2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe Best Of The Week

On this episode of 2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe, Jonas, Knox, Brady Quinn, & LaVar Arrington recap the Aaron Rodgers rant on Pat McAfee show where he threw shade at ESPN, Anthony Fauci, and Diana Russini. Plus, the guys chat with Pete Prisco, Petros Papadakis, and Albert Breer on all things training camp, Dodgers getting Tarik Skubal, and more!!

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We are gonna take you all the way up live
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we appreciate you doing so. And before we catch up
with our guy Pete Prisco for a little red ass
on a Tuesday morning a tradition here, we do have
a little bit of breaking news.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Bjon Robinson and the Atlanta Falcons have reportedly reached an
agreement on a three year extension worth up to seventy
five million dollars. It will now make them the highest
paid running back in NFL history. According to Adam Schefter,
he will receive a record fifty one million guaranteed, including
thirty seven million at signing. So that is the news

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out of the NFL. It looked like a hold in
situation for Bjon Robinson. Jamior Gibbs is the other one.
But Bijon gets his deal done. According to various reports
circling right now, the Falcons extend their guys.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Almost a nice conclusion.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well deserved for old Bijonah. No, b you better
believe that Jamia Gibbs is gonna try to jump that.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
So oh yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, look, uh, there's only one man who can break
it all down and have some thoughts on all this.
He's the one and only Pete Prisco, senior NFL calumnist
for CBS Sports, CBS Sports HQ analyst. You can get
him on x at Prisco CBS if you want some

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of that smoke. And he's a Tuesday tradition here on
this show.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Pete, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
What's up? Guys? How are you hi?

Speaker 6 (02:40):
Pete?

Speaker 5 (02:41):
What up?

Speaker 6 (02:41):
Pete?

Speaker 7 (02:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Pete? Green Bay?

Speaker 5 (02:45):
That's where I'm up. I'm Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Are you nice?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You see?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Is Romo at the saloon already?

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Or is he?

Speaker 6 (02:52):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (02:55):
I didn't know when they started there. I'm sorry, sorry
about that.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, pet it's not gonna comment on it. He's too
scared of CBS will get mad at him. It's like
back with ESPN and with Versini stuff.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
You're unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
See you proved me right right now.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
You gotta you gotta comment on the Sanchez stuff.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
I called the game? What are you gonna comment on?

Speaker 5 (03:21):
I mean, you know there you go?

Speaker 6 (03:25):
I was there?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I actually, how what do you may?

Speaker 5 (03:31):
You know? We don't talk about things.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Why is that why? I mean, why is it so
hard to just talk about what you see? What happens?

Speaker 5 (03:40):
I mean, come on, you mean like what Rogers did yesterday?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I mean did you see that the Steelers had to
send out a note about that yesterday too?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I didn't see that they walked it back, not surprising
they did.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
He did walk it back the Steelers, though these are
our views, you know, those are his views and people
are entitled to their views or whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know how that's yeah, absolutely, wow, Pete.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
What is the since we're on the topic, what is
the comment or comments you've made publicly and it doesn't
have to be controversial from from those standpoints, that has
gotten you the most heat in your career?

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Good question. I mean, there's there's a lot of them
that I've said over the years that have gotten me
in I'll be honest with you, I can't really remember.
I mean, I'm you know, I walk around with a
fire on my back of my head. You know, people
people love to get me angry at me.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
There's got to be one that you can think of that,
you go, man, that really uh that pissed off either
a fan base, a coworker, a network, whatever, a team,
a coach, the team.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You were really hard on t Bough and you were
in Jacksonville at the time, which is where he's from.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
That that was probably that was Yeah, that was a
two three four year long thing where I would on
the radio in jackson drive time and so, I mean
it was like layup after layup for me, and that
that got me in a bunch of hot water because
he's a Jacksonville kid. And they used to call up
the show and threat to come over and kick my butt.

(05:15):
And I can tell you that I'm coming over there
gonna get you. You can't be making fun of that
te bow. His dad got rest his soul used to
call my show all the time complaining. So yeah, there
were a lot And by the way, I might be
one of the few people in the history of the
mankind because Tim Teeb was actually a really nice kid
who blocked I'm blocked by him.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Really wow, good for you.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Yeah, I earned that. Well, I mean I used to.
You know, he wasn't a very good quarterback, and you
know there were a bunch of other things that I play.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Uh do you feel like, well, I'm not even sure
how we transitioned from this but in regards to the
Rogers stuff and everything, the air out aired out and said,
do you feel like that motivates others to be more outspoken?
Do you feel like it is just gonna be kind
of a flash in the pan, It'll go away and

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that's just Rogers? Like how do you view what he
did yesterday and how this impacts him the team everything else.
I mean, I'm not sure how he's gonna be received
with the team. And he's obviously been there a year already,
so it's not like he's.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
New to them.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
But I feel like this is one of those moments
where he knows this is his last dance. He keeps
talking about when he's done, he's gonna go away from
the game altogether. And so did you kind of view
this as more of like, hey, this is like the
last thing you wanted to get an off his chest
before the football season, or like, how do you view
all that he didn't care?

Speaker 5 (06:43):
He didn't give a crap. I mean, basically he didn't
care in the eating care when he said all that
stuff to begin with. I mean, you know that Brady,
you get this a certain point in your life and
you don't care anymore. I mean, he just took him
out and said it. And when he didn't do that,
everybody came down on him. Remember I mean they killed them.
They came down on him. And you know, look, he

(07:04):
stood his ground and looked good for him and now
looking back on it, he can do that. And so look,
there's a lot of things that play there. We're finding
out more and more as we move along through the process,
and there you go. Look, look it was a terrible situation,
but again it divided a lot of people and he

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was on one side, and therefore he took the heat
for it. And now he's coming back and saying, look
I took the heat then and now look, and that's
basically what it is. So look, you're a title to
your opinion. You're entitled to say what you want to do.
He stood his ground and now he's you know, coming
back fire and bullets and everybody else. So I get it,
But again you get the point in your life, what
does he care he's retiring after the season. Is somebody

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going to boo him in the crowd because he said
that stuff? Now? Probably not? And now he's going to
walk off into the sunset. Looks he's freed of any
restraints of being being forced to say things that he
doesn't want to say.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Hmm. He brought up the Rassini situation. I mean, is
it is it all but gone? Is that is? You know,
Brady said it was going to be done. Brady said
it was going to be done, you.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Know, and he's tried his best pee to keep this
going on. I'm just going to.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Get into week one, every week with you, LeVar.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Every week you're the only one in LeVar. It doesn't
count if you're only one.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
It's moved on. We've moved on. It's over, it's done.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's done. Is it done because y'all don't want to
talk about it? Or is it done? Is it done
for a real reason?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Pete Tesco, No, I don't. I think it's done. I
think it's over with. I mean, you know, you know
how those kind of things, scandals stay around for a
little while and then off they go. By the way.
By the way, when I talk about Rogers being able
to say what he wants, you guys know this, and
you've been around. You go into a restaurant, and you
go into a store or something, and you see it's

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eighty four year old man in there. They don't care
one bit about what they say. They just said, don't
you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah? Yeah, right, yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
So that's basically where he's at his career. He's an
old man getting ready to walk off into the sunset.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Pete Prisco, senior NFL columnist for CBS Sports CBS Sports
HQ analysts, joining us here on FSR. Get him on
ets at Prisco CBS. So we mentioned before he came on,
Pete the breaking news. Bjeon Robinson gets his deal done
an extension with the Atlanta Falcons. I know you were
at Bucks training camp. Do you see Atlanta as a

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potential threat to Tampa Bay in that division? Or are
you still confident in what you saw with the Bucks
even though they've got the Baker Mayfield contract stuff going on.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
So the Bucks are still the best team in the division.
I don't think there's any question about that.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Now.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
The Baker Bayfield contract situation is interesting. I mean, you know,
here's a guy who they offered a two year deal, well,
you know, a three year deal, but only two years
of guarantee money, and he wasn't happy with it. So
I wouldn't take it if I were him, So he's
what is Baker going.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
To be doing?

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Doing what he always does, plays with a chip on
his shoulder. And I think they're gonna be a good team.
I mean, Ruben Bain's going to really add to that defense.
Vita Veo is not going anywhere. He'll play. They got
better in the secondary. I think they're young players. You know,
your Notre Dame kid has to stay on the field,
Brady Benjamin Morrison, but he's a good player. And then
you look on the offense. Their offensive line when it's

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on the field, and they weren't on the field last year,
one of the best in the league when they're on
the field and they have weapons. Book is a good player.
You know. McMillan's a good player. They can throw the
football at Baker. They're the best team. And by the way,
I don't know if you guys saw that, but Baker
sat down with me to do an interview and I
had a twenty dollars bill in my pocket that was
taped up and I gave it to him for part

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of the Baker Mayfield fun for the year. Since he
did and he took it.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Why wouldn't he take the money? You gave it to him.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Yeah, I know, but I figured, you know, here you go.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't care.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
I'm now you know, but.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Again you know what that's for. That goes to the
quarterback fun for all the times I bought you lunch
and didn't get anything back in return.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
How about that, Pete Brady, I don't know what you're
talking about. Buying lunch. He used to call in and
order on the on the on the company card you'd order.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
I don't have a company card.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I was a subcontractor.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
It was through Uber.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I have the Uber Eats for seeds to prove it, Pete.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Guys, guys, I can tell you this right now, guy, guys,
very Brady's a very generous man. I'm going to tell
you that right there, one hundred percent. But there were
times early in Brady's career at CBS where his brother
is there. One time and he brought his brother in
law lunch but didn't buy anybody else lunch, and they
sat in front of everybody and ate it in front

(11:46):
of them. Yeah, oh yeah, the nerves ready or not?
Is that true story?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Well, first off, we didn't sit in front of anyone
who need it.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Agent did ask her could order something, So I ordered
something and we sat and we talked because him and
I were catching up. I was living in Florida at
the time, didn't get to see him all that often,
so we were catching up talking a little bit while
he was there to work in studio for CBS. So
he had some questions too that probably were you know, hey,
how do we need to do this or the producers,

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et cetera, et cetera, like what do they want to
see that sort of that's one hundred.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Percent no, And we called you out on it. What
about us? And you know, we called you out on it.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, and then I bought you one thousand lunches after
that that you just really.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Go definitely bought lunches.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
They put let us on this.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Ah, they didn't give him my cookie with that.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Where the company where the company bought lunch and you
bought like took advantage of it and bought a forty.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Company never bought lunch peach on Sundays. That was not
a company deal.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah it was, Yeah, it was, No, it wasn't. That
was the I'm the same of you guys probably know
is very Brady, is very generous.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
He is a generous dude.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Here's here's the truth out that I remember. He doesn't
want to tell it.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I appreciate that, Rolex. He bought me for this year
Christmas gift. Yeah, did you get yours?

