Best Of 2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
And it is a football recap Monday, and we got
football to discuss playoffs over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
But how the how the hell are we feeling here
on this Monday morning? Is this a new song? No? Oh, no,
every time.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
It sounds like it's a difference forgetting, Like I have
two or three that I'm thinking about, and I always
I just keep forgetting.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I got one loading, but it won't be today. Yeah,
I'll get my done. I do have one submitted though
it is in It is in there.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Why does that sound like it's a different song every
time I hear it? It does? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Just I think that it has to do with where
you are emotionally, you know what I mean, Like a
big good If you're not feeling good, it sounds differently
than if you're feeling good. If you're in a good mood,
it sounds differently than if you're in a bad mood.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
That's what I think it is.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Why can't we just be supportive of each other here
on the show? Why does it have to turn into this.
It's just exposed as your dark side, Jonas, that's all.
We call you a vampire, but you know that song
really confirms that you have vampire tendencies, Like it could
get bad.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, you know what, then then I'll just curtain back.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
On what you do away from here. It could be bad,
that's fine. I'll just start shaking your guys's hands and
say my goodbyes. If that's the case, you know, pulling
a J Brown? You know WHOA that's okay? Okay, how
do you like?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't, I don't. I listen.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's it's a playoff game, so temperatures are are high.
You know, everybody wants to win. It's a lot online.
But how do you drop the ball? Which time right
one of the times the time where they hid where
where Siriannie ran down the tideline and had something to

(02:51):
say to Hi, how do you drop.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
The ball and then start beefing with the coach? I
was confused that I ain't gonna lae. I was. I
was confused. I mean, he did not get targeted very much.
But you would.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Assume if you're gonna get a target when you're not
getting targeted very much, you'd.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Catch it, wouldn't they throw it to you? Thought, there
you go, Hey does catch it?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's a I was confused about that, but you know,
but I was confused about that game altogether.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
So there's that. I'll get out of the way and
let you all go.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, let me ask this is like, what what's the
feelings there in Philly? You won the Super Bowl last year,
Jalen Hurts I don't think through a pass that was
longer than what Jwan Jennings through for the forty nine ers.
The offense led by Kevin Patula has been criticized inconsistent, uh,

(03:52):
lacking creativity, not very productive, Like what's the fallout here?
Is this a one and done year for Petulo is
off its coordinator? It is aj Brown truly gone after
this offseason. It sounded like from postgame the guys said
his goodbyes, is that where this whole thing's going.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
You gotta be out of there?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Man?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, it's not that's too toxic.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
There was I can understand if it was isolated incident,
you know, as LeVar said, temperatures are running hot, it's
a playoff game. I get all that. But it's not
even just that there was stuff that was going on
this year. This stuff was happening last year too, like
there So this is now multiple years in a row
that he's either not happy or something's going on, and

(04:40):
you know, whether he doesn't like Jalen Hurtz or he
doesn't like Nick Sirianni.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
What feel horrible conclusion I find mean, But catch the
damn ball, so you can have a little bit of
relevance to your argument. You didn't You didn't do himself
with solid yesterday. That's all I love to say. Yeah,
it was not great as a rat for him. You
won a Super Bowl. You could get out of the
way of drama. He's too good to just put him

(05:08):
out there. Somebody's going to get a quality get in
aj Brown. He's got a lot of football left in him,
a lot of good football left in him. It's going
to be I'm curious what will like. What's his contract situation.
He's still under contract, right if he goes they got
to trade him. Yeah, if they cut him, which they're

(05:28):
not going to cut him. He's too good to get cut.
He's still He's a guy that you could get, you know,
you could get some value out of. But it's not
it's not going to move forward with him. And as
far as offensive coordinator, this offense went downhill. I mean
it just it just did. It wasn't the same offense,

(05:48):
didn't look the same, didn't feel the same, didn't.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Operate the same.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
And when you have such high expectations and you have
that type of a roster, I didn't know what was
probably the most damning I'm not gonna say.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think the most damning part of last night's game
is that you're dealing with a patch work team. And listen,
maybe Kyle and Salah will prove that coaching and motivation
and strategy and a will to win can outweigh the

(06:26):
Jimmies versus the Joe's. But as far as I know,
for as long as I've been a part of athletics,
doesn't matter what sport, it's always it's always the players
that are the reason why you win or why you lose. Again,
I argue the fact that I think coaches are super

(06:48):
super important. You gotta have great coaches. But if this
team can go to the Super Bowl and potentially win
the Super Bowl with this group of guys, I don't
know what that means for how we look at players
versus coaches. I think it totally can can create a

(07:09):
debate on the narrative of do you need high end
rated players. I mean, we're looking at Indiana, They're about
to play for national championship. Maybe it changes the narrative
on looking at high end players and how they're treated.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, I uh, it's just not working I mean, I
don't know how many more examples their their needs for
people to see this play out, Like the Niners defense
is awful, like they've been bad for the entirety of
the year, Like they're banged up. They and Philly made
them look like they were the Niners defense that was,

(07:50):
you know, carrying them to a.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Super Bowl a few years back.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I just I don't know, man, I don't know what
Philly's answers are.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
What I know.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Nick Sirianni was asked afterwards about the heat exchange with
AJ Brown and tried to make sense of it all.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, you know, I was trying to get him off
the field, you know, because we were about to punt, and.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
That was really that was really it. So I love Aj.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
I think he knows how I feel about him. I
have a special relationship with him. We've we've probably went
through every emotion you can possibly have together. We've laughed together,
we've cried together, We've yelled at each other. You know,
we're both emotional trying to get him off the field,
and you know he never wanted you know, that happens
in this game.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Happens in this game.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
And but I love him so so you gonna run
up in his face to get him off the field.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Big picture question, Okay, okay, in this coaching cycle, you've
got John Harbaugh, all right, he seems to be the
belle of the ball.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Maybe Ea Stefanski's up there too.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Mike McCarthy's names being tossed around, and there's some others,
but I think we would we all agree those are
the top two, top three candidates. However, you want to
look at it anyone else you're throw in the mix.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I wouldn't look at McCarthy, Okay, Yeah, yeah, I look
at those two.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Far and away. If Nick Sirianni became open, would would
he be?

Speaker 6 (09:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Uh, I mean you can't. You can't debate his body
of work though his body of work is is He's
been crazy productive, Maybe a little rough around the edges,
maybe a little abrasive from time to time, from time
to time, I mean, but he gets results that I

(09:41):
would have to say, Yes, conventional wisdom would say if
if Nick Sirianni became available as a coach, he would
be a highly sought after coach.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yes, then they win.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
The NFC East this year, Yeah, I mean yeah, they
came in as a number two seat. I mean you
you asked the bit yesterday, but seed three seed, yeah,
I mean they got a home game.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
No, he listen, he's had a great I mean his
body of work is there, Like the idea a couple
of years ago that he was even on the hot
seat after you know, the disappointing year that they had
and finished to the season, I would agree with you.
He's been fantastic from a record standpoint. I just think
there's enough people out there that view them as Howie

(10:29):
Roseman built and they could find somebody to coach that
team right or wrong and get the same or maybe
better results, especially this year.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's that's kind of my read on it. So I
don't think that.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
He was so it is the personnel. I think they
didn't overcome coaching yesterday. No, But if it is the personnel,
then they should have been able to overcome coach. That is,
by fall, are the most depleted team in the playoffs, Yeah,
by far, not even close.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, well, I don't know. The Chargers are pretty depleted too,
as depleted as the Niners.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Their offensive line, Yeah, I mean if you look at
five starters for example, like their offensive line.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is as depleted as they get Wow.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Even if that's the debate, Even if we made the
Chargers of the debate, what happened to the Chargers is
what should have happened to a depleted San Francisco team lost.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
So you put Kyle Shanahan coaching the Las Vegas Raiders,
how does that change things for them?

