October 4, 2022 • 38 mins
It’s Pittsburgh Polka time for the Steelers with Kenny Pickett getting the go-ahead. Tyreek Hill joins the Dolphins over the Jets because of state taxes. Canned coaches in College Football and another round of “Would You Rather…?”
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guess what. It's the beginning. It's the beginning of a
new era because according to people in the know, according
to NFL Network, it's officially Kenny pick At time. It
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is Kenny pick At Time in Pittsburgh's oh yeah, oh yeah,
yeah yeah yeah, come on come on yeah yeah yeah yeah,
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come on, come on, Rocket yeah, green, yeah, the white
come on, yeah my soul, come on yeah yeah yeah yeah.
He fake it time, baby. In the least surprising story
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in the NFL, thus farthest thing that made me feel
so good. Take you back, man, Just see the little
Italian dude. They jump up and like they think I
love they do that. You gotta jump. You gotta have
a little short top, the little short home. You gotta
have both your hands up to this guy. You go
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stealing baby. So so, Kenny Pickett is reportedly going to
be the guy moving forward, and don't worry about it.
They're gonna bring him in gently at Buffalo. So there's
there's that now. I don't believe Mike Tomlin has actually
confirmed this yet, but based on what happened last week
and bringing him into this game, I think this was
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the direction there Brady Quinn that we were looking at
that that this is gonna be Kenny p time moving
forward for Pittsburgh. Yeah. Yeah, this we we kind of
thought based on the preseason, based on the fact that
drafted from the first round and really just you know
that that's how it is now. I mean, you draft
these young guys early. They don't want him to sit.
They wanted to get him in there and play, and um, yeah,
they need that spark here Mike Tomlin talk about it.
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Um you could see it when when Kenny Pickett got
in and it was again it was like that watched
it in the preseason where it's just something about the
energy the offense plays with some of the playmaking and
all that. I think it is a really good job
keeping his eyes downfield and looking for those bigger plays
and chunks. So you know, and I know he hasn't
since they've gotten in the season, gotten a lot of
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reps with some of the starters. I think I think
that you know, He's only gonna improve. They should only
improve moving forward. But I'm telling you right now, unless
Matt Canada starts doing a lot of other creative things.
And there is some experience there between you know, that
system and Kenny Pickett from Matt Canada's days dating back
to Pittsburgh University. Uh, it could be you know, it
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could be tough sledding. Still. I mean, this is a
team that still can't find a way of winning without
t J. Watt oh and seven when he's not playing
since he's been on the team. And so as as
much as we would to make it about the offense
and they need to do a bigger, bigger part of
their job and Kenny Pickett's gonna cure a lot of
their issues, there's still an element of you know, you
allowed that the Jets to come back into that thing. Uh.
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And again the offense helped out, you know, turn over
to kind of set up um them. It's some good
field as but that the defense has to find a
way to step it up and helping because he's a
rookie's gonna make some mistakes from time to time. You know. Uh,
I like it. I like to move Obviously, they do
need a as as coach. Coach Tomlins said spark Um, Listen,
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if I'm Matt Canada, I go out guns a blazing, right.
I Mean, if you think about it, the spotlight is
on you. Everyone is is blaming you for for the woes,
whether it's the defense, whether it is him, everybody's putting
the spotlight on him as the blame, which, by the way,
um Pittsburgh Steelers fans put that blame on Mike Tomlin
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as well. Which ultimately, you know, when you choose who's
going to to coordinate your team, that's that is a
head coaches decisions, so um so rightfully, so there should
be criticism lobbed his way if that is indeed the
reason why the team is struggling. But if I'm if
I'm at Canada, I'm I'm pulling out all the stops,
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I'm I'm going deep. I'm you know, I'm can I
throw one idea to you, then, I mean, bring back
an Tonio Brown. If you're really pulling out all the stops, yeah,
bring back if you're really going deep. Yeah, that's a
good point because if you really want to go to
a good point, it's a great point. I mean listen.
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I wouldn't bring I wouldn't bring um, I wouldn't bring
a b back. I just wouldn't do that. That would
just why at this point, I think that might be
a little bit of poor taste in that. You know,
do you see judgment Do you see him writing the
Rottweiler in the pool the other day? No, but you're
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so stupid. Stupids tends to stay overseas. I just never
I've just never happens. We'll be able to understand why
you would throw your heinie in somebody's face like that.
Just weird to me, that one, like really like I
was a guy, I was kind of all a little
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bit off on on a by, Like, you know, I'll
support him, like kind of stick up for him because
he's a former player and he's had a brilliant career,
but he's done so many weird things, and this latest
one is the weird. Like I'm out, Like how cuts
is I'm out, I'm out, Like I'm out on a by,
Like I'm all the way out, I'm out. I don't
care he knew her, I don't care how cool they
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are for you to allow somebody to capture that content
and the way he looked in the moment he did it.
I'm out. And then he posts a picture of him
with Giselle on social media afterwards. You see that one
him her hugging Antonio Brown like he just guys a disaster.
And we keep like every time we think that they
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can't get worse than this, But he ran off the
field in the middle of a game. Now, now he
can't do worse than this, although he knows, he just
figures out another another level to get to. I mean,
why are you gonna throw your booty up in the
air like that man and put it in somebody's face here?
And maybe he's, uh, maybe he's trying to I don't know.
You totally derailed me. But it was just so disturbing.
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It's so disturbing and upsetting that that young man would
like start doing like foolish things like that. I know,
I know, like he used to be, he's not that
young now. I don't know that. You keep giving a pass. No,
you don't give him a pass. And when I say
young man, it's more sunning him, like you need thought.
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Maybe he was trying to get his body part son,
That's why he's trying to it wasn't long enough for
him to get Sun, so he can't use that as
as a real you know reason. It wasn't long enough,
It wasn't exposed long enough for him to get Son.
Was way too quick. Yeah, and I'm upset for even
knowing that. Just so we're clear on my point is
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Matt Canada needs to air the ball out, all right,
and he needs to get guys while we're joking about it.
He needs to get guys who have strong enough legs
to jump out of water and put their booties and
women's faces um randomly. They need to have strong enough
legs to be able to jump up high, point the ball,
you know, catch the ball. Make sure they catch the ball.
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I mean, they got some really really fast receivers. They
got some really physically gifted receivers. If I'm at Canada
and I'm putting in Kenny Pickett, I know that this
is the end. If I messed this up, I am,
I might not even make it through the season. And
Pittsburgh isn't even known for doing that. So air it out,
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air it out, take them deep, take the top off.
A defense. Division is not like away from them, They're
they're one in three, they still would have a potential shot.
Like it's early. You know, their scheduled the next four weeks,
that's that's right at Buffalo, Tampa, at Miami, at Philly.
