November 18, 2021 • 35 mins
Chris and Rob discuss the report that Antonio Brown has been using a fake COVID-19 vaccine card and tell us if the allegations would cause him to lose the trust of his teammates, compare the careers of Matt Ryan and Matthew Stafford, and explain why LeBron James - not Steph Curry - is the Face of the NBA.
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The Graham we got our man, one of the best
bodybuilders in the world, and he does it naturally, all right,
no gimmicks, no tricks. Were Bowl Champion. Well that's what
he says. But I believe, I do believe saying I
didn't say. I'm not accusing. I'm gonna telling him you
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think he cheats too. I didn't say that Greg Jenny's
will join this as last year. I'm just questioning it.
That's all all right? Uh, Rob, you alluded to this
with Darius Butler. I liked him by the way. I
think he's got a real future in this. I'm not
even just saying that. I'm not trying to be if
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I think he's good. I just had a problem with
uh so other people lie, so you don't care about it.
I just I thought that that's how it feels that.
I thought that was too flick before you could say that.
But if you have a relative or somebody, I just
don't I don't buy to that. Just be honest, that's
all I'm asking you. Just be everybody's not honest most
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that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that I can't expect
that when it's life and death and it could affect
my family, I want you to be honest. So I'm
not gonna buy I agree. I mean I took garon,
I dressed the task for being deceitful, so I hear
where you're coming from. All I'm saying that's how you
can make your decision, Chris, which is fine. I don't
have a problem with your making your decision. But if
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you're working in a bubble or you're working at home
by yourself, you do whatever you want, and we're gonna
get into this. I agree with. All I was saying
is Darius Butler did a good job, and here you
go destroying him. I didn't think you did a great job.
And my thing is, See, my thing is, I'm not
judging what he said necessary because that's just his opinion.
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I'm judging that he had an opinion and that he
backed it up, you know what I'm saying. So that's
why I thought he was good. But I hear you
because I agree with you that he just be honest.
I got a close family friend for relative who's not vaccinated,
and he's honest about when we know, and so we
gotta deal with it according So I'm accordingly, right, That's
what I'm saying, Chris, you and your family acts accordingly.
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That's all right? So all right that we brought this
up because Antonia O. Brown big story, uh in the
what was it in? It was in the Tampa Bay
Was it the Tempa Tribune Tribue? Was it the Tribune? Rogie?
Tampa Bay Times? All right, Tampa Bay Times. And it
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was about Antonio Brown and it said his former chef,
who has, in fairness, has a bone to pick with Antonio.
So he says ab owes him ten thousand dollars, and
so he sent Texas text messages. He tried other ways
with AB's lawyer and all that two. But at the
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end of the day, he got he was getting nowhere
on getting his stuffed so right, so he went to
the newspaper and sent text messages to them where Antonio
Brown's girlfriend they he was. She was texting back and
forth with his former chef about Antonio looking for fake
COVID vaccination cards so that he and he was willing
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to pay five hundred dollars for him so that he
could avoid going through the COVID protocols. Now here's where
I mean, that's obviously bad and we're gonna get in
all that rob the tamp. Now this guy couldn't get
him the cards. So this guy says, yeah, he tried
to get fake vaccination cards from me or wanted me
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to get him for him. I couldn't get him. So
buddy does say he saw a fake when that Antonio
had that he used to fool the Buccaneers. With the
Buccaneers have Antonio Brown's lawyer let me go there first,
Cass come out and saying no Ab is vaccinated. And
this is just gossip. Tabloid gossip was the term he used.
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And now the Buccaneers are doubling down and saying, yo,
Ab is vaccinated. Now, Ab was did have COVID in
the third week of the season, so and he missed
the game. So there's that. But read us the statement
from the Buccaneers who were saying, look, Ab is vaccinated. Well, Chris,
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he didn't just miss the game. He went through the
whole ten day quarantine, which stand right that that don't
even make sense if they're saying he's vaccinated, Well, but
isn't everybody that's vaccinated didn't know. But he had to
go to the ten day protocol, Chris, those are for
the players, Lady, go to that protocol or did he
just sit out? He can't determine he could have been
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vaccinated and still have had to wait ten days if
he didn't pass. You know, have a couple of here's
the statement you asked for a quote. After an extensive
educational process conducted throughout our organization this pass offseason highlighting
the benefits of the COVID nineteen vaccines, we received completed
vaccination cards from all Tampa Bay Buccaneer players and submitted
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the required information to the NFL through the established process
in accordance with league policy. Allvaccination cards were reviewed by
Buccaneers personnel and no irregularities were observed. And I do
want to mention this. I don't know if you people
remember the NHL player UH, Evander Kane from the San
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Jose Sharks. He came up with a fake vaccination card.
He was suspended by the league for twenty one games
and had to give up one point six eight million
dollars of his seven million dollars UH salaries. They called
him so he had a fake one Chris with the
San Jose Sharks, Evander Kane. So the NHL came down
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heavy on him. That's heavy because one one game suspension
that's having a fake card, is worse than what Aaron
Rodgers did. Yes, but it ain't that much worse from
going from no suspension to twenty one games and missing
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out on what one point six million dollars? You said, yeah,
one point six I would see. I thought Aaron Rodgers
should have been suspended for a game. I'm not saying
throw the book at him, but I think he should
have been suspended for a game because he purposely flouted
the rules. This is worse if they didn't suspend Rodgers
for a game. So if if a b if this
is true, robbed, not that he just tried to get one,
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he tried whatever, he failed, but if he actually did
get one it has been using a fake COVID vaccination card,
then I think there should be ramifications. I think he
should be suspended. I do too, And rob G, can
you jump in? And there's some laws if you have
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a fake if you could be a felony robber, it's
a felony, is it, rob G? And did I read
it wrong? No? You are correct, But Chris, it's a
felony to get a fake document of that to five
years in prison. Yes, so this is not like a joke.
That's why the NFL came down on this guy in
that regard. Yes, but this is tough because we don't
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know if he's vaccinated or not. Um. But it is,
like I said, it's worse than what Aaron Rodgers did.
And I can't why. I understand why Tempa went with
the story because they had the text messages from his
phone or you know what I mean. Right, So so
that that's enough Chris to Oh, yeah, that's enough to write.
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It's a story that he was trying to get exactly.
There's no whether he ended up being vaccinated later or not.
It's a story, no, no, no doubt about it journalistically.
