January 7, 2026 • 37 mins
On this installment of The Midway: Dan, Kerry and the crew talk birthdays as Tiger Woods recently hit 50 and Lamar Jackson turns 29 today. Dan and Kerry discuss a trend in the NFL playoffs that has flown under the radar. Dan and Kerry discuss Travis Kelce's future.
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this time.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Carry Rhoads. You've heard it before.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
He's not getting the middle with you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's time for.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The Midway.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Handing it off to our executive producer creator of this segment,
Jason said.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Dan, I'll take it from here. I'll tell you what
that was a bit of a throwback. Now, what I
just did was a throwback. I don't expect Sam to
be prepared for I'll take it from here.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, there's a lot of things going on.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Right now, right, a lot of things going on, a
lot of things going on now. Today's installment of The
Midway includes birthdays. Now, Lamar Jackson's birthday is today and
for his birthday, he got his coach fired. It's a
great present. And then Tiger Woods recently turned fifty and
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I shared with you guys details of Tiger Woods fiftieth
and Dan Byer most appreciates it because it takes place
on a famous golf course and it's got a bunch
of golf related stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, and you know the Breakers in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Would you know the Breakers? No? Oh, it's a very
very high end club. I I once. I have been
to the Breakers before.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
It sounds like a pop group from the eighties. I
was invited. I was invited this is this is quite.
This is quite the party that I was invited to
years ago. He's smiling right now. I swear, I swear
to you this is true. This was in two thousand
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and three or two thousand and four, around this time.
It was the holiday season. It was earlier in December.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I was at the Breakers because I got invited to
a gala, a party put on by former Today Show
host Matt Lawer. Yes, it was a Matt Lower foundation
because I was visiting a buddy who worked in radio.
His radio station was tied up with this foundation. I
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was not dressed for it. I looked like I actually
was underdressed as a waiter. But the likes of Brian
Gumbel was there. I remember that. Other celebs Chris Tucker
was there. Yes, so I've been to the Breakers before
in West Palm Beach, Florida. Aim droppers, how about that.
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That's Matt Lower been up chilling. I didn't see him
spotted by some paparazzi lately.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I think he's trying to rebuild his good name or
good luck for that, good luck for that.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I think the last thing we heard from Matt was
that the truth will come out. Man, it's been like
nine years. I haven't no way. So what do you
like best about this birthday batch? Do you like the
fact that John bon Jovi himself is going to perform that,
the dress code you have to wear, a touch of red,
a touch of red anywhere on your on your person,
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or the Masters themed dinner menu.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What I love is how it's got a title sponsor.
Oh yeah, Tiger Wood's Birthday brought to you by Bridgestone,
Like that would be like that, It's true, it does
have a title option. I don't like. I don't mind
dress code. What I don't like is, hey, nineteen twenties party.
I hate crap like that. Like that's just like just yeah,
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I hate it. I cannot stand it so and especially
for a birthday when you're turning fifty. For Tiger and
Red and what red is meant.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
For his Sunday Red, the Sunday Red, Yeacific Sunday Red.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well and his company is now Sunday Red. Like I
understand the red portion of it. I have no problems
doing that because you can be creative and how you
want to. I thought it was interesting that it's John
bon Jovi and not like bon Jovi like you didn't
get Sam Bora. I know him and Sam bon Jovi
and Sam boro were not on the same page, but
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he just wants John bon Jovi doesn't care who the
backing band is is. I thought that that was interesting,
but ultimately I think it's the title sponsor that just
has me. I mean, I've got a birthday in two weeks.
It is presented by no one, but it does make
me think of when you have a when you have
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a December birthday or a January birthday, what you don't
realize is is when you live in a colder portion
of the country, which Florida is not, you are very limited.
So growing up, I was always my town was about
nine thousand, ninety five hundred people. We had a bowling alley.
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There were about seven bowling parties a year that you
would go to at any point between October and March,
because it really was the Yes, really, I honestly had
a flashback to birthday cakes, whether it be mine, whether
it be someone else's. You load the kids in the car,
maybe another parent, another group of kids. You go to
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the bowling alley because it's eight degrees outside, and that's
how you would spend your day. So instead of having
John bon Jovi or everybody wearing red. When I was
a kid, we would grow up or growing up, we
would go to a bowling alley because it was indoors
and really one of the only activities that you could
actually do.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Yeah, that sounds like my childhood too, Dan. My town
was small and same thing. Like, there was always like
instead of the bowling alley, it would probably be like
at this little pizza joint that was around the corner
from our house, and all the kids would just kind
of go there by default for their birthday, arcade games,
all that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, all that stuff was there.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Yeah, it's one of those spots and it was I
mean as a kid, you're like, man, this is the
best thing ever. And you get older and you're like,
wait a minute, I want to go to Italy and
I want my friends to come there. So when you
start having those type of I guess that kind of
pizza party disruptor, it's kind of hard to go back
and enjoy the pizza party.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
As much I love the pizza party. We never had
laser tag at our pizza place. You have a pizza
We had a pizza hut.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Maybe that has more millennial.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think that that.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Became more of a thing. But that pizza was always
like rubber.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
It was always good, though could be good for a
kid who doesn't have a good palate.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The pizza hut, the pizza that we had as a kid,
to me was delicious. Oh yeah, magnificent walking in because
it would put you at a long table and then
all the gifts were at the end of the table.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There was nothing better than that.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
That pan pizza when it came out of the oven
would scald the roof of your mouth.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
But it was the best thing. Yes, it was worth it,
yeah right, totally worth it.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
But you guys remember that, like actually going to the
pizza huts and sitting down and having like a nut.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
That was so fun.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Though, Yes, my generation had what was it the what
was the reading thing? The reading club they had for
I I don't remember it at all, but like my elementary
had an element like a reading club. Book it book it, yes,
and if you read enough books you got a free
personal pizza and that was always a chance to go
out to the lunch beffet at pizza.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I thought, true story. When I first accomplished book it
for the month. I thought I got a large Oh completely,
I read five hundred pages for this, Like what are
you what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Like I thought, like I thought, feed the whole family,
like guess what I'll share.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
That's what Dad and night's dinner's on me? And it
was smaller than a catcher's mitt like I was.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was so ticked off because not only was the
pizza I'm big enough. I thought it was such a scam.
I thought like, this is this is You're smarter for it.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Now, you're a better man for Remember one book I
read during book It Damn with the Giver.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Dan was in the back yard and he put a
little trash can outside and burned all the book at
things and put it.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
In the book.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
It was like fourth grade, fifth grade stuff, Like none
of that stuff is not even the Giver is like
in that reading category.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
After I saw that, I had my new club. It
was called fet No I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm just kidding.
But book it was a scam. It was this camp everybody.
Then if everybody in your class reached their reading goal,
they'd get a pizza party. That was impossible. Like you
knew that there were some kids that were just never
going to read the books, just never going to happen.
I think they gave out about four pizza parties in
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its entire time because you knew there was just someone
who was just like, yeah, I didn't read it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Steven w wasn't reading that book. No, not at all.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Can't have a pizza party without.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Steve here, exactly, can't do it.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Jason Sam, I remember my sixteenth birthday, and this will
date me. So my sixteenth birthday happens. You know, you
turn sixteen, a lot of cool things happen, and my
birthday's on the sixteenth of October always falls around the
World Series. Now, on October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight, I
turned sixteen, and I had a party, And that was
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also the night that Kurt Gibson hit the most memorable
home run in World Series history for my team Wonderful.
I'll never not think of that moment associated with my birthday.
And there was a story that I'm going to tell
for the first time. So my mother, God bless her.
She was always thoughtful and trying to think of everything.
