Chris and Rob tell us why CJ Stroud is wrong when he says that Matthew Stafford would’ve won three or four Super Bowls if he played most of his career in Green Bay like Aaron Rodgers did, debate whether the Boston Celtics can win the NBA Finals if Kristaps Porzingis isn’t fully-healthy and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam swings by to discuss how Justin Jefferson’s new deal impacts the rest of the wide receiver market, Stafford’s overall abilities as a passer and much more!
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may be listening, you won't be sorry with that. Let
me bring in my partner on what is a huge day,
Rob Parker, tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
What's happened to mister Crispus. First, let me say happy anniversary.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
To you in Crystal.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Thank you, Happy happy years. My God, Yes, yes, I
love it.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Thank you. Give her all my best.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I saw all the pictures you have gotten a ten
over the last twenty nine years.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I'll tell you that, Lord have mercy.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I looked at you and some of those we're in
the winter, you know, yeah, but you are pale.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
As can be. My god, I thought, wow, but no.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Chris Broussard, it was a historic day and a tremendous day,
one of the greatest feelings in.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
My life to be honest to you know, launch a
radio station. Chris.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, I've been talking to you about it. I've
been working at it for a long time. It's very,
very difficult, and so Sports Rap Radio was born today
at seven am in Detroit AM twelve seventy, which is
now an affiliate and we're on Chris right now in
Detroit on AM twelve seventy Sports Rap Radio and Detroit.
(02:43):
That's right seven to ten Monday through Friday. So it's great,
you know, the first all black sports talk radio station
in the country's never been done before. And Chris, it's
just about given opportunity. You know that we haven't always
had on the radio in a city like Detroit that's
more than eighty percent black. I just think there's a
(03:05):
time and a place for it, and I think this
is the right time.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
So we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's hard to get the station on the air, a
lot of bugs, a lot of things that we had
to overcome. But we did it today and we're looking
to move forward and put into work. And if we
do what we're supposed to do, Chris Brizard, there'll be
a sports Wrap radio network and we might be in
the top twenty five black cities all over the country.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
So that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Open up opportunities, Chris, for brothers and sisters who want
to talk sports on the radio who haven't gotten opportunities
years gone by.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
That's it, nah man. Look, I think it's fantastic. I'm
very proud of you and what you're doing. I am
one who believes firmly that we as African Americans need
to create our own businesses and institutions. Not to discriminate
(03:59):
it as anybody else, but because as you said, we
often aren't given opportunities, and even when we are given opportunities.
There's still masses of African Americans that aren't, and we
need to create institutions where we can hire black people
and make sure they have jobs and make sure they
(04:21):
have opportunities. And that's what you're doing. Man, So I
shout out to you. This is phenomenal. And it's so
many young African American people on your station that are
getting an opportunity that who knows when they would have
gotten elsewhere. So I think it's tremendous. So I'm very
proud of you, and this is this is wonderful. I
(04:45):
couldn't say praise you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Enough for this.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yes, all right, well let's introduce the Odd Couple crew.
Of course, the super producer Rob g is in the house.
DJ Alex Tyshert is here for the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
In more than a week.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Here because I'm on right, Alex.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
You're here.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's the only reason Ron right and Alex we would
hire you as.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Sports Thank you, Rob.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
We also, by Chris's pictures, I'm definitely darker than Chris,
so I.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Hope, I know, I mean that could be saying, but
Chris is so Chris is so white.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
He's pinking that picture. I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Brian Finley, the loquacious one who's getting married soon.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A couple of months, month, a little over a month.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, yes, and I'm going to be in your neck
of the woods, so looking forward to to seeing you together.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yes, Chris isn't coming coming, No, I can't.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I think I'll be on my family reunion, I told
Brian talking, but I'm gonna take him out.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah the week you might come check out first things
first or something.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, I'll be I'll be in the week before Chris.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So if you have time, I would love to connect
and do that.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
You will link up for sure, man, and uh rot rot.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'm telling you Rob, I'm not buying it, Brian. I'm
going to make I'm going to make the three hour
drive to come down.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Brian.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I think next Saturday you are the man. Rob.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And you know Rob invited though he was.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It was a sympathy and invite, you know what I mean.