I just wanted to bring that up in case people say, well,
i'll see the Bucks that he was vaccinated. Shouldn't run
the story. No, if you have text messages from a
player trying to obtain uh, fake vaccination, that's a story
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that it's like, it's like if you had proof that
or even you know that a team like let's say
the Lakers tried to trade Russell Westbrook for Ben Simmons
or whoever. If even if it didn't happen, right, just
the fact in the trade deadline is passed, right, if
you still know it was, that's still a story. There's
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no doubt, and it would create buzz. But I'm with
you with you, Yeah, I think this is worse if
if it were to find out, and obviously the NFL
shot has to do its own investigation. I know the
Bucks don't want to feel like they got duped, you know,
and they felt like whatever, they could always come back
Chris and say, well, he showed us a card. We
looked at it. We thought it was legit. You know,
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they have it out to say that we saw a card.
You know what. There should be a database. When I
got back, I just got my booster again. Although I
would yeah, when I went to when I got my
first shot, which was Johnson and Johnson, I think it
was just water they put in my arm. But no,
but I got my first water Jay and Jay. I'm
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just joking. You know, everybody's ripping Johnson and john It
was fine for me. But anyway, I did that and
I yeah, it was pretty quick. I don't there was
no computerized you know that. I don't know that they
put me in any database or anything like that. Well,
you had to sign when I went back, my wife
and I went back. Well I did sign in yeah,
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you know, that was it. But we went and got
our booster shots last Saturday and they were on the
computer and all that. So I'm assuming they put us
in a database. So is every state. I would think
every state should be doing that. I have it in
LA like like they sent me on my phone. I
got the you know, my vaccination proof. I got my guard. Yeah,
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when I go to Rush, you know whatever. But but
I had to sign something that was a computer to
ask me questions. I mean in Los Angeles or at
least California, it was pretty formal. And I don't know,
rob g what about when how did they respond? Did you?
Did they ask you questions and put stuff in the
computer because they did it for me. It wasn't a
ton of questions, I don't think. Yeah, but an address, yeah,
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just to identity, to show you you had to show
your drivers, like well, proof of who you are. The
bottom line is there should I would think that there's
a database that has whether or not Antonio Brown was vaccinated? Should? Right?
I mean are we? Are we? Because these little cards
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would not be hard to duplicate. They're not watermarked right, No, No,
they're just regular card. I mean it seems like it'd
be easy to duplicate that. We so guys quickly there
had been there we most like maybe. But a month
ago there was a woman on Instagram who got arrested
because she not only was she producing the fake cards,
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she had access through a pharmacy to input the the
serial numbers that allows make other people's numbers, Yeah, to
make it look like it was a legitimate card. In
the system. So if you if you have the money
to buy a fake card, I'm assuming you he can
get it to a person that would put it in
the system so it looks like it's real as well. Right,
That's what they do when when they bust Chris the
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when they register the cars, the stolen cars at the
DMV people are working there and they give these people
like thousands of dollars and they and they put these
stolen cars, they register them, you know what I mean,
Like they register them. So there's always some criminal activity
or somebody who's willing to look the other way or
take some money and they're working a regular job and
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they feel they can get away with it. So we
we do know that. But if you're the NFL, you
have to investigate it to find out exactly where it is.
So you think this is this is worse a fake
card compared to fudging the truth. So let me ask
you this rot. If you were his teammate and you're
you're cool with him, whether you're great friends, are cool
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with him? You pissed? Yeah, you're you're pissed at him.
If I'm his teammate, I ain't pissed. I want you
to be a truthful to me. You don't know what
my family situation is. You don't know about who's around me.
You don't know, and and that's a breach of trust
to fake something during a pandemic where thousands of people
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have died, right, how many people have died? Uh, seven
hundred thousand or like in this country, like so many
people have died. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't be upset.
I would be I'd be like, dude, you crazy, that's
that's ridiculous. But I wouldn't. Would I be pissed at him,
can't play with him, get him off the team now.
I just wouldn't. Yeah, I mean, I just want people
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lie to me in the locker room, you know. I
just mean, just treat you different. If I treat you differently,
once I know you're a liar, I will admit that.
Once I know you're a liar, I'm pretty good with you.
I know where you fit in my life. That made
me one thing, But am my ending? Yeah, I don't know.
I just like I said, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I
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really wouldn't. I say, you would say that, but what
if he had a teammate and then and and something happened,
and that would be a different if it happened something,
if something like that, something are traceable, and something was
traceable to him, then it would really yeah, it would
change things. But I'm just being honest, like I've been
in situations locker rooms, dudes do crazy stuff and it's
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just like, man, you nuts, like, but am I am
I hating on the dude? Like wouldn't you guys agree
though that knowing Antonio Brown's history, if you didn't like
him or you liked him before, this is like, look
all the things he's done, i mean allegedly and some
of the things he's just done. Some of the things
are still pending that being investigated, right right, So if that,
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if the if the stuff with the artist wasn't enough
to make you not like him, I'm pretty sure this
probably wouldn't matter. And the other story, the whole story
about him not paying his chef friend, come on, dude,
all of that, Yeah, I mean like it's yeah, it'd
be hard, it might be hard to be friends would
have dude like this. But I'm just saying, if I'm
in the locker room, I'm not like, get him out
of the locker room. I hate him. But you know
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I say that I said the way that I would
deal with them. I didn't. I didn't say to yes, No,
I know, And I'm just saying the way I would
deal with him. Okay, Yeah, So all right, it's The
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were one of Antonio Brown's teammates in Tampa, man, you
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find out that it's true that he uh had a
fake vaccination card, would you be upset with him? And Rob?
If I if I was waiting that's my boy like
me and you and you were lying to me about that,
that would I'd be like that would change child field?
But if I'm just a random regular teammate. We cool,
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you know, we were gorgeous, all right, We're cool. Whatever.
Then I'm you know, I'm not tripping. But all right,
let's see what the college thing? Eight seven, seven ninety
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a blond Seahawks fan and Olympia Washington. You're on the
odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up? A long time
to talk? Right? Guys doing it? Man? How are you?
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I'm doing well? Man? This Antonio Brown thing is weird
because personally I have the vaccine. Like I'll say it,
but to me, you know, faking it is just stupid.
I mean, if you don't have it, just come out
and say it, man, And like the thing is I
get you know, it's a completely different life. Like I
get it if you're not vaccinated, like with the NFL protocols,
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but just come out there, be real. You have to realize,
like if you're not taking the shot, you have to
pay these consequences. And if I were his teammates, if
this were his first time, man, I won't be too mad.
