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way tire bind should be. Thursday Night Football, second half
kicking off, Falcons getting the football. They have a fourteen
to thirty lead over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who six
weeks ago we thought they were great. Now it's but
I do want to say this because I really feel
this from the bottom of my heart, whether this is

(01:13):
a game that you know, we probably could have done
without on Thursday Night football Falcons. Yeah, get before the
sever Oh the Falcons are gonna be good. No they're not.
Michael Pennix well he's not very good. Well and also
he's hurt and uh and the Bucks well, I do
have to say we are all winning with this uniform matchup. No, absolutely,
we are all winning with this. I mean this is
one of the few times, like I get that everybody

(01:35):
seems to like certain uniforms and I like this, and
I like this. All right, great, I get it. I
understand that. But there's something about when you see the
Bucks creamsicles that are like they're like the new Charger
powder blue. Right when the Charges first started wearing their
powder blues, like like twenty five years ago, it was
I look at the powder the best powder blue uniforms.
Like Berman made a whole cottage industry of that on

(01:56):
primetime with that. But I feel like that's kind of
where we're at now with the creamsicles, Like you wear
the creamsickles, that's ah, like this this is the new
whatever you're seeing, whatever, whatever issues you're going through this
holiday season. I mean, unless you went to or you
go to Michigan, like you know, whatever, you're dealing with.
Is this is gonna put a smile on your face. Hey,
we get to see the bucks of the creamsickles.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, it's only for a moment or two. It makes
you feel good. But then some of the defensive lapses
make you feel like you're watching those nineteen seventy six
and seventy seven Tampa Bay Buccketeers where they couldn't win
in this particular combination Leroy and Dewey salmon shot for sure, Sure, nice.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Ricky Bell, we never got a lot of run. No,
Leroy got all of that. Leroy was also I think
what fourteen four time All America. Yeah, I mean big deal.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's much of successful restaurants and businesses in the Tampa.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Sid you're the less successful brother slash twins slash sibling.
I just so you know that's gonna happen that way.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
But in throwback land, with this uniform, right, this helmet
and the orange jersey, they're.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
One in five. Yeah, but so with this helmet and
the white jersey they actually have.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Some some more success. But here you can move the
units of this now, I would say also defensively, they're
playing like those seventy six and seventy seven. There's only
two guys that can beat you, Kyle Pitts and Bejhon Robinson.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's it. Well, And the thing is, when Kyle Pitts
is one of the guys senior beat you, you have
to look in the mirror. Wow. Because the last two
weeks thirteen for one hundred and seventy two. Yeah, okay, okay, great, yes, Oh,
here comes the Kyle Pitts breakout. The guy's thirty five
years old. Now he's not gonna break out. Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'm not saying. I'm not saying he's a wizard. I'm
just saying, like there's been a little bit.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Of a back and forth and a nice rapport with
him and Kirk Cousins, which means, you know what, cover
that man. Drake London is not on the field. Darnell
Mooney is not that guy. The Kyle Pitts breakout is
not happening. Yeah, but here he is in Fantasy Land,
the Fantasy Playoffs, and he's uh, he's dominating six for six,
one hundred and eleven and two over. It's over. What

(04:00):
about who Frossburg? Paul Mooney? Uh No, I don't think nice.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I don't think we can play most of the one liners,
though I didn't say that.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So yeah, So here we are fourteen thirteen, early in
the third quarter again, and even the even the Bucks
coaches are wearing the creamsicle colors like and and look.
To be honest, orange is a tough color to pull
off from a guy who is worn Orange's whole whole life.
Like orange is a tough color to pull off. But
it's not just that. Like you get to the Falcon side,
the black jerseys, the red helmets, like that's a sweet

(04:30):
look too, man, Like I see the red helmet, I
think Steve Barkowski. Actually, yeah, this is all going back
to the lates at William Andrews. Yeah, sure, sure, yes,
now you're talking. Yeah, I'm digging. That's I mean, like
when when when the uniforms are really good, you can
you can get past the bad football or the lack
of urgency on the football. Like I bet you Al
Michael's seeing these uniforms. He thinks both these teams are great.

(04:53):
He thinks, what a great matchup we have tonight. No,
except for all the penalties, Well that goes along with
you know, when white falcons falcon happens, I think they
have fourteen points and fourteen penalties.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I'll tell you what though, those helmets, yeah, really are
something special.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean the helmets are absolutely fantastic.
Uh So again, we'll bring you more on this. Uh again,
fourth and eight for the Falcons. They'll punt it away
early in the third quarter. They lead the Bucks fourteen thirteen.
This game a huge deal of playoff implications in the NFC,
specifically the NFC South, with the Carolina Panthers somehow being
as bad as they are and they are sitting there, hey,

(05:31):
we could just wind up finishing six and and eleven
and making the playoffs because everybody else in the division stinks.
So h this is where we are at right now
with this story. However, as we said yesterday, the big
shock of the Sharon Moore situation with Michigan, he has
fired as head coach when the university dismisses him because

(05:53):
of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. We also find
out he was then detained and taken into police custom
after an assault type situation in a smaller town outside
of ann Arbor. And last night it was okay, we
told you last night. Listen, there's a lot of stuff
going on the internet right now, and I can out
seeing now because now we know more, And I said,
I know, in twenty four hours we will know more

(06:15):
and we will have a little bit better idea of
what happened. And we do. There was a lot of
different things last night, but the concrete things we know
because if they've been reported earlier in the day. Today
you had the first reports Pete Thammil on ESPN saying
that he had his behavior had been very erratic for
a while, berating coaches. Not the same guy he was.

