November 28, 2025 • 42 mins
Best of The Odd Couple – Rob Parker and Kerry Rhodes bring you a Black Friday special!
The guys open the hour reacting to the Bears big win against the Eagles as boos filled Lincoln Financial Field. They also dive into the Chiefs’ loss to the Cowboys and asking the question: Are you rooting for the Chiefs to miss the playoffs? Plus, the guys react to the Bengals @ Ravens thanksgiving matchup with Joe Burrow back as the QB1 for the Bengals?
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Speaker 3 (02:30):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Man? You know all that's coping? Steady man?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Great, great to be here on a Friday flashback Friday
with you and the Today It's gonna be a fumming.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, no doubt about it. And Alex you know what
today is, don't you?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What is that? Ron today's Black Friday. But Ron, that's true.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Every Friday is Black Friday for you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
It never changes. It's always black, always Black Friday. That's
about what's a year joke. I just can't every oh
every Friday, Friday Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, indeed, yes, the holiday season, of course, did you
have a good Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You read the turkey was still alive like when you
when you fork out. I did not have the Martin
turkey when the when the turkey bland, but when it
was done, wow, I did not. I did not have that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No, I was.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
It was very low key for me, man, I'm holiday
season can be chaotic for me. I just like to
chill out and be mellow. And I had a mellow
mellow thanks exactly. Yes, I was here, Alex was here. Uh,
that's what we do. It's all good.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And we have some food. We have food here and
uh and then we had a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So everything was good. I went to a friend's house
he had some people over.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was good.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So there we go. All right, we got a lot
to get to today. Let's welcome in the Odd Couple
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the Seger is at the anchor desk. Steep us updated
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throughout the program. So everybody is there, everybody is in place,
and carry let's start. Obviously, we had the Black Friday game.
You know today this.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Is just call it Friday then, yeah, just the Friday
every day. Thank you, thank you, Alex. Yeah, you're right
on time. Yes, but the the Bears get it done.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Twenty four point fifteen in Philadelphia, almost three hundred yards
on the ground. What were your takeaways from that? Was
a huge win for the Bears. Demoralizing.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
When you can run on a team for three hundred
yards have two separate backs go over one hundred yards,
that means you've been posed your will on this team.
And so you talk about Ben Johnson and Ben Johnson
Higher going to Chicago and you talk about guys coming
in and changing the culture. Right, he said, we're gonna
be a physical team, and a lot of coaches say
that we're going to be physical, We're gonna run the ball,
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and we're gonna you know, that's gonna be our identity
early on in the year. They started out one to two.
That wasn't that wasn't who they were yet, and they
got blown out of that second game by the line.
Yes you remember, think about where they've come from exactly
those first two games. People were ready to write them
off and say, like, this is another guy that came
in and was talking to big talk. Now what are
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they saying? This team is reeled off nine of the
last ten games. They come back in a few games
where you know, like they shouldn't have won, but they
were were able to get it done. So what good
teams do, shows resiliency, shows that they're on their nope
to being a good team. And then you come into
it on a Black Friday, on a holiday game at home,
defending champs, and you win the way they did today.
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Big time win for the Bears, that's my takeaway. It's
a big time win, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And you know me, I was out front on this
whole Chicago Bears thing, especially when it comes to Caleb Williams,
and then I.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Saw his chance. I'm a believer and not a trace
of doubt in my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm in them with Kama.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I believe I couldn't leave him if I tried.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right there and you know what people say, Oh cayleup,
they have a big game. I beg to differ. And
you know what, they were running the ball. It was effective.
You don't need to force it. That was working. But
when they needed the big touchdown carry you saw it.
That was to comment. That was a big time throw
catch touchdown, sealed the game on the road.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Don't tell me about he only had one hundred and
fifty yard I don't want to hear that. And where
are you? Where are all the doubters?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I want, I dare you to call up here on
Black Friday and tell me you still don't buy the Bears,
because that's all you told me linking the game, you Wilm.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
They got them.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
When he so many cupcakes, they got a toothache.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They didn't want to buy into the Bears, right. They
just kept winning and winning and winning.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh Caleb, you know how many throws he didn't the
plays he didn't make on the field. This is after
they won games. They would go back and say, oh,
that was open. That was of course after they won games.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Where are the Caleb people? Oh Caleb's going to be
benched by mid season. Ben Johnson can't stand him. He's
he doesn't see the field. What in the NFC North,
guess who's leading the division. They didn't trade for Michael Parsons. Yeah,
they didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Do any of that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
They got a brand new coach who's just instilling his
will on this team. And you were waiting for your one.
Where's their big win against a good team? I Gary
tee you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You're licking your wounds because you're bet against them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
There's no way Philadelphia is gonna lose at home after
they blew a twenty one nothing lead to the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No way.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh yeah, this whole Caleb thing will go away and
you'll see how bad he is, and you'll see that
the Bears are fraudulent and phony and a three dollar bill.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's what you were saying. And now you got your
tail tuck between your legs. I told you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I told you three things when the football season started.
Three the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The Lions won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's doing for debate, okay, And that I'm a believer
in Caleb Williams. That's what I told you.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I'm showing my ass on a funky flash back Friday.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I don't care what you say. That's right call in.
Oh you want to smoke, did they huh? I want
to smoke, just like you smoked that turkey yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I want all the smoke because if all these people
out there eight seven seven ninety nine off Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But Kerry, you watch the game, Yeah, and i've that throw.
Wasn't that a big throw? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
No, No, that throw was big time. It was seventeen
nine at that time.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The game is still in a Fox.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, it's yeah. The Eagles are starting to pick up
more minium. They score, they get back in the game
a little bit. He get them down on the field,
and that throw to commit was a dime. It's a
big time throw. It's one of those throws that you
would have to make in the playoffs. Yes, that show
that he can make it. We talk about it all
the time. There's certain throws that have to be made. Yes,
completions that have to be made. We saw in that
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Lions game on fourth down Jordan Love did it too. Yes,
that sealed the game.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You gotta make up that that's a time that that's
a glutsy call right there, You don't the Lions have
the ball at midfield, have a chance to march down
and maybe tie the game, right and with that wacky
coach Dan gamble Man, they might have gone for two.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Listen, we're talking about yeah, but yeah, I agree with
you on that he's doing too much.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't know what else the Bears have to do.
They've that win was so huge. It looks like they
could win the division. And the thing, they could win
the division. Who would have thought that they would win
the NFC nor?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, I wouldn't have said that. But the thing about
winning rob just like losing. It's contagious, right, you start
doing the same the winning things. You start doing the
right things on a consistent basis, and you start to
get momentum. And then once you start to get momentum,
you get to see the success on tape on game day,
and after that happens, the avalanche of belief begins. And
(10:50):
I think that's the biggest word that I got from
this game. The takeaway, it's belief. You can see the
players after the game. I was excited to get to win,
but looking at each other like they believe that to
win this game anyway, and you have to have that
to go into Phillipepia win the game.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
See. I agree, Kelvin and I we argue all the
time when they talk about changing the culture, and I said,
I always say, I always hear that. You know, when
you change the culture, when you start to win, and
we will start believing in what am I right? Carry
They try to tell me, Oh yeah, Dan Campbell went
there with a different cult.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No, no, when they started to win, then players buy in.
