August 16, 2024 • 34 mins
Rob Parker and Ephraim Salaam talk about Manti Teo getting a new gig after football. Plus, the guys talk shop on CeeDee's new offfered contract, some shop talk, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're listening to the best of The Odd Couple with
Chris Bruce and Rob Harker.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's a Friday, and it's The Odd Couple on a
funky flashback Friday. And I can't believe that Ephram Salam
had the nerve to show up again after yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You had the nerve to come back. I thought yesterday
was enough for you.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Not sound sexy, enough of what, enough of winning, enough
of enough.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
From getting beat down yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I mean we did have a quiz yesterday, right, We
had a uh, we had a nice trivia?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Is that Alex? That's all that he rates is the trivia.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
But I'm saying talking about when you say get beat down,
you have to lose something, right, And the only thing
that was lost yesterday didn't come from.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Me was self esteem?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Was that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean you didn't get any of the queer. I
was four and old.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It does look bad having a guest sweep you at home.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's pretty That was ugly, I'll admit it. And I
did cry myself home.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Can you imagine driving back to make sure you're okay?
People were saying to me. You know you're driving this
car with the top down. Why are you crying?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You have a enou car. What's wrong? Did your girlfriend
dump you? That's your blue car out there? Be quiet?
Why you parked so far out?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
When you got to back that thing up against the
wall and gonna click the front of your car at
a nut cut?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Somebody clip in front of your car. Rob leaves like
a motorcycle space between.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Half and the wall. Yeah, he wants everybody to see it.
This car. No look at me, he hanks when he
drives into.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Is the odd couple.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Rob Parker and E from salam in for the vacation
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Don't forget our number two Tyler Dragon, NFL reporter for
USA Today and he covered track and field at the
Olympics for USA Today.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We'll talk with.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Him Eddie House of the NBA champ and of course
Fox Sports Radio NBA Insider, and he also works for
NBC Sports Boston. So we'll talk with Eddie House. That's
in our number three. But today let's welcome in. I
should say the odd couple crew, because you wouldn't be
(03:21):
able to do this fine radio program with dot him.
I was so excited about the topic I almost forgot
my guys. Alex, of course is our engineer Rob.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Are you gonna be okay without me for a few weeks?
I know, I can't believe a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Huh you go on vacation two Yeah, for like two
and a half weeks. Wow, Grand Canyon Mammoth coming back
and everywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Wow? Not even what do you mean? I mean it's
barely out the state Grand can that far? I'm just
going no maybe Bobby. Hey, Alex, I'll meet you by
the Grand Canyon. All right, okay, yeah, we'll find each other.
Thank you. It's not that big. Not that big, is
our producer. And for Rob g Hello everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yes, on vacation too, huh No next week, Rob, Yeah,
he's on vacation.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's August. We're the biggest show out of here, so
we get a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, I get it. Okay, Well, my bed, I'm
just I'm stepping in stuff this place. There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Steve the Sega of course is at the anchor desk,
will keep us updated throughout.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
The Steve time off, Steve. You know what, No, Steve?
He shocked me. Was it Christmas or Thanksgiving? Steve? Where
you were not absent? Well? I was like stun because me,
Alex and Steve are like the glue. We're the three amigos. Yes,
everybody else they don't care.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We care about the network, We care about keeping the continuity,
We care about robbing elbows.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
With each other.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We also care about the fans, our people exactly. They
want us to be here, so we got to be
here for them. And of course Elijah is our social
media guru. He does a great job on social All right,
let's start here, man, tie Tale.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You remember that guy I do? What do you? What
do you? What do you think? What do you think
most when when I say that name, what do you think? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The first thing off out of fish catfish, catfish?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, that he had a fake girlfriend or he was
catfish or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah. Yeah, so it's hard. The guy played eight years
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
He played that long, Yeah, right, it was I think
it was eight seasons. I know it didn't feel like that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well no, because look, we got to remember he was
like second in the Heisman when he was coming out
of college.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Everything he was the everything, all the stories were about him.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And then this whole story about he had a girlfriend
that didn't exist or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And I know that they did a like a thirty
for thirty on it, and there's a lot of in
depth stuff about friends and all kinds of stuff that
that that's in there. But this is what I really
want to talk about, not that because that's old.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But he just took a new.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Job at the NFL network, and I thought that was
pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Because we hadn't heard that much from him of late.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right out of sight out of mind when you have
some sort of embarrassing situation, and I would call that embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Would you, Oh, that's beyond embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Was it was an embarrassing situation that people kind of
held on to and you know, ridiculed him and made
fun of him and all that. But he's put hisself
back in the spotlight by taking his job at the
NFL network. I think he's gonna work, right Patrick on
Good Morning Football?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think so, yeah, Okay, Well, and Ephraim, I'm going
to commend him for not letting this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Control his life and feel like he needs to hide
for the rest of his life after that, Like, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
A major step for me.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Most people, most people don't want to be in a
public period, you know that, right? Most people would rather
not stuff that we do, the stuff that I get
yelled at. I was at a Lakers game standing outside
the building. Some guy had my back turn. Some guy yelled, hey,
la hater, and guess what I did? I turned the rock?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Of course, he said, see, you even answered to that.
I didn't even say your name.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He said, I didn't even say your name, and you
you accepted that? And I said, you know what that
was weird. I did do that. But you get my point.
We've been yelled at. People think we're crazy, and we're
with this. With that we're in the public, we get criticized, ridiculed,
whatever it is. I Rob doesn't know anything about football,
He's never touched the ball. Oh, Ephan doesn't know anything
(07:54):
about basketball. I know you played, but no one says
that though. I'm just giving you like, oh, no one
has said those things. I'm just giving you like, Okay,
I'm deep in the streets out here, just so people
who don't agree with your opinion will say, he's a
football player, what do you know about basketball? Everybody do
know your basketball. That's true acumen, right, That's all I'm saying. Okay,
(08:15):
So they use that as an example. And what I
used to tell players like you when they would like
tell me about.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well you never played that. I never do that. You
know why.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And we could talk about that before we get back
to Manta. When I started in this business over twenty
twenty plus, twenty five years ago, at a producer and
he said, look, when you get on the air and
you're talking or if you're debating with someone, low hanging
fruit is asking did they play right, right, right. That's easy.
