Mark Willard and Ephraim Salaam discuss Sam Darnold coming off a dazzling 5 touchdown game and ponder what his next move is after the season. Mark and Ephraim also debate about Dan Campbell and his constant use of going for it on 4th down, and critisize it as not being a great look in the playoffs. Plus, the guys react to the Chargers vs Chiefs game, Juan Soto signing with the Mets, wonder who the top teams in the NFC are, and much more!!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me just say this first and foremost, to many
of you who spent today watching football. I know exactly
what you were doing today. You probably stopped rooting for
your real team for just one week so that you
can root for your fake team. I hope each and
every one of you got whatever you needed today to
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make your fantasy football playoffs. And if that answer is
not here yet, because there's two more games to go,
good luck to you, my brothers and sisters, because that
is what this is really all about. Hi you from Salam.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm good man, I'm good. I'm good. I actually had
the laziest football Sunday I've had all year for multiple reasons.
I'm a fantasy nerd. Just like the rest four leagues.
I was eliminated in two, had already clinched in the
other two. So and then my real team was up
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twenty four to nothing at halftime. I actually spoke to
my relatives and loved ones today. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Nice?
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have any relationships that are going on.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Two years and three years, and four years, and.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Five years and six years and all of that and
twenty one twenty one years, my man, right, and sure
there are going to be moments and things about which
you're not on the same page.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's life, that's relationships.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
But if you've kind of always not been on the
same page, like seemingly the entire time, I would argue
that when the calendar starts turning two different months in
different years, I don't know, maybe there's a bigger problem
at hand.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So when I hear that the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Eagles passing game as talented as it is, Jalen Hurts
to aj Brown, to DeVante Smith, to a team that
outside of like the last month and a half of
last year, for the last three years, this has been a.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Phenomenal football team.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But they win a football game today over the Carolina Panthers.
Thank you Xavier Leguette for dropping that ball. If you're
a Philly fan or else, the Panthers would have had
him today. But outside of that, you still won your
game today. But they come away really frustrated. And I'm
at a point now where I like, I guess if
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for my needs your help, I need to know what's
going on with Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The art of the year with a lot of chatter.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And disrespect from the Philly fan base, win almost all
of your games and that stuff will quiet down. But
it still also seems like, I don't know, they don't
they still don't like what they have and maybe they
don't believe that it actually has They don't have what
they need to actually do something in January. What do
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you see with that particular group in that quarterback?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I mean, is there is there some questions about Jalen Hurts,
if he's the are people questioning if he's the guy
the well?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I would say that at the beginning of the year, absolutely,
And if you want to go from the what's written
in the papers to what's said on TV and radio
to what fans are calling in to radio stations and
talking about, Yes, there was a lot of uneasiness surrounding
Jalen Hurts. Then they started winning almost all of their games,
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and that kind of takes care of that. But you
go into a locker room today after a six point
win over the Panthers and the headline from Tim McManus,
who's covered Philly sports forever for ESPN. The headline is
Eagles not on the same page as passing attack struggles
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and his first word of the article is the word frustration.
That's after their what have they won nine games in
a row or something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, So what I know to be true and what
I believe.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
As the Eagles sit here, I can almost promise you
that at twelve and two, they're not listening to that.
And number one, it's hard to be twelve and two
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in this league, and they consistently, you know, win double
digit games. Now, the thing that's different this year than
it was last year and the year before for the
Eagles is they now have the league's best Russian attack
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in terms of they have Saquon Barkley and he is
featured heavily as he should be. If you have a
Saquon Barkley on your team, then you're passing quarterback should
take a step back because essentially it's not about him.
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It's not about him and It's not about his numbers.
It's really about the best way to win a ball game. Now,
you're not going to be your best every week. You're
not going to come out and blow everyone out. The
NFL and pro sports have taught us that you're not
gonna come out and throw for four hundred yards and
so on and so forth weekend and week out. But
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what you know you can do is you can hand
the ball off twenty times to a guy and he
gets you one hundred and twenty four yards.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Like to me, I.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Feel Jalen Hurts passed the ball twenty one times. They
ran the ball thirty one times as a team, including
eight from him at seven point four yards to carry.
They they carried the ball almost seven yards to carry.
Why on earth would you want to disrupt that and
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make Jalen Hurts the guy We need to pass the ball. No,
you need to win the games.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, did you see the mess from the locker room?
My friend?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like, this isn't This is not a reporter that just
went rogue. This is not somebody looking for clicks. Uh
Aj Brown and I quote when asked what does the
offense need to do better? Quote passing how hard hold on.
I asked, how hard is it for a receiver to
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get into a rhythm when the offense doesn't throw the
ball that much? Quote incredibly tough. Uh. DeVante Smith asked,
how you're feeling about the offense.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, we need to be quote on the same page.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We need to start thinking the same seeing the right signals,
just going out there and making it work. Jalen Hurts
and I quote, the Panthers did a good job. We
did a bad job. That starts with me and how
I execute. Ultimately, you year learn and I yearn for
a better synchronization, for a more complimentary style of ball
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in a sense from this isn't coming from anybody but them.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, because that's how the questions are poet pollsed right now.
If you're going to go to a receiver and ask
them what's going on, what's up with the offense, and
they haven't gotten the targets that they would normally. What
we do know about receivers is they're very one sided
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in terms of their view of everything. Fair enough, right,
you win a ballgame, you catch four passes, you you're
definitely going at twelve and two, eleven and two. Excuse me,
You win a ballgame in December and you catch four
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passes and your first thing was we need to pass
the ball more.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So to me?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
To me, right, that's the problem because how I would
have answered the question was, hey man, sometimes you gotta
win the way you gotta win. Today it was our
running game. But I have every faith that our passing
game will be there when we need it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
That's what I'm saying. That's how you answer that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Question, right, because if you.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Answer it like that, we don't have to spend the
first segment of this show trying to decipher all is
in trouble in Philadelphia, what's going on in that locker,
and what's going on with the passing game, what's going on?
Because you're not going to win like that every time.
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There will be times where you catch eight for one
p twenty and two touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, but as of right.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Now, you have a guy on your team named, say
Kwan Barkley who's leading the league in rushing.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
A lot.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
That's every time he touches the ball at six yards,
it's six yards. So the focal point shouldn't be this
man has sixteen hundred yards already sixteen hundred yards, so
the focal point shouldn't be on Jalen Hurts and that
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passing game.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, but you know what, like you're saying, spoken like
a true wide receiver, and I think it'd be fair
for me to say spoken like a true offensive lineman.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Well, yeah, but this I'm you know what off lineman
want to do? You know what I'm want to Limon
want to do. They want to win a game. Whether
you pass the ball forty times or you run the
ball forty times. Our singular focus, right, we don't care
because a job has to be done. That's why they're
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the unsung heroes of every single championship team because we
don't care. It's not about passing scene and is not
about running. It's about how it works.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know that. I agree with you. However, I also
do understand the thought process that a young Carolina Panthers
receiver dropped a football on our home field.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's the only reason we won today.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Jalen Hurts hasn't thrown for over two hundred yards in
a month, and.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
They've won all the games. They've won all the games.
They won all the games.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But in January, we are probably going to need to
go to Detroit and do we think that we can
do this. There I'll answer for you no, I don't
I and you'll disagree, and you might be right.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Look, I'm not going to disagree. What I'll say is
Detroit is going to have a hell of a time
trying to stop say Kuon Barkley. Sure, they're going to.
So what it's going to make them. It's going to
force them to do some things that they wouldn't normally
want to do. They're not going to be able to
keep seven in the box and stop say Kuon Barkley.
So that means, oh, you have to bring a safety down.
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You have to bring a safety down.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And when you do that, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But that's what I'm saying. So, but.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
AJ Brown wants his numbers, he wants his stats, he
wants to touch.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
AJ Brown threw a helmet today.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Of course what receivers or receivers. Sure, that's just what happens.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, I mean, it's not like their opinion is completely
out the windows.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
No, no, no, no, Look, I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Everybody wants to feel like they're part of the reason
the team is winning. Everybody wants to be uh, you know,
called on. And let me show you what I can do.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
We get it.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
But the moment they signed Saquon Barkley, the whole entire
offense change. That's what New York couldn't figure out. New
York couldn't figure out, Oh, we have what we need
in the locker room. With Saquon Barkley one year removed,
he's leading the league. Mind you you are asking me
win will the receiver bubble burst? And what's going on
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with the running backs we keep? You can see the shift, right, sure,
you can see the shift. Absolutely every single running back
that a team devalued last year is having a phenomenal
year for another team. Yep, yep, for an entirely another team. Yep,
Barkley mix in. You're right, every single one of them,
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and they just happened to be on teams that are
vying for playoff spots our division titles.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So when you want to ask me about the Pin
Gillum swinging back, where all those high price receivers? Now right,
we're where how's Brandon Nyuk's teams doing? How is chases
team ceedee Lamb's team doing? This is the this is
how it swings back. Because what teams are finding out
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is if you can control the ball and take the
pressure off your young or old quarterback. You have a
better opportunity to win ball games and compete for a
division title.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And you must do that not with a group of
running backs, but with a stud.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
And all those guys you name are studs, and they
were on other teams last year.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
How are those teams doing right now?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's an interesting point. There's no two ways about that.
All right. We will continue this coming up next. We'll
also get you ready for a pretty fancy Sunday night
football game that's about to start later on this hour.
We answer the question, if you're Sam Donald, how are
you handling this offseason? If you're the Vikings, how are
you handling? Sam Donald? So all of that is ahead
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Week fourteen NFL Action, We are all over it. That's
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Speaker 2 (15:30):
Into stuff like this all week.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
As soon as that calendar hits December, I just put
that Christmas playlist on repeat. I don't know about you, no,
not singing. No, yeah, okay, what if it was Christmas
and Hollis, then would you be saying, of course, okay,
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all right, Mary, but you know what, just just so
just I just listen, hold on.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So I'm Muslim, So I didn't grow up with Christmas,
all right? The reason fairy, right, the reason we celebrated
now we celebrate in my household, Chris Mahanna Kwantica, we
celebrate Christmas, Quita and Hanukkah because we want our kids
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to understand and be accepting of all cultures and beliefs.
We're raising good people, good human beings. There is no
prejudice there. So in our household, we don't just celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate Chris Mahana Kwantica.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
How long did you have to work to figure out
how you were going to combine the three words? Not
very long, okay, because that could have gone I'm thinking
about a hundred different ways.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, it could have right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You could have just gone with like Quantamous. You could
have done this a lot more efficient. Quantamous could have
done that. You didn't do it trying to find out
how it works, Christ.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Like you, like Muhammad a hummada hummada or whatever you said.
You know, Christmas it I just wanted.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
We have our Kwanza set up. We have we have
our Monora set up. Yeah, and we learned every year,
we learned about all of the cultures. That's man, that's
how that when when you're when I love our kids
are adults and their parents and all of that. Their
view of the world will be a little bit more enlightened,
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uh than that of the previous generation and our generation.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
And that's the whole problem.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I love that. I love that. Do you do you
celebrate all this? Like are there gifts?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, yeah, gifts?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, yeah, we do the gifts. But what no, I
didn't again, but I mean, is there are are there
gifts on eight crazy nights?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
We combined the combination of them. Right, So we like
the Kwanza. We light our Minora, we light our Kwanta settings.
We have Kwanza decorations on the Christmas tree. It's it's
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just something too and we love it. We love this
time of year because my wife grew up Christmas loud.
Now now what she will do she the Christmas playlist
is is own repeat for her. She did started, she
decorated the house on November first, this is the earliest.
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And then she got mad at the tree people because
they weren't there until after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I won't know how much money you have to have
to have tree people, I said, want to know who
the tree people is around my house?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
He just drive down three people, just drive down the street.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You want to know who the We want to know
who the light people are at my house.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I want to know who the present people are. Anyway,
I'm sorry you're telling the story. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
The tree people man, they sell the tree. It's the
whole the whole family. That's who we've been dealing with,
the whole family for years. Okay, uh, and it's a thing.
We get the boys, we go pick the tree. We
named the trees and then uh, you know the one
I picked and name came home with us this year.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So look are you won? Yeah? Well I did. I
didn't win anything, but no.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But you know, like your tree got, your.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Tree got they picked my tree. Okay, Okay, that name,
Uh it was Doug Doug.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
This do dug the tree and look and to be transparent.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
This was that enlightened me because when my wife and
I first got together, me being Muslim, and she was like, hey,
I want a Christmas tree. Ain't a getting no damn
Christmas tree, right, I'm all militant. And then the reality
of it is like, what get out of here, man,
It's not about that. My wife wanted to celebrate and
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feel the Christmas spirit because in her household, it just
reminds her of the family, the family getting to things
of that sort. And so I'm enlightened and I've evolved,
and I enjoy it. I enjoy spending time with my
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family doing things that make them happy.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That's the difference, well said. And as long as you're
teaching the lesson of making it about family, man, Like
that's and I get it is at a certain age,
you're not like if you're eight years old, you're not
going to be like so really looking to spend a
time with my uncle, Like no, you want the puppies
jumping out of Christmas boxes and wrapping paper all over
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the place. And I get it. I understand that, but
I mean it sounds to me and I already knew
this about you. You're putting in the work to teach
all the lessons.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, I'm trying, man.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
You know, there was some shortcoming in some lessons I
didn't get as in my rearing. Oh, I'm trying to
eradicate a lot of that and focus on them being happy,
them being fulfilled, in them being well rounded, similar to
like their uncle. And when I mean their uncle, I
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mean the guy that I know that I can call
on at any moment, a guy with a silky, sultry
voice that we all get enthralled with. And that is
one Stephen, uncle disaver.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I wish I had come up with Doug the tree
I must know.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And Steven, I'm bummed that Ephraim took the ball over
the goal line there. It's fine, but I was going
to be like, you want to know what I named my.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Tree, Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That was gonna be my lead in and.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Now it's ruined.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I'm devastated, Uncle Steve.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Clearly it is Douglas.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Douglass.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
See we go any further here, We've got an early
Kansas City Chiefs lane. In the Sunday night game at home,
they're hosting the Chargers. About five minutes in, it's three nothing.
Chiefs had a good drive, going eleven play drive. They
kicked a forty seven yard field goal as Patrick Mahomes
had been sacked on the third and ten by Khalil Mack.
Chargers without young wide receiver Lad McConkie, who has almost
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sixty receptions this year. He is by far their number
one receiver over eight hundred yards receiving, which is more
than double anybody else on the Chargers that Justin Herbert
has to throw to. So there's that three nothing Kansas
City after the first drive, the Chiefs can clint the
AFC West title for a ninth straight year. The Rams
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ended Buffalo's seven game winning streak forty four to forty two.
Rams had led thirty one fourteen in the third quarter
by the way Josh Allen in this loss three touchdown
passes and three one yard touchdown runs, three hundred forty
two yards passing and ten carries eighty two yards, and
they lost Seattle one at Arizona thirty to eighteen. San
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Francisco handed Chicago a seventh straight loss thirty eight thirteen.
San Francisco led at the half twenty four to nothing.
Brock Party two touchdown passes to Juwan Jennings for the game,
perty was twenty of twenty five three hundred twenty five yards.
Pittsburgh beat Cleveland twenty seven to fourteen. Philadelphia won its
ninth straight twenty two sixteen over Carolina. Jalen Hurts two
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short touchdown passes and a one yard TD run. Miami
in overtime beat the Jets thirty two to twenty six.
The Dolphins tied it with a fifty two yard field
goal late in regulation one on a TD pass on
the only drive of the ot. New Orleans was a
winner at the Giants fourteen eleven, blocking a field goal
attempt in the final seconds of thirty five yarder. Giants
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have lost eight in a row. For New Orleans, Well
Saints quarterback Derek Carr suffered a possible broken left hand
and concussion. Jacksonville ended a five game losing streak with
a ten to six win at Tennessee. Tampa Bay sent
Las Vegas to a ninth straight loss twenty eight to thirteen.
Minnesota won at sixth straight, pulling away forty two to
twenty one over Atlanta. Sam Darnold five touchdown passes. In
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men's college basketball, number one Kansas had already lost Wednesday
this week at Creighton. Kansas lost at Missouri today seventy
six sixty seven. UCLA has won on a three pointer
at the Buzzer Tonight at number twelve Oregon seventy three
seventy one.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
In the NBA.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Last night, Nikola Jokic scored fifty six points for Denver
Good and they lost at Washington, a team that had
dropped sixteen.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Games in a row.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Tonight, jokicch forty eight points at Atlanta, and it's an
easy win for Denver one forty one, one eleven. That
ends the Hawks six game winning streak. And we must
talk college football. To close, SMU and Clemson made the
College Football Playoff. It is a twelve team playoff field
now Alabama not selected, neither was Miami. Alabama lost to
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two five hundred teams this year, lost to Vanderbilt, lost
to Oklahoma. SMU will open its postseason at Penn State. Yes,
there are first round home games campus sites. Clemson will
open at Texas on Saturday, the twenty first. Texas by
the way. Eleven and two both losses to Georgia, including yesterday.
Number one Oregon is off until it's Rose Bowl quarterfinal.
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Number two Georgia is off until it's Sugar Bowl quarterfinal.
New Year's Night.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Back to you, okay, I tell you what, this might
be an even bigger version of what we talk about
in the NFL when teams have the buy and there's
the whole rest versus rust thing. It's gonna be pretty
interesting for these top four man because they're getting put
on the shelf for a while. They again put on
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the shelf for a while before they're gonna go play
these games. So that's gonna be real interesting. But I'm
thankful for this, man. I like, it's still not perfect,
and I have taken many a shot at college football
through the years, not because of the colors and the
band and the players and the all of the fun stuff,
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but what I've hated is that at the end of
the year we would get to December and people in
suits would sit there, look at each other and decide
who got to play for a title. And I just
think that that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen in
any sport anywhere ever. And so we're moving further away
from that with this new current format, and for that
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I'm thankful.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, it's it's look, I didn't think it should have be.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
It should have been expanded to twelve teams because of
the long layoffs and a lot more football to be played,
but I will say I was thoroughly and and I
was enjoying the season, not.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Just watching uh teams, good teams, you.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Know, rebound from tough losses or early losses and coming back.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Uh you know you look at you know, notre Dame.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Right, they lose to what was it, I uh, Northern Illinois,
Northern Illinois, I.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Think, or something like that.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
And and if this was a normal four team that
there's no there, They're done.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, no, right, there's no shot. Yes it was Northern Illinois.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yeah, Northern Illinois, right, like, so it'd be no shot.
But they buckled down and went on and continue to
win in one out. And so I myself, I am
excited about this twelve team playoff. I don't necessarily like
the layoff, the long layoffs like that, but every new
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thing takes time to get.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Used to it.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
It was exciting coming down the stretch watching all of
the conference championships yesterday, all of the rivalry week games
last week, everything meaning something. So I was excited about it. Man,
I think this is going to be I think this
is going to be a good year for college football.
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And look, Boise States in there. They gotta buy they're
dangerous because they can run the ball on any one.
And so I think it just adds new blood, new
teams to the equation.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, and I think that the other thing that's going
to be really great that we've never seen in college
football before in history, which is playoff games with implications
on the national title that are being played at home.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Oh, that's going to be That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's fantastic because one of the one of the evil
secrets of college football, especially with the Whatever's happening on
December eighteenth, is it's a bowl game where somebody who's
in Virginia ends up in San Diego, Hawaii, and there's
twelve people there because they're like, we don't even know,
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we don't even know who this is.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
You know, people are who's coming to the Holiday Ball
this year? Oh, I mean, you give no clue what
the hell's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
And now that they've stripped away the traditional conference stuff
for years, it's like who ended up in the Rose Bowl?
We don't People locally have no clue what's going on.