Speaker 1 (11:41):
They would become a playoff team within two years?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Okay, so but but okay, we don't know that they're
not gonna be potential team in two years with another
head coach that might say, I would say, you gotta
have talent, all right, Like you gotta have talent now,
I think.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
And the Raiders have talent, but I think they do.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
They have some Their rosters not the same as the Eagles.
The roster are not the same as others. Like let's
let's not kid ourselves. There's some bad football teams and
the rosters aren't are the same. These are two more
you know, equated football teams. We can look at, you know,
Bosa being out, Warner being out, Kittle going out in

(12:22):
this game, which, by the way, I just it's awful
and it also lends itself to If anyone's been on
social media, you've probably seen at this point a lot
of the conspiracy theories around what the substation that's right
there next to it's still Levi Stadium, their practice facility
there in Santa Clara. Yeah, I mean I've called games there.

(12:45):
I'll tell you it's real. It's there. I'm not smart
enough or I don't know anything about it, but it
is very enticing to read this article talking about what
is the electro magnetic pulse or whatever else THATSLYS has
impacted the forty nine ers And it's at least a
theory as to why they've had so many soft tissue injuries?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Is that the gist of it?

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Generation Yeah, and and I think like doctor David Chow,
you know, got in on it and said, well, you know,
it's a stretch to say that that's everything, but you know,
when you see how many injuries they've had, and you know,
they they look at just the levels and how much
it's impacting the surrounding areas, I mean, it's at least worth,

(13:28):
you know, a conversation to be had, because it is
bizarre that think about the potential Hall of Fame players
that have dealt with issues on the Niners.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Just this year.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
So Kittles out, Fred Warner's out, Nick Boss out right there.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
You're going to put that on a pulse breaking your ankle.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
You look at the article, it's like, yeah, if you,
if you really a lot to it.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
And there's a guy who went and actually measured it,
like he went to the.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Prize Fuelity, went to the stadium.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
He's kind of measuring it, going, yeah, if they're subjected
to this over this long period of time.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
And obviously Kittle who's been there for a.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Long time, MacCaffrey has had his injuries for a long time,
and we can go on down the line.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Of players they've had and it sounds awful.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
But I mean, by way, this isn't like the first
time we've seen a NFL franchise have to deal with
putting their practice facility near something that could be harmful
to the players.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Like I remember when I was part of the Saint.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Louis Rams, they had their practice facility and I think
it was Earth City like there in Missouri. It was
like down wind from I don't want to say a
dump or something like that, and there was concern over
there being like toxic you know, chemicals in the air
from from.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
You know, being downwind of that. And it'll be the
first to.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Tell you I have never ever been on a practice
field in my life. All Right, that's smelled like that
practice have smelled on a windy day. And if you
think we weren't ingesting something that was probably bad for
our health, you're out of your damn mind. Like like
it couldn't have been in a worse spot. So yeah,

(15:15):
the move to l a buddy. Let me tell you
go look back up Earth City and like what the
same it was Ramsall practice facility?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Was that place stunk? It was like there was again
I don't know what was being.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Processed or what was going on, but people used to
be like, this can't be good for our health.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You know.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
Ask guys who have Sam Bradford, Chris asked guys who
were Chris long? Were there for a long time, Chames, Lord,
they'll tell you like there was something going on there.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Man. Yeah, it's God bless. I hope y'all are are okay?
I mean, would there be claims connected to this? I
gotta look like there might have been something.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Hey, Wretchie Bushcott got what do you get ten million
dollars for that turf issue there.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Which in his defense.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
I mean again, there wasn't a lot of like it
was kind of slick around that.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Uh. The dome was the Edward Jones Dome. James was James.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, I don't know Edward Jones, James James Jones because
Raymond James, Edward Jones, they're both financial institutions. But is
what it is. I say, Eddie James is more of
the version. He's the financial one. You know, you know
you want some of this and done, you come to me,
ed of James.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Dang. Now they got the battle Hawks. They're fine, they're good.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh, don't do that as a battle Hawk. Damn, we're
burying the league.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
We're burying.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
We're on track, we are burying the league. Sam san
Fran san Frian beat what was a a fully operational
pretty much fully operational returning to the playoffs defending their title.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
This offense has struggled all year. Let's be real, like,
this isn't on the defense, in my opinion, this is
on the offense. Batulo has never found a rhythm of
Chalen Hurts. I think there's questions probably about Hurts and
his ability to you know, be the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
They need him to be.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
In the passing game. It's just it's been a struggle.
And and by the way, some of that has to
do too. I think with what Hurts has been given
a year after year of a year like constantly have
the change coordinators. It's tough like a Baker Mayfield. You know,
We've talked about how difficult it is in Tampa to
deal with a new coordinator every single year. And for

(17:43):
some reason, with Kevin Patulo and an offensive line that's
better than most weapons, and DeVante Smith and a J. Brown,
John Dotson whoever too, That's what I'm saying. But they
don't they don't don't stretch the field. They'll throw it
down the field. And you got, all of a sudden,
a thirty yard pass yesterdays longer than anything that did.
It hurts you even throw the ball over fifteen yards.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
The worst thing that could ever happened to Jalen Hurts
yesterday is that Tom Brady was calling his game. Yeah,
I'm sitting there like, dang Tom. He was like and
I don't think he meant to, like, you know, s
on him, but he kind of was like pointing it out, like, hey,
look that's right here. He had a clean pocket. What

(18:27):
what you getting all jittery and jumping for?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
What are you?

Speaker 1 (18:32):
He did it early too, though, I mean he was
he was rolling out to his right. He pointed out
very easily and clearly, like you're cutting yourself off half
of the field and if no one's open on that
side of the field, then you you don't have any options.
I mean, it just it didn't look good, and I
don't know that there's an easy bailout for it. Again,

(18:55):
I think when you had that type of a showing
and that big of a game, it's gotta fall out
defeat of two people. They get all the credit when
you win, they get all the credit when they lose.
And that's the coach and that's the quarterback.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's great about Philly, though, If you win a Super
Bowl as a head coach, that could keep you employed
at that.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Place for at least most more games.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
I mean, Jeff Fisher was getting gigs for years because
he went to a Super Bowl in Philly. You could
go to a Super Bowl and then go to another
one and actually win.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
It and still be on the hot seat losing.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Sorry, buddy, all right, there's one to be dumb because
we're talking about a person and then their well being.
But it's there's one to be dumb for me lately,
and then there's Philly gone.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
And listen, I tell people all the time, that's the
same fan base in Pittsburgh, same type of people.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Pends of your fans are man. The way they do
things is why. Yeah. But Tomlin hasn't. He hasn't had
to deal with this, and.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
He went to his super Bowl and won another one.
He's had to deal with some intense scrutiny. Bro, I
don't know, he's had to deal with some intense scrutiny.
And let them boys not show up tonight. We may
be having the same conversation tomorrow. It's just like if
you looked at Philly and you're like, and I know
Lane Johnson was out, But if you looked at Philly

(20:28):
and you're like, all right, so you give me Saquon
Barkley departs for over one hundred yards, Yeah, you give
me an effectiveness on the ground.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Dallas Goddard, Dallas God. He was getting his man.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Like that should be like, what am I it's seeing here?

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Their defense, defensive front, their defense was in fool. They
were intact, they were intact and they were getting.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Laced up in the routes.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Bye bye, guys that were not I mean not number ones,
not number ones.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
I don't get that.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
I thought it was a poor defensive showing by by Philly,
I really did. I thought they would have been better
versus the pass or I'd have thought that they got
more pressure on brock Party and forced him into mistakes.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Brock Purty won that game with his arm.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
He did, and that's I would not against Philly even
if you didn't have what you needed on offense. I
would have thought that they would not have been able
to generate enough offense against that defense in a playoff
game at home, mind you, in Philadelphia just seems strange

(21:43):
to me, like it was a full moon game. But again,
give give a ton of credit to the forty nine
ers man like I don't. I don't want to take
that away from him. Give them a ton of credit.
That was a well of a job. Whatever it is
they saw in that team, they found a way to
do it when they needed to do it, and they
got it done, and that's what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Really.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Also, I have an update over the Saint Louis Rams
practice facility in Earth City.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
When you get quiet, we know something's going on. So
go ahead. I got here.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
I was waiting for you to finish your point. But
I do find this kind of entertaining. The landfill contained
radioactive waste that was spread there illegally in nineteen seventy three.
There's been a portion of the site at an underground
fire that was moving closer to the radioactive waste, creating

(22:35):
a risk of releasing toxic fumes. Don't worry, I'm pretty
sure we all smelled them. Nearby residents reported being besieged
by a toxic stench for years. Chemical and radioactive waste
was also repeatedly seeping into the groundwater from this daft
from this I don't mean to laugh about this, but

(22:58):
in regards to fan lawsuits, let's see at least one
lawsuit was reportedly filed by adas fan election they suffered
smokelated respiratory illness as a result of the conditions near
the facility.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
The proximity of the facility in the landfill and the
associate environmental hazards has a major point of community concern
and activism.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
During the team's final year in Saint Louis, knew.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
It's giving me silent hill vibes. You guys watch that
never heard of it?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Now? Was that the one with like all the people
with deformities?