(06:38):
We found out the woman he was in this relationship
with got a very surprising bump and salary from fifty
thousand dollars a year to ninety thousand dollars a year
without getting a promotion or anything else. Requietly the money
gets bumped up, and then the big hammer drops late
in the day when the nine to one to one
call from yesterday came out about the assault call in

(06:58):
which it was called it was a phone call was
made from the victim's residence, ostensibly potentially it was the
woman he was involved with, in which she says he's
been stalking me for months. He's here right now, he
threatened me with a knife. He threatened himself and this
is when police were called to the residents and they
found Sharon more at a church somewhere nearby and reports

(07:19):
where that he had the knife and he dropped it.
He is now still being looked at by police and
he is in some sort of evaluation care because of
the potential self harm situation. And this is where the
situation was Sharon Moore. Since right now and in the
last hour or so, we're starting to open the door
to when did Michigan know about this situation. There are

(07:42):
some reports that they knew as far back as September,
maybe before. Maybe it was just a couple of weeks ago.
So now this is where the big the big thing goes.
How long did Michigan know? But was this something where
they were made aware of it a couple of weeks
ago and after a couple of weeks a gone by
they acted on It was just something that was in
September and they let him coach the whole season. Was
this eight nine months ago and they still let them coach.

(08:03):
That's the next part of this. But I don't think
people understand the one part of the story that we
haven't really gotten into yet, is that, Yeah, this is
an incredibly sad story and you see what's going on.
You feel for everybody involved in You don't know what's
happening and what the motivations are and what this relationship
was like. You know that Sharon Moore is married with
three kids, but I don't think people understand that just

(08:25):
how bad this is for the Michigan brand, Just how
awful this is, because this is not Hey, here's a
coach and we can wipe our hands and walk away.
This is the head coach of the football team. You
go to that campus and you see that, and you
see the sports complex and you could see the trillions
of dollars that has poured into this because of the

(08:46):
football product. Look, the basketball team is phenomenal, hockey team
is phenomenal. They have they're sports in Michigan, sports at
top to bottom are terrific. But this is this is
how bad that this is the head coach at Michigan
and everything I just outlined, this is what's happened. Imagine
what the story is like. Okay, what if this was
at Ohio State or Alabama or or USC think of

(09:10):
all these big schools Texas where here's a coach, the
guy that's got the biggest job, who was who is
basically running the state, all of a sudden gets involved
and throws it away because of an affair with somebody else.
And there's there's a reports of assault, and and and
now he's fired for cause and what an absolute messis
is Yes, and you know, Sharon Moore, I get being

(09:30):
focused on him, but this is so unbelievably bad for Michigan,
especially thinking that, well, the next part of it's gonna
be what did they know? When did they know about it?
Ward Manual, the ad who got an extension, He's got
a four year extension a year ago, Like, I don't know,
people understand just how bad this is for Michigan, for
the brand, for the football program, because now all that

(09:51):
their recruits are gonna wind up leaving, they're gonna got
Bryce Underwood. Deserve me talk about him getting poached from
from somewhere else, Like that's how bad this is? Just
this Charon more part of it. This is what we're
focused on, but Michigan, which is a much bigger deal.
This is absolutely out of People understand just how bad
this is going to be for them. Well, I'll take
the underwood part first.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
A week ago, everybody was like he could go somewhere
else because they didn't like him. So now we can't
suddenly wring our hands and say, oh, it'll be terrible
if he leaves because that.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
We're going to give you more money. Okay, great like them.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Now he's not been great. He is not a guy
that was evaluated as that. Michigan fans, we're terribly upset
about it, but he's still the starting quarterback of the
football team who they gave eleven million dollars of nil
money to and oh yeah, and now this guy could
go like think about how embarrassing it was for a
Tennessee left year now with Tennessee and nicoy Almalava who

(10:48):
was like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Nobody really knew who the guy was. Now this this
is Michigan. That's how bad. This is.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
No, but that's it. It's the how, what, why? Where
all of that? Uh and connecting the dots back in
the timeline, is it November? Is it to September? We
saw prominent Michigan alums all, hey, you know, hey, I
had multiple people tell me essentially the same story months ago,
and it's sat there all right, So if they'd gone

(11:12):
ten and two or eleven and one, does it get buried?
Does it stay in unearthed? Was it going to be
coming out inevitably?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Like some of those details that we still await are
going to decide how bad it is for the school,
Cause we've seen schools across the landscape, basketball, football, whatever,
pro teams you survive, right, that coach, it's insulated, it's isolated,

(11:44):
it's gone. But once it goes into how many more
people within the organization, within the pecking order, going all
the way up and down into state representatives, let alone
people on the employed by the university itself knew about
things and either tried to cover it up, cover it up,
or move it down the line. Yeah, that's that's where

(12:06):
it is, right. The cover up always worse than the
crime itself. Here, you start asking about, you know, mental
health and when you're firing for cause and the timeline
of that. If there's a stocking situation, can they corroborate that?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Had there been you know, police, had there been police
intervention in the months prior, Like, all of these things
are questions that'll come out, and as we navigated it
last night, It was a lot of stories, a lot
of allegations like yeah, don't I don't know that it's
in our right or responsibility. It's our responsibility to not breathe,

(12:46):
breathe into that until it's corroborated and the eyes are
dotted and.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
The teaser cross.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
As we talked about yesterday, even even some of your
tabloidal websites didn't go down that road, whether they had
Michigan ties or just from a hey, actually, let's try
to capitalize journalism for a moment. They didn't go down
that road. Neither did we, and some of it were
still awaiting for the corroboration. But as it sits now,

(13:13):
I mean, he's still in a holding cell and they
haven't decided whether the press charges or not. Like that,
that's where we're at as we come on air tonight,
like that's still an unknown. I mean, you think it's bad, now,
just wait, just wait, like this mushrooms and this is
months of Michigan and corruption and what was known and
what this that that's I mean, people don't understand that

(13:35):
you can't just move on and say well, if you're
on more and we're out and here comes Klender Moore
or here comes Jesse mintor it's.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Not gonna be that simple. It is. It's it's going
to be so it's it's one of those when I
talk to my because all I do all day is
we talk about this because my wife's family wants to
know and all this stuff and be in Michigan and
there they've seemed to all just like the entire state
just seems to be coming to agreement with This is
just gonna suck for a long time, and it's gonna
get even worse. I'm like, yeah, that's exactly how it's gonna.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Gost I meaning you know, plus or minus, and not
to be glib about it. The lack of a real
control by anything NCAA related actually helps anymore. Exit up
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Thursday Night football in Tampa. It is a now twenty
to fourteen lead for the Bucks. Baker Mayfield throws a
touchdown pass. They were facing a fourth and goal when
we last left. Whoever a penalty gave the Bucks the
first down. Two plays later they were in the end zone.
Now it's the Falcons with the ball on the move.