Speaker 5 (13:03):
I didn't get mine this year.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
This year's Pete coming still wait on my sneakers to LeVar,
I mean I got you.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
Brou said.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's what you said about the ale stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Catch you on that too, Jonas. Jonas is over there
looking at you right.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Now, Jonas, But you gotta you gotta. Brady is a
very generous guy. Yes, lunch a lot and so but
you know me, I'm going to pick out the one
time and he took care of himselfish self and make
an issue out of that.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
That's how the best thing about Pete is you can
anticipate this every Sunday is he would go into the
lunch room. He'd look at whatever the catered in and
be like, I'm not eating that. I say, all right, guys,
what do we want to Let's go order Jersey Mikes.
We would typically order Jersey Mikes and then he would
be upset about something that happened with the sandwich, and
then he would make fun of me and who would
want to them for how fast Rick spilled and I eat.

(13:54):
That was him and Jamie Eisenberg used to sit there
and just watch Rick and I eat and they'd make
fun of us the entire time.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
That is kind of crazy, Man, I ain't.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Going out and Brady, Brady eats really really fast.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's like almost like he like it really is. It
is fast, Bro.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
And and then not only that, it's usually a giant,
giant sandwich and he inhales it. But I don't know
if you eat faster than Rick Spielman, who's kind of
a swamp when he needs to do.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's only a hog.

Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, hungary, Yeah, Brady, how many like if you really
sat down and wanted to eat as much as it
could at lunch?

Speaker 5 (14:40):
How many giant thumb.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Could you kind of sun down your mouth at.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
La bars always in the gutter. I can't.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Trust me.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
He's cleaned that up.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
But he he has to clean that man.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I am clean.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I am boss. He's jerking the wheel right now.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's why we got to eat on our friends.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Go.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, he is well.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Mighty is for everyone, Yes, it is.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
By the way. Back to John Robinson, Back to the
b John Robinson Contact Extension yes, you running back three
year deal?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, I think you have the right he Hey, oh Pete, Pete,
I thought they're growing trees though. I thought you get
running backs everywhere. Why would they pay him this sort
of money?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
If yeah, he's Pete way as much.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
We could three years, he's going to be twenty seven.
That's when because of you off the cliff when you're
in late in your twenties. That's why it's smart.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
So this is it, like, this is the last we
know of be Shawn Robinson, this last three years of
this deal.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Well, I'm not saying it. Look in history, you can
look back and see that these deals, the second deal
after that usually don't work out. Let's go back and
go back and look at the history. It happens all
the time. So reality is probably not Melboyne Gordon. I mean,
there's a lot of guys over the years got deals
and did work out.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
You know, are you going to say the same thing
about Jamiir Gibbs when he surpasses this number.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, those two guys deserve to be paid on these deals.
I'm not going to take that away from them right now.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
They are done.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
They're not going to get them. They're not going to
get the mega deals.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Yeah, but they're still going to play football, is what
you're saying.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yeah, I mean you would think, but.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Can you tell audience the reality of it.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Look at the history of the position.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Okay, but can you tell our audience what your strategy
would be if you were drafting a running back? What
you do?

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Draft them, sign them to a five year contract contract,
run them into the ground, and draft another one.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
But when he's not, you're being honest. And that's probably
exactly how they say it the way they wanted to.
That's exactly a way of be stated, like it's a
pickup truck.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
By the way, I will put a little asterisk next
to that when I say that, because the airbacks, you
know that, Brady how I always say that they're different
than the other backs, and by that I mean McCaffrey
And I told Christian McCaffrey one time about five years ago,
four years ago, is that a remember he was at
our on our set at the Super Bowl. I said,
I wouldn't pay running backs, but you're different. You do
different things. Same with Gibbs, he does different things, same

(17:28):
with Robinson. They do different things. They're not just line
up and run the football, guys. You can split them out,
you can get them in space. Those are airbacks, the
traditional backs that they they they're different. They truly grow
on trees.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Dang, truly grow on trees.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Uh, Pete.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
You are in Green Bay, as you mentioned, you're in
the midst of your training camp tour. Early impressions on
the Packers if you had a chance to watch or
do you do that later on?

Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah, No, I thought him yesterday Jordan Love looked really good.
I think again, I'm in the minority on that one.
I think he's one of the most underappreciated quarterbacks in
this league. Now, he's got to stay on the field.
And I talked to about it yesterday. He agrees. I mean,
he got to be on the field. But the fact
that you know, he threw twenty and six last year
or twenty two and six or whatever it was, and

(18:15):
they still can throw the football down the field, and
you know, Watson and I think Golden's gonna have a
big year. You know, they can really get that passing
game going. Craft is now coming back. He's working on
the side, So I think they're gonna score points. It
just goes down to the defense and defensively, where is

(18:36):
Parsons and when does he come back? And he walked
by yesterday. I was standing out there and he came
through and look he's walking pretty good. I guess they
said yesterday. He was running some sprints the other day
with some players. So he's you know, you know, not
planning and cutting or anything yet. But I think, you know,
mid October early October, they just got the wead of
the storm before then, because when he comes back, there

(18:56):
are different defense. You know, people forget about the Packers.
They were at Denver with a nine to three to
one record and led the Broncos when by I think
double digits. When when Parsons got hurt, what out it
didn't win again? Should it beat the Bears twice? Or
could it beat the Bears twice including in the playoffs
and allowed teams to get away? And so I think

(19:16):
they're gonna be right there in the mix again to
win that division and be a big threat in the postseason.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Pete, I got a question for you.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Ben Johnson talked about the motivation for Chicago this year,
and you know he said to the well, we're the
biggest regression candidate. That's where the consensus for regression candidate
from last year this year.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Is there a team out there that.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
You look at and you say, yeah, I think they're
going to take a step back from where they were
based on the win loss record back in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
New England bingo ooh yeah, New England totally agree.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
And the reason I say that is because New England
played a lot of close games, won a lot of
close games, didn't have a tough schedule, didn't play well
down the stretching offense in into the postseason, and that
usually to me, is a team that's going to regress.
So again, Mike Rabels, Mike Rabel's a good football coach,

(20:09):
but again, they got to prove to me that they
were better than what they were a year ago, and I,
you know, I don't know if they can. So that's
my regression candidate right now.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Are there any other reasons why they would regress? Uh?
I'm just I'm just curious as the would there be
any like maybe like maybe a level of confusion or
or drama.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
You're playing on that playing on that team. You're playing
on that team, right, Yes, you got to the practice
field and your coach is calling you up or telling
you to do some Are you thinking about any of
that crap when you're on the field or in the game.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
If I'm being honest, because I'm such a prankster, uh
and a and a key here, I'm what you call
a master key here, I certainly would have. I certainly
would have if not even thought about it, I might
have made a comment about it. To be honest, you.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Maybe like initially when you see him after, but during
the season, when you're playing football, you're.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Not hold one.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
No, no, I'm a little confused. Comment about what?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Right exactly?

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well, he just asked me about about the what I
just asked you about.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
He's trending on being the guy that that tries to
do the joke too long and he actually like not
being cool because of it. You're like, Oh, that guy,
I still think that's funny with you guys.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Does LeVar make the joke any jokes? Like when he's riven,
he makes the joke too long? Right, you gotta let
it go?

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Get one var I mean, honestly, the hot dog one
is kind of there for me, but these guys still
use it.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, I just got him really good with the hot
dog one.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
By the way.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
I mean, yeah, but that one was really well.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
It was really well executed, Pete. That's all I got.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
He didn't even like hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Man, it's only a hot dog.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
LeVar as a guy who's a professional singer, you gotta
let him go once in a while. I can give
you some advice. I'll give you a school.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I mean, you know what, LeVar is still bar still
uses pause like no one even in the NBA used
to pause.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I gotta say, I gotta tell you, like, honestly, Pete,
you never played the game, so you're not Yeah, I
wrote that.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
LeVar.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
I wrote the book that you're reading, telling you that.

Speaker 9 (22:28):
Right, you've never you know, you've never.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Been in a position to really be able to comment
on telling me if or or why.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
From the bottom of the deck that you never played
the game.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Judge by you because you have never played the game,
Pete Prisco.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
LaVar I wrote the book you're reading. And going back
to Pete radio show in Washington, I used to come
on inter views. You come on.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
That is fair, Pete. That's bear that Pete, no problem.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're saying, New England, why not Denver? Denver won a
lot of miraculous close games. And maybe you will just
say their defense or Sean Paygne, you're a believer, but like,
why wouldn't Denver be a regression candidate?

Speaker 5 (23:15):
You know what, Brady, You're right they are actually, And
come to think of it, because offensively, bow Knicks played
well last year, but you go to see him do
it again, right, I mean that's and he and he
does have the ankle, and I know he's healthy now,
but that's been a lingering problem for him. Again, they're
probably when a team wins a lot of close games,
Like you said, they're another one. What about here's another one?

(23:36):
Why is everybody so bullish on the Texans? And I
don't get me wrong, I think defensive LeVar?

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Why you so bullsh on that LeVar?

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (23:44):
On the Texans? Well, because their defensive line is a
bunch of freakazoids, Like straight stuff.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Defensive line a bunch of freakazoids.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
They're not bad.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Not bad is the quarterback of freakazoid he's I mean.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
He could have a bounce back year. It could be
a bounce back year for him.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Everybody said, oh, well, he could have a bounce back year.
You could have a bounce back year. It could have
been well. Come on, do they have great weapons outside
to side from Nico Collins? I mean, do they run
Montgomery a lead dog and a running running attack. Do
you believe in Montgomery?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
I believe in Montgomery. A healthy Montgomery can carry the load.
He's he's a strong guy. He's a physical guy. You know,
he's a battering ram guy. Yeah. I think he could
carry the load for them.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
They are not better than Jacksonville. I can tell you
that was one.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
I don't buy that. Hand it on, I don't buy that.
I'll take that bet. What is it a dinner at
at a drink at at Super Bowl? I'll take that bet.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Got it? You're on, LeVar A.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Houston will finish higher than Jacksonville this year.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
No, they will not. They came higher than them last year.
And Jacksonville should have beat him twice.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Okay, should have, should have, would have could have? Well,
David grads and hand grenades and horseshoes, That's that's where
it could have s.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Here's a great misconception about the National Football League is
you don't take into account who's coming back and getting
better and like young players. You guys know that you
play in the league. Guy from one year to year
one to year two, year two to year three, and
that's where Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Is right now.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
We shall see Pete.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
They're gonna score a ton of points. Brian Thomas Junior
is back again. Parker Washington has been great. They're gonna
run the ball. Tooton's been fantastic, and I think on
defense they'll be better with Hunter playing corner, they're better there.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
We shall see.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
We shall see Pete press the great Pte Prisco with
us here on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks Pete, enjoy Green Bay.
We'll do it again next week.

