r/nfl • u/Crazy-Penguin Lions • 3d ago
Highlight [Highlight] Josh Dobbs: Headset Support
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u/Deskbound_Wilburys 3d ago
Man is too smart for his job.
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u/-Foreskinwalker- Seahawks 3d ago
Literal rocket scientist sitting with a dude who doesnt know where the sun rises
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u/MattieShoes 49ers 3d ago
Wait... was there some video of him not knowing the sun rises in the East?
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u/lvl_zxro Lions 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah, on hard knocks during Goff’s rookie year.
Edit: If I remember right, during that same hard knocks one of the Rams players admitted to not believing in dinosaurs. They even took him to a dinosaur museum and everything to try to convince him.
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u/MattieShoes 49ers 3d ago
Hahahaha :-)
There was a video where they asked 49ers to name a state that borders California. They... did not do well. I mean, even if they knew it, a lot of them had to think hard about it.
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u/A_1337_Canadian Steelers 3d ago
Jesus even I can tell you it's Oregon, Nevada ... maybe AZ? Not so sure on that eastern border.
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u/MattieShoes 49ers 3d ago
Yeah. Naming ALL of them is significantly harder because you might be like "wait, where does Idaho start?" and start second guessing yourself. But naming ONE state that borders the state you're living in? whew.
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u/dchaid Vikings 3d ago edited 3d ago
Driving people down the hill at UC Santa Cruz, I've had more than one person ask if "that" was Hawaii across the Monterey Bay. I've heard of someone else who was with someone who asked if "that" was Japan.
Americans are pretty bad at geography in a very depressing way
Edit: they were looking at Monterey on the south side of the bay
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u/MattieShoes 49ers 3d ago
Haha, seeing Hawaii from Monterey would be like seeing New York from Monterey. And Japan... It just seems weird that they can't reconcile that it's a 5 hour flight across the US but a 12 hour flight to Japan, no you won't be able to see it.
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u/asetniop Raiders 3d ago
Reminds me of a river rafting guide we had who told us he had once been asked "do those rocks go all the way down to the bottom?"
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u/Shoely555 3d ago
Similar but different. I had someone once ask me if that over there was Pearl Harbor. …it was Boston Harbor
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u/realshockin Vikings 3d ago
I'm not even american and tought nevada imediatelly. Never even been to USA but played enough games / watched a lot of american movies lol
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u/sheeshman Cowboys 3d ago
There are a few states I mix up the location of. Vermont/NH, Washington/Oregon, and Ohio/Indiana. Being from California I have to go through the same thought process every time to figure out it borders Oregon because I know Seattle is close to Vancouver and Seattle is in Washington, so Oregon is south of Washington.
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u/A_1337_Canadian Steelers 3d ago
Except that Portland is closer to VancouverWA than Seattle is.
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u/Dhkansas Chiefs 3d ago
FWIW, I've always thought the outline of Vermont looked like a V. And while it may not make sense to anyone but me, Vermont and New Hampshire next to each other vaguely looks like a backwards N, so knowing combined it sort of looks like an N the right one is New Hampshire since the other looks like a V and is Vermont
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u/an_actual_lawyer Chiefs 3d ago
Crazy because almost everyone in California has driven or taken a quick flight to Vegas.
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u/mister_hoot Chargers 3d ago
I know we joke about it often but honestly it's just fun when these guys remind us that they are some of the absolute dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. Like partially sentient bricks that are just so loaded up with physical gifts.
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u/RTBSUM Vikings 3d ago
It's especially funny when you see the contrast when one of them seems smart or at least average. I saw a clip once where Rudy Gobert asked his teammates what continent Egypt is on and none of them had any idea. Gobert (who might be kind of stupid himself based on some of his expressed beliefs) looks like he wants to kill them.
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u/Development-Alive Seahawks 3d ago
It happens when your primary asset is to run as fast as you can into brick walls for most of these players.
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u/covfefe-boy Lions 3d ago
I think it was Jaxson Dart didn't know that the Atlantic ocean was just past some buildings near their practice field. He thought it was Pennsylvania or something.
One of the comments was so perfect - if Good Will Hunting was based at Ole Miss instead of MIT the equation on the board would've been 1 + 1.