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She put my Dodger's pennant above the TV. So there
was a bunch of us buddies watching TV Dodger's pennant
above the TV. It was just a great touch right
Dodger themed party. And every time something went right in
that ninth inning, whether it be Mike Davis drawing a
walk from Eckersley, the pennant would drop. It would just drop,
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and we would put it back up. And then the
pennant drops right before Kurt Gibson's home run.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Again.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I know I'm triggering something with Sam, very superstitious, but
I will never forget the pennant, the birthday my mother
and all that stuff. It's a great memory. It's got
to be like one of the best days of your life. Yeah,
it's absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You always talk about like the birth of you know, child,
their marriage or whatever the case is, but that would
be up there, Chris.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Yeah, I want to talk about the last birthday I
just had. So first off, my birthday is September twenty first,
so I have the earth, wind and Fire birthday, oh right,
So I always get to celebrate that. I always like
to pretend everyone posting the September videos on TikTok or Twitter,
it's all for me.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
That's all because of me. Yeah, right there. But this
last one.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
I took about a week away from work here and
one of the things I had always wanted to do
is there is an island off Los Angeles called Catalina Islands.
And yes, I know, you can play the Cattaloe Lina
wine mixer drops all you want. It's a fun little
island out there. My plan to go out there was
to see the bison. There is a bison herd that's
been out there since the nineteen twenties. They were put
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out there for a Western movie that was shot on
the island and just left out there, and this bison
herd has been out there for over one hundred years
and now finally they're slowly dying off. I think most
of them are infertile by now. So I wanted to
go see the buffalo out on a trop out on
a Pacific island. It was the coolest thing, and I
got there. It rained the night before. I talked to
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the woman as we were boarding up on this like
rigged up jeep to go out there, and it's like, yeah,
don't get your hopes up. The herd hasn't been seen
in three weeks. Not only heard from Yeah, not only
not only we got out in the turn and it's
the back of Catalina's very hilly and very kind of
bad landy. But out of the first turn, not only
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did I see a bison. It was thirty feet away
from me, mulching on on on grass, and that was
one of three different bison individually I saw. And then
we saw the whole herd from the from there's like
a hill where they've got an airport out there, and
we saw the whole herd from up there as well.
So I saw all these majestic creatures. It was awesome.
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It was breathtaking. And then I went back to Avalon
and I got drunk watching football that same day.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
See, you could do that because you're in southern California.
You could also do that because it's September. Harry's got
a summer birthday, so you can do a lot of
stuff outside.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Jason's in the fall. Sam's not too.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Far after Jason, a couple of days after, but you
could do fall activities. I don't know what it was
like in Iowa, but there's still time to do outside stuff.
October in Iowa's is mixed bag.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
It could be cold, it could be seventy degrees in
sunny with no leaves on the trees. But my mom
grew up on a farm in eastern Iowa, and in
the nineties when my grandfather retired as a farmer, they
bought the property from my grandparents, just like the five
acres where the house and the barns are. So I
would have a lot of friends out there and stuff.
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And I think at least two or three times I
had a birthday out there, probably my twelfth birthday, I'd
say like nineteen.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Ninety eight ish.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I had maybe six six, five or six friends, maybe
select friends. I was about to say something else, I'm
just gonna avoid that. I had a very popular term.
My elite group of friend and my inner circle would
come out and we would do like paintball guns.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
We would do pellet guns. We'd show off fireworks.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
We had a couple We had a go cart, and
then we borrowed my neighbor's go carts, so we like
had paintball guns on the go carts we were chasing. Oh,
my grandma had a golf cart. She lived right next door.
So it was just like it was like, what was
it in Pinocchio. Those kids go to like that, like
that Pleasure Island, Pleasure Island, Fantasyland, and there's like just
they're all smoking cigars, like drinking you know, beer and
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stuff and all like eight year old boys and and
this was like our version of that, Like you know,
we were blowing stuff up.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
We were shooting pellet guns, shooting paintball guns.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
It was And then we went to like, uh, Jim's
rib Haven in the in.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Moline in the quad Cities and just it was just
the best and sleepover all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I'll tell you, I love a birthday at Jim's rib Haven.
That sounds like the place to be. We had we
had a pizza that was bit basically one of the
only spots that you could sit down that kids would
want to in my hometown.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
What was the pizza spot you were at? I can't think. No, no,
not in Alabama.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Inkies for us in Toledo in Great Inkies, Yeah, great name.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
What did they do on the east coast or in
cold weather uh States? When the phenomenon happened right around
the time my kid was like two or three, it
became like a neighborhood competition for who could have the
best bouncy house you and you. It wasn't an option
not to have a bouncy house at the at the
birthday party. I think that's still going now in southern California?
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Is that? Does that also happen in the in the
colder cities.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Not in the winter obviously in the summer.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I think that, Yeah, you can have outside and events
like that where you would do that, but it wouldn't happen.
It wouldn't have happened around my birthday. But yeah, I
think it's been commonplace around.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Has Brody had a bouncy house?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, he is not, not yet.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
This does remind me of my grandfather always told me
that he had to. He lived in Florida for a
time and one of his birthdays they had to do
it from a shelter because the hurricane was coming through. Oh,
it was like had the cake, had the cake basically
in a save area away from all the windows boarding
up and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Like Jason brings up the point too, of like of
is it is it a competition?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Is it just what the kid wants? You know?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I liked I liked bowling. I liked bowling. I think
it was fun. I think it was a fun time,
so I didn't mind going, and it was just it
works out that way, like let's get everybody together and
go bowling. Our our high school at the time had
an indoor pool, so you could do like a swimming
sort of thing. But there I know that there were
parties like where it would be like, hey, the town
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wasa was like the big city bias, Like there was
an indoor pool at a hotel in Watsa.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
He did bat birthdays like that, So you would go
to the indoor pool, stay over the Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
You'd have cake. You did go to the pool.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, some places were even just you could just use
the pool, like you didn't have to like you would
have to pay for it. Yeah, but because that would
be a way that they would get in, because like
that would be another option.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
But isn't that funny though? As kids, these these nominal things,
these things that are kind of frowned upon. Now we're
the crown jewels of our time and our lives at
that time, and so you have those moments as kids,
and then you become adults and you become jaded by
all of that, and then you get to a point
where you get a little bit older and you start
to appreciate that's those smaller things again, Like that's the
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bookend of our lives and how those things happen for us.
It's just so crazy, And I think that's kind of
like the metaphor for life, right, Like we have these
highs and lows, and we have these expectations of how
great things are supposed to be all the time. But
if you really scale back and go back to the
simpler times and the simple things, those are things we
appreciate the most. And so that's what I love about
this this segment and hearing everybody's story about the good
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times they had in those moments.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I think I've told it. I know i've told this
story on the air. I don't know if i've told
it with you guys before. When I am one of
the few people that does make a big deal about
my own birthday, I think ninety eight percent of grown
adults don't make a big deal out of theirs, but
I do.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
In the half birthday guy too, Yeah that's yeah, that's
kind of a joke.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's gonna be running joke, but yeah, some people's July sixteenth,
the half birthday January sixteenth, is my birthday. One of
the reasons why I truly do make a big deal
out of it. I was driving, I was riding the
school because I wasn't driving. Mom made the radio on.
You dropped my sister off at junior high and we're
listening to the radio on my birthday, and the radio
host goes, guess what today is? It's National Nothing Day.
(18:29):
Oh no, because nothing important happened on this day. It's
my birthday. I'm like in first grade. Okay, imagine that. Seriously,
I'm just gonna search look at what National Nothing Day is.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
So it's January sixteenth. Yes, it's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And so just completely gutted by Maybe that's my revenge.
