August 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Brian Noe talks about the Bengals changing their approach by planning to play some starters in their opening preseason game, ESPN taking over NFL RedZone and what that could mean for other sports, the latest from Jerry Jones on Micah Parsons, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, what is going on? I hope you're enjoying your
early morning hour festivities over here. Whether you're driving like
a long distance like Alejandro, or you're doing bong hits
like Blind Scott. We got an eclectic audience over here.
Whether you're taking a nap like the neighborhood cat Oreo
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on the couch just in front of me, you know,
whatever's going on in your life. However, everything's going well.
So I think this is a much needed change for
the Cincinnati Bengals. They are going to play their starters,
maybe several reps Thursday night, you know, so a little
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bit later today we get some NFL action. You'll see
Joe Burrow out there. The head coach, Zach Taylor. He
talked about several series potentially for some of the starters.
So I don't know how much time they're gonna get,
but Joe Burrow is expected to play, some of the
ones are expected to play. And I think this makes
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a lot of sense because what's the what's the bugaboo
with the Bengals, it's how slowly they start. They're notoriously
slow starters. They lost to the Patriots in Week one
last season. It was a big upset. It was Drod
Mayo's first game as a head coach, Like Bengals are
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huge home favorites and they lose, and the Patriots won
three more games the entire season, you know, and Drod
Mayo got fired. That team that fired their first year
head coach beat the Bengals in Week one. And Joe
Burrow in his career in weeks one and two, his
record is one and nine. That's what he is weeks
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one and two in his NFL career. That is stunning.
That is alarmingly low for a guy that's had as
much success as Joe Burrow has had in the NFL.
And the numbers, like you see some of these graphics
that they put up there, and it's just like, holy cow,
is passer ratings way lower. We're talking like twenty three
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points lower in weeks one and two compared to weeks
that are not one and two, right like weeks three
through eighteen. His passer rating is one oh four point five.
His passer rating weeks one in two eighty one point nine.
And then touchdowns, interceptions, completion percentage, all that stuff. Yardsberg
game like, there's something too Joe Burrow and the Bengals
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starters not playing in the preseason. So what's the definition
of insanity like doing the same thing over and over
and expecting a different result. If the Bengals are just like, yeah,
let's just keep not playing our starters in the preseason,
and well, I mean, hopefully we'll just magically get off
to a better start even though we suck year in
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and year out in the first two weeks of the season.
It's like, you could either do that or I don't know,
maybe play your starters a little bit more in the preseason.
Maybe you're able to hit the ground running when the
regular season rolls around. I do think there's something to it.
I just don't I don't buy that there's zero value
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whatsoever with playing your starters in the preseason. I think
it's swung too far in that direction. I mentioned this
last night. The Chiefs. They play their starters like Mahomes
he plays in the preseason. If there was no value whatsoever,
why on earth would Andy Reid have his starters on
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the field. He has him on the field because there
is some value. I don't want to oversell it and
make it sound like, hey, if you don't play your
starters in the preseason, your season is doomed, your destined
to get off to a slow start. I'm not saying that,
but for a team like the Bengals, who have notoriously
started slowly for years now, it's like, why don't you
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try it? Why don't you try a different approach? Play
the ones more often in the preseason, and maybe they
can have a positive effect with not starting as slowly
when the regular season rolls around. I think that makes
a ton of sense. So Joe Burrow and the other starters,
maybe several series on Thursday night, the preseason opener at
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the Eagles. Get the Bengals and Eagles on Thursday nights,
so hey, man, sign me up. If the starters are playing.
I love getting a little taste of the starters a
series or two. Just see them again, you know, see
what they're looking like. Does anybody flash? They're not game planning,
so I'm not gonna read too deeply into it, but
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every now and then a starter will flash and it's like, oh, okay,
all right, that's something to take away. The golden rule
of preseason, like who's on the field, Like how many
starters are there? Let's not overreact if it's the starting
offense against the backup defense. That's a it's an easy
overreaction right there, right, But I also think that some
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things translate to the regular season, even if you are
facing backups every now and then. There's a certain scenario.
I'll give you one. So Amari and Hampton's a rookie
running back for the Chargers. He played in the Hall
of Fame game, just got a couple of rushes and
it was against mostly the Lions backup defense. So you
might think, oh, who cares he's facing backups. I don't
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think everything is that clear cut. My brief spiel on
the preseason, Okay, it depends. It's case by case. If
there's a number one wide receiver and he blows by
like a number two, number three cornerback, and the quarterback's like,
all right, my guy's opened by five steps. Like that's
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not going to translate to the regular season. That's not
the NFL. We all know that, and that does happen
in the preseason. And when people fall for that, I'm like,
oh my gosh, what are you doing. But Amari and Hampton,
he had one carry in particular against the Lions, and
you just tell the guy's got burst, he's got feel,
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he's got some juice. It was just like this inside
running play. They just kind of bounced it outside and
he found the opening, found the daylight, and got everything
he could get. It was a good rush and some
of it's, you know, connected to his time at North
Carolina and he had juice. Man Omarion Hampton is legit.
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I think he's a really good running back. But stuff
like that, even against mostly backups, there are times where
you're like, Okay, yeah, that's gonna translate, that's gonna work.
So yeah, I do enjoy watching the preseason, but man,
when it gets to like backups against backups, or the
backups of the backups versus the backups of the backups,
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that it's like, okay, all right, it's a little rough.
But when you get the starters in there, yes me up.
Man might see a little bit of Bengal starters, including
Joe Burrow on Thursday night. I'll be checking that out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Something else. I mentioned this a little bit ago. We'll
finally pay it off. But the way that you might
watch sports going forward, So there's a big change where
I'm sure you heard about the deal between ESPN and
NFL Network where ESPN they take over NFL Network basically,
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and some of the properties, like they have distribution rights
to red Zone, to NFL Fantasy and NFL Network they
own ten percent. They have a ten percent ownership stake
in ESPN. Now, I'll cut right to the chase. I'll
be honest with you. I'm not smart enough to understand
all this stuff and what it's meaning and where it's
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headed and what it means for you and me. I mean,
I know some, but I can't foresee exactly how this
is going to play out. But one thing that I
do know that I do find interesting is Roger Gondell.
He was on ESPN on Wednesday and he was talking
about red zone and what that might mean for other sports.
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This I find to be pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Here's goodell, ESPN purchase the red zone name and they
will be able to utilize that for other sports college
football and other things. And I think that could be
an exciting thing for our fans also to see a
red zone maybe in college football or other sports.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That's something that they.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Now own and have the ability to do that. But
as far as red zone, NFL red Zone, there won't
be any changes for our fans.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, all right, so how about that. No change for
NFL red zone, But what do you think about the
possibility of a college football like red zone? Maybe you
expand this. You do this in the NBA, you do
this at times in MLB. What if you had, especially
for opening day, how do you not have at least
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a special red zone presentation. It's just one of the channels.
If that's your thing, check it out. If you just
want to see a standalone game, that's fine, they're gonna
be offered as well. But if you want to, you know,
check out some MLB opening day red zone, that should
be available. They should absolutely make that available. You get
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a little whip around coverage. It's like, all right, we're
checking out the reds game right now. All right, let's
move it on to the Angels. They got a couple
of runners in scoring position. Let's see what they're doing.
I'd be all about that. Maybe it's not on a
daily basis. It's maybe it's once, you know, for opening Day,
and you get a couple other times during the season.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
If it's popular enough, they'll have that thing on all
the freaking they'll have it on a nightly basis if
it's popular enough, but why not give it a shot?
They do something kind of similar in the NBA, or
it's at least on the NBA APP. I forget. I
think they call like game time something like that. But
Jared Greenberg, he hosts it, he works, I believe for TNT.