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All right, guys, take care, all right, son.

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all right, everybody rolling?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, fired up, ready to listen to Aaron Rodgers eviscerate everything.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I mean as he makes it a preseason habit, you know,
the first time this was a victory lap Monday for
Aaron rods Definitely victory lap. Good for him.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yes, a lot of uh. He had an axtra grind.
He had a lot to get off his chest. There
was this felt like years and years of built up
having to hear narrative after narrative about him being criticized
by several in the media, and so he was on
the Pat McAfee show yesterday starring AJ Hawk and decided,

(28:37):
you don't want We'll just take it away from here.

Speaker 12 (28:40):
I'm gonna plead the fifth okay Oka like a lot
of that guy like that absolute coward?

Speaker 9 (28:51):
Absolute are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (28:55):
You got a pardon and you're in front and you
pleaded over a hundred times at the White House?

Speaker 9 (28:59):
What are you scared of?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Tony?

Speaker 9 (29:01):
I thought you were the science.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, I thought you.

Speaker 9 (29:03):
I am science and you get up there and you
can't answer a question. And how much time did the
network spend of that?

Speaker 12 (29:08):
How much time did they spend on my responses every
week on my vaccination statut font Taylor at Travis's wedding?
Did they did they do even a minute? Did they
do even a minute on Tony Fauci? I don't think
I've heard that.

Speaker 9 (29:24):
I bet they didn't.

Speaker 12 (29:25):
But on that note, and there was another scandalous offseason too,
involved in a voter for MVP for Coach of the Year.

Speaker 9 (29:31):
How much time do you did your network spend?

Speaker 12 (29:34):
Where's the did your network spend on network?

Speaker 9 (29:38):
How much this is awesome?

Speaker 12 (29:41):
Go back to Faucie, Go back to the coward Tony
falcon science. You're spending the entire time writing in his
diary about how fun it is to be famous.

Speaker 9 (29:51):
You gotta be kidding me. Okay, so on that note,
what are you going to say about me?

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Now?

Speaker 9 (29:54):
What are you gonna say about it?

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Now?

Speaker 9 (29:56):
I got no debate here? You had a five Seriously,
what are they gonna say about me?

Speaker 5 (29:59):
Now?

Speaker 9 (29:59):
Now?

Speaker 12 (29:59):
Now you can't talk about the COVID stuff because obviously
it was it was made you know, in a lab
in China. That's like not even questionable anymore. Tony Fauci
is an absolute criminal. I'm on, I'm on good terms
with my family. I'm on good terms with my family.
What are you gonna say?

Speaker 13 (30:15):
Now?

Speaker 9 (30:15):
What are you gonna say? Now?

Speaker 6 (30:17):
You know?

Speaker 9 (30:17):
I got at least four minutes, Okay, I got there's
a lot of silence, but I will say this. I
gotta give.

Speaker 12 (30:23):
I gotta give flowers to stephen A. Smith, my old
friend stephen A, because he was man enough to actually
admit and apologize to Kyrie. You're so I got to
give a shout out to my guy, stephen A. You
are not a coward. I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, can we talk about uh, we'll wrap up that.

Speaker 9 (30:40):
Car that There's been a lot of silence.

Speaker 12 (30:42):
I feel like, you know, like nineteen seconds about one subject.
Don't don't talk about that. You know, we can talk
about Rex Ryan's foot fetish, but please don't talk about
you know, uh, you know, anything else right now. Don't
talk about you know, any scandals, and don't talk about
you know, the culture. You talking about Taylor and Travis's
what do the insiders know about that?

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Damn?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Sometimes it's just a being being aware person and knowing
how to deliver it is.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
I mean, how much do you think that's been boiling inside?

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
God?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Look man, is it's hard to argue. I mean, I
don't find a lot of inaccuracy and what he said
his family situation was made public consumption for years and
years and years with a lot of people weighing on it,
the vaccination status, the whole fiasco there, the Fauci stuff,

(31:40):
the inability for that network to want to cover the
Rassini situation.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
When they were so willing to cover. It's just it's
just an.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Odd, odd way that it was handled, and it just
sounded like a guy that was ready to get all
of that revenge all in one sit down with Pat McAfee.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
This goes back to I think this idea of accountability
though too, because I think in America we all want,
like to, you know, our opinions and our beliefs and
everything to be kind of fair and balanced and equal.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
And I think you go back to that time.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Period, let's just talk COVID. You know, he wasn't completely
innocent of how he went about discussing it right immunized
versus saying vaccinated, and kind of the tricky way he
went about doing it. Now that being said, I think
his issue is more like, hey, this is what I'm doing,
no different than Kyrie Irving, who I believe lost I

(32:36):
think eleven point four million during that period in time
because of you know, how he handled himself and people
who didn't want to get vaccinated or did whatever the
case may be. But the point is is for the
people who were on that side, if they didn't want
to get vaccinated, there was no one defending them. It

(32:56):
was open seizing on those people. And I think that's
where the frustration comes is, you know, outside of Steven A.
Smith apologizing to Kyrie irving like, there were no apologies.
What have you heard anyone apologize Aaron Rodgers about how
they handled everything about him standing it was immunized, it's
never happened. What are the people who've taken shots of
him about his family relationship, which has never been fair

(33:20):
to you know, comment on or take like who probably
had no actual clue about what's going on behind the scenes.
They've never apologized. So that's that's part of the issue
is there's been no accountability for all the people who
were out there saying that he was wrong or whoever
else felt that way, or for people who you know,

(33:41):
chose not to go get vaccinated or not to do
something else because they were scared maybe putting something in
their body, or they just didn't want to do it. It
wasn't their belief. There was no one defending them. And
now when you start again finding out some of the
truths of it, whether it was Elablique, whatever else, you know,
that's that's been brought to our attention. Now there's no
one saying that, well, these guys should pay the price. Now,

(34:04):
I will say the one thing about Fauci that gets
misconstrued in his pleading for the fifth the entire time
was he was at risk of perjury, which is why
an attorney would tell him to plead the fifth over
a hundred times. You know, yes, he received a pardon,
but there's still the potential issue of him perjuring himself
in front of Congress, which is why he would plead

(34:25):
the fifth like that. But I digress. This is pent
up frustration. This is someone who I think lives in
a world where they all hold each other accountable. When
you're on a football team and between us, you know,
our whole job, what we do together, and I think
a lot of athletes, though we always talk about accountability.
I think that's what this comes down to, is there
has been no one who's been held accountable for a

(34:48):
lot of the things he discussed, even the Racini you
know Vrabel stuff and how ESPN reported or didn't report it,
and a lot of great points that he brought up.
But she is a Coach of the Year vote, she
has an env vote. These are some of the people
who are a part of creating the legacy of what
these coaches of players look like. And yet we're not
gonna then hold them accountable for their actions or talk

(35:12):
about it. I mean she stepped down. Let's not get
it twisted. She stepped down, like she basically let ESPN
off the hook and so of these other people off
the hook. So's there's a lot of truths in what
he's saying. But I think the bigger picture is just
there was a side of a lot of these conversations

(35:32):
that didn't any defense, you know, didn't get anyone to
come back and say, you know what, you were right?
I should have listened, or maybe I should have been
more understanding of your position. I think that's where his
frustration comes from.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
It doesn't do away with the realities that we face
during COVID though. That's my that's to me, that's that
you get your victory lap, and that's cool. Fauci couldn't
even say what color his tie was or what color
to floor was. If that's perjury, that's crazy to me.
And for what it's worth, a lot of people you

(36:08):
had to realize were you felt like there was no
other recourse but to get the vaccination. I believe you
weren't allowed to travel unless you had the vaccination. On
top of that, on top of that, for wherever it
was created, people were dying because of COVID. They were dying.

(36:34):
That's a reality that wasn't created somewhere in a lab.
They were dying people, and I think a lot of
people took offence to it. Not for him making the
personal decision for himself, I think a lot of people
had fallout based upon the way it sounded to them

(36:54):
and knowing that they had loved ones that had either
perished from the disease or were at risk. I know,
for me personally, my mother and father were high risk
people because of their health concerns. My dad's heart, my
mother's diabetes. There were aspects of my parents' health that

(37:17):
made them risk and their lives totally changed. And in fact,
they haven't stopped living the way that they were living
during the pandemic to this day because of just fear
that it could pop up and that could be the
reason why that ends it for them. So while I
understand where he's coming from, and I'm I'm you know,
I have no beef with with Aaron Rodgers not wanting

(37:41):
to get you know, get the vaccination, I would just say,
if I'm speaking for it came, it comes across. There's
another form of woke to be honest, Like, I know,
everybody's tired of woke.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
That was woke.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
What he did was pretty woke, and and sometimes people
don't take kindly to being woke about how you feel
about something. Same thing with Kyrie Irving. So he did
get a victory lap, and and for what it's worth,
what he said had a lot of validity to it,
But that doesn't do away with the realities that we

(38:18):
as a as a nation, in a country, what we faced.
We lost a lot of people to that, to that
disease or to to the illness what are the COVID
nineteen what.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
What is it called?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
The virus? Yeah, so I just you know, I get it,
but like, don't make your victory lap too much of
a victory lap in terms of understanding how how how
bad that time was for our entire country.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, I mean it's and yeah, the people definitely did
die for sure, and that that had an impact on lives,
people lost jobs. But I also think that I also
think that it, you know, there was it wasn't just
this cut and dry situation of you're gonna get it,
You've got this amount of issues going on previously, you're

(39:05):
going to pass.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Like my mom had was was as high risk as
anybody you could.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Possibly imagine, and literally got COVID and walked through it
like a fart cloud, like it was nothing. So there's
stories to be told on all different angles of this.
I think what he's doing is telling his story because
people called out his career, called out his character, called out.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Like you know, no wonder his family does like.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
There was a lot of stuff said about this guy,
like a lot, And that's why I don't have an
issue with it. And I think that the problem with
the COVID stuff and the Fauci stuff is that it
becomes political. It's so politicized that people can't just accept
the fact that, hey, you didn't necessarily do anything wrong.

