December 13, 2024 • 57 mins
It’s a Football Friday on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, and the Rams eek out an ugly win vs the Niners who have players quitting mid-game. UFC Fighter Colby Covington calls out LeBron. TheMMQB’s Albert Breer talks flag-planting, Belichicks’s new gig and everything NFL.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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what happened? Oh I'm just you know, you know sometimes
I make time. Now I didn't make time and respond,
but you responded. I thought the response was very funny.
I thought it was very witty. We're not giving out,
(00:58):
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He wrote a book, he does a lot of things.
What's his name? You don't want to say his name,
(01:19):
You don't want to give him no props. You love him.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Listen, Look, I've got a Brady for financial advice. Was
this stuff like a quadruple Masters in business from uh,
you know, like Dublin and he's still in school to
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
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he's going to actually get to write a course that
is the Brady Quinn Course. Brady for what No, he
attack us. You know we do the Blue Chuo Pill
reads and stuff like that. You're like, I think it's
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Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah you might not, you know if you're listening and
complaining about it, but someone might so you know, yeah,
I would be.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
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listening right now exactly Jonus, don't don't don't be so
selfish man, you know, because there will come a time
where you sat there and you thought, man, I never
would have thought today, would have been that day that
I thought about using it, you know what I mean,
And it may come. It just might come. I'm just
telling you, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It might.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, So you don't want to no Diddy, no diddy
on that one that I put that one together and
for what it's makers and I say that's at that
time may come. But anyway the point is that you
may need a climactical ending. Unlike last night's Thursday Day
(03:00):
night game that we watched. Well, I mean you that
game needed a blue cheo. You know what.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm a big fan of low scoring football game, are you. Yeah,
you know, especially a guy.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It still didn't. I still had no love for that game.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
When mother Nature is like, oh you guys are playing
a football game tonight, kiss my ass. This is what
you'll get. You'll get a field goal fest between the
Rams and the Niners. So yeah, not the most entertaining
game of the world.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But Cooper Cup was on a milk box. Huh three targets,
zero catches, zero, y'all. Yeah, they said fantasy football. Fantasy
football people were freaking melting down on social media.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I mean, if you were in the playoffs, cost
did you? I didn't get that far.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm starting Cooper Cup tonight. It was so with Butler's here.
Too much going on in the world of sports, but
not enough scoring last night.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Not enough sports on TV. I'll tell you that. And
you've got Pretty Woman and Ben affleck O d on drugs.
Lorena and Coop are weird, man like, it's weird. Pretty
Woman is one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, okay, so what do we like so much
about Pretty Woman?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean, I don't know. Julia Roberts. She's a hooker
with the wind.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I was gonna say, it's uh, I mean she plays
a hooker in that one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So Richard Gear is playing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
She she has a heart of gold, hey man.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Richard Gear on the Sneak is kind of like your
boy Douglas on the Sneak. He has that like real sly,
fox like look that he has with women in the
movies that he plays. What's the difference, though, Well, pets
are allowed, gerbils, hamsters, what guinea pigs? What? What? Which one?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Listen? Well, hide and go seek, never hurt anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But his looks aren't as intense as Michael Douglass's though,
and the action isn't as intense either. But the approach
seems to be kind of close to the same. So
there you go. Yeah, and I can guarantee you those
two could use blue cheo.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's a good point. Maybe a couple now, do you
think maybe uh, Devandre Campbell of the Niners could use
some help at this point in time. Kind of an
interesting situation popped up during the game last night that
featured a bunch of field goals in which Devondre Campbell
of the Niners decided, eh, not into it, and Kyle Shanahan,
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the head coach of the forty nine ers, was asked
about it afterwards.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Happened with Defondre Campbell.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
He didn't play it, and he went into the locker room.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
At some point.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, he didn' said he didn't want to play to
day during the game or before that was in the third.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Quarter, Devandre opt into not going to the game.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What do you need to do to ensure that you
don't lose the rest of the locker room?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I haven't lost anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's if somebody doesn't want to play football, that's pretty simple.
I mean, I think our team and myself we know
abaly feel about that. So I don't think we need
to talk about him anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So, I mean that could be a little bit detached
from reality. We haven't lost anyone. There's only so many
guys on the roster, and if one of them happened
to say I don't want to go into the game, which,
by the way, this is like the second time in
so many weeks that we've had a guy that opted
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out of going into the game. I mean, it is
Bowl season. Is it that time of the year where
now it's transitioning into the National Football League game?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh, I'm just gonna opt.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Out of this game.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You don't want to play in the levice.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
This is like, you know, this is like a bowl
game that I don't want to play in, So I'm
gonna just go ahead and take it on in. I mean,
but seriously speaking, that is losing a player. You did lose.
Anyone is someone if they're on your roster because you
guys chose to put that man on your roster. He
was not only on yours, but he was an active
man on your roster, which is a very very very
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low percentage of people in the world that had that job.
And he went to the locker room. So you can't
say you don't want to lose or I don't. I
haven't lost anyone. Our roster is good and they want
to play football, like he didn't want to play football.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They had two linebackers go out in the game last night.
They needed him to go back in, and he said no,
and then he had Charvarius Ward who ripped him afterwards.
George George Kittle also had this to say about his
decision not to go back in.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
That is one person who just decided not to play
for his teammates. And no, I don't think that that
doesn't like does make our office so should be like, wow, man, No,
we're falling apart. It's more of a we're like the
defense he we're falling apart. It's more of a one
person making a, like Mooney said.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
A selfish decision.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
And I'm with Mooney on that, and I.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
I've never been around anybody that's ever done that, and
I hope I'm never run anybody that does that again.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So I agree. I agree with Kittle. But that's the
reality of it is is now you can't say never.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
That's that's that's one right there. That's one perspective right there.
I mean, here's the here's the reality is. I have
no idea if Devondre Campbell is going through something mentally.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Who was the player who quit at halftime in Buffalo?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Wasn't that Vonte Davis or that brother who I think
passed away recently. That was that's who passed away? Yeah,
he's the one who did it and even retired, didn't
he walked down right Like, I'm like when he was done,
he was done. I'm done, And I'm not only done
with this game, I'm done with this profession. I'm done,
right yeah, And and I don't know Vernon Davis, the.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Specifics, the circumstances, any of it.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Like, I don't know if any of it is mental
health related. It could be like I'm done, I'm done
with the game, not doing this thing. I have no idea.
So I don't really want to pass judgment, although I mean,
from the jump, it does sound like an awful thing
to do to your teammates. Oh, it is an awful
thing to do to everyone else involved. But so it
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needs more clarification from him, specifically as to why exactly
you just chose to quit.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
On your team.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
You know, a lot of guys are battling through different injuries,
things like that they're playing through. I don't know if
that even played a factor. Doesn't sound like it. So
it's tough for me to sit here and try to
make a case for it.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But I always kind of I.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Costion people sometimes because sometimes there's a greater issue at
hand and it hasn't been diagnosed, it hasn't been addressed,
hasn't been discussed. So I'm a little bit concerned because
it just seems so abnormal. Maybe not for him, Like
I've never played with the dude. I've been in locker
room with him, and maybe this is something he does,
but man, it's just such a bad look and I
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can't imagine. I just I can't imagine that he's gonna
get signed again. You quit on your team.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He doesn't have a job today. By the way, y'all,
he does not have a job. You can guarantee if
you look at.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It, it's a death sentence for your career if you
do something like this and there's not some reason behind it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Now, I mean, maybe he looked at Deontay Johnson and
said to himself, you know what, I like the way
that looked to me. And if they treat me the
same exact way, I'm going to do the same exact thing,
and I'm going to prove my point. Some people have
weird and interesting ways of trying to be creative and
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proving what they feel their points should be. And while
I'll agree with you on saying, listen, I don't know
what that young man is dealing with and what maybe
was the framework and the motivation that went into his
frame of thought. But I will, however, say this, of
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the all of the studying and all of the information
that has gathered and choosing people to be a part
of your team and a part of your roster, it's
such an extensive and an exhausting thing for certain people
to do, your scouting department and your g and we
just talked about it yesterday with Lombardi being hired for you,
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and see with Bill Belichick how important it is to
be able to evaluate the talent that you're going to
bring in for your team. At some point your studies
should have revealed that there are things connected to the
way this young man handles things, or the way that
he may think or feel or whatever it may be,
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and you got to take an educated, you know, assessment
or make an educated decision on if you want to
bring that type of personality into your locker room because
it can be a cancer to the rest of your team. Now,
he's not a significant enough figure for that to be
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the case, but what if it was. What if the
name is different, What if it's an Antonio Brown? You
know what I mean. I'm not only going to leave
and not go back in because of how I feel
about the scenario, but I'm a d robe and I'm
going to make a spectacle of the situation for this team,
for this game, and for myself on my way out.
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You know, these are things that you have to weigh out,
you gotta think about, and that's a part of sport.
It's it's one of the interesting aspects of the job.
But you have to measure out and weigh out what
the emotional, mental stability and capacity of what the talent
is that you're looking at and you're evaluating for your team.
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So I'll agree with Kyle Shanahan. I don't think this
was a scenario where you have to be you know,
I guess disturbed or aware of if you're losing, concerned
if you're losing your locker room. But you can't just
say anyone because you guys chose to have him on
your roster. So he's someone He's just someone that now
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just became anyone based off of the decision that he
chose to make and representation of his self in that moment.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, But is that a reflection on them choosing the
wrong guy or the guy choosing the wrong time to
go in for himself.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I mean, I gotta get accountable for the decisions that
you make. So if that man made that decision and
that became public knowledge, that's still a reflection of their
decision making.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think it's one guy who went rogue and decided
I don't want to be a part of this anymore, and.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You still have to take terrible spot if you wanted
something to Yeah, rogue, he went rogue right now? No,
I mean he's probably doing something to help the show
to LaPray Campbell. I mean, but dude, Cooper is though.
But there you go. It went rogue, There you go,
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there you go. I mean, what what perfect timing for
you to even say?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It couldn't even the commercial, I couldn't even wait.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
What's what's interesting is if you look at the season
for the Niners, maybe that's why you didn't go in though,
because if you had to alleviate himself, you know you
if you if he had to go.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
To the bathroom, is you're saying, if he had to
go to the bathroom like Lee, maybe that was why
he didn't want to go back into the game.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, we sound such a good run.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I mean, imagine that. Imagine that the moment you said it, Irony,
the moment you saying it and we look in there
and he literally went rogue to the restroom.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well, yeah, that's what he does, taking a regular we're
giving back to the conversation an off Lee. The bigger
issue is for the forty nine ers, it's not looking
good this season and they haven't had a sub double
digit win season in which they've gone to at least
the NFC Championship Game, if not the Super Bowl since
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twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
So think about that. Prior to this year, four out
of the last five.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Years, all they've known is at least an NFC Championship game,
if not a Super Bowl. And yeah there was that
you know, six and ten year back in twenty twenty,
but this I don't know, does it feel like that year?
