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Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, we're about to talk about the topic. And if
you're right, he's in a bunch about what's coming up.
We want nothing about OTA's and who's there, who's not
and all that.
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Sagar Patel. All right, Rob, you alluded to it in
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the big News of the day, Aaron Rodgers. This is
the start of Minnie Kim that he's a mandatory. This
is not a voluntary and all that which the voluntary stuff. Rob,
It seems like what they do is a make it voluntary,
tell the plus so the players you don't have to come,
(02:40):
and then when players aren't there they can somebody leaks
and complaints to the media and it becomes to be, oh,
he's not at the voluntary you know, the voluntary workers.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, they're voluntary.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He shouldn't be there if he doesn't want to be so.
But these today for the Jets mandatory and Aaron Rodgers
it was not there. Here's coach Robert Salah talking about it.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Rob.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Aaron and I spoke before OTIA started. He's been very
good in communication. He's been here the entire time. It's
an excused but he had an event that was very
important to him, which he communicated.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Rob.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I have tried to believe in Aaron Rodgers with the Jets,
and I do think he is committed to trying to
have a great run with the Jets. But I'm sorry,
and I guess I'm gonna be one of the people.
You are trash because for Aaron Rodgers not to show
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up today for an unexcused absence at the first mandatory
workout of the season is selfish, a hypocritical because it's inexcused.
If it were a family matter, it'd be excused. If
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it were a health issue, it be excused. And Aaron Rodgers.
Rob was the person that sat got on his soapbox
a few months ago and talked about how the Jets
we gotta get rid of the distractions. It's gotta be
all about football, nothing else. And yet on the first
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day of mandatory workouts, you're not there for an inexcused absence.
I get Hassan Reddick. You gotta contract, is yuear. That's fine,
you're holding out or whatever. But Aaron Rodgers put whatever
it is he's doing ahead of football, and I think
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it's a bad look.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Rob.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think it sets a bad tone for the season.
Now I'm not saying it's insurmountable. I'm just saying the
first day, when you said we done with the distractions, Fellas,
it's all football and you're not there. You're the leader,
I think it's that's a bad tone. It looks insubordinate.
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So it chips away at probably the already struggling authority
of your head coach, Robert Salah. He has to go
out there and tap dance around the issue and actually
say we didn't hear it on ours, but I saw
the press conference, Rob. He said selfishly, selfishly, I wont
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everybody there, Robert.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's not selfish. It's mandatory, Rob.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I'm not being selfish when I expect you to be
here today. When I expect it, Robs, you to be here,
it's mandatry, it's the show. Rogers is the one being selfish.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Again.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I'm not saying it's an insurmountable thing. I think you'll
be committed when he's there. But this is a bad look.
And like I said, it's hypocritical. When you told everybody,
I guess you that was meant for everybody else. Everybody
else needs to get rid of distractions. But I've got.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Something I need to do.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
And I think Rob the Jets would have probably, I mean,
it should have probably made it excused because it would
have looked better.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But maybe it was so frivolous, for lack of a
better word.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
That they couldn't justify making it an excuse. So I
just think after all this talk, it just looks bad
for Aaron Rodgers first day not to show up for
an inexcused absence.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
It just doesn't move me either way. I mean, I'm
glad you're worked up. That sounds good for.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
The raps those quiet, I know that, but I'm saying
you got a little passionate about it.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
It just doesn't move me.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, I thought he was crazy when he was
trying to get back out on the field and he
was walking around during the season when he should have
easily said, uh, let me, let me get out of here,
let me get healthy. He stuck around. He did all that.
I'm just not that big. I've seen it happen a lot.
Tom Brady missed OTAs later in his career. A lot
of people do it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Mandatory or violence.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, he's missed mandatory OTAs. I just it's veteran people. Chris, sure,
you want everybody there, but I just don't. I just
don't look at it. To me, it's about the regular season.
If he plays poorly, then if you want to go
back to that, then fine. There were years when he
won the last two to two MVPs. He didn't go
to some of the OTAs too, then during that time
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he won MVPs. You can go back if a guy
doesn't play well, you could point to it and say, hey,
you know, maybe if he would have went to OTA's
he would have been better.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
What the if you could on be a scoreboard and
say when you don't go to OTAs for any reason,
you're gonna have a bad season. If he has a
bad season, he'll be ripped. If he has a great season,
nobody will ever even think about it or or remember it.