(08:50):
It's easy because we know what the answer is. The
answer is no. So number one is not original. But
number two what you do is you alienate nine percent
play in the NFL E of your listeners. You alienate
them so now they don't think they have a valid
(09:10):
opinion on whatever you guys are talking about. So if
you're going to debate and you're losing the debate, then
never reach for the low hanging don't grab you got
a good producer there, because because that is true, and
I've trained my I've never said that on air.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What I try to do is I try.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
To enlighten people on the nuance, which you have right,
but I also validate their opinion. Like even as bad
and as whack as a lot of your opinions are
about thirty years strong, forty years of bad opinion. You've
built a house, You've built, you've built a blue fancy
(09:54):
drop time, forty.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Years to bad opinions and takes.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But all that to say, when you mentioned Manti Mantle, Teyo,
Manti teyou, the first thing I do think about is
that whole situation because he was a dynamic clip. What
look for people who think athletes are robots. Athletes don't
(10:21):
have feelings. They can just block right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
There are people I've been I've been in locker rooms
with players losing game back crying.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I don't know, I've been there those crying their eyes out.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
What we saw in the documentary maybe we didn't see
it at the time, but what the documentary showed us
was of one affected his ability to go out there
and just play. It's hard to go out there and
give everything you have when the whole world thinks, number one,
(10:55):
you're a liar, you're an idiot.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
How could you fall for that? Right? Like?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
He had so much of that. You gotta remember, this
is a young man. This is a kid man, right,
no years old.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It was. It was just had to be traumatic.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And that's why I'm saying at this point now, Ephraim,
I salute him that he's chosen to step back out
in the public and open himself up for that because
that's what he's done.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hard to do what right? Yeah, he's thirty three now.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I believe he's married, he's moved on with this life
out of the league. I think the further and further
away he gets from playing, the less people associate him
with that. I mean, because he was an all time great,
right right, Like I said, he I think he came
in number two that year in the Heisman voting.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Coming out of Notre Dame and all of that. Man,
you kidding like it was? It was? He was it
in college, that he.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Was at Notre Dame and not sc where his family went,
where he really wanted to go, and just knowing his
journey and what he had to weather in order to
be the player he became in college and then get drafted.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I take my hat off to him.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I take my hat off to him getting into this business,
being in the forefront and being on television talking about topics.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know that you've been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You open yourself up to criticism, something I think he's
well versed in handling, and just off of his past
and the things he's had to deal with in terms
of criticism, I think he's suited for this business. Not
all takes will be great takes. Not all opinions it
will be great opinions, but they can one thing there are.
(12:41):
They're your opinions, and you can own your opinion if
you need a fact, if it's a fact based opinion,
then go ahead. But if it's something you feel something.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Sometimes there is a feel And we brought that up
here all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
When I talked about putting George in my top ye
in twenty seventeen, I couldn't have really no.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
But I knew what that was.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
That wasn't a feeling that was that was that was
for you to have a moment like you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Like I had.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yes, indeed, I knew this way back when, back in
twenty seventeen, doctor in your bed, There you go, all right?
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine, Real Manti Tao
is put himself back in the spotlight on NFL Network.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
On the Good Morning Football Show.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's going to be doing stuff for them. Do you
salute him for putting himself back in the public eye?
And when you look at him, will you give this
guy a chance to be a football analyst?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Or were you rightly or or or.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Quickly running to oh, that's the guy who got catfished.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You know?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is that can he shake that? Do you think he
can ever shake that? Or is this something that's unshakable?
You've heard the Unbreakable. Unshakable is mantitoes?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Label Unshakable eight seven, seven ninety nine On Fox It
is The Odd Couple on a funky Flashback Friday, Rob
Parker and Ephram Salaam right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Stick and stay for another beat down by Ephram Salam.
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
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Speaker 3 (15:23):
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(15:46):
from Salaam and for the still vacation in Chris Bussars
and coming up in about twenty eight minutes, Tyler Dragon
from USA Today covers the NFL and track and field.
He was over there in the Olympics in Pollivoo Francais
in France. And we also have an edition of Shop
(16:07):
Talk that's coming up too in about forty three minutes.
So we got a big hour number two coming your way.
And we talked a little bit from about Jerry Jones,
who the Dallas Cowboys owner, always seems to roll over
and talks a big game, but ultimately he pays. He
(16:27):
always pays everybody, and they're always the highest paid after
all this stuff. He procrastinated with Dak Prescott for a
long time. Then they had to give him sixty million
dollars one of the years with the signing bonus, you know,
and you're like two d He probably could have had
him for twenty eight if we signed him two years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And now you got wide receiver CD Lamb and he's
looking for a new deal and Patrick, there's was a
report out there that there's.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
A new deal. Can you give us some of the details. Yeah, sure.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
So obviously we know about Jerry's saying I'm in no
rush to you know, sign CD Lamb.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Very nice, thank you, thank you. I'm a no rush.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I'm in no rush, Jared Jared Jones. But so he
was in no rush. Obviously. That was about a week
and a half ago. It seems as of apparently yesterday,
it seems he may be backing off of that a
little bit because him and Ceedee Lamb's representation have seemed
to be kind of talking a bit more, trying to
get an extension a little bit more eminently now now
(17:30):
while nothing is imminent, apparently as they're gearing up for
their second preseason game, they've been talking with CD Lamb's
people about a new contract, at least a new offer
submitted and it is looking like it is slightly under
thirty three million per season annually, And just to kind
of give you like a consensus of where that would
(17:50):
kind of rank in far of like wide receivers right now,
the top guy right now annually with a new deal
is Justin Jefferson at thirty five, number.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Two, thirty five MILS thirty five. And you know this
is a quarterback and wide receiver league. Now that's what
the people getting paid A.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
J Brown's number two at thirty two mil. So they're
looking at and they're saying just about under thirty three
supposedly for this reported offer that was just given a CD.
