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me welcome in my radio partner.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Of course, his name is Elvin was season. What's upcer, brother,
what's happening?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'm good man, I said.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You know, one of the things we like about in
life is stability. We like some things to be routine.
And seeing you with the forty ounce of diet coke
whatever is you drink, I feel good even though you're
we're across states. It's good to see some things don't change.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
No always got to do that, and my name is
Rob Parker. Okay, I just want to make sure we're
on the same page.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Es, Yeah, we got you. All is good? That's right.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
That's usually what happens on a TV theme song Thursday.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
JJ was the star of the show. He stole that show.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah uh from best role and John Amos you.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Know I hated him. I know.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Let me ask you this, though, would you rather be
that Carlton the progressive lady flow where you're stuck in
this role forever like this is all I am now,
I'm this and I got to be Dino right until
I'm eighty eight? Or would you rather do a bunch
of different things and express your creativity as an actor,
(03:25):
as a thesbian?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Which one would you rather have? Rob Parker? Well, unfortunately,
most people, even those.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Actors who get to work a lot, people don't know
them as for any one thing. I'm not talking about
a big time If you're saying a big time Hollywood
actor or a bit or a sitcom star for five years,
obviously you would take the Hollywood actor.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But anything.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I don't think there's anything wrong with being iconic and
people knowing you forever. And I get it. It could
be annoying or whatnot. But what was her name on
Cheers who left to do movies?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, I know who you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I forgot her name, but yes, And Danny DeVito's wife,
Shelley her name with Shelley Long.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Shelley Long left a hit show that went on for
ten or eleven years. She is one of the all
time sitcoms to go do movies and that bombed out.
I'm just saying, what are you like to have a
run of ten or eleven years with a sitcom and
not have to work ever?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Again, I'm kind of cool with that. I'm not mad
at that either.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'm not mad at either, especially Flow because she's getting
the checks still flowing in.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Flow has been there for What was the other guy
with the for Verzon is it? Can you hear me now?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean he did that and.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Then switched over to the other company after they dropped it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Wither It happens in sports, it happens in commercials.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Who's the other guy on State Farm? What's the guy's name?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Jake?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They got the black guy that plays Jake because that
wasn't the original Jacobs.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
It was the white guy. And then they went to
the black Jake. That's got to be I'm sorry about that.
And now that guy Jake, I just see him game everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He's way game weight, buff way. Yeah, he's been in
a gym like that. That Jake is like swollen Jay.
He's like he got some of that state farm money
and got a personal trader.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But he's what you call it now, But that's all
he's gonna be like.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, he's been doing for tearn down the Doors acted anyway.
But yeah, let's let's think of that.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yep, let's welcome in the odd couple of crew, because
we wouldn't be able to do this fine radio program
without him. Ian is in for Rob g as our
producer today, one of my former students at USC doing
his thing at Fox Sports Radio. Of course, Alex is
our engineer as always. Uh, Steve de Seger is at
the update desk. He'll keep up updated throughout the program.
(05:44):
Of course, we got baseball big games where teams can
move on. The Yankees win, they move on, the Tigers win,
they move on. So we got a lot of that
going on. And of course Elijah is our social media guru.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
All right, Uh, let's with the news of the day, Delvin,
Let's talk with them. So here's one of my issues
I have with people.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It's one thing to you know, I'm big on reporting,
trying to figure out, you know, what's happened, and if
you have insight to something, I think it's good. But
the narrative yesterday was Aaron Rodgers, you know, had Robert
solid fired because he didn't want Nathaniel Hackett demoted. Would
(06:33):
you agree with that that that was an overriding conversation
I was out there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I wouldn't exactly use the term had as much as
he didn't stop it. He didn't jump in the middle
of it. He didn't say this is my guy, I'm
sticking up for more so he.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, but I'm talking about the Hackett part, that that
that Hackett.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Was going to get demoted.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
The owner called up and said, this is what Robert,
this is what the story that I heard other people repeating.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
In that case, Yeah, you're talking about that that end
I thought were talking more.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Something ye yeah, No, No, I'm talking about the Hacket that
he saved his guy Hacket from being demoted and totally
owned to get rid of Robert Salah because he wanted
to demote Hackett.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And obviously Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Won two MVBS with Hackett, but offensively they got issues.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is why I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
What the Jets, to me, are doing is trying to
save the season. When you're not playing well, nobody's safe.
Nobody Aaron Rodgers can't save an offensive coordinator where you're
not scoring and you're not moving to football and you're
not producing. I just don't Nobody can go in and say,
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you know what do they say the NFL stands for
not for long? Because it's a production based business. I
say it all the time on this show. Sports has
a short menu. Kelvin wins and losses. You could sit
here and talk about how if we only had this
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enough that ball and go through his legs. All that
sounds good and nice. It's about production. Did you win?
Did you lose? If you didn't win enough, guess what
you're going to be out of a job. It's just
that simple. Nobody is saved unless you have a track record,
unless you got equity because you won two Super Bowls before,
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or you did when you haven't done any of that.