And somebody told Brian that you know it's good luck
to have one black guy at your wedding.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Part geez, don't be the only brother now that I
can't make it, he's in the wedding, He's not see
see Rob you actually got a brother in your wedding. Yes,
there's gonna be a bridesmaid.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Who's gonna be Who's Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
See there you go.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Awesome?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
All right, we gott type and on the social media
man Elijah seb all right, Rob, let's get to it.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
C J.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Stroud, Now, I love c J. Stroud.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You know, I liked him, you know, at Ohio State.
I thought that Carolina should have drafted him first. I
didn't predict it. H Bryce Young would be bad and
maybe he won't, maybe he'll turn it around.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But I did like c J. Stroud better. I like
his gumption, Rob.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I like his the fact that he's not afraid to
say what he wants to say, whether you agree with
him or not. You know, I mean he did his
top five quarterbacks rob on a podcast and put himself
number three, So I mean, hey, I like the audacity
and when you do that, you got to go out
and improve it. And he certainly did that as a rookie.
(07:27):
But he's gonna have to keep doing that. But he
was talking on the podcast with Gilly the Kid. It
is called a million dollars worth. I'm trying to find
million dollars worth of game and he was talking about,
(07:48):
you know, quarterbacks and winning championships and Rob here's one
of the things he.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Said, Stafford.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Hey, another one, Bro, he might be up there with
Brady and them. Bro, rae, that's great. I mean, let
me go back here. I'm a student of the game.
Stafford a doll, he is. No, you don't understand, bro,
you saying that. That's all I watch.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't watch nobody else.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I watched Mahomes at times because Mahomes did some stuff
that like, you can't coach Stafford dog, he will beat
you with the same thing every time. All that no
licked stuff. I got that from Bruh. Look, that's one
of my big like I'm a fan of his. Like
I be trying to find bro traders, I'll be trying
to like the way they're working on watch.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's hold on.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
If you give Matthew Stafford a chance like Aaronson, I
guarantee you might have had more rings for sure. I
think that yeah, oh yeah, he gave another ring problem. No,
I say he had like three four h wow.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Wow, that's all I got to say to that for now.
I know you want to I know you chomping at
the bit Rob Parker night, Chrischford, what a night to
start in.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So let's see what you got.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's typical that guys who can play don't.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Know anything about the game.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Wow, like that, That's what I would say. Has he
really watched Matthew Stafford? I, Chris. I watched him from
the start of his career.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I covered every.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Lions game home and rode as a columnist in Detroit. Okay,
stop with the hyperboleague. Stop with this whole idea. The
Lions when they lost to the Cowboys in the playoffs. Chris,
first of all, he had a Hall of Fame wide
receiving Calvin Johnson. He had a dominant sue all right,
(09:38):
an All Pro. He had Nick Fairley, who is another
really good player. That year they lost the Dallas. They
have number five defense.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Go look it up. They're tremendous.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And the Super Bowl that you're claiming he would have
had all these other super Bowls, he was fortunate to
get that one. He threw a pick. He threw a
pick in the game, Chris, that would have probably lost
it for the Rams, but it was dropped and that
dB is no longer the National Football League. That was
the punishment for dropping another one of Matthew Stafford's Aaron passes,
(10:15):
and talk about all the yards that he put up.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Chris.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I covered the games, Lions down twenty one to nothing
after the first quarter, Stafford had throw the ball. You
can't throw it. They'll let you throw the ball in
front of him, in front of their defense, Chris all day.
So I'm not saying that Stafford is a terrible quarterback
(10:42):
and he can't play, but to try to rewrite history
and say that a guy won for Super four MVPs
a multiple pro bowler, right, Chris, You know how hard
it is to be a Pro Bowl only I don't
think Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Bowler, right? How many times when he was in Detroit?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, only only one time?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And that was all pro, all pro? I mean real difficult.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, the all Pro spot is hard to get
and those other situations. If he likes him, that's fine.
