December 24, 2025 • 40 mins
Brian Noe talks about the amazing streak by the Steelers of 22 consecutive winning seasons with 19 of the coming under Mike Tomlin who has faced a lot of scrutiny this year, the college football playoffs and the demise of the bowl games, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, what is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome in happy early Wednesday morning. We are all on
the same page now that the West coast has caught
up Wednesday morning. Here we go home day. Hope your
Christmas shopping is complete. You're ready for the holidays, right
to celebrate, unwined, have a good time, maybe friends and
family involved, all that good stuff. Wish you a happy
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holiday season for sure. All right, So I'll get back
to DK Metcalf. But more than DK going on in
the sports world. If you've got thoughts, feel free. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your number. If
you've got DK Metcalf thoughts. This two game suspension was upheld,
and you know, some people have thoughts on the whole
situation right there, as do I. But I've got more
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thoughts than just that. And we'll stick with the the
NFL vibe and coincidentally the Steelers vibe here, because I
think there's an accomplishment that is insane and a lot
of us just glossing over it. So the Steelers, by
beating the Lions this last Sunday, they've clinched another winning
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season in a row, another one. That's twenty two straight
winning seasons and Mike Tomlin has been the head coach
for nineteen of those twenty two seasons. So for Mike
Tomlin to have nineteen straight winning seasons, that is an
outrageously great accomplishment. Like, not one losing season, not one
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year where you lost a bunch of close games.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Look at the Chiefs. Look at the Chiefs from.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Last year to this year. They won all those one
possession games last year all of them, and then this
year hardly any of them. And that's with Mahomes healthy
throughout most of the season. He got banged up last
week and now he's out for the season. They already
had a losing record anyway. With Mahomes, he was upright
for what fourteen fifteen games something like that, almost the
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whole season. Still losing season. That's you know, getting to
the super Bowl for three straight seasons, winning two of them,
and they were gonna have a losing record with Mahomes.
That's insane. So for the Steelers and Mike Tomlin, nineteen
straight seasons, not one year where he had a brutal schedule.
Look at the Lions Gauntlet this season. Their road schedule
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is just hideous. Have you if I just rattle off
what they had to face on the road this season.
I'll get it for you real quick. There's not one
year where the Steelers faced this ridiculous paths. Here's what
the Lions had on the road at the Packers, at
the Ravens, at the Bengals, at the Chiefs, at the Commanders,
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at the Eagles, at the Rams, at the Vikings, at
the Bears.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's freaking brutal, man.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And based on how things kind of ebbed and flowed, like,
for instance, on the road at Minnesota, it's not as
nasty as it once looked. Right, there's not even JJ McCarthy.
It's the Max Brosmer Show. We'll get more into that.
But still a ridiculous road schedule for the Lions, or
even more so with the Steelers nineteen straight from Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
A year where you just had a ton of injuries.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
The injury bug just hit you hard. Lions last year,
injuries all over the place, right, So they haven't had
one year where they lost a bunch of close games.
They either had a brutal schedule, they had a ton
of injuries. You know, they had some bad lugs and
crazy bounces. Look at the quarterbacks that they've had throughout
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this winning streak. You go back, it's been there for
a long time. With Mike Tomley, he took over an nine.
Actually sorry, he took over an seven for Bill Cower.
Look at some of these quarterbacks. So he had Big
Ben all the way up until twenty eighteen. Then it's
well a little bit longer than that twenty one you
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had Mason Rudolph. These are your leading passers, Mason Rudolph,
Kenny Pickett for two years, Russell Wilson. Know he's got
Duck Hodges in there for a little bit. Look look
at these quarterbacks that he's done it with not one
losing season. And look, I'm not telling you that this
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is like on par with winning a super Bowl. Of course,
the accomplishment that you're gonna get more props for and
more roses for, You're gonna get more bouquets for winning
a super Bowl. We all know that that's the way
it goes. And when you have all of this success,
you're kind of like the nineties Atlanta Braves, you know,
when you win all these division championships and.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We're like, well, where are the World Series rings? You
got one?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's it's where's all the success world series wise? If
you're winning the division, that's great, but you got to
win it all at some point.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's the way it goes. I guess at that.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But I think this, and this might be a little
bit radical, but you gotta let it digest, you know,
you gotta let it swirl.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Around your brain a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I think that winning having a winning record nineteen
straight seasons, I think that it's actually harder to do
than win a Super Bowl. I honestly believe that. Look,
you can have one year where things are just going
your way.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Look at this season. Look at the Bears.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The Bears have had and I don't expect them to
win a super Bowl, but they're in position. They're in
position seating wise, where you win a couple of games
and all of a sudden, man, you're in the NFC
Championship game. You got a chance to make some real noise.
Look at all the breaks that they've gotten this season.
They had what a point five percent chance to beat
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the Packers this past Sunday point five before they got
the onside kick. Unbelievable that they got that win somehow,
some way, And maybe I'm getting my dates mixed up.
I don't know if that was Saturday. I think it
was Saturday. It was late Saturday night. Technically it was
Saturday night. A point five percent chance. They have had
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six wins this season where they trailed in the final
two minutes. That's ridiculous. They've gotten all these wins, all
these breaks. Last year, the Washington Commanders got a lot
of breaks, one being against the Bears. You know, they
had the hail Mary against the Bears. He had a
Bears player talking smack to the fans while the hail
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Mary is going on, and Washington caught it. And look, man,
Jayden Daniels was sensational last season. I'm not saying it's
all luck, but they had a lot of lucky breaks.
The Bears have the golden horseshoe this season. They're eleven
and four. They have six wins where they rallied in
the final two minutes. That is unsustainable to t and
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yet here they are. So the point is, you can
have a season where you're good and then man, there's
a lot of stuff that goes your way. There are
a lot of things that a bounce here, abounce there. Hey,
the Packers recover the on side kick well, guess what,
you lose that game, you know what I mean? Like,
it's stuff like that, and you can believe that you
create your own luck, and there's some truth to that,
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but there are a lot of lucky breaks that just
coincidentally happen for teams randomly from season to season, and
one year it's your season, the other year it is not. Like,
for instance, the Lions, this season is not their year
for luck.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It just is not.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Look at the game against the Steelers on Sunday, right
before halftime, Kenneth Gainwell is getting hit by a linebacker
Alex Azeloni. It's gonna be a pass interference penalty. There's
only two seconds left in the in the half. You
know the Steelers gonna kick a field goal, but instead,
while getting tackled to the ground, Kenneth Gainwell sticks his
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arm out, the ball hits his forearm, he just catches it,
runs into the end zone for a touchdown with two
seconds left in the half. You're telling me that's not
an unfortunate break for the Lions. Of course it is.
And stuff like that where those things have happened more
often this season than not for the Lions, and it
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is just not their year man one thing after another,
just things are going wrong, snowballing the whole thing. So
you can get lucky one year on top of being good,
and you get in a rhythm, you start stacking wins,
and all of a sudden you're knocking on the door
to win a Super Bowl. I don't want to make
it sound like it's easy, but I do think it's
easier than nineteen straight seasons of winning. That's what Mike
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Tomlin has done. I don't think we can gloss over that.
You know what I think is happening. Honestly, I think
this is the worst franchise to have a winning streak
like this. Four to the Pittsburgh's. They've won six Super Bowls,
they have a rich tradition. Yes, they were horrible, yes,
in the thirties, forties, fifties. Yet we get to the seventies,
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they're printing Super Bowls. They're winning four out of six seasons.