Now I'm listening to this guy. I see the results.
It ain't no automatic coming.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh we're gonna be smash smash mouthed and we're gonna
do this and we're not Aaron Glenn went in there,
right he cutting people and all that.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That dude, that that that you know is Carrie. It
ain't gonna work. You gotta get some wins when you
get results.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
When you get results, now you're changing the culture. And
I don't know what what you're watching, but if you're
not watching the Bears and looking at what this is
year one of Ben Johnson, Wow, yes, wow, double wow,
and today's win. If you weren't a believer, you better
be a believer now because that is big time, a
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big time win on the road where people are questioning,
oh well look at that schedule, oh galbs, this and
that and all that stuff, it ain't true eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven nine, nine,
six sixty three, sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And again what did I say? I am a what?
And then I saw his toss. I'm a believer, I'm
not married and no trace now mind, I'm in no
him believer. I couldn't believe him. God try.
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Speaker 3 (13:03):
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Speaker 1 (13:04):
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Speaker 3 (14:50):
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in New York.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We'll talk with him. Cowboys riding high all of a sudden,
Yes they are. That big win against Philadelphia and another
big win against the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Wow. Ye ain't nobody talking about Jerry Jones? Is moron?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
We haven't heard that, lady. Yeah, they're just waiting. They're
just waiting for another chance, but right now they cannot
do it. I like the Cowboys right now, I mean
and offensively like. I like them in Detroit next Thursday
against the Line. If they win that one, I think
they're they're gonna run the table. Yeah, I mean that's
a big game. And the Lions are scuffling a little bit.
They're gonna be without some of their weapons, and they
(15:28):
can't get any pressure on the quarterback right now. I'm
just Jordan Love had all day he did.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
No, the Lions are in trouble.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You fall, you fall in line, and you started losing
some of those games you're supposed to win early, and
they catch up to you.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
They sure do.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Also, Fuzzy Zeller, the golfers passed to where we'll talk
about his legacy and you know where it fits in.
What should be there? What shouldn't be there, so we
got a lot of stuff to get to. But I mean,
talk about a bummer of a game to watch.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Forget about.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It wasn't that wanted the Bengals to win or lose
or the Ravens to win or lose. Just was a
terrible game from the turnover standpoint, and Lamar was awful.
Just three turnovers. They lose a game thirty two to four.
Team I don't know that a couple of touchdowns taking
off the board, fumbles just Lamar tossed the ball up
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at the goal line at the two or three yard
like like like just kind of flicked it. I don't
know what it was, but there Baltimore lost four fumbles,
including two by Lamar, and he also threw an interception,
so he had the three and just a really bad game.
There's six and six and second place. They still have
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a chance at it because of course Steelers are just
one game ahead of them, so when they play each
other twice exactly, they still have two games, so it
can be decided there or whatnot.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
But I'm gonna start with you, Carrie.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I mean, I'm not here to defend Lamar, but I'm
not so sure that it's just Lamar. When I see
how bad the Ravens are this season.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Yeah it isn't. But this game, I'm putting it on Lamar. Okay,
and you know, you know I'm a big Lamar supporter
from day one. This is the worst Lamar has played
since his rookie year. He really looked bad. And it's
not just this game, it's the last three. He has
no touchdowns the last the last three game. Five interceptions?
(17:29):
Was that it or five turnover? Five turnover interceptions? Yeah,
five turn on But this is the worst he's looked
in a while.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I don't know if it's health, and I'm not going
to even get into that because it doesn't really matter
if you're out there playing I said it all the time,
if you're out there playing your fair game. And so
for him to come out there and be so casual
and lacks of days ago with the ball and just
loose with the ball like you have to protect the
ball to win, doesn't matter how good you.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't wanted to five years when he was just
like he just threw the ball up.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Like yeah, just it's not it's not sound football. And
that comes to that comes from top but as a
star player, you got to know that, especially with the
Baltimore Ravens history in these last three years or so,
in the playoffs with chances to win, they never take
care of the ball. So to go into a big
game one hundred per to go into a big game
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like this and you be Lamar Jackson and to go
and it was a big game.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You know what, you love him the Bengals at home,
You're at home, Joe Burrow's first game back. Some russ
gonna be on him, but you already know what you're
at stake. And to lose like they did in that
fashion to a three and eight Bengals team, oh.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Rob, those games happened, But when you are one in five,
those games can't happen.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You got to be perfect from here on out. And
so the.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Casual nature of the way that he played in that game,
he was missing easy throws, he wasn't on time.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It did not look good at all.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
And so for this Ravens team, I know a lot
of people are going to try to bury him.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
See they're six and six and they don't look like
the team we thought. It's not over. But if they're
gonna win, when we talked about them having all the
success they have. We give Lamar allow the credit. When
they lose this way, you gotta give him some blame too.
And so I'm just gonna be on record and say
this is one of the worst performances I've seen of him.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That's fair. But I got somebody else on you to
heat some blame on.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
You got John Harball, because you know why, it ain't
just about the offense. They couldn't get off the field. Defensively,
they've struggled. We saw them blow game one of the
season they had. They scored forty points. Lamar put on
a clinic. Of course, okay, fump turnovers, fumbles, defense couldn't
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stop the Bills.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I mean, like, let's be it has been.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
An awful year for all facets of the Ravens. At
some point, can you stop saying, Okay, John Harball won
a Super Bowl back ten years, eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Whenever it was like it was a little long time
ago to me.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Every year since they had Lamar, and disappointingly, when you
look at them and go, dude, they got everything you
should you need and they haven't been able to get
to that next step. How long do you keep doing
the same thing with John Harball and not trying to
make a fix or change. And I'm gonna give you one.
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And the difference is he did win. So I understand
that for the first few years. Okay, you still believe,
well he won, he got us there. Let's give him
a shot. But you remember in Tampa Bay with Tony Dungee,
couldn't win, like they had an unbelievable defense, had everything
Tony Dungee that every year, couldn't win. They finally said, okay,
(20:46):
they let him go, bought in John Gruden, and they
won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Like like.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I've seen this happen and one guy might be able
to get you to a certain point, but he had
since he's had Lamar, they haven't done sloppy play, just
mistakes in that AFC game. Championship game was a championship
game against the against Kansas City in Baltimore, was eight
(21:13):
flowers like fumbled.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
At the like they always make the mistakes.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Last year against uh the Buffalo Mark Andrews like in
their stars. These aren't random players like right to them,
Like seriously, everybody owe the throat no no, no, no
catch that ball that ball thrown to you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Okay, you're open, catch the ball. Like this keeps happening.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And you could say, well, you can't blame the coach
because the players aren't making plays. But let me tell
you this, you can because when the players make plays,
we give the coach credit. Oh, he got them brought up,
he got them ready to play, right, So we give
the coach credit. When stuff goes good, he gets a
(22:01):
new contract, he gets a raise, all of this. But
when his players aren't focused, aren't doing you gotta also
give him blame as well. One goes with the other.
It's not either or unless they win the Super Bowl.
I would fire John Harball at the end of the season.
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I would I need somebody new. I don't want to
waste another year with Lamar. Okay, Like, don't kid yourself.