Whether they take it or not. Uh so it's gonna
he would squarely put him right around at number two
or just barely, just.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Barely ahead of AJ Brown or below.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Probably ahead though I wouldn't think that Jerry would sign them.
He's probably still got cassette tapes, not CDs.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know what I'm saying, Oh my god, put on pain.
Thank you, Patrick, he's got cassette.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Oh Patrick, do not do not encourage you. I'm sorry.
We'll be getting that for the rest of the evening.
And we can't take that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
But where if where are you on CD Lamb? How
great good great is he? And where should he be
on the pay scale? Is that the right slot right there,
right underneath Jefferson right.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Like Cede Lamb is their best offensive player in terms
of playmaker. All right, So when you fall into that category,
then you can start to demand certain things me personally.
If he is, If we're talking about thirty three and
Justin Jefferson is at what was at thirty six?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You said thirty five? What was it? What was it
Justin Jefferson? What was it?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Jefferson was at number thirty It was thirty five million five.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So that's too less annually a year. The only way
that they make it make sense is that they give
him more guaranteed money. That's the only more than the
more than what whatever Justin Jefferson got on his deal,
whatever his guaranteed money, because that's what we're only talking
about really when we're talking football numbers, we're talking what
the guarantee.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I'm with you whenever they report that, I just say,
I don't even know what why agency buy into that?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
What is the guaranteed loot?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Because I've known plenty of football players from who never
got the back end of the deal, of course plenty.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That goes with the territory.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I mean that's not even you're not even saying anything
shocking or out of place, but it's it's because that's
how that's how the system is set up.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's wrong.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
So the onus is really on how much guaranteed money
are you making in these contracts? And and for a
player to take a lower annual salary than his contemporaries
that he feels he may be on the same level.
That's the only way they get this done. So say
guaranteed money on justin Jefferson's deal was what was it?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
A five years?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
You're right, like, so say the guaranteed money was, you know,
eighty five million, then making ninety adds one gonna want
to come in at ninety million guaranteed. That's the way
you make it makes sense because now you do get
the money that you possibly would get on the back end.
But nobody plays out their contract, So.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So what what's the what do you do here? Do
you just instead of waiting? I know they don't.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
They wait because they're getting guys cheap for years and
then eventually they got to come around and pay right,
even though the guys will or do you just pay
sooner for less money?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Do you know what I mean? Like, that's what they
do in baseball. What they do now from is.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
People will be players will have four or five years
before the arbitration eligible, right, and they'll go to them
and say here's thirty five million dollars now as a
you know what I mean, or whatever the number is,
and a lot of those players gets.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What they do they take it.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Of course, why wouldn't you they take don't have any money, right,
you know? And baseball's weird, man, because they make you
wait a long time to get When you get the bag,
that means you gotta be good for a long.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Time, but you get paid for the bed, right, But
you get right, you get paid for that.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I get that.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But you know football, basketball and basketball, you come out
with three good years, you get you're about to get
the rookie max extension and then you know.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I think basketball is different too because there's so few players,
you know what I mean, it's twelve. It's just it's
just so those guys are gonna get taken care of.
Because even on a team of twelve six, seven matter.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like, it's really the numbers, even small ten through twelve
really don't matter.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Really, if you got a nine man rotation in the league,
you may have one man too many.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Might be eight, that's right, eight man rotation.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Eight man rotation, and then there's eight guys are just
there for practice and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Get hurt, come in. Yeah, that type of sitution. That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's why basketball players they gotta get it because it's
not as many. Yeah, baseball, you gotta pitching, you gotta
have catchers, you gotta have all kinds of football.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You got a million people, you got it's a lot
of people. I always said, the backs of our teams
are built on the backs of late round draft picks,
are undrafted free agents. That's how you get that's where
the value is.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
If the union has not worked, no, no, like they
should have way more because their careers are so short
and they use these guys and then move on and
it's unfair, it really is.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
They implemented something later in my career called the player
performance bonus, where people who are on minimum salaries, the
more you play, you got a bump and pay so
(23:48):
case in point, my rookie year nineteen ninety eight, I
made one hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars before taxes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I started all nineteen Wowow's when I started all nineteen games,
including the super Bowl. So if the player performance bonus
was in play with in play, I would have made
probably five hundred thousand dollars. It's a big difference, wow,
and salary based on because I played every single game.
(24:22):
I started every game, and then it was nineteen because
we went all the way through the playoffs and all
the way to the super Bowl. So I almost made
for the divisional round the conference chip than my regular
season than my regular season. That's how crazy that is.
So they're starting to implement stuff and put things to you.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Exactly ninety eight. That was ninety eight. Man. You know what's.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Crazy was with the merchandise. I don't know how they
do it in the NFL. Did you guys get.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We get a piece of it? Do you get a long?
I don't get a large, but we get a piece
of it? Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In baseball when I was covering the Red you ready
for this in nineteen ninety one, if you made the
opening day roster. No matter what player you were, right,
twenty fifth man, star players or whatever, everybody got the
same exact amount, which was eighty thousand dollars. Really, yes,
think about that in nineteen ninety that's a tonne. And
(25:17):
if you were twenty fifth man, you know what I mean,
you got eighty thousand just for me on merchandising a loan. Goodness, gracious,
you guys didn't get it. They probably gave you all
a couple of T shirts from shekels Man, right, baby,
shekels It's unbelievable, it really is, you know, But look
all right.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Ceedee lamb. Though I don't know where does he fit in?