Maybe that's why I got into radio to get back
at the radio host who said this. The only thing
to then make up for it was the Gulf War
ended up starting on my birthday. A couple of years
after that. Then like that was then It's like we'll see,
you know, now there is something something. It's a war,
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but at least something happened on my birthday. Aside from wow, yeah,
that was that. That one scarred me. I still remember
and I type it in and show you Dan something
great has happened on January sixteenth. You know what it is.
It's Dan Bayer's birthday, all right, and and and shaw Day,
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and Ronnie Millsap and the late Al and many more.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yes, and a former Baywatch star, David Chokichi.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
David Chokichi, I haven't heard that name in a long time.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's the Midway, the Midway, all right. A good birthday celebration.
By the way, that birthday that I told you about,
what they called the National Nothing Day. My birthday was
presented by Coca Cola that day. No, it wasn't. The
Tiger Woods title sponsor is just absurd.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
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The twenty first day of September's Chris Prefet's birthday. We're
gonna go to him at the news desk in just
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Speaker 8 (20:50):
San Three things I just heard from Chris. One, if
Todd Bowles had to announce he's coming back, there was danger.
There's that's that's a fact. Number Two, Trey Young only
had one option and that is the Wizard, so him
wanted to go. There isn't big news. And Three, Dan,
you know why I didn't respond to the sponsor's birthday thing.
I've had a couple of titles.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
You have.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Carry Roads thirtieth birthday party twenty five, twenty five.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh interesting, yeah, yeah, I didn't you say who it was?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
It was something I don't really partake in now, but
it was it was a. It was a liquor sponsor.
Oh wow, yeah, yeah, it was a little a little
a little Gray Goose.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
So you know how old I am? Right, Dad, look
at this, by the way, great. I wondered why you
were siding. Yeah. I was so quiet. That's like I
had to come true. I had to come clean.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
The carry roads bash brought to you by Gray Goose,
not Jim's Ribshack.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
What do you got, oh, dearly departed Jim's Ribhaven in
Rock Island not not open anymore. I just looked it up. Oh,
I know, there was great, but permanently closed. Permanently closed
in red banner on Google. But Chris, did you say
the Friendly confines confines? I know, but I think you
just started a new great thing for the conines.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
That's that's my That's gonna be my landscape. But like
the ivy.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
As well.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
He just like, that's the guy who like who discovered antibiotics.
He just like found a Petri dish sitting out. He's like,
what's this the friendly conbines?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Lick? There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Man, Sam's not gonna be able to stand for a
couple of minutes. He loved that. The Friendly conbin All right,
let's do that at Iowa Sam ninety nine hit Jason Stewart.
Up at Jason Stewart, you could get Chris Purfet at
Chris Perfett, he has Carrie Rhodes.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Jason and I always uh talk about funky things in football,
and we saw kind of this. It's the it's a
it's a similar staff, but they're they're not the same.
I saw a stat that kind of got under my skin.
Carry that said, first round quarterbacks in the playoffs. Twelve
of the fourteen playoff teams how themselves a first round quarterbacks.
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You know what that means, Get yourself a first round quarterback.
The problem with that is if you look at the NFL,
everybody has a first round quarterback except six teams. I
went through the NFL team by team. Here are your
non first round quarterbacks. Two in the playoffs Brock Party
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and Jalen Hurts Yep, Hurts a second round pick, Party
a seventh round pick. The other four Tyler Shook from
the Saints, Dak Prescott, Shardoor Sanders, and the Browns in
Gino Smith. So in twenty twenty five, like where we
are and you're looking at your quarterback, and heck, Kenny
Pickett was with the Browns for a little while. Those
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were the six spots that don't have a first round
quarterback at one point or another. So the essence of
get yourself a franchise quarterback is everybody is trying, it's
just nobody is succeeding. But there's something else with the
quarterbacks that I think stood out to you, Jason Stewart
as well, when we're talking about quarterback play.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
We can fact check this, but I had heard that
half of the quarterbacks in this field are not on
their second contract. In other words, was it seven of
the fourteen quarterbacks are still on the rookie deal?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That makes well, that would make more of a stat
because we feel like or something that is at least
real instead of the other one considering we feel like
there is such an urgency to get stuff done before
you have to pay the quarterback and then you have
to make decisions after that. But Bo Nix is on
a first year deal, Drake May's on a first year deal, CJ.
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Stroud is on a first year deal, Caleb Williams is
on a first year deal. So that's five. Bryce Young's
on a first year deal, and well brock Perty just
got his, so's it's it's near half if it isn't,
and maybe it looked at it wrong and just counted wrong,
but it's six or seven, and so it's half of
that is that is all? That is more factual than
(25:13):
saying you need to draft yourself a first round quarterback.
You know what stood out to me is there's been
this theme for super Bowls, I really think since the
beginning of the Super Bowl era. And there have been
a few outliers, one a couple of years ago, one
maybe in the eighties and nineties. But NFL teams and
(25:34):
wide receivers don't and star wide receivers don't equal success.
When you look at this fourteen team field, I would
say that there are two teams that have elite play
from the wide receiver position from one of their wide receivers.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
Puka Nikua, yes, the Rams, and.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
And there are two that I put borderline that I
would give you the benefit of the but I don't
think it changes my argument. That's yep. Those were the
top two that I put elite wide receiver. The other
two I put aj Brown maybe and Nico Collins maybe maybe,
but like it wouldn't rise to the level. And when
you look back in time, what team relied heavily on
(26:18):
their wide receiver Like I would say the Rams and
Cooper Cup is an exception when he ends up winning
Super Bowl MVP and for what he meant to the
Rams and Jerry Rice during his time with the with
the forty nine ers. But if you look throughout super
Bowl history could be okay, all right, that's that's fair.
(26:39):
But throughout history, and specifically recently in the NFL, it's
become such a passing league, it's become such a quarterback league,
but it has not become a wide receiver league. And
one of the main themes this year, right is how
much the Rams use thirteen personnel. How much the Rams
used this three tight ends on the field, and the
(26:59):
NFL doesn't know what to do with it. And this
is a team by the way, that has Phu Gonna
cool and about to Adams other squad. So it's just
funny to me when we were sitting there pointing out quarterbacks,
No quarterbacks aren't the story. Like once again, it's I
think from the wide receivers and the lack of I
guess relevance or connection to team's success when you.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Have an elite wide receiver.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Yeah, the receiver thing has been overblown for a long time,
and the reason for that being dan in the regular season,
defenses aren't throwing the sink at the offenses right in
certain games, like you'll give a guy a one on
one opportunity if he's a star receiver and you've got
a guy that can cover him and during the season,
(27:44):
so that guy could have a good game in the
regular season. When it comes to the playoffs, we're throwing
the kitchen sink at you. You're not gonna beat us
with what you do best. So if you are a
star receiver in your quarterback that you know goes to
that guy a lot and he has great numbers, usually
we're gonna account for that and so we're gonna take
that away. So if you're paying all this all these
(28:04):
resources and putting all your eggs in this basket, that
he's gonna come out and do what he did in
the regular season is not going to happen. So that's
why football is the ultimate team sport. And if you're
overpaying for those type of positions where obviously the quarterback
does matter and you have to take care of that.
We've seen it, and I've seen it playing up close
(28:26):
right me playing against those Brady teams in New England.
They never had a star receiver. They brought in Randy Mallsson.
