January 23, 2026 • 38 mins
Stugotz and the guys discuss the Buffalo Bills and the news that Philip Rivers has been brought in for an interview as their head coach. A story about Tony Romo and Lake Tahoe. Plus, Izzy shares a topic about Joel Embiid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Stu Gotsen Company Live on Fox Sports Radio Friday Edition,
I'm Dan Byer, having some technical issues just with the
guys back in South Florida as I'm at our headquarters
in La. Huge weekend to say the least when it
comes to football Championship weekend in the National Football League.
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Patriots and Broncos getting after it in the first game,
Seahawks and Rams renew their rivalry in the NFC. Plus
the huge news of the day, Philip Rivers maybe back
in the NFL. No, not quarterbacking, but maybe as a
head coach interviewing with the Buffalo Bills. Today it is
(01:12):
Fox Sports Radio Stugatson Company Live here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So if we have the.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Technical issues with the guys sorted out, we'll just give
you a quick timeline on how this is all gone
in the week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That is the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So last Saturday, they have a second half lead, aren't
able to hold on to it, force it overtime, questionable catch,
not catch interception call, they end up losing. Their season
comes to an end. Monday, the Bills fire head coach
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Sean McDermott. Then on Wednesday we hear from ownership Terry
Pagoula and the new president of football Operations with the
Buffalo Bills, the recently promoted general manager Brandon Bean. And
if you forgot what happened Wednesday, here was here was
a little taste, and somehow Keon Coleman was catching a
(02:15):
bunch of strays.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, can I interrupt, I'll address the Keon situation. The
coaching staff pushed to draft Kon. I'm not saying Brandon
wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice.
That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice
of his coaching staff.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
That was Wednesday, And now today we have come to
find out that the Buffalo Bills, with Josh Allen having input,
are interviewing Philip Rivers for their head coaching vacancy. That's
the week that was in Buffalo as we throw it
to the guys in South Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
STU take it away all right, Dan, thank you. I
was enjoying your show, by the way. I wanted to
see where you were going to take it outside of
Philip Rivers, of course, did you have any idea what
we because.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You're a pro.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You're a pros pro, Dan, and I wanted to listen
to more of you because we're unprofessional around here.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. In two and a half
minutes you were getting my picks against the spread here
on stegatts in Company Live.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's where you were going.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Huh why not? Somebody pulled the fire alarm over here apparently.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yes, thank you Dan for doing that. We appreciated.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the telephone
number eight seven seven nine to nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Mark Dominic could have join us.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
A former GM Tampa Bay buccaneer Sports twenty five we
taped earlier on Stugatson Company and God Bless Football with
the Bear Chris Flika if you want his picks for
the championship games coming up this Sunday and Mike Gullick
junior as well. It is all right there we do
I don't know, two to three hours before we get
in here every single day since Dan brought up what's
(03:59):
going on in and Philip Rivers, Taylor, do me a favor,
please put this on the pole. If you are hiring
someone to help Josh Allen get over the hump, would
the last person you'd hire be Philip Rivers. He is
a guy who is notoriously known for not being able
(04:21):
to get over the hump.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What do you mean it's unfair to him.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
As a quarterback, but you haven't seen him do anything
as a head coach?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I have not, No one has, because he's never been
a head coach in the NFL before, only in high school.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I mean, so, what gets you more excited? I Philip Rivers,
who's been a quarterback for years and years and years
but not been a head coach or a halflee.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's a great point, probably, Philip. Yes, yes, the unknown
to me is better. Well, they're both unknown to answer
your question, but the unknown and the big name.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Of Philip Rivers. I'd rather have that than like Kevin Stefanski, right, because.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
What in the end, like if we've learned much from
you know, the John Harbaughs of the world. What do
the head coaches do their best at organizing, their best
at keeping things together. They're best at making final decisions
that is best for the organization, and they're you know,
doing the thing on game day. But in terms of
being a specialist on one side or the other, they
(05:21):
don't have to be that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I have to follow the faces of Mikeya here. That's
why he's on the zoom every single day, so I
can follow his face because when we say stuff and
he disagrees.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He has no problem. But me know what is going
on with you? Mikey A.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Kevin Stefanski's a two time coach of the Year.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Philip Rivers couldn't do anything anywhere.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
He can't even win his high school champions Which.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Could Stefanski play quarterback?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
H That's a good question.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Ye, well, that's that's Kevin Stefanski's problem. My question is
how is Philip Rivers going to coach the Bills? Why
still play quarterback for the colt.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And what he be the Bills back up if Josh
Allen went down? How about that? Think about it?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Would you have to write a I can still play
clause into Philip rivers coaching contract, like will he say, hey, hey,
if somebody needs me, could be you guys, could be
somebody else. But if somebody needs me, that's my top priority.
I'm doing that first, just not the Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
It also depends on what the insurance is like as
a coach versus a player.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Right, it's so interesting, is he how do you?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And now the report was and I think Dan talked
about this at his update that they are consulting Josh
Allen on this.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Josh Allen is well aware and he has signed off
on them.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Speaking to Philip Rivers, who again was a high school
coach for his son's football team. He was thirteen to
one this year. Not bad thirteen to one, honestly, if
I'm being honest. But that is a guy whose job
it would be if he got the job, Okay, to
get Josh Allen over the hump. And I don't know
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how you coach that and go back to your experience
as a player when you were a guy like Josh
Allen who was unable to get past some of the
great teams and get himself to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
So we're to believe that Josh Allen was not important
enough in the organist to the organization to have a
say on whether they get rid of Sean McDermott. But
the next guy, Yeah, they are absolutely consulting him. In
this situation. None of that makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I believe that Josh Allen knew that Sean McDermott was
going to be fired, signed off on Sean McDermott being fired.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm okay with him having a say in who the
next head coach is going to be for the Buffalo
Bills because, in all honesty, it's Josh Allen's head coach.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's not the Buffalo Bill's head coach. It is his
head coach.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Yes, Taylor Is, You're a Dolphins fan and the other
person interviewing for the job today is Mike McDaniel. As
a Dolphins fan, who would you rather see coaching that
Bills team next year? Philip Rivers or Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You assume that as a Dolphins fan that I hate
every other organization. As a Dolphins fan, I actually keep
other organizations as potential teams to root for because my
fandom with the Dolphins is so shaky. But in terms
of Mike McDaniel, who I never thought should have been fired.
I thought he should have been given a chance with
another quarterback. I'm not entirely frightened by him potentially running
(08:20):
the Bills. I don't think the revenge factor of being
in the same division as the Miami Dolphins is going
to elevate his coaching ability. But I do think that
he has got more innovative offensive ideas than I've seen.
I think Josh Allen ever play in and that's without
you know, what we've seen from Mike McDaniel is without
(08:42):
having a mobile quarterback, because Tua was the opposite of
that when he was on the movie, could not make
a play ever, just to be clear, ever, And so
I think having Josh Allen to open up his playbook,
I mean it would probably we'd probably see things we've
never seen before from Mike McDaniels. So what I be scared, No,
because they're gonna beat the Dolphins anyway. But would I
(09:03):
be intrigued by how Josh Allen would look with a
little bit more innovation to his offensive coordinator?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I would be.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
This is how good Josh Allen is and this is
how attractive Josh Allen makes that job. Mike McDaniel just
signed with the La Rams. He lives in Los Angeles.
Chargers are the Chargers. Excuse me, he lives He lives
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I was thinking of Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Philip Rivers played for the San Diego Chargers, still lives
in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
These are very very nice places. Buffalo is not.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And these two guys are willing to drop everything and
move their families across the country from LA and San
Diego to Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
If you are a Chargers quarterback, yeah, Justin Herbert and
UK all right, I've got Mike McDaniel, he's my offensive
coordinat Oh wait, he's gonna go flirt with Josh Allen
for a second and then maybe come back to me
when obviously he sees Josh Allen as the better option here.
