January 28, 2022 • 40 mins
Friday on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn and LaVar Arrington reflect on Ben Roethlisberger's genuine style that represented Pittsburgh perfectly. Wings and Squatty Potty's makes their way into the AFC Championship preview and the boogeyman, Kyle Shanahan comes back to LA to face Sean McVay in the NFC Championship. Plus, a Championship Round Edition of the Over/Under's.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the best of two pros and a couple of
Joe with Lamar Areas and Brady Quinn and Jonas Knocks
on Fox Sports Radio. It is only appropriate and this
was something that is now spread and taken off like wildfire.
Brady Quinn came up with this with this phrase a
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long time ago. He called it a football Friday. You
bet your sweet as Yeah, now come on, yeah, fall
just football football Friday. It's football Friday, Australian Open. Come on,
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come on, come on, it's still going. Damn right, it's
on right now, We're gotta live semifinal match. This sip
and the bass, I mean they both look like they're
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finally well dressed, um well prepared tennis players. Do you,
guys ever wish you would have played like one of
those sports? I did you? Oh, I mean not as
a professional, but that's what I'm said. I played. I
played Serena Williams one time and she beat me with
her off hand. Yes, she did. So you had like,
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is that like the program moment like where Joe came. Yes,
it was at that moment it was, but it was
worse because she was playing me with her other hand.
I'm like you're not gonna play me with your your
right hand, like use your other hand. And she whooped
me with her other hand. I just but, but but
here's the thing, though, I whooped her in basketball, so
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she wasn't She wasn't athletic off of the tennis court.
I wasn't athletic on the tennis court. And I started
to think about other sports, like so baseball I was.
When I was playing T ball, I was. I was
a first baseman and I dove to catch a ball
on first base and a girl slid and kicked me
in my eye when I dove to get the ball.
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And I was like, I will never play a sport
that I don't have something protecting my face. I'm gonna
take my chance. Did you got by the chance? I
got up? I walked off of the field. I was
crying hard as hell. I was playing T ball. I
don't even remember how old I was. It was so
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like and I'll never forget it. How could you have
such a deep thought? It scarred me. It's scarred. Her
name was Mars Christie Marks. She played football. She actually
played football and was good. But anyways, she was like
she was like one of those girls that could play
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with dudes. And she slid in the first base. First
of all, why are you sliding in the first base?
It's always best man, So you slid in the first base.
I'm diving to catch the ball. I got the ball,
by the way, I got it the first he rounds first,
heads the second. Absolutely, if that's if, if that was
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representation of me making contact with the opposite sex, I
didn't want. I don't want any parts of that. She
closed my eye up. I was crying to my mom.
You know how you like be whimpering, like you got
your face and your mom's stomach or in her bosom,
and you're just crying and you're you're like your shoulders
are going and they're holding you. And I never went back.
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I never tried to put some or put some bosoms.
I don't know. I mean, they're both included. You know
they're included. So if you say bosom or bosoms, I
don't know. My sister with my ass when I was
a kid, I mean bad in the street in front
of all the neighbors, that I gave you the bravery
that finally, thank God, after all these years in radio,
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there you go. That's a good story. That's a true story.
I never went back. You still remember at this point,
never went back. Now you want us in the case
of you getting well, essentially what's happened to lead to
lap But if this happened to you as a child
out in front of the entire neighborhood, right, yeah, beat
up in the yeah completely yeah. Yeah. The difference was,
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you know, I wasn't in my thirties. That's that's the
difference between I was a I was a child trying
to do everything I could and got spiked on my
head in the street. I mean, I got just absolutely
all out battle Royal over leaf. Yeah, I mean we
you know, but and look, if we're gonna I mean,
if we're gonna be honest about getting roughed up by
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you know, by siblings, you know, any anything you want
to share in the air here, Brady. Anything, Maybe an
issue with a car, you know, one of those little
mobile those plastic cars. As a kid, he told no
time about the Fisher Price little bandam car. This is
this is the first of my first ever serious concussion
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came when I was young. We had one of those
unfinished basements and I used to some my my older
sister would get into that little it was. It was
the Fisher Price car where you'd like move it, run
it with your feet and and so it's it's like cool,
it's fun to be in as a little kid. Well,
I used to like have her pull me around. I
jump on top of it, so I'd be like on
the top roof and she'd be inside like rolling around. Well,
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one time she was mad about something. She just got
out of that thing and it is not made to
have someone on top of the roof. So it literally
just flipped backwards and I smashed my head into our
unfinished basement and into the concrete board. Knocked out, cold,
knocked out. So I so I, so I started to like,
come to it. I'm throwing up all. They take me
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the hospital. I just I just stayed overnight. It was
a severe concussion. I was like five, young age. Yeah,
Bert I was proud and sound effecting he put on you.
He made it sound like I dropped from a three
story build and it was that Martin Sheen jumping out
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of the building and departed. Yeah. So for all the
people listening, if you're like, hey, what's wrong with him?
That's when it started a right like that. That's when
it all started. Isn't that the way? It was a
red car and it had like the yellow exactly. I
swear to you. They still make them. Every single time
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one of my girls gets in and then the other
one tries to climbs, I'm like, no, no, no no, do
not do that. Not do you know, don't pull a
teen wolf, don't start a surfing on the top of it.
That was, you know, actful movie. I don't think I
saw it that age, all right, So so we transition
smoothly from getting assaulted by women in our youth to uh,
to this conversation. I listened. Uh you know, I told
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you guys, it was gonna take a while for Ben
Roethlisberger to make us to say, and I told you
yesterday I wish we had to sound almost almost sound
from that. We took about ninety minutes, basically about ninety minutes,
and it was like, you know, like this is that time.
Know I'm gonna lose every bet I make this weekend.
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That that was the prelude. But Ben Roethlisberger calls it
a career, a long time, a successful Hall of Fame,
Super Bowl champion. Ben Roethlisberger career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Here was a little bit from his goodbye video posted
on social media yesterday. I don't know how to put
into words what the game of football has meant to
me and what a blessing it has been. Well, I
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know with confidence I have given my all to the game.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude for all it has given me.
A boy from Finnly, Ohio, with NFL dreams, developed an
Oxford at Miami University, blessed with the honor of eighteen
seasons as a Pittsburgh Steeler, and a place to call home.
The journey has been exhilarating, the fine by relationships and
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fueled by a spirit of competition. Yet the time has
come to clean up my locker, hang up my cleats,
and continue to be all I can be to my
wife and children. I retire from football, but truly grateful. Man.
That's that's some bad music underneath, by the way, I
just want to put that there. In fact, you know,
I wouldn't put him in the Hall of Fame just
because of the music selection right there. Trying to make
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you cry, man, that's that. That's not trying to make
you cry. Soundtrack. You know, you don't know, I feel
like that was like the soundtrack they planned to the
scoreboard on like golf. Don't sound like that, you know, match, Yeah,
but it's it's like it's like they're giving you an update.
Here's the leaderboard and they got this like undertone music playing.
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It sounded like that. Let's let's go to Brady quinnitt
three and yeah, it's that's that's a very very That's right, Jonas.
He's got a ten foot uphill, looks a little bit
hungover right now. He's probably gonna yankest one to the left.
Wind is blowing hard to thet uh So, well, let
me ask you guys this because I was thinking about
this or earlier Tom Brady pointed out, you know, there's
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you know, Ben Roethlisberger did the complete had some fun
on Twitter and just said he did the complete opposite
of the TB twelve method. But congratulations, there's more than
one ways to to skin a cat, or in so
many words of what he posted on social media on Twitter,
had Ben Roethlisberger and and the story has always been, well,
you know, he didn't really take care of himself in
the off season. Let's just say he had. I don't
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think people would look at him the same. Like I
need Ben Roethlisberger a little bit sloppy. I need him
to be banged up, injured. I need him to be
thrown when when they're throwing pads at him, he's just
hitting him out of the air and practice. That was
part of his appeal, right. He did it differently than
say A Brady or some of these other guys. And
that's why I think he's gonna he's gonna be looked
back on so uniquely in comparison to some of these
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other quarterbacks like A Rivers or an Eli Manning and
some of those guys. He came out with as a Pittsburgher.
