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January 23, 2025 22 mins

Sports betting geniuses Paulie & Tony Fusco give you their 110% LOCK NFL Predictions for the AFC and NFC Championship Games. Plus, they reveal the REAL reason why the refs help the Chiefs, what everyone gets TOTALLY WRONG about the Cowboys, and Tony admits something HUGE about Ichiro Suzuki's hall of fame vote. Plus, Paulie and Tony call the Philadelphia Eagles front office again to try to convince them to sign Nick Foles for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, all right, comment to your life from Philly.
It's never one rating. Paully and Tony four Stone show
Y as always, Polly Fools go here with Tony FoST
go with Tony.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Just a huge show today.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You know, we have to days away from the Eagles
heading to yet another Super Bowl, and we're going to
make our official one hundred lock predictions, and we'll also
tell you what everybody is getting wrong about this Cowboys
head coaching job. And also, Tony, you're going to be
making a controversial admission, aren't you that You people out

(00:41):
there won't wait.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You just gonna have to wait and see. Yeah, that's
called the d's peak.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh, anyway, it's some important show business we have to
get to, as you know, because you've been waiting with
baited breath. We held a contest earlier in the month
where we said one lucky person out there will win
a prize from our terrific merch Sore simply by voting
for our show in the Sports Podcast Awards, even though
our dumb idiot producer nominated us in the wrong category.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, don't remind me. Anyways. We made the instructions very clear.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
We just take a screenshot of your vote, email it
to info at fuscoshow dot com. And yet they seemed
to be challenging for many of you.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know, some of.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
You you tweeted it at us, some of you to
us dmd it on ig. All right, now, since you
people have such trouble following simple instructions, we actually kind
of feel bad for you. We wonder how you hold
down jobs. Yeah, so, out of the goodness of our heart,
we've decided to crown tool winners, which we will be

(01:41):
doing later in the show, to increase our YouTube watch time.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Naturally, we're doing it at the end of the show.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
And by the way, subscribe on YouTube. If you haven't
done it, well, you do trouble following instructions.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
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subscribe and then you put button.

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You pest the button. That's what she does.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, hopefully that was clear for all you. All right, anyway,
enough of this old stuff. Let's get right into our
top story story. First, out the gate the egles about
the host and beat the Commander's NFC Championship game. And
yet many of the haters out that doty they're criticizing
the Egles offense because they say they rely too much

(02:24):
on running the ball. These audiots, they say running the
ball so much doesn't lead to Super Bowls a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
These mo runs are totally wrong, aren't they? Dony dead wrong?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I mean, I was just analyzing game film from Super
Bowl nine. The Pittsburgh Steelers ran all over the Vikings.
Frank o'harris ran for a Super Bowl record one hundred
and fifty eight yards, while Terry Bradshaw only completed nine passes,
which is just perfect football. Now you may say that's
the nineteen seventies that doesn't work anymore. Well, then how

(02:58):
come John Travolta is still making commercials. Obviously the people
at Capital one think the seventies stuff still works.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
So there you go, such.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Great football at advertorial analysis that, Donty. And you know,
why are people even wasting that time criticizing the Eagles offense.
We all know, I don't know defense wins champion exactly.
You know, Jalen Hurts clearly knows that better than anybody
doesn't eat.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Don'ty clearly?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean, have all you people out there even bothered
to consider that Jalen Hurts is playing poorly on purpose
in order to motivate the Eagles defense. If he was
putting up fifty points on the board every game, the
defense would get lazy. But now they know they have
to work extra hard to make up for this mediocre

(03:46):
and at times horribly embarrassing passing offense. And that's frankly
great leadership from Jalen Hurts, if you ask me.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Can't argue with any of that. Dony.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And you know, on the subject of things that people
are calling embarrassing when they're not, you know that you
see this the Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Mayor Charel Parker.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, she's taking shots on social media because the other
day at a pressa she tried to spell the name
Eagles and it came out well like this play that clip.
Let me hear you all say, he eh gee.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
S let's go bird donty.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Frankly, I don't think she has any reason to be
embarrassed at all, do you know?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Honestly, I didn't know how eagles was spelled until just
this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I always thought it was spelled.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Ee g U l l s, you know, like seagulls,
I mean seagulls or birds too. So naturally one would
assume that eagles would end with the U L L
S pot.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, you know when she said it don'ty and there
was this uproar. I was like, well, you know how
they spelled things different in other countries. Yes, she was
like from Britain or something, you know over there, like
they spelt things all wrong. Like the other day, this
guy who wrote a note for me, he said, will
you'll do me a favor? And there was a you
in there and I was like, what the is a
you doing in this word? And he's like, I'm British