I don't know if I'm gonna like that. I don't
(10:11):
know if I'm going to accept him with big giant
Justin Herbert arms when he comes back after flirting with
Josh Allen.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Stu, you mentioned that Philip Rivers was thirteen and one
this season at Saint Michael Catholic.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, the Cardinals, Ah, the Cardinal.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Do you think the guy who beat him that won
the Jackson Aggies, who beat him in the state playoffs,
is like, wait, why am I not getting an interview
for this?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Jess?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I do think that, and I think he's thinking that,
and he should get an interview. If Philip Rivers is
gonna get one, why not the guy who beat him?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Put that on the Paul Taylor.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Should the guy who beat Philip Rivers also get an
interview with Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. And I
do believe Josh Allen is conducting the interviews, is he?
It is so crazy? What a crazy coaching carousel?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It just will stop.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
It's crazy that Josh Allen cries and everybody's like, oh,
Josh Allen, he tries so hard, he should cry. Caleb
Williams cries in college and it's like what a child? Yes,
a baby gets made.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Fun of, right, But he can cry as much as
he wants moving forward, because Caleb is proven.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
No, I don't think he can cry. No, he can
pick his nails and cry. I think he would be
under too deep of an attack.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The last person to be hired is a full time
NFL head coach without any prior college or pro coaching experience,
Norm van Brocklin the Dutchman nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I mean, how about that for sure? I am sure? Well,
Jeff's Saturday Saturday. Yeah, the Coults try all these full time,
full time. That was the key tailor, Yes, full time.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I'll actually asking if you're sure about the Dutchman part.
But whatever, I am sure about the Dutchman part. I am.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's the only thing I was sure about was the
was the Dutchman port? Is he? It is?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Just?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Where? What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
In what world does Josh Allen, who I believe signed
off on the firing of Sean McDermott, who's win percentage
sixty six point two percent is fifteenth all time in
NFL history among qualified coaches, better than Belichick, Parcel's Walls,
Tom Landry, better than all those guys. And yet the
guy that he's attracted to they get rid of him,
(12:20):
and the guy he's attracted to was done none of that.
And as a guy who was playing quarterback for the
Colts a couple of weeks ago, I mean, let's.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Be real, what's really exciting about an interview if I'm
at the Buffalo Bills, I want to interview.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This quote.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Who were we talking about?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Philip Rivers?
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I want to interview Philip Rivers. What I just went
through three names in my head. I would interview Philip Rivers.
That sounds like a fun interview. I want to talk
to you about all of his kids and why he
came back, and that he can't even throw the ball
thirty yards but he's somehow in the NFL. I would
want to have that discussion, right.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I do have a top five athletes that canot a
body of water in honor of Philip Rivers that we
can get to here.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It just a Sei Rivers.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well you know what went in Rome, and it just
happened to be on my notes, and and you know
since Philip Rivers is in the news today, well it's fitting.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Because we started the week with Ponds from Indiana being
our big hero, right DiAngelo putt Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's when that's when Taylor wanted me to get to it.
We never got to it. We got sidetracked, as we often.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Do around here, talking about Philip Rivers. I remember that, yes,
but now I have.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It, and so we can go to that here in
just a second, Mike McDaniel, that would be a great
for me. If I'm Josh Allen the Buffalo Bills, that
would be the guy now that I'm thinking about it,
because of the offensive mind having a quarterback like that.
If I'm Mike McDaniel, or if I'm Josh Allen and
(13:47):
I see Mike McDaniel being able to put up seventy
points with Tua, okay, I would that's the guy I
would crave. That's the guy I would want because if
he did that with Tua, imagine what Mike McDaniel could
deal with a guy like Josh Allen.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Well, I mean he also somehow head coached a team
that be you know, gave Josh Allen some trouble in
a couple of games. But I would argue that Mike
McDaniel did those things with Tyreek Hill right more than
he did to it. And so if Josh Allen says,
all right, I'll take Mike McDaniel as my head coach
if Tyreek comes with him that, I think he'd be
a lot more excited.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Taylor, do we have the sounder ready for a top five?
Before we get to Dan Buyer's picks?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Here?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Do we have that double checking.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
All right, We're going to talk it out on the fly,
all of us together with little organization, because when we
started the show today we were talking into Blanke microphones
that weren't working because we had the local feed on
w IO D sixtead. We got a nice news update
in the traffic update as well, Mike, Yeah, you hunkered
down up there in Hartford, Connecticut right now.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
It's it's getting crazy.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
I had I had to go out to the stores today,
and man, I had to push a little old lady
down for a loaf of bread.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Come on, you didn't do that, did you?
Speaker 10 (15:02):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I mean I didn't push her down. I pushed her
out of the way.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
A strong screen, nothing gets between you and your bread.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Set a pick.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine on Fox. All right, here we go o l
I all right, guys, ol I that means outside looking
in brooks koepka.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Love a good brook Again.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
In honor of Philip Rivers, we are doing a top
five athletes that canoe a body of water. Number five
Christian Ponder pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Number four, Dave Canalis.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Number three see see Sabbathia CC Sabathia. It is number two,
Cardinal Lake. Thank you, Thank you, guys, Cardinal Lake. I
should have said athletes and entertainers number one, Billy Ocean.
(16:15):
I left that Nile digs.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Ol.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
All right, Dan buyers, I have a pen and a
piece of paper app. So does Israel good eras here do,
and we are anxiously awaiting your picks for Championship Sunday
here both games.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Please if you don't, oh wow, geez, I was already
onto my X factors and tail of the tape I
had on my rundown.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I think you just keep it to player props quickly.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
We could do that.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, that was my d block in the in the
show run down, I told honestly, Stu. I told the
guys earlier today we were talking about picks. I'm a
lifelong Seahawks fan, and I'm like, I have to abstain
because I don't want to put it the jinks in
on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
It can't do it, Yes, I know, but I listen
as a radio host, I can't promote Dan Bayer's picks
or coming up next, and then Dan Byer's doesn't have
any picks.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I like the Broncos. How about that? Take the points
with the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
All Yeah, it's also a lose lose if you're a
fan of a team by not picking that team, because
if they end up losing, who are you going to
go around and brag to say, Oh, I got that one,
I nailed that one, got that one right. I picked
up to lose. Nobody's gonna be happy about that.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Absolutely, And then if you win, you're like, you didn't
believe it if you know, or it's a homer pick.
And if you pick against them and they with yeah,
then it's I think it's a no win all around.
But again, X factor and tail of the tape AFC
Championship NFC Championship Edition TBD.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Let's get to the news.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You want to get to the I was gonna say, Dan,
before you get to your update on Monday, I have
a surprise for you, and I would like you to
put together a list over the weekend. Okay, all right,
I have my top five update anchors of all time
Sports radio update anchors of all time, and I want
you to come up with your own list and on
Monday we'll do dueling list.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Is that okay with you?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Sure, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I have some
sound here from Austin Eckler that we'll get to with
just a second. Austin Eckler is a friend of the show.
He has done a weekly show with us in years past,
and he has a great story about the first time
he met Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers interviewing for the Buffalo
Bill's job. Taylor, who is the coach that beat Philip
Rivers the one loss that Philip had in high school
(18:42):
this year? Do you know who this guy is?
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Yeah, so it's Cody Floornoy. He's won back to back
state titles and believe it or not, he just accepted
a new job, not the Buffalo Bill's job, but it
looks like he's taking over the Central Phoenix City football
program as recently as January thirteen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All right, get him on the show. I want him
on Monday. I do because he deserves an interview with
the Buffalo Bills. You are right about this, one hundred percent.
