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January 6, 2025 42 mins

Covino & Rich discuss Aaron Rodgers/Pam Oliver postgame! Could it be a goodbye? There were some F-U's on Sunday & Bryce Young's literal turnaround! Rich has Wild Card Weekend blind Odds quiz for the crew. 'SHAQ DIESEL TRIVIA' brings the laughter when a caller goes off the rails. Plus, 2 standout NBA teams & 1 NFL coach staying in New York!

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Now we're continuing things at you go. Hmm, Week eighteen
of the NFL. What comes to mind? What got you,
I got one for you, got one for you. Of
course we've been we've all been critical of Aaron Rodgers

(01:12):
this season. I think fairly, you know, I think we're
always fair. We're just fans. I'm not trying to be
mad at or mean about Aaron Rodgers. But he puts
himself out there and we call it as we see it.
He threw his five hundred touchdown with the Jets, beautiful.
It was a moment, right he achieved it in New York.

(01:35):
Then he's at the press conference talking about his future
and he's talking about, well, he's not gonna waste the Jets' time.
To me, that was very important. He's like, you know,
I just need a few days, relax a little bit.
I'm not gonna waste the Jets' time. We'll talk about
what the future holds. But what the giveaway for me
was on his future was when he told Pam Oliver

(01:56):
that he er you got right down, Pam. When he goes, Pam,
I love you. I was like, was that his goodbye
to Pam Hall? He was essentially guys. It wasn't the
press conference, it wasn't like his mannerisms, it wasn't his
his demeanor. It wasn't anything he did or said, or
even the five hundred touchdown. He's accompliable. It was his
goodbye to Pam Oliver. No, that's it. The hug, that

(02:17):
was it, the embrace, the I love you Pam. He's like,
I love you too, I love.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You too, Aaron. It reminded me of you know, when
we didn't know.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
For sure if Drew Brees was done with the Saints,
and when he walked out of.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
The Mercedes Super super Dome.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, okay, well, I mean confused part for a second.
When he walked out of the dome. Remember right before
he walked in the tunnel, you saw Drew Brees do
the little turn around.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
That was it. You look how you a little sniffle,
looked up.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like Aaron Rodgers and knew he knew that was the
chapter there in my opinion, and if not, it was
a just in case it was.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Which goes to really show you that he's not sure.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
He really is not certain that he's coming back, and
there's a good chance that he goes out at least
on a win. Win that upset the Dolphins, upset Tyreek Kill.
But they were already you know, well, Tyreek Hill gave up. Yeah,
but he leaves on a win, and there's a signature
moment there, a moment, a signature moment that he sort

(03:23):
of needed with the Jets right to at least give
him something positive. But was that also Aaron Rodgers' way
of showing the rest of the league like, yo, I
still got it everyone, And by the way, you know what,
you could also speculate on that he still has it.
Even Joe Nameth on social media was like, you know what,
he still has a lot of game left and if
he were a betting man again, I'm ad libbing here.

(03:46):
Though he said he'll be back next season based on
how good he looks.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I am intrigued to see who would bite on that.
He said, Aaron Rodgers is not struggling, you know what.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Another observation Week eighteen, there was a couple really good
fus around the league. Did you see this as far
as power teams sort of screwing over teams underneath them?
The Chiefs not even showing up even a little bit.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
That was embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
That was their way of saying, Joe Burrow, guess what, dude,
you know, the one guy that kept us out of
the Super Bowl a couple years ago.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
We're not letting you or anyone sneak in.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
They didn't show up on a level where they were like, Broncos,
we're not scared of you, come on in Burrow haha,
big dreaming bro. That was such an intentional we don't
want the Bengals in. We're okay with the Broncos. And
I wonder if the Broncos harnessed some of that old
John Elway energy.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
With those throwbacks. Yes, they looking sweet.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
And the other one was the Bills not even trying
to put points on the board, like simply just letting
the Patriots win that game. And social media was like, yo,
how smart They're playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers.
Why would they want a division team to get the first.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Pick back to the Broncos. For a second, it felt
like they could have been wearing a high school football
team uniform and they would have played that way.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yoh, like it was it was.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Bade I wrote that that too rich embarrassing Chiefs just
looking embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
But we get it. How about this?

Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know we talk about quarterbacks that we write off
alter When you put yourself in a position where you
are the one seed and you're fifteen and one going
into that game. Don't you earn the right to be
an a hole to another team and let's and sort
of call the shots. Isn't that sort of the what
goes along with being great? That's the name and a
game I Bryce Young again showing that he can ball

(05:40):
again one of the takeaways from a weekend that wasn't
supposed to be that exciting nice win over Atlanta two
hundred and fifty one yards three tuddies, but Bryce Young
continuing to I guess turn the season around a little bit, yeah,
and give us something to think about.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
And he turned around no look style?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Mm hm, that was that was?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
That was though, Steph Curry style. That was probably the
play of the weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Speaking of young quarterback Rich, what was your take on
on Trey Lance?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Like, what were your thoughts on that.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's hard to It's hard to really gauge. It's hard
to gauge when it's a game of insignificance.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
But I mean there were.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Moment against it, as they said multiple times, significant to
a lot of certain players, though significant to him.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, I mean you guys are getting a look and
that's why when the Chiefs didn't show up, and you're like, man,
that was Carson Wentz's opportunity to take the field this year.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
That that, Yeah, that was embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I feel like you could have threw for ninety seven
yards Rich.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, dude, it's it was. It was.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It was rough to watch some of the games, but
you're right, some of the games did have some competitive
juices flowing. But that sort of brings me to Wildcar Weekend.
If you guys are cool with me throwing some things
at you unless you have do you have any other
I do. I don't know if it's a separate discussion
or not. I'm still sort of thinking about it, but
I did mention it, like the Tyreek Hill comments. So often,

(06:58):
we want players to be real and we hate these scripted,
keep it.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Real answers all the time.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Right, But he sort of went a little overboard, and
I think maybe he was out of just the moment
and the frustration he felt in the moment. I don't
know how much weight we should put on that, but
it's kind of interesting when two huge stars went out
of Miami in a matter of a week.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
And a half.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Jimmy Butler wants out in the NBA, Tyreek Hill wants
out of the Dolphins in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I guess the weather.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Miami is a cool city, good looking people, great restaurants,
great everything. I guess you know, great women. Dolphins and
Heat can't keep their stars.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
But you putting a lot of stock into what Tyreek.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Hill said when he says he has to do what's
best for him and his family's too competitive basically for
that BS is what he wanted to say. No, you
know it just all this does energy is it leads
us to after the postseason, the playoffs and the super Bowl.
We already know the we already know the offseason fun
Aaron Rodgers is he going to keep playing? Where's Tyreek

(08:01):
kill gonna end up?

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Like?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know what the Niners going to pay party? Like?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
What are the Vikings going to do at quarterback? And
I guess we'll have to see how the playoffs go
for us. So there's like twenty storylines that you're already
salivating at and we're just hitting the playoffs now.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Some of us don't care where Aaron Rodgers placed him.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I know you don't unless it's the Raiders dat g
that I'll laugh at you.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's not going to be Las Vegas, but Tyree.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
You're going to drafted quarterback then signed Aaron Rodgers for
one year and you'll love it.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
No.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
The Tyreek Kill story, though, is interesting. What a crazy
up and down season he's had, starting with the whole
thing with the police there.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, the arrest, absolutely, but do you think that like
do you like how candid he was in that moment, like,
oh that's refreshing, or do you think that's one of
those clear examples of he should have took a breath,
Like when you're in an argument with somebody and he
says something you wish you didn't.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Say right the email draft, don't send it.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
He could have say, yo, look right now, I'm just
really unhappy with how things played out. I don't want
to say the wrong thing. I'm not Let's just say
I'm not happy with how things went.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I want to sleep on it. Let me sleep like.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
He could have did that, and it might have been
a better look because now you know people, you got
people speculating, or maybe that's what he wants.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I don't know. Maybe it was a good thing.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
You don't want him to sleep on it, though, then
there'd be another kid.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yo, let me ask you this, where did where? Does?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I mean too early to speculate because we got to
look at numbers and payroll and salary caps. But where
where does a Tyreek Hill go from here? Because he
had his run with Mahomes, won a Super Bowl. Yeah,
but it went to Miami, went to Miami and it
was made money.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
But it turned out that's not the move for him.
So where now it would be?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, he basically implied that he should be in the
playoffs right now and that's where he desires to be
and he's not going to be on Miami.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
He made that really clear.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
The reality, could you know, is wherever Tyreek Hill ends up,
he is by no means done.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
He was just unhappy and I think fed up.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
And you know his game was off off kilter, right,
But you don't think Tyreek Hill becomes so key to
another playoff caliber team next year. Add him to any
playoff team or a team that he is missing like
a piece of huge weapon. Yeah, huge weapon for any
Just think about that.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I want to do this thing with you guys, and
I appreciate you guys not looking at the point spreads
I said yesterday, I said Danny Cavino, Please don't look
at the point spreads because I want to guess the
point spreads.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
We normally don't anyways, because we're not a gambling fool
like you.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I was just to say that I don't look at
him anyway. It was like, don't worry, and I'm not
good at at point spreads, but I'll play along.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
I just want you to play along again. I'm the
gambler of the show. I know you're not.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm the Kenny Rodgers don't know when to really usually
hold them. Oh, I think you meant you've got lots
of plastic surgery.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's a good one. No, no brotox.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yet when you look at Wildcard weekend, I always like
to do this, and if you are someone who likes
to wager, gamble, have a little fun, you know, be responsible.
What I like to do is I like to guess
what I think the pointspread is and then see how
off I am from Vegas. Because if I'm right on
the money, I'm like, I'm not proud of myself. I'm like,
all right, that's what I thought. If I'm way off,

