October 27, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers' performance for the Steelers in his first game against the Packers, Brian Kelly getting fired by LSU, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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show be. So our lead this hour to begin the
Festiva is gonna start out with the Sunday Night game
in the Land of the Insurs, the Land of the Injurs.
That's the story, big game made for TV extravaganza there
and we go to the confluence. Now why do we
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go to the confluence because that's where they played the game,
Right there, where the Monongahela and the Alleghany get together.
They have a baby and the baby is the Ohio River.
So that is the birth of the Ohio right there.
It's very public the PDA type display there and so
that is where the story was. Mike Tarrico, Chris Collinsworth.
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Collinsworth had his knee pads out for the quarterbacks as
he always does there and if you didn't see the game.
Maybe not eh, it was a game for a half,
game for a half in a quarter about a quarter
not so good. So we watched so you would not
have to. As Jordan Love passed for almost almost four
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hundred yards and not one, not two, but three touchdowns
as Green Bay, after falling behind at halftime, sprinted past
the Pittsburg Steelers in the second half. Now, the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we will begin. And despite him down playing it, saying, well,
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it was not a revenge game. It will be different.
It was at Lambeau. That'd be Aaron Rodgers. Now, Aaron
Rodgers was put on a pedestal. He was absolutely put
on a pedestal here, and he went against his old team.
We all know the backstory, right, we all know it.
You're listening to a sports talk radio show late at
night here, you know the backstory. So Rogers was out
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there doing his thing, and how did that go? Not good?
Not good? Rogers pathetic in the second half in particular
there and we'll get into it. But here's Rogers, first
of all, pointing out that things just didn't go right
in many areas, including paying attention to what you're supposed
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to do. Here's Rogers complaining about the execution of the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
We had some discipline issues and some penalties everyone necessary,
and then you're not going to win a lot of
games when we're so bad on third down. Boz bailed
us out some four incredible kicks. But you're playing good teams,
you need to square touchdowns, and we just stalled out
in the high red zone.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
All right, so let us discuss. That's a good jumping
off point. So the question, how do you explain ain Rogers'
performance or lack thereof for Pittsburgh in the second half.
So I've got Tommy Hill, figure, eye wash, and tiki bar,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an outstanding rice cake, which
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is about what the Steelers were in the second half.
A rice cake. As you know, it's disgusting rice cakese
who wants to eat that crap? So A so much
for the Aaron Rodgers payback for game and all that stuff,
which he tried to downplay, but Mike got and Rodgers
was a big part of it. With the defense was embarrassing.
And we'll get to that here in a minute. Even
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if the Packers had not gotten the benefit of being
able to bait the Steeler players because they're undisciplined into
excessive penalties. Even if that had not been the case,
the way the Steelers tackled it would not have mattered.
We're starting out with Aaron Rodgers here, So Aaron Rodgers,
who was okay. I wouldn't say he was great in
the first half. He was okay in the first half.
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He watched the game, forget the stats, just watched the game.
And then the second half, if he was at the
movie theater, he would have been what kind of snack
at the movie theater? He would have been a milk
dud is what he would have been. It was an
absolute dud. The shine came off Aaron Rodgers in the
second half there real quick in the steel City and
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the first half. I wouldn't say he was great. I
would say he was function functional in the first half
of the game. I thought in the second half there
was system malfunction for Aaron Rodgers, and it's like someone
went in there and unplugged the motem. It's like the
motem got unplugged and he couldn't get connected he couldn't
get online, like everything was kind of messed up there.
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It's like, what's up with that? The Steelers actually had
a nine point lead at halftime. They're up sixteen to seven.
Not riveting football, but they're up by nine points. They
got the ball to start the third quarter. Every meatthead
ex jock that gets a microbe. Oh they have all
the momentum. Oh my god, they have all the moment
lah blah lash shoving up your tuckers. They had all
the momentum, all of them moremtium. The Pittsburgh Steelers had
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all of them metum. Then they had to play the game.
They rode the vomit comet in the second half momentum
I ass outscored twenty eight to night. It should have
been worse than that. In fact, in many ways it
was worse than that. It was really twenty eight to
three in the second and a half. There was a
late touchdown there. But that is not just a leak, okay,
that is a full on pipe burst in the basement,
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is what That is what happened in the second half
of this game. And so they got that late touchdown.
The garbage time touchdown was a little bit of a
sprits little sprits that was some Tommy Hill figure cologne
there right on top of a clogged toilet, which was
the Steelers in the second half, and they just put
a little spritz of Tommy Hill figure cologne on there,
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right on top of the toilet was clogged up Rogers
in the second half. If you take away the charity
score game, Packers were playing the would just prevent type
defense situation. They had a two score lead, two scores
and two two point conversions, and so then Pittsburgh goes
down the field, they drive down with Rogers and they
score a touchdown with a couple of minutes to go
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in the game. You take that away because it's really
a cheap, garbage time score. The rest of the second half,
Rogers averaged less than five yards per pass in the
second half. Basically handing it off sideways was the way
you would describe the Pittsburgh Steelers offense there. And people
will point out the overall numbers Rodgers are not terrible.
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In fact, some would say they're even good if you
just go by the pure stats. Aaron Rodgers overall passer rating.
Even after this game on Sunday night, where he was
not very good in the second half. Rogers still has
a higher passer rating at this point. We're at week
eight of the season. Now the Packers and Steelers next
time they play will be Week nine. So Josh Allen
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and Patrick Mahomes do not have as good a quarterback
rating as Aaron Rodgers. If I had said in the offseason,
if I said back in July, all right, whenever Rodgers signed,
maybe like August, whenever you finally signed. So we're gonna
be sitting on the NFL schedule week nine going in
to pass the midway point. It's seventeen games, so eight
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and a half weeks is the midway point of the
NFL season. So we're gonna go in there and Rogers
is going to have a higher passer rating than Mahomes
and Josh Allen. He said, okay, all right, we got
something here, all right, the Steelers are gonna be great
watch out and yeah, and this is again for those
people that dry hump stats. And stats tell you what
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has happened, not what's going to happen. But they also
they also tell you a cloudy version of events that
took place, a foggy version of events that took place.
For example, it's like, would you rather read sheet music?
Because you love music, you want to read the sheet
music rather than hear the song. I would rather hear
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the song. That the stats are the sheet music, right,
that's the musical notes on there. But you really would
rather hear the song rather than just read it. You
get the whole vibe and all that. You watch the game.
The mood, Oh, it's all about the mood. The mood
changed after afterime Rogers flat lined and the Packers' offense
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or Packer's offense did whatever they wanted while Rogers on
the other side with the Steelers forget about it now.
Speaking of that, turning the page here, Jordan Love became
the first Packers quarterback since Brett Farvre to complete twenty
straight passes in a game. Farv did it way back
in oh seven. I was barely alive then. I was
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like a kid. I remember Rogers having a big game,
but I was a child. So twenty oh seven for
that performance there. That was his final season in Green Bay,
where he was having problems with Aaron Rodgers and so
far then left went to the Jets and then the
Vikings and all that and so so be it. But
the question is not so much about Jordan Love, it's
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the other side. What on God's green Earth was that
by Mike Tomlins Pittsburgh Steelers defense. What happened to making adjustments?
What happened to improving as the season goes on? Now,
we saw the Pittsburgh Steelers get sliced up by Joe Flacco.
So you took the position that they were going to
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make that a point of emphasis and they were going
to cut down on their mistakes there and clean some
stuff up. They had a mini bye week, they being
the Pittsburgh Steelers. How did that go? The adjustments were
non existent, They were non existent. The Steelers defense just
stood there like they were watching a Matt Nay at
the Cinerama Dome. They were just enjoying buttered popcorn. Whatever.
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What was that? Horrific? Unacceptable, absolutely unaccepted. Here's Mike Tomlin
commenting on one of the most pathetic defensive performances you'll
see in the Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow, Black
and Yellow Tail is you know, we all.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Have to own it. Certainly you start with the schematics, man,
because you know that's the leadership component of it. And
certainly we'll be looking at everything that we're doing, man,
because some of these problems are somewhat repetitive and we're
not getting better fast enough. Mike, I'm not gonna talk
too much tonight. We'll take a look at it. As
I mentioned, they made some significant plays on possession down
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ball and you know, you got to get off on
third down.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, got it so very important to get off according
to Mike Tom It's all right. So anyway, it's like
they went to these Cinerama doomas I said there they
had the buttered pop going there and oh my god.
Now maybe it was just my TV. Sometimes my TV
sees things that other TVs don't see. I have no idea,
but I saw these Steelers playing. I call it the
cover m defense, as in the cover Matador. Alright, alright, alright, oay, yeah.
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If you want miss tackles, check the Steelers are really
good at miss tackles, really good. If you want arm tackles,
they got those two. A lot of arm tackles, a
lot of arm tackles. You want poor pursuit ankle angles
where they come at the wrong direction, you know how
you're supposed to cut down the path. They don't do that.
