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Speaker 4 (02:45):
All right, So what's your issue with football this late
in the year, Brady?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Like you think, uh, it's not my issue. You gotta
stop projecting. But I did notice on social media people
being like, oh.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Mand's gonna watch this college football game? The NFL seasons
long now we got college football seasons like these people
complain about it. And I'm sitting here all right, granted
on very little sleep, so there's probably some delirious thoughts,
but I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Going, Okay, isn't this a good thing?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Like football longer, you know, football for a more period
of time, Like, isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That what you want? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Am I the only one that's crazy about this? Like, no,
you're prolonging the sport that we all have grown to
love and watch.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Why not just enjoy it? You know? Why not? Who
cares if it's eighteen.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Games in the NFL at some point here soon, or
if it takes sixteen games to win a national championship?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Can we enjoy that? I'm with you, Yeah, I just
think people again, I just think people that do this
are people that that's what they do. You gotta look
for something to can play, and it just depends on
the region of in a part of the country that
you're as well. Some places are more into that than others,
and it's just a cultural thing, honestly speaking. And that
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was not race baiting either, by the way. That was
just me talking about general areas. Certain people will walk
by you and they say, you know what, Hello, how
you doing? You know what? The person to say back, Hey,
how you doing? How you have a good day? Certain
places in the world you say that, they tell you
f off, you know what I mean, like mind draffing
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business or whatever it may be. There's just some people
that have very very negative outlooks on themselves and on life,
and it comes through in like the dumbest little things,
like it's a football game. People are going to watch it.
Whether you think people are going to watch it or not.
People are going to be interested in the college football
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championship game. They are, which we haven't got the ratings yet,
have we.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I don't think so. It's the air of complaints, you know,
and I lame yelp. YELP gave people the ability to
dictate somebody else's success based on their isolated experience, and
because of that, the losers and the geeks and the
twrps and the pip squeaks and the nerds at yelp
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have controlled the narrative for many businesses and many successful
companies out there based on one thing. And so now
people can't just enjoy the football games, or can't just
enjoy the fact that, oh, look at that, it's a
national championship game involving two of the biggest brands, not
only in college football but in sports. Can't have that.
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We've got to complain about when the game is on.
I don't get it. I really don't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
When it's on, what channel it's on.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Is anybody aware that we are a couple of weeks shots?
Is anybody aware the fact that we were a couple
of weeks shy of having to break down NBA gossip
and storylines.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Like I'm telling like we are on the brink of
that and people want to get caught off season. I'm
off too, I'm taking off too. I'm out of here.
I'm out. I'm out. I thought you were going to
handle our NBA cover choice. Come on, bar hell no,
because I'm a black man. Yeah, think I just automatically
no better. First off, every time I started talking about
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every time I started talking about the NBA last year.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
You were like, hold up, Johnson, you know what you're
talking about, Airic Johnson.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I did not. I didn't you did.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I was like, you know, I actually think they're doing
really good shooting three pointers, passing the ball around.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And you're like, hold on, Johnson, stop talking about the sport.
All right, Well, since you guys alright it, let's go
ahead and do this.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Let's talk a little bit about some NBA basketball going
on right now.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You got Lebron James. He went oh for twenty five
the other evening, and you know what that was all right,
because you gotta keep shooting the ball, you know what
I mean, You got to keep doing what you're doing.
Brownie James came in off the bench, he got in,
He truck him, struck him with a positive one point on.
He didn't do anything. He on his way to out
doing Stephen A in his career. But maybe will not
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outdo Stephen and his walk up to the arena. And
that'll complete our coverage.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Oh, that'll conclude our covers though the court park.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
The National Basketball I can't get it off.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, Well here let's continue on right now. Kawhi Leonard
finally came back and scored about fifty nine negative points
in the game. It was considered to be an overwhelming
experience for him and his fans, where it is cool
Whileonards man, by the way, he did come back.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He's looked pretty good, he's looked in shape, and now
he's going to miss another game.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh you see what I'm talking about, Levari, He's trying
to steal your There you go. I'm just saying we
had a Kuhi Leonard spotting and then he disappeared.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
More of the story is stop bitching and enjoy the football.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You got what I mean? We got ufl usfl right
coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, the problem is people feel like, well, you know,
the ratings aren't going to be as good, and it's like, well,
I mean okay, I mean again, I talked about some
of those issues, you know, putting it on ESPN, and
and ESPN is solely having it like there is an
element of as much as there's people who probably like
kirkhurb Street, there's probably people who don't or are tired
of listening to some of the different ways they talk
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about the game or present the game of football. That's
one of the reasons why the NFL has multiple partners
and multiple teams that get to call those games and
broadcast those games. So that plays a little bit of
a factor, I guess, but it's more about the calendar.
I think people look at it and say, like, when
should the season start? When should it end? If you're
you're going to expand the playoff, I guess it's even
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if you had teams, you could still stay within this model,
but you know, you got to give these kids rest,
and you got to get these kids time to do
exams and all the stuff that comes along with it.
I mean, God forbid, something happens like what happens with
the Sugar Bowl, and then you already had one team
that was on a day less of rest that ends
up being two, and it's like, how do you go
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about handling that sort of thing? So I think if
there's any changes that need to be made to college
football to help the back end of the playoff, to me,
it's the regular season. It's making these teams play more
conference games they should all play nine, making them figure
out a non conference schedule where they're not playing cupcakes,
especially not late in this season. And then you go
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from there. And then you start worrying about the timing
of other things around the calendar. But you know, I
thought the season was awesome. I think this was one
of the best seasons they've had in college football. That's
not just because Notre Dame made it to the national championship.
I thought being at the playoff games was incredible. And
I don't know if the ratings are gonna come with
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it or not because of the schedule and when they
put those games on, but I think it will only
continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I loved it. I went to every home game this year,
went to every playoff game. I loved it from watching
it in person and being a part of it again
to that degree, in that capacity, and what goes along
with it, what surrounds it, you know, just all of
the people who put in a ton of work to
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try to support these these programs. But I also love
it when I'm watching it at home. I really do.
I enjoyed this college season because I just believe the
way it was structured heading into this playoff made it
made the season more relevant to me. It really did,
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because with the lesser teams that you take the quicker
whose interesting, yep, that team I mean, maybe they may
play a team that is up for one of those
couple teams are going to make it, and they may
spoil you know, the team's season. But for the most part,
having it where teams still have the opportunity to possibly
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make it into the tournament, I think added an element
of intrigue that was definitely for me, it was definitely missing,
and the interest level was much higher for much longer
this season than I can honestly say any any like.