What happened, they didn't win the Super Bowl, And so
those things go hand in hand.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
What I think is interesting to your point though, is
is you're saying, like, in the playoffs, we throw everything
at them. So you're not going to see a wide
receiver with twelve catches and one hundred and eighty yards
and three touchdowns in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
If you do, then you're you're a bad defense. Okay, yeah,
yeh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
But we're also talking about this is all leading up to,
leading up to the playoffs. So even in those instances
where you're saying that maybe you're not throwing the kitchen sink, yeah,
and you're getting those opportunities, they're not translating to necessary
to victories necessarily or or to wins along the way.
When you talk about like the top wide receivers in
the National Football League or those that we think that are,
(29:11):
you know, the top of their game, I mean, we're
talking about the Jamar Chases and the Justin Jeffersons and
and those guys, and they're not in the playoffs this year,
and and honestly, you know, Justin Jefferson is in it
last year. But I think that you would see the
same sort of movement because jays Aan wasn't in their
last year and Jason wasn't the level of receiver that
he was this season. But I think that there's there's
(29:34):
just again a lot disconnect with wide receivers. Jason Stewart.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yeah, so the Pokinakua to Carrie's point here, Pokin Nakua
and JSN are both on the rookie deal, so they
are high level receivers but fairly cheap, right yea. And
while Dan was talking, I I I looked up the
top paid receivers in the NFL. It's just filled with
guys that aren't in the playoff playoffs. Yeah, I mean,
(29:58):
I can't believe the t Higg is a top ten
paid receiver and he's on the same day with Jamar Chase,
Ceedee Lamb, dk Metcalf only a Monroe Saint Brown is
a guy that is both on the list of most
paid and like most productive receiver in fantasy and he's
not in the playoffs yep.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And I think for a while on that list, on
the T Higgins is there the Dolphins for a while,
we're paying Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill yep, top ten
money and look at how far that got them. The
Cowboys are going to have to make a decision with
George Pickens yep, right on what you're gonna do with him.
So now so if Dallas does that, I think the
numbers that we show don't necessarily show playoff success.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, so like.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
There's yeah, there's a lot, a lot has changed in
the NFL and it has become quarterback heavy, but some
stuff has not changed, and it's the importance of the
wide receivers or maybe just lack thereof from that position.
From So when I see the when I see the teams,
I don't look at the quarterbacks. When there's twenty six
first st round quarterbacks starting in the in the NFL,
(31:03):
those numbers are are somewhat parallel to what the postseason is.
It's what we see from the wide receiver position. Even
like looking at the running backs, you look at the
running back value, I think there's more running back value
than we realize in this in this postseason because we
think it's an extinct position. And I know, say Kwon
Barkley didn't have a great year, but Christian McCaffrey did.
(31:23):
They're there, they're they're playing against each other. The Packers
have been riding the back of Josh Jacobs when he's
been healthy. I think the Bears success this year has
been the two headed monster of Swift and Manongai and
how they've turned things around. So even just the running
back in James Cook, right, James Cook ends up leading
the NFL and rushing and all we talk about the
Bills is Josh Allen And that's the thing, and that's
why Dan it's such an ultimate team sport man. And
(31:45):
when you when you think about divas and you think
about people demanding certain numbers, obviously that's when they're that's
within their right. And obviously, especially coming off off your
first off your rookie contract, those guys are trying to
get paid.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
But I think it the onus falls on the teams
and organizations and saying this is our this is our
philosophy to win, not our philosophy to overpay and I
think you know, just because relationships are formed and you
have an affinity for you know, certain players and they
are good players. If it comes at the sake of
your team, you got to make those make those decisions wisely.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He's Carry Roads Delle Pro. I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Jason Stewarts here as his Iowa was Sam and Chris
Purfett hanging out on Wednesday. One NFL star is likely
riding off into the sunset, but stopping at about one
hundred way sides along the way. Just a decision cannot
be made. I'll tell you who that is next here
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Speaker 2 (32:46):
App Fox Sports Radio. He's Carrie Rhoades. I'm Dan Byer.
Shut a a birthday coming up next week week from Friday.
She and I celebrate. She and I celebrate in Unison.
CHRISO Pherfett, great job today at the news desk. Iowa Sam,
a technical producer with The Ones and Twos. Executive producer
(33:08):
is Jason Stewart. Jason pointing out Carry, It's taken a
while for Travis Kelcey to maybe make up his mind.
It's probably been on his mind a while on what's next,
but still no decision from the Chiefs tod end Jason.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
So they asked him after the game on Sunday that
was in the news cycle. Then they asked Andy Reid
about it on Monday that was in the cycle. So yesterday,
of course, he had to go on his podcast and
he said this about it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
If my body can heal up and rest up and
I can feel confident that I can go out there
and give it another eighteen twenty twenty one week run,
I think I would do it in a heartbeat. I
think right now it's just finding that answer and seeing
how the body feels after this game and kind of win.
It all settles.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Down now, Kerry. The conversation in this talk space seems
to be like one sided. It's like Travis Kelcey's got
eight figures waiting for him on TV if he leaves, Like,
why would you come back to a Chiefs team that's
without its quarterback and looks like it's run is over?
Like why would you come back?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
And you are uniquely qualified to answer this question. I
want to know if Travis Kelcey were to come to
you and be like Carrie, like, I don't care about
the money thing. Those opportunities are going to be here.
But like mentally, chemically, physically, what is in store for
me if I were to retire? What happens to football
players when they give it up? When you give it up,
(34:34):
the identity is gone.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
So you've been touted as this special person, this special
kid for a long time. You've achieved all these accolades,
You've gotten all these pats on the back for your
whole life, and once that window closes of that, that
next phase is the hardest phase you're ever going to
go through in your life. I was somebody that knew
what I wanted to do after and I did not
(34:57):
want to overstay my welcome in the NFL at all.
And I could have come back and played a couple
more years. I made the decision not to. And when
I sat on the couch and I turned on the
TV and try to watch a game the first year
I was done, all I did was look at the
guys and say I should be playing because they are terrible.
Like I started to look at the guys and say, no,
(35:17):
I could I could definitely do that. And so that
first year was there was depression. It was a real thing,
and I had things that were already lined up. And
so once that identity is gone and you're just considered
Travis kelce Carrie Rose, the former football player and you're
trying to shake that, it was al wad be the
hardest times you're going to go through as a as
a human, especially having success so early on in your
(35:40):
in your life as a football player.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Does as do they get to reality because most people
who watch the Jets or Cardinals are in a depression right.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Like when you're watching, Yes, you're watching watch that. Maybe
I shouldn't have made a joke. There was just shot
on a plan.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
The thing that I think about Travis Kelcey, which I
commend you for or is it sure feels like Travis
Kelcey is trying to find the perfect time to retire
and I don't think that there is. And so there's
something left to prove after the Super Bowl that you lost,
or there's something to prove after a season where Mahomes
got hurt and maybe you weren't utilized as much, or
you didn't make the playoffs, if you really wanted to
(36:18):
find the perfect time. It was probably two years ago
after you went back to back that probably would have
been the perfect time if you want to put a
bow on your football career. I also think there's this
happy medium, like the Chiefs are going to have to
know at some point what Travis Kelce's intentions are, but
it's not going to be seventy two hours after the
final game of the season. It's gonna come at some
(36:39):
point between now and obviously they need to know by
early March, but who knows. This may be a Super
Bowl off week sort of announcement, So then you hit
radio row and make those announcements. But to Carry's port,
I think the feeling that Travis Kelce has now from
July and August and September, it's going to be a
different feeling. And so no matter what, you may end
up regretting whatever this is and you have to.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Make yeah, and the regret is real, but not for me.