Speaker 7 (23:30):
And yeah, and there was a big fire under the
ground and it caused a bunch of toxins.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
In the air.

Speaker 7 (23:34):
So everyone died and had to evacuate.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Did they also move back to la or was that
just the rams?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
They might.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
So this is the final thing.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
In nineteen ninety one, they found evidence of radioactive contamination.
Although these fightings were later disputed, the EPA eventually admitted
that radioactive authorium had escaped the confines of the Super
Fun site at another location there.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
You good curious if they did a study on a
lot of facilities, I would be curious, Like on the
grounds like I know in Washington and out in Virginia,
like I felt like it was it was a swamp ground.
They built it on a swamp And I know for
certain I jacked my ass up in practice slipped like

(24:23):
grass gave and I mean not even anything crazy, just
grass just gave, like like like I used to be
in in Michigan Stadium, Like the grass just just went simple.
I don't know, man, I think it would be interesting
to see what the conditions are of the grounds on

(24:45):
a lot of these places.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, but look at how far you've come in.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm not trying to fake it. I'm not trying to
make it about me.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
No, no, no, I'm just saying, but like, look at
the beautiful work set up you got here.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, if they did a study on this studio, I
think that there would be some concerning things that would
come back in that report too. It's just taking a
stab at it.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
I still remember in twenty eighteen there was they had
the wildfire outbreak and people the smoke engulf the studio here.
There were ashes everywhere and people. This is before COVID,
people were doing shows with masks on what's happening here?

(25:29):
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Speaker 2 (25:35):
And they were good games man. Yeah.

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Speaker 3 (30:22):
We also had some games in the NFL Wildcard weekend
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Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yea Jonas we're good, go ahead and go out and
go get excited. I don't.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I just don't understand how the Packers lost that game.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
I don't. I don't get it. I don't. I don't understand.
Was it a collapse or a great comeback? How are
we described?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
I would say more collapse of I would say more
collapse if I had to pin it on one. I mean,
you need a willing participant on both sides. And Green
Bay it was almost like the second half started and
the Packers were like, oh, we're still going, and there
was just no And even in saying that, there were

(31:09):
so many opportunities for them to put the Bears away,
and you know, you miss a pat you miss a
field goal, and offensively that you know, whatever that final
drive was, they just there was, whether it was clock
management like it just I can't even explain.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
What that was.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
And I don't even think Bears fans they haven't won
a playoff game in fifteen years, well I'll say that now, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
They probably shouldn't have won that game, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
It's just I don't And so that's why the conversation
surrounding Matt Lafleur is was being discussed and being had
before the game, and now it's really being had afterwards.
And Matt Lafleur spoke about his own job security following

(32:02):
the collapse on Saturday night.

Speaker 9 (32:04):
You got a year left on your contract, and Policy
has said he doesn't like Plaine Duck seasons. Do you
expect to be back next season? Have you guys already
started negotiating that deal.

Speaker 10 (32:15):
Or Yeah, with all due respect to your question, Pete,
now's not the time for that. I mean, I'm just
hurting for these guys. You know, I can only think
about just what just happened, and there will be time
for that.

Speaker 8 (32:31):
Do you think your team has a confidence that the
leadership with this organization can get more than one to go.

Speaker 10 (32:36):
Yeah, again, with all due respect, Pete, definitely, now's not
the time.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
I mean, whatever, it feels like there's going to be
a change there. Okay, Just that's the vibe I get,
is that there's going to be some sort of a
move made, and I don't agree with it. But the
way Albert Breer was discussing it last week that it's
a contractual thing, and you know, he talked about you know,

(33:04):
the Falcons and the Matt Ryan Ties and all that stuff,
and now Adam Schefter is trying to, you know, tie
in John Harbaugh his relationship because of It's like.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
Dude, the body wasn't even cold, and the Schefter's already
releasing out like information about Harbaugh and the contract situation
for La Floor.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I mean, it was pretty immediately after the loss. Is
it warranted? Do you guys feel like it's warranted? I
mean it was a collapse. It was a collapse, But
is it warranted? Like it seems like it's taking that
dealt with a lot. Yeah, but is this the the.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Is the part of the NFL that I think if
you want to, you know, garnish a greater audience, you
have to kind of play into or lead into, Like
the off season of the NFL is rapidly approaching, even
though we're in the best part.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Of the season.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
But I think this is also like the stuff that
like it draws in people who don't just love the sport,
Like I can sell this drama probably to my wife,
who'd be more interested in hearing about, Wait, so what happened?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
So he might go where because of who?

Speaker 4 (34:11):
And then who might replace him because of his relationship
with this and then oh, okay, like there's more just
non football that may be harder for people to understand,
drama that's more like a soap opera that makes it
entice into people.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
So I don't know.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
I think some of it's probably warranted because the timing
with Lafleur's contract situation and obviously the availability of Harball.
Guys won a Super Bowl that makes a lot of sense.
I'll say this much though everyone wants to connect the
docs with Harbam Stefancy would be a way better fit
up there, and in my opinion, he'd be a way
better fit to be the head coach.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
At Green Bay, I think than Harbaugh. And I know there's.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Ties and stuff, and everyone's like he's got a house
open up, you know, the Upper Peninsula.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
For those of you who aren't aware of.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
What that means, I would have known that, and I
still don't even know what what the hell up of
peninsula is?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Right where the hell is that?

Speaker 4 (35:04):
It's Mischa Gander would would tell you what that means.
But okay, I just everyone's trying to connect the dots
for Harball in like every place possible. You know, we
did it with the Dolphins. People doing the Packers. Well
they oh, I interviewed with the Giants, and they are
the Giants. I was like, Okay, he can't take every job,
Like we realized that, right, he can only take one

(35:24):
of these, and most of you says, no, I don't
want to go to any of them.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Is there any propaganda connected to this?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
I mean, it could be a masterful job of driving
up the value of Harball. Right now he is available
to coach a different team. I mean, we do have
to kind of circle back around and come back to
the realization that he was fired.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
He said he was he was fired. He said that.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
He's only gonna interview with a few select teams.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
So basically, Miami, it's Miami. Well Miami.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Look, if green Bay became available, I'm sure he'd be
interested in that. The Giants would be one. And then
which one does he have.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
The better opportunity of winning right now, because that's got
to be the one that you'd look at.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
I'm talking about it like it's like the job's open.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
You are really if it were open, I would say
green Bay. Yeah, But I'll be honest with you, the
best job on the market is one that he just left.
So Baltimore that he couldn't get it done with. Yeah,
so maybe they'll hire him back.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
I don't know. I just the whole Matt laflor conversation
test a portal.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I'm declared, I'm going into the portal declaring I will
come back. He's coming back. That would be a first,
wouldn't it. That would be interesting, the whole, like the
La Floor stuff. I just I don't know why he
would be.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
They were riddled with injuries too, like they lost a
lot of key players, and they've been in contention and
been in the conversation for every year he's been there,
outside of maybe one, he's got one year below five hundred.
But I just the fact that the contract wasn't renewed,
that there's been this much smoke out there, that there's

(37:14):
been this much conversation. The Stefanski thing is interesting because
he Stefanski spent years in that division with the Vikings,
so he knows that division. He knows there's familiarity there.
That would be something. But yeah, it does. It does
feel like Lafloor could be on his way out, which
is surprising.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
J sounded beat spent. I mean, man, they they botched
that game. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
I mean he was a part of the twenty eight
to three. He was the quarterback coach of the Falcons.
Then there were they were what up twenty one and
twenty one three? Yeah, twenty one six, twenty one three
out halftime and it was twenty one six going at
the end of the third court correct, Oh my god,
I mean that is to me a collapse. All credits