I guess my question he is one of is he?
Is he the best? He's not the best.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Who's the best? For my money, I would take justin Jefferson.
It's just unbelievable, right, He's that level of player to
what some of the things he does. It's crazy, Like
(26:08):
if if, if, if they end up playing with Sam
Donald the whole year, I can still see him putting
up tremendous numbers.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's how good he is.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
He saw what happened to Devonte Adams when he went
to Oakland I mean, I mean the Vegas Raiders tremendous
drop off right in terms of production. I see even
uh with Kirk Cousins gone and JJ McCarthy heard and
(26:47):
Sam Donald there as a bend aid a bridge, I
still see him putting up big numbers. Now would CD
B CD without Dak right, I also hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
And twelve touchdowns in seventeen game, it's pretty impressible.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, So I I see him as that guy, like
he's definitely a game changer when he steps on on
the on the field, and then you have uh chase
out in and and since in Cincinnati he can get healthy. Uh,
(27:26):
He's dynamic, came into the league, dynamic set the world
on fire.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Every think, I think Jerry's gonna wind up making CD
LAMB the highest pad.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Of course that's that's Jerry whse and.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Then guess what he's gonna have to do on the
heels of that then make that, then make that the highest.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But I do believe that, Like I don't. I heard
the number thirty three, it's underneath Jefferson. But I think
Jerry will wind up because that's what he always did.
He did it with Ezekiel Elliott. Remember that I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Care if I'm the player. I want more guaranteed money.
I'm telling you that. The only thing we're talking about
you can thirty.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Two thirty three. I'm with you. I'm with you. You
put that guaranteed money up there where.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Now I'm getting the most guaranteed money outside of a quarterback.
Then yeah, we're in.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We's gotta be guarantee each Oeddar, I'm with you, gotta
be that's it all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
sixty nine CD. Lamb, should he get the best on
the highest paid deal for a wide receiver? And who
would you take? Jefferson in Minnesota or Lamb and Rice
(28:36):
in Dallas? Lamb and Rice, good meal. That is a
good meal. I love me some Lamb.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
That's a great meal. Yes, it is all right.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It is The Odd Couple on a Funky Flashback Friday,
Rob Parker e from salam right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
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Speaker 3 (29:06):
TMI right way too much.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Hey, it is the odd Couple on a funky flashback Friday.
I just need baby oil because my hands will get
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Speaker 3 (29:24):
And you need gasoline, Okay, not baby oil.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Rob Parker E from Salam coming to your live from
the tire rack dot com studio, and E from Salam
rolled his eyes as Aaron Judge hit his forty fourth
home run. I don't roll my eyes. He don't believe
what I told him. I told him in twenty seventeen.
He was special for just you don't believe me.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I do believe you.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
You believe it now, but I also know why you
did it back in twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 3 (30:22):
All right, you know what, it's time for a little
shop talk.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Ain't nobody's nothing to bob shop? You know that.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Ain't nobody you talking about whoever, whatever whatever you want
to in a boss up?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Wait you not mate?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Shop talk?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right, that's right, everybody.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
It is time for shop talk where we kind of
go a little away from sports here and you know,
talk a little bit of some shop right now.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And guys, I actually got a topic for us.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I actually was perusing on on Twitter or x for
those of you following on here. There's actually one little
controversial thing where a guy's catching flak for his wedding.
Now here's the thing, guys. Apparently he he's an idiot
two hundred thousand grand on his wedding. What and but
here's the kicker on this. He's all his invites to everybody,
(31:08):
friends and family. He's charging them four hundred and fifty
per head. You have to pay for fifty to go
to this man.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
No, no, no, I'm not going nobody.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I'm not going nobody. God, he's so dumb.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
And he got on there and he was like, you
tell me from you know, we spend all this trunning
us on the place. We spend all this money on
the cake, We spend all this money on this, and
all this money on that, And y'all mean to tell me,
you know you would go out there and you'll go
buy something from a stranger, but you know your friends
and your family you wouldn't pay to come to our wedding. No, no, no, no, no,
(31:47):
no one told you to go spend all that money.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Want your wedding a two hundred thousand dollars wedding, and
you want us to foot the bill. Why can't you
have a if you're having a wedding, had that in
the backyard parts? Come on, man, now that's ridiculous. You
want to lavish wedding so you could say, look at
the wedding I have and have everybody pay for it.
You really thought everybody was gonna pay for it?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
How much is it? Four point fifty ahead and you
got fifty dollars?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Call?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You got an airline ticket? You gotta pay for the
hotel shot right?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Oh yeah, no, listen unless it's like a really close
family member and best friend, I barely want to go
to a wedding anyway, And you're making me pay for
fifty anyway.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, but the way he was like like, I can't
believe this. Tell me if I'm wrong, man, if.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You're wrong, you're wrong. You're not only wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sir, four hundred and fifty dollars. You don't need to
be kidding. Anyone's gift to any and he wants a
gift to well, remember you from We all make choices.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
We all make choices. He made that choice. It seems
like the kind of guy that would invite you out
to dinner, get like a bunch of drinks, appetizers, et cetera,
and you just get like one meal and he's like,
let's split the bill.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Right, That is that guy? What the sandwich? Split your
hat on the creek? You know.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Like I'm just saying, like these kind of people, rob
This just shows me that social media has brainwashed us,
just like we always have these baby things now where
we show you the gender of the people, starve forest
fires for this stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Did you see the plane crash? Dude of the.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Revealed yes, the plane. Nobody even paid attention to the
plane crashing was that it flew over, dropped the pink whatever,
the wing flipped off of the thing, and they didn't
even nobody tear.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
They were all cheering for the pink that it was
your baby. This is we're lost, We're lost. But the
idea that somebody really thinks that people are gonna pay
for that, like you bring a date that's nine hundred
dollars the hotel, airfare wherever it is perform, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Tell is Beyonce performing, because that's like a concert ticket.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So nobody go an'ybody going to that winding gonna beat
them all.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
That and his parents it's gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Impersonated and impersonator Narchiernarcher.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Unbelievable, crazy, all right, our number three.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That was a baseball team that spent a billion dollars
in the offseason.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Do they have to win the Super Bowl? I mean
the World Series? Oh man, Ive ticks Day,
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're listening to the best of The Odd Couple with
Chris Bruce and Rob Harker.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's a Friday, and it's The Odd Couple on a
funky flashback Friday. And I can't believe that Ephram Salam
had the nerve to show up again after yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You had the nerve to come back. I thought yesterday
was enough for you.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Not sound sexy, enough of what, enough of winning, enough
of enough.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
From getting beat down yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I mean we did have a quiz yesterday, right, We
had a uh, we had a nice trivia?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Is that Alex? That's all that he rates is the trivia.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
But I'm saying talking about when you say get beat down,
you have to lose something, right, And the only thing
that was lost yesterday didn't come from.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Me was self esteem?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Was that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean you didn't get any of the queer. I
was four and old.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It does look bad having a guest sweep you at home.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's pretty That was ugly, I'll admit it. And I
did cry myself home.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Can you imagine driving back to make sure you're okay?