Like I said, there there is a there is a
safe space to land, but there's gonna be some hard
times in you.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
He is Kerry Rhodes, I'm Dan Bayer, Jason Stewart, Christ
Prophet and Iowa Sam hanging out with a with us
here on Fox Sports Radio. Let's do it again tomorrow, Kerry.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Happy Wednesday to you got a happy birthday to Lamar Jackson,
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John Harbaugh isn't m hm, and I was checking out
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You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. Chris
Purfettes here, Jason Stewart's here, our executive producer, Iowa sam
(00:53):
our technical producer, and what we do every Wednesday at
this time.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Carry Rhoads. You've heard it before.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
He's not getting the middle with you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's time for.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The Midway.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Handing it off to our executive producer creator of this segment,
Jason said.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Dan, I'll take it from here. I'll tell you what
that was a bit of a throwback. Now, what I
just did was a throwback. I don't expect Sam to
be prepared for I'll take it from here.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, there's a lot of things going on.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Right now, right, a lot of things going on, a
lot of things going on now. Today's installment of The
Midway includes birthdays. Now, Lamar Jackson's birthday is today and
for his birthday, he got his coach fired. It's a
great present. And then Tiger Woods recently turned fifty and
(01:47):
I shared with you guys details of Tiger Woods fiftieth
and Dan Byer most appreciates it because it takes place
on a famous golf course and it's got a bunch
of golf related stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, and you know the Breakers in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Would you know the Breakers? No? Oh, it's a very
very high end club. I I once. I have been
to the Breakers before.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
It sounds like a pop group from the eighties. I
was invited. I was invited this is this is quite.
This is quite the party that I was invited to
years ago. He's smiling right now. I swear, I swear
to you this is true. This was in two thousand
(02:32):
and three or two thousand and four, around this time.
It was the holiday season. It was earlier in December.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I was at the Breakers because I got invited to
a gala, a party put on by former Today Show
host Matt Lawer. Yes, it was a Matt Lower foundation
because I was visiting a buddy who worked in radio.
His radio station was tied up with this foundation. I
(03:00):
was not dressed for it. I looked like I actually
was underdressed as a waiter. But the likes of Brian
Gumbel was there. I remember that. Other celebs Chris Tucker
was there. Yes, so I've been to the Breakers before
in West Palm Beach, Florida. Aim droppers, how about that.
(03:21):
That's Matt Lower been up chilling. I didn't see him
spotted by some paparazzi lately.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I think he's trying to rebuild his good name or
good luck for that, good luck for that.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I think the last thing we heard from Matt was
that the truth will come out. Man, it's been like
nine years. I haven't no way. So what do you
like best about this birthday batch? Do you like the
fact that John bon Jovi himself is going to perform that,
the dress code you have to wear, a touch of red,
a touch of red anywhere on your on your person,
(03:57):
or the Masters themed dinner menu.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What I love is how it's got a title sponsor.
Oh yeah, Tiger Wood's Birthday brought to you by Bridgestone,
Like that would be like that, It's true, it does
have a title option. I don't like. I don't mind
dress code. What I don't like is, hey, nineteen twenties party.
I hate crap like that. Like that's just like just yeah,
(04:23):
I hate it. I cannot stand it so and especially
for a birthday when you're turning fifty. For Tiger and
Red and what red is meant.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
For his Sunday Red, the Sunday Red, Yeacific Sunday Red.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well and his company is now Sunday Red. Like I
understand the red portion of it. I have no problems
doing that because you can be creative and how you
want to. I thought it was interesting that it's John
bon Jovi and not like bon Jovi like you didn't
get Sam Bora. I know him and Sam bon Jovi
and Sam boro were not on the same page, but
(04:57):
he just wants John bon Jovi doesn't care who the
backing band is is. I thought that that was interesting,
but ultimately I think it's the title sponsor that just
has me. I mean, I've got a birthday in two weeks.
It is presented by no one, but it does make
me think of when you have a when you have
(05:18):
a December birthday or a January birthday, what you don't
realize is is when you live in a colder portion
of the country, which Florida is not, you are very limited.
So growing up, I was always my town was about
nine thousand, ninety five hundred people. We had a bowling alley.
(05:41):
There were about seven bowling parties a year that you
would go to at any point between October and March,
because it really was the Yes, really, I honestly had
a flashback to birthday cakes, whether it be mine, whether
it be someone else's. You load the kids in the car,
maybe another parent, another group of kids. You go to
(06:02):
the bowling alley because it's eight degrees outside, and that's
how you would spend your day. So instead of having
John bon Jovi or everybody wearing red. When I was
a kid, we would grow up or growing up, we
would go to a bowling alley because it was indoors
and really one of the only activities that you could
actually do.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Yeah, that sounds like my childhood too, Dan. My town
was small and same thing. Like, there was always like
instead of the bowling alley, it would probably be like
at this little pizza joint that was around the corner
from our house, and all the kids would just kind
of go there by default for their birthday, arcade games,
all that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, all that stuff was there.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Yeah, it's one of those spots and it was I
mean as a kid, you're like, man, this is the
best thing ever. And you get older and you're like,
wait a minute, I want to go to Italy and
I want my friends to come there. So when you
start having those type of I guess that kind of
pizza party disruptor, it's kind of hard to go back
and enjoy the pizza party.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
As much I love the pizza party. We never had
laser tag at our pizza place. You have a pizza
We had a pizza hut.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Maybe that has more millennial.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think that that.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Became more of a thing. But that pizza was always
like rubber.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
It was always good, though could be good for a
kid who doesn't have a good palate.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The pizza hut, the pizza that we had as a kid,
to me was delicious. Oh yeah, magnificent walking in because
it would put you at a long table and then
all the gifts were at the end of the table.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There was nothing better than that.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
That pan pizza when it came out of the oven
would scald the roof of your mouth.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
But it was the best thing. Yes, it was worth it,
yeah right, totally worth it.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
But you guys remember that, like actually going to the
pizza huts and sitting down and having like a nut.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
That was so fun.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Though, Yes, my generation had what was it the what
was the reading thing? The reading club they had for
I I don't remember it at all, but like my elementary
had an element like a reading club. Book it book it, yes,
and if you read enough books you got a free
personal pizza and that was always a chance to go
out to the lunch beffet at pizza.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I thought, true story. When I first accomplished book it
for the month. I thought I got a large Oh completely,
I read five hundred pages for this, Like what are
you what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Like I thought, like I thought, feed the whole family,
like guess what I'll share.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
That's what Dad and night's dinner's on me? And it
was smaller than a catcher's mitt like I was.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was so ticked off because not only was the
pizza I'm big enough. I thought it was such a scam.
I thought like, this is this is You're smarter for it.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Now, you're a better man for Remember one book I
read during book It Damn with the Giver.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Dan was in the back yard and he put a
little trash can outside and burned all the book at
things and put it.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
In the book.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
It was like fourth grade, fifth grade stuff, Like none
of that stuff is not even the Giver is like
in that reading category.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
After I saw that, I had my new club. It
was called fet No I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm just kidding.
But book it was a scam. It was this camp everybody.
Then if everybody in your class reached their reading goal,
they'd get a pizza party. That was impossible. Like you
knew that there were some kids that were just never
going to read the books, just never going to happen.
I think they gave out about four pizza parties in
(09:14):
its entire time because you knew there was just someone
who was just like, yeah, I didn't read it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Steven w wasn't reading that book. No, not at all.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Can't have a pizza party without.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Steve here, exactly, can't do it.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Jason Sam, I remember my sixteenth birthday, and this will
date me. So my sixteenth birthday happens. You know, you
turn sixteen, a lot of cool things happen, and my
birthday's on the sixteenth of October always falls around the
World Series. Now, on October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight, I
turned sixteen, and I had a party, And that was
(09:51):
also the night that Kurt Gibson hit the most memorable
home run in World Series history for my team Wonderful.