Look if you now that you go back to that
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first game that they beat Cincinnati on with all the
miss kicks and it went into overtime. I mean, like this,
you could argue, well, maybe they shouldn't have won a
game at all, Like maybe this team should be sitting
here winless right now. I just wonder if Mike Tomlin
looks at it and says, look, Deonte Johnson said it afterwards,
this is a rebuilding here, like, so if he's saying
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it after the game, I wonder if Mike Tomlin's looking
at this thing, going all right, if this is the
direction it's headed, we may as well see what we
got in this guy, and then we'll we'll hopefully he
shows signs of something and then we can move forward
next year. But it just it felt like the way
Trabisky started and this early portion of their schedule, we
were going to get here sooner rather than later. It
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just it felt like I was heading in that direction
and at least you're gonna get people excited about coming
out the games. Now, it was nice knowing you Mitch
four games, man, hey not even four games. Enjoy it
for as long as you can get used to that clipboard.
It's all right. Make sure you know your hands signals
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and stuff like that. Give a supporter. I'll put it
this way. He you're right, he's the next chance he
gets going to be due to injury, like that's the
three out, or he finds himself in a situation where
he's behind someone who didn't play well and he gets
a chance to go in. Look at Gino Smith right now.
Look at Gino Smith, I would say, look at Gino
you know, he got drafted, he had that opportunity. He waited,
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he bided his time, a long gap it between when
he last really started and played a lot of games,
and right now, the dude set a record. No one's
completed a high percentage of passes in the first four
games of a season than Gino Smith in NFL history.
So it's not like it's over for him. He just
has to, you know, find himself in the right spot,
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be page, should keep working on his game and all that.
So it like it's tough and I think for quarterbacks,
it's tougher than other positions in part because only one
guy plays, you know, and you're and you're not changing positions.
You know, you can't really go from quarterback to something else.
We've seen other guys try. I would say, you know,
Logan Thomas is like the only most recent successful one
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I can think of that came into the NFL as
a quarterback and transition to tight end does now legit
tight end um. But that's about it. Man. It's hard
to really find those guys who are able to do it.
He's not that you know, sort of athletes skill set,
I don't think. So this is the spells better though
for guys like Pickings, guys like Deonte Johnson, Claypool, thenn't
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feel like Kenny Picketts. They're gonna be able to get
the ball to those guys better than they were with mischief.
I guess the hard thing is you don't know what's
being said behind closed doors. I don't know if it's
a lack of Trabisky looking downfield. I mean when I
go back through the first few games, I mean, it's
not like there's a lot of guys running wide open
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and and so I think I could see part of
the frustration with trebisks being like, dude, this is the
offense you're calling him running the way you're calling it,
it's not very good. We saw that last year with Ben,
and Ben's even spoken out about it, and now you're
gonna bench me like all right, Like, well we'll see
how this guy does like that. That's the tough part
I think um for Trabiskie is he could have been
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doing everything they're asking of him and it's still not
working out, and yet he has to end up being
the fall guy. Because we talked about this before, they're
not gonna fire Canada before they make a quarterback switch. Now,
if Pickett struggles, they'll probably still use it as an
excuse to say, well, he's a rookie, when the reality
is someone needs to take a microscope over this offensive
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system because it hasn't been good before this year. It's
been a problem, and again that we probably they probably
want to address it until the end of the season.
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So coming up next, we finally have an answer. There
was a major decision made in the NFL this offseason,
and the person involved in the decision is going to
tell you why it was made and why he did
what he did. We'll get into that for you next
year on fs are be sure to catch live editions
of Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn,
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LaVar Arrington and Jonas Knocks weekdays at six am Easter
three am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio. Yeah you know it. Man box jumps pound
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dumbells in each hand. Doublin Coffman High, Patty's Day. Descriptive
of what you're doing. Want to take people there. I
want him to know what it was like in the
early two thousand's at Doublin Coffin High. Yeah, I'm banging
home with the shamrocks in your hand, clanging and banging
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in your hand, in your hand, your head in your hand,
in your hand. How's something who had to listen to?
What I was saying to catch on what I was saying,
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wasn't It wasn't the octave, it was it was the lyrics.
I couldn't get past the octaphone. All right, I mean
there he is your hand, what dob just in there?
Your hand in your hand, in your hand, in your
hand and your hand? What was it? Your hand? Not
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that two pros and a cup of jewel here on? No, not,
by the way, that was a quote from Abe. By
the way, I'm now I'm now getting blamed for Roberto's
drops because my brother called me. He was listening to
the show yesterday. He goes, Man, when you guys were
(16:25):
talking about that a B story and you played the
horse sound effect. I was like, what do you mean me?
He goes, yeah, what do you play? That was like,
that's not me, that's Berto. Like, I'm all the way
sure that was your brother. That wasn't Pat. No, that
was my brother. Okay, because exact said the same. But
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I don't have control of the buttons. That's that's first,
pac Man. All of the sound drops is Alberto. He
gets all the credit for that. I don't have control
of the buttons. I do what's on the prompter. What
is that one? What is that one for? I know
what it is? Why that that? Oh, that's an easy out.
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I'm bored alone. I'm glad you called it out. I'll
just let it go. It's ridiculous. I'm bored. I'm going um,
all right, So we are going to get into somebody
who got paid in the world of sports. A little
(17:37):
bit heartbreaking. It's a disappointing end to a time for
somebody in the world of sports, but they did end
up getting paid. At least there's that. We'll have that
for you here coming up. Didn't we got live looking
still those live lookings? How how do you think he
spins it? If he doesn't get to sixty two? Do
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you think he says, well, I'm just honored to share
of this space with Roger Marris. I'm gonna go with that.
He probably gets what like four pitches a game now,
I mean, no one's throwing to him. Why everything's like
low in a way or just how would I know?
I keep getting live lookings? How could I not know
what I'm saying? Why? Why would they do that? Why
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wouldn't they throw him the ball? Like? What if you're
they could playing Texas baseball. I get it, but I mean,
just at least go out on your shield. If he
beat you with your best pitch, that's fine. But they're like,
you know, not given him anything to hit. They're intentionally
walking him there. It's like, come on, man, throw him
something down the place you can do something. Is he
still Is he still in it for the triple crowd?
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Like that's that's more of an impressive featly, Yeah, he's
I think it has as much to do with that
than anything else. Like they just you know, it's getting
close to the playoffs. You want to win games. Well,
I know that. We We've got to wait to see
where he plays baseball next year because there's some conversation
that well, I mean, who's going to be in the
market form because he's betting on him self and he's
gonna end up getting paid. One guy that did get
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paid this offseason, though, was Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill made
the decision to go to the Miami Dolphins, and since
they're playing the New York Jets and we've got a
big a FC East match up here for all those
Jets fans to to get excited about those dormats disguised
as football fans notice the Jets uh Tyreek Hill was
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asked about why he chose ultimately Miami over New York.
Here's what he had to say. So that's where the
other team that was cooking fine to trade for you.