(05:14):
and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well learn the fill. Yeah, But apparently that's right.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
If there's anyone who should be embarrassed here, it's William
Shakespeare for inventing the English language wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Anyway, let's just move on here. We'll go to the
latest on the Cowboys coaching search. The team appears to
be narrowing in on its OC Brian shot Yeah to
be the head coach, due to a lack of interest
from just about everyone, now, you know, Tody, A lot
of people they're saying the Cowboys head coaching position is
not a desirable job anymore. But that's because they're looking

(05:49):
at it in the totally wrong way.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Aren't they one.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean, if you called the Cowboys head coaching position
a coaching job, then yeah, it's a terrible job. But
if we called position head secretary, then it's a great job.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
You get your own office, free coffee, and you get
paid millions of dollars, and all you simply have to
do is everything Jerry Jones tells you, Like when he
comes over to your desk and he says, hey, start
this overrated player who my dumb son pick way too
high in the draft. You just go yes, sir, and
you're done. Frankly, it actually might be the greatest job

(06:26):
on the planet when you think about it.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Such a great way of putting it all in perspective
that Dody. And well, now let's start there this weekend
and the Chiefs who are preparing to face the Bills
in the AFC Championship, and yah, Patrick Mahomes he's coming
out then he's vehemently denying that the Rests are helping
his team, which proves one hundred percent that's true.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
But Tony, you know, people they say.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
There's no vast conspiracy here, but it's very easy to
connect the dots, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
You know, I know this is going to sound controversial,
but we all know the NFL helping the Chiefs win
in order to appease the Native American community. You see,
in the late twenty tens, the Native Americans wanted the
Redskins to change their name, not just because the name
was offensive, but because the team sucked so bad that

(07:16):
the Native Americans didn't want to be associated.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Was so much sucking.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
But when the Chiefs refused to change their name, the
NFL decided that the only way to fix the problem
was to tell the refs to help the Chiefs so
they wouldn't suck anymore.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Just eye opening insight that, Dony and wealth. Now we've
done our attention to baseball where each Euro Suzuki was
one of three players elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame,
but he did fall one vote shy of joining Mariano
Rivera as the only players elected unanimously. Now there's a

(07:53):
lot of speculation, as you know, about who this one
voter is who did not put each Euro on his Hall.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Of Fame ballot.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
And well, Dony, you have something you would like to address,
don't you.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, I admit I'm the one voter who did not
put each Eiro Suzuki on my Hall of Fame ballot.
You know, I know people are angry, but you know
I checked his stats, and while many of them were
admittedly solid and also okay, you know, record breaking, Suzuki
did have some very bad advanced stats, including a very

(08:25):
mediocre XBT percentage of only forty point seven XBT being
extra bases taken. And it's a very important stat as
we all know. It represents the percentage of time the
runner advance more than one base on a single or
more than two bases on a double when possible. Sure,

(08:46):
he got on base literally all the time, but what
did he do when he got on those bases?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Not nearly enough in my book, neither in mind, Tony.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Just undeniable advanced statistical analogy is there, And thank you. Well,
let's turn the college basketball. But actually let's not, because
it's January.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
So yeah, what are we doing? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, let's just because we got more button stuff to
get through. It's what you're waiting for. Our official picks
for this weekend's NFL Championship games, and Tony, let's get
right into it.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Started with Bills, Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Go the Bills and Chiefs will go into the fourth
quarter tied at twenty one, and then a Josh Allen
touchdown run will put the Bills up twenty eight twenty one.
But then Patrick Mahomes will tell the refs that the
Bills committed holding on the play and they'll reverse the call,
which will bring the score back to twenty one twenty one.

(09:42):
Then the Chiefs will drive down the field and Travis
Kelcey will clearly drop a pass in the end zone,
but Patrick Mahomes will successfully convince the refs that Kelsey
actually caught it, putting the Chiefs up by seven. Then,
with seconds to go, Josh Allen will the game with
a touchdown pass and convert the two point conversion, putting

(10:05):
the Bills up twenty nine to twenty eight. But then
the refs will rule that two point conversions are no
longer illegal and therefore don't count for any points, giving
the Chiefs a twenty eight to twenty seven victory.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
While just a stunning turn of events, Tony and well,
now we turn our attention to the other game. Commander's
Eagles take it away, Dony, this one's gonna come down
to one thing. Quarterback play.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Jalen Hurts is gonna come out of the gates strong
on the first drive, handing the ball off to Saquon
Barkley for an eighty r touchdown ron putting the Eagles
up seven to nothing, and then after a poorly timed
interception by Jayden Daniels, Jalen Hurts will once again lead
the Eagles down the field by handing the ball off