I'll never not think of that moment associated with my birthday.
And there was a story that I'm going to tell
for the first time. So my mother, God bless her.
She was always thoughtful and trying to think of everything.
(10:12):
She put my Dodger's pennant above the TV. So there
was a bunch of us buddies watching TV Dodger's pennant
above the TV. It was just a great touch right
Dodger themed party. And every time something went right in
that ninth inning, whether it be Mike Davis drawing a
walk from Eckersley, the pennant would drop. It would just drop,
(10:34):
and we would put it back up. And then the
pennant drops right before Kurt Gibson's home run.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Again.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I know I'm triggering something with Sam, very superstitious, but
I will never forget the pennant, the birthday my mother
and all that stuff. It's a great memory. It's got
to be like one of the best days of your life. Yeah,
it's absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You always talk about like the birth of you know, child,
their marriage or whatever the case is, but that would
be up there, Chris.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Yeah, I want to talk about the last birthday I
just had. So first off, my birthday is September twenty first,
so I have the earth, wind and Fire birthday, oh right,
So I always get to celebrate that. I always like
to pretend everyone posting the September videos on TikTok or Twitter,
it's all for me.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
That's all because of me. Yeah, right there. But this
last one.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
I took about a week away from work here and
one of the things I had always wanted to do
is there is an island off Los Angeles called Catalina Islands.
And yes, I know, you can play the Cattaloe Lina
wine mixer drops all you want. It's a fun little
island out there. My plan to go out there was
to see the bison. There is a bison herd that's
been out there since the nineteen twenties. They were put
(11:47):
out there for a Western movie that was shot on
the island and just left out there, and this bison
herd has been out there for over one hundred years
and now finally they're slowly dying off. I think most
of them are infertile by now. So I wanted to
go see the buffalo out on a trop out on
a Pacific island. It was the coolest thing, and I
got there. It rained the night before. I talked to
(12:09):
the woman as we were boarding up on this like
rigged up jeep to go out there, and it's like, yeah,
don't get your hopes up. The herd hasn't been seen
in three weeks. Not only heard from Yeah, not only
not only we got out in the turn and it's
the back of Catalina's very hilly and very kind of
bad landy. But out of the first turn, not only
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did I see a bison. It was thirty feet away
from me, mulching on on on grass, and that was
one of three different bison individually I saw. And then
we saw the whole herd from the from there's like
a hill where they've got an airport out there, and
we saw the whole herd from up there as well.
So I saw all these majestic creatures. It was awesome.
(12:52):
It was breathtaking. And then I went back to Avalon
and I got drunk watching football that same day.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
See, you could do that because you're in southern California.
You could also do that because it's September. Harry's got
a summer birthday, so you can do a lot of
stuff outside.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Jason's in the fall. Sam's not too.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Far after Jason, a couple of days after, but you
could do fall activities. I don't know what it was
like in Iowa, but there's still time to do outside stuff.
October in Iowa's is mixed bag.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
It could be cold, it could be seventy degrees in
sunny with no leaves on the trees. But my mom
grew up on a farm in eastern Iowa, and in
the nineties when my grandfather retired as a farmer, they
bought the property from my grandparents, just like the five
acres where the house and the barns are. So I
would have a lot of friends out there and stuff.
(13:40):
And I think at least two or three times I
had a birthday out there, probably my twelfth birthday, I'd
say like nineteen.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Ninety eight ish.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I had maybe six six, five or six friends, maybe
select friends. I was about to say something else, I'm
just gonna avoid that. I had a very popular term.
My elite group of friend and my inner circle would
come out and we would do like paintball guns.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
We would do pellet guns. We'd show off fireworks.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
We had a couple We had a go cart, and
then we borrowed my neighbor's go carts, so we like
had paintball guns on the go carts we were chasing. Oh,
my grandma had a golf cart. She lived right next door.
So it was just like it was like, what was
it in Pinocchio. Those kids go to like that, like
that Pleasure Island, Pleasure Island, Fantasyland, and there's like just
they're all smoking cigars, like drinking you know, beer and
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stuff and all like eight year old boys and and
this was like our version of that, Like you know,
we were blowing stuff up.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
We were shooting pellet guns, shooting paintball guns.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
It was And then we went to like, uh, Jim's
rib Haven in the in.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Moline in the quad Cities and just it was just
the best and sleepover all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I'll tell you, I love a birthday at Jim's rib Haven.
That sounds like the place to be. We had we
had a pizza that was bit basically one of the
only spots that you could sit down that kids would
want to in my hometown.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
What was the pizza spot you were at? I can't think. No, no,
not in Alabama.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Inkies for us in Toledo in Great Inkies, Yeah, great name.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
What did they do on the east coast or in
cold weather uh States? When the phenomenon happened right around
the time my kid was like two or three, it
became like a neighborhood competition for who could have the
best bouncy house you and you. It wasn't an option
not to have a bouncy house at the at the
birthday party. I think that's still going now in southern California?
(15:32):
Is that? Does that also happen in the in the
colder cities.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Not in the winter obviously in the summer.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I think that, Yeah, you can have outside and events
like that where you would do that, but it wouldn't happen.
It wouldn't have happened around my birthday. But yeah, I
think it's been commonplace around.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Has Brody had a bouncy house?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, he is not, not yet.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
This does remind me of my grandfather always told me
that he had to. He lived in Florida for a
time and one of his birthdays they had to do
it from a shelter because the hurricane was coming through. Oh,
it was like had the cake, had the cake basically
in a save area away from all the windows boarding
up and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Like Jason brings up the point too, of like of
is it is it a competition?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Is it just what the kid wants? You know?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I liked I liked bowling. I liked bowling. I think
it was fun. I think it was a fun time,
so I didn't mind going, and it was just it
works out that way, like let's get everybody together and
go bowling. Our our high school at the time had
an indoor pool, so you could do like a swimming
sort of thing. But there I know that there were
parties like where it would be like, hey, the town
(16:42):
wasa was like the big city bias, Like there was
an indoor pool at a hotel in Watsa.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
He did bat birthdays like that, So you would go
to the indoor pool, stay over the Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
You'd have cake. You did go to the pool.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, some places were even just you could just use
the pool, like you didn't have to like you would
have to pay for it. Yeah, but because that would
be a way that they would get in, because like
that would be another option.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
But isn't that funny though? As kids, these these nominal things,
these things that are kind of frowned upon. Now we're
the crown jewels of our time and our lives at
that time, and so you have those moments as kids,
and then you become adults and you become jaded by
all of that, and then you get to a point
where you get a little bit older and you start
to appreciate that's those smaller things again, Like that's the
(17:24):
bookend of our lives and how those things happen for us.
It's just so crazy, And I think that's kind of
like the metaphor for life, right, Like we have these
highs and lows, and we have these expectations of how
great things are supposed to be all the time. But
if you really scale back and go back to the
simpler times and the simple things, those are things we
appreciate the most. And so that's what I love about
this this segment and hearing everybody's story about the good
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times they had in those moments.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I think I've told it. I know i've told this
story on the air. I don't know if i've told
it with you guys before. When I am one of
the few people that does make a big deal about
my own birthday, I think ninety eight percent of grown
adults don't make a big deal out of theirs, but
I do.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
In the half birthday guy too, Yeah that's yeah, that's
kind of a joke.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's gonna be running joke, but yeah, some people's July sixteenth,
the half birthday January sixteenth, is my birthday. One of
the reasons why I truly do make a big deal
out of it. I was driving, I was riding the
school because I wasn't driving. Mom made the radio on.