You have my backing on this, okay, but I want
him on the show on Monday.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
We're on it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Mikey A is nodding his head in agreements. Yes, I
hold it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
If I'm him, I hold out for a better job
than Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
One hundred percent. Yes, mikey A. What is going on
in the Northeast. We're down here in South Florida. It's
eighty three degrees not a cloud in the sky. I
was sweating today, to be honest, and the rest of
the country is like going to get backup heaters and
generators and supplies.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
What is going on in the northeast right now?
Speaker 8 (19:39):
We were basically told by everybody, just hunkered down. You're
not going anywhere starting Sunday right maybe through to Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yes, uh, Izzy, you've never been through one of these.
You're from South Florida.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
How do you know you've never been through one of these?
Speaker 11 (19:53):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I know you were just an aspen you are going
through one of these.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I mean, I travel a lot, but I've been fortunately
fortunate enough have to sit through one of these winter stores.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
They're dangerous, and so everyone out there, I'm being serious here.
I have been through several of them in Wistern, Massachusetts
and where I grew up in New York. Be careful
because it is dangerous. My daughter was texting me outside
today it's negative forty in Chicago, and I'm like, get inside.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
We had Bob was Shuzen on the hockey chat showing
us shoes from his hotel window. How you can scrape
ice from the inside out the window because it is
negative ted with a negative thirty wind chill outside in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Is he I'm gonna play this sound here from Austin Eckler.
Are you have you ever heard this sound? This is
Austin Eckler the first time he is seeing meeting Philip Rivers.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
I think it would be the first time.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, let's play this sound here. Since Philip Rivers is
in the news. He is interviewing for the Buffalo Bill's
head coach. And here's a funny little story from Austin Eckler,
our friend who might join us out on radio row
with super Bowl for a day. Here is a story
from Austin Eckler first time he met Philip. I was
assuming you learned your lesson about not having kids from
from Philip Rivers.
Speaker 12 (21:04):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, the first time I
ever knew so, I didn't know he had that many kids.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
The first time I saw him with his family, I
thought he was doing a meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
With his like through his foundation.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Yeah, like, yeah, some kids are out there trying to
eat Philip and no, it was straight up.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
That Someone's like, no, that's his family.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm like what that's so Yeah, that was my first
interaction with that.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
How great is that he had a bunch of kids
just dying to meet Philip Rivers and being so and
like just a comfortable with being like childlike and being
that's just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, no, I mean what he what he thought was
that Philip right, it was a pre arranged thing on
the field with a with a group of kids for charity.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And it was Philip's family.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, And that's when I told Austin Eckler, be careful kids,
dangerous game, Stu.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
You did something more when we were in Tahoe. Yeah,
when Tony Romo had like four kids around him, you
were like, look at that Tony Romo not even signing
for the kids. And then Tony Romo just turned in
and he goes, those are my kids.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Wait I said it out loud.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh my god, he do not remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now, and anyone who knows me knows that's entirely possible. Taylor,
just be clear here to me, to Izzy, to the audience.
I said that out loud, and Romo heard what I said.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
It was when we were broadcasting off the like thirteenth
tea box.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yes, that's right, yes, And he did sign a thing
for those kids. I mean, Jesus, they were his kids.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yeah, you'd figure he'd sign then, right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Easy, right, I mean, Romo takes the Lake Tahoe and
that tournament way too seriously, Taylor was out there with me.
The only guy you don't see is Tony Romo. Why
because he's on his.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Own personal driving range the entire time getting ready for
the tournament. He hasn't come out. He does say loan
to anyone, no one. And he's never won it. No,
he has won it. I think he's won it.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
A couple of times. I think he's won it maybe
two or two or three times. So this is so interesting.
Man eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, the coaching
carousel is super, super interesting, weird, strange to have jobs
like the ones that we have opened the Steelers and
it's not filled yet. The Buffalo Bills with Josh Allen
(23:25):
and Josh Allen want of Philip Rivers.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What is going on?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
How much pressure do you think there is on those
hiring for the Pittsburgh Steelers and also the person accepting
the next Pittsburgh Steelers head coaching job because of all
of the jobs, you think, Okay, I could succeed here
and it would be great, but I'm probably gonna get
you know, four or five years at the most. With
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the Steelers. How many have coaches have they had in
their history?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Three three since nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Nice to be the next one with that expectation of
at least, you know, a couple of decades worth a success,
Like you're gonna be such a loser if you go
to the if you go to Pittsburgh and only last
five years, because not only are they loyal, but they
also hire good coaches apparently, so if you were to
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fail in that scenario, it's like, Man, I gotta feel
pretty credy.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I think you gotta do a lot to get yourself
fired in Pittsburgh after five seasons.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's got to be five miserable seasons, but.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You got it. But they're never bad for five seasons, right,
so you've got to be at least decent.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
They're also never good under My Tomlin. Right now, they're average.
They're an average team under Mike Tomlin, which is what
I mean. Mike Tomlin stepped down, but lately they've been
They haven't done a ton of winning over the last
decade with Mike Tomlin. And he still kept his job
because he won a super Bowl back in then I
don't know, twenty thirteen or.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Something like that.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
But look, as again, Dolphins fan Jets fan, here, we're
talking about somebody who remained relevant for this entire time there,
whether he was either in the playoffs or fighting for
the playoff. And that's something that you just don't take
for granted. So you just don't dismiss if you're going
to be getting rid of, gotten rid of in Pittsburgh
over a five or six year span, as I'm suggesting,
it would have to be because you're not relevant, because
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you are crap for la of lack of a better term,
and so you'd have to feel just pretty terrible, like,
oh man, I'm the one who finally failed in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Taylor put it on the pole.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
If Jared Stickham wins this game and Denver goes to
the super Bowl, should Denver signed Tom Brady to a one.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Day contract.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Or?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Philip rivers? How cool would that be?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
By the way, I saw Tom Brady on with Colin
Cowherd and I'm like, is there going to be a day?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah? Well I get Tom Brady on.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I texted Scott Shapiro, who runs this place, I said,
are we ever going to get Brady on?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He responded?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
He responded, Brady Quinn would love to join the show.
I told him he's already joined us twice.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Let me ask the questions next time.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It was a great response, my Scott, Brady Quinn would
love to join the show.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Oh my god? Crazy?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So is he?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We were at Mikey, Yeah, you'll you'll enjoy this. We
had Gojo mike Ola Junior on the podcast earlier today
and we were we were teaching Taylor and discussing with
Taylor the situation at the Double Tree Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut,
(26:34):
which is the hotel that you stay at, uh when
you're traveling up to Bristol and you work for ESPN delightful,
delicious cookies, two hot ones right when you walk in. Oh, yes,
place is amazing, it really is. Now you've been to
the hotel bar right at the Double Tree. She's been
(26:56):
to that restaurant because it's fantastic, and so Mikey after
we were done explaining to Taylor that this is a
hotel with a great bar and great food at the
bar and a who's who of ESPN personalities just roaming
around the premises. Okay, I mean listen, I sat the
(27:17):
first time I went there. I sat at the bar,
and you know who was sitting next to me, Ryan
Clark and Booger McFarland. And then I got up to
go to the bathroom and you know who was sitting
at the table behind me, Jack.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Del Rio in the bathroom. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's just so and so what Taylor kind of realized is,
and I think this is where he's headed, is he
would rather then go to Radio Row, He'd rather go
to that restaurant at the Double Tree Hotel.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
I will tell you the best time to go get
there for Sunday night because everybody's going to be snowed in.
So that's where they put everybody up so that they
can get they shuttle them over right from.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
ESPN to be Who's who, Who's who?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Who's who?