So the fact that now you mentioned Notre Dame, like
where does Indiana go? They go to South Bend yeah,
let's that to me, that's special.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I love that. You know what, Look, i'm a I'm
a fan of Indiana this year.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
That's gonna say that.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Boy, that coach, I love that coach.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Now, that's he got a little Dan Campbell in them, right,
like he had a little Dan. He was like, man,
google us, you know, he said, google me. What makes
you think you're gonna win at this level?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Will google me?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Walked off? I said, oh lord, I like that.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, haven't been I've been a ranked team all year.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
That's all right, that's all right. They played hard, they
played good football. Man, they lost one game, they played
good football. And so like you know, when you get
to the playoffs, man, it's one and done. Anything happened, anything, anything, anything, anything,
but I.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
But I love. I love that teams have earned, you know.
I I love that they've earned that their home fans
get to watch this and to deal with that, you know,
and and that these games are going to be absolutely
sold out and freaking out and all of that good stuff.
Like that's I so, you know, kudos for the bumpiest
road ever to get to where we are today. And
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I'm still not saying it's perfect, but it's a hell
of a lot better if you ask.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Me, it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
What wasn't exciting was whole hum same four teams or
a team being left out, an undefeated team being left
out like that wasn't exciting to me.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
No, and you also you the games that mattered. When
you got to today December eighth ish or December seventh,
You're like, all right, it's all set, we'll see you
in a month.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Like what yeah, exactly right?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
A mom like, holy crap.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Right, And I watched the Cheeto's bowls watched it right,
twisty cap bowl, I watched it, Perrell hand sanitizes a bowl.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So we got in twelve days, Indiana and Notre Dame,
twelve days, just like the Christmas al Let's get it.
Let's go so that that makes me feel better. We're
live INTHETI IRAQ dot Com Studios and coming up next,
you mentioned Dan Campbell. Let's dive into him for a second.
(32:13):
I want to ask you if there is a more
popular coach anywhere, anywhere, in maybe even in any sport
right now.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Than Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
But we also need to talk about the way he
goes about his business. That is all coming up next
with me from Salam Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio.
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Mark Willard, I will I'll keep trying. That's all I
can do in life. What do you think of the
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latest Dan Campbell fourth down escapades that we saw on
Thursday night?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Hey man, what I do know is he hasn't learned,
and that's dangerous. I don't trust him. Yeah, I don't
trust him.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I wonder that was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Well, I wondered right away.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I'm like, you know, I guess the question that that
keeps ringing in my head on this stuff. And I
don't want to assume that everybody knows what happened, but Dan, Dan,
just when it's fourth down, Dan goes for it. And
and the latest kind of high profile one was this
the Lions and Packers are tied, the clock is running down.
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I don't remember exactly how many seconds, but I felt
like it was in the neighborhood of forty three. Forty
three seconds to go. You're in very makeable field goal range,
and it's fourth and one, and every human who's ever
walked the face of the planet and coach the football
game would kick the three, go up by three and
leave the Packers thirty eight seconds and no timeouts to
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deal with whatever comes. The way Dan thinks is why
do I need to give them those thirty eight seconds?
We're going for it.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
He gets it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
He takes the clock down to two seconds, kicks the
field goal.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
There it's a walk off.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And the question that I think sits there for people
is is it a fair defense to say aphrom it worked?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Because when it matters and it doesn't work, you'd get
what you got last year. So you get an opportunity
to go to the super Bowl for the first time
in ever, in ever, and you don't make the right choice.
So when you do it in the regular season when
it really doesn't matter, you set a precedent for bad behavior.
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Because when it works, you have the press conference you
have after the NFC Championship by saying this is how
we got here and in all reality, if he takes
those six points in that game against the San Francisco
forty nine ers, he goes to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Here, he goes to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
And so to reinforce bad behavior, you have a child
or a toddler at home and they just nope, I'm
just gonna do it my way. Right, I'm do it
my way. Don't need to cook it. Let me eat
the cookie. Don't need to cook let me eat the cookie.
Don't need to cooking, Let me eat the cookie. So
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what's to stop the behavior? And the part that really
upset me now, I'm not even talking about that one,
The one that really I was alarmed by was the
one on the thirty yard line in their own territory
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and he goes for it and immediately gives seven points
to Green Bay immediately, Like that is crazy to me.
That'll get you beat. You go for it on the
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thirty yard line in your own territory, and I mean,
you don't get it two plays, three plays later, touchdown
in a tight football game.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
How make it make sense? Makes sense?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Let me read this to you, and I know, I
think I know what you're gonna say. I'm not saying
this is right, But I thought that this is the
best anyone has done that I've seen in at least
trying to explain where it comes from. And Dan has
explained it. But you know, it's our it's our world
to sort of like, okss analyze Lindsey Rhodes, who has
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done a lot of things covering the NFL for years,
currently with NFL Network or not currently if he used
to be NFL Network DirecTV now Sports Illustrated. This is
what she wrote in the wake of Thursday Night's win.
She wrote, understand this about Dan Campbell on fourth down.
His approach on those downs is emblematic of the reason
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they are where they are. He has trained his team
to consistently take the fight to the opponent. It is
part of their identity. It's how they've outscored their opponents
by one hundred and eighty one points this year. We
don't get to enjoy the spoils and then question the
process buy or sell.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
So why so I'm not buying that? Why because we
saw what the outcome is.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah, it's not like I'm making something up. It's not
like I'm like, you know, possibly, No, we have tangible proof.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Although okay, Devil's advocate. That was one game. I know
it was their biggest game one guess what.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
So before you even start yeah, when you say that
was one game and you're talking about the playoffs, you
don't even need to say anything else.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Not only that was it one game, it was the
NFC Championship game at home, which you completely had control of.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I tend to agree with you, here's my thought on it.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I don't like anything that has blanket rules and doesn't
allow for context period. I don't care if it's fourth
down or the way you parent your children. I just
don't think there's one answer that's the same every single time.
And it seems with the Lions it's the same answer
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every single time. It's going to fourth down, We're going
for it.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Don't get you beat more time?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Right, Even if it's not like My thought on that
one was, Dan, what'd you get? What did you get
out of going forth on fourth down? Sure, you never
gave the Packers the ball in a situation where they
were very likely not going to be able to do
anything anyway, very good, So the risk reward to me
was out of whack there, complete but it worked. Jared
(39:44):
goff fell down, but it worked.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Today today, not today but Thursday.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, exactly, all right, nowhere near done yet. We're cooking
on a Sunday night. Let's talk about Sam Darmo than
his five TD throws coming up. Just getting started in
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his future with the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
There's more to say on the Dan Campbell conversation because
it trickles to the rest of the NFC North, which
is all amazing. And that brings us to Sam Darnald
e from what do you do here? And when I
say what you do, we can sub in two different
people for you. One of them is the collective of
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the Minnesota Vikings and the other one is Sam Darnald.
And I know what the stock answer is going to be,
which is, let's wait and see how this whole thing
plays out. Do they win in January? Do they not?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
That's going to have a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
But the Minnesota Vikings are eleven and two. Sam Darnald
today had five more touchdown passes.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
And was very very good with the ball as well.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
So Donald is now up to I think twenty eight
touchdown passes against ten picks. He is leading a team
that is eleven and two. They are a contender. Meantime,
Daniel Jones is hanging out on the practice squad and
JJ McCarthy is over there making first round money and
getting healthier every day. So start with the Vikings. What
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do you do next year? Especially if January goes well?
Speaker 5 (41:52):
What you have your quarterback of the future in Jj,
but there's no rush to put him in. You know what,
did Sam Donald sign up? One year deal?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
One year deal? Right?
Speaker 5 (42:05):
So if i'm Sam, are you asking me what the
Minnesota Vikings are going to do? Or what is Sam
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I'm gonna ask you both.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
But I'm starting with the Vikings, okay, because right now
Sam Donald signed a one year, ten million dollar contract,
and with the look of the draft, I know there
should door and whatnot, But like if you've got one
of those sort of ready made situations where you want
to just inject a quarterback and see if you can play.
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Sam's your guy next year, and that's going to command
a price, a real price.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
I think Sam Donald at the low end, has made
himself a bunch of money in the league. He's shown
that he can be a starter at a high level
in this league. And so, you know, I am interested
to see how this thing plays out, because if they
do make a deep playoff run, if they're somehow end
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up getting home court advantage in the in the playoffs, like,
there's so much still up in the air for the Vikings.
But I'm I'm a fan. I'm a fan of what
Sam is doing right now. I love the fact that
he's put this team in a position to, you know,
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not only make the playoffs and win the division, but
also you know, solidify them as one of the top
teams in the entire league. I gotta think twenty eight touchdowns,
ten interceptions, yep, you know, yep, before it's all said
and done, he'll be over four thousand yards passing. I mean,
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I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Think about the teams that might want to play with this.
I mean, it's probably politically never gonna come back together.
The first team that would probably want him next year
would be the Jets. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
No, never go back.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
That's that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
But the New York Giants are are probably gonna want him.
For example, the Cleveland Browns might be interested. The Indianapolis Colts.
I could see them making a play. The Las Vegas Raiders.
You bet where else?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Could we go? Look at anything that.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I mean for me?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
For Mew Orleans.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Probably maybe I'd be very cautious if I was Sam,
how so.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
I wouldn't just go for the money. I go for
the roster.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I like that. Sure, I agree with you, because.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
The next step is his most important step of his career.
You don't want to just go, say to the Raiders,
because they pay you a bunch of money and their
cupboard is bare. You don't want to be put in
a situation where a team needs you to carry them.
That's never been who he is. It's never been who
he is.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
No, if I'm Sam, I want to stay in Minnesota.
But I don't know if they want me.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
I don't think they look. I don't know at what price.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Right I feel like Sam is looking at a two year,
sixty million dollar offer.
Speaker 4 (45:20):
If I was Sam, I would be like, you got
to give me.
Speaker 5 (45:22):
Three okay, fine, at the same number, okay.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
And I don't know that Minnesota wants to do that.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
Yeah, so that would be the you know, three year, uh,
you know, ninety million dollars.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, So give me the roster. That's not Minnesota that
makes you think about leaving?
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Is it Indianapolis?
Speaker 5 (45:48):
I like Andy, I do like and they got some
young receivers they have, of course their running game.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Is it Tennessee?
Speaker 5 (46:01):
I don't think Tennessee is gonna come off of well Levitt.
Oh not this year, not this year?
Speaker 2 (46:09):
All right, So they're not interested in being serious yet
that's fine.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Right right?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
So is it Cleveland?
Speaker 3 (46:15):
Can they even fit that?
Speaker 5 (46:18):
I don't think they can. They can't afford that, right,
They can't fit that. There's not a lot here?
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Does does does Carolina go back to Bryce Young?
Speaker 4 (46:33):
I mean, when you look at the way he's playing.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
He's playing interesting football, man.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
He's when you look at the way he's competing, I
should say, which makes a difference. Looking at the way
he's competing, he's earned He's earned a shot.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
And Sam was there not that long ago, right.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
He was just there.
Speaker 5 (46:57):
Yeah, so he I don't think he's going back, Okay, right,
I don't think he's going back anywhere. So when you
when you look at you know, New York has neighbors
I'd like I mean, I like Brian day Ball. I
think that may be a good fit if he survives.
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Okay for Sam Donald, Yeah, that's our giant.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, they're going to have a very early draft pick. Yeah,
possibly the number one.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Get you a nice offensive well offensive tackle.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
You wouldn't take shador if you're in New York.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Yeah, if they lend it, you do, you have to, right,
you have to. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
And they're they're they're two and eleven right now, which
is tied with the Raiders for the worst record. I
don't know how the tiebreaker works. I think that just
kind of goes coin flip ish or I don't even know.
But obviously there's a long way to go, but they're
tied right now for the worst record in football. So
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they're they're they're they're going to have an opportunity to
get a quarterback early. I don't know if it's somebody
they want to play right away. I think those teams
that were throwing out those are those are the teams? Yeah,
I mean it's not those are those are the options
for saying it is not.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
It's not a real big market for retraite quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
So you know, because everybody else has a star wars
are young guys or rookies, are second year guys that
they're trying to figure out if they can be a
part of that. Right, and there is Carolina off the table?
Go ahead, Can I give you one more?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Of course, there is a potential out after this season
for a guy who senselessly got himself hurt today. I
don't know if you saw this play, but what if
the New Orleans Saints decided to move on from Derek Carr?
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Oh, that'd be That's that would be the spot.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
That's is that the spot?
Speaker 4 (49:05):
That's the spot?
Speaker 5 (49:07):
Okay, there's those young those young receivers and and Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 4 (49:12):
That asks where you want to be.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
It's good. This is a solid defense too, That's what.
Speaker 4 (49:16):
You want to be.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
It started out that way.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
I know that it wasn't a great defense throughout the year,
but I think that some of it's circumstantial.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
They have some players.
Speaker 5 (49:23):
There Yeah, that's what you want. Okay, that's what you want.
That's that one that I'm circling. That's the perfect fit.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
I don't know if if New Orleans wants to move
on from Derek Carr. I don't. I don't know how
terribly different Sam and Derek Carr, Right, I think they're
pretty that's pretty much. They live in the same area code.
I would say, I agree with that. You know, like
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Derek had a year where he's kind of doing Sam things,
where he was going to potentially win the MVP that
he got hurt. He can take you to the playoffs.
I don't think he can win them, but if you
surround him with talent and and a great defense and
good weather and a dome and all of those things.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Yeah, he played football.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
I think I think they're you know, i'd give Sam
a slight edge on Derek, but not not a ton.
But that that's an interesting one that I that to
me feels plausible.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yeah, I agree, that's a good spot.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
That'd be the best spot for him in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, and and an incredibly winnable division, as we know,
incredibly winnable division every year.
Speaker 5 (50:49):
Yeah, it's only gonna cost you about ninety.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Well, that's I mean, that's not very much if your
shop quarterback. Not very much if you're shopping for quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
Yeah, it's a nice bargain.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
Speaking of shopping for quarterbacks, can we talk both about
their quarterback and their head coach? That would be the
San Francisco forty nine ers. We'll do that coming up
here in just a second. That's it from Salam. I'm
Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio. Come on, let me
hear man. Huh a little reindeer? Yeah, come on, you
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know this one.
Speaker 5 (51:39):
Come on, man, hey man, live stop talking. Ok, you
got it.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Scott Shapiro texted me that at the other day. Hey Man,
can you stop talking. It's tough in radio, brother, it's
tough tyreck dot Com Studios. That's the from Salama, Mark Willard.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Go ahead, pick it.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
I want to hear your prediction. What annoying thing will
the Chiefs do to win a football game tonight?
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (52:12):
I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
Oh my gosh, come on, I.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Can smell it. It's six nothing Chiefs. We got a
rock fight. We expected a rock fight. I thought the
under in this game was one of the best bets
of the week. Doesn't mean I'm gonna be right. We'll
see how this thing plays out, but we're gonna go back.
We're gonna go forth. You're not gonna have fun if
you're waiting for fantasy football numbers to show up. Somebody
will score a touchdown and then something stupid will happen.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
In the end and the Chiefs will win.
Speaker 4 (52:44):
That is a fact.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (52:46):
Oh, and they won't cover, so there, nope.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Nope, And that's a small number. I think the number
it was number three something like that tonight.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
I think it was three.
Speaker 3 (52:59):
And a half.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Yeah, I think maybe mhm, four, I think four.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
It got up to four. Oh, they definitely won't cover.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
There's four it'll cover.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, but guess what the Chargers are doing right now
as we speaking, punting?
Speaker 4 (53:19):
Yeah again, But anyway, you didn't answer my question.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
What annoying thing are the Chiefs going to do to
win a football game tonight?
Speaker 5 (53:27):
It'll it won't even be them, it'll be you know,
you're stopping them in the fourth quarters. A minute left,
it's third and third and seven and you you know,
get a penalty and extend to drive.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
That's you know, it's it's like that. Man.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
Although these are two well coached teams. They are, so
this is ah, this is gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
No turnovers yet in the game. I sort of feel
like that's what we're waiting for. But yeah, the Chargers
have not been able to run the ball yet. These
two defenses, one could argue, are the best two in
the football and so I'm not surprised we're looking at
a six to nothing game with just over six minutes
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to go until halftime. I do know that the Chargers
would use the end zone at some point in the
second half. I do know that they will be within
one score, if not leading, with five minutes to go
in this game. And I do know somebody gonna mess
up something and the Chiefs are gonna win. Those are
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the things I know in life, not much else. Hey,
Ian Rappaport said something this morning. It's a report from
It's a report the San Francisco forty nine Ers are
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still planning to extend brock Purty.
Speaker 4 (55:09):
Why wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Exactly, I thought to myself, you know what this last
two weeks has been, and I am front and center
in San Francisco, and I fully fully understand how frustrated
everybody is and all the things that have gone wrong
and the certain pieces of that where blame can be laid. Like,
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I get all of it. I understand it. However, the
forty nine or franchise this year, in twenty twenty four,
has become the home of stories being reported that never
had to be. Like everything that you're hearing about the
forty nine ers, the debatable topics, the buzz, none of
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it is actually happening. That's how That's what I do know.
I know that everyone's like, would you pay Brock? The
Niners aren't asking if they'd pay Brock. Would would you
give up Kyle Shanahan for seventy eight draft picks? The
Niners aren't having that conversation. Do you think that Kyle
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Shanahan would like to leave? Kyle Shanahan's not thinking about that.
There's all of these thoughts that and by the way,
for those of you who didn't hear this, the whole
idea of Kyle Shanahan being traded to the Bears that
started with Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. And what
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was really great is that Mike, after he reported it
on Pro Football Talk, he came on the morning show
on the station for which I work uh ninety five
the game in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (56:52):
And they asked him, Hey, Mike, where did that come from?
Speaker 4 (56:55):
You want to know what? He says.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
This is a real conversation. He goes, what were in
there doing the podcast and we're talking about candidates for
the Bears opening, and then he goes and all of
a sudden, it just dawned on me that we weren't
thinking about the entire bevy of candidates known as people
(57:18):
who currently have jobs. So I just started, you know,
wondering if maybe that might be something. Ladies and gentlemen,
I give you what's called a report in twenty twenty four.
A human being scratches his head, and we've got a
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week of content. The fact that Kyle needed to address
this after the game today saying that there's absolutely nowhere
else he wants to be. Then there's absolutely no one
else the forty nine ers want coaching the team. I'm
not saying they're going to give Brock sixty million, but
there's absolutely nothing that's happened with that football team that
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would suggest the Niners feel like there is a better
option somewhere else. Right now, Currently there is quarterback or
a quarterback or at head coach. But here we are,
so here we are just it's just a whole lot
of manufactured drama. Man.
Speaker 5 (58:25):
Well, sometimes people have to, you know, make things up,
are living hyperbole are or what ifs?
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Well, like, I don't even mind if people want to
think out loud and have ideas and imagine, like I'm not.
That's fine though, I mean, yeah, well but but but
and that's fine too. But like like, I don't mind
if Floria wants to throw something against the wall. But
it's it's very very funny to me the way that
it gets picked up, regurgitated, circulated. And then also the
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other side to it is it's just it's just a
window into how disappointing this season has been for them. Therefore,
a lot of people surrounding that team or those who
follow that team are willing to act from an emotional place,
which is the only place where ideas like let's trade
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Kyle Shanahan for a couple of first round picks would
come from.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
No, let me ask you this, did today's win do
anything for you?
Speaker 4 (59:40):
I thought it was great. I thought it was great.
Speaker 5 (59:43):
I thought they came out what a sense of urgency,
you know, be nice for them to come out like
that against a.
Speaker 4 (59:55):
Good team.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
Perhaps maybe they play the Rams in four days, that's
gonna be a good I mean, but they look defensively.
They held the Chicago Bears to four yards in the
first half. They did all right, So can you build
on that? Brock Party missed five passes through for three
twenty five. Look with these numbers, who could even argue
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if they're going to sign the man?
Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Like that's crazy? Talk to me.
Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
This quarterback rating today was one hundred and forty five.
And by the way, the Bears passing defense one of
the best in football's top five.
Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Like this notion of the grass is greener? Like, where
where's that grass greener? Kansas City, Baltimore, Uffalo, Buffalo? Sure,
all right, Bengals, Yeah probably.
Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
But I'm not stepping in anybody else's yard. I'm not
I'm not stepping in anybody else's yard.
Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Is that the list of quarterbacks that you would would
trade brock Party for?
Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Yeah? Pretty list? Yeah? Justin Herbert?
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
You would you traded for Justin Herbert?
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Yeah? I like I like Justin Herbert a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
Just Droud, Yeah maybe I got how about Jordan Love?
Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
How about Jordan Love.
Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Right, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
He's a good player.
Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
He's a really good player. But so it was Brock Party.
All of those guys were drafted a day three days
before him. Yeah, everything of every single one of the
guys we just named were drafted three whole days before
he was.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
You left one name off the list, and I can't
believe you missed this one. I know I would trade
Rock Party for this guy.
Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Oh uh huh.
Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Steve de Sager.
Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Let's go Steve Longo to Sager.
Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
By the way, as you talk about the Niners, it
was such a blowout against Chicago today. San Francisco had
nine different plays go for at least twenty yards, nine
of them in one game.
Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
It was unbelievable. There was just space everywhere in this game.
I don't know where the Bears were looked like they
were playing with nine dudes.
Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
I'm not sure the Bears were there in the first half.
Quite honestly, the exact numbers. In the first half, San
Francisco out gained them three hundred and nineteen yards to four.
Bears had one first down in the first half, So
the final was thirty eight thirteen. Chicago's lost seven straight
in the last three games combined. For San Francisco, they
had thirty seven points. They scored thirty eight in this
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game today, and they sat Caleb Williams seven times, one fumble.
He has been sacked this year fifty six times already,
which is the most for any Bears quarterback in a
season since the merger over fifty years ago. So San
Francisco is hosting the Rams this Thursday night. If the
Niners win that home game, they'll be seven and seven
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with three games left in the season. Somebody will win
that division. Seattle did win again today thirty to eighteen
at Arizona, Zach Sharboney one hundred and thirty four yards
rushing in two scores as Kenneth Walker was out with
ankle and calf injuries. The Rams led Buffalo thirty one
fourteen in the third quarter forty four to forty two.
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Rams the final that ends Buffalo's seven game winning streak.
And at Kansas City tonight, the Chiefs have a chance
to clinch the AFC West title for the ninth straight year.
Justin Herbert is down and being attended to. He's had
earlier in the evening an ankle injury. Taylor Heineke is
warming up in case he comes in for LA. It's
currently six nothing Chiefs over the Chargers with under five
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minutes to go in the second quarter. Two field goals
for Kansas City Patrick Mahomes one hundred and one yards passing.
Herbert was seventy three yards passing. Chargers are on their
fifth drive. They have four first downs in this game.
Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
JK.
Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
Dobbins, they're starting running back, is on injured reserve for
a month, and their best, clearly best wide receiver, rookie
Lad mccaukee is out tonight with knee and shoulder injuries.
So good luck to the Chargers if they don't have
Justin Herbert the rest of the night. And what you
mentioned is just stay close and win a low scoring game.
That's pretty much the only way they can win I
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think tonight. And that's how they almost won when they
faced the Chiefs in LA in September. It was ten
ten in the fourth quarter. Of course, the teams with
Mahomes won the game. In fact, the Chiefs in games
decided by one scorer or less have won fourteen straight,
longest streak in league history. The Chargers do allow only
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sixteen points again this year. That's best in the NFL.
They lost seventeen to ten to Kansas City in September.
As for the earlier games, we did have another Philadelphia win.
That's nine straight victories. Philly over Carolina twenty two to sixteen.
But you may have heard the stories about somebody betting
three million dollars on Philly.
Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
To win this week.
Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Philadelphia started the fourth quarter trailing a Carolina Panthers team
that was last in the NFC in total offense, had
the league's worst rushing defense, was allowing over thirty points
a game. The Eagles do have the league's top rank defense.
The Eagles have Saquon Barkley, the NFL's rushing leader, a
guy who averages one hundred and twenty five yards rushing
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a game. He had won twenty four on the ground
in this one, twenty two to sixteen. The Eagles eke
out of victory Miami in overtime beat the Jets. Minnesota
won at six straight Sam Darnold five touchdown passes, beating
Atlanta forty two to twenty one. That was Kirk Cousins
back in Minnesota. By the way, he had three hundred
and forty four yards passing two interseven sinz. The new
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had football coach at Purdue is Barry Odom from UNLV.
He had also coached at Missouri. SMU made the College
football Playoff, Alabama did not. College hoops Missouri beat number
one Kansas seventy six sixty seven. Denver Nuggets won it.
Atlanta and NBA play one forty one one eleven. Nikola
Jokic with forty eight points after his fifty six in
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a defeat last night. And we've got the Pelicans up
two in the final minute at San Antonio. The New
Orleans Pelicans five and nineteen this year, and they've just
blown the lead in the final seconds. Spurs went at
one twenty one, one sixteen. Pelicans on the road now
one and twelve and Brandon Ingram is out indefinitely with
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an ankle injury.
Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Final note.
Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
The Baseball Hall of Fame's Classic Era Committee was tonight
considering an eight man ballot for the Hall of Fame
of contributors before nineteen eighty. This happened today because the
Winter Meetings started today in Dallas. That's where they were.
Committee's eight finalists included Louis Tillant, Ken Boy or Steve
Garvey and others, but into the Hall of Fame these
two Dave Parker, seven time All Star and an MVP,
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and Dick Allen, a seven time All Star and an MVP.
Parker got fourteen of sixteen votes from the committee. Allen
got thirteen of sixteen. So those two chosen today. We'll
go into the Hall in July with whomever's voted in
by the writers next month, and that probably will include
Echuro Suzuki.
Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Back to you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Who good stuff, Steve across the board appreciated Steve to
sega with us every single hour we are live in
the Tireraq dot com studios. There's a sentence in there.
I mean, there might have been a few of them,
but there was a sentence from Stevie from I don't
think I ever thought I would hear a human being
say SMU got into the playoff Alabama. Didn't I think
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i'd ever hear anybody say that.
Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Yeah, that's pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
I mean, so again, you know, we talked about it
a little bit earlier. Nothing in the world is perfect,
and you like what you like, and I get it.
If you're a college football traditionalist, Man, you've been challenged
a thousand different ways in the last decade. But I'll
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just say, for a few different reasons, this new structure,
having more teams involved and therefore less boardroom decisions with
regard to who gets to play for.
Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
This thing, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Man, to me, this is the best setup that they've
had yet. We'll see how it looks. But again, I
really like the fact that that you're gonna have some
home games, and therefore you're going to have a real
crowd with that has something to say in these games
and all of that. So I'm interested to see what
this looks like. And I'm not usually interested in college football.
(01:08:55):
On December eighth, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
I'm excited about it. I'm excited about it all year
knowing this was coming down the pipe. I think it's
great for college football. I think it's great for fans,
and like you said, I think it's great for those
universities to get to host the first round of these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
No doubt about it. So glad you're with us.
Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Also, that three point one million dollar bet on on
the Eagles, I don't know what. Let me see to oh,
do you know how much like that's a money line
bet three point one million just to win the game.
So do you know how much the bet actually wins
if the Eagles win the game, which they did, what
a couple hundred grands four and forty two thousand dollars. Yeah,
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so this bet was absolutely to me. This is no
different than Dan Campbell going forward on fourth down. It's like,
I get that you can do this. I get that
you've got a lot of juice, but I get that
you might win. But what's in it for you? Why?
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That's a bad risk reward? And oh, by the way,
that four hundred and forty two grand that this guy won,
I hope he sends half of it to exavierly get
of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
Oh, you had it right in his hands.
Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
He had that ball.
Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
That was a beautiful drive by Bryce Young and that
was a touchdown pass. And then it wasn't don't like.
Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
Look, I like what Bryce is doing, recalibrating, got his
stuff together. He's competing now before it just seemed like
he was there. Now he's competing, and so you know,
we'll see how he finishes it up.
Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Mark with Ardy from Salam, glad that you are with
us tonight and nowhere near done yet. Coming up next,
let's dive further into the NFC North and play this
out in terms of the pecking order, how it might go,
the actual contenders for tenders, Lions, Vikings, Packers.
Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
That's next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
All right, TYRAG dot Com Studios with e from salam
Mark Willard. Look, I've learned. I've learned not to do
this on Twitter. I've learned not to follow stories on Twitter.
If it's there, it means somebody who's actually in the
no wants it there. Doesn't mean that that's accurate. You know,
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Twitter reports about free agency and things like that are
probably no different than presidential election polls, for example. However,
I do want to throw this at you take a
momentary break from the NFL because there are a number
of reporters tonight not suggesting where one Soto will land,
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but when, and there is a buzz there's a buzzy
from that. It could be tonight, in fact, could be
in the next hour and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:12:06):
Wow, Okay, so he coming to LA huh.
Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
I certainly wouldn't be surprised, would you?
Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Of course not? Why wouldn't and on his why wouldn't he.
Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Want to come here because he's in New York.
Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
And that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
He's in New York.
Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
And I've been told for years that Juan Soto is
that kind of guy, and I know that he's not.
Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
A homegrown dude.
Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
But free agents of that size don't often leave the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
They just don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
I mean, I'm not gonna say it can't happen, and
it won't happen. And in fact, if you asked me
to bet, I will bet that he'll leave the Yankees,
but not for the Dodgers. I think he'll leave the
Yankees for the Mets because he's a New York kind
of a guy.
Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Okay, who's offering what?
Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Well, I don't know, but we've certainly had a number
of reports that suggest that right now, to have a
seat at the table, you need to bring your seven
hundred million dollars. Now, I'm seeing reports that the Yankees
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are pushing upward from there. But that Steve Cohen who
owns the Mets, and this wouldn't surprise me either. He's
comfortable with changing that number seven to eight m and
if he does, no one will join him.
Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
No, no, But look, it's it's it's going to be great.
Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
It's cold in New York right now. It's nice out here.
Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Yeah, but it's not baseball season.
Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
So for seven hundred million dollars, you go wherever the
hell you want for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
You'd be in Mexico for all on the.
Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
West coast, man, come on to the West coast.
Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Yeah, oh listen, I mean I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Believe me. It was. It was felt in uh in
San Francisco when Blake Snell this was so funny to me.
Nobody knows this spring training last year when he signed,
they asked him about like why'd you you know, like
why'd you pick the Giants? And are you.
Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Cool playing in San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
And he's like, I'm gonna be real with you, man,
like this is a one year deal and we're traveling
the entire time, so it doesn't matter as much as
you think it does where we play. And then he
signs with the Dodgers and his quote was, this is
where you want to play it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Yes, that made me laugh. That made me laugh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Why wouldn't you want to be a part of it?
If you're a player, why wouldn't you want to be
a part of it. You get paid for the rest
of your career and then the rest of your life too. Yeah,
so I don't I don't begrudge any player, and I
don't even begrudge the Dodgers for doing it because it's
within the rules. I don't know that it should be
within the rules, but it is, so why not do it?
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And of course I'm talking about all the.
Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
Deferrals, defer, deferred defer.
Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
They're up at a billion dollars. Ephraim nice just in defer, Yeah,
just in deferrals, one billion dollars. Good for the game.
Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
No, No, I don't like it because you can do anything.
Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Yes, you can, and they have.
Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
That's why I don't count them out. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Oh I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Could you imagine that lineup?
Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Well, the report is that they told him that he
would bat second behind show Heeo Tani and in front
of Muki backs.
Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Oh god, that's sweet spot.
Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
With Freddie Freeman coming up when the business loaded.
Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Gracious.
Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
Yeah, yeah, they might win one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Man, they might, they might, you know, But I'd also
say again, like as a larger sport, I'm a big
believer in big brands. Great teams. That's all true. However,
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you know, when we think of super teams, we often
are talking about the NBA.
Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
You have a soft cap there.
Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Yes, there are some teams that have a little more
in the way of resource, but you don't in the
NBA have an Oakland A's or a Sacramento A's or
whatever the hell they're going to call themselves. Now, where
there are teams that just don't pay anything, you don't
really have that, But in baseball you do. So it's
like you could put this lineup together and it'd be
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fun to watch and they'll win all the games. But
who did they beat? And so what you end up
with is very much like an Alabama versus of the
Citadel type of field.
Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
And so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
If I were Rob Benford, I'd be like, are the
rest of you in other cities? Are you watching this?
Do you care anymore? If we just put all of
the good players on two teams?
Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
I don't know. I want to disenfranchise the whole audience.
Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
But that's I mean, I'm sure that number on that
World Series was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
Should they sign up for that every year?
Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Yep? Yep, But I do wonder about the gate in
Kansas City and Pittsburgh and et cetera. You know, at
what point are people just like, what are we doing?
Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
What what is this? Right? Why are the kindergarteners playing
the fifth graders? Why are we doing this kind of
open up the book?
Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
Man, everybody got an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
Well, no, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Like, yes they do, but not everybody can defer a
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
M right.
Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Everybody's got a rich person or rich people up there.
Not everybody's got the Guggenheim group.
Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
So I mean, the Yankees bought championships for years.
Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
So sure, yeah, oh yeah again, I'm not coming down
the Dodgers road. If you can do it, do it
any means possible within the rules. I'm a fan of.
I just don't know, I don't know if it should
be within the rules. So that's kind of what I'm
getting at all. Right, we do still have the NFC
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North around the corner. Plus, I think I think since
Brian Windhorse and others have been talking this week about
Lebron James and the Warriors, feel like you and I
should probably talk this out for a second.
Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
Don't you? Think, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
We should probably we'll talked this out for a second.
Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
We'll do that coming up next.
Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
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We are going to dive into the NFC North. We're
going to get into a little bit of the Lakers
and the Warriors and Lebron and Steph and we're also
following into the second half and following the Justin Herbert
injury in the situation with the big bad Kansas City Chiefs.
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Maybe it feels kind of like an obvious answer, because
I get how everybody feels about Detroit right now. Twelve
and one looks like they've got a fast track to
home field advantage, but then again, who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
They still got to play the Vikings again.
Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
I know they got a game in hand against them,
they're four to zeroing their division. But I like watching
the Packers go in there on Thursday night. Gave them
everything they could handle, didn't win the football game. I
understand that. But how if somebody landed here from another
planet and said, describe the differences in these three teams
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and their chances come January.
Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
What would you say the differences between Detroit.
Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Lions, Vikings, Vikings and Packers.
Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
I'd say, hmmm, that's good man, that's a that's a
that's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Can you see the Lions as head and shoulders ahead
or no?
Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
No, no, because look, look, I like the Lions. I
like who they've become. I like the fact that they've changed,
you know, the fundamental direction of that team. The culture
is completely different. I know, I spent some time in
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Detroit with the Lions. It is not your father's Lions team.
The problem I have, and this is a big problem,
because it stems from the leadership. The very same leadership
that had had to force its way to change the
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culture is the same leadership I don't trust. And so
when I look at them talent wise, there's talented as anybody,
if not talent more talent than anybody in the league.
They got a real gun slinger at quarterback. They got
some bona fide dogs on the outside. They got about
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three running backs that can just eat you alive. And
their defense is holding strong even without their best player available,
even without a bevy of their best players. Their injury
on the defense, their injuries on the defensive side of
the ball, is what gives me great pause because eventually,
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at a certain point, if those guys don't start coming back.
And I'm not talking about eight Nutchinson, he's probably done
unless they play in the super Bowl and he does
something miraculous. But outside of that, they're missing guys all
across the board. I'm talking about they played in that
game Thursday with guys they just met that they just met,
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and so that, on top of the injuries and on
top of the decision making, is the thing that gives
me pause. Now, I like Green Bay. Green Bay has
a young core. They grew up a lot from last year.
Jordan Love is also a gunslinger, I like Matt Lafleur,
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and they're just playing well. They will get pressure on
the quarter but they will get after you, and so
I you know, with those type of quarterbacks, you'll always
be in the game. Right, Jordan Love can make every
throw right. No one saw this, I guess well they
saw it. Coming, especially after the way they started last
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year and the way they ended. They just picked right
up where they left off, which is is great, that's
what you need. And for the Minnesota Vikings, it's like
they're playing with house money because this is unexpected. This
is that they have the best receiver in football, they
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have a quarterback trying to prove something and extend his
career as a starter, and their defense has always been solid.
So who do I see? Who do I see in
that's in this scenario separating themselves? Man, I'd have to say,
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so this is really tough. Well I thought I would
at least talk my self into an answer.
Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
I know that. Why don't I play it out? Why
don't we try to play it out a little bit?
With the numbers? So Lions one seed, Eagles, two seed,
three seed, four seed, I don't care, and I don't
care just for the moment, right whoever wins the South,
whoever wins the West, if you want to call that
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Tampa Bay in Seattle, they've got the inside tracks right now. Okay, fine,
there's your three and your four, Your five is Minnesota,
your six is Green Bay, and your seven is I
don't care. That's either Washington or the Rams. Maybe the
Falcons are forty nine ers or Cardinals can get into
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this conversation. But if we do spotlight those four teams,
you're looking at a buy for the Lions. You're looking
at an opening game for the Eagles where they're hosting
a team that's barely five hundred. Maybe it is the
Washington Command, maybe it is the Los Angeles Rams. Not
saying that can't be a game, but that's that one.
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But then look at the Lions. I'm sorry. The Vikings
and the Packers headed directly to the homes of the
division winners of the South and the West, and they'll
be favored in those games.
Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
They'll be favored in those games.
Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
I don't know that this will happen, because life doesn't
work this way. But the way it should go if
the NFC is defined as we think it is right now,
is that Week two in the NFC playoffs, the Philadelphia
Eagles will host the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions
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will host the Green Bay Packers. And for everybody who
thinks that the Lions are going to the Super Bowl,
take a moment to spotlight what their playoff looks like.
It goes by Packers and then either Vikings or Eagles.
That's about as hard of a one seed run as
I could think of.
Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
That's gonna be pretty tough.
Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
That's hard.
Speaker 7 (01:27:09):
You got back to back games, and it's gonna be
against double digit win teams who are very, very capable,
and you have a coach who will be going forward
on fourth and three.
Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
That's not gonna bowl well for them. It's not, man,
it's gonna be bad. It's against those that caliber of
teams in the playoffs. Points are premium in the playoffs.
Any point you can get, whether it be one, two, three,
you gotta get him. And he will give. He will
believe points out there by the boat load, just to
(01:27:44):
prove a point. And that that is what that is
what frightens me about about them, Not from a talent standpoint,
but literally from a decision making standpoint. That hole, this
is who we are and this is how we got here.
(01:28:04):
That does not work in the playoffs, man, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
It's gonna be a challenge. The Packers are not going
to be scared of the Lions. No, the Vikings and
Eagles will not be scared of the Lions.
Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
They will not and they're gonna put pressure on them.
Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
And let me add one more thing. For Detroit.
Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
We watched it to a certain degree last year as
they had a twenty four to seven lead in Santa
Clara at halftime. It came out in the second half
and you start looking at the faces of everybody on
the sideline, and the weight of the city and its
history suddenly starts showing how firm it is. And you
(01:28:50):
could see it. As soon as the forty nine ers
started to make their comeback. Everybody's face and their Adams
apples all got big. It was like, gope, because it
means so much so those fans, those players. It's almost
like you have to deal with sifting through your own
(01:29:11):
emotions as much as executing a football play.
Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Well, flash forward to.
Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
This January and it is my belief from that they're
gonna They're gonna be doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Again, but this time in front of those fans.
Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
And I just don't know that I can think of
something that's a comp like this, which is, let's pretend
that the NFC Championship game is at Ford Field in
Detroit and the game is tied in the fourth quarter
with five minutes ago. I like I don't. I don't
know if there's tension anywhere that matches that, Like that's
(01:29:51):
just like fans crying immediately just because kind of stuff.
And you may say, hey, they're professionals, that's the job
to just whatever, like work through that. But man, the
pressure is going to be so intense for that football team.
Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
Oh, it is unbearable. Unbearable. Man.
Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
I hope, I hope we are not having one of
these conversations after a playoff game, fourth down and we're like, man,
he left nine points out there on the on the field.
Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
By the way, I think he's got a kicker who's
missed one field goal this year.
Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
Yeah, that part I won't to use him.
Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
That part they might want to use him. All right,
let's we promised Lebron rumors and I don't know if
that's the right word for it yet.
Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Speculation is the correct word. It's nothing more than that.
Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
But it's also coming up for the second time, and
I believe there's a reason for that. So let's get
to that. Coming up next with E from Salam, Mark
Willard Fox Sports Radio. We're Liventhetie rank dot Com Studios.
