January 31, 2026 • 51 mins
On this edition of The Best Of The Week of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Radio legend Mike Francesa joins the guys to talk about the Belichick snub and the upcoming Super Bowl. On this edition of The Best of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: The guys preview the Super Bowl and their trip to San Francisco for Super Bowl week. Stu welcomes former Super Bowl champion Chris Long to talk about the conference championship games and to preview the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu gottson Company Live on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you've listened to me over the years, you know
Mike Francesa, along with Christopher mad Doug Brusso the reasons
I got into this industry. Love their show, love them,
and I love the friendships I've developed with both of
them here later on in my life. It's been very nice,
and Mike is nice enough to join us right now. Mike,
how war are you? Thank you for doing this. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm good. How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I am doing good. Are you in South Florida yet? Mike?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I've been back and forth. I'm all my way back
to New York because the weather for this weekend and
Florida where I've been, it's just dreadful. It's going to
be thirty degrees, so there's no reason to be here
for a couple of days. So I'm going on all
our way back to New York where zero But you
might as well be zero there, considering it's going to
be thirty in Palm Beach this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You're right, you're coming here for sixties and seventies, not
thirties and forties, not thirty. Let's start in the obvious
place today with you, Mike Bill Belichick not elected to
the Hall of Fame? How why.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Silly? And again you cannot chastise him when his career
is over. Okay, the things they think they are chastising
him for those that did it should have been dealt
with in real terms. Okay. He should have been suspended
(01:41):
when these things happened. He wasn't, Okay, Craft made sure
it didn't happen. He made sure the commissioner didn't suspend him. So,
but to take it out on him now makes the
institution and the voters look ridiculous because his body of
work is such that there's nothing to discuss. Okay, he
is as automatic as automatic can be. But having said
(02:03):
that and having everybody go be so outraged, okay, and
they're gonna boycott the who cares about that nonsense? He's
gonna be over in two days. He's gonna get in
next year, and no one's gonna remember because I made
the point earlier today to someone, Hey, do you know
how many great baseball players didn't get it on the
first ballance? You know, Joe Demarchio didn't get in the
(02:23):
Hall of Fame on the first ballot, Jogi Bera, Okay,
Rogers Hornsby, I can go down the lotch so Young,
the man won five hundred games. You didn't get in
the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. People forget Okay,
No one when they're in the Hall of Fame remembers
what ballot they got in on. So it's a little
bit of a punishment. I'm sure Belichick got angry about it.
(02:43):
He probably will have some, you know, nasty words for
Bill Pollon, who seems to have led this. Okay, at
least that's the rumor. I don't know that for sure,
But the bottom line is it's much to do about
nothing in the long term, because before you know it,
he'll be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Mike Taylor from Rockland County first time a long time.
What do you think about people who are pointing out
Bill Belichick's record without Tom Brady as the reason why
he didn't get in. It was eighty three and one
oh four.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You don't get to take his record apart. Okay, Sorry,
you don't get to do it. Okay, Yeah, record is
his record. Now talk to me about the two Super
Bowls he won as a coordinator and the sixty one
as a head coach, and then what are we discussing. Okay,
the man has won eight Super Bowls? How are you
gonna keep him out? And you're gonna tell me, oh,
(03:33):
he didn't do well when he was in Cleveland where
they were tearing the franchise out from under him, Okay
and moving it in the middle of the night. All right.
The bottom line was, hey, he had some bad years.
They all do. They complain about Pawsels without Belichick. Okay, hey,
Bello Chick was an assistant coach, he wasn't a head coach.
Then that's part Elvis team. Don't try to make it
(03:56):
the record you wanted to be. You gotta take the
guys into totality and tell me, in totality how he
doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I tell you what to apologize for the pope.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who won six Super Bowls. He went to nine as
a head coach. He won he created one of the
great game plans of all time, along with the Running Game,
which should be mentioned because the running game was a
big part of that that kept the ball away from
the Bills. But the Big Nickel became very big because
of what they did to the Bills that year against
the team that scored fifty one points against the Raiders.
(04:34):
The bottom line is, we know Belichick can coach. He's
not perfect, he's not a genius. He needs a quarterback
to win. Listen, here's a big headline. No coach wins
without players. When they don't have good players, none of
them wins. That's the bottom line. They all need players.
I don't care if it's Vince Lombardi, Newt Rockney, or
(04:56):
Bear Bryant. They all need players. And when they don't
have players, they're going to struggle. When they went. When
they have players, do they win? And the answer is yes.
The man won six Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, eight, as you know, if you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What the Giants said, absolutely he was. I mean think
about that. He's been on the winning side eight times.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. What do you make of
Bill Poullian saying he's not certain if he voted for
Belichick or not.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Bill looks foolish. I mean the whole Listen. Bill should
have said I hate his guts. I think he cheated.
He would have been better off than what he said.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
You aren't so right.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You have never been more right than you weren't just
right there. That was incredible, Mike, Yeah, you have a
question here, go ahead for the great Mike francessa.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I do mikey a Connecticut first time Bill, what do
you what do you say to the people who say
that the Baseball Hall of Fame, which is one of
the most controversial hall of fames with their ability to
draw lines, this move kind of makes the NFL Hall
of Fame sound like the Baseball Hall of Fame, where
they're not doing it based on the field, They're doing
(06:07):
it based on personal preference.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Listen, voters, voters often look petty, looks silly in this process.
These guys, the voters and the institution, are the ones
who are going to take the hit here. Belichick's not
going to take the hit. Everyone's coming to Belichick's defense.
All the great players, every Jimmy Johnson, all the big players,
(06:30):
they're all coming to his defense because they know his
record is, without question, a Hall of Fame record. It's
not even worth discussing. Okay. The bottom line is, hey,
if you're going to be subjective about it, get out
of the way. I mean, it's not supposed to be
something that's subjective. It's supposed to be. Is it a
fair analysis or not. The guy's a Hall of famer.
(06:51):
I don't care if you hate him. I don't care
if you think he's jacked the ripper. He's a Hall
of famer. Did he do things he shouldn't have done? Yes, okay.
Did he get every edge he could get? Absolutely? He's
not the only guy who ever cheated I guarantee you,
I guarantee you a lot. But he's not the only
guy who have cheated it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Mike, Yeah, you want to apologize. I mean, Jesus, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I do. I have to apologe.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You know what it is. I got nervous.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I was talking to the Pope, I was talking to
my friends Bill Belichick on the mine.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
But I was nervous. Bottom line is, you know, the
bottom line is it's just silly. This was a move
that they should have realized was going to blow up
in their face. There was no question this was going
to blow up in their face in a big way
because his record is so far out there to the good,
(07:39):
there's no way to keep him out of the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yep, you are one hundred percent correctly, Mike. I understand
what you're saying about. Listen, he'll be in in one year.
But to a guy like Belichick, I know, but you ever,
so you know Belichick a little bit, and you obviously
know Parcels very well.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Sick and I have never gotten along really, to be
honest with you, you know, we just never did. We
didn't spend a lot of time together, you know, but
I was you know, we have been around each other,
especially in the Giant day. It's not so much of
the New England days. But listen, the guy had a
great career. Whether you like him, don't like him, you
don't like what he does, it doesn't matter. He's been
(08:18):
you know, he's not one of NH's noblemen. Okay, let's
be honest, all right, the way it is, but he's
been incredibly successful. And to me, this is one where
I'm surprised that even somebody should have stood up in
the room and said, hey, we're gonna look like idiots.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yes, yep, yep, so mu should have done that. But
I'm wondering, Mike, because, like, don't you think the first
ballot stuff means something to a guy like Belichick?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yes, for about three days. So here's what I've learned.
Guys who don't react to anything. Honors, Coach of the Years,
et cetera. They all have. They've been out of the
sport and they've waited, and all the awards are gone away,
(09:05):
all the accolades are gone away. Now comes the Hall
of Fame. It's the last one. It's the final one,
and it's permanent. You're there for history. Okay, you get
to go in the room, and you're there for history.
It means a tremendous amount, more than anyone can understand.
I've seen guys so mad when they didn't get in. Players, coaches.
I've seen guys so hurt when they didn't get in.
(09:27):
It's unbelievable. I understand it. Everybody wants to get into
the Hall of Fame in their profession because it's permanent,
it's there for history, and it means a lot. And
it's one percent of the people who played or coached.
It's a tremendous achievement in any walk of life. The
bottom line is, yeah, it matters to them, and it
matters a lot, and it matters more after they retire,
(09:50):
because there's no other awards and no other accolades coming
down a pipe. This is the last one and that's
why it's permanent and it matters. There's no question it hurts,
But it hurt for a couple of days because you
know what he is going to pass in a hurry.
He can lose some more games in Carolina and then
you can get into the Hall of Lam. I mean,
that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Miked up as the podcast, check it out wherever you
get your podcast. Since we have you here, Mike for
a second, what'd you make of the Giant? What'd you
make of the Giants hiring John Harbor? They got it
rite right and it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Was the only possible hire. There was no one else
when I was looking, when he was still in Baltimore,
there was no And I even said, I hope something
happens with John Harbin. There's been rumors he's the perfect guy.
There was no one else. Mccafey didn't fit, nobody else
(10:44):
who had experienced fit. This was one hundred percent, the
perfect hire one hundred There is no way he will
not be successful with the Giants. There is no possible way, Mike.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
With the Giants appearing to having gotten it right and
the Jets appearing to do it all wrong in every
single way, I'm.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Just curious for you.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
What are you looking forward more to covering next season?
Is it the dumpster fire which has grown into like
a tire fire at this or is it the Giants
showing signs of light.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm so tired now. Obviously, the Giants have been angry
with me many times in the past, but I have
a relationship with John Marraw. I always have. I've had time.
I'm very close to a lot of people with the
Giants and have been a lot of people who work there.
So the Giants have and I have been very close
(11:44):
to a lot of the years. Even though the ghettle
of music are very angry at me. Recently they've been
angry at me, but I have great respect for John
and an affinity for John Marraw, especially Chris mara and
lived very well. Even the touches I know well. The
bottom line is all class people in a big way.
The Jets are such a joke. Now listen, what he's
no dummy. He bought the team to six hundred and
(12:07):
thirty million. It's now worth seven or eight billion. Okay,
he's made a good bye. And he first of all
didn't matter. He's a Johnson and Johnson are. He never
needed a dollar in his wife. We know that. You
know he's born a billionaire. We understand that. Okay, he's
made a good buy from an investment standpoint, but he
has no idea what it means to own a football team,
(12:31):
and he has no idea how to work with people
at all. And he listens to the worst people in history. Okay,
and they have had a couple of points when they've
had it close. Listen. I blame some people for stuff
that they did there when they should have stayed. Okay,
(12:52):
Manginie should have been there for fifteen years. The guy
would have been He's a terrific coach. It was his fault.
He was a jerk. You can't treat the owner like
he's not the owner, and he did, and he got
out of there, even though he had two winning years
in three years. They dumped them because they didn't like them,
and he was wrong. He was completely wrong. They had
some good times and he's the one who built the
(13:14):
right team, but then Woody screwed it up by bringing
in Brett Father we didn't want. Okay. The bottom line
is Woody has no idea what he's doing and what
but they're doing now with Aaron glenns I have never
seen before someone said, you Jackson did this in Cleveland
and went from one to fifteen to own sixteen. The
Jets are gonna get worse, Okay. I mean they're gonna
(13:36):
get worse first, and that's hard to believe. And he
has got rid of the entire staff after the first year.