You dropped my sister off at junior high and we're
listening to the radio on my birthday, and the radio
host goes, guess what today is? It's National Nothing Day.
(18:29):
Oh no, because nothing important happened on this day. It's
my birthday. I'm like in first grade. Okay, imagine that. Seriously,
I'm just gonna search look at what National Nothing Day is.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
So it's January sixteenth. Yes, it's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And so just completely gutted by Maybe that's my revenge.
Maybe that's why I got into radio to get back
at the radio host who said this. The only thing
to then make up for it was the Gulf War
ended up starting on my birthday. A couple of years
after that. Then like that was then It's like we'll see,
you know, now there is something something. It's a war,
(19:09):
but at least something happened on my birthday. Aside from wow, yeah,
that was that. That one scarred me. I still remember
and I type it in and show you Dan something
great has happened on January sixteenth. You know what it is.
It's Dan Bayer's birthday, all right, and and and shaw Day,
(19:29):
and Ronnie Millsap and the late Al and many more.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yes, and a former Baywatch star, David Chokichi.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
David Chokichi, I haven't heard that name in a long time.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's the Midway, the Midway, all right. A good birthday celebration.
By the way, that birthday that I told you about,
what they called the National Nothing Day. My birthday was
presented by Coca Cola that day. No, it wasn't. The
Tiger Woods title sponsor is just absurd.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
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Speaker 2 (20:06):
App Fox Sports Radio. He's Carry Rhoades. I'm Dan byer Oh.
The twenty first day of September's Chris Prefet's birthday. We're
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Speaker 8 (20:50):
San Three things I just heard from Chris. One, if
Todd Bowles had to announce he's coming back, there was danger.
There's that's that's a fact. Number Two, Trey Young only
had one option and that is the Wizard, so him
wanted to go. There isn't big news. And Three, Dan,
you know why I didn't respond to the sponsor's birthday thing.
I've had a couple of titles.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
You have.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Carry Roads thirtieth birthday party twenty five, twenty five.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh interesting, yeah, yeah, I didn't you say who it was?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
It was something I don't really partake in now, but
it was it was a. It was a liquor sponsor.
Oh wow, yeah, yeah, it was a little a little
a little Gray Goose.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
So you know how old I am? Right, Dad, look
at this, by the way, great. I wondered why you
were siding. Yeah. I was so quiet. That's like I
had to come true. I had to come clean.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
The carry roads bash brought to you by Gray Goose,
not Jim's Ribshack.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
What do you got, oh, dearly departed Jim's Ribhaven in
Rock Island not not open anymore. I just looked it up. Oh,
I know, there was great, but permanently closed. Permanently closed
in red banner on Google. But Chris, did you say
the Friendly confines confines? I know, but I think you
just started a new great thing for the conines.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
That's that's my That's gonna be my landscape. But like
the ivy.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
As well.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
He just like, that's the guy who like who discovered antibiotics.
He just like found a Petri dish sitting out. He's like,
what's this the friendly conbines?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Lick? There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Man, Sam's not gonna be able to stand for a
couple of minutes. He loved that. The Friendly conbin All right,
let's do that at Iowa Sam ninety nine hit Jason Stewart.
Up at Jason Stewart, you could get Chris Purfet at
Chris Perfett, he has Carrie Rhodes.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Jason and I always uh talk about funky things in football,
and we saw kind of this. It's the it's a
it's a similar staff, but they're they're not the same.
I saw a stat that kind of got under my skin.
Carry that said, first round quarterbacks in the playoffs. Twelve
of the fourteen playoff teams how themselves a first round quarterbacks.
(23:02):
You know what that means, Get yourself a first round quarterback.
The problem with that is if you look at the NFL,
everybody has a first round quarterback except six teams. I
went through the NFL team by team. Here are your
non first round quarterbacks. Two in the playoffs Brock Party
(23:25):
and Jalen Hurts Yep, Hurts a second round pick, Party
a seventh round pick. The other four Tyler Shook from
the Saints, Dak Prescott, Shardoor Sanders, and the Browns in
Gino Smith. So in twenty twenty five, like where we
are and you're looking at your quarterback, and heck, Kenny
Pickett was with the Browns for a little while. Those
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were the six spots that don't have a first round
quarterback at one point or another. So the essence of
get yourself a franchise quarterback is everybody is trying, it's
just nobody is succeeding. But there's something else with the
quarterbacks that I think stood out to you, Jason Stewart
as well, when we're talking about quarterback play.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
We can fact check this, but I had heard that
half of the quarterbacks in this field are not on
their second contract. In other words, was it seven of
the fourteen quarterbacks are still on the rookie deal?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That makes well, that would make more of a stat
because we feel like or something that is at least
real instead of the other one considering we feel like
there is such an urgency to get stuff done before
you have to pay the quarterback and then you have
to make decisions after that. But Bo Nix is on
a first year deal, Drake May's on a first year deal, CJ.
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Stroud is on a first year deal, Caleb Williams is
on a first year deal. So that's five. Bryce Young's
on a first year deal, and well brock Perty just
got his, so's it's it's near half if it isn't,
and maybe it looked at it wrong and just counted wrong,
but it's six or seven, and so it's half of
that is that is all? That is more factual than
(25:13):
saying you need to draft yourself a first round quarterback.
You know what stood out to me is there's been
this theme for super Bowls, I really think since the
beginning of the Super Bowl era. And there have been
a few outliers, one a couple of years ago, one
maybe in the eighties and nineties. But NFL teams and
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wide receivers don't and star wide receivers don't equal success.
When you look at this fourteen team field, I would
say that there are two teams that have elite play
from the wide receiver position from one of their wide receivers.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
Puka Nikua, yes, the Rams, and.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
And there are two that I put borderline that I
would give you the benefit of the but I don't
think it changes my argument. That's yep. Those were the
top two that I put elite wide receiver. The other
two I put aj Brown maybe and Nico Collins maybe maybe,
but like it wouldn't rise to the level. And when
you look back in time, what team relied heavily on
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their wide receiver Like I would say the Rams and
Cooper Cup is an exception when he ends up winning
Super Bowl MVP and for what he meant to the
Rams and Jerry Rice during his time with the with
the forty nine ers. But if you look throughout super
Bowl history could be okay, all right, that's that's fair.
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But throughout history, and specifically recently in the NFL, it's
become such a passing league, it's become such a quarterback league,
but it has not become a wide receiver league. And
one of the main themes this year, right is how
much the Rams use thirteen personnel. How much the Rams
used this three tight ends on the field, and the
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NFL doesn't know what to do with it. And this
is a team by the way, that has Phu Gonna
cool and about to Adams other squad. So it's just
funny to me when we were sitting there pointing out quarterbacks,
No quarterbacks aren't the story. Like once again, it's I
think from the wide receivers and the lack of I
guess relevance or connection to team's success when you.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Have an elite wide receiver.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Yeah, the receiver thing has been overblown for a long time,
and the reason for that being dan in the regular season,
defenses aren't throwing the sink at the offenses right in
certain games, like you'll give a guy a one on
one opportunity if he's a star receiver and you've got
a guy that can cover him and during the season,
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so that guy could have a good game in the
regular season. When it comes to the playoffs, we're throwing
the kitchen sink at you. You're not gonna beat us
with what you do best. So if you are a
star receiver in your quarterback that you know goes to
that guy a lot and he has great numbers, usually
we're gonna account for that and so we're gonna take
that away. So if you're paying all this all these
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resources and putting all your eggs in this basket, that
he's gonna come out and do what he did in
the regular season is not going to happen. So that's
why football is the ultimate team sport. And if you're
overpaying for those type of positions where obviously the quarterback
does matter and you have to take care of that.