How close is that to happening to this? You know what,
it was very close to happening, man. But just those
it's just those state Texas man. You know, I realized,
you know, I had to make a grown up decision.
And you know, here I am in a great city
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of Miami. You know, great weather, great people, were beautiful people.
I feel like, so there, I am so there it is.
That is the answer. Not to U New York there
for half a season. That is a punitive of a
place you'll get and they get you in Jersey and
New York. Think about that really well Jersey really yeah,
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it's not really New York. So it wasn't too It
wasn't all the other things. It was really the taxes
that had something to go with it. I mean, I
am mad at that. I'm really not mad at I
played in d C and in Jersey, like I was
getting hit. He was getting crushed. I was getting hit.
They even had property tax in Virginia and I was playing.
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We practice and lived in Virginia, most of us, all
of us really, and I ended up moving to Maryland.
But then you play in Maryland, so you gotta play.
You you gotta pay taxes to Virginia and to Maryland
on your paycheck every every week. I mean, every time
you play in Maryland. Then you gotta pay wherever it
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is you go, depending on what their taxes. So so
just to pay it out for people who don't know you.
You get paid based off where you play. And so
what he's essentially saying is for the eight or nine
home games, right because we now have seventeen games, he
was looking at it saying, well, I know I'm gonna
get taxed less if I'm in Miami because they don't
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have a state income tax and New Jersey is probably
was like ten percent somewhere at double digits. So he's
saving that percentage on those eight or nine game checks
by being in Miami as opposed to significant well for
for the amount he's making. Yeah, like that's you know,
you're talking about a lot of what was this contract?
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The value of it? Let me look a real quick
vam for me, real quick pretend like we well, okay,
let's just paying out the easy math, you're gonna take
about half the game. So let's say half whatever he's
scheduled to make this year. And you would then say,
all right, whatever percentage that you're being taxed in New Jersey,
you just take that percentage off that half of that
number four years million million. There a little signing bonus
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seventy two to guaranteed. So what's like the average anital
We're saying like year like fifteen of that, right, so
you're you're roughly saving let's just save round numbers one
point five million just just by signing. And again that's
just ballparking, kind of spitballing, just by signing with the
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Dolphins as opposed to majority of us will never make
one point five million in the history of our professional
are saying, okay, because he's the common man, he relates everyone.
But the point, the point is, so Tyree Hill, even
though is gonna make he's make himself said like the commons,
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So Tyree Hill is saving that just by deciding to
go play in Miami over the Jets. Yeah, that honestly,
that honestly, it's actually gonna be more than that, that's
just off his game checks. That's not off bonuses and
other things. Where revers residences which look I I assume
a residences in Florida. So let's say, like, for example,
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his signing bonus. What would you say, Okay, so there's
there's another twenty five that doesn't get subject to a
staticcome tax. Whereas if you would have been paying if
you was in New Jersey, it would be it would
have been tough to claim it out of the state
of New Jersey. So you could roughly say another ten
percent on that too. How about that? See people tune
(23:28):
into the show, I don't think I think they tune
in for the horse sith. They come in for the sports,
the crank jokes, the interaction, the fun times. And then
they then what do they get when they get here
churches different They get tax advice from the great Brady Quinn.
You know it's not I mean, this is the first
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time of far right we we've seen the players who
here's the thing. If here's what's a little bit unfair
about it is it forces teams that do have like
a high stating up acts, they're gonna have to offer
more like that's that that's just the reality of it.
And you're still working within the structures of a you know,
a salary cap. So it's a bit it's a bit unfair,
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but you know, it's hard to make it, you know,
truly truly equal across all fifty states and all the
teams and all that. It is two pros and a
cup of joe here on FS are coming up twelve
minutes from now. It's another edition of would you Rather,
in which we get into some things in the world
of sports, and be honest, we've got to answer hard
hitting questions from lead to lapse, So we'll get to
that here at twelve minutes from now. So if you
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were to say, all right, you grew up in a
certain part of the country, a certain town, and that
town had a pretty successful college football team. You grew
up a fan of that team right around the corner
from the stadium. You ended up going to that school,
ended up playing quarterback for that school, and then you
were years later named head coach of that school, and
(24:54):
you had some pretty good success at this school. Ultimately, though,
you were fired five games into a season. Scott. But
if you but if you're Paul Chris at least you
got eleven million dollars. So there's that. There's sixties, seven
and six. I don't get it. Uh, you know, I was,
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I was kind of looking through anyone, all right, like,
let's try to make some sense of this. I think
I threw twenty guys yesterday. They've won about eight or
nine games on average, Like when you go through the
years now, I know it hasn't been great of late,
but they've won about eight or nine games on the
average in Wisconsin, and that's it's pretty solid. You know,
it's pretty so what you think about what they've been
able to do. What's dropped off the past two years
(25:39):
is recruiting, and they've never been like an elite recruiting school.
But if you go back over a five year span,
you know, they were in the top thirty, you know,
pretty consistently. And then really these next two recruiting recruiting
classes now twenty three feel like outside the top fifty.
And I do wonder if with the way this most
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recent game transpired, you've got Brett Bielama, who was a
head coach at Wisconsin who chose to leave. I'm not
gonna get into that type down that rabbit hole, but
who chose to leave and then circles around It comes
back to a program that is nowhere close to what
years has been as far as what you built, and
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then just literally just dominates, just dominates you. There has
to be a sense of like, we're not going in
the right direction. We're not competing recruiting like we used
to be, We're not competing on the field like we
used to be. And we've got a guy who just
walked right back in here against us and and blew
us out of the water. There's there's something off here,
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and let's go ahead and go with Jim Leonard. See
if you can't shake some things up. I think a
lot of people assumed too, and Jim Leonard took that job,
he'd be a guy that people would look at as
a potential head coaching candidate, if not a Wisconsin somewhere else.
So I actually think, you know, I like Paul Christy
was a good guy. I think this would be a
could be a really good thing for Wisconsin, especially their offense,
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even though Jim Luter is a defensive guy. I think
they might start to open some things up. And never
had a losing season six and one in Bowl games
for whatever it's worth, and and yeah forty one games
over five. But just think about who was involved and
dropping the hammer on that guy, Barry Alvarez. I think
about that. Yeah, well he how involved is he? He's no, no, no,
(27:33):
Chris McIntosh, alright, so what's his involvement? Well, it's that
but to your point, is still very involved like he
might he's not the a D but he's still very involved.
So I'm seeing a piece in this decision. Trust his judge,
I'm not. I don't know that for a fact. I
just know every time we go back to Madison, Wisconsin,
we see Barry Alvarez. So yeah, it's a very very
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prominent figure that I'll put it this way. I would
imagine that someone goes by the Godfather and they say, Godfather,
do we have your blessing if we make this decision?
And he, you know, he gives his blessing. Who's the
Godfather at Penn State? Like when you go back there,
Who's who's the one that that you talked to? Is
it is Franklin kind of running the show no matter what?