(39:48):
You followed the advice of people that you trusted, and
they burned you. And there's a hesitancy for a lot
of people to just put their hand up and say
I got got like I fell.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
For it conversation. Didn't the whole thing become an issue
because they were forcing the players. If you didn't get
the vaccination, you weren't like, you weren't able, you weren't
clear at the play, or you weren't clear.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
What was it wasn't any of that. You had a
different protocol, so you had to be testing more often.
So forth people could travel. People were able to travel
even without being vaccinated. That wasn't dictated to anyone, whether
they were playing football or not. So it's a bit
of a misconception, I think. I think the problem is
and again he's just talking about from his perspective. I

(40:36):
don't think anything he said like went back and made
light of the heaviness of what people were going through,
you know. I think this is more of a search
for the truth of the information, and I think that's
what it was because he felt like he was on
the right side of that trying to explain it to people.

(40:56):
I mean, one of the things that like I remember
during that time is just flying across the country from
Florida to La the juxtaposition of just how both those
states were operating at that time, and then seeing so
many business owners. You know, I remember like going through
the protocols or just getting into a hotel. You know,
I would you'd literally walk into the hotel and they

(41:16):
would take your temperature, they'd have ask if you had
any symptoms, they'd ask if you ran in anyone who
might have had symptoms, And I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, well,
how could I honestly answer this question. I just went
from an airport, like, of course I could have ran
into someone who maybe was sick. How would I have
known if they were sick or not, you know, and
you're kind of wearing a mask, and then I would
I would leave to go grab carry out from a restaurant.

(41:38):
Mind you, that one week would be in business, the
next week went out of business because of whatever guidelines
La County gave to that restaurant. And in some cases
there were some restaurants that I remember talking to they
had to, you know, spend all this money on this
like HVAC system that helped filter the air, or they
they shut down the inside, but they set up the outside,
you know for people to come, you know, sit down

(42:00):
and died. And then they never ended up actually allowing
them to open up completely, so that all that money
was wasted and it further put them in debt or
or forced them to, you know, out of a business.
So I remember every single week coming in in, like
a different place would be out of business, and then
I'd literally go grabbed the food and in fifteen minutes later
do the exact same protocol, And I remember thinking to myself, like,

(42:20):
how is this effective? You know, like there were so
many things during that time where I think people had questions,
People were trying to figure out like what exactly's going on,
and there was a lot of people who profited off
it at that time. I think I think that's more
of an issue too for some people out there who were, like, man,
there are people who ruined their lives, Like there are
people who lost their lives because of sickness. There are

(42:41):
people who their lives were ruined because of how it
was governed or how it was handled. And at the
end of the day, like people are still trying to
find peace with it, and maybe his way of finding
peace with it is, you know, taking those shots and
saying those things that other people don't feel.

Speaker 6 (42:57):
Like they're strong enough to say.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Because that's the other point of this is he's in
a position where he's I don't want to say untouchable,
but he's also in the last year of his playing career.
He's a first Vallot Hall of Famer, and he's going
to speak his mind and say what he feels like
needs to be said for a lot of people out
there who you know, couldn't say what they wanted to
say back then, but maybe you know, and maybe they
still can't now, But at least he's strong enough to

(43:21):
kind of put that out there to defend them.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Well, they certainly don't have the volume of his voice
to do so. And I think that that's the point.
I think for both sides of it. I think that's
why people would be happy for what he did and
what he stood on and what he said in the
media with pat yesterday, but also was that yesterday, yeah,
yesterday yeah, or or you fall on the other side

(43:46):
of it and you're pissed off with him because people
can frame up how they want to look at Aaron
Rodgers in a few different ways if you're falling on
the other side of it. And people were dictated to
and I mean maybe as a misconception in terms of
you know, being able to travel, I was under the
interpretation under I'm thinking that I had to have it.

(44:10):
I didn't want to. I didn't want to get it either,
but I was made to think that being able to
enter into airport, being able to enter into certain businesses
if you did not and maybe it was because I
was coaching at the time that I felt that that
pressure that I had to do it because the one
hundred percent was you had to do it. If you

(44:32):
were teaching out of school, you one hundred percent had
to do it. I don't I don't recall anybody having
the option of opting out. And in fact, the spacing rules,
everything that you did was based upon you having to
take temperatures and wear your mask. And we're trying to
figure out how you wear a helmet and a mask,

(44:54):
how do you play the games? Like it's crazy?

Speaker 6 (44:56):
It was.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
It was crazy times, and I think people felt as
though they didn't have a choice. You did not have
a choice, and I think that that's where a lot
of the outrage came. And again, whether you were pro
or con to getting the vaccination, it COVID showed us
a lot about our country. Man, I'll say that, yeah,

(45:20):
And it's so funny, I said. I remember walking around
one day, I said, this is how easy it is
to lead a flock if you are at the top
and you're shepherding, I said, can you imagine and five
years ago, a year ago, a few months ago, if
you came walking around with a mask on your face,

(45:42):
people would look at you and be like, I'm curious,
I'm scared, I'm concerned, call the cops. What is he doing?
What is she doing? What are they doing? And and
that would be like like that's a big red flag.
And now if you don't have a mask on, it's
like people look at you like you had sixteen eyeball

(46:05):
could you be oh my god, how could you you?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Meanwhile, those mask you those masks you could hold a
lighter in front of and blow.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
It out with the mask.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Some people weren't even wearing like they even created. I'm
sure mask companies got rich off of God they started
selling those those like industrial strength ones, saying that whatever
the P nine.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Yeah, oh Brady autograph one for me.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
That's the one you have to get. Man, I was
wearing a picture of a lion on a piece of cloth,
with with with And if.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
We want to really dive into this, it's like if
it wasn't at ninety five, it really didn't do anything.
And actually, if you looked at the research from that
time period, it actually made you more risk of getting
a respiratory infection because you most likely if you had
any bacteria issues, you were just breathing in the crap
that was getting stuck on the mask or the mask
was carrying.

Speaker 6 (46:58):
So there was there a ton of things.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
That looking back on it, I think that, Look, there's
a lot of people who should have been able to
question things more and not feel like they were, you know,
told to shut up and just follow it.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
I mean, and again it goes back to like we
didn't know.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
There's an element of unknown too, where people tried to
react what they felt like they were doing their best interest.
And that's why maybe there's a there's an element of,
you know, people not being held accountable because they can
hide under that and say, well, it was what we
thought was best at the time. Looking back on it, yeah,
maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was you know, maybe it
was that wasn't the healthiest thing for us. To not

(47:37):
have people be able to be outside on the beach
or the sun or whatever else, but to not be
able to question it, I think was the greater issue.
And I think that's one of the things Aaron's talked
a lot about. It's like there couldn't even be a
conversation about it, which is also a greater issue with
our entire country is we now for whatever.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Reason, you're not allowed to say what you feel.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
You're not allowed to ask a question or talk about
it unless you know that you like, we don't have
different perspectives.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, when you guys were at the Penn State Iowa game,
I was so. I was watching that game from a
hospital room next to my mom. She was in the
critical care unit, and it was part of the COVID
ward to where they were so overflowed by patients and

(48:22):
whatnot that we're coming in and the hospital staff was
just almost delirious because they were overwhelmed, they were understaffed.
There were some that left because they didn't want to
be forced to get a vaccine. All of that's happening.
And I can remember, you know, kind of sitting there
and you know, we're just kind of hanging out. I
remember the game was on TV and I was talking

(48:44):
to one of the nurses that was coming by to
help out and whatnot, and they and I just said,
how are you guys doing this? They're like, well, that's
the hard part, Like, what's the hard part? They pointed
outside the room a person had just passed literally moments earlier.
Their family couldn't get close to them because of the
social distancing to say goodbye and had to do it

(49:06):
outside a room as they died alone in That happened
with my family.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
That's when my grandfather passed away.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
So that's that's why this stuff people could say, well, look.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
It was this was old news.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
It was.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Yeah, there's a lot of people that really got got
burned for good that are never going to have those
moments back in that opportunity back to say goodbye. So
that's why this is a touchy subject for a lot
of people. And Rogers is simply, like we said, calling
it out from his point of view. Man like I

(49:41):
was also affected by this, and there was a lot
of people that had had.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Things to say.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
So yeah, it's uh, it's rough, but at least he
got it off his chest so.

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Speaker 3 (50:09):
Hey, by the way, for what it's worth for anybody
that's wondering whether or not Rogers did any good yesterday,
Antonio Brown did give him the Cracker of the Day
award on social media based on those comments. So I
just want to point that out. It is too Brown,
I didn't send that one.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
You always assume he's the one tweeting.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
That's account.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
I'm gonna taken for his word.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
I'm just saying, I'm almost positive that's been.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
By the way, but didn't he get fined a bunch
of money because he had fake vax cards? I think
Antonio Brown that pop, Yeah, because he had fined by
who I think he got. I think he said he
lost a bunch of money because he had fake vax
cards and so he got punished by the NFL or
something like that. There's something that happened along those Yeah,
that's because it's just like one of the.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Things that Jonas would make up and no one held hi.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Account all right, so hold me accountable, all right, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Oh he's looking he was not financially fined.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
He said he was.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
I'm just I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Man, he he was it was not financially fine. It
was it would end up in a suspension, but it
said the NFL film had found he misrepresented his COVID
nineteen vaccination status and used a fake car.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Yeah, no, it's unfortunate, but you know he's handing out
awards now, so.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
We are to have a baron Rodgers that got his way.
He went to guy suspended. Yeah, just saying that's true, saying.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
We do have another edition of in case you missed
it coming up later on this hour. We're going to
find out what the hell we're watching here our two
of the program, Pete Prisco's gonna stop by Little Red
Ass on a Tuesday Dianai.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Next, next segment, we got a few segments. There's a
lot of me for Rogers on his boney.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
We are going to have another edition of The Leftovers
coming up in our three of the program. All of
it is yours here on this three hour extravaganza. Up
next though, a lot of moving and shaking in the
world of sports yesterday not named Aaron Rodgers, and it's
yours right here at FSR.

Speaker 10 (52:10):
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(53:09):
Sports Fox College football analysts as well and our good
buddy Petros. Good morning, Hello, Hi my guys.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
There, he is Hi a pee.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Where would you rank scoobale fever to the other big
additions that the Dodgers have acquired over the past over.