I've had this intrigue, this level of intrigue for certain
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teams and then you watch to see if that team
is going to live up to the expectation, But I've
not had it for an entire season four groups like
for the conference like this was like the first time
I was looking out a conference, like, dang, how many
are they going to get in? Or oh they're you know,
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they're going to knock each other off or whatever it
may be. The intrigue of the Notre Dame deal an
independent that goes down to an unranked, unknown team and
yet they climbed back into it. In years past that
would have been impossible for that to happen. Think about that.
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The best teams in my estimation. The one thing that
happened in this year's playoff is the playoff the nature
played out. It played out, the two best teams playing
the best football ended up playing one another, and the
best team won the College Football Championship. Like, it is crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I think a year ago those two teams wouldn't have
even made the playoff. Yeah, I mean Ohio State finished
fourth of.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The Big Ten. Yes, it's crazy. Yes, And again I don't.
I don't think that that dictates if you're the best
team in the country or not based upon something that
you had go wrong. A pro team could be the
best team in the league and lose a game to
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a team that you know, you'd look at and say
how they lose that game? You know? So to me,
why doesn't that exist a little bit more in college? Okay,
you let a game get away from you that you
shouldn't have let get away. I get. It shouldn't mean that,
Oh nope, you're not the best team. You didn't go undefeated. Like,
let's get away from this whole undefeated thing. The best
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teams don't always go undefeated, and.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Now if they do, it's more impressive.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And now if they do, it's more impressive.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Because you've got the gauntlet to go through you get
to get to the national.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And still got you still got to get through it.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Like the discussion after Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois
was what's their path to get there?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And they found one. And just when I said it
after it happened, just when just keep winning and you're
going to be fine. Just keep winning, and that's what
they did. Sort of Notre Dame more than Brady Well,
I mean, he was down. I think it was a
little down. I mean he just felt like, you know,
maybe the strength of schedule was working against them. But
all they had to do was just keep winning. And
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and look at what happened. I was concerned concerned there
and and look but just look at the way it
plays out. Like so you're gonna tell me that you
would have saw you would have foresaw a team that
only lost the Ohio State and Oregon losing to a
team that lost the Northern Illinois.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You could you probably could argue Notre Dame in Ohio
State suffered of any teams in college football. Two of
the most demoralizing losses this year, the one to Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They lost to the clock management was bad. And then
and then you let these boys come up in wound it.
You let Michigan walk up in your house and win.
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ups shipping. Oh yeah, I do want to put it
in one thing.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I don't know why we need to have this conversation,
and it's probably born by Ohio State fans, but this
is the most difficult path, greatest run.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's like, no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
If you look at the entirety of the season, this
season does not compare to LSU's I'm sorry. They're twenty
nineteen national championship. They beat seven top ten teams that year.
They beat four top five It's never been done before.
And by the way they blew out teams. I don't
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know that they ever trailed in the fourth quarter of
any game ever that season fifteen to zero. Never trailed
in the fourth quarter, and I think the only time
in which they trailed it might have been like the
Clemson game they which was one of the was it.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A playoff game they played them, it had have been.
I mean, that was the most.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Dominant national championship run that I've ever seen, and Burrow
had the single greatest season in college football history. So
I know how State fans are really excited about what
they just accomplished. You lost a Michigan at some point,
you lost on the road. Ori, I can't consider this
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one of the greatest runs if you include the entire season,
you just can't.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Uls.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You swept the table with everything, the accolades, the SEC championship,
the National they did everything. So please stop the narrative
of Okay, I get it. You beat Tennessee by the way,
not playing their best football by that point in time
of the season.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You beat organ That's great, it's a good win.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Beat Texas, Okay, beat Notre Dame like that's it was
a great four game stretch. It is not even close
to the greatest season or national championship run in the
history of college football.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's just not. I think that you can't say it
if you lost two games during the season, you just can't.
I think that's how they start getting measured though, based
off of what they do in the playoff. The playoff
is going to start defining.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Yeah, but let's say a team goes undefeated next year
and they wouldn't they go sixteen to zero.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I think they're still going to be I think
they're going to be judged off of what they do
in that playoff, like and what that road looks like.
Like they definitely get that way. We forgot to get there, okay,
And they had a difficult the most difficult of any team.
Probably in the draws, they probably had the worst, the
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toughest schedule of games. That's why I would say, I mean,
and I think that that's where it's going to go.
It's going to go to you being judged based off
of what you do in the playoffs. I think getting
into the playoff is going to be looked at more so,
like how the pros are looked at anymore like, oh,
you had a good regular season, but what did you
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do in the playoff?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, but the problem is that's part of the conversation
and national Championship run, like you can't qualify for the
playoff if you don't win enough in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
True, but so again, I think, but if you qualify
and you make it into the playoff, and you have
a run in that playoff and you gotta beat some
hard ass teams, I'm just saying, I don't know that
people will judge that team based off of what they
did in the regular season. They're going to judge them
based off of what they were able to accomplish once.
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They might get it, I get it. I just don't
think there's a comparison.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I don't think you can compare that LSU team what
they did, how they won, how dominant they were the
entirety of the season, how well Joe Burrow played, I mean,
Jamar Chance, I mean that whole team was incredible, and
what they did throughout the year, all the big games
they played throughout the year, Like, if you really want
to be honest, like, okay, they went fifteen to zero,
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We can make the case that they didn't play that well.
They played tough games in the playoff. There's only two
and they dominated by the way. But you can make
the case their playoffs started during the season. When you're
playing seven top ten teams in one season.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I mean, there's no debating that, honestly, other than to
say that maybe the strength of schedule lends to you
being able to make it into the playoff. And then
it's like, Okay, what did they do once they made
it into the playoffs? I mean, I just I just
just think that I in my mind, the first thing
I think about is what would those teams, Like, what
would a Florida State, a ninety nine Florida state done
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in this playoff? What would a Michael Vick led Virginia
Tech team or or Vince Young or you know, Reggie
Bush and those guys, what would they have done in
this six you know, this twelve team playoff, like I
would love Like in my mind, those are like the
things I think about, What would that look like if
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they were if we had a twelve team playoff like
you had a bracket, like a lot of things. I
think about a lot of things. Yeah, yeah, man, some good,
some some really good, and then some like that are
like just really really like inappropriate. But nonetheless I manage
I managed to get through them.