It is insanity. What is going on there? Waved the
white leg and they tried. They tried to hire John
Duden as an assistant. An assistant. He knows more football
than them, you know, walking in the door. It's like
(13:57):
Einstein and the Horse and the horse that house with
its book. Okay. The bottom line is it's ridiculous. Okay.
But the whole thing now, if they hired Frank Right
to be the offensive coordinator, I think that's a step
in the right direction if that happens. Okay, but they
are such a mess right now. They have a good
special teams coach. That's basically it. Otherwise the coaches are
(14:19):
a disaster.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, Mike, it's such a mess that Gruden, who desperately
wants back of the NFL, said no thanks to the
New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Right, probably could have taken the place over in a week.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right, he'd be the head coach, right, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
It within two weeks he would have been the head coach, right, Mike.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
First off, congratulations News Days, number one sports icon in
sports radio.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Very nice, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Was it ever a doubt I'd be coming on open
number one every metric that I have. But I'm making
my first appearance on Radio Row this year. I consider
you the godfather of Radio Row along with Mad Dog.
Any tips for a first time are going out to
radio You.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Know they've ruined Radio Row. You know we in the beginning,
we had so much fun there. But what happened was,
like everything else, money ruins everything. Now, Radio Row is about,
you know, about what product they can sell you. They
charge tickets to Radio Row. You don't get anybody of
consequence there. You get people who were just getting paid
(15:24):
to sell products and they give you the same bed.
And if you still guys knows this one after another
after another. Guy's done not in use. He doesn't even
know who he's talking to anymore. He's done so many interviews, okay,
and he's picking a product, right, and he comes in
with a piece of paper about a product you knows
nothing about, and he tries to tell you about the product, right,
And that's basically it. Hey, don't forget to mention my product.
I don't want to mention your products. Okay. So the
(15:47):
whole thing is terrible now. It's so plus they take
care of only their rights holders, and they have so
many rights holders now and so many big companies involved
that the days that we were a part of that
was so natural. It was us. And then stations grew
around us to where there was fifty or forty five
(16:09):
or fifty big stations and that was a vibrant time.
But then the NFL ruined it like they ruin everything else.
Because they are the greediest humans who have ever walked
the earth. You have to understand that, Okay. They all
they care about is the next buck, the next buck,
and that's what's wrong with the end. There's a couple
of things wrong with the NFL. Right now. Number One,
the union has way too much to say about what
(16:31):
coaches can do and can't do in terms of running
their team and developing their players, which is a disaster.
Number Two, the only thing the owners care about is
growing their product and growing their revenues. That's the biggest problem.
The NFL is so greedy and after every dollar, and
that's what they're taught. That's what they know. Protect the
shield and grow the revenue, and it has ruined what
(16:52):
is an incredible sport.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, Michae, are you into the Super Bowl? Are you into?
Are you into you know the game coming up this
week or next week?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'm sorry, Listen, the media. NFL season ends with the
championship games. The Super Bowl stands out by itself. I
cannot stand the week before. I try to watch nothing, okay,
because I just cannot stand it. It is so tedious. Okay,
the listen. I've been parts of those pregames. I understand
(17:22):
the money part of it, but the four hour pregame,
it's so hard for it to be good because it's
four hours. Okay. We just watched the bus leave this building.
We just watched it leave the hotel. Who can Okay,
I mean, you know, stuff you would never think about
in a regular season, you're thinking about with the Super Bowl.
But the game, I give it about a sixty percent
(17:45):
chance to be good. I'm very worried about the New
England offensive line. He's been sacked fifteen times in the playoffs.
I think the offensive line is falling apart. I think
he could really take a beating from the Seattle defense.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Thanks again to Mike Francessa the Pope, the greatest personality
in the history of New York sports radio.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
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Speaker 1 (18:16):
We are headed out to San Francisco this weekend. All
of us Israel. Goudieiras at studio with Me Taylor in
the VIP room, Mikeye on Zoom eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox's the telephone number. Eric Mangini, former Jets
head coach. If you remember about a week ago, I
said when I was driving in Huh, what is Eric
(18:37):
Mangini up to? We're gonna find out today together we
are headed out to the Super Bowl. I'm excited to
experience the super Bowl on Radio Row with this crew.
I am shocked to hear that Israel Goody Eras has
never been to radio You've been to a super Bowl?
You've never been to radio Row.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
And there's been so many in my lifetime, even as
a professional, so many super Bowls in Miami, and I
just avoid them. I avoid Radio Row. I avoid the
super Bowls. I had to go to one as a columnist.
I rode off of the.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Who was it?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
The Saints quarterback Drew Brees? Remember which super Bow was
actually out of the Drew Brees super Bowl? And I
think with the who did the halftime actors?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
That one?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
I can remember it because it was terrible and I
didn't care to see it. But I've never been and
I'm excited about it. I'm a little nervous about the
super Bowl in general. I feel like it's going to
be awful, and if it's my first radio row, they'll
probably some people blaming me for it. Probably just me right,
But I have a feeling that these quarterbacks aren't going
to play very well and that I already see one
of them, Drake Mays on the injury report, and I'm
(19:45):
just like, oh, come.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
On, yes, we'll get to that in a second. Mikey,
I have never seen you nod your head so quickly
in agreement. That is, he's going to be the guy
that ruins Radio Row with super Bowl a week For anyone,
I'll blame him, you should say, hope. I don't think
anyone's more excited than Taylor. I really do, Taylor, are
(20:07):
you excited for this? My guess is like this is
Taylor's dream. Taylor wants to be in this industry. He
works hard. He's a great kid. He's thirty one years
old and I keep calling him a kid. But he's
a great kid, and he wants this, and he wants
it in the worst way. And really what he wants
to do is just meet people, right. He wants to
meet people, exchange business cards, you know, because this is
(20:30):
a time of year where the media gets together and
they all trot out their resumes and tell everyone what
it is they're doing, and they want to compare if
their job is better than everyone else's. But Taylor, I
imagine no one is more no one is more excited
in our crew for Radio Row than you. Is that fair?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
That is fair?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
One?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm not looking at it as we're going to Radio Row.
I'm looking at it as I'm getting a front row
seat to a live show of Mad Dog Chris or.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Mad Dog you don't even want to watch?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Do Gods?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
He's on at the same time as us.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
We're gonna have to figure that one out.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
So can I tell you what my lasting imagery, at
least mentally.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Of Radio Row is.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
It is so down in Miami. Back in the day,
there used to be I think three thriving sports radio
stations in the AM and on one of them there
was a gentleman by the name of Kevin Rogers Krog
as the kids call him, and there was this sound.
I forget did you guys play this first? Or was
(21:35):
this the radio station that he worked for?
Speaker 9 (21:37):
Just running him live? And then somebody clipped it.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
It is the saddest sound I've ever heard professionally from
a colleague, and it made me think that I don't
have the coolest job in the world.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
That made me think I have one of the worst.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Jobs of the world.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Kevin Rodgers is a person that I met in Jacksonville
at the Super Bowl. We had just start ar did
locally seven ninety the ticket down here in Miami. I
started that station. I was the GM I co hosted
the afternoon show with Dan.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
It was a terrible plan. So was a Jacksonville super Bowl.
By the way, Yeah, that was a terrible plan.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
But Kevin Rodgers, and this is what radio Row in
super Bowl Week is all about, he flagged me down
and he was relentless, okay, because he wanted to move
from where he was in Kansas City down to South
Florida and South Beach in Miami. He was a young
man at the time, a very polished broadcaster, a great broadcaster,
and I ended up hiring Kevin Rodgers to do updates
(22:36):
in the afternoons for my show with Dan. Yes, we
then went out I had to add an extra adjective there.
We then went out to a super Bowl. I'm trying
to think where it was. I don't think it was
down here in Miami, is he? But we do have
next super Bowl because I can figure out which one
it probably was. But we do have the sound that
(22:58):
you're talking about. Because this is what radio Row and
super Bowl Week is all about. Let's first go to
the sound. Guys, where was it? Taylor? Just come to them.
I can say it, Bud, Yes, all right.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
The way to set this up his show was on
in the evenings. Yeah, so by the time he's going
on from Radio Row. Yes, it's an empty radio row.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, so it's an empty radio row because Radio Row
is really a six eight to seven p deal. And
when the afternoon shows are over, When the afternoon shows
are over, okay, everyone goes and parties their ass off. Okay,
that's what. And then they come back the next day
and they're hungover, and you're Sander, okay, I'm looking forward
to And so here is Kevin Rodgers, the rare guy
(23:43):
to host an evening show on Radio Row. After everyone
is cleared out, here is k Roger trying to get
the attention of Lincoln Kennedy.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Lincoln Kennedy, what's up man? Yeah, I'm working. Where do
you go?
Speaker 11 (23:58):
You want to get betch up part tonight? You go
on FHM night. All right, I'll see you later.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
It's so, yes, this is one of the two. The
next one is the one that's most memorable to me.
But it just the Lincoln Kennedy is there. Yes, he's
clearly Ky Rodger the only person there doing a show. Yes,
and Lincoln Kennedy still denies him because he says, you
shouldn't be here this way.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yes, listen closely, audience, because you can hear faintly Lincoln
Kennedy telling Kevin Rogers everyone has left the building.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Go again, Lincoln Kennedy, what's up? Man? Yeah, I'm working.
Where do you go?
Speaker 11 (24:38):
You want the fe party night? You're on FHM night.
All right, I'll see you later.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I'm working here.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So if that's not sad enough, here is Kevin Rogers
still at Radio Row, not at the Fahm party. This
is the next day. He hasn't left Radio Row. He
never went to the Fahm party. He just stayed at
his boot on Radio Row. And here is him with
a bloody tongue.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
What else we got? Oh my god, Ray Lewis is here?
Can we get Ray Lewis in the show before my
tongue falls off? Ray freaking Lewis in the house?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Wow?
Speaker 12 (25:18):
Hey, Ray, got a couple of minutes. Ray, Let's see whatever.
Ray Lewis walks in and my tongue is bleeding.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Wow, that right there, Stu guys, which was almost twenty
years ago, I want to say, maybe it was twenty
years ago. Is my entire visual interpretation, mental interpretation of
what Radio Row is like. And I'm thankful we do
with three to five Eastern, which is what going to
be noon.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
To two over there, if you say so.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Was on my toes and I'm not going to experience
the k Rots thing. But man, I'm just gonna have
like this sickening empty feeling if I ever see somebody
arc that, or if I see you or anybody else
yell a name and then is not.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Heard, I'll do it all week.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
I will.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yes. Kevin Rodgers quit after that that show.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
His tongue was so bad.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
He said that was like the first ten minutes of Yes,
that show opening, and then I believe he said. He
called Allison after. I was like, I can't keep hosting
the shows he's teaching now.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Did he explain how his tongue got cut up? Was
he just talking to me?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Bit his tongue, that's all. He just bit his tongue.