You don't have any sweat equity. You don't have any
reason for people to go, well, you know what, he
did win a Super Bowl before, so I'm gonna give
him the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And that's how I think what happened in this case.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, So I don't have a lot different viewpoint except
for I will say this, so Jeff Olbrick, who is
now the interim head coach, I will add to this.
For me, Rob, I think he this was a move
of preserving his job. I think it was a hey,
I'm an interim coach right now, which we often know
that usually doesn't mean you're going to get the job,
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especially in a bad situation. But in order for me
to try, as you mentioned, hey, he got the interim
job with a just enough time to maybe turn this
thing around. And part of turning Gas around is, dang it,
can we score some points?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Dag it? Can we start to get some offense?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Because our offense is looking exactly like it did with
Zach Wilson.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And if you look at their numbers through.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The five games with Aaron Rodgers, they're virtually identical to
those with Zach Wilson from last year. They're putting up
the same number of points ninety three with Zach ninety
three with Aaron Rodgers and almost the same number of
yards per game at two eighty four with Zach and
in two eighty seven with Rodgers, So the offense is
the same. And if you look at the twenty two
games that they had Hackett, he was twenty ninth in
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points per game, so clearly he has been the common
denominator through this. So I think Olbrich is saying, in
order for me to say my job and have a
real chance of being the permittent head coach, I got
to make some moves, whether Aaron Rodger likes it or not.
Because Aaron Rodgers talked about it. He said, obviously Hacket
and Hired, you know, that's my guy. But I kind
of had an inkling this might come once they made
some moves, and he said, I know that Ouber and
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Hacket are you know, are cool and they have great
working relationship. But at the end of the day I
felt like something was gonna be done. So despite Aaron
Rodgers having a great relationship, I think Obrac said, hey man, I'm.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Trying to win.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I'm trying to maybe have a pee as in permitent
head coaching job, and I got to do what I
gotta do. Hacket, you're my guy. I know you're his guy.
You got to go as far as calling. He's still
on the staff. He has an undisclosed title whatever that means,
but he's still not calling plays.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's what he came here for.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And my point is that even if you're a Hall
of Fame quarterback and your cache and you won a
Super Bowl and a Super Bowl MVP, you're not going
to be able to dictate everything like everybody thinks, because
if he had ultimate power, he could have to the owner.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This is what I said to you yesterday, like, oh.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You're gonna pout if if Hacket's not the No, you're
a professional.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You have your own career, your own legacy. You can't
do that.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And the last thing people see you do is pull
some sort of Shenanigans where you're not.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Trying hard or you just tank or you.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Play poorly because you're upset that that will follow you.
People will remember that. And that's why I didn't buy
into it. And I'm not saying that he doesn't have influence.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Because the coach didn't. The coach didn't call every player,
you know what I mean? The owner, the owner didn't
call every player. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Listen, man, you should have ownership, you Rob Parker, you
have your own businesses. You know, you obviously been a
part of this odd couple since Star. Like when you
have equity, when you have rapport with people, when you
built up that uh, that trust, you absolutely should And
I think anybody who think he thinks differently is absolutely
being asinine. And that's perfectly fine. And I do think
that's partly why. To be honest, I think you would
(11:59):
even maybe agree Hackett still has a job. Typically, if
you've been this bad at something, you would get the can.
But I think he's like, look, man, now, I know
that's your guy. I've worked with him before. Let's keep
him around. Obviously we have to demote him, but he's
still around. He's still a part of the team, still
helping you. Because also maybe he's better off being Aaron
Rodgers eyes, you know what I mean, kind of helping
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him and practicing, but he's versus actually call him the plays.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I think he was the quarterback coach in Green Bay
like that, right, you remember, and that's what But that's
what got him the job in Denver is because people
had put Aaron Rodgers out with the trash saying he
was finished.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
And then what did he do? He won two.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
MVPs and Hackett was the quarterback coach in Green Bay
and people are like, well, you know what I mean,
that's the cachet that he got that got him as
head coaching job. Now I don't think he'll ever get
another one. He was so bad. I mean, you can't
look at it.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
He lasted one year. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Line, you're there, You come to the Jets, get Aaron
Rodgers back, and he looks bad.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
As Zach Wilson. You got him looking bad.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But I think that was a I'll do you a
solid air and I'll do you a favor and I'll
keep him around as opposed to most guys in the situation.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You know, they're gonna get the cad, the full can audio.
They got to pay him anyway. So I mean, whether
he was there or not.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And I think, but I mean the respect of still
being on the team, you still being a part.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Of it still more so less hack It more Aaron.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I'm gonna keep your guy around cause we all you
know who I'm talking about. You have plenty of mid teens,
and there's some I know you probably you know like this.