They've stacked two more on top of that, since they're
one of the proudest franchise and most respected franchises in
all of sports, not just the NFL. So to win
nineteen straight, have nineteen straight winning seasons and one Super Bowl.
Most people are gonna be like, here we go again
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with Tomlin and the lack of playoff success, and that's
what he's more so known for, and I hate that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Imagine if Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Was the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach, Let's just say Lem
Cohen is doing a fantastic job. But let's just say
Leam Cohen is out of that job two years from now. Right,
things are going great right now, expectations rays and then
all of a sudden, the wheels just fall off the
tracks and we're talking disastrous seasons, losing seasons. He's out
of a job. Okay, just follow me on this. Imagine
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Mike Tomlin taking over for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He not
only wins a Super Bowl, he has nineteen straight winning seasons.
What do you think we'd be saying about that guy?
Then we'd be like, this guy's amazing. He walks on
water as a coach. But he's doing it with the Steelers.
So we're just like, yawn, not impressed. Where's the playoff success, Mike?
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Where are the Super Bowls? And I'm not saying that's
wrong because he does need that, he does need more
playoff success. He does need another super Bowl, but both
things can be true, like he needs more playoff success.
But at the same time, nineteen straight winning seasons is
an outstanding accomplishment and I don't think we should just
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gloss over it. If you look at some of the
best runs in NFL history, there are multiple times where
teams won multiple championships and didn't come close to nineteen
straight winning seasons. If you look at the Steelers, let's
use that same franchise. If you go back to the seventies,
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they won four super Bowls in six years.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Along that span, they only had nine.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Straight winning seasons nine not even half of what Tomlin
has done. Right from nineteen seventy two to nineteen eighty
that was it eighty one, they were five hundred as
not a winning season. They only had nine straight winning seasons.
And this is not an either or discussion. Of course,
you will take what's behind door one, which is four
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super Bowls in that span, over what's behind door two,
which would be Mike Tomlin having nineteen straight winning seasons.
This is not which is better, which is more impressed?
Of course, for super Bowls, that's what you're in the
business for. That's what Mike Tomlin would take immediately. That's
not what the discussion is. The discussion is, let's not
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gloss over nineteen straight winning seasons as if it's nothing,
as if it doesn't even matter. Look at the teams
with losing records this season. If I told you before
the season, the Chiefs are gonna have a losing record,
the Bengals are gonna have a losing record, possibly the
Ravens are gonna have a losing record, you'd be like, okay,
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all right, did all those quarterbacks get hurt in Week one?
It'd be like, well, Burrow kind of did almost week one,
but Lamar he missed a couple of games.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We'll get to Lamar in a second.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh my gosh, back contusion not out there, unreal. But
Mahomes was healthy throughout most of the year. And they're
gonna have a losing record. It's not easy to have
winning records for that long. If you look at the Patriots,
the Patriots won nineteen straight. They had nineteen straight winning
seasons from one to twenty nineteen, and in that span
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they won all those Super Bowls, six of them. Right,
What a what a run by the Patriots. But think
about that not in either or. Of course, you'd rather
have the six Super Bowls than the nineteenth straight winning seasons.
But they had Tom Brady throughout that whole run. Tom Brady,
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Mike Tomlin had Old Big Ben throughout a lot of
these winning seasons.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You see Kenny Pickett with the Raiders, by the way,
a couple of weeks ago. You see that against the Eagles,
seventy five total yards, not like the first drive, not
the first half, seventy five total yards in the game.
Kenny Pickett the Raiders quarterback a little over a week ago,
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he got blown out thirty one to nothing. He's had
winning seasons with Kenny Pickett as the leading passer for
two years. Like it's amazing what Mike Tomlin has done,
and it's weird. I can feel like a collective eye
roll from a lot of the listeners right now, like,
oh my gosh, what is this guy doing, like waxing Poe.
I think about nineteen straight winning seasons, where's the playoff success?
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Where are the rings Sky talking about? I can feel
that and it's unbelievable to me, Like you had the Niners.
Think about the Niners in the eighties and nineties, sixteen
straight winning seasons from eighty three to ninety eight, and
think about the quarterbacks that they had during that time.
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Think about the era as well. This is not hard
salary cap, this is not free agency. I mean there
was a bit of the winning stream. Free agency came
around like ninety four, right around there, so it did
dip in to that era a bit, but it's just.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
A portion of it, right.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Look at the leading passers Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, year
after year, young young, Young, young young y. Shockingly, the
losing streak ended with Jeff Garcia the leading passer in
nineteen ninety nine. You know, you went from young to
Garcia and you went from twelve and four to four
and twelve. Shocking how that works. You know, Mike Tomlin's
done it with Duck Hodges. My gosh, that means something.
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And you gotta go back a little while to find
Mike Tomlins's last playoff win. It's been too long. I'm
not here to tell you that it hasn't been too long.
It has been the last time they won a playoff game.
You gotta go back to the twenty sixteen season. Can
you believe it's been that long. That's amazing. That goes back.
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We're talking almost a decade since they've won a playoff game.
And I'll never forget that game. They beat the Chiefs
eighteen to sixteen. And this is great hot tub time
machine stuff, especially if you're an NFL geek like me.
Uh So, that game, the Chiefs went for two and
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I believe they originally got it, but there was a
holding penalty on Get this, Eric Fisher, he was holding
James Harrison. That's how long ago it's been since the
Steeler have won a playoff game. Remember after that playoff game,
in the locker room, Antonio Brown got in trouble because
he went on Facebook Live and he's recording Mike Tomlin
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and he called the Patriots a holes and it turned
into this whole thing. That's how long it's been since
they've won a playoff game. It was the twenty sixteen season.
We're in twenty twenty five. It's been almost a decade.
So I'm not sitting here telling you that Mike Tomlin
doesn't need to win playoff games, he doesn't need to
win another Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
He does.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But what I am telling you is the guy's a
brilliant head coach and you give him a legitimate quarterback.
I fully believe that he could have big success, big
playoff success, big Super Bowl success. The problem isn't that
Mike Tomlin is a limited head coach. The problem is
that the Steelers have had limited quarterbacks for the last decade.
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They've had that, and yet they still are cranking out
winning seasons that at least means something. And it turns
into this like overly complicated conversation where I'm not saying
that it's okay to fizzle out in the playoffs year
after you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And that's where it becomes unnecessarily complicated. Right if you
just keep it simple and say he hasn't had one
year they lost a bunch of close games, not one
year where the schedule was just brutal and got the
best of them. Not one year where they just had
injuries go.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Lo or ravaged by injuries. TJ.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Watt has missed the last couple of games that right
there alone could have burned them. But what have they
done the last two weeks? They're like, we're shutting down
the rush Lions. You can't run the ball at all.
Against US. I think they had what twelve rushes for
fifteen yards. The Lions averaged one point one yards per
rush this past weekend. One point one the Lions. They
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can run it on anybody, not the Steelers. All of
a sudden, the run defense is woken up.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's crazy. That's without TJ.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
White, by the way, and they shut down the Dolphins
very good running attack, shut him down.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And so that that just means something. That's all I'm
saying is nineteen straight winning seasons should not be glossed
over as if it's like, yawn, what else is on
the resume? Show me the playoff wins. I get it,
he needs more playoff success, but not to the point
where you just just yawn at nineteen straight winning seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I can't describe how hard it is to do that,
To have a run that long, it's insanely difficult. And again,
I think it's more difficult than winning a super Bowl.