(38:03):
of Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams and the Bears, but
if it was switched, Like, if you were the Bears
and you're really being critical about that performance, you can't
think you're gonna be able to do that again. Even
though that being said, they've kind of done it the
entire season, but there's an element of saying like, yeah,
they dropped that game. If the Bears rubbed twenty one

(38:24):
to three and a half, twenty one and six, you know,
in the third quarter, you'll be seeing ourselves like we've
got this game one, Like if we don't win this game,
it's on us for collapsing because we didn't do the
things the right way.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Like no debate, especially, no way around that one. That's
too many points, that's too many US three possessions, there's
no way if the game going the way that it
was going the rest of like before then that you
would be able to forecast that they could generate that
much offense in that small.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Amount of don And you had Ben Johnson going forward
on fourth down in crazy situations in the first half,
setting them up with short fields. Then they missed the
field goal at the end of the first half, but
Green Bay got the ball first out of halftime, and
it was like a completely different game. And look, Dennis Allen,

(39:19):
whatever he you know, figured out or whatever they started
doing defensively had an impact. But it was almost like
the Packers had no counter to the counter, and even defensively,
like Jeff Hafley's getting all this, you know, head coaching love,
Like defensively they looked awful down the stretch, and it's
the second time that's happened against your biggest rival, like

(39:41):
they gagged away that game a couple of weeks ago.
It just that's why I think you look at this
and Packers fans almost are kind of bewildered, like what
is happening? Why is this going down the way it's
going down, And then it all coincides with this, you know,
the discussion about you know, Matt Lafleur and and you
know how people feel about him in the building and

(40:02):
whether or not he's going to be back. It's just
it's surprising to see where they're at considering how much
success he's had. But I think people will expected better results.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
I mean, that's that's the business though. I mean, let's
be clear here, like like for a moment, you could
feel bad or you could have a little bit of
sympathies towards it, but you get paid big dollars to
have responses, have adjustments. They did everything they were supposed
to do. People were feeling really good about the Green
Bay Packers and then you weren't. People were feeling really

(40:36):
really like h Chicago had a great season, but they're
doing what Chicago does. They're having a Chicago moment, and
then they weren't. But again, I think that that's what
why you play the games. Uh, you know, Q, you
mentioned it being a soap opera and certain things that
other people, other fan base people can get a get

(40:58):
a hold of and be in interested in. This is
what's most interesting to me. The playoffs is always the
most interesting time of the year for me. Once less
games more you can focus in on. But two, what
are the storylines that come from what takes place in
these games? Stars are born in these games, Stars are

(41:20):
buried in these games. People disappear in these games, people
pop up in these games. There's so many different things
that happen during the playoff season, and when you have
a game like this, it brings in intense conversations. And
Green Bay unfortunately happened to fall on. You know, the
pendulum was swinging and it was swinging their way, and

(41:43):
then it swiftly started swinging in a different direction and
it didn't go their way. And now you find yourself
in a production business at the epicenter of conversations that
would maybe sound like you're going to lose your gig.
Says how it all works, there's no way around it.

(42:06):
You got accepted.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Hey, by the way, I'm looking up this Upper Peninsula.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
This up you, says the famous rock. The Upper Peninsula
alongs to Michigan, bordering in Wisconsin to its west, and
is a distinct, heavily forested region known for its natural beauty,
mining history, and unique culture. So smoke teeze Lower Peninsula on.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
A great lake. Well, I think what you're missing is
when you have a house up.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
In the Up, even though it could be in Michigan,
it's close in proximity.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Is that status? Is that up? Is the up of status? Spot?
Is that? Like? Yeah, like going to like the Hampton
or something like that, like the Midwest Hampton's is how
I put it? Really?

Speaker 4 (42:53):
If you're oh, yeah, torch Lake, those areas, Yeah, you
go up there, It's it's.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Really nice, super super nice. Huh.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
I mean it's more like it's not like yuppie by
any means, but like there are some really really nice places. Yeah, Okay,
well I don't I don't know that you can put
it in the same breath as Hampton's like that's an
entirely different world. Well it's trust me, it's it's a
that's a whole different world. I don't really think those

(43:21):
are comparable.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
But okay. Also, I just.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Love how it becomes part of the conversation, like, oh,
he's got to play something in the Up. It's like, oh, okay,
of course I'm just gonna go with the packers.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Then yeah, closed, it's all tied together.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
It's also can I make a statement, I think that
there should be a change made if you are and
this should be a new rule going forward.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
If you are.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
A double digit favorite on the road in a playoff
game and you don't cover that spread, you should be
a limit from the playoffs. So Carolina, we moved forward,
or yes, okay, yeah they played, or the Bears just
get a buye yeah, bye bye.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Whatever, like that's.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
The I can't figure out the Rams, man, I really can't,
because I think the Rams are the best team in
the NFC.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
They almost got.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Clipped and and there's times where they go through these
stretches and they're.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Awful, like and you could go through.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
All these games that they had this year where like that,
I think Thursday night game against the Niners at home
where they just completely melted down like that.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
That was just a terrible game.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
They were a big favorite in that game, Like you
just go through some of these games they've lost. They
almost lost that game to Carolina almost.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
What do we how.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Carolina is closer to being good. They're closer to being
good than they are to being bad. I said that
when we were making our picks, like they're closer to
being good than they are to being bad.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
And that explained them to that explains a lot for
the bar this week. Oh you were on fire? Dude?
Was I on? Yeah? I do want to hear the.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Results sticks tell yeah you missed every single one so far.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Here you go. Yeah. I was about to say I
didn't think.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
I didn't think I was because I picked Caroline's messed up, man,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
I was okay with my picks. I tried to play
this a little bit like more drama, you know, like
there was.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
But the thing I love about LeVar is he cares
to a degree, but not too much where he.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Doesn't really remember what he picked. I don't, so he
was for a second he was like I did.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh, there's a glimmer of Oh I did the best
though is Jonas was gloating at one point because he
wasn't the lead until last night.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
And that's that's kind of unfortunate. Was my nightmare. Yeah,
I got smoked those final two games last night.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
I thought, for like, Philly was the game I felt
most confident about. It was that the man the Niners
are bank Seattle finish.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
I said it when we all picked it, the Kiss
of Death. We all picked Philly to cover, and of
course THEO went.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Out right Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
I was on the right side of my bets is
just teams went on the right side of the way.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
They played.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
I'm with you. That's the story of my life. Yeah,
that was bad, the charge. I took the Chargers over
to Patriots. You're getting three and a half points. Yeah,
I wouldn't figured the Pets were going to win. But
I'm not sure Justin Herbert is gonna be a little.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's could have won, just not by you know, four
points or more. I'm not sure Justin Herbert is gonna
I took points on that one. Yeah, I'm with you
on that, by the way. But but their offense allowed
to be healthier next year.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
I hope so, because I don't think he's gonna last
much longer. If that's that's the way, this is Herbert
my day, it could have lasted his spirit and his soul.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
I saw his spirit and soul start to fly away
up and started to leave the stadium, and then it.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Came back, and then you came.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah, he came back to life, but his he was
dead on that field for a moment.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
It looked like the movie Ghost where Patrick's Yzy's on
the street. Next thing, you know, he's overlooked.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
He's still playing, like like the ghost of Justin Herbert
was still in the play. He was about to like
go downfield and go through his continuous progression.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Justin Herbert standing over, Justin Herbert going, but he withdraw
your hand.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Torch throw. I ain't never seen nobody get hit like that.
I ain't never seen nobody get like that. That was crazy.
That man's body that just was lifeless for a moment.
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
But you know you lose your uh, your You're highly
drafted and compensated one of them already compensated tackles, and
you know your running game has been inconsistent at best
all year. And it's like he just had no chance.
And I don't know why I thought that. You know,
they'll keep it close with that offensive line. I don't

(48:14):
know why I thought that would be the case, but
that was. And then look, Harbod turned down the chance
for three points early on, probably thinking don't worry, we'll
get We'll get plenty of opportunities there, and then they
just couldn't figure anything out.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
That was rough.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
So some of these games were a little bro I'm
telling you the same Frand Eagles.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Game was the roughest one too. It was the roughest one. Man.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
It just didn't make any sense. It just didn't just
didn't make It just didn't make any sense. It just didn't.
Why they dropping all these balls? Why they beefin? Why's
the defense not doing more? Why isn't the offense doing more?
Why aren't they doing more?