Does it feel like a team that's just kind of
battled through a bunch of injuries. It feels different in
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my mind because they have to make so many business
decisions and I don't know how they keep it all
the tother Like their window was open from twenty nineteen
to twenty twenty three, and those were their opportunities to
go win a Super Bowl, and unfortunately they ran into
the Chiefs twice and they couldn't get past the Rams,
and they couldn't get past the Eagles. Like that probably
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is how we're going to remember this team.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, their championship windows got a sorry wear clothes sign
on the outside.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's a wrap.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And Trent Williams is getting older, the injuries are piling up,
the brock Purty stuff is out there. It just everything
about this year just felt like this wasn't headed in
the right direction. You had a guy get shot in
the middle of the street in broad daylight before the year,
like right right then and there. I was like, okay,
so this is where we're at. The Deebo Samuel stuff, which,
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by the way, him dropping that pass, which probably would
have been a tit of bound. Yeah, after all the
noise and conversation he had this year, it just feels
like they're up against it. They're one and four in
the division now Seattle and the Rams feel like they're
kind of pulling away from everybody else there. I just
I don't see it. I think it's I think that's
pretty much it for them.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's just amazing to be at a point in time
where someone who has had so much success and has
been lauded in praise for how well they have done,
and praise for how unique and how creative and bright
a mind as one of the young coaches in this
league has been in Kyle Shanahan, that the questions would
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actually start to surface as to if there may if
his time may have run its run its course. You know,
you have to ask there was the question asked of
their GM if if there was actually the possibility if
they would retain their coach. That's that's damning if you
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ask me that. If you want to understand the level
and the magnitude of what one see eason of a
lack of success, what that looks like, you have to
have the conversation as to dusk, is it time for
Shanahan to move on? Is it time to move on
from Shanahan?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Florio kind of stirring the pods.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, but I mean in stirring the pot there could
be some legitimacy in the stirring. I mean, they are
not They are under their five hundred team right now,
and they are not competitive. In fact, they are the
worst team in their division right now. And that's that's
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a far that's a very very far drop from where
they were not not too long ago, a year ago.
It's a far drop, man. And and you have to
ask yourself, why is that. I mean, they've overcome injuries before.
This just does not look like a team that is
going in the right direction, even with all of the
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adverse situations that they have have had to endure.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, I got to feel that we're going in the
right direction today because I've got a big announcement for
you guys here.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh wow, okay, it's a football frontay, all right, yeah, yeah,
come on.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, he's very exciting Saturday.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Yeah all right. Yeah's not here. He's in the rest,
please not here. He's in the dun.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
He's spiking poop. He spiking spiking poop. Yeah, he spiking boom. Yeah,
he's back. He's back. He's got something trail. He got
steaky trail. He got sneaky trail. He's got steaky trail.
All right, right now, let's do it. Let's do it
for Eddie. This one is for you, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Friday Night is a Friday. Damn Football Friday. Go to
the bathroom, steps the Turns. Football Spike the Turns, Spike
the Turns.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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Speaker 3 (20:25):
Brady I showed LeVar the Colby Covington.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm jumping all over that tomorrow. Now, y'all want to
jump on it today, that would be wonderful, But I'm
jumping all over that one.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Kobe Covington intended either basically just lighting Lebron James on
fire to open up a press conference as he gets
ready for a fight this weekend that nobody thought was
gonna you know, I'm Andy saw coming.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You got to ask yourself the question, why hasn't there
been any real attention pay to the correlation between what
he's been doing recently and what's been happening recently, there
hasn't been a real media push to actually maybe delve
(21:11):
into it, to actually maybe, you know, ask that question,
you know, just to make sure you, you know, maybe
separate yourself from what's going on, rather than it coming
across as maybe perpetuating what could be assumed just saying
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that's hoo dope man, it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
He let him up the h yeah, unprovoked, opened up
his presser and just said basically.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Did you hear did you hear the audio on it?
Speaker 11 (21:48):
Que?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What's that on?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
On?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Kobe?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Uh'll be coming to lighten up Lebron James?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
What what parts of it would you say?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Was? I just don't motivation like it just came out
of nowhere. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Should we play it?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I mean I don't know what the motivation is either,
But maybe the motivation is that, how are you gonna
play it?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well?
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Can we?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
What's the turnaround time?
Speaker 11 (22:17):
On?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
He opens up, I sent you the link, not.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Lee Boy, not Lee Boy?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Why not? What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Lee?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Let's let's try and roll that in. There is some
cursing in it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Everybody who Lee boy, I don't know. I don't know
if that's what Lee.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Make sure you include the follow up, the beginning of
the follow up question from the media member who didn't
know how to respond to how Kobe opened up the
press conference.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, he made it a point, and this is what
I think, Yes, what's the motivation? I would say, I
would offer the fact that there are some people that
are truly, truly passionate about first responders. And he made
it a point to reference the whole idea of how
how Lebron had his approach towards you know, the police department,
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and so you know, some people really really look at
that as as very not American, and and so I
would assume possibly that that was the motivation behind his anger.
But what it immediately made me think of, and I
started to wonder, is why isn't I mean, there has
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to be someone who is going to talk to Lebron
or ask Lebron about any connection to that situation and there,
and that has not happened. I mean, let's be let's
be real about it. I mean, let's let's keep it
one hundred a buck from the hip. You're not seeing
(23:53):
that on on Sports Center, You're not seeing that on
any of these news outlets where you're actually asking Lebron James,
can you clear this up? Because as we get further
down this rabbit hole, there is content there. There are pictures,
there are videos, there's sound bites there. There are things
that are surfacing that could actually lead to you being
(24:17):
directly discussed and talked about in the circles of what
was taking place with Diddy.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I mean, listen, if you asked him a difficult CoLtd
question after an NBA Finals game, he got up, grabbed
his bag and walked out and through a tantrum. How
do you think he's gonna handle it?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay, So you throw a tangrum, you get up, you
grab your bag, and you walk out. Does that do
you any justice as it applies to There's still a
lot of things that could kind of unfold and could
surface from what's taking place with Diddy?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (24:50):
So are we doing this segment, Lebron, just because if
we're going to go into let's go into it. Because
there's also some speculation of trade rumors right like he
could be t to the Warriors that's kind of been
floating around out there now. I don't know if we
need to acknowledge or justify those rumors.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
I personally looking and get a hold on a second.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So the guy who basically got the coach he wanted,
who he formerly did a podcast with and got the
organization to draft his son.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Go ahead talk about it is gonna up and just
get traded to the Warriors time, Like, how does that
make any sense?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
And if it does happen, then it calls into question.
I mean, I don't want need to get into Steph
Curry angle of things, but what is Lebron ultimately looking
to do at this point in his career? And I
think the simple answer would be like go to a
better team and kind of chase championships at that point, right,
I mean again here and here's the thing about the
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Lebron Michael Jordan debate or even Kobe for people out
there who are Kobe fans aren't Lebron fans, is you've
already got your feet dug in, like there's nothing that's
gonna change.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Your opinion one way or another.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Like young Cats and a lot of people who side
to the Lebron James the greatest ever will use this
statistical argument when he's played for you know.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
A long long time.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Most people who say Jordan, they're simply like, we don't
need stats because we watched it, like we watched his greatness,
We watched him play, and you're not gonna convince me otherwise.
You know, there's a gap in there too, So it
took away from the stats. The game has changed. That
changes a lot too in regards to how this. You know,
stats are looked at, at least that's how I feel,
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So I guess I just look.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
At it and go, like, what is the point of it?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
If he did all this for the Lakers and then
somehow behind the scenes trying to orchestrate a trade out
just to go chase some more rings or be in
a better situation than what the Lakers are at this point.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, don't you just feel like the timing is
is just really really it's just really peculiar.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Time, especially after you just basically worked the organization into
drafting your son and then you're just gonna bail. Although
I think Bronnie did score thirty points in uh the
Z League or whatever it's called last night, so there
is that, all right.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Why do you do that?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Do what you know it's called I misspoke? Come on,
it happens from time to time. Here was so appealed,
little bad You think it's funny, like, no one thinks
it's funny.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
It's not funny.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
And then someone hits us up on social media like, oh,
Jonas doesn't even know what basketball league is?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
The minor league for that, I don't care what they say.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I know you don't care. I'm just saying it's just
there's no point. It's a terrible joke.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
So here's Colby Covington. He is a UFC fighter, a
very good UFC fighter. He's got a fight coming up
this weekend.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
An awesome dude.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They do these these media calls in which fighters sit
down and they'll answer a bunch of questions. And this
is how would the press conference started out for Kobe
Covington this week.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I want to ask Lebron what does he mean by
there's no party like a Diddy party? I truly want
to know. And not only that, Lebron, how many Diddy
parties have you actually been to? I'm really curious to know.
And is that the reason you let social media? Because
all the backlash you were getting for going to so
many bitty Diddy parties. It's just just pathetic man. People
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think this guy's a role model, wants to defund the police,
the most patriot people of America serving and protecting our country. Lebron,
you're a scumbag and I hope you get locked up
in the same cell with Diddy.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Well, Kobe, nice to see you again. Wow, Well there
you go.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think I had a few things I needed to
get off my chest.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Like, what do you think he was doing strolling through
social media?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Up?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It might I think that was calculated. Well, okay, he
was calculated and doing that. Here's the book on Kobe Covington.
When he was fighting early in his UFC career, a
lot of people labeled him as a quote unquote boring fighter.
He needed to do something. He felt like he needed
to do something before he was going to get released
by the organization to try and build his brand. So
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he took on this approach to where he was going.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
To go after everybody, he was going to be support
you know, Donald Trump, all of that stuff, and went
all in and a lot of people have said, well, listen,
he's not really like that. This is a character. But
the Lebron stuff has been going on for a long
ass time, like he has gone after Lebron several times,
whether it's pre fight, post fight, you name it. And
(29:42):
so when he saw the opportunity now because he hasn't
fought in a little while, to just open it up,
he knew the media wasn't going to ask him any
questions about Lebron, so he just decided, all right, I'll
take it upon myself and just went scorched earth on
him the entire time. And this is what he's done
for a couple of years now, except this time he
does ask maybe a couple of fair questions.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Those are I mean, for what it's worth, they are
fair questions we have not heard being asked. That's for one.
For two, understanding your audience, they say, understand the audience,
like read the room, understand your audience. Well, you know
what if you if you understand UFC culture, he understands
his audience because that's a very very patriotic UH fan
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base that is connected to UH, to the UFC fight game,
to to the sports industry, so to to our culture
in general. It's it's a patriotic UH fan base. So anyway,
I just what's more interesting to me is he he
could come across any way he wanted to, and that that,
(30:50):
you know whatever, it is his rant that he presented
and offered, you know, non solicited in his interview. But
I feel like the bigger question that comes from it
is did you not think that?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Did?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Did?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Who?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Who?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
When? When Lebron James said I'm leaving social media for
a while, When Lebron James, you know kind of what's
connected to the Diddy parties the p Diddy period with
what was being pushed out there? I mean, did no
one not get curious about it? And what is media about?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Can I tell you what my initial thought was. I
thought he, like others were pouting about the election, and
he was like, this is going to be my stance.