(11:20):
that means my instinct is somewhere different.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
And then I like it.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Let's just go through all six real quick and tell
me if you had the same instincts as me. We
open up Wildcard weekend Saturday. And by the way, you
think it's funny how they stagger it where it's all
AFC games and then all NFC games, Like the AFC
plays three games before the NFC touches the field. So
we start on Saturday, Saturday, the Chargers at the Texans. Now,

(11:50):
keep in mind, Harbaugh brings this team justin Herbert playoffs.
Texans sort of limped to the finish line sort of, right,
I mean they.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
They they finished strong.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
They finished strong, but like, uh.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Like three and five in their last eight.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, and then then you said last year they were
the young team with buzz, and now it seems like
they're a playoff team, but they're not stacking up. So
all right, I don't want to no more horse than
ride Chargers Texans.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
All right, Chargers got to be favored, right, say.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
The Chargers are favored even though the Texans are, you know,
tops of the AFC.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
And it's a home game for his home game for Houston.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Chargers favored by three only because it's a it's A.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's a home all the money bro the charges by.
I thought that.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I said, you know what, even though they're on the road,
they're a I think a better team there. They have
one game better record, which doesn't mean anything, but by
the way, total guests, but it's it's you got to
imagine a close games in Texas. Yeah, yeah it would.
If it was in l A. It might be like
four and a half or five. But you know, in Texas,
field goal makes sense to me. All right, next game?
Oh so is that on that on? Okay, dude, one

(12:59):
for one, I thought you were just guessing in the scene. Again,
my point here will either be proven or not because
I think one of the six games, I'm like, what
when when you get to it, you'll say maybe Steelers
at Ravens. We could argue that the Steelers limb to
the finish line. And I have not I have not
believed in them at all. You know this, You know that.

(13:20):
I give props to Mike Tomlin and the.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Ravens just had a huge twenty point line against the Browns.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
And the Ravens just look when when playing complete football,
they look like.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
This has got to be a touch by a touchdown
I'll say seven and a half points.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
What are you thinking? Cove?

Speaker 2 (13:43):
For fun, I'll just say Ravens are ten point favorites
based on how are the cheating?

