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I understand all good, All right, Hey, rob G.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We had some news in the NFL Kelvin you know
this that had been going on, lawsuits and all kinds
of stuff, and uh kind of came to a head.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We got some.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
News about black coaches the NFL and a lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Rob G. Philliston.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Yeah, it's been a rough week for the NFL legal department.
First you had the John Gruden case move forward, and
he's going to be able to expose some stuff about
them and whether they may or may not have thrown
him under the bus to protect somebody else.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, now on Day let's say this real quick.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Hold on, yep, you noticed, being a Raiders fan, Al Davis,
the late great owner of the Raiders, he used to
beat the NFL all the time, remember that, repeated, repeated
all the time, that they hated it.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
And now they're taking another hit because on Thursday it
was determined by a court that the NFL can be
officially put on trial over civil claims that Brian Flores
and other black coaches face discrimination. Of course, this was
day we're trying to cover it up and say, hey,
this is an arbitration issue.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
We're to keep this in house.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
In fact, Roger Goodell's going to preside over and the
course of no, hell no, this kind of stuff is inappropriate,
and we need to have a court system oversee this
whole thing, which means more importantly, email's, phone calls, text messages,
anything that they may have tried to keep under wraps
will eventually come to late.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well here's the other thing too.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I mean, the NFL could try to set a lot
of court now that they have to go forward with
a case. The last thing you want to do, Kelvin,
as you know, is exposed all that discovery Like that's
why a lot of cases get settled. People wonder why
wait a minute, I thought they were saying no, that
they were innocent. All listen, and all of a sudden,
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it's like discovery shows. It's like, okay, turn over your
emails for the last five years, turn over your cell phone,
text messages, all this other stuff, and then you don't
want that on the public record, which is what happens
in the court case. But I'm going to say this
to you, this is no surprise whatsoever. And we know
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the NFL and the bad way that it is treated minorities,
especially former black players and coaches. It's well documented. It's
so bad that they actually had to have a Rooney rule,
which was forcing owners to interview, not even higher to interview,
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because coaching cycles would go by and there would be
six jobs open and not one black assistant coach or
anybody would get an interview.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Forget about having a chance, not even an interview.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Of course, you know, I blame players for this because
they've allowed this to happen. They continue go to teams
that have racist owners, or owners that don't give minorities
an equal opportunity, that have done bad stuff, and they
still continue.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
As long as you allow the owners.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
To do their dirt and treat the coach black coaches
the way that they have, they have the power. Ask
Donald Sterling when the players said we will not play
the playoff games if he's still an owner, Guess how
long that took for the NBA owners to turn on
one of their own.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
How long did that take, Kelvin? Two seconds?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right, maybe an hour?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
You're right, stop stop the money trained. When you stop
the money train, you'll get their attention. As long as
you keep taking their money, they're going to continue to
do this.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
So bravo to the courts and you know, it's the idea.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
That some people are willing to fight and that's the
only way things get changed.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Kelvin, No, I'm just all I'm gonna really do is
add on im. I'm gonna give you some some facts.
What a cover sheet? All facts? Would a cover sheets?
When I'm about to give you two. So the fact
that we had to have a Rooney rule just to
get an interview being a baseline, not even saying you
have to hire these folks right, then you start to
do the math. The Rooney rule now has been in
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existence for twenty years. Rob twenty years. You know how
many black coaches we currently have? Three? Three out of
thirty two? What is the NFL? The NFL is seventy
percent black. Where else can you have a workforce that
is predominantly one thing and you only have a nine
percent representation in power structure. Now, some will say, well, hey,
(09:13):
we'll just hire the folks who you know the best opportunity.
It doesn't matter i they're black, white male females. Just
give him opportunity. Well, in a utopian world, that sounds great.
Here's the thing you hire from the pools of coordinators oftentimes, well,
you know, what coordinators are. They're ninety percent ninety percent
non black in the NFL, almost ninety percent white. So
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how am I getting a fair shake when the pool
that you would then pool talent from brothers aren't in that.