Never never see that.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's essentially a video on how not to play defense
in the NFL. What the Steelers are doing on a
weekly basis. There's a lot of people on defense in
the secondary in particular, that are making business decisions, if
you know what I'm saying here. And he allowed the
Packers tied end. Who's a good player, Tucker Craft? Who
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is not that good a player? My god, Tucker Craft.
He went yak andy yack yards after the catch. There
no pushback. And what I've noticed, and the kicker on this,
is that they're the most expensive defense, they being the
Pittsburgh Stears in the entire NFL. They spend more money
on defense than anyone else. They're giving up now thirty
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plus points most games. They played seven games, four of
the seven they've allowed thirty or more points per game.
That's the Pittsburgh Steelers at this particular point. And the
one game where they looked okay against Drake May and
the Patriots, that was more of a byproduct because the
Patriots I think they had five turnovers in that game.
That was the Ramando Stevenson fumble fumble game there. But
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it's not bad luck it's like, look at the series
we've seen them now in Island games, the last couple
of games against the Bengals and against the Green Bay Packers,
and it's just systemic rot is what it is. I mean,
they're just they're not anywhere close to being good.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I get I made the mistake, was handicapped the games
that Mike Tomas gonna go in there, going to the
workshop and figure some things out. It doesn't look like
they figured anything out at all. And so listen, listen,
they're gonna end up winning nine or ten games. They're
over five hundred. As bad as the defense is, they're
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still over five hundred. They're a fake contender. They're in
the fake contender zone. The Pittsburgh seis at this point
just enough there to kind of trick people into thinking
may matter and that anybody can win it. It's wide
open in the AFC here and nobody is scared of
that defense. But the thing about it too, though, is
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you see the guys and it's it's eye wash in
the secondary. That's the term here. It's the fake hustle
where they're kind of around the ball, but it looks
like they're not just based on the eyeball test. It
looks like they're not hustling. It's eyewashes. Hustles stunt double,
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that's what eyewashes, right, It's guys flying around just enough
to get on cameras. So it looks like for the
low information fan that they're in position and looks like
they cared and looks like they're trying, and yet they're not.
This is just ridiculous. So that's where we are on that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The last thing, we go to Denver where bo Nicks
had not one, not two, not three, but four touchdowns
and JK Dobbins ran for one hundred and seventeen yards
no touchdowns, but the Broncos mallywop the once proud Dallas
Cowboys beat them by twenty in the Mile High City. Now,
the better story, though, is in the losing the locker room.
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So some postgame comments from Jerry Jones. We'll get to
that in a second. Here. Dak Prescott, he commented all this,
Dak Prescott, he was swallowed up by the Broncos defense.
I guess the I guess the MVP campaign for Dak
Prescott has gone off the rails at this point. Here.
No touchdowns, two interceptions for Dak Prescott. Here he is
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on postgame commentary about the Dallas cowbich ticulous surprise.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
For sure, it's a good good word to use. Frustrated
as well. Frustrating. Yeah, as you said, right, what we've
been doing, what we're capable of doing, didn't really ever
get it going. Having an opportunity right there in the
first drive of getting down there in the red zone,
being able to have a chance to put put seven
up and settling for a field goal.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That that was the start of it all right now.
Jerry Jones also chimed on this. It was very bizarre.
Jerry was praising the Broncos owners. He was celebrating the
ownership group. Being a Walmart family owns the Broncos. He
was celebrating that, and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, the
great ownership. Want to congratulate the ownership group, he said postgame.
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They beat us physically, their lines beat us, Jerry said,
but their overall team, they did it with a young quarterback.
He said, all right, So question, what is your reaction
to Jerry Jones calling out the Cowboys by praising the
Broncos and celebrating the fact that they won the game.
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With essentially I'm paraphrasing her with physicality. All right, So
does Jerry Jones know really when he was praising the
Broncos owner, I'm wondering, now, does Jerry realize they did
not actually play in the game. Does he realize that
no Broncos owner suited up for the Broncos, none of
them laced it up? So that was my first takeaways,
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Like Jerry kept praising the owners like they were out
there making tackles or they were pushing around the offensive
line of the Dallas Cowboys there. And so to me,
it's coded. I look at this as coded. It's like
using invisible ink, Jerry Jones using some invisible ink. Hear
its owners speak, Now, what does it mean? It's you know,
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my guys meeting Jerry Jones. His team got punched waylaid
in the mouth and they didn't swing back. Did not
swing back. That's essentially what Jerry Jones is saying. Right,
the Cowboys got treated like they were working at the
Tiki Juice bar at Disneyland and they served up some
dollwhip and nice soft, cold doll whip. That's essentially what
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the Dallas Cowboys were in this game. Getting out muscled,
getting out hustled and out gutted, and not losing in
the margins. You lose in the margins when you hustle
and you muscle around and you play with vim and vigor,
you can still lose that game, but you lose in
the margins. This was not losing in the margins. This
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was not that Denver did push around the couch. Who
the cowboysh some guys out? Oh boo hoo, hoo booh
six touchdowns. The Broncos scored six six touchdown. Bon Nicks
did not get sacked. I don't think he had to
wash his uniform after the game. That's the Cowboys defense
that this was trench warfare, is what it was. And
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the Cowboys showed up with a NERF gun. Now it
was a good NERF gun. It was a nice NERF gun,
but it was a NERF gun. Is what it was.
Is a referendum on Brian Schottenheimer. And just when you
thought the Cowboys had turned the corner and they figured
some things out, and that entire coaching staff got worked
over by Sean Payton and his coaching staff. Here they
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were raggedalled manhandled however else you want to say it,
whatever phrase you want to use. And so Jerry is
essentially saying, hey, they're the ones. They being the Broncos.
They had the juice and we had jello is what
we had a lot of jello is what we had there.
And so there you go, physicality on one side, you
had finesse on the other, and the finesse ends up
getting steamrolled. Jerry Jones when he needs to do now,
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he used to go on a field trip with the
Dallas Cowboys, go down to Avery Island, a real island,
but it's in Louisiana, and every restaurant that has Tabasco sauce,
they says, from Avery Island, you get some of that
Avery Island Tabasco sauce and from right out of Louisiana there,
and maybe you grow some hair on your chest there
if you're the Dallas Cowboys. That was pathetic.
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gonna change it up. We'll get back to the NFL
in a moment, I wanted to start with the story
in the by you and I am fascinated. I fully
admit you might not care about this. I'm fascinated by
these buyouts in college football. I have been whacked from
a number of radio jobs. I've lost a TV show
a couple of times. I've lost a lot of jobs.
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I've never been given the kind of golden parachute that
they hand out in college football. It's fascinating. The people
of academia are so stupid. They hire these football coaches,
they give them these massive contracts, and then they whack
them after a few years. It has happened yet again,
big shake up on Sunday while we were watching the
NFL in the shores are right on the shores of
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the Mississippi, not far away from that. If he didn't see,
did not hear? Maybe not? I know Tiger Man very happy.
He's very happy about this. But we've learned now that
LSU has said bye bye to Brian Kelly. Now he's
in his fourth season, signed a ten year contract worth
about one hundred million about one hundred million dollar contract
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four years in turnout. The last the parties over now
that move comes on the heels of rhythmic chanting goofing
on Brian Kelly. Over the weekend, you see Texas A
and M quietly the number three, number three team in
college football Texas Center. They won against LSU forty nine
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to twenty five. That is a second consecutive loss, we
are told for Louisiana State, third loss in four games.
So LSU finds themselves at five and three. They're two
and three in the South Eastern Conference. That is a
good jumping off point. So let us discuss people questioning
the timing on this. They should have let it breathe
a little bit longer, should have waited. So the question
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was Brian Kelly's firing as coach at LSU justified or
was it premature? All right, So on this one, I've
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious yogurt which I believe would
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have put more of a fight up a little cup
of yogurt than the LSU football team did for Brian
Kelly in the game over the weekend. So number is
number one. So this one is absolutely in the basket
that is called justified. It's justified is what it is
here Brian Kelly. You knew the moment he got to
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Baton Rouge that Brian Kelly was. The clinical term is
carpet bagger. That is what Brian Kelly was when he
walked into Baton Rouge. If you don't know, look it up.
He was a carpet bagger. And the minute he stepped
off the plane and went to that little shin dig
there in Baton Rouge with the family, trying to say
like he was in the South there that phony drawl.
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I can't even do justice when Brian Kelly was trying
to pronounce and speak in an accent there when he
took over as the OLC coach, he went, he flew
from South Bend down to Battown Rouge and somewhere over
maybe Arkansas, he picked up the Southern drawl, which was
really bad. This fake accent, this fake Southern charm and
fake connection, trying to connect the people who are LSU fans.