It was bleeding everywhere he was. He was alone. He
was sad because he decided it was a good idea
to host an evening show on Radio Row when everyone
else was at the FHM party.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
I remember, AHM, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Like a spinoff of maxim Right, that.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Nothing I was interested in.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
But yes, I want to just recruit k Roge to
be my afternoon interview recruiter. Like he seems very aggressive
and shameless in what he's doing, so I'm like, let's
get him on.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
But when people are actually around.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But unfortunately he's teaching now. It made him leave the
industry radio rope. It did one more time, A said
Kevin Rodgers at night, trying to get Ray Lewis on
because he has no guest booker because his guest booker
and producer all of them are at the FHM party.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
What else we got? Oh my god, Ray Lewis is here.
Can we get Ray Lewis in the show? Before my
tongue falls off? Ray freaking Lewis in the house?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Wow?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Hey, Ray, got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Ray, Let's see whatever Ray Lewis walks in and my
tongue is bleeding.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (27:40):
I'm just imagining being in South Florida at the time,
tuning into whichever radio station he was working for at
the time.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
And being like, this is not entertaining.
Speaker 13 (27:49):
Why am I listening to this man whose tongue is
clearly injured?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Just yelling at people I don't know if they're there
or not.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
He could be making it up.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
It's the most entertaining thing I've ever heard. I mean,
it really is, Yes, because I know Radio Row, and
I know super Bowl Week, and I know stuff like
that happens on Radio Row during super Bowl Week where
all of a sudden you're sitting down, you know, with
with Michael Irvin, and I think Hockey's this example earlier,
Taylor and Mendoza walks by and you have to politely
tell Michael Irvin to get up because there's a bigger
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guest waiting at your table, and you're like, hey, playmaker,
get out of here. And I'll just yell hey Mendoza
when I see him. Yes, That's what I'll do.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yes, Taylor is he Krog could have gotten ray Lewis on,
and nothing would have been as good as that clipped that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
If we got instead, ray Lewis would say nothing interesting.
If indeed Krodge got him on.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I'm not a fan of cringe humor, and so I
would have I would have somehow taken my radio out
of my car and thrown it out the window if
I was listening to that live because it.
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Was so cringe worthy.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So anyway, I'm excited to take you.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Guess it's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We're gonna take
a lot of calls today because I'm tired. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. We have we have some
episodes out already of Steve Gotson Company and of God
Bless Football. Steve Gotson Company with Salakata God Bless Football.
Mike Ollock Junior joins us there, and hopefully we'll see
our friend next week in San Francisco, although he's telling
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us that he's going to stay in LA because he
knows how sad it is, so see what happens.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Yes, I wouldn't mind staying in La.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Are you into this game?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Man?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's not having a hard time getting fired up for
this game? I shouldn't be, But I feel like the
country as a whole is having a hard time kind
of getting fired up for this game.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
I feel like there will be people that the country
can sort of grab onto, grasp onto.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
I think JSN is one of them.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
I think if they didn't really recognize from the conference
championship game, just how much of a fixture he's going
to be in the NFL for a long time. I
think the Super Bowls probably going to be another time
for him to shine. I have a feeling the quarterbacks
aren't going to play great. Whether it be Drake may
facing a quality defense for first time in a minute,
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I mean, the Texans were great but didn't really have
to do much against him, right, Or if it's Sam
Donald after essentially a cakewalk against a bad Rams defense,
if he's all of a sudden shaken up by this
Pats defense.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
But none of that makes me think, oh, this is
going to be.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Crazy entertaining football, And none of it, none of it
makes me think the storyline is that compelling. Sam Donald's
a nice story, but we've heard crazier stories of quarterbacks
winning Super Bowls. He's already sort of accomplished his comeback, right,
He's a legitimate top half, you know, top ten quarterback
in the league, which nobody thought would happen. He's gotten
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to a super Bowl if he wins a bonus to
be honest.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yes, but Sam Donald was the guy who couldn't play
well in big games until he played well in a
big game. If he plays terribly in this game, we're
gonna climb right back on him and say he can't
do it in a big spot because that's what the
sports media does.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
We're lazy, yes, but is that fun?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
It's like, Oh, I can't wait till Darnold loses so
we can go back to saying what we were saying before.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
Like, I don't really know what else there.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
I mean, if you are a Drake may stan, if
you believe he is the MVP, if you think he
is going to be the best quarterback in the league
for the next decade, then you're sitting back and like,
watch this, watch my guy start his run.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
But I don't know how many people actually believe that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, go ahead tell it.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So I'm kind of worried about Drake May now because
after that Broncos game, there was a clip that was
going around where he's talking with his wife postgame. She
taps on his shoulder and he kind of winces, and
everybody's like, is Drake May hurt? And they kind of
dismissed it, and then Drake may shows up on the
injury report. The first injury report, he was listed as
limited for a right shoulder injury, and the Patriots kind
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of downplayed it, and then Friday comes along. Today comes along,
and Drake May was not present for the media access
portion of Friday's practice. I'm starting to get a little
worried that Trake May is a lot more hurt than
the Patriots are leading on.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Aren't they saying this one's a sickness right, He's just
saying I'm trying to be smart keep them away from
other people, which I would buy any team that's traveling anybody. Yeah,
you probably can get sick if it is sort of
an extension of that right shoulder injury. And they're a
little concerned about that. That clearly would be something I'd be.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Freaked out about.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You had Rabel playing chess nut checkers? Is that what
you're doing there?
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I mean, his penis is at stake.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Put it on the poll. Is Rabel's penis at steak?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
It's interesting though, because he'd probably want to lose if
he's worried about it.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, they're just they're not storylines to your point that
you can really latch onto. You know, it's not anyone
playing for a legacy. It's not a guy who needs
to win a Super Bowl. Sam Darnold doesn't need to
win a Super Bowl. He's done enough.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
You're almost hate watching if you don't love the Patriots,
you're hate watching the Patriots, which you've done for two
decades now. More than that the Seahawks. Like if the
Seahawks hadn't gone through the uh you know, Russell Wilson,
legion of boom Era, I would say, Wow, this is
refreshing story by these Seahawks. But the only really part
of that, like I said, is Darnold, which you know,
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multiple teams, and then it's you know, I think a
young breakout talent like Jackson Smith and Jigba is always
fun to watch, especially at that position. But again, I
just go watch highlight footage of him. I don't need
to see him in the super Bowl to think that
this guy's going to be it.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
I already know he's the guy.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yep. I have found out today that Taylor will be
attending the super Bowl. How about that? I mean correct,
that's pretty cool for the super Bowl? Yeah, for super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Wow, So you're getting back in time for Monday show
or should we find somebody else to do the VIP route?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
So we're working on the logistics of that.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yes, he's planning on doing Monday show from Radio Row.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I'm worried he'll never leave.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
That would be even sadder than k Rod like a
Crickets Radio Row like posts Wow day after Yes, let's
hope for it.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live weekday sent three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (34:05):
I love when you go to live the first call
you make is to Phil Mickelson. When you want to
come back to the PGA Tour, the first call you
make it to Tiger Woods. I mean, how about you
call Tiger before you agree? As I would live. That
would have been the smart move. Chris Long, I'm gonna
join us here in a second. I feel bad here
because you know, we do these interviews and I tend
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to hog the guest time. I ask all the questions.
If it's not me, it's it's Taylor. If it's not Taylor,
it's mikey A and poor. Is he just being a
professional sitting here and not asking any sort of question?
So with that said, is he? I am going to
allow you to ask the first question of our buddy,
Chris Long. Who I cannot wait to see next week
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in San Francisco, we're gonna take mushrooms together?
Speaker 8 (34:48):
Well can I just do that?
Speaker 9 (34:49):
But no, thank you, Chris, I really appreciate you taking
my question.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Here.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Is this the wildest NFL coaching carousel you've ever seen?
Speaker 14 (34:57):
Yeah, you could get you kind of got the sense,
you know, like three weeks ago that like, damn, we
could have double digit openings, and of course here we are,
I think with double digit vacancies in total, and uh yeah,
some of the some of the teams that don't have
their guy yet. It's pretty interesting and like especially considering
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a few of the places that are replacing their head coaches.
You're replacing Mike Common, You're replacing Harbaugh. You know, these
are generational replacements, man, Like, these guys have had cultures
set in these places for as long as I can
remember being a football fan, almost as an adult. And
then you know Sean McDermott winning you know x amount
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of AFC East Championships, winning a playoff game in you know,
consecutive seasons six times in a row, not being able
to get over the hump and getting fired. Yeah, the
whole thing's crazy, man, And it's just the when when
Verybel and McDonalds, Yeah, you could get you kind of
got the sense, you know, like three weeks ago that like, damn,
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we could have double digit openings, and of course here
we are, I think, with double digit vacancies in total,
and uh yeah, some of the some of the teams
that don't have their guy yet. It's pretty interesting. And
like especially considering a few of the places that are
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replacing their head coaches. You're replacing Mike Tomlin, You're replacing Harbaugh.
You know, these are generational replacements, man, Like, these guys
have had cultures set in these places for as long
as I can remember being a football fan in almost
as an adult. And then you know Sean McDermott winning
you know x amount of AFC East Championships, winning a
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playoff game in you know, consecutive seasons six times in
a row, not being able to get over the hump
and getting fired.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Yeah, the whole thing's crazy, man.
Speaker 14 (36:56):
And it's just the when when verybel and McDonald end
up in the Super Bowl this quickly with their respective teams,
it only heightens the sense of you have to win now.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
In the NFL, do you think those expectations are fair.
I don't.
Speaker 14 (37:15):
I don't think those expectations are fair. I think people
like to skirt the reality that if you make bad
decisions as an organization, you have to sit with them
for a few years. Some decisions you can't just get
out of immediately. You know, some teams find ways to
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win with a lot of dead cap, like Denver for instance.
Right they're still paying Russell Wilson, They're still staring at
that number. There's other teams with dead cap that have
that have performed really well. But like, for the most part,
I think, you know, some teams, it's just going to
be a hard climb, and you know, you hire a
coordinator or.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
You hire a head coach and.
Speaker 14 (38:00):
You expect he's just gonna snap his fingers and things
are gonna get fixed.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
I think some guys.
Speaker 14 (38:05):
Get a really raw deal, and you know, you know,
some of these jobs are not very desirable, like the
Miami job.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
And I think Halfley is.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
And I'm not just saying this because you're here, Stu,
but like, but like Halfley, I think is a He
strikes me as a really sound leader, Like he's got
that presence at the podium and that sort of thing,
like mixed bag on what I think about the defense
BC wasn't I mean, he wasn't like wildly successful at BC.
You know, with Michael Parsons, they're dominant. But then he
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leaves and you're kind of like, okay, well was it
was it Parsons or was it Halflee? You know, was
it some of the And now he's got a job
in Miami, and Miami would be one of the least
attractive jobs for me, Like a job like that, I'm like,
what do you want the guy to do?
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Sure? You know, like how many years would would be fair?
Speaker 14 (38:56):
And and the reality is for a lot of these
like the Draw Mayo thing in New England. Okay, Rabel
was probably our kk's guy from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
He had to wait a year.
Speaker 14 (39:07):
That doesn't make it any less screwed up that they
gave Gerrodmea that job knowing they were going to fire
him and probably a year and did not spend any
money in free agency, and the very next year. You know,
of course Rabel's a better coach. He's a great coach.