I mean, he totally represented what a Pittsburger kind of moves, like,
kind of acts like like the average dude. You know.
He was as yeah, I mean listen, I know he
gave his tribute, but I saw I saw the tribute
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that was given by like Rocky Blyier and Frank o'harris
and me and Joe Green and Rock Woodson and those guys,
and I thought that was pretty pretty amazing. I Mean,
you start to realize now that he's announced his retirement.
I mean it's it's one thing to say, Okay, we
know how good he played and how well he played,
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and even can say great he has played and being
a super Bowl winner. But then you start really taking
a step back, like when guys retired they had such
a brilliant career, you start to to look back on it.
I think you may mention of this on the show too.
Bred Is. It's like you start to take a look
back at what he really did and you start to
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kind of break it down a little bit. The dude's
career was, I mean, it was phenomenal, was sensational, and
it it represent the burg I mean, he he's the
type of dude if you go out on a Friday
night in Pittsburgh on on the South Side, that's that's
who you're gonna meet, you know, and that's who you're
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gonna you're gonna hang out with, and you're gonna have
a good time with and you know, sometimes maybe at
times too much of a good time, but then you
grow up. I mean, there have been so many dudes,
I don't care black or white, that have had like
that kind of feel like they represent Pittsburgh, like Kevin
Green didn't get drafted by Pittsburgh, but you can't tell
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anybody from Pittsburgh. He wasn't a Genser like he was
a Pittsburgh dude. Jerome Battis wasn't drafted by Pittsburgh, but
represented the heart and soul of what the identity of
Pittsburgh was. Greg Lloyd represented that, Captain Kirk, you name them.
They represented this this feeling of I'm a regular dude,
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but I am one tough son of a bit. That
is that is my approach to to the game, no nonsense, lunch, pale,
hard hat and and Ben Roethlisberger was was that in
a quarterbacks body, and and and for what it's worth,
that's what we loved about Terry Bradshaw is that that's
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what he was and a quarterback's body. So and Ben
happened to be more, you know, from from what it's worth,
I never really saw Terry Bradshaw play like like play play,
but I did see Ben's entire career, and that's you
just saw the talent with the mentality, and I think
that that was a perfect, perfect marriage, perfect match. What
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I loved about Ben was he's genuine. I mean, Jonas
you made reference of the TV twelveth method and kind
of you know the differences of that and what his
career would have been like if you would have taken
better care of himself. And and there's no debate about it, honestly,
amongst quarterbacks in the NFL, it was you know, kind
of I don't want to say a running joke, but
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it was something that most guys knew. He did some yoga,
drank some beer, played some golf in the off season,
really didn't throw much and that was but that was him.
That was his style. That's what he felt like he
needed mentally in order to be able to play as
long as he did and successful as he was. Um,
he felt like that's what he needed. And I think
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there's there's something to that, you know, for for something
to say, look, that might work for Tom and you know,
he's obviously been the most successful. And yeah, maybe I
look back, I wish I would have and I'm sure
there's some things he looks back and wonders, but the
reality is, you know, he did it, you know, his
way and the way he felt most comfortable. So I
I don't I don't really go back and look back.
And second guests he had a Hall of Fame career. Um,
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they'll always be remembered as a Pittsburgh Steeler, I think,
which is one of the more unique things. As we
head in or venture into a time where Tom Brady
is now with the Tampa bay Bucks won a Super
Bowl with him, we we think that he might be
calling it in a career. Drew Brees started with the Charges,
ended up with the Saints. We probably you remember him
as a Saint. But you're looking at all these Hall
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of Famers and at quarterback, and you usually remember them
with one team, but they played for at least two.
And it's different with Ben because he was a Steeler,
drafted there, stayed there through and through. So um that's
that's I think kind of one of those key important
things too and in all of this, but I'll still
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never forget one time before we were playing Pittsburgh. It
was bad weather out, like it was cold, so let's
say forties something like that, maybe a little bit a
little bit lower that, like high thirties and rain, right,
which is like the worst combination of things. And I
remember his seeing him start to walk out on the
field and warm up, kind of looked around, shivered, turned
around when right back in the type like ye not
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doing it, not doing it, And I was like, man,
I wish I could do that. I wish I could
literally be like, I'm gonna have to be out here
for three and a half hours playing in a game,
and this, why don't I want to go out for
an additional you know, hour before the actual hour? You go?
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Literally I looked at the other quarterbacks were like, that's
the legendary status. Man. Be sure to catch live editions
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I Heart Radio app. Obviously we've got Conference championship weekend.
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I just wanted to throw this a you guys make
some wings for the game, are you. I'm really excited
about big I got so you know, you guys know,
I was in in Virginia on business and I love cooking.
So every every place we were going to we go
to restaurants because the partnerships that that are involved with
what I got going on. And so I go in
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the kitchen of all these restaurants and the one, the
one chef I went in there and he had a
technique on how he made his wings, and I'm tremendously
excited about doing it and I want to do it today. Well,
I'm gonna do it today. I'm gonna practice it today
and if it works out today, then I'm gonna definitely
do it with different different sauces on on um Saturday
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and Sunday. I mean, are you gonna do like real
spicy stuff? Are you gonna go soft and do like
tarayaki and barbecue? Probably? Like, like, there's this new thing
where you put you do Old Bay. You might not
know about Old Bay because the West Coast people don't
really know about Old Bay, but you do Old Bay
wings and you dip them in in honey, like and
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they have this spicy honey, so you dip them in honey.
That's like a new thing. Honey, yeah honey. Yeah. So
I'm gonna try sweet and spice man which always works. Um. So,
speaking of barbecue, and look, let's just call what it
is home. Yeah, Kansas, Kansas City barbecues better than that
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whatever they call that Chili and Cincinnati that was a skyline,
a gold start, whatever you wanna call it. Brady swears
by it. I mean it just you know, I've had
It's not very good trying to be offensive to I'm not.
You're trying to agitate him. I'm a chili connoisseur, all right.
You know, listen, I'm a chili connoisseur. I go to
a chili cooker. That is such a lie. Just because
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you attend a chili cook off doesn't make you a
connoisseur because you have to actually eat it that of
which I know you don't because your bowels and intestines
can't handle much. It's just that. That's how long we've
been working together. I could talk on Live about Jonasis,
bowels and intestine. Okay, you want to hear, Okay, you
want to hear what a horrible person? All right, let's
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have it. You want to have a real conversation. Let's
just unveil it all. This is what a terrible guy
Brady Quinn is. So I tell him that this thing
called the squatty potty right now, the squatty potty is
designed to basically take you back like you're a caveman.
Because they actually lee went number two the correct way,
all right, They didn't sit on the toilet. And so
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the squatty potty is this platform that you put your
feet up on and it is supposed to help you,
um take care of business in a better way. And
so I told Brady about I was like, hey, man,
Brady came to me off the air and he was like, hey,
I need to talk to you about something. What's going on?
He goes, So like this is how I remembered the conversation.
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Brady comes from me. He goes, He goes, hey man,
this is not for air, but I need to talk
to you about something. Yeah, well what is it? You know, like,
let let me help you out. And he said, he said,
my wife is complaining because every time she does my
laundry it looks like you who he is, I actually
do a fair amount of the launch. So so so
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I said, all right, so here's what you needed to
get to get a squatty potty because apparently you're not
taking care of everything and there's some residue left over me.
So he gets this, He gets his squatty potty and
listen to the listen to what Jay off move this is.
He sends me a video. Not only is he throwing
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the squatty potty away. He's getting help from his daughter
to do it. So he's got like a whole cast
to film him dismissing this great invention and this great
offer of help that I tried to provide him. And
he's got his daughter who has no idea that she's
part of a movie that's going to turn into a
bit on radio years later, throwing away a squatty potty
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consulting the topics the truth. Here's the truthful parts of this.
Jonas and I never had a conversation about getting one.
He had talked so highly about it and how it
was something he needed and that he used to be
able to, uh you know, he never used to be
able to wear white underwear. He brought up all these things,
and I was like, all right, I'll give it a try.
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I had it for you, did it Mark? I had
it for two days, and I was like, this is
the dumbest thing ever. I actually I hit up because
I got off Amazon and I went to return it
and I was like, yeah, you know, return refund whatever,
Like it's just say my thing, and they're like, oh yeah, no,
you can just throw it away. We'll give you the refund.