So in the moment, yes, you're right, at the moment,
it looks bad not to be there, But I think
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it's his.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
When you talk about Aaron Rodgers, it's about results. If
he's terrible this year, Christen, you can make that argument.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
If he's great and the Jets win their first five
or six games and they're off to something special, then
we'll go back and we won't even address it or
think about it.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
It's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But I think, go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I just think it's I think it's the here and now,
the immediate response.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Okay, I got it. He should be there.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
He's not there, But I don't think it's as big
of a deal as maybe some people might want to
make it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I don't think him having a good year individually, hinge
you on today's practice or tomorrow's practice for that matter.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I totally agree with that.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Like, well, I don't know if that you weren't actually
saying that, But I don't think this is gonna make
or break Aaron Rodgers. That's what I'm saying, right, Like,
if he plays poorly, it's not gonna be because he
missed today's practice.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
It's just gonna be He's.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Forty years old, he's no longer has it whatever, and
if he's great, he's gonna be great regardless of today.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
My point, Rob, I'm more concerned about the team.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I'm more concerned about the what it says to his teammates.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Not him, He'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I'm talking about the teammates who may be saying Rob
didn't there and say put the distractions aside.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Didn't Aaron say we're all in to win the Super
Bowl and he's not here.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
It's only two days, Rob, but you couldn't be here
for these two days. It just looks It's not about
the football for me from his perspective, because he's gonna
be fine. It's about the tone it sets with the
other guys.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They all doing something.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
They all had stuff, better stuff probably to do, but
they showed up, and I you know, so I just
think it screams hypocrisy, and that is you know, that's
what the critics of Aaron Rodgers one of the things
they point out, And I'm like, dude, just show up.
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So I think that that that's the bad look. I'm
not saying it's the worst thing in the world. But
I don't like the tone that it sets, that's.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
All I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I think those same teammates will remember how quickly he
tried to rehab last year, and he wanted to get
on the field, and he's walking and throwing the football,
and he's in Wilson's ear on the sidelines, and he
didn't just say I'm hurt this year and disappear and
not show up or be around. He could have just
said I'm gonna rehab on my own, I'm gonna disappear,
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I'm not coming around.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
He was around all year. That was admirable.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I think his teammates saw that that he was really
trying that if there was some sort of playoff scenario,
which it wasn't gonna happen, Chris, with the way that
the team went that he was trying to make, I
think that you earned some points in that standpoint.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
So I just look at it and that there's two sides.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
One side you saw last year when he got hurt,
that he was willing to be around and and help
his teammates and talk to him and all that, And
in this case, I don't know what the scenario is.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Chris about what is so important.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I just don't know, and maybe there has to be
a reason that you couldn't move today.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
That there's something.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Well, it was an excuse because I would think, Rober,
if it's something, I mean, think of us our job,
If it's something legitimate.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It'll be excused.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I just and I look, I don't I have no
idea what it is. It hasn't been reported.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
A thought that comes to minds is he's speaking at
some event. You know, he's obviously in the politics or
other things.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So who knows. But we will find out and we
will see.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
But I don't think besides family health things like that.
At this point, football should be number one, and that's
he's has said that, all right? A seven seven ninety
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is the first day of mandatory training camp, a mandatory
mini camp. I should say, is it something or nothing?
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Aaron Rodgers not in attendance for day one of the mandatory.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Mini camp. Something or nothing? Your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
All right, let's kick it off, Chris with Tony and Delaware.
You're in the Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
What's up? Tony?
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Hey, what's y'all?
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Do it?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Man?
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Love love the show. I'm good. Love the show. Thank you,
Chris eloquent? How you booked down Robert Ala Rogers? It's
not selfish?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Is mandatory?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I mean, come on, I reader, what sol I gotta
tap dance around his player?
Speaker 12 (15:53):
Like?