Speaker 1 (13:49):
No Rave Ravens by ten? Dude? Is this guy does?
Can you work for DraftKings? Are you making the points? Reds? Dude?
If I was gonna cheat, I cheat on last one
standing because I never.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Last hour. I heard he was the pro reader of
the show. So yeah, lines on the internet, Well, no,
I agree with Danny.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
I was just being bold because I would agree over
a touchdown. He said seven and a half, So I'm like, ah,
let's make it a ten. Baltimore by ten. Some might
say that number is a little inflated because it's a
division rival, but Baltimore has been playing hot and I
don't think the Steelers are all of answer. So those
two points, friends, don't seem preposterous, right, So can you
move on and say those seem sort of yeah? Yeah, okay,

(14:30):
let's move on quickly. Sunday Broncos at the Bills. Broncos
Sean Peyton and bow Nicks making the postseason. They have
moments where the defense looks good. They look good, but
they're going into Buffalo. Who is Thurston? I'll like Thurston
howl the third.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Wow, I'll go first on this web.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know, I think that we've all seen the Broncos
have proven they're a good squad and led by a
great young quarterback. But they're playing Buffalo at home. Buffalo
on stop. I'm saying, just by touchdown, Buffalo by a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Uh, let's see, I said seven and a half last time.
I'll go up a point. I'll go eight and a
half on this one.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
See you guys. Ever, we're in the ballpark, Buffalo by nine.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, right, so again, so far, I think I'll prove
my point that we're all sort of instinctually guessing these points.
Threads right right, moving on, Buffalo by almost ten. Packers
at Eagles. Packers just had a big key injury Jordan
loves back in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
They were in a tough division.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
If they weren't behind Minnesota in the Lions, you'd be like, man,
Green Bay, impressive, they're playing in Philadelphia, what are you thinking?

Speaker 3 (15:38):
All right?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
And you got a Saquon Barkley who rested fresh legs.
That was the whole point of resting, right, So he's
gonna put up big numbers in Philadelphia, but Green Bay,
I mean, Philadelphia Eagles are favored. But by how much
you know I'm gonna go again, Let's do it, Danny

(16:00):
g seven and a half.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Packers aren't a bad team at all. They didn't limp
in anywhere. I mean, they had a strong season for
the most part. They had some injuries with Jordan Love
a little bit to start the season. I'm gonna say.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
They're the one team that's capable of beating really anybody.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
It love their defense and Josh Jacobs. That was one
of the best off season editions of the year. I'm
going to say a little closer, Rich how about five points.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Four and a half? Four and four and a half
in some places.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
So I liked it. I picked that one myself. I
was like, probably like four and a half. Yeah, they're
They're given the Packers some respect even though they're on
the road and Philly's a tough place to play, but
the Packers are no slouch. Cool moving along, this might
be an these one Commanders at Bucks, which I think
might be I mean, I love Baker and I love
Jayden Daniels, but I don't think either of these teams
goes beyond this round.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
But Commander's at Bucks. What are you thinking?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think it's a fun game, But I'm with you,
like the Bucks. I don't even know who's favored.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
I wouldn't think the Bucks would be favored because they
have more experience and at home. Yeah, feels like not
by much.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
This is this is gonna be a fun game, though.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
It feels like the first game we talked about, which
was a field goal game.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, you're right, Danny j Okay, Bucks by three.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
They're just getting the typical home field field goal points, right,
and if you're not a gambler, usually if it's an
even match, the home team gets three points out of courtesy,
right as the points read. All right, So clearly the
one that confuses me is least one. Okay, Monday night football.
Monday night football Vikings at the Rams. Vikings at the

(17:30):
Rams Monday night in Los Angeles. Man, there's so many
factors here, like why is Rich confused? Because the Vikings
just now I set you up there, right, Vikings at
the Rams. Man, I would have said until yesterday, I
would have said the Vikings were favored, but now they're

(17:50):
at the Rams.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I mean, first instinct is that the Vikings would still
be favored, but by how many?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
So maybe because of their poor performance. Again they didn't.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Score again, there's still when you wait, when you say
poor performance. I keep thinking that yes day they couldn't
even score a touch. They didn't show up last night.
But again I told you all those blown red zone opportunities,
pass it to a foot over justin Jefferson's head. Another
fourth and goal where they just are are just short
Vikings on the road, so field goal game. It's Minnesota

(18:22):
by one and a half. I thought it would be Minnesota.
My instinct is way different than you. I thought it
was Minnesota about like six. I thought that they are
going to say last night they played the Lions in Detroit.
Their defense was incredible, like just there were misplays, lines
just took over. I'm thinking they didn't sustain any major injuries.
My thought was they are still fourteen and three, and

