September 4, 2025 • 28 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether the Detroit Loins are more likely to win the Super Bowl or miss the playoffs altogether this season, tell us if any player is under pressure entering the upcoming NFL season than 2x NFL MVP Lamar Jackson, and explain why they are actively boycotting the upcoming boxing exhibition between Floyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to the best of the Odd Couple podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Be sure to catch us live every weekday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
From seven pm to ten pm Eastern four to seven
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Odd Couple at Foxsports Radio dot com, or stream
us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You're listening to the best of the Odd Couple.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
The athletic Mike Sando front of the show did a
preseason survey of eight anonymous executives previewing both the NFC
and the AFC, and there was something that was said
about a certain NFC team that was right up our alley.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
They ranked them in a power ranking system. Everybody assigned Hey,
I'm one, two, three, four, five, sixty seven. The averages
were as follows for the top three. Number one, no surprise,
the Philadelphia Eagles, Number two in a mild surprise, the
Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That is a mild surprise.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Number three, yeah, number three, Rob Parker's Detroit Lions. Now
them being number three is not much to sneeze that,
and you know it is what it is. It's kind
of right where you'd expect they may or may not be.
Here's what is surprising, though. The reason why they fell
the number three in the Power rankings is because one
anonymous executive had the Detroit Lions ranked as the eleventh
(01:24):
best team in the NFC. Here's the rationale quote. I
refuse to believe they keep rolling after losing two starters
on the offensive line and their two highest paid assistant coaches,
Calvin Washington. You are on the record as saying Detroit
is going to.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The super Bowl. What is this guy smoking? Read that
first sentence that that person said. Read that again.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I refuse to believe they keep rolling after losing two
starters on the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What did you say two weeks? In about two weeks,
it'll be our one year anniversary. You and I doing so.
I know Rob Parker talking when I hear it. They
called you. They called you. I know it. I know
one person and the one person, robb Gi didn't have him. Fifth,
didn't have him. Six, Okay, I can understand fifth, sixth,
a little slide. I get that eleventh, Rob Parker. I'm
(02:15):
convinced they go, Why you can't look at me in
my eye? They called you, Rob Parker, And if they
didn't call you well they get there a hater, they're trolling.
It's Aaron Glenn who is trolling, or it's Ben Johnson trolling,
or it's a mad x of Dan Cavill. Maybe he
beat him up when he was playing. Maybe he beat
him up in the streets. Maybe he stole his girlfriend.
(02:35):
Because there's no way you can put the Detroit Lions
eleventh in the NFC. You couldn't even put them eleventh
in the entire NFL. That doesn't make any sense. So
I'm convinced you voted for them. Now I digress. Let
me tell you why the Lions are going back or
have gone to the Super Bowl going back. They should
have win a couple of years ago, so they didn't
(02:57):
make it. I would concede losing two coordinators, it's a
big deal. I'm not gonna asking nothing to sneeze that
that's a big deal. However, the culture center is there,
Dan Gamble Campbell is still there. Okay, the team is there. Offensively,
they have probably better offensive weapons than just about anybody
(03:17):
in the league. They were the number one offense in
the NFL. Here's the caveat people forget about. They were
the number seven scoring defense. They bent but they ain't break.
And they finally broke, and they had too many defensive
players unhealthy and hurt. Well, they got most of those back,
they lost a couple, and they got most importantly Aiden
Hutchinson back arguably the MVP. Yes, not defensive, the MVP
(03:40):
prior before getting injured. So you're looking at the number
one rushing game, a top two to three rushing game.
You're looking at one of the better quarterbacks, and you're
also getting looking at a defense as good. And you're
looking at weapons and skilled players all over the place
who are young and in their prime. So to me,
and the NFC is open. You got the Eagles. I'll
give you that. Their raigning chap deserve our respect. Other
(04:01):
than that, the NFC is wide open. It's not like
I gotta go through the three of the AFC, right, OK.
I gotta beat the Bills. They gotta beat the Ravens,
they gotta beat the Chiefs. You know, you get through
the NFC, you give yourself a chance to get to
the super Bowl, and then you got a shot once
you're there. So that is why the Lions are going.
They're mad at people like you and your vote, putting
disrespect on their name, and they're absolutely gonna come back
(04:24):
with the vengeance.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, So there was your public service announcement by a
Lions fan. Now I'll give you real analyst and analyst,
a real NFL analysts.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That was you.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That was not me, And and I understand you keep
holding on to this because they disappoint you every year
they were supposed to way they blew out the forty
nine ers in the first half, choked down that two
years ago. Last year they have a rookie quarterback at
home nine and a half point favorites. They were fifteen
(04:57):
and two, nine and a half at home, and they lose.
There's no way that the Lions are gonna do anything close.
The executive who was being honest, knows how this league runs.
Dan Campbell's not he might be the front man. But
the reason that they turned into a better team was
(05:18):
the two coordinators who.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Were really good at their job.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And Ben Jonson's loss, whether you want to agree or not,
is going to be huge for them. And here's the
other part that you talk about, Oh yeah, some defensive
players are coming back and this and did they change
the quarterback because Jared Golf turned into Jared tennis when
it came time for the biggest game of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The four turnovers.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's why the Rams got rid of him, despite him
taking the Rams to the Super Bowl. The reason the
Rams got rid of Jared Golf is because he turns
in efforts like that and moments like that where he
melts the other part you're not talking about. This ain't
the same NFC, nor it's better. The Packers are better,
(06:03):
the Bears are better. And in Minnesota, if they take
a step down, I don't know how far down they're
gonna go. They still I have a good defense, they
still have good offensive weapons, and if JJ McCarthy does
not turn the ball over, they have a chance to
still win maybe ten games. Like they'll they'll drop a
little bit, But I don't think they're gonna fall off
the map because they have too many talented players. So
(06:24):
when I look at all these things, not only do
I think the Lions, you know, aren't going to the
super Bowl like you think they are. I think the
Lions are gonna miss the playoffs, and I think the
Lions will fall backwards and this will all come undone.
They had a couple of years they had their window.