I don't want to deal with this and make up
some you know kaka memie excuses to why I didn't
even think about that aspect it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I mean, I didn't out I mean, bro, if you're
paying attention that the content that was coming out, like
did you see the photo of him and the mad outfit?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That real? I don't know, but why not ask the question?
That's why I said, can we go.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Our photos of professional athletes and made gear? Expertly to
lap Lee, is that photo real of Lebron?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Joys?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, Lebron is a maid?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Is that real?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Have you seen?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I have not seen this photo.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Can we come to you outstairs of authority?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I mean, I mean, isn't it work?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I mean all I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Saying, hey, hey, I don't know. I think so. I
listened Oscar de la Hoya did it and confirmed that it.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Was and told and told Shannon on Club, who hasn't
what man hasn't dressed up in women's clothing, you know,
in the comforts and confines of their own.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That's an interesting guy asked, He told that. The shen
is Sharp on the show is ask this is not real, dude,
It's it's it's been debunked. Everyone's all I know is
all I know.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Is you can't debunk that that video of what I'm
saying that I did not like it any party. So
whatever it is that resonates from it, why not have
the conversation? There's that what media is about asking questions
about things that are connected to especially mega juggernaut athletes
such as a Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
First of all, none of the kiss asks at ESPN
are gonna ask the question, and nobody here locally he
is gonna ask the question. It's not happening. They've got
too much invested.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Do you think they tell them? Do you think they
pre warn them to not? These are the questions you
are totally not to ask and bring up.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
A Lebron Jamey. I mean, I'm actually reading a Snopes
article on this.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Now. You could see it in the hands the hands are.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Those are not his hands.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Okay, those are all right, so that one night he
addresses are made, all right.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Exonerated in Lebron's defense. By the way, there is going
to be so much stuff AI can do.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Oh easily scary, Yeah, easily.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Like it's gonna be. I mean, Lee's gonna have a
really tough job trying to.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Now that we've ordained you as the official, uh in
determining these matters.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, you've more ordained them. I'm not well, I'm not
dying on that here. I mean someone has to Yeah, well,
I just I feel like there needs to be a
you know, a level of authority and track, and it
needs in fairness of NFL media, they did ask Roger Goodell.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
They said, hey, what are your thoughts on the jay
Z stuff that's come out because jay Z's company, Rock
Nation does.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
The Super Bowl talent. Yeah, yeah, and it's true.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Roger Goodell said, yeah, we know there's a civil suit,
and you know, we have no plans at this time
to make any changes to that. And let's be clear,
and let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
If that were a player, if that were a coach,
if that were a GM, what would happen, If it
were owner, what would happen? I mean, and these are
questions that should be asked. It's a publicly consumed product,
and I think we all know if it was a player.
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I think we all know if there was a civil
suit that came out on a player to to this
this this topic of conversation, I think we all know
what would happen. I don't know how far up the
latter it goes where you'd say that the result, the
end result is not the same. But it's possible by
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organization a GM, a CEO, a president ahead of this, uh,
you know, whatever it may be, they could have the
same type of consequences as a player would.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
And people think we don't talk NBA on the show.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, I'm just said this is hey who won the
league tournament.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Things still happening, I think so.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I think they're on their way to I mean, I'll
be honest with you, Atlanta is going to.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
No Lie, no lie.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Last night I was watching in and these women's basketball
team versus Yukon, which, by the way, great, great win
for the Irish. I would rather watch that than than
I'm just being honest, like, I found it more entertaining
watching Hannah Hidalgo Olivia Miles.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
You know, Pagebacker is more entertained than regular Sea's NBA.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
With Caitlin Clark hitline not too long ago too. But
I mean, I'm just saying we stay away from it.
But oh, it's just some interesting things going on, I
guess in the round ball world.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I mean, if you if you've seen any of the
NBA this year, it's it's pretty obvious that it's the
Celtics and then everybody else. It's not really they are
pretty good. Yeah, there's not.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
It's so weird too, Jonas, what team did you root
for growing up?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Well, I'm not really much of an NBA guy, to be.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Honest with you. Yeah, but if you had to pick
a team, like, would it be the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I would say that probably just because of my Irish roots.
I would say the Boston Celtics at that time in Dublin,
we spent really did wonders for me, to be honest
with you, that's interesting. Irish roots, Irish I think so gotcha,
I believe so. Who knows.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I wish.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
I wish people could understand the level of like front
running that Jonas has done throughout his life.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And I get it. I get it. He's a sports fan.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
He likes all these teams that are really really good
when he was young, with the exception of the Cubs,
Like that's the one spot where I do have a
compassionate for you know, spot for you, even.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Though they have one recently.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
So there are a lot of sports people out there
that are like that, though.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
I will say that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I find it to be, Oh yeah, I find it
to be like the most interesting phenomenon when you're like
walking in the airport or you're in a public place
that you always happiness to talk to people who are
from where the super Bowl team like they're playing in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I'm from there, I was.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm a fan of that team every single year when
I when I was playing. More so i play, I
paid attention to it. Like you be going to the
Pro Bowl or you be going to the Super Bowl
or going to some type of event and you're in
the airport and you talk to people and they're like, yeah,
I'm from I'm you know, I'm from New England. I'm
from Boston. Right then they're in the Super Bowl, like, yeah,
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you're not from New England.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
I still think the dopest thing about flying through Logan
the airport in Boston is all the banners that hang. Dude,
that is the biggest flex of any airport in any city.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
To me in this country.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
It is I get hills looking up and I'm like,
that's that goes strong man, Like that's a reminder, Like
you got that six am flight, You're getting up there.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Get the security you look up, You're like, damn.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
And by the way, for those at home who don't know,
sixteen NBA championships, the Boston Celtics have one. It's the
most of any franchise. And I'll see the most recent
in twenty twenty four. So don't let Janice try to
distract you.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
It's eighteen. It's now eighteen.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
I'm seeing sixteen, no eighteen. Come on, I'm just telling
you what the internet's telling me.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
The Lakers used the bubble to count as a tie
at seventeen, and the Lake Celtics won eighteen last year.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
So but weird. Why is it? Why is Tommy sixteenth?
I don know, it's.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Probably Wikipedia, think about bad information? Tis the season. If
you go look up anything on Wikipedia, they're asking for money,
so have fun with that. But it is two pros
and the.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Code left two years on this? Yeah? Is that?
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Is that wikipedias full wonder the you hit me up
about funding whoever?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
It's like, hey, donate to three dollars going, we need
someone to private? Yeah, can we get two?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
I need to donate.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
They haven't had anybody on pay rolled up.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
For my main source of information.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
For an extra dollars seventy five, we'll have the correct
information for you if you could just pip in. At
some point during the end of that.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Chat, GBT isn't free anymore, right, you got to pay
for that now, I do know. I think so everybody's
going to pay for pay now?
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
What happened to free? I loved it when it was free?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
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Speaker 3 (40:19):
Albert Breer, Yeah, the star of Amazon's NFL on prime
coverage every Thursday night. He is the insider there. He
is a senior NFL reporter, lead content strategist at the MMQB.
You can get him on x at Albert Breer and
he's got a lot of answering for some questions we
have about some of the decisions being made in the
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state of Ohio when it comes to the Buckeyes. Maybe
what's happening?
Speaker 11 (40:44):
What's up, guys?
Speaker 5 (40:46):
I mean, I mean, come on, yeah, jump into it.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
What's your take?
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Come on, man, are you serious? Right now?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
They're trying to make planning a flag in the state
of Ohio a felony.
Speaker 11 (41:01):
Oh yeah, I mean that would trust me. I am
so against that politician doing that. Apparently, I'm suspicious that
he is. This is like counterintelligence here, trying to make
us all look bad. I don't I don't know one
Ohio state person that's not an exaggeration. I don't know
one Ohio state person who would to support that, who
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like would even compost touching that. No way, it's so idiotic,
so dumb, Like just please, but that's something they would do.
Don't don't lower yourself to that something.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
They would do.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Wow, all right, still, I.
Speaker 11 (41:44):
Guess I mean I said this, I said this is
a million I said I said this about the tunnel
fight a few years ago. Right, So, like I just
being a big ten guy like I, if you fight
at in State right that, no, no, that you would
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get jumped or somebody might suck a bunch you. If
you get into a fight at Michigan, your fear would
be the guy who started the fight would call the
cops on you. And that's exactly what the tunnel fight was,
and that, in fact is exactly what happened at the
Horseship is you know, they went the flag, they start
the fight, are guys going to finish it? And they
call the cops?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (42:26):
Wow. Again I'm sort of against, but I'm not a
sort of I'm fully against. But the what what this
congressman's trying to do or State Center or whatever?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
He is?
Speaker 11 (42:39):
All right, right, how do you feel about it. As
a resident of the state.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I think it's the softest thing I've ever heard of.
And I understand if you were to make a case
for like protecting law enforcement. But it's not like this
is that big of an issue. I mean, it's not like, hey,
there's flag planning.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
Going on all of the state.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
We need to stop this otherwise we're putting our you know,
our police officers in harm's way. It's like, come on, dude,
like stop, like this is this is all to good attention.
This is what politicians do. I can't stand it anyway.
I do want to ask you though, because I feel
like I saw you at the House State Michigan game.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I made sure the entire section you were sitting in
knew you were the mush. And now we have.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
The opportunity to see Ohio State host state home playoff
game versus Tennessee. Where are you at with the entire season,
just the result where we're heading right now?
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Ryan Day, the whole thing.
Speaker 11 (43:35):
I'm obviously frustrated with what happened, just because I don't
really understand running the ball right at their two best
players in that game. Yeah, it was played well enough,
and I feel bad for guys like Jack Sawyer, but
I mean, I wouldn't say this and Ryan's defense like
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generally they've corrected problems when they come up to the
bath and I do think like this is going to
be a good chance for him to correct some of
the issues from that Michigan game. I haven't watched a
lot of Tennessee from from when I understand they're built
sort of like Michigan in a lot of ways, and
so you know, we'll see it now, we'll see whether
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or not. You know, you've learned, and you know, you
start to take advantage to the match if you have
on the perimeter a little bit, they play a little
more tempo. You know, there's the same opportunity to atone
for what happened against Michigan's there was two years ago.
And you know, I think if they come out and
they play like they did two years ago coming out
(44:38):
of the Michigan game, and they'll be justifying they got
a chance to win the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Ab the Bill Belichick news to North Carolina, what serious
interest was there in him this year from NFL teams
any conversation. I know there's three current teams that had openings,
but was this about him not getting any love from
the NFL or did he just see this as an
opportunity to sort of bridge the job to his son
(45:04):
later on.