(16:42):
Bejon Robinson just caught a pass in the flat and
got about twenty five yards. So here come the Falcons
looking to play spoiler here in the NFC South, because, boy,
the chances of the Bucks going to the playoffs. You know,
according to the big math they like to do. With
a win tonight, it's like somewhere for eight. With a
loss of night, it's down to like fifty percent.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yah, I drop into seven and seven would be huge.
Still a couple of dates left with the Carolina Panthers
to try to win the division. We've seen some chaos.
We saw a missed opportunity by a Tampa Bay defender
to play before that big screen pass and scamper from

(17:25):
Jean Robinson and now a deep ball to your guy
Sills and it goes straight through his hands.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Oh TJ. Clearly they saw that play from Santa Monica
to Beverly Sills drops it what could have been a
big game that was well done for those who don't
know Beverly Sills an actress for many, many years. What
is also interesting is that he just he just dropped
a pass that was a touchdown, That was a forty

(17:52):
five yard touchdown. That defensive back fell down. All Sills
has to do is catch it, and he just oppos it.
He puts his hands out to catch it and he
just dropped. I mean, that's a fifty yard touchdown pass
and the Falcons are leading this game and he just
dropped it. It's one of those I get guys drop passes.
But man, like you see the skills wide receivers have

(18:13):
in the NFL, It's like, how do you drop something
like that?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Generally you don't want the ball to come into your body.
On that one, let the ball come into your body
and then corral it.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Went and tried to snag it with his hands and
just flat out dropped it. Over the course of the night,
and the graphic that keeps going up is the number
of first downs that the Falcons have is basically one
to one with the number of penalties that they have
for the Buccaneers, because everybody saw the stars coming back
and got excited. Your touchdowns scored by Sean Tucker and.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Devin Culp cu y'all seldom used tight end second year
man out of Washington, drafted in the seventh round last year.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oten's out. Everybody's hurt, and here you go the pattern
run by the touchdown. He ran a curly culp to
get the touch nicely done. I was gonna.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Curly culpur.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
I had that in in the the wheelhouse, but not
in the burmanism for you.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I mean I could I. I could I the other
other one because I get a Robert Culpin, but that
would have been really tough. I could have gotten Bob in,
but like do people know Bob Culp. Robert Culp, you know,
I mean Robert.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Culpe showed up on Everybody Loves Raymond, and sure he
was around for what about.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Bob blp What about Bob blah blah. Yeah, he's kind
good at him. We don't have time for nonsense with
Bob blah blah. So twenty to fourteen Bucks with the
lead Falcons, with the football again about the forty five
yard line of the Bucks, about four and a half
to go in the third quarter. Meanwhile, things just got
really really interesting in the off season if your team

(19:45):
needs a superstar quarterback. And I mean not just oh,
I don't mean like, oh, Kyler Murray's available. No, no, no,
things got really really interesting today and we're gonna tell
you why because it is normal. Well, Thursday press conference,
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow went on a I don't want

(20:06):
to say a long diatribe, but he spent a good
couple of minutes talking about his happiness and where he
sits right now with how happy he is in football
and life. And he says, I got some personal things
happening too, but asked about how much fun he's having
playing and playing right now. This is the answer that
Joe Burrow gave a couple of different ways. This wasn't

(20:28):
just a one answer. This is a couple of different ways.
This is Joe Burrow answering the happiness question earlier today.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
I want to keep doing this. I have to have
fun doing it. You know, I've been through a lot,
and if it's not fun, then what am I.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Doing it for?

Speaker 5 (20:41):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure there is a singular
moment or of time. It's just a reflection, reflection on
a lot of things that I've done and been through
in my career. I think I've been through more than
most and it's certainly not easy on the brain or
the body. So let's trying to have I'm doing it again.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
He turned twenty nine yesterday, so it's definitely one of
those celebrating a birth day in a look at my
life and see the choices that I've made. Dude, you
bought the batmobile. I think you're doing okay.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, I don't know that he's ability of that purchase.
He was rumored to be and then I think with
the break in and everything, maybe he got salty and
said no.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
And you've seen a lot of things as he talked about. Look,
he had the break in at his home not too
long ago, the injuries he has been dealing with. It's
privacy being invaded. How happy he is playing football and
going out having a you know, when he goes out there,
he plays terrific, but he's been hurt a lot. The
team is not winning. Another big effort on Sunday goes

(21:41):
by the wayside. He throws four touchdowns, couple of picks,
they lose to the Bills. It's officially in done season
now in Cincinnati. And when I hear him talking like this, right,
and everybody jumped to one conclusion, that's, Oh, he's going
to pull the Andrew Lucky's going to retire. You know,
if that's where it was going, that's where it was going.
You don't say stuff like this, right. That's that's something

(22:03):
where if you're thinking about retiring, that's where you talk
to yourself. You know, you talk to your loved ones
about it. It's not something that goes in in in public. Right.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
You also wouldn't have grinded your ass to get back
on the field when the season was spiraling as it was.
If you were really on the I don't love this anymore.
You're not killing yourself to get back on the field.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, and he's and and it's a it's a different
it's a different take. Remember when Andrew Luck did it,
nobody knew, nobody knew he was doing. He was on
the sideline of their preseason game, and all of a sudden,
Adam Schefter says, hey, Andrew Luck is retiring. And then
he beats it off the field at the end, and
you know, now he's running Stanford football. So it's a
it's a it would be handled differently if this was
a retiring thing. This is Joe Burrow saying I have