He's helped me with this. He's good to have around
for that helped me with MLB bro. Like we all
have people around us who help you feel better when
they're around they you know what I mean? And I
think that was a I'll do you a solid air
and I'll keep him, just keep him around in the building.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
All right, age seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. And really,
how surprised are you that Nathaniel Can't hack It? As
a nicknamed him his first year, Nathaniel Can't Hack It
got demoted, Like, like, does that change your mind a
little bit about the whole way that the solid thing
(14:03):
played out? Because I think the scenario and narrative was
that Aaron dug in and said, no, you gotta have
keep my guy, uh although and get rid of Solah
because he was going to demote him.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That was the storyline yesterday.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Or or do you just look at this as business
as usual because normally when things aren't working out, these
moves are made. And how much power really does Aaron
if Aaron had ultimate power? I don't think Hackett would
have been demoted if he really made the case that
it's not Hacket's fault, is my fault, or you know
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what I mean. He could have made that case to
the owner that's not I just haven't played well, the
plays are fine or whatever. But obviously the ownership and
the new coach said no, we're.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Going to make a change, and he has to live
with it.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I just think you under at more power and Ulbrick's
wanting to change things up. I still think Aaron wanted
it his way, but I give credits Ubrick saying no, man,
I think this is what.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I don't think an interim coach. I mean, I think
this is ownership as well, an interim coach because he
he's not guaranteed to be the coach next year.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You know that. That's why he's fighting for his job,
like whatever.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Don't think he has that much power. He's got to
get the blessing from the owner. He can't come in
and clean house with everybody, because if that was the case,
it would have.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Been more moves.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
What's the glaring problem with the Jets is their offense
and that had to change, all right, eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven nine, six sixty
three sixty nine. And yes, it is a TV theme
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Speaker 4 (16:45):
You're doing it again. I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm really looking at the find the detail of this
jacket you got on.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I'll see what.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
For those of you who cannot see, he has on
a Louis Vaton, I believe it is real.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
This is real. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Just making sure you know it ain't pooky and patan
Louis Baton. Nice jacket here here I am just with
a regular otia on.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
But it's understated. You have to look close, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
To the detail. It's not gaudy. That's what made this
jacket to me worth by it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So was this what did you hit a lick on
this one? It just was just I'm gona go ahead
and pay full price.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No, I was in Vegas. I paid full price.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And I also like it because I know where you
are and being where you are, you know, they like
to stunt out there in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
They like to you know what I mean, they like
to flex. So I see you out here. All right,
let's go to the calls.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Eight seven seven ninety nine, O Fox, what about rich
in Texas? You're in the odd couple of Fox sportsuaiting.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
What's up, rich?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Hey guys, how you doing tonight?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Doing great? How are you rich? It's a big state
in Texas. Where are you exactly rich?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Just north of Austin, near Harker Heights.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Okay, all good, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Yeah. So I'm just you know, everybody now that in
the Thane got demoted. Everybody's willing to forgive to me,
forgive Aaron Rodgers, and I'm not ready to absolve him
from from the blame on this. Uh you know, to
me as an organization, the Jets, they could have done
everything that they just did without firing Salah.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, but you have to make the case that you
don't know if inside that locker room with some players
Sala has been there for three years, things just haven't
gone well. Even before Aaron Rodgers played, like, let's there's
there's a lot of stuff. The way he handles Zach Wilson,
people blamed him. If you remember, he's in, he's out,
they're playing a third string quarterback. Then they bring Zach
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Wilson back. There's a lot of mistakes Sala made as.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Well, but Aaron Rodgers also he's not taking any of
the blame. He could have actually said, Hey, the offense
isn't playing well, let's give it a couple more games,
and you know, done that. But he's pushing the blame
away from him, obviously.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And then you think you.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Think he wanted you think he really wanted his guy
that he wanted high hired to be demoted.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I don't. I don't think you're being honest.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I don't think because that's that's a knock on him
when you recommend somebody. Aaron Rodgers is taking a hit.
Nathaniel Hackett failed in Denver. Aaron made a plea right
to Jet's ownership Kelvin to hire this guy on Aaron's
word correct, and he flopped.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
That's on Aaron, and they still demoted it. Why didn't
they just keep Salah and demotedim and see how how
it played out?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Well, I think I was done with Salah. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Listen, I think I think as much as Sala they
appreciate the call rich. I mean, I'm not gonna sit
there Agata act like Salah was a world beater, I think.
But I do think there is too riches point. I'm
not absolving a lot of Aaron Rodgers, and more so
the ownership giving the absolute keys to him. He should
absolutely be a part of the decision making, be a
part of maybe players they're looking at. It makes sense
because you have a lot riding on him. You felt
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like you were a Hall of Fame quarterback away from
making a super Bowl run. But all I know is
since then is just things have not worked out. It
has not looked good. There's been more chaos than it
should be considering you brought in a proven veteran and
I use more. It's just I know they have to
be like, man, it's just too much talk. Can we
just get back to the host five days though? I
just think I think like you're over that. But think
(20:14):
about it.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
No, no, no, If they win Monday and they're tied, I'm
just giving you your scenario. I'm not making no pie
in the sky that they're going to win the super Bowl.
Right if they if they get turned the offense around,
score a number of points, thirty five points, they win
the game against Buffalo, they make they feel good because
they had a new head coach and they got rid
(20:35):
of solid whatever. The season automatically turns around. Now if
it's bad and they get shut out and Aaron Rodgers
throws three more picks or whatever. Now you got an issue,
But they have an opportunity to turn the corner.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
That's all I'm saying. There's no denying that. That's a fact,
I think.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But can you also concede that for when you think
you're bringing in a veteran, a guy who's won a
lot of games, a guy who was MVP almost forty,
kind of a senior statesman in this league, you thought
there would be more stability.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You gotta at least give me that, Rob.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
More stability, less drama, more about business. That's kind of
what you think you're signing up for. A Drews Breeze, like,
a Tom Brady like, a Peyton Manning like. And it's
been the polar opposite to a franchise that always has chaos,
and I think you got to at least give that
that may you're kind of like I was hoping this
would not be the case, and it seems to be
more chaos with the guy who was supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I don't know if it's more chaos or just Jets chaos.