We've seen it, and I've seen it playing up close
(28:26):
right me playing against those Brady teams in New England.
They never had a star receiver. They brought in Randy Mallsson.
What happened, they didn't win the Super Bowl, And so
those things go hand in hand.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
What I think is interesting to your point though, is
is you're saying, like, in the playoffs, we throw everything
at them. So you're not going to see a wide
receiver with twelve catches and one hundred and eighty yards
and three touchdowns in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
If you do, then you're you're a bad defense. Okay, yeah,
yeh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
But we're also talking about this is all leading up to,
leading up to the playoffs. So even in those instances
where you're saying that maybe you're not throwing the kitchen sink, yeah,
and you're getting those opportunities, they're not translating to necessary
to victories necessarily or or to wins along the way.
When you talk about like the top wide receivers in
the National Football League or those that we think that are,
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you know, the top of their game, I mean, we're
talking about the Jamar Chases and the Justin Jeffersons and
and those guys, and they're not in the playoffs this year,
and and honestly, you know, Justin Jefferson is in it
last year. But I think that you would see the
same sort of movement because jays Aan wasn't in their
last year and Jason wasn't the level of receiver that
he was this season. But I think that there's there's
(29:34):
just again a lot disconnect with wide receivers. Jason Stewart.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Yeah, so the Pokinakua to Carrie's point here, Pokin Nakua
and JSN are both on the rookie deal, so they
are high level receivers but fairly cheap, right yea. And
while Dan was talking, I I I looked up the
top paid receivers in the NFL. It's just filled with
guys that aren't in the playoff playoffs. Yeah, I mean,
(29:58):
I can't believe the t Higg is a top ten
paid receiver and he's on the same day with Jamar Chase,
Ceedee Lamb, dk Metcalf only a Monroe Saint Brown is
a guy that is both on the list of most
paid and like most productive receiver in fantasy and he's
not in the playoffs yep.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And I think for a while on that list, on
the T Higgins is there the Dolphins for a while,
we're paying Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill yep, top ten
money and look at how far that got them. The
Cowboys are going to have to make a decision with
George Pickens yep, right on what you're gonna do with him.
So now so if Dallas does that, I think the
numbers that we show don't necessarily show playoff success.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, so like.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
There's yeah, there's a lot, a lot has changed in
the NFL and it has become quarterback heavy, but some
stuff has not changed, and it's the importance of the
wide receivers or maybe just lack thereof from that position.
From So when I see the when I see the teams,
I don't look at the quarterbacks. When there's twenty six
first st round quarterbacks starting in the in the NFL,
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those numbers are are somewhat parallel to what the postseason is.
It's what we see from the wide receiver position. Even
like looking at the running backs, you look at the
running back value, I think there's more running back value
than we realize in this in this postseason because we
think it's an extinct position. And I know, say Kwon
Barkley didn't have a great year, but Christian McCaffrey did.
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They're there, they're they're playing against each other. The Packers
have been riding the back of Josh Jacobs when he's
been healthy. I think the Bears success this year has
been the two headed monster of Swift and Manongai and
how they've turned things around. So even just the running
back in James Cook, right, James Cook ends up leading
the NFL and rushing and all we talk about the
Bills is Josh Allen And that's the thing, and that's
why Dan it's such an ultimate team sport man. And
(31:45):
when you when you think about divas and you think
about people demanding certain numbers, obviously that's when they're that's
within their right. And obviously, especially coming off off your
first off your rookie contract, those guys are trying to
get paid.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
But I think it the onus falls on the teams
and organizations and saying this is our this is our
philosophy to win, not our philosophy to overpay and I
think you know, just because relationships are formed and you
have an affinity for you know, certain players and they
are good players. If it comes at the sake of
your team, you got to make those make those decisions wisely.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He's Carry Roads Delle Pro. I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Jason Stewarts here as his Iowa was Sam and Chris
Purfett hanging out on Wednesday. One NFL star is likely
riding off into the sunset, but stopping at about one
hundred way sides along the way. Just a decision cannot
be made. I'll tell you who that is next here
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Speaker 1 (32:38):
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is Jason Stewart. Jason pointing out Carry, It's taken a
while for Travis Kelcey to maybe make up his mind.
It's probably been on his mind a while on what's next,
but still no decision from the Chiefs tod end Jason.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
So they asked him after the game on Sunday that
was in the news cycle. Then they asked Andy Reid
about it on Monday that was in the cycle. So yesterday,
of course, he had to go on his podcast and
he said this about it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
If my body can heal up and rest up and
I can feel confident that I can go out there
and give it another eighteen twenty twenty one week run,
I think I would do it in a heartbeat. I
think right now it's just finding that answer and seeing
how the body feels after this game and kind of win.
It all settles.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Down now, Kerry. The conversation in this talk space seems
to be like one sided. It's like Travis Kelcey's got
eight figures waiting for him on TV if he leaves, Like,
why would you come back to a Chiefs team that's
without its quarterback and looks like it's run is over?
Like why would you come back?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
And you are uniquely qualified to answer this question. I
want to know if Travis Kelcey were to come to
you and be like Carrie, like, I don't care about
the money thing. Those opportunities are going to be here.
But like mentally, chemically, physically, what is in store for
me if I were to retire? What happens to football
players when they give it up? When you give it up,
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the identity is gone.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
So you've been touted as this special person, this special
kid for a long time. You've achieved all these accolades,
You've gotten all these pats on the back for your
whole life, and once that window closes of that, that
next phase is the hardest phase you're ever going to
go through in your life. I was somebody that knew
what I wanted to do after and I did not
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want to overstay my welcome in the NFL at all.
And I could have come back and played a couple
more years. I made the decision not to. And when
I sat on the couch and I turned on the
TV and try to watch a game the first year
I was done, all I did was look at the
guys and say I should be playing because they are terrible.
Like I started to look at the guys and say, no,
(35:17):
I could I could definitely do that. And so that
first year was there was depression. It was a real thing,
and I had things that were already lined up. And
so once that identity is gone and you're just considered
Travis kelce Carrie Rose, the former football player and you're
trying to shake that, it was al wad be the
hardest times you're going to go through as a as
a human, especially having success so early on in your
(35:40):
in your life as a football player.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Does as do they get to reality because most people
who watch the Jets or Cardinals are in a depression right.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Like when you're watching, Yes, you're watching watch that. Maybe
I shouldn't have made a joke. There was just shot
on a plan.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
The thing that I think about Travis Kelcey, which I
commend you for or is it sure feels like Travis
Kelcey is trying to find the perfect time to retire
and I don't think that there is. And so there's
something left to prove after the Super Bowl that you lost,
or there's something to prove after a season where Mahomes
got hurt and maybe you weren't utilized as much, or
you didn't make the playoffs, if you really wanted to
(36:18):
find the perfect time. It was probably two years ago
after you went back to back that probably would have
been the perfect time if you want to put a
bow on your football career. I also think there's this
happy medium, like the Chiefs are going to have to
know at some point what Travis Kelce's intentions are, but
it's not going to be seventy two hours after the
final game of the season. It's gonna come at some
(36:39):
point between now and obviously they need to know by
early March, but who knows. This may be a Super
Bowl off week sort of announcement, So then you hit
radio row and make those announcements. But to Carry's port,
I think the feeling that Travis Kelce has now from
July and August and September, it's going to be a
different feeling. And so no matter what, you may end
up regretting whatever this is and you have to.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Make yeah, and the regret is real, but not for me.
Like I said, there there is a there is a
safe space to land, but there's gonna be some hard
times in you.
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