The Packers didn't do what they needed to do during
Aaron Rodgers. After they won to twenty ten, they never
got back. How many times did we watch defense give
up forty points in the playoff game? You could go
talk about Aaron Rodgers and dude, how many how many
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times did they lose when Aaron Rodgers never got the
ball back?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
You know, oh Rob, you just love it. I'm telling you,
I watched the game. You know what I'm talking about
where he There was a game against Arizona. Th was
a year they went to the Super Ball, right, Aaron
Rodger throws a hail Mary, remember that to tide the game.
Arizona gainst the ball, they marched down and win the game.
He never touched them.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
And then you go, well, Aaron Rodgers fail in the playoffs,
the one against Tom Brady. You kick a field goal
and not thank you, the ball in Aaron Rodgers hand
to win the game.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, how Matt lunfortunately been run out of Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I want Aaron Rodgers to throw an interception incompletion or pick. Okay,
but in no way I'm kicking with that little time
left with Breaking Brady getting the ball back.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You know what I'm saying. I know that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So all I'm saying is, at some point Lamar ain't
endless shrimp at the buffet, because it's gonna run out
at some point.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
And right now it's not looking pretty on the longevity
of what he can do as being the Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's he's getting hurt. And we knew that.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
We knew that was going to be a possibility with
all the running he's doing one So you're definitely right,
you have to maximize the kid.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm at this point I think you have to start
to look at it and go, what is the constant
and not working? It's just not it doesn't feel good,
the chemistry. Something is off on that team. And I
give it. I'm with you, and I love to watch
Lamar play.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
It was painful to watch that kid.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
It was it was right, yes, like in my mind
whenever I see situations like that happen, especially with people
that have been targeted in the past about their play
or their style of play or what they can do,
what they can't do. The fact that he was so bad,
Like I knew today was going to be a terrible day,
like for me, Like I was right. They're gonna they're
(24:39):
gonna dissect this and be like I told you, like
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
To hear all that.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You know, how good in the kid is, but if
you have one bad game like this and it's just magnified.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Too, absolutely, and and and you if you want to
referendum on his career, stop, Okay, the m VPS. You
should have won last year. They jacked them off on
that one, which was bad. But but eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox is the telephone number eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. And if
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you're watching the Ravens, where are you? Who is to
blame here? What needs to change? I just don't think
you could bring John Harbaugh back, like, like seriously, I
remember when Jim Harbaugh, you know they they You remember
he had that. They went to the Super Bowl once
and the NFC Championship game like three times in his
(25:30):
four years or something, and sometimes you need a new messenger.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And he lost to his brother. Yep, that was the
Super Bowl. Remember that when the lights went out? Yeah? Yes,
changed the whole game. Somebody kicked the plug out in
the back. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. You
want to hear from you? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Is this a Lamar issue? Is this a John Harbar issue?
The Derek Henry cost him a two games? Or this
go out the season? Plenty of blaming go around, right
the blame pie. I don't think we have a bigger
blame pot No, it ain't a sweet potato pie, Alex.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But it's a blame pie, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
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Our number three.
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Speaker 4 (27:17):
Rob, why's it gotta be colored?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I said, color man? Not inded? It was no ed there? Sure,
he said, yeah, I think he did say color.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Color color, man, come sit next to Daddy, said, it's
always black Friday everything.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's what I said, Carry line, where's that dropped from yesterday?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Wait? Which one? What did you just say say, rob,
which drop? There's a couple of dimes?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, I would tell him about the old TV show
with Danny Thomas make Room for Daddy? And uh, Alex
of course pulled that out. What did I say, make
Room for Daddy? Was it old TV show in the
fifties or something? And of course he pulled it out,
so he was playing.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
It like crazy, whoa hold up? I did? What hold up?
Hold up? You can't say anything around this guy.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
But yeah, that and last call as well here in
this final hour. Of course, Carrie always appreciate, uh you,
of course filling in.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Let's say, how to your mom? She's listening to my
mom's listening. Yeah, mom's on. Mom's on the Mama roads,
Mama roads, shot out roads, listen on the airway. There
you go, mam.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
And by Friday, there you go? So wait, carry is
she the road because your roads.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Oh is on the road.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Is she a good cook? The best?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
She's a Rhodes scholar? All right, there you go like that.
But I do want to say this real quick. And
we were just talking about Fuzzy Zeller and his yeah obituary,
and just to prove the point that I was saying
to you, Carrie, I looked up Richard Nixon's obituary and
the headline in the New York Times in nineteen ninety
four was the thirty seventh President Richard Nixon eighty one
(29:05):
dies And then for his kicker like who he was,
what it said a master of politics, undone by Watergate.
So his worst moment, of you though he did the
other all these other things, is included because it was
that big Watergate.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
And the key thing about that, which we talked about
off air, is from a journalism perspective, that makes sense.
Rights when you think of Richard Nixon, Watergate of course
comes to mind. We're still to this day think about spygate,
the flake gate that's all derived from.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Watergate, like a scandal.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's why we always say that, oh the you know, spygate,
what a spy gate?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Watergate was a hotel in DC.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
All right, here we go, so our number three here
on the program, and there's some news and.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Carrie, one of the soccer teams, right Iran, Right, yes,
you have it up there. I don't, but I remember.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Is going to boycott and not come to the United
States because of some issues with credentials and all kinds
of stuff. So let me just get exactly here the
story I thought I had it in front of me.
I'm sorry, and it opens up a big can of
(30:39):
worms for other places and other you know, where we
are in this country right now is if you're foreign foreigners,
like tourism is down. Canadians who used to go to
Australia to Las Vegas, like, attendance is down.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
People have stopped coming.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're not coming because of visa issues. Right,
So trying to enter into the US the games are
going to be held in is it DC? And yeah,
a lot of a lot of their employees and a
lot of the people that are associated with the Iran
soccer team have been denied entry into the US. So
that's been the big issue with things that are happening
(31:21):
right now. They said there was no immediate comment from
the White House on the situation, but yeah, said the
federation that reached out to the FIFA and hoped it
could help resolve the issue. Soccer's ruling body didn't immediately
immediately reply to a request for comments. So right now,
it seems like there's a lot of a lot of
dust uff going on on on with that situation and
(31:42):
actually getting teams to come in to be a part
of part of the of the tournament.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And President Donald Trump's administration announced in June or travel
ban on citizens from twelve countries and that included Iran.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Oh, there, it is okay.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The list also included Haiti, which last week qualified for
the World Cup. And this is for Iran decided to
boycott the twenty twenty six World Cup draw in Washington
next week because of the visa issues which you mentioned.
And so this is the bigger story, and we really
want you to be involved in this. And you know,
this show has never been afraid to just talk about
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the news and what's happening.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
And this is real.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And we know the climate of what's going on, the
ice rounding up people, immigrants, just the videos of it,
the stuff going on, people being stopped randomly because they
look a certain way. There's a lot of issues and
you could, you know, deal with immigration or whatever you
want to do, you know, and I understand that if
you're here illegally, but the way it's been done in
(32:40):
the video and the stuff is really eye opening. And
for somebody who's foreign, is it like, I don't think
I would want to come to the country at this
point if I was a foreigner, like to visit or
just to see what's happened. So is there a possibility
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that other countries decide that they don't want to come?