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Is there somebody else not the Godfather? Though? Is it
Chad Powers? Yeah? Yeah, I don't think we have a
godfather right now? What about in Notre Dame, who's the godfather?
When you go back there, who's the one um outside
of god out Different said Jesus, Yeah, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Us um. I would say there's some, I said Jimmy Dunne.
There's a prominent there's a prominent donors who are like
the kind of the Godfather. Yeah, there he is. Is
that Kurt Warner, by the way, Kurt Warner, love me
some Kurt Warner. You guys do know where bury out
Z's from too, by the way, Washington County. Yeah, you know, Brady,
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you know what county is from Pennsylvania. I do not
Washington County, Washington County. Alright. But by the one final
note about the eleven million that Paul Chris would go,
they actually he was. He was owed close to nineteen
and he actually came to an agreement to only do eleven,
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which is I mean, it's a it's a classy move, man,
like say what you want that, that's a really really
classy move because the firing doesn't make a lot of sense,
at least not at this time, Like why not let
him battle through see if they can't come back and
do something. And he's basically you know, letting them have
another eight million or leaving on the table. And the
fact that like that's his like that's his home, like
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literally born and raised in Madison, right around the corner
from the stadium, and gets to be the head coach
after being the quarterback there, and then gets lipped and
still says, all right, basically, I'm gonna cut my salary
in half what I owed and I'll take the eleven
million dollars. But top ten coach. You'd want to have
a beer with that. He is one of the coolest dudes,
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nicest dudes you ever meet, Like just sitting down and
talk with him like he's he's I'm telling you and
you want to. You get the sense when you talk
to someone you're like, man, that's when I go have
a beer with this guy and really see what they'd say.
Let him open up. He's he's top ten right there?
Where would I rank on that list? Here you go?
I mean, the problem is you can only do so
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many beers. I don't have a great tolerance, So I'm
a heavy hitter and I go, I go the heavy route.
I mean heavy hitter. I'm an I P A guy.
I mean, it's not that you drink like one or
two beers and you're you're like dunce. It's like one
or two beers, you'd be up there, but Brady have
a Zemo with extra ice and then look at me
and judge me because I'm having an I P A.
I mean, still make those anymore? I don't know remember though,
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but by the way, you know what those basically became?
What's that every heart and every heart Seltze's out there
like it all came full circling. Unfortunately, Zeeba just it
was a little too soon the right marketing. Yeah, even
some time and it'll come around. It's like Fran Tarkington,
he's watching the NFL today going why couldn't I've been
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Lead to laugh? What do we got? All right, guys,
we're gonna start here. Would you rather have to be
interrupted with every live looking for Aaron Judges at bats
or be interrupted by Jehovah witness at your front door?
Jehovah Witness Aaron Judge? Yeah? Can I can I tell
you guys a true story? I swear to God on this.
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I had them come to my door one time that
Jehovah's witnesses ahead, go ahead, you know what I mean? Alright,
So so they came to We could see them making
the rounds on the street, and so they came to
the door. So you know those holiday popcorn tins like
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they have the three different flavors that the orange, no,
So we took the lid off there because if you
if you hit somebody with it, it doesn't hurt, but
it sounds really loud. And so I had my nephew,
I said, when they come to the door. I want
you to attack me with this so that they'll we'll
chase him away. And so these guys come to the door,
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these two dudes, and they're like they've got like these
ten speeds with them, and they started they start talking
and I tell him I'll count to fifteen and then
come around the corner and then hit me with it.
And he comes around the corner and hits me so
hard in the head that I go down on the ground.
He starts stopping me like we're in wrestlement at the
door the door, looking at me, going what the hell
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has happened. I'm I get out of here, save your set,
out of here. You don't want to any part of it.
And they ended up leaving it never came back. So
it works. Ever, not one time. No, they don't have to.
Never do a cop Come on, they're like pests or rodents.
That's how you literally talked about them. Okay, well, look,
I mean we're just going to serve on their mission. Man.
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You know, only like a hundred get in there. I
think that's what they believe, right, Yeah, some people pay
like four hundred four tickets to a wrestling event. They
got one for free at the front door. Don't be
so mean to him. You know, they don't believe that
they all get into the pearly gates. It's a different deal.
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Some of them have to be like earth dwellers, you know,
welcome to the hatef act. It's like rock or something,
Aaron Judge, Dang. You know what. Here's the thing is
if we cut into an errand Judge clip, I know
he's just gonna get walked probably if we If I
go answer the door, it's like, all right, at least
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get to have some sort of conversation I can ask
them to if they think they're one of the hundred
or like what they're gonna come back? As we talking
about that, Yeah, we had a coup of job as
witnesses on our team of Notre Dame. They used to
go during Mass that we've had before a game before
we walk to the stadium. They used to sit in
the confessional booth and take a nap. What do they
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do on Christmas? What they're doing? Absolutely nothing? Yeah, to
sit there and like like pull cleanex out of a box,
Like what do you do? It's like, I mean there's
something anyone like there's nothing to do like, hold on,
did you do that as a kid. Yeah, It's like
I'm thinking, I'm thinking of those boring things in the world,
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like what do you put glue down and let it dry?
And I didn't do that, not menifer, not a glue sniffer.
Liquid nail, Yeah, liquid nail. A couple of Earth dwellers here.
Would you rather go to the Moon or go to Mars?
I mean, i'd say the Moon. I don't know if
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you're coming back from Mars out of space? Yeah, what
does it matter? Take your pick, like they're both gonna
take a lot longer. Get to Mars far, I mean,
and we might as well go to Mars. If you're
gonna go up there, you might as well go all
the way in. I'll go to uh to the Moon
because I've seen they do better special effects up there
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trying to make it look real. So here we go.
I'm saying, by the way, if you want to go
to the Moon, just just hang a right on Spolo
and was Mars rit? Yeah? Thread do we know they
have gravity there or not? And Mars it's like kind
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of similar we anything else? What else? Would you rather
go to the aquarium or the zoo? Zoo. Yeah, I'd
rather the zoo. Yeah yeah, because you can get there's
more options at the zoo. I remember last time I
went to the zoo, there is a a gorilla came
over and took a dump right in front of Oh yeah,
I literally walked over, sauce at the glass, turned around
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and just pooped and then left in Chicago. That must
want to throw it at the oe. That that's that's
the There's nothing you can do to stop me. I
do what I want, move like. I will literally crap
in my hands and I will make a painting on
this glass in front of you and your kids, and
you won't do anything about it. You know somebody else? Okay,
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guess what. It's the beginning. It's the beginning of a
new era because according to people in the know, according
to NFL Network, it's officially Kenny pick At time. It
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is Kenny pick At Time in Pittsburgh's oh yeah, oh yeah,
yeah yeah yeah, come on come on yeah yeah yeah yeah,
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come on, come on, Rocket yeah, green, yeah, the white
come on, yeah my soul, come on yeah yeah yeah yeah.