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Yes, Who's who? Of who?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Do you remember that time we saw Jack del Rio there?
Those eyes, Oh my god, those eyes.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Is he is not impressed and not interested at all
in this story?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You've never been blessed when you've worked there for as
long as I did, and then you're not working there anymore.
I don't think the last next thing you want to
do is go back and just hang out a little
bit longer with a bunch of people who are still there.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I stepped into a into the gym.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
This is back when I was working at it, and uh,
there were only two treadmills in the gym, and Meryl
Hodge was on one of them, dodgy, and I wasn't
getting on the other one because you know, Meryl Hodge
had started for forty five minutes already, and I would
have gotten on the treadmill and still have been done
(28:50):
before Merrol Hodge was done, because he was on that
for another forty five minutes and I ain't doing forty
five minutes, and so uh, and then so I made
it this issue, go down to the bar, have some
breakfast and come back and hopefully Meryl Hodge will be done.
And so I did that, and I came back upstairs,
a Meryl Hodge was done, but Tim Legler had replaced him.
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Speaker 2 (29:50):
Gonna dunk it.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
The Sixers are gonna beat the Houston Rockets one twenty eight,
one twenty two.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I have to say it like that. The Houston Rockheads,
by the way, Steue. I got a Joel MB question
for you when we get back. If you're willing to accept.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, but you got some I am willing to accept it.
You didn't have to ask like that. You were pointing
at me, was very aggressive.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
But I had you read the tire Act thing because
you got some NBA talk in today and now you
want more. Yes, please, we'll I don't accept.
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
We have a ton of callers here.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I promised you a conversation about Joel embiid. Let's have
that conversation quickly, if you don't mind before we get
to the call.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Now, I gotta rest this conversation. You don't have to well,
I mean, it's just I'm intrigued what you think of
Joel Embid because the guy who won MVP, a guy
who yesterday was a two year anniversary of him scoring
seventy points in a game.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
And so yesterday he had a triple double, a thirty
point triple double, and they beat the Sixers, did beat
the Houston Rockets in overtime, and needed to come back
to do it. He is saying he is almost back
to his you know, MVP type of level. Nick Nurse
is saying, they're getting pretty close. That type of game
(31:53):
against a good defensive team like Houston is impressive, right,
But I'm curious what he would have to do for
you to believe that he is back to who he
was and he is somebody that we should even take
seriously because I'll tell you, I watched every minute of
that game yesterday, and I don't care what the final
stat sheet said. He did not look like an MVP.
(32:15):
He'd looked like a foul baiting, slow, defensively talented offensive
player who happens to have an MVP candidate next to
him in Tyres. MAXI, I'm asking you because I believe
you and I have similar opinions on.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
This hasn't won a playoff series since twenty twenty threes
twenty nine and thirty overall in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Do it in the postseason, win a championship. He's a
generational talent.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
He is in a postseason a broken face or a
broken knee.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I mean, all right, or do that? I mean, but
twenty nine and thirty in the postseason. You know what
they should do. They should hire Patrick Ewing as their
head coach to help him get.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Over the hump about that.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Maybe Kareem the funny, It's just, you know, I feel
for Philly fans right because here even yet last night
wasn't over. I mean, they've been just so just the Sixers,
just the six.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
They've been stuck with him, and even yesterday he played
forty six minutes. And yes, again it was a good win. Yes,
it was a good performance by him to get that
out of him in the regular season in January. But
do you really believe that you're going to be able
to maintain he's going to be able to maintain this
level of minutes load, get to a postseason and then
(33:36):
be reliable for you in that postseason.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Why would you believe that? You have no proof of
him being able to do so? So why would anyone
believe that?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And so to me, I would throw I mean, the
Sixers wouldn't do this there in playoff position or what
have you. But if I were a positioned with the
Philadelphia seventies six ers, I would have been looking to
trade him the second he got healthy, the second you
can last. Yeah, all you need is a let's say,
all star level. You don't need an MVP level. You
(34:03):
need a high quality big to play with those guys.
And can I tell you what Paul George did last night,
because this is it's just a hilarious situation you have
in Philadelphia. Paul George, who was supposed to bring Joel
embat over the top. He plays thirty seven minutes and
has ten points only nine shot attempts, while Kelly Ubre
is out there going ten for fourteen and kellybra And
giving you twenty six. So it's just it feels like
(34:26):
things have turned in Philadelphia where Joelle just give me something,
right because MAXI and now maybe Edgecombe are gonna take
us to where we want to go. And yeah, because
if you watch him play, he's just you know, he's
gonna let you down again because this version of him
can get you some numbers, but he's not going to
be a dominant force over any long stretch.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Paul George is a sixer.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
That's That's the type of buy in that I want
from you in these conversations.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What let's just go to a.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
College, Let's go to al This is a tough one
I have to I have to say very slowly, Al
in Albuquerque, Go ahead, Al, it's the real person.
Speaker 13 (35:04):
Yes, Al, I just wanted to let you know I'm
listening live on Fox Sports thirteen fifty AM in Albuquerque.
It's the first time I've.
Speaker 14 (35:17):
Listened to am radio in like twenty five years, so
thank you for that.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
The only AM radio I have.
Speaker 14 (35:23):
Is my emergency weather radio in my car, which I
haven't touched in like five years and it still works somehow.
And yeah, I also just just want to say, is
he joel embiid is a slightly better?
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Yao ming?
Speaker 13 (35:34):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Okay?
Speaker 11 (35:36):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I would like every call to end with how
about that? Can we do that?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
How's my voice sound in the AAM little crackley?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Give it take?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
How about that?
Speaker 10 (35:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
See you later.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yes, makes Taylor, you're screening the calls back there in
the VIP room.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Make sure they all end it with how about that?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Thank you for the call, Alan, thank you for dusting
off the old AM radio for us.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Yeah, at eleven fifty out there, no Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yes, very well done?
Speaker 11 (35:59):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Let's go to a Donovan in Arlington, Washington. Go ahead, Donovan.
Speaker 12 (36:05):
Hey, so I got top fire five athletes that cannote
bodies of water.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Okay, so hey listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna let you
do all five. Just you know, number one you have
to deliver a how about that afterwards?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Oh oh absolutely all right?
Speaker 13 (36:19):
All right, Number five Jason say, well you.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Can get the sound to look at you. You're special.
Go ahead, Number go ahead.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
Number four, Drew Lock number three, Brandon Marshall, Oh nice.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Number two, Wade Box number number one, story Ruiz exactly,
it's Estuary, but it's pronounced Ruie.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yes, yes, I got it, but you forgot to deliver
a lot at the very end.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
There, I got it. Pay Happy New Year, Issy, how
about that?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And say hi to ur Briles for us. Let's go
to Nathan in Lancaster, California.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Go ahead, Nathan, you gots I have nine copies of
your personal record book.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
How about that? Yes? How come you don't have to?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
I'm going to say I couldn't afford that. Tap on.
Speaker 11 (37:27):
Maybe if you get this question right, I want to
play a game with you. Can you name the title
to the first chapter of your book? It's about Kevin Durant?
Is it a Michael would never be?
Speaker 12 (37:41):
Zero?
Speaker 11 (37:42):
Rings, B, no guts, no glory? Which one is the
correct title?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
What it?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Stanzic? Title can't be a right?
Speaker 6 (37:56):
They never offer up A as the right option right
off the bat.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I believe even see is see the correct answer?
Speaker 11 (38:03):
He is the correct answer?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
No, Yeah, you know what I got for you?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Nathan?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
You know what I got for you? Nathan, how about that, Thank.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You for the call. We'll take a quick time out.