(06:46):
I think that this is going to come undone and
the Lions Misremember, you could win nine games and not
make the playoffs, or ten games in that division. So
it ain't like they gotta go six and eleven. They
can win nine or ten games and still not make
the playoffs. That's what I'm talking about. So don't be
saying that, Rob saying they're gonna win three games. That's
(07:07):
not You could still lose by winning ten games and
not make the postseason because of your division, because of
the NFC and some other teams.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So that's where I'm at. Okay, but let me throw
this at you a couple things, and I hear you.
Don't agree with you, but I hear you. They were
also the number one point differential team. They were blowing
good teams, middle teams, bad teams, AFC, NFC in the division,
out the division, they were blowing everybody out. They had
one of the best home records, and also we know
(07:36):
how that home field advantage is for them, So to me,
it didn't work against Washington. They Jared got through too
many interceptions point blank period and Jayden Daniels played the
game in his life flat out. They lost, played the.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Game is left because he was set up by a
bad quarterback and big moment and they still.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Almost want to win that game. Doesn't throw a freaking
touchdown on the game. Ben Johnson got carried away having
the game in a in the receiver's hand to throw
a pass.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, you'll you'll find out when Jared Golf is all
said and done, he'll be one of those guys who
just couldn't get you where you needed to go. And
then he'll be like, Okay, not only did the Rams
get rid of him, I'm okay, the Lions have seen
enough of it and it'll be the end of it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Then let me tell you something. I see the pathway
for them to get to the Super Bowl. I do not,
and I'm talking about I was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
I don't see how they don't make the playoff. That
I do. I do not see when they have all
their weapons and some back draft picks and somehow they're
all of a sudden gonna be out of the postseason.
(08:37):
Not to mention whoever said they were eleventh, he said
eleventh in the NFC. He didn't even say eleventh in
entirefl Okay, maybe eleventh in the NFC. Is Crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Hey, it's Ben, host of a Fifth Hour with Ben
Maller along with my trustees sidekick David Gaskon, with mean
a lot to have you join us on our weekly
auditory journey.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You're asking, what in God's name is the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I'll tell you it's a spin off of it, Ben
Matherer show a Colt hit overnights on FSR.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Why should you listen? Picture if you will a world will?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
We chat with captains of industry in media, sports, and
more every week explore some amazing facts about human nature
and more.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Listen to The Fifth Hour with.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Ben Maller on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever
you get your podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You guys have both gone on record as saying you
have the Ravens in the super Bowl. Now, granted, Calvin's
got the lines beating him, but Rob's got the Ravens
in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You both have him there. And when Lamar.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Met with the media yesterday, even though he's gone on
record and saying since he's been drafted that he's going
to bring a super Bowl back to Baltimore. He's not
ready to talk about it yet for this season. Take
a listen.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
We gotta win our games. Can't go to the super
Bowl without making it to the playoffs, you know. So
he got to focus on Buffalo right now. We can't
repete too soon. We can't pete. It's extremely early to
be thinking about the super Bowl, you know.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
So you guys think that Lamar maybe not cracking under
the pressure, But do you think he's feeling it and that's
what he's want to talk about it anymore?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Got Yeah, I don't think it's that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I just think that you know, at this point and
you know, all the accolades and all the big games,
and he just has to win. And I like this.
They don't need to be talking about. He knows why
he's out here and why he's trying to play. And
I'm not making any excuses. He had a chance last
year right in Buffalo. Mark Andrews dropped the ball that
if he throws that ball one hundred times, how many
times you're gonna catch it? Point exactly, And he dropped
(10:35):
it and dropped. There was a moment there that there
could have been a comeback. Remember you had to slop
the first half, and he martched him down in a
minute in twenty seconds and then could have tied the
game and had a chance there and it didn't happen.
But there's nothing else to talk about. We all know
how great he is as a quarterback. We all know
(10:56):
how great the Ravens are. They're loaded. Look at their
roster the next two years. They're loaded. They're like that
baked potato Montsi had earlier. It's loaded. And there's nothing
else to say other than what Kelvin, go out and
do it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm good with this, so you know who the way
we were talking about it, the way you phrased it
to me, Rob G, you said, is there anybody under
more pressure this season than Lamar? And because of everything
Rob just said, for the most part, we're on the
same page. So I'm gonna work backwards. Lamar is in
a unique situation where he's like the football version of
Allen Iverson. I think if he doesn't win, people are
(11:37):
still gonna be like, yo, you know who was my
favorite to watch period? You know who was unique?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Period?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know who was just different, just his own. He
was just the way he did it, the style, kind
of like a Michael Vick. People still love talking about
Michael Vick. And he's done. He did one third of
what Lamar has already done. So I think he has
the MVPs, he's got the great record, he's got all
the stats. And I still believe Lamar is gonna get
one eventually. He's too good, he's still too young, his
(12:03):
teams are always built and stacked. Lamar will get one.
But if I answered the way we were talking about
it earlier, Rob Gee, who's under more pressure? I actually
believe it's Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomess a made man. Really,
I'll tell you why. Yeah, I want to hear this.
Patrick Mahomes is under more pressure because I sit next
to somebody who likes to bring up the last two
seasons for him validly completely get it. You and I
(12:26):
both you know. You know I picked the Chiefs to
go to Super Bowl. But what did I always say?
I agree with you. Something doesn't look right. He's not
quite where he used to be. Patrick Mahomes has not
been Patrick Mahomes like for the most part, the last
two seasons. Patrick Mahomes the first four or five seasons,
who were we saying he could be the greatest of
all time? That's how could be? He could be that
(12:47):
he could be better than Tom, but he could be
who's on his way?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He ain't even Joe Montana in these conversations, I hear you,
you know what I mean, Like it kills me like
he was ready to be Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And that's a fair point, which is why I think
he's under more pressure because Lamar Jackson kind of put
himself in this position where he's just so unique. Patrick
Mahomes has put himself in positioned well, he could be
competing for the greatest And if he keeps stacking up
seasons like we've seen the last two, his chances are dwinderling,
if not gone. So I think it's back for him
to get back to being Patrick Mahomes. Now does he
(13:19):
need to win a super Bowl? No, But if he
comes back, you know, thirty five touchdowns only eight interceptions
and looking like all right, that's the Patrick Mahomes we know,
maybe he's an MVP candidate. Then he gets right back
on track. See about that.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And I'm gonna say this and I get you with
the numbers and just looking better, but he could have.