He fake it time, baby. In the least surprising story
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in the NFL, thus farthest thing that made me feel
so good. Take you back, man, Just see the little
Italian dude. They jump up and like they think I
love they do that. You gotta jump. You gotta have
a little short top, the little short home. You gotta
have both your hands up to this guy. You go
(03:04):
stealing baby. So so, Kenny Pickett is reportedly going to
be the guy moving forward, and don't worry about it.
They're gonna bring him in gently at Buffalo. So there's
there's that now. I don't believe Mike Tomlin has actually
confirmed this yet, but based on what happened last week
and bringing him into this game, I think this was
(03:26):
the direction there Brady Quinn that we were looking at
that that this is gonna be Kenny p time moving
forward for Pittsburgh. Yeah. Yeah, this we we kind of
thought based on the preseason, based on the fact that
drafted from the first round and really just you know
that that's how it is now. I mean, you draft
these young guys early. They don't want him to sit.
They wanted to get him in there and play, and um, yeah,
they need that spark here Mike Tomlin talk about it.
(03:49):
Um you could see it when when Kenny Pickett got
in and it was again it was like that watched
it in the preseason where it's just something about the
energy the offense plays with some of the playmaking and
all that. I think it is a really good job
keeping his eyes downfield and looking for those bigger plays
and chunks. So you know, and I know he hasn't
since they've gotten in the season, gotten a lot of
(04:10):
reps with some of the starters. I think I think
that you know, He's only gonna improve. They should only
improve moving forward. But I'm telling you right now, unless
Matt Canada starts doing a lot of other creative things.
And there is some experience there between you know, that
system and Kenny Pickett from Matt Canada's days dating back
to Pittsburgh University. Uh, it could be you know, it
(04:32):
could be tough sledding. Still. I mean, this is a
team that still can't find a way of winning without
t J. Watt oh and seven when he's not playing
since he's been on the team. And so as as
much as we would to make it about the offense
and they need to do a bigger, bigger part of
their job and Kenny Pickett's gonna cure a lot of
their issues, there's still an element of you know, you
allowed that the Jets to come back into that thing. Uh.
(04:55):
And again the offense helped out, you know, turn over
to kind of set up um them. It's some good
field as but that the defense has to find a
way to step it up and helping because he's a
rookie's gonna make some mistakes from time to time. You know. Uh,
I like it. I like to move Obviously, they do
need a as as coach. Coach Tomlins said spark Um, Listen,
(05:20):
if I'm Matt Canada, I go out guns a blazing, right.
I Mean, if you think about it, the spotlight is
on you. Everyone is is blaming you for for the woes,
whether it's the defense, whether it is him, everybody's putting
the spotlight on him as the blame, which, by the way,
um Pittsburgh Steelers fans put that blame on Mike Tomlin
(05:42):
as well. Which ultimately, you know, when you choose who's
going to to coordinate your team, that's that is a
head coaches decisions, so um so rightfully, so there should
be criticism lobbed his way if that is indeed the
reason why the team is struggling. But if I'm if
I'm at Canada, I'm I'm pulling out all the stops,
(06:03):
I'm I'm going deep. I'm you know, I'm can I
throw one idea to you, then, I mean, bring back
an Tonio Brown. If you're really pulling out all the stops, yeah,
bring back if you're really going deep. Yeah, that's a
good point because if you really want to go to
a good point, it's a great point. I mean listen.
(06:27):
I wouldn't bring I wouldn't bring um, I wouldn't bring
a b back. I just wouldn't do that. That would
just why at this point, I think that might be
a little bit of poor taste in that. You know,
do you see judgment Do you see him writing the
Rottweiler in the pool the other day? No, but you're
(06:49):
so stupid. Stupids tends to stay overseas. I just never
I've just never happens. We'll be able to understand why
you would throw your heinie in somebody's face like that.
Just weird to me, that one, like really like I
was a guy, I was kind of all a little
(07:10):
bit off on on a by, Like, you know, I'll
support him, like kind of stick up for him because
he's a former player and he's had a brilliant career,
but he's done so many weird things, and this latest
one is the weird. Like I'm out, Like how cuts
is I'm out, I'm out, Like I'm out on a by,
Like I'm all the way out, I'm out. I don't
care he knew her, I don't care how cool they
(07:32):
are for you to allow somebody to capture that content
and the way he looked in the moment he did it.
I'm out. And then he posts a picture of him
with Giselle on social media afterwards. You see that one
him her hugging Antonio Brown like he just guys a disaster.
And we keep like every time we think that they
(07:54):
can't get worse than this, But he ran off the
field in the middle of a game. Now, now he
can't do worse than this, although he knows, he just
figures out another another level to get to. I mean,
why are you gonna throw your booty up in the
air like that man and put it in somebody's face here?
And maybe he's, uh, maybe he's trying to I don't know.
You totally derailed me. But it was just so disturbing.
(08:17):
It's so disturbing and upsetting that that young man would
like start doing like foolish things like that. I know,
I know, like he used to be, he's not that
young now. I don't know that. You keep giving a pass. No,
you don't give him a pass. And when I say
young man, it's more sunning him, like you need thought.
(08:40):
Maybe he was trying to get his body part son,
That's why he's trying to it wasn't long enough for
him to get Sun, so he can't use that as
as a real you know reason. It wasn't long enough,
It wasn't exposed long enough for him to get Son.
Was way too quick. Yeah, and I'm upset for even
knowing that. Just so we're clear on my point is
(09:04):
Matt Canada needs to air the ball out, all right,
and he needs to get guys while we're joking about it.
He needs to get guys who have strong enough legs
to jump out of water and put their booties and
women's faces um randomly. They need to have strong enough
legs to be able to jump up high, point the ball,
you know, catch the ball. Make sure they catch the ball.
(09:26):
I mean, they got some really really fast receivers. They
got some really physically gifted receivers. If I'm at Canada
and I'm putting in Kenny Pickett, I know that this
is the end. If I messed this up, I am,
I might not even make it through the season. And
Pittsburgh isn't even known for doing that. So air it out,
(09:46):
air it out, take them deep, take the top off.
A defense. Division is not like away from them, They're
they're one in three, they still would have a potential shot.
Like it's early. You know, their scheduled the next four weeks,
that's that's right at Buffalo, Tampa, at Miami, at Philly.
Look if you now that you go back to that
(10:08):
first game that they beat Cincinnati on with all the
miss kicks and it went into overtime. I mean, like this,
you could argue, well, maybe they shouldn't have won a
game at all, Like maybe this team should be sitting
here winless right now. I just wonder if Mike Tomlin
looks at it and says, look, Deonte Johnson said it afterwards,
this is a rebuilding here, like, so if he's saying
(10:30):
it after the game, I wonder if Mike Tomlin's looking
at this thing, going all right, if this is the
direction it's headed, we may as well see what we
got in this guy, and then we'll we'll hopefully he
shows signs of something and then we can move forward
next year. But it just it felt like the way
Trabisky started and this early portion of their schedule, we
were going to get here sooner rather than later. It
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just it felt like I was heading in that direction
and at least you're gonna get people excited about coming
out the games. Now, it was nice knowing you Mitch
four games, man, hey not even four games. Enjoy it
for as long as you can get used to that clipboard.