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And now he has a fake job that pays a
lot of real money. So Brian Kelly has a fake
job because he's not going to be doing the job anymore. However,
he's got a lot of real money. So this was
not about just the loss to Texas and M. That
was embarrassing. That was a emasculating situation. This has been
a slow burn, a slow burn. It's like embers on
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fire growing into a wildfire. LSU got passed at home.
They gave up I think it was thirty five straight
points at one point in the second half of that
game to Texas and M. So that's embarrassing. Even that
does not get to the point where LSU is now
going to have to cut a giant, oversized cartoon check
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to the old Golden Domer coach Brian Kelly. The Boosters
reaching into their back pocket, grabbing their wallet out and
starting to say, okay, well do I give a credit card?
Is this direct deposit? Can I pay in crypto? Like?
What do we have to do? Let's let's have a GoFundMe.
How are we going to handle this year? Imagine being
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so incompetent, so underwhelming at your job that the employer
you work for goes out and raises funds to pay
you almost fifty four million dollars to go away. That's
where we are. And if you look at the story.
That's where we are in the Brian Kelly story. That
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is not firing is all. Brian Kelly was fired as
coach at LSU. No, no, listen. That is a luxury
cruise for the rest of your life to the riviera
and as many my ties as you possibly want to have.
You can afford everything. This guy basically worked Brian Kelly.
The moment he got to LSU, he was like going
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down to floor and decors and the golden parachute which
was wrapped in of all things, all things, a carpetbag
right there. He can land anywhere he wants. Maybe not
the French Riviera. Maybe he wants to go to Hawaii,
can Coon I hear is nice and can go to
any of those locations. LSU is not paying that kind
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of money. What they did is they found a sugar daddy,
is what they did to come up with the money.
That's what we understand. How they haven't even worked out
the final details on the actual payout. They fired him
and they said, well, we'll figure it out. It's rather simple.
Unless Brian Kelly is willing to take less. They got
to pay him every single dollar and as the old
Yukon coach said back in the day, not a dimeback,
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not a dime, you know, I want every dollar, every penny,
every nickel, everything. So LSU found somebody, some old oil
baron or some tech mogul to pay the money, the
bulk of it. And he was never the guy. Brian
Kelly was never the guy, never was. And we're talking
about the opening news commerce right from Jump Street. It
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was a disaster. When he took over for the LSU
Bengal Tigers. He's like a Midwestern politician coming down from
South Bend. If you remember it was a couple of
years ago. He's got the purple blazer, kind of a
purple outfit. I think you get a sweater actually, but
he had the purple outfit as I remember, and he
was acting like he was the pit boss at a
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Louisiana barbecue joint, even though he'd never eaten barbecue. He's like, well,
it doesn't really make sense, come on, just never fit
in now. Fortunately nobody died falling off a tower while
he was coaching LSU, like happened at Notre Dame. So
that's good. So baby steps there. But the Bayou gave
Brian Kelly a Bronx cheer as they kicked him out
(30:05):
on a pontoon boat down the mighty Mississippi River and
out to the golf right there. Good knock yourself out now,
page two. So as the story, the coaching carousel we'll
call it, starts spinning around in college football, seeing high
profile removals at places like Penn State, Oklahoma State. Now
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LSU's on that short list, and there's some other places
as well that have made changes that are not UCLA,
not a high profile job. So we have a shortage.
Now there's a supply chain shortage, which is a slight
issue if you're going to fire your coach, because there
are not that many coaches available that you would hire
(30:47):
and excite your fan base. They just aren't. So the
question who is LSU targeting to replace Brian Kelly? Who
are they looking at? Give me some names? So I
looked around. As you know, we don't talk much college
football on the show. We mostly talk about in the NFL.
But if you look at this, this is such a
big money deal to pay somebody fifty million dollars to
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not coach your team, you must have somebody really exciting
lined up in the on deck circle. You must have
a coach there that everyone's gonna be happy about. Oh
my god, it is so exciting unless you don't. So
the coaching carousel at LSU is spinning round and round
and round, like going to the waffle house and looking
at the ceiling fan at three in the morning. Round
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and round and round and round and round and round
and then so the booster is down in buffal Rouge.
As we understand it, they want a name, They want
some sizzle. If you're going to cut a check for
fifty million dollars on one side, you better get something,
get you a little Tingley on the other side, gotta
get something little Tingley on the other side. So what
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is that? Well, if you look around, the hottest name,
the hottest name, the hottest fish. I will do it
like Southern fish fry. The hottest fish in the frying
pan is not a catfish. No, no, no, no, it's
Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin, the old miss coach So Florida.
(32:12):
They also whacked their coach, and Lane Kiffin has been
tied to that job. Now you've got LSU, that job's
open up. The LSU job's better than the Florida's job
rather than going to the to the swamp in Gainesville.
You can go coach in Baton Rouge and do your
thing and all that stuff. So if it's not Lane Kiffen,
and to my knowledge I might be wrong on this,
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Lane can only coach one team at a time. So
either he stays at Old Miss, he runs off to
Florida to Gainesville, or he goes to Louisiana State. But
he only have one of those jobs. So let's assume
he does not. We'll take the position that Lane Kiffin
does not end up taking the gig for LSU. So
that's when the circus just gets cranked all the way
(32:55):
up because there's nobody else right, there's nobody else who's
rather obviously it brings any kind of muscle, any kind
of juice is just not much there. And you look
around and you've got the reject pile. And who's on
the reject pile? Well, James Franklin. How would that go over? Well,
he was at Vanderbilt. Will hire him. He knows the South. Okay,
(33:17):
that'll go over very well. The failed Penn State coach
has got a terrible record in big games. We'll hire him.
How about Jimbo Fisher. You can't get anymore baton rouge
than jim Bow Fisher. Although why would Jimbou Fisher want
that job when he's still getting paid aristocrat money, not
the coach Texas A and M. So that doesn't make
any sense. He's getting those giant checks the lottery from
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A and M. So don't go there. And Jimbo would
be like reheated gumbo is what he would be. Technically
it's edible. Okay, it's edible. However, you're not gonna really
enjoy it and you'll regret it later, if you know
what I'm saying. All right, now, will former LSU coach?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Now?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I say former because he just got whacked Brian Kelly
coach again?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
What about that? Is Brian Kelly going to coach again?
So he will coach again if he wants. That's the caveat.
And it's great to be in a position in life.
Will you don't need a job? You can get a job,
but you don't need a job. That's Brian Kelly right.
The days of him, I will say this, the days
of Brian Kelly getting a big boy job O V
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E R. He's not going to get one of those
bougie boogie bougie type gigs. That's over and he doesn't
need it. He does not need it. Brian Kelly just
got the golden handshake. Congratulations, you've got the retirement package.
Your retirement will be paid for from Louisiana State University.
He's not getting another big time upper conference, blue blood job.
(34:55):
That is not happening, not gonna happen. Hudoo boo boodoo
Penn State. Okay, yeah, good luck on that. Maybe Ucla
because he's already getting paid by Louisiana States, So maybe
UCLA and in Oklahoma State somewhere like that. If he
wants to work on his accents, he can do that
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as well, and just go somewhere some mid tier job
if you want to coach again and there's low expectations
and you can golf a lot, and the weather's got
to be good for golfing, So that's important in all that.
And Brian Kelly, whatever headset he wears next, I know
the logo is either going to be a FS one
logo or an ESPN logo. We will see Brian Kelly
on television breaking down third down conversions like he's the
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genius of geniuses there in between rounds of golf and
Palm Beach. That's essentially what he'll be doing here and
cashing checks, not calling plays, and what a great life
that is going to be. He is the Rosetta Stone
of phonies, Phony, funny phony. Yeah, he is. You mix it,
(36:01):
get a little bit of Boston, little sprinkle of Dixie.
I think this should be a great TV show. By
the way, I'm recommending. I'm an ideas guy, So why
not have Brian Kelly, whether it's f S one or ESPN,
wherever he ends up one of these TV gigs, these
no show TV jobs where you show up in spue
cliches and everyone thinks you're the smartest person in the
room because people are dumb. So Brian Kelly shows up
there and he gets accents with Brian Kelly, Like we say,
(36:25):
you do a little Boston accent. He can do a
little Dixie because he practiced that down there in Louisiana.
He can get that Fargo flair, that Minnesota Fargo accent
and get that going a little bit there. Boom done,
and his future though much less Death Valley, much less
Death Valley than it is easy Street. It's like Sesame
(36:47):
Street for sunny days are here again for Brian Kelly
there who has been fired as the coach at s U.
Now meanwhile, back to the NFL, we go, back to
the NFL, we go and the news out from Atlanta.
We mentioned this game last hour as to a tongue
of Iloa man. He was great, had a bad eye,
(37:07):
woke up, went out there and sliced up the falcons.
He carved him like a turkey, and it's illegal to
do that to a falcon, but he did it. It's
a protected bird, that type of falcon, but he did
it anyway. So Kirk Cousins went out there, replaced an
injured Michael Pennex Junior on the other side, the backup
Kirk Cousins hadn't seen him play any meaningful football sometime
(37:28):
and we still haven't seen him play any meaningful football.