We saw Tom Brady go nine years without winning. Right
if he doesn't win, she like your start and your finish,
people can look at you and go, yeah, Pat was,
but then guess what Lamar won those three You know
what I mean during that time when you're not winning, jos.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Is important for him. Lamar is in such a unique
like we all feel like Lamar released mostly I know
you and I do. Lamar's gonna get one. He's gonna
be one of the best ever. He was one of them.
He's gotta wins. He does have to win. But I
don't feel like there's this weird pressure. I feel like
Patrick Mahomes can't put up another season like that like
last season. Unlets say they only go eleven and six
or ten and seven because now he's gonna We're gonna
(14:18):
start again. We know his greatness in his career.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
See see I think where where where I disagree is
that window doesn't stay open forever. You know, you got
Derrek Henry's there, you got a loaded roster, like at
some point people want to get paid. They're moving on,
like these next two years if they were able to
win this year, they could win another one. Say they
just won back to back. Now you're a made man.
(14:41):
Now you're you got your MVPs. You want you finally
broke through. You maybe win a second one like like
there's all that stuff, And I think that's why the
time is of the f is time of the essence.
It's time to get there, and nobody wants to talk
about it anymore. That's why I think that the next
two years, you don't know how long you have Derek Kenwick.
(15:03):
You don't know how long you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Have some of these other pieces and star players.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They got enough to get there and they don't have
to worry about their kicker worrying about the massage scandal
and missing steel goals because he cost him like three
games last year.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
He did. But so this is what I mean. Patrick
Mahomes is three and two, Pirates up five nothing real? Now,
come on, Dotter, this is predigno.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Patrick Mahomes is three and two in Super Bowls. If
he were to win, let's say he wins this year.
Now he's four and two, we're starting to really, really
really talk about how great he is to separate himself
and to your point, he can't have a lap seven
eight nine years without one because there's no guaranteed is
gonna play as long as Tom Brady. Tom Brady played
in forty five. So if Patrick Mahomes, who would be
turning thirty, plays another eight nine years and he wins
(15:48):
one or two more, to me, he has now cementing
himself in the conversation happens if he doesn't win. But
that's what I'm saying. That's why. So for me reading
it as is anyone under more pressure this season than Lamar,
I believe it him to right the ship. Just Ron
Parker's like people like you, justifiably even Kelvin. I'll come
on everybody, Yo, sums off, he ain't right if he
(16:09):
looks like he did the last two seasons, and we'll
start the question was it Tyreek Hiell, was it the
younger and better Travis Kelce, was it Eric b Enemy Right,
We'll start to kind of be able to pick and
Parson figure out, well, dang, what's going on. But if
he comes out gives us thirty five touchdowns, eight nine
in interception, even ten, but the team goes, you know,
like I said thirteen and four in the right back
(16:30):
where they need to be an AFC championship game and
even if they lose, But like that's Patrick Mahomes, then
he's good. But I think he has to get back
because if he has three years rob where you could
say Aaron Rodgers had the same numbers, and again that's
not good for him. Three years of just being you know, eh, no,
I get that. I just think Lamar's gonna Lamar. But
(16:50):
you got it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But it's still your window, Like you don't know how
long the coach is gonna be there. You don't know
how long, Like you have a team. That's why everybody's
picking you. They're not picking you just because they like
they look at that team and then look at that
roster and say it's loaded, like and that's what a
heavy AFC. Okay, that's with the Chiefs, that's with the Bills.
(17:11):
That's with a heavy AFC. That's with Joe Burrow and
the Bengals. Like those there's four teams right there, Okay,
you know what I mean, Like, like their team's there
and you're still looking at them, going, man, if they
do everything.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Right, are you kidding? Let me throw one at out.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Like the pregame all this it's a lot And that's why.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Did you know Brandon Graham when you're diituated it all?
Because I can't think of his how long his career?
Like were you here yet? Yeah, robb g. Let me
let me go for Robb G and ask you a question,
and Robber you can be an on this too. I'm
reversing the roles here. Let me ask you what's more?
What will be more disappointing or more like juicy for
our business? If you will? Patrick Mahomes say, they even
(17:54):
make a wild car, but the ten and seven barely
make it. He throws the same thing twenty five touchdo
thirteen interceptions. It looks even slightly worse than last year.
And obviously they don't win fifteen games or Lamar gets
in the postseason pretty much same season stats, but just
doesn't get to the super Bowl. Let's say losing the
ASC to the baltim Buffalo Bills. What would be more? Oh?
(18:14):
What's going on? The juice? Your headline for us be mames.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's what I mean, And it's very similar to to
make an NBA reference, it was better business for us
that the Lakers got embarrassed the way they did against
Minnesota than it was that SGA finally broke through a one.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There's no doubt, that's all. That's all I'm saying, Rob
is that. But I still think three seasons a Patrick
like that, but.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
For Lamar like trying to finally break through, trying to
get that monkey off your back. He had a great
year last year. Okay, how many years you're gonna have that?
Do you know what I mean? And you have the
weapons and Derrick Henry and all these other things. I
just think that at some point you gotta break through.
(18:57):
You win that one, and then you could everything else happens.
And I just think this is the year A lot
of people feel good about the Ravens, and a lot
of people are picking the Ravens, and rightfully so, No.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Listen, as long as he is healthy and Lamar for
the next six seven years, they have a chance to compete.
And I believe you and I both he's gonna get one.
But I think Patrick Mahomes cannot be mid or he's
okay and the team falter. I think it's important for
him to get back to a super Bowl, winning a
game on because he's on track to be the goat
and he needs this season to get back on track.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Why they would announce this And I know it was
TMZ who had the story, but the night of the
opening football like, you know, I guess TMZ doesn't care
about Rob.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You know, the only way to celebrate the return of
real football is to announce the return of fake boxing.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, there you go, because that's what it is. I'm
glad you said that, Rob.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
According to TMZ Sports, which is being con firm now
by multiple outlets, TMZ is right a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yes, I tell people that.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yes, I told people that all the time, Like, oh,
when Kobe did you know? The people like, oh, it's
a TMZ, I said, dude, to do no trust me?
So it's right. Is they paid for stories too, they
know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Trust me.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Coming up in the spring of twenty twenty six, boxing
legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Junior will compete in
an exhibition match. Floyd actually released a statement to TMZ.