But he's done some shady stuff like before, you know,
it's very hat. All these different controversies, so I think
some of them are gonna be mad. The NFL definitely
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going to investigate this. I don't see him like getting
kicked off a team. I could see him, you know,
a fine maybe defension, but that's really all because Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers didn't He kind of did the same thing,
but it wasn't a faker a card. But he still
got like his teammates new too. Yeah, his teammates new
that he wasn't vaccinated. Well, I'll say this, Rob, I
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don't and I'm speculating, but I don't think Antonio Brown
didn't tell, you know, wasn't honest about it. If indeed
that's the case, because he was he wanted to avoid
any public backlash. I think it was because he didn't
want to go through the daily grind that the unvaccinated
players have to go through. I might be wrong, but
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that's what I I just, yeah, I guess my only
thing is if that's the case, it's just uh, when
other people are involved, you can have your rights. I
just this is the part that I don't understand people
like argue about their rights. What about my rights? That's
all I'm asking. What about my rights. I have a
right to know in these situations, that's all. And once
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I know, then it's fine. That's all. That's all. I's
You don't have to acquiesce or or give in or
do what I'm doing, you don't. I just have a
right to know. John in New Zealand, you're in the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, John, doing?
Good man? How are you? I'm great? Wow? You guys. Well,
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I don't know if I should for the sake that is,
I don't know. We call it something like they did
what because often for us on the other side of
the world or our side of the United States, when
certain things happen and there's and it's controversial in the
United States, we stand scratching our head going um. But
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it's obvious, it's so straightforward. You take kneeling, for instance,
for the anthem the rest of the world that's scratching
their head going uh, kneeling is more respectful than standing.
We you know, we're like, what's the problem? Right? Exactly
with this one as well. Aaron Lodgers, he lied, right,
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and it's it's plain and simple. He lied, and then
he lied about lying about it. When he said, I
didn't lie right, right, even though he is lying the
first time, there's bugget right. So with first one, if
somebody lied to me like that, it's um, it's like said,
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then okay, then I know where I stand. I can't
trust you. I just want to know if the thing
with Aaron Rodgers has been affected. Aaron Rodgers is not
the same person. You can't look at them the same way.
I don't care who you are. I admired Aaron's Rodgers
as this quarterback play. I never said I was a
fan of Aaron Rodgers the person. And once somebody shows
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you who they are in a situation like this, I
think Aaron Rodgers A lot of people look at Aaron
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You said Patriots by six. I mean, forget about the spread.
So you're you're expecting them to win the game that
it's not gonna cover. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting because
the Falcons are a weird team. They I just I
don't have a handle on what they are, Chris, the
last three or four years, do you after that Super
Bowl loss, they have turned into a really Remember during
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twenty twenty they were awful. Remember they're giving up all
those games they were. They're falling off. I mean about it, right,
I mean obviously they you know, they got a whole
new coaching staff, and um, yeah, Matt Ryan is not
what you'd call old, but he's certainly older. And getting
about this to Matt Ryan, Matthew Stafford. Take Chris, Matt Ryan, right,
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and Stafford? I think you have to take a look
at their numbers. But Matt Ryan went to a Super
Bowl and won an MVP. Yeah. Do you look at
him differently than Matt Stafford? How do you look at
Matt A lot of people years that good? Yeah, now,
I think a lot of people feel that way. He's
also he's a four time Pro bowler. Round. I mean,
he's got some accolades, That's what I'm saying, right, But
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you don't look at him that way. I don't think
the same way. I used to look more. I used
to look at him more favorably than I do now.
But again, you know, he's thirty six years old and
before you know, the last few years when Tom Brady
has defied five at the time for now and Aaron
Rodgers is playing what really great Layton to his you know,
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in his late thirties. You know, you would look at
staff Or Ryan at thirty six and say, okay, it's
understandable he's falling off. You know what, I know what's crazy?
What was his first year, Chris Matt Ryan? Yeah, what
was it? Do you do? You have his numbers in
front of you. So I covered that game his first game,
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first game. His first game was at home against the
Lions in uh in Atlanta, Okay. And his first pass
went for a touchdown against the Lions. His first ever
NFL PAS first pass, first pass. Look, I'm sure it
to this bio, his first pass ever was a touchdown.
I could. I remember watching it saying incredible. It's an
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interesting point. You bring up him Matt Ryan versus Stafford,
I would say robbed. To date, Matt Ryan's had a
better career, no question, There ain't no questions. So my
question is I think Stafford that's Hall of Fame numbers.
I do believe that, But I don't think he's looked
at the same way because you just said it. Even
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I don't think Matt Stafford has he made an All
Pro team. I think he's been an alternate one time
for the Pro Bowl one time. Well, he's definitely I'd
be shocked if he was ever All Pro. No, there's
no way I believe it. And and the other thing
is bows right, and he was an alternate or something.
But here's the other part. People say, well, you can't
blame Stafford because you know, uh uh, he had a
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terrible team, so whatever. But Calvin Johnson was on the
same terrible team, Chris, and he was a first ballot
Hall of Famer, right right, So he can't say got
him to the player that's what two years out of
the Yeah, um I I here's what I feel really
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about Stafford rock this trade and not just once he
stepped on the field and was looking really good early
on with the Rams, you know, really up until the
last two games he looked great. But before that, this
trade raised his stock like tons has Matt. And I
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know we all said Matt Stafford's got a great arm.
He can sling it. There's never been a doubt about that.
But before this trade, Matt Stafford was off people's radar. Yep,
he was. Nobody was talking about Matt Stafford like, oh
my god, he just needs to do do a good team.
I mean, you didn't talk about the Lions, you didn't
talk about him. And now when he was traded, it
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became this dude is awesome. Watch him in a great
system with a great team and a good head coach
and so on and so forth, and so it has
raised it. Stop. But to answer your question, Rob, he
is not you. You're right, he's got Hall of Fame numbers,
but he is not a Hall of Famer. No, not yet.
I mean, we'll see what he does with the Rams.
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No way at this. I just looked it up. Matt
Ryan Chris I was right, completed his first NFL pass
for sixty two yard touchdown to Michael Jenkins, becoming the
first quarterback to throw a touchdown on his first career
pass since Michael Bishop of the Patriots did it in
two thousand. Wow. Okay, yeah, well, now I don't think
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Ryan's a Hall of Famer you h No, though, I mean,
and and he won a Super and he went to
a Super Bowl and one of MV people, that's not enough.