(10:53):
to Saquon Barkley eight times, culminating in another touchdown. And
then after a devastating Jaden Daniels pick six, Jalen Hurts
will go back to pass No wait, it's a lateral
to say Quon Barkley for another eighty hour touchdown run,
securing the twenty eight to nothing victory.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Boo wow.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Just a terrific breakdown that, Tony. All of it clearly
bound to happen. You just laid it out perfectly. Yeah,
and well, there's something we got to address on this show.
You know, people they come up to us, they ask us,
how come you don't take calls on the show anymore?
You know all they say, We're like, well, that's because
the calls suck. Nobody wants to listen to what other
people hear. What they want to hear what we have

(11:38):
to say. It's why it's our show.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, you know, as we say in the business, there's
only one thing more important than quality, and that's money.
And well, we have been offered a hefty sum, haven't
with Tony by the people at Verizon who have offered us. Well,
we can't disclose the amount, but let's just say it's
in the seven figures. It starts with a nine, starts
with a sponsored a segment now called the Fusco Hot

(12:04):
Take Hot Lot. Yeah all right, well let's see how
this goes, you know, because we're gonna make money no
matter what. So you know, it's already fine. But we
got a voicemail from an Owen. Okay, so why don't
we go ahead and play this take from Owen?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Go ahead, Tony, Polly, what is up? It is Owen
here an Eagles fan. So just to put that out there,
I have a big reason why I think the Rams
lost to us. As you can see on their shirts
and hats in Philadelphia they clearly were wearing La f D.

(12:42):
What does that even mean? Their team name is the Rams.
I mean, how hot is it to get their team
name wrong?

Speaker 5 (12:50):
So McVeigh must have thought that his play calls We're
going to LAFD, not the Rams just put another out there.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Wow yeah, wow. I thought that was going to be terrible,
but it was. Actually it wasn't half bad. I mean,
I know that was actually kind of genius down here,
Yeah it was. I gotta say me though, I was
watching that Rams game looking at those helmets, and I
was wondering, what's lefty?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, they had it on their shirts. I'm like, what's
left or lefty? What?

Speaker 6 (13:20):
What? Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
What? What?

Speaker 6 (13:24):
What?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Genius?

Speaker 7 (13:25):
L A f T is Los Angeles Fire Department. Everybody
knows that.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh well you're going to be in the fired department.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, dirupting the show. Everybody knows that. Yeah what A
know it all? You give me a break, you know. Owen,
good job, well done that. Yeah, good for you and
everybody there. Maybe we should open up. If you have
a hot take out there, you send it to us. Yeah,
there you go here, put up our email there info
at fuscoshow dot com.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Well we'll try that and see. Yeah, and none of
these like seven minute takes, like yeah, ten short people,
there's only so much we can bear.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, we got to move on because you know, last week,
something happened on the show obviously made big headlines, everybody talking.
You know, we realized, hey, playoffs are here. Jalen hurts.
You know, he's looking good, but he's got some injuries
he's dealing with. Yes, we also, you know, yeah, we
do happen to have some backup. QB's well don't have
the playoff experience, but there's one out there named mister

(14:24):
Nick Foles, yep, right, who has the experience, who's just
totally dominant.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Why not sign him?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know, exactly what are we waiting for?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Well, you know, last week, as you know, we called
up Eagles headquarters and we spoke to Angelo there because
apparently Howie Roseman's still busy doing who knows what. Anyway,
you know, we told Angelo, hey, go tell Howie to
sign Nick Foles as well. Obviously that hasn't happened. And
not only did it not happen, Tony, we saw last
week look what Nick Foles posted on ig It's a

(14:56):
picture of him drinking coffee in.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Mexico, Mexico. Oh yeah, anyway, we're.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Not gonna let the slide, Toty, because we will not
be ignored like that, especially now, We're in the NFC
Championship game that Nick Foles totally dominated just a short
time ago. Leary performance makes total sense just to bring
him back. So, uh, all right, you know we got
a private number here that's exclusively just for us. All right,
do you ready, Toty, We're gonna give it a call,
the private line.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Paul fos go here with Tony Fosco Howie Roseman, Please,
he's not available at the moment.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Can I take a message?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Would you mind just telling him that Paul fos goes
on the line. He'll know number one show.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Sure I can let him know.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
You want me to wait, I'm live on air, Hair,
so it's probably bad radio. Yeah, can you hurry him?