I'm gonna read it to you in part quote, I've
been doing this for thirty years. There has been a
single fighter that can tarnish my legacy. You already know
(20:43):
that I'm gonna do something. It's gonna be big, it's
gonna be legendary. I'm the best in the business of boxing.
This exhibition will give the fans what they want. Guys
who wanted this fight.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Nobody wanted it. Nobody whatsoever. Nobody wants this fight, and
the idea of it is repulsive. It is once again
these guys telling boxing fans that your garbage. That's what
they're telling box your garbage, Your suckers. You don't know
(21:22):
what you're watching. You'll pay for anything. We could throw
anything at you, and you'll buy the pay per view,
or you'll pay for whatever streaming service or whatever. Then
sign up for it and you'll go to Vegas and
you'll pay the money or whatever. Your suckers. That's what
they have. No regard, no respect for the boxing fans.
(21:45):
Don't do it, you hear me, Don't do it. I
don't care if you have nothing to do that night,
don't do it. Do not give them one thin dime nothing,
I don't care what it is stop the madness. We
(22:07):
can't allow us to continue. At some point you gotta say,
hell no, Mike Tyson, did you what did we watch
the last time you fought? It was god awful. We're
not interested. It's okay to turn turn your head. You
don't have to cough, but just turn your head and
(22:29):
say I'm not interested. I don't care who they were.
They might have been great in their day, but no longer.
And if they make any big money off of this,
shame on you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You're the sucker. You're the chump.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You're the guys who have decided that you're gonna pad
their pockets for a bs A boxing exhibition. They know
they can't even call it a real fight because it ain't.
And you know what the exhibition is. Don't hurt me, bro,
We're gonna dance around here for a few rounds. You'll
land a few punches. I'll land a few punches. If
(23:11):
I have to go there and lay in front of
the arena and you have to step over me to
get in, I'll do it. If that stopped you from
going in. Do not do this, boxing fans, please, I
applore you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Listen. Uh. Representative Parker Congressman Parker presidential candidate Parker. I
don't have to add too much more. These are two
old boxers once forty nine, one fifty nine, tys Wo'd
be about sixty when this fight happens. Or did I
say fight this pity pat happens. Let me say this.
We didn't want to watch the end of Floyd's real
(23:49):
boxing season because he wasn't boxing. We didn't even want
to watch the last handful of years of Floyd supposed
to be throwing hands. We didn't want to see that.
So now you think we want to watch Mike Tyson
bite his gloves again for eight ten rounds, because that's
all he did against one of the Jake Paul, was
bite his gloves and show us his butt. Don't nobody
(24:11):
want to see that? And I'm upset nobody wants to
see that, And he's talking about with the fans that
a single person asks me, is not a single human
being on God's earth woke up? I want to see
Floyd and Tyson fight. Nobody as for that, In fact,
you just said it. Whether it's streaming, whether it's pay
per view, whether it's rather regular TV. At the end
(24:32):
of the day, this is what you need to do.
Turn the TV off, Turn his TV off. Don't nobody
want to see that? Almost almost threw these headphones, right,
ain't nobody. I'm taught me. Listen, I just you and
I talked about this two three weeks ago with Jake
Paul and another one now because now they're playing with
us now, they're saying you have no standards. That's what
(24:54):
I'm saying, no integrity. You're that bored in life, You're
that desperate for any type of content. We'll just keep
playing with your ha haha and teasing you in your face.
You don't have to find something else, find something better
to do. Spend time with your kids, spend time with
your friends, read a book, watch a good Netflix. You
know something good on there binge, watch something worthy. You
(25:18):
don't have to watch this. We talk about this all
the time. If you really want to change from ownership
of your favorite team, stop going to games.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
We all stop the money trained. That's how you get changed.
Stop it, you can't. The reason that they're even putting
this out there is they know that they're suckers.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Who will buy it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's why, Yeah, we know these guys, they got nothing
to do. On a Friday night, you know what, and
they'll make a boxing party at their house and they'll
do this, and they'll do that, and they'll come to
Vegas for the weekend and buy hotel rooms and eat
food and drink. Yeah, they got nothing else going on
in their lives. They'll do it. Stop it. You have
(26:01):
to stop the money train. Make it a disaster so
that they'll stop putting these on.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And maybe we're wrong. Maybe we're dinosaurs, we're outdated, we're purists.
Maybe we need to get with the times and understand
that content is content is content, Content is king, content
coe content over everything. Maybe we need to just accept
that content over everything. Content is what matters. And people
(26:28):
will watch anything, and they're board our tension spans and
we'll just tune into anything. But my gosh, it's not
how I want to remember Mike Tyson. That's not how
I want to from River Floyd. It's now I want
to see it for the more to even more than that,
I just don't have any interest in watching a sixty
year old fight which is not even gonna be a real.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Fight, right, And and I give sports fans some credit,
they haven't taken to these phony football leagues, right, you know,
like they don't show up, they stopped, they don't go
to that, and they like, do what is it?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We'll wait for the NFL season to start.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So Joe, you can do the same thing in these boxes,
and I know it's not as many opportunities and you
can't hold on there selling you the glory of the past.
These are big names in boxing. I got itre okay,
it ain't like Joe Schmoe and Bill Smith. These are
big names. But you can stop the insanity. It's up
(27:21):
to you to say, no, no way. Know how am
I spending one thin dime on any of this. It's lunacy.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It is man and I can't believe that even Floyd's
trying to sell us on you know what I do.
You just about to go down, No, Floyd, And it's
less than a WWE match. We're like, there's an actual
excitement and there's the pageantry of it all, and you
actually don't know who's gonna win this. And I'm not
a wrestling fan, but I can understand. Okay, I get it.
It's it's an acting there, you know what it is,
and you're here for the show. This is terrible after
(27:52):
the first ten seconds, it's gonna be born. Hey man,
how you doing, How the kids doing? Everybody good? Yeah? Man,
every good.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
How much we're gonna make with this fight? I don't know,
maybe thirty forty Yeah, what you want to go eat
after this? Man? That's exactly that's all. It's gonna beat.
I'm talking to each other. Pep pe pep pet. Yeah.