It's all right. Make sure you know your hands signals
(11:14):
and stuff like that. Give a supporter. I'll put it
this way. He you're right, he's the next chance he
gets going to be due to injury, like that's the
three out, or he finds himself in a situation where
he's behind someone who didn't play well and he gets
a chance to go in. Look at Gino Smith right now.
Look at Gino Smith, I would say, look at Gino
you know, he got drafted, he had that opportunity. He waited,
(11:36):
he bided his time, a long gap it between when
he last really started and played a lot of games,
and right now, the dude set a record. No one's
completed a high percentage of passes in the first four
games of a season than Gino Smith in NFL history.
So it's not like it's over for him. He just
has to, you know, find himself in the right spot,
(11:56):
be page, should keep working on his game and all that.
So it like it's tough and I think for quarterbacks,
it's tougher than other positions in part because only one
guy plays, you know, and you're and you're not changing positions.
You know, you can't really go from quarterback to something else.
We've seen other guys try. I would say, you know,
Logan Thomas is like the only most recent successful one
(12:18):
I can think of that came into the NFL as
a quarterback and transition to tight end does now legit
tight end um. But that's about it. Man. It's hard
to really find those guys who are able to do it.
He's not that you know, sort of athletes skill set,
I don't think. So this is the spells better though
for guys like Pickings, guys like Deonte Johnson, Claypool, thenn't
(12:40):
feel like Kenny Picketts. They're gonna be able to get
the ball to those guys better than they were with mischief.
I guess the hard thing is you don't know what's
being said behind closed doors. I don't know if it's
a lack of Trabisky looking downfield. I mean when I
go back through the first few games, I mean, it's
not like there's a lot of guys running wide open
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and and so I think I could see part of
the frustration with trebisks being like, dude, this is the
offense you're calling him running the way you're calling it,
it's not very good. We saw that last year with Ben,
and Ben's even spoken out about it, and now you're
gonna bench me like all right, Like, well we'll see
how this guy does like that. That's the tough part
I think um for Trabiskie is he could have been
(13:22):
doing everything they're asking of him and it's still not
working out, and yet he has to end up being
the fall guy. Because we talked about this before, they're
not gonna fire Canada before they make a quarterback switch. Now,
if Pickett struggles, they'll probably still use it as an
excuse to say, well, he's a rookie, when the reality
is someone needs to take a microscope over this offensive
(13:42):
system because it hasn't been good before this year. It's
been a problem, and again that we probably they probably
want to address it until the end of the season.
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So coming up next, we finally have an answer. There
was a major decision made in the NFL this offseason,
and the person involved in the decision is going to
tell you why it was made and why he did
what he did. We'll get into that for you next
year on fs are be sure to catch live editions
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three am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio. Yeah you know it. Man box jumps pound
(14:49):
dumbells in each hand. Doublin Coffman High, Patty's Day. Descriptive
of what you're doing. Want to take people there. I
want him to know what it was like in the
early two thousand's at Doublin Coffin High. Yeah, I'm banging
home with the shamrocks in your hand, clanging and banging
(15:11):
in your hand, in your hand, your head in your hand,
in your hand. How's something who had to listen to?
What I was saying to catch on what I was saying,
(15:34):
wasn't It wasn't the octave, it was it was the lyrics.
I couldn't get past the octaphone. All right, I mean
there he is your hand, what dob just in there?
Your hand in your hand, in your hand, in your
hand and your hand? What was it? Your hand? Not
(16:05):
that two pros and a cup of jewel here on? No, not,
by the way, that was a quote from Abe. By
the way, I'm now I'm now getting blamed for Roberto's
drops because my brother called me. He was listening to
the show yesterday. He goes, Man, when you guys were
(16:25):
talking about that a B story and you played the
horse sound effect. I was like, what do you mean me?
He goes, yeah, what do you play? That was like,
that's not me, that's Berto. Like, I'm all the way
sure that was your brother. That wasn't Pat. No, that
was my brother. Okay, because exact said the same. But
(16:46):
I don't have control of the buttons. That's that's first,
pac Man. All of the sound drops is Alberto. He
gets all the credit for that. I don't have control
of the buttons. I do what's on the prompter. What
is that one? What is that one for? I know
what it is? Why that that? Oh, that's an easy out.
(17:15):
I'm bored alone. I'm glad you called it out. I'll
just let it go. It's ridiculous. I'm bored. I'm going um,
all right, So we are going to get into somebody
who got paid in the world of sports. A little
(17:37):
bit heartbreaking. It's a disappointing end to a time for
somebody in the world of sports, but they did end
up getting paid. At least there's that. We'll have that
for you here coming up. Didn't we got live looking
still those live lookings? How how do you think he
spins it? If he doesn't get to sixty two? Do
(17:57):
you think he says, well, I'm just honored to share
of this space with Roger Marris. I'm gonna go with that.
He probably gets what like four pitches a game now,
I mean, no one's throwing to him. Why everything's like
low in a way or just how would I know?
I keep getting live lookings? How could I not know
what I'm saying? Why? Why would they do that? Why
(18:19):
wouldn't they throw him the ball? Like? What if you're
they could playing Texas baseball. I get it, but I mean,
just at least go out on your shield. If he
beat you with your best pitch, that's fine. But they're like,
you know, not given him anything to hit. They're intentionally
walking him there. It's like, come on, man, throw him
something down the place you can do something. Is he
still Is he still in it for the triple crowd?
(18:41):
Like that's that's more of an impressive featly, Yeah, he's
I think it has as much to do with that
than anything else. Like they just you know, it's getting
close to the playoffs. You want to win games. Well,
I know that. We We've got to wait to see
where he plays baseball next year because there's some conversation
that well, I mean, who's going to be in the
market form because he's betting on him self and he's
gonna end up getting paid. One guy that did get
(19:02):
paid this offseason, though, was Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill made
the decision to go to the Miami Dolphins, and since
they're playing the New York Jets and we've got a
big a FC East match up here for all those
Jets fans to to get excited about those dormats disguised
as football fans notice the Jets uh Tyreek Hill was
(19:23):
asked about why he chose ultimately Miami over New York.
Here's what he had to say. So that's where the
other team that was cooking fine to trade for you.
How close is that to happening to this? You know what,
it was very close to happening, man. But just those
it's just those state Texas man. You know, I realized,
you know, I had to make a grown up decision.
And you know, here I am in a great city
(19:44):
of Miami. You know, great weather, great people, were beautiful people.