(18:46):
up until last night, everyone was talking about Sam Darnell
potential MVP. What do we think so now all of
a sudden we think their their matchup evenly with the Rams.
Like I know, in clutch situations, you're saying Stafford's been there,
won a super Bowl, Cooper Cup, Nakua Kyra, and Williams.
A lot of these guys got rest. But I I

(19:07):
think the Vikings win this game clear favorites Awn. So
my my favorite points for the week by far is Minnesota.
To me, that's like a way odd calculation. So I
could be totally wrong and well, and that's why Dan
Campbell said see you in two weeks.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
When he said that, I was like, yeah, of course.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
My first thought was like, yeah, whoever Minnesota is gonna play,
They'll win and then I'll probably lose in the divisional
rally against the Lions. I agree they're gonna win, but
I also agree that they have it closer because of
how they played against the Lions.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
But you're rights are not the Lions not not to
get all over the place.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
But of the games we just mentioned, is there is
there a non top tier team that that you are
rooting for to make a fun run Like you likes Baker,
It would be fun to watch Baker and Mike Evans.
And yes, I don't know what it is. I'm not
a fan of the Buccaneers.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
What fan of his?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
You know?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I used to hate the guy Iners.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's again one of those fine lines between love and hate.
Baker Mayfield was sort of an abrasive guy, learned to
love them because of that fine line.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Damn buyer, who do you uh? It's not the Buccaneers.
I'll tell you that. There's so plain and just whatever.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
If they wore the creamsicles, then then absolutely.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Is there a dark horse? Do you like hardball and
the Chargers get hot?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Or is it?

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Or is it we just gonna have the same conversation
where it's like, dude, as predicted Bill's Chiefs, Eagles, Lions,
like is it gonna be what we think?

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Because I don't think the Commander. I think a lot
of people would pick the Commanders, but I just don't
think they're that good. I think that when you look
at how they've won and who they've beaten, it just isn't.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Doesn't add up to you. Yeah, I mean what they win?

Speaker 5 (20:51):
What eleven games this past year? One's on a hill, Mary,
one's on one of the Giants didn't have a field
goal kicker twelve games.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Excuse me, I shorted them.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
But I think the Chargers. If I had to pick one,
it would be the Chargers. I think that would be
the fun one.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, but because as of right now, if if all goes,
can you know according to plan? I feel like the
AFC really is a matter of Chiefs obviously have the buye.
You're going to assume the Ravens and the Bills move along.
Then it really just becomes, oh, who's the fourth team
that's along for that party? Like, who's like the person
invited to the party because there's an extra seat.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
I'll tell you this because if you look at what
could happen in the next round. In the NFC, you
mentioned we could see Vikings Lions again. Yeah, and then
you could have I don't know, let's just say Eagles
and Buccaneers. I don't know if that really does anything
for me, But in the AFC, you could have Chargers, Chiefs, Ravens, Bills,
Like yeah, yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
That looks good to me. Yeah, no problem, I think
those are those are the matchups right there.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
But hey, to think we have six wild card games.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
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Please, you dropped your kids off at school this morning.
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What's up this big Shock Diesel aka shackfu aka Shack Daddy. Okay,
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Speaker 4 (25:20):
Shack Diesel basketball trivia? What he said, it's the great
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Speaker 7 (25:28):
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Speaker 3 (25:31):
All right, FSR Security walking our broke shackfood into the
main studio.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey, Broke Shack, Very good to see you guys.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
There was danger you been, man. It was little buddy
rich Bridge, my little buddy over here.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I heard recently you're going to be part of the
reason everybody tunes back into the NBA.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
That's right, that's right. I'm always the reason Shack Diesel.
But yeah, it's good to be with you guys.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
By the way, Shaky youth team JJ Reddick or Charles Barkland.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
I willing to say I saved it for the best
show on the radio. I'm gonna propose a fire JJ
Reddick and Charles Barkley in the octagon. If Dana West listening,
I want to make sure we're there. We have a
big affiliate in Vegas, so he's listening. Let's do Let's
do it in Vegas. Let's do a big JJ Reddick
Charles Barkley in the ring.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
All right, let's meet the contestants for this game. Ten
time winner Rich Davis right over there.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
This is my tiny, tiny teeny buddy.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's Rich Davis ten times another ten time champion in
the room, Dan Bayer right over there, Hello, Hello, three
time winners, botty boy, just three tests, looking for four
and looking to win and seeing our stainless steel swiggy
in our studio lines. All right, buyer, I will use
you for this. Would you love to travel to Missoula, Montana, Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Austin, Texas, Conway,

(26:44):
South Carolina, or San Mateo, California. Let's go to South Carolina,
South Cackle Laca, John?