And sometimes Cousins was at the controls, he had his
hand on the throttle and how did that go? Atlanta
totaled eleven first downs in a sixty minute game. They
had two hundred and thirteen yards of offense in that game,
(37:48):
and now under five hundred men when they beat Buffalo,
all the Falcons have arrived. Everyone's all horny for the Falcons.
How's that working out for you? Now? Under five hundred?
They lose by twenty four points to the Dolphins. Dan
Marino and the Miami Dolphins went into Atlanta and dominated
a domination situation there. So the question what is the
(38:11):
word we like words on the Overnight Show? What is
the word to describe Kirk cousins performance or lack thereof?
As Miami took them and took them behind the woodshed,
they'd kicked their ass up and down the field. So
on this one, the word I will use is alarming
with the capital A. Alarming with the capital A. That
(38:34):
is the word I will use to describe this. And
here's why. Cousins was out there looking like a guy
that had won a raffle. So hey, everything goes in
the hopper, All the names go on the hopper, and
they pulled his name out and it's like, okay, Cousins,
you get to play quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Congratulations,
your name came up in the hopper. We pulled it
(38:55):
out of the raffle and that how did that work
out for you? Everything was bad, The throws were terrible.
The reads. It looked like he didn't know how to read.
Bad job by him. He needs the reading rainbow on
how to read defenses. The body language was not good.
There was one clip that went all over the plays
that showed Cousins who was audibling at the line and
(39:15):
he just called the wrong player. The players didn't know
what he called. And it was a big to do it,
a big mess and all that stuff. Anyway, Rahee Morris,
who was in over his head as coach of the Falcons,
how long before he's whacked? Here is Rahee Morris pointing
out his opinion of Kirk cousins performance.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
Take a list, you know, tough to discuss anybody's play
when you go out and play that way.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It was why why why?
Speaker 4 (39:38):
He sucks something that we got to fix all together,
and we got to go and get those things done
this week.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's not a wee, it's a heat and he sucks.
We're gonna watch the tape. He didn't say watch the tape.
He might as well said watch the tape. So it
was a masculating that's another word you can use to
describe this year. My god, everything went kurkfluey. It went
Kurkfluey for Kirk Cousins. Everything from soup to nuts was
(40:03):
a hot mess there and breaking the huddle in the
third quarter, it was like a walk of shame. Walk
of shame. The loan touchdown, see the final score was
thirty four to ten. The loan touchdown came in an
empty building. There were a few dozen fans there wearing
dolphin gear and with just a little time left on
(40:24):
the clock, there was a garbage time touchdown there, garbage
time points in the morgue. The stadium was like a
morgue at that point there, and you can't even spin it.
Rahee Morris chose to talk about we lose as a team,
we win as a team. All that crap, that standard
standard coaching. One on one, right, you deflect, you deflect
from the Komodo drag in the room. How about this? Though,
(40:48):
the trade deadline is coming up. It's a week from tomorrow.
Week from tomorrow, Tuesday of next week is the NFL's
trade deadline. So we asked the question, all right, what
ever price tag the Falcons thought thought they were getting
at the upcoming trade deadline? Where is that right now?
(41:09):
All right? So the Falcons it has been chatter they're
gonna try to trade Kirk Cousins here and this was
a showcase game for him to get out there and play.
So whatever price they put on Cousins, all right, whatever
it is, you slash it with a machete. It's like
chopping away the brush. Just chop it away. Imagine if
(41:29):
you will. You're at best Buy now, you could buy
a brand new refrigerator and spend thousands and thousands of
dollars on it. Or you can go to the back
there and they have the scratched and dented section of
refrigerators and just some cosmetic damage and you can get that.
(41:50):
You'll save save some money. So do you want it
at full prices? Cousins at this point is like a
dented refrigerator. He is. And the wild thing here's another guy.
They just have so much money in sports, our money.
People that buy tickets and watch games, They take the
money and they just fivolously spend the money. They're as
bad as politicians. Brian Kelly getting the money he got
(42:11):
from LSU, Kirk Cousins getting one hundred million dollars guaranteed
from the Atlanta Falcons, and the crazy thing is Michael
Pennix Junior, the regular quarterback for Atlanta. He isn't all
that great. It's not like he's good. However, side by
side with what we saw from Kirk Cousins, Pennix is
(42:33):
a beast, the Beast of the South.
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Teams to the Here we go, this one gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
But after the Ravens win on Sunday, linebacker Rokwan Smith
that it's the start of something special. The Ravens are
actually favored to win the division on sports books.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Do you think that's gonna happen? No, their defense is terrible.
You wouldn't know the way the Bears played. I'm not
there yet. They have a lot to fix on defense.
I'll give you this. Because of the division. No one's
taken advantage of the generosity of the Ravens losing all
those games earlier in the year. Mathematically, they're still in
good shape. And Lamar is supposed to come back on
Thursday and all that. I wouldn't. I don't trust him.
(43:23):
How about that? I don't trust him? Next?
Speaker 7 (43:24):
But over the weekend, it was reported that Steve Sarkisian's
representatives have let it be known to NFL teams that
he'd be willing to make the jump to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Do you think there will be interest?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
I don't think he's a very good college coach. Why
would you bring him to the NFL. I think he's
a mid level college coach, And of course he did
everything he could deny the story. He's got one of
the most powerful agents in all of the NFL. I
think there's something there. I just don't think anyone's gonna
go out of their way to hire Steve Sarkisian because
he's not that great at coach.
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Next, then Bill Belichick in North Carolina came close to
upsetting Number sixteen Virginia in overtime.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yes, is this a glimmer of hope? Not just close? Count? Coop?
Does that you you get anything like you get a
little gold star? No glimmer?
Speaker 5 (44:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
No, no, no, no, no, how do we do? Coop?
You passed the Senate? Went player on the bar? I
won the.
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He's out for now, he'll never coach them again. And
Scary Terry Terry Rosier. Both of them have been indicted
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by the Feds at this point. Chauncey Billups, they say poker,
although those rumors he's involved in some other stuff. And
Terry Rosier, according to the Feds, he threw a prop
bet for a minimal gain minimal game, considering his money
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Festiva is gonna start out with the Sunday Night game
in the Land of the Insurs, the Land of the Injurs.
That's the story, big game made for TV extravaganza there
and we go to the confluence. Now why do we
(02:20):
go to the confluence because that's where they played the game,
Right there, where the Monongahela and the Alleghany get together.
They have a baby and the baby is the Ohio River.
So that is the birth of the Ohio right there.
It's very public the PDA type display there and so
that is where the story was. Mike Tarrico, Chris Collinsworth.
(02:40):
Collinsworth had his knee pads out for the quarterbacks as
he always does there and if you didn't see the game.
Maybe not eh, it was a game for a half,
game for a half in a quarter about a quarter
not so good. So we watched so you would not
have to. As Jordan Love passed for almost almost four
(03:03):
hundred yards and not one, not two, but three touchdowns
as Green Bay, after falling behind at halftime, sprinted past
the Pittsburg Steelers in the second half. Now, the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we will begin. And despite him down playing it, saying, well,
(03:24):
it was not a revenge game. It will be different.
It was at Lambeau. That'd be Aaron Rodgers. Now, Aaron
Rodgers was put on a pedestal. He was absolutely put
on a pedestal here, and he went against his old team.
We all know the backstory, right, we all know it.
You're listening to a sports talk radio show late at
night here, you know the backstory. So Rogers was out
(03:44):
there doing his thing, and how did that go? Not good?
Not good? Rogers pathetic in the second half in particular
there and we'll get into it. But here's Rogers, first
of all, pointing out that things just didn't go right
in many areas, including paying attention to what you're supposed
(04:06):
to do. Here's Rogers complaining about the execution of the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
We had some discipline issues and some penalties everyone necessary,
and then you're not going to win a lot of
games when we're so bad on third down. Boz bailed
us out some four incredible kicks. But you're playing good teams,
you need to square touchdowns, and we just stalled out
in the high red zone.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
All right, so let us discuss. That's a good jumping
off point. So the question, how do you explain ain Rogers'
performance or lack thereof for Pittsburgh in the second half.
So I've got Tommy Hill, figure, eye wash, and tiki bar,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an outstanding rice cake, which
(04:48):
is about what the Steelers were in the second half.
A rice cake. As you know, it's disgusting rice cakese
who wants to eat that crap? So A so much
for the Aaron Rodgers payback for game and all that stuff,
which he tried to downplay, but Mike got and Rodgers
was a big part of it. With the defense was embarrassing.
And we'll get to that here in a minute. Even
(05:09):
if the Packers had not gotten the benefit of being
able to bait the Steeler players because they're undisciplined into
excessive penalties. Even if that had not been the case,
the way the Steelers tackled it would not have mattered.
We're starting out with Aaron Rodgers here, So Aaron Rodgers,
who was okay. I wouldn't say he was great in
the first half. He was okay in the first half.