(22:49):
to get out of here, right, And we talked with
this a couple of years ago where the biggest thing
that Bengals need to do is keep him happy. He's
the beginning of their era of good feeling, right said
four years ago, Hey, you the right guy, he's the
right quarterback. You got to make sure that he is happy,
because this is how lucky you get lucky in the
draft to get him coming off the year he had.
How good he is, I mean, he's he is a

(23:11):
phenomenal talent. You have to keep him happy, you have
to keep him up right, keeping him up right, it's
been a problem now. Sometimes it's just hey, maybe he's
not as durable. Sometimes it's their offensive line as the
twenty eighth ranked offensive line, and he gets hit way
too much. But he is not happy, and he talks
about happiness and wanting to do it. Believe me, he's
a pretty smart dude. He knows what he says and

(23:32):
how it's going to be taken. This is him throwing
out there for the very for the very first time publicly, Yeah,
I'm not happy here in Cincinnati. And Cincinnati has a
plethora of problems. Look, how many how many stories do
you have to hear about Cincinnati and how badly they're run?
Like how many times you have to see the end
of season, here's the survey of teams and what Cincinnati
does worse than anybody else. I mean, you've heard so

(23:55):
many stories about this is what life is for the Bengals.
And they got lucky. They got lucky that they got
Joe Burrow. All you got to do is keep that
guy happy. Man, Yeah, you would not. You gave Jamar
Chase money, you gave to his money. That's great, but
you have to make sure that he is happy. As
far as being able to win, being able to succeed,
be able to put in a position to succeed. It's
the offensive line, it's everything that goes along. It's being

(24:17):
happy coming into work every day. And whether it was
the combination of losing to the Bills, because you could
see the look on his face following that loss. He
was a very quick congratulations of Josh Allen. It was
an incredible game and you could see him walking off
the field and you could tell there's gears grinding in
his head about stuff. He has a twenty ninth birthday
a day ago. No coincidence that he is saying this

(24:39):
now four games left in the regular season. He's letting
it be known. I want out and come and get me.
And since that happened, you know that teams have been
calling and texting and trying to figure what out does
he want out? What are we doing because in the
off season there's not a lot of great guys available
free agency. The draft is pretty weak. It's not like
what it's going to be projected to be in twenty

(25:00):
twenty seven. Doesn't mean quarterbacks aren't gonna get taken, but
do you have a choice to say, well, I could
take Dante more fourth overall, or I could go get
Joe Burrow. I'm gonna go get Joe Burrow. He is
on a different team in twenty twenty six. He is
starting for a different franchise, a franchise that is not
just anybody that can put draft picks together like the Jets.
Hey we got first round picks. No, it's gonna be

(25:22):
I'm going to a place where I'm in a position
to succeed, where I can win. Because I'm twenty nine,
I'm seeing my football mortality. I don't know how many
years I have left, though I want to think I
have a lot. But man, twenty nine, I'm gonna I'm
gonna be thirty, and I'm not gonna have anything accomplished
like I wanted to. Yeah, it's gonna be a team
that's on the uprise, that's a quarterback away that he's
gonna be on next year. Book a new team for

(25:42):
Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
The Colts asking and what the warranty was on at
Sauce Gardner in getting those picks, But all of that
to say for Joe Burrow right this was part of
the big birthday celebration as he met with the media midweek,
talked about getting a pokem on box from his teammates,
who was very excited about that. Went deep into Pokemon culture.

(26:05):
So that was the stuff that got the first round
in terms of the publicities. Ah, it's kind of funny
talking about the hobby and scalpers or whatever else. And
then it got very somber on the football side. And
it goes back to when we had the Super Bowl run,
when they were out here and Cincinnati Bengals fans weren't
nearly as irate and upset about things as I thought

(26:26):
they should have been. The way the fourth quarter went
down against the Rams, Ah, you know, we're just getting started.
Its like, that's not the way this works, man, It's
not the way football works. And watching the proliferation of
injuries for him piled up, they did him right by
bringing back Chase and Higgins and and they've loaded up

(26:47):
on the offense. The offensive line is an exact science
that we see from myriad NFL teams, and nobody gets
it right. They try and then a lot of it
as your quarterback, and he's had some unlucky breaks along
the way. Defensively, lou Aniruma was the fall guy last
year for what was a horribly constructed eleven man unit,

(27:11):
and then Hendrickson, they have all the fight in the offseason,
then he gets hurt and he's unavailable right so down
the stretch. So that game against Buffalo was the culmination
of a lot of things, battling back from injury to
get back on the field, doing everything you could with
the four touchdown pass you had him on the ropes,
and then a couple of mistakes, tip balls all that

(27:32):
your defense can't get you one stop. And that's been
the story of the year. Even when Joe Flacco was
out there, right, you couldn't get the one stop, even
if the offense was putting up points. And after a
couple of years of that rehabs and recognizing nothing's changing
at the top, right, it's the old adage. If you

(27:52):
got a bad ownership group and they don't do right
by the players, by the community, by everything. Mike Brown, everybody,
Mike Brown, and to again to his credit, he paid
his wideouts.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Problem is that that's not a team. But look, and
and and the reason why this is gonna happen is
because look, I'm old enough to remember when Carson Palmer
wanted out, and Mike Brown let him sit for weeks
and weeks and weeks. Joe Burrow was saying this, does
he strike you with someone that has any problem, saying,
I'm just gonna sit until you trade me. That's all.
I'm hurt all the time now here for whatever it

(28:23):
is because you can't protect me. I am absolutely okay
because I know my value. I know what it is
for a team to get me at the age of thirty.
It's gonna protect me. I am absolutely okay because eventually
you will trade me. Eventually someone's gonna come in and
you're gonna tire of the storyline and you're gonna make
that move. Something's going to happen. He is He is
not a guy that I that I said, Ah, he's
just gonna try to do this and and and and

(28:45):
bluff his way through and force a trade. No, the
Bengals have shown we'll let a quarterback sit and he
he is a guy. He's telling you, I gotta be happy.
I don't know. Hey, he is absolutely gonna be fine
sitting until they do. I'll miss half the season. It's fine,
I'll miss half the season.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
See what I mean?