So not only not only did they realize it's a
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piece of crap and I didn't have to pay for it.
I filmed myself with my daughter walking over. And we
didn't throw it away because this was one't happened to
be made of wood. So we recycled it. We put
in the recycling bin, so that was actually how it
was disposed of. But it doesn't change the point. This
was all motivated by jonas Champion the squatty pot of
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all things, which is such a weird, odd thing, just
so we can wear white underwear, is h You know,
I always wonder why they underwear white when all of
the worst business that you've got going on is in
that that region of your yourself. But but here's the thing, though,
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whether they're different colors or not, if if you have
that that action going on, it's going it's going to
show up anyway. Why don't they make dark toilet paper?
You ever think about that? They Actually, I don't want
to get into this, so I went back to school,
but we did a case study and there there is
actually it was a Portuguese toilet paper manufacturer who did it,
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and they actually got a lot of it was like
a high end brand, and so it became, you know,
one of those like cool things to have in your bathroom, Like,
oh my gosh, you would be like different colored toilet paper,
black toilet paper? Interesting? Can you can you imagine that
we all have to have to handle our business that way? Like,
you know, I used to have that moment in time
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where you see somebody that was just super super super attractive.
You'd be like, they're super attractive, and then I would
say to myself, so I wouldn't be like a dirt bag.
I'd be like, I'd imagine that situation, and I get
myself back together every time I see someone, you know,
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because it's like a trendy thing, right, that's like all
these models eating a sables and like that looks terrible
going in and probably even worse coming out. Can you
imagine the sound effects connected to like, oh, she's you know,
they're they're such a good looking person, but there's like,
you know, what are the sound effects associated? Brought up
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a great point, let's go live. I know why dark
toilet paper doesn't make sense inside lead? Yeah, how do
you know when you're done wiping fair points? That's very
very good. That was That was my I swear, I
swear to you. That was my response in this case study.
And you come to find out it was a complete
marketing tool this company used and it helped them grow
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their sales and it helped them kind of put them
on the map. So that's why they give you white
underwear too. How you know you're done and that's how
you that's how you preview an f C championship. Folks,
there it is Chiefs Bengals. Who's going to be the underwear?
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Who's going to be? All right? Can I can I
just say this though? Have people stopped to think about
what Patrick Mahomes has done early in his career. I mean,
like we're we're talking now four straight a f C
title games, chance to go to a third super Bowl,
and you know one of the super Bowls he didn't
actually end up going to was because uh the or
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the Super Bowl against the a C title games against
the Patriots was the overtime rule where the Patriots got
the ball first and overtime went down and scored. He
never got a chance to touch it. Like we're talking
about this doesn't happen, like this is historic stuff. I
already think him and Andy reader Hall of Famers. But
I mean this is and it just sort of I
think we kind of take it for granted, like, oh,
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you know, the Chiefs are back there on a great run.
No know, like we don't see this stuff in the NFL.
It's hard hardly ever been done in the history of
the un In my opinion, the best one, I mean
outside of the first one is their best one because
they haven't won in a dominant fashion this year. In fact,
I was questioning whether their run of dominance had had
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started to come to an end, and they have. Yeah,
I mean I did. I didn't even know if they
were going to make the playoffs at one point in time.
I just felt felt that way about kind of where
they were at, where they figured out and they've learned
how to win ugly, and and not only learning how
to win ugly, but now they've gotten on track offensively.
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I think they're now. I think this is more impressive
because they had to fight through the fact that people
are familiar with them, the fact that you do know
that he's got to get to Tarik, You do know
that he's got to get to Kelsey. You know. They
they had injuries in their backfield, so they weren't a
team that we're playing at full you know capacity. I
I just think that they have proven more of how
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great they are as a team. The coaching, the players
this season, to me, more so than any season prior
to this most impressive of me. I think what the
NFL does, and this is like when you go in
like Patrick Moomes has and you're the m v P
and you win a Super Bowl. You know, the NFL
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regress of what we want to say on air about
the you know, the coaches or certain organizations. All these
guys are working and and are some of the best
in the world of what they do, and they were
going to try to find your weaknesses and exploit them.
And it's gotten to a point now where this is
the first year. I think we saw some of that
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playing itself out of the course the regular season, where
teams were playing Patrick Mahomes in a certain style, forcing
him to take shorter passes, forcing him to be patient,
force he hi to use his legs at times, and
those big players those shots, there's things that they love
doing just weren't there. And you know, I think what
you saw from him was part of his maturation as
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a quarterback within this league with the ability to play
in any style ever, Like Cobra kais like this this
cool new revamp show right from Karate Kid, And one
of the things if you watch that series that you'll
see is like all the blend of styles of martial
arts and it's like getting to the point where, like
you you're seeing that now in Patrick Mahomes game where
he doesn't have any flaws in his game because he's
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been able to adapt to whatever defenses are throwing against them,
whether it's first pressure, whether it's on the run on
the move. We've seen that, but now it's about what
I'm I just have to sit there and they're dropping
eight guys in the coverage and I don't have Tyreek
and I don't have Travis, and I've got to check
down or I've gotta like maybe just scramble up for
a five yard game. Like he's getting to the point
now where he's he's doing that and he's not forcing
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the football uh into you know, getting impatient, and I
think it's one of the biggest steps that's allowed him to,
you know, remain at the top of the league. I
got a really bad feeling about this game. For Cincinnati. Uh,
it's feels like Kansas City's gonna run it up. I
don't know why. I just get this. I just get
this feeling that last week was they're gonna take whatever
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happened last week and just continue on. And uh, they're
gonna get after Joe Burrow and they're gonna run up
that score. And I don't I don't want that. I
look if candas if if Cincinnati wins that game, they
gets fantastic for the NFL. It's a lot of fun.
I just get a bad feeling that can't it's a
weird line. I did not think, I mean think about it.
Cincinnati beat them and granted in Cincinnati just a few
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weeks ago and Jamaar Chase went off for two or
and sixty six yards three touchdowns on the eleven catches,
they could not stop him. So what would make you
think that they can this time? Or just because they're
playing an arrowhead and they just beat the number one
seed on the road as a four four and a
half point underdog, and then they come out and and
their seven and what is up to seven and a
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half now? Is that that was the seven? Last time
I looked, I haven't seen anything a seven and a half,
but that's a lot of points. Yeah, I know, man,
that's why I just I just get this feeling it's
gonna and I don't want blowouts. I wanted his good
at games as possible. This one just feels like you
go that it's It's one of those fishy lines though,
where I feel like you're the fish because they want
you to take Cincinnati. They want you to take the
points and then to your point, kn' city ends up,
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you know, breaking out of can you know to bummer?
But what if since he were to beat them and
make it to the super Bowl? Oh great? Also, look,
Cincinnati is a fun team to watch, man, Like it's
gonna be one of those deals where it's like whoa
hold on us? Like Cincinnati, Cincinnati is about to go
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on a run. By the way, how many coaches do
you think have been canned after two years? If Cincinnati
gets to the super Bowl, they're gonna go. You see
what happens when you give a guy a third year
and and you give them an opportunity and build some
town around him. I think Joe Judge is gonna come
out and you know, speak very highly as Zach Taylor afterwards.