But they also they also did the right thing. They
cashed it on the rookie quarterback deal window and spent
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hundreds of millions of dollars in free agency, and here
they are, and so like, yeah, like the circumstances you
coach in the delta between one job to the next
is crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
But you don't like that they used him as a
bridge coach essentially, right.
Speaker 14 (39:45):
I just thought like it was obvious what they were doing.
That doesn't make that doesn't make like everybody nobody's gonna say, hey,
you shouldn't have hired Vrabel, especially now the proof.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Is in the pudding.
Speaker 14 (39:57):
It's just I think a lot of people miss the
point where is like you know, and and it's easy
to get wrapped up in this because I remember being
pissed off about it, but especially because he's like from
my draft class, Mayo, and like he's he's actually from Virginia.
Is a guy I've known a long time and a
good dude. You just you think about the person getting
that opportunity, and some of these things aren't opportunities, you know,
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and like some of these jobs, And that's why I
think the Ben Johnson thinks so interesting, Like Ben Johnson saying, hey,
I'm not going to take the first job that I
can get because I value that first opportunity and know
that like if it doesn't go well, like when's your
next one happening? As unfair as that might be, and
so I think that trend should probably pick up a
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little steam. Like I know it's easier said than done,
but like if I was a coordinator and I didn't
like my job opportunity and I believed in myself, like
I'm not going to take the first one.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
What'd you make of their of their decision to go
for it. Everyone's talking about Sean Payton's decision to go
for it in the.
Speaker 14 (41:00):
I'm so tired of this. Dude, if you're there, you
are no But like if everybody now everybody's you know,
entitled to their opinion on this thing, there's no right
answer because we're doing in retrospect. If you were that
adamant about taking the points, like timestamp it, you put
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it on your social media, you know, like record a
video and because a.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Day long with you on this, yes, do it at
the time. Now, to Mikeya's credit, he did say it
at the time. You have to take the points there.
He said it as it was happening.
Speaker 14 (41:33):
Right, And you know what I said, as it happened,
I like going I don't like the call, right and
and you know it's so easy to say, well, look
they lost ten to seven. Okay, well New England could
have kicked if Borgolis made that second field goal and
they'd be up thirteen to seven. You know, it wouldn't
have been enough to score ten points. And then what
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you're gonna do when you go into overtime. The point was,
and I think the curiosity for me is like, how
aware were these coaches that there was a blizzard on
the horizon in the third quarter. I believe Josh and
Vrabes were all over that. The way they ran that
third quarter drive, it was like if you look at
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the the all twenty two to the sideline view of
the scoreboard, when they start that drive and when they
start the next drive, it is like night and day visibility.
The win the precipitation. So they nailed that drive in
the third quarter. But the point I want to make
is it's fourth and short if you score fourteen points
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on a team like New England who's not very good
in the red zone offensively, ironically, they made a count
when you gave them the ball, you think you're gonna
win that football game. I hate the call because it
limits you you have one option. I think Stidham looked
best when you spread that team out and you gave
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him late down run pass options, you know, use his
leg that sort of thing. I think you spread them out,
you make him declare, and you go from there and
you trust him to throw the football because the run
game wasn't great.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
And that's the one thing for Denver.
Speaker 14 (43:10):
Is like, Okay, we're talking a lot about Denver what
they could have done, what they should have done.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Wouldn't it be nice if they had a run game.
Speaker 14 (43:17):
So that's something that they have to come back to
this offseason and say, I know JK. Dobbins makes a difference,
but I think they need a really dynamic back.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
But you're okay with Sean Payton trying what he's trying
to do in that spot, knowing in all likelihood there's
a snowstorm coming in the second half. He's trying to
get to fourteen because he knows fourteen likely wins that game.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
For them, right, buries them.
Speaker 14 (43:38):
Yeah, And honestly, ten does two right if Stidham doesn't
throw the ball backwards. Okay, But I think the point
is the point is, like we're all doing this thing.
And I thought Sean Payton mismanaged this game at times.
I think he did, like little things like before the
half and maybe this was on Stidham. But on third
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and four, as the clocks running down, you got under
thirty seconds ago, he runs out of bounds before they
attempt that field goal.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Now, what that does, in effect is gives New England
a chance for two for one.
Speaker 14 (44:10):
They get the ball back and they're lucky that Drake
May ran out of time in space and they had
kicked that super long field goal. There were a ton
of the time out late, some of the decision making offensively.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Here's the other thing. Their kicker missed two kicks.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Yes, in the game, right right, you're right, you're very
passionate about this. I love it.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Yes, No, I love situational football.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
I know you do.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
That's why, Chris, what's the ticket situation for players at
the Super Bowl? Because I would guess that most fans
just assume they get them for free.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Oh dude, we never get tickets for free.
Speaker 14 (44:47):
And when you tell fans when they asked you, like, hey,
you know where you can find some tickets? Like I
had somebody, a buddy of mine who actually like was
like hey, and he didn't know any better, but he
was like, how hard would it be get to get
thro tickets for the Eagles playoff game? And I'm like,
just as hard for me as it is for you, Like,
you know, like maybe I maybe I can get you
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three tickets with you know, incrementally better prices, but they're
not like I got to go to a player and
he's got to use his allotment of tickets like that
he has for his family. So I'm gonna be like, hey,
my buddy from college was wondering if you can use
your tickets and increase the distraction quotient on your week
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and go through the proper channels and take tickets off
the table for somebody else.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
How well do you know this guy?
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Well?
Speaker 14 (45:39):
I know him, but I haven't seen him in years,
and he's just trying to save one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, Chris, let me explain why Taylor asked that question.
His best friend is Matt Collins, who was playing in
the Super Yes, that's his best friend.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Mac Taylor was a walk on receiv in North Carolina.
Speaker 14 (45:56):
Oh man, did you play with Mac Collins? I've to
play with him in Philly one of my favorite people.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Like legit.
Speaker 14 (46:05):
People see his antics and they're like, yo, what's wrong
with this guy? And I'm like, well, it ain't fake.
That's exactly that twenty four to seven who he is?
Bro and and he was just a gamer bro Like
he was always a special teams guy in Philly.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
But you know, like just the type of guy that
you could just trust. Man.
Speaker 14 (46:25):
It's like when Drake goes to him a couple times
a game. Yeah, he's just so trustworthy. He blocks his
bag off, dude, He's a great teammate.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
He brings the energy. Love mac collins, dude, Yeah, love.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
But Taylor, what Taylor wants to know is he's kind
of trying to figure out through you. By the way
how he goes about asking mc collins for tickets to
the game.
Speaker 14 (46:45):
You know, so so Chris, I always if you're best friends,
that's okay.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Yes, yes, And the situation is a little different because
since we have the relationship from college, I always pay him.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
For the tickets that he gets.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah, but I remember thinking, thinking in twenty eighteen, I
had the chance to go to Minneapolis and it was freezing,
and I believe I got priced out of the ticket range.
Speaker 14 (47:08):
Yeah, that that that Super Bowl wasn't great for spectators, man,
Like you couldn't really.
Speaker 5 (47:14):
Go outside, per se, Dude.
Speaker 14 (47:18):
At Super Bowl, we were in the We stayed in
the Mall of America, Taylor, as you probably know because
you were talking to Mac and everything.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
But uh, the Pats were on one side, we were
on the other.
Speaker 14 (47:28):
The only thing guys could really do in their downtime
was walk around the mall.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
So you had this.
Speaker 15 (47:33):
Like like uh like like like gangs walking around the mall,
like you know, like we were on different sides, bro
like like kind of West Side story type or Warriors
type stuff.
Speaker 5 (47:45):
Speaking of Mac Collins walking around the food court and uh.
Speaker 14 (47:50):
And like when you'd walk by dudes, it's so funny
because like I'd see like Devin mccordy and we were
teammates last year, you know, at this point, and like
we'd be like, yo, man, what's up, dude, Like we
see guys in Benny Hanna, Like everybody would be in
Benny Hannah at the same time, because there's like only
one walk restaurant in the whole mall. And then uh,
and then and then I'd walk by some guys like
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I had this this younger teammate who is a d
lineman who I like helped a year ago. Like he
was like, hey, Vett, Like how can I get better?
And then I passed him in the in the hallway
and I was like, Yo, what's up?
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Redacted?
Speaker 14 (48:24):
And he like ignored me, Bro, He like looked me
up and down like this is game week. Like I'm like,
how corny are you?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Bro?
Speaker 5 (48:31):
But we're in a mall.
Speaker 14 (48:32):
I'm like, dude, we're in a mall. Just say what's up.
It's not that serious.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (48:36):
We didn't get to go outside. It sucked.
Speaker 14 (48:40):
I remember the after party. It was like the coldest
night of my life. So yeah, I'm I'm all for
every city getting a shot, but probably not that city again, right, Uh?
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Chris? Is Super Bowl Week fun? Like like all the
all the stuff leading up to the actual game. I
know the game is fun, but his super Bowl Week fun?
Is it a fun experience for the players?
Speaker 14 (49:02):
I think so? I think it is fun. There's maybe
not the right word. Like I didn't go out drinking
or go out like partying. There's certainly some guys that
decide that that's what they want to do.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
With some of their off time.
Speaker 14 (49:15):
And honestly, it's it's kind of like understood that, you know,
guys are going to go out and party a little bit.
Like for me, maybe it's because I'm just a creature habit,
like I need my sleep, I need some privacy. The
hard part about it is you never feel alone.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 14 (49:32):
I remember checking into the hotel in Houston when I
was with the Patriots and never having any preconceived notion
about what it was like, and getting up to my
room and just feeling the buzz outside, like hearing the
voices like that surround the hotel, like and I'm sixteen
stories up. You can hear people out there milling around.
You can hear helicopters. You know, there's people in the lobby.
(49:52):
If you get down the lobby, you gotta have like
sunglasses and like a hoodie and like your headphones on.
There's no downtime, there's no time like even your alone time.
Your downtime. They whisk you off to like a media
day where they're Yeah. The fun part about it is
somebody from China's asking you a question. You're like, oh,
this is kind of a big deal, or you know,
(50:12):
you get to go to some event and you kind
of you get a glimpse of the magnitude of what
you're about to do because the world's media is like
converged around you know, the whole scene. And yeah, you
go through the walkthrough at the stadium, which is like
kind of surrealed the day before.
Speaker 5 (50:29):
You know, you see your plaque.
Speaker 14 (50:31):
It's got your name and Super Bowl whatever on it.
Like there's a million moments during the week where you're like,
oh my god, this is real.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
So in that way, it's really fun.
Speaker 14 (50:41):
In some ways, it's like, damn, dude, I wish we
were back home preparing for this game because we are
creatures of habit, like in our natural habitat bro I
want my training room table, I want my hot tub,
I want my cold tub. I want you know, the
restaurants I like eating at during the week or ordering
DoorDash from it.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
You are out of your element, dude. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
Green Light Podcast is where you can check him out
wherever you get your podcast. He's doing great work with charity.
We love him. I can't wait to see you next week.
You go host The Bridge, you co host with me
and me and you picnic Golden gate Bridge a couple
of months.
Speaker 5 (51:15):
See at the bridge. Wait, yeah, I'll see at the bridge.
You said it.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
I'm just gonna meet I say it and I don't care.