Speaker 3 (28:59):
We get I don't think he can do that, because
otherwise he wouldn't be playing right now. He wouldn't have
come back if he was that guy. Well, I don't
think he changed that much just with the one game.
He came back because he thought, even though it's a
bad year. The division stinks, right, the Steelers are terrible,
the Ravens can't get going, and Lamar Jackson's hurt. Hey,

(29:21):
I can come back and I can lead us and
we can maybe get back in this. That's why that's
why he came back is I know he can still
screw up, but now he can't.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Right, But now he can't because clearly they just lost
too many games. If they had won last week, boy,
you think about where they're at. But they lost. The
last couple of weeks were difficult, and now he knows. Okay,
I came back. I gave it my best shot. I
thought we could do it. We're not.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I got to lay the groundwork for getting on a
new team.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
In twenty twenty, Sex Angles fans start lining up all
those Pokemon that you've collected, your PSA graded ones and
line them at the feet of Joe Burrow and start
begging him to feel happier about life. Liberty and his
opportunity with the Cincinnati Bengals make him realize he loves Cincinnati,
he loves his teammates because otherwise he gone.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Get ready new team in twenty twenty six, Get ready
for Joe Burrow franchise quarterback in the back. Oh no, no,
he's wants to go fumble that. No, no, no, no, He's
got to go to a team that's like a quarterback
away from being a super Bowl. But what's also funny, though,
is like we do the old Hey, you know this
quarterback class, because remember this quarterback class for twenty six
was supposed to be pretty good. Yeah, and it stakes.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Now, so the fact that we're already going, eh, just
wait till twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah, and then we'll wait till twenty eight, twenty nine. Yeah,
you have proof of concept. The guy could actually quarterback
on one leg and with one arm.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
You know what I mean? Could go where's that trending?

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Now?

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
I like that Frostburg. There you go, let's find out
what's trending in the wide world of sportsman. Guy who's
been called the Joe Burrow of Fox Sports Radio. He
had a batmobile except he was six and he got
it for Christmas. It's Steve to say, slightly different paychecks.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
The Bengals, by the way, playing in Cincinnat this weekend. Currently,
the forecast is twelve degrees for the day, Cincinnati four
and nine, as they'll be hosting Baltimore this weekend. The
Bengals do have the worst defense in the league, allowing
thirty two points a game over four hundred yards a game.
The Atlanta Falcons had four and nine. Are in action

(31:19):
right now and we're actually leading at Tampa Bay fourteen
to ten, late first half. It's now the Bucks late
in the third a head at home twenty to fourteen.
Baker Mayfield fourteen of twenty six passing two hundred forty
four yards, one touchdown. Mike Evans back after a couple
months out he had a broken collar bone. He's finally
back from that. Tonight they've targeted him ten times. Evans

(31:42):
has five catches one hundred twenty two yards. Kirk Cousins
with two touchdown passes in the first half for Atlanta,
both of those to Kyle Pitts, who has seven receptions
for one hundred and seventeen yards and two scores. Bijon
Robinson sixty six yards, rushing sixty two yards, receiving five
catches final seconds of the third quarter at Tampa Bay.

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The Bucks lead twenty to fourteen. The Bucks are tied
for first in the NFC South with Carolina, and Tampa
Bay plays two of its final three games against the Panthers.
Bengals wide receiver T Higgins was limited in practice again
today after a concussion. Dallas wide receiver Cede Lamb practice
fully after a concussion a week ago. Steelers pass rusher TJ.

(32:26):
Watt was hospitalized for a lung injury, so his status
for Monday night is in question. Rams wide out DeVante
Adams Smith's practice again with a hamstring injury. Through the
NBA just four games tonight, the LA Clippers have just
lost by two at Houston Rockets one fifteen, one thirteen.
The final Clippers record now six and nineteen. At Milwaukee,

(32:48):
a win for the Bucks over Boston one sixteen one
oh one that ends the Celtics five game winning streak.
Also in action, well, New Orleans has lost seven in
a row. New Orleans wound up winning that is now
final tonight one forty three to one twenty against the
Blazers and the late game. Has Denver had forty six

(33:08):
twenty six at Sacramento early in the second quarter. Golden
State Steph Curry is due to return Friday. He missed
five games with a quad injury. In men's college basketball
on FS one, fourth rank, Diowa State was trailing at
home by thirteen late first half, but still beat rival
Iowa sixty six sixty two. Syracuse is four and zero
at home so far and leading at home tonight fifty

(33:30):
eight to fifty four against Saint Joe's was six minutes
to go. Green Bay won its first Horizon League game,
won and two in conference now eighty five seventy five
at IU Indianapolis. Among the thirteen NHL contests.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Were any chairs thrown after the game tonight? I don't
even know that no chairs were thrown.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
No apologies tomorrow, all right? Tampa Bay and the NHL
and eight four win at New Jersey Carolina, a shootout
winner at Washington three to two victories for Boston and
the Islanders. The Braves signed for Padres closer Robert Suarez
to a three year deal. Atlanta closer Rice Dallyglacias has
a new one year contract NASCAR settled the anti trust

(34:09):
lawsuit brought by two of its race teams, and it
is now through three quarters at Tampa Bay. The Bucks
lead the Falcons twenty to fourteen. The Atlanta Falcons through
three have fifteen penalties for one hundred yards.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Though Jason Smith, Mike
Carmen live at the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next.
You want to know how wide open the NFL is,
I'll tell you something from today that tells you just
how wide open the entire playoffs is. And if your
team can get in, you got a chance. That's next
Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Carmon. Baker Mayfield starting to cook after a
Bijon Robinson fumble which Wow, didn't look like he had
the football for long enough to fumble, but it stands up.
Mayfield throws his second touchdown of the night and they
get the two point conversion and now it is a
twenty eight to fourteen lead Tampa Bay over the Falcons.