Speaker 2 (48:54):
That damn wind they hit the White boys for a
double pass.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
I knew it was a rap. I was you get
you get what you mean? There was no discipline.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Wait, so you're saying they're the last line of defense
and discipline. Once you fool the White Boys on a
double pass.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
It's a rap. It's a rap. You have no chance. Youah,
no chance. I knew, I knew. We were sure. Yeah.
I always wondered what was going through.

Speaker 11 (49:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Some of my teammates heads as as like a trick
play gets running, our our white safety gets beat. They're like,
oh gosh, are they just like, oh well, we expected
that to happen.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
They more like he got beat on that.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Damn you can't be I know he was. I know,
Cats was sitting there like he bit on that, like
just stay over top. You know you you should have
stayed over top. Come on, that's McCaffrey running past you,
man like you saw your brother and run right Pastted

(49:55):
You like you don't come down to try to make
the tackle on that. You gotta get he's running too fast,
he's running too hard. Why are you gonna let him
just run?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Right? Pat? Do you like that? You got to smell
the rat on that one? Never I'm joking.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
I'm joking, of course, be funny, but I'm just saying
sort of, yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
You know I did. I do recall one of one
of my teammates, not Notre Dame. We played on Highest
State in the Festibowl. They ran a play action and
I think it was uh, I don't know if it
was Santonio Holmes or who it was. Maybe it was
Ted Gin, but one of them as he kind of like,
you know, he like, you know, he made it look
like he's running a post and then he just got

(50:34):
vertical off of it. But he kind of made it
look like he was like stock blocking him for a second.
But as he like kind of cut in, they kind
of started to like release up upfield. He goes, peace, bitch.
I just think myself, damn them like a good ten

(50:55):
to fifteen that I looked back and go, oh yeah, okay,
I see what happened.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
I see what happened, because, like.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
You know, when you're on offense, you're not really always
watching what's happening on the field for the defense, So
you like sometimes like we're so immersed and like looking
at things and talking to the what we're doing next drive,
you're not seeing as much. And so when someone told
me the story after the game, I was like, well,
how bad was it?

Speaker 2 (51:23):
I went back watched the film. I go damn. I mean, dude,
there was there was maybe.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
A first down and a half between ten and like
our next closest defender.

Speaker 12 (51:34):
I was like, I was like, okay, yep, ye, all right,
one one quick observation while we're you know, talking about
other things.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
There were a lot of fingers hit in the games yesterday.
The biggest one I felt in terms of altering the
way they played with Stafford. Do you guys think he'll
be okay come this next game? Like like, was that
is that a shake off able deal or is it?
Or did he really really injure one of his fingers?

(52:09):
And when he did that, they said X rays came
back negative. What that don't mean it ain't That don't
mean he ain't jacket.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Up, don't care. I mean it's listening, he's.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
It depends on if it's negative, like he should be okay,
but and he's got time.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I would be more.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Concerned if it was a younger quarterback who hasn't been
in the playoffs, you know, or has very limited experience.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
So you wouldn't be more concerned that he's getting older
and injuries like that don't heal as quickly as they
did when you are younger.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
Well, if it's on your fingers, it's not gonna heal
that fast anyway, because it's an extremity and those don't
There's not as a lot of blood flow to your fingers,
so they don't. They don't heal as fast, you know
as you know, like foot, ankle, you know, wrist, hand like,
it doesn't heal as fast anyway, So it's gonna be cold.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
I'm more. I'm more.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
I guess off the missed it because if there's no
structural damage was I don't think there is based on
their initial report, he should be okay. They can probably
get it feeling better by then. I'll be curious to
see if it'll wear a glove type thing if there,
if grip's an issue, I think that'd be the first
thing I'd look for if he if he's out there
throwing with the glove on, then yeah, it's cold, but

(53:19):
like grip could be an issue, and that might be
one of the things that he's he's doing to overcome.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Some of the pain that he's dealing with, or that
nectar from the gods get him through you that you
can't put it in the finger.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
No, I mean, Jack, that's your whole body. But I
don't know that that would do anything. Though, Oh it'll
dull that pain. It'll doll it. It might not take
it completely away. I'm looking more so from functionality. It
won't improve the function. But it comes down to like suture.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
But pain wise, I mean it's it's Yeah, he might
not have the strength of it or or like the
flexibility of it that he needs, the movement of it
that he needs, but he'll be able to tolerate getting
through it like real good, like real good.

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Well, as long as you.

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Speaker 2 (56:21):
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You think so under verse? Yeah, I love that. I
just gotta keep it a little bit in a little weird. Yeah,
let's just get weird. No, that's good. Come what about
that colleor fable playoff bracket bar? Oh it's good? That
ain't good? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Yeah, I mean if I was carry it'd be good.
But even one.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
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excited about that?

Speaker 1 (56:51):
If I say something, then you're gonna be like, why
would you say that?

Speaker 2 (56:56):
You get involved? You grin you in number what? Okay,
you did it twice, you doubled down. Yeah, I'm excited
about it, all right? Why are you so excited about
I'm going to say next.

Speaker 7 (57:07):
Year, I'm going to be in the Bracket Challenge and
I'm going to be number one.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Do you feel like you're number one right now in
the Bracket Challenge this year?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
No? Personally, I'm rooting for Andy Furman. That's my guy.
That's my guy. Who are you rooting for?

Speaker 7 (57:22):
Lorena Brian Knows in fourth place I would like him
to get up to second.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Get up to second. Yes, who do you want to win?

Speaker 7 (57:30):
We'll keep carrying first place.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
We'll keep carrying first. Okay, all right, all right? Why
only second?

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Because because that would mean that carry wouldn't be in
first place.

Speaker 7 (57:43):
Oh well, Brian doesn't want to win. He just wants
to know good accolades.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
He doesn't want to win. Okay, what that story? I mean,
let's talk about it now. Joking. Let's keep let's keep
it moving, let's keep it on the rails.

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and a good morning to our smooth operator and resident
red ass chick, Phil Golds, Prisco, Pete Prisco, senior NFL
columnist for CBS Sports, CBS Sports HQ analyst. You can
get him on x at Prisco CBS and he is
very active because Pete, is there an epidem First of all,

(58:45):
good morning, And second, is there an epidemic in the
NFL when it comes to coaches not taking points?

Speaker 6 (58:51):
Absolutely, no question about it.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Then good morning and look morning.

Speaker 6 (58:56):
The bottom line. The bottom line is how many teams
look at the game. And for example, Jacksonville, if they
had kicked their field goal early in the game to
make it a seven point lead when you're at home
in the playoffs, they wouldn't They wouldn't have needed that
field goal late. And you go to San Francisco. San
Francisco kicked the field goal on fourth down in the

(59:18):
first half and late in the game. That meant that
the Eagles needed to go get a touchdown. The bottom
line is these guys are out of control. And I
called Dan dan campbell itis and at some point the
disease needs to be stopped.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Oh damn man, Pete.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
Pete, how you're the mayor of Jacksonville, how do you
you summarize.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
That that game?

Speaker 4 (59:38):
It's just a great game. Back and forth or are
you just going to play it all on the field goals?
And also if you were in the h Okay, if
you were in the postgame press pool, would you have
just complimented Liam Cohen postgame or would you have asked
them some questions?

Speaker 6 (59:54):
Well, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have complimented them first and foremost,
I would have probably ask why you went for it
on fourth down and get an explanation on that. But
you saw that that obviously that video, and I don't
understand why somebody would do that in that environment. But
I also don't understand why everybody gets so bothered by

(01:00:15):
it either. Look, I get it, I've worked in the
profession for a long time. I'm a professional. I wouldn't
have done that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
Well, but you're not supposed to sound like a fan.
You're supposed to, you know, be objective and cover the team.
I think that's why people have an.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
Issue with it, right, I get it, But but why
do uh? Why do we get so worked up over
stuff like that?