But to really sit there and say, oh, he would
have won three or four Super Bowls, I just don't.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And I think it's again, this sounds to me, Chris,
like when you ask these players and they say Paul
George is the goat. That's that's it's on that level
to me that Paul George.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Is the goat.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I just don't I don't even understand it. Look, Aaron
Rodgers has the highest quarterback rating of any quarterback in
the history of the NFL. Aaron Rodgers has the best
touchdown interception. Those are things I'm not making up. That's
not feelings, these are just facts. Stafford's not in any
of that. Chris, you said it one Pro Bowl. I
think it was an all term.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
His numbers are impressive, as you know. I mean, there
was talk about would he be a Hall of Fame now.
He's not even guaranteed to be in the Hall of
Fame now, but would remember the even in Detroit rod
because of the numbers, it was like, man, what do
we do with this guy? He doesn't win, but his
numbers are are crazy, particularly yards. Look, I don't like
(12:27):
First of all, I do think I disagree with you
on CJ.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Stroud not knowing football like I do.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
This is his opinion, and obviously an opinion can be
wildly wrong. I'm not saying that, but I think from
listening to him talk, obviously he's been out there this summer.
He's been talking a lot about the sport. I do
think he knows the game. I do believe he's a
student of the game, and I think that's part of
(12:53):
his success. I think he's a smart quarterback. So I'm
not gonna agree that he don't know what he's talking
about as far as the game. But this, these exercises
kind of bothered me because, I mean, Rob, if we
want to shift dudes, and what if we I mean,
this's been played before.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, what if Rogers was with Belichick in New England?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
How many Super Bowls would he have won? What if
Marino was here or there? How many super Bowls will
he have? At the end of the day, I'm judging
you on what you did. And we have seen top
quarterbacks turn franchises around, and Matthew Stafford was unable to
(13:38):
do that in Detroit. So I just think I can't
play the what if game. I'm going based on what
they did.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And look Aaron.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Rodgers, Rob, I have taken him to task for his
playoff failures. He I mean in NFC championship games he's
won in four, he's lost his last four. And for
a guy and you talked about his passer rating, his
claim to fame and rightly, so will be.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He don't throw interceptions, oh, except for in the NFC
title game, where he's got eight.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
In five games and he has nine touchdowns that his
TV the interception ratio is incrediblely the best ever. But
in those NFC championship games, he's not himself a rock.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Even in the one he won, you remember.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
This, he had two interceptions and no touchdown passes.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So and Stafford.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I'm not gonna sit here and cape for Stafford because
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He's as good as Aaron Rodgers, but.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He you know, in Detroit you talked about the one
year he had a good defense, because for he was
there for what twelve years, and only one time had
a defense in the top ten in terms of points allowed,
and that was probably the year you talked talking about
when they.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Lost to Dallas, they were third.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
But overall, I mean, look, it's some of it's on him.