So then you also concern yourself with the pipeline. Rob
You say, all right, we gotta start getting people in
the pipeline. We've got to get him in. Well, only
like sixteen of the top college coaches in the country
are black. I think it's sixteen of like one hundred
and sixty hundred and seventy. So again, where's the pipeline
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that you're going to there all this talent from. And
you're in a league where you stare at potential head
coaches every single day, which has always been mind boggling
to me. Not everybody's gonna be a star, Not everyone's
gonna play ten fifteen years. You know, there's a guy man,
this defensive back, This defensive back will be a great
coach at some point. Wow, this running back is gonna
be a really good coach. Yo. This second string, third
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string quarterback would be a great coach. These are opportunities
to get them in the pipeline because you know, what
happens when these kids in high school in college, all
they think about is playing football, right, They're all locked in.
They don't see an example of well, this is only
gonna last. What do we always talk about three or
four years? But I can stay in the game by
being a coordinator, by being a head coach, by being
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a general manager, by being you know, a potentially maybe
even owner, but having these positions, But subconsciously they don't
even see that as options because they don't see it
reflected in their faces. They're barely coordinators, they're only three
head coaches, and we know they're also barely general managers.
So in the positions of power as a player, subconsciously,
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I don't see myself representing that. And there's no other
thing I was talking around g I can't think of
something else. You can't have a workforce as seventy percent
women and only have nine percent women as far as
you know, running managers or you know, in general managers
or running the business, whatever it is. So the NFL
absolutely is going to try to settle. It's going to
be on Brian Floores to see if he wants to
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I like Colin Kaepernick, because it'll be interesting to see.
Does he want to move forward for the real progress
to happen where the skeletons have to be shown in
the closet, or does he say I'll take the five million,
ten million, go away and move on because he just
went through another head coaching cycle when he had an
amazing defense in Minnesota, when we know what he did
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down there in Miami, and he didn't get another head
coaching opportunity, so he.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Wanted to has a lawsuit against the league.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But right, but I'm saying, does or does he want
to just you know, will he settle?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
But exposing them, exposing them doesn't do any thing. If
the players go along, Well, what I mean, the cow
comes home like you talked about, they have no shame.
They have no shame because they already know. They hire
their sons, they hire their relatives, they have they have
no shame. There There is no shame because there's no
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rep because there's no there's no pushback. And there's the
only way that this stops is if players say, Okay,
owner X, you don't give minorities an opportunity. You I'm
not going there as a free agent. I don't want
to go to that team. I don't want to play
for that. That's that that that's the only way, because
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then you have to change, you have to change what
you're doing to attract people to play.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But like you talked about with John Gruden or the
other day, I can't remember, I wasn't on, but I
know you and I have talked about it as well
in our text and whatnot. Like with John Gruden, man
that stuff comes out now. He didn't want the case,
and maybe they shouldn't put out his emails and all that,
but it's out there now. And if the NFL gets
some of those emails, some communications, some text messages, some
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and it will be hear how the owners speak about
these things. You know, if an owner says, oh, let
me go get my token black interview real quick so
I can get it out the way to hire whoever
I was gonna hire. If all that stuff comes out
publicly to be seen, not just what I think, because
others will say, you don't know that, Come on, they
just hired the best man for the job. But if
somebody sees it reads it, people will be like, WHOA,
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I didn't know it was like that. You and I
already know, but others may be informed now and see
it in their face.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So I give you credit because I just don't think.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I think the players who won't even fight for their
own health care and pensions are not going to fight
for black coaches.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I just I don't. They don't. They have the worst.
Would you admit that they got the worst.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Health care pension so they won't fight for their own
and their families and their future health?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
How in the world this is why this has been
allowed to happen.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I blame the players more than I blame the owners.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But you're really I've really seen the players, and I
totally I do understand that. I'm saying the owners will
then be on you, me, other shows, the writers, across
the country and potentially the world if it were to
get out the shame of it, more so than the players.
I'm not talking about the players. The players.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm just saying that they don't I hear what you're saying.