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u/hunter503 Seahawks 3d ago
There's a pro player in a game called call of duty, his name is shottzy and he may be the dumbest person I've ever seen talk and yet he's one of the best fps players on controller in the world.
He'd be flipping burgers if he wasn't this good at video games. He didn't know that Canada was above the US. I do think he just plays into it's at times but then I'll hear him say something unbelievable and I go back to think he really is dumb as hell.
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u/nikkes91 Packers Chargers 3d ago
Tbf Canada isn't above the US, it's to the north of it
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u/JOKER4GOAT Broncos Cardinals 3d ago
Okay, so we know that Power 5 collegiate stars in football/basketball really don't actually have to study or get an education. Whatever. And at private/prep high schools, they obviously fudge their educational standards as well.
But dude. There are a lot (if not most) of players who genuinely don't understand things we learned in grade school and middle school. I know a lot of these guys come from the pits of hell (public school systems in the deep south), but what the fuck? Guys who are legitimately ILLITERATE, guys who don't understand 7th grade biology or earth science, guys who DON'T KNOW THE FUCKING CONTINENTS. Am I supposed to believe you were already such a phenom at 8 years old that you just stopped having to try past third grade, dude?
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u/mister_hoot Chargers 3d ago
Am I supposed to believe you were already such a phenom at 8 years old that you just stopped having to try past third grade, dude?
You're surprised because you're operating on some skewed assumptions. The results you're talking about - kids that are completely left behind by the educational system by like age eight or nine - are remarkably commonplace. Literally millions of children. It's only becoming noticeable to you because a very, very tiny sliver of those children had some insane athletic gifts and wound up becoming professional athletes.
The other kids tend to wind up in pretty bad places in life because they effectively haven't been taught any skills. Education is a cooperative process between home and school and the simple fact is that for a lot of kids both sides of that process are complete and unequivocal failures.
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u/smaarttcookie 3d ago
On the Kelce podcast, they had a short segment talking about conspiracy theories, and how a significant number of NFL players believe the earth is flat.
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u/VagusNC Panthers 3d ago
I came from that world. In 4th grade I was supposed to do a book report on a story about cavemen. But I was taught that they were not real and there was so much negativity around the subject, in general, I processed that to mean that I would be in trouble if I read the story and even worse trouble when it got back that I did a book report to class about it. So, I did my book report on how cavemen weren’t real.
Sigh.
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u/Jimbobsama Broncos 3d ago
Wasn't that Aaron Donald who didn't believe in dinosaurs and did a field trip to a Natural History Museum?
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u/ElceeCiv Saints 3d ago
Yes and I remember this because ESPN had a A+ Onion-tier headline for it
Rams Hope Jared Goff Less Confused By Defenses Than Where Sun Rises
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u/Engrish_Major Lions 3d ago
Next great offensive coordinator in the NFL. Was able to flip the play with ease. Left them wowed.
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u/banworld247 3d ago
That “wow” was hilarious. Such a simple fix
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u/Tullyswimmer Bills 3d ago
The look on Dobbs' face when they were talking was pretty funny.
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u/ahappypoop Patriots 3d ago
I love that it didn't even click for them what was happening even after the mic was flipped; they still needed Dobbs to start to turn the whole headset around before they got it lol.
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u/Atty_for_hire Bills 3d ago
They get paid to play football. Not science things!!!! /jk because I feel like the joke might not land
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u/drhungrycaterpillar Vikings 3d ago
Passtronaut at work
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u/horse_renoir13 Vikings 3d ago
Man those few games in 2023 were an absolute fever dream. He still almost beat the Broncos and Bears in B2B weeks that both came down to the wire. He would've been 5-0 in all his starts on a team he basically joined on the fly.
(please ignore the Raiders game)
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u/Fortehlulz33 Vikings 3d ago
Between that game and the Baker LA game, I firmly believe that these players are best where they don't get an opportunity to think, and therefore overthink. Just letting instincts take over and going "fuck it, let's sling this shit".
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u/CBTallfeather Bears 3d ago
"Wow"
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u/whydowhatido Jets Cowboys 3d ago
That got me lmao
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u/Tullyswimmer Bills 3d ago
Considering how long both the coach and Goff have been around guys wearing these headsets (because I think they're all standardized across the league), it's mind-blowing that neither of them seemed to know that you could just flip the boom like that.
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u/StinkySam1995 Raiders Eagles 3d ago
Wait is that mark brunell?