Speaker 13 (53:29):
The years, I don't know, like it's always at different times,
like the Otani and the Yamamoto. I remember Mookie Betts
when he came and that was a big deal. There's
been a lot over the years. This one is kind
of interesting, I guess, because it's upset a lot of people,

(53:49):
and a lot of people have an opinion about it,
or like a hot take about it, which.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
Is pretty interesting.

Speaker 13 (53:55):
Like all the people at Barstool really don't like it,
are talking about how it's ruining baseball and this and that,
and all the people at OutKick are talking about how
they don't like it and it's ruining baseball and this
and that.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
And it's kind of.

Speaker 13 (54:09):
Funny because both of those entities not that I'm very political,
but both of those entities are very As we all
are as children growing up in the eighties, having seen
movies like Iron Eagle and Top Gun and many other things,
we are very anti communist.

Speaker 6 (54:27):
Am I wrong to say? Like most of us aren't
growing up? You know? We all you know ref you
Commy pink O bastard.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Yeah, did you say, red Don?

Speaker 6 (54:38):
Red Don's a good one.

Speaker 13 (54:40):
Yeah, red Don, that's a good uh anti communist propaganda film.
So most of us are anti communists, and OutKick and
Barstool are like really anti commy and they attack socialists
and communists, and rightfully so I'm an American.

Speaker 6 (54:56):
I'm not into that stuff either.

Speaker 13 (54:57):
It's never worked anywhere else in his That being said,
all of a sudden, they're into a salary cap and
into some kind of weird baseball communism because the Dodgers
have been able to figure it out and pull in
a bunch of people. I mean, they paid ten million
dollars and some prospects for this guy. It's not like
that deal couldn't have been done by the Brewers or

(55:18):
a bunch of other people, but it.

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Wasn't done anyway.

Speaker 13 (55:21):
It is kind of funny how upset everybody gets about
the Dodgers been able to figure out ways to be
great and to compete and everybody else instead of trying
to do the same thing and spending money that they
make and all that and reinvesting in the team and
deferring payment and all the different things as the Dodgers do.

(55:42):
Instead of doing what the Dodgers do. Everybody else seems
to want to complain about it and shut baseball down.
And whenever I think about shutting baseball down, I don't
care that there's no baseball games and kids don't get
their hot dogs and people don't get their recreation and
all that I care about having to do four hour
shows every day during another lock. How does it affect me?

(56:05):
It affects me horribly. And you know, if there's no Dodgers,
then there's no revenue. That guess who has to put
on the stocking and go out and sell trinkets for
the station?

Speaker 7 (56:14):
Me?

Speaker 6 (56:15):
That's who.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
So uh is that a lot of pressure.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Was that the Christmas party?

Speaker 13 (56:22):
At four hour Christmas party to make up for the
the playoff revenue that the station lost, we got sent
out to Tarantula Hill to do a four hour Christmas party.

Speaker 6 (56:34):
What did Don.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Martin say to you?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Oh no, oh no, literally today, now you got it,
you got it in. You give us one, you got
it in, you clear it on out, come on, you
got it.

Speaker 13 (56:50):
Listen to my mind, there's not going to be any
presents for Christmas unless y'all get out there.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
And do what you do it is turned on us.
It was. That was ugly.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Yeah, were you there, Jonas, Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
Just remember when the people got all drunk.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Yeah they were. They were getting after it.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Early.

Speaker 13 (57:14):
We do a four hour radio show in the middle
of December thousand oaks to make up money and give
away a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
People might get mad. You said, they turned on you.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
They turned on us.

Speaker 13 (57:27):
Yeah, they were rises being given away. We had like
all these prizes to be given away, and some of
our idiot promotions, people gave raffle tickets to like advertisers
and and and like waiters and all not allowed. Right,
So like the people that were winning the prizes were like,
oh look it's the client from Happy Dad Seltzer.

Speaker 6 (57:51):
Oh wow, I don't believe you just want a TV.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
And by the way, the prizes that were being handed
out were left over through the years, weren't they.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
And the there was a lot of crap.

Speaker 13 (58:00):
You know, we're always giving away, it's always like a
good will. But that it was like, you know, people
started being like.

Speaker 6 (58:06):
This is a fraud. I'm going to kill you, you know, like.

Speaker 13 (58:14):
It's old, Like I've never heard turn on me like that,
Like it was a political speech.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Oh man, were some of the gifts like like lightly used.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
For a couple? It was like a TV.

Speaker 13 (58:30):
It's like a trip to Vegas, you know, all the
stupid stuff we always give away. So why they say
it was fraud because we gave that. People were winning
were like employees of the venue company. The people that
were winning were like advertisers who were like sitting in
special tables and the angry listeners who drove in from

(58:50):
uh Inland. We're very I said.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
I think I asked petros Of, like, hey, why are
you guys doing another one here?

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Dodgers lost? Wait what.

Speaker 6 (59:02):
I didn't know?

Speaker 4 (59:02):
Idea the ramifications speaking.

Speaker 6 (59:04):
Of Dodgers lose. That I really like.

Speaker 13 (59:06):
That's like when you know, like Daddy lost his job
and I got to work the streets.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
That's true, sweet, And I'm glad you're bringing up tricks
and working the streets as it applies.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
To try to catch a trick on the street.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Right, Streets got my lad, Streets got my lad.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
You guys work with Jonas, you know what it's like.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
The radio got him. So we were having the conversation
earlier and Jonas asked if the Dodgers don't win the
you know, the World Series, does Scooble get get the
blame for it? And and you know, we talked about
how that's a lot of pressure for one person. How

(59:54):
big is the pressure for the Dodgers to win? Is
that a real thing with with one player? Like bringing
in a major trade guy like Scooble, would that be
pressure on would he get blamed if they didn't win the.

Speaker 6 (01:00:08):
I mean we're just getting to know him. And look,
I mean remember that Yamamoto. When Yamamoto came.

Speaker 13 (01:00:16):
A couple of years ago, he was like good, but
just okay, and then in the playoffs it was like wow,
against the Yankees he was pretty good. And then last
year he was knockout unbelievable, legendary performance World Series MVP.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
So you never really know.

Speaker 13 (01:00:36):
And the year before that it was Walker Buehler who
was the Dodgers pitching hero in the World Series.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
And they got rid of him.

Speaker 13 (01:00:43):
Now he's pitching in San Diego, So you never really
know who it's going to be. You could say last year,
very if you paid close attention to these things, that
the Dodgers wouldn't have won the World Series without Blast.
Now they wouldn't have won World Series without Blake Snell.
They wouldn't have won the World Series without Yamamoto. Like

(01:01:05):
they needed all of those pitchers, oh Tani, they needed
all of those guys throwing and playing at a high level.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
So Scooble's just one guy he is.

Speaker 13 (01:01:14):
It's amazing because as good as the Dodgers are, and
as many great pitchers as they have.

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
A few of them are on the IL.

Speaker 13 (01:01:22):
It's amazing to think, Wow, you bring in this guy
and he's automatically your ace, Like you pitch him before Yamamoto,
before anybody.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
He's going to be the game one starter.

Speaker 13 (01:01:34):
So in that regard, LeVar, for sure, Yeah, I think
there's a lot of pressure on him, But I think
this is a guy who's been pitching at such a
high level and is so respected in the game that
this is what he wants. He wants the pressure, he
wants to be in the playoffs. He wants the ball
in the NLCS, in the World Series, and the Dodgers

(01:01:55):
are all in for that. The Dodgers have deferred payment,
the Dodgers have reinvested. The Dodgers want to win three
straight back to back to back and do something that
no one's done since the Yankees in a long time,
and I don't know what they'll do after that.

Speaker 6 (01:02:12):
But they're old.

Speaker 13 (01:02:13):
I mean, all of their great players really are in
their thirties except for Andy Paez, I mean Otani, Freddie Freeman,
Mookie Betts is old, ti Oscar Hernande. I mean, they
are old for the most part. So it really is
kind of an all or nothing vibe this year. And
given the expectations and how much everybody hates them, yeah,

(01:02:35):
I think it would be a pretty big disappointment for
Dodger fans if they didn't win at all. But I
mean everybody talks about how great they are and how
over the top they are, and I mean they barely
won the World Series.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
By like a half a the branch last year. So
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
In regards going back to the conversation about the Dodgers
and how they're doing this and constructing their rosters and
is it good or bad for baseball?

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Whatever?

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Is it the fact that you can pay these guys
till almost twenty fifty in some cases, you know, with
the deferred payments, where you're saying, yeah, maybe that should
be changed, Like if you're looking for an outlier compared
to every other professional league. Isn't that the one where
you're like, I don't know if we should be paying guys,
you know, at a point in time where we might
be playing baseball on Mars.

Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
By that point, you know what I'm saying, Well, what's
wrong with that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
There's nothing wrong with playing baseball on Mars. But I'm saying, like,
why why are we able to defer payments that far
out into the future. I don't know, Brady.

Speaker 13 (01:03:32):
I mean, I can barely handle my finances for next week.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
But it's if it's a rule.

Speaker 13 (01:03:38):
And it's it's legal, then the Dodgers obviously figured something out.

Speaker 6 (01:03:42):
You know. My question is if it's such a if
it's such.

Speaker 13 (01:03:47):
A good thing, why don't other people do it? Maybe
the Bobby Bonia thing is why they don't do it.
And if it's such a bad thing, why is it allowed?
You know, I'm not sure, but obviously the Dodge have
figured something out. The one cool thing about the Dodgers
is they reinvest in the team, but they make money

(01:04:08):
like nobody's business. I mean, they make money because of
their popularity, and they've always made a whole bunch of
money They've been the most visited sport in the world
for many years because of the size of Dodger Stadium
and the amount of games they have. But I understand
what you're saying, Brady, But that's all part of this
collective bargaining thing, and it's going to go back and forth,

(01:04:30):
and it's gonna be tedious, and it's gonna be.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
Horrible, and it's gonna last a long time.

Speaker 13 (01:04:34):
So right now, I guess most people, especially Dodger fans,
are living in the moment and dancing to the music
and the Titanic as it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:42):
Sinks come in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
There's one way to put it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 13 (01:04:49):
Like, I don't know what to say. And they're going
to win their back to back to back and they're
gonna try for that. They're gonna have a parade, and
then I'm gonna be out in the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
So then.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Fake how much?

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
On that topic? Petros In in other news.