In a good and a.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Realistic and honest world. Your your approach is right. I
just don't think they care. And as long as they
continue to play, and as long as they continue to
make money and the games go on, they will say,
oh yeah, we got to do.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
A better job, and they'll keep doing business as usual.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I think there's some exclammatory emails and messages get out
by the right owners and the right general managers and
so on. I think they'll try to say face and
tuck their tails and try to you know, backpedal and
and get and get some get right.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But yeah, this is this was that was a big
win for Brian Flores in a big win, potentially a
big win moving forward. We'll see how if he takes
a settlement or how that all pays out, because one
thing with what the NFL got is some big money
and if they hit him with a ten million dollar check,
you know, like they did Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. Do
you expect Brian Flores will be able to expose the
NFL's history of a racial discrimination And if he does,
do you expect anything would actually change? Because I just
don't think so unless players get involved and stop the madness.
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You talking about? Hey, ro G would you? I think
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I think they might.
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We got some We got some calls on this. Uh
the Brian Floores, Uh, the NFL. You get two scores,
a win in court?
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About the case?
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Moving forward, Dwight in Kentucky, you're in the odd couple
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What's up? Dwight?
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Okay?
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Doing what's up? Brother?
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Doing great?
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Real quick?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I agree with both of y'all. I believe it. Whether
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But I got a quick kid bit for y'all. I
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The bill was Bill's Cowboys, Jaguars, Giants, Bramptons, Rams, Ravens, Saints, Seahawks, Titans,
and Washington bhead is going on the way back to
nineteen thirty two. I've never hired a black quarter I
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mean a black.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Coach that's crazy five with a league that's seventy percent black. Listen.
I'm fully aware the league doesn't have to be fifty
percent back seven percent black, But the idea that there's three,
come on, three and twenty twenty five is crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
All all I say is the reverse would be if
the National Hockey League had twenty five black coaches in
the league, right then you would go, something's wrong here.
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It doesn't. It would be like, hold on, all right, now,
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What's up, Drey?
Speaker 11 (20:03):
Hey, how you doing? Thanks for taking a call? Listen
for me. I think that Brian Flores is going to
stand tall in this situation and really go for things
that are systemics that can undo some of these practices
and frankly principles that you note that have created the
status quo. I don't know if he's fought this hard
to get to this point, as you've noted, and go
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ahead and take hush money. The bottom line is I
got to give a shout out to the Rooney family
and the folks in Pittsburgh that allowed him to get
a job when he decided to go ahead and form
this case that that said, we're not going to let
him be shut out because he's standing up for what's right.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So he would think that's probably the only organization that's
a good point to go back to the original name, Like, Hey,
how you doing.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Just wondered if you want to live up to your
name and let me get a gig. Yeah, it's just
a wild time. Thank you for the craw Dre always
appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I just again, I can't think of another workforce where
that is the case. Meaning if seventy is something and
you only have nine percent, which is three coaches in
the NFL, are something? You get what I mean? Like,
I can't think of another equivalent to that.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The squeeze.
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One more in Brady in Windsor, Canada. You're on the
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What's up Brady?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Hey? Their bitch and Sundance. What's going on? Well, first
of all, hope about the rough and Ready theme song?
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Rough and Ready?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Okay tell me that one?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Yeah, well, ruff that was back when I was a
little boy. Rough was a dog obviously and ready was
his buddy a cap Well about the Brian Flores situation,
it's probably not going to help him become a head coach,
but probably maybe by the middle of the next decade,
I think it'll help when some of these older more
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threat and their way owners, uh you know, pass away,
so to speak, and then I think you'll start to
see more of blackhead coaches because the originary is very
erry seldom get the benefits from the things they give.
An example, I'm seventy two. I remember when Kirk Flood
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sued baseball when he was traded to the soladofi A
Phillies for whom he didn't want to play for him,
you know, a lot of reasons, and he lost in
the US Supreme Court. But then free agency came along
in seventy five and seventy six.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Right, he didn't benefit from it, He.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Didn't benefit from of himself, but a lot of other
players and people were benefiting from it. Now with free
agency in these multi multi million dollar contracts, why I
think that's what's going to happen in the floorst case.