I'll meet you at the bridge. Is that what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (51:24):
I'll meet you at the bridge. Bro, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
This is gonna be great and is our super Bowl party?
Steve got, said Chris Long. Everyone come on out and
takes rooms to the Golden gate Bridge.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu gottson Company Live on
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you've listened to me over the years, you know
Mike Francesa, along with Christopher mad Doug Brusso the reasons
I got into this industry. Love their show, love them,
and I love the friendships I've developed with both of
them here later on in my life. It's been very nice,
and Mike is nice enough to join us right now. Mike,
how war are you? Thank you for doing this. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm good. How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I am doing good. Are you in South Florida yet? Mike?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I've been back and forth. I'm all my way back
to New York because the weather for this weekend and
Florida where I've been, it's just dreadful. It's going to
be thirty degrees, so there's no reason to be here
for a couple of days. So I'm going on all
our way back to New York where zero But you
might as well be zero there, considering it's going to
be thirty in Palm Beach this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You're right, you're coming here for sixties and seventies, not
thirties and forties, not thirty. Let's start in the obvious
place today with you, Mike Bill Belichick not elected to
the Hall of Fame? How why.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Silly? And again you cannot chastise him when his career
is over. Okay, the things they think they are chastising
him for those that did it should have been dealt
with in real terms. Okay. He should have been suspended
(01:41):
when these things happened. He wasn't, Okay, Craft made sure
it didn't happen. He made sure the commissioner didn't suspend him. So,
but to take it out on him now makes the
institution and the voters look ridiculous because his body of
work is such that there's nothing to discuss. Okay, he
is as automatic as automatic can be. But having said
(02:03):
that and having everybody go be so outraged, okay, and
they're gonna boycott the who cares about that nonsense? He's
gonna be over in two days. He's gonna get in
next year, and no one's gonna remember because I made
the point earlier today to someone, Hey, do you know
how many great baseball players didn't get it on the
first ballance? You know, Joe Demarchio didn't get in the
(02:23):
Hall of Fame on the first ballot, Jogi Bera, Okay,
Rogers Hornsby, I can go down the lotch so Young,
the man won five hundred games. You didn't get in
the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. People forget Okay,
No one when they're in the Hall of Fame remembers
what ballot they got in on. So it's a little
bit of a punishment. I'm sure Belichick got angry about it.
(02:43):
He probably will have some, you know, nasty words for
Bill Pollon, who seems to have led this. Okay, at
least that's the rumor. I don't know that for sure,
But the bottom line is it's much to do about
nothing in the long term, because before you know it,
he'll be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Mike Taylor from Rockland County first time a long time.
What do you think about people who are pointing out
Bill Belichick's record without Tom Brady as the reason why
he didn't get in. It was eighty three and one
oh four.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You don't get to take his record apart. Okay, Sorry,
you don't get to do it. Okay, Yeah, record is
his record. Now talk to me about the two Super
Bowls he won as a coordinator and the sixty one
as a head coach, and then what are we discussing. Okay,
the man has won eight Super Bowls? How are you
gonna keep him out? And you're gonna tell me, oh,
(03:33):
he didn't do well when he was in Cleveland where
they were tearing the franchise out from under him, Okay
and moving it in the middle of the night. All right.
The bottom line was, hey, he had some bad years.
They all do. They complain about Pawsels without Belichick. Okay, hey,
Bello Chick was an assistant coach, he wasn't a head coach.
Then that's part Elvis team. Don't try to make it
(03:56):
the record you wanted to be. You gotta take the
guys into totality and tell me, in totality how he
doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I tell you what to apologize for the pope.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who won six Super Bowls. He went to nine as
a head coach. He won he created one of the
great game plans of all time, along with the Running Game,
which should be mentioned because the running game was a
big part of that that kept the ball away from
the Bills. But the Big Nickel became very big because
of what they did to the Bills that year against
the team that scored fifty one points against the Raiders.
(04:34):
The bottom line is, we know Belichick can coach. He's
not perfect, he's not a genius. He needs a quarterback
to win. Listen, here's a big headline. No coach wins
without players. When they don't have good players, none of
them wins. That's the bottom line. They all need players.
I don't care if it's Vince Lombardi, Newt Rockney, or
(04:56):
Bear Bryant. They all need players. And when they don't
have players, they're going to struggle. When they went. When
they have players, do they win? And the answer is yes.
The man won six Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, eight, as you know, if you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What the Giants said, absolutely he was. I mean think
about that. He's been on the winning side eight times.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. What do you make of
Bill Poullian saying he's not certain if he voted for
Belichick or not.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Bill looks foolish. I mean the whole Listen. Bill should
have said I hate his guts. I think he cheated.
He would have been better off than what he said.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
You aren't so right.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You have never been more right than you weren't just
right there. That was incredible, Mike, Yeah, you have a
question here, go ahead for the great Mike francessa.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I do mikey a Connecticut first time Bill, what do
you what do you say to the people who say
that the Baseball Hall of Fame, which is one of
the most controversial hall of fames with their ability to
draw lines, this move kind of makes the NFL Hall
of Fame sound like the Baseball Hall of Fame, where
they're not doing it based on the field, They're doing
(06:07):
it based on personal preference.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Listen, voters, voters often look petty, looks silly in this process.
These guys, the voters and the institution, are the ones
who are going to take the hit here. Belichick's not
going to take the hit. Everyone's coming to Belichick's defense.
All the great players, every Jimmy Johnson, all the big players,
(06:30):
they're all coming to his defense because they know his
record is, without question, a Hall of Fame record. It's
not even worth discussing. Okay. The bottom line is, hey,
if you're going to be subjective about it, get out
of the way. I mean, it's not supposed to be
something that's subjective. It's supposed to be. Is it a
fair analysis or not. The guy's a Hall of famer.
(06:51):
I don't care if you hate him. I don't care
if you think he's jacked the ripper. He's a Hall
of famer. Did he do things he shouldn't have done? Yes, okay.
Did he get every edge he could get? Absolutely? He's
not the only guy who ever cheated I guarantee you,
I guarantee you a lot. But he's not the only
guy who have cheated it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Mike, Yeah, you want to apologize. I mean, Jesus, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I do. I have to apologe.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You know what it is. I got nervous.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
I was talking to the Pope, I was talking to
my friends Bill Belichick on the mine.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
But I was nervous. Bottom line is, you know, the
bottom line is it's just silly. This was a move
that they should have realized was going to blow up
in their face. There was no question this was going
to blow up in their face in a big way
because his record is so far out there to the good,
(07:39):
there's no way to keep him out of the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yep, you are one hundred percent correctly, Mike. I understand
what you're saying about. Listen, he'll be in in one year.
But to a guy like Belichick, I know, but you ever,
so you know Belichick a little bit, and you obviously
know Parcels very well.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Sick and I have never gotten along really, to be
honest with you, you know, we just never did. We
didn't spend a lot of time together, you know, but
I was you know, we have been around each other,
especially in the Giant day. It's not so much of
the New England days. But listen, the guy had a
great career. Whether you like him, don't like him, you
don't like what he does, it doesn't matter. He's been
(08:18):
you know, he's not one of NH's noblemen. Okay, let's
be honest, all right, the way it is, but he's
been incredibly successful. And to me, this is one where
I'm surprised that even somebody should have stood up in
the room and said, hey, we're gonna look like idiots.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yes, yep, yep, so mu should have done that. But
I'm wondering, Mike, because, like, don't you think the first
ballot stuff means something to a guy like Belichick?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yes, for about three days. So here's what I've learned.
Guys who don't react to anything. Honors, Coach of the Years,
et cetera. They all have. They've been out of the
sport and they've waited, and all the awards are gone away,
(09:05):
all the accolades are gone away. Now comes the Hall
of Fame. It's the last one. It's the final one,
and it's permanent. You're there for history. Okay, you get
to go in the room, and you're there for history.
It means a tremendous amount, more than anyone can understand.
I've seen guys so mad when they didn't get in. Players, coaches.
I've seen guys so hurt when they didn't get in.
(09:27):
It's unbelievable. I understand it. Everybody wants to get into
the Hall of Fame in their profession because it's permanent,
it's there for history, and it means a lot. And
it's one percent of the people who played or coached.
It's a tremendous achievement in any walk of life. The
bottom line is, yeah, it matters to them, and it
matters a lot, and it matters more after they retire,
(09:50):
because there's no other awards and no other accolades coming
down a pipe. This is the last one and that's
why it's permanent and it matters. There's no question it hurts,
But it hurt for a couple of days because you
know what he is going to pass in a hurry.
He can lose some more games in Carolina and then
you can get into the Hall of Lam. I mean,
that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Miked up as the podcast, check it out wherever you
get your podcast. Since we have you here, Mike for
a second, what'd you make of the Giant? What'd you
make of the Giants hiring John Harbor? They got it
rite right and it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Was the only possible hire. There was no one else
when I was looking, when he was still in Baltimore,
there was no And I even said, I hope something
happens with John Harbin. There's been rumors he's the perfect guy.
There was no one else. Mccafey didn't fit, nobody else
(10:44):
who had experienced fit. This was one hundred percent, the
perfect hire one hundred There is no way he will
not be successful with the Giants. There is no possible way, Mike.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
With the Giants appearing to having gotten it right and
the Jets appearing to do it all wrong in every
single way, I'm.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Just curious for you.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
What are you looking forward more to covering next season?
Is it the dumpster fire which has grown into like
a tire fire at this or is it the Giants
showing signs of light.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm so tired now. Obviously, the Giants have been angry
with me many times in the past, but I have
a relationship with John Marraw. I always have. I've had time.
I'm very close to a lot of people with the
Giants and have been a lot of people who work there.
So the Giants have and I have been very close
(11:44):
to a lot of the years. Even though the ghettle
of music are very angry at me. Recently they've been
angry at me, but I have great respect for John
and an affinity for John Marraw, especially Chris mara and
lived very well. Even the touches I know well. The
bottom line is all class people in a big way.
The Jets are such a joke. Now listen, what he's
no dummy. He bought the team to six hundred and
(12:07):
thirty million. It's now worth seven or eight billion. Okay,
he's made a good bye. And he first of all
didn't matter. He's a Johnson and Johnson are. He never
needed a dollar in his wife. We know that. You
know he's born a billionaire. We understand that. Okay, he's
made a good buy from an investment standpoint, but he
has no idea what it means to own a football team,
(12:31):
and he has no idea how to work with people
at all. And he listens to the worst people in history. Okay,
and they have had a couple of points when they've
had it close. Listen. I blame some people for stuff
that they did there when they should have stayed. Okay,
(12:52):
Manginie should have been there for fifteen years. The guy
would have been He's a terrific coach. It was his fault.
He was a jerk. You can't treat the owner like
he's not the owner, and he did, and he got
out of there, even though he had two winning years
in three years. They dumped them because they didn't like them,
and he was wrong. He was completely wrong. They had
some good times and he's the one who built the
(13:14):
right team, but then Woody screwed it up by bringing
in Brett Father we didn't want. Okay. The bottom line
is Woody has no idea what he's doing and what
but they're doing now with Aaron glenns I have never
seen before someone said, you Jackson did this in Cleveland
and went from one to fifteen to own sixteen. The
Jets are gonna get worse, Okay. I mean they're gonna
(13:36):
get worse first, and that's hard to believe. And he
has got rid of the entire staff after the first year.
