I just finished the 8th episode. Would love to hear your thoughts when you get caught up. It's pretty intense stuff, as you can tell already, and I think he gets to his desire to change in further episodes.
Ryan had a ghost writer for his book, maybe he should run his pod scripts by someone too?
I like how raw the podcast seems to be. It sounds like a stream of consciousness, just edited for time. We get to hear Ryan as he is, not filtered through some editor. And for stories like his, I think it should be just as it is.
IIRC, the shit of it was, the week before Jenkins whined in OT to the officials about not being able to hear. And the officials stopped reset the play clock at least twice for them. No charged timeouts. Ryan should have pulled the same stunt in Tempe.
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A narcissist doesn’t believe anything is his fault, it’s always about what someone else has done to him. Even admitting that they’re a narcissist is a pretty significant step.
In the sense of not "hearing his story" again, I am in 100% agreement.
I said some stupid shit when I was in my 20's as well but damn, that's next level.
UW's schedule was set up for a lot of wins in 2021. Other than the Michigan road game, which nobody thought would be as hard of a game on paper as it later appeared, UW's schedule was really soft. Missed USC and had the tougher conference games (Oregon, UCLA, and ASU, in addition to Cal and WSU) at home. Only conference road games for UW were Oregon State, Arizona, Stanford, and Colorado.
yeah, but the starting qb was basically an unknown. I mean, other than being a G-K kid (which now seems to be the GOLD standard in WA, but I digress...), there was no reason to think this was even a 10 win team. Hyperbolic/ myopic huskie fans making duck fans look like nostradamus.
UW & Jimmy Lake let Leaf talk to the team. Probably for an honorarium. When WSU didn't allow the same, some of the usual suspects had a fit and blamed Rolo/Chun
I don't know, man. That San Diego press were like sharks that smelled blood in the water, and the Chargers organization did nothing to help or protect him. There is no way they didn't know who Ryan was or what his mentality was. Couple that with an impotent HC, shaky pass protection, and a who's who of skill positions...
San Diego gave him no chance to succeed. They lost Tony Martin before the draft, then traded Eric Metcalf and their 2nd round pick, plus their ‘99 1st rounder to Arizona to move up a spot and get Leaf. It left the Chargers with no real receiving threats, and Natrone Means was their RB - well past his prime - so they weren’t a great running threat either. No QB was going to have much success there in 98-99. After the way Stan Humphries got beat up in ‘97, it was pretty clear things were bad in San Diego.
Spanos family were not good owners. There is a reason why the Mannings told the Chargers that Eli would sit if they drafted him.
Mike Price was not an NFL head coach in any way, shape or form.
In 2020, Stanford had to practice in a Bellevue park in the lead up to beating UW.
I don't think there was ever really a thought of Price as an NFL HC. I remember hearing talk, even in 1998, that maybe the Chargers should bring him on as QB coach...just to be the Ryan whisperer.
I think the problem was Dean Spanos had no idea what he was doing when he took over (although his dad wasn't great either). After his first 6-7 years, they at least starting making moves that weren't just 100% stupid.