(05:31):
He watched the game, forget the stats, just watched the game.
And then the second half, if he was at the
movie theater, he would have been what kind of snack
at the movie theater? He would have been a milk
dud is what he would have been. It was an
absolute dud. The shine came off Aaron Rodgers in the
second half there real quick in the steel City and
(05:51):
the first half. I wouldn't say he was great. I
would say he was function functional in the first half
of the game. I thought in the second half there
was system malfunction for Aaron Rodgers, and it's like someone
went in there and unplugged the motem. It's like the
motem got unplugged and he couldn't get connected he couldn't
get online, like everything was kind of messed up there.
(06:13):
It's like, what's up with that? The Steelers actually had
a nine point lead at halftime. They're up sixteen to seven.
Not riveting football, but they're up by nine points. They
got the ball to start the third quarter. Every meatthead
ex jock that gets a microbe. Oh they have all
the momentum. Oh my god, they have all the moment
lah blah lash shoving up your tuckers. They had all
the momentum, all of them moremtium. The Pittsburgh Steelers had
(06:37):
all of them metum. Then they had to play the game.
They rode the vomit comet in the second half momentum
I ass outscored twenty eight to night. It should have
been worse than that. In fact, in many ways it
was worse than that. It was really twenty eight to
three in the second and a half. There was a
late touchdown there. But that is not just a leak, okay,
that is a full on pipe burst in the basement,
(07:00):
is what That is what happened in the second half
of this game. And so they got that late touchdown.
The garbage time touchdown was a little bit of a
sprits little sprits that was some Tommy Hill figure cologne
there right on top of a clogged toilet, which was
the Steelers in the second half, and they just put
a little spritz of Tommy Hill figure cologne on there,
(07:21):
right on top of the toilet was clogged up Rogers
in the second half. If you take away the charity
score game, Packers were playing the would just prevent type
defense situation. They had a two score lead, two scores
and two two point conversions, and so then Pittsburgh goes
down the field, they drive down with Rogers and they
score a touchdown with a couple of minutes to go
(07:41):
in the game. You take that away because it's really
a cheap, garbage time score. The rest of the second half,
Rogers averaged less than five yards per pass in the
second half. Basically handing it off sideways was the way
you would describe the Pittsburgh Steelers offense there. And people
will point out the overall numbers Rodgers are not terrible.
(08:02):
In fact, some would say they're even good if you
just go by the pure stats. Aaron Rodgers overall passer rating.
Even after this game on Sunday night, where he was
not very good in the second half. Rogers still has
a higher passer rating at this point. We're at week
eight of the season. Now the Packers and Steelers next
time they play will be Week nine. So Josh Allen
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and Patrick Mahomes do not have as good a quarterback
rating as Aaron Rodgers. If I had said in the offseason,
if I said back in July, all right, whenever Rodgers signed,
maybe like August, whenever you finally signed. So we're gonna
be sitting on the NFL schedule week nine going in
to pass the midway point. It's seventeen games, so eight
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and a half weeks is the midway point of the
NFL season. So we're gonna go in there and Rogers
is going to have a higher passer rating than Mahomes
and Josh Allen. He said, okay, all right, we got
something here, all right, the Steelers are gonna be great
watch out and yeah, and this is again for those
people that dry hump stats. And stats tell you what
(09:07):
has happened, not what's going to happen. But they also
they also tell you a cloudy version of events that
took place, a foggy version of events that took place.
For example, it's like, would you rather read sheet music?
Because you love music, you want to read the sheet
music rather than hear the song. I would rather hear
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the song. That the stats are the sheet music, right,
that's the musical notes on there. But you really would
rather hear the song rather than just read it. You
get the whole vibe and all that. You watch the game.
The mood, Oh, it's all about the mood. The mood
changed after afterime Rogers flat lined and the Packers' offense
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or Packer's offense did whatever they wanted while Rogers on
the other side with the Steelers forget about it now.
Speaking of that, turning the page here, Jordan Love became
the first Packers quarterback since Brett Farvre to complete twenty
straight passes in a game. Farv did it way back
in oh seven. I was barely alive then. I was
(10:12):
like a kid. I remember Rogers having a big game,
but I was a child. So twenty oh seven for
that performance there. That was his final season in Green Bay,
where he was having problems with Aaron Rodgers and so
far then left went to the Jets and then the
Vikings and all that and so so be it. But
the question is not so much about Jordan Love, it's
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the other side. What on God's green Earth was that
by Mike Tomlins Pittsburgh Steelers defense. What happened to making adjustments?
What happened to improving as the season goes on? Now,
we saw the Pittsburgh Steelers get sliced up by Joe Flacco.
So you took the position that they were going to
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make that a point of emphasis and they were going
to cut down on their mistakes there and clean some
stuff up. They had a mini bye week, they being
the Pittsburgh Steelers. How did that go? The adjustments were
non existent, They were non existent. The Steelers defense just
stood there like they were watching a Matt Nay at
the Cinerama Dome. They were just enjoying buttered popcorn. Whatever.
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What was that? Horrific? Unacceptable, absolutely unaccepted. Here's Mike Tomlin
commenting on one of the most pathetic defensive performances you'll
see in the Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow, Black
and Yellow Tail is you know, we all.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Have to own it. Certainly you start with the schematics, man,
because you know that's the leadership component of it. And
certainly we'll be looking at everything that we're doing, man,
because some of these problems are somewhat repetitive and we're
not getting better fast enough. Mike, I'm not gonna talk
too much tonight. We'll take a look at it. As
I mentioned, they made some significant plays on possession down
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ball and you know, you got to get off on
third down.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, got it so very important to get off according
to Mike Tom It's all right. So anyway, it's like
they went to these Cinerama doomas I said there they
had the buttered pop going there and oh my god.
Now maybe it was just my TV. Sometimes my TV
sees things that other TVs don't see. I have no idea,
but I saw these Steelers playing. I call it the
cover m defense, as in the cover Matador. Alright, alright, alright, oay, yeah.
(12:27):
If you want miss tackles, check the Steelers are really
good at miss tackles, really good. If you want arm tackles,
they got those two. A lot of arm tackles, a
lot of arm tackles. You want poor pursuit ankle angles
where they come at the wrong direction, you know how
you're supposed to cut down the path. They don't do that.
Never never see that.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's essentially a video on how not to play defense
in the NFL. What the Steelers are doing on a
weekly basis. There's a lot of people on defense in
the secondary in particular, that are making business decisions, if
you know what I'm saying here. And he allowed the
Packers tied end. Who's a good player, Tucker Craft? Who
(13:11):
is not that good a player? My god, Tucker Craft.
He went yak andy yack yards after the catch. There
no pushback. And what I've noticed, and the kicker on this,
is that they're the most expensive defense, they being the
Pittsburgh Stears in the entire NFL. They spend more money
on defense than anyone else. They're giving up now thirty
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plus points most games. They played seven games, four of
the seven they've allowed thirty or more points per game.
That's the Pittsburgh Steelers at this particular point. And the
one game where they looked okay against Drake May and
the Patriots, that was more of a byproduct because the
Patriots I think they had five turnovers in that game.
That was the Ramando Stevenson fumble fumble game there. But
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it's not bad luck it's like, look at the series
we've seen them now in Island games, the last couple
of games against the Bengals and against the Green Bay Packers,
and it's just systemic rot is what it is. I mean,
they're just they're not anywhere close to being good.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I get I made the mistake, was handicapped the games
that Mike Tomas gonna go in there, going to the
workshop and figure some things out. It doesn't look like
they figured anything out at all. And so listen, listen,
they're gonna end up winning nine or ten games. They're
over five hundred. As bad as the defense is, they're
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still over five hundred. They're a fake contender. They're in
the fake contender zone. The Pittsburgh seis at this point
just enough there to kind of trick people into thinking
may matter and that anybody can win it. It's wide
open in the AFC here and nobody is scared of
that defense. But the thing about it too, though, is
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you see the guys and it's it's eye wash in
the secondary. That's the term here. It's the fake hustle
where they're kind of around the ball, but it looks
like they're not just based on the eyeball test. It
looks like they're not hustling. It's eyewashes. Hustles stunt double,
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that's what eyewashes, right, It's guys flying around just enough
to get on cameras. So it looks like for the
low information fan that they're in position and looks like
they cared and looks like they're trying, and yet they're not.
This is just ridiculous. So that's where we are on that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The last thing, we go to Denver where bo Nicks
had not one, not two, not three, but four touchdowns
and JK Dobbins ran for one hundred and seventeen yards
no touchdowns, but the Broncos mallywop the once proud Dallas
Cowboys beat them by twenty in the Mile High City. Now,
the better story, though, is in the losing the locker room.
(16:00):
So some postgame comments from Jerry Jones. We'll get to
that in a second. Here. Dak Prescott, he commented all this,
Dak Prescott, he was swallowed up by the Broncos defense.