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He does a lot of sideline interviews, does a really
good job with that. He's kind of like the Scott
Hansen for game Time, and he's at the central headquarters
and he's like, all right, we got a close game
out here in Milwaukee. Let's go over to the Bucks game.
And they just whip around. It's fine, it's good. I
don't know why that isn't offered more. If red zone
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is so incredibly popular, like dip it, college football would
be great, Like if they had, you could have red
zone for so many different games. You could have whatever,
like a package of games. Think that there are what
we'll say, eight ish early kick games in the NFL.
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You could have different you know, so many games in
college you're going on at the same time. You could
have Okay, this is our group of eight, this is
you know, these eight teams. Are these eight games or
in you know Group A, these other eight games are
in Group B. These other eight games, they're in Group
C for red zone, Like and it's like, okay, let's
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check that out. Let me let me get a little
taste of whatever. We're checking out Boston College and then
UCF or if you get a little bit of whip
around coverage like that red zone coverage, I would absolutely
have that on one of my screens. So yeah, I
think that's pretty cool. I think that if you dip
into it beyond the NFL, I would be interested in
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checking that out. So I think they could be successful
with that. There's certainly a market for it. It's like,
if NFL red zone is that popular, how could college
football red zone just be a complete swing in a
miss total dud. I just doubt it would be. There
are enough football siccos out there where they'd at least
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put it on one of their screens. I'll be honest
with you, Like I like having all the games available,
Like I tried to, I got my computer going, I
got other screens going on at the same time. I
want to see the full game. But I'm not as
big of a red zone guy because I want to
be able to Okay, I want to be able to choose. Okay,
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the Steelers game is getting good. I want to screen
on the Steelers game. You know, my Dolphins are actually
making a little bit of noise. Wow, who would have thunk, right,
I want the Dolphins game right there. I want access
to all that stuff. So I'm not a huge red
zone guy, which sounds like a total contradiction, but I
know there's a big market out there for it. Some
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people swear by it, they love it, And you know,
I'm a bigger NFL guy than college football. Although I
love my college football, I don't feel the need to
have every college football game on. I don't need that.
I would like, you know, a handful that I'm interested
in available, and then I might put red zone on
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the screen and they do the whip around coverage for me.
I would certainly be up for that. So we'll see
where it goes. Man, But now that ESPN has that,
they should look to tap into it and expand it,
and most most likely they will. But that's one of
the areas that it could be heading next. You're gonna
see red zone coverage for more sports, Baseball, basketball, maybe
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college football. And I don't think you're gonna go, you
know over. I don't think it's just like, yeah, they
don't like MLB red zone. Now they they hate NBA
red zone. Hey, they really hate college football red zone.
I just don't think it's gonna be a swing and
a miss all across the board. I don't see that happening,
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I promise, But a quick thought on a team owner
that is just absolutely focused on the wrong thing. There's
a SoundBite I heard on Wednesday. I want to share
it with you, and it could not be more clear
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
It is Fox Sports Radio. Know in for Big Ben
mallor I'm gonna go to the militia first because one
of these stories. I think it's interesting, but it's also
wearing me out at the same time. I don't want
to make a quick point based on something I heard today.
But let me go to Jerome first. Jerome is in Charleston,
lovely area. I want to hear from Jerome first. What's
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going on, Bud? You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Hey, I just want to know something. I can't wait
through the red zone. Do that. Whip around to Northwestern
football and their brand new eight hundred million dollars stadium
that opens next year. Where was the last time Northwestern
was Delvin football? Okay, so one can you tell me
that they can build an eight hundred million dollars stadium
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when they got like about five hundred million for one
guy because he's like several billions into the billions something Northwestern.
You got all these Northwestern people. All fucks, what the
AFEs Northwestern know about football?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, maybe they're hell, maybe they're on the big Thanks Jerome.
After the stadium gets killed, you know, look out for
Northwestern wildcat football.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Man, you must be acid, be there for north Western football.
Are they doing the damn conference? I mean, nobody talked
about them. You got more blond than you got the
other guy from old Fox. They talk about everything except
to one damn school and then been all for forever.
(16:30):
You know. So now I guess the guys get some
headlines with a eight hundred million dollars stadium and it
costs like sixty grand a year to go to school. Man,
it must be nice. It must be nice.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay, Yeah, well, hey man, we'll see, we'll see if
it does anything for him. And I like your idea
of red zone coverage of college football. You know we'll
have that, I think in the not too distant future.
So hey man, we'll see how that works out. Uh.
I didn't think we'd be talking northwayn football, But I
mean I appreciate you your contribution over here, Jerome. Always
good to hear from you. Love Charleston, beautiful area right
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buying should be. Okay, I will make this quick and painless,
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but I heard some sound and I just wanted to
throw it your way and just give you a quick
two cents on it. So I get the feeling that
this Micah Parson's contract hold out and the whole storyline
with Jerry Jones, it's starting to wear you thin. It's
wearing me thin where I just don't understand the approach whatsoever.
But this was the comment that Jerry Jones made on Wednesday,
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comparing the contract negotiation to a handshake deal he made
way back when to purchase the Dallas Cowboys franchise. Here
you go, here's Jerry.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
I bought the Dallas Cowboys with a handshake. Took about
thirty seconds, and I gave the number, shook hands. The
details we worked out later. As a matter of fact,
one of the details involved a lot of money and
we had to flip a coin over that. But the
fundamental I'm buying and you're going to sell it to
me for that range, that's done, and those are done
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with eye contact or handshake. There is no question that
in the case of a player or contract, you have
to have it in writing. All parties do we have
a contract in writing, Yet we're still talking about renegotiating it.
So so much for that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, So a couple of quick and painless takeaways from this.
What I take away is I've heard a lot of
people say over the years that men, if you have
bad management, if you have bad ownership, you're kind of screwed.
And I'd hear that and I'd be like, yeah, it
makes some sense, and until you really experience that. If
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you've had a job and you've had just bad management,
and those are the people in charge and there isn't
anybody else to tell them, no, that's a freaking awful idea. Man,
It's true, you are screwed. And that's where I see
the Dallas Cowboys like Jerry Jones, it's obvious he's focused
on the wrong thing. He's focused on winning the pr battle.
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That's what he's focused on. I mean, think about some
of his recent comments. Think about what you just heard
right there. If you break it down, a lot of
it is I'm not the bad guy. That's really what
it is. He's trying to win some br battle where
it's like, yeah, when I bought the Cowboys, it was
a handshake deal. That's how we did it, and he's
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insinuating that they basically had a handshake deal. At least
he thinks that with Michaeh Parsons, and so he's like,
I'm not the bad guy, Mike, I thought we had
a deal over here. He's thrown it out there, but
get hinted that maybe he's made an offer around two
hundred million dollars, which I don't believe. But again it's like,
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I'm not the bad guy. I've made a significant offer.
I thought we had a deal done, and yet here
we are still renegotiating, Like I'm not the bad guy.
Micah is the one holding this whole thing up. I
think it's a terrible approach. I think he's focused on
the wrong thing. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones won't meet with Michah
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Parsons agent that would kind of help things get done, right,
So Jerry is totally at fault, and instead of accepting
that responsibility, he's playing this game of don't look at me,
I'm not the bad guy. I'm not the one holding
this thing up. It's like, dude, that's not gonna work.
It's not gonna help get this done. All it's gonna
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do is royally tick off Michah Parsons, which is why
he asked for a trade, and partly a negotiating tactic. Right,
But a lot of what this traces back to, you're
trying to win some pr battle instead of being a
responsible adult and saying, okay, regardless of how I purchased
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the Dallas Cowboys way back when, not every deal is
gonna work the same way. And just because you think
you have a deal hammered out with Micah Parsons without
involving his agent, guess what, probably not gonna be hammered out.