Give Joe Judge a third year, he would have gotten
them to a Super Bowl. I'm super intrigued. I hope,
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I hope for football that it's close. I think that
Buffalo was the only team that was gonna beat This
is my opinion today. I think Buffalo is the only
team that was gonna beat Kansas City. Yeah, let's be real,
we already saw the best matchup we're gonna see the
rest of the postseason. I mean it was a of
a matchup. I mean it is like the Chiefs and
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the Bills are probably the best two teams in the NFL,
and we already saw that game. And look, I'm not
trying to make a case that the Super Bowl champion
isn't the Super Bowl champion. I'm just saying that's how
it works out sometimes when you're talking about the entirety
of the league. In a playoff system, you don't always
get the best two teams playing each other at the
end of the season. Sometimes the best two teams have to,
you know, play each other on the way there. And
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that's what we got here. I mean, that's that's really
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know if anybody has noticed this, but it's been a
long time since the Rams are beating the forty niners
and uh, you know it's you know, this is now
sixth straight. We're gonna get a third match up this
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season coming up on Sunday at Sofi Stadium and Sean McVeigh,
the head coach of the Rams, was asked about you know,
his counterpart, Kyle Shanahan and the matchup and the dominance
recently by Yle Shanahan. Take a listen. Knowing Kyle Shanahan
so well and with the success that the Forts have
been able to have against you, is Kyle in your
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head at all? You know in terms of trying to
get past these guys. No, Um, what I what I
do have is respect for these guys. They've done a
great job. You know, you look at it. You gotta
play well in that three and a half hour window
that were allotted. You look at the last time that
we played him, didn't finish the game. But but this
is a really good football team. We have a lot
of respect for him. But um, you know, we're competing
and preparing to the best of our ability to go
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out and see if we can advance. But this is
a really good team. Kyle is an excellent coach. They've
got great players, great coaches, good schemes and so that's
why they're in the NFC Championship. You know, it's got
to burn his ass that Kyle Shanahan dominates him like this,
gotta burn his ass, burn it to the core, you know,
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come on, sixth straight, sixth straight. I mean, we we
heard all. You know, you gotta get rid of. That
was actually, if you listen to some of the reporting
when the Jared Goff Sean mc vicvey riff started happening
last year, when the relationships started to deteriorate. It was
the game against the forty nine ers when McVeigh was
a lot of people said he was done with Jared
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Goff at that point. They had some sort of disagreement
and argument after the game. He was just so frustrated
with the way that he played. Okay, you got a
new quarterback and you're still owing to and if they
lose on Sunday, I mean, come on, man, like, at
at some point this is there's gotta be some something
to this much dominance, this much, this many times in
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a row, different quarterback. They're scary. They're scary right now.
The man, they might be the scariest team right now
that's still left standing. I think I think Kansas City
is the best team. I think San fran is the scariest.
I think they're pretty scary, And the reason why they're
scary is because they're playing some really good football. Their
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play calling is is tremendous. I mean, it's it has
been so good, he is they have found such a
rhythm and how they go through their play calling progressions
during the course of these games in the playoffs. I mean,
I think that I think that the Rams are going
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to have their hands full this this weekend. In fact,
like my you know, and I've been wrong, of course,
you know, but I just my gut is telling me
that they might extend that that wind street, the San
Francisco might the Niners might extend that winning street. I'm
on the other side of this one. I think when
we won, the line opened at three. It's now three
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and a half um and in most books, and it's
again it's one of those lines very similar to Kansas City,
where Vegas is begging you, begging you to take San Francisco.
They're begging you to take the three and a half
points because everyone's talking about the history, everyone's talking about
exactly what you're saying right now. The Rams are the
team that, much like Tampa Bay last year, have a
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new quarterback, new pieces, and they really found their stride
at the end of the season and have carried that
momentument in of the playoffs. Matt Stafford is not turning
the football over yet this postseason. Cam Akers has come
back and added another dimension out of their backfield and
Oh b J. Now when isolated, he's a legitimate threat.
Cooper Cup you can make the case is the best
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wide receiver in the NFL. I mean that's not like
an opinion. I just literally look at the stats best.
It's hard for sure, Yes, yeah, I mean that's I
don't know how many how many more were you throw
into the Amish conversation. I haven't got that far, thank you,
But I think this is and I don't want this
to come off in a negative vein, but there are
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a bunch of superstars and you can even stay front
runners on the rams, and that might be able to
work against you when things aren't going well. But things
are going well and the stars are playing like stars.
Von Miller has been everything they had hoped to you
to be the last seven weeks. Aaron Donald's playing like
the best defensive player in the league. O b J.
Has been worth what they gave up to get this
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young man, and Matt Stafford has played fantastic, but you know,
not necessarily down the stretch with the regular season, but
once he got into postseason, he hasn't He wasn't asked
to do much in the wild card round. He's been
able to kind of take things over now and last
week case and point, you know, putting the dagger in
Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucks was huge. So
I see this game going a completely different direction. And
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the only other thing that like we should discuss and
talk about is the fact that, you know, there's a
bunch of that talk about Jimmy Garoppolo and and what
he is as a quarterback of whatever has happened. Can
we stop taking Knox that the guy he's been successful.
Every time he's healthy, he wins. I don't know why
we have to like compare him to Joe Montana or
comparing to Patrick Mahomes, Like he's found his own way
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of doing it and they've been successful. So I just
I think you need to appreciate Jimmy Garoppolo for what
he's been. But let's not like start making this debate
and start trashing a guy who it seems like every
time he's healthy always doesn't win football games. They're gonna
play bulleyball. And I just I'm thinking back to when
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I said how physical this Rams team is going into
the Arizona game and they got man handled about the Cardinals,
I mean man handled, and I was like, I don't
I didn't understand it. And then I started thinking to myself,
can can the Rams deal with a physical like an
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overly physical team. And while conventional wisdom says yes, they
probably can, I just think that. I just think that
this is going to be a physical game and they
have established two to three runners that can get it
done out of their backfield, and it is their their
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success is predicated off of that. I just think that
they're going to have a good game plan defensively forty
I'm speaking of, They're going to have a game plan
that that is going to be sound coming into this game.
And if they can establish the run against against the Rams,
I just I just think they're scary team. They've also
got Tom Rathman wearing number seventy one for some reason.
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To look, my gut tells me that the Rams are
gonna win this game, but I really really want the
forty niners because the Rams bug me. You know what's
gonna happen this weekend? We had such we had the
best division. This is the real this is this is
gonna happen. We had the best official round the NFL
has ever seen, quite possibly best we've ever seen. It's
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gonna be a crap back, all right, It's gonna be
a crap back. Then it's gonna be I'm just saying
that that's where this whole thing is leading. Here you go,
that's all We're all gonna be the fourth quarter, Like,
oh man, first I started break it to you, like,
that's where this is, this is heading right now. And
I do think there's some people who would love to see.
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As much as it would be cool to see Cincinnati
in it, I think the networks want to see the
l A Rams, a big city market with them going
all in this year with Sean McVeigh in a Super
Bowl versus Kansas City. Yeah, I just I think they
want to see that sort of high powered offenses, that
sort of explosion. Even though San Francisco would be a
great great rematch, would be a great storyline. I think
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that's the matchup two that the networks start praying for
ends up taking place I don't disagree with that. Yeah,
san Fran might ruin it. Yeah, I look, I I
would like to see him do it. I just think
it's a fun it's a fun team to watch. But
my gut tells me the Rams are going to figure
this out. But let me let me just before we
get to break, just a quick what if scenario? Right,
what if it's uh, you know, early on Matt Stafford
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pick six, Niners go down, get a touchdown or a
field goal, and they're sitting up ten nothing, fourteen nothing,
early second quarter? You don't you don't think the Sam's
offensive line has been susceptible to good defensive front. I'm
just saying, like you do, you don't think that that
with all the pressure, because all the pressure is a
hundred percent on the Rams. If if they go down early,
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I just want to see how that team looks, because,
like you mentioned, Brady, they're a front running team. You
could make the case though, that there's a lot of
pressure on Garoppolo. He's got one year left on his deal.
They drafted his potential replacement. Like he's not only playing
for the forty Niners, he's playing for every other team
out there. That's the reality of his situation. So if
we want to talk about pressure, yeah, I don't think
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we expected the forty Niners to be here, but Garoppolo
is gonna feel the pressure. I mean, I get it.
He's been here before. Stafford hasn't. But McVeigh has been
here before. There's some other players in the roster have
been there before. Um So I just I think it's
gonna again. It looks like it could be a good game.
That's what we've seen between them. But I don't know, man,
I think we could get a pitch you. By the way,
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Roberto was halfway to the parking lot. He heard you
say crap bag and came back into press the park.
But I do it er. I know he loves that.
He has really been switching it up on those drops
though I know he showed an array of sorts. That's
the one he may he may somewhere a little bit
a voice, you know, stuff like. Fox Sports Radio has
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Is the best of two pros and a couple of
Joe with Lamar Areas and Brady Quinn and Jonas Knocks
on Fox Sports Radio. It is only appropriate and this
was something that is now spread and taken off like wildfire.
