{"id":296677,"date":"2019-01-15T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296677"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T21:03:49","slug":"freddie-kitchens-gets-his-first-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/15\/freddie-kitchens-gets-his-first-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Kitchens Gets His First Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Since we\u2019re on the subject here of masculinity and Gillette,<\/a> a division of Procter & Gamble, Gillette division, trying to wipe out toxic masculinity while selling shavers and razors. Maybe I should say razors and blades. I want to let you hear a montage we put together the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns. His name is Freddie Kitchens.<\/p>\n

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Now, by the way, just a little brief aside here for you NFL aficionados. I pointed out — this needs to be said again — the NFL is puffing its chest out and they\u2019re bragging and the sportswriters are writing about the NFL ratings on TV, how they\u2019ve rebounded, how they\u2019ve come back, isn\u2019t this a great thing. And there\u2019s one guy that made it happen, and they will never admit it, and it\u2019s a problem. It\u2019s another thing that Trump has done that is great for this country, it\u2019s great for an American business. He saved the NFL.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no other way to describe it. The NFL was in the process of imploding when a bunch of leftists got hold of a bunch of activist players and turned them into political billboards starting with Kaepernick and then all the rest of the kneeling and dishonoring the flag and the national anthem, and the ratings went south, and the attendance went down.<\/p>\n

And there was one guy who called \u2019em all out on it. It was Donald Trump. And he kept calling them out, despite what they said about him, he kept it up. The NFL tried to buy silence. The NFL tried to purchase acquiescence. The NFL tried to sue for peace by promising payments to various communities for social justice and whatever. And it didn\u2019t make the players stop, and it didn\u2019t get rid of the radicalism. It was Donald Trump dumping on them every opportunity he got and a couple of owners. There were a couple of owners who weighed in on this gutsily.<\/p>\n

And now there are no more signs of this kind of political intrusion in the game. Once again we\u2019ve got the championship games coming up this weekend, and the biggest topic is football related things, including the weather. In Kansas City, in the midst of climate change and global warming, the high temperature on Sunday is going to be between zero and eight degrees.<\/p>\n

By the way, as a little aside, there\u2019s very little experience, the New England Patriots playing on the road in the playoffs. They normally have the number one seed. So it\u2019s hard to factor. The Patriots\u2019 road record in playoffs outside the Super Bowl, which is a road game for everybody, is not anywhere like it is when they\u2019re playing at home. So it\u2019s hard to handicap. If the game were in New England, New England would automatically get four or five additional points.<\/p>\n

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But I think they\u2019re underdogs in Kansas City. Home team automatically gets three points in the gambling universe. And that\u2019s considered everything equal. The home field is worth three points, the crowd, the noise, and all that. So we\u2019ll have to see. But that\u2019s the kind of stuff that\u2019s being discussed now. And it\u2019s all because Donald Trump called \u2019em out, like every other fan was, but no other fan had a national bully pulpit.<\/p>\n

The NFL was losing fans, they were bleeding revenue and bleeding audience \u2019cause nobody cares about the politics of the players playing the game when they\u2019re going to dishonor the flag and the country when they make their statements. Let \u2019em do it after the game, let \u2019em do it in a postgame press conference all they want, but don\u2019t tamper with the product, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s never gonna be thanked. Maybe a couple of owners who know him will privately, but he\u2019s never gonna get the accolades or the gratitude that he deserves, because he really did — and I don\u2019t care who has conniption fits over this, he really did rescue a business in distress like he has countless other businesses and whole industries that were in distress. No gratitude.<\/p>\n

So the latest rage in the NFL is Sean McVay. Sean McVay is the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams. And the reason why is he\u2019s never been a head coach before. He\u2019s very young, he was the youngest head coach in the league I think when he was hired, very little experience as a coordinator. In other words, he\u2019s never been high up on the hierarchy of a coaching staff. The Rams took a chance, and he has revitalized that team. And he has brought offense, firepower back.<\/p>\n

And so the NFL\u2019s a very copycat league, and so everybody has been looking for the next Sean McVay. So a lot of teams are hiring head coaches that have never head coaches before, like McVay was. They are hiring young guys who were offensively minded who have all kinds of supposedly new offensive tricks and gimmicks, game plans.<\/p>\n

You look at the chiefs, Andy Reid is not new, but he has adapted to the quarterback he\u2019s got rather than trying to plug his quarterback into his system. Talk to Donovan McNabb about that. So the Cleveland Browns have done the same thing. The Cleveland Browns have hired Freddie Kitchens, who\u2019s never been a head coach anywhere and he\u2019s only been an offensive coordinator for three months, and that\u2019s with the Browns.<\/p>\n

But he is singularly thought to have brought their rookie quarterback, Baker Mayfield along, to the point that the Browns have done a 180. They\u2019ve become a winner. And Freddie Kitchens — their record ended up being 7-8-1 this year, seven wins, eight losses, one tie to the Steelers.<\/p>\n

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Freddie Kitchens said at his press conference (paraphrasing), \u201cI don\u2019t like anybody who\u2019s happy with 7-8-1. We\u2019re not going anywhere in the post — 7-8-1 is nothing to be proud of. I don\u2019t care if we were 0-32 before it, 7-8-1 is not at all what we\u2019re aiming for, and I don\u2019t want anybody in this organization to be happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Freddie Kitchens is a good old boy from Alabama. He is the antithesis of what modern feminism and Washington political culture considers to be a good guy. We put together a little montage of Freddie. I love Freddie Kitchens. I don\u2019t know him, but I think he\u2019s done a fabulous job. He\u2019s got great attitude. And I just wanted to put a montage together of the press conference where they announced him as head coach, and this is it.<\/p>\n

KITCHENS: The letter \u201cI\u201d is a letter. It\u2019s not a word. And when it\u2019s used as a word, you\u2019ve got problems. It\u2019s we, us, our, two is one, and one is none, and we\u2019re gonna have a lot of twos. We only have one goal here, and that\u2019s to host the Lombardi Trophy. Am I ready or not? I don\u2019t know. Were you ready to be a parent? I was a Browns fan when I was growing up. I liked their uniforms. I liked the simplicity of the helmet. I\u2019m a traditionalist. All right? That\u2019s the way I coach. That\u2019s not the way I relate to people. If you don\u2019t evolve, you\u2019re staying the same and if you\u2019re staying the same, other people are passing you by. The fun\u2019s in the winning and we\u2019re gonna have fun so in an algebraic equation, if we\u2019re gonna have fun and the fun\u2019s in the winning, we\u2019re gonna win. All right? And we\u2019re gonna have a damn good time doing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Freddie Kitchens, the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns. I think it\u2019s fascinating, you know, in a league where the people that own teams are uber-wealthy, multibillionaires, and they\u2019re a bunch of copycats. So Sean McVay — I mean, the joke is that if you can hire the Starbucks barista that serves McVay every morning, do it. That\u2019s what a phenom McVay is. No head coach experience, very young, but an offensive firepower.<\/p>\n

So what does McVay do? This is the funny, great thing. All these owners have gone out and tried to hire their version of Sean McVay, offense, offense, offense, passing game, passing game, passing game, revolutionize the NFL. And what does this guy do in his first playoff game against the Cowboys? He ran the ball for 243 yards! This was the NFL of 50 years ago! All of this massive pass off — I mean, it was there, but he did a total 180. He ran the ball. I guarantee you all season long everybody thinks the NFL has become this massively offensive machine, defenses have been weakened, they can\u2019t stop offenses, 51-48 scores, the final scores.<\/p>\n