Hour two coming up next
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Stu Gotsen Company Live on Fox Sports Radio Friday Edition,
I'm Dan Byer, having some technical issues just with the
guys back in South Florida as I'm at our headquarters
in La. Huge weekend to say the least when it
comes to football Championship weekend in the National Football League.
(00:49):
Patriots and Broncos getting after it in the first game,
Seahawks and Rams renew their rivalry in the NFC. Plus
the huge news of the day, Philip Rivers maybe back
in the NFL. No, not quarterbacking, but maybe as a
head coach interviewing with the Buffalo Bills. Today it is
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Fox Sports Radio Stugatson Company Live here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So if we have the.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Technical issues with the guys sorted out, we'll just give
you a quick timeline on how this is all gone
in the week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That is the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So last Saturday, they have a second half lead, aren't
able to hold on to it, force it overtime, questionable catch,
not catch interception call, they end up losing. Their season
comes to an end. Monday, the Bills fire head coach
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Sean McDermott. Then on Wednesday we hear from ownership Terry
Pagoula and the new president of football Operations with the
Buffalo Bills, the recently promoted general manager Brandon Bean. And
if you forgot what happened Wednesday, here was here was
a little taste, and somehow Keon Coleman was catching a
(02:15):
bunch of strays.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, can I interrupt, I'll address the Keon situation. The
coaching staff pushed to draft Kon. I'm not saying Brandon
wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice.
That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice
of his coaching staff.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
That was Wednesday, And now today we have come to
find out that the Buffalo Bills, with Josh Allen having input,
are interviewing Philip Rivers for their head coaching vacancy. That's
the week that was in Buffalo as we throw it
to the guys in South Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
STU take it away all right, Dan, thank you. I
was enjoying your show, by the way. I wanted to
see where you were going to take it outside of
Philip Rivers, of course, did you have any idea what
we because.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You're a pro.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You're a pros pro, Dan, and I wanted to listen
to more of you because we're unprofessional around here.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. In two and a half
minutes you were getting my picks against the spread here
on stegatts in Company Live.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's where you were going.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Huh why not? Somebody pulled the fire alarm over here apparently.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yes, thank you Dan for doing that. We appreciated.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the telephone
number eight seven seven nine to nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Mark Dominic could have join us.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
A former GM Tampa Bay buccaneer Sports twenty five we
taped earlier on Stugatson Company and God Bless Football with
the Bear Chris Flika if you want his picks for
the championship games coming up this Sunday and Mike Gullick
junior as well. It is all right there we do
I don't know, two to three hours before we get
in here every single day since Dan brought up what's
(03:59):
going on in and Philip Rivers, Taylor, do me a favor,
please put this on the pole. If you are hiring
someone to help Josh Allen get over the hump, would
the last person you'd hire be Philip Rivers. He is
a guy who is notoriously known for not being able
(04:21):
to get over the hump.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What do you mean it's unfair to him.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
As a quarterback, but you haven't seen him do anything
as a head coach?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I have not, No one has, because he's never been
a head coach in the NFL before, only in high school.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I mean, so, what gets you more excited? I Philip Rivers,
who's been a quarterback for years and years and years
but not been a head coach or a halflee.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's a great point, probably, Philip. Yes, yes, the unknown
to me is better. Well, they're both unknown to answer
your question, but the unknown and the big name.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Of Philip Rivers. I'd rather have that than like Kevin Stefanski, right, because.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
What in the end, like if we've learned much from
you know, the John Harbaughs of the world. What do
the head coaches do their best at organizing, their best
at keeping things together. They're best at making final decisions
that is best for the organization, and they're you know,
doing the thing on game day. But in terms of
being a specialist on one side or the other, they
(05:21):
don't have to be that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I have to follow the faces of Mikeya here. That's
why he's on the zoom every single day, so I
can follow his face because when we say stuff and
he disagrees.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He has no problem. But me know what is going
on with you? Mikey A.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Kevin Stefanski's a two time coach of the Year.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Philip Rivers couldn't do anything anywhere.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
He can't even win his high school champions Which.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Could Stefanski play quarterback?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
H That's a good question.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Ye, well, that's that's Kevin Stefanski's problem. My question is
how is Philip Rivers going to coach the Bills? Why
still play quarterback for the colt.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And what he be the Bills back up if Josh
Allen went down? How about that? Think about it?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Would you have to write a I can still play
clause into Philip rivers coaching contract, like will he say, hey, hey,
if somebody needs me, could be you guys, could be
somebody else. But if somebody needs me, that's my top priority.
I'm doing that first, just not the Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
It also depends on what the insurance is like as
a coach versus a player.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Right, it's so interesting, is he how do you?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And now the report was and I think Dan talked
about this at his update that they are consulting Josh
Allen on this.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Josh Allen is well aware and he has signed off
on them.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Speaking to Philip Rivers, who again was a high school
coach for his son's football team. He was thirteen to
one this year. Not bad thirteen to one, honestly, if
I'm being honest. But that is a guy whose job
it would be if he got the job, Okay, to
get Josh Allen over the hump. And I don't know
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how you coach that and go back to your experience
as a player when you were a guy like Josh
Allen who was unable to get past some of the
great teams and get himself to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
So we're to believe that Josh Allen was not important
enough in the organist to the organization to have a
say on whether they get rid of Sean McDermott. But
the next guy, Yeah, they are absolutely consulting him. In
this situation. None of that makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I believe that Josh Allen knew that Sean McDermott was
going to be fired, signed off on Sean McDermott being fired.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm okay with him having a say in who the
next head coach is going to be for the Buffalo
Bills because, in all honesty, it's Josh Allen's head coach.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's not the Buffalo Bill's head coach. It is his
head coach.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Yes, Taylor Is, You're a Dolphins fan and the other
person interviewing for the job today is Mike McDaniel. As
a Dolphins fan, who would you rather see coaching that
Bills team next year? Philip Rivers or Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You assume that as a Dolphins fan that I hate
every other organization. As a Dolphins fan, I actually keep
other organizations as potential teams to root for because my
fandom with the Dolphins is so shaky. But in terms
of Mike McDaniel, who I never thought should have been fired.
I thought he should have been given a chance with
another quarterback. I'm not entirely frightened by him potentially running
(08:20):
the Bills. I don't think the revenge factor of being
in the same division as the Miami Dolphins is going
to elevate his coaching ability. But I do think that
he has got more innovative offensive ideas than I've seen.
I think Josh Allen ever play in and that's without
you know, what we've seen from Mike McDaniel is without
(08:42):
having a mobile quarterback, because Tua was the opposite of
that when he was on the movie, could not make
a play ever, just to be clear, ever, And so
I think having Josh Allen to open up his playbook,
I mean it would probably we'd probably see things we've
never seen before from Mike McDaniels. So what I be scared, No,
because they're gonna beat the Dolphins anyway. But would I
(09:03):
be intrigued by how Josh Allen would look with a
little bit more innovation to his offensive coordinator?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I would be.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
This is how good Josh Allen is and this is
how attractive Josh Allen makes that job. Mike McDaniel just
signed with the La Rams. He lives in Los Angeles.
Chargers are the Chargers. Excuse me, he lives He lives
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I was thinking of Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Philip Rivers played for the San Diego Chargers, still lives
in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
These are very very nice places. Buffalo is not.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And these two guys are willing to drop everything and
move their families across the country from LA and San
Diego to Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
If you are a Chargers quarterback, yeah, Justin Herbert and
UK all right, I've got Mike McDaniel, he's my offensive
coordinat Oh wait, he's gonna go flirt with Josh Allen
for a second and then maybe come back to me
when obviously he sees Josh Allen as the better option here.