So it's just annoying. It's just such a waste of
time to play this unnecessary game of I'm not the
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bad guy. How is that gonna help the negotiation process.
I'm not the bad guy, Micah Parsons is. That's really
when you read between the lines what Jerry Jones is
angling for, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And meanwhile
the price tag just goes higher and higher and higher.
They might have been able to I found this interesting.
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The average salaries per year. So after the twenty three season,
Nick Bosa had a thirty four million dollar average, okay,
and around that time that's when the Cowboys could have
hammered out a deal with Michael Parsons. They didn't, which
is why they are where they are. Since then, we've
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seen Jamar Chase get forty million dollars per year, Miles
Garrett get forty million dollars per year, and there have
been a couple more contracts that are higher than Nick Bosas,
justin Jefferson, Max Crosby. Those guys make thirty five million
dollars per year, so signing Parsons that could be in
the forty one million dollars per year range when they
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could have been around thirty five ish. So this could
cost him about six million dollars per season. Because they've
dragged this thing out and instead of finally hammering it out.
Jerry Jones is playing this game of I'm not the
bad guy. It's kind of like that guy over there,
the guy that wears number eleven. I've made the two
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hundred million dollar ish offer. I thought we had a
deal out. We still don't. We're still renegotiating. Why is
that huh the number eleven right over there him, Bro,
stop pointing the finger at your star player and just
work with the star players agent and hammer this out
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so it's finally freaking done. My gosh, it's not that difficult.
He's making something that is not difficult the most difficult
thing ever, and it's annoying. That's where why we are
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expresspros dot com. Okay, I want to throw this at
you too. I'm gonna throw a lot of stuff before
we get out of here. I'm gonna try to shoehorn
as much stuff as possible. Thank you, Loray I appreciate that.
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You know, sometimes bite size is the better way to go.
Oh yeah, instead of like a long drawn out thought,
just get to it and move it on. Yeah. Okay,
So a couple of coaches got me thinking their approach
and do you think this is the right approach or
the wrong approach? So, Coop, you're a Denver Broncos are
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involved in this one is Sean Payton. Now, Sean Payton
has mentioned the Super Bowl. Right, He's thrown it out
there like, hey, you know, Broncos super Bowl kind of
thinking it's a possibility over here. He's thrown it out there,
and I don't hate the approach. I don't hate it,
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but it's an interesting like tactic to use. He says,
the Broncos can win the Super Bowl. And it's like, wow,
you've had the Chiefs that have won the division nine
years in a row. Mahomes has won it seven years
in a row, but Andy Reid has been there and
they've won it nine years in a row. They've won
it two years in a row before Mahomes even got there.
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So it's been a long reign for the Chiefs. So
there's there are two schools of thought here. You could say, man,
you should be focused on the Chiefs first before you're
talking about a super Bowl. Or you could say, hey, man,
why not think bigger? What's the harm in thinking big
having a huge goal, the biggest goal you could have
in the NFL. I don't think it's necessarily wrong. And
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by the same token, you've got another coach, Dabo Sweeney
at Clemson. He threw it out there where he's like,
I think we could be the first sixteen and oh
team in college football history, and it's like, WHOA, Okay, Dabo, Like, Wow,
we haven't seen Clemson get far in the playoff for
a while now, and now we're talking sixteen and oh.
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I know they've got talent, they've got a favorable schedule
at YadA YadA, But man, sixteen and oh and being
the only team that's ever done that, that's a pretty
bold claim. So I just I find that to be interesting. Now,
on one side, I always think of this Brian Billicks
sound bite. So, Brian Billick used to be the head
coach the Baltimore Ravens. He was the head coach when
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the two thousand Ravens won the Super Bowl. One of
the most dominant defenses of all time. They smacked around
the Giants thirty four to six to win it. You
know that whole thing. But there's I think epic sound
of Brian Billick talking about having big goals, like he
put it out there, Hey guys, it's time to win
a super Bowl before they even played a playoff game
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in that two thousand season. But this was part of
what Brian Billick said way back then. Check it out, folks.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
When you go into the Lions, Dan, you don't tippy
toe in, you carry a spear.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
You go in screaming like a banshee, and you kick it.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
You kick whatever door's in and say, where's the sun
of a If you go in any other way, you're
gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Okay, all right, So the brash approach like let's go
it's time to win a super Bowl, it's time to
go sixteen, and oh let's do it over here, all right.
I don't have a problem with that. Now. There is
another side to it, though, And every now and then
you get the Rex Ryan guarantees when he was with
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the Jets, and it just turns into a circus. It
turns into a side show and you're like, yeah, you guys,
aren't quite good enough for that, and I don't know
if that approach really gonna work. So it's a tough one, right,
it's a tough one because fundamentally, I don't have a
problem with big goals. There was a famous saying with
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Lou Holtz from a long time ago, and I can't
remember it exactly, but he's basically saying, whatever your goal is,
you're probably gonna reach a little bit less than that goal,
so why not have the biggest goal possible? And he
broke it there. It was like, if you reach for,
you know, to be above average, you're probably gonna be average.
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If you reach for greatness, you're probably gonna be above average.
If you reach for excellence, maybe you'll achieve greatness. Right,
you get the point. So you want to have you
strive for these huge goals because you might achieve something
a little bit lower than that huge goal. So that
would apply to the Broncos Clemson football. Okay, no problem,
But I also think that you at least have to
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have a fighting chance to achieve something great. And does
Clemson have a fighting chance for sixteen to zero? I mean,
it's an outside chance, but it's at least a fighting chance.
So I don't think that's ridiculous. Do the Broncos have
a fighting chance to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
What are their Super Bowl odds?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Again?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You just told me what are they to win it?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
All?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Plus three thousand?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, so thirty to one for the Broncos to win
a Super Bowl? Long odds, but fighting chance. They got
a real defense with that, you know, local star Zach
Allen they have. They have a really good defense. I
didn't think they were going to be as good as
they were, top five scoring defense. I'm like, wow, okay,
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all right, we're cooking with grease over here. Denver bow
Knicks takes a step forward. You know, they had enough
offense to win double digit games at bow Knicks. And
was that bo cooking it up? Cooking up some huge
stats over there? That's right, they have a running game.
You gotta get R. J. Harvey, the rookie, getting getting
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him going over there, like, I mean, crazier things have happened.
I'm not betting on the Broncos to win a Super Bowl,
and I don't think this is something that's going to linger.
Let's just say the Broncos get off to a rough
start or you know, they've got an okay record, They're
not special. I don't think this is going to be
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something that's thrown in the face of Sean Payton over
and over again, Like, dude, you're you're six and five,
you were talking super Bowl at the beginning of the year.
What's up with this?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I just don't think it's one of those things. This
is going to be thrown at him time and time
and time again. So what I do.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
I do think that I think that quote was taken
a little bit out of context. I mean, he did
say that they're capable of winning the super Bowl, mm hmm,
But I think before that he did say that the
short term goal was winning the division.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Fair enough, Okay, so he says they're capable of winning
the super Bowl. But you know as well as I do, Coop,
if you throw it out there, that's what people are
going to be fixated on. And he's been long enough
to know that.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah right, Yeah, those are the headlines.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
But I do think it also kind of like it,
you know, gets the like the I think it's good
for the team to hear that, you know, coach coach
believes in us.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You know, Yeah, I think there's I think there's some
positive stuff that goes along with it. It's like Sean
Payton says the Broncos are capable of winning the Super Bowl,
and his quote is, this is my seventh team that
I think has that like that potential to win it all.