Speaker 13 (01:05:08):
I just don't know if I stand with the light
skinned hookers the white hookers. You know, I guys just
don't know which group I Why can't you there is
there not a group of Greek women, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
You know, not that I've ever seen in a group.

Speaker 13 (01:05:23):
No, I'm sure there are houses of ailed repute and
Greece and things like that.

Speaker 6 (01:05:28):
But I don't visit places like that. I want to
see them in the movie.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Petroses.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
You can get them on X at the Old Piece
petros Papadegas. Jody gets here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
Did you have.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Any thought on Aaron Rodgers taking a blow torch to
ESPN Fauci the Diana Rassini coverage and and what you
heard from a Rodge a couple of days ago.

Speaker 13 (01:05:55):
Uh, he got mad at at Anthony Fauci for a
cake in the fifth right. Yeah, you know, I can't
I can't say. I mean, obviously, Uh, that's a little
bit of a of a what do they call it,
the third rail?

Speaker 6 (01:06:09):
Don't talk to the third rail of politics. My man,
you're gonna alien. I have your goddamn Adiah. But yeah, Fauci,
I mean, my god, I didn't like him when he
I mean, I thought.

Speaker 13 (01:06:22):
He was a little bit during the whole thing. I mean,
I Dan, I'm sorry, you know, I just I never
liked him. You know, I remember going to urgent care
and the doctor at urgent care was like that little
bitch Fauci says, I have to wear a mask, so
I'm in a mask.

Speaker 6 (01:06:35):
And I was like, okay, all right, uh.

Speaker 13 (01:06:38):
So uh yeah, I was never too happy with Fauci
in the first place, so I Aaron Rodgers getting after him,
I think.

Speaker 6 (01:06:45):
I mean, I remember Terry Bradshaw at.

Speaker 13 (01:06:49):
Uh they were at west Point or something for the
for one of the military type of shows for the
the Fox Call NFL Football, Andry Bradshaw's like making fun
of Aaron Rodgers for Ivermecton, and all the soldiers are
like standing and screaming and cheering for Terry Bradshaw while
he makes fun of Aaron Rodgers. I mean, I just

(01:07:12):
remember the ridiculousness and how stupid all of that was.
And now that the dust is settled and we realize
that a lot of the things we were told are
not even true or not close to being true, I
think a lot of people are upset. So I think
that's fair. As far as the Russini coverage, I think
that's fair too. I mean, there's a different vibe for

(01:07:35):
every league and how it's covered, right, the NBA is
covered by creepy agent types and nothing comes out unless
sham Sharania breaks it. Because he's the one that the
NBA says is okay to break it through ESPN. Right, yeah,
baseball feels a little bit more like there's more honest

(01:07:56):
brokers out there, Buster Only or Olnie and John Hayman
and Passing and different people like that. I mean, baseball
news breaks. It feels like it used to in a
more honest way.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
David vasse as well too, well Dave, But Dave doesn't
break news.

Speaker 13 (01:08:15):
I mean he really tries not to because that doesn't
help him at all, being embedded with the Dodgers, you know,
that would likely get him in trouble. So a lot
of the time Dave would have news or people have
news and they don't break it. But baseball feels a
little bit more like how breaking news used to operate
when I was first in the media. And then the

(01:08:36):
NFL is the most confounding, right, I mean, the NFL
acts like they have reporters, They act like they have
people that are holding them accountable, but the truth is
they don't. They have a bunch of sycophant ball washers
like Pete Schreeger who were controlled by the league.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
But why not.

Speaker 13 (01:08:55):
They make a lot of money, they feel good about it.
They're all in their own little circle jerk. And that's fine.
It's fine for NFL people, and they're doing a great
job and they have a powerful league, but the coverage
of it is completely and totally skewed and full of propaganda.
If a guy like Schefter you can control completely, and

(01:09:15):
it's obvious that they do, then you don't really have reporters.
You just have you know, state controlled media. And that's
kind of how the NFL feels. And I communists to me,
pal totally right, and I don't like it. I don't
like that commy NFL. No, I don't like Aaron Rodgers.
You know, Aaron Rodgers is a bit of a weirdo

(01:09:36):
with his secret wife and all that. But if he
wants to call them out for not I mean the
things we cover in the NFL and the things we're
outraged about, like Harrison Butker, we get outraged about that,
but a dude like literally caves his girlfriend's face in
and we're like, hey, when's it coming back?

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
I mean, you know, it's uh.

Speaker 13 (01:09:55):
The I don't think we cover the league in a
very in a great way, and that's because the le
is so powerful and the league is so too big
to fail in so many ways that the you know,
and the TV rights and all that, no one's really
going to criticize them. So when somebody does, even if
it's a weirdo like Aaron Rodgers, it feels like a
breath of fresh air.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
I got one more. Even though all of these questions
have been pretty pretty interesting, we had the conversation pet
Trots about how committed we are to watching heart Knocks
and continuing the legacy of how amazing the show has
been through the years. Where do you fall on on

(01:10:39):
watching hard Knocks.

Speaker 6 (01:10:40):
You know, I stopped watching it a long time ago.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
I would be sarcastic by the way. I'm in the
same boat as you, but going I.

Speaker 13 (01:10:52):
Mean, I see, look, I understand why it's popular and
all that, and you know, it's obviously really well produced
and they can make a story out of it, and
it's really well done reality TV. But obviously it's also
lead controlled and what comes out is what they want
you to see. But I saw a little clip of

(01:11:13):
the Seattle coach talking to the safety and having a
bit of a meaningful conversation on camera, which was I mean,
it held my attention for two or three minutes, But
as far as watching the whole thing and getting super involved,
I mean, I've lived enough football camps in my life
and go through enough football seasons to where I don't

(01:11:36):
need to immerse myself in August.

Speaker 6 (01:11:39):
But I mean, I think, like.

Speaker 13 (01:11:41):
A real camp documentary would be great, but no one's
ever going to get to make one, right, no one's
ever gonna get I remember a long time ago, remember
ESPN tried to do a Barry Bonds documentary. They Barry Bonds,
let them follow them around with a camera and they
got and Barry Bonds was a controversial figure because his

(01:12:04):
head looked like a porta potty and his wrists and
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
He was huge. I mean, he looked totally different.

Speaker 13 (01:12:09):
You know, everybody's like, this guy's juiced up, and like
everybody's like, what do you mean he's juiced up?

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
Look at him? He's fine.

Speaker 13 (01:12:15):
And they did they did like a documentary, and there
was heavy criticism of ESPN at the.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
Time because was it Pedro Gomez was the guy following
mil Well, he was.

Speaker 13 (01:12:27):
Following Bonds around. But they did an actual documentary and Bond.
It was very short lived because Bonds was the guy
that had the final say on what's out there what
gets produced, and they were heavily criticized for that. And
now all these years later, guess who's going to do
that again for his last year Lebron James, and it's

(01:12:50):
going to be a propaganda thing about him in Philadelphia
and nothing is going to be negative, and it's all
going to be a positive, completely and totally self aggrandizing
thing that most people probably aren't going to be interested
unless you're like a full Lebron sycophant in watching. And
it's funny. No one's going to criticize that. But fifteen

(01:13:13):
twenty years ago, everybody was all over the I mean
twenty years ago, everybody was all over the Bonds thing
like it was the worst thing ever. And to me,
I mean, if it's a reality show and it's house produced,
it's just there as like a you might as well
be watching the Twitter feed of the Miami Dolphins or something.

Speaker 6 (01:13:33):
It's propaganda.

Speaker 13 (01:13:35):
Not that it can't be interesting, but that's probably not
even close to what the real story of that camp is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Like Patreros, Oh sorry, guys, no, yeah, just ask you
about the not nsc robbery coming back in yeah, twenty thirty,
so we got to be excited about that, right.

Speaker 13 (01:13:52):
Yeah, I'm happy about it, But I'm also you know,
I also think that it's such an unnecessary, stupid thing
to have happened in the first place. And the fact
that there's a whole generation of football and by that
I mean four years freshman to senior year of guys
that aren't going to have the opportunity to play in
that game.

Speaker 6 (01:14:10):
And I look at it from the.

Speaker 13 (01:14:12):
Scope of a usc X player, guys that aren't gonna
have the opportunity to play at South Bend. That really
bothers me, and I feel like it was a failure
by leadership on both sides. But for whatever you want
to say about Notre Dame and what they need and
what they don't need and how powerful they are in
their brand, this never came from Notre Dame. This started

(01:14:35):
with Lincoln Riley bitching and complaining, and now they just
pulled out of a Texas Tech series that they were
in talks about and playing in Houston. Because what Texas
Tech's Lincoln.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
Riley's alma mater.

Speaker 13 (01:14:47):
I don't want to play them now. They're too good.
So Lincoln Riley didn't want it. He complained about it
right when he got the job, and it looks like
he got his way because in tw I don't think
Lincoln Riley's going to be around when USC plays Notre
Dame again. So I think it's a shameful thing that

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the rivalry is off. I don't like the rivalry in
week one or Week two or week three, but I
understand that college football needs more marquee matchups early in
the season, and if that's something that has to change
because of modern times, and they're still going to play fine,
But I have a serious issue with the fact that
no one was able to figure it out and we

(01:15:30):
had to learn about this in the first place, and
the two schools couldn't do what it is their job
is to do, which is figure it out and make
sure it happens, and they failed at that for four years,
and they should be held accountable.

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Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
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Speaker 13 (01:17:33):
Good morning, Good morning guys.

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:17:39):
I appreciate you accommodating.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
I'm in Detroit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Well okay, so buddy, we're up. I mean, we're ready
for you. You know, six am hit so we can have
you on an hour earlier if you want.

Speaker 7 (01:17:48):
Yeah, no, this works out good. I'm uh yeah, I'm
on my way to the lines the lines practice early.
So I appreciate you guys moving some things around you?

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Can I ask you this? Do you feel any sort
of way about move and around the state of Michigan.

Speaker 7 (01:18:03):
I mean, I'm here briefly, I'll be in Ohio probably
by like noon or one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Do people acknowledge that you're a buck eye moving in
a Spartan or or Wolverine place?

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
Well, I mean, like all my my dad's said of
the family is all from here, so like it's not
I guess it's not unusual for me, you know, ever
since I chose to go to school where I chose
to go to school, it's sort of I mean, all
of them part of my identity and all that. So yeah,
I'm I'm pretty comfortable with. Uh, I'm pretty comfortable with
being the black sheep or the black hat or whatever you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Want to call it. Me too, Albert, you like Pitt
in your family something like that. You missed it. Don't
worry about it. You know, we stay you know, we
stayed there. We stay there anyway.

Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
I came in, I came in an hour early, so
maybe that's maybe us.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
Don't worry about it. Yeah, we always doingers.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Now, ab I got to ask you because so you're
seeing the Lions today, it feels like they're the most
underdiscussed team in the division. The Packers are getting talked
about because of how the season finished last year post
mic injury and the and the playoff let down. The
Bears and Ben Jhonson Caleb Williams love affair, the Vikings

(01:19:25):
have their quarterback issues, and it feels like, and I
don't know if you kind of feel the same way
that Detroit's kind of sliding.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
Under the radar, but with a really, really good roster.

Speaker 7 (01:19:36):
I would agree with that. Like I think it's it's
just interesting because I think we we always talk about
teams that are on the way up, and you know,
I think what happens is like a team like that
that was on the way up, on the way up,
on the way up, and then failed to live up
tech stactations when they got so close to the mountain top.

(01:19:59):
Like a lot of times those teams get back burnered.
And I mean the reality is like if you look
at like their contract in the negotiation the room right
now with Jamir Gibbs and all these guys they've re signed.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
I mean, I you know, you're.

Speaker 7 (01:20:14):
Talking about them having to make some hard decisions now
on guys, it's because they've drafted and developed so well.
And you can go down the list and and and
and Joseph's to your point, like you know, Jamiir Gibbs
is just the way tost Amna, Ross Saint Brown, Jamison Williams.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
You know, Jared Goff is.

Speaker 7 (01:20:30):
Now on his second contract in Detroit, Aiden Hutchinson, Jack Campbell,
and I think Brian Branch will eventually get a second contract.
So yeah, there are a lot of good players in
that team, you know. And I I think I obviously
haven't been there yet, but like, I think the vibe
I've gotten is a little bit of uh, you know,

(01:20:54):
like they feel that they feel just the way that
You're you're, you're, you're describing it, I think they feel
a little overlooked.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Hm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Speaking of just I mean, Jimmy Gibbs obviously next up
to get a deal, least in the running back market.
Zay Flowers just got his deal done and it has
a lot of guaranteed money. Man, And I look at
guys like pook and a Coup and I look at
some of the other guys out there, I'm thinking, I mean,
save Flowers has been good. He hasn't had the production
that Pooka Akua has. No, he also hasn't had the
off the field issue like Pooka Akua. Jonas can get

(01:21:23):
into the biting aspect of things, but I want to
focus more on the business of football. That Yeah, well,
some people think it's a vampire, so there's a decent
chance he may bite you. Albert.

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Albert, I don't know what this means. But Brady called him.
I don't know what it means. Brady called him the
Marv Albert of wide receivers, and I don't get it.
I don't know what they Yes, yeah, well.

Speaker 7 (01:21:45):
It's good that I guess. It's good that I'm not
in studio, that I'm that I'm only remote for this show.

Speaker 6 (01:21:51):
Well, let's let's take it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Let's take a bite out of the subject and let's
get that to one. Uh, what the implications of the
Zay Flowers contract will mean for other wide receivers, because
I feel like based on the total guarantees, based on
the average annual salary, I know, it always keeps going
up and up and up. There's a lot of receivers
that have had more production than him that I think

(01:22:13):
are looking to say, all right, hold on, seg I
need to reset the market again.

Speaker 7 (01:22:16):
Then yeah, I mean, I think Brady, it affects guys
at every position, you know, like I think when you
start to see I don't want to I don't want
this to sound to come off the wrong way, but
when you take guys kind of the second tier at
his position, that's fair to say about about day Flowers, right,
you know, and and and he's getting thirty five million

(01:22:39):
dollars per year. I mean, man, the dynamics has changed,
you know. So now I think if you're somebody like Puka,
you're well within your eyes to say, well, if he's
worth that. And Will Anderson got fifty you know, as
a top non quarterback, and then you got Aiden Hutchinson
at forty five, and you got Micah Parsons at forty six,

(01:23:01):
like I should be well above where Jamar Chase and
Jackson Smith and Jacoba and those guys are because the
different forces in the in the market have driven that
price north. So I'm with you, you know, I and
I think this is part of the cost for the
Rams of waiting to this point of the off season.

(01:23:22):
Now they have a good reason to do that because
of all the off field stuff and and poop are
going to rehab and everything else. So you one percent
understand why they wait, But you know, there's also there
also can be a price to waiting even within an
off season, not even waiting a year, waiting two years
even ways with even waiting within an off season can

(01:23:43):
come at a price. And I think that's that's something
that's definitely definitely there and who can go in negotiation?

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Abe, we got a couple quarterback competitions. I made the
point yesterday, and I looked it up a little bit
more after and really trying to find if there was
a a real quarterback competition taking place and that team
ended up having a good season or ended up being

(01:24:12):
a good team. It's hard, It was hard to find
anything on it. Uh, how how should we be measuring
engaging whoever wins in Cleveland or whoever wins it in Minnesota?
How should we be gauging, you know, in terms of
what we believe the success level of those teams will be.

Speaker 7 (01:24:35):
Yeah, I mean Atlanta too.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
I guess Atlanta, Yeah, Atlanta, Yeah, yeah yeah, And I.

Speaker 7 (01:24:40):
And I and I think you're probably I mean I
I think what you're probably getting now, LeVar is like
a quarterback competition. It isn't like a first round pick
trying to win the job, right Like it isn't like
the right It isn't like a rookie first round pick
trying to win the job. And these are certainly different
that this way, like in that way, and like where
you know the two of them, you know, Atlanta and

(01:25:03):
and and Minnesota you have a first round pick for
two years ago trying to hang on and a new
guy coming in, and then obviously Cleveland's Cleveland. So I
I guess it goes back to that a whole that
old like if you don't if you have two quarterbacks,
you have none, saying, but I can't think of too
many where a guy came out and outright won in

(01:25:25):
a completely open competition in camp. I'm sure it's happened
at some point recently, but I just I can't think of.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
An example Sam Darnold, But you know, I.

Speaker 7 (01:25:36):
Just yeah, But I like, like you saying two years ago,
like Sam, if you remember, like that didn't really run
true camp, and like Sam had never Sam was never
like kind of knocked off of working with the ones.
So I like maybe two years ago, like last year,
he was sort of entrenched as a starter in Seattle.

(01:25:56):
There are just a lot of examples of it. I
think there are a couple of reasons why I never won, Like,
if you don't have a clear cut starter, then obviously
you're probably dealing with lesser players in the position, and
that's just logical, right. And then number two, I think
there is something to be said for a team knowing
who its quarterback is, you know, and that quarterback getting

(01:26:17):
a full off season of work with his teammates. So
there are probably a couple of reasons why he usually
doesn't work out, but it will certainly be interesting to
see the way that all that's played that you know what,
I would say, go back to like the Bill O'Brien
Houston teams.

Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
I bet you can.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
Find an example or two in there of one of
those teams or two of those teams going to the
playoffs when they had a competition at camp. Record to Shan.

Speaker 5 (01:26:42):
Watson got there, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Albert Breer, Senior NFL reporter, Lead Content Strategies at the MMQB,
joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. Get him on
x at Albert Breer. And when you go to your
ex account, you're chronicling just your visits through training camps
during your training camp tour this offseason. I know you
stopped off in Denver. How optimistic based on what you
saw that the Broncos can parlay the success they had

(01:27:10):
last year into more of the same this year, because
they do feel like one of those teams that you
look is maybe they take a step back and last
year was a little fluky.

Speaker 7 (01:27:21):
I mean, I I the way I look at them, Jones,
I see them as kind of being rock solid. Like
I that doesn't mean they're overwhelming, because I don't think
they have I mean, outside of Patches Dan, I don't
know if they have like a true superstar anywhere on
that roster. But they also don't have any holes, and

(01:27:42):
they have depths in a lot of key places. Like
they're deep in corner, they're deep with tass rushers, their
offensive line is really solid all the way across. They're
deep with receivers, they're deep with running backs. So like
I can understand where people might look at them and say, well,
you know, at the AFC was last year and they
benefited from a lot of the same things New England

(01:28:03):
benefited from, And I think some of that is true.
I think the flip side of it is like that's
a really well conceived team that has real talents on
the roster, that has real depths on the roster, and
it's really well coached.

Speaker 5 (01:28:17):
And so.

Speaker 7 (01:28:19):
I still think I think they're a playoff team in
a base line and how far do they take it
from there?

Speaker 6 (01:28:25):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
Albert I wanted to ask you about tonight's Hall of
Fame game. Looks like Jeremiah Love won't be Yeah, I
mean we were just talking about it's a football Thursday
for us, buddy, so we're excited. The season for me,
I would say, is officially kicked off. I know a
lot of people don't count preseason, but I'm not one
of those guys.

Speaker 6 (01:28:44):
We've got football being played. I'm stoked about it. I
amped up.

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
I mean, LeVar is trying to get me to take
a cycle of something which I'm gonna hold off on.

Speaker 6 (01:28:51):
I've got them drive him good nice.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
But I know Jeremiah is a rookie, and so there's
probably a little bit of a cause for just patience
and caution before you throw him into two meaningless games.
But they didn't put Tyler out year as the number
one running back on the depth chart. I'm not sure
what to make of that. Is there a word of

(01:29:15):
him not you know, maybe being as far along as
they had hoped. Is they're concerned about some of that
or is it simply just like, hey, we need to
get into the preseast or to the regular season because
he's gonna, you know, share a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:29:26):
Of the load with where we drafted him.