You ain't gonna oh yeah, you swumkin the hard day,
My bad. I'll dial it back a little bit. That's
all it's gonna be.
Thanks for listening to the best of the Odd Couple podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Be sure to catch us live every weekday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
From seven pm to ten pm Eastern four to seven
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Odd Couple at Foxsports Radio dot com, or stream
us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You're listening to the best of the Odd Couple.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
The athletic Mike Sando front of the show did a
preseason survey of eight anonymous executives previewing both the NFC
and the AFC, and there was something that was said
about a certain NFC team that was right up our alley.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
They ranked them in a power ranking system. Everybody assigned Hey,
I'm one, two, three, four, five, sixty seven. The averages
were as follows for the top three. Number one, no surprise,
the Philadelphia Eagles, Number two in a mild surprise, the
Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That is a mild surprise.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Number three, yeah, number three, Rob Parker's Detroit Lions. Now
them being number three is not much to sneeze that,
and you know it is what it is. It's kind
of right where you'd expect they may or may not be.
Here's what is surprising, though. The reason why they fell
the number three in the Power rankings is because one
anonymous executive had the Detroit Lions ranked as the eleventh
(01:24):
best team in the NFC. Here's the rationale quote. I
refuse to believe they keep rolling after losing two starters
on the offensive line and their two highest paid assistant coaches,
Calvin Washington. You are on the record as saying Detroit
is going to.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The super Bowl. What is this guy smoking? Read that
first sentence that that person said. Read that again.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I refuse to believe they keep rolling after losing two
starters on the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What did you say two weeks? In about two weeks,
it'll be our one year anniversary. You and I doing so.
I know Rob Parker talking when I hear it. They
called you. They called you. I know it. I know
one person and the one person, robb Gi didn't have him. Fifth,
didn't have him. Six, Okay, I can understand fifth, sixth,
a little slide. I get that eleventh, Rob Parker. I'm
(02:15):
convinced they go, Why you can't look at me in
my eye? They called you, Rob Parker, And if they
didn't call you well they get there a hater, they're trolling.
It's Aaron Glenn who is trolling, or it's Ben Johnson trolling,
or it's a mad x of Dan Cavill. Maybe he
beat him up when he was playing. Maybe he beat
him up in the streets. Maybe he stole his girlfriend.
(02:35):
Because there's no way you can put the Detroit Lions
eleventh in the NFC. You couldn't even put them eleventh
in the entire NFL. That doesn't make any sense. So
I'm convinced you voted for them. Now I digress. Let
me tell you why the Lions are going back or
have gone to the Super Bowl going back. They should
have win a couple of years ago, so they didn't
(02:57):
make it. I would concede losing two coordinators, it's a
big deal. I'm not gonna asking nothing to sneeze that
that's a big deal. However, the culture center is there,
Dan Gamble Campbell is still there. Okay, the team is there. Offensively,
they have probably better offensive weapons than just about anybody
(03:17):
in the league. They were the number one offense in
the NFL. Here's the caveat people forget about. They were
the number seven scoring defense. They bent but they ain't break.
And they finally broke, and they had too many defensive
players unhealthy and hurt. Well, they got most of those back,
they lost a couple, and they got most importantly Aiden
Hutchinson back arguably the MVP. Yes, not defensive, the MVP
(03:40):
prior before getting injured. So you're looking at the number
one rushing game, a top two to three rushing game.
You're looking at one of the better quarterbacks, and you're
also getting looking at a defense as good. And you're
looking at weapons and skilled players all over the place
who are young and in their prime. So to me,
and the NFC is open. You got the Eagles. I'll
give you that. Their raigning chap deserve our respect. Other
(04:01):
than that, the NFC is wide open. It's not like
I gotta go through the three of the AFC, right, OK.
I gotta beat the Bills. They gotta beat the Ravens,
they gotta beat the Chiefs. You know, you get through
the NFC, you give yourself a chance to get to
the super Bowl, and then you got a shot once
you're there. So that is why the Lions are going.
They're mad at people like you and your vote, putting
disrespect on their name, and they're absolutely gonna come back
(04:24):
with the vengeance.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, So there was your public service announcement by a
Lions fan. Now I'll give you real analyst and analyst,
a real NFL analysts.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That was you.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That was not me, And and I understand you keep
holding on to this because they disappoint you every year
they were supposed to way they blew out the forty
nine ers in the first half, choked down that two
years ago. Last year they have a rookie quarterback at
home nine and a half point favorites. They were fifteen
(04:57):
and two, nine and a half at home, and they lose.
There's no way that the Lions are gonna do anything close.
The executive who was being honest, knows how this league runs.
Dan Campbell's not he might be the front man. But
the reason that they turned into a better team was
(05:18):
the two coordinators who.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Were really good at their job.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And Ben Jonson's loss, whether you want to agree or not,
is going to be huge for them. And here's the
other part that you talk about, Oh yeah, some defensive
players are coming back and this and did they change
the quarterback because Jared Golf turned into Jared tennis when
it came time for the biggest game of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The four turnovers.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's why the Rams got rid of him, despite him
taking the Rams to the Super Bowl. The reason the
Rams got rid of Jared Golf is because he turns
in efforts like that and moments like that where he
melts the other part you're not talking about. This ain't
the same NFC, nor it's better. The Packers are better,
(06:03):
the Bears are better. And in Minnesota, if they take
a step down, I don't know how far down they're
gonna go. They still I have a good defense, they
still have good offensive weapons, and if JJ McCarthy does
not turn the ball over, they have a chance to
still win maybe ten games. Like they'll they'll drop a
little bit, But I don't think they're gonna fall off
the map because they have too many talented players. So
(06:24):
when I look at all these things, not only do
I think the Lions, you know, aren't going to the
super Bowl like you think they are. I think the
Lions are gonna miss the playoffs, and I think the
Lions will fall backwards and this will all come undone.
They had a couple of years they had their window.
(06:46):
I think that this is going to come undone and
the Lions Misremember, you could win nine games and not
make the playoffs, or ten games in that division. So
it ain't like they gotta go six and eleven. They
can win nine or ten games and still not make
the playoffs. That's what I'm talking about. So don't be
saying that, Rob saying they're gonna win three games. That's
(07:07):
not You could still lose by winning ten games and
not make the postseason because of your division, because of
the NFC and some other teams.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So that's where I'm at. Okay, but let me throw
this at you a couple things, and I hear you.