That's an interesting statement.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
All I love that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Think about all the years that he's been a head
coach and he's like, yeah, it's the seventh time I've
believed we could win it all. How many of those
Saints teams are like, what's up of that? What he
didn't believe in us in that one season.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
To win it all?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I bet it's probably not.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
I mean, like, you know, it'd be very time consuming,
but it's probably not too difficult to go back and
look at each of those and pick out the seven
you know what I mean, Well, some.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Of them would be very obvious, you know, like, yeah,
the time they got ripped off against the Rams, not
the Rams fault, but obvious pass interference penalty that wasn't called. Yes,
they could have ran out the clock, chip shot field goal.
They're going to the Super Bowl as the worst non
call in NFL history easily. It was blatant pass interference,
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so I know he believed they could have won it all.
And yeah, some of those Saints teams were really special,
but yeah, yeah, the non obvious ones.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
There might be a season and there, like coach, really
you thought you were You guys were like seven to
ten that year. Whoa, yeah, that sort of thing. But okay,
we'll see how it goes. But yeah, big goals not
automatically bad. I just think you gotta have a fighting
chance to achieve that goal because otherwise, like with Rex
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Ryan and throwing out the guaranteed Super Bowl win, they
made it to the AFC Championship Game twice. That's pretty
good for those Jets teams at the time. Mark Sanchez
is their quarterback. They have great talent up and down
the roster. Good, not great. And if Rex isn't talking
about guaranteeing Super Bowls, I think you'd look at those
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championship game appearances a lot more favorably, like that was
pretty good. So I think it's a downside. That's only
one of the only downsides is when you really really
dream big and talk tough, like Dad was talking sixteen
to zero. If they lose three games, three, four games,
this year, he's gonna be a tot punchline. That's the
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chance you take, man, it's big chance. We'll see how
it unfolds. I'm not automatically against it. I just think
you got to have a fighting chance and you got
to be comfortable with the consequences if you're nowhere near
sixteen to zero or the Super Bowl, right, got to
be willing to live with that.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Coming up next, we get to history that's going to
be made this weekend. Come rain or shine, well we
need some shine, but there's gonna be history made this weekend.
I'll tell you about that. I'm Brian though In for
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And my guy Cowboy and Windsor is here with us.
Very nice back to back nights. I love this cowboy.
What's on your mind, Bud?
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Oh? Nothing much? Brian Well Sydney Crossby thirty eight today
and seven years ago today, one of my favorite all
time hockey players, Stan Mkita died. That was four days
before my sister Karen died, and Marcel Dion, the old
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Red Wing and King both Makita and Dion our Hall
of Famers. He with Marcel Dion was seventy fourth Sunday
and one of my favorite all time babes you know
from WKRP in Cincinnati. Lannie Anderson would have been eighty two, say,
except she died Sunday and Marilyn Monroe died mysteriously August fifth,
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nineteen sixty two and the same day Patrick Ewing was born.
So happy ballated sixty third birthday Patrick Ewing and former
WCW and WWF pliww wrestler Stan Layne was seventy two
Tuesday as well, and ten years ago last Thursday, Dwight
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thirty first, twenty fifteen WWE superstar Roddy Roddy Piper, who
claimed to be Scottish but was actually from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
though he was a Scottish Canadian and former MLB left
handed pitcher. Billy Pearce died. I think Piper was sixty
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one or two. And I know Billy Pearce was a
detroiter like my mother was eighty eight. Well, anyway, sixty
b oh, my Barbara Paudio Vaselly will be seventy to Saturday. Well,
it was my former barber, and now he's left his
business to his son, Vicenzo, whom we call Vinnie. Well, anyway,
speaking people of mom way, remember you got to be
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a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Good stuff from cowboy. How about that? Shout out to
the former barber and shout out to the new sun
barber take over the business. Yeah, Vinnie, the new guy,
Vinnie cutting cowboys hair.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I love Stan Makita. You might have thought about this too, Coop,
but I can't help but think of Wayne's world right
where they go into Stan Mikita's diner. That's where all
the diner scenes take place. And Ed O'Neill, you know,
the old guy married with children, the actor there now
with what's the newer show Modern Family, Modern Fan?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, he plays Stan Makita, Right, doesn't he play Stan
Mikita in that one? Or he's just hanging out at
Stan Makita's I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I have a confession to make.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
What do you have?
Speaker 8 (36:56):
I only watched Wayne's World for the first time like
a month ago.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Wow, dude, really hadn't seen it before then? Yeah, what'd
you think?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I liked it?
Speaker 8 (37:07):
I was also like, I was watching it in the
room in Las Vegas, and I was I was kind
of like, you know, a little bit drunk, like getting
kind of sleepy but still awake. So I just like
it was one of the movies that was available, you know,
for free on there. So I watched it while the
wife was already sleep and I.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Was just checking okay, just checking it out.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
All right, very nice.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, at least you got it done. I don't care
that it took you that long, as long as you
have to watch the Laddin, you know, get out of
the poor graces of you guys. But at least he
got there, you know, he finally got there with Wayne's World. Hey,
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feet go to expresspros dot com. Now I did mention.
There's gonna be history made this weekend. So Jen Powell,
she's said to become the first woman to umpire in
Major League Baseball. She's gonna work games this weekend Miami
Marlins at the Atlanta Braves. Yeah, so she's gonna it's
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gonna be a Saturday double header at Atlanta at Truest Park,
and she'll be on the basis. She'll work the basis
for that double header, and then she'll be high. She'll
be behind the plate on Sunday, calling balls and strikes.
Jen Powell. And it's pretty wild where if you think
about the gender barrier. So the gender barrier for game officials, right,
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that was broken in the NBA twenty eight years ago,
and in the NFL it was broken ten years ago
when they hired their first full time female official. And
MLB has finally joined the party. We'll get a female
that's working behind the plate on Sunday. She'll be a
you know, working the bases the Saturday double header. So
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finally we're gonna have the first woman umpire in Major
League Baseball. NHL still has not had any woman as
an on ice official that that box has not been
checked yet. But MLB they're checking the box. We got
a female back there, and they're.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
A female ice hockey coach, though.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I don't know, maybe a coach, I believe.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
I'm not sure they have their first female coach right now.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, it might have an assistant coach there. But if
we don't have any on ice officials there, Lorena, we
gotta get that.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
You know. They got to break up fights a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, yeah, occasionally you do, that's true.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Can break a fight.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
You've broken up many fights over the years. You know,
why not do it on the ice?
Speaker 6 (39:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So, hey, it can happen, absolutely can be there. But
check out Jen Powell. You know what's crazy is think
about the pressure on her on Sunday behind the plate
because you know, as well as I do, fair or not.
If she's got a couple of outside strikes that are
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really should be called balls, right, that's that's bad. It
doesn't just represent her. It's a whole gender, you know
what I mean. Like, so that's a ton of pressure
when you're the first breaking a barrier like that, so
I hope she does great, and I hope, uh, you know,
she doesn't get a whole bunch of bs along the way,
because that's just unnecessary and unneeded. But very cool. She's
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breaking a barrier right there. Very nice, Lorena. You could
be the first on ice official in the NHL.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
That's an idea.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
I like it now.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Not bad
Oh, what is going on? I hope you're enjoying your
early morning hour festivities over here. Whether you're driving like
a long distance like Alejandro, or you're doing bong hits
like Blind Scott. We got an eclectic audience over here.
Whether you're taking a nap like the neighborhood cat Oreo
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on the couch just in front of me, you know,
whatever's going on in your life. However, everything's going well.