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Though?

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
Look, just okay, the lady had her moment. Move on,
That's all it is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Hmm, Pete, These were to me some very very competitive games.
I felt like the one that held the most weight
was on on Buffalo. What was What was your take
was that? Was that a big Like? Was that the
biggest game in terms of needing to when maybe some

(01:01:01):
would say Green Bay in Chicago. I wouldn't be opposed
to seeing the logic in that. What was the one
you were watching? You're like, man, there's a lot of
weight on this game.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Well, I mean people put a lot of weight on
Josh Allen and to win that game because they keep
looking at the landscape and saying, there's no Lamar Jackson,
there's no Patrick Mahomes, there's no Joe Burrow. So if
he's not going to win it this year, when is
he going to win it? So I think that put
a lot on him. And I can tell you that
was the one thing that Jackson was worried about, if
he's become superman in the moment, and he did. He
made the place when he had to because they didn't

(01:01:33):
run the ball very well on Sunday, and it was
all about Josh Allen making those plays. But I think
that was you know, you're going down on the road
in the postseason. When you're out on the road in
the postseason, it's hard to win. And he won, and
now he's got to go back to out on the
road again and it's going to be hard to win.
So you know, it's tough to win on the road.
Plus everybody always says, what if he won a game

(01:01:54):
in the playoffs, a big game in the playoffs and
he threw for one hundred and fourteen yards and you
know twoh or seven into the touchdowns, is that on him?
Or just like we penalize him for thirteen seconds in
Kansas City, is he responsible for not winning that game?
He threw five touchdown passes. They couldn't handle thirteen seconds
back in the day. So sometimes we put too much

(01:02:15):
blame on the quarterbacks and too much credit on the quarterbacks.
But the reality is he won, he moves on, and
now he's still got another chance to get the Super Bowl,
and I think it's entirely possible.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Pete Prisco joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, senior
NFL columnist for CBS Sports, CBS Sports HQ analysts and
again and get him on X at Prisco CBS. Pete,
what's wrong with the Eagles?

Speaker 6 (01:02:39):
Well, offensively, they're not very good. I mean, you look
at that offense, and you can't get any rhythm going,
and you can't get any idea of what they're doing.
Once they got the first down late in the game
and we were at the twenty something yard line, you
had three timeouts, you still could have run the ball.
Do you have to throw it? Forced? Great plays you

(01:03:01):
had Barkley, he could rip off some long runs. You
didn't need to rush there, And I thought they panicked
in the moment. I think offensively they have no rhythm. Now,
guys have regressed. My lot has not been as good.
The left guard hasn't been as good. The center has
you know, isn't hasn't been as good as Chelsey over
the last couple of years. You know, the right guard

(01:03:21):
position wasn't as good as it was a year ago.
And they don't have Lane Johnson, so the offensive line
isn't as good. But I don't think they ever get
into any sort of rhythm. Every time you watch the Eagles,
don't you watch them and say, what the hell are
they doing? Why don't you just give it to Barkley
in that scenario? Why don't you do this? And you
know it doesn't help that AJ Brown's over there. Maybe

(01:03:42):
I saw him getting into with the coach. It looked
like they were complaining because he didn't die for the football.
I think that had something to do with it. But
it's not a good environment on offense and they need
changes again. I think the offensive coordinator is a big trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Well, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
We've kind of talked about that, and just the fact
that the offense is not have much of a much
creativity and much of a spark for a group that's
that's too talented, not too On the flip side of
the forty nine ers, have you seen this theory that's
been going around about the substation, this whole like electromagnetic
pulse and things that could be impacting the San Francisco

(01:04:17):
forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Would you be.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
Surprised if there was some correlation between all these soft
tissue injuries because they've been one of the most banged
up teams in the NFL and where their practice facility
is and obviously their stadium too, Like, is that one
of the least surprising things. Are you just saying, ah,
it's just a conspiracy theory. Are you buying it?

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
It's a conspiracy theory? Stop it. Look at look at
all the injuries around the league. Everybody's having these kind
of major injuries. Look at every team. It's more than ever.
It's become a survival test now. I mean, you know
we talk about them, but let's go to the Packers
and let's take away the guys that aren't on their
roster playing on Sunday. Michael on Saturday, Michael Parsons, you
know you need him sack bumble game over. That's what

(01:04:59):
he would do. You didn't have Tucker Craft. He was
on his way to becoming one of the better tight
ends in the league. He got there, the right starting
right tackles, the best off at the line of Zach
Tom wasn't there, Devonte Wyatt, their defensive tackle was the
best run stopper, wasn't there. I mean, on and on
it goes. Every team in the league is that way.
And you know, the forty nine Ers have been hit
by a ton of them because the Marquee guys have

(01:05:20):
been hit too, But so the Packers, so of other
teams around the league. So I don't Brady, where's that
conspiracy theory coming from? By the way, where's that coming from?

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
Some guy that has study on it, apparently he like
measured the uh whatever the measurement.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
I don't know enough about it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
I just would have thought at you to see if
you couldn't shoot it down right away.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
But he did take a measurement.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
He did say, this is like overly high for you know,
probably for the betterment of your health, which I did
bring into to question. A lot of these facilities aren't
necessarily built in the safest or most environmentally friendly places,
like well I used to practice with the rams. Apparently
the next to a toxic waste site or a dump site.

(01:06:04):
We're just south, We're just northern south of that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
So don't people live around the damn thing too?

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
In some cases usually they're not supposed to be that close.

Speaker 6 (01:06:13):
So all we care about is the NFL is the
people being there, but not that people actually live around it.
I guess, Grady, we people will find a conspiracy theory
in everything nowadays. It's unbelievable. How about guys just get hurt.
I mean, that's the reality.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
It's just I think here's here's the pushback is they
don't practice as much as they used to.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
The off seasons are shorter.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
Yes, there's one additional game, but you know that I
have been playing in preseason games now, So like, what
do you draw the conclusions.

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
To a whole issue that's a whole other issue. And
you know I've shown this out there before. I think
they're over training, to be honest with you, I think
I think there's too much training going on because guys
don't get away, don't let their bodies heal.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
So what are they to do in the off season?

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
They go back, smoke some smoke some SIGs and like
have a few pos like back in the day.

Speaker 6 (01:06:59):
No, no, but Brady, you know how these guys they
it's they go from those those facilities right after the
season's over. Then they go back to the team and
work out, and then they and then they got OTA's
and they got mini camp, and they're still in the facility.
And then they get away for four four weeks before
the season starts. And what do they do for those
four weeks? Usually take one week of vacation, go somewhere,
and the rest of it they're training again. I think

(01:07:22):
some point you gotta you gotta pull it back a
little bit and let the body heal. I don't think
they let the body heel. Now, you know better than
me because you played. Varno is better than me because
he played. But the reality is, I think sometimes we
got to look at it. They sometimes overtrained.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
I feel like that's overstated.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Sometimes just because the person play doesn't mean they're aware
of what that's all about.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
But that that kind of just that's the reason I'm
trying to follow over.

Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
Did you overtrain?

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
You know? If I'm being honest, I wouldn't know if
I did or if I didn't, you know what I mean, Like,
I don't know, And it's a curious it's a curious conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Can I ask.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
This though, Like don't you feel like you got to
keep your body in that shape or condition, because I
also feel like there's a significant thought to if you're
out of shape, you got to get back into shape,
injuries coming.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Along with that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:09):
No, I get it, I get it, Brady. But I'm
talking about like they go do the high intensity training
at the facilities and you know where they pay big money,
like you know, talking about the bamba Ridos of the
world and all those places, and don't don't.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Be, don't be you know, sitting there and being poorly
Avautle Pang.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
It's a fellow PFLO Italian bang No.