Speaker 10 (15:54):
Oh man?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
I mean you being real?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
You're the franchise gloe, You're the faces of Jets. Fight
now show up to work. It's not hard anyway. You know,
I'll get to the point. Yeah, just for me, Roger's
being really selfish and a hypocrite. You know, you can't
preach football first, and then you know what, I think
I'll go to a golf or golf whatever it is,
or you know, I think I'll go here. It's very
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important to me. Well, first of all, this is an excuse,
So we'll keep moving forward, right, come on, bro, show
it to work.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I would think too, if it's something, you know, if
it's a charitable event, maybe even one of his charitable
events or is rob I would think they'd excuse that,
you know what I mean, Like, look, I've been scheduled
to do this for six months. I'm supposed to speak
or whatever. Like, I would think they would excuse something
like that. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I hopefully we'll find out what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Uh, yeah, we might if somebody is able to get
some intel. Andre in Massachusetts during the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio, what's up?
Speaker 11 (16:58):
How you doing that?
Speaker 10 (16:59):
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
This is no deal based on the fact that Aaron
Rodgers is all about Aaron Rodgers. His number one priority
is his brand, his image, how what his Q rating is.
So he's inclined to do these type of things kind
of go off kilter, off narrative, you know, just frankly
for the simple fact that thumbing his nose at the
establishment or any type of authority over him. But he'll
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show up if he's healthy. He's going to perform this
year and the Jets are going to be in the mix.
That's He's never his play on the field has never
been in question. His commitment to the collective has always
been in question. And that's how he's acting now that
that's how he's acted his entire career. Is it good
for the Jets organization in the long run in terms
of them competing in a very competitive AFC East. No,
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And it kind of lines up almost identical to Brett
Barber when Brett Barber was with the Jets, meaning he
made them a lot better, but he was mostly off,
kind of doing his own thing.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
And now he's had his own locker room where he dressed. Well,
that's a teammate.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, he dressed us, brought Fagg dressed in his own
locker room with the Jets.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Shocking, That's that's teammate. That's a teammate.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So Is and Andre You said in the mix to win.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The Super Bowl?
Speaker 12 (18:14):
No, in the mix.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
To make the playoffs in a very competitive AFC. But
then the AFC East itself, you know, with Buffalo and Miami.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I can rock with that. But I'm not ready to
say their super Bowl.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Oh no, absolutely not so. But Aaron Rodgers being Aaron Rodgers,
nothing nutic to write home about here. That's taking the call,
all right.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Drey, appreciate it. Marty in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports where I
thought you were banned from this show.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Marty, how dare you call you?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Well?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Marty?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You took Rob to task yesterday. Good excellent work.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
It's hard to do that. When we get on college basketball.
I feel like we can getting but you know, if
we touch baseball, he'll just destroy us, so I gotta
be careful. But uh, I came after him yesterday. I
got nothing, nothing but love for Rob. But uh, this
deal with Rogers, in my opinion, is just Aaron Rodgers
(19:10):
doing Aaron Rodgers things. I agree with previous callers. I
feel like Aaron Rodgers is just about Aaron Rodgers. He's
a great talent, he's a competitor. He's always wanted to
prove himself. But when it comes to the just the
team mentality that Tom Brady had that my homes had,
I just don't feel like Brady's ever had it. And
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I'll tell you what, when he needed to take shots
down the field and he had the Adams, he could
do that. Because Davante is different than most star wide receivers.
When he sees that he can't catch the ball, he
will lay We will turn into a dB and lay
out to make sure it's not fixed. Rogers last year
in Green Bay was out Davante Adams. He did not
want to take those shots down the field. He didn't
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want to get the picks because his interception the touchdown
ratio was so bragged about, and I felt like Lafreu
want it. I'm just I'm rambling.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's interesting, Na, But that's a guy that's interesting. Well
he it'll be in.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
This is gonna be I can't wait to see him
on the field. First of all, let's hope he stays healthy.
But I can't wait to see what kindi year he
has with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All Right, it is the odd couple. Rob. You doing
your trash talk now? Are you saving it?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Not only later?