So I think this is a much needed change for
the Cincinnati Bengals. They are going to play their starters,
maybe several reps Thursday night, you know, so a little
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bit later today we get some NFL action. You'll see
Joe Burrow out there. The head coach, Zach Taylor. He
talked about several series potentially for some of the starters.
So I don't know how much time they're gonna get,
but Joe Burrow is expected to play, some of the
ones are expected to play. And I think this makes
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a lot of sense because what's the what's the bugaboo
with the Bengals, it's how slowly they start. They're notoriously
slow starters. They lost to the Patriots in Week one
last season. It was a big upset. It was Drod
Mayo's first game as a head coach, Like Bengals are
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huge home favorites and they lose, and the Patriots won
three more games the entire season, you know, and Drod
Mayo got fired. That team that fired their first year
head coach beat the Bengals in Week one. And Joe
Burrow in his career in weeks one and two, his
record is one and nine. That's what he is weeks
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one and two in his NFL career. That is stunning.
That is alarmingly low for a guy that's had as
much success as Joe Burrow has had in the NFL.
And the numbers, like you see some of these graphics
that they put up there, and it's just like, holy cow,
is passer ratings way lower. We're talking like twenty three
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points lower in weeks one and two compared to weeks
that are not one and two, right like weeks three
through eighteen. His passer rating is one oh four point five.
His passer rating weeks one in two eighty one point nine.
And then touchdowns, interceptions, completion percentage, all that stuff. Yardsberg
game like, there's something too Joe Burrow and the Bengals
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starters not playing in the preseason. So what's the definition
of insanity like doing the same thing over and over
and expecting a different result. If the Bengals are just like, yeah,
let's just keep not playing our starters in the preseason,
and well, I mean, hopefully we'll just magically get off
to a better start even though we suck year in
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and year out in the first two weeks of the season.
It's like, you could either do that or I don't know,
maybe play your starters a little bit more in the preseason.
Maybe you're able to hit the ground running when the
regular season rolls around. I do think there's something to it.
I just don't I don't buy that there's zero value
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whatsoever with playing your starters in the preseason. I think
it's swung too far in that direction. I mentioned this
last night. The Chiefs. They play their starters like Mahomes
he plays in the preseason. If there was no value whatsoever,
why on earth would Andy Reid have his starters on
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the field. He has him on the field because there
is some value. I don't want to oversell it and
make it sound like, hey, if you don't play your
starters in the preseason, your season is doomed, your destined
to get off to a slow start. I'm not saying that,
but for a team like the Bengals, who have notoriously
started slowly for years now, it's like, why don't you
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try it? Why don't you try a different approach? Play
the ones more often in the preseason, and maybe they
can have a positive effect with not starting as slowly
when the regular season rolls around. I think that makes
a ton of sense. So Joe Burrow and the other starters,
maybe several series on Thursday night, the preseason opener at
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the Eagles. Get the Bengals and Eagles on Thursday nights,
so hey, man, sign me up. If the starters are playing.
I love getting a little taste of the starters a
series or two. Just see them again, you know, see
what they're looking like. Does anybody flash? They're not game planning,
so I'm not gonna read too deeply into it, but
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every now and then a starter will flash and it's like, oh, okay,
all right, that's something to take away. The golden rule
of preseason, like who's on the field, Like how many
starters are there? Let's not overreact if it's the starting
offense against the backup defense. That's a it's an easy
overreaction right there, right, But I also think that some
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things translate to the regular season, even if you are
facing backups every now and then. There's a certain scenario.
I'll give you one. So Amari and Hampton's a rookie
running back for the Chargers. He played in the Hall
of Fame game, just got a couple of rushes and
it was against mostly the Lions backup defense. So you
might think, oh, who cares he's facing backups. I don't
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think everything is that clear cut. My brief spiel on
the preseason, Okay, it depends. It's case by case. If
there's a number one wide receiver and he blows by
like a number two, number three cornerback, and the quarterback's like,
all right, my guy's opened by five steps. Like that's
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not going to translate to the regular season. That's not
the NFL. We all know that, and that does happen
in the preseason. And when people fall for that, I'm like,
oh my gosh, what are you doing. But Amari and Hampton,
he had one carry in particular against the Lions, and
you just tell the guy's got burst, he's got feel,
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he's got some juice. It was just like this inside
running play. They just kind of bounced it outside and
he found the opening, found the daylight, and got everything
he could get. It was a good rush and some
of it's, you know, connected to his time at North
Carolina and he had juice. Man Omarion Hampton is legit.
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I think he's a really good running back. But stuff
like that, even against mostly backups, there are times where
you're like, Okay, yeah, that's gonna translate, that's gonna work.
So yeah, I do enjoy watching the preseason, but man,
when it gets to like backups against backups, or the
backups of the backups versus the backups of the backups,
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that it's like, okay, all right, it's a little rough.
But when you get the starters in there, yes me up.
Man might see a little bit of Bengal starters, including
Joe Burrow on Thursday night. I'll be checking that out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Something else. I mentioned this a little bit ago. We'll
finally pay it off. But the way that you might
watch sports going forward, So there's a big change where
I'm sure you heard about the deal between ESPN and
NFL Network where ESPN they take over NFL Network basically,
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and some of the properties, like they have distribution rights
to red Zone, to NFL Fantasy and NFL Network they
own ten percent. They have a ten percent ownership stake
in ESPN. Now, I'll cut right to the chase. I'll
be honest with you. I'm not smart enough to understand
all this stuff and what it's meaning and where it's
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headed and what it means for you and me. I mean,
I know some, but I can't foresee exactly how this
is going to play out. But one thing that I
do know that I do find interesting is Roger Gondell.
He was on ESPN on Wednesday and he was talking
about red zone and what that might mean for other sports.
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This I find to be pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Here's goodell, ESPN purchase the red zone name and they
will be able to utilize that for other sports college
football and other things. And I think that could be
an exciting thing for our fans also to see a
red zone maybe in college football or other sports.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That's something that they.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Now own and have the ability to do that. But
as far as red zone, NFL red Zone, there won't
be any changes for our fans.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, all right, so how about that. No change for
NFL red zone, But what do you think about the
possibility of a college football like red zone? Maybe you
expand this. You do this in the NBA, you do
this at times in MLB. What if you had, especially
for opening day, how do you not have at least
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a special red zone presentation. It's just one of the channels.
If that's your thing, check it out. If you just
want to see a standalone game, that's fine, they're gonna
be offered as well. But if you want to, you know,
check out some MLB opening day red zone, that should
be available. They should absolutely make that available. You get
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a little whip around coverage. It's like, all right, we're
checking out the reds game right now. All right, let's
move it on to the Angels. They got a couple
of runners in scoring position. Let's see what they're doing.
I'd be all about that. Maybe it's not on a
daily basis. It's maybe it's once, you know, for opening Day,
and you get a couple other times during the season.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
If it's popular enough, they'll have that thing on all
the freaking they'll have it on a nightly basis if
it's popular enough, but why not give it a shot?
They do something kind of similar in the NBA, or
it's at least on the NBA APP. I forget. I
think they call like game time something like that. But
Jared Greenberg, he hosts it, he works, I believe for TNT.
(10:07):
He does a lot of sideline interviews, does a really
good job with that. He's kind of like the Scott
Hansen for game Time, and he's at the central headquarters
and he's like, all right, we got a close game
out here in Milwaukee. Let's go over to the Bucks game.
And they just whip around. It's fine, it's good. I
don't know why that isn't offered more. If red zone
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is so incredibly popular, like dip it, college football would
be great, Like if they had, you could have red
zone for so many different games. You could have whatever,
like a package of games. Think that there are what
we'll say, eight ish early kick games in the NFL.