Speaker 1 (26:52):
What's up hey John? All right here? John, say hi
to Shack John.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Here the rules for Shack Diesel Trivia. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
The first contestant with two correct answers is the jump.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
If there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question.
Your name is your buzzer, but you do have to
wait until all three possible answers are right. If there's
two wrong ones in a row, we move on to
the next question. Are you ready? Let's get it on.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Let's get this big Arsottle party started. Where did the
great Manu Genobili play prior to his NBA experience? Kinder Bologna?
He to Torna b or c Reggio Emelia. Where did
Manu play first the NBA?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Rich?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
He played in what is The first answer was blooney.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Okay, but you gotta buzz in first.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Rich In. This guy sounds high as could be.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Rich got in there first. So Rich, what's your guess?
A kinder bologna?

Speaker 1 (28:02):
And you are correct.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
And I think it's because he's full of bologna most
of the time, Rich.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
But fun fact, he start on perfect strangers before he
played in the NBA. That was I used to say,
don't be ridiculous, no.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Different guys and pinch. All right, so John on this
next round here, after Shack reads the question, A B
and then C, then you could say your name. Okay, okay,
right here we go round two?

Speaker 4 (28:30):
All right, Round two Shack Diesel here, and I'm a
big part of the big Diesel ratings.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Back to the NBA.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Which team isn't helping the cause because they have the
worst record in the NBA right now? Hey, the Wizards
be the Jazz. Oh see the Pelicans, Dan Fire, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Guess the Wizards. I don't think that counts because he
helped Dan. You're right, Buyer is correct, job that the
Wizards for the record six and twenty seven.

Speaker 8 (29:05):
Okay, Rich and buyer on the board, Wizards. We move
on to the next round, Round three. Was I once
quoted saying about my awful free throws? Ay, the later
I stayed out the night before, the better My free
throw percentage seemed to be B. I usually aim at

(29:26):
a big dummy sitting behind the basket. I'm gonna need
to aim towards those nosebleed seats, I guess, or see
me shooting forty percent at the foul lines is God's
way of saying nobody's perfect.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
You gotta say your.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Name there, buddy, John, John, A.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
B or C. He said, st John, you sound like
a big bonehead?

Speaker 2 (29:54):
No, not A.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Unfortunately? Did he say F did I? Did he say
all of the above? A? And then he said I
want to bring John through the phone. In my head,
I agree that I want to bring John through the
phone and smack a little bit spot spot I guess
thought for the steal A. We just said sorry, sorry,

(30:15):
I'm sorry, see see I met C. Sorry was it
B no? Sea? Oh geez, the ratings. This gonna be
worse than the NBA. I said, wrong, you can't like
switch answers. I blame John. All right, Hi, tonight, Rich
and buyer on the board.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
We are going to go to around four, right.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Round four, shacked trivia, I blame John. John is like
the wizards of this game. When Lebron James one Rookie
of the Year who won the League MVP Award that
season season of two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
was it a Kevin Grant, Kevin Garnett, b Tim Duncan
or C. Jermaine O'Neill no relation to Shack Diesel wretch