Calvin Johnson wasn't throwing those balls to himself, So you
got to give Stafford some credit for that. But at
the end of the day, we do judge these quarterbacks
by your ability to win and elevate a team, and
quite plain and simple, he wasn't able to do that,
(15:24):
and I'm just not here to play the what if game?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yep. And let me give you these quick stats.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Chris and eight of Rogers ten playoff losses, his defense
is either giving up thirty seven points five times, okay,
or he led the game time drive and then never
got the ball back.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
That happened three times and for conn.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Times in his in his playoff history.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, three times where he playoff losses eight of the
ten playoffs eleven and ten in playoffs, yeah, yeah, and
they can't be eight of the ten.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Yeah, the eight of the ten he to get.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
His defense either gave up thirty seven point I don't
want to go too far.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
That was fire.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Happened five times, right, either or or he led the
game time drive and never got the ball back. That
happened three times. And last thing, for context, Aaron Rodgers
defense has given up thirty seven plus points five of
the ten playoff losses. Just for comparison, Tom Brady's defense
Chris has given up thirty seven or more points ready,
(16:26):
just eight times in three hundred and eighty one games.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Just eight times.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
That's where you could play the what if there, right,
But my point, I'm not buying there with Rogers because
we watched those games. I mean the last they lost
to San Francisco thirty seven to twenty, but they were
down twenty seven oh at halftime. I mean, so, yeah,
the defense was bad, but so was Rogers.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Can you score?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So, and then he come in.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
The second half and you know, his stats ended up
looking okay as they go prevent defense and all that,
And the same thing with Tampa Bay Rop. You remember
that they were down twenty eight ten early in the
third quarter and then he kind of rallied to make
it respectable. But yeah, those are games where it looks like, oh,
the defense gave up thirty plus points, but he didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Do anything offensively until it was over.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
So I mean, look, his numbers are what they are
in these NFC title games, and that's a that's a
mark on his resume. But yeah, I'm sorry, I can't
put Matthew Stafford ahead of it. I mean, it's just
no way in that, all right, eight seven.
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Matthew Stafford comparable to Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Your thoughts, Let's.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
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Speaker 10 (18:58):
How's it going fellas we go here?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And good to hear from you. Been a while, guys.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
I'm I'm gonna quote Rob real quick Sports has a
short list that wins and losses.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
And I think that.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
C J.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Stroud is a A is a gamer, and I think
game respects a game. And I've always loved Matthew Stafford's game.
I think he's a fearless player, and I think he's talented.
And I always thought if he wasn't at Detroit he would.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Be doing more.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
Would I say three or four? I'm not gonna say yes,
three or four. But would I say it's possible that
he wins the more championships playing with a good program.
I agree with that. And I also loved his answer,
and you I watched First Things First today and not
I know you didn't love his answer about Eli Manning
over Aaron Rodgers, but.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We're gonna talk about that later too.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Yeah, Chris, if you're if you're his coach, if you're CJ.
Stroud's coach and you're coaching his team, which guy would
you want him to pick? The guy that wanted to
rings or the guy that had all the personal accolades.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Ah, that's a good cut.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
As a coach, you probably I think you probably prefer
Oh wow, he picked the Rings. But you would be
able to understand if he said Rogers, because every everybody
wants to be great individually and win.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But I feel you probably say the Rings. That's fair,
that's fair.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
All right, there you go, Marty Will saying he agrees
with CJ.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Yeah, all right, Marty, that sounds with you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Well, let's see what he does with the Rams.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
They got a good team this year, and they're not
they're not out of you know, they're one of those
teams that people think could make some noise. So we'll
see if he you know, if he if he makes
the most out of his few years in LA, then
maybe you got an argument where if he wins another ring.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Certainly, Shaq and Richmond, Virginia, you're on the eye couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Brothers?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Oh is you buddy?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
I'm doing pretty good?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Man? H CJ.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Star Man no, and Stafford. They're not in Aaron Rodiers league. Man,
That's that's actually laughable. And like just because you go
on two little fluky runs and strike, you know, while
Iron is hot two runs out of sixteen years, but
you're mediocre the rest of your career in the same Well,
you're talking about Stafford last Stafford only did at one pot.
(21:25):
You know what I'm saying that he had I.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Think I think the argument I hear you.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I'm not giving him a pass for Detroit, but I
think people that want to support him would just.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Say, hey, he got out of Detroit and look what
he did. He got with a great off.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That team went to the super Bowl without Matthew Stafford
just two years before. Yeah, and you know what I mean,
Like people don't even think about that, but they had
already gone to the super Bowl. It was already that
caliber team like that.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
That's the part that people are talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's fair, Like, come on that that that team was
loaded when.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Stafford had a great number is that year though, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
But he still was still loaded. That was all I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, no, I.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Was all right.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Uh we have from Salam who filled in for Rob yesterday,
joining us.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
All right, you can turn your radios back on now, okay,
I'm on.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
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Our next guest, as we are sitting here live in
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took some shots, but he, you know, kept coming back.