I don't know if I'm gonna like that. I don't
(10:11):
know if I'm going to accept him with big giant
Justin Herbert arms when he comes back after flirting with
Josh Allen.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Stu, you mentioned that Philip Rivers was thirteen and one
this season at Saint Michael Catholic.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, the Cardinals, Ah, the Cardinal.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Do you think the guy who beat him that won
the Jackson Aggies, who beat him in the state playoffs,
is like, wait, why am I not getting an interview
for this?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Jess?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I do think that, and I think he's thinking that,
and he should get an interview. If Philip Rivers is
gonna get one, why not the guy who beat him?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Put that on the Paul Taylor.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Should the guy who beat Philip Rivers also get an
interview with Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. And I
do believe Josh Allen is conducting the interviews, is he?
It is so crazy? What a crazy coaching carousel?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It just will stop.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
It's crazy that Josh Allen cries and everybody's like, oh,
Josh Allen, he tries so hard, he should cry. Caleb
Williams cries in college and it's like what a child? Yes,
a baby gets made.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Fun of, right, But he can cry as much as
he wants moving forward, because Caleb is proven.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
No, I don't think he can cry. No, he can
pick his nails and cry. I think he would be
under too deep of an attack.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The last person to be hired is a full time
NFL head coach without any prior college or pro coaching experience,
Norm van Brocklin the Dutchman nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I mean, how about that for sure? I am sure? Well,
Jeff's Saturday Saturday. Yeah, the Coults try all these full time,
full time. That was the key tailor, Yes, full time.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I'll actually asking if you're sure about the Dutchman part.
But whatever, I am sure about the Dutchman part. I am.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's the only thing I was sure about was the
was the Dutchman port? Is he? It is?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Just?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Where? What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
In what world does Josh Allen, who I believe signed
off on the firing of Sean McDermott, who's win percentage
sixty six point two percent is fifteenth all time in
NFL history among qualified coaches, better than Belichick, Parcel's Walls,
Tom Landry, better than all those guys. And yet the
guy that he's attracted to they get rid of him,
(12:20):
and the guy he's attracted to was done none of that.
And as a guy who was playing quarterback for the
Colts a couple of weeks ago, I mean, let's.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Be real, what's really exciting about an interview if I'm
at the Buffalo Bills, I want to interview.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This quote.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Who were we talking about?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Philip Rivers?
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I want to interview Philip Rivers. What I just went
through three names in my head. I would interview Philip Rivers.
That sounds like a fun interview. I want to talk
to you about all of his kids and why he
came back, and that he can't even throw the ball
thirty yards but he's somehow in the NFL. I would
want to have that discussion, right.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I do have a top five athletes that canot a
body of water in honor of Philip Rivers that we
can get to here.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It just a Sei Rivers.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well you know what went in Rome, and it just
happened to be on my notes, and and you know
since Philip Rivers is in the news today, well it's fitting.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Because we started the week with Ponds from Indiana being
our big hero, right DiAngelo putt Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's when that's when Taylor wanted me to get to it.
We never got to it. We got sidetracked, as we often.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Do around here, talking about Philip Rivers. I remember that, yes,
but now I have.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It, and so we can go to that here in
just a second, Mike McDaniel, that would be a great
for me. If I'm Josh Allen the Buffalo Bills, that
would be the guy now that I'm thinking about it,
because of the offensive mind having a quarterback like that.
If I'm Mike McDaniel, or if I'm Josh Allen and
(13:47):
I see Mike McDaniel being able to put up seventy
points with Tua, okay, I would that's the guy I
would crave. That's the guy I would want because if
he did that with Tua, imagine what Mike McDaniel could
deal with a guy like Josh Allen.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Well, I mean he also somehow head coached a team
that be you know, gave Josh Allen some trouble in
a couple of games. But I would argue that Mike
McDaniel did those things with Tyreek Hill right more than
he did to it. And so if Josh Allen says,
all right, I'll take Mike McDaniel as my head coach
if Tyreek comes with him that, I think he'd be
a lot more excited.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Taylor, do we have the sounder ready for a top five?
Before we get to Dan Buyer's picks?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Here?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Do we have that double checking.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
All right, We're going to talk it out on the fly,
all of us together with little organization, because when we
started the show today we were talking into Blanke microphones
that weren't working because we had the local feed on
w IO D sixtead. We got a nice news update
in the traffic update as well, Mike, Yeah, you hunkered
down up there in Hartford, Connecticut right now.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
It's it's getting crazy.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
I had I had to go out to the stores today,
and man, I had to push a little old lady
down for a loaf of bread.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Come on, you didn't do that, did you?
Speaker 10 (15:02):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I mean I didn't push her down. I pushed her
out of the way.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
A strong screen, nothing gets between you and your bread.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Set a pick.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine on Fox. All right, here we go o l
I all right, guys, ol I that means outside looking
in brooks koepka.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Love a good brook Again.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
In honor of Philip Rivers, we are doing a top
five athletes that canoe a body of water. Number five
Christian Ponder pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Number four, Dave Canalis.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Number three see see Sabbathia CC Sabathia. It is number two,
Cardinal Lake. Thank you, Thank you, guys, Cardinal Lake. I
should have said athletes and entertainers number one, Billy Ocean.
(16:15):
I left that Nile digs.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Ol.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gotson Company
live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
All right, Dan buyers, I have a pen and a
piece of paper app. So does Israel good eras here do,
and we are anxiously awaiting your picks for Championship Sunday
here both games.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Please if you don't, oh wow, geez, I was already
onto my X factors and tail of the tape I
had on my rundown.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I think you just keep it to player props quickly.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
We could do that.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, that was my d block in the in the
show run down, I told honestly, Stu. I told the
guys earlier today we were talking about picks. I'm a
lifelong Seahawks fan, and I'm like, I have to abstain
because I don't want to put it the jinks in
on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
It can't do it, Yes, I know, but I listen
as a radio host, I can't promote Dan Bayer's picks
or coming up next, and then Dan Byer's doesn't have
any picks.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I like the Broncos. How about that? Take the points
with the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
All Yeah, it's also a lose lose if you're a
fan of a team by not picking that team, because
if they end up losing, who are you going to
go around and brag to say, Oh, I got that one,
I nailed that one, got that one right. I picked
up to lose. Nobody's gonna be happy about that.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Absolutely, And then if you win, you're like, you didn't
believe it if you know, or it's a homer pick.
And if you pick against them and they with yeah,
then it's I think it's a no win all around.
But again, X factor and tail of the tape AFC
Championship NFC Championship Edition TBD.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Let's get to the news.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You want to get to the I was gonna say, Dan,
before you get to your update on Monday, I have
a surprise for you, and I would like you to
put together a list over the weekend. Okay, all right,
I have my top five update anchors of all time
Sports radio update anchors of all time, and I want
you to come up with your own list and on
Monday we'll do dueling list.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Is that okay with you?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Sure, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I have some
sound here from Austin Eckler that we'll get to with
just a second. Austin Eckler is a friend of the show.
He has done a weekly show with us in years past,
and he has a great story about the first time
he met Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers interviewing for the Buffalo
Bill's job. Taylor, who is the coach that beat Philip
Rivers the one loss that Philip had in high school
(18:42):
this year? Do you know who this guy is?
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Yeah, so it's Cody Floornoy. He's won back to back
state titles and believe it or not, he just accepted
a new job, not the Buffalo Bill's job, but it
looks like he's taking over the Central Phoenix City football
program as recently as January thirteen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All right, get him on the show. I want him
on Monday. I do because he deserves an interview with
the Buffalo Bills. You are right about this, one hundred percent.