You know, the US has a lot of big soccer
events right coming up in the next right, the World Cup.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
And a couple other big the Olympics as well. Yeah,
and the Olympics. That's another one. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And now you might have it where people are saying,
I don't know, the United States isn't a friendly place
to come to right now with what's going on, and
whether or not you would want to take part. So
as an athlete, and this is always just what I'm
asking you because I remember, I'm old enough to remember
when we boycott it, and I say we the United
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States boycotted the nineteen eighty Olympics in Russia. They were
doing stuff the Soviet Union and all that, and a
lot of you know, athletes who have trained for three
four years, you know, for that opportunity, and at the time,
I think it was Jimmy Carter just said we're not going.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
To take part in that. I also always was very.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I thought it was weird that we took part in
the Olympics in Berlin when Hitler was there and Jesse Owens,
oh yeah, and they didn't allow Jewish athletes like Marty
Glickman and people like that who were track stars to participate,
Like we actually went along with that and didn't allow
(34:22):
them to be on the team or come after they
had done that. I thought we should have probably to
United States not taken part of the Olympics in Berlin,
right nineteen thirty six, and we know Jesse Owens made
Hitler like a full layer in front of them or
whatever and all that stuff. Where are you on politics
(34:43):
and sports and these issues, because we have one now
coming up with all these events.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, I mean just the tip of the iceberg of
what we're talking about right now. Think about what you
just said, so that nineteen thirty six one say we
do boycott and we don't take part like these people
that have been these athletes that have been the whole
lives to get one shot at this thing to represent
their country and you know, bring home the goal for
the country for themselves. If we decide not to do
(35:10):
that and go to Germany and be a part of that,
we don't have that iconic moment with Jesse Owens raising
the hand up in defiance of that situation and winning
it right like that, that's true, But what about the
Jewish athletes who trained as well.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
We turned our backs on them and they were American citizen. Yes,
I'm just know you're right one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
So you say, you talk about the Jewish community, and
obviously happened that slender happened in that moment, and we
allowed it.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
We allowed it.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
But we've also had the African American culture that have
taken just as many hits as well and still stand
up and be able to go apart and be a
part of this and represent any underserved community or any
underserved person to go out there and still represent themselves
and actually win it like that matters to me as well, I.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Think, But I don't know, like if it would have
been that and said don't bring any black people or
Jews here, you know what I mean? Do you know
what I'm saying, Like, we get they didn't want Jewish
people there because of what was going on in Nazi
Germany and all that. I just wonder now, like the
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climate of where we are as this country that has
all these.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
People from all over, Like you go, I've been to Japan.
Have you been to Japan? Of course? Okay, ninety nine
percent homogenius.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Everybody's japaneseeah, that's where you know, like a lot of
countries are like that, where everybody. United States is not
that such a melting pot. We have so many people
from all over. I'm from New York City. You walk
the street, you might run into people from fifty different
places around the world.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
No, No, I think we are more inclined now to
take that stand that you're talking about. I mean, there's
we have friends that could be affected by this, right,
we have people that we actually know, which makes it different.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Right, what about if you're a foreign country now and
you see the temperature of the United States. Yes, I
think that there's a there's a conversation. Despite you wanted
to be a part of the World Cup or the Olympics,
there are issues that are bigger and how we're treated
as a group of people because supposedly, I always believed
(37:22):
or thought the Olympics was we were supposed to set
down our differences, come together as a world and compete, right,
That's that I thought that was what the.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Olympics was about. That is not what it's all about.
It's not about all of us coming together. They're all
trying to come together to win for their country.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
No, no, no, I agree, But I'm saying, like, like,
coming from all over the world, different people qualify, you
know what I mean, have a chance to compete with everybody.
That's what That's what I mean. And when I say
come together, but now the temperature in the United States
is hot. If you're foreign, yeah, and you expect other
(38:03):
countries to join this or or decide that maybe they
don't want to come. Look at how Mexican Mexican people
have been treated. If you're Mexico, do you really want
to be a part of it. I know you want
your soccer team to be involved, you want a chance
to win and all.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
That, but at what cost?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Look at what we've done with the fights of Canada,
our friends to the north. Have we ever been in
any kind of issue with Canada.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
What is no one but but we've had a riff
with Canada. I'm just the tariffs and stuff. Yeah, no,
it's the climate's hot. And I think if you want
to take the stands like Iran did and not be
a part of it because you're being you're being subjugated
to something that seems unfair, right.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Right, Why are we picking up?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Why are you picking us out out of Like we're
here to play soccer, right, why can't we come like
everybody else?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
One hundred percent I would I would be okay with that.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
But I also will be okay with the team that
or the country that comes and still tries to fight
and win, win the goal for the country.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So there's this. This is a this is a touch
on rob. It's one of those ones that can go
either way.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I always believe in UH in order to get you
have to give in order to get, and sometimes you
have to take hard stances and you have to make
a sacrifice. The only way you get change in the
world is through sacrifice. People who think that the other
people are just going to one day flip and say, oh, yeah,
you know what, we haven't been treated you right, We're
(39:31):
gonna do right by you.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Not usually how it works, Alex? What do you have?
Speaker 4 (39:36):
So I will say this, very deep, very riveting, had
to be talked about World Cups of phenomenons the only
time anybody watches soccer here in this country. But Rob,
I have a fun, light, interesting question for you. Yes,
I've been with you now for eight years. Yes, you
have never talked soccer. How is it that on the
day Rob g is not here, we're talking soccer. Is
(39:56):
there something going on in like an undertone here or
something's a persian?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Dude? You knew I was coming. I'm your audience soccer fan.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
That he was all right, No, no, no, I just
I thought when when that story was trending, you know
on ESPN dot com, it was like the second or
third story.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
It's a huge state.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
He knows I'll have that conversation with them doing that's
a good point, that's right, And I think, as you know,
Alex do.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
While eight years on this show we talk about everything
like if it's if it's relevant, you know, and that
story broke today. We felt it was relevant and we
want to give the listeners a chance to chime in
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, not a political show.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Okay, so I don't want to stop with the political.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
If you were a foreign country currently today, would you
feel comfortable coming to the United States that it's really
that simple? Would you say, I'm we're gonna boycott because
we don't like what's going on. If I Ran can't come,
then we're not coming. Either we're all coming or no,
nobody's coming. And that's a stance eight seven seven ninety
(41:03):
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So it was a legendary sports writer in New York.
His name was Dick Young. Late Dick Young wrote for
the Daily News. And uh, Larry Holmes was having his
training in Las Vegas, and he saw Dick Young and
he told everybody, said to the other writers, boxing writers,
(41:26):
he can't be in here.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Get rid of this guy. Throw them out.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Tell these people Dick Young, throw them out. And the
other writers all who weren't friends with Dick Young or whatever,
but the other writers who were covered, they all, when
they threw Dick Young out, walked out with Dick Young.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Because if you're gonna throw Dick Young out, you can
throw us out as well, exactly, And that was exactly
what it was.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Was like, no, we don't we we don't work with
Dick Young. He might not even be a friend of mine.
But either he gets to stay because this is an
open training session for the media, and if he doesn't
get to state and none of us are staying, and
they were like no, no, you guys can no, no,
no one or the other. Guess what happened. They allowed
Dick Young in and the rest of the media came
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back in all right eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox I want to hear your conversation on this some
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How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Oh?