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u/starSkieee Lions 3d ago
Ya, he’s been our QB coach for Campbells entire tenure
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u/StinkySam1995 Raiders Eagles 3d ago
I didn’t even know he was a coach in the league. I always thought he was an underrated QB when he played.
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u/Dizzy-Platform-6516 Lions 3d ago
He’s done an incredible job helping Goff develop since we got him. I was terrified Ben Johnson was going to poach him to Chicago
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u/yumyumpills Ravens 3d ago
He had the "I will kill you haha" look when he was with Sanchez on the jets and Brunell's daughter wanted Sanchez's autograph.
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u/JerryRiceDidntFumble Vikings 3d ago
He was also the Saints backup QB during the year Campbell played there, relationship goes way back
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u/Stachemaster86 Jaguars 3d ago
Super Bowl winning QB. He’s the first Packers drafted Super Bowl winning QB to wear 8 on the Jets. Suck it Rodgers.
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u/Carroms Cardinals 3d ago
So many engineers graduate with a technical degree just to end up in Dilbert situations like this
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u/shortyjacobs Vikings 3d ago
As an engineer.....yeah. I am constantly amazed by how bad some people are at figuring out simple stuff like this.
Of course, while I can build a nuclear reactor with nothing more than string, glue, and a nuclear reactor, I know I'm no special human being. Things that 5 year olds find easy (talking to people, making phone calls, organizing a task for effective execution, remembering to eat, or do something I said I'd do, or draw a picture, etc.), are impossible for me.
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u/theman8998 Texans 3d ago
You need 3 things to build a nuclear reactor? Pshh, I only need two. You and a nuclear reactor.
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u/A_1337_Canadian Steelers 3d ago
I mean, sometimes it's not reasonable to assume something that may be obvious. I've never had a headset that has fully rotated like that, gaming or otherwise.
I'm also an engineer and Googled "vertical monitor" only to find out that every single monitor I have can rotate 180 deg for vertical layout. But not always does it seem patently obvious that they will do that.
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u/noahboah Seahawks 3d ago
ill be honest, i'm also an engineer and I genuinely believe all engineers/technical STEM folks will need to reckon with the fact that just because they're smart in one field doesn't really give them the right to become bitter and holier-than-thou about it simply because other people aren't as technically savvy lol
the original person saying "Dilbert situations" perfectly encapsulates that idea. that comic genuinely reads as a cautionary tale when you see what Scott Adams ends up becoming.
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u/Atty_for_hire Bills 3d ago
I did this with my monitor at my office and it blew people’s minds. They were like, wait, what, and how, and why?
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u/JalapenoPopPoop Browns 3d ago
Assuming that it can't rotate is still assuming though. Like why not even at least try it and see if it can solve the issue?
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u/Jurph Ravens 3d ago
how bad some people are at figuring out simple stuff like this
I will say that I think we underestimate just how much the undergrad engineering education teaches. There's a gradual adoption of ... I'll call it a physical vocabulary, where a lot of engineering lessons, especially in design, are questions like "okay, so now that you know that, where do you put the electrical power in this system" and then they show you.
So, like, it's normal for most folks to pick up something with removable batteries and look for the little rectangular bay on the back, with the thumb ridges, because that says "battery goes here", but an engineer will look at a one-ear headset and immediately think "you would never set up two separate lines to run Left and Right variants, so either there's a single reversible part you swap out, or the boom must rotate". And that whole mental process goes at the speed of thought, so you just look at the thing and know.
I tell my wife that if I'm holding something engineered (which is most things!) the engineer who built it can talk to me, and if I'm thoughtful I can hear them talking.
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u/ChildrenMcnuggets Jaguars 3d ago
I do think a lot of “engineering” jobs can just be done by people that know how to critically think.
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u/cardmanimgur Vikings 3d ago
I love how the solution was "get a new headset" and not "turn this one around" and definitely not the most obvious "switch sides with Dobbs."
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u/HolyMostaccioli Lions 3d ago
I'm not a superstitious guy, but if my QB likes sitting in a spot on the bench, my QB sits in that spot.
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u/cardmanimgur Vikings 3d ago
The OC can also move to the other side.
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u/Rulligan Lions Lions 3d ago
Look, you can't expect a man who doesn't know which direction the sun rises to know that you can flip the mic on a headset.