As a guy who's followed the team his entire life,
I don't know if it's any more than anything I've seen.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
They've gotten it wrong a lot.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
They had Brett Favre there and Brett Farv after he
left the Jets went to the NFC Championship game with
the Vikings, so.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He had stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
He was eight and three with the Jets and played
while he was injured for the Jets lost the last
four or five games and they didn't make the playoffs
after starting.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I've seen it.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I've seen the whole game, so I don't know if
there's any lesson.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I should have known that.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Hey, maybe not go back to that saying well Green
Bay and be stop getting again.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
James and Saint Louis a squeeze of men. You're on
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
What's up, James?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Hey guys, Rob love you, Calvin, You're great as well.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Thank you man.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I'm Saint Louis, the baseball capital of the United States,
remember that.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
And you know what's funny is that my grandparents live
in Cooperstown, New York. So my aunt still lives there.
If you ever need a place to say, Rob, I
know you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Hey, that's awesome Cooperstown awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
So, uh but no, My only thing was so I mean,
I think they wanted to keep Aaron Rodgers still happy
that he does that. But you guys have to realize
Nathaniel Eckett's offense is so old, he doesn't really do motions,
and the defense is really caught up to all this,
and I think and so I think they had to
do something in order to get you know, Aaron to
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run something different because he's just he's in his car
for zone with Nathaniel Hackett. Obviously the only good game
that he really had was against the Patriots, and that's
the Patriots. So I just feel like they really had
to do something here. This guy's at least probably gonna hope,
and pushed Aaron a little more to do some motions,
to do a little bit outside of the playbook other
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than the bland things that they're doing, because I mean
that was when that was when he was with Green Bay,
Nathaniel Hackett, with Mike McCarthy, and then when they went
to the other guy, he's the one who really you know,
got Rogers to go. So I think they just needed
as fark to get something going.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Thank you, guys, ue lafor Matt Laflora yeah, got you
appreciate it, man, thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
We appreciate all that. Uh, no doubt about it. Hey,
sheckel City in a bit.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But right now we're being joined by well neck ke
Letty coming up out to that right now.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What's trending? What Steve de Sega? What's up? Steve? Hello?
Cleveland is just Homer.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
They're trying to stay alive in the Division series at
Detroit tonight, Jose Ramirez has belt it out to left
and the top of the fifth So it's Guardians two
to one in the lead at Detroit.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I got a staff for you, Steve.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yes, So is it the Guardians haven't won a deciding
what are like elimination game?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You ready in thirty years? Is that right? Really? That's what?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
My friend from Cleveland she texted me and she said,
I don't have any hope for tonight.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I said, why would you say that? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
You just win a game and come back forget They
haven't won an elimination game, can you in thirty years?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
She said? Wasn't that in the Major League when the
Major League.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Movie they have had good teams in the past.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I know, I was shocked.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
She but she lives in Cleveland, so I'm assuming you
know what I mean, she's listening to the news and
all the stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But all right, so it's Cleveland. I have two to one.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
This is Game four in the best of five division
series at Detroit Tanner Bybee. The starter is still in
there for the Guardians and the late game, if we
can call it that. At a half an hour, we'll
have Kansas City hosting the top seeded Yankee. With the
Yankees already up two games to one, the Minnesota Twins
are exploring the sale of the team. Shocking it is
the pollad families had him for forty years.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Tomorrow a game five padres at Dodgers on Fox TV
to and their best of five NL divisions.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I was impressive by the Dodgers. I thought they were dead.
I thought you would get crushed yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Didn't see that one coming. No, I did not eight.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
No, I didn't zip last night. It was unbelievably impressive.
The fact that you could go with the bullpen game,
because as we've talked about, they've run out of starting
pitchers already. They have seven seven starting pitchers on the
injured list. At the same time, Man and here they
have what was it, eight pitchers last night, and they
all hit in a row on one success after another
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on the mound.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
It was a little unlikely. Let's say that, to say
the least.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
In the NFL at San Francisco at Seattle eight to
fifteen pm Eastern kickoff, forty nine Ers will not have
cornerback Servaria's Ward. He is out at for tonight due
to a knee injury. Also inactive kicker Jake Moody for
the Seahawks there without cornerback Greek Wooland due to an
ankle injury. But Seattle safety Julian Love is active for
(26:11):
tonight after a hamstring injury, and the Jets demoted offensive
coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Thank you all right, Steve de Segur, thank you so much.
Were joining now company live from its High Wreck dot
com studios by Nick Letty, former Los Angeles Dodger GM
and overall coolest guy all of sports, Our brother, Ned,
what's up?
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Ned?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Hey, guys? How you doing doing?