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Coming up in a little over fifteen minutes from now
from the tire rack dot com studios, we are going
to have our midweek Awards. The good, the bad, and
the ugly. Those will be yours here on FSR. Speaking
of the bad, Bill Belichick thinks it's a bad idea
that assistant coaches are interviewing for other jobs while still
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in the postseason, still in the playoffs, trying to get
ready for big time games in the playoffs, and he
spoke about it on his podcast, The Let's Go Podcast recently.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I've never been a big fan of it. I think
it's it's really unfortunate when you have a team, including
the coaches and the coordinators, work so hard all year
to to get to the playoffs, to have an opportunity
to play in conference championships and Super Bowls. Uh, and
then they're they're totally distracted by another team who was
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a bad team, who has a coaching change infringing on
that that team that's trying to get to a championship,
you know, by hiring one of their top coaches. Nobody
would be happy if that was a player, but for
a coach, that's also, you know, very disruptive, especially when
you're the play caller. I mean it's just human nature
to be distracted by you know, potential job opening staff
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and you know, change of lifestyle from a coordinator to
a head coach when you're trying to prepare and call
plays in a critical game.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That was Bill check on the Let's Go Podcast. Well,
it's logical, right, yeah, it is? Is there with that? No?
But can I ask this? Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, I mean aren't you oftentimes interviewing for other jobs
even if you have a job, if you have the
opportunity to be promoted, yes, I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
If you fired.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
If you get fired, it's very seldom that you get fired,
then you're immediately jumping into a position where you're getting
promoted from the position that you were just in.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right, that's correct.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
So how is this any different than any other industry?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's not. You got to get wild of getting as
good and if you have an opportunity that's in front
of you, and it's one of thirty two that are available,
well not thirty two being available, but thirty two of
those openings come up. I mean, if you're interviewing for
a coordinator job during the season, that's weird. But if
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you're if you're interviewing for a hey, coaching job. You
know what, I don't give a damn what you think
about it. I don't give a damn. If my performances
led to me having an opportunity and you say you
got to interview now, and this is your window, your
opportunity to interview for this job. I'm interviewing for that job.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Why can't you wait?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why can't you wait? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Why can't you wait until after the super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Like I just said, I prefaced by saying, if they're
saying to me, this is the only window of time
that you're going to have to come interview, which it's
their prerogative to decide that, I can make my decision.
I can wait and if that opportunity is no longer available,
then we'll look elsewhere. Or I can make the decision
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that I'm going to get while the getting is good,
and I'm going to go interview. And you know what,
like if that impacts the way I call this playoff game, Okay,
it impacted the way I called the playoff game. I'm
still gonna put my best foot forward. I haven't gotten
the job yet, I'm interviewing. Whow it doesn't to me.
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It doesn't make sense to even say insinuate. Okay, you're
going to go interview and now you can't call the game? Well, like,
what how does that work?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Why not push all hiring of coaches in the NFL
until after this?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Okay, so make it a league rule, but don't put
that on it well, don't put it on the coaches
to sit back and that they have to make a
decision like I don't I don't agree with, Like I
don't feel good about, you know, coordinators going that are
still in the playoffs going and interviewing for these coaching jobs.
Well then change it. Yeah at the league level, and
that's you don't put that on. Don't put that pressure
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on those those coaches that have to miss out on
the opportunity that they could want to have.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It's not like they're breaking any rules. They're playing by
the rules that are in place currently. But why not
make it to where everybody in the league you can
hire after the Super Bowl's over, so everybody gets interviewed.
You're not having to, you know, tiptoe around.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I'll tell you why it will never work because of
the timing of the NFL calendar. You have the first
day of new league year starting in what second week
in March. You have the combines starting at the end
of February. So you're telling me a league that's at
seventeen games so far, so eighteen weeks, that's looking to
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go to eighteen. We just heard Roger Goodell talk about that.
So now you're talking about nineteen weeks, so I'm not
sure where you're gonna do there. You're going to be
pushing this whole thing back, and I think the aim
is for us to really have the Super Bowl be
pushed back. What holiday is coming up in February. There's
a Monday after that we have Presidence Day. Yeah, I
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think they're looking to eventually target that weekend. So super
Bowl Sunday basically becomes lumped into President's Day as like
a holiday, and everyone's off work on Monday, and that
would create the highest viewership, the best kind of event, travel, etcent.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
All those things.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
But that's why is you then after the super Bowl
now have to go through your hiring process and if
you can't interview it all at all at the end
of the season, So for like a month and a half,
you're sitting on your hands and you're doing research on
candidates and you look at the film, all the stuff,
but you can't bring them in for an interview, can't zoom, nothing,
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no chance. It takes too long to go through such
a monumental decision to your organization's trajectory to then sit
there and say, oh, we're just trying to knock this
out in a week.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's just you can't do it.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
So unfortunately Bill Belichick is dead on it's a distraction
and it's you know, maybe you look at some of
the game against Washington say, you know, maybe we met
a young, hot team right now, that's you know, finding
ways of winning games.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But maybe there was some distraction.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
By Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson both through Look are
taking a head to your head coaching jobs. It's human nature.
But again, how is that any different than anywhere else?
And then what's the solution what you're saying that's not
going to work. So there really is no other solution
to this.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
There is no solution. If they if they're going to interview,
you give them the chance and the opportunity in the
time as a head coach and as the organization to
interview or give them a contract. That's said, do you
really want to go do this interview. I'm just like
to have that opportunity too.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I'm just letting you guys know that when I get,
you know, opportunities elsewhere, I always tell them, listen, I
can't talk until after the show like I like. And
that's and that's just me making you guys a priority.
So some people appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I know, people are knocking down your door at five
am Pacific time to talk to you during our show.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Trust, I get it exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I know you get a lot of between three and
six am Pacific. You're getting a lot of people trying
to get in contact.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
The thing it is, it's based off of the JKS Show,
not not this one.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
O two to four Eastern time every Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's like telling a fib right now, acting as though
he's working on our behalf, when in fact he is
protecting the best better interest of building the JKS Show.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Two to four Eastern time. Can please put a button
a second second plug right there? Thank you? Yeah, it's
not even the best show on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
There's a show right before his show, Oh, the undercard
show right before his show, you know, the main main
draft time show. You know. Well, look, we do live
reads on our show, you know, damn. But are they
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but are they done well?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I mean yeah, he does make a point though he
does do live reads.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I mean on the weekend. Yeah, I'm just saying, man's
all right, what are you doing, Jonah? Yeah? What are
you doing? Jonah?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Just doing a banger do you say for the j
that's right, man, And sometimes it's two hours and then
sometimes it's four, depending on who can or can't make it.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
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I was feeling overweight and you know, I knew it,
and well I was sick of it. Good come back,
and so I allowed for Jonas to do the show
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the good, the bad, and the ugly, and those are
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here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
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a Cup of Joe. With Brady Quinn, LeVar Arrington, and
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Speaker 5 (31:03):
Ah, lose come true, that's right, get a bar.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, I would say you can do that. Yeah, but
this dude's voice is ridiculous. Oh man, I don't try
to sound like any of them. I just do my thing.