And believe me, I'm not telling you that's easy. It's
very very difficult to win one super Bowl, so difficult
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to do. I don't want to make it sound like, yeah,
you just get kind of lucky. You get a couple
of breaks and yeah, presto, you win a super Bowl. No,
it's not like it's insanely difficult. Even with how insanely
difficult it is to win a ring, I think it's
more difficult to win nineteen straight, nineteen straight winning seasons outstanding,
and I just don't think that could be glossed over.
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I think it's unfortunate that it happens.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Like that often. All Right, eight seven to seven ninety
nine on Fox is your number.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You have thoughts on DK, anybody who's left wants to
do that, we can do that right around the corner.
Appreciate your patience, you know, I get passionate about some stuff.
Nineteen straight winning seasons matters. I'm standing on the table.
I'm not only pounding the table, I'm kicking the table
as well. This matters, is what I'm saying to you.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
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Speaker 2 (19:42):
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I was jibber jabbering for a while a little bit ago.
So let's get out to the militia here. Militia wants
to check in, and I appreciate that. I always love
hearing from militia. We'll get to the college football coach
saying something in favor of college football as a whole
here momentarily, but first to militia. My guy Cardiac Stanley,
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So he was with us last hour at the very end,
and we had the ACDC guessing game, which cut into
the call just a little bit, but he had a
Steeler's thoughts at the end of that thing, so east
here I invited him to finish his thoughts.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So Stanley, you take it away, buddy. You're on Fox
Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Thanks Brian? Hot talk you well, hot talk you long
time ago. Brian. Oh yeah, yeah, And I told you
that he's coming a long way with your your presentation
on how you cod up the radio show. You you
do a really nice job and one of the good ol'
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Brian will feeling anyway, Well, thank you, man.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I appreciate that Stanley, I was I was a I
was a hack basically is what you're saying at the beginning,
and now like slightly respectable. Hey man, it's improvement. I'll
take that, Stanley. I appreciate it. Thank you for the
kind words. That's nice of you.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Well, why I told you you were like a whiner.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I was whining too much at the beginning, Stanley.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, like, just like Jonahs Knock, what a whiner?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Stanley? Can you remember some of the things? What was like?
What were the things I was whining about in your opinion?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Any situations? Okay? Why does Sterrry Jones app to inner feel?
Why to me? Let's move on? Okay, the fucking get
back to the Steelers. First of all, before I let
you go, the Steelers have nineteen winning but not winning seasons.
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Can you figure that out? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I mean I think you're saying they've they've got nineteen
winning regular seasons and they haven't done it in the postseason.
They have one Super Bowl ring. But I think you're
saying what really matters is winning at all.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Nineteen winning seasons but no winning anyways, net Calf in
this but that right hand of that stupid dude in
the blue hair, right whip. He whipped on that. Nonetheless,
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he can now join Le'Veon Bell Antonio Brown being mere
steamers who were really good players, who ruined the whole
thing by their attitude. So he's in that club, don't you.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Think, Well, interesting, Stanley, listen, man, I appreciate you checking in.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It was good to hear from you again.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And I like that you don't think I'm as big
of a whiner as I once was, you know, at
least in.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I love that he stops to think for like five
to seven sites, you know what.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I kind of like because we're so fast and we're like,
you know, you know, you know, Stanley just takes a breath,
collects his thoughts.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I prefer that.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, it's kind of soothing in a way.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I've this is a therapeutic. I have no problem with that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But listen, there's something to what Stanley is saying where
if you look at some guys that had a ton
of talent, were incredibly productive, but.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
They are getting in their own way, right.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Le'Veon Bell got in his own way, George Pickens got
in his own way as a steeler. Antonio Brown certainly
got in his own way, and now, unfortunately DK has
done that. I wonder what, ask yourself this, what if
that punch landed? What kind of suspension are we looking
at for DK? You know, it's much more than two games.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Did you watch all the different angles of the video too, Brian, because.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, I've only seen this straightforward.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Okay, I'm gonna send you the side shot of it
on Instagram right now, because I was really confused off
of that because he said he just grabbed his hair,
but in the side video you can see he blatantly
grabbed his shirt and you it looks like he made
contact with his face. But the guy who got hit
his initial statement said I did that wasn't what happened, right,
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He said, I did not get hit where he said
he barely got grazed. And so I'm curious how he's
gonna change it now.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's funny you said that because I read something about
DK ripping this guy's shirt, and I'm like, I didn't
even realize he was holding the shirt, you know, or
grabbing the shirt.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But yeah, yeah, that's crazy on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You know, it's funny. I don't have Instagram. Let me
break it down so you'll love this story. I was
walking into Sofi Stadium for a Rams playoff game with
our guy Lee, Robert delap It was me and Lee
me Yeah, we were going to see the Rams take
on the Arizona Cardinals. And I'm walking into the stadium
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and I get a text from my guy Duke. This
guy Duke in Albany, New York. Shout out to him.
He owns Duke's Barbershop. If you're in upstate New York,
go check it out.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Great.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I love the Wi Fi password. He's a Yankees fan.
I'm like, what's the password, Duke. He's like, it's the
number one twenty seven times for their twenty seven championships.
Great password all time. But I thought Duke was texting
me and it was like, hey, man, can you can
you copy this link and send it to me. It's
for this haircut thing. And I'm trying to be number
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I'm like yeah great. I'm walking into the stadium. I'm
like yeah, sure, great. Next thing, I know, I'm getting
blown up by all of my friends. Dude, I think
you just got hacked on igh.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Because you got.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I never had I got I got hacked and
I never opened a new one, you know, I was
trying to recover the old one and I just never
opened a new one. So anytime anyone sends me an
ig video, I'm like, I can't watch it.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
I don't even think you can watch what I just
sent you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah it on YouTube. Okay, there
you go. I can watch that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I haven't been hacked for my YouTube account, thank goodness yet.
Uh let me get to Eric is in Iowa. He's
got a thought on DK, lots of thoughts on DK tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What do you have for us? Eric, you're on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Hey, good morning thought. I'm chying in on with DK.
With all the crap that's still going on with it,
I can't believe that they actually decided and shared it
out there that Almos should have been pushed the next
year and done that way.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So what are you saying, Eric, You think you should
have been suspended next year and they like, do their
due diligence find out exactly what happened.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Well, that would be dispensable thing in my opinion, right,
even though I'm not even though I'm not a DJ
metcalf fan or a Steelers fan, but hey, you know,
there just seems to be too much going on with it,
and just like you said, the angles of all the
shots of it, it just doesn't make a whole lot
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of sense. So that would be my suggestion.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I you know what, I hear you, Eric. I appreciate
you checking in man. I'm going to disagree with you, though.
The reasons I would disagree are are this a couple
of reasons. One unfortunately, and I hate that this is
the reality. But there's nothing that could be said that
would justify DK doing what he did. Unfortunately, that's just
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the way it works. The NFL can't have any of
its players throwing punches at fans, like, regardless of what's happened,
there's nothing that will come out where it's like, I
don't know, there's there's a micro there's microphone audio of
the fans saying some crazy, crazy stuff, and the NFL
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is just like you know, in light of this, no
suspension for DK. There's nothing that could exist. Nothing, So
he's gonna get suspended. Like I said before, the NFL
can't have any of its players go into the stands
throw punches at fans. They can't have that because if
you allow that to happen. That's basically that turns into
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your sales pitch. What kind of sales pitch is that?
The NFL is like, Yeah, come on out, see our game,
see NFL action. It's great, but act appropriately or you're
gonna get decked. You're gonna get punched in the nose
if you don't act right. That's not a sales pitch, Matt.
You can't have that as a league. You're trying to
make money. This is a business, this is an operation.