People were saying to me. You know you're driving this
car with the top down. Why are you crying?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You have a enou car. What's wrong? Did your girlfriend
dump you? That's your blue car out there? Be quiet?
Why you parked so far out?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
When you got to back that thing up against the
wall and gonna click the front of your car at
a nut cut?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Somebody clip in front of your car. Rob leaves like
a motorcycle space between.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Half and the wall. Yeah, he wants everybody to see it.
This car. No look at me, he hanks when he
drives into.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Is the odd couple.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Rob Parker and E from salam in for the vacation
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Don't forget our number two Tyler Dragon, NFL reporter for
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Speaker 3 (03:00):
We'll talk with.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Him Eddie House of the NBA champ and of course
Fox Sports Radio NBA Insider, and he also works for
NBC Sports Boston. So we'll talk with Eddie House. That's
in our number three. But today let's welcome in. I
should say the odd couple crew, because you wouldn't be
(03:21):
able to do this fine radio program with dot him.
I was so excited about the topic I almost forgot
my guys. Alex, of course is our engineer Rob.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Are you gonna be okay without me for a few weeks?
I know, I can't believe a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Huh you go on vacation two Yeah, for like two
and a half weeks. Wow, Grand Canyon Mammoth coming back
and everywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Wow? Not even what do you mean? I mean it's
barely out the state Grand can that far? I'm just
going no maybe Bobby. Hey, Alex, I'll meet you by
the Grand Canyon. All right, okay, yeah, we'll find each other.
Thank you. It's not that big. Not that big, is
our producer. And for Rob g Hello everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yes, on vacation too, huh No next week, Rob, Yeah,
he's on vacation.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's August. We're the biggest show out of here, so
we get a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, I get it. Okay, Well, my bed, I'm
just I'm stepping in stuff this place. There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Steve the Sega of course is at the anchor desk,
will keep us updated throughout.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
The Steve time off, Steve. You know what, No, Steve?
He shocked me. Was it Christmas or Thanksgiving? Steve? Where
you were not absent? Well? I was like stun because me,
Alex and Steve are like the glue. We're the three amigos. Yes,
everybody else they don't care.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We care about the network, We care about keeping the continuity,
We care about robbing elbows.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
With each other.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We also care about the fans, our people exactly. They
want us to be here, so we got to be
here for them. And of course Elijah is our social
media guru. He does a great job on social All right,
let's start here, man, tie Tale.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You remember that guy I do? What do you? What
do you? What do you think? What do you think
most when when I say that name, what do you think? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The first thing off out of fish catfish, catfish?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, that he had a fake girlfriend or he was
catfish or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah. Yeah, so it's hard. The guy played eight years
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
He played that long, Yeah, right, it was I think
it was eight seasons. I know it didn't feel like that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well no, because look, we got to remember he was
like second in the Heisman when he was coming out
of college.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Everything he was the everything, all the stories were about him.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And then this whole story about he had a girlfriend
that didn't exist or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And I know that they did a like a thirty
for thirty on it, and there's a lot of in
depth stuff about friends and all kinds of stuff that
that that's in there. But this is what I really
want to talk about, not that because that's old.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But he just took a new.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Job at the NFL network, and I thought that was
pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Because we hadn't heard that much from him of late.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right out of sight out of mind when you have
some sort of embarrassing situation, and I would call that embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Would you, Oh, that's beyond embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Was it was an embarrassing situation that people kind of
held on to and you know, ridiculed him and made
fun of him and all that. But he's put hisself
back in the spotlight by taking his job at the
NFL network. I think he's gonna work, right Patrick on
Good Morning Football?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think so, yeah, Okay, Well, and Ephraim, I'm going
to commend him for not letting this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Control his life and feel like he needs to hide
for the rest of his life after that, Like, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
A major step for me.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Most people, most people don't want to be in a
public period, you know that, right? Most people would rather
not stuff that we do, the stuff that I get
yelled at. I was at a Lakers game standing outside
the building. Some guy had my back turn. Some guy yelled, hey,
la hater, and guess what I did? I turned the rock?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Of course, he said, see, you even answered to that.
I didn't even say your name.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He said, I didn't even say your name, and you
you accepted that? And I said, you know what that
was weird. I did do that. But you get my point.