Come true. Next to me, I just do LeVar Man.
(31:34):
I can't get Swims. Yeah, get.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Teddy Swims. Bro cool, that white boy guy, soul man.
He's got some soul, dude, he's got some everything. He's
a he's a hell of a singer.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Who's got more soul?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Him?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Or Lee Swims. I'm gonna give I'm gonna give the
voice to Teddy Swims. I'm gonna give the choice.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
You gotta go even a concert, first choice and decisions
to personally on lead the lap, go with lead the
lap on personal opinions.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's why he'd be curving, Lorena. You know what I mean?
What he didn't go to the gym with me yesterday? Yeah, curving?
You I got. I got so many messages, Where's Lee?
Where's Lee? Where's Lee? Where's Lee? I'm like, if one
more person asks me, I.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Mean, you just don't wait. Who gave you messages? How
they're messaging you online? Oh so you posted it?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
This is all played out in uh in real time
on this show. Good for you, Good for you taking
now take advantage all that stuff. That's a new one
on me.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
You know, I don't know, take advantage of this shine.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I just know Lead the Lap has been walking around
where I thought it would have. This has been all backfired.
It's it's made Lead more confident, like he's a wanted man.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
By the way, Teddy Swims looks like Posts Malone was
allergic to something.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Look at this guy. I don't know, I'd little. I'll
tell you that, all right, Teddy Swims is not little.
He can sing his ass off, though. You know who
can sing their ass off? Who? Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
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and right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
There are some good things that happen, and there's some bad,
and then there's some downright ugly things. It's time for good,
bad and ugly.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
All right, lead to last who's got what? Well?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
As we do each and every week, we start with
the good, and Jonas, let us know what was good
this week?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Well, I'm a weather nerd and I love football.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
I'm a weather nerd, so this past weekend gave me
my good fix of weather conditions impacting football games. I
thought it was tremendous. I know it's not comfortable for
the people there, maybe the people playing in it, but
on television, getting to watch them trying to work through
the conditions, work through the elements like that, it was
(34:30):
very entertaining, very enjoyable. People freezing their ass off trying
to play football and hold on to a football and
hopefully we get a little bit more of that this Weekende.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Gotta love that playoff weather. Well, you can't have good
without the bad, LeVar, what was bad this week? I
felt like this week's bad is the fact that even
though I'm excited about the games, we have moving forward
with the NFL playoffs. I just feel like it's not
as interesting to me, quite as interesting not having the
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Detroit Lions and the playoffs and having the Baltimore Ravens
in the playoffs. Like to think that their seasons are
done and there's still you know, two more games to
be played, three more games to be played. It's just
I don't know. I thought it was bad. I thought
it was bad, But I'm excited for the teams that
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were able to pull through, Excited to see the Bills,
Excited to see what the Washington Commanders can possibly do
against Philadelphia and Philly. It's a familiar, familiar folks. So
I'll go with I still think that I would like
to see Lamar Jackson still playing, and I would like
to see Detroit still playing. Wow, it's kind of bad.
(35:47):
And from bad, two worse, Brady, what was ugly this week?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
You know, there are a lot of people sometimes when
they see these college football robberies and like the National
Championship game, you know, the fan basis sometimes can be ugly.
I did not experience that. I thought, actually everyone was
really respectful. During my short stint down in Atlanta, Ohio
State fans, Notre Dame fans.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
There were some trash lard.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
There were some Michigan fans who were kind of walking
around just enjoying the last forty eight hours of their
National championship reign. And I think also to remind Last
State fans they lost to them. But it was not ugly.
You know, it was a celebration of college football. A
lot of people out there having fun. You know, they
have a fan fest thing, Like I think, honestly, dude,
(36:33):
we need to take the show there. We got to
take the show next year to the National Championship because
they've got some setups. They've got some really cool stuff
for like kids and families and everything. It's very similar
to what they have for the Super Bowl. So I'm
hoping next year we get there. But none of that
was ugly, none of it at all. In fact, what
was ugly was probably the topic of conversation on our
(36:57):
show yesterday, this whole gym situation that's going on right
now and Lee not being able to go to the
gym anymore, his workout partner Lorena or Ray Ray apparently
we're calling her that. That to me was the ugliest
thing of this past week. But I've see, I've see.
I saw some gross stuff. Now I saw childbirth, So
(37:20):
that goes think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
That's right, I'm changing mind. Then I'm with you, by
the way. By the way, the next the next closest
thing is the marconium. You know what that is? What
is that? Do you guys know what marconium is?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
That is the crap that comes out of the child
all right upon birth. That's that like tar looking substance
that that's there, that's their you know, excrement. It is
the worst thing to try to clean off of a baby.
It's like it literally is like tar, looks like tar,
the substance like that. It is the weirdest thing ever
to think that was running through your child at one point.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
But even that wasn't as ugly as the situation.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
At the gym. Yeah, I changed mine too. It's the
gym that's bad. The way Lee handled the gym situation,
that's bad.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
You know, I'm gonna change mine too, then, Mike, good
for the week.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, that's the good.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah, that that gym situation, it did provide. Uh, Lee's
got more confidence. I'm telling you, Lee is more. I
thought he gets scared or end up bruised and battered
and hurt. But you know what, he's walking around with
his head high, his shoulders pushed back.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I mean, he feels good. He's a wanted man. I mean,
he's being tracked, but you know, I mean, but he
did leave Lorain a hanging, you know, Ray, Ray,
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, come on, huh, come on, wake on up. Uh,
get it moving, get it moving, yeah, uh huh. Just
wanna be just wanna be here? Oh I get you
going now? I mean I'm just saying, does it get
you going? This is a bop? LeVar Yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
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Speaker 1 (01:07):
Just want to be Oh gosh, what a song.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
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LaVar Area thought mine was bad.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hey man, it's a banger right here.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I don't know what the hell this takes you back to,
but it's a new song.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
This makes me want to cut off my toe. This one.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You know what this is? This is a song. They
played a Hollister store.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
When you walk in. They even still have the Hollister stores.
Was that still a thing? I think the Abercrombie.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
By the way, Lee making edits to the Rundown in
real time. They just changing fonts of different things. I mean,
I'm not sure Lee knows what's going on.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All right, Lee? What did you do? Why did you
piss him off? Lee? What did you do? Damn? It's
not taking me off.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Say, it's funny watching like Lee highlight stuff and they
like changes the font which I'm not sure why.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I like a certain aesthetic I like on one page.