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You can't have your players be violent in any capacity
with fans, regardless of what said.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I hate that, that's the reality.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I think some idiotic fans should be dealt with physically.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But that's not the reality.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's not the world we live in, and that's not
the way any functioning business would ever operate. So I
think you've got to suspend DK right away. And I
get it that maybe you do your due diligence and
you interview this person, and you interview the lady that
was sitting next to the Yahoo fan, Maybe you uncover
some more information, but it's not gonna change anything to
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the degree of well, in light of this, we're not
suspending DK for one game. There's nothing that exists, and
so I think it's better for the league to deal
with it immediately. And unfortunately for DK walking over there
throwing the punch, he's he's gonna get. He's gonna get
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the short end of the stick on that one. And
I hate that, especially if what he alleges was said
was actually said. That that's brutal. And I don't know
how the fan, if he came close or actually said
those things, how he's allowed to sit there the rest
of the game. That blows my mind. But I'll tell
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you this. The bottom line is we go back to
the central truth. Can't DK can't do what he did.
Nothing that we say will change or distort that he
can't do what he did. And the NFL has to
do a better job of policing this type of stuff
where the players don't feel like they have to police
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it themselves. NFL's got to step it up. We've got
Andrea in Berkeley. My girl is with us here today.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What's going on? Andrea? You're on Fox?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
How you doing good?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Good? How are things good?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
I want to which were blessed winner Solstice? And oh
did you get your newsletter?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yes? I did receive that. Thank you for sending it
my way.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Yes, you're welcome. I know you always I can know
the dates how at the full moon and mercury retrograde
and so on. So it's really good to have that information.
And as a fellow black cat owner and lover, I
really wanted to call and talk about Oreo.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And oh cool. Yeah I didn't know you owned a
black cat. That's great.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Oh yeah, this is my second black cat.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
That's very fitting for you.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Andrea.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Oh what was that?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
That's very fitting for you?
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Yes, thank you astrology And.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You got your little black cat right like.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
A little magical being.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Two of them. So what are the names of these cats?
Andrea throughout to you.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Yeah, I know I had a very special black cat.
I got it Animal Rescue Foundation. It was Tony Learus's RF.
It said people saving animals, Animals saving people. When you
walked in the building was very special. It's it's different.
I think it's called joybound now. So the black cat
was called Diva d easy A. The first one okay.
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The second one is called Dove d O v Okay,
both black cats. I like the Oreo because it makes
me think of like Oreo cookies, dark on the outside. Yeah, no,
sweet on the inside. And then I was thinking, it's like, oh,
we haven't Scorpio trifector tonight got you Lorena and Coop?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
That's right? How cool is that gangang? That's right? The
gang is back together.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
I thought that was kind of a unique, uh trifecta.
And yeah, no, black cats are magical beings. Where did
you happen to get yours?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Well? I never owned Oreo.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So the story with Oreo is Oreo has a home
and we're just staying in an apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Right. It was me and my now ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
We were living there for the last year in Vegas, right,
And so Oreo would just slowly we would see him
outside and then he just came by and just like
walked in and was checking out the place. And then
he would hang out. Then we would feed him. Then
he's hanging out every day. He would come over every day. Yeah,
but he was never our cat. He was just a
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neighborhood cat who has a home, but he's sort of
outside ish as well, and he would just roam the
neighborhood and visit random people.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And he would visit us every day, and we love him.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
It's almost like a special gift. When the cat us,
she would say, thank you, thank you, you're hearing you
honored me with your presence.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yes, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I was always so excited, Like Oreo would kind of
claw there's like this sort of like metal screen door
or he would me out at the door and I
would hear it immediately, like the TV could be on
full volume, and somehow I would feel like Oreo's there.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm like Oreos here, I get all. He's the best.
I love Oreo to death. He's awesome.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
Oh yeah, I know the very magical beings black cats.
And there was National black Cat Day just a couple
of weeks ago on Facebook. Brian, I just happened to
notice that. It was like, oh wow, it's always like
black Cat Day here, but it was apparently a National
black Cat as well.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Very nice. Well, I like the I like Diva, Dove.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I think the next one is Dave, right, Like you
got to keep the central theme going here.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
There's something along those.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Lines with uh the letters D and like Diva is
like a magical being, like the a Diva kind of thing,
and Dove I always think of like double peace, and
I don't know, I think it's special once you go
to a shelter and you adopted cat and I kind
of leave them with their names.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I got one for you here, Andrea. How about Dame.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That'd be a great with Damian Lillard, right, Bay Area native.
The next black cat is Dame.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
There you go.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Yeah, I think you're onto something there, Brian.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I think that's what it's got to be.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Absolutely does Okay, Well, Hey, happy holidays, Andrea. I always
appreciate hearing from you. I hope everything's going well for you.
And uh, I hope you have a great early morning here.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
On the.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Again.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, I'll be in I think the next couple of
nights for Big Ben and I think one more next week.
So yeah, around the holiday season, you know how it goes.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Yeah, No, always enjoy the no show. So happy and
healthy holidays to you and yours.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yes, same to you, Andrea. Absolutely absolutely very good. There
she is Andrea in Berkeley. Always good to hear from her.
Very nice, very positive diva and dove. Next cat's got
to be Dame, right, gotta be Dame.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I like that. Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
I thought at first you were like Dame, like a lady,
like a dame. You know.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Well, that's true. If it's a boy cat, it's not
gonna work. The same one about dime dime would be
fine back Darryl, right yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
Dime peace dime, never mind.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Nicely done. I like it.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Dime or Dame would work very well, I think for
a black cat or an animal in general. Right there,
All right, we'll get to the coach who has got
a great idea. It's not great for his team, but
it is great for the entire sport. That's on the way.
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Malor. Keep it
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go to Haley onassist dot com. All right, so, Oregon
Ducks head football coach Dan Lanning, he had some interesting
comments here and he was talking about the upcoming game
for the Ducks. They're taking on Texas Tech and that
game will be the Orange Bowl. And this is what
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Dan Lanning had to say. He said, the way we
do playoffs in college football is messed up. In my opinion,
this game should be played at Tech. There should be
a home field advantage for them. I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I think that.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
College football should do it exactly like the NFL. The
college Football Playoff every game should be a home game
except the championship. The championship, I believe, should be at
a neutral site, just like the Super Bowl. Right the NFL,
every game in the playoffs is a home game except
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for the Super Bowl, which is at a neutral site.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's what college football should do.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Every game should be a home game except their championship,
which should be at the Rose Bowl every year. It's
granddaddy of them all. Short of that, I say, screw
the bulls, like it's not better for college football. Like, honestly,
which is better for college football? Not Oregon, not Texas
Tech college football as a whole. Is it better to
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have Oregon versus Texas Tech in Florida at the Orange
Bowl or is it better to have it at Texas Tech. Guy,
it's another way to make the regular season matter more.
If you have a great record, you have a high seed,
guess what, you get a home game, and you're the
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higher seed. The next round, you get another home game.
It's great incentive to have a strong regular season.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
No more.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Mulligan's right, Like if you're like, ah, we lost one,
how we lost two, We're still in the playoff.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
It's gonna be mostly neutral site games. Anyway. What does
it matter?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It matters a lot if all of a sudden these
are all home games. Tell me which is better Miss
versus Georgia at the Sugar Bowl. Is it better between
the hedges at Georgia or at a neutral site in
New Orleans? It's at Georgia is way better for college football.