Former NFL offensive lineman Fox Sports Radio Weekend superstar, our
man from Salim.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
What up?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Brother?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
What's up? How y'all doing you? We're good, I'm good man.
That that seat you hot in? Uh? Robed? The thing down?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You know I'm gonna let you have your fun. You know,
we all know that's cute. That's cute.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
No, let's start with you know, we usually been talking
basketball with you, and maybe we'll get there, but.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I want to ask you a football question.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
We see Christian McCaffrey right, the two year, thirty eight
million dollar extension nineteen million a year.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I'm gonna be honest, look, and I think if you.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Want to call him the best running back, I'm fine
with they certainly was last year. I'm fine with saying
he's the best running back in the league. But look,
I know, brothers are looking at this like what we
were struggling to get in the double you know, ten
million dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Kwon Barkley must have had an ordinary Yet I.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Mean Ephraim and my tripping, like, I mean, they gotta
be looking at this.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Like whoa they are. But the reality of the situation
is Christian mccafson is not running back, and anybody who
says he's just a running back not paying attention. Christian
McCaffrey is one of the best all purpose football players
in the world. Yeah, you can hand the ball off
to him twenty two times a game, but you can
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also throw it to him fifteen times a game. Right.
You can all put him in situations where he is
just not okay, you know, two downs and you bring
the other running back, and no, he is in a
world where you get very few every down running backs,
he is at the top of the list. He's explosive,
(24:28):
he can carry the load. People used to worry about
his injuries coming out of Carolina when he was banged
up a little bit. Yeah, but he's proved that he's durable,
and the fact that he puts so much pressure on
the opposing defense when you motion him out of the backfield,
then it creates issues no other running tell me, well.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I would give you this. This supports your point.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
The second mode highest paid at least is per year
is Alvin Kamar at fifteen.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
He got that deal. He obviously was similar.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
He was a guy that you pass I.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Would he just never he just he's never been in
the type of offense where you he was able to
to show that and and and and give that extra
added you know, skill set coming out of the coming
out of the backfield like he was. The Giants were
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just handing them the ball, getting out of the way,
and so on and so forth. You got to use
these type of generational talents to really really make a
defense feel like whatever they guess, they're gonna get wrong.
And Christian McCaffrey is one of those players.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Wide receivers keep getting paid. Jefferson, I know you probably
what do you make of that? And and where the
wide receiver market is.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
So the market is high right now. But we talked
about this a little bit yesterday, like when when when
does that change? When does that market change? And and
for me is if you take a team like the
Houston Texans, or you take the team like the Baltimore
Ravens uh and and they lead the league in rushing,
(26:18):
and when the Super Bowl, you'll see the change in
the market in terms of receiver worse because right now
nobody thinks you even really needed But I mean, Patrick
mahomes and and Tom Brady have been convincing people that
you know, you don't need a running.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
As Damn Marino if he needed a running back now.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Right, you know what I mean. So it's like when
when when the shift happens when a team focuses on
the running game and gets to that pinnacle and and
whins it because now people start to remember when seanay
and and and the Rams won and he didn't play
(27:05):
anybody in preseason, no starters, no preseason game. Before then
it was guys, come out, play a series. The next
play two, third game they played three, you know, three quarters,
and then the fourth they didn't play any He was like,
I'm not playing nobody. They win the Super Bowl, nobody
playing starters?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Right, Well, could it also happen as far as the
receiver market if now Mahomes is different.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
He obviously won without one.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
He won one to one.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
But right, but I'm saying, if another team, if some
of these rookies, and we know how highly coveted these
rookie receivers were, or at least the guys in the draft, right,
so if a quarterback wins with a rookie receiver being
this number one guy, Like there was talk that Minnesota
was going to try to trade up and get Molik
(27:57):
Neighbors and maybe trade Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, couldn't you see that happening too?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
If if it's like, Yo, we can get a dude
out of college. These guys are coming in ready to play,
and we got.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
A high priced quarterback.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
So let's get one of these receivers on their rookie
deal and see what we can do.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
You know what I'm saying, Well, yeah, because just think
about it. Justin Jefferson was that receiver.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Our case was that receiver?