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Man? You know all that's coping? Steady man?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Great, great to be here on a Friday flashback Friday
with you and the Today It's gonna be a fumming.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, no doubt about it. And Alex you know what
today is, don't you?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What is that? Ron today's Black Friday. But Ron, that's true.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Every Friday is Black Friday for you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
It never changes. It's always black, always Black Friday. That's
about what's a year joke. I just can't every oh
every Friday, Friday Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, indeed, yes, the holiday season, of course, did you
have a good Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You read the turkey was still alive like when you
when you fork out. I did not have the Martin
turkey when the when the turkey bland, but when it
was done, wow, I did not. I did not have that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No, I was.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
It was very low key for me, man, I'm holiday
season can be chaotic for me. I just like to
chill out and be mellow. And I had a mellow
mellow thanks exactly. Yes, I was here, Alex was here. Uh,
that's what we do. It's all good.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And we have some food. We have food here and
uh and then we had a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So everything was good. I went to a friend's house
he had some people over.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was good.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So there we go. All right, we got a lot
to get to today. Let's welcome in the Odd Couple
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throughout the program. So everybody is there, everybody is in place,
and carry let's start. Obviously, we had the Black Friday game.
You know today this.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Is just call it Friday then, yeah, just the Friday
every day. Thank you, thank you, Alex. Yeah, you're right
on time. Yes, but the the Bears get it done.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Twenty four point fifteen in Philadelphia, almost three hundred yards
on the ground. What were your takeaways from that? Was
a huge win for the Bears. Demoralizing.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
When you can run on a team for three hundred
yards have two separate backs go over one hundred yards,
that means you've been posed your will on this team.
And so you talk about Ben Johnson and Ben Johnson
Higher going to Chicago and you talk about guys coming
in and changing the culture. Right, he said, we're gonna
be a physical team, and a lot of coaches say
that we're going to be physical, We're gonna run the ball,
(05:02):
and we're gonna you know, that's gonna be our identity
early on in the year. They started out one to two.
That wasn't that wasn't who they were yet, and they
got blown out of that second game by the line.
Yes you remember, think about where they've come from exactly
those first two games. People were ready to write them
off and say, like, this is another guy that came
in and was talking to big talk. Now what are
(05:22):
they saying? This team is reeled off nine of the
last ten games. They come back in a few games
where you know, like they shouldn't have won, but they
were were able to get it done. So what good
teams do, shows resiliency, shows that they're on their nope
to being a good team. And then you come into
it on a Black Friday, on a holiday game at home,
defending champs, and you win the way they did today.
(05:44):
Big time win for the Bears, that's my takeaway. It's
a big time win, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And you know me, I was out front on this
whole Chicago Bears thing, especially when it comes to Caleb Williams,
and then I.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Saw his chance. I'm a believer and not a trace
of doubt in my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm in them with Kama.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I believe I couldn't leave him if I tried.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right there and you know what people say, Oh cayleup,
they have a big game. I beg to differ. And
you know what, they were running the ball. It was effective.
You don't need to force it. That was working. But
when they needed the big touchdown carry you saw it.
That was to comment. That was a big time throw
catch touchdown, sealed the game on the road.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Don't tell me about he only had one hundred and
fifty yard I don't want to hear that. And where
are you? Where are all the doubters?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I want, I dare you to call up here on
Black Friday and tell me you still don't buy the Bears,
because that's all you told me linking the game, you Wilm.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
They got them.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
When he so many cupcakes, they got a toothache.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They didn't want to buy into the Bears, right. They
just kept winning and winning and winning.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh Caleb, you know how many throws he didn't the
plays he didn't make on the field. This is after
they won games. They would go back and say, oh,
that was open. That was of course after they won games.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Where are the Caleb people? Oh Caleb's going to be
benched by mid season. Ben Johnson can't stand him. He's
he doesn't see the field. What in the NFC North,
guess who's leading the division. They didn't trade for Michael Parsons. Yeah,
they didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Do any of that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
They got a brand new coach who's just instilling his
will on this team. And you were waiting for your one.
Where's their big win against a good team? I Gary
tee you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You're licking your wounds because you're bet against them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
There's no way Philadelphia is gonna lose at home after
they blew a twenty one nothing lead to the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No way.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh yeah, this whole Caleb thing will go away and
you'll see how bad he is, and you'll see that
the Bears are fraudulent and phony and a three dollar bill.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's what you were saying. And now you got your
tail tuck between your legs. I told you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I told you three things when the football season started.
Three the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The Lions won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's doing for debate, okay, And that I'm a believer
in Caleb Williams. That's what I told you.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I'm showing my ass on a funky flash back Friday.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I don't care what you say. That's right call in.
Oh you want to smoke, did they huh? I want
to smoke, just like you smoked that turkey yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I want all the smoke because if all these people
out there eight seven seven ninety nine off Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But Kerry, you watch the game, Yeah, and i've that throw.
Wasn't that a big throw? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
No, No, that throw was big time. It was seventeen
nine at that time.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The game is still in a Fox.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, it's yeah. The Eagles are starting to pick up
more minium. They score, they get back in the game
a little bit. He get them down on the field,
and that throw to commit was a dime. It's a
big time throw. It's one of those throws that you
would have to make in the playoffs. Yes, that show
that he can make it. We talk about it all
the time. There's certain throws that have to be made. Yes,
completions that have to be made. We saw in that
(09:53):
Lions game on fourth down Jordan Love did it too. Yes,
that sealed the game.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You gotta make up that that's a time that that's
a glutsy call right there, You don't the Lions have
the ball at midfield, have a chance to march down
and maybe tie the game, right and with that wacky
coach Dan gamble Man, they might have gone for two.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Listen, we're talking about yeah, but yeah, I agree with
you on that he's doing too much.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't know what else the Bears have to do.
They've that win was so huge. It looks like they
could win the division. And the thing, they could win
the division. Who would have thought that they would win
the NFC nor?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, I wouldn't have said that. But the thing about
winning rob just like losing. It's contagious, right, you start
doing the same the winning things. You start doing the
right things on a consistent basis, and you start to
get momentum. And then once you start to get momentum,
you get to see the success on tape on game day,
and after that happens, the avalanche of belief begins. And
(10:50):
I think that's the biggest word that I got from
this game. The takeaway, it's belief. You can see the
players after the game. I was excited to get to win,
but looking at each other like they believe that to
win this game anyway, and you have to have that
to go into Phillipepia win the game.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
See. I agree, Kelvin and I we argue all the
time when they talk about changing the culture, and I said,
I always say, I always hear that. You know, when
you change the culture, when you start to win, and
we will start believing in what am I right? Carry
They try to tell me, Oh yeah, Dan Campbell went
there with a different cult.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No, no, when they started to win, then players buy in.
Now I'm listening to this guy. I see the results.
It ain't no automatic coming.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh we're gonna be smash smash mouthed and we're gonna
do this and we're not Aaron Glenn went in there,
right he cutting people and all that.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That dude, that that that you know is Carrie. It
ain't gonna work. You gotta get some wins when you
get results.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
When you get results, now you're changing the culture. And
I don't know what what you're watching, but if you're
not watching the Bears and looking at what this is
year one of Ben Johnson, Wow, yes, wow, double wow,
and today's win. If you weren't a believer, you better
be a believer now because that is big time, a
(12:10):
big time win on the road where people are questioning,
oh well look at that schedule, oh galbs, this and
that and all that stuff, it ain't true eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven nine, nine,
six sixty three, sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And again what did I say? I am a what?