I feel like, so there, I am so there it is.
That is the answer. Not to U New York there
for half a season. That is a punitive of a
place you'll get and they get you in Jersey and
New York. Think about that really well Jersey really yeah,
(20:08):
it's not really New York. So it wasn't too It
wasn't all the other things. It was really the taxes
that had something to go with it. I mean, I
am mad at that. I'm really not mad at I
played in d C and in Jersey, like I was
getting hit. He was getting crushed. I was getting hit.
They even had property tax in Virginia and I was playing.
(20:31):
We practice and lived in Virginia, most of us, all
of us really, and I ended up moving to Maryland.
But then you play in Maryland, so you gotta play.
You you gotta pay taxes to Virginia and to Maryland
on your paycheck every every week. I mean, every time
you play in Maryland. Then you gotta pay wherever it
(20:54):
is you go, depending on what their taxes. So so
just to pay it out for people who don't know you.
You get paid based off where you play. And so
what he's essentially saying is for the eight or nine
home games, right because we now have seventeen games, he
was looking at it saying, well, I know I'm gonna
get taxed less if I'm in Miami because they don't
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have a state income tax and New Jersey is probably
was like ten percent somewhere at double digits. So he's
saving that percentage on those eight or nine game checks
by being in Miami as opposed to significant well for
for the amount he's making. Yeah, like that's you know,
you're talking about a lot of what was this contract?
(21:36):
The value of it? Let me look a real quick
vam for me, real quick pretend like we well, okay,
let's just paying out the easy math, you're gonna take
about half the game. So let's say half whatever he's
scheduled to make this year. And you would then say,
all right, whatever percentage that you're being taxed in New Jersey,
you just take that percentage off that half of that
number four years million million. There a little signing bonus
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seventy two to guaranteed. So what's like the average anital
We're saying like year like fifteen of that, right, so
you're you're roughly saving let's just save round numbers one
point five million just just by signing. And again that's
just ballparking, kind of spitballing, just by signing with the
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Dolphins as opposed to majority of us will never make
one point five million in the history of our professional
are saying, okay, because he's the common man, he relates everyone.
But the point, the point is, so Tyree Hill, even
though is gonna make he's make himself said like the commons,
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So Tyree Hill is saving that just by deciding to
go play in Miami over the Jets. Yeah, that honestly,
that honestly, it's actually gonna be more than that, that's
just off his game checks. That's not off bonuses and
other things. Where revers residences which look I I assume
a residences in Florida. So let's say, like, for example,
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his signing bonus. What would you say, Okay, so there's
there's another twenty five that doesn't get subject to a
staticcome tax. Whereas if you would have been paying if
you was in New Jersey, it would be it would
have been tough to claim it out of the state
of New Jersey. So you could roughly say another ten
percent on that too. How about that? See people tune
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into the show, I don't think I think they tune
in for the horse sith. They come in for the sports,
the crank jokes, the interaction, the fun times. And then
they then what do they get when they get here
churches different They get tax advice from the great Brady Quinn.
You know it's not I mean, this is the first
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time of far right we we've seen the players who
here's the thing. If here's what's a little bit unfair
about it is it forces teams that do have like
a high stating up acts, they're gonna have to offer
more like that's that that's just the reality of it.
And you're still working within the structures of a you know,
a salary cap. So it's a bit it's a bit unfair,
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but you know, it's hard to make it, you know,
truly truly equal across all fifty states and all the
teams and all that. It is two pros and a
cup of joe here on FS are coming up twelve
minutes from now. It's another edition of would you Rather,
in which we get into some things in the world
of sports, and be honest, we've got to answer hard
hitting questions from lead to lapse, So we'll get to
that here at twelve minutes from now. So if you
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were to say, all right, you grew up in a
certain part of the country, a certain town, and that
town had a pretty successful college football team. You grew
up a fan of that team right around the corner
from the stadium. You ended up going to that school,
ended up playing quarterback for that school, and then you
were years later named head coach of that school, and
(24:54):
you had some pretty good success at this school. Ultimately, though,
you were fired five games into a season. Scott. But
if you but if you're Paul Chris at least you
got eleven million dollars. So there's that. There's sixties, seven
and six. I don't get it. Uh, you know, I was,
(25:16):
I was kind of looking through anyone, all right, like,
let's try to make some sense of this. I think
I threw twenty guys yesterday. They've won about eight or
nine games on average, Like when you go through the
years now, I know it hasn't been great of late,
but they've won about eight or nine games on the
average in Wisconsin, and that's it's pretty solid. You know,
it's pretty so what you think about what they've been
able to do. What's dropped off the past two years
(25:39):
is recruiting, and they've never been like an elite recruiting school.
But if you go back over a five year span,
you know, they were in the top thirty, you know,
pretty consistently. And then really these next two recruiting recruiting
classes now twenty three feel like outside the top fifty.
And I do wonder if with the way this most
(26:02):
recent game transpired, you've got Brett Bielama, who was a
head coach at Wisconsin who chose to leave. I'm not
gonna get into that type down that rabbit hole, but
who chose to leave and then circles around It comes
back to a program that is nowhere close to what
years has been as far as what you built, and
(26:24):
then just literally just dominates, just dominates you. There has
to be a sense of like, we're not going in
the right direction. We're not competing recruiting like we used
to be, We're not competing on the field like we
used to be. And we've got a guy who just
walked right back in here against us and and blew
us out of the water. There's there's something off here,
(26:47):
and let's go ahead and go with Jim Leonard. See
if you can't shake some things up. I think a
lot of people assumed too, and Jim Leonard took that job,
he'd be a guy that people would look at as
a potential head coaching candidate, if not a Wisconsin somewhere else.
So I actually think, you know, I like Paul Christy
was a good guy. I think this would be a
could be a really good thing for Wisconsin, especially their offense,
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even though Jim Luter is a defensive guy. I think
they might start to open some things up. And never
had a losing season six and one in Bowl games
for whatever it's worth, and and yeah forty one games
over five. But just think about who was involved and
dropping the hammer on that guy, Barry Alvarez. I think
about that. Yeah, well he how involved is he? He's no, no, no,
(27:33):
Chris McIntosh, alright, so what's his involvement? Well, it's that
but to your point, is still very involved like he
might he's not the a D but he's still very involved.
So I'm seeing a piece in this decision. Trust his judge,
I'm not. I don't know that for a fact. I
just know every time we go back to Madison, Wisconsin,
we see Barry Alvarez. So yeah, it's a very very
(27:56):
prominent figure that I'll put it this way. I would
imagine that someone goes by the Godfather and they say, Godfather,
do we have your blessing if we make this decision?
And he, you know, he gives his blessing. Who's the
Godfather at Penn State? Like when you go back there,
Who's who's the one that that you talked to? Is
it is Franklin kind of running the show no matter what?