Mark Willard, e from Salaam. We do have a lot
to get to. But we told you this might happen tonight,
(01:31:21):
and it has. So we've got breaking news. Let's go
right now, Live to the desk with Steve Desager.
Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
Guys, we have an agreement on the largest contract in
the history of pro sports. Oh my god, the Mets
have agreed to a fifteen year deal with outfielder Juan
Soto worth seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. No
money deferred. Oh, there's an opt out after five years.
New York Post says the Yankees offered sixteen years, not fifteen,
(01:31:55):
but a little less money. Juan Soto is a Met
on a fifth teen year deal.
Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Wow, that just landed in our laps.
Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I mean we said an hour ago. I'm like, I'm
seeing it everybody. I don't know if they're right or wrong.
But the people in the not think this is happening tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
And it did. And by the way, when Steve says
the Yankees reportedly offered a little less money, he really
means a little less money instead of seven hundred and
sixty five, they'd offered seven hundred and sixty But yes,
over an additional year, right, sixteen years as opposed to fifteen,
so the aav a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
Would you lose him for a year?
Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
I don't like. I'm just I'm not built for this.
I'm just not Like if somebody was like fifteen for
seven sixty five and the Yankees are like, we can't
go a penny over seven sixty what, Like, what the
hell's another five million dollars?
Speaker 4 (01:33:03):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Like why wouldn't you why wouldn't you match that? That's
so weird to me.
Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
Oh man, so he doesn't have to move or anything.
Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Nope, Nope, no, man, it was New York.
Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
It was always New York.
Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
I really believe it was always New York.
Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Wow, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Fifteen years, seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
And show a show it was uh ten for seven
hundred right.
Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
Right, but but six hundred and ninety nine million point
nine nine nine nine deferred? Yeah, I think show he
got like twenty million dollars over the current life of
his deal.
Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
And that and that one was only for ten right.
Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
Ten years years?
Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Ten years? Yeah, And he's much older than Soto, So
I like the way Bob Nightingale wrote it, he goes
he's got an opt out after five seasons, just in
case he's somehow undervalued. After the twenty twenty nine season.
Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
Oh my god, this this baseball season is gonna be
something else.
Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
New York Mets literal answer, Oh.
Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
I waited that playoff series again.
Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
And by the way, for those who don't want to
do the quick math, that, yeah, that is fifty one
million dollars per year.
Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
Wow, that's exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Any any questions?
Speaker 5 (01:34:41):
No, man, shout out to him. Shout out to the Mets, right,
they're partying, the partying.
Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Shout out to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
And as much as fans don't like hearing this stuff,
shout out to Juan Soto because it wasn't It wasn't
that long ago.
Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
And I don't even just.
Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
Mean shout out to Wan Soda.
Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Shout out to whoever's advising him.
Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
It won that long ago that the Washington Nationals offered
him a little bit over four hundred million dollars, and
one was like no, and people were like, you turned down.
Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Four hundred.
Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Half a billion dollars. I turned it down for three
quarters of a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
Exactly. I did, because.
Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
They were like, maybe you'll like, maybe you'll get five
hundred sure or six or seven or more than halfway
to eight. He was right, he was right, right, And
I don't you know, it doesn't matter that almost half
a billion dollars, Like, there's no way, right, Wan Soto
is he couldn't spend this much money in his lifetime
(01:35:52):
even if he tried. But it doesn't matter. That's that's
a hell of an additional asset. He basically just got
three three, one hundred and forty million more dollars by
saying no to.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
The Washington Nationals.
Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
What two years ago? Y?
Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Yeah, two and a half years ago, years ago, Yeah,
I mean it was prior to him leading, But I
mean him saying why he's that's why they traded him.
Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
That's why he was right.
Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
Why traded him to the Padres and then and then yeah,
and then over to the Yankees and uh and now
this is it? Last stop?
Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
Last stop? That's exciting, man.
Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Yeah. Oh, I'd like to say one other thing too,
Hey Baseball, look at you, you cute little thing actually
having winter meetings. See how fun this is? See how
fun it is when the lead dog of your free agency. Actually,
(01:36:58):
I don't know signs as opposed to taking us into
February and baking it two screwdrivers in each other's ears
while we sit here and not only wait for him,
but therefore have to wait for all the other players too,
because everyone's waiting for that person to set the market.
So I'd like to thank Juan Soto and Scott Boris
(01:37:20):
for that.
Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
Scot Boris, do it?
Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Just do it? How much sitting around thinking and ringing
and all, what do you like? Take a deal, find
out what you want, get the offer, and take it.
I love that and that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
So good for them.
Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
Yeah, I like, yeah, this is This is about as
active as as as it's been in December for baseball
in the winter meetings in quite some time. And now
I would.
Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Imagine there's going to be a lot more because the
lead dog set the market.
Speaker 4 (01:37:56):
Big dog man. I thought he was coming to Blue
did you really?
Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
Yeah, I'll try to tell you New York like, I
don't put anything past the Dodgers. Remember when, uh remember
when Shoheo Tani was like a he was a Blue Jay.
Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
I don't know who thought that.
Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
I mean, well, his plane apparently was in Toronto or
all right right, and and Arson Judge was going to
be a giant and uh, it's like, yeah, I never
I never put.
Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
It past the Yankees and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Never. You guys just resigned Adam Zohan.
Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
Oh A Domas not re signed. That's they took him
from the brook Yeah, Willie Domas. Yeah, No, Buster Posey's
going to come in and do some things. But whatever
they got, they got a long way to go. But
that was a good signing. It's a good signing. That'd
be interesting for a guy to come in and sign
someone right away to the biggest contract in the history
(01:39:03):
of the organization, breaking the contract they signed you too,
like seven or eight years ago. He broke his own record. Yeah,
that contract, So that's kind of fun. Anyway, Juan Soto
is a met fifteen years, seven hundred sixty five million dollars.
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this with this three game losing streak and the awful
defense and everything, like, how are you feeling about Laker
basketball right now?
Speaker 4 (01:39:57):
I'm disgusted. I'm disgusted by it.
Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
Do tell.
Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
The problem I'm having is the turnovers, and a lot
of them, the majority of them are stemming from Lebron James.
He's too cavalier with the ball. Before Lebron James would
turn the ball over, then chase you down and dribble
(01:40:28):
it off the backboard. Now Lebron James turns the ball
over and stops. So I'll put you at a disadvantage
on the other end when you have individually double digit turnovers,
and then you look at the stats and the team scores,
you know, twenty seven points off turnovers. Come on, man,
that's a recipe for disaster. As the LA Chargers drive
(01:40:52):
down the field and score their one point away from
dying this game, like we knew they would.
Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
Of course, either one point away from taking the.
Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Lead in this game.
Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, it's thirteen thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
Yeah again again, what annoying thing are the Chiefs about
to do to win this game. I only know one
man who I actually trust to tell.
Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Us, please bring this young man on.
Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Not done with your lebron take There's more on the
bone there. But not before Steve Desager, who was just
with us, now gets to be with us again.
Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
I say the game winning field goal for the Chiefs
will go off the back judge's head and over the cross.
Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Yes, I love it. I love it that the officials
actually head the ball into the in through the goal
posts and the Chiefs win.
Speaker 6 (01:41:46):
So we're not quite to the fourth quarter yet, but
stay tuned, fins. We got three and a half minutes
to go in the third. The Chargers are up fourteen
to thirteen at Kansas City. Chiefs enter within eleven to
one record. They can clinch yet another AFC West tonight.
This would be a ninth straight year winning the division.
The Charger offense in the first half tonight six drives
(01:42:06):
six first downs. In the second half two drives two touchdowns,
and they're head fourteen to thirteen. Wide receiver Lad McConkey
of LA, by far their best receiver this year, is
out with knee and shoulder injuries, and they're starting running
back JK Dobbins is out on injured reserve for a month.
Gus Edwards a three yard touchdown run and the opening
(01:42:28):
drive of the second half for la Edwards on the
ground tonight nine carries twenty six yards. He is their
leading rusher. They're ahead fourteen to thirteen at Kansas City.
Patrick Mahomes one touchdown pass case with two field goals. Yes,
we did have an agreement. In Major League Baseball, the
Winter meetings just started today in Dallas and it's announced
(01:42:51):
tonight the Mets were not outbid. They have agreed to
a fifteen year deal with outfielder Juan Soto worth seven
hundred and sixty five million dollar, no deferred money and
opt out after five years. Jan Soto has been in
the majors for about six six and a half years
to eighty five average, and he draws a walk seemingly
(01:43:12):
every time he's up there. It's actually seven hundred and
seventy walks or so drawn and about six hundred RBIs
in the six years or so in the majors. And
this is I've lost count his thirteenth team now and
he's twenty six years old. Fifteen year contract. Wow, By
the way, the Dodgers signed outfielder Michael Conforto from the
(01:43:34):
Giants one year, seventeen million dollars and into the Baseball
Hall of Fame tonight from the Classic Era Committee. They
considered eight guys contributors before nineteen eighty. Dave Parker is
into the Hall of Fame and Dick Allen as well,
each were seven time All Stars. Each were league MVPs.
Those two were chosen today. They'll go into the Hall
(01:43:54):
in July with the players that'll be voted in by
the writers. Those writers results will be announced in January.
SMU and Clemson each made the college football Playoff. Alabama
and Miami were not selected. You mentioned the LA Lakers.
Lebron James is not playing tonight. He is sitting out
with a sore foot. The Lakers do not play again
until Friday. After this evening, Lakers, in the final minute
(01:44:18):
before halftime are winning fifty nine forty five over Portland
Anthony Davis with eighteen points. Golden State at home leads
with ten minutes to go ninety seven to ninety one
against the Timberwolves twenty eight points for Steph Curry, Denver's
Nikola Jokich forty eight points in an easy win at
Atlanta one forty one one eleven. Miami upset Cleveland won
(01:44:39):
twenty two to one to thirteen. Cabs record was twenty
one and three. Philadelphia and Milwaukee got wins today. In
the late afternoon NFL games Seattle and San Francisco with victories.
The Rams beat Buffalo forty four to forty two. That
ends the seven game winning streak of the Bills. But
in defeat, Josh Allen had three touchdown passes and three
(01:45:01):
one yard TD runs, but winds up a two point loss.
The Rams got a touchdown in the first half on
a block punt return back to you.
Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
What a day, man, What a day? What a day.
And the Chiefs are losing in the second half yet again.
And I wanted to add this, Ephraim. I don't know
if this is going to make you make some more noises.
That one Soto deal. There's a signing bonus attached.
Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
To Oh my goodness, do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
How us do you think it is?
Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
What million?
Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
You're only a little bit high?
Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
So it's almost ten percent of the deal, seventy five
seventy five million dollars a day bonus today.
Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
Need those funds available today?
Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Yeah? Yeah. Bob Nightingale wrote it this way, seventy five
million dollars signing bonus, making the present day value of
the contract about three hundred million more than any player
in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
Can I ask you real quick, where's this all going.
Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
That I don't I don't just need a billion? It's
going right right? Yeah right?
Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
I mean your your NBA stars are already tickling the
area of sixty to sixty.
Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Five a year.
Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
Baseball, right, Baseball stars are now up to north of fifty.
I guess you could call show, hey, seventy it's deferred,
but whatever, it's seventy per year.
Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
So of course a.
Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Life of the deal billion dollar contract is coming. How
far off our way are we from someone making one
hundred million average annual value?
Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
Probably maybe three four years?
Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
That's it, man, Hey, guess what's about to happen? Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
Good lord?
Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
And over and over again. The quarterback market is being
reset on the daily, almost.
Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
On the regular, on the regular.
Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
It's at sixty plus right now.
Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Well, but but you know what, this might be a
this might be a year off coming out.
Speaker 5 (01:47:36):
Oh, don't worry, you can take a year off, Yeah,
but you can't take too.
Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
I don't think, and I and I did think this
not that long ago. I don't think if I had
to predict right now, I do not think Rock Party
is going to get sixty million.
Speaker 5 (01:47:51):
No, I don't think so either. But what I will
say is Rock Party wasn't first pick in the draft,
or the second or the third.
Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
Yes, it's going to shatter that.
Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
Which is wild because CJ.
Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Stroud this year does not even look like I mean,
I don't even know if he's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
Not what we saw last year. Doesn't look like what
we saw last year. But that's to be expected in
a player's second year. When teams have, you know, footage,
they've been hit with a bunch of injuries.
Speaker 4 (01:48:27):
We get it.
Speaker 5 (01:48:27):
They're still they're still gonna win the division, still gonna
be in the playoffs. So as long as that keeps happening,
uh huh. Right, And then you got Jaden Daniels coming.
Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
I was gonna say, three years from now, Jade and
Daniels extension, what does that look like?
Speaker 4 (01:48:44):
Seventy for real? That's where it's going.
Speaker 5 (01:48:49):
Hey man, The NFL is only making more money, these
deals of the NFL are signing these streaming deals.
Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, when.
Speaker 5 (01:48:59):
The when the there the global expansion is going to
happen when you find two teams outside the United States.
Just imagine the revenue share that's going to open up.
We're four years, five years away from one hundred million
dollars a year quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
When do you know what? I want to know?
Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
We don't think about them so much because they've already
signed extensions, but they're gonna come up again. When is
Josh Allen up? Okay, he's not up until twenty twenty eight,
so that's going to take a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
What about Patrick? He signed that crazy long one.
Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
But then restructured it and.
Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
They've restructured it.
Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
Yeah, I guess he's technically all locked up till twenty
thirty one.
Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
God what in the end, What a smart thing by
the Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
They were like, hey man, you want to have billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Okay, cool, yep, yep, what a smart thing.
Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
Manage trying to play with that, right.
Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
I know, I know restructure. I get NFL has some
funny money to it, but the original terms were ten year,
five hundred, four hundred and fifty million. Yeah, forty five
a year. Unbelievable bargain. Oh, beyond complete. Yeah, he's completed
(01:50:33):
four years of the deal, He's won the Super Bowl
and three of them, and the Chiefs still have him
locked up after this season. One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven more years. Uh, that's ridiculous, that's boom, that's just crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Tyereck dot com Studios.
Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
I do want to circle back to that that Lebron thing,
which we will do and put a ball on this thing.
Coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. All right live
ty rack dot com Studio. Sure, Week fourteen National Football
League and a close game down the stretch between the
Chargers and Chiefs. But give us a minute on this.
(01:51:22):
Like I asked you about the Lakers, and you sound
you sound feed up with Lebron.
Speaker 5 (01:51:31):
Look, it's the energy level, Okay, right, it's the energy level.
They played great in sports spurts, but Lebron James forty
years old. I'm not frustrated with Lebron. Right when you
look at them playing tonight without Lebron because he's resting
his foot, there's more energy. I don't expect Lebron James
(01:51:53):
to be the old Lebron James that's impossible. So what
has to happen is you have to, first of all,
just stop turning the ball over. Don't do that. Whatever
the pass is that you think you're about to make
(01:52:16):
three quarter links with six defenders in front of you,
even though itse five people in the court defending. I'm
counting the sidelines too, don't throw it. Just dribble it
in and let's throw it that way. The passes are
so lazy, too, oh o god, so bad. And he
(01:52:37):
doesn't have the explosive explosiveness that he had going to
the rim, so he's playing under the rim a lot,
and when he doesn't get the call, he stops to
complain and have a conversation while the other team has
the advantage going down. That's the problem I'm having because
what happens is that two point ly that they have
(01:53:00):
now is a five point leave because they came down
to hit a three because somebody was wide open, because
you were still looking at the ref tapping your full
arm like someone hit you. After you miss the layup right,
you throw the pass, it's intercepted. They're going down and
now you know you were up by one, now you're
down by two because the guy you should have been
(01:53:22):
guarding is now hit a open three because you are
standard at half court. It's things like that, and it's
not just a Lebron thing. We need more from our bench,
right We need the guys who are still hurt. Vanderbilt Woods,
get off the team, give the money back and get
(01:53:44):
off the team to open up a roster spot, or
get on the court and play. I mean, you're holding
up a roster spot. You're hurt. If you look at
the Lakers bench, it's all G League plays, and so
(01:54:06):
it's too early to be dealing with all of this.
How you start the season hurts what you been doing
all summer. Look literally, if you look over there at
that bench, you don't know who these players outside of
Bronnie James.
Speaker 4 (01:54:21):
You don't know who these other dudes are.
Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
I try and like hell not to make that comment
right now, because every Laker fan I knew didn't seem
to care about depth a couple of months ago. Who
said this is so cool to have Bronnie James.
Speaker 5 (01:54:37):
I'm not talking about Bronnie James. I'm talking about the
other four guys sit next to him.
Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
My point is is, maybe you could have used that
roster spot on an NBA player in camp.
Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
Look, man, we have NBA players on the using roster
spots who haven't played this year. That's my point. There
are three guys who are NBA players who haven't played
this year using roster spots. That's my problem.
Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
I hear you, all right, So then then how does
this grab you? The NBA on ESPN crew and Michael
Wilbon specifically was asked because there are reports everywhere, starting
with Shams, that the Golden State Warriors are big game
hunting and they they need another big name or big
(01:55:33):
presence or number two score to go with Steph. They're
trying to maximize the remainder of his career, and Wilbon
was asked, Okay, so who's the person and what exactly
what would you do? Quote we just saw them play together.
I'm sorry, this is an easy answer. It's Lebron James.
(01:55:56):
That phone call was made at the trade deadline last
year or went anywhere. Both teams are hard cap, second apron.
It does not leave a lot of flexibility. But one
thing I've learned through the years of watching this guy's career,
if Lebron wants something to happen, it happens, and Brian
Windhorst literally said as much, this deal can happen if
(01:56:18):
Lebron wants it to.
Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
Your thoughts? What come on, man?
Speaker 4 (01:56:30):
No, that means he would have to Steph would have
to come in to La.
Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
No.
Speaker 8 (01:56:36):
No, no, no, it doesn't no, because the idea, I guess, like,
let me ask it to you this way, based on
the way you just sounded like, are you are you.
Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
Harboring thoughts of the Lakers being contenders this year?
Speaker 4 (01:56:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
Okay, then if that's the case, I'd almost argue you'd
be crazy not to explore this.
Speaker 4 (01:57:00):
Yeah, but what do we get it? What do we
get assets?
Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
What a lot of young assets?
Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
What well I would imagine to train together?
Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
Come on, what we got.
Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
Well, you're gonna have to get up to what how
was he made fifty? You got to add up a
whole lot of stuff. So you're probably looking at a Kamingo,
You're looking at a Wiggins, You're looking at draft picks,
and then you're probably looking at filler filler contracts, Gary Payton,
(01:57:33):
d Anthony Melton, who's hurt and injured for the rest
of the year, things like that. That's what you're looking at.
Speaker 4 (01:57:39):
Yeah, that don't work. Sorry, why not? Why he's a
non starter.
Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
That's a bunch of young assets for someone that you
say is forty years old and isn't going to win
this year.
Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
We're good. Why because I need something tangible. None of
that's tangible.
Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Jonathan Kaminga is not tangible.
Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
No, he not.
Speaker 5 (01:57:58):
No, he's great in that system. It's great.
Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
We've been sitting here actually on our station for the
last six months talking about how he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
Fit the sis.
Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
He does.
Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
He fits it.
Speaker 5 (01:58:15):
Man. Interesting, I'm not We're not bolstering your team and
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (01:58:23):
State will never do that.
Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
There, It's not up to him.
Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Jennie Buss would never do that.
Speaker 3 (01:58:30):
It's not up to her.
Speaker 4 (01:58:32):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
It's not. It is, it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
And you know her and I know her. And if
Lebron tells her that it's gonna happen, it happens.
Speaker 5 (01:58:40):
Not gonna happen. Okay, Okay, We're gonna send him and
his son. That's so basically, we'll send him and his son. Right,
use the draft pick on his son. But he's not calling. Yeah,
but that's that's that's who we send out there. Him
and his son correct.
Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Whatever, No, doesn't have to come.
Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
No, he's gotta go. Why leave his son behind?
Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
What they already executed the dream? They just wanted to
play together. They did that. That's over now.
Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
No, it's not over.
Speaker 5 (01:59:09):
Is he's got and he's gotta go. You gotta go
off my line with that foolishness.
Speaker 3 (01:59:16):
We got more time.
Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Luckily, we got more time to talk about this for
weeks and weeks to come.
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me just say this first and foremost, to many
of you who spent today watching football. I know exactly
what you were doing today. You probably stopped rooting for
your real team for just one week so that you
can root for your fake team. I hope each and
every one of you got whatever you needed today to
(00:28):
make your fantasy football playoffs. And if that answer is
not here yet, because there's two more games to go,
good luck to you, my brothers and sisters, because that
is what this is really all about. Hi you from Salam.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm good man, I'm good. I'm good. I actually had
the laziest football Sunday I've had all year for multiple reasons.
I'm a fantasy nerd. Just like the rest four leagues.
I was eliminated in two, had already clinched in the
other two. So and then my real team was up
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twenty four to nothing at halftime. I actually spoke to
my relatives and loved ones today. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Nice?
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Speaker 3 (01:40):
Two years and three years, and four years, and.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Five years and six years and all of that and
twenty one twenty one years, my man, right, and sure
there are going to be moments and things about which
you're not on the same page.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's life, that's relationships.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
But if you've kind of always not been on the
same page, like seemingly the entire time, I would argue
that when the calendar starts turning two different months in
different years, I don't know, maybe there's a bigger problem
at hand.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So when I hear that the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Eagles passing game as talented as it is, Jalen Hurts
to aj Brown, to DeVante Smith, to a team that
outside of like the last month and a half of
last year, for the last three years, this has been a.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Phenomenal football team.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But they win a football game today over the Carolina Panthers.
Thank you Xavier Leguette for dropping that ball. If you're
a Philly fan or else, the Panthers would have had
him today. But outside of that, you still won your
game today. But they come away really frustrated. And I'm
at a point now where I like, I guess if
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for my needs your help, I need to know what's
going on with Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The art of the year with a lot of chatter.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And disrespect from the Philly fan base, win almost all
of your games and that stuff will quiet down. But
it still also seems like, I don't know, they don't
they still don't like what they have and maybe they
don't believe that it actually has They don't have what
they need to actually do something in January. What do
(03:26):
you see with that particular group in that quarterback?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I mean, is there is there some questions about Jalen Hurts,
if he's the are people questioning if he's the guy
the well?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I would say that at the beginning of the year, absolutely,
And if you want to go from the what's written
in the papers to what's said on TV and radio
to what fans are calling in to radio stations and
talking about, Yes, there was a lot of uneasiness surrounding
Jalen Hurts. Then they started winning almost all of their games,
(04:09):
and that kind of takes care of that. But you
go into a locker room today after a six point
win over the Panthers and the headline from Tim McManus,
who's covered Philly sports forever for ESPN. The headline is
Eagles not on the same page as passing attack struggles
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and his first word of the article is the word frustration.
That's after their what have they won nine games in
a row or something like that.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, So what I know to be true and what
I believe.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
As the Eagles sit here, I can almost promise you
that at twelve and two, they're not listening to that.
And number one, it's hard to be twelve and two
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in this league, and they consistently, you know, win double
digit games. Now, the thing that's different this year than
it was last year and the year before for the
Eagles is they now have the league's best Russian attack
(05:32):
in terms of they have Saquon Barkley and he is
featured heavily as he should be. If you have a
Saquon Barkley on your team, then you're passing quarterback should
take a step back because essentially it's not about him.
(05:55):
It's not about him and It's not about his numbers.
It's really about the best way to win a ball game. Now,
you're not going to be your best every week. You're
not going to come out and blow everyone out. The
NFL and pro sports have taught us that you're not
gonna come out and throw for four hundred yards and
so on and so forth weekend and week out. But
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what you know you can do is you can hand
the ball off twenty times to a guy and he
gets you one hundred and twenty four yards.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Like to me, I.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Feel Jalen Hurts passed the ball twenty one times. They
ran the ball thirty one times as a team, including
eight from him at seven point four yards to carry.
They they carried the ball almost seven yards to carry.
Why on earth would you want to disrupt that and
(06:51):
make Jalen Hurts the guy We need to pass the ball. No,
you need to win the games.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, did you see the mess from the locker room?
My friend?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like, this isn't This is not a reporter that just
went rogue. This is not somebody looking for clicks. Uh
Aj Brown and I quote when asked what does the
offense need to do better? Quote passing how hard hold on.
I asked, how hard is it for a receiver to
(07:23):
get into a rhythm when the offense doesn't throw the
ball that much? Quote incredibly tough. Uh. DeVante Smith asked,
how you're feeling about the offense.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, we need to be quote on the same page.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We need to start thinking the same seeing the right signals,
just going out there and making it work. Jalen Hurts
and I quote, the Panthers did a good job. We
did a bad job. That starts with me and how
I execute. Ultimately, you year learn and I yearn for
a better synchronization, for a more complimentary style of ball
(08:04):
in a sense from this isn't coming from anybody but them.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, because that's how the questions are poet pollsed right now.
If you're going to go to a receiver and ask
them what's going on, what's up with the offense, and
they haven't gotten the targets that they would normally. What
we do know about receivers is they're very one sided
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in terms of their view of everything. Fair enough, right,
you win a ballgame, you catch four passes, you you're
definitely going at twelve and two, eleven and two. Excuse me,
You win a ballgame in December and you catch four
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passes and your first thing was we need to pass
the ball more.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So to me?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
To me, right, that's the problem because how I would
have answered the question was, hey man, sometimes you gotta
win the way you gotta win. Today it was our
running game. But I have every faith that our passing
game will be there when we need it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
That's what I'm saying. That's how you answer that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Question, right, because if you.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Answer it like that, we don't have to spend the
first segment of this show trying to decipher all is
in trouble in Philadelphia, what's going on in that locker,
and what's going on with the passing game, what's going on?
Because you're not going to win like that every time.
(09:45):
There will be times where you catch eight for one
p twenty and two touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, but as of right.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Now, you have a guy on your team named, say
Kwan Barkley who's leading the league in rushing.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
A lot.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
That's every time he touches the ball at six yards,
it's six yards. So the focal point shouldn't be this
man has sixteen hundred yards already sixteen hundred yards, so
the focal point shouldn't be on Jalen Hurts and that
(10:22):
passing game.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, but you know what, like you're saying, spoken like
a true wide receiver, and I think it'd be fair
for me to say spoken like a true offensive lineman.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Well, yeah, but this I'm you know what off lineman
want to do? You know what I'm want to Limon
want to do. They want to win a game. Whether
you pass the ball forty times or you run the
ball forty times. Our singular focus, right, we don't care
because a job has to be done. That's why they're
(10:52):
the unsung heroes of every single championship team because we
don't care. It's not about passing scene and is not
about running. It's about how it works.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know that. I agree with you. However, I also
do understand the thought process that a young Carolina Panthers
receiver dropped a football on our home field.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's the only reason we won today.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Jalen Hurts hasn't thrown for over two hundred yards in
a month, and.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
They've won all the games. They've won all the games.
They won all the games.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But in January, we are probably going to need to
go to Detroit and do we think that we can
do this. There I'll answer for you no, I don't
I and you'll disagree, and you might be right.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Look, I'm not going to disagree. What I'll say is
Detroit is going to have a hell of a time
trying to stop say Kuon Barkley. Sure, they're going to.
So what it's going to make them. It's going to
force them to do some things that they wouldn't normally
want to do. They're not going to be able to
keep seven in the box and stop say Kuon Barkley.
So that means, oh, you have to bring a safety down.
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You have to bring a safety down.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And when you do that, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But that's what I'm saying. So, but.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
AJ Brown wants his numbers, he wants his stats, he
wants to touch.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
AJ Brown threw a helmet today.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Of course what receivers or receivers. Sure, that's just what happens.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, I mean, it's not like their opinion is completely
out the windows.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
No, no, no, no, Look, I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Everybody wants to feel like they're part of the reason
the team is winning. Everybody wants to be uh, you know,
called on. And let me show you what I can do.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
We get it.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
But the moment they signed Saquon Barkley, the whole entire
offense change. That's what New York couldn't figure out. New
York couldn't figure out, Oh, we have what we need
in the locker room. With Saquon Barkley one year removed,
he's leading the league. Mind you you are asking me
win will the receiver bubble burst? And what's going on
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with the running backs we keep? You can see the shift, right, sure,
you can see the shift. Absolutely every single running back
that a team devalued last year is having a phenomenal
year for another team. Yep, yep, for an entirely another team. Yep,
Barkley mix in. You're right, every single one of them,
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and they just happened to be on teams that are
vying for playoff spots our division titles.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So when you want to ask me about the Pin
Gillum swinging back, where all those high price receivers? Now right,
we're where how's Brandon Nyuk's teams doing? How is chases
team ceedee Lamb's team doing? This is the this is
how it swings back. Because what teams are finding out
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is if you can control the ball and take the
pressure off your young or old quarterback. You have a
better opportunity to win ball games and compete for a
division title.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And you must do that not with a group of
running backs, but with a stud.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
And all those guys you name are studs, and they
were on other teams last year.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
How are those teams doing right now?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's an interesting point. There's no two ways about that.
All right. We will continue this coming up next. We'll
also get you ready for a pretty fancy Sunday night
football game that's about to start later on this hour.
We answer the question, if you're Sam Donald, how are
you handling this offseason? If you're the Vikings, how are
you handling? Sam Donald? So all of that is ahead
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Week fourteen NFL Action, We are all over it. That's
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Speaker 2 (15:30):
Into stuff like this all week.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
As soon as that calendar hits December, I just put
that Christmas playlist on repeat. I don't know about you, no,
not singing. No, yeah, okay, what if it was Christmas
and Hollis, then would you be saying, of course, okay,
(15:58):
all right, Mary, but you know what, just just so
just I just listen, hold on.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So I'm Muslim, So I didn't grow up with Christmas,
all right? The reason fairy, right, the reason we celebrated
now we celebrate in my household, Chris Mahanna Kwantica, we
celebrate Christmas, Quita and Hanukkah because we want our kids
(16:30):
to understand and be accepting of all cultures and beliefs.
We're raising good people, good human beings. There is no
prejudice there. So in our household, we don't just celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate Chris Mahana Kwantica.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
How long did you have to work to figure out
how you were going to combine the three words? Not
very long, okay, because that could have gone I'm thinking
about a hundred different ways.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, it could have right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You could have just gone with like Quantamous. You could
have done this a lot more efficient. Quantamous could have
done that. You didn't do it trying to find out
how it works, Christ.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Like you, like Muhammad a hummada hummada or whatever you said.
You know, Christmas it I just wanted.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
We have our Kwanza set up. We have we have
our Monora set up. Yeah, and we learned every year,
we learned about all of the cultures. That's man, that's
how that when when you're when I love our kids
are adults and their parents and all of that. Their
view of the world will be a little bit more enlightened,
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uh than that of the previous generation and our generation.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
And that's the whole problem.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I love that. I love that. Do you do you
celebrate all this? Like are there gifts?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, yeah, gifts?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, yeah, we do the gifts. But what no, I
didn't again, but I mean, is there are are there
gifts on eight crazy nights?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
We combined the combination of them. Right, So we like
the Kwanza. We light our Minora, we light our Kwanta settings.
We have Kwanza decorations on the Christmas tree. It's it's
(18:34):
just something too and we love it. We love this
time of year because my wife grew up Christmas loud.
Now now what she will do she the Christmas playlist
is is own repeat for her. She did started, she
decorated the house on November first, this is the earliest.
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And then she got mad at the tree people because
they weren't there until after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I won't know how much money you have to have
to have tree people, I said, want to know who
the tree people is around my house?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
He just drive down three people, just drive down the street.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You want to know who the We want to know
who the light people are at my house.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I want to know who the present people are. Anyway,
I'm sorry you're telling the story. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
The tree people man, they sell the tree. It's the
whole the whole family. That's who we've been dealing with,
the whole family for years. Okay, uh, and it's a thing.
We get the boys, we go pick the tree. We
named the trees and then uh, you know the one
I picked and name came home with us this year.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So look are you won? Yeah? Well I did. I
didn't win anything, but no.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But you know, like your tree got, your.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Tree got they picked my tree. Okay, Okay, that name,
Uh it was Doug Doug.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
This do dug the tree and look and to be transparent.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
This was that enlightened me because when my wife and
I first got together, me being Muslim, and she was like, hey,
I want a Christmas tree. Ain't a getting no damn
Christmas tree, right, I'm all militant. And then the reality
of it is like, what get out of here, man,
It's not about that. My wife wanted to celebrate and
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feel the Christmas spirit because in her household, it just
reminds her of the family, the family getting to things
of that sort. And so I'm enlightened and I've evolved,
and I enjoy it. I enjoy spending time with my
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family doing things that make them happy.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That's the difference, well said. And as long as you're
teaching the lesson of making it about family, man, Like
that's and I get it is at a certain age,
you're not like if you're eight years old, you're not
going to be like so really looking to spend a
time with my uncle, Like no, you want the puppies
jumping out of Christmas boxes and wrapping paper all over
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the place. And I get it. I understand that, but
I mean it sounds to me and I already knew
this about you. You're putting in the work to teach
all the lessons.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, I'm trying, man.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
You know, there was some shortcoming in some lessons I
didn't get as in my rearing. Oh, I'm trying to
eradicate a lot of that and focus on them being happy,
them being fulfilled, in them being well rounded, similar to
like their uncle. And when I mean their uncle, I
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mean the guy that I know that I can call
on at any moment, a guy with a silky, sultry
voice that we all get enthralled with. And that is
one Stephen, uncle disaver.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I wish I had come up with Doug the tree
I must know.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And Steven, I'm bummed that Ephraim took the ball over
the goal line there. It's fine, but I was going
to be like, you want to know what I named my.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Tree, Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That was gonna be my lead in and.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Now it's ruined.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I'm devastated, Uncle Steve.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Clearly it is Douglas.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Douglass.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
See we go any further here, We've got an early
Kansas City Chiefs lane. In the Sunday night game at home,
they're hosting the Chargers. About five minutes in, it's three nothing.
Chiefs had a good drive, going eleven play drive. They
kicked a forty seven yard field goal as Patrick Mahomes
had been sacked on the third and ten by Khalil Mack.
Chargers without young wide receiver Lad McConkie, who has almost
(22:43):
sixty receptions this year. He is by far their number
one receiver over eight hundred yards receiving, which is more
than double anybody else on the Chargers that Justin Herbert
has to throw to. So there's that three nothing Kansas
City after the first drive, the Chiefs can clint the
AFC West title for a ninth straight year. The Rams
(23:04):
ended Buffalo's seven game winning streak forty four to forty two.
Rams had led thirty one fourteen in the third quarter
by the way Josh Allen in this loss three touchdown
passes and three one yard touchdown runs, three hundred forty
two yards passing and ten carries eighty two yards, and
they lost Seattle one at Arizona thirty to eighteen. San
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Francisco handed Chicago a seventh straight loss thirty eight thirteen.
San Francisco led at the half twenty four to nothing.
Brock Party two touchdown passes to Juwan Jennings for the game,
perty was twenty of twenty five three hundred twenty five yards.
Pittsburgh beat Cleveland twenty seven to fourteen. Philadelphia won its
ninth straight twenty two sixteen over Carolina. Jalen Hurts two
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short touchdown passes and a one yard TD run. Miami
in overtime beat the Jets thirty two to twenty six.
The Dolphins tied it with a fifty two yard field
goal late in regulation one on a TD pass on
the only drive of the ot. New Orleans was a
winner at the Giants fourteen eleven, blocking a field goal
attempt in the final seconds of thirty five yarder. Giants
(24:10):
have lost eight in a row. For New Orleans, Well
Saints quarterback Derek Carr suffered a possible broken left hand
and concussion. Jacksonville ended a five game losing streak with
a ten to six win at Tennessee. Tampa Bay sent
Las Vegas to a ninth straight loss twenty eight to thirteen.
Minnesota won at sixth straight, pulling away forty two to
twenty one over Atlanta. Sam Darnold five touchdown passes. In
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men's college basketball, number one Kansas had already lost Wednesday
this week at Creighton. Kansas lost at Missouri today seventy
six sixty seven. UCLA has won on a three pointer
at the Buzzer Tonight at number twelve Oregon seventy three
seventy one.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
In the NBA.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Last night, Nikola Jokic scored fifty six points for Denver
Good and they lost at Washington, a team that had
dropped sixteen.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Games in a row.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Tonight, jokicch forty eight points at Atlanta, and it's an
easy win for Denver one forty one, one eleven. That
ends the Hawks six game winning streak. And we must
talk college football. To close, SMU and Clemson made the
College Football Playoff. It is a twelve team playoff field
now Alabama not selected, neither was Miami. Alabama lost to
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two five hundred teams this year, lost to Vanderbilt, lost
to Oklahoma. SMU will open its postseason at Penn State. Yes,
there are first round home games campus sites. Clemson will
open at Texas on Saturday, the twenty first. Texas by
the way. Eleven and two both losses to Georgia, including yesterday.
Number one Oregon is off until it's Rose Bowl quarterfinal.
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Number two Georgia is off until it's Sugar Bowl quarterfinal.
New Year's Night.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Back to you, okay, I tell you what, this might
be an even bigger version of what we talk about
in the NFL when teams have the buy and there's
the whole rest versus rust thing. It's gonna be pretty
interesting for these top four man because they're getting put
on the shelf for a while. They again put on
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the shelf for a while before they're gonna go play
these games. So that's gonna be real interesting. But I'm
thankful for this, man. I like, it's still not perfect,
and I have taken many a shot at college football
through the years, not because of the colors and the
band and the players and the all of the fun stuff,
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but what I've hated is that at the end of
the year we would get to December and people in
suits would sit there, look at each other and decide
who got to play for a title. And I just
think that that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen in
any sport anywhere ever. And so we're moving further away
from that with this new current format, and for that
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I'm thankful.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, it's it's look, I didn't think it should have be.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
It should have been expanded to twelve teams because of
the long layoffs and a lot more football to be played,
but I will say I was thoroughly and and I
was enjoying the season, not.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Just watching uh teams, good teams, you.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Know, rebound from tough losses or early losses and coming back.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Uh you know you look at you know, notre Dame.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Right, they lose to what was it, I uh, Northern Illinois,
Northern Illinois, I.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Think, or something like that.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
And and if this was a normal four team that
there's no there, They're done.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, no, right, there's no shot. Yes it was Northern Illinois.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yeah, Northern Illinois, right, like, so it'd be no shot.
But they buckled down and went on and continue to
win in one out. And so I myself, I am
excited about this twelve team playoff. I don't necessarily like
the layoff, the long layoffs like that, but every new
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thing takes time to get.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Used to it.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
It was exciting coming down the stretch watching all of
the conference championships yesterday, all of the rivalry week games
last week, everything meaning something. So I was excited about it. Man,
I think this is going to be I think this
is going to be a good year for college football.
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And look, Boise States in there. They gotta buy they're
dangerous because they can run the ball on any one.
And so I think it just adds new blood, new
teams to the equation.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, and I think that the other thing that's going
to be really great that we've never seen in college
football before in history, which is playoff games with implications
on the national title that are being played at home.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Oh, that's going to be That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's fantastic because one of the one of the evil
secrets of college football, especially with the Whatever's happening on
December eighteenth, is it's a bowl game where somebody who's
in Virginia ends up in San Diego, Hawaii, and there's
twelve people there because they're like, we don't even know,
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we don't even know who this is.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
You know, people are who's coming to the Holiday Ball
this year? Oh, I mean, you give no clue what
the hell's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
And now that they've stripped away the traditional conference stuff
for years, it's like who ended up in the Rose Bowl?
We don't People locally have no clue what's going on.
So the fact that now you mentioned Notre Dame, like
where does Indiana go? They go to South Bend yeah,
let's that to me, that's special.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I love that. You know what, Look, i'm a I'm
a fan of Indiana this year.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
That's gonna say that.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Boy, that coach, I love that coach.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Now, that's he got a little Dan Campbell in them, right,
like he had a little Dan. He was like, man,
google us, you know, he said, google me. What makes
you think you're gonna win at this level?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Will google me?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Walked off? I said, oh lord, I like that.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, haven't been I've been a ranked team all year.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
That's all right, that's all right. They played hard, they
played good football. Man, they lost one game, they played
good football. And so like you know, when you get
to the playoffs, man, it's one and done. Anything happened, anything, anything, anything, anything,
but I.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
But I love. I love that teams have earned, you know.