I guess the I guess the MVP campaign for Dak
Prescott has gone off the rails at this point. Here.
No touchdowns, two interceptions for Dak Prescott. Here he is
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on postgame commentary about the Dallas cowbich ticulous surprise.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
For sure, it's a good good word to use. Frustrated
as well. Frustrating. Yeah, as you said, right, what we've
been doing, what we're capable of doing, didn't really ever
get it going. Having an opportunity right there in the
first drive of getting down there in the red zone,
being able to have a chance to put put seven
up and settling for a field goal.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That that was the start of it all right now.
Jerry Jones also chimed on this. It was very bizarre.
Jerry was praising the Broncos owners. He was celebrating the
ownership group. Being a Walmart family owns the Broncos. He
was celebrating that, and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, the
great ownership. Want to congratulate the ownership group, he said postgame.
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They beat us physically, their lines beat us, Jerry said,
but their overall team, they did it with a young quarterback.
He said, all right, So question, what is your reaction
to Jerry Jones calling out the Cowboys by praising the
Broncos and celebrating the fact that they won the game.
(17:25):
With essentially I'm paraphrasing her with physicality. All right, So
does Jerry Jones know really when he was praising the
Broncos owner, I'm wondering, now, does Jerry realize they did
not actually play in the game. Does he realize that
no Broncos owner suited up for the Broncos, none of
them laced it up? So that was my first takeaways,
(17:45):
Like Jerry kept praising the owners like they were out
there making tackles or they were pushing around the offensive
line of the Dallas Cowboys there. And so to me,
it's coded. I look at this as coded. It's like
using invisible ink, Jerry Jones using some invisible ink. Hear
its owners speak, Now, what does it mean? It's you know,
(18:06):
my guys meeting Jerry Jones. His team got punched waylaid
in the mouth and they didn't swing back. Did not
swing back. That's essentially what Jerry Jones is saying. Right,
the Cowboys got treated like they were working at the
Tiki Juice bar at Disneyland and they served up some
dollwhip and nice soft, cold doll whip. That's essentially what
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the Dallas Cowboys were in this game. Getting out muscled,
getting out hustled and out gutted, and not losing in
the margins. You lose in the margins when you hustle
and you muscle around and you play with vim and vigor,
you can still lose that game, but you lose in
the margins. This was not losing in the margins. This
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was not that Denver did push around the couch. Who
the cowboysh some guys out? Oh boo hoo, hoo booh
six touchdowns. The Broncos scored six six touchdown. Bon Nicks
did not get sacked. I don't think he had to
wash his uniform after the game. That's the Cowboys defense
that this was trench warfare, is what it was. And
(19:12):
the Cowboys showed up with a NERF gun. Now it
was a good NERF gun. It was a nice NERF gun,
but it was a NERF gun. Is what it was.
Is a referendum on Brian Schottenheimer. And just when you
thought the Cowboys had turned the corner and they figured
some things out, and that entire coaching staff got worked
over by Sean Payton and his coaching staff. Here they
(19:33):
were raggedalled manhandled however else you want to say it,
whatever phrase you want to use. And so Jerry is
essentially saying, hey, they're the ones. They being the Broncos.
They had the juice and we had jello is what
we had a lot of jello is what we had there.
And so there you go, physicality on one side, you
had finesse on the other, and the finesse ends up
getting steamrolled. Jerry Jones when he needs to do now,
(19:56):
he used to go on a field trip with the
Dallas Cowboys, go down to Avery Island, a real island,
but it's in Louisiana, and every restaurant that has Tabasco sauce,
they says, from Avery Island, you get some of that
Avery Island Tabasco sauce and from right out of Louisiana there,
and maybe you grow some hair on your chest there
if you're the Dallas Cowboys. That was pathetic.
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in a moment, I wanted to start with the story
in the by you and I am fascinated. I fully
admit you might not care about this. I'm fascinated by
these buyouts in college football. I have been whacked from
a number of radio jobs. I've lost a TV show
a couple of times. I've lost a lot of jobs.
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I've never been given the kind of golden parachute that
they hand out in college football. It's fascinating. The people
of academia are so stupid. They hire these football coaches,
they give them these massive contracts, and then they whack
them after a few years. It has happened yet again,
big shake up on Sunday while we were watching the
NFL in the shores are right on the shores of
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the Mississippi, not far away from that. If he didn't see,
did not hear? Maybe not? I know Tiger Man very happy.
He's very happy about this. But we've learned now that
LSU has said bye bye to Brian Kelly. Now he's
in his fourth season, signed a ten year contract worth
about one hundred million about one hundred million dollar contract
(24:04):
four years in turnout. The last the parties over now
that move comes on the heels of rhythmic chanting goofing
on Brian Kelly. Over the weekend, you see Texas A
and M quietly the number three, number three team in
college football Texas Center. They won against LSU forty nine
(24:29):
to twenty five. That is a second consecutive loss, we
are told for Louisiana State, third loss in four games.
So LSU finds themselves at five and three. They're two
and three in the South Eastern Conference. That is a
good jumping off point. So let us discuss people questioning
the timing on this. They should have let it breathe
a little bit longer, should have waited. So the question
(24:51):
was Brian Kelly's firing as coach at LSU justified or
was it premature? All right, So on this one, I've
got Pitt Boss, Rosetta Stone and best Buy and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious yogurt which I believe would
(25:14):
have put more of a fight up a little cup
of yogurt than the LSU football team did for Brian
Kelly in the game over the weekend. So number is
number one. So this one is absolutely in the basket
that is called justified. It's justified is what it is
here Brian Kelly. You knew the moment he got to
(25:39):
Baton Rouge that Brian Kelly was. The clinical term is
carpet bagger. That is what Brian Kelly was when he
walked into Baton Rouge. If you don't know, look it up.
He was a carpet bagger. And the minute he stepped
off the plane and went to that little shin dig
there in Baton Rouge with the family, trying to say
like he was in the South there that phony drawl.
(26:01):
I can't even do justice when Brian Kelly was trying
to pronounce and speak in an accent there when he
took over as the OLC coach, he went, he flew
from South Bend down to Battown Rouge and somewhere over
maybe Arkansas, he picked up the Southern drawl, which was
really bad. This fake accent, this fake Southern charm and
fake connection, trying to connect the people who are LSU fans.
(26:24):
And now he has a fake job that pays a
lot of real money. So Brian Kelly has a fake
job because he's not going to be doing the job anymore. However,
he's got a lot of real money. So this was
not about just the loss to Texas and M. That
was embarrassing. That was a emasculating situation. This has been
a slow burn, a slow burn. It's like embers on
(26:47):
fire growing into a wildfire. LSU got passed at home.
They gave up I think it was thirty five straight
points at one point in the second half of that
game to Texas and M. So that's embarrassing. Even that
does not get to the point where LSU is now
going to have to cut a giant, oversized cartoon check
(27:07):
to the old Golden Domer coach Brian Kelly. The Boosters
reaching into their back pocket, grabbing their wallet out and
starting to say, okay, well do I give a credit card?
Is this direct deposit? Can I pay in crypto? Like?
What do we have to do? Let's let's have a GoFundMe.
How are we going to handle this year? Imagine being
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so incompetent, so underwhelming at your job that the employer
you work for goes out and raises funds to pay
you almost fifty four million dollars to go away. That's
where we are. And if you look at the story.
That's where we are in the Brian Kelly story. That
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is not firing is all. Brian Kelly was fired as
coach at LSU. No, no, listen. That is a luxury
cruise for the rest of your life to the riviera
and as many my ties as you possibly want to have.
You can afford everything. This guy basically worked Brian Kelly.
The moment he got to LSU, he was like going
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down to floor and decors and the golden parachute which
was wrapped in of all things, all things, a carpetbag
right there. He can land anywhere he wants. Maybe not
the French Riviera. Maybe he wants to go to Hawaii,
can Coon I hear is nice and can go to
any of those locations. LSU is not paying that kind
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of money. What they did is they found a sugar daddy,
is what they did to come up with the money.
That's what we understand. How they haven't even worked out
the final details on the actual payout. They fired him
and they said, well, we'll figure it out. It's rather simple.
Unless Brian Kelly is willing to take less. They got
to pay him every single dollar and as the old
Yukon coach said back in the day, not a dimeback,
(29:00):
not a dime, you know, I want every dollar, every penny,
every nickel, everything. So LSU found somebody, some old oil
baron or some tech mogul to pay the money, the
bulk of it. And he was never the guy. Brian
Kelly was never the guy, never was. And we're talking
about the opening news commerce right from Jump Street. It
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was a disaster. When he took over for the LSU
Bengal Tigers. He's like a Midwestern politician coming down from
South Bend. If you remember it was a couple of
years ago. He's got the purple blazer, kind of a
purple outfit. I think you get a sweater actually, but
he had the purple outfit as I remember, and he
was acting like he was the pit boss at a
(29:42):
Louisiana barbecue joint, even though he'd never eaten barbecue. He's like, well,
it doesn't really make sense, come on, just never fit
in now. Fortunately nobody died falling off a tower while
he was coaching LSU, like happened at Notre Dame. So
that's good. So baby steps there. But the Bayou gave
Brian Kelly a Bronx cheer as they kicked him out
(30:05):
on a pontoon boat down the mighty Mississippi River and
out to the golf right there. Good knock yourself out now,
page two. So as the story, the coaching carousel we'll
call it, starts spinning around in college football, seeing high
profile removals at places like Penn State, Oklahoma State. Now
(30:27):
LSU's on that short list, and there's some other places
as well that have made changes that are not UCLA,
not a high profile job. So we have a shortage.