(35:16):
Still a lot of time left, about thirteen and a
half minutes to go in the fourth quarter. But now
some daylight for a team that is hoping to put
a little bit of positive spin on the last few
weeks where they've kind of fallen off the lead in
the NFC South and really plant their foot towards what
could be a big December.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Two steps, three steps fumble. We're gonna have that debate
once again. But the way you phrase that sounded like
a man who was salted. He might have just lost
two points in a fantasy.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Maybe I did. Maybe I'm upset about the two points
I lost. I don't think I should have lost him.
Maybe I'm gonna sue the NFL because of it.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
It's another one of those great battles, going back to
the likely play at about one hundred others over the
course of the year.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
What is a catch? Twenty twenty five edition, So again,
twenty eight to fourteen, thirteen and a half to go
in the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay up by two touchdowns.
Now you've heard a lot the last few weeks, but
how wide open the nfls? And yes it is right.
We've talked about how the teams at the top. They're interchangeable.
We thought the Rams were the best team in the
NFL by far. Now maybe they're still the best team,

(36:18):
but maybe not by far. Nothing illustrates how wide open
it is more than this. Okay, just think about this
for a second, because in part of my research today
getting ready for the show, I saw one of those
if the season ended today, here are the NFL playoff
matchups for the first weekend. Okay, if the season ended today,
and then it goes to the committee and it all

(36:39):
goes to help right, No, we're voting. Yeah, and I'm
sorry Notre Dame's not making it. This is going for
you know, the team that finishes, you know, team in
first has the bye. This is what the matchup the
season ended today, if the season ended today, because that's
how you got to play this game. If the season
ended today, we were playing the playoffs this weekend. I
would take the lower seeded team in every playoff game,

(37:05):
in every game, every one, I would take the lower
seeded team. I would take Houston over New England. And
that's the one that's a little dicey. But Houston's defense, Yeah,
I feel pretty good about them against New England and
a team getting their first taste of the playoffs, Buffalo
and Jacksonville. I'll take Buffalo Chargers in Pittsburgh. I'll take
the Chargers all day long in that one. Chicago, Green Bay,

(37:27):
I'll take the Bears to win the rematch they should
have won last week. Well, so we get we already
get it again. So San Francisco, Philadelphia, I'll take San Francisco.
Not that I think the San Francisco is great, but wow,
Philadelphia is just falling apart. Seattle, Tampa Bay. I'll take
Seattle like I will take all of these teams. I
will take all of the lower seeded teams in the
first round. All of that, and I really again Houston,

(37:49):
New England the only one that gives me a little
bit of a pause, because, look, New England is very good,
but boy, their schedule has been really easy. And this
Texans defense is the best defense in the NFL. And
we're playing this weekend, right, because that's that's the game
season today. If they're playing this weekend, I'll take I'll
take them over the Patriots offense. I'll take the lower
seed in every matchup.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'll get a no doubt to Furman to see what
kind of odds you could get on that if the
playoffs were to start this weekend, because certainly that's a
that's a hell of a parlay along the way. We
talk about home field advantage maybe not having that same
juice that it once did in a lot of these circumstances,

(38:32):
so that that's part of the equation. A lot more
indoor teams as we traverse. But yeah, for the Patriots,
still the jury's out. A lot of love for Drake
May but something we've chronicled all season, part of it
fueled by your Jets hate, is their strength of schedule,
and that really is the underscore you know, underline in

(38:55):
boldface italics, whatever we want to do to it of
the twenty twenty five is that as we go unit
to unit, that that's exactly how we have to do it,
because we're not going team to team. We're trying to
figure out, all right, where's the best side of a
football team?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Right?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
You're used in defense, while is the offense up the
task most Sundays?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Just enough?

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Right, Seattle, you love the defense and what they've done.
Do you trust Sam Donald in a big spot?

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Right? That that question still remains. I'll trust them this well,
I'll trust them this week. Play Tampa Bay. I'll trust
that defense. Yeah, but I'll take.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
But with all of these guys back on the field,
I'll take this full compliment of players. I'll take the
Tampa Bay offense. But but it does beget a very
interesting thing for Roger Goodellen company because they just smile
and start cackling, because that means that everybody's gonna watch
waiting on upsets. All the sports books are excited because wait,

(39:55):
you want to put money on all the dogs.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, look, is that this is not saying that, Okay,
all of that's going to happen. But if you're saying
to me individual game by game, I'll take all the
lower seed that's how wide open this is. I'll take
all the lower seeded teams in a game like the Chaos.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
I mean, the Bears did play a very good second
half of football, and but for the bad read of
the situation by Caleb Williams on that interception, right, having
a comet underneath, having the ability to run for the
first down, still having time on the clock, all of
those things. But yeah, it's it's gonna be a fun
final four. Weeks as we jockey for playoff position.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Exit about of Fresca exit swallow Dome. That's how wide
open it is. We got more from Thursday Night Football.
And okay, smart guy, you say, Joe Burrow's gonna get
traded in the offseason, where's he going? I got two
teams for you. Next Jason fourteen game, Falcons score twenty
eight to twenty. Normally you kick the extra point, but no, no, no,
they go for two. And I hear the same tired

(40:58):
thing over and over again, and I think nobody really knows.
They've just heard it so many times they regurgitate it. Well,
it's what analytics say, because that's what teams all they say.
Well what analytics say?