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Speaker 4 (21:10):
Let's get to We let off the show talking about
Aaron Rodgers missing the first day of mandatory Mini camp
in an inexcused absence. And look, we're not saying it's
the worst thing in the world. It's gonna ruin his season,
but I think from it. You remember when he was
talking about week a few months ago, we got to
put all the distractions aside.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
It's football first, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
And then to me, this just sets a bad tone
for Mini camp.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It looks like insubordination.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Robert Sala's out there dancing around and trying to not
rip Rogers, but be honest that the press conference and
then it looks hypocritical.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So I didn't like it. Do you think? I mean,
I don't think it's the biggest deal in the world.
But where are you at it on? Is this something
or is it nothing?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Well? It's it's something when it's coming from your leader,
you know, the guy you're depending on to lead the
locker room, to lead the offense, which essentially leads your team.
It is something because if you're not on the same
page with your a quarterback, as a coach, as an organization,
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then now you're bumping people are bumping up right now.
The locker room is going to be divided now because
guys who are all in in the program are going
to have one one train of thought and guys who
are you know, attached to whoever that player is at
that position just so happens to be Aaron Rodgers at
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the quarterback position. If you're not on the same page
with your head coach and management, yeah, it's a it's
a real problem. And not being at a man like
you got to remember everything prior to this wasn't mandatory,
right it was ota show up as voluntarily as now
when it comes to you have to be here. This
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is part of your job and you don't show up,
that's a huge red flag.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Can you give me the player who didn't show up
to ot A's and ruin their season and give me
that year?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Who do you got?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You got somebody who didn't Aaron Donald or somebody who
didn't show up and they wrecked their season.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
You gotta knock.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I'm asking you a question. I'm asking you a very
pointed question. Do you have a name of a player,
a big time player didn't show up and wrecked their season?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
No, of course, Okay, of course not. But that's not
what was asked. What was asked was, if you're preaching,
we're all in, we're doing this, I'm leaving like I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Does this matter or does the regular season matter? When
you get out there and play which one? Which one
would you be judged on whether you missed the day
of OTAs or if you want an MVP or play terror?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Which it wasn't ot as? Its mini camps?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Okay, mini camp? Which which one? Which one?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
People set out mini camp for? Contract U dispute all
the time.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Okay, well, let me let me just answer your first question.
Name popped up in mind. Remember when Tom Brady's last year,
he uh just stopped coming at left camp, went to
a wedding.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Oh, he went on vacation during training.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Camp, right right? So when you asked me what player
that destroyed their season? If you don't remember right that
destroyed took.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Vacation during eleven day vacation.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
During during training camp.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
It's not the same. It's not the same.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Question of what guy.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Is that the same?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Is that the same mandatory? Who missed something mandatory.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Eleven days during training camp before the season is.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Saying, and it destroyed the team. I'm just giving you
an example, and it just so happens to be it's
at the quarterback position. Like Tom Brady had already won
a Super Bowl for the for the franchise, Aaron Rodgers
played four plays.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
From how many years? From how many years you play
in the NFL?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Thirteen years?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Okay, how many.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Times did you see a player take a vacation during
training camp?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Tell me, tell me? Okay, just never happened.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But people have missed uh mini camp, people have missed
ot it.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
People have done that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Nobody in the history of pro football ever did what
Tom Brady did.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Okay, but once again, your question was give me an
example of a player.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It's apples to oranges. It's not the same. That's what
I'm trying to get through to you.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
It's not one days the same as missing eleven days
during camp.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
What if he misses tomorrow too.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I don't know about tomorrow. We're talking about today. That's
all I know. Missing everything. I don't know that we'll redress.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Obviously there's something going on that we don't know about,
right because he's why wouldn't he show up to mandatory
mini camp? Why would he show up this last This
is the last time the team is going to be
with the players until they all report for training camp
in a month.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Let me tell.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
If you were on this team, say you've been playing
with the Jets for several years, and obviously, like everybody,