They should absolutely play these games at home stadiums, except
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for the championship coming up next. I hate to be
the bad guy, but I will be when it comes
to this player.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Next
Oh, what is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome in happy early Wednesday morning. We are all on
the same page now that the West coast has caught
up Wednesday morning. Here we go home day. Hope your
Christmas shopping is complete. You're ready for the holidays, right
to celebrate, unwined, have a good time, maybe friends and
family involved, all that good stuff. Wish you a happy
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holiday season for sure. All right, So I'll get back
to DK Metcalf. But more than DK going on in
the sports world. If you've got thoughts, feel free. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your number. If
you've got DK Metcalf thoughts. This two game suspension was upheld,
and you know, some people have thoughts on the whole
situation right there, as do I. But I've got more
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thoughts than just that. And we'll stick with the the
NFL vibe and coincidentally the Steelers vibe here, because I
think there's an accomplishment that is insane and a lot
of us just glossing over it. So the Steelers, by
beating the Lions this last Sunday, they've clinched another winning
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season in a row, another one. That's twenty two straight
winning seasons and Mike Tomlin has been the head coach
for nineteen of those twenty two seasons. So for Mike
Tomlin to have nineteen straight winning seasons, that is an
outrageously great accomplishment. Like, not one losing season, not one
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year where you lost a bunch of close games.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Look at the Chiefs. Look at the Chiefs from.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Last year to this year. They won all those one
possession games last year all of them, and then this
year hardly any of them. And that's with Mahomes healthy
throughout most of the season. He got banged up last
week and now he's out for the season. They already
had a losing record anyway. With Mahomes, he was upright
for what fourteen fifteen games something like that, almost the
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whole season. Still losing season. That's you know, getting to
the super Bowl for three straight seasons, winning two of them,
and they were gonna have a losing record with Mahomes.
That's insane. So for the Steelers and Mike Tomlin, nineteen
straight seasons, not one year where he had a brutal schedule.
Look at the Lions Gauntlet this season. Their road schedule
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is just hideous. Have you if I just rattle off
what they had to face on the road this season.
I'll get it for you real quick. There's not one
year where the Steelers faced this ridiculous paths. Here's what
the Lions had on the road at the Packers, at
the Ravens, at the Bengals, at the Chiefs, at the Commanders,
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at the Eagles, at the Rams, at the Vikings, at
the Bears.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's freaking brutal, man.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And based on how things kind of ebbed and flowed, like,
for instance, on the road at Minnesota, it's not as
nasty as it once looked. Right, there's not even JJ McCarthy.
It's the Max Brosmer Show. We'll get more into that.
But still a ridiculous road schedule for the Lions, or
even more so with the Steelers nineteen straight from Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
A year where you just had a ton of injuries.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
The injury bug just hit you hard. Lions last year,
injuries all over the place, right, So they haven't had
one year where they lost a bunch of close games.
They either had a brutal schedule, they had a ton
of injuries. You know, they had some bad lugs and
crazy bounces. Look at the quarterbacks that they've had throughout
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this winning streak. You go back, it's been there for
a long time. With Mike Tomley, he took over an nine.
Actually sorry, he took over an seven for Bill Cower.
Look at some of these quarterbacks. So he had Big
Ben all the way up until twenty eighteen. Then it's
well a little bit longer than that twenty one you
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had Mason Rudolph. These are your leading passers, Mason Rudolph,
Kenny Pickett for two years, Russell Wilson. Know he's got
Duck Hodges in there for a little bit. Look look
at these quarterbacks that he's done it with not one
losing season. And look, I'm not telling you that this
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is like on par with winning a super Bowl. Of course,
the accomplishment that you're gonna get more props for and
more roses for, You're gonna get more bouquets for winning
a super Bowl. We all know that that's the way
it goes. And when you have all of this success,
you're kind of like the nineties Atlanta Braves, you know,
when you win all these division championships and.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We're like, well, where are the World Series rings? You
got one?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's it's where's all the success world series wise? If
you're winning the division, that's great, but you got to
win it all at some point.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's the way it goes. I guess at that.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But I think this, and this might be a little
bit radical, but you gotta let it digest, you know,
you gotta let it swirl.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Around your brain a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I think that winning having a winning record nineteen
straight seasons, I think that it's actually harder to do
than win a Super Bowl. I honestly believe that. Look,
you can have one year where things are just going
your way.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Look at this season. Look at the Bears.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The Bears have had and I don't expect them to
win a super Bowl, but they're in position. They're in
position seating wise, where you win a couple of games
and all of a sudden, man, you're in the NFC
Championship game. You got a chance to make some real noise.
Look at all the breaks that they've gotten this season.
They had what a point five percent chance to beat
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the Packers this past Sunday point five before they got
the onside kick. Unbelievable that they got that win somehow,
some way, And maybe I'm getting my dates mixed up.
I don't know if that was Saturday. I think it
was Saturday. It was late Saturday night. Technically it was
Saturday night. A point five percent chance. They have had
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six wins this season where they trailed in the final
two minutes. That's ridiculous. They've gotten all these wins, all
these breaks. Last year, the Washington Commanders got a lot
of breaks, one being against the Bears. You know, they
had the hail Mary against the Bears. He had a
Bears player talking smack to the fans while the hail
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Mary is going on, and Washington caught it. And look, man,
Jayden Daniels was sensational last season. I'm not saying it's
all luck, but they had a lot of lucky breaks.
The Bears have the golden horseshoe this season. They're eleven
and four. They have six wins where they rallied in
the final two minutes. That is unsustainable to t and
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yet here they are. So the point is, you can
have a season where you're good and then man, there's
a lot of stuff that goes your way. There are
a lot of things that a bounce here, abounce there. Hey,
the Packers recover the on side kick well, guess what,
you lose that game, you know what I mean? Like,
it's stuff like that, and you can believe that you
create your own luck, and there's some truth to that,
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but there are a lot of lucky breaks that just
coincidentally happen for teams randomly from season to season, and
one year it's your season, the other year it is not. Like,
for instance, the Lions, this season is not their year
for luck.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It just is not.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Look at the game against the Steelers on Sunday, right
before halftime, Kenneth Gainwell is getting hit by a linebacker
Alex Azeloni. It's gonna be a pass interference penalty. There's
only two seconds left in the in the half. You
know the Steelers gonna kick a field goal, but instead,
while getting tackled to the ground, Kenneth Gainwell sticks his
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arm out, the ball hits his forearm, he just catches it,
runs into the end zone for a touchdown with two
seconds left in the half. You're telling me that's not
an unfortunate break for the Lions. Of course it is.
And stuff like that where those things have happened more
often this season than not for the Lions, and it
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is just not their year man one thing after another,
just things are going wrong, snowballing the whole thing. So
you can get lucky one year on top of being good,
and you get in a rhythm, you start stacking wins,
and all of a sudden you're knocking on the door
to win a Super Bowl. I don't want to make
it sound like it's easy, but I do think it's
easier than nineteen straight seasons of winning. That's what Mike
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Tomlin has done. I don't think we can gloss over that.
You know what I think is happening. Honestly, I think
this is the worst franchise to have a winning streak
like this. Four to the Pittsburgh's. They've won six Super Bowls,
they have a rich tradition. Yes, they were horrible, yes,
in the thirties, forties, fifties. Yet we get to the seventies,
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they're printing Super Bowls. They're winning four out of six seasons.
They've stacked two more on top of that, since they're
one of the proudest franchise and most respected franchises in
all of sports, not just the NFL. So to win
nineteen straight, have nineteen straight winning seasons and one Super Bowl.