Speaker 5 (41:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
No, you know what? No, No, tell me what what
does analytics say? How does analytics say that going for
two when you don't have to is the right? Tell
me how? Don't give me? Just give me a stupid
lazy ass answers. It's what analytics say. No, explain it
to me. Explain it to me like I'm five, because
you can't. It's some ridiculous algorithm. It's somehow people buy

(41:29):
into because they want to buy into analytics when you
play the game on the field, and going for two
when you don't have to is a killer. And you
can't just say, well, you know what you need. You
know what you need in general. You just need to
touch out an extra point, right, and then you can
tie go or you want to go for two and
it's twenty eight twenty seven, go for it there and
then maybe you can win the game. That I understand
if you're four to nine like the Falcons are. But

(41:50):
explain it to me, like I'm five. Don't just say analytics. No, no,
give me a reason, give me something behind. Don't give
me a politician's answer of that. I'm gonna give you
something that's just five seconds and explain to and you
don't explain anything. No, no, tell me, Explain it to me.
Give me that David Fizdale. Explain it to me dropped
that we ran for all these years. Explain to me
how the analytics works. You to go for two when
you don't have to. Well, it's the it's too complicated

(42:13):
for you to Oh, oh, it's just too complicated. Now
I'm fully in the government. I mean, you just wouldn't understand.
I mean the ramifications. I mean you simplify it to
a base thing. No, no, no, there's all sorts of other worlds.
Is a butterfly effect that you can't possibly complimensive. Now,
in this particular case, it was pretty pretty obvious because

(42:38):
you're not, you know, down more than eight, right, you're
you're down with the pat you're down seven, simple math,
and you know you're down thirteen whatever. We can start
playing that all right Now, I need a touchdown, a
two pointer or in a field goal, I need all
of that. This was pretty elemental. Now, the fact that
you're at what seventeen pedaled against nineteen first downs on

(43:02):
the course of the game, and you make that decision.
Raet Morris may may have been fired on the spot,
but I think Baker Mayfield just bailed him out. Yeah,
Mayfield just throws a pick. The Falcons get the football back.
Things are looking great for Tampa. They had had the
short field after the kickoff, and now first turnover of
the game, Alfred comes down with a circus type interception,

(43:25):
gets up really high, pulls it down. So now the
Falcons have the football eight and a half left to
go on their own thirty three yard line. However, down eight,
because you know, you went for two when you didn't
have to.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Well, and now it's still out there for them, and
since the Buccaneers decided long ago, they're not going to
do anything to stop Jehan Robinson or Kyle Pitts Senior
along the way, Baker May, I'm sorry. Kirk Cousins throwing
for two hundred and seventy four yards, You've got all
but fifty seven of it accounted for by your two

(43:58):
leaders in the clubhouse. One hundred and thirty five and
eighty five respectively for Pitt's Senior and Bijon now add
up near to one hundred yards rushing for Robinson's.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Like it's a two man game. Yeah, you gotta stap
two guys. Yeah, box and one in the NBA is tough,
but you know there's only five on the court. He's
stopping two guys, but this is there's eleven. It's it's
kind of gets me. Mat Sills can't catch. No, Mooney's
not existent. What are we doing here? No, No, it
doesn't matter. Hey, hey, Captain Kirk, you're really surprised that
Kirk Cousins is successful when he throws the ball five

(44:30):
yards in the line of scrimmage to his tight end
and his running back. Now, that's what makes Kirk Cousin successful.
I think his average depth for Pitts is actually a
little bit higher. But yeah, to your point, not a
lot of guys are going to be able to stop
Jean Robinson in that one on one in the flats,
as you like to say, a lot of yak going on,
a lot of yak, a lot of yak, much yak.

(44:53):
So midfield Falcons have the football, seven minutes left to go.
A couple of plays by Robinson gets a about twenty yards,
so Falcon's on the move with the football here again,
still plenty of time to go. In the fourth quarter.
We'll have Jay Glazer stopping by the show as he
normally does afterward, the only show he does on Fox
Sports Radio. It's always a must listen. I'm still I

(45:14):
told that Barry Sanders story to my entire family last week,
the Barry Sanders Michael Strahan story he told us last speaking.
I'm sorry, mister Sanders, I'm sorry, Bud.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Did you drag it out for five or six minutes
like that's like the clown jokes?

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yea. Yahs got
their wrapped attention because it's a hero. Yeah, I mean yeah.
But you know, we talked about this last hour Joe
Burrow and his very honest press conference earlier today in
which he talked about just how unhappy he is. He
needs to find happiness in playing. He's not happy.

Speaker 6 (45:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Look if he was talking about retiring, if this is retiring,
he's not talking about it, right, He's not saying this
at a Thursday press conference. If he's thinking about retiring
when the season is over, he wants out, he wants
a new team, and he will be in a new
team in twenty twenty six. Is sounding the alarm now
to let everybody know right this and teams I'm sure
have been calling. All right, let's talk Joe Burrow in

(46:07):
the offseason like you call me. We're ready, We're ready,
We're ready. He wants to go someplace else, So okay,
smart guy, Jason, all right, you tell me, you tell
me where the best fit is for him. I got
two fits for you right now, for Joe Burrow. And
it's not just where you can give him to a
team where they need a quarterback, right because Burrow's not

(46:29):
gonna want to go right in the end players get
to get dealt into a somewhat of a preferred destination,
maybe not your number one destination, but one that's okay.
It's kind of how it works. Maybe. You know, Hey,
if I really want to go for whatever reason, I
really want to go to the Cowboys or or the Steelers, Okay, yeah,
maybe we can't make that preferred destination happen. But another one,

(46:49):
if you give us three or four teams, will make
one of those work. So who does it have to be.
It's got to be a team that is maybe a
quarterback away from the super Bowl, that's got to be
in a better position to succeed, that's got to be
in maybe a little bit of a warmer climate, you know,
because Joe Burrow wants to be on his feet. He's
a very public figure, probably looking for a little bit

(47:11):
bigger market. But I think he can realize that, Okay,
I can. I can still be a big deal in
a lot of different places. He's been playing in Cincinnati.
I think he is well acclimated to that. I will
give you two teams for Joe Burrow, and the first
one I'm going to give you because they can give
a quarterback back that will make things a little bit

(47:31):
easier for the Bengals to make this trade, because it
can't just be hey, we got draft picks, we have players,
we have X, Y and Z. Both these teams can
give quarterbacks back. That would be at least somewhat maybe
a little appealing to the Bengals, where we have a
guy for a year or two, maybe he turns into something.

(47:54):
One team is a little bit more a better deal
than the other. The first one for Joe Burrow, the
Miami Dolphins, Okay, plays in South Beach, great Weather. Mike
McDaniel is staying as their head coach. Obviously, what they've
been able to do the comeback, you know, they want
to move on from Tua. They've turned him into a
game manager. Joe Burrow in Miami would be a phenomenal fit.