Might not, he might not be the beneficiary of it,
but I think down the line, when as I said,
these euler owners start to leave football one reason another.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Hey, listen, thank you for the call. We're up against it.
But you brought up a great point. You know, when
we start to get these more business minded, calculated, big
large conglomerate groups to buy in, they just want the
best person period. I think you start to see some
more of that. So, hey, everybody appreciate the calls we got.
Coming up, we'll talk about the Kansas City Chiefs and
one of us thinks they will not win. The AFC
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Speaker 1 (23:29):
All right, we are the odd couple again, Rod Parker,
Kevin Washington TV theme song Thursday, Rob you my friend
Rashi Rice. They're saying now they're gonna push his case
and the disciplinary that comes along with it. To September thirtieth.
We talked about that you and I just a bad situation,
and I thought he was gonna get around two to
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four games, should get about four to six, but I
don't think it'll go that high. I can't remember where
you were. Think you were eight around eight games eight
this season season something like that. Yeah, I definitely do
know they ain't doing the season. But however, here we
are September thirtieth, where that'd be a handful of games
into the season and then he could potentially be out
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for some time. How does that change things? Your outlook
on the Chiefs, who've got some issues this offseason already.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Well, I'm not feeling great about them anyway, because I
look at the AFC, I think keep looking at it
and keep thinking they're getting better and better. I can't
believe that the Chiefs will be as lucky as they
were a year ago when a lot of things went
their way.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I think it's sometimes the worm. At some time, the worm.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Will turn and those Squeakers in those games that they won,
you know, probably aren't going to go their way. Kelsey
probably in his last season. Is he really going to
be better when he's been bad the last two years
like that? You don't usually do that at that age.
You don't get better as you get older, you get worse.
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So there's another situation where I don't think that that's
gonna work. Mahomes just had a real big body of
work that just hasn't been that good.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
They keep blaming everything. Oh what was the receivers who
were dropping the ball?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
It was this, It was that look at look at
the passing yards his his what is it six yards
of a past like like it's mind boggling. Where he's
gone to become a dink and dunk guy and not
throw the ball downfield. The interceptions are way up. At
one point he was in that Aaron Rodgers, you know,
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four or five interceptions a year max. You're at max,
and now it's double digits every year.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
It just doesn't feel the same. I just don't think
it's the same team.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And uh, I think they're gonna have trouble in the AFC,
and I don't expect them to. I think there's a
chance that they could not, you know, win the division.
In fact, I'm gonna stand on it with my chest
out and say that they don't win the division.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That was like, that wasn't full. That was like your
left I don't even know if you got any chest muscles.
That's what that was. You gave me. Do you say
make the postseason?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Ron?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Say it?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Come on, where are you on the charger? I mean
on the called him the charger on the.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Look at you, now, look at you got a Jim Harball.
You all on that bandwagon? No, I think listen, there
are no doubt Patrick Mahomes has not been itself. And
I told you all last season. It wasn't big plays
or fancy passes behind the back passes that I was like, oh,
he's off. It was some easy passes that I'm like, bro,
you're supposed to make those. You know. It was some
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easy passes that should be remedial for him. That's an
automatic passing catch for him, And that had me concerned.
And a part of it is he might have been overpressing.
He might have been overthinking, he might have been trying
to do too much and overcompensate. But I do expect
a bounce back gear from him. Now. Is he throwing
forty five touchdowns and five interceptions? No, I don't think
it'll be that. I think those days arelong gone for him.
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I just don't think he'll get back to that. When
he kind of emerged on the scene for a handful
of years. But I absolutely expect him to be better.
And believe it or not, I expect Travis Kelce to
be better. That is again, he's not gonna be great.