It's not enough. Just to win. If you win one
MVP or you get to one Super Bowl. You know,
we talk about Jim Plunkett all the time. Jim Plunkett
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won two Super Bowl Chris right, that's quarterbright. He won
one MVP in the and the the Super Bowl. He's
not he's not in the Hall of Fame. His numbers
aren't that he shouldn't be. His numbers aren't that great.
He played putty well in the Super Bowls, but he
didn't play well his entire career. And here's the other thing,
rob Um. The numbers today are skewed, right, but they're
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just you just can't compare them to the quarterbacks of
yesterdayear And because the game is so different, the quarterbacks
can't get hit, the receivers don't get hit like they
used to. It's just easier to rack up big numbers.
They're throwing the ball way more than they used to.
So it's like Eli Manning is, his numbers are way
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up there, and he's gonna be a Hall of Famer,
but his numbers are way up there. Rob So staff,
all these quarterbacks nowadays are gonna dominate statistically. They're gonna
dwarf legends, Rogers all by Terry Bradshaw, Johnny Unitus h.
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Even guys you know, like Joe Montana, you know, aren't
gonna have numbers anywhere near what just pretty good quarterbacks
today have are really not even that very good quarterback.
So you can't just go by the numbers. You have
to really, if you're gonna look at the numbers, Rob,
you have to look at them relative to the era,
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you know, so because you can't look at basically basically
these numbers. They're also ran quarterbacks Chris who whose numbers
are way way better than some of the all time greats.
Absolutely all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
You'll be able to weigh in next hour. But we're
gonna it's some interesting stuff. Lebron might come back tomorrow
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night against Boston, been out for eight straight games with
an AB injury, but has Steph Curry taken over as
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see it sound like Mighty Mouse or something. I don't know. I'
no idea. Um that's right, Wow, I got it. You
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needed to get out more as a kid. What I
got out? I left the gate open. That's why Prince
ran away. That's impressive, Rob, the Fantastic four. I'm impressed
by Now. I guess that was a total guest. I
can't believe I got it right. I'm shocked. Okay, all right,
we are the I Couple. And as I said, we're
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closer to the mic please? Oh wow? Okay. Speaking of
the eight highest rated games in the NBA this season,
Steph Curry and the Warriors were playing in Now, Rob
G who was afraid to get on the mic and
say it thinks that that means Steph Curry is now
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the face of the NBA. And I will tell you this,
Steph Curry is more fun to watch than Lebron James.
Steph Curry is a hoot to watch. I mean, it's
it's just really exciting watching him play, and it's really
exciting watching the Warriors play. So I understand that, but
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I still think Lebron James is the face of the NBA.
I still think when people think of today's NBA, he
is the first player they think of. He's the most
recognizable player. I just think he's still clearly the face
of the league, even as Steph maybe is, in my opinion,
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far more fun to watch on television. Rob g How
many UM playoff games last year with Steph Curry and
the Warriors have the highest rating. How many in the
top playoffs they didn't make the playoffs? Oh? Okay, how
about two years ago? But if you want to, if
you want to play that game, the playing game had
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higher ratings than anything until the second round. All right,
I'm just asking, of course, Lebron. No, you're talking about
the game against me. That was a player with nay Okay, yeah,
I mean because people didn't know if to remember if
the Lakers were gonna get knocked out. Yeah, and you
know you had huge implicate full disclosure. The number one
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game is Lebron versus Steph by almost what is that
twenty five percent higher than the next closest game. They're
the two guys there. I mean, obviously Yannis is arguably
the best player in the league. You got Kevin Durant
as well in that discussion. But they're the two in
my view, they're the two most popular NBA players. They're
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the two guys Lebron and Steph that casual fans and
not even casual fans that Americans in general that may
not even be into basketball. No, would you agree with that, Rob,
Like they know that you don't have to know like basketball.
You know Lebron James, you know Steph Curry. I'm not
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so true. I mean, you may have heard of Kevin
Durant or Jannis, but I don't think you know of
them like you know about Lebron and Steph. If you're
just about a long time, they've been on up the
prope around I think longer than step But I'm just saying,
like Steph's team went to five straight NBA championships, Lebron
has been to ten or whatever it is. I just
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think that they've had a way more visible and high
pre Yeah, but that's the credit to them, and it
ain't like they visibility I'm saying, but that that plays
into it. As far as like you were talking about
the average Joe. They've played in the on the biggest
stage more so than other people. That's all. Who you
think is the face of the league right now? I
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don't know that's a good question, you know what I mean,
probably by default, but but Lebron has missed so much
time as he really is, he's still the face. I
still think he is. He's such a topic of discussion,
you know, everywhere, And I get what you're saying, because
obviously the more he sits out right, you just got
(33:35):
to move on at some point, right But I still
think at this point he's the face of the league.
Who you got Rob G? Steph? Really? Yeah, I don't
think it's Steph. I think I think he's the most
fun to watch. Yeah, well that I think that's part
of it. You know, you know, being the best player
doesn't necessarily mean that you're the face of the league.
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So that's why, you know, Katie Janie I bring them
a little bit lower. Um, I think Lebron. I think
people are kind of worn out on Lebron, to be
honest with you, And part of it is, you know,
his game isn't as flashy as he used to be.
Part of it is the twenty four seven. Yeah, he's
heard a lot of twenty four seven a media cycle
where he gets shoved down our throats, you know, and
our show does it too sometimes, you know, because he
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is as much No, but yeah, but he is a
lightning rod, so people want to hear about it. And
so but when there I mean, just what you said
point when it comes to people wouldn't shove him down
people's throats if he wasn't the face of the play.
But it's not just because of him in basketball. It's
because the other things that he does. That's what people
care more about Lebron. You know, it's his it's his
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free agency decisions, the way he manipulates trades and that
kind of stuff. But in terms of what people tune
in to watch, I think, you know, the numbers say
people tune in to watch Steph more than Lebron. Well,
Lebron has been hurt. How many of those games he played,
he played? He played, and one of them is the
highest ranks and then yeah, but the other one, the
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other one wasn't. The second one was Steph. Okay, but
it's such a small sample. Side you just I'm shocked
that you was mister Laker trying to keep quickly from
Lebron you're not hitting that real say this. It's November,
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bodybuilders in the world, and he does it naturally, all right,
no gimmicks, no tricks. Were Bowl Champion. Well that's what
he says. But I believe, I do believe saying I
didn't say. I'm not accusing. I'm gonna telling him you
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think he cheats too. I didn't say that Greg Jenny's
will join this as last year. I'm just questioning it.