Speaker 6 (01:08:28):
I think those facilities are great, but I think to
some point you got to let your body rest. And
staying in shape is one thing, but pushing yourself to
the point where, you know, when you get back to
the team, Brady, when you used to have, you know,
the workout time in the NFL, you come back and
a lot of guys were not in great shape, to
be honest about it, they weren't any best shape.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
No, probably not, But I didn't play that long ago.
Like most guys were still relatively in pretty good shape.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
Mark, Didn't you played like in the nineteen eighties, isn't
that a most.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
Most guys would come back this is this is where
I love Pete because I know where he's gonna go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Most guys would come back from one of those facilities
where they're training and they got the smoothie and they
got you know, all the stuff that they're done, and
then another smoothie.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
You know, like they they had all the smoothies they
were taking. So they're in great.

Speaker 6 (01:09:15):
Shape, right, Yeah, the ferries and instead of going out
and having a few beers and some wings and they're
the first guy that they're the first guy to pull
the hamstring.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Pete could never get past the smoothie thing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
I think that was like a Chip Kelly Philadelphia Eagles
thing that became.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Yeah, that's why I'm bringing.

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
Up I'm okay, I'm okay. Look, I like a smoothie too.
Everybody likes the smoothie, but they act like the most innovative,
cutting edge thing in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Hey Pete, Uh, you know, maybe some of these athletes
like they don't know which way to go because if
they overtrained, you criticize them, and then if they're Vita Vea,
you rip them apart on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
That's a great point.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
Jonas, like you how you feel about that fact?

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Shame? How you do that?

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
In shape? Staying in shape and being uh, you know,
working out to the point where you're physically mauling yourself
nine months out of the year is two different things,
you know that, come on, there's different there's different levels
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
And by the way you moved the gold post. Sometimes
people know there.

Speaker 6 (01:10:18):
Are lots of there are a lot of skinny people
aren't in.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
Shape, by the way, there there are there's certainly what
can I can I ask you to name one?

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Oh God, huh name one.

Speaker 6 (01:10:31):
Believe me that you go go look around, you look
around that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
You know someone from names someone from the CBS office.
We both know air Mount.

Speaker 6 (01:10:41):
I'm not naming names from my office. By the way, Brady,
speaking of my office, I got to tell you this story.
You will be so proud of this, and I'm so
happy about it. One of our guys was at a
thrift store or something yesterday during the game. I don't
know who. One of our producers any texts. He texts
Jack a picture of something in the trip store and

(01:11:04):
you know what, you know what it was? It was
a Quinn Brown's jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Here we go, Can I go you?

Speaker 6 (01:11:11):
I want it now. I zeld it was on sale
for fifty bucks, and I zeld in the fifty bucks
and by Tuesday I will have myself up bready, Quinn Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
That's pretty awesome, Pete. I love how you just kept
the market value of that jersey up.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Thank you for buying for fifty dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:11:29):
You are gonna fign that for me. So man, I
can't wait to get you to I might. You guys
are gonna be the super Bowl, right, yes?

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Can I can?

Speaker 4 (01:11:37):
I tell you what the inscription is gonna say, Pete,
or do you want to be surprised.

Speaker 6 (01:11:40):
I want to be surprised, but but I will tell
you because I usually come sit in with you guys
at the super Bowl for a little while. Yes, I'm
wearing that that day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
That's awesome, Pete. Here's the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
You're gonna have to get your ass up early, and
no one's gonna be there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
To see it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
Besides, we did it last year. I mean, yes, we
were in New Orleans.

Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
You wait a second, you're on the West coast.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Yeah, yeah, an hour three, just come on hour three.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
That's by the way, Pete, Pete, How hungover were this
past this past year?

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
I mean, I mean I got drunk off of the
war that day, off of me. I think you were.
I think you were all really bad. But I think
LeVar took the cake. So that's why I was closing
and I was close to sleeping segment.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
I was hurting that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
I thought by hurt, thought Brady was puke. Yeah, I
was a good Brad.

Speaker 6 (01:12:42):
Yeah, Brady, Come to think of it, you're all pretty bad.
You're right, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
It was pretty bad. It was a massive.

Speaker 6 (01:12:49):
Dinner or something, right, you had a company.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Dinner or something we did.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
But Brady came in hot from golfing and turned the
whole entire He turned the whole hotel be into a
hotel Q. The course, still he was apologizing for how
bad he played. It just went downhill from there. Everybody

(01:13:13):
was just getting in on it.

Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
I bet I bet get loose. Brady doesn't. He doesn't
let it lose too much. But when he goes, he goes.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
I never experienced it. That was the first time. But
I wasn't going to let my bro go on his own,
so we went ahead and did it, and we did
it right there a whole bunch. Hey, Pete before my
last question to you, the game's coming up now, do
you think they will be as competitive as the ones
we just saw, because I kind of felt like outside

(01:13:42):
of the New England game, Uh, these games were some
really really fine games that we saw being played, and
we didn't get the benefit of that during the regular
season very often.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
No, Look, we had a great playoff first round of
the playoffs. Was this fantastic he did in the New
England game. It was it was you know, it wasn't
offensively pretty, but it was, you know, a close game.
For most of that game. But uh yeah, I do
because I don't think anybody's any good. I say it
all the time. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
It's going to be a good playoff. About default, it's a.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
Great and you know what, that's not a bad thing, everybody,
you know it. Look, we've had great playoffs so far
because nobody's really that good. Think about the teams. You
thought the Rams are going to go in and whack Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
They didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:14:25):
They have flaws. What do they have flaws? They have
flaws in the secondary. They don't run that well. They're
not a fast team. The secondary gives up a lot
of big plays. You go around the league, every single team.
You can do that, and you know, Buffalo, Josh Allen, Superman.
But what about the other side of the ball. They
don't stop the run. Well, you know what, that's going
to be a problem. Denver they're not. They don't run
the ball very well. So maybe it's not going to
be a problem. I mean, you can go around the

(01:14:45):
league and do that. But that's why the games have
been so good, because they're so competitive and it not
nobody is that good. And I think the next round
will show you the same thing. The forty nine ers
can can they go in at Seattle? Yeah? Why not?
Why can't they? There's always the X factor, the Sam
Darnold factor. Sure they can go win up there. So
I think everybody's flawed and I think that's gonna make

(01:15:06):
for great games. So yes, to answer your question, I
think this week is gonna last week.

Speaker 4 (01:15:10):
Can I ask one more question before jonas you ask
where I think you're to go?

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
What open vacancy? I'm gonna ask this in two ways.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
What open vacancy right now for head coaches makes the
most sense for John Harbaugh?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
And if you had your pick, where would you go?

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
Giants?

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Why?

Speaker 6 (01:15:34):
I think when you look at the Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Cam Scattabou Arizon.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
So hold on, are you saying that because of Horrorball too?
So you'd pick that and you think Harball will go there?

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:15:45):
Yes, okay, And here's why. Okay, brother, I think Jackson
Dark can be the future. So you have a quarterback.
I also think you get neighbors back. Let's not forget
that he's a star receiver. Your offensive left tackle is
good player. You still need some upgrades on the offense line,
But you go to the defense, You've got a ton
of guys that could play on that defensive line, tons
of them. And I think somebody, the right coach comes

(01:16:06):
in there and it gets mister Carter all going in
the right direction. He's going to be a star. So
you have talent on that team, you have pass rushers,
and you have a quarterback, and you have a left
tack on a star wide receiver. Why wouldn't you want
that job? Plus it's New York. I'm taking that on.
I don't everybody always talk about, oh you go to
New York. Howp in your hand in New York? Bring
me give me that I want that. He can give

(01:16:28):
it all to me. I'm going to handle it better
than anybody's ever handled if I were in that situation.
I think John Harbolten around the league long enough that
he could handle it. So I think that's the best
job for him. You you guys agree, I mean, I
think that's number one on my list. I want to
be the coach of the Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
Well, I mean, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Because in Green Bay, you know there's the buzz that
Matt Laflour could be on his way out, and.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
I know, well that hasn't happened.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Yet.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Well, but let's say that open because I don't know
what your thought was on the Pack Bears game, but
that was an all time gag and a half by Green.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
And it's like the second time in a few weeks
against your biggest rival that that's happened. And I just wonder,
what do you think happens? Is there a change made
there based on all the reports and all the smoke
that's out there with Matt Lafleur.