I like them to fit nicely. Oh god, it's trying
to be professional.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Oh god, Yeah you're trying, buddy. Let me tell you well,
I know that whatever profession it beats. No, no try
at all. I'll say that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
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Speaker 4 (02:45):
All right, So what's your issue with football this late
in the year, Brady?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Like you think, uh, it's not my issue. You gotta
stop projecting. But I did notice on social media people
being like, oh.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Mand's gonna watch this college football game? The NFL seasons
long now we got college football seasons like these people
complain about it. And I'm sitting here all right, granted
on very little sleep, so there's probably some delirious thoughts,
but I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Going, Okay, isn't this a good thing?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Like football longer, you know, football for a more period
of time, Like, isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That what you want? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Am I the only one that's crazy about this? Like, no,
you're prolonging the sport that we all have grown to
love and watch.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Why not just enjoy it? You know? Why not? Who
cares if it's eighteen.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Games in the NFL at some point here soon, or
if it takes sixteen games to win a national championship?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Can we enjoy that? I'm with you, Yeah, I just
think people again, I just think people that do this
are people that that's what they do. You gotta look
for something to can play, and it just depends on
the region of in a part of the country that
you're as well. Some places are more into that than others,
and it's just a cultural thing, honestly speaking. And that
(04:08):
was not race baiting either, by the way. That was
just me talking about general areas. Certain people will walk
by you and they say, you know what, Hello, how
you doing? You know what? The person to say back, Hey,
how you doing? How you have a good day? Certain
places in the world you say that, they tell you
f off, you know what I mean, like mind draffing
(04:29):
business or whatever it may be. There's just some people
that have very very negative outlooks on themselves and on life,
and it comes through in like the dumbest little things,
like it's a football game. People are going to watch it.
Whether you think people are going to watch it or not.
People are going to be interested in the college football
(04:51):
championship game. They are, which we haven't got the ratings yet,
have we.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I don't think so. It's the air of complaints, you know,
and I lame yelp. YELP gave people the ability to
dictate somebody else's success based on their isolated experience, and
because of that, the losers and the geeks and the
twrps and the pip squeaks and the nerds at yelp
(05:17):
have controlled the narrative for many businesses and many successful
companies out there based on one thing. And so now
people can't just enjoy the football games, or can't just
enjoy the fact that, oh, look at that, it's a
national championship game involving two of the biggest brands, not
only in college football but in sports. Can't have that.
(05:40):
We've got to complain about when the game is on.
I don't get it. I really don't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
When it's on, what channel it's on.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Is anybody aware that we are a couple of weeks shots?
Is anybody aware the fact that we were a couple
of weeks shy of having to break down NBA gossip
and storylines.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Like I'm telling like we are on the brink of
that and people want to get caught off season. I'm
off too, I'm taking off too. I'm out of here.
I'm out. I'm out. I thought you were going to
handle our NBA cover choice. Come on, bar hell no,
because I'm a black man. Yeah, think I just automatically
no better. First off, every time I started talking about
(06:34):
every time I started talking about the NBA last year.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
You were like, hold up, Johnson, you know what you're
talking about, Airic Johnson.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I did not. I didn't you did.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I was like, you know, I actually think they're doing
really good shooting three pointers, passing the ball around.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And you're like, hold on, Johnson, stop talking about the sport.
All right, Well, since you guys alright it, let's go
ahead and do this.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Let's talk a little bit about some NBA basketball going
on right now.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You got Lebron James. He went oh for twenty five
the other evening, and you know what that was all right,
because you gotta keep shooting the ball, you know what
I mean, You got to keep doing what you're doing.
Brownie James came in off the bench, he got in,
He truck him, struck him with a positive one point on.
He didn't do anything. He on his way to out
doing Stephen A in his career. But maybe will not
(07:18):
outdo Stephen and his walk up to the arena. And
that'll complete our coverage.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Oh, that'll conclude our covers though the court park.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
The National Basketball I can't get it off.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, Well here let's continue on right now. Kawhi Leonard
finally came back and scored about fifty nine negative points
in the game. It was considered to be an overwhelming
experience for him and his fans, where it is cool
Whileonards man, by the way, he did come back.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He's looked pretty good, he's looked in shape, and now
he's going to miss another game.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh you see what I'm talking about, Levari, He's trying
to steal your There you go. I'm just saying we
had a Kuhi Leonard spotting and then he disappeared.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
More of the story is stop bitching and enjoy the football.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You got what I mean? We got ufl usfl right
coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, the problem is people feel like, well, you know,
the ratings aren't going to be as good, and it's like, well,
I mean okay, I mean again, I talked about some
of those issues, you know, putting it on ESPN, and
and ESPN is solely having it like there is an
element of as much as there's people who probably like
kirkhurb Street, there's probably people who don't or are tired
of listening to some of the different ways they talk
(08:40):
about the game or present the game of football. That's
one of the reasons why the NFL has multiple partners
and multiple teams that get to call those games and
broadcast those games. So that plays a little bit of
a factor, I guess, but it's more about the calendar.
I think people look at it and say, like, when
should the season start? When should it end? If you're
you're going to expand the playoff, I guess it's even
(09:02):
if you had teams, you could still stay within this model,
but you know, you got to give these kids rest,
and you got to get these kids time to do
exams and all the stuff that comes along with it.
I mean, God forbid, something happens like what happens with
the Sugar Bowl, and then you already had one team
that was on a day less of rest that ends
up being two, and it's like, how do you go
(09:23):
about handling that sort of thing? So I think if
there's any changes that need to be made to college
football to help the back end of the playoff, to me,
it's the regular season. It's making these teams play more
conference games they should all play nine, making them figure
out a non conference schedule where they're not playing cupcakes,
especially not late in this season. And then you go
(09:46):
from there. And then you start worrying about the timing
of other things around the calendar. But you know, I
thought the season was awesome. I think this was one
of the best seasons they've had in college football. That's
not just because Notre Dame made it to the national championship.
I thought being at the playoff games was incredible. And
I don't know if the ratings are gonna come with
(10:06):
it or not because of the schedule and when they
put those games on, but I think it will only
continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I loved it. I went to every home game this year,
went to every playoff game. I loved it from watching
it in person and being a part of it again
to that degree, in that capacity, and what goes along
with it, what surrounds it, you know, just all of
the people who put in a ton of work to
(10:34):
try to support these these programs. But I also love
it when I'm watching it at home. I really do.
I enjoyed this college season because I just believe the
way it was structured heading into this playoff made it
made the season more relevant to me. It really did,
(10:55):
because with the lesser teams that you take the quicker
whose interesting, yep, that team I mean, maybe they may
play a team that is up for one of those
couple teams are going to make it, and they may
spoil you know, the team's season. But for the most part,
having it where teams still have the opportunity to possibly
(11:17):
make it into the tournament, I think added an element
of intrigue that was definitely for me, it was definitely missing,
and the interest level was much higher for much longer
this season than I can honestly say any any like.