Brady Quinn came up with this with this phrase a
(00:22):
long time ago. He called it a football Friday. You
bet your sweet as Yeah, now come on, yeah, fall
just football football Friday. It's football Friday, Australian Open. Come on,
(00:42):
come on, come on, it's still going. Damn right, it's
on right now, We're gotta live semifinal match. This sip
and the bass, I mean they both look like they're
(01:03):
finally well dressed, um well prepared tennis players. Do you,
guys ever wish you would have played like one of
those sports? I did you? Oh, I mean not as
a professional, but that's what I'm said. I played. I
played Serena Williams one time and she beat me with
her off hand. Yes, she did. So you had like,
(01:27):
is that like the program moment like where Joe came. Yes,
it was at that moment it was, but it was
worse because she was playing me with her other hand.
I'm like you're not gonna play me with your your
right hand, like use your other hand. And she whooped
me with her other hand. I just but, but but
here's the thing, though, I whooped her in basketball, so
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she wasn't She wasn't athletic off of the tennis court.
I wasn't athletic on the tennis court. And I started
to think about other sports, like so baseball I was.
When I was playing T ball, I was. I was
a first baseman and I dove to catch a ball
on first base and a girl slid and kicked me
in my eye when I dove to get the ball.
(02:10):
And I was like, I will never play a sport
that I don't have something protecting my face. I'm gonna
take my chance. Did you got by the chance? I
got up? I walked off of the field. I was
crying hard as hell. I was playing T ball. I
don't even remember how old I was. It was so
(02:33):
like and I'll never forget it. How could you have
such a deep thought? It scarred me. It's scarred. Her
name was Mars Christie Marks. She played football. She actually
played football and was good. But anyways, she was like
she was like one of those girls that could play
(02:54):
with dudes. And she slid in the first base. First
of all, why are you sliding in the first base?
It's always best man, So you slid in the first base.
I'm diving to catch the ball. I got the ball,
by the way, I got it the first he rounds first,
heads the second. Absolutely, if that's if, if that was
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representation of me making contact with the opposite sex, I
didn't want. I don't want any parts of that. She
closed my eye up. I was crying to my mom.
You know how you like be whimpering, like you got
your face and your mom's stomach or in her bosom,
and you're just crying and you're you're like your shoulders
are going and they're holding you. And I never went back.
(03:39):
I never tried to put some or put some bosoms.
I don't know. I mean, they're both included. You know
they're included. So if you say bosom or bosoms, I
don't know. My sister with my ass when I was
a kid, I mean bad in the street in front
of all the neighbors, that I gave you the bravery
that finally, thank God, after all these years in radio,
(04:02):
there you go. That's a good story. That's a true story.
I never went back. You still remember at this point,
never went back. Now you want us in the case
of you getting well, essentially what's happened to lead to
lap But if this happened to you as a child
out in front of the entire neighborhood, right, yeah, beat
up in the yeah completely yeah. Yeah. The difference was,
(04:24):
you know, I wasn't in my thirties. That's that's the
difference between I was a I was a child trying
to do everything I could and got spiked on my
head in the street. I mean, I got just absolutely
all out battle Royal over leaf. Yeah, I mean we
you know, but and look, if we're gonna I mean,
if we're gonna be honest about getting roughed up by
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you know, by siblings, you know, any anything you want
to share in the air here, Brady. Anything, Maybe an
issue with a car, you know, one of those little
mobile those plastic cars. As a kid, he told no
time about the Fisher Price little bandam car. This is
this is the first of my first ever serious concussion
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came when I was young. We had one of those
unfinished basements and I used to some my my older
sister would get into that little it was. It was
the Fisher Price car where you'd like move it, run
it with your feet and and so it's it's like cool,
it's fun to be in as a little kid. Well,
I used to like have her pull me around. I
jump on top of it, so I'd be like on
the top roof and she'd be inside like rolling around. Well,
(05:30):
one time she was mad about something. She just got
out of that thing and it is not made to
have someone on top of the roof. So it literally
just flipped backwards and I smashed my head into our
unfinished basement and into the concrete board. Knocked out, cold,
knocked out. So I so I, so I started to like,
come to it. I'm throwing up all. They take me
(05:52):
the hospital. I just I just stayed overnight. It was
a severe concussion. I was like five, young age. Yeah,
Bert I was proud and sound effecting he put on you.
He made it sound like I dropped from a three
story build and it was that Martin Sheen jumping out
(06:14):
of the building and departed. Yeah. So for all the
people listening, if you're like, hey, what's wrong with him?
That's when it started a right like that. That's when
it all started. Isn't that the way? It was a
red car and it had like the yellow exactly. I
swear to you. They still make them. Every single time
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one of my girls gets in and then the other
one tries to climbs, I'm like, no, no, no no, do
not do that. Not do you know, don't pull a
teen wolf, don't start a surfing on the top of it.
That was, you know, actful movie. I don't think I
saw it that age, all right, So so we transition
smoothly from getting assaulted by women in our youth to uh,
to this conversation. I listened. Uh you know, I told
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you guys, it was gonna take a while for Ben
Roethlisberger to make us to say, and I told you
yesterday I wish we had to sound almost almost sound
from that. We took about ninety minutes, basically about ninety minutes,
and it was like, you know, like this is that time.
Know I'm gonna lose every bet I make this weekend.
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That that was the prelude. But Ben Roethlisberger calls it
a career, a long time, a successful Hall of Fame,
Super Bowl champion. Ben Roethlisberger career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Here was a little bit from his goodbye video posted
on social media yesterday. I don't know how to put
into words what the game of football has meant to
me and what a blessing it has been. Well, I
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know with confidence I have given my all to the game.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude for all it has given me.
A boy from Finnly, Ohio, with NFL dreams, developed an
Oxford at Miami University, blessed with the honor of eighteen
seasons as a Pittsburgh Steeler, and a place to call home.
The journey has been exhilarating, the fine by relationships and
(07:58):
fueled by a spirit of competition. Yet the time has
come to clean up my locker, hang up my cleats,
and continue to be all I can be to my
wife and children. I retire from football, but truly grateful. Man.
That's that's some bad music underneath, by the way, I
just want to put that there. In fact, you know,
I wouldn't put him in the Hall of Fame just
because of the music selection right there. Trying to make
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you cry, man, that's that. That's not trying to make
you cry. Soundtrack. You know, you don't know, I feel
like that was like the soundtrack they planned to the
scoreboard on like golf. Don't sound like that, you know, match, Yeah,
but it's it's like it's like they're giving you an update.
Here's the leaderboard and they got this like undertone music playing.
(08:40):
It sounded like that. Let's let's go to Brady quinnitt
three and yeah, it's that's that's a very very That's right, Jonas.
He's got a ten foot uphill, looks a little bit
hungover right now. He's probably gonna yankest one to the left.
Wind is blowing hard to thet uh So, well, let
me ask you guys this because I was thinking about
this or earlier Tom Brady pointed out, you know, there's
(09:03):
you know, Ben Roethlisberger did the complete had some fun
on Twitter and just said he did the complete opposite
of the TB twelve method. But congratulations, there's more than
one ways to to skin a cat, or in so
many words of what he posted on social media on Twitter,
had Ben Roethlisberger and and the story has always been, well,
you know, he didn't really take care of himself in
the off season. Let's just say he had. I don't
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think people would look at him the same. Like I
need Ben Roethlisberger a little bit sloppy. I need him
to be banged up, injured. I need him to be
thrown when when they're throwing pads at him, he's just
hitting him out of the air and practice. That was
part of his appeal, right. He did it differently than
say A Brady or some of these other guys. And
that's why I think he's gonna he's gonna be looked
back on so uniquely in comparison to some of these
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other quarterbacks like A Rivers or an Eli Manning and
some of those guys. He came out with as a Pittsburgher.
I mean, he totally represented what a Pittsburger kind of moves, like,
kind of acts like like the average dude. You know.
He was as yeah, I mean listen, I know he
gave his tribute, but I saw I saw the tribute
(10:10):
that was given by like Rocky Blyier and Frank o'harris
and me and Joe Green and Rock Woodson and those guys,
and I thought that was pretty pretty amazing. I Mean,
you start to realize now that he's announced his retirement.