And then I saw his toss. I'm a believer, I'm
not married and no trace now mind, I'm in no
him believer. I couldn't believe him. God try.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We want to hear from you on a funky flashback Friday,
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Speaker 3 (14:50):
Calvin's been around for a long time. I know him
in New York.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We'll talk with him. Cowboys riding high all of a sudden,
Yes they are. That big win against Philadelphia and another
big win against the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Wow. Ye ain't nobody talking about Jerry Jones? Is moron?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
We haven't heard that, lady. Yeah, they're just waiting. They're
just waiting for another chance, but right now they cannot
do it. I like the Cowboys right now, I mean
and offensively like. I like them in Detroit next Thursday
against the Line. If they win that one, I think
they're they're gonna run the table. Yeah, I mean that's
a big game. And the Lions are scuffling a little bit.
They're gonna be without some of their weapons, and they
(15:28):
can't get any pressure on the quarterback right now. I'm
just Jordan Love had all day he did.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
No, the Lions are in trouble.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You fall, you fall in line, and you started losing
some of those games you're supposed to win early, and
they catch up to you.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
They sure do.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Also, Fuzzy Zeller, the golfers passed to where we'll talk
about his legacy and you know where it fits in.
What should be there? What shouldn't be there, so we
got a lot of stuff to get to. But I mean,
talk about a bummer of a game to watch.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Forget about.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It wasn't that wanted the Bengals to win or lose
or the Ravens to win or lose. Just was a
terrible game from the turnover standpoint, and Lamar was awful.
Just three turnovers. They lose a game thirty two to four.
Team I don't know that a couple of touchdowns taking
off the board, fumbles just Lamar tossed the ball up
(16:24):
at the goal line at the two or three yard
like like like just kind of flicked it. I don't
know what it was, but there Baltimore lost four fumbles,
including two by Lamar, and he also threw an interception,
so he had the three and just a really bad game.
There's six and six and second place. They still have
(16:46):
a chance at it because of course Steelers are just
one game ahead of them, so when they play each
other twice exactly, they still have two games, so it
can be decided there or whatnot.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
But I'm gonna start with you, Carrie.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I mean, I'm not here to defend Lamar, but I'm
not so sure that it's just Lamar. When I see
how bad the Ravens are this season.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Yeah it isn't. But this game, I'm putting it on Lamar. Okay,
and you know, you know I'm a big Lamar supporter
from day one. This is the worst Lamar has played
since his rookie year. He really looked bad. And it's
not just this game, it's the last three. He has
no touchdowns the last the last three game. Five interceptions?
(17:29):
Was that it or five turnover? Five turnover interceptions? Yeah,
five turn on But this is the worst he's looked
in a while.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I don't know if it's health, and I'm not going
to even get into that because it doesn't really matter
if you're out there playing I said it all the time,
if you're out there playing your fair game. And so
for him to come out there and be so casual
and lacks of days ago with the ball and just
loose with the ball like you have to protect the
ball to win, doesn't matter how good you.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't wanted to five years when he was just
like he just threw the ball up.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Like yeah, just it's not it's not sound football. And
that comes to that comes from top but as a
star player, you got to know that, especially with the
Baltimore Ravens history in these last three years or so,
in the playoffs with chances to win, they never take
care of the ball. So to go into a big
game one hundred per to go into a big game
(18:19):
like this and you be Lamar Jackson and to go
and it was a big game.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You know what, you love him the Bengals at home,
You're at home, Joe Burrow's first game back. Some russ
gonna be on him, but you already know what you're
at stake. And to lose like they did in that
fashion to a three and eight Bengals team, oh.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Rob, those games happened, But when you are one in five,
those games can't happen.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You got to be perfect from here on out. And
so the.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Casual nature of the way that he played in that game,
he was missing easy throws, he wasn't on time.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It did not look good at all.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
And so for this Ravens team, I know a lot
of people are going to try to bury him.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
See they're six and six and they don't look like
the team we thought. It's not over. But if they're
gonna win, when we talked about them having all the
success they have. We give Lamar allow the credit. When
they lose this way, you gotta give him some blame too.
And so I'm just gonna be on record and say
this is one of the worst performances I've seen of him.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That's fair. But I got somebody else on you to
heat some blame on.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
You got John Harball, because you know why, it ain't
just about the offense. They couldn't get off the field. Defensively,
they've struggled. We saw them blow game one of the
season they had. They scored forty points. Lamar put on
a clinic. Of course, okay, fump turnovers, fumbles, defense couldn't
(19:41):
stop the Bills.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I mean, like, let's be it has been.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
An awful year for all facets of the Ravens. At
some point, can you stop saying, Okay, John Harball won
a Super Bowl back ten years, eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Whenever it was like it was a little long time
ago to me.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Every year since they had Lamar, and disappointingly, when you
look at them and go, dude, they got everything you
should you need and they haven't been able to get
to that next step. How long do you keep doing
the same thing with John Harball and not trying to
make a fix or change. And I'm gonna give you one.
(20:22):
And the difference is he did win. So I understand
that for the first few years. Okay, you still believe,
well he won, he got us there. Let's give him
a shot. But you remember in Tampa Bay with Tony Dungee,
couldn't win, like they had an unbelievable defense, had everything
Tony Dungee that every year, couldn't win. They finally said, okay,
(20:46):
they let him go, bought in John Gruden, and they
won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Like like.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I've seen this happen and one guy might be able
to get you to a certain point, but he had
since he's had Lamar, they haven't done sloppy play, just
mistakes in that AFC game. Championship game was a championship
game against the against Kansas City in Baltimore, was eight
(21:13):
flowers like fumbled.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
At the like they always make the mistakes.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Last year against uh the Buffalo Mark Andrews like in
their stars. These aren't random players like right to them,
Like seriously, everybody owe the throat no no, no, no
catch that ball that ball thrown to you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Okay, you're open, catch the ball. Like this keeps happening.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And you could say, well, you can't blame the coach
because the players aren't making plays. But let me tell
you this, you can because when the players make plays,
we give the coach credit. Oh, he got them brought up,
he got them ready to play, right, So we give
the coach credit. When stuff goes good, he gets a
(22:01):
new contract, he gets a raise, all of this. But
when his players aren't focused, aren't doing you gotta also
give him blame as well. One goes with the other.
It's not either or unless they win the Super Bowl.
I would fire John Harball at the end of the season.
(22:23):
I would I need somebody new. I don't want to
waste another year with Lamar. Okay, Like, don't kid yourself.
The Packers didn't do what they needed to do during
Aaron Rodgers. After they won to twenty ten, they never
got back. How many times did we watch defense give
up forty points in the playoff game? You could go
talk about Aaron Rodgers and dude, how many how many
(22:44):
times did they lose when Aaron Rodgers never got the
ball back?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
You know, oh Rob, you just love it. I'm telling you,
I watched the game. You know what I'm talking about
where he There was a game against Arizona. Th was
a year they went to the Super Ball, right, Aaron
Rodger throws a hail Mary, remember that to tide the game.