I I love that they've earned that their home fans
get to watch this and to deal with that, you know,
and and that these games are going to be absolutely
sold out and freaking out and all of that good stuff.
Like that's I so, you know, kudos for the bumpiest
road ever to get to where we are today. And
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I'm still not saying it's perfect, but it's a hell
of a lot better if you ask.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Me, it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
What wasn't exciting was whole hum same four teams or
a team being left out, an undefeated team being left
out like that wasn't exciting to me.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
No, and you also you the games that mattered. When
you got to today December eighth ish or December seventh,
You're like, all right, it's all set, we'll see you
in a month.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Like what yeah, exactly right?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
A mom like, holy crap.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Right, And I watched the Cheeto's bowls watched it right,
twisty cap bowl, I watched it, Perrell hand sanitizes a bowl.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So we got in twelve days, Indiana and Notre Dame,
twelve days, just like the Christmas al Let's get it.
Let's go so that that makes me feel better. We're
live INTHETI IRAQ dot Com Studios and coming up next,
you mentioned Dan Campbell. Let's dive into him for a second.
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I want to ask you if there is a more
popular coach anywhere, anywhere, in maybe even in any sport
right now.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Than Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
But we also need to talk about the way he
goes about his business. That is all coming up next
with me from Salam Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio.
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don't think I did. But anyway, Tyre Comm Studios keep trying,
Mark Willard, I will I'll keep trying. That's all I
can do in life. What do you think of the
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latest Dan Campbell fourth down escapades that we saw on
Thursday night?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Hey man, what I do know is he hasn't learned,
and that's dangerous. I don't trust him. Yeah, I don't
trust him.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I wonder that was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Well, I wondered right away.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I'm like, you know, I guess the question that that
keeps ringing in my head on this stuff. And I
don't want to assume that everybody knows what happened, but Dan, Dan,
just when it's fourth down, Dan goes for it. And
and the latest kind of high profile one was this
the Lions and Packers are tied, the clock is running down.
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I don't remember exactly how many seconds, but I felt
like it was in the neighborhood of forty three. Forty
three seconds to go. You're in very makeable field goal range,
and it's fourth and one, and every human who's ever
walked the face of the planet and coach the football
game would kick the three, go up by three and
leave the Packers thirty eight seconds and no timeouts to
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deal with whatever comes. The way Dan thinks is why
do I need to give them those thirty eight seconds?
We're going for it.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
He gets it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
He takes the clock down to two seconds, kicks the
field goal.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
There it's a walk off.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And the question that I think sits there for people
is is it a fair defense to say aphrom it worked?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Because when it matters and it doesn't work, you'd get
what you got last year. So you get an opportunity
to go to the super Bowl for the first time
in ever, in ever, and you don't make the right choice.
So when you do it in the regular season when
it really doesn't matter, you set a precedent for bad behavior.
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Because when it works, you have the press conference you
have after the NFC Championship by saying this is how
we got here and in all reality, if he takes
those six points in that game against the San Francisco
forty nine ers, he goes to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Here, he goes to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
And so to reinforce bad behavior, you have a child
or a toddler at home and they just nope, I'm
just gonna do it my way. Right, I'm do it
my way. Don't need to cook it. Let me eat
the cookie. Don't need to cook let me eat the cookie.
Don't need to cooking, Let me eat the cookie. So
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what's to stop the behavior? And the part that really
upset me now, I'm not even talking about that one,
The one that really I was alarmed by was the
one on the thirty yard line in their own territory
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and he goes for it and immediately gives seven points
to Green Bay immediately, Like that is crazy to me.
That'll get you beat. You go for it on the
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thirty yard line in your own territory, and I mean,
you don't get it two plays, three plays later, touchdown
in a tight football game.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
How make it make sense? Makes sense?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Let me read this to you, and I know, I
think I know what you're gonna say. I'm not saying
this is right, But I thought that this is the
best anyone has done that I've seen in at least
trying to explain where it comes from. And Dan has
explained it. But you know, it's our it's our world
to sort of like, okss analyze Lindsey Rhodes, who has
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done a lot of things covering the NFL for years,
currently with NFL Network or not currently if he used
to be NFL Network DirecTV now Sports Illustrated. This is
what she wrote in the wake of Thursday Night's win.
She wrote, understand this about Dan Campbell on fourth down.
His approach on those downs is emblematic of the reason
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they are where they are. He has trained his team
to consistently take the fight to the opponent. It is
part of their identity. It's how they've outscored their opponents
by one hundred and eighty one points this year. We
don't get to enjoy the spoils and then question the
process buy or sell.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
So why so I'm not buying that? Why because we
saw what the outcome is.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah, it's not like I'm making something up. It's not
like I'm like, you know, possibly, No, we have tangible proof.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Although okay, Devil's advocate. That was one game. I know
it was their biggest game one guess what.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
So before you even start yeah, when you say that
was one game and you're talking about the playoffs, you
don't even need to say anything else.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Not only that was it one game, it was the
NFC Championship game at home, which you completely had control of.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I tend to agree with you, here's my thought on it.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I don't like anything that has blanket rules and doesn't
allow for context period. I don't care if it's fourth
down or the way you parent your children. I just
don't think there's one answer that's the same every single time.
And it seems with the Lions it's the same answer
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every single time. It's going to fourth down, We're going
for it.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Don't get you beat more time?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Right, Even if it's not like My thought on that
one was, Dan, what'd you get? What did you get
out of going forth on fourth down? Sure, you never
gave the Packers the ball in a situation where they
were very likely not going to be able to do
anything anyway, very good, So the risk reward to me
was out of whack there, complete but it worked. Jared
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goff fell down, but it worked.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Today today, not today but Thursday.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, exactly, all right, nowhere near done yet. We're cooking
on a Sunday night. Let's talk about Sam Darmo than
his five TD throws coming up. Just getting started in
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his future with the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
There's more to say on the Dan Campbell conversation because
it trickles to the rest of the NFC North, which
is all amazing. And that brings us to Sam Darnald
e from what do you do here? And when I
say what you do, we can sub in two different
people for you. One of them is the collective of
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the Minnesota Vikings and the other one is Sam Darnald.
And I know what the stock answer is going to be,
which is, let's wait and see how this whole thing
plays out. Do they win in January? Do they not?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
That's going to have a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
But the Minnesota Vikings are eleven and two. Sam Darnald
today had five more touchdown passes.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
And was very very good with the ball as well.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
So Donald is now up to I think twenty eight
touchdown passes against ten picks. He is leading a team
that is eleven and two. They are a contender. Meantime,
Daniel Jones is hanging out on the practice squad and
JJ McCarthy is over there making first round money and
getting healthier every day. So start with the Vikings. What
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do you do next year? Especially if January goes well?
Speaker 5 (41:52):
What you have your quarterback of the future in Jj,
but there's no rush to put him in. You know what,
did Sam Donald sign up? One year deal?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
One year deal? Right?
Speaker 5 (42:05):
So if i'm Sam, are you asking me what the
Minnesota Vikings are going to do? Or what is Sam
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I'm gonna ask you both.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
But I'm starting with the Vikings, okay, because right now
Sam Donald signed a one year, ten million dollar contract,
and with the look of the draft, I know there
should door and whatnot, But like if you've got one
of those sort of ready made situations where you want
to just inject a quarterback and see if you can play.
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Sam's your guy next year, and that's going to command
a price, a real price.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
I think Sam Donald at the low end, has made
himself a bunch of money in the league. He's shown
that he can be a starter at a high level
in this league. And so, you know, I am interested
to see how this thing plays out, because if they
do make a deep playoff run, if they're somehow end
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up getting home court advantage in the in the playoffs, like,
there's so much still up in the air for the Vikings.
But I'm I'm a fan. I'm a fan of what
Sam is doing right now. I love the fact that
he's put this team in a position to, you know,
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not only make the playoffs and win the division, but
also you know, solidify them as one of the top
teams in the entire league. I gotta think twenty eight touchdowns,
ten interceptions, yep, you know, yep, before it's all said
and done, he'll be over four thousand yards passing. I mean,
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I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Think about the teams that might want to play with this.
I mean, it's probably politically never gonna come back together.
The first team that would probably want him next year
would be the Jets. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
No, never go back.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
That's that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
But the New York Giants are are probably gonna want him.
For example, the Cleveland Browns might be interested. The Indianapolis Colts.
I could see them making a play. The Las Vegas Raiders.
You bet where else?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Could we go? Look at anything that.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I mean for me?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
For Mew Orleans.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Probably maybe I'd be very cautious if I was Sam,
how so.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
I wouldn't just go for the money. I go for
the roster.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
I like that. Sure, I agree with you, because.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
The next step is his most important step of his career.
You don't want to just go, say to the Raiders,
because they pay you a bunch of money and their
cupboard is bare. You don't want to be put in
a situation where a team needs you to carry them.
That's never been who he is. It's never been who
he is.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
No, if I'm Sam, I want to stay in Minnesota.
But I don't know if they want me.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
I don't think they look. I don't know at what price.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Right I feel like Sam is looking at a two year,
sixty million dollar offer.
Speaker 4 (45:20):
If I was Sam, I would be like, you got
to give me.
Speaker 5 (45:22):
Three okay, fine, at the same number, okay.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
And I don't know that Minnesota wants to do that.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
Yeah, so that would be the you know, three year, uh,
you know, ninety million dollars.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, So give me the roster. That's not Minnesota that
makes you think about leaving?
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Is it Indianapolis?
Speaker 5 (45:48):
I like Andy, I do like and they got some
young receivers they have, of course their running game.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Is it Tennessee?
Speaker 5 (46:01):
I don't think Tennessee is gonna come off of well Levitt.
Oh not this year, not this year?
Speaker 2 (46:09):
All right, So they're not interested in being serious yet
that's fine.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Right right?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
So is it Cleveland?
Speaker 3 (46:15):
Can they even fit that?
Speaker 5 (46:18):
I don't think they can. They can't afford that, right,
They can't fit that. There's not a lot here?
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Does does does Carolina go back to Bryce Young?
Speaker 4 (46:33):
I mean, when you look at the way he's playing.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
He's playing interesting football, man.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
He's when you look at the way he's competing, I
should say, which makes a difference. Looking at the way
he's competing, he's earned He's earned a shot.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
And Sam was there not that long ago, right.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
He was just there.
Speaker 5 (46:57):
Yeah, so he I don't think he's going back, Okay, right,
I don't think he's going back anywhere. So when you
when you look at you know, New York has neighbors
I'd like I mean, I like Brian day Ball. I
think that may be a good fit if he survives.
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Okay for Sam Donald, Yeah, that's our giant.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, they're going to have a very early draft pick. Yeah,
possibly the number one.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Get you a nice offensive well offensive tackle.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
You wouldn't take shador if you're in New York.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Yeah, if they lend it, you do, you have to, right,
you have to. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
And they're they're they're two and eleven right now, which
is tied with the Raiders for the worst record. I
don't know how the tiebreaker works. I think that just
kind of goes coin flip ish or I don't even know.
But obviously there's a long way to go, but they're
tied right now for the worst record in football. So
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they're they're they're they're going to have an opportunity to
get a quarterback early. I don't know if it's somebody
they want to play right away. I think those teams
that were throwing out those are those are the teams? Yeah,
I mean it's not those are those are the options
for saying it is not.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
It's not a real big market for retraite quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
So you know, because everybody else has a star wars
are young guys or rookies, are second year guys that
they're trying to figure out if they can be a
part of that. Right, and there is Carolina off the table?
Go ahead, Can I give you one more?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Of course, there is a potential out after this season
for a guy who senselessly got himself hurt today. I
don't know if you saw this play, but what if
the New Orleans Saints decided to move on from Derek Carr?
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Oh, that'd be That's that would be the spot.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
That's is that the spot?
Speaker 4 (49:05):
That's the spot?
Speaker 5 (49:07):
Okay, there's those young those young receivers and and Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 4 (49:12):
That asks where you want to be.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
It's good. This is a solid defense too, That's what.
Speaker 4 (49:16):
You want to be.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
It started out that way.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
I know that it wasn't a great defense throughout the year,
but I think that some of it's circumstantial.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
They have some players.
Speaker 5 (49:23):
There Yeah, that's what you want. Okay, that's what you want.
That's that one that I'm circling. That's the perfect fit.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
I don't know if if New Orleans wants to move
on from Derek Carr. I don't. I don't know how
terribly different Sam and Derek Carr, Right, I think they're
pretty that's pretty much. They live in the same area code.
I would say, I agree with that. You know, like
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Derek had a year where he's kind of doing Sam things,
where he was going to potentially win the MVP that
he got hurt. He can take you to the playoffs.
I don't think he can win them, but if you
surround him with talent and and a great defense and
good weather and a dome and all of those things.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Yeah, he played football.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
I think I think they're you know, i'd give Sam
a slight edge on Derek, but not not a ton.
But that that's an interesting one that I that to
me feels plausible.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yeah, I agree, that's a good spot.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
That'd be the best spot for him in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, and and an incredibly winnable division, as we know,
incredibly winnable division every year.
Speaker 5 (50:49):
Yeah, it's only gonna cost you about ninety.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Well, that's I mean, that's not very much if your
shop quarterback. Not very much if you're shopping for quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
Yeah, it's a nice bargain.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
Speaking of shopping for quarterbacks, can we talk both about
their quarterback and their head coach? That would be the
San Francisco forty nine ers. We'll do that coming up
here in just a second. That's it from Salam. I'm
Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio. Come on, let me
hear man. Huh a little reindeer? Yeah, come on, you
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know this one.
Speaker 5 (51:39):
Come on, man, hey man, live stop talking. Ok, you
got it.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Scott Shapiro texted me that at the other day. Hey Man,
can you stop talking. It's tough in radio, brother, it's
tough tyreck dot Com Studios. That's the from Salama, Mark Willard.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Go ahead, pick it.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
I want to hear your prediction. What annoying thing will
the Chiefs do to win a football game tonight?
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (52:12):
I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
Oh my gosh, come on, I.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Can smell it. It's six nothing Chiefs. We got a
rock fight. We expected a rock fight. I thought the
under in this game was one of the best bets
of the week. Doesn't mean I'm gonna be right. We'll
see how this thing plays out, but we're gonna go back.
We're gonna go forth. You're not gonna have fun if
you're waiting for fantasy football numbers to show up. Somebody
will score a touchdown and then something stupid will happen.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
In the end and the Chiefs will win.
Speaker 4 (52:44):
That is a fact.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (52:46):
Oh, and they won't cover, so there, nope.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Nope, And that's a small number. I think the number
it was number three something like that tonight.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
I think it was three.
Speaker 3 (52:59):
And a half.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Yeah, I think maybe mhm, four, I think four.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
It got up to four. Oh, they definitely won't cover.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
There's four it'll cover.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, but guess what the Chargers are doing right now
as we speaking, punting?
Speaker 4 (53:19):
Yeah again, But anyway, you didn't answer my question.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
What annoying thing are the Chiefs going to do to
win a football game tonight?
Speaker 5 (53:27):
It'll it won't even be them, it'll be you know,
you're stopping them in the fourth quarters. A minute left,
it's third and third and seven and you you know,
get a penalty and extend to drive.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
That's you know, it's it's like that. Man.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
Although these are two well coached teams. They are, so
this is ah, this is gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
No turnovers yet in the game. I sort of feel
like that's what we're waiting for. But yeah, the Chargers
have not been able to run the ball yet. These
two defenses, one could argue, are the best two in
the football and so I'm not surprised we're looking at
a six to nothing game with just over six minutes
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to go until halftime. I do know that the Chargers
would use the end zone at some point in the
second half. I do know that they will be within
one score, if not leading, with five minutes to go
in this game. And I do know somebody gonna mess
up something and the Chiefs are gonna win. Those are
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the things I know in life, not much else. Hey,
Ian Rappaport said something this morning. It's a report from
It's a report the San Francisco forty nine Ers are
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still planning to extend brock Purty.
Speaker 4 (55:09):
Why wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Exactly, I thought to myself, you know what this last
two weeks has been, and I am front and center
in San Francisco, and I fully fully understand how frustrated
everybody is and all the things that have gone wrong
and the certain pieces of that where blame can be laid. Like,
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I get all of it. I understand it. However, the
forty nine or franchise this year, in twenty twenty four,
has become the home of stories being reported that never
had to be. Like everything that you're hearing about the
forty nine ers, the debatable topics, the buzz, none of
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it is actually happening. That's how That's what I do know.
I know that everyone's like, would you pay Brock? The
Niners aren't asking if they'd pay Brock. Would would you
give up Kyle Shanahan for seventy eight draft picks? The
Niners aren't having that conversation. Do you think that Kyle
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Shanahan would like to leave? Kyle Shanahan's not thinking about that.
There's all of these thoughts that and by the way,
for those of you who didn't hear this, the whole
idea of Kyle Shanahan being traded to the Bears that
started with Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. And what
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was really great is that Mike, after he reported it
on Pro Football Talk, he came on the morning show
on the station for which I work uh ninety five
the game in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (56:52):
And they asked him, Hey, Mike, where did that come from?
Speaker 4 (56:55):
You want to know what? He says.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
This is a real conversation. He goes, what were in
there doing the podcast and we're talking about candidates for
the Bears opening, and then he goes and all of
a sudden, it just dawned on me that we weren't
thinking about the entire bevy of candidates known as people
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who currently have jobs. So I just started, you know,
wondering if maybe that might be something. Ladies and gentlemen,
I give you what's called a report in twenty twenty four.
A human being scratches his head, and we've got a
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week of content. The fact that Kyle needed to address
this after the game today saying that there's absolutely nowhere
else he wants to be. Then there's absolutely no one
else the forty nine ers want coaching the team. I'm
not saying they're going to give Brock sixty million, but
there's absolutely nothing that's happened with that football team that
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would suggest the Niners feel like there is a better
option somewhere else. Right now, Currently there is quarterback or
a quarterback or at head coach. But here we are,
so here we are just it's just a whole lot
of manufactured drama. Man.
Speaker 5 (58:25):
Well, sometimes people have to, you know, make things up,
are living hyperbole are or what ifs?
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Well, like, I don't even mind if people want to
think out loud and have ideas and imagine, like I'm not.
That's fine though, I mean, yeah, well but but but
and that's fine too. But like like, I don't mind
if Floria wants to throw something against the wall. But
it's it's very very funny to me the way that
it gets picked up, regurgitated, circulated. And then also the
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other side to it is it's just it's just a
window into how disappointing this season has been for them. Therefore,
a lot of people surrounding that team or those who
follow that team are willing to act from an emotional place,
which is the only place where ideas like let's trade
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Kyle Shanahan for a couple of first round picks would
come from.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
No, let me ask you this, did today's win do
anything for you?
Speaker 4 (59:40):
I thought it was great. I thought it was great.
Speaker 5 (59:43):
I thought they came out what a sense of urgency,
you know, be nice for them to come out like
that against a.
Speaker 4 (59:55):
Good team.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
Perhaps maybe they play the Rams in four days, that's
gonna be a good I mean, but they look defensively.
They held the Chicago Bears to four yards in the
first half. They did all right, So can you build
on that? Brock Party missed five passes through for three
twenty five. Look with these numbers, who could even argue
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if they're going to sign the man?
Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Like that's crazy? Talk to me.
Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
This quarterback rating today was one hundred and forty five.
And by the way, the Bears passing defense one of
the best in football's top five.
Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Like this notion of the grass is greener? Like, where
where's that grass greener? Kansas City, Baltimore, Uffalo, Buffalo? Sure,
all right, Bengals, Yeah probably.
Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
But I'm not stepping in anybody else's yard. I'm not
I'm not stepping in anybody else's yard.
Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Is that the list of quarterbacks that you would would
trade brock Party for?
Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Yeah? Pretty list? Yeah? Justin Herbert?
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
You would you traded for Justin Herbert?