Speaker 6 (15:53):
He's not available at the moment.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh, is that someone there named Angelo who works there?
He's at the front office. Oh, he got promoted to
the front office.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
No, so he's in the ticket office right now. Fans services.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh, because we spoke to him last week, should we
transfer to Angel? What is your name? What is your name? Please?
All right?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Iby, So last week we called, we spoke to Angelo. Okay,
we told him, you know here we are in the playoffs.
Jalen not doing so well, you know, a little injury.
Why not re sign Nick Foles. He's got the playoff experience, right,
he's got the super Bowl experience. Why not just put
him on the sideline there? Doesn't that make sense to you?

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (16:42):
I mean I guess.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, there's no gues you guessed. No, no, No, the
super bowls on the line here, Abby, you gotta be
sure of ourself. Yeah, there you go. So, look, we
spoke to Angelo last week and we told him, hey,
you go into Howie Roseman's office. You want to get
promoted to one, make a name for yourself. You knock
on that door and you say, get me Foles. Now, well,

(17:04):
look we saw Nick Foles. He's on I g He's
drinking a coffee in Mexico City.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
What's this Angelo doing?

Speaker 5 (17:15):
You at Angela's hearing right now?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
No, No, I want to know what. I want to
know what the whole organization is doing. Angelo is clearly
not doing Jack squat.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Yeah, there's so many people working right now, and especially
with the super Bowl coming up, This super Bowl, the
game this weekend.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, you know it's gonna be it's gonna be a
super Bowl, understand. Yeah, Abby, Look I gotta talk to
you as a professional in this business. What do you
want to do? You want to be a general manager someday?
Run a team? What do you want to do?

Speaker 6 (17:50):
I mean it would be nice if I could.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Some professional advice.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Right, Yeah, you're gonna put the phone down and you're
gonna march over to his office. Are in a knock
on the door, and you're gonna say those two words.
Let's practice. Let's practice. Knock knock, Yeah, who's there?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Abby? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:13):
And you say, here's what I want you to say.
Get me Foles, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
I am not asied to say anything.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Okay, I get it, I get it. I understand people
get scared. Abby.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I hate to say it. If we lose to the
command is, which we won't. We won't, but it's going
to be on you. I hate to say it. I
hate to say it.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
And Angelo, I'll knock on wood right now.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay's it knock on his door to exactly.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
All right? All right, we tried, we tried to help.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well, you have a pleasant day, Abby, and you better
go birds, Abby, birds, all right, we'll talk to you later.
All right, Yeah, say yeah bye, right, Doty very disappointed.
Let's try the ticket office.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Here. See if Angelo's there once day? We got to
talk to Angelo. People seen in vans is gonna you?

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Is this Angelo with Tody Fosco.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
We spoke to you last week?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Bro, And I gotta say I didn't see a certain
person on the sideline last week named Nick Foles?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
So uh you want to explain that? Bro?

Speaker 7 (19:35):
Yeah, I can transfer you over to our comment line.
You can leave him.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Did the transfer?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Boy?

Speaker 6 (19:43):
You know?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Angelo?

Speaker 5 (19:47):
She do.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Angelo. That's it, that's it.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
You know what your people if if if we lose
on Sunday, this is a on you, on you Abby
and Angelo.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
There you go, Tony.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Just you know, I'm a little worried about the future
of this organization.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
You know we're gonna win it now, but the future, well,
let's not Ruin, which was a terrific show of course.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now I think our sponsors at Verizon, what are you
kidding me?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Why do you go? Why what do you want to go?

Speaker 7 (20:26):
You keep saying that the refs are helping the chiefs.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, use your eyes, bro, Yeah, Bro.

Speaker 7 (20:32):
Well, if you look at the roughing the passer calls
per one hundred attempts, the quarterback getting the most calls
isn't Patrick Mahomes, It's Josh Allen.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh yeah, well, I'm about to make a call to
a hit man.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, he's gonna make one hundred attempts to murder you.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh great one, who just go You really don't think
I tru Suzuki.

Speaker 7 (21:00):
He belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uh no, bro check the stats, Broye.

Speaker 7 (21:05):
He's literally one of the single greatest hitters ever and
pretty much every stat backs that up.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh yeah, well you belong in the Hall of douchebags. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Each Euro's career reminds me of your last birthday party.
Lots of singles.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh great one.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
So oh look at this? What coming to us? Who
knows from where?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Tony, But he's just booked himself on the show for
next week. Super Bowl Heroes soon to be playoff a
peer of If they listen to us, Nick Fours will
be joining us. Hey, don't forget rate and review this
show on our podcast. You gotta subscribe And oh, Tony,
we almost forgot. We gotta mention our winners of the Yo.
We have them all right, Yeah, two winners.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Congratulations to on your Clark and Declan Folly we'll be
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to you then. A don't forget. Also visit The Merch
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
Great job as always, same to you. Poly another floorless show.
We'll see if people next way see you

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