Speaker 11 (45:06):
I think it's somewhere in the middle of like whether
there's the interest in the NFL and what his interest
in the NFL would be, you know, Like I think
it's not so much like I'm not going to get
an offer to go coach anywhere. I think it was.
I'm not sure I'm going to get an offer to
coach on coach on my term and to do it
my way, you know. And I think that like that
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thought process is the result of the last year for him.
First of all, it's going back to, you know, when
he got fired by the Patriots and the fact that
only one of the six teams that had openings other
than New England interviewed them. It's the way those things
went down in that one interview where it's like the
bureaucracy of the Falcons front office got him and wound
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up eliminating him as a candidate, which I think confirmed
his worldview on some on the way a lot of
teams operate. Then he gets the thousand foot view over
the last eleven months and sees the way that you
know he deals at least a lot of teams are mismanaged.
And then the Jets job comes open, the Saint's job
(46:12):
comes open, the first job comes open, and I think
the realization starts to manifest for him that, like man,
there's not going to be in all likelihood the type
of place that I feel like I can set it
up the way I need to set it up to
go win. Meanwhile, like as he and his people, the
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people around him are studying the college game, they're seeing
as that opportunity money exist in college, and then they're
seeing some NFL elements being corporated into the college game,
whether it's NIL as the salary cap or the transfer
portalist free agency. So, you know, I think it is
you know, he's starting to go through all of this.
It was where am I going to have that opportunity,
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the best opportunity to do things my way? And I
think over the last eleven months, you know, he saw
that maybe the best opportunity to do think his way,
maybe the only opportunity to truly do things his way,
was going to come to college.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
You know, I think that's so interesting to hear that perspective,
and I would agree with you, Abe, how much does
this impact moving forward? This now seemingly could create a
competition between a legitimate competition between pro and college. I mean,
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this is as high profile a higher as maybe ever
in the history of college sports, well college football, of course.
To bring in Bill Belichick as your head coach, knowing
that this is a guy who's never coached at the
college level, taking this and saying he can do it
the way he would want to do it in college,
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I mean, that's got to set a tremendously large precedence
in terms of how you're moving forward with looking at
your own job opportunities, of your of your pro coach.
Speaker 11 (48:05):
I mean, I think, really it's like any of the
elsele bar like. Where it rides on is whether or
not it works right, because if it works, then you'll
have a team to steal a lot of college programs
trying to copycat it. And you know, there aren't a
lot of high profile college openings this year. My understanding
(48:26):
is they're probably will be next year. Now I don't
cover college football, so don't I don't know exactly which
stuffs will be, but it sounds like there's a good
chance there'll be some pretty high profile openings next year.
And yeah, I mean if this works, and like Bill
prooves that, like they're able to work the transfer portal
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more effectively and work on il more efficiently. If you
do have that NFL experience, then I think there will
certainly be more college programs that are willing to pay
top dollar being coaches from the NFL. And like, conversely,
if Bill can do things his way, he doesn't need
to go on the runder a crew and he could hire,
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which I know is his plan, he could hire a
whole recruiting staff to basically handle that for him and
let his coaches just coach. Well. Then, like I think
that that makes those jobs more attracted to pro guys,
you know. So you know, I think it's gonna be
fascinating because I think Bill says do things a little
bit differently the way he just said it. That's gonna
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be a little different. You know, it could work both ways,
where the success of North Carolina could attract college college
programs to look at NFL coaches and then could entice
NFL coaches to look at college shops.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be fascinating to see how
it works because and I said this earlier. You know
Dion and how he changed from year one to year two,
and what he said he needed was like he need
a more NFL coaching, more NFL style program.
Speaker 5 (49:57):
That's what he's running with the portal.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
And now you see Bill Belichick, who spent time at
Washington where his sun was defensive coordinator, and kind of
seeing the landscape going, wait a second, we could do
this at the college level and probably have more autonomy
and not have to deal with an owner.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Which leads me to this question. There's gonna be a
lot of openings.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
It feels like there's already a decent amount now, but
more once the season.
Speaker 5 (50:18):
Ends for the NFL. He's so close to Schule's record.
Why not?
Speaker 4 (50:24):
Wait, I mean, is there a sense I saw a
report that maybe there weren't going to be that many
teams looking at him or wanting to give him that
opportunity to coach with some openings.
Speaker 11 (50:36):
Frady, I think he just wants to coach, and I
think it's genuine, and I think that proved that, you know,
and I think, like you know, it's a doll bird
in the hand thing, right, like he he had an
opportunity to coach right in front of him, and unfortunately
the highing cycles through a two level A sports don't
match up. So you know, if he waits a month,
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then there's a chance, you know, there's no job for
him in the NFL. And if there's no job for
him in the NFL, that that one only he feels
comfortable to takey well, then you know, then he's sitting
out another year. And I don't think he wanted to
do that, and so like I think, well he had,
like just logistically how this sets up now, like he
(51:19):
now he gets to lock in and he's coaching next
year to be as a buyout situation. If in the
year or two the perfect NFL job comes along and
they want him and they're gonna let him do it
his way, well you know, he can revisit it then,
but at the very least, for now he's coaching, he's
trying something new, and he's energized by that. So I
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think so much of it is motivated just because he
just flat out wants to coach. You know, that was
his number one day and so now I'll get the
chance to coach, and you know, I think it's what
he's been focused on really for the last few months
was finding an opportunity to coach again. And you know, again,
like I w wasn't completely rule out the idea that
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you know, in a year or two he revisits the
NFL thing, but you know, he's certainly focused on ongoing
and when he don't.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Carol Now Albert Brier joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, Amazon,
NFL on Prime Insider, also with the mmqb ab. I
heard you talk a little bit last night after the
game about the situation in Philly involving AJ Brown and
Jalen Hurts. What where does that stand? Because I think
you were making the point that Jalen Hurts is kind
(52:30):
of an interesting one to deal with and has been
since he's been there in Philly.
Speaker 11 (52:35):
Yeah, so, like his personality is interesting. He's I don't know,
he's necessarily the kind of guy who's gonna put his
arm around the tvate. He said that type of quarterback
in like like hey come on, buddy, or gonna go
out of his way to play eight people. But he's
just kind of stoic, and you know, I like, I
don't think he has the prototype quarterback personality. You know,
(53:00):
he's not a five viper, and so I think like
that led to some friction with the coaching staff last year,
and I think they learned how to manage it. And
I think now that's used some friction with him and A. J. Brown.
And that's interesting because he and AJ had an ex
instant relationship when AJ got to Philly a couple of
(53:21):
years ago. And then I think, you guys, know, it's
like a lot different having a relationship with somebody who
might see it handful of times a year, versus somebody
you got to see every day, you know, And so
you know, I think they feel confident that they're going
to be able to manage this. But I think it's
part of the deal now with with with Jalen Hurts
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and who he is and who he's always did. So
I think that that piece of the whole thing is
I think I think the Eagles have come to accept
that's what they signed up falling Gail Hurts, and certainly
they hit them in the face a little bit last year,
and this year it's, you know, put this challenge and
one of them that I feel like they're confident making deals.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
We're heading down the stretch the home stretch of the
season and how much how important is is the rest
of this this season, the rest of this schedule for
Aaron Rodgers and for the New York Jets. What from
your you know, everything you hear or everything that you're covering,
(54:26):
how how important are these games for Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 11 (54:30):
Well for the Jets, I mean, I don't know it's
gonna make much difference. You know, they're gonna be hiring
people from the outside. It's gonna be signed big change
that organization, uh comes to Antuary. So I don't know
it's gonna change too much for the for the franchise yourself.
I mean I think for Aaron, I think his experience
is gonna color his decision making, you know, like what
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kind of experiences you have the last month the pison
fighting football, He's still enjoyed because he still want to
do it. Like I I remember the conversation with him,
you know, in the summer, and you know, he and
I were talking about like his appreciation for the sport.
You know, he told me then like going to the
tourn Achilles gave him a heightened kind of love for
(55:15):
the game. And he's an appreciation for the game and
you know, like he said to me, is like I
was like focused so much over the years on like
being seen as more than just a football player. I
never really appreciate just being a football player. And so
I'd be interested to know like where he stands with
that right now, you know, and whether or not he
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wants to go throwing off season to get ready to
play again, you know, at forty one years old. I
don't know the answer for that, but I certainly think
the experience of the amate over the next month could
affect that, you know, and then obviously how he plays
is going to affect how attractive he is. The chats
with the other teams in twenty twenty five, So I
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think there's a lot like they could go. There's a
lot of things that could materialize that could effect the
future Baron over the next four weeks. That's for the
franchise himself. I don't think the first question is gonna changed.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
He's Albert Brier, Amazon NFL on Prime Insider, senior NFL reporter,
lead content strategist at the m m QB. Get him
on x at. Albert Brier always appreciated AB. We'll do
it again next week.
Speaker 11 (56:22):
All right, Thanks for ing up with my boys. My
Jordan Blue game here with you guys.
Speaker 3 (56:26):
Sounded great, sounded Yeah.
Speaker 4 (56:28):
I was gonna say Albert, right, I got Albert. I
told him about your immune system and how you've got
one of the weaker immune systems.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
If anyone I know.
Speaker 11 (56:35):
So, I don't know. It seems like I held upside
than you out there.
Speaker 5 (56:39):
In the Columbus so Jesus, well, yeah, you were also drunk,
so it helps.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
Oh dang, I don't bubble.
Speaker 5 (56:48):
I don't know what you mean held up.
Speaker 4 (56:50):
I mean you were in disbelief, you were in shock,
You're you were going through all sorts of emotions.
Speaker 5 (56:55):
So I'm not really sure how to take that.
Speaker 11 (56:58):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. If I I
don't know what I said. Acter the game is to
be repeated. But yeah, I was not That was not
a good I was not in a good place. But
I held up really well.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
Yeah you have to suit either, dude. I mean it's
like that's true.
Speaker 11 (57:15):
That's true. But I didn't have a heater like on
my under my under a table for me either.
Speaker 4 (57:20):
Hey, buddy, we didn't either. Like, I don't know if
there's people think there's a heater under there. You don't
have enough electrics in the stadium to do something like that. Really, no, really, yes, really,
there's no heater, dude.
Speaker 5 (57:34):
It's just a set. Oh think I think I had
on two or three.
Speaker 11 (57:43):
Okay, Well that's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's more
than me.
It's the best of two pros and a couple Joe
with Lamar Aarings and Rady Win and Jonas Knox on
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
For what It's worth. I love talking about Bluetoo because
well it's a great product. So there you go, douche bag.
What you can do, what you can do all of
the social media, uh little him doing a zinger. I
got a chance to sing on Brady Quinn like, dude,
go kick a rock with nos you want, like, make
(00:36):
sure you break off that big toe toe now and
the second digit toe now and and enjoy your day. Yeah, okay,
what happened? Oh I'm just you know, you know sometimes
I make time. Now I didn't make time and respond,
but you responded. I thought the response was very funny.