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Yeah? I like I like Justin Herbert a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
Just Droud, Yeah maybe I got how about Jordan Love?
Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
How about Jordan Love.
Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Right, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
He's a good player.
Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
He's a really good player. But so it was Brock Party.
All of those guys were drafted a day three days
before him. Yeah, everything of every single one of the
guys we just named were drafted three whole days before
he was.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
You left one name off the list, and I can't
believe you missed this one. I know I would trade
Rock Party for this guy.
Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Oh uh huh.
Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Steve de Sager.
Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Let's go Steve Longo to Sager.
Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
By the way, as you talk about the Niners, it
was such a blowout against Chicago today. San Francisco had
nine different plays go for at least twenty yards, nine
of them in one game.
Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
It was unbelievable. There was just space everywhere in this game.
I don't know where the Bears were looked like they
were playing with nine dudes.
Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
I'm not sure the Bears were there in the first half.
Quite honestly, the exact numbers. In the first half, San
Francisco out gained them three hundred and nineteen yards to four.
Bears had one first down in the first half, So
the final was thirty eight thirteen. Chicago's lost seven straight
in the last three games combined. For San Francisco, they
had thirty seven points. They scored thirty eight in this
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game today, and they sat Caleb Williams seven times, one fumble.
He has been sacked this year fifty six times already,
which is the most for any Bears quarterback in a
season since the merger over fifty years ago. So San
Francisco is hosting the Rams this Thursday night. If the
Niners win that home game, they'll be seven and seven
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with three games left in the season. Somebody will win
that division. Seattle did win again today thirty to eighteen
at Arizona, Zach Sharboney one hundred and thirty four yards
rushing in two scores as Kenneth Walker was out with
ankle and calf injuries. The Rams led Buffalo thirty one
fourteen in the third quarter forty four to forty two.
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Rams the final that ends Buffalo's seven game winning streak.
And at Kansas City tonight, the Chiefs have a chance
to clinch the AFC West title for the ninth straight year.
Justin Herbert is down and being attended to. He's had
earlier in the evening an ankle injury. Taylor Heineke is
warming up in case he comes in for LA. It's
currently six nothing Chiefs over the Chargers with under five
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minutes to go in the second quarter. Two field goals
for Kansas City Patrick Mahomes one hundred and one yards passing.
Herbert was seventy three yards passing. Chargers are on their
fifth drive. They have four first downs in this game.
Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
JK.
Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
Dobbins, they're starting running back, is on injured reserve for
a month, and their best, clearly best wide receiver, rookie
Lad mccaukee is out tonight with knee and shoulder injuries.
So good luck to the Chargers if they don't have
Justin Herbert the rest of the night. And what you
mentioned is just stay close and win a low scoring game.
That's pretty much the only way they can win I
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think tonight. And that's how they almost won when they
faced the Chiefs in LA in September. It was ten
ten in the fourth quarter. Of course, the teams with
Mahomes won the game. In fact, the Chiefs in games
decided by one scorer or less have won fourteen straight,
longest streak in league history. The Chargers do allow only
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sixteen points again this year. That's best in the NFL.
They lost seventeen to ten to Kansas City in September.
As for the earlier games, we did have another Philadelphia win.
That's nine straight victories. Philly over Carolina twenty two to sixteen.
But you may have heard the stories about somebody betting
three million dollars on Philly.
Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
To win this week.
Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Philadelphia started the fourth quarter trailing a Carolina Panthers team
that was last in the NFC in total offense, had
the league's worst rushing defense, was allowing over thirty points
a game. The Eagles do have the league's top rank defense.
The Eagles have Saquon Barkley, the NFL's rushing leader, a
guy who averages one hundred and twenty five yards rushing
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a game. He had won twenty four on the ground
in this one, twenty two to sixteen. The Eagles eke
out of victory Miami in overtime beat the Jets. Minnesota
won at six straight Sam Darnold five touchdown passes, beating
Atlanta forty two to twenty one. That was Kirk Cousins
back in Minnesota. By the way, he had three hundred
and forty four yards passing two interseven sinz. The new
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had football coach at Purdue is Barry Odom from UNLV.
He had also coached at Missouri. SMU made the College
football Playoff, Alabama did not. College hoops Missouri beat number
one Kansas seventy six sixty seven. Denver Nuggets won it.
Atlanta and NBA play one forty one one eleven. Nikola
Jokic with forty eight points after his fifty six in
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a defeat last night. And we've got the Pelicans up
two in the final minute at San Antonio. The New
Orleans Pelicans five and nineteen this year, and they've just
blown the lead in the final seconds. Spurs went at
one twenty one, one sixteen. Pelicans on the road now
one and twelve and Brandon Ingram is out indefinitely with
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an ankle injury.
Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Final note.
Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
The Baseball Hall of Fame's Classic Era Committee was tonight
considering an eight man ballot for the Hall of Fame
of contributors before nineteen eighty. This happened today because the
Winter Meetings started today in Dallas. That's where they were.
Committee's eight finalists included Louis Tillant, Ken Boy or Steve
Garvey and others, but into the Hall of Fame these
two Dave Parker, seven time All Star and an MVP,
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and Dick Allen, a seven time All Star and an MVP.
Parker got fourteen of sixteen votes from the committee. Allen
got thirteen of sixteen. So those two chosen today. We'll
go into the Hall in July with whomever's voted in
by the writers next month, and that probably will include
Echuro Suzuki.
Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Back to you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Who good stuff, Steve across the board appreciated Steve to
sega with us every single hour we are live in
the Tireraq dot com studios. There's a sentence in there.
I mean, there might have been a few of them,
but there was a sentence from Stevie from I don't
think I ever thought I would hear a human being
say SMU got into the playoff Alabama. Didn't I think
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i'd ever hear anybody say that.
Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Yeah, that's pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
I mean, so again, you know, we talked about it
a little bit earlier. Nothing in the world is perfect,
and you like what you like, and I get it.
If you're a college football traditionalist, Man, you've been challenged
a thousand different ways in the last decade. But I'll
(01:08:21):
just say, for a few different reasons, this new structure,
having more teams involved and therefore less boardroom decisions with
regard to who gets to play for.
Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
This thing, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Man, to me, this is the best setup that they've
had yet. We'll see how it looks. But again, I
really like the fact that that you're gonna have some
home games, and therefore you're going to have a real
crowd with that has something to say in these games
and all of that. So I'm interested to see what
this looks like. And I'm not usually interested in college football.
(01:08:55):
On December eighth, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
I'm excited about it. I'm excited about it all year
knowing this was coming down the pipe. I think it's
great for college football. I think it's great for fans,
and like you said, I think it's great for those
universities to get to host the first round of these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
No doubt about it. So glad you're with us.
Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Also, that three point one million dollar bet on on
the Eagles, I don't know what. Let me see to oh,
do you know how much like that's a money line
bet three point one million just to win the game.
So do you know how much the bet actually wins
if the Eagles win the game, which they did, what
a couple hundred grands four and forty two thousand dollars. Yeah,
(01:09:41):
so this bet was absolutely to me. This is no
different than Dan Campbell going forward on fourth down. It's like,
I get that you can do this. I get that
you've got a lot of juice, but I get that
you might win. But what's in it for you? Why?
(01:10:02):
That's a bad risk reward? And oh, by the way,
that four hundred and forty two grand that this guy won,
I hope he sends half of it to exavierly get
of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
Oh, you had it right in his hands.
Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
He had that ball.
Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
That was a beautiful drive by Bryce Young and that
was a touchdown pass. And then it wasn't don't like.
Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
Look, I like what Bryce is doing, recalibrating, got his
stuff together. He's competing now before it just seemed like
he was there. Now he's competing, and so you know,
we'll see how he finishes it up.
Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Mark with Ardy from Salam, glad that you are with
us tonight and nowhere near done yet. Coming up next,
let's dive further into the NFC North and play this
out in terms of the pecking order, how it might go,
the actual contenders for tenders, Lions, Vikings, Packers.
Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
That's next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
All right, TYRAG dot Com Studios with e from salam
Mark Willard. Look, I've learned. I've learned not to do
this on Twitter. I've learned not to follow stories on Twitter.
If it's there, it means somebody who's actually in the
no wants it there. Doesn't mean that that's accurate. You know,
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Twitter reports about free agency and things like that are
probably no different than presidential election polls, for example. However,
I do want to throw this at you take a
momentary break from the NFL because there are a number
of reporters tonight not suggesting where one Soto will land,
(01:11:53):
but when, and there is a buzz there's a buzzy
from that. It could be tonight, in fact, could be
in the next hour and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:12:06):
Wow, Okay, so he coming to LA huh.
Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
I certainly wouldn't be surprised, would you?
Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Of course not? Why wouldn't and on his why wouldn't he.
Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Want to come here because he's in New York.
Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
And that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
He's in New York.
Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
And I've been told for years that Juan Soto is
that kind of guy, and I know that he's not.
Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
A homegrown dude.
Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
But free agents of that size don't often leave the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
They just don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
I mean, I'm not gonna say it can't happen, and
it won't happen. And in fact, if you asked me
to bet, I will bet that he'll leave the Yankees,
but not for the Dodgers. I think he'll leave the
Yankees for the Mets because he's a New York kind
of a guy.
Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Okay, who's offering what?
Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Well, I don't know, but we've certainly had a number
of reports that suggest that right now, to have a
seat at the table, you need to bring your seven
hundred million dollars. Now, I'm seeing reports that the Yankees
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are pushing upward from there. But that Steve Cohen who
owns the Mets, and this wouldn't surprise me either. He's
comfortable with changing that number seven to eight m and
if he does, no one will join him.
Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
No, no, But look, it's it's it's going to be great.
Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
It's cold in New York right now. It's nice out here.
Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Yeah, but it's not baseball season.
Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
So for seven hundred million dollars, you go wherever the
hell you want for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
You'd be in Mexico for all on the.
Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
West coast, man, come on to the West coast.
Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Yeah, oh listen, I mean I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Believe me. It was. It was felt in uh in
San Francisco when Blake Snell this was so funny to me.
Nobody knows this spring training last year when he signed,
they asked him about like why'd you you know, like
why'd you pick the Giants? And are you.
Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Cool playing in San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
And he's like, I'm gonna be real with you, man,
like this is a one year deal and we're traveling
the entire time, so it doesn't matter as much as
you think it does where we play. And then he
signs with the Dodgers and his quote was, this is
where you want to play it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Yes, that made me laugh. That made me laugh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Why wouldn't you want to be a part of it?
If you're a player, why wouldn't you want to be
a part of it. You get paid for the rest
of your career and then the rest of your life too. Yeah,
so I don't I don't begrudge any player, and I
don't even begrudge the Dodgers for doing it because it's
within the rules. I don't know that it should be
within the rules, but it is, so why not do it?
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And of course I'm talking about all the.
Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
Deferrals, defer, deferred defer.
Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
They're up at a billion dollars. Ephraim nice just in defer, Yeah,
just in deferrals, one billion dollars. Good for the game.
Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
No, No, I don't like it because you can do anything.
Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Yes, you can, and they have.
Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
That's why I don't count them out. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Oh I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Could you imagine that lineup?
Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Well, the report is that they told him that he
would bat second behind show Heeo Tani and in front
of Muki backs.
Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Oh god, that's sweet spot.
Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
With Freddie Freeman coming up when the business loaded.
Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Gracious.
Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
Yeah, yeah, they might win one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Man, they might, they might, you know, But I'd also
say again, like as a larger sport, I'm a big
believer in big brands. Great teams. That's all true. However,
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you know, when we think of super teams, we often
are talking about the NBA.
Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
You have a soft cap there.
Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Yes, there are some teams that have a little more
in the way of resource, but you don't in the
NBA have an Oakland A's or a Sacramento A's or
whatever the hell they're going to call themselves. Now, where
there are teams that just don't pay anything, you don't
really have that, But in baseball you do. So it's
like you could put this lineup together and it'd be
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fun to watch and they'll win all the games. But
who did they beat? And so what you end up
with is very much like an Alabama versus of the
Citadel type of field.
Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
And so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
If I were Rob Benford, I'd be like, are the
rest of you in other cities? Are you watching this?
Do you care anymore? If we just put all of
the good players on two teams?
Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
I don't know. I want to disenfranchise the whole audience.
Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
But that's I mean, I'm sure that number on that
World Series was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
Should they sign up for that every year?
Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Yep? Yep, But I do wonder about the gate in
Kansas City and Pittsburgh and et cetera. You know, at
what point are people just like, what are we doing?
Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
What what is this? Right? Why are the kindergarteners playing
the fifth graders? Why are we doing this kind of
open up the book?
Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
Man, everybody got an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
Well, no, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Like, yes they do, but not everybody can defer a
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
M right.
Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Everybody's got a rich person or rich people up there.
Not everybody's got the Guggenheim group.
Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
So I mean, the Yankees bought championships for years.
Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
So sure, yeah, oh yeah again, I'm not coming down
the Dodgers road. If you can do it, do it
any means possible within the rules. I'm a fan of.
I just don't know, I don't know if it should
be within the rules. So that's kind of what I'm
getting at all. Right, we do still have the NFC
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North around the corner. Plus, I think I think since
Brian Windhorse and others have been talking this week about
Lebron James and the Warriors, feel like you and I
should probably talk this out for a second.
Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
Don't you? Think, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
We should probably we'll talked this out for a second.
Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
We'll do that coming up next.
Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
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We are going to dive into the NFC North. We're
going to get into a little bit of the Lakers
and the Warriors and Lebron and Steph and we're also
following into the second half and following the Justin Herbert
injury in the situation with the big bad Kansas City Chiefs.
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Maybe it feels kind of like an obvious answer, because
I get how everybody feels about Detroit right now. Twelve
and one looks like they've got a fast track to
home field advantage, but then again, who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
They still got to play the Vikings again.
Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
I know they got a game in hand against them,
they're four to zeroing their division. But I like watching
the Packers go in there on Thursday night. Gave them
everything they could handle, didn't win the football game. I
understand that. But how if somebody landed here from another
planet and said, describe the differences in these three teams
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and their chances come January.
Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
What would you say the differences between Detroit.
Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Lions, Vikings, Vikings and Packers.
Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
I'd say, hmmm, that's good man, that's a that's a
that's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Can you see the Lions as head and shoulders ahead
or no?
Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
No, no, because look, look, I like the Lions. I
like who they've become. I like the fact that they've changed,
you know, the fundamental direction of that team. The culture
is completely different. I know, I spent some time in
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Detroit with the Lions. It is not your father's Lions team.
The problem I have, and this is a big problem,
because it stems from the leadership. The very same leadership
that had had to force its way to change the
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culture is the same leadership I don't trust. And so
when I look at them talent wise, there's talented as anybody,
if not talent more talent than anybody in the league.
They got a real gun slinger at quarterback. They got
some bona fide dogs on the outside. They got about
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three running backs that can just eat you alive. And
their defense is holding strong even without their best player available,
even without a bevy of their best players. Their injury
on the defense, their injuries on the defensive side of
the ball, is what gives me great pause because eventually,
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at a certain point, if those guys don't start coming back.
And I'm not talking about eight Nutchinson, he's probably done
unless they play in the super Bowl and he does
something miraculous. But outside of that, they're missing guys all
across the board. I'm talking about they played in that
game Thursday with guys they just met that they just met,
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and so that, on top of the injuries and on
top of the decision making, is the thing that gives
me pause. Now, I like Green Bay. Green Bay has
a young core. They grew up a lot from last year.
Jordan Love is also a gunslinger, I like Matt Lafleur,
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and they're just playing well. They will get pressure on
the quarter but they will get after you, and so
I you know, with those type of quarterbacks, you'll always
be in the game. Right, Jordan Love can make every
throw right. No one saw this, I guess well they
saw it. Coming, especially after the way they started last
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year and the way they ended. They just picked right
up where they left off, which is is great, that's
what you need. And for the Minnesota Vikings, it's like
they're playing with house money because this is unexpected. This
is that they have the best receiver in football, they
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have a quarterback trying to prove something and extend his
career as a starter, and their defense has always been solid.
So who do I see? Who do I see in
that's in this scenario separating themselves? Man, I'd have to say,
(01:24:56):
so this is really tough. Well I thought I would
at least talk my self into an answer.
Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
I know that. Why don't I play it out? Why
don't we try to play it out a little bit?
With the numbers? So Lions one seed, Eagles, two seed,
three seed, four seed, I don't care, and I don't
care just for the moment, right whoever wins the South,
whoever wins the West, if you want to call that
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Tampa Bay in Seattle, they've got the inside tracks right now. Okay, fine,
there's your three and your four, Your five is Minnesota,
your six is Green Bay, and your seven is I
don't care. That's either Washington or the Rams. Maybe the
Falcons are forty nine ers or Cardinals can get into
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this conversation. But if we do spotlight those four teams,
you're looking at a buy for the Lions. You're looking
at an opening game for the Eagles where they're hosting
a team that's barely five hundred. Maybe it is the
Washington Command, maybe it is the Los Angeles Rams. Not
saying that can't be a game, but that's that one.
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But then look at the Lions. I'm sorry. The Vikings
and the Packers headed directly to the homes of the
division winners of the South and the West, and they'll
be favored in those games.
Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
They'll be favored in those games.
Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
I don't know that this will happen, because life doesn't
work this way. But the way it should go if
the NFC is defined as we think it is right now,
is that Week two in the NFC playoffs, the Philadelphia
Eagles will host the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions
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will host the Green Bay Packers. And for everybody who
thinks that the Lions are going to the Super Bowl,
take a moment to spotlight what their playoff looks like.
It goes by Packers and then either Vikings or Eagles.
That's about as hard of a one seed run as
I could think of.
Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
That's gonna be pretty tough.
Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
That's hard.
Speaker 7 (01:27:09):
You got back to back games, and it's gonna be
against double digit win teams who are very, very capable,
and you have a coach who will be going forward
on fourth and three.
Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
That's not gonna bowl well for them. It's not, man,
it's gonna be bad. It's against those that caliber of
teams in the playoffs. Points are premium in the playoffs.
Any point you can get, whether it be one, two, three,
you gotta get him. And he will give. He will
believe points out there by the boat load, just to
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prove a point. And that that is what that is
what frightens me about about them, Not from a talent standpoint,
but literally from a decision making standpoint. That hole, this
is who we are and this is how we got here.
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That does not work in the playoffs, man, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
It's gonna be a challenge. The Packers are not going
to be scared of the Lions. No, the Vikings and
Eagles will not be scared of the Lions.
Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
They will not and they're gonna put pressure on them.
Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
And let me add one more thing. For Detroit.
Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
We watched it to a certain degree last year as
they had a twenty four to seven lead in Santa
Clara at halftime. It came out in the second half
and you start looking at the faces of everybody on
the sideline, and the weight of the city and its
history suddenly starts showing how firm it is. And you
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could see it. As soon as the forty nine ers
started to make their comeback. Everybody's face and their Adams
apples all got big. It was like, gope, because it
means so much so those fans, those players. It's almost
like you have to deal with sifting through your own
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emotions as much as executing a football play.
Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Well, flash forward to.
Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
This January and it is my belief from that they're
gonna They're gonna be doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Again, but this time in front of those fans.
Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
And I just don't know that I can think of
something that's a comp like this, which is, let's pretend
that the NFC Championship game is at Ford Field in
Detroit and the game is tied in the fourth quarter
with five minutes ago. I like I don't. I don't
know if there's tension anywhere that matches that, Like that's
(01:29:51):
just like fans crying immediately just because kind of stuff.
And you may say, hey, they're professionals, that's the job
to just whatever, like work through that. But man, the
pressure is going to be so intense for that football team.
Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
Oh, it is unbearable. Unbearable. Man.
Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
I hope, I hope we are not having one of
these conversations after a playoff game, fourth down and we're like, man,
he left nine points out there on the on the field.
Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
By the way, I think he's got a kicker who's
missed one field goal this year.
Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
Yeah, that part I won't to use him.
Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
That part they might want to use him. All right,
let's we promised Lebron rumors and I don't know if
that's the right word for it yet.
Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Speculation is the correct word. It's nothing more than that.
Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
But it's also coming up for the second time, and
I believe there's a reason for that. So let's get
to that. Coming up next with E from Salam, Mark
Willard Fox Sports Radio. We're Liventhetie rank dot Com Studios.