Arizona gainst the ball, they marched down and win the game.
He never touched them.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
And then you go, well, Aaron Rodgers fail in the playoffs,
the one against Tom Brady. You kick a field goal
and not thank you, the ball in Aaron Rodgers hand
to win the game.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, how Matt lunfortunately been run out of Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I want Aaron Rodgers to throw an interception incompletion or pick. Okay,
but in no way I'm kicking with that little time
left with Breaking Brady getting the ball back.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You know what I'm saying. I know that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So all I'm saying is, at some point Lamar ain't
endless shrimp at the buffet, because it's gonna run out
at some point.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
And right now it's not looking pretty on the longevity
of what he can do as being the Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's he's getting hurt. And we knew that.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
We knew that was going to be a possibility with
all the running he's doing one So you're definitely right,
you have to maximize the kid.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm at this point I think you have to start
to look at it and go, what is the constant
and not working? It's just not it doesn't feel good,
the chemistry. Something is off on that team. And I
give it. I'm with you, and I love to watch
Lamar play.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
It was painful to watch that kid.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
It was it was right, yes, like in my mind
whenever I see situations like that happen, especially with people
that have been targeted in the past about their play
or their style of play or what they can do,
what they can't do. The fact that he was so bad,
Like I knew today was going to be a terrible day,
like for me, Like I was right. They're gonna they're
(24:39):
gonna dissect this and be like I told you, like
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
To hear all that.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You know, how good in the kid is, but if
you have one bad game like this and it's just magnified.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Too, absolutely, and and and you if you want to
referendum on his career, stop, Okay, the m VPS. You
should have won last year. They jacked them off on
that one, which was bad. But but eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox is the telephone number eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. And if
(25:08):
you're watching the Ravens, where are you? Who is to
blame here? What needs to change? I just don't think
you could bring John Harbaugh back, like, like seriously, I
remember when Jim Harbaugh, you know they they You remember
he had that. They went to the Super Bowl once
and the NFC Championship game like three times in his
(25:30):
four years or something, and sometimes you need a new messenger.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And he lost to his brother. Yep, that was the
Super Bowl. Remember that when the lights went out? Yeah? Yes,
changed the whole game. Somebody kicked the plug out in
the back. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. You
want to hear from you? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Is this a Lamar issue? Is this a John Harbar issue?
The Derek Henry cost him a two games? Or this
go out the season? Plenty of blaming go around, right
the blame pie. I don't think we have a bigger
blame pot No, it ain't a sweet potato pie, Alex.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But it's a blame pie, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
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Our number three.
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Here on The Odd Couple, Rob Parker Kerry Rhoads on
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Speaker 4 (27:17):
Rob, why's it gotta be colored?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I said, color man? Not inded? It was no ed there? Sure,
he said, yeah, I think he did say color.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Color color, man, come sit next to Daddy, said, it's
always black Friday everything.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's what I said, Carry line, where's that dropped from yesterday?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Wait? Which one? What did you just say say, rob,
which drop? There's a couple of dimes?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, I would tell him about the old TV show
with Danny Thomas make Room for Daddy? And uh, Alex
of course pulled that out. What did I say, make
Room for Daddy? Was it old TV show in the
fifties or something? And of course he pulled it out,
so he was playing.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
It like crazy, whoa hold up? I did? What hold up?
Hold up? You can't say anything around this guy.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
But yeah, that and last call as well here in
this final hour. Of course, Carrie always appreciate, uh you,
of course filling in.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Let's say, how to your mom? She's listening to my
mom's listening. Yeah, mom's on. Mom's on the Mama roads,
Mama roads, shot out roads, listen on the airway. There
you go, mam.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
And by Friday, there you go? So wait, carry is
she the road because your roads.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Oh is on the road.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Is she a good cook? The best?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
She's a Rhodes scholar? All right, there you go like that.
But I do want to say this real quick. And
we were just talking about Fuzzy Zeller and his yeah obituary,
and just to prove the point that I was saying
to you, Carrie, I looked up Richard Nixon's obituary and
the headline in the New York Times in nineteen ninety
four was the thirty seventh President Richard Nixon eighty one
(29:05):
dies And then for his kicker like who he was,
what it said a master of politics, undone by Watergate.
So his worst moment, of you though he did the
other all these other things, is included because it was
that big Watergate.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
And the key thing about that, which we talked about
off air, is from a journalism perspective, that makes sense.
Rights when you think of Richard Nixon, Watergate of course
comes to mind. We're still to this day think about spygate,
the flake gate that's all derived from.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Watergate, like a scandal.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's why we always say that, oh the you know, spygate,
what a spy gate?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Watergate was a hotel in DC.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
All right, here we go, so our number three here
on the program, and there's some news and.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Carrie, one of the soccer teams, right Iran, Right, yes,
you have it up there. I don't, but I remember.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Is going to boycott and not come to the United
States because of some issues with credentials and all kinds
of stuff. So let me just get exactly here the
story I thought I had it in front of me.
I'm sorry, and it opens up a big can of
(30:39):
worms for other places and other you know, where we
are in this country right now is if you're foreign foreigners,
like tourism is down. Canadians who used to go to
Australia to Las Vegas, like, attendance is down.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
People have stopped coming.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're not coming because of visa issues. Right,
So trying to enter into the US the games are
going to be held in is it DC? And yeah,
a lot of a lot of their employees and a
lot of the people that are associated with the Iran
soccer team have been denied entry into the US. So
that's been the big issue with things that are happening
(31:21):
right now. They said there was no immediate comment from
the White House on the situation, but yeah, said the
federation that reached out to the FIFA and hoped it
could help resolve the issue. Soccer's ruling body didn't immediately
immediately reply to a request for comments. So right now,
it seems like there's a lot of a lot of
dust uff going on on on with that situation and
(31:42):
actually getting teams to come in to be a part
of part of the of the tournament.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And President Donald Trump's administration announced in June or travel
ban on citizens from twelve countries and that included Iran.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Oh, there, it is okay.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The list also included Haiti, which last week qualified for
the World Cup. And this is for Iran decided to
boycott the twenty twenty six World Cup draw in Washington
next week because of the visa issues which you mentioned.
And so this is the bigger story, and we really
want you to be involved in this. And you know,
this show has never been afraid to just talk about
(32:15):
the news and what's happening.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
And this is real.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And we know the climate of what's going on, the
ice rounding up people, immigrants, just the videos of it,
the stuff going on, people being stopped randomly because they
look a certain way. There's a lot of issues and
you could, you know, deal with immigration or whatever you
want to do, you know, and I understand that if
you're here illegally, but the way it's been done in
(32:40):
the video and the stuff is really eye opening. And
for somebody who's foreign, is it like, I don't think
I would want to come to the country at this
point if I was a foreigner, like to visit or
just to see what's happened. So is there a possibility
(33:02):
that other countries decide that they don't want to come?