It is insanity. What is going on there? Waved the
white leg and they tried. They tried to hire John
Duden as an assistant. An assistant. He knows more football
than them, you know, walking in the door. It's like
(13:57):
Einstein and the Horse and the horse that house with
its book. Okay. The bottom line is it's ridiculous. Okay.
But the whole thing now, if they hired Frank Right
to be the offensive coordinator, I think that's a step
in the right direction if that happens. Okay, but they
are such a mess right now. They have a good
special teams coach. That's basically it. Otherwise the coaches are
(14:19):
a disaster.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, Mike, it's such a mess that Gruden, who desperately
wants back of the NFL, said no thanks to the
New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Right, probably could have taken the place over in a week.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right, he'd be the head coach, right, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
It within two weeks he would have been the head coach, right, Mike.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
First off, congratulations News Days, number one sports icon in
sports radio.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Very nice, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Was it ever a doubt I'd be coming on open
number one every metric that I have. But I'm making
my first appearance on Radio Row this year. I consider
you the godfather of Radio Row along with Mad Dog.
Any tips for a first time are going out to
radio You.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Know they've ruined Radio Row. You know we in the beginning,
we had so much fun there. But what happened was,
like everything else, money ruins everything. Now, Radio Row is about,
you know, about what product they can sell you. They
charge tickets to Radio Row. You don't get anybody of
consequence there. You get people who were just getting paid
(15:24):
to sell products and they give you the same bed.
And if you still guys knows this one after another
after another. Guy's done not in use. He doesn't even
know who he's talking to anymore. He's done so many interviews, okay,
and he's picking a product, right, and he comes in
with a piece of paper about a product you knows
nothing about, and he tries to tell you about the product, right,
And that's basically it. Hey, don't forget to mention my product.
I don't want to mention your products. Okay. So the
(15:47):
whole thing is terrible now. It's so plus they take
care of only their rights holders, and they have so
many rights holders now and so many big companies involved
that the days that we were a part of that
was so natural. It was us. And then stations grew
around us to where there was fifty or forty five
(16:09):
or fifty big stations and that was a vibrant time.
But then the NFL ruined it like they ruin everything else.
Because they are the greediest humans who have ever walked
the earth. You have to understand that, Okay. They all
they care about is the next buck, the next buck,
and that's what's wrong with the end. There's a couple
of things wrong with the NFL. Right now. Number One,
the union has way too much to say about what
(16:31):
coaches can do and can't do in terms of running
their team and developing their players, which is a disaster.
Number Two, the only thing the owners care about is
growing their product and growing their revenues. That's the biggest problem.
The NFL is so greedy and after every dollar, and
that's what they're taught. That's what they know. Protect the
shield and grow the revenue, and it has ruined what
(16:52):
is an incredible sport.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, Michae, are you into the Super Bowl? Are you into?
Are you into you know the game coming up this
week or next week?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'm sorry, Listen, the media. NFL season ends with the
championship games. The Super Bowl stands out by itself. I
cannot stand the week before. I try to watch nothing, okay,
because I just cannot stand it. It is so tedious. Okay,
the listen. I've been parts of those pregames. I understand
(17:22):
the money part of it, but the four hour pregame,
it's so hard for it to be good because it's
four hours. Okay. We just watched the bus leave this building.
We just watched it leave the hotel. Who can Okay,
I mean, you know, stuff you would never think about
in a regular season, you're thinking about with the Super Bowl.
But the game, I give it about a sixty percent
(17:45):
chance to be good. I'm very worried about the New
England offensive line. He's been sacked fifteen times in the playoffs.
I think the offensive line is falling apart. I think
he could really take a beating from the Seattle defense.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Thanks again to Mike Francessa the Pope, the greatest personality
in the history of New York sports radio.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
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Speaker 1 (18:16):
We are headed out to San Francisco this weekend. All
of us Israel. Goudieiras at studio with Me Taylor in
the VIP room, Mikeye on Zoom eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox's the telephone number. Eric Mangini, former Jets
head coach. If you remember about a week ago, I
said when I was driving in Huh, what is Eric
(18:37):
Mangini up to? We're gonna find out today together we
are headed out to the Super Bowl. I'm excited to
experience the super Bowl on Radio Row with this crew.
I am shocked to hear that Israel Goody Eras has
never been to radio You've been to a super Bowl?
You've never been to radio Row.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
And there's been so many in my lifetime, even as
a professional, so many super Bowls in Miami, and I
just avoid them. I avoid Radio Row. I avoid the
super Bowls. I had to go to one as a columnist.
I rode off of the.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Who was it?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
The Saints quarterback Drew Brees? Remember which super Bow was
actually out of the Drew Brees super Bowl? And I
think with the who did the halftime actors?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
That one?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
I can remember it because it was terrible and I
didn't care to see it. But I've never been and
I'm excited about it. I'm a little nervous about the
super Bowl in general. I feel like it's going to
be awful, and if it's my first radio row, they'll
probably some people blaming me for it. Probably just me right,
But I have a feeling that these quarterbacks aren't going
to play very well and that I already see one
of them, Drake Mays on the injury report, and I'm
(19:45):
just like, oh, come.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
On, yes, we'll get to that in a second. Mikey,
I have never seen you nod your head so quickly
in agreement. That is, he's going to be the guy
that ruins Radio Row with super Bowl a week For anyone,
I'll blame him, you should say, hope. I don't think
anyone's more excited than Taylor. I really do, Taylor, are
(20:07):
you excited for this? My guess is like this is
Taylor's dream. Taylor wants to be in this industry. He
works hard. He's a great kid. He's thirty one years
old and I keep calling him a kid. But he's
a great kid, and he wants this, and he wants
it in the worst way. And really what he wants
to do is just meet people, right. He wants to
meet people, exchange business cards, you know, because this is
(20:30):
a time of year where the media gets together and
they all trot out their resumes and tell everyone what
it is they're doing, and they want to compare if
their job is better than everyone else's. But Taylor, I
imagine no one is more no one is more excited
in our crew for Radio Row than you. Is that fair?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
That is fair?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
One?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm not looking at it as we're going to Radio Row.
I'm looking at it as I'm getting a front row
seat to a live show of Mad Dog Chris or.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Mad Dog you don't even want to watch?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Do Gods?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
He's on at the same time as us.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
We're gonna have to figure that one out.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
So can I tell you what my lasting imagery, at
least mentally.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Of Radio Row is.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
It is so down in Miami. Back in the day,
there used to be I think three thriving sports radio
stations in the AM and on one of them there
was a gentleman by the name of Kevin Rogers Krog
as the kids call him, and there was this sound.
I forget did you guys play this first? Or was
(21:35):
this the radio station that he worked for?
Speaker 9 (21:37):
Just running him live? And then somebody clipped it.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
It is the saddest sound I've ever heard professionally from
a colleague, and it made me think that I don't
have the coolest job in the world.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
That made me think I have one of the worst.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Jobs of the world.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Kevin Rodgers is a person that I met in Jacksonville
at the Super Bowl. We had just start ar did
locally seven ninety the ticket down here in Miami. I
started that station. I was the GM I co hosted
the afternoon show with Dan.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
It was a terrible plan. So was a Jacksonville super Bowl.
By the way, Yeah, that was a terrible plan.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
But Kevin Rodgers, and this is what radio Row in
super Bowl Week is all about, he flagged me down
and he was relentless, okay, because he wanted to move
from where he was in Kansas City down to South
Florida and South Beach in Miami. He was a young
man at the time, a very polished broadcaster, a great broadcaster,
and I ended up hiring Kevin Rodgers to do updates
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in the afternoons for my show with Dan. Yes, we
then went out I had to add an extra adjective there.
We then went out to a super Bowl. I'm trying
to think where it was. I don't think it was
down here in Miami, is he? But we do have
next super Bowl because I can figure out which one
it probably was. But we do have the sound that
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you're talking about. Because this is what radio Row and
super Bowl Week is all about. Let's first go to
the sound. Guys, where was it? Taylor? Just come to them.
I can say it, Bud, Yes, all right.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
The way to set this up his show was on
in the evenings. Yeah, so by the time he's going
on from Radio Row. Yes, it's an empty radio row.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, so it's an empty radio row because Radio Row
is really a six eight to seven p deal. And
when the afternoon shows are over, When the afternoon shows
are over, okay, everyone goes and parties their ass off. Okay,
that's what. And then they come back the next day
and they're hungover, and you're Sander, okay, I'm looking forward
to And so here is Kevin Rodgers, the rare guy
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to host an evening show on Radio Row. After everyone
is cleared out, here is k Roger trying to get
the attention of Lincoln Kennedy.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Lincoln Kennedy, what's up man? Yeah, I'm working. Where do
you go?
Speaker 11 (23:58):
You want to get betch up part tonight? You go
on FHM night. All right, I'll see you later.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
It's so, yes, this is one of the two. The
next one is the one that's most memorable to me.
But it just the Lincoln Kennedy is there. Yes, he's
clearly Ky Rodger the only person there doing a show. Yes,
and Lincoln Kennedy still denies him because he says, you
shouldn't be here this way.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yes, listen closely, audience, because you can hear faintly Lincoln
Kennedy telling Kevin Rogers everyone has left the building.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Go again, Lincoln Kennedy, what's up? Man? Yeah, I'm working.
Where do you go?
Speaker 11 (24:38):
You want the fe party night? You're on FHM night.
All right, I'll see you later.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I'm working here.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So if that's not sad enough, here is Kevin Rogers
still at Radio Row, not at the Fahm party. This
is the next day. He hasn't left Radio Row. He
never went to the Fahm party. He just stayed at
his boot on Radio Row. And here is him with
a bloody tongue.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
What else we got? Oh my god, Ray Lewis is here?
Can we get Ray Lewis in the show before my
tongue falls off? Ray freaking Lewis in the house?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Wow?
Speaker 12 (25:18):
Hey, Ray, got a couple of minutes. Ray, Let's see whatever.
Ray Lewis walks in and my tongue is bleeding.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Wow, that right there, Stu guys, which was almost twenty
years ago, I want to say, maybe it was twenty
years ago. Is my entire visual interpretation, mental interpretation of
what Radio Row is like. And I'm thankful we do
with three to five Eastern, which is what going to
be noon.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
To two over there, if you say so.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Was on my toes and I'm not going to experience
the k Rots thing. But man, I'm just gonna have
like this sickening empty feeling if I ever see somebody
arc that, or if I see you or anybody else
yell a name and then is not.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Heard, I'll do it all week.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
I will.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yes. Kevin Rodgers quit after that that show.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
His tongue was so bad.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
He said that was like the first ten minutes of Yes,
that show opening, and then I believe he said. He
called Allison after. I was like, I can't keep hosting
the shows he's teaching now.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Did he explain how his tongue got cut up? Was
he just talking to me?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Bit his tongue, that's all. He just bit his tongue.
It was bleeding everywhere he was. He was alone. He
was sad because he decided it was a good idea
to host an evening show on Radio Row when everyone
else was at the FHM party.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
I remember, AHM, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Like a spinoff of maxim Right, that.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Nothing I was interested in.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
But yes, I want to just recruit k Roge to
be my afternoon interview recruiter. Like he seems very aggressive
and shameless in what he's doing, so I'm like, let's
get him on.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
But when people are actually around.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But unfortunately he's teaching now. It made him leave the
industry radio rope. It did one more time, A said
Kevin Rodgers at night, trying to get Ray Lewis on
because he has no guest booker because his guest booker
and producer all of them are at the FHM party.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
What else we got? Oh my god, Ray Lewis is here.