That's all all right? Uh, Rob, you alluded to this
with Darius Butler. I liked him by the way. I
think he's got a real future in this. I'm not
even just saying that. I'm not trying to be if
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I think he's good. I just had a problem with
uh so other people lie, so you don't care about it.
I just I thought that that's how it feels that.
I thought that was too flick before you could say that.
But if you have a relative or somebody, I just
don't I don't buy to that. Just be honest, that's
all I'm asking you. Just be everybody's not honest most
(01:50):
that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that I can't expect
that when it's life and death and it could affect
my family, I want you to be honest. So I'm
not gonna buy I agree. I mean I took garon,
I dressed the task for being deceitful, so I hear
where you're coming from. All I'm saying that's how you
can make your decision, Chris, which is fine. I don't
have a problem with your making your decision. But if
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you're working in a bubble or you're working at home
by yourself, you do whatever you want, and we're gonna
get into this. I agree with. All I was saying
is Darius Butler did a good job, and here you
go destroying him. I didn't think you did a great job.
And my thing is, See, my thing is, I'm not
judging what he said necessary because that's just his opinion.
(02:32):
I'm judging that he had an opinion and that he
backed it up, you know what I'm saying. So that's
why I thought he was good. But I hear you
because I agree with you that he just be honest.
I got a close family friend for relative who's not vaccinated,
and he's honest about when we know, and so we
gotta deal with it according So I'm accordingly, right, That's
what I'm saying, Chris, you and your family acts accordingly.
(02:54):
That's all right? So all right that we brought this
up because Antonia O. Brown big story, uh in the
what was it in? It was in the Tampa Bay
Was it the Tempa Tribune Tribue? Was it the Tribune? Rogie?
Tampa Bay Times? All right, Tampa Bay Times. And it
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was about Antonio Brown and it said his former chef,
who has, in fairness, has a bone to pick with Antonio.
So he says ab owes him ten thousand dollars, and
so he sent Texas text messages. He tried other ways
with AB's lawyer and all that two. But at the
(03:38):
end of the day, he got he was getting nowhere
on getting his stuffed so right, so he went to
the newspaper and sent text messages to them where Antonio
Brown's girlfriend they he was. She was texting back and
forth with his former chef about Antonio looking for fake
COVID vaccination cards so that he and he was willing
(04:01):
to pay five hundred dollars for him so that he
could avoid going through the COVID protocols. Now here's where
I mean, that's obviously bad and we're gonna get in
all that rob the tamp. Now this guy couldn't get
him the cards. So this guy says, yeah, he tried
to get fake vaccination cards from me or wanted me
(04:22):
to get him for him. I couldn't get him. So
buddy does say he saw a fake when that Antonio
had that he used to fool the Buccaneers. With the
Buccaneers have Antonio Brown's lawyer let me go there first,
Cass come out and saying no Ab is vaccinated. And
this is just gossip. Tabloid gossip was the term he used.
(04:45):
And now the Buccaneers are doubling down and saying, yo,
Ab is vaccinated. Now, Ab was did have COVID in
the third week of the season, so and he missed
the game. So there's that. But read us the statement
from the Buccaneers who were saying, look, Ab is vaccinated. Well, Chris,
(05:06):
he didn't just miss the game. He went through the
whole ten day quarantine, which stand right that that don't
even make sense if they're saying he's vaccinated, Well, but
isn't everybody that's vaccinated didn't know. But he had to
go to the ten day protocol, Chris, those are for
the players, Lady, go to that protocol or did he
just sit out? He can't determine he could have been
(05:31):
vaccinated and still have had to wait ten days if
he didn't pass. You know, have a couple of here's
the statement you asked for a quote. After an extensive
educational process conducted throughout our organization this pass offseason highlighting
the benefits of the COVID nineteen vaccines, we received completed
vaccination cards from all Tampa Bay Buccaneer players and submitted
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the required information to the NFL through the established process
in accordance with league policy. Allvaccination cards were reviewed by
Buccaneers personnel and no irregularities were observed. And I do
want to mention this. I don't know if you people
remember the NHL player UH, Evander Kane from the San
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Jose Sharks. He came up with a fake vaccination card.
He was suspended by the league for twenty one games
and had to give up one point six eight million
dollars of his seven million dollars UH salaries. They called
him so he had a fake one Chris with the
San Jose Sharks, Evander Kane. So the NHL came down
(06:38):
heavy on him. That's heavy because one one game suspension
that's having a fake card, is worse than what Aaron
Rodgers did. Yes, but it ain't that much worse from
going from no suspension to twenty one games and missing
(06:59):
out on what one point six million dollars? You said, yeah,
one point six I would see. I thought Aaron Rodgers
should have been suspended for a game. I'm not saying
throw the book at him, but I think he should
have been suspended for a game because he purposely flouted
the rules. This is worse if they didn't suspend Rodgers
for a game. So if if a b if this
is true, robbed, not that he just tried to get one,
(07:21):
he tried whatever, he failed, but if he actually did
get one it has been using a fake COVID vaccination card,
then I think there should be ramifications. I think he
should be suspended. I do too, And rob G, can
you jump in? And there's some laws if you have
(07:41):
a fake if you could be a felony robber, it's
a felony, is it, rob G? And did I read
it wrong? No? You are correct, But Chris, it's a
felony to get a fake document of that to five
years in prison. Yes, so this is not like a joke.
That's why the NFL came down on this guy in
that regard. Yes, but this is tough because we don't
(08:06):
know if he's vaccinated or not. Um. But it is,
like I said, it's worse than what Aaron Rodgers did.
And I can't why. I understand why Tempa went with
the story because they had the text messages from his
phone or you know what I mean. Right, So so
that that's enough Chris to Oh, yeah, that's enough to write.
(08:27):
It's a story that he was trying to get exactly.
There's no whether he ended up being vaccinated later or not.
It's a story, no, no, no doubt about it journalistically.
I just wanted to bring that up in case people say, well,
i'll see the Bucks that he was vaccinated. Shouldn't run
the story. No, if you have text messages from a
player trying to obtain uh, fake vaccination, that's a story
(08:49):
that it's like, it's like if you had proof that
or even you know that a team like let's say
the Lakers tried to trade Russell Westbrook for Ben Simmons
or whoever. If even if it didn't happen, right, just
the fact in the trade deadline is passed, right, if
you still know it was, that's still a story. There's
(09:10):
no doubt, and it would create buzz. But I'm with
you with you, Yeah, I think this is worse if
if it were to find out, and obviously the NFL
shot has to do its own investigation. I know the
Bucks don't want to feel like they got duped, you know,
and they felt like whatever, they could always come back
Chris and say, well, he showed us a card. We
looked at it. We thought it was legit. You know,
(09:32):
they have it out to say that we saw a card.