But the issue I do have with him, and I
know you guys talked about it yesterday. Don't tell me
you were distracted and not giving your best and didn't say,
by the way tonight on our podcast, my baby Taylor
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Swift gonna be on. No, don't tell me you were
distracted and all this was going on, and then you're
dropping the Swifties and Taylor on the dagone podcast making
a big deal. I digress. So I don't think they'll
I still expect them to win the division. I expect
him to have a really good record somewhere twelve and five,
thirteen and four. I just it's I just don't see
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them being able to you being able to beat them
that easily. Twelve and five sounds about riot. I think
they'll lose a hand easily.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
They looked up He's last year, that last year didn't
blow anybody away.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
They would not impressive at all. And when they and
when they yeah, but that's not gonna hold up. That's
my point is that.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Gave you three games to twelve. I'm telling the lowest.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, it's more than that, and I think the AFC
is just better. I don't see them getting back to
a super Bowl. In fact, if you asked me to
put down some money on it, I could see easily
Patrick Mahomes going through a Tom Brady phase of not
winning for the rest of his career nine or ten years.
I think that that window was there. It's not the
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same team. Teams are gonna be better. They got better,
younger quarterbacks who are just playing better, and at some
point they break through. And when one of these guys
break through, I think they'll be able to win. You
know what I mean, the Super Bowl, I do give you.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
So I firmly believe, and I believe you were with
me that Lamar Jackson's gonna get one, maybe two, three,
but he's gonna get one. So then you start to
get to the Joe Burrows and the Josh Allens and
maybe the CJ. Strouds of the world. Justin Herbert still
tbd uh and I definitely hear you. But the challenge
I have, and this is where me and you fundamentally disagree.
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We both agree Lamar Jackson's the best player in football, right,
we agree on that. The problem is, if I have
five minutes left in the game, I'm picking No. One
over Patrick Mahomes. And that's where he beats people. And
that's why he's ten and oer and in those close games,
and that's why we often go into those situations feeling like, oh,
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here he goes again. He's getting ready to do it.
And that's the different differentiator between him and a Lamar.
Lamar has probably had two or three better seasons in
a row. Now, Josh Allen for sure as well Joe.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
And dropped the game tying uh two point conversion.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
When who andrews No, that was all bad for him.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
But but you're saying, like those are moments there where
you when you forget you know, well, no, but you
but you forget, you forget like that's nothing that Lamar
can do. That was he marched his team down in
a minute and thirty seconds needing to tie the game,
and he throws a pass that ten out of ten
a tight end would catch.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Especially and they have such a great I mean, he's.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
One of the best in the game and he dropped it.
And moments like that happened, and things happened. My only
point is I just think we saw the Chiefs last
year against a really good team, and you thought it
would be a close game, and they got they got,
they got trashed because they were not really when you
honestly look at them, they weren't that good. And I
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said it all year. I told you they kept winning
by the skin of their teeth. They were lucky this
and that. I never believe they'd beat a good team.
I didn't think. Did I think they were gonna get
blowed out like that? No, But I thought I told
you they had no shot to win.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I keep telling people too, the NFC is the best conference,
and everybody else thinks that they have the sexy quarterbacks,
the AFC. The NFC is the better conference. And I
think what we saw was that. I don't think there
are teams that the Chiefs like, We're gonna have to
play our best football against the Ravens. They would say,
We're gonna have to play our best football against the Bills,
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they would say. But I still think they believe they're
the better team when it comes down to it. And
when you look at Patrick Mahomes, his third down numbers,
best in the league by far completion percentage on third
downs at fifty three percent of his passes on third
down and completed for first downs. That's the differentiator, that's
the winner, is that I can get that key play
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to get another possession for us to either go down
and score or for us to keep you off the field.
So they're in lies while he's still just a notch
above everybody, even though so he can't make the other passes.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He can't make the other passes. Just that is that
what happened in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's what it is. Rob Seriously, he's made it.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I'm just trying to but I'm trying to tell you
that at some point you're not going to be that
lucky when these things work out, and you have to
play play better throughout the game. And that's what he
hasn't done, and it catches up with you at some point.
Just like I made the point, I make the point
that Tom Brady went nine years nine this is your goat.
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People think he's the greatest quarterback. Somehow nine years might
be a career for some quarterback. He went nine years
without winning. How is that possible? Tom Brady's a groat.