I mean it's it's one thing to say, Okay, we
know how good he played and how well he played,
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and even can say great he has played and being
a super Bowl winner. But then you start really taking
a step back, like when guys retired they had such
a brilliant career, you start to to look back on it.
I think you may mention of this on the show too.
Bred Is. It's like you start to take a look
back at what he really did and you start to
(10:52):
kind of break it down a little bit. The dude's
career was, I mean, it was phenomenal, was sensational, and
it it represent the burg I mean, he he's the
type of dude if you go out on a Friday
night in Pittsburgh on on the South Side, that's that's
who you're gonna meet, you know, and that's who you're
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gonna you're gonna hang out with, and you're gonna have
a good time with and you know, sometimes maybe at
times too much of a good time, but then you
grow up. I mean, there have been so many dudes,
I don't care black or white, that have had like
that kind of feel like they represent Pittsburgh, like Kevin
Green didn't get drafted by Pittsburgh, but you can't tell
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anybody from Pittsburgh. He wasn't a Genser like he was
a Pittsburgh dude. Jerome Battis wasn't drafted by Pittsburgh, but
represented the heart and soul of what the identity of
Pittsburgh was. Greg Lloyd represented that, Captain Kirk, you name them.
They represented this this feeling of I'm a regular dude,
(12:01):
but I am one tough son of a bit. That
is that is my approach to to the game, no nonsense, lunch, pale,
hard hat and and Ben Roethlisberger was was that in
a quarterbacks body, and and and for what it's worth,
that's what we loved about Terry Bradshaw is that that's
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what he was and a quarterback's body. So and Ben
happened to be more, you know, from from what it's worth,
I never really saw Terry Bradshaw play like like play play,
but I did see Ben's entire career, and that's you
just saw the talent with the mentality, and I think
that that was a perfect, perfect marriage, perfect match. What
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I loved about Ben was he's genuine. I mean, Jonas
you made reference of the TV twelveth method and kind
of you know the differences of that and what his
career would have been like if you would have taken
better care of himself. And and there's no debate about it, honestly,
amongst quarterbacks in the NFL, it was you know, kind
of I don't want to say a running joke, but
(13:05):
it was something that most guys knew. He did some yoga,
drank some beer, played some golf in the off season,
really didn't throw much and that was but that was him.
That was his style. That's what he felt like he
needed mentally in order to be able to play as
long as he did and successful as he was. Um,
he felt like that's what he needed. And I think
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there's there's something to that, you know, for for something
to say, look, that might work for Tom and you know,
he's obviously been the most successful. And yeah, maybe I
look back, I wish I would have and I'm sure
there's some things he looks back and wonders, but the
reality is, you know, he did it, you know, his
way and the way he felt most comfortable. So I
I don't I don't really go back and look back.
And second guests he had a Hall of Fame career. Um,
(13:48):
they'll always be remembered as a Pittsburgh Steeler, I think,
which is one of the more unique things. As we
head in or venture into a time where Tom Brady
is now with the Tampa bay Bucks won a Super
Bowl with him, we we think that he might be
calling it in a career. Drew Brees started with the Charges,
ended up with the Saints. We probably you remember him
as a Saint. But you're looking at all these Hall
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of Famers and at quarterback, and you usually remember them
with one team, but they played for at least two.
And it's different with Ben because he was a Steeler,
drafted there, stayed there through and through. So um that's
that's I think kind of one of those key important
things too and in all of this, but I'll still
(14:30):
never forget one time before we were playing Pittsburgh. It
was bad weather out, like it was cold, so let's
say forties something like that, maybe a little bit a
little bit lower that, like high thirties and rain, right,
which is like the worst combination of things. And I
remember his seeing him start to walk out on the
field and warm up, kind of looked around, shivered, turned
around when right back in the type like ye not
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doing it, not doing it, And I was like, man,
I wish I could do that. I wish I could
literally be like, I'm gonna have to be out here
for three and a half hours playing in a game,
and this, why don't I want to go out for
an additional you know, hour before the actual hour? You go?
(15:13):
Literally I looked at the other quarterbacks were like, that's
the legendary status. Man. Be sure to catch live editions
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I Heart Radio app. Obviously we've got Conference championship weekend.
(15:35):
I just wanted to throw this a you guys make
some wings for the game, are you. I'm really excited
about big I got so you know, you guys know,
I was in in Virginia on business and I love cooking.
So every every place we were going to we go
to restaurants because the partnerships that that are involved with
what I got going on. And so I go in
(15:57):
the kitchen of all these restaurants and the one, the
one chef I went in there and he had a
technique on how he made his wings, and I'm tremendously
excited about doing it and I want to do it today. Well,
I'm gonna do it today. I'm gonna practice it today
and if it works out today, then I'm gonna definitely
do it with different different sauces on on um Saturday
(16:20):
and Sunday. I mean, are you gonna do like real
spicy stuff? Are you gonna go soft and do like
tarayaki and barbecue? Probably? Like, like, there's this new thing
where you put you do Old Bay. You might not
know about Old Bay because the West Coast people don't
really know about Old Bay, but you do Old Bay
wings and you dip them in in honey, like and
(16:42):
they have this spicy honey, so you dip them in honey.
That's like a new thing. Honey, yeah honey. Yeah. So
I'm gonna try sweet and spice man which always works. Um. So,
speaking of barbecue, and look, let's just call what it
is home. Yeah, Kansas, Kansas City barbecues better than that
(17:03):
whatever they call that Chili and Cincinnati that was a skyline,
a gold start, whatever you wanna call it. Brady swears
by it. I mean it just you know, I've had
It's not very good trying to be offensive to I'm not.
You're trying to agitate him. I'm a chili connoisseur, all right.
You know, listen, I'm a chili connoisseur. I go to
a chili cooker. That is such a lie. Just because
(17:23):
you attend a chili cook off doesn't make you a
connoisseur because you have to actually eat it that of
which I know you don't because your bowels and intestines
can't handle much. It's just that. That's how long we've
been working together. I could talk on Live about Jonasis,
bowels and intestine. Okay, you want to hear, Okay, you
want to hear what a horrible person? All right, let's
(17:45):
have it. You want to have a real conversation. Let's
just unveil it all. This is what a terrible guy
Brady Quinn is. So I tell him that this thing
called the squatty potty right now, the squatty potty is
designed to basically take you back like you're a caveman.
Because they actually lee went number two the correct way,
all right, They didn't sit on the toilet. And so
(18:06):
the squatty potty is this platform that you put your
feet up on and it is supposed to help you,
um take care of business in a better way. And
so I told Brady about I was like, hey, man,
Brady came to me off the air and he was like, hey,
I need to talk to you about something. What's going on?
He goes, So like this is how I remembered the conversation.
(18:28):
Brady comes from me. He goes, He goes, hey man,
this is not for air, but I need to talk
to you about something. Yeah, well what is it? You know, like,
let let me help you out. And he said, he said,
my wife is complaining because every time she does my
laundry it looks like you who he is, I actually
do a fair amount of the launch. So so so
(18:52):
I said, all right, so here's what you needed to
get to get a squatty potty because apparently you're not
taking care of everything and there's some residue left over me.
So he gets this, He gets his squatty potty and
listen to the listen to what Jay off move this is.
He sends me a video. Not only is he throwing
(19:14):
the squatty potty away. He's getting help from his daughter
to do it. So he's got like a whole cast
to film him dismissing this great invention and this great
offer of help that I tried to provide him. And
he's got his daughter who has no idea that she's
part of a movie that's going to turn into a
bit on radio years later, throwing away a squatty potty
(19:36):
consulting the topics the truth. Here's the truthful parts of this.
Jonas and I never had a conversation about getting one.
He had talked so highly about it and how it
was something he needed and that he used to be
able to, uh you know, he never used to be
able to wear white underwear. He brought up all these things,
and I was like, all right, I'll give it a try.
(19:58):
I had it for you, did it Mark? I had
it for two days, and I was like, this is
the dumbest thing ever. I actually I hit up because
I got off Amazon and I went to return it
and I was like, yeah, you know, return refund whatever,
Like it's just say my thing, and they're like, oh yeah, no,
you can just throw it away. We'll give you the refund.
So not only not only did they realize it's a
(20:20):
piece of crap and I didn't have to pay for it.
