even better league if we could figure out a way to hold the ultimate equity owner is accountable.
Agreed. Agreed.
In the NFL. The year I was in the USFL, the Express, that's all I did was a shotgun. I loved it. And it's – Bill didn't – Bill Walsh didn't believe in it. He didn't believe the timing could be – it wasn't until John Elway and Mike Shanahan used the same offense in 98 – and showed, no, no, it doesn't matter. And I remember when John was doing it from the shotgun, I'm like, frick, why?
Like, it doesn't matter. And from the shotgun, it's just such a better spot to be – to play quarterback. And so, yeah, no, I never – in the NFL, I never played one snap of shotgun, which is – That's crazy.
Yeah, for me, man, for me.
You're a recurring guest. I got to tell you, my dad's nickname is Grit. Okay, nice. I see the sign behind you. And Angela Duckworth wrote the book Grit.
And he's in the book. which is weird. That is. If you're serious about grit, I'm in. Yeah, we do a grit week. If it's just a sign, if it's just a cheap sign that Max walks by and spits on, then I'm not coming back. No, we do grit week every year. Yeah, we do grit week. If it's true you guys are about it, then I'm about it.
All right. Thanks so much, Steve. You guys got a lot of good therapy for me. I appreciate the time. Yeah, absolutely.
Take care.
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