I thought it was very witty. We're not giving out,
(00:58):
you know, financial advice on this, but when we're if
we were to. At one point we did for what's
his name? Your your bestie, what's his name? What's his name?
For that that company? We did it for a little bit.
He wrote a book, he does a lot of things.
What's his name? You don't want to say his name,
(01:19):
You don't want to give him no props. You love him.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Listen, Look, I've got a Brady for financial advice. Was
this stuff like a quadruple Masters in business from uh,
you know, like Dublin and he's still in school to
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Like like, Brady's in so much school over finance that
he's going to actually get to write a course that
is the Brady Quinn Course. Brady for what No, he
attack us. You know we do the Blue Chuo Pill
reads and stuff like that. You're like, I think it's
beneath you guys to do uh you know, Boner to
(01:55):
do Boner reads. I don't understand. I mean that's the
business works that we're being honest. I mean, if you
look at our demo and who we're going after and
who listens to us, they actually probably could benefit from Bluetoo.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah you might not, you know if you're listening and
complaining about it, but someone might so you know, yeah,
I would be.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I would have to say to you, buddy, if you're
listening right now exactly Jonus, don't don't don't be so
selfish man, you know, because there will come a time
where you sat there and you thought, man, I never
would have thought today, would have been that day that
I thought about using it, you know what I mean,
And it may come. It just might come. I'm just
telling you, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It might.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, So you don't want to no Diddy, no diddy
on that one that I put that one together and
for what it's makers and I say that's at that
time may come. But anyway the point is that you
may need a climactical ending. Unlike last night's Thursday Day
(03:00):
night game that we watched. Well, I mean you that
game needed a blue cheo. You know what.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm a big fan of low scoring football game, are you. Yeah,
you know, especially a guy.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It still didn't. I still had no love for that game.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
When mother Nature is like, oh you guys are playing
a football game tonight, kiss my ass. This is what
you'll get. You'll get a field goal fest between the
Rams and the Niners. So yeah, not the most entertaining
game of the world.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But Cooper Cup was on a milk box. Huh three targets,
zero catches, zero, y'all. Yeah, they said fantasy football. Fantasy
football people were freaking melting down on social media.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I mean, if you were in the playoffs, cost
did you? I didn't get that far.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm starting Cooper Cup tonight. It was so with Butler's here.
Too much going on in the world of sports, but
not enough scoring last night.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Not enough sports on TV. I'll tell you that. And
you've got Pretty Woman and Ben affleck O d on drugs.
Lorena and Coop are weird, man like, it's weird. Pretty
Woman is one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, okay, so what do we like so much
about Pretty Woman?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean, I don't know. Julia Roberts. She's a hooker
with the wind.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I was gonna say, it's uh, I mean she plays
a hooker in that one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So Richard Gear is playing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
She she has a heart of gold, hey man.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Richard Gear on the Sneak is kind of like your
boy Douglas on the Sneak. He has that like real sly,
fox like look that he has with women in the
movies that he plays. What's the difference, though, Well, pets
are allowed, gerbils, hamsters, what guinea pigs? What? What? Which one?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Listen? Well, hide and go seek, never hurt anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But his looks aren't as intense as Michael Douglass's though,
and the action isn't as intense either. But the approach
seems to be kind of close to the same. So
there you go. Yeah, and I can guarantee you those
two could use blue cheo.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's a good point. Maybe a couple now, do you
think maybe uh, Devandre Campbell of the Niners could use
some help at this point in time. Kind of an
interesting situation popped up during the game last night that
featured a bunch of field goals in which Devondre Campbell
of the Niners decided, eh, not into it, and Kyle Shanahan,
(05:40):
the head coach of the forty nine ers, was asked
about it afterwards.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Happened with Defondre Campbell.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
He didn't play it, and he went into the locker room.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
At some point.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, he didn' said he didn't want to play to
day during the game or before that was in the third.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Quarter, Devandre opt into not going to the game.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What do you need to do to ensure that you
don't lose the rest of the locker room?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I haven't lost anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's if somebody doesn't want to play football, that's pretty simple.
I mean, I think our team and myself we know
abaly feel about that. So I don't think we need
to talk about him anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So, I mean that could be a little bit detached
from reality. We haven't lost anyone. There's only so many
guys on the roster, and if one of them happened
to say I don't want to go into the game, which,
by the way, this is like the second time in
so many weeks that we've had a guy that opted
(06:29):
out of going into the game. I mean, it is
Bowl season. Is it that time of the year where
now it's transitioning into the National Football League game?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh, I'm just gonna opt.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Out of this game.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You don't want to play in the levice.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
This is like, you know, this is like a bowl
game that I don't want to play in, So I'm
gonna just go ahead and take it on in. I mean,
but seriously speaking, that is losing a player. You did lose.
Anyone is someone if they're on your roster because you
guys chose to put that man on your roster. He
was not only on yours, but he was an active
man on your roster, which is a very very very
(07:04):
low percentage of people in the world that had that job.
And he went to the locker room. So you can't
say you don't want to lose or I don't. I
haven't lost anyone. Our roster is good and they want
to play football, like he didn't want to play football.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They had two linebackers go out in the game last night.
They needed him to go back in, and he said no,
and then he had Charvarius Ward who ripped him afterwards.
George George Kittle also had this to say about his
decision not to go back in.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
That is one person who just decided not to play
for his teammates. And no, I don't think that that
doesn't like does make our office so should be like, wow, man, No,
we're falling apart. It's more of a we're like the
defense he we're falling apart. It's more of a one
person making a, like Mooney said.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
A selfish decision.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
And I'm with Mooney on that, and I.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
I've never been around anybody that's ever done that, and
I hope I'm never run anybody that does that again.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So I agree. I agree with Kittle. But that's the
reality of it is is now you can't say never.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
That's that's that's one right there. That's one perspective right there.
I mean, here's the here's the reality is. I have
no idea if Devondre Campbell is going through something mentally.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Who was the player who quit at halftime in Buffalo?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Wasn't that Vonte Davis or that brother who I think
passed away recently. That was that's who passed away? Yeah,
he's the one who did it and even retired, didn't
he walked down right Like, I'm like when he was done,
he was done. I'm done, And I'm not only done
with this game, I'm done with this profession. I'm done,
right yeah, And and I don't know Vernon Davis, the.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Specifics, the circumstances, any of it.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Like, I don't know if any of it is mental
health related. It could be like I'm done, I'm done
with the game, not doing this thing. I have no idea.
So I don't really want to pass judgment, although I mean,
from the jump, it does sound like an awful thing
to do to your teammates. Oh, it is an awful
thing to do to everyone else involved. But so it
(09:24):
needs more clarification from him, specifically as to why exactly
you just chose to quit.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
On your team.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
You know, a lot of guys are battling through different injuries,
things like that they're playing through. I don't know if
that even played a factor. Doesn't sound like it. So
it's tough for me to sit here and try to
make a case for it.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But I always kind of I.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Costion people sometimes because sometimes there's a greater issue at
hand and it hasn't been diagnosed, it hasn't been addressed,
hasn't been discussed. So I'm a little bit concerned because
it just seems so abnormal. Maybe not for him, Like
I've never played with the dude. I've been in locker
room with him, and maybe this is something he does,
but man, it's just such a bad look and I
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can't imagine. I just I can't imagine that he's gonna
get signed again. You quit on your team.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He doesn't have a job today. By the way, y'all,
he does not have a job. You can guarantee if
you look at.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It, it's a death sentence for your career if you
do something like this and there's not some reason behind it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Now, I mean, maybe he looked at Deontay Johnson and
said to himself, you know what, I like the way
that looked to me. And if they treat me the
same exact way, I'm going to do the same exact thing,
and I'm going to prove my point. Some people have
weird and interesting ways of trying to be creative and
(10:51):
proving what they feel their points should be. And while
I'll agree with you on saying, listen, I don't know
what that young man is dealing with and what maybe
was the framework and the motivation that went into his
frame of thought. But I will, however, say this, of
(11:12):
the all of the studying and all of the information
that has gathered and choosing people to be a part
of your team and a part of your roster, it's
such an extensive and an exhausting thing for certain people
to do, your scouting department and your g and we
just talked about it yesterday with Lombardi being hired for you,
(11:34):
and see with Bill Belichick how important it is to
be able to evaluate the talent that you're going to
bring in for your team. At some point your studies
should have revealed that there are things connected to the
way this young man handles things, or the way that
he may think or feel or whatever it may be,
(11:57):
and you got to take an educated, you know, assessment
or make an educated decision on if you want to
bring that type of personality into your locker room because
it can be a cancer to the rest of your team. Now,
he's not a significant enough figure for that to be
(12:20):
the case, but what if it was. What if the
name is different, What if it's an Antonio Brown? You
know what I mean. I'm not only going to leave
and not go back in because of how I feel
about the scenario, but I'm a d robe and I'm
going to make a spectacle of the situation for this team,
for this game, and for myself on my way out.
(12:45):
You know, these are things that you have to weigh out,
you gotta think about, and that's a part of sport.
It's it's one of the interesting aspects of the job.
But you have to measure out and weigh out what
the emotional, mental stability and capacity of what the talent
is that you're looking at and you're evaluating for your team.
(13:08):
So I'll agree with Kyle Shanahan. I don't think this
was a scenario where you have to be you know,
I guess disturbed or aware of if you're losing, concerned
if you're losing your locker room. But you can't just
say anyone because you guys chose to have him on
your roster. So he's someone He's just someone that now
(13:29):
just became anyone based off of the decision that he
chose to make and representation of his self in that moment.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, But is that a reflection on them choosing the
wrong guy or the guy choosing the wrong time to
go in for himself.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I mean, I gotta get accountable for the decisions that
you make. So if that man made that decision and
that became public knowledge, that's still a reflection of their
decision making.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think it's one guy who went rogue and decided
I don't want to be a part of this anymore, and.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You still have to take terrible spot if you wanted
something to Yeah, rogue, he went rogue right now? No,
I mean he's probably doing something to help the show
to LaPray Campbell. I mean, but dude, Cooper is though.
But there you go. It went rogue, There you go,
(14:23):
there you go. I mean, what what perfect timing for
you to even say?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It couldn't even the commercial, I couldn't even wait.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
What's what's interesting is if you look at the season
for the Niners, maybe that's why you didn't go in though,
because if you had to alleviate himself, you know you
if you if he had to go.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
To the bathroom, is you're saying, if he had to
go to the bathroom like Lee, maybe that was why
he didn't want to go back into the game.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, we sound such a good run.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I mean, imagine that. Imagine that the moment you said it, Irony,
the moment you saying it and we look in there
and he literally went rogue to the restroom.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well, yeah, that's what he does, taking a regular we're
giving back to the conversation an off Lee. The bigger
issue is for the forty nine ers, it's not looking
good this season and they haven't had a sub double
digit win season in which they've gone to at least
the NFC Championship Game, if not the Super Bowl since
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twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
So think about that. Prior to this year, four out
of the last five.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Years, all they've known is at least an NFC Championship game,
if not a Super Bowl. And yeah there was that
you know, six and ten year back in twenty twenty,
but this I don't know, does it feel like that year?