(30:59):
Rich for the win and to put us out of
our misery. Hey, yes, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Barnett, Kevin Krant, Kevin,
I'm sorry, I got to put my glasses on.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, welcome to and John representing South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, John, why don't you go back home, go to sleep.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Thank you for playing the game, Josh, Thanks John, John,
Thank you appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Thank you, guys. Very special episode. By the way, Somebody
the wife, Thank you, Shack. Somebody get JJ Reddick and
JOHNS Brockley in the ring. Thanks Shack, thanks to make
that happen. Bye Shack, Bye, guys.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Rich can proudly say that was his eleventh victory in
this YO.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
I have a question just in the room because we
all we agree, other than Danny g who is watching
the Lakers every chance he could get.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
By the way, I feel bad for dragging Shack in
here for that.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
I know me for that. For John put it that way,
trying to trying to move past the coach.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
At least it was fun for the listener.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
It was fun.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
The more they can bring a shack all the way
here for that, John should be embarrassed because we're not
honed into the NBA the way we are after the
football season ends. Are we majorly downplaying that there's two
teams that are playing lights out right now. I saw
our old pal Malik Andrews when we worked with the
ESPN talking about how like is everyone just sleeping on

(32:23):
the type of season Cleveland is having right now?

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Fun times in Cleveland again thirty one and.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Four, Bro thirty one and four, and then on the
other side of things, OKAC thirty and five. We're talking
about two young teams that are playing at a level
that you know, but it goes It's very indicative to
the problem. No one's talking about it. No one's excited
about unless you're an oclehead Oklahoma City Thunder fan or

(32:50):
a Cleveland fan. They're eighteen in one at home Cleveland
right now. They're playing out of their minds. So hopefully,
you know, I mean, good for them, they get the props,
the major yeah, major proas. Again, I think I think,
like a lot of people, I think once the NFL
wraps up, a lot of people really dive into the
NBA more because the reality is right, all the issues

(33:10):
with the regular season, the lack of interest, and we're
in the height of not only NFL, actually the college
football playoffs too, So at JJ Reddick spoke on I
feel like we nailed it too. We're like we said
weeks ago when when they announced the ratings were down
twenty eight percent, we said, well, part of it is
when you have your superstars of the game and an
announcer is talking down about how bad it is. It's

(33:32):
like saying, oh man, this food tastes like ass. You
want to try it? You're like no, Or yo, when
that movie sucks you want to go watch it?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
You're like no. The casual fans not going to.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Want to tune into a game when guys like Charles
Barkley are saying negative things about it all the time,
and JJ Redick spoke on that. Yeah, it's true. How
do you expect people to care when you don't care?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Exactly? Let's go to dB for an update. Damn buyer,
what's going on, man, guys. It's been a busy day
in the NFL. Some people staying, some people going.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
It's Doug Peterson out of a job in Jacksonville, fired
after three seasons as their head coach, but the Giants
and Colts are not making any moves with their head
coach or general manager. Joe Shane and Brian Dables stay
with the g Men, Colts keeping sheensteich And and Chris Ballard.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Antonio Pierce is still the head coach of the Raiders.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Mike McCarthy is still the head coach of the Cowboys,
but ESPNO reports that the Bears asked the Cowboys for
permission to speak with McCarthy about their.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Head coaching vacancy. McCarthy in the final year of his contract.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
The Patriots are keeping executive vice president of player personnel
Elliott Wolf. He'll remain in the team's front office. In
twenty twenty five, team fired girod Mayo. Yesterday, Bengals fired
defensive coordinator lou Anarumo. Seahawks said goodbye to offensive coordinator
Ryan Grubb after just one season. Wild Card Weekend starts
on Saturday. On Sunday, it's the Eagles home to the Packers.

(34:50):
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts remains in concussion protocol. Packers wide
receiver Christian Watson will miss the rest of the year
with a torn acl another damage in his knee. Browns
GM Andrew Barry. Recent quarterback Deshaun Watson had a setback
in his recovery from his achilles tendon injury. Dodgers are
trading second basement Gavin Lux to the Cincinnati Reds, No
Diarra and Fox for the Kingstadad against the Heat Bucks

(35:11):
without Chris Middleton against Toronto and Kyrie Irving on a
week or two because of a bulging disc in his back. Guys,
back to.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
You, Thanks Dan Bayer.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Now coming up, I do want to talk about the
Brian Dable sticking around for the Giant, So Hank Tight
and a couple more NFL thoughts to wrap up today's show.