You know what. There should be a database. When I
got back, I just got my booster again. Although I
would yeah, when I went to when I got my
first shot, which was Johnson and Johnson, I think it
was just water they put in my arm. But no,
but I got my first water Jay and Jay. I'm
(09:54):
just joking. You know, everybody's ripping Johnson and john It
was fine for me. But anyway, I did that and
I yeah, it was pretty quick. I don't there was
no computerized you know that. I don't know that they
put me in any database or anything like that. Well,
you had to sign when I went back, my wife
and I went back. Well I did sign in yeah,
(10:15):
you know, that was it. But we went and got
our booster shots last Saturday and they were on the
computer and all that. So I'm assuming they put us
in a database. So is every state. I would think
every state should be doing that. I have it in
LA like like they sent me on my phone. I
got the you know, my vaccination proof. I got my guard. Yeah,
(10:38):
when I go to Rush, you know whatever. But but
I had to sign something that was a computer to
ask me questions. I mean in Los Angeles or at
least California, it was pretty formal. And I don't know,
rob g what about when how did they respond? Did you?
Did they ask you questions and put stuff in the
computer because they did it for me. It wasn't a
ton of questions, I don't think. Yeah, but an address, yeah,
(11:02):
just to identity, to show you you had to show
your drivers, like well, proof of who you are. The
bottom line is there should I would think that there's
a database that has whether or not Antonio Brown was vaccinated? Should? Right?
I mean are we? Are we? Because these little cards
(11:22):
would not be hard to duplicate. They're not watermarked right, No, No,
they're just regular card. I mean it seems like it'd
be easy to duplicate that. We so guys quickly there
had been there we most like maybe. But a month
ago there was a woman on Instagram who got arrested
because she not only was she producing the fake cards,
(11:44):
she had access through a pharmacy to input the the
serial numbers that allows make other people's numbers, Yeah, to
make it look like it was a legitimate card. In
the system. So if you if you have the money
to buy a fake card, I'm assuming you he can
get it to a person that would put it in
the system so it looks like it's real as well. Right,
That's what they do when when they bust Chris the
(12:06):
when they register the cars, the stolen cars at the
DMV people are working there and they give these people
like thousands of dollars and they and they put these
stolen cars, they register them, you know what I mean,
Like they register them. So there's always some criminal activity
or somebody who's willing to look the other way or
take some money and they're working a regular job and
(12:27):
they feel they can get away with it. So we
we do know that. But if you're the NFL, you
have to investigate it to find out exactly where it is.
So you think this is this is worse a fake
card compared to fudging the truth. So let me ask
you this rot. If you were his teammate and you're
you're cool with him, whether you're great friends, are cool
(12:49):
with him? You pissed? Yeah, you're you're pissed at him.
If I'm his teammate, I ain't pissed. I want you
to be a truthful to me. You don't know what
my family situation is. You don't know about who's around me.
You don't know, and and that's a breach of trust
to fake something during a pandemic where thousands of people
(13:10):
have died, right, how many people have died? Uh, seven
hundred thousand or like in this country, like so many
people have died. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't be upset.
I would be I'd be like, dude, you crazy, that's
that's ridiculous. But I wouldn't. Would I be pissed at him,
can't play with him, get him off the team now.
I just wouldn't. Yeah, I mean, I just want people
(13:32):
lie to me in the locker room, you know. I
just mean, just treat you different. If I treat you differently,
once I know you're a liar, I will admit that.
Once I know you're a liar, I'm pretty good with you.
I know where you fit in my life. That made
me one thing, But am my ending? Yeah, I don't know.
I just like I said, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I
(13:53):
really wouldn't. I say, you would say that, but what
if he had a teammate and then and and something happened,
and that would be a different if it happened something,
if something like that, something are traceable, and something was
traceable to him, then it would really yeah, it would
change things. But I'm just being honest, like I've been
in situations locker rooms, dudes do crazy stuff and it's
(14:15):
just like, man, you nuts, like, but am I am
I hating on the dude? Like wouldn't you guys agree
though that knowing Antonio Brown's history, if you didn't like
him or you liked him before, this is like, look
all the things he's done, i mean allegedly and some
of the things he's just done. Some of the things
are still pending that being investigated, right right, So if that,
(14:38):
if the if the stuff with the artist wasn't enough
to make you not like him, I'm pretty sure this
probably wouldn't matter. And the other story, the whole story
about him not paying his chef friend, come on, dude,
all of that, Yeah, I mean like it's yeah, it'd
be hard, it might be hard to be friends would
have dude like this. But I'm just saying, if I'm
in the locker room, I'm not like, get him out
of the locker room. I hate him. But you know
(14:59):
I say that I said the way that I would
deal with them. I didn't. I didn't say to yes, No,
I know, And I'm just saying the way I would
deal with him. Okay, Yeah, So all right, it's The
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Studios eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. If you
were one of Antonio Brown's teammates in Tampa, man, you
(16:49):
find out that it's true that he uh had a
fake vaccination card, would you be upset with him? And Rob?
If I if I was waiting that's my boy like
me and you and you were lying to me about that,
that would I'd be like that would change child field?
But if I'm just a random regular teammate. We cool,
(17:09):
you know, we were gorgeous, all right, We're cool. Whatever.
Then I'm you know, I'm not tripping. But all right,
let's see what the college thing? Eight seven, seven ninety
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a blond Seahawks fan and Olympia Washington. You're on the
odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up? A long time
to talk? Right? Guys doing it? Man? How are you?
(17:32):
I'm doing well? Man? This Antonio Brown thing is weird
because personally I have the vaccine. Like I'll say it,
but to me, you know, faking it is just stupid.
I mean, if you don't have it, just come out
and say it, man, And like the thing is I
get you know, it's a completely different life. Like I
get it if you're not vaccinated, like with the NFL protocols,
(17:54):
but just come out there, be real. You have to realize,
like if you're not taking the shot, you have to
pay these consequences. And if I were his teammates, if
this were his first time, man, I won't be too mad.