We've been yelled at. People think we're crazy, and we're
with this. With that we're in the public, we get criticized, ridiculed,
whatever it is. I Rob doesn't know anything about football,
He's never touched the ball. Oh, Ephan doesn't know anything
(07:54):
about basketball. I know you played, but no one says
that though. I'm just giving you like, oh, no one
has said those things. I'm just giving you like, Okay,
I'm deep in the streets out here, just so people
who don't agree with your opinion will say, he's a
football player, what do you know about basketball? Everybody do
know your basketball. That's true acumen, right, That's all I'm saying. Okay,
(08:15):
So they use that as an example. And what I
used to tell players like you when they would like
tell me about.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well you never played that. I never do that. You
know why.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And we could talk about that before we get back
to Manta. When I started in this business over twenty
twenty plus, twenty five years ago, at a producer and
he said, look, when you get on the air and
you're talking or if you're debating with someone, low hanging
fruit is asking did they play right, right, right. That's easy.
(08:50):
It's easy because we know what the answer is. The
answer is no. So number one is not original. But
number two what you do is you alienate nine percent
play in the NFL E of your listeners. You alienate
them so now they don't think they have a valid
(09:10):
opinion on whatever you guys are talking about. So if
you're going to debate and you're losing the debate, then
never reach for the low hanging don't grab you got
a good producer there, because because that is true, and
I've trained my I've never said that on air.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What I try to do is I try.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
To enlighten people on the nuance, which you have right,
but I also validate their opinion. Like even as bad
and as whack as a lot of your opinions are
about thirty years strong, forty years of bad opinion. You've
built a house, You've built, you've built a blue fancy
(09:54):
drop time, forty.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Years to bad opinions and takes.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But all that to say, when you mentioned Manti Mantle, Teyo,
Manti teyou, the first thing I do think about is
that whole situation because he was a dynamic clip. What
look for people who think athletes are robots. Athletes don't
(10:21):
have feelings. They can just block right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
There are people I've been I've been in locker rooms
with players losing game back crying.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I don't know, I've been there those crying their eyes out.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
What we saw in the documentary maybe we didn't see
it at the time, but what the documentary showed us
was of one affected his ability to go out there
and just play. It's hard to go out there and
give everything you have when the whole world thinks, number one,
(10:55):
you're a liar, you're an idiot.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
How could you fall for that? Right? Like?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
He had so much of that. You gotta remember, this
is a young man. This is a kid man, right,
no years old.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It was. It was just had to be traumatic.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And that's why I'm saying at this point now, Ephraim,
I salute him that he's chosen to step back out
in the public and open himself up for that because
that's what he's done.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hard to do what right? Yeah, he's thirty three now.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I believe he's married, he's moved on with this life
out of the league. I think the further and further
away he gets from playing, the less people associate him
with that. I mean, because he was an all time great,
right right, Like I said, he I think he came
in number two that year in the Heisman voting.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Coming out of Notre Dame and all of that. Man,
you kidding like it was? It was? He was it
in college, that he.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Was at Notre Dame and not sc where his family went,
where he really wanted to go, and just knowing his
journey and what he had to weather in order to
be the player he became in college and then get drafted.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I take my hat off to him.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I take my hat off to him getting into this business,
being in the forefront and being on television talking about topics.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know that you've been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You open yourself up to criticism, something I think he's
well versed in handling, and just off of his past
and the things he's had to deal with in terms
of criticism, I think he's suited for this business. Not
all takes will be great takes. Not all opinions it
will be great opinions, but they can one thing there are.
(12:41):
They're your opinions, and you can own your opinion if
you need a fact, if it's a fact based opinion,
then go ahead. But if it's something you feel something.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Sometimes there is a feel And we brought that up
here all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
When I talked about putting George in my top ye
in twenty seventeen, I couldn't have really no.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
But I knew what that was.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
That wasn't a feeling that was that was that was
for you to have a moment like you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Like I had.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yes, indeed, I knew this way back when, back in
twenty seventeen, doctor in your bed, There you go, all right?
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine, Real Manti Tao
is put himself back in the spotlight on NFL Network.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
On the Good Morning Football Show.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's going to be doing stuff for them. Do you
salute him for putting himself back in the public eye?
And when you look at him, will you give this
guy a chance to be a football analyst?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Or were you rightly or or or.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Quickly running to oh, that's the guy who got catfished.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You know?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is that can he shake that? Do you think he
can ever shake that? Or is this something that's unshakable?
You've heard the Unbreakable. Unshakable is mantitoes?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Label Unshakable eight seven, seven ninety nine On Fox It
is The Odd Couple on a funky Flashback Friday, Rob
Parker and Ephram Salaam right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Stick and stay for another beat down by Ephram Salam.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Wow.
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
Welcome in our number two of a funky Flashback Friday.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It is the odd Couple.
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(15:46):
from Salaam and for the still vacation in Chris Bussars
and coming up in about twenty eight minutes, Tyler Dragon
from USA Today covers the NFL and track and field.
He was over there in the Olympics in Pollivoo Francais
in France. And we also have an edition of Shop
(16:07):
Talk that's coming up too in about forty three minutes.
So we got a big hour number two coming your way.
And we talked a little bit from about Jerry Jones,
who the Dallas Cowboys owner, always seems to roll over
and talks a big game, but ultimately he pays. He
(16:27):
always pays everybody, and they're always the highest paid after
all this stuff. He procrastinated with Dak Prescott for a
long time. Then they had to give him sixty million
dollars one of the years with the signing bonus, you know,
and you're like two d He probably could have had
him for twenty eight if we signed him two years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And now you got wide receiver CD Lamb and he's
looking for a new deal and Patrick, there's was a
report out there that there's.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
A new deal. Can you give us some of the details. Yeah, sure.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
So obviously we know about Jerry's saying I'm in no
rush to you know, sign CD Lamb.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Very nice, thank you, thank you. I'm a no rush.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I'm in no rush, Jared Jared Jones. But so he
was in no rush. Obviously. That was about a week
and a half ago. It seems as of apparently yesterday,
it seems he may be backing off of that a
little bit because him and Ceedee Lamb's representation have seemed
to be kind of talking a bit more, trying to
get an extension a little bit more eminently now now
(17:30):
while nothing is imminent, apparently as they're gearing up for
their second preseason game, they've been talking with CD Lamb's
people about a new contract, at least a new offer
submitted and it is looking like it is slightly under
thirty three million per season annually, And just to kind
of give you like a consensus of where that would
(17:50):
kind of rank in far of like wide receivers right now,
the top guy right now annually with a new deal
is Justin Jefferson at thirty five, number.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Two, thirty five MILS thirty five. And you know this
is a quarterback and wide receiver league. Now that's what
the people getting paid A.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
J Brown's number two at thirty two mil. So they're
looking at and they're saying just about under thirty three
supposedly for this reported offer that was just given a CD.