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Goot?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Ned, my god, I'm loving this baseball postseason.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
It's been great. It's been exciting every every night. There's
a great game and a lot of competitive games. Last
night was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well let's stay there, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Kelvin
wasn't gonna say, net, what's up man? I miss hanging
out with you in the studio. Let's let's talk about
that that Dodgers win where a lot of people had
it they were done.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
This is in they were water.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Then they're able to throw a bullpen and not only
it wasn't as if that the bullpen survived in one.
I mean the offense got going, maybe they got going
because of the bullpeny and they end up winning nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
What did you make of that? In Dave Roberts call
or do you have no choice?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Well, I think that they hit it perfectly when you
think about all the pitching that they used and how
they threw a shutout and they're in San Diego. San
Diego is all ready to go, and they're all lepped up,
and they got a chance to win it before and
then they picked the right believers at the right time,
at the right part of the lineup and continue to
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continue to put up zeros. Not easy to do. Not
easy to do on a Wednesday night, and perhaps on
a Friday night. We'll see what tomorrow night brings. But
it's it was interesting to see, you know, the bullpen
games not something I'm necessarily big on, but I think
that when you're in the spot that they're in, that's
what you've got to do and to put people in
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the place to be successful, which is what Dave Roberts
said last night. You know, a lot of a lot
of tudos to him for doing.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
It the right way, and that as a baseball guy,
when your team scores eight runs, are you a little
afraid don't don't.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Use all my runs tonight? You know? Can you save
a couple for Game five? Or you one of those guys?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
No, I don't think it first. There's no carry over,
you know. I think, if anything, it gives people more confidence,
you know. And I think the team, I thought they
were teetering a little bit going into last night, but
we can't discount their experience. We can't discount how many
times they've been in these situations. And I think the
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competition for them is good. I think if they get
through tomorrow night, I don't know that there's an americanly a
team that can beat can.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Beat them, can beat to Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Really, I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I think I don't think the Dodgers have enough pitching
to win the World Series.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Ned, I gotta admit, and you know, we'll see, we'll see,
because you know they have quality pitchers. Have they pitched
the quality they have?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Not?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
But are they capable of doing that? Yeah, they are
capable of doing that. So I don't know that New
York beats them in the in the lcsat a long
way to go, obviously, No, no, no, definitely. I like
how they fight through it.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Let me well, So let's speaking of New York, Let's
go to the Yankees, you have a chance to punch
their ticket and go to the ALCS and uh, the
guy that's been impressive for years now hitting home runs
in the postseason, John Carlos Stanton, hit his twelfth career
postseason home run net in just one hundred and eight
(29:51):
at bats. Okay, that gives him a ratio of nine
point four home run home run per at bat. The
only person better than him in the history of baseball
is Babe Ruth with eight point six, which is incredible.
What makes John Carlos then, you know, as a home
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run hitter, especially in the postseason, that's pretty impressive twelve
home runs and one hundred and eight postseason at bats.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Well, Obviously he's got talent, and he's got the size,
and he's got the experience to be able to do
it in New York under the pressure of being a Yankee,
and that spotlight I think makes it all the more special.
I think anybody who can play in October and really
thrive in October the special to begin with. And then
you think about a city like New York and the
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expectations that follow the Yankees everywhere, you know, so that
it's ultra impressive. It's you know, you have to figure
out a way to pitt Guano, but it's no different
than trying to pitt Toronto tani efense. You know, you've
got to figure out a way to get him to chase,
get them to get ahead in the colum and make
them they can swing at something that you'd rather have
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them swinging at. But the percentage that you read out there,
you know, that's only on one ahead of them, and
that's maybe the greatest player ever.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Played, Matt.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
You know, when you're talking about going in October, one
team that's playing hot, because they're playing a hot a
month or so month and a half before October is
the Tigers.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
What do you make of this unexpected run.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
That they're on right now when they don't have big
time superstars, they don't have a lot of names that
you know about, and yet they're able to have this
much success right now? Is it they're too young and
dumb net to know they're not supposed to be this good?
Speaker 6 (31:38):
I think to some extent, I mean, I think it's
great for the game, both them and Kansas City. I
don't know who saw this coming in them coming on
to to this time of the year, that both those
franchises would be where they're at. CAC lost one hundred
and six games last year, you know, but when you
have a chance, and you have really with the house's
(32:00):
money almost all season long, and if Detroit got hot
when it did, that's a special thing for that organization,
that city. But they do play with the houses money
at this point.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
You know.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
The Yankees, obviously, if they don't get to the World
Series and win it, it's not a good year. You know.
In Cleveland, you know, it's been really good for a
long time back quite the Yankees as far as what
the expectation is, but a lot of expectation there too.
I don't think Detroit in case he had any expectation.
I know the team does. But as far as the outside,
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as far as the noise, it can can distract people,
they don't have it. So they play free, they play tacy.
They're a little bit like Tampa Bay from two years ago.
What is their pressure. Their payroll is on the list
of the game. They don't have the pressure that.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
No doubt. That last thing we got a bottom minute.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
The pressure comes with those people.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
And Tampa Bay never won a World Series. But I'll
ask you this last thing. If the Dodgers do lose
Game five and it's a it's a rap and they're
out after the first, you know, the NLDS is the
season of total failure for Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
I don't ever see I don't ever see it that way.