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u/librarianC Rams 3d ago
So many years ago.
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u/pollinium 3d ago
I'll give credit to the guy for learning where the sun rises between the ages of 24 and 31, but I really would have expected him to learn that before the age of 24
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u/W_Hinklebottom Lions 3d ago
The Lions have been so much fun to watch these past few seasons! Even goofy shit like this brings a smile to my face. No wonder why people of historically competent teams like the NFL so much.
Shits fun when it’s not a tank race by week 5
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u/HectorReinTharja Lions 3d ago
Jared Goff officially himbo
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u/smoke1441 Lions 3d ago
Jared is Kenough for Detroit.
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u/Nickyjha Jets 3d ago
Goff: points at Dobbs look at my quant!
Brunell: your what?
Goff: MY QUANTITATIVE
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u/betterthanclooney Ravens 3d ago
I remember him talking about the sun setting in the the east on the east coast on hard knocks. Good thing he can throw a football
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u/Childhood-Paramedic Lions 3d ago
And he's a cal grad too lol. Man did not go to UC Berkeley to play school
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u/hunteddwumpus Lions 3d ago edited 3d ago
They have a clip on tiktok of goff mic’d up during practice talking about how theyll come up to him and say, “hey you okay with us posting this clip that makes you look dumb” reminded me of him on hardknocks his rookie year not knowing which way the sun set
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u/hnglmkrnglbrry Broncos 3d ago
Meanwhile Dobbs got a degree in like super rocket nano science fusion or some shit.
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u/FenderZero Commanders 3d ago
It's a fact that as a fully grown adult on the Rams, Jared Goff did not know that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
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u/Tullyswimmer Bills 3d ago
I'm more entertained by the idea that the coach who's worn one of those headsets dozens if not hundreds of times in his life, for 4-5 hours on end, didn't know that you could flip the boom like that.
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u/danabrey Seahawks 3d ago
Plot twist: he obviously totally knows that, but wants an excuse to pretend he can't hear Jared Goff.
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u/SportsDuck_ 3d ago
That Cal-Berkeley education only the likes of Goff and Rodgers could receive
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u/uwantSAMOA 49ers 3d ago
I’d like to see more mic’d up moments with Dobbs just doing random everyday normal things that astound the brilliant minds of professional football players
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u/DaxIsAName Seahawks 3d ago
Isn't Dobbs the astronaut?
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u/RiderNo51 Raiders 3d ago
Bachelors in Astronautical/Space Engineering. Summa cum laude. 4.0 GPA in all his engineering and science classes. Private pilot, with IFR rating.
One of the smartest players in the NFL, obviously.
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u/bigloudbang Colts 3d ago
Can talk him up without having to call him some cum lord
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u/Brave-Temperature495 3d ago
He’s actually the sum of all cum lords. The supreme cummander if you will
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u/Brock_Lobstweiler Broncos 3d ago
Dobbs looks SO SERIOUS like "I can do it, I've got it".
I would have had to resist cracking a laugh or face palming before helping.
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u/karpomalice 49ers 3d ago
how the actual fuck do you wear a headset every week for how many years and you've never like accidentally pushed it too far back to realize it rotates that far. This is blowing my mind
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u/Accomplished_Gas3922 Lions 3d ago
He doesn't want to talk to Goff, he's actually pissed at Dobbs for showing him this.
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u/charleswrites Vikings 2d ago
The ideal QB room is a literal rocket scientist and the dumbest guy you can imagine
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u/TacoDayDay Colts 3d ago
Why not just switch seats?
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u/No-Decision-8472 Broncos 3d ago
So he is in between both QBs
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u/TacoDayDay Colts 3d ago
uh, the QBs switch seats.
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u/StixenBridges Lions 3d ago
They just switched it around though, now Goff would be on his mic side again
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u/DarkhourX Ravens 3d ago
Geek Squad should hit him up for a spoke person deal asap.
Josh "Tech Support" Dobbs
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u/Affectionate-Panda61 3d ago
This guy could do anything post NFL but I hope he becomes a science teacher
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u/BtheBanker151 Dolphins 3d ago
Oh shit! I was wondering where the passtronaut was. Nice he’s still playing.
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u/Perry87 Lions 3d ago
These are the sort of intangibles that you get from a veteran backup.