Whether they take it or not. Uh so it's gonna
he would squarely put him right around at number two
or just barely, just.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Barely ahead of AJ Brown or below.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Probably ahead though I wouldn't think that Jerry would sign them.
He's probably still got cassette tapes, not CDs.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know what I'm saying, Oh my god, put on pain.
Thank you, Patrick, he's got cassette.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Oh Patrick, do not do not encourage you. I'm sorry.
We'll be getting that for the rest of the evening.
And we can't take that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
But where if where are you on CD Lamb? How
great good great is he? And where should he be
on the pay scale? Is that the right slot right there,
right underneath Jefferson right.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Like Cede Lamb is their best offensive player in terms
of playmaker. All right, So when you fall into that category,
then you can start to demand certain things me personally.
If he is, If we're talking about thirty three and
Justin Jefferson is at what was at thirty six?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You said thirty five? What was it? What was it
Justin Jefferson? What was it?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Jefferson was at number thirty It was thirty five million five.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So that's too less annually a year. The only way
that they make it make sense is that they give
him more guaranteed money. That's the only more than the
more than what whatever Justin Jefferson got on his deal,
whatever his guaranteed money, because that's what we're only talking
about really when we're talking football numbers, we're talking what
the guarantee.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I'm with you whenever they report that, I just say,
I don't even know what why agency buy into that?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
What is the guaranteed loot?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Because I've known plenty of football players from who never
got the back end of the deal, of course plenty.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That goes with the territory.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I mean that's not even you're not even saying anything
shocking or out of place, but it's it's because that's
how that's how the system is set up.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's wrong.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
So the onus is really on how much guaranteed money
are you making in these contracts? And and for a
player to take a lower annual salary than his contemporaries
that he feels he may be on the same level.
That's the only way they get this done. So say
guaranteed money on justin Jefferson's deal was what was it?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
A five years?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
You're right, like, so say the guaranteed money was, you know,
eighty five million, then making ninety adds one gonna want
to come in at ninety million guaranteed. That's the way
you make it makes sense because now you do get
the money that you possibly would get on the back end.
But nobody plays out their contract, So.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So what what's the what do you do here? Do
you just instead of waiting? I know they don't.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
They wait because they're getting guys cheap for years and
then eventually they got to come around and pay right,
even though the guys will or do you just pay
sooner for less money?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Do you know what I mean? Like, that's what they
do in baseball. What they do now from is.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
People will be players will have four or five years
before the arbitration eligible, right, and they'll go to them
and say here's thirty five million dollars now as a
you know what I mean, or whatever the number is,
and a lot of those players gets.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What they do they take it.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Of course, why wouldn't you they take don't have any money, right,
you know? And baseball's weird, man, because they make you
wait a long time to get When you get the bag,
that means you gotta be good for a long.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Time, but you get paid for the bed, right, But
you get right, you get paid for that.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I get that.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But you know football, basketball and basketball, you come out
with three good years, you get you're about to get
the rookie max extension and then you know.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I think basketball is different too because there's so few players,
you know what I mean, it's twelve. It's just it's
just so those guys are gonna get taken care of.
Because even on a team of twelve six, seven matter.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like, it's really the numbers, even small ten through twelve
really don't matter.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Really, if you got a nine man rotation in the league,
you may have one man too many.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Might be eight, that's right, eight man rotation.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Eight man rotation, and then there's eight guys are just
there for practice and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Get hurt, come in. Yeah, that type of sitution. That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's why basketball players they gotta get it because it's
not as many. Yeah, baseball, you gotta pitching, you gotta
have catchers, you gotta have all kinds of football.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You got a million people, you got it's a lot
of people. I always said, the backs of our teams
are built on the backs of late round draft picks,
are undrafted free agents. That's how you get that's where
the value is.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
If the union has not worked, no, no, like they
should have way more because their careers are so short
and they use these guys and then move on and
it's unfair, it really is.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
They implemented something later in my career called the player
performance bonus, where people who are on minimum salaries, the
more you play, you got a bump and pay so
(23:48):
case in point, my rookie year nineteen ninety eight, I
made one hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars before taxes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I started all nineteen Wowow's when I started all nineteen games,
including the super Bowl. So if the player performance bonus
was in play with in play, I would have made
probably five hundred thousand dollars. It's a big difference, wow,
and salary based on because I played every single game.
(24:22):
I started every game, and then it was nineteen because
we went all the way through the playoffs and all
the way to the super Bowl. So I almost made
for the divisional round the conference chip than my regular
season than my regular season. That's how crazy that is.
So they're starting to implement stuff and put things to you.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Exactly ninety eight. That was ninety eight. Man. You know what's.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Crazy was with the merchandise. I don't know how they
do it in the NFL. Did you guys get.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We get a piece of it? Do you get a long?
I don't get a large, but we get a piece
of it? Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In baseball when I was covering the Red you ready
for this in nineteen ninety one, if you made the
opening day roster. No matter what player you were, right,
twenty fifth man, star players or whatever, everybody got the
same exact amount, which was eighty thousand dollars. Really, yes,
think about that in nineteen ninety that's a tonne. And
(25:17):
if you were twenty fifth man, you know what I mean,
you got eighty thousand just for me on merchandising a loan. Goodness, gracious,
you guys didn't get it. They probably gave you all
a couple of T shirts from shekels Man, right, baby,
shekels It's unbelievable, it really is, you know, But look
all right.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Ceedee lamb. Though I don't know where does he fit in?