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Uh, they're not. They came into the league with that
level of Tarik Hill. All of those guys came into
the league with that same notion you're talking about. They're
getting a big bag. Now, it's because they kept it going, right,
They came in with that, that fanfare and those spectacular numbers.
(28:46):
You look at justin Jefferson numbers and four years what
he was able to do. He's like, well, damn right,
so that's already happening. It's already happening right now. Well
that deterred teams from signing receivers to big contracts. No,
it's actually just going to enforce it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Let me ask you this before you go.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
CJ.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Stroud was on the podcast Million Dollars Worth of Game.
I don't know if you heard it yet, but he
said if Matthew Stafford had been in Green Bay, basically
had been in the situation Aaron Rodgers was in, he'd
have three or four Super Bowls.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I would agree with that. Wow, Matthew Stafford was a
bad man, like he just was stuck in the I
don't know, I mean the sunken place. Look, Detroit struggles
and they're drafting and it's all storyes. I'm not making
anything up. I played there for a year. I know
what it was like in the organization. Dan Campbell has
(29:46):
come in and did a phenomenal job and turning the whole,
you know, franchise around in terms of the culture that
was there. But Matthew Stafford has always been a gun sling.
He came into the league's rookie year and you can
tail right up. I'm in practice with him. I'm like, oh,
he got it. He just didn't have any infrastructure around
him whatsoever for a years, over a decade, and it
(30:10):
just it happens. It really happens. If you put.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Matthew dude, you let you let Matthew Stafford off the hook.
You didn't watch him play. I covered every single game
of his career until I left. I'm talking about I
watched every single game from day one. And the idea
and the notion that that he it was all everybody
else and not Matthew Stafford is nonsense.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
What happened.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
That is ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Happens when you're in a situation where the culture itself,
and the team itself and even manager.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Did you see the picky through to the forty nine
ers that would have lost the Did you see that
that was Matthew Stafford on Q it was dropped.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
You're taking a play, right, what did you see it?
Tell you go watch.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It again on go go YouTube it to throw right
to the defense the super.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Right now he of course behind him cheer anymore.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Thanks he from Thank you, thank you for your knowledge.
We appreciate it, all right, brother, love you too. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Sheckl City is next.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Cut y'all off before y'all start fighting through the airwaves.
All right, more couple, keep you like Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
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Speaker 5 (31:38):
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Speaker 2 (31:41):
Is time for Shekel City.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
daily dix against the spread.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Bight A little Shekel City on this uh trash talking Tuesday,
isn't it today?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Tuesday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah it ish it is here we go.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I took the Yankees minus one and a half runs
Chris hosting the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
That's the best bet.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Also the Red Sox plus two and a half runs
taking on the Atlanta Braves, and the third game the
Dodgers minus one and a half runs in Pittsburgh taking
on the Pirates. So the Red High Yankees minus one
and a half runs, hosting the Twins, we got the
Boston Red Sox plus two and a half runs against
(32:35):
the Atlanta Braves, and bringing up the rear of the
Dodgers minus one and a half runs. In Pittsburgh at
that beautiful stadium there in Pittsburgh, Chris, PNC Park.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Have you been there yet? Not you? What a beautiful
park with the beautiful view of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
In the background, just tremendous, really great intimate.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Thirty eight thousand seats is as good as it gets you.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Eight thirty eight thousand, Chris, not a bad seat. The
house is beautiful ballpark, like one of the best in baseball.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
But remember, I'm not telling you who to bet on.