Oh my god, he can make all the big plays.
It doesn't matter who's on the team. And how did
that happen? How did he go nine years without winning?
If he's that guy and he can make plays when
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it matters.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Guy that came back and went to more Super Bowls? No,
and he No.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
The luck continued after the nine year drought.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
The hand went nine years without a Super Bowl and away.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
But that tells you about Patrick Mahomes that this is.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So they call him Michael Jordan. I'm gonna go play
baseball for a minute. Couple years, Michael Jordan, the Wizards.
Michael Jordan. I told you that I'm about to wizard
you right now, you Harry Potter. You all right? We
got Shekel City and play the day on deck. It
is the OCA of Rob Parker Kelvin Washington on a
TV things on Thursday. Stick with you boys, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 3 (33:25):
And now, folks, well real quick, it was pretty good, Alex,
what is this? Ruff? And ready he pulled it.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
He pulled that out and ready shout out to you
know what, Alex, you delivered the listeners, the fans wanted
to hear it. You delivered it. There you go, rough
and ready right there, tigned out for Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Welcome to Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's
day Dicks against the spread.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Knew, well, tell us what you did?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
All right one and two last night of course, because
the Mets had a six to nothing lead and gave
up a nine piece that was with extra white meat
and two biscuits.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
All right, one and two last night and one ninety four,
so five games under five hundred.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Here we go tonight. Best bet.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I'm taking Arizona minus one and a half to in Denver,
taking all the Colorado Rockies. I got the Twins plus
one and a half taken on the Tigers in Minnesota
and the match who blew that game. I got them
minus one and a half taking on the Atlanta Braves
at home. So again, d backs, Twins and the Metropolitans.
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And remember this, Kelvin, that I'm not telling you who
to bet on. I'm telling you who I bet on.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
All right, there you have it. That's who you can
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Speaker 3 (35:04):
Out of this stretch the pitch kind of swinging a miss,
he struck them out.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
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Speaker 3 (35:10):
Fries with that? Twelve in a row for the crew?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Twelve to five?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Your final the Brewers with their second longest winning streak
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Speaker 3 (35:44):
Whatever rock Hey rob g did that take you back
to your first job?
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Did that take me back to my first job?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
How so didn't you hear the announce and say you
want fries with them?
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
God, hey, Robbed, you don't be not don't don't let them?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Do you like that?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
One of my favorite.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
I've never worked at a fast food place.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
See whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Never let me cook, Rob Parker,
let me cook first of all, robb Gie talking all
that smack. You keep talking smack. You done got a
car since I met you. You got a big body
one version of that. You bought your wife seventeen new anniversary,
our first date rings, our first child rings. And you
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told me you never worked in fast food. Stop trying
to project that. I missed the money bags. You're missed
the money bag. I didn't working fast food. I'm too
good for that. I cut my own hair. I'm too smooth.
What you never worked in a dagoff? You don't know
the struggle. You don't know the struggle.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
I had an internship in high school that I needed
from my senior prize is what it's called. And then
after I finished, they said, hey, do you want to
work here part time? It's like right down the street
from your school. Sure, wow, So I was in there.
I never I never worked out in a file room
for three hours a day, Alex.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I don't want to bet around mice. So that's why
they're working fast food, Alex.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Did you work fast food?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:07):
My first was pizza hunt.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
See that's what I'm talking Alex. I knew that's why
we we were Alex. What did you do when you
saw a.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Mouse in the back?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Did you don't have any mind?
Speaker 9 (37:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay, no, that's only in New York, rob Everybody, did
you see a mouse? Him living it up man working
at McDonald's, one of the greatest jobs I've ever had
in my life. Did you see a mouse?
Speaker 9 (37:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And we would have fried him up in the French
fried Greeks. Rob would have had fried house. Yeah. That see,
that's the problem him living in New York. Everything has
a rat in it.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, we got a rat, not a mouse, a rat,
a mouse, rob Ge.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Stopping you up. And you ain't never had a real
job in your life, Rob Ge.