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You could have different you know, so many games in
college you're going on at the same time. You could
have Okay, this is our group of eight, this is
you know, these eight teams. Are these eight games or
in you know Group A, these other eight games are
in Group B. These other eight games, they're in Group
C for red zone, Like and it's like, okay, let's
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check that out. Let me let me get a little
taste of whatever. We're checking out Boston College and then
UCF or if you get a little bit of whip
around coverage like that red zone coverage, I would absolutely
have that on one of my screens. So yeah, I
think that's pretty cool. I think that if you dip
into it beyond the NFL, I would be interested in
(11:34):
checking that out. So I think they could be successful
with that. There's certainly a market for it. It's like,
if NFL red zone is that popular, how could college
football red zone just be a complete swing in a
miss total dud. I just doubt it would be. There
are enough football siccos out there where they'd at least
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put it on one of their screens. I'll be honest
with you, Like I like having all the games available,
Like I tried to, I got my computer going, I
got other screens going on at the same time. I
want to see the full game. But I'm not as
big of a red zone guy because I want to
be able to Okay, I want to be able to choose. Okay,
(12:17):
the Steelers game is getting good. I want to screen
on the Steelers game. You know, my Dolphins are actually
making a little bit of noise. Wow, who would have thunk, right,
I want the Dolphins game right there. I want access
to all that stuff. So I'm not a huge red
zone guy, which sounds like a total contradiction, but I
know there's a big market out there for it. Some
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people swear by it, they love it, And you know,
I'm a bigger NFL guy than college football. Although I
love my college football, I don't feel the need to
have every college football game on. I don't need that.
I would like, you know, a handful that I'm interested
in available, and then I might put red zone on
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the screen and they do the whip around coverage for me.
I would certainly be up for that. So we'll see
where it goes. Man, But now that ESPN has that,
they should look to tap into it and expand it,
and most most likely they will. But that's one of
the areas that it could be heading next. You're gonna
see red zone coverage for more sports, Baseball, basketball, maybe
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college football. And I don't think you're gonna go, you
know over. I don't think it's just like, yeah, they
don't like MLB red zone. Now they they hate NBA
red zone. Hey, they really hate college football red zone.
I just don't think it's gonna be a swing and
a miss all across the board. I don't see that happening,
all right, Feel free to check in Militia eight seven
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seven ninety nine on Fox. Red carpet is always rolled
out for you. Coming up next. I will make this painless,
I promise, But a quick thought on a team owner
that is just absolutely focused on the wrong thing. There's
a SoundBite I heard on Wednesday. I want to share
it with you, and it could not be more clear
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what the main motive is, and I think it's the
completely wrong motive to have. I'm Brian though in for
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It is Fox Sports Radio. Know in for Big Ben
mallor I'm gonna go to the militia first because one
of these stories. I think it's interesting, but it's also
wearing me out at the same time. I don't want
to make a quick point based on something I heard today.
But let me go to Jerome first. Jerome is in Charleston,
lovely area. I want to hear from Jerome first. What's
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going on, Bud? You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Hey, I just want to know something. I can't wait
through the red zone. Do that. Whip around to Northwestern
football and their brand new eight hundred million dollars stadium
that opens next year. Where was the last time Northwestern
was Delvin football? Okay, so one can you tell me
that they can build an eight hundred million dollars stadium
(15:42):
when they got like about five hundred million for one
guy because he's like several billions into the billions something Northwestern.
You got all these Northwestern people. All fucks, what the
AFEs Northwestern know about football?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, maybe they're hell, maybe they're on the big Thanks Jerome.
After the stadium gets killed, you know, look out for
Northwestern wildcat football.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Man, you must be acid, be there for north Western football.
Are they doing the damn conference? I mean, nobody talked
about them. You got more blond than you got the
other guy from old Fox. They talk about everything except
to one damn school and then been all for forever.
(16:30):
You know. So now I guess the guys get some
headlines with a eight hundred million dollars stadium and it
costs like sixty grand a year to go to school. Man,
it must be nice. It must be nice.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay, Yeah, well, hey man, we'll see, we'll see if
it does anything for him. And I like your idea
of red zone coverage of college football. You know we'll
have that, I think in the not too distant future.
So hey man, we'll see how that works out. Uh.
I didn't think we'd be talking northwayn football, But I
mean I appreciate you your contribution over here, Jerome. Always
good to hear from you. Love Charleston, beautiful area right
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(17:28):
but I heard some sound and I just wanted to
throw it your way and just give you a quick
two cents on it. So I get the feeling that
this Micah Parson's contract hold out and the whole storyline
with Jerry Jones, it's starting to wear you thin. It's
wearing me thin where I just don't understand the approach whatsoever.
But this was the comment that Jerry Jones made on Wednesday,
(17:52):
comparing the contract negotiation to a handshake deal he made
way back when to purchase the Dallas Cowboys franchise. Here
you go, here's Jerry.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
I bought the Dallas Cowboys with a handshake. Took about
thirty seconds, and I gave the number, shook hands. The
details we worked out later. As a matter of fact,
one of the details involved a lot of money and
we had to flip a coin over that. But the
fundamental I'm buying and you're going to sell it to
me for that range, that's done, and those are done
(18:23):
with eye contact or handshake. There is no question that
in the case of a player or contract, you have
to have it in writing. All parties do we have
a contract in writing, Yet we're still talking about renegotiating it.
So so much for that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, So a couple of quick and painless takeaways from this.
What I take away is I've heard a lot of
people say over the years that men, if you have
bad management, if you have bad ownership, you're kind of screwed.
And I'd hear that and I'd be like, yeah, it
makes some sense, and until you really experience that. If
(19:04):
you've had a job and you've had just bad management,
and those are the people in charge and there isn't
anybody else to tell them, no, that's a freaking awful idea. Man,
It's true, you are screwed. And that's where I see
the Dallas Cowboys like Jerry Jones, it's obvious he's focused
on the wrong thing. He's focused on winning the pr battle.
(19:28):
That's what he's focused on. I mean, think about some
of his recent comments. Think about what you just heard
right there. If you break it down, a lot of
it is I'm not the bad guy. That's really what
it is. He's trying to win some br battle where
it's like, yeah, when I bought the Cowboys, it was
a handshake deal. That's how we did it, and he's
(19:48):
insinuating that they basically had a handshake deal. At least
he thinks that with Michaeh Parsons, and so he's like,
I'm not the bad guy, Mike, I thought we had
a deal over here. He's thrown it out there, but
get hinted that maybe he's made an offer around two
hundred million dollars, which I don't believe. But again it's like,
(20:08):
I'm not the bad guy. I've made a significant offer.
I thought we had a deal done, and yet here
we are still renegotiating, Like I'm not the bad guy.
Micah is the one holding this whole thing up. I
think it's a terrible approach. I think he's focused on
the wrong thing. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones won't meet with Michah
(20:29):
Parsons agent that would kind of help things get done, right,
So Jerry is totally at fault, and instead of accepting
that responsibility, he's playing this game of don't look at me,
I'm not the bad guy. I'm not the one holding
this thing up. It's like, dude, that's not gonna work.
It's not gonna help get this done. All it's gonna
(20:49):
do is royally tick off Michah Parsons, which is why
he asked for a trade, and partly a negotiating tactic. Right,
But a lot of what this traces back to, you're
trying to win some pr battle instead of being a
responsible adult and saying, okay, regardless of how I purchased
(21:10):
the Dallas Cowboys way back when, not every deal is
gonna work the same way. And just because you think
you have a deal hammered out with Micah Parsons without
involving his agent, guess what, probably not gonna be hammered out.