Most people are gonna be like, here we go again
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with Tomlin and the lack of playoff success, and that's
what he's more so known for, and I hate that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Imagine if Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Was the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach, Let's just say Lem
Cohen is doing a fantastic job. But let's just say
Leam Cohen is out of that job two years from now. Right,
things are going great right now, expectations rays and then
all of a sudden, the wheels just fall off the
tracks and we're talking disastrous seasons, losing seasons. He's out
of a job. Okay, just follow me on this. Imagine
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Mike Tomlin taking over for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He not
only wins a Super Bowl, he has nineteen straight winning seasons.
What do you think we'd be saying about that guy?
Then we'd be like, this guy's amazing. He walks on
water as a coach. But he's doing it with the Steelers.
So we're just like, yawn, not impressed. Where's the playoff success, Mike?
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Where are the Super Bowls? And I'm not saying that's
wrong because he does need that, he does need more
playoff success. He does need another super Bowl, but both
things can be true, like he needs more playoff success.
But at the same time, nineteen straight winning seasons is
an outstanding accomplishment and I don't think we should just
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gloss over it. If you look at some of the
best runs in NFL history, there are multiple times where
teams won multiple championships and didn't come close to nineteen
straight winning seasons. If you look at the Steelers, let's
use that same franchise. If you go back to the seventies,
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they won four super Bowls in six years.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Along that span, they only had nine.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Straight winning seasons nine not even half of what Tomlin
has done. Right from nineteen seventy two to nineteen eighty
that was it eighty one, they were five hundred as
not a winning season. They only had nine straight winning seasons.
And this is not an either or discussion. Of course,
you will take what's behind door one, which is four
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super Bowls in that span, over what's behind door two,
which would be Mike Tomlin having nineteen straight winning seasons.
This is not which is better, which is more impressed?
Of course, for super Bowls, that's what you're in the
business for. That's what Mike Tomlin would take immediately. That's
not what the discussion is. The discussion is, let's not
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gloss over nineteen straight winning seasons as if it's nothing,
as if it doesn't even matter. Look at the teams
with losing records this season. If I told you before
the season, the Chiefs are gonna have a losing record,
the Bengals are gonna have a losing record, possibly the
Ravens are gonna have a losing record, you'd be like, okay,
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all right, did all those quarterbacks get hurt in Week one?
It'd be like, well, Burrow kind of did almost week one,
but Lamar he missed a couple of games.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We'll get to Lamar in a second.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh my gosh, back contusion not out there, unreal. But
Mahomes was healthy throughout most of the year. And they're
gonna have a losing record. It's not easy to have
winning records for that long. If you look at the Patriots,
the Patriots won nineteen straight. They had nineteen straight winning
seasons from one to twenty nineteen, and in that span
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they won all those Super Bowls, six of them. Right,
What a what a run by the Patriots. But think
about that not in either or. Of course, you'd rather
have the six Super Bowls than the nineteenth straight winning seasons.
But they had Tom Brady throughout that whole run. Tom Brady,
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Mike Tomlin had Old Big Ben throughout a lot of
these winning seasons.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You see Kenny Pickett with the Raiders, by the way,
a couple of weeks ago. You see that against the Eagles,
seventy five total yards, not like the first drive, not
the first half, seventy five total yards in the game.
Kenny Pickett the Raiders quarterback a little over a week ago,
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he got blown out thirty one to nothing. He's had
winning seasons with Kenny Pickett as the leading passer for
two years. Like it's amazing what Mike Tomlin has done,
and it's weird. I can feel like a collective eye
roll from a lot of the listeners right now, like,
oh my gosh, what is this guy doing, like waxing Poe.
I think about nineteen straight winning seasons, where's the playoff success?
(14:03):
Where are the rings Sky talking about? I can feel
that and it's unbelievable to me, Like you had the Niners.
Think about the Niners in the eighties and nineties, sixteen
straight winning seasons from eighty three to ninety eight, and
think about the quarterbacks that they had during that time.
(14:24):
Think about the era as well. This is not hard
salary cap, this is not free agency. I mean there
was a bit of the winning stream. Free agency came
around like ninety four, right around there, so it did
dip in to that era a bit, but it's just.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
A portion of it, right.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Look at the leading passers Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, year
after year, young young, Young, young young y. Shockingly, the
losing streak ended with Jeff Garcia the leading passer in
nineteen ninety nine. You know, you went from young to
Garcia and you went from twelve and four to four
and twelve. Shocking how that works. You know, Mike Tomlin's
done it with Duck Hodges. My gosh, that means something.
(15:07):
And you gotta go back a little while to find
Mike Tomlins's last playoff win. It's been too long. I'm
not here to tell you that it hasn't been too long.
It has been the last time they won a playoff game.
You gotta go back to the twenty sixteen season. Can
you believe it's been that long. That's amazing. That goes back.
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We're talking almost a decade since they've won a playoff game.
And I'll never forget that game. They beat the Chiefs
eighteen to sixteen. And this is great hot tub time
machine stuff, especially if you're an NFL geek like me.
Uh So, that game, the Chiefs went for two and
(15:48):
I believe they originally got it, but there was a
holding penalty on Get this, Eric Fisher, he was holding
James Harrison. That's how long ago it's been since the
Steeler have won a playoff game. Remember after that playoff game,
in the locker room, Antonio Brown got in trouble because
he went on Facebook Live and he's recording Mike Tomlin
(16:09):
and he called the Patriots a holes and it turned
into this whole thing. That's how long it's been since
they've won a playoff game. It was the twenty sixteen season.
We're in twenty twenty five. It's been almost a decade.
So I'm not sitting here telling you that Mike Tomlin
doesn't need to win playoff games, he doesn't need to
win another Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
He does.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But what I am telling you is the guy's a
brilliant head coach and you give him a legitimate quarterback.
I fully believe that he could have big success, big
playoff success, big Super Bowl success. The problem isn't that
Mike Tomlin is a limited head coach. The problem is
that the Steelers have had limited quarterbacks for the last decade.
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They've had that, and yet they still are cranking out
winning seasons that at least means something. And it turns
into this like overly complicated conversation where I'm not saying
that it's okay to fizzle out in the playoffs year
after you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And that's where it becomes unnecessarily complicated. Right if you
just keep it simple and say he hasn't had one
year they lost a bunch of close games, not one
year where the schedule was just brutal and got the
best of them. Not one year where they just had
injuries go.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Lo or ravaged by injuries. TJ.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Watt has missed the last couple of games that right
there alone could have burned them. But what have they
done the last two weeks? They're like, we're shutting down
the rush Lions. You can't run the ball at all.
Against US. I think they had what twelve rushes for
fifteen yards. The Lions averaged one point one yards per
rush this past weekend. One point one the Lions. They
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can run it on anybody, not the Steelers. All of
a sudden, the run defense is woken up.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's crazy. That's without TJ.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
White, by the way, and they shut down the Dolphins
very good running attack, shut him down.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And so that that just means something. That's all I'm
saying is nineteen straight winning seasons should not be glossed
over as if it's like, yawn, what else is on
the resume? Show me the playoff wins. I get it,
he needs more playoff success, but not to the point
where you just just yawn at nineteen straight winning seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I can't describe how hard it is to do that,
To have a run that long, it's insanely difficult. And again,
I think it's more difficult than winning a super Bowl.
And believe me, I'm not telling you that's easy. It's
very very difficult to win one super Bowl, so difficult
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to do. I don't want to make it sound like, yeah,
you just get kind of lucky. You get a couple
of breaks and yeah, presto, you win a super Bowl. No,
it's not like it's insanely difficult. Even with how insanely
difficult it is to win a ring, I think it's
more difficult to win nineteen straight, nineteen straight winning seasons outstanding,
and I just don't think that could be glossed over.