Does it feel like a team that's just kind of
battled through a bunch of injuries. It feels different in
(15:55):
my mind because they have to make so many business
decisions and I don't know how they keep it all
the tother Like their window was open from twenty nineteen
to twenty twenty three, and those were their opportunities to
go win a Super Bowl, and unfortunately they ran into
the Chiefs twice and they couldn't get past the Rams,
and they couldn't get past the Eagles. Like that probably
(16:17):
is how we're going to remember this team.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, their championship windows got a sorry wear clothes sign
on the outside.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's a wrap.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And Trent Williams is getting older, the injuries are piling up,
the brock Purty stuff is out there. It just everything
about this year just felt like this wasn't headed in
the right direction. You had a guy get shot in
the middle of the street in broad daylight before the year,
like right right then and there. I was like, okay,
so this is where we're at. The Deebo Samuel stuff, which,
(16:48):
by the way, him dropping that pass, which probably would
have been a tit of bound. Yeah, after all the
noise and conversation he had this year, it just feels
like they're up against it. They're one and four in
the division now Seattle and the Rams feel like they're
kind of pulling away from everybody else there. I just
I don't see it. I think it's I think that's
pretty much it for them.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's just amazing to be at a point in time
where someone who has had so much success and has
been lauded in praise for how well they have done,
and praise for how unique and how creative and bright
a mind as one of the young coaches in this
league has been in Kyle Shanahan, that the questions would
(17:31):
actually start to surface as to if there may if
his time may have run its run its course. You know,
you have to ask there was the question asked of
their GM if if there was actually the possibility if
they would retain their coach. That's that's damning if you
(17:54):
ask me that. If you want to understand the level
and the magnitude of what one see eason of a
lack of success, what that looks like, you have to
have the conversation as to dusk, is it time for
Shanahan to move on? Is it time to move on
from Shanahan?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Florio kind of stirring the pods.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, but I mean in stirring the pot there could
be some legitimacy in the stirring. I mean, they are
not They are under their five hundred team right now,
and they are not competitive. In fact, they are the
worst team in their division right now. And that's that's
(18:36):
a far that's a very very far drop from where
they were not not too long ago, a year ago.
It's a far drop, man. And and you have to
ask yourself, why is that. I mean, they've overcome injuries before.
This just does not look like a team that is
going in the right direction, even with all of the
(18:58):
adverse situations that they have have had to endure.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, I got to feel that we're going in the
right direction today because I've got a big announcement for
you guys here.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh wow, okay, it's a football frontay, all right, yeah, yeah,
come on.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, he's very exciting Saturday.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Yeah all right. Yeah's not here. He's in the rest,
please not here. He's in the dun.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
He's spiking poop. He spiking spiking poop. Yeah, he spiking boom. Yeah,
he's back. He's back. He's got something trail. He got
steaky trail. He got sneaky trail. He's got steaky trail.
All right, right now, let's do it. Let's do it
for Eddie. This one is for you, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Friday Night is a Friday. Damn Football Friday. Go to
the bathroom, steps the Turns. Football Spike the Turns, Spike
the Turns.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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Speaker 3 (20:25):
Brady I showed LeVar the Colby Covington.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm jumping all over that tomorrow. Now, y'all want to
jump on it today, that would be wonderful, But I'm
jumping all over that one.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Kobe Covington intended either basically just lighting Lebron James on
fire to open up a press conference as he gets
ready for a fight this weekend that nobody thought was
gonna you know, I'm Andy saw coming.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You got to ask yourself the question, why hasn't there
been any real attention pay to the correlation between what
he's been doing recently and what's been happening recently, there
hasn't been a real media push to actually maybe delve
(21:11):
into it, to actually maybe, you know, ask that question,
you know, just to make sure you, you know, maybe
separate yourself from what's going on, rather than it coming
across as maybe perpetuating what could be assumed just saying
(21:35):
that's hoo dope man, it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
He let him up the h yeah, unprovoked, opened up
his presser and just said basically.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Did you hear did you hear the audio on it?
Speaker 11 (21:48):
Que?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What's that on?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
On?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Kobe?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Uh'll be coming to lighten up Lebron James?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
What what parts of it would you say?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Was? I just don't motivation like it just came out
of nowhere. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Should we play it?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I mean I don't know what the motivation is either,
But maybe the motivation is that, how are you gonna
play it?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well?
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Can we?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
What's the turnaround time?
Speaker 11 (22:17):
On?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
He opens up, I sent you the link, not.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Lee Boy, not Lee Boy?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Why not? What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Lee?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Let's let's try and roll that in. There is some
cursing in it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Everybody who Lee boy, I don't know. I don't know
if that's what Lee.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Make sure you include the follow up, the beginning of
the follow up question from the media member who didn't
know how to respond to how Kobe opened up the
press conference.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, he made it a point, and this is what
I think, Yes, what's the motivation? I would say, I
would offer the fact that there are some people that
are truly, truly passionate about first responders. And he made
it a point to reference the whole idea of how
how Lebron had his approach towards you know, the police department,
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and so you know, some people really really look at
that as as very not American, and and so I
would assume possibly that that was the motivation behind his anger.
But what it immediately made me think of, and I
started to wonder, is why isn't I mean, there has
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to be someone who is going to talk to Lebron
or ask Lebron about any connection to that situation and there,
and that has not happened. I mean, let's be let's
be real about it. I mean, let's let's keep it
one hundred a buck from the hip. You're not seeing
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that on on Sports Center, You're not seeing that on
any of these news outlets where you're actually asking Lebron James,
can you clear this up? Because as we get further
down this rabbit hole, there is content there. There are pictures,
there are videos, there's sound bites there. There are things
that are surfacing that could actually lead to you being
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directly discussed and talked about in the circles of what
was taking place with Diddy.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I mean, listen, if you asked him a difficult CoLtd
question after an NBA Finals game, he got up, grabbed
his bag and walked out and through a tantrum. How
do you think he's gonna handle it?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay, So you throw a tangrum, you get up, you
grab your bag, and you walk out. Does that do
you any justice as it applies to There's still a
lot of things that could kind of unfold and could
surface from what's taking place with Diddy?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (24:50):
So are we doing this segment, Lebron, just because if
we're going to go into let's go into it. Because
there's also some speculation of trade rumors right like he
could be t to the Warriors that's kind of been
floating around out there now. I don't know if we
need to acknowledge or justify those rumors.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
I personally looking and get a hold on a second.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So the guy who basically got the coach he wanted,
who he formerly did a podcast with and got the
organization to draft his son.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Go ahead talk about it is gonna up and just
get traded to the Warriors time, Like, how does that
make any sense?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
And if it does happen, then it calls into question.
I mean, I don't want need to get into Steph
Curry angle of things, but what is Lebron ultimately looking
to do at this point in his career? And I
think the simple answer would be like go to a
better team and kind of chase championships at that point, right,
I mean again here and here's the thing about the
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Lebron Michael Jordan debate or even Kobe for people out
there who are Kobe fans aren't Lebron fans, is you've
already got your feet dug in, like there's nothing that's
gonna change.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Your opinion one way or another.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Like young Cats and a lot of people who side
to the Lebron James the greatest ever will use this
statistical argument when he's played for you know.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
A long long time.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Most people who say Jordan, they're simply like, we don't
need stats because we watched it, like we watched his greatness,
We watched him play, and you're not gonna convince me otherwise.
You know, there's a gap in there too, So it
took away from the stats. The game has changed. That
changes a lot too in regards to how this. You know,
stats are looked at, at least that's how I feel,
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So I guess I just look.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
At it and go, like, what is the point of it?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
If he did all this for the Lakers and then
somehow behind the scenes trying to orchestrate a trade out
just to go chase some more rings or be in
a better situation than what the Lakers are at this point.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, don't you just feel like the timing is
is just really really it's just really peculiar.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Time, especially after you just basically worked the organization into
drafting your son and then you're just gonna bail. Although
I think Bronnie did score thirty points in uh the
Z League or whatever it's called last night, so there
is that, all right.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Why do you do that?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Do what you know it's called I misspoke? Come on,
it happens from time to time. Here was so appealed,
little bad You think it's funny, like, no one thinks
it's funny.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
It's not funny.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
And then someone hits us up on social media like, oh,
Jonas doesn't even know what basketball league is?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
The minor league for that, I don't care what they say.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I know you don't care. I'm just saying it's just
there's no point. It's a terrible joke.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
So here's Colby Covington. He is a UFC fighter, a
very good UFC fighter. He's got a fight coming up
this weekend.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
An awesome dude.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They do these these media calls in which fighters sit
down and they'll answer a bunch of questions. And this
is how would the press conference started out for Kobe
Covington this week.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I want to ask Lebron what does he mean by
there's no party like a Diddy party? I truly want
to know. And not only that, Lebron, how many Diddy
parties have you actually been to? I'm really curious to know.
And is that the reason you let social media? Because
all the backlash you were getting for going to so
many bitty Diddy parties. It's just just pathetic man. People
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think this guy's a role model, wants to defund the police,
the most patriot people of America serving and protecting our country. Lebron,
you're a scumbag and I hope you get locked up
in the same cell with Diddy.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Well, Kobe, nice to see you again. Wow, Well there
you go.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think I had a few things I needed to
get off my chest.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Like, what do you think he was doing strolling through
social media?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Up?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It might I think that was calculated. Well, okay, he
was calculated and doing that. Here's the book on Kobe Covington.
When he was fighting early in his UFC career, a
lot of people labeled him as a quote unquote boring fighter.
He needed to do something. He felt like he needed
to do something before he was going to get released
by the organization to try and build his brand. So
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he took on this approach to where he was going.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
To go after everybody, he was going to be support
you know, Donald Trump, all of that stuff, and went
all in and a lot of people have said, well, listen,
he's not really like that. This is a character. But
the Lebron stuff has been going on for a long
ass time, like he has gone after Lebron several times,
whether it's pre fight, post fight, you name it. And
(29:42):
so when he saw the opportunity now because he hasn't
fought in a little while, to just open it up,
he knew the media wasn't going to ask him any
questions about Lebron, so he just decided, all right, I'll
take it upon myself and just went scorched earth on
him the entire time. And this is what he's done
for a couple of years now, except this time he
does ask maybe a couple of fair questions.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Those are I mean, for what it's worth, they are
fair questions we have not heard being asked. That's for one.