But he's done some shady stuff like before, you know,
it's very hat. All these different controversies, so I think
some of them are gonna be mad. The NFL definitely
(18:14):
going to investigate this. I don't see him like getting
kicked off a team. I could see him, you know,
a fine maybe defension, but that's really all because Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers didn't He kind of did the same thing,
but it wasn't a faker a card. But he still
got like his teammates new too. Yeah, his teammates new
that he wasn't vaccinated. Well, I'll say this, Rob, I
(18:37):
don't and I'm speculating, but I don't think Antonio Brown
didn't tell, you know, wasn't honest about it. If indeed
that's the case, because he was he wanted to avoid
any public backlash. I think it was because he didn't
want to go through the daily grind that the unvaccinated
players have to go through. I might be wrong, but
(19:01):
that's what I I just, yeah, I guess my only
thing is if that's the case, it's just uh, when
other people are involved, you can have your rights. I
just this is the part that I don't understand people
like argue about their rights. What about my rights? That's
all I'm asking. What about my rights. I have a
right to know in these situations, that's all. And once
(19:24):
I know, then it's fine. That's all. That's all. I's
You don't have to acquiesce or or give in or
do what I'm doing, you don't. I just have a
right to know. John in New Zealand, you're in the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, John, doing?
Good man? How are you? I'm great? Wow? You guys. Well,
(19:57):
I don't know if I should for the sake that is,
I don't know. We call it something like they did
what because often for us on the other side of
the world or our side of the United States, when
certain things happen and there's and it's controversial in the
United States, we stand scratching our head going um. But
(20:18):
it's obvious, it's so straightforward. You take kneeling, for instance,
for the anthem the rest of the world that's scratching
their head going uh, kneeling is more respectful than standing.
We you know, we're like, what's the problem? Right? Exactly
with this one as well. Aaron Lodgers, he lied, right,
(20:41):
and it's it's plain and simple. He lied, and then
he lied about lying about it. When he said, I
didn't lie right, right, even though he is lying the
first time, there's bugget right. So with first one, if
somebody lied to me like that, it's um, it's like said,
(21:02):
then okay, then I know where I stand. I can't
trust you. I just want to know if the thing
with Aaron Rodgers has been affected. Aaron Rodgers is not
the same person. You can't look at them the same way.
I don't care who you are. I admired Aaron's Rodgers
as this quarterback play. I never said I was a
fan of Aaron Rodgers the person. And once somebody shows
(21:25):
you who they are in a situation like this, I
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You said Patriots by six. I mean, forget about the spread.
So you're you're expecting them to win the game that
it's not gonna cover. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting because
the Falcons are a weird team. They I just I
don't have a handle on what they are, Chris, the
last three or four years, do you after that Super
Bowl loss, they have turned into a really Remember during
(22:08):
twenty twenty they were awful. Remember they're giving up all
those games they were. They're falling off. I mean about it, right,
I mean obviously they you know, they got a whole
new coaching staff, and um, yeah, Matt Ryan is not
what you'd call old, but he's certainly older. And getting
about this to Matt Ryan, Matthew Stafford. Take Chris, Matt Ryan, right,
(22:35):
and Stafford? I think you have to take a look
at their numbers. But Matt Ryan went to a Super
Bowl and won an MVP. Yeah. Do you look at
him differently than Matt Stafford? How do you look at
Matt A lot of people years that good? Yeah, now,
I think a lot of people feel that way. He's
also he's a four time Pro bowler. Round. I mean,
he's got some accolades, That's what I'm saying, right, But
(22:57):
you don't look at him that way. I don't think
the same way. I used to look more. I used
to look at him more favorably than I do now.
But again, you know, he's thirty six years old and
before you know, the last few years when Tom Brady
has defied five at the time for now and Aaron
Rodgers is playing what really great Layton to his you know,
(23:18):
in his late thirties. You know, you would look at
staff Or Ryan at thirty six and say, okay, it's
understandable he's falling off. You know what, I know what's crazy?
What was his first year, Chris Matt Ryan? Yeah, what
was it? Do you do? You have his numbers in
front of you. So I covered that game his first game,
(23:38):
first game. His first game was at home against the
Lions in uh in Atlanta, Okay. And his first pass
went for a touchdown against the Lions. His first ever
NFL PAS first pass, first pass. Look, I'm sure it
to this bio, his first pass ever was a touchdown.
I could. I remember watching it saying incredible. It's an
(24:02):
interesting point. You bring up him Matt Ryan versus Stafford,
I would say robbed. To date, Matt Ryan's had a
better career, no question, There ain't no questions. So my
question is I think Stafford that's Hall of Fame numbers.
I do believe that, But I don't think he's looked
at the same way because you just said it. Even
(24:25):
I don't think Matt Stafford has he made an All
Pro team. I think he's been an alternate one time
for the Pro Bowl one time. Well, he's definitely I'd
be shocked if he was ever All Pro. No, there's
no way I believe it. And and the other thing
is bows right, and he was an alternate or something.
But here's the other part. People say, well, you can't
blame Stafford because you know, uh uh, he had a
(24:47):
terrible team, so whatever. But Calvin Johnson was on the
same terrible team, Chris, and he was a first ballot
Hall of Famer, right right, So he can't say got
him to the player that's what two years out of
the Yeah, um I I here's what I feel really
(25:07):
about Stafford rock this trade and not just once he
stepped on the field and was looking really good early
on with the Rams, you know, really up until the
last two games he looked great. But before that, this
trade raised his stock like tons has Matt. And I
(25:30):
know we all said Matt Stafford's got a great arm.
He can sling it. There's never been a doubt about that.
But before this trade, Matt Stafford was off people's radar. Yep,
he was. Nobody was talking about Matt Stafford like, oh
my god, he just needs to do do a good team.
I mean, you didn't talk about the Lions, you didn't
talk about him. And now when he was traded, it
(25:53):
became this dude is awesome. Watch him in a great
system with a great team and a good head coach
and so on and so forth, and so it has
raised it. Stop. But to answer your question, Rob, he
is not you. You're right, he's got Hall of Fame numbers,
but he is not a Hall of Famer. No, not yet.
I mean, we'll see what he does with the Rams.
(26:14):
No way at this. I just looked it up. Matt
Ryan Chris I was right, completed his first NFL pass
for sixty two yard touchdown to Michael Jenkins, becoming the
first quarterback to throw a touchdown on his first career
pass since Michael Bishop of the Patriots did it in
two thousand. Wow. Okay, yeah, well, now I don't think
(26:39):
Ryan's a Hall of Famer you h No, though, I mean,
and and he won a Super and he went to
a Super Bowl and one of MV people, that's not enough.