You have my backing on this, okay, but I want
him on the show on Monday.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
We're on it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Mikey A is nodding his head in agreements. Yes, I
hold it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
If I'm him, I hold out for a better job
than Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
One hundred percent. Yes, mikey A. What is going on
in the Northeast. We're down here in South Florida. It's
eighty three degrees not a cloud in the sky. I
was sweating today, to be honest, and the rest of
the country is like going to get backup heaters and
generators and supplies.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
What is going on in the northeast right now?
Speaker 8 (19:39):
We were basically told by everybody, just hunkered down. You're
not going anywhere starting Sunday right maybe through to Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yes, uh, Izzy, you've never been through one of these.
You're from South Florida.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
How do you know you've never been through one of these?
Speaker 11 (19:53):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I know you were just an aspen you are going
through one of these.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I mean, I travel a lot, but I've been fortunately
fortunate enough have to sit through one of these winter stores.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
They're dangerous, and so everyone out there, I'm being serious here.
I have been through several of them in Wistern, Massachusetts
and where I grew up in New York. Be careful
because it is dangerous. My daughter was texting me outside
today it's negative forty in Chicago, and I'm like, get inside.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
We had Bob was Shuzen on the hockey chat showing
us shoes from his hotel window. How you can scrape
ice from the inside out the window because it is
negative ted with a negative thirty wind chill outside in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Is he I'm gonna play this sound here from Austin Eckler.
Are you have you ever heard this sound? This is
Austin Eckler the first time he is seeing meeting Philip Rivers.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
I think it would be the first time.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, let's play this sound here. Since Philip Rivers is
in the news. He is interviewing for the Buffalo Bill's
head coach. And here's a funny little story from Austin Eckler,
our friend who might join us out on radio row
with super Bowl for a day. Here is a story
from Austin Eckler first time he met Philip. I was
assuming you learned your lesson about not having kids from
from Philip Rivers.
Speaker 12 (21:04):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, the first time I
ever knew so, I didn't know he had that many kids.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
The first time I saw him with his family, I
thought he was doing a meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
With his like through his foundation.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Yeah, like, yeah, some kids are out there trying to
eat Philip and no, it was straight up.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
That Someone's like, no, that's his family.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm like what that's so Yeah, that was my first
interaction with that.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
How great is that he had a bunch of kids
just dying to meet Philip Rivers and being so and
like just a comfortable with being like childlike and being
that's just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, no, I mean what he what he thought was
that Philip right, it was a pre arranged thing on
the field with a with a group of kids for charity.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And it was Philip's family.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, And that's when I told Austin Eckler, be careful kids,
dangerous game, Stu.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
You did something more when we were in Tahoe. Yeah,
when Tony Romo had like four kids around him, you
were like, look at that Tony Romo not even signing
for the kids. And then Tony Romo just turned in
and he goes, those are my kids.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Wait I said it out loud.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh my god, he do not remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now, and anyone who knows me knows that's entirely possible. Taylor,
just be clear here to me, to Izzy, to the audience.
I said that out loud, and Romo heard what I said.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
It was when we were broadcasting off the like thirteenth
tea box.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yes, that's right, yes, And he did sign a thing
for those kids. I mean, Jesus, they were his kids.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yeah, you'd figure he'd sign then, right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Easy, right, I mean, Romo takes the Lake Tahoe and
that tournament way too seriously, Taylor was out there with me.
The only guy you don't see is Tony Romo. Why
because he's on his.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Own personal driving range the entire time getting ready for
the tournament. He hasn't come out. He does say loan
to anyone, no one. And he's never won it. No,
he has won it. I think he's won it.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
A couple of times. I think he's won it maybe
two or two or three times. So this is so interesting.
Man eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, the coaching
carousel is super, super interesting, weird, strange to have jobs
like the ones that we have opened the Steelers and
it's not filled yet. The Buffalo Bills with Josh Allen
(23:25):
and Josh Allen want of Philip Rivers.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What is going on?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
How much pressure do you think there is on those
hiring for the Pittsburgh Steelers and also the person accepting
the next Pittsburgh Steelers head coaching job because of all
of the jobs, you think, Okay, I could succeed here
and it would be great, but I'm probably gonna get
you know, four or five years at the most. With
(23:50):
the Steelers. How many have coaches have they had in
their history?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Three three since nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Nice to be the next one with that expectation of
at least, you know, a couple of decades worth a success,
Like you're gonna be such a loser if you go
to the if you go to Pittsburgh and only last
five years, because not only are they loyal, but they
also hire good coaches apparently, so if you were to
(24:19):
fail in that scenario, it's like, Man, I gotta feel
pretty credy.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I think you gotta do a lot to get yourself
fired in Pittsburgh after five seasons.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's got to be five miserable seasons, but.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You got it. But they're never bad for five seasons, right,
so you've got to be at least decent.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
They're also never good under My Tomlin. Right now, they're average.
They're an average team under Mike Tomlin, which is what
I mean. Mike Tomlin stepped down, but lately they've been
They haven't done a ton of winning over the last
decade with Mike Tomlin. And he still kept his job
because he won a super Bowl back in then I
don't know, twenty thirteen or.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Something like that.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
But look, as again, Dolphins fan Jets fan, here, we're
talking about somebody who remained relevant for this entire time there,
whether he was either in the playoffs or fighting for
the playoff. And that's something that you just don't take
for granted. So you just don't dismiss if you're going
to be getting rid of, gotten rid of in Pittsburgh
over a five or six year span, as I'm suggesting,
it would have to be because you're not relevant, because
(25:13):
you are crap for la of lack of a better term,
and so you'd have to feel just pretty terrible, like,
oh man, I'm the one who finally failed in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Taylor put it on the pole.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
If Jared Stickham wins this game and Denver goes to
the super Bowl, should Denver signed Tom Brady to a one.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Day contract.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Or?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Philip rivers? How cool would that be?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
By the way, I saw Tom Brady on with Colin
Cowherd and I'm like, is there going to be a day?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah? Well I get Tom Brady on.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I texted Scott Shapiro, who runs this place, I said,
are we ever going to get Brady on?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He responded?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
He responded, Brady Quinn would love to join the show.
I told him he's already joined us twice.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Let me ask the questions next time.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It was a great response, my Scott, Brady Quinn would
love to join the show.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Oh my god? Crazy?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So is he?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We were at Mikey, Yeah, you'll you'll enjoy this. We
had Gojo mike Ola Junior on the podcast earlier today
and we were we were teaching Taylor and discussing with
Taylor the situation at the Double Tree Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut,
(26:34):
which is the hotel that you stay at, uh when
you're traveling up to Bristol and you work for ESPN delightful,
delicious cookies, two hot ones right when you walk in. Oh, yes,
place is amazing, it really is. Now you've been to
the hotel bar right at the Double Tree. She's been
(26:56):
to that restaurant because it's fantastic, and so Mikey after
we were done explaining to Taylor that this is a
hotel with a great bar and great food at the
bar and a who's who of ESPN personalities just roaming
around the premises. Okay, I mean listen, I sat the
(27:17):
first time I went there. I sat at the bar,
and you know who was sitting next to me, Ryan
Clark and Booger McFarland. And then I got up to
go to the bathroom and you know who was sitting
at the table behind me, Jack.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Del Rio in the bathroom. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's just so and so what Taylor kind of realized is,
and I think this is where he's headed, is he
would rather then go to Radio Row, He'd rather go
to that restaurant at the Double Tree Hotel.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
I will tell you the best time to go get
there for Sunday night because everybody's going to be snowed in.
So that's where they put everybody up so that they
can get they shuttle them over right from.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
ESPN to be Who's who, Who's who?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Who's who?
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Yes, Who's who? Of who?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Do you remember that time we saw Jack del Rio there?
Those eyes, Oh my god, those eyes.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Is he is not impressed and not interested at all
in this story?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You've never been blessed when you've worked there for as
long as I did, and then you're not working there anymore.