For two, understanding your audience, they say, understand the audience,
like read the room, understand your audience. Well, you know
what if you if you understand UFC culture, he understands
his audience because that's a very very patriotic UH fan
(30:28):
base that is connected to UH, to the UFC fight game,
to to the sports industry, so to to our culture
in general. It's it's a patriotic UH fan base. So anyway,
I just what's more interesting to me is he he
could come across any way he wanted to, and that that,
(30:50):
you know whatever, it is his rant that he presented
and offered, you know, non solicited in his interview. But
I feel like the bigger question that comes from it
is did you not think that?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Did?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Did?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Who?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Who?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
When? When Lebron James said I'm leaving social media for
a while, When Lebron James, you know kind of what's
connected to the Diddy parties the p Diddy period with
what was being pushed out there? I mean, did no
one not get curious about it? And what is media about?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Can I tell you what my initial thought was. I
thought he, like others were pouting about the election, and
he was like, this is going to be my stance.
I don't want to deal with this and make up
some you know kaka memie excuses to why I didn't
even think about that aspect it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I mean, I didn't out I mean, bro, if you're
paying attention that the content that was coming out, like
did you see the photo of him and the mad outfit?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That real? I don't know, but why not ask the question?
That's why I said, can we go.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Our photos of professional athletes and made gear? Expertly to
lap Lee, is that photo real of Lebron?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Joys?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, Lebron is a maid?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Is that real?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Have you seen?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I have not seen this photo.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Can we come to you outstairs of authority?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I mean, I mean, isn't it work?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I mean all I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Saying, hey, hey, I don't know. I think so. I
listened Oscar de la Hoya did it and confirmed that it.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Was and told and told Shannon on Club, who hasn't
what man hasn't dressed up in women's clothing, you know,
in the comforts and confines of their own.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That's an interesting guy asked, He told that. The shen
is Sharp on the show is ask this is not real, dude,
It's it's it's been debunked. Everyone's all I know is
all I know.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Is you can't debunk that that video of what I'm
saying that I did not like it any party. So
whatever it is that resonates from it, why not have
the conversation? There's that what media is about asking questions
about things that are connected to especially mega juggernaut athletes
such as a Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
First of all, none of the kiss asks at ESPN
are gonna ask the question, and nobody here locally he
is gonna ask the question. It's not happening. They've got
too much invested.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Do you think they tell them? Do you think they
pre warn them to not? These are the questions you
are totally not to ask and bring up.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
A Lebron Jamey. I mean, I'm actually reading a Snopes
article on this.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Now. You could see it in the hands the hands are.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Those are not his hands.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Okay, those are all right, so that one night he
addresses are made, all right.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Exonerated in Lebron's defense. By the way, there is going
to be so much stuff AI can do.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Oh easily scary, Yeah, easily.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Like it's gonna be. I mean, Lee's gonna have a
really tough job trying to.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Now that we've ordained you as the official, uh in
determining these matters.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, you've more ordained them. I'm not well, I'm not
dying on that here. I mean someone has to Yeah, well,
I just I feel like there needs to be a
you know, a level of authority and track, and it
needs in fairness of NFL media, they did ask Roger Goodell.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
They said, hey, what are your thoughts on the jay
Z stuff that's come out because jay Z's company, Rock
Nation does.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
The Super Bowl talent. Yeah, yeah, and it's true.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Roger Goodell said, yeah, we know there's a civil suit,
and you know, we have no plans at this time
to make any changes to that. And let's be clear,
and let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
If that were a player, if that were a coach,
if that were a GM, what would happen, If it
were owner, what would happen? I mean, and these are
questions that should be asked. It's a publicly consumed product,
and I think we all know if it was a player.
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I think we all know if there was a civil
suit that came out on a player to to this
this this topic of conversation, I think we all know
what would happen. I don't know how far up the
latter it goes where you'd say that the result, the
end result is not the same. But it's possible by
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organization a GM, a CEO, a president ahead of this, uh,
you know, whatever it may be, they could have the
same type of consequences as a player would.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
And people think we don't talk NBA on the show.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, I'm just said this is hey who won the
league tournament.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Things still happening, I think so.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I think they're on their way to I mean, I'll
be honest with you, Atlanta is going to.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
No Lie, no lie.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Last night I was watching in and these women's basketball
team versus Yukon, which, by the way, great, great win
for the Irish. I would rather watch that than than
I'm just being honest, like, I found it more entertaining
watching Hannah Hidalgo Olivia Miles.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
You know, Pagebacker is more entertained than regular Sea's NBA.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
With Caitlin Clark hitline not too long ago too. But
I mean, I'm just saying we stay away from it.
But oh, it's just some interesting things going on, I
guess in the round ball world.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I mean, if you if you've seen any of the
NBA this year, it's it's pretty obvious that it's the
Celtics and then everybody else. It's not really they are
pretty good. Yeah, there's not.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
It's so weird too, Jonas, what team did you root
for growing up?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Well, I'm not really much of an NBA guy, to be.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Honest with you. Yeah, but if you had to pick
a team, like, would it be the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I would say that probably just because of my Irish roots.
I would say the Boston Celtics at that time in Dublin,
we spent really did wonders for me, to be honest
with you, that's interesting. Irish roots, Irish I think so gotcha,
I believe so. Who knows.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I wish.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
I wish people could understand the level of like front
running that Jonas has done throughout his life.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And I get it. I get it. He's a sports fan.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
He likes all these teams that are really really good
when he was young, with the exception of the Cubs,
Like that's the one spot where I do have a
compassionate for you know, spot for you, even.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Though they have one recently.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
So there are a lot of sports people out there
that are like that, though.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
I will say that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I find it to be, Oh yeah, I find it
to be like the most interesting phenomenon when you're like
walking in the airport or you're in a public place
that you always happiness to talk to people who are
from where the super Bowl team like they're playing in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I'm from there, I was.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm a fan of that team every single year when
I when I was playing. More so i play, I
paid attention to it. Like you be going to the
Pro Bowl or you be going to the Super Bowl
or going to some type of event and you're in
the airport and you talk to people and they're like, yeah,
I'm from I'm you know, I'm from New England. I'm
from Boston. Right then they're in the Super Bowl, like, yeah,
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you're not from New England.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
I still think the dopest thing about flying through Logan
the airport in Boston is all the banners that hang. Dude,
that is the biggest flex of any airport in any city.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
To me in this country.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
It is I get hills looking up and I'm like,
that's that goes strong man, Like that's a reminder, Like
you got that six am flight, You're getting up there.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Get the security you look up, You're like, damn.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
And by the way, for those at home who don't know,
sixteen NBA championships, the Boston Celtics have one. It's the
most of any franchise. And I'll see the most recent
in twenty twenty four. So don't let Janice try to
distract you.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
It's eighteen. It's now eighteen.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
I'm seeing sixteen, no eighteen. Come on, I'm just telling
you what the internet's telling me.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
The Lakers used the bubble to count as a tie
at seventeen, and the Lake Celtics won eighteen last year.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
So but weird. Why is it? Why is Tommy sixteenth?
I don know, it's.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Probably Wikipedia, think about bad information? Tis the season. If
you go look up anything on Wikipedia, they're asking for money,
so have fun with that. But it is two pros
and the.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Code left two years on this? Yeah? Is that?
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Is that wikipedias full wonder the you hit me up
about funding whoever?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
It's like, hey, donate to three dollars going, we need
someone to private? Yeah, can we get two?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
I need to donate.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
They haven't had anybody on pay rolled up.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
For my main source of information.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
For an extra dollars seventy five, we'll have the correct
information for you if you could just pip in. At
some point during the end of that.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Chat, GBT isn't free anymore, right, you got to pay
for that now, I do know. I think so everybody's
going to pay for pay now?
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
What happened to free? I loved it when it was free?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
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Speaker 3 (40:19):
Albert Breer, Yeah, the star of Amazon's NFL on prime
coverage every Thursday night. He is the insider there. He
is a senior NFL reporter, lead content strategist at the MMQB.
You can get him on x at Albert Breer and
he's got a lot of answering for some questions we
have about some of the decisions being made in the
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state of Ohio when it comes to the Buckeyes. Maybe
what's happening?
Speaker 11 (40:44):
What's up, guys?
Speaker 5 (40:46):
I mean, I mean, come on, yeah, jump into it.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
What's your take?
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Come on, man, are you serious? Right now?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
They're trying to make planning a flag in the state
of Ohio a felony.
Speaker 11 (41:01):
Oh yeah, I mean that would trust me. I am
so against that politician doing that. Apparently, I'm suspicious that
he is. This is like counterintelligence here, trying to make
us all look bad. I don't I don't know one
Ohio state person that's not an exaggeration. I don't know
one Ohio state person who would to support that, who
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like would even compost touching that. No way, it's so idiotic,
so dumb, Like just please, but that's something they would do.
Don't don't lower yourself to that something.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
They would do.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Wow, all right, still, I.
Speaker 11 (41:44):
Guess I mean I said this, I said this is
a million I said I said this about the tunnel
fight a few years ago. Right, So, like I just
being a big ten guy like I, if you fight
at in State right that, no, no, that you would
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get jumped or somebody might suck a bunch you. If
you get into a fight at Michigan, your fear would
be the guy who started the fight would call the
cops on you. And that's exactly what the tunnel fight was,
and that, in fact is exactly what happened at the
Horseship is you know, they went the flag, they start
the fight, are guys going to finish it? And they
call the cops?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (42:26):
Wow. Again I'm sort of against, but I'm not a
sort of I'm fully against. But the what what this
congressman's trying to do or State Center or whatever?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
He is?
Speaker 11 (42:39):
All right, right, how do you feel about it. As
a resident of the state.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I think it's the softest thing I've ever heard of.
And I understand if you were to make a case
for like protecting law enforcement. But it's not like this
is that big of an issue. I mean, it's not like, hey,
there's flag planning.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
Going on all of the state.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
We need to stop this otherwise we're putting our you know,
our police officers in harm's way. It's like, come on, dude,
like stop, like this is this is all to good attention.
This is what politicians do. I can't stand it anyway.
I do want to ask you though, because I feel
like I saw you at the House State Michigan game.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I made sure the entire section you were sitting in
knew you were the mush. And now we have.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
The opportunity to see Ohio State host state home playoff
game versus Tennessee. Where are you at with the entire season,
just the result where we're heading right now?
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Ryan Day, the whole thing.
Speaker 11 (43:35):
I'm obviously frustrated with what happened, just because I don't
really understand running the ball right at their two best
players in that game. Yeah, it was played well enough,
and I feel bad for guys like Jack Sawyer, but
I mean, I wouldn't say this and Ryan's defense like
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generally they've corrected problems when they come up to the
bath and I do think like this is going to
be a good chance for him to correct some of
the issues from that Michigan game. I haven't watched a
lot of Tennessee from from when I understand they're built
sort of like Michigan in a lot of ways, and
so you know, we'll see it now, we'll see whether
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or not. You know, you've learned, and you know, you
start to take advantage to the match if you have
on the perimeter a little bit, they play a little
more tempo. You know, there's the same opportunity to atone
for what happened against Michigan's there was two years ago.