I think unless you unless you have put together teams
and you have played at the highest level and you've
always won, I don't think winning is that easy.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Winning. I don't think it's that easy.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
But you spent They spend a billion dollars on players.
They despite the injuries that people will use as an excuse,
they had the best record in baseball.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I mean, I'm going through the gamut.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Of all the stuff that they have Otani and fifty
to fifty in bets and Freddie Freeman and I can
go on and on. Nobody expected the Dodgers to be
out in their first playoff series, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Well, I know, I get the point, and I and
I you know, I agree to a certain point. But
the other team's getting paid too, you know. And when
you think about it, when you think about San Diego
and La, think about the Dodgers and the Padres, there
is far more pressure on the Dodgers than there is
San Diego. Don't don't get me wrong. There is pressure
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on San Diego, but not the same as the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
True.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
If I mean, would you ask the same question if
San Diego No, No, you know it would it be
a competition.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Dodgers and Yankees are in their own league.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
You know that the Yankees, if they don't get there,
they will be hell to pay Aaron Boone if they
don't make the World Series will probably I don't think
we'll be back as manager if they.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Don't make it.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I can't disagree. And so, but that's again, there's there's
teams that are expected to but yet the expectation is
one thing, but the reality of winning is to me
a whole nother thing. You know, I've had great franchises
in LA, you know, the Lakers, maybe four different dynasties,
but they haven't always won. And they've had good teams
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many times and high expectations. So I think it's I
think it goes with the territory. You're expected to do
certain things when you to spend what they've spent. But again,
winning it is different than thinking about it, talking about it,
or spending to do it. Winning is a different dynamic
and not everything. It's hard to win. The other team's
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getting paid too, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Here's Nachletty. Thank you for joining us, brother. We appreciate
it much all.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Thanks for the knowledge.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Guys, have a good one.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Have fun all right, neck Letty always a cool guy.
I wanted the best to talk to you know so
much about the game. Hey, Rob, we' get Shekel City? Uh?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
How are we okay? I'm nervous. You know, it's been
it's been rough. Sorry, can we get to it? Can
we get to Itch City on the way as well?
We'll tell me that blue. I might need a blue
pill for Shekel City. I'm just you need Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
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Speaker 4 (37:06):
Also, last call h Kelvin h for.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
People who don't always get a chance to get in
when we talk about topics, and we are one of
the few national shows that value your opinion. Kelvin and
iables lockstep on this. This is radio man, and and
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We want to hear what you say. You want to
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Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, no, man's listen, man, I love to hear myself.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
You love to hear something.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
At the end of the day, man, we love it
to be a communal family type thing, right man, everybody,
you guys are listening to us all over the country,
even parts of the world.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Tune in, talk to us, hollow at us. We ain't talking.
I listen. I love Rob, but I want to hear
Rob all day. He don't want to hear me all
that you already know. I mean, you know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Saying, little too much. You already up in there. Okay,
I know, but I ain't got to already.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Know my man.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
All right, So let's update the baseball games. Yeah one,
nothing Yankees and Royals.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
I don't know what anything you have And the Tigers
are trailing four to three.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, eight to the bottom of the eight. No, it's
the top of the night of the ninth, now, okay,
so there.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
You know these games obviously the Tigers, if they can
get two runs at the bottom of the ninth, they
move on to the Alcs, which would be incredible, and
they would take on the Yankees Royals winner and the
Yankees can punch their ticket.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
They got Gary Cole on the mount. If they win,
the series is over right with the Royals. Yeah, so
there's a.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Lot And then tomorrow at Game five, winner take all
Dodgers and Padres. That's the game. I can't wait tomorrow. Listen, man,
whenever it's a winner take all.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yeah, I was so mad. Listen.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I love you, and I love all of the listeners
and alex and Ian and Roger and Steve everybody, but
dang it, you know I was trying to go to
that game tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Hey, Rob, you know you know how you're uh you
over here running your nose right now?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Whatever the plane got to you. Well, I'm feeling a
little something to myself, y'all. Look at you. You gotta better.
What time of the game them is it five five
h A. I mean not that I looked or anything,
you know, not.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
As I didn't text my guy Jay Hare, Jerry Harrison Jr.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Or anything. And see what, man, it's crazy, Alex, you
better be he Alex, come on, tell to sit down
somewhere with fresh air. Maybe Alex could drink.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Alex, I mean you said you don't have to kick
in and talk everything, you know, so not just sports.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
I mean you can have a we can have a Dodger.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Dog and just hey, sounds heavy, I mean hypothetically, not
that we're really.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
You guys better be on duty tomorrow. Anyone. Let's get
into it. Rob gonna be here, go ahead, bro, all right,
feel sick? Yeah? Okay, So so let's talk about this
and you know it's another run by the Guardians. By
the way, Oh did they get insurance?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
They just got insured that that's five to three on
a bunt they gotta run here.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, that's a big insurance run because you know, you
don't want a one run lead going.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Into the ninth. You need to get that insurance. And
they got it.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
So it could be a game five winner, take all
in Cleveland. So that'll be interested. But we know you're
from Michigan and Arburn Detroit fan obviously, and the Tigers.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
You're happy about that and your Lions.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
I mean, we're not ht burying the lead or hiding
the idea that this is what you like.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
So the Lions are playing the Cowboys. Yeah, exciting.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
What's your first thing? Yeah, what's your first thought when
you first think? Do you know as a Lions fan
or somebody who follows that team closely? And you know,
I covered the Lions for twenty years in Detroit, went
to every single game home and rode for twenty years.