So it's just annoying. It's just such a waste of
time to play this unnecessary game of I'm not the
(21:31):
bad guy. How is that gonna help the negotiation process.
I'm not the bad guy, Micah Parsons is. That's really
when you read between the lines what Jerry Jones is
angling for, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And meanwhile
the price tag just goes higher and higher and higher.
They might have been able to I found this interesting.
(21:52):
The average salaries per year. So after the twenty three season,
Nick Bosa had a thirty four million dollar average, okay,
and around that time that's when the Cowboys could have
hammered out a deal with Michael Parsons. They didn't, which
is why they are where they are. Since then, we've
(22:13):
seen Jamar Chase get forty million dollars per year, Miles
Garrett get forty million dollars per year, and there have
been a couple more contracts that are higher than Nick Bosas,
justin Jefferson, Max Crosby. Those guys make thirty five million
dollars per year, so signing Parsons that could be in
the forty one million dollars per year range when they
(22:34):
could have been around thirty five ish. So this could
cost him about six million dollars per season. Because they've
dragged this thing out and instead of finally hammering it out.
Jerry Jones is playing this game of I'm not the
bad guy. It's kind of like that guy over there,
the guy that wears number eleven. I've made the two
(22:55):
hundred million dollar ish offer. I thought we had a
deal out. We still don't. We're still renegotiating. Why is
that huh the number eleven right over there him, Bro,
stop pointing the finger at your star player and just
work with the star players agent and hammer this out
(23:16):
so it's finally freaking done. My gosh, it's not that difficult.
He's making something that is not difficult the most difficult
thing ever, and it's annoying. That's where why we are
where we are. I'm Brian no In for Big Ben
Maler here on Fox Sports Radio. Is it time for
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expresspros dot com. Okay, I want to throw this at
you too. I'm gonna throw a lot of stuff before
we get out of here. I'm gonna try to shoehorn
as much stuff as possible. Thank you, Loray I appreciate that.
(23:57):
You know, sometimes bite size is the better way to go.
Oh yeah, instead of like a long drawn out thought,
just get to it and move it on. Yeah. Okay,
So a couple of coaches got me thinking their approach
and do you think this is the right approach or
the wrong approach? So, Coop, you're a Denver Broncos are
(24:18):
involved in this one is Sean Payton. Now, Sean Payton
has mentioned the Super Bowl. Right, He's thrown it out
there like, hey, you know, Broncos super Bowl kind of
thinking it's a possibility over here. He's thrown it out there,
and I don't hate the approach. I don't hate it,
(24:41):
but it's an interesting like tactic to use. He says,
the Broncos can win the Super Bowl. And it's like, wow,
you've had the Chiefs that have won the division nine
years in a row. Mahomes has won it seven years
in a row, but Andy Reid has been there and
they've won it nine years in a row. They've won
it two years in a row before Mahomes even got there.
(25:02):
So it's been a long reign for the Chiefs. So
there's there are two schools of thought here. You could say, man,
you should be focused on the Chiefs first before you're
talking about a super Bowl. Or you could say, hey, man,
why not think bigger? What's the harm in thinking big
having a huge goal, the biggest goal you could have
in the NFL. I don't think it's necessarily wrong. And
(25:25):
by the same token, you've got another coach, Dabo Sweeney
at Clemson. He threw it out there where he's like,
I think we could be the first sixteen and oh
team in college football history, and it's like, WHOA, Okay, Dabo, Like, Wow,
we haven't seen Clemson get far in the playoff for
a while now, and now we're talking sixteen and oh.
(25:48):
I know they've got talent, they've got a favorable schedule
at YadA YadA, But man, sixteen and oh and being
the only team that's ever done that, that's a pretty
bold claim. So I just I find that to be interesting. Now,
on one side, I always think of this Brian Billicks
sound bite. So, Brian Billick used to be the head
coach the Baltimore Ravens. He was the head coach when
(26:09):
the two thousand Ravens won the Super Bowl. One of
the most dominant defenses of all time. They smacked around
the Giants thirty four to six to win it. You
know that whole thing. But there's I think epic sound
of Brian Billick talking about having big goals, like he
put it out there, Hey guys, it's time to win
a super Bowl before they even played a playoff game
(26:32):
in that two thousand season. But this was part of
what Brian Billick said way back then. Check it out, folks.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
When you go into the Lions, Dan, you don't tippy
toe in, you carry a spear.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
You go in screaming like a banshee, and you kick it.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
You kick whatever door's in and say, where's the sun
of a If you go in any other way, you're
gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Okay, all right, So the brash approach like let's go
it's time to win a super Bowl, it's time to
go sixteen, and oh let's do it over here, all right.
I don't have a problem with that. Now. There is
another side to it, though, And every now and then
you get the Rex Ryan guarantees when he was with
(27:10):
the Jets, and it just turns into a circus. It
turns into a side show and you're like, yeah, you guys,
aren't quite good enough for that, and I don't know
if that approach really gonna work. So it's a tough one, right,
it's a tough one because fundamentally, I don't have a
problem with big goals. There was a famous saying with
(27:33):
Lou Holtz from a long time ago, and I can't
remember it exactly, but he's basically saying, whatever your goal is,
you're probably gonna reach a little bit less than that goal,
so why not have the biggest goal possible? And he
broke it there. It was like, if you reach for,
you know, to be above average, you're probably gonna be average.
(27:54):
If you reach for greatness, you're probably gonna be above average.
If you reach for excellence, maybe you'll achieve greatness. Right,
you get the point. So you want to have you
strive for these huge goals because you might achieve something
a little bit lower than that huge goal. So that
would apply to the Broncos Clemson football. Okay, no problem,
But I also think that you at least have to
(28:16):
have a fighting chance to achieve something great. And does
Clemson have a fighting chance for sixteen to zero? I mean,
it's an outside chance, but it's at least a fighting chance.
So I don't think that's ridiculous. Do the Broncos have
a fighting chance to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
What are their Super Bowl odds?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Again?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You just told me what are they to win it?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
All?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Plus three thousand?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, so thirty to one for the Broncos to win
a Super Bowl? Long odds, but fighting chance. They got
a real defense with that, you know, local star Zach
Allen they have. They have a really good defense. I
didn't think they were going to be as good as
they were, top five scoring defense. I'm like, wow, okay,
(29:02):
all right, we're cooking with grease over here. Denver bow
Knicks takes a step forward. You know, they had enough
offense to win double digit games at bow Knicks. And
was that bo cooking it up? Cooking up some huge
stats over there? That's right, they have a running game.
You gotta get R. J. Harvey, the rookie, getting getting
(29:24):
him going over there, like, I mean, crazier things have happened.
I'm not betting on the Broncos to win a Super Bowl,
and I don't think this is something that's going to linger.
Let's just say the Broncos get off to a rough
start or you know, they've got an okay record, They're
not special. I don't think this is going to be
(29:46):
something that's thrown in the face of Sean Payton over
and over again, Like, dude, you're you're six and five,
you were talking super Bowl at the beginning of the year.
What's up with this?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I just don't think it's one of those things. This
is going to be thrown at him time and time
and time again. So what I do.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
I do think that I think that quote was taken
a little bit out of context. I mean, he did
say that they're capable of winning the super Bowl, mm hmm,
But I think before that he did say that the
short term goal was winning the division.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Fair enough, Okay, so he says they're capable of winning
the super Bowl. But you know as well as I do, Coop,
if you throw it out there, that's what people are
going to be fixated on. And he's been long enough
to know that.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah right, Yeah, those are the headlines.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
But I do think it also kind of like it,
you know, gets the like the I think it's good
for the team to hear that, you know, coach coach
believes in us.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You know, Yeah, I think there's I think there's some
positive stuff that goes along with it. It's like Sean
Payton says the Broncos are capable of winning the Super Bowl,
and his quote is, this is my seventh team that
I think has that like that potential to win it all.