Mark Willard, e from Salaam. We do have a lot
to get to. But we told you this might happen tonight,
(01:31:21):
and it has. So we've got breaking news. Let's go
right now, Live to the desk with Steve Desager.
Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
Guys, we have an agreement on the largest contract in
the history of pro sports. Oh my god, the Mets
have agreed to a fifteen year deal with outfielder Juan
Soto worth seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. No
money deferred. Oh, there's an opt out after five years.
New York Post says the Yankees offered sixteen years, not fifteen,
(01:31:55):
but a little less money. Juan Soto is a Met
on a fifth teen year deal.
Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Wow, that just landed in our laps.
Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I mean we said an hour ago. I'm like, I'm
seeing it everybody. I don't know if they're right or wrong.
But the people in the not think this is happening tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
And it did. And by the way, when Steve says
the Yankees reportedly offered a little less money, he really
means a little less money instead of seven hundred and
sixty five, they'd offered seven hundred and sixty But yes,
over an additional year, right, sixteen years as opposed to fifteen,
so the aav a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
Would you lose him for a year?
Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
I don't like. I'm just I'm not built for this.
I'm just not Like if somebody was like fifteen for
seven sixty five and the Yankees are like, we can't
go a penny over seven sixty what, Like, what the
hell's another five million dollars?
Speaker 4 (01:33:03):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Like why wouldn't you why wouldn't you match that? That's
so weird to me.
Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
Oh man, so he doesn't have to move or anything.
Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Nope, Nope, no, man, it was New York.
Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
It was always New York.
Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
I really believe it was always New York.
Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Wow, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Fifteen years, seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
And show a show it was uh ten for seven
hundred right.
Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
Right, but but six hundred and ninety nine million point
nine nine nine nine deferred? Yeah, I think show he
got like twenty million dollars over the current life of
his deal.
Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
And that and that one was only for ten right.
Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
Ten years years?
Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Ten years? Yeah, And he's much older than Soto, So
I like the way Bob Nightingale wrote it, he goes
he's got an opt out after five seasons, just in
case he's somehow undervalued. After the twenty twenty nine season.
Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
Oh my god, this this baseball season is gonna be
something else.
Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
New York Mets literal answer, Oh.
Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
I waited that playoff series again.
Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
And by the way, for those who don't want to
do the quick math, that, yeah, that is fifty one
million dollars per year.
Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
Wow, that's exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Any any questions?
Speaker 5 (01:34:41):
No, man, shout out to him. Shout out to the Mets, right,
they're partying, the partying.
Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Shout out to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
And as much as fans don't like hearing this stuff,
shout out to Juan Soto because it wasn't It wasn't
that long ago.
Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
And I don't even just.
Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
Mean shout out to Wan Soda.
Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Shout out to whoever's advising him.
Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
It won that long ago that the Washington Nationals offered
him a little bit over four hundred million dollars, and
one was like no, and people were like, you turned down.
Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Four hundred.
Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Half a billion dollars. I turned it down for three
quarters of a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
Exactly. I did, because.
Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
They were like, maybe you'll like, maybe you'll get five
hundred sure or six or seven or more than halfway
to eight. He was right, he was right, right, And
I don't you know, it doesn't matter that almost half
a billion dollars, Like, there's no way, right, Wan Soto
is he couldn't spend this much money in his lifetime
(01:35:52):
even if he tried. But it doesn't matter. That's that's
a hell of an additional asset. He basically just got
three three, one hundred and forty million more dollars by
saying no to.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
The Washington Nationals.
Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
What two years ago? Y?
Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Yeah, two and a half years ago, years ago, Yeah,
I mean it was prior to him leading, But I
mean him saying why he's that's why they traded him.
Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
That's why he was right.
Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
Why traded him to the Padres and then and then yeah,
and then over to the Yankees and uh and now
this is it? Last stop?
Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
Last stop? That's exciting, man.
Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Yeah. Oh, I'd like to say one other thing too,
Hey Baseball, look at you, you cute little thing actually
having winter meetings. See how fun this is? See how
fun it is when the lead dog of your free agency. Actually,
(01:36:58):
I don't know signs as opposed to taking us into
February and baking it two screwdrivers in each other's ears
while we sit here and not only wait for him,
but therefore have to wait for all the other players too,
because everyone's waiting for that person to set the market.
So I'd like to thank Juan Soto and Scott Boris
(01:37:20):
for that.
Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
Scot Boris, do it?
Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Just do it? How much sitting around thinking and ringing
and all, what do you like? Take a deal, find
out what you want, get the offer, and take it.
I love that and that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
So good for them.
Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
Yeah, I like, yeah, this is This is about as
active as as as it's been in December for baseball
in the winter meetings in quite some time. And now
I would.
Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Imagine there's going to be a lot more because the
lead dog set the market.
Speaker 4 (01:37:56):
Big dog man. I thought he was coming to Blue
did you really?
Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
Yeah, I'll try to tell you New York like, I
don't put anything past the Dodgers. Remember when, uh remember
when Shoheo Tani was like a he was a Blue Jay.
Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
I don't know who thought that.
Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
I mean, well, his plane apparently was in Toronto or
all right right, and and Arson Judge was going to
be a giant and uh, it's like, yeah, I never
I never put.
Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
It past the Yankees and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Never. You guys just resigned Adam Zohan.
Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
Oh A Domas not re signed. That's they took him
from the brook Yeah, Willie Domas. Yeah, No, Buster Posey's
going to come in and do some things. But whatever
they got, they got a long way to go. But
that was a good signing. It's a good signing. That'd
be interesting for a guy to come in and sign
someone right away to the biggest contract in the history
(01:39:03):
of the organization, breaking the contract they signed you too,
like seven or eight years ago. He broke his own record. Yeah,
that contract, So that's kind of fun. Anyway, Juan Soto
is a met fifteen years, seven hundred sixty five million dollars.
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this with this three game losing streak and the awful
defense and everything, like, how are you feeling about Laker
basketball right now?
Speaker 4 (01:39:57):
I'm disgusted. I'm disgusted by it.
Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
Do tell.
Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
The problem I'm having is the turnovers, and a lot
of them, the majority of them are stemming from Lebron James.
He's too cavalier with the ball. Before Lebron James would
turn the ball over, then chase you down and dribble
(01:40:28):
it off the backboard. Now Lebron James turns the ball
over and stops. So I'll put you at a disadvantage
on the other end when you have individually double digit turnovers,
and then you look at the stats and the team scores,
you know, twenty seven points off turnovers. Come on, man,
that's a recipe for disaster. As the LA Chargers drive
(01:40:52):
down the field and score their one point away from
dying this game, like we knew they would.
Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
Of course, either one point away from taking the.
Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Lead in this game.
Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, it's thirteen thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
Yeah again again, what annoying thing are the Chiefs about
to do to win this game. I only know one
man who I actually trust to tell.
Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Us, please bring this young man on.
Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Not done with your lebron take There's more on the
bone there. But not before Steve Desager, who was just
with us, now gets to be with us again.
Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
I say the game winning field goal for the Chiefs
will go off the back judge's head and over the cross.
Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Yes, I love it. I love it that the officials
actually head the ball into the in through the goal
posts and the Chiefs win.
Speaker 6 (01:41:46):
So we're not quite to the fourth quarter yet, but
stay tuned, fins. We got three and a half minutes
to go in the third. The Chargers are up fourteen
to thirteen at Kansas City. Chiefs enter within eleven to
one record. They can clinch yet another AFC West tonight.
This would be a ninth straight year winning the division.
The Charger offense in the first half tonight six drives
(01:42:06):
six first downs. In the second half two drives two touchdowns,
and they're head fourteen to thirteen. Wide receiver Lad McConkey
of LA, by far their best receiver this year, is
out with knee and shoulder injuries, and they're starting running
back JK Dobbins is out on injured reserve for a month.
Gus Edwards a three yard touchdown run and the opening
(01:42:28):
drive of the second half for la Edwards on the
ground tonight nine carries twenty six yards. He is their
leading rusher. They're ahead fourteen to thirteen at Kansas City.
Patrick Mahomes one touchdown pass case with two field goals. Yes,
we did have an agreement. In Major League Baseball, the
Winter meetings just started today in Dallas and it's announced
(01:42:51):
tonight the Mets were not outbid. They have agreed to
a fifteen year deal with outfielder Juan Soto worth seven
hundred and sixty five million dollar, no deferred money and
opt out after five years. Jan Soto has been in
the majors for about six six and a half years
to eighty five average, and he draws a walk seemingly
(01:43:12):
every time he's up there. It's actually seven hundred and
seventy walks or so drawn and about six hundred RBIs
in the six years or so in the majors. And
this is I've lost count his thirteenth team now and
he's twenty six years old. Fifteen year contract. Wow, By
the way, the Dodgers signed outfielder Michael Conforto from the
(01:43:34):
Giants one year, seventeen million dollars and into the Baseball
Hall of Fame tonight from the Classic Era Committee. They
considered eight guys contributors before nineteen eighty. Dave Parker is
into the Hall of Fame and Dick Allen as well,
each were seven time All Stars. Each were league MVPs.
Those two were chosen today. They'll go into the Hall
(01:43:54):
in July with the players that'll be voted in by
the writers. Those writers results will be announced in January.
SMU and Clemson each made the college football Playoff. Alabama
and Miami were not selected. You mentioned the LA Lakers.
Lebron James is not playing tonight. He is sitting out
with a sore foot. The Lakers do not play again
until Friday. After this evening, Lakers, in the final minute
(01:44:18):
before halftime are winning fifty nine forty five over Portland
Anthony Davis with eighteen points. Golden State at home leads
with ten minutes to go ninety seven to ninety one
against the Timberwolves twenty eight points for Steph Curry, Denver's
Nikola Jokich forty eight points in an easy win at
Atlanta one forty one one eleven. Miami upset Cleveland won
(01:44:39):
twenty two to one to thirteen. Cabs record was twenty
one and three. Philadelphia and Milwaukee got wins today. In
the late afternoon NFL games Seattle and San Francisco with victories.
The Rams beat Buffalo forty four to forty two. That
ends the seven game winning streak of the Bills. But
in defeat, Josh Allen had three touchdown passes and three
(01:45:01):
one yard TD runs, but winds up a two point loss.
The Rams got a touchdown in the first half on
a block punt return back to you.
Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
What a day, man, What a day? What a day.
And the Chiefs are losing in the second half yet again.
And I wanted to add this, Ephraim. I don't know
if this is going to make you make some more noises.
That one Soto deal. There's a signing bonus attached.
Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
To Oh my goodness, do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
How us do you think it is?
Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
What million?
Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
You're only a little bit high?
Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
So it's almost ten percent of the deal, seventy five
seventy five million dollars a day bonus today.
Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
Need those funds available today?
Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Yeah? Yeah. Bob Nightingale wrote it this way, seventy five
million dollars signing bonus, making the present day value of
the contract about three hundred million more than any player
in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
Can I ask you real quick, where's this all going.
Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
That I don't I don't just need a billion? It's
going right right? Yeah right?
Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
I mean your your NBA stars are already tickling the
area of sixty to sixty.
Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Five a year.
Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
Baseball, right, Baseball stars are now up to north of fifty.
I guess you could call show, hey, seventy it's deferred,
but whatever, it's seventy per year.
Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
So of course a.
Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Life of the deal billion dollar contract is coming. How
far off our way are we from someone making one
hundred million average annual value?
Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
Probably maybe three four years?
Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
That's it, man, Hey, guess what's about to happen? Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
Good lord?
Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
And over and over again. The quarterback market is being
reset on the daily, almost.
Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
On the regular, on the regular.
Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
It's at sixty plus right now.
Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Well, but but you know what, this might be a
this might be a year off coming out.
Speaker 5 (01:47:36):
Oh, don't worry, you can take a year off, Yeah,
but you can't take too.
Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
I don't think, and I and I did think this
not that long ago. I don't think if I had
to predict right now, I do not think Rock Party
is going to get sixty million.
Speaker 5 (01:47:51):
No, I don't think so either. But what I will
say is Rock Party wasn't first pick in the draft,
or the second or the third.
Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
Yes, it's going to shatter that.
Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
Which is wild because CJ.
Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Stroud this year does not even look like I mean,
I don't even know if he's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
Not what we saw last year. Doesn't look like what
we saw last year. But that's to be expected in
a player's second year. When teams have, you know, footage,
they've been hit with a bunch of injuries.
Speaker 4 (01:48:27):
We get it.
Speaker 5 (01:48:27):
They're still they're still gonna win the division, still gonna
be in the playoffs. So as long as that keeps happening,
uh huh. Right, And then you got Jaden Daniels coming.
Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
I was gonna say, three years from now, Jade and
Daniels extension, what does that look like?
Speaker 4 (01:48:44):
Seventy for real? That's where it's going.
Speaker 5 (01:48:49):
Hey man, The NFL is only making more money, these
deals of the NFL are signing these streaming deals.
Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, when.
Speaker 5 (01:48:59):
The when the there the global expansion is going to
happen when you find two teams outside the United States.
Just imagine the revenue share that's going to open up.
We're four years, five years away from one hundred million
dollars a year quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
When do you know what? I want to know?
Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
We don't think about them so much because they've already
signed extensions, but they're gonna come up again. When is
Josh Allen up? Okay, he's not up until twenty twenty eight,
so that's going to take a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
What about Patrick? He signed that crazy long one.
Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
But then restructured it and.
Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
They've restructured it.
Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
Yeah, I guess he's technically all locked up till twenty
thirty one.
Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
God what in the end, What a smart thing by
the Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
They were like, hey man, you want to have billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Okay, cool, yep, yep, what a smart thing.
Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
Manage trying to play with that, right.
Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
I know, I know restructure. I get NFL has some
funny money to it, but the original terms were ten year,
five hundred, four hundred and fifty million. Yeah, forty five
a year. Unbelievable bargain. Oh, beyond complete. Yeah, he's completed
(01:50:33):
four years of the deal, He's won the Super Bowl
and three of them, and the Chiefs still have him
locked up after this season. One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven more years. Uh, that's ridiculous, that's boom, that's just crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Tyereck dot com Studios.
Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
I do want to circle back to that that Lebron thing,
which we will do and put a ball on this thing.
Coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. All right live
ty rack dot com Studio. Sure, Week fourteen National Football
League and a close game down the stretch between the
Chargers and Chiefs. But give us a minute on this.
(01:51:22):
Like I asked you about the Lakers, and you sound
you sound feed up with Lebron.
Speaker 5 (01:51:31):
Look, it's the energy level, Okay, right, it's the energy level.
They played great in sports spurts, but Lebron James forty
years old. I'm not frustrated with Lebron. Right when you
look at them playing tonight without Lebron because he's resting
his foot, there's more energy. I don't expect Lebron James
(01:51:53):
to be the old Lebron James that's impossible. So what
has to happen is you have to, first of all,
just stop turning the ball over. Don't do that. Whatever
the pass is that you think you're about to make
(01:52:16):
three quarter links with six defenders in front of you,
even though itse five people in the court defending. I'm
counting the sidelines too, don't throw it. Just dribble it
in and let's throw it that way. The passes are
so lazy, too, oh o god, so bad. And he
(01:52:37):
doesn't have the explosive explosiveness that he had going to
the rim, so he's playing under the rim a lot,
and when he doesn't get the call, he stops to
complain and have a conversation while the other team has
the advantage going down. That's the problem I'm having because
what happens is that two point ly that they have
(01:53:00):
now is a five point leave because they came down
to hit a three because somebody was wide open, because
you were still looking at the ref tapping your full
arm like someone hit you. After you miss the layup right,
you throw the pass, it's intercepted. They're going down and
now you know you were up by one, now you're
down by two because the guy you should have been
(01:53:22):
guarding is now hit a open three because you are
standard at half court. It's things like that, and it's
not just a Lebron thing. We need more from our bench,
right We need the guys who are still hurt. Vanderbilt Woods,
get off the team, give the money back and get
(01:53:44):
off the team to open up a roster spot, or
get on the court and play. I mean, you're holding
up a roster spot. You're hurt. If you look at
the Lakers bench, it's all G League plays, and so
(01:54:06):
it's too early to be dealing with all of this.
How you start the season hurts what you been doing
all summer. Look literally, if you look over there at
that bench, you don't know who these players outside of
Bronnie James.
Speaker 4 (01:54:21):
You don't know who these other dudes are.
Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
I try and like hell not to make that comment
right now, because every Laker fan I knew didn't seem
to care about depth a couple of months ago. Who
said this is so cool to have Bronnie James.
Speaker 5 (01:54:37):
I'm not talking about Bronnie James. I'm talking about the
other four guys sit next to him.
Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
My point is is, maybe you could have used that
roster spot on an NBA player in camp.
Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
Look, man, we have NBA players on the using roster
spots who haven't played this year. That's my point. There
are three guys who are NBA players who haven't played
this year using roster spots. That's my problem.
Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
I hear you, all right, So then then how does
this grab you? The NBA on ESPN crew and Michael
Wilbon specifically was asked because there are reports everywhere, starting
with Shams, that the Golden State Warriors are big game
hunting and they they need another big name or big
(01:55:33):
presence or number two score to go with Steph. They're
trying to maximize the remainder of his career, and Wilbon
was asked, Okay, so who's the person and what exactly
what would you do? Quote we just saw them play together.
I'm sorry, this is an easy answer. It's Lebron James.
(01:55:56):
That phone call was made at the trade deadline last
year or went anywhere. Both teams are hard cap, second apron.
It does not leave a lot of flexibility. But one
thing I've learned through the years of watching this guy's career,
if Lebron wants something to happen, it happens, and Brian
Windhorst literally said as much, this deal can happen if
(01:56:18):
Lebron wants it to.
Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
Your thoughts? What come on, man?
Speaker 4 (01:56:30):
No, that means he would have to Steph would have
to come in to La.
Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
No.
Speaker 8 (01:56:36):
No, no, no, it doesn't no, because the idea, I guess, like,
let me ask it to you this way, based on
the way you just sounded like, are you are you.
Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
Harboring thoughts of the Lakers being contenders this year?
Speaker 4 (01:56:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
Okay, then if that's the case, I'd almost argue you'd
be crazy not to explore this.
Speaker 4 (01:57:00):
Yeah, but what do we get it? What do we
get assets?
Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
What a lot of young assets?
Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
What well I would imagine to train together?
Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
Come on, what we got.
Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
Well, you're gonna have to get up to what how
was he made fifty? You got to add up a
whole lot of stuff. So you're probably looking at a Kamingo,
You're looking at a Wiggins, You're looking at draft picks,
and then you're probably looking at filler filler contracts, Gary Payton,
(01:57:33):
d Anthony Melton, who's hurt and injured for the rest
of the year, things like that. That's what you're looking at.
Speaker 4 (01:57:39):
Yeah, that don't work. Sorry, why not? Why he's a
non starter.
Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
That's a bunch of young assets for someone that you
say is forty years old and isn't going to win
this year.
Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
We're good. Why because I need something tangible. None of
that's tangible.
Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Jonathan Kaminga is not tangible.
Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
No, he not.
Speaker 5 (01:57:58):
No, he's great in that system. It's great.
Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
We've been sitting here actually on our station for the
last six months talking about how he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
Fit the sis.
Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
He does.
Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
He fits it.
Speaker 5 (01:58:15):
Man. Interesting, I'm not We're not bolstering your team and
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (01:58:23):
State will never do that.
Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
There, It's not up to him.
Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Jennie Buss would never do that.
Speaker 3 (01:58:30):
It's not up to her.
Speaker 4 (01:58:32):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
It's not. It is, it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
And you know her and I know her. And if
Lebron tells her that it's gonna happen, it happens.
Speaker 5 (01:58:40):
Not gonna happen. Okay, Okay, We're gonna send him and
his son. That's so basically, we'll send him and his son. Right,
use the draft pick on his son. But he's not calling. Yeah,
but that's that's that's who we send out there. Him
and his son correct.
Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Whatever, No, doesn't have to come.
Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
No, he's gotta go. Why leave his son behind?
Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
What they already executed the dream? They just wanted to
play together. They did that. That's over now.
Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
No, it's not over.
Speaker 5 (01:59:09):
Is he's got and he's gotta go. You gotta go
off my line with that foolishness.
Speaker 3 (01:59:16):
We got more time.
Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Luckily, we got more time to talk about this for
weeks and weeks to come.
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