Don't agree with you, but I hear you. They were
also the number one point differential team. They were blowing
good teams, middle teams, bad teams, AFC, NFC in the division,
out the division, they were blowing everybody out. They had
one of the best home records, and also we know
(07:36):
how that home field advantage is for them, So to me,
it didn't work against Washington. They Jared got through too
many interceptions point blank period and Jayden Daniels played the
game in his life flat out. They lost, played the.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Game is left because he was set up by a
bad quarterback and big moment and they still.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Almost want to win that game. Doesn't throw a freaking
touchdown on the game. Ben Johnson got carried away having
the game in a in the receiver's hand to throw
a pass.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, you'll you'll find out when Jared Golf is all
said and done, he'll be one of those guys who
just couldn't get you where you needed to go. And
then he'll be like, Okay, not only did the Rams
get rid of him, I'm okay, the Lions have seen
enough of it and it'll be the end of it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Then let me tell you something. I see the pathway
for them to get to the Super Bowl. I do not,
and I'm talking about I was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
I don't see how they don't make the playoff. That
I do. I do not see when they have all
their weapons and some back draft picks and somehow they're
all of a sudden gonna be out of the postseason.
(08:37):
Not to mention whoever said they were eleventh, he said
eleventh in the NFC. He didn't even say eleventh in
entirefl Okay, maybe eleventh in the NFC. Is Crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Hey, it's Ben, host of a Fifth Hour with Ben
Maller along with my trustees sidekick David Gaskon, with mean
a lot to have you join us on our weekly
auditory journey.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You're asking, what in God's name is the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I'll tell you it's a spin off of it, Ben
Matherer show a Colt hit overnights on FSR.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Why should you listen? Picture if you will a world will?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
We chat with captains of industry in media, sports, and
more every week explore some amazing facts about human nature
and more.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Listen to The Fifth Hour with.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Ben Maller on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever
you get your podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You guys have both gone on record as saying you
have the Ravens in the super Bowl. Now, granted, Calvin's
got the lines beating him, but Rob's got the Ravens
in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You both have him there. And when Lamar.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Met with the media yesterday, even though he's gone on
record and saying since he's been drafted that he's going
to bring a super Bowl back to Baltimore. He's not
ready to talk about it yet for this season. Take
a listen.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
We gotta win our games. Can't go to the super
Bowl without making it to the playoffs, you know. So
he got to focus on Buffalo right now. We can't
repete too soon. We can't pete. It's extremely early to
be thinking about the super Bowl, you know.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
So you guys think that Lamar maybe not cracking under
the pressure, But do you think he's feeling it and that's
what he's want to talk about it anymore?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Got Yeah, I don't think it's that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I just think that you know, at this point and
you know, all the accolades and all the big games,
and he just has to win. And I like this.
They don't need to be talking about. He knows why
he's out here and why he's trying to play. And
I'm not making any excuses. He had a chance last
year right in Buffalo. Mark Andrews dropped the ball that
if he throws that ball one hundred times, how many
times you're gonna catch it? Point exactly, And he dropped
(10:35):
it and dropped. There was a moment there that there
could have been a comeback. Remember you had to slop
the first half, and he martched him down in a
minute in twenty seconds and then could have tied the
game and had a chance there and it didn't happen.
But there's nothing else to talk about. We all know
how great he is as a quarterback. We all know
(10:56):
how great the Ravens are. They're loaded. Look at their
roster the next two years. They're loaded. They're like that
baked potato Montsi had earlier. It's loaded. And there's nothing
else to say other than what Kelvin, go out and
do it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm good with this, so you know who the way
we were talking about it, the way you phrased it
to me, Rob G, you said, is there anybody under
more pressure this season than Lamar? And because of everything
Rob just said, for the most part, we're on the
same page. So I'm gonna work backwards. Lamar is in
a unique situation where he's like the football version of
Allen Iverson. I think if he doesn't win, people are
(11:37):
still gonna be like, yo, you know who was my
favorite to watch period? You know who was unique?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Period?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know who was just different, just his own. He
was just the way he did it, the style, kind
of like a Michael Vick. People still love talking about
Michael Vick. And he's done. He did one third of
what Lamar has already done. So I think he has
the MVPs, he's got the great record, he's got all
the stats. And I still believe Lamar is gonna get
one eventually. He's too good, he's still too young, his
(12:03):
teams are always built and stacked. Lamar will get one.
But if I answered the way we were talking about
it earlier, Rob Gee, who's under more pressure? I actually
believe it's Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomess a made man. Really,
I'll tell you why. Yeah, I want to hear this.
Patrick Mahomes is under more pressure because I sit next
to somebody who likes to bring up the last two
seasons for him validly completely get it. You and I
(12:26):
both you know. You know I picked the Chiefs to
go to Super Bowl. But what did I always say?
I agree with you. Something doesn't look right. He's not
quite where he used to be. Patrick Mahomes has not
been Patrick Mahomes like for the most part, the last
two seasons. Patrick Mahomes the first four or five seasons,
who were we saying he could be the greatest of
all time? That's how could be? He could be that
(12:47):
he could be better than Tom, but he could be
who's on his way?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He ain't even Joe Montana in these conversations, I hear you,
you know what I mean, Like it kills me like
he was ready to be Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And that's a fair point, which is why I think
he's under more pressure because Lamar Jackson kind of put
himself in this position where he's just so unique. Patrick
Mahomes has put himself in positioned well, he could be
competing for the greatest And if he keeps stacking up
seasons like we've seen the last two, his chances are dwinderling,
if not gone. So I think it's back for him
to get back to being Patrick Mahomes. Now does he
(13:19):
need to win a super Bowl? No, But if he
comes back, you know, thirty five touchdowns only eight interceptions
and looking like all right, that's the Patrick Mahomes we know,
maybe he's an MVP candidate. Then he gets right back
on track. See about that.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And I'm gonna say this and I get you with
the numbers and just looking better, but he could have.