It's not enough. Just to win. If you win one
MVP or you get to one Super Bowl. You know,
we talk about Jim Plunkett all the time. Jim Plunkett
(26:59):
won two Super Bowl Chris right, that's quarterbright. He won
one MVP in the and the the Super Bowl. He's
not he's not in the Hall of Fame. His numbers
aren't that he shouldn't be. His numbers aren't that great.
He played putty well in the Super Bowls, but he
didn't play well his entire career. And here's the other thing,
rob Um. The numbers today are skewed, right, but they're
(27:25):
just you just can't compare them to the quarterbacks of
yesterdayear And because the game is so different, the quarterbacks
can't get hit, the receivers don't get hit like they
used to. It's just easier to rack up big numbers.
They're throwing the ball way more than they used to.
So it's like Eli Manning is, his numbers are way
(27:45):
up there, and he's gonna be a Hall of Famer,
but his numbers are way up there. Rob So staff,
all these quarterbacks nowadays are gonna dominate statistically. They're gonna
dwarf legends, Rogers all by Terry Bradshaw, Johnny Unitus h.
(28:06):
Even guys you know, like Joe Montana, you know, aren't
gonna have numbers anywhere near what just pretty good quarterbacks
today have are really not even that very good quarterback.
So you can't just go by the numbers. You have
to really, if you're gonna look at the numbers, Rob,
you have to look at them relative to the era,
(28:26):
you know, so because you can't look at basically basically
these numbers. They're also ran quarterbacks Chris who whose numbers
are way way better than some of the all time greats.
Absolutely all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
You'll be able to weigh in next hour. But we're
gonna it's some interesting stuff. Lebron might come back tomorrow
(28:49):
night against Boston, been out for eight straight games with
an AB injury, but has Steph Curry taken over as
the face of the NBA. We'll get into that next couple.
Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
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(29:12):
Radio app search f SR to listen live. It is
the y couple. Christen, Rob live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. You know what this is, Rob, let me
see it sound like Mighty Mouse or something. I don't know. I'
no idea. Um that's right, Wow, I got it. You
(29:36):
needed to get out more as a kid. What I
got out? I left the gate open. That's why Prince
ran away. That's impressive, Rob, the Fantastic four. I'm impressed
by Now. I guess that was a total guest. I
can't believe I got it right. I'm shocked. Okay, all right,
we are the I Couple. And as I said, we're
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Can you get
(29:58):
closer to the mic please? Oh wow? Okay. Speaking of
the eight highest rated games in the NBA this season,
Steph Curry and the Warriors were playing in Now, Rob
G who was afraid to get on the mic and
say it thinks that that means Steph Curry is now
(30:20):
the face of the NBA. And I will tell you this,
Steph Curry is more fun to watch than Lebron James.
Steph Curry is a hoot to watch. I mean, it's
it's just really exciting watching him play, and it's really
exciting watching the Warriors play. So I understand that, but
(30:42):
I still think Lebron James is the face of the NBA.
I still think when people think of today's NBA, he
is the first player they think of. He's the most
recognizable player. I just think he's still clearly the face
of the league, even as Steph maybe is, in my opinion,
(31:05):
far more fun to watch on television. Rob g How
many UM playoff games last year with Steph Curry and
the Warriors have the highest rating. How many in the
top playoffs they didn't make the playoffs? Oh? Okay, how
about two years ago? But if you want to, if
you want to play that game, the playing game had
(31:26):
higher ratings than anything until the second round. All right,
I'm just asking, of course, Lebron. No, you're talking about
the game against me. That was a player with nay Okay, yeah,
I mean because people didn't know if to remember if
the Lakers were gonna get knocked out. Yeah, and you
know you had huge implicate full disclosure. The number one
(31:48):
game is Lebron versus Steph by almost what is that
twenty five percent higher than the next closest game. They're
the two guys there. I mean, obviously Yannis is arguably
the best player in the league. You got Kevin Durant
as well in that discussion. But they're the two in
my view, they're the two most popular NBA players. They're
(32:11):
the two guys Lebron and Steph that casual fans and
not even casual fans that Americans in general that may
not even be into basketball. No, would you agree with that, Rob,
Like they know that you don't have to know like basketball.
You know Lebron James, you know Steph Curry. I'm not
(32:32):
so true. I mean, you may have heard of Kevin
Durant or Jannis, but I don't think you know of
them like you know about Lebron and Steph. If you're
just about a long time, they've been on up the
prope around I think longer than step But I'm just saying,
like Steph's team went to five straight NBA championships, Lebron
has been to ten or whatever it is. I just
(32:53):
think that they've had a way more visible and high
pre Yeah, but that's the credit to them, and it
ain't like they visibility I'm saying, but that that plays
into it. As far as like you were talking about
the average Joe. They've played in the on the biggest
stage more so than other people. That's all. Who you
think is the face of the league right now? I
(33:13):
don't know that's a good question, you know what I mean,
probably by default, but but Lebron has missed so much
time as he really is, he's still the face. I
still think he is. He's such a topic of discussion,
you know, everywhere, And I get what you're saying, because
obviously the more he sits out right, you just got
(33:35):
to move on at some point, right But I still
think at this point he's the face of the league.
Who you got Rob G? Steph? Really? Yeah, I don't
think it's Steph. I think I think he's the most
fun to watch. Yeah, well that I think that's part
of it. You know, you know, being the best player
doesn't necessarily mean that you're the face of the league.
(33:58):
So that's why, you know, Katie Janie I bring them
a little bit lower. Um, I think Lebron. I think
people are kind of worn out on Lebron, to be
honest with you, And part of it is, you know,
his game isn't as flashy as he used to be.
Part of it is the twenty four seven. Yeah, he's
heard a lot of twenty four seven a media cycle
where he gets shoved down our throats, you know, and
our show does it too sometimes, you know, because he
(34:20):
is as much No, but yeah, but he is a
lightning rod, so people want to hear about it. And
so but when there I mean, just what you said
point when it comes to people wouldn't shove him down
people's throats if he wasn't the face of the play.
But it's not just because of him in basketball. It's
because the other things that he does. That's what people
care more about Lebron. You know, it's his it's his
(34:42):
free agency decisions, the way he manipulates trades and that
kind of stuff. But in terms of what people tune
in to watch, I think, you know, the numbers say
people tune in to watch Steph more than Lebron. Well,
Lebron has been hurt. How many of those games he played,
he played? He played, and one of them is the
highest ranks and then yeah, but the other one, the
(35:03):
other one wasn't. The second one was Steph. Okay, but
it's such a small sample. Side you just I'm shocked
that you was mister Laker trying to keep quickly from
Lebron you're not hitting that real say this. It's November,
(35:29):
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