I watched everybody's career, Calvin Johnson, Matt Stafford, you know
what I mean, all those games when Matt Millan was
(40:57):
a GM and they lost twenty seven straight road games twice,
they lost twenty seven in a row, they won a
row again and then lost another twenty.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Seven in a row, like unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
You know that it was an absolutely horrible thing to
see and witness for so many years. But for some
reason they've had a great one about it almost two
years now, because it started that second half of Dan
Campbell's tenure, and then obviously last year really good season
had a chance to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
I don't want to start crying again.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
And then this season off to a three and one,
start looking good, starting to get into shape. But to
be fair, they've had some weird issues with the Cowboys
and they've given them some fits. They've lost what five straight,
And even if you want to go back to the
postseason robed a little over a decade ago, when if
the refs don't pull up some couple of flags, the
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Lions would beat them and move on to the NFC
Championship Game. I believe it would have been that ended
up not being the case, and so the Cowboys have
been a little thorn in the side of the Lions,
even with this recent success. If you recall what happened
last season, a chance to beat him, they say, we're
going for two, you got a false start, you got
a penalty. They kept trying to go for it. Then
something else happens. They kept trying to go.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
For the two. Remember one of the linemen didn't report.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
He didn't report exactly, and that's very Lions in the
sense of, you know, they like to do trick plays
and good stuff, and it actually caught it, but he
didn't report, which he always have something. I remember with
the Calvin Johnson catch, Why is it always something I
was in.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Chicago with that when they didn't he didn't complete the
process to remember that.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
It's like they called it the Calvin Johnson rule. Now.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
So but with that being said, man, I'm feeling good
about this. When they started to write to ship Jared
Goff eighteen for eighteen catches a touchdown pass, They're starting
to get that mojo going.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
They're starting to get the offense going.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
And more than anything, what they do well is not
the strength of the Cowboys. And they're hoping to get
some of their defensive stub backs Michael parsh Is and such.
But the Lions run the ball. They run the ball.
They done it the last two or three years. You're
gonna get Gibson coming at you.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
You're gonna get who I missing.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Shoot, I can't forget his name right now, but number
five coming me in a second.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
But you're gonna get him coming at you.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
The backs they're gonna run and even if they only
gain one yard, even if they only gain two yards,
they're gonna keep running it. And that's to me one
of the things I like about them, even bolting well
against other teams in the NFC or even the FC.
Is that the Lions kind of stick to the game plan.
So I think the Cowboys struggling on the run, They're
gonna have a long, long day trying to stop that
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dual backfield for the Lions, and I'm looking forward to
seeing that. And then all of a sudden they get
the play action and that's when Jared Goff starts to thrive.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
How big is this for the Lions.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
I get it, they've had success that went to the
NFC Championship game. The Cowboys haven't been to an NFC
championship game in thirty years, I want, right, Which is
crazy when you really say that, When I even put
my lips together to say that the Cowboys haven't been
to an NFC championship game in thirty years is incredible.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
David Montgomery, by the way, I had to say that,
But you.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Get my point, and my point is, uh that that
this if they go to Dallas and win this game,
like if they lose, and you're like, the Cowboys aren't
that great? Why couldn't the Lions beat them? That's six
in a row, you know? Is there some mental block there?
There's something uh to overcome with the Cowboys and the Lions,
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because because I remember, I had not moved to Detroit yet,
but I remember watching that famous UH game between the
Cowboys and the Lions when the Lions beat the Cowboys.
If you remember the championship, Yeah, not that it was
that one one before, because they played the fourth didn't
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They played the uh the Washington Redskins Redskins, and they
remember that because they.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
Lost in that and that's why they didn't go to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
But the game they played, and I remember watching, and
John Madden after the game said, hey, you're watching the
two teams of the nineties.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
And remember the Lions smacked around.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
The Cowboys and that was with Troy Aikman and Emmitt
Smith and Michael Irvin.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
You know, like that was their team. Yeah, the Lions
beat them up.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
John Man goes, you're looking at the two teams of
the nineties, the Lions and the Cowboys. You're gonna hear
more from these two teams over the next decade, That's
what he said.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
So what you're saying, one guy, one team went to
be a.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
Dynasty and went three out of four and one never
went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
How is that? What you're saying is the Madden Curse
is real. That's what we're saying. The Madden curse for
usual for video games.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
But now you're telling me the Madden curse is real
even for the Detroit Lions. No, I mean, that's listen.
You gotta credit the Cowboys. They were able to have
a credible run for like you said, like pretty much
most of the nineties, even though they didn't win all though,
but they.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Had a great one three out of four, right. And
the Detroit Lions they were at mid in the nineties,
like they were.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Nine basically eight and eight, nine and seven all of
these year, a couple of good seasons and they.