Speaker 7 (01:29:28):
I mean, look, they're never gonna say this. Okay, righty,
but it's year one. You don't have your quarterback situation
sorted out. I think like there's a there's a chashit
admmage that like, let's not run this kid, who he
thinks really special, Let's not run his mileage up in

(01:29:49):
year one, you know, and let's not put the way
to the world on his shoulders in year one because
we're probably not contending for a Super Bowl this year. Know,
And again like they're never gonna say that, but the
reality is they stopped that running back room, and they
have James Connors back, they have Tyler Algier coming over

(01:30:12):
from Atlanta. Algier was actually a situation just like this
when Jon Robinson was a rookie in Atlanta. And so like,
I think the idea here is like let's let's use let's,
of course, you know, try to develop our the third
overall pick, and let's like use the third overall pick

(01:30:32):
strategically to try to win games. But let's not run
them into the ground. Because I think ultimately the part
of the plan there is Jeremiah Love can be to
whoever the young quarterback is coming in there next year
what Zeke Elliott was to Dak Prescott or what Todd
Gurley was to Jared Goff In other words, like he
can be such an important piece of helping to develop

(01:30:56):
your young quarterback and be a core piece of trying
to get advantage of that quarterback being on a rookie contract.
You know, I I don't know that they see a
ton of sense and just you know, trying to get
eighteen hundred yard season out of him in year one.
If if it goes that way, it goes that way.
But I think the idea is to manage him. Managers

(01:31:19):
work out year one. They have have a guy who
is at the top of his game and really rolling
in the year two.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Abe. My last question is I've been looking at, you know,
just the defensive fronts of the different teams, and the
one that keeps jumping out at me is the New
York Giants. Now they have Thibodeaux coming off of the
bench behind Carter, but you gotta believe in pass passing situations,
they're gonna run a NASCAR set where they put Thibodeau

(01:31:48):
in there. They're gonna have Abdual Carter in there. They're
gonna they're gonna pepper that and mix that with Arville Reese.
I know they're playing Reese as a linebacker, right yeah,
and then they have Brian Burns on the other side.
Like this, it's potentially the best defensive group collection of

(01:32:10):
pass rushers potentially in the National Football League. What like
is that being talked about right now in terms of
in the circles that that you're in or is it
maybe I'm overstating it a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:32:24):
No, I know, I think like that's there and I
think like to some degree LeVar that was there last
year too. I Mean, obviously Reese wasn't there, but like,
I think there was that feeling that there was a
lot that they would be able to do with the
group that they.

Speaker 10 (01:32:38):
Had, and.

Speaker 7 (01:32:40):
I I look at like where the Giants are and
I actually think the talent has been there for a
year or two now, and like whether or not they
can capitalize on that and where they're at, like we'll see.
But to me, like that's been Like I think that's
why you bring in John Harper, and it's not just

(01:33:01):
with those players along the defensive front. They've got a
chance to be really good in that area. I mean,
just look across the board and you know on the
offensive line you got Andrew Thomas, and you've got now
for instance, now we Noah, you have molite neighbors. We'll
see about him, you know, with the knee and everything.
But like the talents and deniable you know you have

(01:33:24):
on the defensive side of the ball. In the secondary,
you brought in Paul Senativo from from New Orleans, brought
in you know, you you have your hope you get
a little bit more out of Banks now. So look,
I always I felt like there was talent and ability
on that roster for a while. Now it's just going
to be a matter of harvesting it. And I do

(01:33:44):
think that, you know, there's reason for hope that not
only John Harbor up, but the staff that he's put
together is gonna be able to bring the best out
of those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
Ab before I let you go, best meal you've had
on your training camp tour thus far?

Speaker 6 (01:33:58):
Oh yeah, give us the.

Speaker 7 (01:34:01):
I had good Mexican I was like a like a
was called L L. TMO in Houston. What sounds like
not fancy, but it was really really good.

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
Jonas, what does that mean in Spanish?

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
I have no clue.

Speaker 7 (01:34:18):
What was awesome was MB.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Posts Temperature, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
And where's uh, where's that at again?

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
Manhattan MB Post?

Speaker 7 (01:34:27):
You know MB posts, matt Manhattan Beach Post.

Speaker 3 (01:34:30):
I'm not sure that's the that's I'm a Ventura County guy,
so I don't venture out.

Speaker 9 (01:34:35):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 7 (01:34:36):
Okay, yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:38):
But but.

Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
Temperature album, that's not a horror. I've been there before.
It's it's a great spot. It's a good spot.

Speaker 5 (01:34:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:34:47):
Yeah, So I'm just trying to think of there's anybody
anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
I got to go to bills. You didn't hit bills
out bills? Yeah, you gotta hit bills, man, if you're
doing it's a breakfast, Yeah, breakfast. If you're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:35:01):
Breakfast, okay, I have I haven't been.

Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
The bills.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Will suit you for your later your later evening's movement.

Speaker 7 (01:35:11):
I know about the Strand House. I went to a
good McDonald's outside of Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
Alright, that's that's underrated these days to say that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:25):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
These are franchises. Some people take a little bit more pride.

Speaker 7 (01:35:30):
I'm just kidding. It was terrible, like oh oh god,
oh no, hey, the fries were good. I tried to
McDonald's chicken sandwich, which I hadn't had one in a while.
It is like so blatantly trying to be Chick fil A.

Speaker 6 (01:35:46):
I didn't know.

Speaker 7 (01:35:47):
I thought it was gonna make an old school like
McDonald's chicken sandwich with the lettuce and tomato and mayo
and all that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:53):
What I got was like.

Speaker 7 (01:35:55):
It was like a It was like a chicken chicken
pad with like a soggy bun and like these like
really gross pickles.

Speaker 6 (01:36:06):
Damn, I mean, what are you going to put them
on blast?

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Like that?

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
Albert?

Speaker 7 (01:36:11):
It was it was so blatantly trying to be Chick
fil Ay.

Speaker 4 (01:36:14):
It wasn't even well, that's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Inmitation is the greatest form of flattering, Albert. I've got
a question for you, man. I know Jonas wants to
get you off there as soon as possible. The Notre
Dame Southern Cal rivalry is back. Is that good in
your mind for college football? Are you kind of looking
at those thinking why we have to wait four years?

Speaker 7 (01:36:37):
Of course, I think it's I mean, I don't know, Brady,
You're closer to this one than me, for sure, But
I think it's a ludicrous that they're not playing, But
I think it's insane that they're not playing. Like, to me,
that's what college football is, you know, like the rivalries.
I'd say the rivalries are more important to college football
than maybe almost any other sport that we've got in

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this country, you know. And so the fact that like
anybody thought it was a good idea not to play
that game anymore is crazy. And I wish somebody would
step in and say, like, this is stupid, let's just
start playing. How do you feel about it being played
in Week one?

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
Nobody.

Speaker 6 (01:37:15):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
I don't like it either, because it's it's literally I basically,
here's what I'd say from the Notre Dame perspective is,
obviously this is what SC wanted in every way. You know,
they didn't want to play the game, son, I don't
have to, and now when they play the game, they
get to play it when they want early in the
season instead of traditionally how it's supposed to be played,
right it was supposed to be, you know, SC would

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come out to Notre Dame when the fall leaves would
start to turn sometime in October, which plays at their
advantage because the weather never gets too bad for those games.
It's usually like a hint of fall, and then Notre
Dame goes out at the end of the season where
it's obviously still nice weather for them both sides of it,
but they go to their house to play during Thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 (01:37:59):
So I just it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Felt like, you know, they basically got what they wanted
in every way, although they'll never say that. And by
the way, who knows. If you know how much things
can change between now and when they play these games,
you know, it might not even be Lincoln Riley, Margus Freeman.

Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
You know, we don't know what that's going to look like.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
I just I want to touch on that, and I
want to ask you about some comments by Kyle Whittingham
last week at the Big Ten Media Days. He made
a comment about the rivalry with Ohio State, and he said,
you know, there's a lot of respect there, but there
doesn't need to be hatred. Do you do you feel
like Ohio State fans would see it the same way

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or do you think they look at this rivaly and say, no,
there's hatred there, Like you're just trying to like play nice.

Speaker 6 (01:38:42):
That's not how this works.

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
Killness.

Speaker 7 (01:38:46):
Brady, how do you think how to save fans feel
about that? Do you think they hate Michigan? I mean,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:51):
I'm not saying this in any disrespectful way. The comment
when he said it came off to me was like, Okay,
he doesn't understand.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
I mean I asked with this.

Speaker 1 (01:39:03):
Yeah, dude, I said to Hi, my go, did you
fully understand the robbery until you played in it? And
he goes, honestly, no, He goes, everyone told me about it.
I knew about it. There was a lot of hype.
And he goes, until I played in it, I understood
what it meant and when you lose one of those games,
what it feels like everything else? He said, Now I
get it. I'm like, have you shared that with your coach?

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He's like, oh, you know it kind of like skirted
the question. But the reality is is, I don't think
anyone understands until you get into it, even until you
go to it and you see how the fans interact
with one another and towards one another.

Speaker 7 (01:39:37):
It's it's not I mean, I like, the immediate thing
I thought of was John Cooper and like, how like
he was the coach when I was there for the
first three years I was there, and like I felt
like he was chasing things that he had said his
entire time there, you know what I mean, Like, and
it was they were always changing the way they approached it,
Like one year all the focus would be on it,

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the next year, like they were trust treating it like
another game and it and it was like this fundamental
like and I think John Cooper was a really good coach,
but like there was this fundamental like he could never
fully wrap his arms around the philosophy for approaching the game.
And I think that that created a problem within the
program where they the players almost didn't know how to

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approach it and would get overwhelmed in the moment. So
I thought the.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Exact same thing Brady.

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
I when when I when I saw that comment, it
was just immediately like if this guy doesn't win, like
if this guy does not win the first like as
what everyone's immediately going to go back to, Yeah, it's
going to be chasing that. And that's the thing, you
know what I mean. Like it's like when you say
something like that, it's like okay, Like that's fine, and

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like I understand what you're trying to do here, but
like these sorts of things like it's unique in that
way too, and that like people aren't going to forget that.
He saw that that he said that, And you get
to November and you know you're in Columbus, Ohio, and
it's it's forty five to five, forty five to seven
or something like. That's what everyone's gonna be thinking about.

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That's what Joel Clatt and Gus Johnson are gonna be
talking about on the broadcast.

Speaker 5 (01:41:14):
And it'd be something that would.

Speaker 7 (01:41:15):
Help follow him for an entire year after that. So
and I even s, do you guys see Urban's reaction?

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
No, yeah, I didn't see it.

Speaker 6 (01:41:25):
He had some.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
Fun on Twitter.

Speaker 7 (01:41:27):
He just started retweeting a couple of things, and yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:41:31):
That was good.

Speaker 6 (01:41:33):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
That's when we need little red ass. We need some
of that going on here.

Speaker 7 (01:41:39):
And guy right, yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
All right, ab, we appreciate it, Enjoy Lions camp and we'll.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
Talk next week.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
All right, Thanks guys.

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
There he is the great.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
Albert Breer, Senior NFL reporter, Lead Content Strategies at the MMQB.
Can get him on x at. Albert Breer a good
follow especially during his training camp tour. He's got stuff
on every team he goes in. So again at Albert
Breer coming up next here, though, somebody's doing their best
to try and keep it alive in the world of sports.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
We'll tell you who they are right here at FSR