I don't think the last next thing you want to
do is go back and just hang out a little
bit longer with a bunch of people who are still there.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I stepped into a into the gym.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
This is back when I was working at it, and uh,
there were only two treadmills in the gym, and Meryl
Hodge was on one of them, dodgy, and I wasn't
getting on the other one because you know, Meryl Hodge
had started for forty five minutes already, and I would
have gotten on the treadmill and still have been done
(28:50):
before Merrol Hodge was done, because he was on that
for another forty five minutes and I ain't doing forty
five minutes, and so uh, and then so I made
it this issue, go down to the bar, have some
breakfast and come back and hopefully Meryl Hodge will be done.
And so I did that, and I came back upstairs,
a Meryl Hodge was done, but Tim Legler had replaced him.
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Speaker 10 (29:35):
The Rockets are gonna play on no timeout for now,
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he goes to Joel ten seconds and beat lead pass
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Speaker 2 (29:50):
Gonna dunk it.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
The Sixers are gonna beat the Houston Rockets one twenty eight,
one twenty two.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I have to say it like that. The Houston Rockheads,
by the way, Steue. I got a Joel MB question
for you when we get back. If you're willing to accept.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, but you got some I am willing to accept it.
You didn't have to ask like that. You were pointing
at me, was very aggressive.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
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you got some NBA talk in today and now you
want more. Yes, please, we'll I don't accept.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
We'll take your phone calls coming up next eight seven
seven ninety nine, Collars, we'll talk to the college.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
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Speaker 2 (30:25):
To talk about?
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
We have a ton of callers here.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I promised you a conversation about Joel embiid. Let's have
that conversation quickly, if you don't mind before we get
to the call.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Now, I gotta rest this conversation. You don't have to well,
I mean, it's just I'm intrigued what you think of
Joel Embid because the guy who won MVP, a guy
who yesterday was a two year anniversary of him scoring
seventy points in a game.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
And so yesterday he had a triple double, a thirty
point triple double, and they beat the Sixers, did beat
the Houston Rockets in overtime, and needed to come back
to do it. He is saying he is almost back
to his you know, MVP type of level. Nick Nurse
is saying, they're getting pretty close. That type of game
(31:53):
against a good defensive team like Houston is impressive, right,
But I'm curious what he would have to do for
you to believe that he is back to who he
was and he is somebody that we should even take
seriously because I'll tell you, I watched every minute of
that game yesterday, and I don't care what the final
stat sheet said. He did not look like an MVP.
(32:15):
He'd looked like a foul baiting, slow, defensively talented offensive
player who happens to have an MVP candidate next to
him in Tyres. MAXI, I'm asking you because I believe
you and I have similar opinions on.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
This hasn't won a playoff series since twenty twenty threes
twenty nine and thirty overall in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Do it in the postseason, win a championship. He's a
generational talent.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
He is in a postseason a broken face or a
broken knee.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I mean, all right, or do that? I mean, but
twenty nine and thirty in the postseason. You know what
they should do. They should hire Patrick Ewing as their
head coach to help him get.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Over the hump about that.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Maybe Kareem the funny, It's just, you know, I feel
for Philly fans right because here even yet last night
wasn't over. I mean, they've been just so just the Sixers,
just the six.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
They've been stuck with him, and even yesterday he played
forty six minutes. And yes, again it was a good win. Yes,
it was a good performance by him to get that
out of him in the regular season in January. But
do you really believe that you're going to be able
to maintain he's going to be able to maintain this
level of minutes load, get to a postseason and then
(33:36):
be reliable for you in that postseason.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Why would you believe that? You have no proof of
him being able to do so? So why would anyone
believe that?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And so to me, I would throw I mean, the
Sixers wouldn't do this there in playoff position or what
have you. But if I were a positioned with the
Philadelphia seventies six ers, I would have been looking to
trade him the second he got healthy, the second you
can last. Yeah, all you need is a let's say,
all star level. You don't need an MVP level. You
(34:03):
need a high quality big to play with those guys.
And can I tell you what Paul George did last night,
because this is it's just a hilarious situation you have
in Philadelphia. Paul George, who was supposed to bring Joel
embat over the top. He plays thirty seven minutes and
has ten points only nine shot attempts, while Kelly Ubre
is out there going ten for fourteen and kellybra And
giving you twenty six. So it's just it feels like
(34:26):
things have turned in Philadelphia where Joelle just give me something,
right because MAXI and now maybe Edgecombe are gonna take
us to where we want to go. And yeah, because
if you watch him play, he's just you know, he's
gonna let you down again because this version of him
can get you some numbers, but he's not going to
be a dominant force over any long stretch.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Paul George is a sixer.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
That's That's the type of buy in that I want
from you in these conversations.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What let's just go to a.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
College, Let's go to al This is a tough one
I have to I have to say very slowly, Al
in Albuquerque, Go ahead, Al, it's the real person.
Speaker 13 (35:04):
Yes, Al, I just wanted to let you know I'm
listening live on Fox Sports thirteen fifty AM in Albuquerque.
It's the first time I've.
Speaker 14 (35:17):
Listened to am radio in like twenty five years, so
thank you for that.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
The only AM radio I have.
Speaker 14 (35:23):
Is my emergency weather radio in my car, which I
haven't touched in like five years and it still works somehow.
And yeah, I also just just want to say, is
he joel embiid is a slightly better?
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Yao ming?
Speaker 13 (35:34):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Okay?
Speaker 11 (35:36):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I would like every call to end with how
about that? Can we do that?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
How's my voice sound in the AAM little crackley?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Give it take?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
How about that?
Speaker 10 (35:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
See you later.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yes, makes Taylor, you're screening the calls back there in
the VIP room.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Make sure they all end it with how about that?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Thank you for the call, Alan, thank you for dusting
off the old AM radio for us.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Yeah, at eleven fifty out there, no Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yes, very well done?
Speaker 11 (35:59):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Let's go to a Donovan in Arlington, Washington. Go ahead, Donovan.
Speaker 12 (36:05):
Hey, so I got top fire five athletes that cannote
bodies of water.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Okay, so hey listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna let you
do all five. Just you know, number one you have
to deliver a how about that afterwards?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Oh oh absolutely all right?
Speaker 13 (36:19):
All right, Number five Jason say, well you.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Can get the sound to look at you. You're special.
Go ahead, Number go ahead.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
Number four, Drew Lock number three, Brandon Marshall, Oh nice.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Number two, Wade Box number number one, story Ruiz exactly,
it's Estuary, but it's pronounced Ruie.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yes, yes, I got it, but you forgot to deliver
a lot at the very end.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
There, I got it. Pay Happy New Year, Issy, how
about that?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And say hi to ur Briles for us. Let's go
to Nathan in Lancaster, California.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Go ahead, Nathan, you gots I have nine copies of
your personal record book.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
How about that? Yes? How come you don't have to?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
I'm going to say I couldn't afford that. Tap on.
Speaker 11 (37:27):
Maybe if you get this question right, I want to
play a game with you. Can you name the title
to the first chapter of your book? It's about Kevin Durant?
Is it a Michael would never be?
Speaker 12 (37:41):
Zero?
Speaker 11 (37:42):
Rings, B, no guts, no glory? Which one is the
correct title?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
What it?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Stanzic? Title can't be a right?
Speaker 6 (37:56):
They never offer up A as the right option right
off the bat.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I believe even see is see the correct answer?
Speaker 11 (38:03):
He is the correct answer?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
No, Yeah, you know what I got for you?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Nathan?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
You know what I got for you? Nathan, how about that, Thank.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You for the call. We'll take a quick time out.
Hour two coming up next
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