We saw Tom Brady go nine years without winning. Right
if he doesn't win, she like your start and your finish,
people can look at you and go, yeah, Pat was,
but then guess what Lamar won those three You know
what I mean during that time when you're not winning, jos.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Is important for him. Lamar is in such a unique
like we all feel like Lamar released mostly I know
you and I do. Lamar's gonna get one. He's gonna
be one of the best ever. He was one of them.
He's gotta wins. He does have to win. But I
don't feel like there's this weird pressure. I feel like
Patrick Mahomes can't put up another season like that like
last season. Unlets say they only go eleven and six
or ten and seven because now he's gonna We're gonna
(14:18):
start again. We know his greatness in his career.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
See see I think where where where I disagree is
that window doesn't stay open forever. You know, you got
Derrek Henry's there, you got a loaded roster, like at
some point people want to get paid. They're moving on,
like these next two years if they were able to
win this year, they could win another one. Say they
just won back to back. Now you're a made man.
(14:41):
Now you're you got your MVPs. You want you finally
broke through. You maybe win a second one like like
there's all that stuff, And I think that's why the
time is of the f is time of the essence.
It's time to get there, and nobody wants to talk
about it anymore. That's why I think that the next
two years, you don't know how long you have Derek Kenwick.
(15:03):
You don't know how long you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Have some of these other pieces and star players.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They got enough to get there and they don't have
to worry about their kicker worrying about the massage scandal
and missing steel goals because he cost him like three
games last year.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
He did. But so this is what I mean. Patrick
Mahomes is three and two, Pirates up five nothing real? Now,
come on, Dotter, this is predigno.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Patrick Mahomes is three and two in Super Bowls. If
he were to win, let's say he wins this year.
Now he's four and two, we're starting to really, really
really talk about how great he is to separate himself
and to your point, he can't have a lap seven
eight nine years without one because there's no guaranteed is
gonna play as long as Tom Brady. Tom Brady played
in forty five. So if Patrick Mahomes, who would be
turning thirty, plays another eight nine years and he wins
(15:48):
one or two more, to me, he has now cementing
himself in the conversation happens if he doesn't win. But
that's what I'm saying. That's why. So for me reading
it as is anyone under more pressure this season than Lamar,
I believe it him to right the ship. Just Ron
Parker's like people like you, justifiably even Kelvin. I'll come
on everybody, Yo, sums off, he ain't right if he
(16:09):
looks like he did the last two seasons, and we'll
start the question was it Tyreek Hiell, was it the
younger and better Travis Kelce, was it Eric b Enemy Right,
We'll start to kind of be able to pick and
Parson figure out, well, dang, what's going on. But if
he comes out gives us thirty five touchdowns, eight nine
in interception, even ten, but the team goes, you know,
like I said thirteen and four in the right back
(16:30):
where they need to be an AFC championship game and
even if they lose, But like that's Patrick Mahomes, then
he's good. But I think he has to get back
because if he has three years rob where you could
say Aaron Rodgers had the same numbers, and again that's
not good for him. Three years of just being you know, eh, no,
I get that. I just think Lamar's gonna Lamar. But
(16:50):
you got it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But it's still your window, Like you don't know how
long the coach is gonna be there. You don't know
how long, Like you have a team. That's why everybody's
picking you. They're not picking you just because they like
they look at that team and then look at that
roster and say it's loaded, like and that's what a
heavy AFC. Okay, that's with the Chiefs, that's with the Bills.
(17:11):
That's with a heavy AFC. That's with Joe Burrow and
the Bengals. Like those there's four teams right there, Okay,
you know what I mean, Like, like their team's there
and you're still looking at them, going, man, if they
do everything.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Right, are you kidding? Let me throw one at out.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Like the pregame all this it's a lot And that's why.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Did you know Brandon Graham when you're diituated it all?
Because I can't think of his how long his career?
Like were you here yet? Yeah, robb g. Let me
let me go for Robb G and ask you a question,
and Robber you can be an on this too. I'm
reversing the roles here. Let me ask you what's more?
What will be more disappointing or more like juicy for
our business? If you will? Patrick Mahomes say, they even
(17:54):
make a wild car, but the ten and seven barely
make it. He throws the same thing twenty five touchdo
thirteen interceptions. It looks even slightly worse than last year.
And obviously they don't win fifteen games or Lamar gets
in the postseason pretty much same season stats, but just
doesn't get to the super Bowl. Let's say losing the
ASC to the baltim Buffalo Bills. What would be more? Oh?
(18:14):
What's going on? The juice? Your headline for us be mames.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's what I mean, And it's very similar to to
make an NBA reference, it was better business for us
that the Lakers got embarrassed the way they did against
Minnesota than it was that SGA finally broke through a one.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There's no doubt, that's all. That's all I'm saying, Rob
is that. But I still think three seasons a Patrick
like that, but.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
For Lamar like trying to finally break through, trying to
get that monkey off your back. He had a great
year last year. Okay, how many years you're gonna have that?
Do you know what I mean? And you have the
weapons and Derrick Henry and all these other things. I
just think that at some point you gotta break through.
(18:57):
You win that one, and then you could everything else happens.
And I just think this is the year A lot
of people feel good about the Ravens, and a lot
of people are picking the Ravens, and rightfully so, No.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Listen, as long as he is healthy and Lamar for
the next six seven years, they have a chance to compete.
And I believe you and I both he's gonna get one.
But I think Patrick Mahomes cannot be mid or he's
okay and the team falter. I think it's important for
him to get back to a super Bowl, winning a
game on because he's on track to be the goat
and he needs this season to get back on track.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Why they would announce this And I know it was
TMZ who had the story, but the night of the
opening football like, you know, I guess TMZ doesn't care
about Rob.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You know, the only way to celebrate the return of
real football is to announce the return of fake boxing.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, there you go, because that's what it is. I'm
glad you said that, Rob.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
According to TMZ Sports, which is being con firm now
by multiple outlets, TMZ is right a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yes, I tell people that.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yes, I told people that all the time, Like, oh,
when Kobe did you know? The people like, oh, it's
a TMZ, I said, dude, to do no trust me?
So it's right. Is they paid for stories too, they
know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Trust me.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Coming up in the spring of twenty twenty six, boxing
legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Junior will compete in
an exhibition match. Floyd actually released a statement to TMZ.