And you know, I think if they come out and
they play like they did two years ago coming out
(44:38):
of the Michigan game, and they'll be justifying they got
a chance to win the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Ab the Bill Belichick news to North Carolina, what serious
interest was there in him this year from NFL teams
any conversation. I know there's three current teams that had openings,
but was this about him not getting any love from
the NFL or did he just see this as an
opportunity to sort of bridge the job to his son
(45:04):
later on.
Speaker 11 (45:06):
I think it's somewhere in the middle of like whether
there's the interest in the NFL and what his interest
in the NFL would be, you know, Like I think
it's not so much like I'm not going to get
an offer to go coach anywhere. I think it was.
I'm not sure I'm going to get an offer to
coach on coach on my term and to do it
my way, you know. And I think that like that
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thought process is the result of the last year for him.
First of all, it's going back to, you know, when
he got fired by the Patriots and the fact that
only one of the six teams that had openings other
than New England interviewed them. It's the way those things
went down in that one interview where it's like the
bureaucracy of the Falcons front office got him and wound
(45:51):
up eliminating him as a candidate, which I think confirmed
his worldview on some on the way a lot of
teams operate. Then he gets the thousand foot view over
the last eleven months and sees the way that you
know he deals at least a lot of teams are mismanaged.
And then the Jets job comes open, the Saint's job
(46:12):
comes open, the first job comes open, and I think
the realization starts to manifest for him that, like man,
there's not going to be in all likelihood the type
of place that I feel like I can set it
up the way I need to set it up to
go win. Meanwhile, like as he and his people, the
(46:32):
people around him are studying the college game, they're seeing
as that opportunity money exist in college, and then they're
seeing some NFL elements being corporated into the college game,
whether it's NIL as the salary cap or the transfer
portalist free agency. So, you know, I think it is
you know, he's starting to go through all of this.
It was where am I going to have that opportunity,
(46:54):
the best opportunity to do things my way? And I
think over the last eleven months, you know, he saw
that maybe the best opportunity to do think his way,
maybe the only opportunity to truly do things his way,
was going to come to college.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
You know, I think that's so interesting to hear that perspective,
and I would agree with you, Abe, how much does
this impact moving forward? This now seemingly could create a
competition between a legitimate competition between pro and college. I mean,
(47:30):
this is as high profile a higher as maybe ever
in the history of college sports, well college football, of course.
To bring in Bill Belichick as your head coach, knowing
that this is a guy who's never coached at the
college level, taking this and saying he can do it
the way he would want to do it in college,
(47:51):
I mean, that's got to set a tremendously large precedence
in terms of how you're moving forward with looking at
your own job opportunities, of your of your pro coach.
Speaker 11 (48:05):
I mean, I think, really it's like any of the
elsele bar like. Where it rides on is whether or
not it works right, because if it works, then you'll
have a team to steal a lot of college programs
trying to copycat it. And you know, there aren't a
lot of high profile college openings this year. My understanding
(48:26):
is they're probably will be next year. Now I don't
cover college football, so don't I don't know exactly which
stuffs will be, but it sounds like there's a good
chance there'll be some pretty high profile openings next year.
And yeah, I mean if this works, and like Bill
prooves that, like they're able to work the transfer portal
(48:46):
more effectively and work on il more efficiently. If you
do have that NFL experience, then I think there will
certainly be more college programs that are willing to pay
top dollar being coaches from the NFL. And like, conversely,
if Bill can do things his way, he doesn't need
to go on the runder a crew and he could hire,
(49:08):
which I know is his plan, he could hire a
whole recruiting staff to basically handle that for him and
let his coaches just coach. Well. Then, like I think
that that makes those jobs more attracted to pro guys,
you know. So you know, I think it's gonna be
fascinating because I think Bill says do things a little
bit differently the way he just said it. That's gonna
(49:29):
be a little different. You know, it could work both ways,
where the success of North Carolina could attract college college
programs to look at NFL coaches and then could entice
NFL coaches to look at college shops.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be fascinating to see how
it works because and I said this earlier. You know
Dion and how he changed from year one to year two,
and what he said he needed was like he need
a more NFL coaching, more NFL style program.
Speaker 5 (49:57):
That's what he's running with the portal.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
And now you see Bill Belichick, who spent time at
Washington where his sun was defensive coordinator, and kind of
seeing the landscape going, wait a second, we could do
this at the college level and probably have more autonomy
and not have to deal with an owner.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Which leads me to this question. There's gonna be a
lot of openings.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
It feels like there's already a decent amount now, but
more once the season.
Speaker 5 (50:18):
Ends for the NFL. He's so close to Schule's record.
Why not?
Speaker 4 (50:24):
Wait, I mean, is there a sense I saw a
report that maybe there weren't going to be that many
teams looking at him or wanting to give him that
opportunity to coach with some openings.
Speaker 11 (50:36):
Frady, I think he just wants to coach, and I
think it's genuine, and I think that proved that, you know,
and I think, like you know, it's a doll bird
in the hand thing, right, like he he had an
opportunity to coach right in front of him, and unfortunately
the highing cycles through a two level A sports don't
match up. So you know, if he waits a month,
(50:59):
then there's a chance, you know, there's no job for
him in the NFL. And if there's no job for
him in the NFL, that that one only he feels
comfortable to takey well, then you know, then he's sitting
out another year. And I don't think he wanted to
do that, and so like I think, well he had,
like just logistically how this sets up now, like he
(51:19):
now he gets to lock in and he's coaching next
year to be as a buyout situation. If in the
year or two the perfect NFL job comes along and
they want him and they're gonna let him do it
his way, well you know, he can revisit it then,
but at the very least, for now he's coaching, he's
trying something new, and he's energized by that. So I
(51:39):
think so much of it is motivated just because he
just flat out wants to coach. You know, that was
his number one day and so now I'll get the
chance to coach, and you know, I think it's what
he's been focused on really for the last few months
was finding an opportunity to coach again. And you know, again,
like I w wasn't completely rule out the idea that
(52:02):
you know, in a year or two he revisits the
NFL thing, but you know, he's certainly focused on ongoing
and when he don't.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Carol Now Albert Brier joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, Amazon,
NFL on Prime Insider, also with the mmqb ab. I
heard you talk a little bit last night after the
game about the situation in Philly involving AJ Brown and
Jalen Hurts. What where does that stand? Because I think
you were making the point that Jalen Hurts is kind
(52:30):
of an interesting one to deal with and has been
since he's been there in Philly.
Speaker 11 (52:35):
Yeah, so, like his personality is interesting. He's I don't know,
he's necessarily the kind of guy who's gonna put his
arm around the tvate. He said that type of quarterback
in like like hey come on, buddy, or gonna go
out of his way to play eight people. But he's
just kind of stoic, and you know, I like, I
don't think he has the prototype quarterback personality. You know,
(53:00):
he's not a five viper, and so I think like
that led to some friction with the coaching staff last year,
and I think they learned how to manage it. And
I think now that's used some friction with him and A. J. Brown.
And that's interesting because he and AJ had an ex
instant relationship when AJ got to Philly a couple of
(53:21):
years ago. And then I think, you guys, know, it's
like a lot different having a relationship with somebody who
might see it handful of times a year, versus somebody
you got to see every day, you know, And so
you know, I think they feel confident that they're going
to be able to manage this. But I think it's
part of the deal now with with with Jalen Hurts
(53:41):
and who he is and who he's always did. So
I think that that piece of the whole thing is
I think I think the Eagles have come to accept
that's what they signed up falling Gail Hurts, and certainly
they hit them in the face a little bit last year,
and this year it's, you know, put this challenge and
one of them that I feel like they're confident making deals.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
We're heading down the stretch the home stretch of the
season and how much how important is is the rest
of this this season, the rest of this schedule for
Aaron Rodgers and for the New York Jets. What from
your you know, everything you hear or everything that you're covering,
(54:26):
how how important are these games for Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 11 (54:30):
Well for the Jets, I mean, I don't know it's
gonna make much difference. You know, they're gonna be hiring
people from the outside. It's gonna be signed big change
that organization, uh comes to Antuary. So I don't know
it's gonna change too much for the for the franchise yourself.
I mean I think for Aaron, I think his experience
is gonna color his decision making, you know, like what
(54:52):
kind of experiences you have the last month the pison
fighting football, He's still enjoyed because he still want to
do it. Like I I remember the conversation with him,
you know, in the summer, and you know, he and
I were talking about like his appreciation for the sport.
You know, he told me then like going to the
tourn Achilles gave him a heightened kind of love for
(55:15):
the game. And he's an appreciation for the game and
you know, like he said to me, is like I
was like focused so much over the years on like
being seen as more than just a football player. I
never really appreciate just being a football player. And so
I'd be interested to know like where he stands with
that right now, you know, and whether or not he
(55:35):
wants to go throwing off season to get ready to
play again, you know, at forty one years old. I
don't know the answer for that, but I certainly think
the experience of the amate over the next month could
affect that, you know, and then obviously how he plays
is going to affect how attractive he is. The chats
with the other teams in twenty twenty five, So I
(55:57):
think there's a lot like they could go. There's a
lot of things that could materialize that could effect the
future Baron over the next four weeks. That's for the
franchise himself. I don't think the first question is gonna changed.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
He's Albert Brier, Amazon NFL on Prime Insider, senior NFL reporter,
lead content strategist at the m m QB. Get him
on x at. Albert Brier always appreciated AB. We'll do
it again next week.
Speaker 11 (56:22):
All right, Thanks for ing up with my boys. My
Jordan Blue game here with you guys.
Speaker 3 (56:26):
Sounded great, sounded Yeah.
Speaker 4 (56:28):
I was gonna say Albert, right, I got Albert. I
told him about your immune system and how you've got
one of the weaker immune systems.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
If anyone I know.
Speaker 11 (56:35):
So, I don't know. It seems like I held upside
than you out there.
Speaker 5 (56:39):
In the Columbus so Jesus, well, yeah, you were also drunk,
so it helps.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
Oh dang, I don't bubble.
Speaker 5 (56:48):
I don't know what you mean held up.
Speaker 4 (56:50):
I mean you were in disbelief, you were in shock,
You're you were going through all sorts of emotions.
Speaker 5 (56:55):
So I'm not really sure how to take that.
Speaker 11 (56:58):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. If I I
don't know what I said. Acter the game is to
be repeated. But yeah, I was not That was not
a good I was not in a good place. But
I held up really well.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
Yeah you have to suit either, dude. I mean it's
like that's true.
Speaker 11 (57:15):
That's true. But I didn't have a heater like on
my under my under a table for me either.
Speaker 4 (57:20):
Hey, buddy, we didn't either. Like, I don't know if
there's people think there's a heater under there. You don't
have enough electrics in the stadium to do something like that. Really, no, really, yes, really,
there's no heater, dude.
Speaker 5 (57:34):
It's just a set. Oh think I think I had
on two or three.
Speaker 11 (57:43):
Okay, Well that's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's more
than me.
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