I guess my question he is one of is he?
Is he the best? He's not the best.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Who's the best? For my money, I would take justin Jefferson.
It's just unbelievable, right, He's that level of player to
what some of the things he does. It's crazy, Like
(26:08):
if if, if, if they end up playing with Sam
Donald the whole year, I can still see him putting
up tremendous numbers.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's how good he is.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
He saw what happened to Devonte Adams when he went
to Oakland I mean, I mean the Vegas Raiders tremendous
drop off right in terms of production. I see even
uh with Kirk Cousins gone and JJ McCarthy heard and
(26:47):
Sam Donald there as a bend aid a bridge, I
still see him putting up big numbers. Now would CD
B CD without Dak right, I also hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
And twelve touchdowns in seventeen game, it's pretty impressible.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, So I I see him as that guy, like
he's definitely a game changer when he steps on on
the on the field, and then you have uh chase
out in and and since in Cincinnati he can get healthy. Uh,
(27:26):
He's dynamic, came into the league, dynamic set the world
on fire.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Every think, I think Jerry's gonna wind up making CD
LAMB the highest pad.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Of course that's that's Jerry whse and.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Then guess what he's gonna have to do on the
heels of that then make that, then make that the highest.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But I do believe that, Like I don't. I heard
the number thirty three, it's underneath Jefferson. But I think
Jerry will wind up because that's what he always did.
He did it with Ezekiel Elliott. Remember that I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Care if I'm the player. I want more guaranteed money.
I'm telling you that. The only thing we're talking about
you can thirty.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Two thirty three. I'm with you. I'm with you. You
put that guaranteed money up there where.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Now I'm getting the most guaranteed money outside of a quarterback.
Then yeah, we're in.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We's gotta be guarantee each Oeddar, I'm with you, gotta
be that's it all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
sixty nine CD. Lamb, should he get the best on
the highest paid deal for a wide receiver? And who
would you take? Jefferson in Minnesota or Lamb and Rice
(28:36):
in Dallas? Lamb and Rice, good meal. That is a
good meal. I love me some Lamb.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
That's a great meal. Yes, it is all right.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
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And you need gasoline, Okay, not baby oil.
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Speaker 3 (30:22):
All right, you know what, it's time for a little
shop talk.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Ain't nobody's nothing to bob shop? You know that.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Ain't nobody you talking about whoever, whatever whatever you want
to in a boss up?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Wait you not mate?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Shop talk?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right, that's right, everybody.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
It is time for shop talk where we kind of
go a little away from sports here and you know,
talk a little bit of some shop right now.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And guys, I actually got a topic for us.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I actually was perusing on on Twitter or x for
those of you following on here. There's actually one little
controversial thing where a guy's catching flak for his wedding.
Now here's the thing, guys. Apparently he he's an idiot
two hundred thousand grand on his wedding. What and but
here's the kicker on this. He's all his invites to everybody,
(31:08):
friends and family. He's charging them four hundred and fifty
per head. You have to pay for fifty to go
to this man.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
No, no, no, I'm not going nobody.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I'm not going nobody. God, he's so dumb.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
And he got on there and he was like, you
tell me from you know, we spend all this trunning
us on the place. We spend all this money on
the cake, We spend all this money on this, and
all this money on that, And y'all mean to tell me,
you know you would go out there and you'll go
buy something from a stranger, but you know your friends
and your family you wouldn't pay to come to our wedding. No, no, no, no, no,
(31:47):
no one told you to go spend all that money.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Want your wedding a two hundred thousand dollars wedding, and
you want us to foot the bill. Why can't you
have a if you're having a wedding, had that in
the backyard parts? Come on, man, now that's ridiculous. You
want to lavish wedding so you could say, look at
the wedding I have and have everybody pay for it.
You really thought everybody was gonna pay for it?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
How much is it? Four point fifty ahead and you
got fifty dollars?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Call?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You got an airline ticket? You gotta pay for the
hotel shot right?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Oh yeah, no, listen unless it's like a really close
family member and best friend, I barely want to go
to a wedding anyway, And you're making me pay for
fifty anyway.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, but the way he was like like, I can't
believe this. Tell me if I'm wrong, man, if.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You're wrong, you're wrong. You're not only wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sir, four hundred and fifty dollars. You don't need to
be kidding. Anyone's gift to any and he wants a
gift to well, remember you from We all make choices.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
We all make choices. He made that choice. It seems
like the kind of guy that would invite you out
to dinner, get like a bunch of drinks, appetizers, et cetera,
and you just get like one meal and he's like,
let's split the bill.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Right, That is that guy? What the sandwich? Split your
hat on the creek? You know.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Like I'm just saying, like these kind of people, rob
This just shows me that social media has brainwashed us,
just like we always have these baby things now where
we show you the gender of the people, starve forest
fires for this stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Did you see the plane crash? Dude of the.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Revealed yes, the plane. Nobody even paid attention to the
plane crashing was that it flew over, dropped the pink whatever,
the wing flipped off of the thing, and they didn't
even nobody tear.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
They were all cheering for the pink that it was
your baby. This is we're lost, We're lost. But the
idea that somebody really thinks that people are gonna pay
for that, like you bring a date that's nine hundred
dollars the hotel, airfare wherever it is perform, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Tell is Beyonce performing, because that's like a concert ticket.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So nobody go an'ybody going to that winding gonna beat
them all.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
That and his parents it's gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Impersonated and impersonator Narchiernarcher.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Unbelievable, crazy, all right, our number three.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That was a baseball team that spent a billion dollars
in the offseason.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Do they have to win the Super Bowl? I mean
the World Series? Oh man, Ive ticks Day,
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