(48:16):
You know how they like to go fast and really
accentuate the quarterback. He has that South Beach lifestyle. The
guy has made for a bigger market. Yeah, the Miami
Dolphins could be that team and whatever they would give up, Hey,
we could send twoa back there and you can at
least have a guy, mate. We look, two is a
four thousand yard passer. It's not working that great from
what we've seen over the course of the past couple

(48:37):
of years, not as well as we thought it was.
But two was still young, talented, you know what you're
paying for him, and with good weapons. He has shown
that he was good in the past. Right, you put
him on a team now with Jamar Chase and T
Higgins and suddenly, hey, maybe he can still throw the
football a bit. Now it's okay, you're throwing a Jalen Waddle,
who was a nice receiver. Right, he's a good ish receiver,

(48:59):
but he's no better really than T. Higgins. Maybe Higgins
even a little more dynamic than he is. But you
put him on that team with a couple of guys
to catch the football. There's your first team that could work.
Joe Burrow And and you know, I believe this because
the last thing I want is Joe Burrow in the
bleep in AFC East. Another team with a better quarterback
than not to look up to. But Joe Burrow to
the Dolphins, that's my first one.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Oh, you also have the option there in that Joe
Burrow can maybe uncork Jalen Waddle on a different level. Right,
because Chewas doesn't have the arm strength to drive the ball.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
It's moon balls, just a less accentuated and celebrated version
of the Russell Wilson style. Right, he's got to work
in timing and crossing routes and what have you. You know,
short intermediate generally occasionally a deep shot, but that's not
the bread and butter. Joe Burrow can drive it through.
We've seen that time and time again. But teaming him

(49:56):
with Mike McDaniel and trying to to accentuate what you have,
I mean, they've got a lot of change because you
did fire a GM, which meant that you didn't exactly
have a full cupboard, so you got to do a
full reload there as well. But I could see a
meeting in the minds in a philosophical match with McDaniel,
because it seems like it's inevitable that he stays around.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
So there's your one team, and now that would be
that'd be a tougher one. That'd be a tougher one
because it's in the AFC. Nowhere else could he go.
This might be a little bit more intriguing because the
quarterback this team can give back isn't very good. But
you don't know that he's absolutely terrible. Yeah, because he
hasn't played enough Minnesota. Joe Burrow goes to Minnesota, plays

(50:40):
half his games indoors at home. You know the weapons
he has there already. Justin Jefferson, I'm sure is saying,
whatever you could do to get this guy, whatever you
could do to get him. I need Joe Burrow. Uh,
they have, they have the weapons. Offensively, they have a
great offensive coach who can continue to unlock him. You
know that that offensively, they're gonna do the right things.

(51:01):
This is where things can work out great for him.
Not as big a market as Miami, but still a
bit of an upgrade. And JJ McCarthy going back to
the Bengals. Okay, maybe that works. Maybe they can unlock
JJ McCarthy and they have somebody who could wind up
being a franchise quarterback or he's a guy for a
couple of years. So those two teams are the ones

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are probably the best solutions for Burrow if you're going
to trade him, because they both can win. Even though
the Vikings are in last place in the NFC North now,
they're still a good team. They just don't have any
quarterback play right, we say don't have any quarterback play.
They can right their wrong of letting Sam Darnold and
Daniel Jones go by making a big, bold move for
Joe Burrow. And again the quarterback going back is a

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big thing instead of the Bengals having to say, all right,
maybe we have to go find somebody else. So Miami
and the AFC vikings in the.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
NFC curiosity for what the Bengals do going forward. Are
we assured that they have some stability with Zach Taylor?
Is he sticking around or are we shuffling up and
dealing at the end of the year, Particularly if Joe
Burrow is intent on blowing this up, which is the
premise of all of this based on that press conference

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midweek and his dissatisfaction, Can the Bengals do enough to
retain him in the interim, Like we have the wheels
of speculation for Minnesota, you got Jefferson, you got Addison,
you got Hockinson, you got Mason and Jones in your backfield.
Need to tweak the offensive line, which is good, but
a lot of injury issues there. And for O'Connell a

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chance to show once again that he's a genius, because
I think a little of that luster came off at
the end as much as Sam Darnold warn it more.
And I think the lack of development with what you
got with JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
You got to look at the coach a little bit, right.
He's still raw and obviously just a few games under
his belt, but certainly enough weapons that would make him
happy and to go into a battle tested NFC North.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
I got a third one for you. Goes back to
the AFC. Tom Brady goes and makes a play. Tom
Brady could do that. They go and they clear out
the coaching staff. Okay, find a guy and they give
up whatever they need you to go get a franchise guy.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
If somehow the race well that's what they did to
Carson Palmer. If somehow you can convince Joe Burrow the
Raiders of this club, like tom Brady's got no, we're
this close, said all we need is you and we
can win. Yeah, I could see it. They just looking
for juice at this point. Ow Man don't. But Burrow's
got to be okay with going there. He's like, I've
just been getting my ass kicked in Cincinnati. Not gonna
go to the Raiders and have that ass kicking continue.

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But it's just the idea. It's different, it's a brand,
it's a market. And if you go, you're a hero.
What do you got? Frostberg?

Speaker 7 (53:42):
I think the big takeaway from all of this is,
what did to A do to you?

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Why do you hate to No? I don't hate too.
You absolutely do.

Speaker 7 (53:51):
You're taking him from a horrible off offensive line to
literally the worst offensive line in football.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
That is true. Well, I'm not saying going assist.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
I'm not saying it's gonna be fun now.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
I'm just saying what.

Speaker 7 (54:06):
Your Lord's sending him out there to never come back?

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Again,
what just happened on Thursday Night Football? A Kyle Pitch
touchdown was upheld upon video review. Watching this, really, it's
hard to understand what a catches in the NFL anymore.
They do not get the two point conversion. Kirk Cousins'

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rush throws incomplete. So again now the Falcons going for
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