I've had this intrigue, this level of intrigue for certain
(11:40):
teams and then you watch to see if that team
is going to live up to the expectation, But I've
not had it for an entire season four groups like
for the conference like this was like the first time
I was looking out a conference, like, dang, how many
are they going to get in? Or oh they're you know,
(12:02):
they're going to knock each other off or whatever it
may be. The intrigue of the Notre Dame deal an
independent that goes down to an unranked, unknown team and
yet they climbed back into it. In years past that
would have been impossible for that to happen. Think about that.
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The best teams in my estimation. The one thing that
happened in this year's playoff is the playoff the nature
played out. It played out, the two best teams playing
the best football ended up playing one another, and the
best team won the College Football Championship. Like, it is crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I think a year ago those two teams wouldn't have
even made the playoff. Yeah, I mean Ohio State finished
fourth of.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The Big Ten. Yes, it's crazy. Yes, And again I don't.
I don't think that that dictates if you're the best
team in the country or not based upon something that
you had go wrong. A pro team could be the
best team in the league and lose a game to
(13:11):
a team that you know, you'd look at and say
how they lose that game? You know? So to me,
why doesn't that exist a little bit more in college? Okay,
you let a game get away from you that you
shouldn't have let get away. I get. It shouldn't mean that,
Oh nope, you're not the best team. You didn't go undefeated. Like,
let's get away from this whole undefeated thing. The best
(13:32):
teams don't always go undefeated, and.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Now if they do, it's more impressive.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And now if they do, it's more impressive.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Because you've got the gauntlet to go through you get
to get to the national.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And still got you still got to get through it.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Like the discussion after Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois
was what's their path to get there?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And they found one. And just when I said it
after it happened, just when just keep winning and you're
going to be fine. Just keep winning, and that's what
they did. Sort of Notre Dame more than Brady Well,
I mean, he was down. I think it was a
little down. I mean he just felt like, you know,
maybe the strength of schedule was working against them. But
all they had to do was just keep winning. And
(14:13):
and look at what happened. I was concerned concerned there
and and look but just look at the way it
plays out. Like so you're gonna tell me that you
would have saw you would have foresaw a team that
only lost the Ohio State and Oregon losing to a
team that lost the Northern Illinois.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You could you probably could argue Notre Dame in Ohio
State suffered of any teams in college football. Two of
the most demoralizing losses this year, the one to Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They lost to the clock management was bad. And then
and then you let these boys come up in wound it.
You let Michigan walk up in your house and win.
What did they do to them? Oh? Bro, they burnered them.
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ups shipping. Oh yeah, I do want to put it
in one thing.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I don't know why we need to have this conversation,
and it's probably born by Ohio State fans, but this
is the most difficult path, greatest run.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's like, no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
If you look at the entirety of the season, this
season does not compare to LSU's I'm sorry. They're twenty
nineteen national championship. They beat seven top ten teams that year.
They beat four top five It's never been done before.
And by the way they blew out teams. I don't
(16:19):
know that they ever trailed in the fourth quarter of
any game ever that season fifteen to zero. Never trailed
in the fourth quarter, and I think the only time
in which they trailed it might have been like the
Clemson game they which was one of the was it.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A playoff game they played them, it had have been.
I mean, that was the most.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Dominant national championship run that I've ever seen, and Burrow
had the single greatest season in college football history. So
I know how State fans are really excited about what
they just accomplished. You lost a Michigan at some point,
you lost on the road. Ori, I can't consider this
(17:01):
one of the greatest runs if you include the entire season,
you just can't.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Uls.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You swept the table with everything, the accolades, the SEC championship,
the National they did everything. So please stop the narrative
of Okay, I get it. You beat Tennessee by the way,
not playing their best football by that point in time
of the season.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You beat organ That's great, it's a good win.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Beat Texas, Okay, beat Notre Dame like that's it was
a great four game stretch. It is not even close
to the greatest season or national championship run in the
history of college football.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's just not. I think that you can't say it
if you lost two games during the season, you just can't.
I think that's how they start getting measured though, based
off of what they do in the playoff. The playoff
is going to start defining.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Yeah, but let's say a team goes undefeated next year
and they wouldn't they go sixteen to zero.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I think they're still going to be I think
they're going to be judged off of what they do
in that playoff, like and what that road looks like.
Like they definitely get that way. We forgot to get there, okay,
And they had a difficult the most difficult of any team.
Probably in the draws, they probably had the worst, the
(18:17):
toughest schedule of games. That's why I would say, I mean,
and I think that that's where it's going to go.
It's going to go to you being judged based off
of what you do in the playoffs. I think getting
into the playoff is going to be looked at more so,
like how the pros are looked at anymore like, oh,
you had a good regular season, but what did you
(18:37):
do in the playoff?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, but the problem is that's part of the conversation
and national Championship run, like you can't qualify for the
playoff if you don't win enough in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
True, but so again, I think, but if you qualify
and you make it into the playoff, and you have
a run in that playoff and you gotta beat some
hard ass teams, I'm just saying, I don't know that
people will judge that team based off of what they
did in the regular season. They're going to judge them
based off of what they were able to accomplish once.
(19:08):
They might get it, I get it. I just don't
think there's a comparison.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I don't think you can compare that LSU team what
they did, how they won, how dominant they were the
entirety of the season, how well Joe Burrow played, I mean,
Jamar Chance, I mean that whole team was incredible, and
what they did throughout the year, all the big games
they played throughout the year, Like, if you really want
to be honest, like, okay, they went fifteen to zero,
(19:32):
We can make the case that they didn't play that well.