I filmed myself with my daughter walking over. And we
didn't throw it away because this was one't happened to
be made of wood. So we recycled it. We put
in the recycling bin, so that was actually how it
was disposed of. But it doesn't change the point. This
was all motivated by jonas Champion the squatty pot of
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all things, which is such a weird, odd thing, just
so we can wear white underwear, is h You know,
I always wonder why they underwear white when all of
the worst business that you've got going on is in
that that region of your yourself. But but here's the thing, though,
(21:02):
whether they're different colors or not, if if you have
that that action going on, it's going it's going to
show up anyway. Why don't they make dark toilet paper?
You ever think about that? They Actually, I don't want
to get into this, so I went back to school,
but we did a case study and there there is
actually it was a Portuguese toilet paper manufacturer who did it,
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and they actually got a lot of it was like
a high end brand, and so it became, you know,
one of those like cool things to have in your bathroom, Like,
oh my gosh, you would be like different colored toilet paper,
black toilet paper? Interesting? Can you can you imagine that
we all have to have to handle our business that way? Like,
you know, I used to have that moment in time
(21:43):
where you see somebody that was just super super super attractive.
You'd be like, they're super attractive, and then I would
say to myself, so I wouldn't be like a dirt bag.
I'd be like, I'd imagine that situation, and I get
myself back together every time I see someone, you know,
(22:05):
because it's like a trendy thing, right, that's like all
these models eating a sables and like that looks terrible
going in and probably even worse coming out. Can you
imagine the sound effects connected to like, oh, she's you know,
they're they're such a good looking person, but there's like,
you know, what are the sound effects associated? Brought up
(22:27):
a great point, let's go live. I know why dark
toilet paper doesn't make sense inside lead? Yeah, how do
you know when you're done wiping fair points? That's very
very good. That was That was my I swear, I
swear to you. That was my response in this case study.
And you come to find out it was a complete
marketing tool this company used and it helped them grow
(22:49):
their sales and it helped them kind of put them
on the map. So that's why they give you white
underwear too. How you know you're done and that's how
you that's how you preview an f C championship. Folks,
there it is Chiefs Bengals. Who's going to be the underwear?
(23:10):
Who's going to be? All right? Can I can I
just say this though? Have people stopped to think about
what Patrick Mahomes has done early in his career. I mean,
like we're we're talking now four straight a f C
title games, chance to go to a third super Bowl,
and you know one of the super Bowls he didn't
actually end up going to was because uh the or
(23:31):
the Super Bowl against the a C title games against
the Patriots was the overtime rule where the Patriots got
the ball first and overtime went down and scored. He
never got a chance to touch it. Like we're talking
about this doesn't happen, like this is historic stuff. I
already think him and Andy reader Hall of Famers. But
I mean this is and it just sort of I
think we kind of take it for granted, like, oh,
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you know, the Chiefs are back there on a great run.
No know, like we don't see this stuff in the NFL.
It's hard hardly ever been done in the history of
the un In my opinion, the best one, I mean
outside of the first one is their best one because
they haven't won in a dominant fashion this year. In fact,
I was questioning whether their run of dominance had had
(24:13):
started to come to an end, and they have. Yeah,
I mean I did. I didn't even know if they
were going to make the playoffs at one point in time.
I just felt felt that way about kind of where
they were at, where they figured out and they've learned
how to win ugly, and and not only learning how
to win ugly, but now they've gotten on track offensively.
(24:34):
I think they're now. I think this is more impressive
because they had to fight through the fact that people
are familiar with them, the fact that you do know
that he's got to get to Tarik, You do know
that he's got to get to Kelsey. You know. They
they had injuries in their backfield, so they weren't a
team that we're playing at full you know capacity. I
I just think that they have proven more of how
(24:58):
great they are as a team. The coaching, the players
this season, to me, more so than any season prior
to this most impressive of me. I think what the
NFL does, and this is like when you go in
like Patrick Moomes has and you're the m v P
and you win a Super Bowl. You know, the NFL
(25:19):
regress of what we want to say on air about
the you know, the coaches or certain organizations. All these
guys are working and and are some of the best
in the world of what they do, and they were
going to try to find your weaknesses and exploit them.
And it's gotten to a point now where this is
the first year. I think we saw some of that
(25:42):
playing itself out of the course the regular season, where
teams were playing Patrick Mahomes in a certain style, forcing
him to take shorter passes, forcing him to be patient,
force he hi to use his legs at times, and
those big players those shots, there's things that they love
doing just weren't there. And you know, I think what
you saw from him was part of his maturation as
(26:04):
a quarterback within this league with the ability to play
in any style ever, Like Cobra kais like this this
cool new revamp show right from Karate Kid, And one
of the things if you watch that series that you'll
see is like all the blend of styles of martial
arts and it's like getting to the point where, like
you you're seeing that now in Patrick Mahomes game where
he doesn't have any flaws in his game because he's
(26:27):
been able to adapt to whatever defenses are throwing against them,
whether it's first pressure, whether it's on the run on
the move. We've seen that, but now it's about what
I'm I just have to sit there and they're dropping
eight guys in the coverage and I don't have Tyreek
and I don't have Travis, and I've got to check
down or I've gotta like maybe just scramble up for
a five yard game. Like he's getting to the point
now where he's he's doing that and he's not forcing
(26:48):
the football uh into you know, getting impatient, and I
think it's one of the biggest steps that's allowed him to,
you know, remain at the top of the league. I
got a really bad feeling about this game. For Cincinnati. Uh,
it's feels like Kansas City's gonna run it up. I
don't know why. I just get this. I just get
this feeling that last week was they're gonna take whatever
(27:08):
happened last week and just continue on. And uh, they're
gonna get after Joe Burrow and they're gonna run up
that score. And I don't I don't want that. I
look if candas if if Cincinnati wins that game, they
gets fantastic for the NFL. It's a lot of fun.
I just get a bad feeling that can't it's a
weird line. I did not think, I mean think about it.
Cincinnati beat them and granted in Cincinnati just a few
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weeks ago and Jamaar Chase went off for two or
and sixty six yards three touchdowns on the eleven catches,
they could not stop him. So what would make you
think that they can this time? Or just because they're
playing an arrowhead and they just beat the number one
seed on the road as a four four and a
half point underdog, and then they come out and and
their seven and what is up to seven and a
(27:50):
half now? Is that that was the seven? Last time
I looked, I haven't seen anything a seven and a half,
but that's a lot of points. Yeah, I know, man,
that's why I just I just get this feeling it's
gonna and I don't want blowouts. I wanted his good
at games as possible. This one just feels like you
go that it's It's one of those fishy lines though,
where I feel like you're the fish because they want
you to take Cincinnati. They want you to take the
points and then to your point, kn' city ends up,
(28:12):
you know, breaking out of can you know to bummer?
But what if since he were to beat them and
make it to the super Bowl? Oh great? Also, look,
Cincinnati is a fun team to watch, man, Like it's
gonna be one of those deals where it's like whoa
hold on us? Like Cincinnati, Cincinnati is about to go
(28:36):
on a run. By the way, how many coaches do
you think have been canned after two years? If Cincinnati
gets to the super Bowl, they're gonna go. You see
what happens when you give a guy a third year
and and you give them an opportunity and build some
town around him. I think Joe Judge is gonna come
out and you know, speak very highly as Zach Taylor afterwards.