That's an interesting statement.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
All I love that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Think about all the years that he's been a head
coach and he's like, yeah, it's the seventh time I've
believed we could win it all. How many of those
Saints teams are like, what's up of that? What he
didn't believe in us in that one season.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
To win it all?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I bet it's probably not.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
I mean, like, you know, it'd be very time consuming,
but it's probably not too difficult to go back and
look at each of those and pick out the seven
you know what I mean, Well, some.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Of them would be very obvious, you know, like, yeah,
the time they got ripped off against the Rams, not
the Rams fault, but obvious pass interference penalty that wasn't called. Yes,
they could have ran out the clock, chip shot field goal.
They're going to the Super Bowl as the worst non
call in NFL history easily. It was blatant pass interference,
(31:45):
so I know he believed they could have won it all.
And yeah, some of those Saints teams were really special,
but yeah, yeah, the non obvious ones.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
There might be a season and there, like coach, really
you thought you were You guys were like seven to
ten that year. Whoa, yeah, that sort of thing. But okay,
we'll see how it goes. But yeah, big goals not
automatically bad. I just think you gotta have a fighting
chance to achieve that goal because otherwise, like with Rex
(32:19):
Ryan and throwing out the guaranteed Super Bowl win, they
made it to the AFC Championship Game twice. That's pretty
good for those Jets teams at the time. Mark Sanchez
is their quarterback. They have great talent up and down
the roster. Good, not great. And if Rex isn't talking
about guaranteeing Super Bowls, I think you'd look at those
(32:41):
championship game appearances a lot more favorably, like that was
pretty good. So I think it's a downside. That's only
one of the only downsides is when you really really
dream big and talk tough, like Dad was talking sixteen
to zero. If they lose three games, three, four games,
this year, he's gonna be a tot punchline. That's the
(33:01):
chance you take, man, it's big chance. We'll see how
it unfolds. I'm not automatically against it. I just think
you got to have a fighting chance and you got
to be comfortable with the consequences if you're nowhere near
sixteen to zero or the Super Bowl, right, got to
be willing to live with that.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Coming up next, we get to history that's going to
be made this weekend. Come rain or shine, well we
need some shine, but there's gonna be history made this weekend.
I'll tell you about that. I'm Brian though In for
Big Ben Malor. This is Fox Sports Radio.
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And my guy Cowboy and Windsor is here with us.
Very nice back to back nights. I love this cowboy.
What's on your mind, Bud?
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Oh? Nothing much? Brian Well Sydney Crossby thirty eight today
and seven years ago today, one of my favorite all
time hockey players, Stan Mkita died. That was four days
before my sister Karen died, and Marcel Dion, the old
(34:36):
Red Wing and King both Makita and Dion our Hall
of Famers. He with Marcel Dion was seventy fourth Sunday
and one of my favorite all time babes you know
from WKRP in Cincinnati. Lannie Anderson would have been eighty two, say,
except she died Sunday and Marilyn Monroe died mysteriously August fifth,
(35:03):
nineteen sixty two and the same day Patrick Ewing was born.
So happy ballated sixty third birthday Patrick Ewing and former
WCW and WWF pliww wrestler Stan Layne was seventy two
Tuesday as well, and ten years ago last Thursday, Dwight
(35:27):
thirty first, twenty fifteen WWE superstar Roddy Roddy Piper, who
claimed to be Scottish but was actually from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
though he was a Scottish Canadian and former MLB left
handed pitcher. Billy Pearce died. I think Piper was sixty
(35:48):
one or two. And I know Billy Pearce was a
detroiter like my mother was eighty eight. Well, anyway, sixty
b oh, my Barbara Paudio Vaselly will be seventy to Saturday. Well,
it was my former barber, and now he's left his
business to his son, Vicenzo, whom we call Vinnie. Well, anyway,
speaking people of mom way, remember you got to be
(36:10):
a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Good stuff from cowboy. How about that? Shout out to
the former barber and shout out to the new sun
barber take over the business. Yeah, Vinnie, the new guy,
Vinnie cutting cowboys hair.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I love Stan Makita. You might have thought about this too, Coop,
but I can't help but think of Wayne's world right
where they go into Stan Mikita's diner. That's where all
the diner scenes take place. And Ed O'Neill, you know,
the old guy married with children, the actor there now
with what's the newer show Modern Family, Modern Fan?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, he plays Stan Makita, Right, doesn't he play Stan
Mikita in that one? Or he's just hanging out at
Stan Makita's I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I have a confession to make.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
What do you have?
Speaker 8 (36:56):
I only watched Wayne's World for the first time like
a month ago.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Wow, dude, really hadn't seen it before then? Yeah, what'd
you think?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I liked it?
Speaker 8 (37:07):
I was also like, I was watching it in the
room in Las Vegas, and I was I was kind
of like, you know, a little bit drunk, like getting
kind of sleepy but still awake. So I just like
it was one of the movies that was available, you know,
for free on there. So I watched it while the
wife was already sleep and I.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Was just checking okay, just checking it out.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
All right, very nice.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, at least you got it done. I don't care
that it took you that long, as long as you
have to watch the Laddin, you know, get out of
the poor graces of you guys. But at least he
got there, you know, he finally got there with Wayne's World. Hey,
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feet go to expresspros dot com. Now I did mention.
There's gonna be history made this weekend. So Jen Powell,
she's said to become the first woman to umpire in
Major League Baseball. She's gonna work games this weekend Miami
Marlins at the Atlanta Braves. Yeah, so she's gonna it's
(38:11):
gonna be a Saturday double header at Atlanta at Truest Park,
and she'll be on the basis. She'll work the basis
for that double header, and then she'll be high. She'll
be behind the plate on Sunday, calling balls and strikes.
Jen Powell. And it's pretty wild where if you think
about the gender barrier. So the gender barrier for game officials, right,
(38:37):
that was broken in the NBA twenty eight years ago,
and in the NFL it was broken ten years ago
when they hired their first full time female official. And
MLB has finally joined the party. We'll get a female
that's working behind the plate on Sunday. She'll be a
you know, working the bases the Saturday double header. So
(39:01):
finally we're gonna have the first woman umpire in Major
League Baseball. NHL still has not had any woman as
an on ice official that that box has not been
checked yet. But MLB they're checking the box. We got
a female back there, and they're.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
A female ice hockey coach, though.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I don't know, maybe a coach, I believe.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
I'm not sure they have their first female coach right now.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, it might have an assistant coach there. But if
we don't have any on ice officials there, Lorena, we
gotta get that.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
You know. They got to break up fights a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, yeah, occasionally you do, that's true.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Can break a fight.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
You've broken up many fights over the years. You know,
why not do it on the ice?
Speaker 6 (39:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So, hey, it can happen, absolutely can be there. But
check out Jen Powell. You know what's crazy is think
about the pressure on her on Sunday behind the plate
because you know, as well as I do, fair or not.
If she's got a couple of outside strikes that are
(40:07):
really should be called balls, right, that's that's bad. It
doesn't just represent her. It's a whole gender, you know
what I mean. Like, so that's a ton of pressure
when you're the first breaking a barrier like that, so
I hope she does great, and I hope, uh, you know,
she doesn't get a whole bunch of bs along the way,
because that's just unnecessary and unneeded. But very cool. She's
(40:31):
breaking a barrier right there. Very nice, Lorena. You could
be the first on ice official in the NHL.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
That's an idea.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
I like it now.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Not bad
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