They played tough games in the playoff. There's only two
and they dominated by the way. But you can make
the case their playoffs started during the season. When you're
playing seven top ten teams in one season.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I mean, there's no debating that, honestly, other than to
say that maybe the strength of schedule lends to you
being able to make it into the playoff. And then
it's like, Okay, what did they do once they made
it into the playoffs? I mean, I just I just
just think that I in my mind, the first thing
I think about is what would those teams, Like, what
would a Florida State, a ninety nine Florida state done
(20:07):
in this playoff? What would a Michael Vick led Virginia
Tech team or or Vince Young or you know, Reggie
Bush and those guys, what would they have done in
this six you know, this twelve team playoff, like I
would love Like in my mind, those are like the
things I think about, What would that look like if
(20:27):
they were if we had a twelve team playoff like
you had a bracket, like a lot of things. I
think about a lot of things. Yeah, yeah, man, some good,
some some really good, and then some like that are
like just really really like inappropriate. But nonetheless I manage
I managed to get through them.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
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Coming up in a little over fifteen minutes from now
from the tire rack dot com studios, we are going
to have our midweek Awards. The good, the bad, and
the ugly. Those will be yours here on FSR. Speaking
of the bad, Bill Belichick thinks it's a bad idea
that assistant coaches are interviewing for other jobs while still
(21:49):
in the postseason, still in the playoffs, trying to get
ready for big time games in the playoffs, and he
spoke about it on his podcast, The Let's Go Podcast recently.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I've never been a big fan of it. I think
it's it's really unfortunate when you have a team, including
the coaches and the coordinators, work so hard all year
to to get to the playoffs, to have an opportunity
to play in conference championships and Super Bowls. Uh, and
then they're they're totally distracted by another team who was
(22:23):
a bad team, who has a coaching change infringing on
that that team that's trying to get to a championship,
you know, by hiring one of their top coaches. Nobody
would be happy if that was a player, but for
a coach, that's also, you know, very disruptive, especially when
you're the play caller. I mean it's just human nature
to be distracted by you know, potential job opening staff
(22:45):
and you know, change of lifestyle from a coordinator to
a head coach when you're trying to prepare and call
plays in a critical game.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That was Bill check on the Let's Go Podcast. Well,
it's logical, right, yeah, it is? Is there with that? No?
But can I ask this? Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, I mean aren't you oftentimes interviewing for other jobs
even if you have a job, if you have the
opportunity to be promoted, yes, I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
If you fired.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
If you get fired, it's very seldom that you get fired,
then you're immediately jumping into a position where you're getting
promoted from the position that you were just in.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right, that's correct.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
So how is this any different than any other industry?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's not. You got to get wild of getting as
good and if you have an opportunity that's in front
of you, and it's one of thirty two that are available,
well not thirty two being available, but thirty two of
those openings come up. I mean, if you're interviewing for
a coordinator job during the season, that's weird. But if
(23:50):
you're if you're interviewing for a hey, coaching job. You
know what, I don't give a damn what you think
about it. I don't give a damn. If my performances
led to me having an opportunity and you say you
got to interview now, and this is your window, your
opportunity to interview for this job. I'm interviewing for that job.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Why can't you wait?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why can't you wait? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Why can't you wait until after the super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Like I just said, I prefaced by saying, if they're
saying to me, this is the only window of time
that you're going to have to come interview, which it's
their prerogative to decide that, I can make my decision.
I can wait and if that opportunity is no longer available,
then we'll look elsewhere. Or I can make the decision
(24:38):
that I'm going to get while the getting is good,
and I'm going to go interview. And you know what,
like if that impacts the way I call this playoff game, Okay,
it impacted the way I called the playoff game. I'm
still gonna put my best foot forward. I haven't gotten
the job yet, I'm interviewing. Whow it doesn't to me.
(25:01):
It doesn't make sense to even say insinuate. Okay, you're
going to go interview and now you can't call the game? Well, like,
what how does that work?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Why not push all hiring of coaches in the NFL
until after this?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Okay, so make it a league rule, but don't put
that on it well, don't put it on the coaches
to sit back and that they have to make a
decision like I don't I don't agree with, Like I
don't feel good about, you know, coordinators going that are
still in the playoffs going and interviewing for these coaching jobs.
Well then change it. Yeah at the league level, and
that's you don't put that on. Don't put that pressure
(25:34):
on those those coaches that have to miss out on
the opportunity that they could want to have.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It's not like they're breaking any rules. They're playing by
the rules that are in place currently. But why not
make it to where everybody in the league you can
hire after the Super Bowl's over, so everybody gets interviewed.
You're not having to, you know, tiptoe around.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I'll tell you why it will never work because of
the timing of the NFL calendar. You have the first
day of new league year starting in what second week
in March. You have the combines starting at the end
of February. So you're telling me a league that's at
seventeen games so far, so eighteen weeks, that's looking to
(26:14):
go to eighteen. We just heard Roger Goodell talk about that.
So now you're talking about nineteen weeks, so I'm not
sure where you're gonna do there. You're going to be
pushing this whole thing back, and I think the aim
is for us to really have the Super Bowl be
pushed back. What holiday is coming up in February. There's
a Monday after that we have Presidence Day. Yeah, I
(26:37):
think they're looking to eventually target that weekend. So super
Bowl Sunday basically becomes lumped into President's Day as like
a holiday, and everyone's off work on Monday, and that
would create the highest viewership, the best kind of event, travel, etcent.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
All those things.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
But that's why is you then after the super Bowl
now have to go through your hiring process and if
you can't interview it all at all at the end
of the season, So for like a month and a half,
you're sitting on your hands and you're doing research on
candidates and you look at the film, all the stuff,
but you can't bring them in for an interview, can't zoom, nothing,
(27:13):
no chance. It takes too long to go through such
a monumental decision to your organization's trajectory to then sit
there and say, oh, we're just trying to knock this
out in a week.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's just you can't do it.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
So unfortunately Bill Belichick is dead on it's a distraction
and it's you know, maybe you look at some of
the game against Washington say, you know, maybe we met
a young, hot team right now, that's you know, finding
ways of winning games.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But maybe there was some distraction.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
By Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson both through Look are
taking a head to your head coaching jobs. It's human nature.
But again, how is that any different than anywhere else?
And then what's the solution what you're saying that's not
going to work. So there really is no other solution
to this.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
There is no solution. If they if they're going to interview,
you give them the chance and the opportunity in the
time as a head coach and as the organization to
interview or give them a contract. That's said, do you
really want to go do this interview. I'm just like
to have that opportunity too.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I'm just letting you guys know that when I get,
you know, opportunities elsewhere, I always tell them, listen, I
can't talk until after the show like I like. And
that's and that's just me making you guys a priority.
So some people appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I know, people are knocking down your door at five
am Pacific time to talk to you during our show.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Trust, I get it exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I know you get a lot of between three and
six am Pacific. You're getting a lot of people trying
to get in contact.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
The thing it is, it's based off of the JKS Show,
not not this one.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
O two to four Eastern time every Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's like telling a fib right now, acting as though
he's working on our behalf, when in fact he is
protecting the best better interest of building the JKS Show.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Two to four Eastern time. Can please put a button
a second second plug right there? Thank you? Yeah, it's
not even the best show on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
There's a show right before his show, Oh, the undercard
show right before his show, you know, the main main
draft time show. You know. Well, look, we do live
reads on our show, you know, damn. But are they
(29:27):
but are they done well?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I mean yeah, he does make a point though he
does do live reads.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I mean on the weekend. Yeah, I'm just saying, man's
all right, what are you doing, Jonah? Yeah? What are
you doing? Jonah?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Just doing a banger do you say for the j
that's right, man, And sometimes it's two hours and then
sometimes it's four, depending on who can or can't make it.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
That weekend, like it just wow. Maybe it was because
I was feeling overweight and you know, I knew it,
and well I was sick of it. Good come back,
and so I allowed for Jonas to do the show
while I was taking part with my expert nutritionists at
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Speaker 4 (30:28):
You shooting me? Man, it's a PhD. Stop shooting me.