you'd be excited that Aaron Rodgers is there last year.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Of course, he gets hurt this year.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know, he talked a few months ago about leading
the team, putting distractions aside football first ball, and then
this happened. How would you feel and how do you
think the players you know in the locker room? I
mean all of them would have the same feelings, But
what do you think you know would be some of
the feelings in the locker room because of.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
That of the some of the older players will feel
bamboos bamboozled. Some of the older players who've been in
the league, who's been around, especially been at the Jets
for long, all the down years and all of that,
they feel a certain type of way. The younger players
may be still enamored with who Aaron Rodgers is and
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what he's done in his career because he is one
of the greatest quarterbacks to play, right. So that's when
I that's what I was talking about about the divide
in the locker room. If a guy is preaching, hey,
we got to do this, we got I'm gonna lead
the team. We got to be all in, and then
on the day we have to be all in, he
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decides I'm gonna go do something else. Now, if it
comes out that that was important that, it doesn't sound
like the staff knew about it. It's knew that he
was gonna be missing or anything like that. So that
further leads me to say that there will be a
divide in the locker room because as an older player,
I'm like, hey, man, what is she doing?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Like when he comes out and plays well and thought
the season, they wouldn't say, first five games, will there
still be a divide or nothing?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
No, of course, but guess but it was the fifth
we'd all be drunk.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'm just right, just as if I if I win
the lottery tomorrow, would I be on the radio next
Tuesday with y'all?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Absolutely not, I still be right here.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
You don't live like before you go from and win
this lottery.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Good luck you Laker.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
You are mister Laker, your big time Lakers fan, have
your whole life?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Are you embarrassed?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I mean, does your franchisel have egg on his face
with this damn hurly thing?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And where where were? Where do they go from here?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Of course I don't know what. Maybe they go to
me I coaching, of course. Whenever, whenever you get rejected
in public, right, think about Rob, Think about all those
girls that you wanted to date to, just just you
in public, right like you? You on the dating apps,
Rive and you swiping right, swiping right, and everybody's wiping
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left right like you. You you feel a little bit of humiliation.
I'm just me. I'm messing you know in the zoo.
I'm sorry, I apologize. I didn't mean that that hit
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the dump button. Take it off. We'll edit it in
the podcast. But what I'm saying is for a story
franchise like that to be watching your counterparts right, your
your rival on their way to winning their eighteenth championship
right in the finals, right now, and you can't even
secure a coach. It's got to be messing with them psychologically.
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It shouldn't be like that, right because we all know
Celtics Lakers both have seventeen World championships, and now you're
trying to find a way to I mean, you offer
the coach a crazy, obscene contract and he's just like, hey, guys,
you know what, No, I'm stumble back to college and
deal with n I l's good luck. It's gotta be
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hard to deal with as a franchise and as a
and as a fan. It's killing me. I'm dying inside.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You think it's a good.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Job, I think it's at the current state of the
program now, No, I don't think it's a good job,
because there's there's there's there's no It's almost a lose lose.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Right It's title or bust, and if you don't win it,
you're gonna be You're gonna get fired.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You're gonna be the reason.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I mean, the last five coaches they've been paying, I
think they might still be paying four of them and
they ain't coaching for however long, right, So you don't
want to be added to that heap. They just chewing
up coaches.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No, no doubt, no doubt. All right, well from Salim,
thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Of course, I love you man a word.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I'm listen and I'm just trying to gain knowledge. Thank you,
I from have a great night.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
All right man, Shekel City is next, and one soda,
Rob Parker, you were wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's next a couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I was wrong.
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Speaker 4 (31:31):
All right, it's the Eye couple Chris Bruce R. Rob
Parker live from the tie rack dot com studios. And
it's time y'all for Shekel City two.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's day dicks
against the scrap.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
All right, here we go, a little Shekel City, all baseball,
Shekel City.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Let's do it so tonight you got three baseball games.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Are gonna start with.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
The New York Yankees at Kansas City Royals. Got the
Yankees minus one and a half runs. That's gonna be
the best bet. Also, have the Padres minus one and
a half hosting the Oakland A's.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
We got all these.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Later games coming up. And then I got the Angels
plus one and a half. They're in the Desert to
take on the Diamondbacks. Angels plus one and a half,
Padres minus one and a half, and the Yankees minus
one and a half.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
And remember, I'm not telling you who to bet on.