(28:19):
Is there somebody else not the Godfather? Though? Is it
Chad Powers? Yeah? Yeah, I don't think we have a
godfather right now? What about in Notre Dame, who's the godfather?
When you go back there, who's the one um outside
of god out Different said Jesus, Yeah, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
(28:41):
Us um. I would say there's some, I said Jimmy Dunne.
There's a prominent there's a prominent donors who are like
the kind of the Godfather. Yeah, there he is. Is
that Kurt Warner, by the way, Kurt Warner, love me
some Kurt Warner. You guys do know where bury out
Z's from too, by the way, Washington County. Yeah, you know, Brady,
(29:06):
you know what county is from Pennsylvania. I do not
Washington County, Washington County. Alright. But by the one final
note about the eleven million that Paul Chris would go,
they actually he was. He was owed close to nineteen
and he actually came to an agreement to only do eleven,
(29:28):
which is I mean, it's a it's a classy move, man,
like say what you want that, that's a really really
classy move because the firing doesn't make a lot of sense,
at least not at this time, Like why not let
him battle through see if they can't come back and
do something. And he's basically you know, letting them have
another eight million or leaving on the table. And the
fact that like that's his like that's his home, like
(29:51):
literally born and raised in Madison, right around the corner
from the stadium, and gets to be the head coach
after being the quarterback there, and then gets lipped and
still says, all right, basically, I'm gonna cut my salary
in half what I owed and I'll take the eleven
million dollars. But top ten coach. You'd want to have
a beer with that. He is one of the coolest dudes,
(30:11):
nicest dudes you ever meet, Like just sitting down and
talk with him like he's he's I'm telling you and
you want to. You get the sense when you talk
to someone you're like, man, that's when I go have
a beer with this guy and really see what they'd say.
Let him open up. He's he's top ten right there?
Where would I rank on that list? Here you go?
I mean, the problem is you can only do so
(30:33):
many beers. I don't have a great tolerance, So I'm
a heavy hitter and I go, I go the heavy route.
I mean heavy hitter. I'm an I P A guy.
I mean, it's not that you drink like one or
two beers and you're you're like dunce. It's like one
or two beers, you'd be up there, but Brady have
a Zemo with extra ice and then look at me
and judge me because I'm having an I P A.
I mean, still make those anymore? I don't know remember though,
(30:56):
but by the way, you know what those basically became?
What's that every heart and every heart Seltze's out there
like it all came full circling. Unfortunately, Zeeba just it
was a little too soon the right marketing. Yeah, even
some time and it'll come around. It's like Fran Tarkington,
he's watching the NFL today going why couldn't I've been
(31:19):
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Would you rather your random topics, sports or otherwise? All right?
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Lead to laugh? What do we got? All right, guys,
we're gonna start here. Would you rather have to be
interrupted with every live looking for Aaron Judges at bats
or be interrupted by Jehovah witness at your front door?
Jehovah Witness Aaron Judge? Yeah? Can I can I tell
you guys a true story? I swear to God on this.
(33:28):
I had them come to my door one time that
Jehovah's witnesses ahead, go ahead, you know what I mean? Alright,
So so they came to We could see them making
the rounds on the street, and so they came to
the door. So you know those holiday popcorn tins like
(33:48):
they have the three different flavors that the orange, no,
So we took the lid off there because if you
if you hit somebody with it, it doesn't hurt, but
it sounds really loud. And so I had my nephew,
I said, when they come to the door. I want
you to attack me with this so that they'll we'll
chase him away. And so these guys come to the door,
(34:09):
these two dudes, and they're like they've got like these
ten speeds with them, and they started they start talking
and I tell him I'll count to fifteen and then
come around the corner and then hit me with it.
And he comes around the corner and hits me so
hard in the head that I go down on the ground.
He starts stopping me like we're in wrestlement at the
door the door, looking at me, going what the hell
(34:32):
has happened. I'm I get out of here, save your set,
out of here. You don't want to any part of it.
And they ended up leaving it never came back. So
it works. Ever, not one time. No, they don't have to.
Never do a cop Come on, they're like pests or rodents.
That's how you literally talked about them. Okay, well, look,
I mean we're just going to serve on their mission. Man.
(34:54):
You know, only like a hundred get in there. I
think that's what they believe, right, Yeah, some people pay
like four hundred four tickets to a wrestling event. They
got one for free at the front door. Don't be
so mean to him. You know, they don't believe that
they all get into the pearly gates. It's a different deal.
(35:14):
Some of them have to be like earth dwellers, you know,
welcome to the hatef act. It's like rock or something,
Aaron Judge, Dang. You know what. Here's the thing is
if we cut into an errand Judge clip, I know
he's just gonna get walked probably if we If I
go answer the door, it's like, all right, at least
(35:36):
get to have some sort of conversation I can ask
them to if they think they're one of the hundred
or like what they're gonna come back? As we talking
about that, Yeah, we had a coup of job as
witnesses on our team of Notre Dame. They used to
go during Mass that we've had before a game before
we walk to the stadium. They used to sit in
the confessional booth and take a nap. What do they
(35:58):
do on Christmas? What they're doing? Absolutely nothing? Yeah, to
sit there and like like pull cleanex out of a box,
Like what do you do? It's like, I mean there's
something anyone like there's nothing to do like, hold on,
did you do that as a kid. Yeah, It's like
I'm thinking, I'm thinking of those boring things in the world,
(36:18):
like what do you put glue down and let it dry?
And I didn't do that, not menifer, not a glue sniffer.
Liquid nail, Yeah, liquid nail. A couple of Earth dwellers here.
Would you rather go to the Moon or go to Mars?
I mean, i'd say the Moon. I don't know if
(36:40):
you're coming back from Mars out of space? Yeah, what
does it matter? Take your pick, like they're both gonna
take a lot longer. Get to Mars far, I mean,
and we might as well go to Mars. If you're
gonna go up there, you might as well go all
the way in. I'll go to uh to the Moon
because I've seen they do better special effects up there
(37:01):
trying to make it look real. So here we go.
I'm saying, by the way, if you want to go
to the Moon, just just hang a right on Spolo
and was Mars rit? Yeah? Thread do we know they
have gravity there or not? And Mars it's like kind
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of similar we anything else? What else? Would you rather
go to the aquarium or the zoo? Zoo. Yeah, I'd
rather the zoo. Yeah yeah, because you can get there's
more options at the zoo. I remember last time I
went to the zoo, there is a a gorilla came
over and took a dump right in front of Oh yeah,
I literally walked over, sauce at the glass, turned around
(37:47):
and just pooped and then left in Chicago. That must
want to throw it at the oe. That that's that's
the There's nothing you can do to stop me. I
do what I want, move like. I will literally crap
in my hands and I will make a painting on
this glass in front of you and your kids, and
you won't do anything about it. You know somebody else? Okay,
(38:17):
I think you put that on me, like I Hey Pagnan.
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