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like that Covino and that's rich according to Shaquille o' neal,
tiny man Davis.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Danny g Keep for producing spot and our buddy Elijah.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
I'm just kidding, which is why good buddy.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
I don't care what shacks always uh repping hard on
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Raiders are a team destined for a new start and
an organization that when they're in the mix and they're good,

(37:42):
it's fun for football. I truly believe that when the
rate like the Raiders being good, I think is good
for the National Football League, especially in Vegas, like they
need they need a vibe. So I ask you of
all the potential coaches out there, yeah, by the way,
so important. It ties back to what you brought up before.
The Thunder and the Cavaliers. Those are the two teams
leading the NBA right now.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Boring.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, that's fun you know for them and everything else.
But certain well, all leagues I think need certain teams
to be dominant for it to be more fun. You mates,
you might say, yeah, so it's the big market teams.
But let's be honest. When the Lakers and Celtics, so
you have to win, but they when they're good, it's
better if the Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers. There's certain
teams that when they're good, it seems like it's good

(38:27):
for the sport. The Cowboys, right, I mean, as much
as you love them, the Raiders to be good, so
it stinks when the Raiders are just consistently bad. So, Danny,
if you're a GM, if you're the GM of the Raiders,
and every single person we speak up is available, and
you have your Pickens, not your Kenny Pickens, if you piket,
if you have your opportunity to get any coach. Is

(38:49):
it Ben Johnson? Is it Rabel? Is it someone else?
Is Rex Ryan that wants back in? Like no, No,
Rex is saying he believes he'll be on the Jets.
He really believes it. Is it Craig T. Nelson?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
I mean he's a great coach.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Don't want to retread? Yeah? Would you want to retread
like Rex Ryan? You want somebody that's going to modernize
your offense. Use Brock Bauers to his fullest. Get Tom Brady,
who's now helping to run your team, and give him
the elbow and be like, man, get me Tyreek Hill
as my wide receiver. One he wants out of Miami.
Use your first couple of draft picks. Wisely, Tom Telesco.

(39:24):
He's not good with contracts, but he is good at
evaluating talent. He's good at making picks. So I think
the Raiders will have another good draft. I would want
Ben Johnson calling the shots.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
He's a hot commodity right now. We said it before.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
He may be overvalued, but what if you could get
a Dion Shador Combo.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
I wouldn't be mad at that.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Sanders Combo in Vegas like Cavino said, that has billboard
britt all over, that has Vegas. You landed in Vegas,
and it has coach Prime and his son everywhere.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Matches the show game but Vegas.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
But winning needs to go with that. I wouldn't just
want this side show.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
That is true. It's just very interesting to think what
comes next. And I bring that up because the Giants
are sticking with Dable and a lot of people forget
memory short. He has multiple Super Bowls as part of
coaching staffs over the years. He's a winner historically three
years with the Giants. Do we need a little refresher

(40:20):
Caveno just for the hell of it? I mean, that's
the sentiment from a lot of Giants fans, a lot
of football fans like they can't believe it if any
team needs a shake up. When you think about the embarrassment,
and you brought it up by saying teams that need
to be good, we're talking about two New York teams
that are the worst in the league, the Jets and
the Giants. Giants, yeah, definitely need to shake up. And

(40:42):
that's why it's a surprise Brian Dable comes in. If
you remember Daniel Jones, they took him to the playoffs.
They won a game in the playoffs. Yeah, nine and
seven and one rookie year as a coach on that
team did great last year six and eleven. Oh down
year this year three and fourteen, another big step in

(41:02):
the wrong direction. So is the sentiment maybe, like, yo,
this guy, based on how things played out, he deserves
one more chance. I think when you play it out
with you had two seasons. When we're talking about Tommy Cutlets,
it's not all his fault, right, I mean, I think
he does deserve maybe one more shot. Like if you

(41:23):
are at a point where you're throwing and no disrespect
to my guy Tommy Cutlett, but if you're throwing Tommy
Cutlets and Drew Lock and guys like that out there,
like perhaps like maybe Brian Dable needs a fair shake
at one more year.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Like I saw one more year. I think.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
So all right, interesting enough, all right, Hey have a
great Monday, no Monday night football tonight.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
So what do you catching up on? Squid game? What
are you watching? Silo? That's a good one. What are
you watching? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
I recommend piece by piece that for all Williams documentary
is available on Prime Not so bad All right, We'll
see you guys tomorrow. Until then, have a great Monday night.
Or riba there, baby, Are you in a promised land?
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