You know, the US has a lot of big soccer
events right coming up in the next right, the World Cup.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
And a couple other big the Olympics as well. Yeah,
and the Olympics. That's another one. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And now you might have it where people are saying,
I don't know, the United States isn't a friendly place
to come to right now with what's going on, and
whether or not you would want to take part. So
as an athlete, and this is always just what I'm
asking you because I remember, I'm old enough to remember
when we boycott it, and I say we the United
(33:41):
States boycotted the nineteen eighty Olympics in Russia. They were
doing stuff the Soviet Union and all that, and a
lot of you know, athletes who have trained for three
four years, you know, for that opportunity, and at the time,
I think it was Jimmy Carter just said we're not going.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
To take part in that. I also always was very.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I thought it was weird that we took part in
the Olympics in Berlin when Hitler was there and Jesse Owens,
oh yeah, and they didn't allow Jewish athletes like Marty
Glickman and people like that who were track stars to participate,
Like we actually went along with that and didn't allow
(34:22):
them to be on the team or come after they
had done that. I thought we should have probably to
United States not taken part of the Olympics in Berlin,
right nineteen thirty six, and we know Jesse Owens made
Hitler like a full layer in front of them or
whatever and all that stuff. Where are you on politics
(34:43):
and sports and these issues, because we have one now
coming up with all these events.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, I mean just the tip of the iceberg of
what we're talking about right now. Think about what you
just said, so that nineteen thirty six one say we
do boycott and we don't take part like these people
that have been these athletes that have been the whole
lives to get one shot at this thing to represent
their country and you know, bring home the goal for
the country for themselves. If we decide not to do
(35:10):
that and go to Germany and be a part of that,
we don't have that iconic moment with Jesse Owens raising
the hand up in defiance of that situation and winning
it right like that, that's true, But what about the
Jewish athletes who trained as well.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
We turned our backs on them and they were American citizen. Yes,
I'm just know you're right one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
So you say, you talk about the Jewish community, and
obviously happened that slender happened in that moment, and we
allowed it.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
We allowed it.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
But we've also had the African American culture that have
taken just as many hits as well and still stand
up and be able to go apart and be a
part of this and represent any underserved community or any
underserved person to go out there and still represent themselves
and actually win it like that matters to me as well, I.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Think, But I don't know, like if it would have
been that and said don't bring any black people or
Jews here, you know what I mean? Do you know
what I'm saying, Like, we get they didn't want Jewish
people there because of what was going on in Nazi
Germany and all that. I just wonder now, like the
(36:16):
climate of where we are as this country that has
all these.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
People from all over, Like you go, I've been to Japan.
Have you been to Japan? Of course? Okay, ninety nine
percent homogenius.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Everybody's japaneseeah, that's where you know, like a lot of
countries are like that, where everybody. United States is not
that such a melting pot. We have so many people
from all over. I'm from New York City. You walk
the street, you might run into people from fifty different
places around the world.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
No, No, I think we are more inclined now to
take that stand that you're talking about. I mean, there's
we have friends that could be affected by this, right,
we have people that we actually know, which makes it different.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Right, what about if you're a foreign country now and
you see the temperature of the United States. Yes, I
think that there's a there's a conversation. Despite you wanted
to be a part of the World Cup or the Olympics,
there are issues that are bigger and how we're treated
as a group of people because supposedly, I always believed
(37:22):
or thought the Olympics was we were supposed to set
down our differences, come together as a world and compete, right,
That's that I thought that was what the.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Olympics was about. That is not what it's all about.
It's not about all of us coming together. They're all
trying to come together to win for their country.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
No, no, no, I agree, But I'm saying, like, like,
coming from all over the world, different people qualify, you
know what I mean, have a chance to compete with everybody.
That's what That's what I mean. And when I say
come together, but now the temperature in the United States
is hot. If you're foreign, yeah, and you expect other
(38:03):
countries to join this or or decide that maybe they
don't want to come. Look at how Mexican Mexican people
have been treated. If you're Mexico, do you really want
to be a part of it. I know you want
your soccer team to be involved, you want a chance
to win and all.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
That, but at what cost?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Look at what we've done with the fights of Canada,
our friends to the north. Have we ever been in
any kind of issue with Canada.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
What is no one but but we've had a riff
with Canada. I'm just the tariffs and stuff. Yeah, no,
it's the climate's hot. And I think if you want
to take the stands like Iran did and not be
a part of it because you're being you're being subjugated
to something that seems unfair, right.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Right, Why are we picking up?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Why are you picking us out out of Like we're
here to play soccer, right, why can't we come like
everybody else?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
One hundred percent I would I would be okay with that.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
But I also will be okay with the team that
or the country that comes and still tries to fight
and win, win the goal for the country.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So there's this. This is a this is a touch
on rob. It's one of those ones that can go
either way.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I always believe in UH in order to get you
have to give in order to get, and sometimes you
have to take hard stances and you have to make
a sacrifice. The only way you get change in the
world is through sacrifice. People who think that the other
people are just going to one day flip and say, oh, yeah,
you know what, we haven't been treated you right, We're
(39:31):
gonna do right by you.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Not usually how it works, Alex? What do you have?
Speaker 4 (39:36):
So I will say this, very deep, very riveting, had
to be talked about World Cups of phenomenons the only
time anybody watches soccer here in this country. But Rob,
I have a fun, light, interesting question for you. Yes,
I've been with you now for eight years. Yes, you
have never talked soccer. How is it that on the
day Rob g is not here, we're talking soccer. Is
(39:56):
there something going on in like an undertone here or
something's a persian?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Dude? You knew I was coming. I'm your audience soccer fan.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
That he was all right, No, no, no, I just
I thought when when that story was trending, you know
on ESPN dot com, it was like the second or
third story.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
It's a huge state.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
He knows I'll have that conversation with them doing that's
a good point, that's right, And I think, as you know,
Alex do.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
While eight years on this show we talk about everything
like if it's if it's relevant, you know, and that
story broke today. We felt it was relevant and we
want to give the listeners a chance to chime in
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, not a political show.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Okay, so I don't want to stop with the political.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
If you were a foreign country currently today, would you
feel comfortable coming to the United States that it's really
that simple? Would you say, I'm we're gonna boycott because
we don't like what's going on. If I Ran can't come,
then we're not coming. Either we're all coming or no,
nobody's coming. And that's a stance eight seven seven ninety
(41:03):
nine on Fox. And I want to tell you the story.
So it was a legendary sports writer in New York.
His name was Dick Young. Late Dick Young wrote for
the Daily News. And uh, Larry Holmes was having his
training in Las Vegas, and he saw Dick Young and
he told everybody, said to the other writers, boxing writers,
(41:26):
he can't be in here.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Get rid of this guy. Throw them out.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Tell these people Dick Young, throw them out. And the
other writers all who weren't friends with Dick Young or whatever,
but the other writers who were covered, they all, when
they threw Dick Young out, walked out with Dick Young.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Because if you're gonna throw Dick Young out, you can
throw us out as well, exactly, And that was exactly
what it was.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Was like, no, we don't we we don't work with
Dick Young. He might not even be a friend of mine.
But either he gets to stay because this is an
open training session for the media, and if he doesn't
get to state and none of us are staying, and
they were like no, no, you guys can no, no,
no one or the other. Guess what happened. They allowed
Dick Young in and the rest of the media came
(42:08):
back in all right eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox I want to hear your conversation on this some
heavy stuff on a funky flashback Friday. It is the
Odd couple, Rob Parker Kerry Roads right here on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Stick and stay.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Because sometimes the hardest conversations are meant
Speaker 3 (42:26):
To have in the usbay if we still come
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