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I think it's unfortunate that it happens.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Like that often. All Right, eight seven to seven ninety
nine on Fox is your number.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You have thoughts on DK, anybody who's left wants to
do that, we can do that right around the corner.
Appreciate your patience, you know, I get passionate about some stuff.
Nineteen straight winning seasons matters. I'm standing on the table.
I'm not only pounding the table, I'm kicking the table
as well. This matters, is what I'm saying to you.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I want to get to a head coach that says
something against his own team and something for the entire sport,
and I am totally on board with it. I'll share
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I was jibber jabbering for a while a little bit ago.
So let's get out to the militia here. Militia wants
to check in, and I appreciate that. I always love
hearing from militia. We'll get to the college football coach
saying something in favor of college football as a whole
here momentarily, but first to militia. My guy Cardiac Stanley,
(21:28):
So he was with us last hour at the very end,
and we had the ACDC guessing game, which cut into
the call just a little bit, but he had a
Steeler's thoughts at the end of that thing, so east
here I invited him to finish his thoughts.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So Stanley, you take it away, buddy. You're on Fox
Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Thanks Brian? Hot talk you well, hot talk you long
time ago. Brian. Oh yeah, yeah, And I told you
that he's coming a long way with your your presentation
on how you cod up the radio show. You you
do a really nice job and one of the good ol'
(22:08):
Brian will feeling anyway, Well, thank you, man.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I appreciate that Stanley, I was I was a I
was a hack basically is what you're saying at the beginning,
and now like slightly respectable. Hey man, it's improvement. I'll
take that, Stanley. I appreciate it. Thank you for the
kind words. That's nice of you.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Well, why I told you you were like a whiner.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I was whining too much at the beginning, Stanley.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, like, just like Jonahs Knock, what a whiner?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Stanley? Can you remember some of the things? What was like?
What were the things I was whining about in your opinion?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Any situations? Okay? Why does Sterrry Jones app to inner feel?
Why to me? Let's move on? Okay, the fucking get
back to the Steelers. First of all, before I let
you go, the Steelers have nineteen winning but not winning seasons.
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Can you figure that out? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I mean I think you're saying they've they've got nineteen
winning regular seasons and they haven't done it in the postseason.
They have one Super Bowl ring. But I think you're
saying what really matters is winning at all.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Nineteen winning seasons but no winning anyways, net Calf in
this but that right hand of that stupid dude in
the blue hair, right whip. He whipped on that. Nonetheless,
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he can now join Le'Veon Bell Antonio Brown being mere
steamers who were really good players, who ruined the whole
thing by their attitude. So he's in that club, don't you.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Think, Well, interesting, Stanley, listen, man, I appreciate you checking in.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It was good to hear from you again.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And I like that you don't think I'm as big
of a whiner as I once was, you know, at
least in.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I love that he stops to think for like five
to seven sites, you know what.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I kind of like because we're so fast and we're like,
you know, you know, you know, Stanley just takes a breath,
collects his thoughts.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I prefer that.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, it's kind of soothing in a way.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I've this is a therapeutic. I have no problem with that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But listen, there's something to what Stanley is saying where
if you look at some guys that had a ton
of talent, were incredibly productive, but.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
They are getting in their own way, right.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Le'Veon Bell got in his own way, George Pickens got
in his own way as a steeler. Antonio Brown certainly
got in his own way, and now, unfortunately DK has
done that. I wonder what, ask yourself this, what if
that punch landed? What kind of suspension are we looking
at for DK? You know, it's much more than two games.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Did you watch all the different angles of the video too, Brian, because.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, I've only seen this straightforward.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Okay, I'm gonna send you the side shot of it
on Instagram right now, because I was really confused off
of that because he said he just grabbed his hair,
but in the side video you can see he blatantly
grabbed his shirt and you it looks like he made
contact with his face. But the guy who got hit
his initial statement said I did that wasn't what happened, right,
(25:48):
He said, I did not get hit where he said
he barely got grazed. And so I'm curious how he's
gonna change it now.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's funny you said that because I read something about
DK ripping this guy's shirt, and I'm like, I didn't
even realize he was holding the shirt, you know, or
grabbing the shirt.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But yeah, yeah, that's crazy on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You know, it's funny. I don't have Instagram. Let me
break it down so you'll love this story. I was
walking into Sofi Stadium for a Rams playoff game with
our guy Lee, Robert delap It was me and Lee
me Yeah, we were going to see the Rams take
on the Arizona Cardinals. And I'm walking into the stadium
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and I get a text from my guy Duke. This
guy Duke in Albany, New York. Shout out to him.
He owns Duke's Barbershop. If you're in upstate New York,
go check it out.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Great.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I love the Wi Fi password. He's a Yankees fan.
I'm like, what's the password, Duke. He's like, it's the
number one twenty seven times for their twenty seven championships.
Great password all time. But I thought Duke was texting
me and it was like, hey, man, can you can
you copy this link and send it to me. It's
for this haircut thing. And I'm trying to be number
(27:02):
I'm like yeah great. I'm walking into the stadium. I'm
like yeah, sure, great. Next thing, I know, I'm getting
blown up by all of my friends. Dude, I think
you just got hacked on igh.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Because you got.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I never had I got I got hacked and
I never opened a new one, you know, I was
trying to recover the old one and I just never
opened a new one. So anytime anyone sends me an
ig video, I'm like, I can't watch it.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
I don't even think you can watch what I just
sent you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah it on YouTube. Okay, there
you go. I can watch that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I haven't been hacked for my YouTube account, thank goodness yet.
Uh let me get to Eric is in Iowa. He's
got a thought on DK, lots of thoughts on DK tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What do you have for us? Eric, you're on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Hey, good morning thought. I'm chying in on with DK.
With all the crap that's still going on with it,
I can't believe that they actually decided and shared it
out there that Almos should have been pushed the next
year and done that way.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So what are you saying, Eric, You think you should
have been suspended next year and they like, do their
due diligence find out exactly what happened.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Well, that would be dispensable thing in my opinion, right,
even though I'm not even though I'm not a DJ
metcalf fan or a Steelers fan, but hey, you know,
there just seems to be too much going on with it,
and just like you said, the angles of all the
shots of it, it just doesn't make a whole lot
(28:39):
of sense. So that would be my suggestion.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I you know what, I hear you, Eric. I appreciate
you checking in man. I'm going to disagree with you, though.
The reasons I would disagree are are this a couple
of reasons. One unfortunately, and I hate that this is
the reality. But there's nothing that could be said that
would justify DK doing what he did. Unfortunately, that's just
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the way it works. The NFL can't have any of
its players throwing punches at fans, like, regardless of what's happened,
there's nothing that will come out where it's like, I
don't know, there's there's a micro there's microphone audio of
the fans saying some crazy, crazy stuff, and the NFL
(29:29):
is just like you know, in light of this, no
suspension for DK. There's nothing that could exist. Nothing, So
he's gonna get suspended. Like I said before, the NFL
can't have any of its players go into the stands
throw punches at fans. They can't have that because if
you allow that to happen. That's basically that turns into
(29:50):
your sales pitch. What kind of sales pitch is that?
The NFL is like, Yeah, come on out, see our game,
see NFL action. It's great, but act appropriately or you're
gonna get decked. You're gonna get punched in the nose
if you don't act right. That's not a sales pitch, Matt.
You can't have that as a league. You're trying to
make money. This is a business, this is an operation.