Can we get Ray Lewis in the show? Before my
tongue falls off? Ray freaking Lewis in the house?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Wow?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Hey, Ray, got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Ray, Let's see whatever Ray Lewis walks in and my
tongue is bleeding.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (27:40):
I'm just imagining being in South Florida at the time,
tuning into whichever radio station he was working for at
the time.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
And being like, this is not entertaining.
Speaker 13 (27:49):
Why am I listening to this man whose tongue is
clearly injured?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Just yelling at people I don't know if they're there
or not.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
He could be making it up.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
It's the most entertaining thing I've ever heard. I mean,
it really is, Yes, because I know Radio Row, and
I know super Bowl Week, and I know stuff like
that happens on Radio Row during super Bowl Week where
all of a sudden you're sitting down, you know, with
with Michael Irvin, and I think Hockey's this example earlier,
Taylor and Mendoza walks by and you have to politely
tell Michael Irvin to get up because there's a bigger
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guest waiting at your table, and you're like, hey, playmaker,
get out of here. And I'll just yell hey Mendoza
when I see him. Yes, That's what I'll do.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yes, Taylor is he Krog could have gotten ray Lewis on,
and nothing would have been as good as that clipped that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
If we got instead, ray Lewis would say nothing interesting.
If indeed Krodge got him on.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I'm not a fan of cringe humor, and so I
would have I would have somehow taken my radio out
of my car and thrown it out the window if
I was listening to that live because it.
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Was so cringe worthy.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So anyway, I'm excited to take you.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Guess it's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We're gonna take
a lot of calls today because I'm tired. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. We have we have some
episodes out already of Steve Gotson Company and of God
Bless Football. Steve Gotson Company with Salakata God Bless Football.
Mike Ollock Junior joins us there, and hopefully we'll see
our friend next week in San Francisco, although he's telling
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us that he's going to stay in LA because he
knows how sad it is, so see what happens.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Yes, I wouldn't mind staying in La.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Are you into this game?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Man?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's not having a hard time getting fired up for
this game? I shouldn't be, But I feel like the
country as a whole is having a hard time kind
of getting fired up for this game.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
I feel like there will be people that the country
can sort of grab onto, grasp onto.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
I think JSN is one of them.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
I think if they didn't really recognize from the conference
championship game, just how much of a fixture he's going
to be in the NFL for a long time. I
think the Super Bowls probably going to be another time
for him to shine. I have a feeling the quarterbacks
aren't going to play great. Whether it be Drake may
facing a quality defense for first time in a minute,
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I mean, the Texans were great but didn't really have
to do much against him, right, Or if it's Sam
Donald after essentially a cakewalk against a bad Rams defense,
if he's all of a sudden shaken up by this
Pats defense.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
But none of that makes me think, oh, this is
going to be.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Crazy entertaining football, And none of it, none of it
makes me think the storyline is that compelling. Sam Donald's
a nice story, but we've heard crazier stories of quarterbacks
winning Super Bowls. He's already sort of accomplished his comeback, right,
He's a legitimate top half, you know, top ten quarterback
in the league, which nobody thought would happen. He's gotten
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to a super Bowl if he wins a bonus to
be honest.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yes, but Sam Donald was the guy who couldn't play
well in big games until he played well in a
big game. If he plays terribly in this game, we're
gonna climb right back on him and say he can't
do it in a big spot because that's what the
sports media does.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
We're lazy, yes, but is that fun?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
It's like, Oh, I can't wait till Darnold loses so
we can go back to saying what we were saying before.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
Like, I don't really know what else there.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
I mean, if you are a Drake may stan, if
you believe he is the MVP, if you think he
is going to be the best quarterback in the league
for the next decade, then you're sitting back and like,
watch this, watch my guy start his run.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
But I don't know how many people actually believe that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, go ahead tell it.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So I'm kind of worried about Drake May now because
after that Broncos game, there was a clip that was
going around where he's talking with his wife postgame. She
taps on his shoulder and he kind of winces, and
everybody's like, is Drake May hurt? And they kind of
dismissed it, and then Drake may shows up on the
injury report. The first injury report, he was listed as
limited for a right shoulder injury, and the Patriots kind
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of downplayed it, and then Friday comes along. Today comes along,
and Drake May was not present for the media access
portion of Friday's practice. I'm starting to get a little
worried that Trake May is a lot more hurt than
the Patriots are leading on.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Aren't they saying this one's a sickness right, He's just
saying I'm trying to be smart keep them away from
other people, which I would buy any team that's traveling anybody. Yeah,
you probably can get sick if it is sort of
an extension of that right shoulder injury. And they're a
little concerned about that. That clearly would be something I'd be.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Freaked out about.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You had Rabel playing chess nut checkers? Is that what
you're doing there?
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I mean, his penis is at stake.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Put it on the poll. Is Rabel's penis at steak?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
It's interesting though, because he'd probably want to lose if
he's worried about it.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, they're just they're not storylines to your point that
you can really latch onto. You know, it's not anyone
playing for a legacy. It's not a guy who needs
to win a Super Bowl. Sam Darnold doesn't need to
win a Super Bowl. He's done enough.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
You're almost hate watching if you don't love the Patriots,
you're hate watching the Patriots, which you've done for two
decades now. More than that the Seahawks. Like if the
Seahawks hadn't gone through the uh you know, Russell Wilson,
legion of boom Era, I would say, Wow, this is
refreshing story by these Seahawks. But the only really part
of that, like I said, is Darnold, which you know,
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multiple teams, and then it's you know, I think a
young breakout talent like Jackson Smith and Jigba is always
fun to watch, especially at that position. But again, I
just go watch highlight footage of him. I don't need
to see him in the super Bowl to think that
this guy's going to be it.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
I already know he's the guy.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yep. I have found out today that Taylor will be
attending the super Bowl. How about that? I mean correct,
that's pretty cool for the super Bowl? Yeah, for super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Wow, So you're getting back in time for Monday show
or should we find somebody else to do the VIP route?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
So we're working on the logistics of that.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yes, he's planning on doing Monday show from Radio Row.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I'm worried he'll never leave.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
That would be even sadder than k Rod like a
Crickets Radio Row like posts Wow day after Yes, let's
hope for it.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live weekday sent three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I love when you go to live the first call
you make is to Phil Mickelson. When you want to
come back to the PGA Tour, the first call you
make it to Tiger Woods. I mean, how about you
call Tiger before you agree? As I would live. That
would have been the smart move. Chris Long, I'm gonna
join us here in a second. I feel bad here
because you know, we do these interviews and I tend
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to hog the guest time. I ask all the questions.
If it's not me, it's it's Taylor. If it's not Taylor,
it's mikey A and poor. Is he just being a
professional sitting here and not asking any sort of question?
So with that said, is he? I am going to
allow you to ask the first question of our buddy,
Chris Long. Who I cannot wait to see next week
(34:45):
in San Francisco, we're gonna take mushrooms together?
Speaker 8 (34:48):
Well can I just do that?
Speaker 9 (34:49):
But no, thank you, Chris, I really appreciate you taking
my question.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Here.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Is this the wildest NFL coaching carousel you've ever seen?
Speaker 14 (34:57):
Yeah, you could get you kind of got the sense,
you know, like three weeks ago that like, damn, we
could have double digit openings, and of course here we are,
I think with double digit vacancies in total, and uh yeah,
some of the some of the teams that don't have
their guy yet. It's pretty interesting and like especially considering
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a few of the places that are replacing their head coaches.
You're replacing Mike Common, You're replacing Harbaugh. You know, these
are generational replacements, man, Like, these guys have had cultures
set in these places for as long as I can
remember being a football fan, almost as an adult. And
then you know Sean McDermott winning you know x amount
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of AFC East Championships, winning a playoff game in you know,
consecutive seasons six times in a row, not being able
to get over the hump and getting fired. Yeah, the
whole thing's crazy, man, And it's just the when when
Verybel and McDonalds, Yeah, you could get you kind of
got the sense, you know, like three weeks ago that like, damn,
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we could have double digit openings, and of course here
we are, I think, with double digit vacancies in total,
and uh yeah, some of the some of the teams
that don't have their guy yet. It's pretty interesting. And
like especially considering a few of the places that are
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replacing their head coaches. You're replacing Mike Tomlin, You're replacing Harbaugh.
You know, these are generational replacements, man, Like, these guys
have had cultures set in these places for as long
as I can remember being a football fan in almost
as an adult. And then you know Sean McDermott winning
you know x amount of AFC East Championships, winning a
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playoff game in you know, consecutive seasons six times in
a row, not being able to get over the hump
and getting fired.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Yeah, the whole thing's crazy, man.
Speaker 14 (36:56):
And it's just the when when verybel and McDonald end
up in the Super Bowl this quickly with their respective teams,
it only heightens the sense of you have to win now.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
In the NFL, do you think those expectations are fair.
I don't.
Speaker 14 (37:15):
I don't think those expectations are fair. I think people
like to skirt the reality that if you make bad
decisions as an organization, you have to sit with them
for a few years. Some decisions you can't just get
out of immediately. You know, some teams find ways to
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win with a lot of dead cap, like Denver for instance.
Right they're still paying Russell Wilson, They're still staring at
that number. There's other teams with dead cap that have
that have performed really well. But like, for the most part,
I think, you know, some teams, it's just going to
be a hard climb, and you know, you hire a
coordinator or.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
You hire a head coach and.
Speaker 14 (38:00):
You expect he's just gonna snap his fingers and things
are gonna get fixed.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
I think some guys.
Speaker 14 (38:05):
Get a really raw deal, and you know, you know,
some of these jobs are not very desirable, like the
Miami job.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
And I think Halfley is.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
And I'm not just saying this because you're here, Stu,
but like, but like Halfley, I think is a He
strikes me as a really sound leader, Like he's got
that presence at the podium and that sort of thing,
like mixed bag on what I think about the defense
BC wasn't I mean, he wasn't like wildly successful at BC.
You know, with Michael Parsons, they're dominant. But then he
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leaves and you're kind of like, okay, well was it
was it Parsons or was it Halflee? You know, was
it some of the And now he's got a job
in Miami, and Miami would be one of the least
attractive jobs for me, Like a job like that, I'm like,
what do you want the guy to do?
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Sure? You know, like how many years would would be fair?
Speaker 14 (38:56):
And and the reality is for a lot of these
like the Draw Mayo thing in New England. Okay, Rabel
was probably our kk's guy from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
He had to wait a year.
Speaker 14 (39:07):
That doesn't make it any less screwed up that they
gave Gerrodmea that job knowing they were going to fire
him and probably a year and did not spend any
money in free agency, and the very next year. You know,
of course Rabel's a better coach. He's a great coach.
But they also they also did the right thing. They
cashed it on the rookie quarterback deal window and spent
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hundreds of millions of dollars in free agency, and here
they are, and so like, yeah, like the circumstances you
coach in the delta between one job to the next
is crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
But you don't like that they used him as a
bridge coach essentially, right.