Now there's a supply chain shortage, which is a slight
issue if you're going to fire your coach, because there
are not that many coaches available that you would hire
(30:47):
and excite your fan base. They just aren't. So the
question who is LSU targeting to replace Brian Kelly? Who
are they looking at? Give me some names? So I
looked around. As you know, we don't talk much college
football on the show. We mostly talk about in the NFL.
But if you look at this, this is such a
big money deal to pay somebody fifty million dollars to
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not coach your team, you must have somebody really exciting
lined up in the on deck circle. You must have
a coach there that everyone's gonna be happy about. Oh
my god, it is so exciting unless you don't. So
the coaching carousel at LSU is spinning round and round
and round, like going to the waffle house and looking
at the ceiling fan at three in the morning. Round
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and round and round and round and round and round
and then so the booster is down in buffal Rouge.
As we understand it, they want a name, They want
some sizzle. If you're going to cut a check for
fifty million dollars on one side, you better get something,
get you a little Tingley on the other side, gotta
get something little Tingley on the other side. So what
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is that? Well, if you look around, the hottest name,
the hottest name, the hottest fish. I will do it
like Southern fish fry. The hottest fish in the frying
pan is not a catfish. No, no, no, no, it's
Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin, the old miss coach So Florida.
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They also whacked their coach, and Lane Kiffin has been
tied to that job. Now you've got LSU, that job's
open up. The LSU job's better than the Florida's job
rather than going to the to the swamp in Gainesville.
You can go coach in Baton Rouge and do your
thing and all that stuff. So if it's not Lane Kiffen,
and to my knowledge I might be wrong on this,
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Lane can only coach one team at a time. So
either he stays at Old Miss, he runs off to
Florida to Gainesville, or he goes to Louisiana State. But
he only have one of those jobs. So let's assume
he does not. We'll take the position that Lane Kiffin
does not end up taking the gig for LSU. So
that's when the circus just gets cranked all the way
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up because there's nobody else right, there's nobody else who's
rather obviously it brings any kind of muscle, any kind
of juice is just not much there. And you look
around and you've got the reject pile. And who's on
the reject pile? Well, James Franklin. How would that go over? Well,
he was at Vanderbilt. Will hire him. He knows the South. Okay,
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that'll go over very well. The failed Penn State coach
has got a terrible record in big games. We'll hire him.
How about Jimbo Fisher. You can't get anymore baton rouge
than jim Bow Fisher. Although why would Jimbou Fisher want
that job when he's still getting paid aristocrat money, not
the coach Texas A and M. So that doesn't make
any sense. He's getting those giant checks the lottery from
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A and M. So don't go there. And Jimbo would
be like reheated gumbo is what he would be. Technically
it's edible. Okay, it's edible. However, you're not gonna really
enjoy it and you'll regret it later, if you know
what I'm saying. All right, now, will former LSU coach?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Now?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I say former because he just got whacked Brian Kelly
coach again?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
What about that? Is Brian Kelly going to coach again?
So he will coach again if he wants. That's the caveat.
And it's great to be in a position in life.
Will you don't need a job? You can get a job,
but you don't need a job. That's Brian Kelly right.
The days of him, I will say this, the days
of Brian Kelly getting a big boy job O V
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E R. He's not going to get one of those
bougie boogie bougie type gigs. That's over and he doesn't
need it. He does not need it. Brian Kelly just
got the golden handshake. Congratulations, you've got the retirement package.
Your retirement will be paid for from Louisiana State University.
He's not getting another big time upper conference, blue blood job.
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That is not happening, not gonna happen. Hudoo boo boodoo
Penn State. Okay, yeah, good luck on that. Maybe Ucla
because he's already getting paid by Louisiana States, So maybe
UCLA and in Oklahoma State somewhere like that. If he
wants to work on his accents, he can do that
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as well, and just go somewhere some mid tier job
if you want to coach again and there's low expectations
and you can golf a lot, and the weather's got
to be good for golfing, So that's important in all that.
And Brian Kelly, whatever headset he wears next, I know
the logo is either going to be a FS one
logo or an ESPN logo. We will see Brian Kelly
on television breaking down third down conversions like he's the
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genius of geniuses there in between rounds of golf and
Palm Beach. That's essentially what he'll be doing here and
cashing checks, not calling plays, and what a great life
that is going to be. He is the Rosetta Stone
of phonies, Phony, funny phony. Yeah, he is. You mix it,
(36:01):
get a little bit of Boston, little sprinkle of Dixie.
I think this should be a great TV show. By
the way, I'm recommending. I'm an ideas guy, So why
not have Brian Kelly, whether it's f S one or ESPN,
wherever he ends up one of these TV gigs, these
no show TV jobs where you show up in spue
cliches and everyone thinks you're the smartest person in the
room because people are dumb. So Brian Kelly shows up
there and he gets accents with Brian Kelly, Like we say,
(36:25):
you do a little Boston accent. He can do a
little Dixie because he practiced that down there in Louisiana.
He can get that Fargo flair, that Minnesota Fargo accent
and get that going a little bit there. Boom done,
and his future though much less Death Valley, much less
Death Valley than it is easy Street. It's like Sesame
(36:47):
Street for sunny days are here again for Brian Kelly
there who has been fired as the coach at s U.
Now meanwhile, back to the NFL, we go, back to
the NFL, we go and the news out from Atlanta.
We mentioned this game last hour as to a tongue
of Iloa man. He was great, had a bad eye,
(37:07):
woke up, went out there and sliced up the falcons.
He carved him like a turkey, and it's illegal to
do that to a falcon, but he did it. It's
a protected bird, that type of falcon, but he did
it anyway. So Kirk Cousins went out there, replaced an
injured Michael Pennex Junior on the other side, the backup
Kirk Cousins hadn't seen him play any meaningful football sometime
(37:28):
and we still haven't seen him play any meaningful football.
And sometimes Cousins was at the controls, he had his
hand on the throttle and how did that go? Atlanta
totaled eleven first downs in a sixty minute game. They
had two hundred and thirteen yards of offense in that game,
(37:48):
and now under five hundred men when they beat Buffalo,
all the Falcons have arrived. Everyone's all horny for the Falcons.
How's that working out for you? Now? Under five hundred?
They lose by twenty four points to the Dolphins. Dan
Marino and the Miami Dolphins went into Atlanta and dominated
a domination situation there. So the question what is the
(38:11):
word we like words on the Overnight Show? What is
the word to describe Kirk cousins performance or lack thereof?
As Miami took them and took them behind the woodshed,
they'd kicked their ass up and down the field. So
on this one, the word I will use is alarming
with the capital A. Alarming with the capital A. That
(38:34):
is the word I will use to describe this. And
here's why. Cousins was out there looking like a guy
that had won a raffle. So hey, everything goes in
the hopper, All the names go on the hopper, and
they pulled his name out and it's like, okay, Cousins,
you get to play quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Congratulations,
your name came up in the hopper. We pulled it
(38:55):
out of the raffle and that how did that work
out for you? Everything was bad, The throws were terrible.
The reads. It looked like he didn't know how to read.
Bad job by him. He needs the reading rainbow on
how to read defenses. The body language was not good.
There was one clip that went all over the plays
that showed Cousins who was audibling at the line and
(39:15):
he just called the wrong player. The players didn't know
what he called. And it was a big to do it,
a big mess and all that stuff. Anyway, Rahee Morris,
who was in over his head as coach of the Falcons,
how long before he's whacked? Here is Rahee Morris pointing
out his opinion of Kirk cousins performance.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
Take a list, you know, tough to discuss anybody's play
when you go out and play that way.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It was why why why?
Speaker 4 (39:38):
He sucks something that we got to fix all together,
and we got to go and get those things done
this week.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's not a wee, it's a heat and he sucks.
We're gonna watch the tape. He didn't say watch the tape.
He might as well said watch the tape. So it
was a masculating that's another word you can use to
describe this year. My god, everything went kurkfluey. It went
Kurkfluey for Kirk Cousins. Everything from soup to nuts was
(40:03):
a hot mess there and breaking the huddle in the
third quarter, it was like a walk of shame. Walk
of shame. The loan touchdown, see the final score was
thirty four to ten. The loan touchdown came in an
empty building. There were a few dozen fans there wearing
dolphin gear and with just a little time left on
(40:24):
the clock, there was a garbage time touchdown there, garbage
time points in the morgue. The stadium was like a
morgue at that point there, and you can't even spin it.