Give Joe Judge a third year, he would have gotten
them to a Super Bowl. I'm super intrigued. I hope,
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I hope for football that it's close. I think that
Buffalo was the only team that was gonna beat This
is my opinion today. I think Buffalo is the only
team that was gonna beat Kansas City. Yeah, let's be real,
we already saw the best matchup we're gonna see the
rest of the postseason. I mean it was a of
a matchup. I mean it is like the Chiefs and
(29:19):
the Bills are probably the best two teams in the NFL,
and we already saw that game. And look, I'm not
trying to make a case that the Super Bowl champion
isn't the Super Bowl champion. I'm just saying that's how
it works out sometimes when you're talking about the entirety
of the league. In a playoff system, you don't always
get the best two teams playing each other at the
end of the season. Sometimes the best two teams have to,
you know, play each other on the way there. And
(29:41):
that's what we got here. I mean, that's that's really
what this is between these two teams. Be sure to
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know if anybody has noticed this, but it's been a
long time since the Rams are beating the forty niners
and uh, you know it's you know, this is now
sixth straight. We're gonna get a third match up this
(30:46):
season coming up on Sunday at Sofi Stadium and Sean McVeigh,
the head coach of the Rams, was asked about you know,
his counterpart, Kyle Shanahan and the matchup and the dominance
recently by Yle Shanahan. Take a listen. Knowing Kyle Shanahan
so well and with the success that the Forts have
been able to have against you, is Kyle in your
(31:09):
head at all? You know in terms of trying to
get past these guys. No, Um, what I what I
do have is respect for these guys. They've done a
great job. You know, you look at it. You gotta
play well in that three and a half hour window
that were allotted. You look at the last time that
we played him, didn't finish the game. But but this
is a really good football team. We have a lot
of respect for him. But um, you know, we're competing
and preparing to the best of our ability to go
(31:30):
out and see if we can advance. But this is
a really good team. Kyle is an excellent coach. They've
got great players, great coaches, good schemes and so that's
why they're in the NFC Championship. You know, it's got
to burn his ass that Kyle Shanahan dominates him like this,
gotta burn his ass, burn it to the core, you know,
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come on, sixth straight, sixth straight. I mean, we we
heard all. You know, you gotta get rid of. That
was actually, if you listen to some of the reporting
when the Jared Goff Sean mc vicvey riff started happening
last year, when the relationships started to deteriorate. It was
the game against the forty nine ers when McVeigh was
a lot of people said he was done with Jared
(32:12):
Goff at that point. They had some sort of disagreement
and argument after the game. He was just so frustrated
with the way that he played. Okay, you got a
new quarterback and you're still owing to and if they
lose on Sunday, I mean, come on, man, like, at
at some point this is there's gotta be some something
to this much dominance, this much, this many times in
(32:35):
a row, different quarterback. They're scary. They're scary right now.
The man, they might be the scariest team right now
that's still left standing. I think I think Kansas City
is the best team. I think San fran is the scariest.
I think they're pretty scary, And the reason why they're
scary is because they're playing some really good football. Their
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play calling is is tremendous. I mean, it's it has
been so good, he is they have found such a
rhythm and how they go through their play calling progressions
during the course of these games in the playoffs. I mean,
I think that I think that the Rams are going
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to have their hands full this this weekend. In fact,
like my you know, and I've been wrong, of course,
you know, but I just my gut is telling me
that they might extend that that wind street, the San
Francisco might the Niners might extend that winning street. I'm
on the other side of this one. I think when
we won, the line opened at three. It's now three
(33:38):
and a half um and in most books, and it's
again it's one of those lines very similar to Kansas City,
where Vegas is begging you, begging you to take San Francisco.
They're begging you to take the three and a half
points because everyone's talking about the history, everyone's talking about
exactly what you're saying right now. The Rams are the
team that, much like Tampa Bay last year, have a
(34:03):
new quarterback, new pieces, and they really found their stride
at the end of the season and have carried that
momentument in of the playoffs. Matt Stafford is not turning
the football over yet this postseason. Cam Akers has come
back and added another dimension out of their backfield and
Oh b J. Now when isolated, he's a legitimate threat.
Cooper Cup you can make the case is the best
(34:24):
wide receiver in the NFL. I mean that's not like
an opinion. I just literally look at the stats best.
It's hard for sure, Yes, yeah, I mean that's I
don't know how many how many more were you throw
into the Amish conversation. I haven't got that far, thank you,
But I think this is and I don't want this
to come off in a negative vein, but there are
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a bunch of superstars and you can even stay front
runners on the rams, and that might be able to
work against you when things aren't going well. But things
are going well and the stars are playing like stars.
Von Miller has been everything they had hoped to you
to be the last seven weeks. Aaron Donald's playing like
the best defensive player in the league. O b J.
Has been worth what they gave up to get this
(35:10):
young man, and Matt Stafford has played fantastic, but you know,
not necessarily down the stretch with the regular season, but
once he got into postseason, he hasn't He wasn't asked
to do much in the wild card round. He's been
able to kind of take things over now and last
week case and point, you know, putting the dagger in
Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucks was huge. So
I see this game going a completely different direction. And
(35:33):
the only other thing that like we should discuss and
talk about is the fact that, you know, there's a
bunch of that talk about Jimmy Garoppolo and and what
he is as a quarterback of whatever has happened. Can
we stop taking Knox that the guy he's been successful.
Every time he's healthy, he wins. I don't know why
we have to like compare him to Joe Montana or
comparing to Patrick Mahomes, Like he's found his own way
(35:54):
of doing it and they've been successful. So I just
I think you need to appreciate Jimmy Garoppolo for what
he's been. But let's not like start making this debate
and start trashing a guy who it seems like every
time he's healthy always doesn't win football games. They're gonna
play bulleyball. And I just I'm thinking back to when
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I said how physical this Rams team is going into
the Arizona game and they got man handled about the Cardinals,
I mean man handled, and I was like, I don't
I didn't understand it. And then I started thinking to myself,
can can the Rams deal with a physical like an
(36:37):
overly physical team. And while conventional wisdom says yes, they
probably can, I just think that. I just think that
this is going to be a physical game and they
have established two to three runners that can get it
done out of their backfield, and it is their their
(36:58):
success is predicated off of that. I just think that
they're going to have a good game plan defensively forty
I'm speaking of, They're going to have a game plan
that that is going to be sound coming into this game.
And if they can establish the run against against the Rams,
I just I just think they're scary team. They've also
got Tom Rathman wearing number seventy one for some reason.
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To look, my gut tells me that the Rams are
gonna win this game, but I really really want the
forty niners because the Rams bug me. You know what's
gonna happen this weekend? We had such we had the
best division. This is the real this is this is
gonna happen. We had the best official round the NFL
has ever seen, quite possibly best we've ever seen. It's
(37:43):
gonna be a crap back, all right, It's gonna be
a crap back. Then it's gonna be I'm just saying
that that's where this whole thing is leading. Here you go,
that's all We're all gonna be the fourth quarter, Like,
oh man, first I started break it to you, like,
that's where this is, this is heading right now. And
I do think there's some people who would love to see.
(38:04):
As much as it would be cool to see Cincinnati
in it, I think the networks want to see the
l A Rams, a big city market with them going
all in this year with Sean McVeigh in a Super
Bowl versus Kansas City. Yeah, I just I think they
want to see that sort of high powered offenses, that
sort of explosion. Even though San Francisco would be a
great great rematch, would be a great storyline. I think
(38:26):
that's the matchup two that the networks start praying for
ends up taking place I don't disagree with that. Yeah,
san Fran might ruin it. Yeah, I look, I I
would like to see him do it. I just think
it's a fun it's a fun team to watch. But
my gut tells me the Rams are going to figure
this out. But let me let me just before we
get to break, just a quick what if scenario? Right,
what if it's uh, you know, early on Matt Stafford
(38:52):
pick six, Niners go down, get a touchdown or a
field goal, and they're sitting up ten nothing, fourteen nothing,
early second quarter? You don't you don't think the Sam's
offensive line has been susceptible to good defensive front. I'm
just saying, like you do, you don't think that that
with all the pressure, because all the pressure is a
hundred percent on the Rams. If if they go down early,
(39:17):
I just want to see how that team looks, because,
like you mentioned, Brady, they're a front running team. You
could make the case though, that there's a lot of
pressure on Garoppolo. He's got one year left on his deal.
They drafted his potential replacement. Like he's not only playing
for the forty Niners, he's playing for every other team
out there. That's the reality of his situation. So if
we want to talk about pressure, yeah, I don't think
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we expected the forty Niners to be here, but Garoppolo
is gonna feel the pressure. I mean, I get it.
He's been here before. Stafford hasn't. But McVeigh has been
here before. There's some other players in the roster have
been there before. Um So I just I think it's
gonna again. It looks like it could be a good game.
That's what we've seen between them. But I don't know, man,
I think we could get a pitch you. By the way,
(40:01):
Roberto was halfway to the parking lot. He heard you
say crap bag and came back into press the park.
But I do it er. I know he loves that.
He has really been switching it up on those drops
though I know he showed an array of sorts. That's
the one he may he may somewhere a little bit
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