I'm telling you who I bet on.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
All right, there it is Rob.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Let's go to baseball for a moment, and Line Soto,
we know, having a fantastic year for the Yankees. Bet
on himself. A few years ago, you know, was offered
about four hundred and twenty million dollars from the Nationals
fifteen I'm sorry fifteen it was forty yeah, fifteen years
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four to forty word than forty million dollars from the
Nationals and turned it down. And now Rob, he'll be
up for free agency this summer or this offseason, I
should say. And twenty eight MLB executives were polled by ESPN,
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and seventeen of the twenty eight ribs said they think
why Solo will get at least five hundred million dollars
in his contract this year.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I didn't think he would get it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
When he went to the Padres, Chris scuffled there. I
thought he was crazy at that age, because now, what
is he twenty six? So when he was twenty four
years old somebody offered him four hundred and forty guaranteed.
This isn't a phony NFL contract or whatever, and only
one hundred million is guaranteed or whatever. This is a
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full blown four hundred and forty million dollars.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Anything could happen to you.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And I think there's two reasons that that number Chris
is more in line with what I expect him to get.
Two reasons is a he went to the Bronx, went
to play in that pressure cooker. We know we worked
in New York, Chris. A lot of guys can't handle it.
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He embraced everything. The Yankees are running away with the
al and playing great, and he's having a great season,
so that looks great.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Like he can play under pressure.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
He's not only a guy who can win in Washington
where nobody's watching, or San Diego, you know what I mean,
And what I mean nobody not the same pressure cooker
as the Yankees and number two Chris, they gave Otwani seven,
so five you could do that, you know what I mean? Like,
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it ain't like you're O Tani and they giving you
seven fifty. If you're a team and somebody's already paid
someone seven hundred, right, you could say this guy's twenty six,
he's talented, he's this, and that he's gonna have a
great next ten years. Maybe you know, at the minimum
that'll take him to thirty six, and you'll pay the
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guy five hundred. Sounds like a bargain now when you
realize somebody's making seven hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Well, it's interesting because in the reporting in this article,
they were saying that so much of O tany seven
hundred million dollar deal Rob.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Is deferred.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Percent of it.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, it really is more like a ten year, four
hundred sixty million dollar deal. But I'm like, Rob, I
don't I personally don't look at it that way. I
get it might be that way for the team, but
I think it's actually smart to defer some money. It's
not like he won't be able to live off the
four d sixty million, Rob, But I actually think some
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you know, the guys can do what they want with
their money, and some guys are really smart with their money,
getting it all up front or all year to year whatever.
But I think some guys could learn from that, and
it might be smart to defer some of that money, because.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You know, when you're not.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
That I think that's too hot, But still some of it,
I think it's smart. You don't think Bania is he
still getting contracts from the Mets.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
You don't think he's glad. But that wasn't that wasn't
his idea.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I know.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
But the Mets made made a blunder. They owed him, Chris.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
They owed him like six million dollars which turned into
thirty five million, right that that's a ridiculous Whoever sat
there and said, we don't give We're not going to
give you the six million we owe you, but we'll
give you this million dollars a year for thirty five
It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Chris, does that make sense?
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Just enough?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
The table nia hit the jack jackpot. That's a lottery.
I'm telling you. If there was no pen in the room,
I would have taken I would have cut my finger
and signed a redex Chris.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
On that paper when they when they offer that to me,
is right.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
But but my point is, I'm sure Benia loves that.
Later in life, Alan Irrison robbed Soon his deferred money
will be kicking in from his rebu parties.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
He doesn't have money, now that's the bad.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Well, he got enough. He ain't living like he was
when he was AI in the NBA. But but yeah,
I mean I think that's smart. But look, guys can
do what they want. But yeah, I mean, so THO,
he's gonna be worth it, Rob. He's having a phenomenal
season and uh, you know, we'll see what is up
happening in the postseason with the Yankees. But if he
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can help them Rob get their first World Series as
O nine, I mean, price might go up even higher
then you can I agree. I mean, now you think
Aeric Judge.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Is like, hold up, no negotiating.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
No.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
When Aaron Judge signed Chris, he was like thirty already.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
This guy's not even He's like twenty six.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Like it's amazing.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
It's a big difference between you know what I mean,
age one.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I get that. I do get that. I do get that.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
All right, it is the eye couple. We have two
hours left on a trash talking Tuesday. Of course that
means that In about forty minutes, you'll be able to
trash anyone or anything in the entire world of sports,
So get your takes ready. Here on Fox Sports Radio,
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