It's working. It's working. Two Pros and a Cup of Joe.
Fox Sports Radio Lavarre it's really good, Quinn Jonas knocks
don't matter if I do hate them. Uh So, we
are going to have a Wednesday tradition. It's our midweek awards,
the good, the bad, and the ugly, and those are
(30:50):
here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
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Speaker 5 (31:03):
Ah, lose come true, that's right, get a bar.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, I would say you can do that. Yeah, but
this dude's voice is ridiculous. Oh man, I don't try
to sound like any of them. I just do my thing.
Come true. Next to me, I just do LeVar Man.
(31:34):
I can't get Swims. Yeah, get.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Teddy Swims. Bro cool, that white boy guy, soul man.
He's got some soul, dude, he's got some everything. He's
a he's a hell of a singer.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Who's got more soul?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Him?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Or Lee Swims. I'm gonna give I'm gonna give the
voice to Teddy Swims. I'm gonna give the choice.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
You gotta go even a concert, first choice and decisions
to personally on lead the lap, go with lead the
lap on personal opinions.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's why he'd be curving, Lorena. You know what I mean?
What he didn't go to the gym with me yesterday? Yeah, curving?
You I got. I got so many messages, Where's Lee?
Where's Lee? Where's Lee? Where's Lee? I'm like, if one
more person asks me, I.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Mean, you just don't wait. Who gave you messages? How
they're messaging you online? Oh so you posted it?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
This is all played out in uh in real time
on this show. Good for you, Good for you taking
now take advantage all that stuff. That's a new one
on me.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
You know, I don't know, take advantage of this shine.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I just know Lead the Lap has been walking around
where I thought it would have. This has been all backfired.
It's it's made Lead more confident, like he's a wanted man.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
By the way, Teddy Swims looks like Posts Malone was
allergic to something.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Look at this guy. I don't know, I'd little. I'll
tell you that, all right, Teddy Swims is not little.
He can sing his ass off, though. You know who
can sing their ass off? Who? Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
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little over ten minutes from now. By the way, you
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(33:45):
and right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
There are some good things that happen, and there's some bad,
and then there's some downright ugly things. It's time for good,
bad and ugly.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
All right, lead to last who's got what? Well?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
As we do each and every week, we start with
the good, and Jonas, let us know what was good
this week?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Well, I'm a weather nerd and I love football.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
I'm a weather nerd, so this past weekend gave me
my good fix of weather conditions impacting football games. I
thought it was tremendous. I know it's not comfortable for
the people there, maybe the people playing in it, but
on television, getting to watch them trying to work through
the conditions, work through the elements like that, it was
(34:30):
very entertaining, very enjoyable. People freezing their ass off trying
to play football and hold on to a football and
hopefully we get a little bit more of that this Weekende.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Gotta love that playoff weather. Well, you can't have good
without the bad, LeVar, what was bad this week? I
felt like this week's bad is the fact that even
though I'm excited about the games, we have moving forward
with the NFL playoffs. I just feel like it's not
as interesting to me, quite as interesting not having the
(35:02):
Detroit Lions and the playoffs and having the Baltimore Ravens
in the playoffs. Like to think that their seasons are
done and there's still you know, two more games to
be played, three more games to be played. It's just
I don't know. I thought it was bad. I thought
it was bad, But I'm excited for the teams that
(35:24):
were able to pull through, Excited to see the Bills,
Excited to see what the Washington Commanders can possibly do
against Philadelphia and Philly. It's a familiar, familiar folks. So
I'll go with I still think that I would like
to see Lamar Jackson still playing, and I would like
to see Detroit still playing. Wow, it's kind of bad.
(35:47):
And from bad, two worse, Brady, what was ugly this week?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
You know, there are a lot of people sometimes when
they see these college football robberies and like the National
Championship game, you know, the fan basis sometimes can be ugly.
I did not experience that. I thought, actually everyone was
really respectful. During my short stint down in Atlanta, Ohio
State fans, Notre Dame fans.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
There were some trash lard.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
There were some Michigan fans who were kind of walking
around just enjoying the last forty eight hours of their
National championship reign. And I think also to remind Last
State fans they lost to them. But it was not ugly.
You know, it was a celebration of college football. A
lot of people out there having fun. You know, they
have a fan fest thing, Like I think, honestly, dude,
(36:33):
we need to take the show there. We got to
take the show next year to the National Championship because
they've got some setups. They've got some really cool stuff
for like kids and families and everything. It's very similar
to what they have for the Super Bowl. So I'm
hoping next year we get there. But none of that
was ugly, none of it at all. In fact, what
was ugly was probably the topic of conversation on our
(36:57):
show yesterday, this whole gym situation that's going on right
now and Lee not being able to go to the
gym anymore, his workout partner Lorena or Ray Ray apparently
we're calling her that. That to me was the ugliest
thing of this past week. But I've see, I've see.
I saw some gross stuff. Now I saw childbirth, So
(37:20):
that goes think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
That's right, I'm changing mind. Then I'm with you, by
the way. By the way, the next the next closest
thing is the marconium. You know what that is? What
is that? Do you guys know what marconium is?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
That is the crap that comes out of the child
all right upon birth. That's that like tar looking substance
that that's there, that's their you know, excrement. It is
the worst thing to try to clean off of a baby.
It's like it literally is like tar, looks like tar,
the substance like that. It is the weirdest thing ever
to think that was running through your child at one point.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
But even that wasn't as ugly as the situation.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
At the gym. Yeah, I changed mine too. It's the
gym that's bad. The way Lee handled the gym situation,
that's bad.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
You know, I'm gonna change mine too, then, Mike, good
for the week.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, that's the good.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah, that that gym situation, it did provide. Uh, Lee's
got more confidence. I'm telling you, Lee is more. I
thought he gets scared or end up bruised and battered
and hurt. But you know what, he's walking around with
his head high, his shoulders pushed back.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I mean, he feels good. He's a wanted man. I mean,
he's being tracked, but you know, I mean, but he
did leave Lorain a hanging, you know, Ray, Ray,
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