Speaker 14 (39:45):
I just thought like it was obvious what they were doing.
That doesn't make that doesn't make like everybody nobody's gonna say, hey,
you shouldn't have hired Vrabel, especially now the proof.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Is in the pudding.
Speaker 14 (39:57):
It's just I think a lot of people miss the
point where is like you know, and and it's easy
to get wrapped up in this because I remember being
pissed off about it, but especially because he's like from
my draft class, Mayo, and like he's he's actually from Virginia.
Is a guy I've known a long time and a
good dude. You just you think about the person getting
that opportunity, and some of these things aren't opportunities, you know,
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and like some of these jobs, And that's why I
think the Ben Johnson thinks so interesting, Like Ben Johnson saying, hey,
I'm not going to take the first job that I
can get because I value that first opportunity and know
that like if it doesn't go well, like when's your
next one happening? As unfair as that might be, and
so I think that trend should probably pick up a
(40:43):
little steam. Like I know it's easier said than done,
but like if I was a coordinator and I didn't
like my job opportunity and I believed in myself, like
I'm not going to take the first one.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
What'd you make of their of their decision to go
for it. Everyone's talking about Sean Payton's decision to go
for it in the.
Speaker 14 (41:00):
I'm so tired of this. Dude, if you're there, you
are no But like if everybody now everybody's you know,
entitled to their opinion on this thing, there's no right
answer because we're doing in retrospect. If you were that
adamant about taking the points, like timestamp it, you put
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it on your social media, you know, like record a
video and because a.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Day long with you on this, yes, do it at
the time. Now, to Mikeya's credit, he did say it
at the time. You have to take the points there.
He said it as it was happening.
Speaker 14 (41:33):
Right, And you know what I said, as it happened,
I like going I don't like the call, right and
and you know it's so easy to say, well, look
they lost ten to seven. Okay, well New England could
have kicked if Borgolis made that second field goal and
they'd be up thirteen to seven. You know, it wouldn't
have been enough to score ten points. And then what
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you're gonna do when you go into overtime. The point was,
and I think the curiosity for me is like, how
aware were these coaches that there was a blizzard on
the horizon in the third quarter. I believe Josh and
Vrabes were all over that. The way they ran that
third quarter drive, it was like if you look at
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the the all twenty two to the sideline view of
the scoreboard, when they start that drive and when they
start the next drive, it is like night and day visibility.
The win the precipitation. So they nailed that drive in
the third quarter. But the point I want to make
is it's fourth and short if you score fourteen points
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on a team like New England who's not very good
in the red zone offensively, ironically, they made a count
when you gave them the ball, you think you're gonna
win that football game. I hate the call because it
limits you you have one option. I think Stidham looked
best when you spread that team out and you gave
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him late down run pass options, you know, use his
leg that sort of thing. I think you spread them out,
you make him declare, and you go from there and
you trust him to throw the football because the run
game wasn't great.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
And that's the one thing for Denver.
Speaker 14 (43:10):
Is like, Okay, we're talking a lot about Denver what
they could have done, what they should have done.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Wouldn't it be nice if they had a run game.
Speaker 14 (43:17):
So that's something that they have to come back to
this offseason and say, I know JK. Dobbins makes a difference,
but I think they need a really dynamic back.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
But you're okay with Sean Payton trying what he's trying
to do in that spot, knowing in all likelihood there's
a snowstorm coming in the second half. He's trying to
get to fourteen because he knows fourteen likely wins that game.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
For them, right, buries them.
Speaker 14 (43:38):
Yeah, And honestly, ten does two right if Stidham doesn't
throw the ball backwards. Okay, But I think the point
is the point is, like we're all doing this thing.
And I thought Sean Payton mismanaged this game at times.
I think he did, like little things like before the
half and maybe this was on Stidham. But on third
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and four, as the clocks running down, you got under
thirty seconds ago, he runs out of bounds before they
attempt that field goal.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Now, what that does, in effect is gives New England
a chance for two for one.
Speaker 14 (44:10):
They get the ball back and they're lucky that Drake
May ran out of time in space and they had
kicked that super long field goal. There were a ton
of the time out late, some of the decision making offensively.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Here's the other thing. Their kicker missed two kicks.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Yes, in the game, right right, you're right, you're very
passionate about this. I love it.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Yes, No, I love situational football.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
I know you do.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
That's why, Chris, what's the ticket situation for players at
the Super Bowl? Because I would guess that most fans
just assume they get them for free.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Oh dude, we never get tickets for free.
Speaker 14 (44:47):
And when you tell fans when they asked you, like, hey,
you know where you can find some tickets? Like I
had somebody, a buddy of mine who actually like was
like hey, and he didn't know any better, but he
was like, how hard would it be get to get
thro tickets for the Eagles playoff game? And I'm like,
just as hard for me as it is for you, Like,
you know, like maybe I maybe I can get you
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three tickets with you know, incrementally better prices, but they're
not like I got to go to a player and
he's got to use his allotment of tickets like that
he has for his family. So I'm gonna be like, hey,
my buddy from college was wondering if you can use
your tickets and increase the distraction quotient on your week
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and go through the proper channels and take tickets off
the table for somebody else.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
How well do you know this guy?
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Well?
Speaker 14 (45:39):
I know him, but I haven't seen him in years,
and he's just trying to save one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, Chris, let me explain why Taylor asked that question.
His best friend is Matt Collins, who was playing in
the Super Yes, that's his best friend.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Mac Taylor was a walk on receiv in North Carolina.
Speaker 14 (45:56):
Oh man, did you play with Mac Collins? I've to
play with him in Philly one of my favorite people.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Like legit.
Speaker 14 (46:05):
People see his antics and they're like, yo, what's wrong
with this guy? And I'm like, well, it ain't fake.
That's exactly that twenty four to seven who he is?
Bro and and he was just a gamer bro Like
he was always a special teams guy in Philly.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
But you know, like just the type of guy that
you could just trust. Man.
Speaker 14 (46:25):
It's like when Drake goes to him a couple times
a game. Yeah, he's just so trustworthy. He blocks his
bag off, dude, He's a great teammate.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
He brings the energy. Love mac collins, dude, Yeah, love.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
But Taylor, what Taylor wants to know is he's kind
of trying to figure out through you. By the way
how he goes about asking mc collins for tickets to
the game.
Speaker 14 (46:45):
You know, so so Chris, I always if you're best friends,
that's okay.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Yes, yes, And the situation is a little different because
since we have the relationship from college, I always pay him.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
For the tickets that he gets.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah, but I remember thinking, thinking in twenty eighteen, I
had the chance to go to Minneapolis and it was freezing,
and I believe I got priced out of the ticket range.
Speaker 14 (47:08):
Yeah, that that that Super Bowl wasn't great for spectators, man,
Like you couldn't really.
Speaker 5 (47:14):
Go outside, per se, Dude.
Speaker 14 (47:18):
At Super Bowl, we were in the We stayed in
the Mall of America, Taylor, as you probably know because
you were talking to Mac and everything.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
But uh, the Pats were on one side, we were
on the other.
Speaker 14 (47:28):
The only thing guys could really do in their downtime
was walk around the mall.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
So you had this.
Speaker 15 (47:33):
Like like uh like like like gangs walking around the mall,
like you know, like we were on different sides, bro
like like kind of West Side story type or Warriors
type stuff.
Speaker 5 (47:45):
Speaking of Mac Collins walking around the food court and uh.
Speaker 14 (47:50):
And like when you'd walk by dudes, it's so funny
because like I'd see like Devin mccordy and we were
teammates last year, you know, at this point, and like
we'd be like, yo, man, what's up, dude, Like we
see guys in Benny Hanna, Like everybody would be in
Benny Hannah at the same time, because there's like only
one walk restaurant in the whole mall. And then uh,
and then and then I'd walk by some guys like
(48:12):
I had this this younger teammate who is a d
lineman who I like helped a year ago. Like he
was like, hey, Vett, Like how can I get better?
And then I passed him in the in the hallway
and I was like, Yo, what's up?
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Redacted?
Speaker 14 (48:24):
And he like ignored me, Bro, He like looked me
up and down like this is game week. Like I'm like,
how corny are you?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Bro?
Speaker 5 (48:31):
But we're in a mall.
Speaker 14 (48:32):
I'm like, dude, we're in a mall. Just say what's up.
It's not that serious.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (48:36):
We didn't get to go outside. It sucked.
Speaker 14 (48:40):
I remember the after party. It was like the coldest
night of my life. So yeah, I'm I'm all for
every city getting a shot, but probably not that city again, right, Uh?
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Chris? Is Super Bowl Week fun? Like like all the
all the stuff leading up to the actual game. I
know the game is fun, but his super Bowl Week fun?
Is it a fun experience for the players?
Speaker 14 (49:02):
I think so? I think it is fun. There's maybe
not the right word. Like I didn't go out drinking
or go out like partying. There's certainly some guys that
decide that that's what they want to do.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
With some of their off time.
Speaker 14 (49:15):
And honestly, it's it's kind of like understood that, you know,
guys are going to go out and party a little bit.
Like for me, maybe it's because I'm just a creature habit,
like I need my sleep, I need some privacy. The
hard part about it is you never feel alone.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 14 (49:32):
I remember checking into the hotel in Houston when I
was with the Patriots and never having any preconceived notion
about what it was like, and getting up to my
room and just feeling the buzz outside, like hearing the
voices like that surround the hotel, like and I'm sixteen
stories up. You can hear people out there milling around.
You can hear helicopters. You know, there's people in the lobby.
(49:52):
If you get down the lobby, you gotta have like
sunglasses and like a hoodie and like your headphones on.
There's no downtime, there's no time like even your alone time.
Your downtime. They whisk you off to like a media
day where they're Yeah. The fun part about it is
somebody from China's asking you a question. You're like, oh,
this is kind of a big deal, or you know,
(50:12):
you get to go to some event and you kind
of you get a glimpse of the magnitude of what
you're about to do because the world's media is like
converged around you know, the whole scene. And yeah, you
go through the walkthrough at the stadium, which is like
kind of surrealed the day before.
Speaker 5 (50:29):
You know, you see your plaque.
Speaker 14 (50:31):
It's got your name and Super Bowl whatever on it.
Like there's a million moments during the week where you're like,
oh my god, this is real.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
So in that way, it's really fun.
Speaker 14 (50:41):
In some ways, it's like, damn, dude, I wish we
were back home preparing for this game because we are
creatures of habit, like in our natural habitat bro I
want my training room table, I want my hot tub,
I want my cold tub. I want you know, the
restaurants I like eating at during the week or ordering
DoorDash from it.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
You are out of your element, dude. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
Green Light Podcast is where you can check him out
wherever you get your podcast. He's doing great work with charity.
We love him. I can't wait to see you next week.
You go host The Bridge, you co host with me
and me and you picnic Golden gate Bridge a couple
of months.
Speaker 5 (51:15):
See at the bridge. Wait, yeah, I'll see at the bridge.
You said it.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
I'm just gonna meet I say it and I don't care.
I'll meet you at the bridge. Is that what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (51:24):
I'll meet you at the bridge. Bro, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
This is gonna be great and is our super Bowl party?
Steve got, said Chris Long. Everyone come on out and
takes rooms to the Golden gate Bridge.
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