Speaker 6 (01:17:18):
Well you also, again, like I said before, look at
all the guys that are off that team, and then
you're and did they handle the second half poorly? Absolutely?
I thought they should have taken the ball the second
half and been as aggressive as they were in the
first half and go end the game. You know, they
go up and get a touchdown on the opening drive
of that the second half and the game's over. They didn't.
They lollygag through that, and I thought that was part

(01:17:41):
of the problem. But the other part of that is
the idiot kicker makes his kicks and you win the game,
or you at least you in a position to win
the game, I mean, And so he missed one at
the end of the half that would have given you
more momentum going into the locker room and gave them
some hope. So there's a lot of things that play.
So did the floor handle it well? By the way
the second half? No, has he blown leaves in the past. Absolutely?

(01:18:03):
Does he have outs in reasoning not to fire him? Yeah, No, Parsons,
no Craft, no Tom, no Wyot. And you know, particularly Parsons,
you trade the values that you did to go get him.
That's the game he's deciding. Caleb Williams is scrambling around,
He's putting them on the ground. Game over. Well, he
wasn't there, and so when he's not there, I think

(01:18:24):
that gives them a little.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Bit of an out, all right, Pete LeVar used your
quote earlier he said he was on the right side
of a bunch of bets that didn't turn out well
for him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Which one was it for you this weekend? Which which
one were you on the wrong side of the Packers?

Speaker 6 (01:18:39):
The Packers there's no business losing that game, none, zero.
I mean, you can't blow that lead in that environment.
You're done. They're cooking on offense and they got too
they got too conservative. I thought the second half played
not to lose rather than to win. And when he
played not to lose rather than win, what ultimately happens,
He'll lose. That's exactly what happened, particularly when he got
a knucklehead kicker. Can't make a kick?

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Now, Pete, are you already eliminated from your picks this year?
Did you get your ass kicked again?

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
No? But I'll tell you what I was. I'm winning
across the board and I went oh for five this
week for.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Five, Peter, are you know hip and hip? Yeah? Because
I mean we should have been fave.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
And oh that's why we were on the right side
of those bets, because we should have been.

Speaker 6 (01:19:24):
You weren't getting the Rams. That was never You were
never winning that one. That was a bad pick that
the Rams played bad. You weren't winning that given can
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
It was, No way, but you picked you laid the
points of the Rams. Yeah, so you were wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:19:40):
I was way wrong, Brady. I can say you could
never say.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Well, I mean, can you say it? Brady?

Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Yeah, you heard that. You heard that, Pete? He said, Buddy,
he said, no, I that's not true. I have a
huge apology to ie you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
And now I'm to the point where like if you're
an Indiana fan, because I've like, I can't I have
to pick the other team because now I feel like
my disbelief in what they're doing, because it truly is
unbelievable to.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Me, Like, I can't pick them to win the national
championship now.

Speaker 6 (01:20:18):
And plus they're the number one football they're the number
one football program in Indiana.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
Now, you can't deny that. It's one hundred percent true
right now. Which, by the way, Notre Dame is the
only team to beat them in the past twenty games.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Whatever it's been.

Speaker 6 (01:20:32):
So, by the way, yeah, that and that and something
else will get you nothing. I meant, by the way, yeah, yeah, Pee,
how does that happen? Explain to me how that happens?
How does that Indiana who's the worst football program in
the history mankind?

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
Are you believing that there's some conspiracy theories out there, Pete,
I'm sure you've heard about him.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
You're all over social media.

Speaker 6 (01:20:56):
Whatever it is. Move that to the desert, please.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
See this is the BSU pull.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
You say you don't believe the conspiracy theories and then
you're literally bringing up on that's on social media right now,
and you're you're buying into it.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
Well, I mean, what's the conspiracy theory? The whole thing,
the whole college is bye bye bye bye bye. I mean, look,
I'm not so sure it's not happening. Boys, I'm not
so sure it's not happening in the desert. By the way,
they got like three of the top wide receivers in
the portal. I mean, I'm not sure that's not happening.
And they got a bunch offensive linements. They might be
doing it too. BLUs. Everybody at Indiana is they're like

(01:21:32):
twenty eight years old and they have children, don't they
The players on twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
Three, Which here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
Every BYU team's always got a huge average age, Like
if that's if that's the case, they should have been
winning national championships for years.

Speaker 6 (01:21:46):
But I mean they are experienced in their older players,
and they're good players, and he's a great coach.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
They're never at a position, and they have really strong
wi FI.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
There from what I hear, Yeah, that's I mean, listen,
that's what I heard. To get some stuff done, you know.

Speaker 11 (01:22:02):
But seriously, why they're they're they're well coached. There's and
I'm not just talking about the head coach across. You
could watch that team. They don't make mistakes. They're so
well coached, and that shows up. And you have good players,
you have a quarterback who's accurate, and you're gonna win
some games.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
But come on, that turned around. Something doesn't It's just
I mean, yeah, something's not. Did they do they have
a big, big pool of money, Brady?

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
I mean they brought some money in. I mean, is
Cuban brought some money in? Yeah, they brought some money in.

Speaker 6 (01:22:35):
I mean they got to have a big nil pool.
I would imagine I would I mean, would have Mendoza
cost them?

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
I mean they took the center from from Notre Dame.

Speaker 6 (01:22:43):
Notre Dame? What did what did Mendoza cost him?

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Brady?

Speaker 6 (01:22:47):
Do you have any idea?

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Not sure? Yeah, I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Yeah, Brady, Brady, do we have a we n I.

Speaker 6 (01:22:57):
L money and went to another race.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
That's rough of you, Pete Frisco, Pete, we always that'll
be enough of you, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Pete.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Always appreciate it. Thank you for the time, and we
will do it again next week.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
There he is. You got love. Senior NFL columnist for
CBS Sports. CBS Cords HQ.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
But wish does him out, don't want to talk to
him from a landline.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
Yeah, so he's got that definitely hung that bad boy up.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
First off, he he appreciates, you know, good radio, good connection.
That is old school is hell they used to be.
Did you hear him? Oh, when you got upset with
somebody hung.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
Up on him, that's when hanging up meant hanging up
like you hit the button anyway, disconnect anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
We could pull that back at some point later in
the show. That wow, man, Frisko, hanging up the land
so much fun. If people are missing out, man, enough
of this red button stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
You had, just.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Slam that phone and it's best when you miss it
on the side where it's got to like rattle.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
Interesting, all right, So all right then coming up next
here though, we are going to take a look.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
By the way, that's a dusty ass phone.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
The cockroaches will clean it, all right, come it up next.
We are going to uh, we are going to get
a glimpse of what could be the final chapter of
a Hall of Fame career.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
And that's yours here on fs R.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Okay, okay, okay, listen up, everyone, We told you Pizza
Hut before the first hut.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Get the pizza before the first hut. Pizza.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
I mean, that's what I'm trying to tell y'all. Get
some Pizza Hut before the first hut by the quarterback. Yeah,
and and and it's still going and it's going strong.
And don't forget to order Pizza Hut before the first
hut is yelled, because well, you get an opportunity to
make moves and get a hold of. What I would

(01:25:11):
consider to say or advise you to do is get
the big New Yorker. I mean, it's their biggest pizza
for the biggest games. And we all know that the
biggest games are taking place now. I mean there's a
big game tonight, there's a big game, Big games this
upcoming weekend. And well, if you're going to watch a
massive game, why not have massive slices. I mean that

(01:25:33):
just seems to make sense. And if you're a big
pizza person you know that, and why slices are really
really really good, so you know, and you can get
it at a really really great price. I mean, think
about a massive pizza for only ten bucksh So, before

(01:25:53):
the first hut, order the biggest pizza for the biggest games, Crab,
the Big New Yorker, You're set for the whole game.
What you gained a pizza order? I don't know, but
you do. Do you fold your slices like a New Yorker.
I ain't from New York, but I do fold my slices. Actually,
I like to grab two pieces, two slices, and put

(01:26:14):
them together. Actually I like kake them bad boys up.
But a to each his own. I like to make
mine thick. I don't know why anyway, for the big games,
we get don't forget to pizza up before the hut
order the Big New Yorker earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Don't wait, it's just ten bucks.

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