(30:11):
You can't have your players be violent in any capacity
with fans, regardless of what said.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I hate that, that's the reality.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I think some idiotic fans should be dealt with physically.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But that's not the reality.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's not the world we live in, and that's not
the way any functioning business would ever operate. So I
think you've got to suspend DK right away. And I
get it that maybe you do your due diligence and
you interview this person, and you interview the lady that
was sitting next to the Yahoo fan, Maybe you uncover
some more information, but it's not gonna change anything to
(30:48):
the degree of well, in light of this, we're not
suspending DK for one game. There's nothing that exists, and
so I think it's better for the league to deal
with it immediately. And unfortunately for DK walking over there
throwing the punch, he's he's gonna get. He's gonna get
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the short end of the stick on that one. And
I hate that, especially if what he alleges was said
was actually said. That that's brutal. And I don't know
how the fan, if he came close or actually said
those things, how he's allowed to sit there the rest
of the game. That blows my mind. But I'll tell
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you this. The bottom line is we go back to
the central truth. Can't DK can't do what he did.
Nothing that we say will change or distort that he
can't do what he did. And the NFL has to
do a better job of policing this type of stuff
where the players don't feel like they have to police
(31:50):
it themselves. NFL's got to step it up. We've got
Andrea in Berkeley. My girl is with us here today.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What's going on? Andrea? You're on Fox?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
How you doing good?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Good? How are things good?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
I want to which were blessed winner Solstice? And oh
did you get your newsletter?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yes? I did receive that. Thank you for sending it
my way.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Yes, you're welcome. I know you always I can know
the dates how at the full moon and mercury retrograde
and so on. So it's really good to have that information.
And as a fellow black cat owner and lover, I
really wanted to call and talk about Oreo.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And oh cool. Yeah I didn't know you owned a
black cat. That's great.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Oh yeah, this is my second black cat.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
That's very fitting for you.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Andrea.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Oh what was that?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
That's very fitting for you?
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Yes, thank you astrology And.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You got your little black cat right like.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
A little magical being.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Two of them. So what are the names of these cats?
Andrea throughout to you.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Yeah, I know I had a very special black cat.
I got it Animal Rescue Foundation. It was Tony Learus's RF.
It said people saving animals, Animals saving people. When you
walked in the building was very special. It's it's different.
I think it's called joybound now. So the black cat
was called Diva d easy A. The first one okay.
(33:16):
The second one is called Dove d O v Okay,
both black cats. I like the Oreo because it makes
me think of like Oreo cookies, dark on the outside. Yeah, no,
sweet on the inside. And then I was thinking, it's like, oh,
we haven't Scorpio trifector tonight got you Lorena and Coop?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
That's right? How cool is that gangang? That's right? The
gang is back together.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
I thought that was kind of a unique, uh trifecta.
And yeah, no, black cats are magical beings. Where did
you happen to get yours?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Well? I never owned Oreo.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So the story with Oreo is Oreo has a home
and we're just staying in an apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Right. It was me and my now ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
We were living there for the last year in Vegas, right,
And so Oreo would just slowly we would see him
outside and then he just came by and just like
walked in and was checking out the place. And then
he would hang out. Then we would feed him. Then
he's hanging out every day. He would come over every day. Yeah,
but he was never our cat. He was just a
(34:24):
neighborhood cat who has a home, but he's sort of
outside ish as well, and he would just roam the
neighborhood and visit random people.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And he would visit us every day, and we love him.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
It's almost like a special gift. When the cat us,
she would say, thank you, thank you, you're hearing you
honored me with your presence.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yes, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I was always so excited, Like Oreo would kind of
claw there's like this sort of like metal screen door
or he would me out at the door and I
would hear it immediately, like the TV could be on
full volume, and somehow I would feel like Oreo's there.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm like Oreos here, I get all. He's the best.
I love Oreo to death. He's awesome.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
Oh yeah, I know the very magical beings black cats.
And there was National black Cat Day just a couple
of weeks ago on Facebook. Brian, I just happened to
notice that. It was like, oh wow, it's always like
black Cat Day here, but it was apparently a National
black Cat as well.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Very nice. Well, I like the I like Diva, Dove.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I think the next one is Dave, right, Like you
got to keep the central theme going here.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
There's something along those.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Lines with uh the letters D and like Diva is
like a magical being, like the a Diva kind of thing,
and Dove I always think of like double peace, and
I don't know, I think it's special once you go
to a shelter and you adopted cat and I kind
of leave them with their names.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I got one for you here, Andrea. How about Dame.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That'd be a great with Damian Lillard, right, Bay Area native.
The next black cat is Dame.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
There you go.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Yeah, I think you're onto something there, Brian.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I think that's what it's got to be.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Absolutely does Okay, Well, Hey, happy holidays, Andrea. I always
appreciate hearing from you. I hope everything's going well for you.
And uh, I hope you have a great early morning here.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
On the.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Again.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, I'll be in I think the next couple of
nights for Big Ben and I think one more next week.
So yeah, around the holiday season, you know how it goes.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Yeah, No, always enjoy the no show. So happy and
healthy holidays to you and yours.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yes, same to you, Andrea. Absolutely absolutely very good. There
she is Andrea in Berkeley. Always good to hear from her.
Very nice, very positive diva and dove. Next cat's got
to be Dame, right, gotta be Dame.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I like that. Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
I thought at first you were like Dame, like a lady,
like a dame. You know.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Well, that's true. If it's a boy cat, it's not
gonna work. The same one about dime dime would be
fine back Darryl, right yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
Dime peace dime, never mind.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Nicely done. I like it.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Dime or Dame would work very well, I think for
a black cat or an animal in general. Right there,
All right, we'll get to the coach who has got
a great idea. It's not great for his team, but
it is great for the entire sport. That's on the way.
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Malor. Keep it
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Ducks head football coach Dan Lanning, he had some interesting
comments here and he was talking about the upcoming game
for the Ducks. They're taking on Texas Tech and that
game will be the Orange Bowl. And this is what
(38:21):
Dan Lanning had to say. He said, the way we
do playoffs in college football is messed up. In my opinion,
this game should be played at Tech. There should be
a home field advantage for them. I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I think that.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
College football should do it exactly like the NFL. The
college Football Playoff every game should be a home game
except the championship. The championship, I believe, should be at
a neutral site, just like the Super Bowl. Right the NFL,
every game in the playoffs is a home game except
(38:57):
for the Super Bowl, which is at a neutral site.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's what college football should do.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Every game should be a home game except their championship,
which should be at the Rose Bowl every year. It's
granddaddy of them all. Short of that, I say, screw
the bulls, like it's not better for college football. Like, honestly,
which is better for college football? Not Oregon, not Texas
Tech college football as a whole. Is it better to
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have Oregon versus Texas Tech in Florida at the Orange
Bowl or is it better to have it at Texas Tech. Guy,
it's another way to make the regular season matter more.
If you have a great record, you have a high seed,
guess what, you get a home game, and you're the
(39:44):
higher seed. The next round, you get another home game.
It's great incentive to have a strong regular season.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
No more.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Mulligan's right, Like if you're like, ah, we lost one,
how we lost two, We're still in the playoff.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
It's gonna be mostly neutral site games. Anyway. What does
it matter?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It matters a lot if all of a sudden these
are all home games. Tell me which is better Miss
versus Georgia at the Sugar Bowl. Is it better between
the hedges at Georgia or at a neutral site in
New Orleans? It's at Georgia is way better for college football.
They should absolutely play these games at home stadiums, except
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for the championship coming up next. I hate to be
the bad guy, but I will be when it comes
to this player.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
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