Speaker 5 (46:05):
Just couldn't get turned the corner and a lot of it.
I just think they needed a you know, they had
a revolving door quarterback, right, Rodney Pete.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Andre where Eric Kramer.
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Mitchell, Yeah, just catching on and on and then Wayne
Fonce wasn't a good head coach.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
You know what, I think the Lions are.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
One of the things I learned over the last couple
of seasons is folks really enjoy the Lions. They're one
of those teams that I guess the lovable losers are
having success now and it's been fun because people aren't
like they're like one of the few teams people like, hey,
you know what, I've got a room for your team.
Like they're not the Cowboys or half America hates them,
half the other you know, the other half loves them.
They're not the Patriots where you're kind of over them,
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or maybe even the Chiefs where you got the Kansas
City Chiefs fatigue going on the Lions right now because
they haven't won yet.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
People are like, oh man, they like really like the Lions.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
And so they got a chance from going there and
mess around and say, hey, we're America's favorite team.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Okay, we're We're America's team.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Cowboys, get out the way, y'all ain't did nothing, but
if for thirty years, we'll go ahead and take this
moniker and go in there and beat them, get four
to one, become for four and one on the season,
and then all of a sudden you start to look
at Minnesota and you say, all right, Minnesota, you're having
a good season, but you haven't played us yet. And
then that game going against the Vikings will be huge,
kind of like we've talked about with the Jets taking
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on the Bills, where hey, at the end of the day,
you got a chance to still take the lead in
the division. So if you're the Lions, you go in there,
you take care of business, you continue to run that ball,
and I think you got a chance to go ahead
and be up four to one. I don't buy the Cowboys.
I still don't think they know what they are. I'm
not overly excited about the their offense as well.
Speaker 9 (47:35):
Minus okay, and this is what I'm glad you say
this because if the Lions come in and the Cowboys
beat them with that, say anything to you about the Lions,
because I'm with you on the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
That defense hasn't been great. I know they're gonna get
their their play. A couple of their players back right,
Michael Parts is playing yep.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
And they did beat Pittsburgh on the road.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
Remember Pittsburgh started three and ohero and they were down
and they needed touchdown on four.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
Quality win.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Again, it's a quality, quality win on the road with
three turnovers. Usually you turn the ball over three times,
you're not winning, right, So they won the game. So
I don't think that much of the Cowboys either. But
if the Lions don't beat them, I'm.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Not saying the season is over or whatever. What would
that say to you? Would that say anything? Well?
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I think the thing that I would say also gonna
matter how they lose. If they lose in the fourth
quarter three four minutes left and they make some bad
plays and not a good time out, or they should
have kicked the field goal but they chose to go
for it, then you know where I'm going with this, Rob.
I'm gonna start having issues with Dan Campbell, like, hey man,
what is it about this that you're starting to get
your Kyle Shanahan on where the game should be won
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by you and your team, But for whatever reasons, you
keep fumbling the bag as night.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
So if they just lose a good, solid game, you know,
and the Cowboys show up more or less, it's like,
all right, they lost another one. It's okay, Maybe the
Cowboys aren't as bad as we thought. But if they
lose a game where they had to lead they're up ten,
make a couple of flukey.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
Calls like why would you run it here? Or why
would you pass it there?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Or why would you go for two when you shouldn't
have then I'm gonna have more of an issue because
I'm gonna start having that long term look of can
I trust Dan Campbell when it counts? And that's gonna
be concerning because you expect him to be in high
leverage situations. You expect them to be in games that matter,
and he trust.
Speaker 5 (49:18):
As the coach, doesn't he have to go like after that?
And he said it after after the NFC Championship get.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
And he said it again this year. We had to
cost him.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Then he had to do it again, and then he
had to do it again this year. I think it
was week two. So he keeps having these coming half
back and having to apologize and he's all right, brother,
this is.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
This is number two.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
You let's not get to three because we watch a
baseball postseason right now, Dan Campbell, I don't need you
striking out right.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
No doubt.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is a telephone number.
Eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
And uh, is this a barometer game or just another
NFC game? The Lions and Cowboys and who's the better team?
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Like is obvious?
Speaker 5 (50:03):
Is it obvious that it's Is it obvious that it's
the Lions or no, are the Cowboys better than the Lions?
Speaker 1 (50:10):
And I think we also want to add eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. You and I do this
show every day. Are we not talking about the Lions
in enough in the sense that if they win their
four and one, are they not the best team in
all of the NFC and a real team we need
to talk about as contenders? Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. We want to hear from you as well.
So did the Tigers? They lost, but they scored a run.
Did you see they lost five? Yeah, to talk about
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the insurance run. Yep, you were absolutely right. I give you,
I'll give you DAP on that one. They were able to.
Speaker 4 (50:38):
This is gonna be a good This is a good series. Man.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Listen, MLB postseason right now, they're winning rod Manfred is
somewhere smiling because they.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Got a game five.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
Here, they got a game five with the Dodgers and
padres No.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
This is good. Yep, hit us up. We're here from you.
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