I'm gonna read it to you in part quote, I've
been doing this for thirty years. There has been a
single fighter that can tarnish my legacy. You already know
(20:43):
that I'm gonna do something. It's gonna be big, it's
gonna be legendary. I'm the best in the business of boxing.
This exhibition will give the fans what they want. Guys
who wanted this fight.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Nobody wanted it. Nobody whatsoever. Nobody wants this fight, and
the idea of it is repulsive. It is once again
these guys telling boxing fans that your garbage. That's what
they're telling box your garbage, Your suckers. You don't know
(21:22):
what you're watching. You'll pay for anything. We could throw
anything at you, and you'll buy the pay per view,
or you'll pay for whatever streaming service or whatever. Then
sign up for it and you'll go to Vegas and
you'll pay the money or whatever. Your suckers. That's what
they have. No regard, no respect for the boxing fans.
(21:45):
Don't do it, you hear me, Don't do it. I
don't care if you have nothing to do that night,
don't do it. Do not give them one thin dime nothing,
I don't care what it is stop the madness. We
(22:07):
can't allow us to continue. At some point you gotta say,
hell no, Mike Tyson, did you what did we watch
the last time you fought? It was god awful. We're
not interested. It's okay to turn turn your head. You
don't have to cough, but just turn your head and
(22:29):
say I'm not interested. I don't care who they were.
They might have been great in their day, but no longer.
And if they make any big money off of this,
shame on you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You're the sucker. You're the chump.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You're the guys who have decided that you're gonna pad
their pockets for a bs A boxing exhibition. They know
they can't even call it a real fight because it ain't.
And you know what the exhibition is. Don't hurt me, bro,
We're gonna dance around here for a few rounds. You'll
land a few punches. I'll land a few punches. If
(23:11):
I have to go there and lay in front of
the arena and you have to step over me to
get in, I'll do it. If that stopped you from
going in. Do not do this, boxing fans, please, I
applore you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Listen. Uh. Representative Parker Congressman Parker presidential candidate Parker. I
don't have to add too much more. These are two
old boxers once forty nine, one fifty nine, tys Wo'd
be about sixty when this fight happens. Or did I
say fight this pity pat happens. Let me say this.
We didn't want to watch the end of Floyd's real
(23:49):
boxing season because he wasn't boxing. We didn't even want
to watch the last handful of years of Floyd supposed
to be throwing hands. We didn't want to see that.
So now you think we want to watch Mike Tyson
bite his gloves again for eight ten rounds, because that's
all he did against one of the Jake Paul, was
bite his gloves and show us his butt. Don't nobody
(24:11):
want to see that? And I'm upset nobody wants to
see that, And he's talking about with the fans that
a single person asks me, is not a single human
being on God's earth woke up? I want to see
Floyd and Tyson fight. Nobody as for that, In fact,
you just said it. Whether it's streaming, whether it's pay
per view, whether it's rather regular TV. At the end
(24:32):
of the day, this is what you need to do.
Turn the TV off, Turn his TV off. Don't nobody
want to see that? Almost almost threw these headphones, right,
ain't nobody. I'm taught me. Listen, I just you and
I talked about this two three weeks ago with Jake
Paul and another one now because now they're playing with
us now, they're saying you have no standards. That's what
(24:54):
I'm saying, no integrity. You're that bored in life, You're
that desperate for any type of content. We'll just keep
playing with your ha haha and teasing you in your face.
You don't have to find something else, find something better
to do. Spend time with your kids, spend time with
your friends, read a book, watch a good Netflix. You
know something good on there binge, watch something worthy. You
(25:18):
don't have to watch this. We talk about this all
the time. If you really want to change from ownership
of your favorite team, stop going to games.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
We all stop the money trained. That's how you get changed.
Stop it, you can't. The reason that they're even putting
this out there is they know that they're suckers.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Who will buy it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's why, Yeah, we know these guys, they got nothing
to do. On a Friday night, you know what, and
they'll make a boxing party at their house and they'll
do this, and they'll do that, and they'll come to
Vegas for the weekend and buy hotel rooms and eat
food and drink. Yeah, they got nothing else going on
in their lives. They'll do it. Stop it. You have
(26:01):
to stop the money train. Make it a disaster so
that they'll stop putting these on.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And maybe we're wrong. Maybe we're dinosaurs, we're outdated, we're purists.
Maybe we need to get with the times and understand
that content is content is content, Content is king, content
coe content over everything. Maybe we need to just accept
that content over everything. Content is what matters. And people
(26:28):
will watch anything, and they're board our tension spans and
we'll just tune into anything. But my gosh, it's not
how I want to remember Mike Tyson. That's not how
I want to from River Floyd. It's now I want
to see it for the more to even more than that,
I just don't have any interest in watching a sixty
year old fight which is not even gonna be a real.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Fight, right, And and I give sports fans some credit,
they haven't taken to these phony football leagues, right, you know,
like they don't show up, they stopped, they don't go
to that, and they like, do what is it?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We'll wait for the NFL season to start.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So Joe, you can do the same thing in these boxes,
and I know it's not as many opportunities and you
can't hold on there selling you the glory of the past.
These are big names in boxing. I got itre okay,
it ain't like Joe Schmoe and Bill Smith. These are
big names. But you can stop the insanity. It's up
(27:21):
to you to say, no, no way. Know how am
I spending one thin dime on any of this. It's lunacy.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It is man and I can't believe that even Floyd's
trying to sell us on you know what I do.
You just about to go down, No, Floyd, And it's
less than a WWE match. We're like, there's an actual
excitement and there's the pageantry of it all, and you
actually don't know who's gonna win this. And I'm not
a wrestling fan, but I can understand. Okay, I get it.
It's it's an acting there, you know what it is,
and you're here for the show. This is terrible after
(27:52):
the first ten seconds, it's gonna be born. Hey man,
how you doing, How the kids doing? Everybody good? Yeah? Man,
every good.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
How much we're gonna make with this fight? I don't know,
maybe thirty forty Yeah, what you want to go eat
after this? Man? That's exactly that's all. It's gonna beat.
I'm talking to each other. Pep pe pep pet. Yeah.
You ain't gonna oh yeah, you swumkin the hard day,
My bad. I'll dial it back a little bit. That's
all it's gonna be.
Hosts And Creators
kelvin washington
Rob Parker
Popular Podcasts
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com