Rahee Morris chose to talk about we lose as a team,
we win as a team. All that crap, that standard
standard coaching. One on one, right, you deflect, you deflect
from the Komodo drag in the room. How about this? Though,
(40:48):
the trade deadline is coming up. It's a week from tomorrow.
Week from tomorrow, Tuesday of next week is the NFL's
trade deadline. So we asked the question, all right, what
ever price tag the Falcons thought thought they were getting
at the upcoming trade deadline? Where is that right now?
(41:09):
All right? So the Falcons it has been chatter they're
gonna try to trade Kirk Cousins here and this was
a showcase game for him to get out there and play.
So whatever price they put on Cousins, all right, whatever
it is, you slash it with a machete. It's like
chopping away the brush. Just chop it away. Imagine if
(41:29):
you will. You're at best Buy now, you could buy
a brand new refrigerator and spend thousands and thousands of
dollars on it. Or you can go to the back
there and they have the scratched and dented section of
refrigerators and just some cosmetic damage and you can get that.
(41:50):
You'll save save some money. So do you want it
at full prices? Cousins at this point is like a
dented refrigerator. He is. And the wild thing here's another guy.
They just have so much money in sports, our money.
People that buy tickets and watch games, They take the
money and they just fivolously spend the money. They're as
bad as politicians. Brian Kelly getting the money he got
(42:11):
from LSU, Kirk Cousins getting one hundred million dollars guaranteed
from the Atlanta Falcons, and the crazy thing is Michael
Pennix Junior, the regular quarterback for Atlanta. He isn't all
that great. It's not like he's good. However, side by
side with what we saw from Kirk Cousins, Pennix is
(42:33):
a beast, the Beast of the South.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
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Teams to the Here we go, this one gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
But after the Ravens win on Sunday, linebacker Rokwan Smith
that it's the start of something special. The Ravens are
actually favored to win the division on sports books.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Do you think that's gonna happen? No, their defense is terrible.
You wouldn't know the way the Bears played. I'm not
there yet. They have a lot to fix on defense.
I'll give you this. Because of the division. No one's
taken advantage of the generosity of the Ravens losing all
those games earlier in the year. Mathematically, they're still in
good shape. And Lamar is supposed to come back on
Thursday and all that. I wouldn't. I don't trust him.
(43:23):
How about that? I don't trust him? Next?
Speaker 7 (43:24):
But over the weekend, it was reported that Steve Sarkisian's
representatives have let it be known to NFL teams that
he'd be willing to make the jump to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Do you think there will be interest?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
I don't think he's a very good college coach. Why
would you bring him to the NFL. I think he's
a mid level college coach, And of course he did
everything he could deny the story. He's got one of
the most powerful agents in all of the NFL. I
think there's something there. I just don't think anyone's gonna
go out of their way to hire Steve Sarkisian because
he's not that great at coach.
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Next, then Bill Belichick in North Carolina came close to
upsetting Number sixteen Virginia in overtime.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yes, is this a glimmer of hope? Not just close? Count? Coop?
Does that you you get anything like you get a
little gold star? No glimmer?
Speaker 5 (44:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
No, no, no, no, no, how do we do? Coop?
You passed the Senate? Went player on the bar? I
won the.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Game To start the week, Fox Sports Radio has the
best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of
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Speaker 1 (44:34):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl? Who here? Were
you talking to?
Speaker 5 (44:38):
Sons? Here?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Some instant advice hold that though no one's paid attention
to me for ten whole seconds. And if you don't
like it, where we go. It's the instant advice line
on screen Radio. Who needs our advice this week?
Speaker 7 (44:51):
Why?
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I usually try to give advice to someone in the NFL,
but this week's a little bit different. We had the
big story at the end of last week involving the
gambling Chauncey Billups, who was coaching the Trailblazers not anymore.
He's out for now, he'll never coach them again. And
Scary Terry Terry Rosier. Both of them have been indicted
(45:15):
by the Feds at this point. Chauncey Billups, they say poker,
although those rumors he's involved in some other stuff. And
Terry Rosier, according to the Feds, he threw a prop
bet for a minimal gain minimal game, considering his money
that he had on his contract at that time with
the Charlotte Hornets. So your advice to Chauncey Billups and
(45:36):
also Scary Terry and any other players that are going
to be involved in this. At eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three sixty nine, you're live on the air. When you
hear my voice will start out with you on line one.
Your advice please to Chauncey, Billups and Scary Terry. Line one.
(45:56):
Line one is not there. We'll go to line too. Hello,
line too, you're on the air line too. Helloh, if
you don't use it, you'll lose it.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Trust me, Mine fell off.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Okay, thank you for that. Line three. At eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox, we're giving advice to Chauncey,
Billups and Scary Terry. Hello. Line three. Line three is
not tegus. No one's paying attention. Now I will get
one more. No, no paying attention will hang up on everybody,
and we'll just cancel the bit. Line four, are you there?
(46:23):
Line four livery vamped embarrassed panties. I wish I would
big just once. Okay, thank you. There's Lucky Tony checking
in there. I don't know what he said, and I
don't want to know what he said. I didn't make
that out, and it's probably better I did not make
something about pants to be picked just once, right, Okay, yes,
I don't know. Hello a line six. Hello, line six.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
In the morning time, look at you, Chaunton and the
other guy.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
Did y'all make.
Speaker 6 (46:46):
Enough of the time?
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah, they can live like kings in prison. Line number one. Hello,
line one, we're giving advice to Chauncey, Billups and Scary Terry,
both in trouble with the Feds.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
I got to say, is moaning tan Soe.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
You're ripping off Rick and Maryland. Stick out, David.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
I know.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Line two. You're on the airline too. Hello, I need
you to pull the plug. Oh, thank you? Eight seven,
seven ninety nine. On Fox, it's Halloween week. Line three.
The freaks are out every every night's Halloween on this show.
Line three, Hello, line three. Jerry's right, he's not one
defensive wave player away from having a good team. He's
one new owner away. Okay, there you go, supermarket, Steve.
(47:29):
Long way to get to that point, long way to
get to that point. Line four. You're on the airline four. Hello, Yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Loud caller had some good ideas.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Okay, thank you. Line six, it's the instant advice Line
in and out. That's what a call is all about.
Line six, Hello, Hello call Kenny Rogers. Okay, thank you,
dated song, but I get it. Line number one Hello,
Line one, it's the East Advice line. We're giving advice
to Chauncey Billups and Scary Terry Rose. Both of them
(48:00):
have been indicted by the Feds. They've got some serious
explaining to do. Line one, Hello, Okay, thank you for that.
Hang almost Christmas. Hang up on yourself. Line two, you're
on the air line too, and see what he's doing.
I didn't hear what he said. O lead a lab okay.
(48:21):
Line three, Hello, Line three. If they needed money, they
should ask the weed Man. That's right, weed Man's get
all the money. We Man is the only guy I
know that's in weed that never got rich off weed.
Line four, you're on the air line for Hello. Line
four is not paying attention. We're gonna Line five it's
the Instant Advice line Hello. Line five might sit down
(48:42):
at the bottom. Be there you go the bottom being
bottom boom. That's from Sean, the hood guy. The check
it in. I like that. The music die, but we'll
keep it going. Line one, Hello, Line one, still there will.
Speaker 5 (48:55):
You can't Okay.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
See that's Steven Manhattan reminding us he's annoying line anymore.
Denny McClain takes Stephen man att Line two. Hello, Line two.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Jaunty might need a new nickname.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
Mister big shop might have a new meaning in jail. Okay,
all right, very funny. Those prison jokes never get old.
Line three, you're on the Airline three. Hello, Line three
is not paying attention. We're going to line four at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We're giving advice
at Chauncey Billups and scary Terry Rose here. Feds have
accused them of some shenanigans with gambling. Hello, Line four,
(49:33):
take the under on dicking up the soap okay, so
oh take the end there, thinking up the soap okay.
Always everyone's got the same prison jokes. We need new
prison jokes is what we need. We have the same
five prison jokes. Line six, Hello, Line six, pun just punt,
all right. Line one, you're on the Airline one, Hello
(49:53):
investigator Lebron. Okay, there you was calling for a Lebron investigation.
I'm sure Adam Silver will get right on that. Hello.
Line two, games a noe you talked to got Winnipeg
three to two. Okay, telling me about Winnipeg. All right,
Well you want more. If it's good, I'll take credit
if not. A blind mc coop final call, Instant advice
line for Chauncey Phillips and Scary Terry. Line four, Line four.
(50:13):
You're on the air line four. Go line more.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
Eat more Chinese food.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Eat more Chinese food. Okay, that's a good one. I
saw it. That's good advice.
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