I'm telling you who I bet on.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
All right, Rob, Chris Staffs forward zingis.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
We know he got injured earlier in the playoffs, and
he's had a lot of time off, and the assumption
has been that he's going to play in this series,
and all indications are.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
That he will.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
The question, Rob, is how effective or how healthy will
he be? And he was asked at today and was
that today, Rob g or yesterday today? And here's what
he said, Rob, Are you running pain free this point? Yes,
(33:57):
a lot of smiling he was doing too, Rob, You
think that should be concerning for Celtics fans.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
No, I just think he's not gonna be right. He's
not gonna be one hundred percent, and they just need
to get something out of him, that's all. I don't
think that he has to be the star. He's not
like the startup was missing. Oh my god, what are
you gonna do without him? And I'm not trying to
discount him, chrisal pooh pooh them. No, they can win
with or without him, and if he can give them something,
(34:25):
it'll be even better.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I totally disagree.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
That's that's got to be concerning for anybody that picked
the Celtics, and I know you did, but she.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
My microphone stance just fell apart.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
But anyway, is it is that? What happened? What happened?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It literally it.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Was, you know, it's locked onto my desk and it
fell apart. I don't know what you're talking about. I
don't be bringing him dirty jokes.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Here, what jokes?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I don't know what it was. I don't know what
it even meant.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
But I mean say like it was like teenage gizzle,
teenage giggle, You did go ahead?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Rob, Yeah, I look, I think this is big.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
This ain't the Indiana freaking Pacers without Tyrese Halliburton. This
isn't the Miami Heat without Jimmy Butler or who what
what beat up team did they beat in the second round.
I forgot already Cleveland without Donovan Mitchell and Jared Allen.
I mean, look, I got Dallas winning it anyway with
(35:35):
war zing As healthy.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But I do think this is a concern for.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Them because Dallas is tough inside. Now, they don't have
huge scores, you know, they get guys that play tough defense,
guys that catch lives and finish and you know in
traffic and things like that. But I know they've looked
they've played well without him, but again, the competition hasn't
(35:59):
been so it'll be interesting to see where he's at
Game one. I expect him to kind of be working
his way back anyway, so who knows what that'll look like.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
But yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Think this is something for Celtics fans to be concerned about.
And Rob, this is really when you look at Chris
Stavs Worzingis, this has been the only problem with his
whole career. I mean, this dude is a good player.
You know, he's basically a twenty.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And nine guy for his career. That's actually what he is.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Nineteen point seven points, seven point nine rebounds, and almost
two blocks, and he's you know, can shoot the three obviously,
but he just hasn't been able.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
To stay healthy.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
And you know, they run to this historic you know,
season with him in the fold for the most part.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
So I do think I think this is a big deal.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
If indeed, if his answer was indicative of how he
really feels.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I just don't think he's been out. He's not gonna
be without pain, you know, like that's he was injured,
so he has pain. So I think he gave a
good enough answer for you know, and the reaction that
he got by just staying silent like that, I think
that just he's not gonna be healthy, like completely healthy.
He knows that, they know that, his team knows that
(37:20):
if he can be out there and be a decoy
or help out or put up anything, that's all they're
looking for is they'd rather have him out there.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Chris do it a little something than nothing. In the
NBA Finals, That's how I look at it.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
The book quit and we only got you know, we're
fading thirty seconds. Boston Globe said, if this team wins
the championship, it will have an argument to be one
of the greatest teams ever. Your thoughts, Oh, no, I
think it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I don't care if they sweep Dallas.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Not an all time There's one way this team, Rob
could to me be viewed as all time great is
if they go on a run, maybe win three of
the next five or six titles or something like that.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
But no, this year.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
No, keep it locked.
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For the next three hours on Fox Sports Radio, the
iHeartRadio app, or Serious XM channel eighty three. However you
may be listening, you won't be sorry with that. Let
me bring in my partner on what is a huge day,
Rob Parker, tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
What's happened to mister Crispus. First, let me say happy anniversary.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
To you in Crystal.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Thank you, Happy happy years. My God, Yes, yes, I
love it.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Thank you. Give her all my best.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I saw all the pictures you have gotten a ten
over the last twenty nine years.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I'll tell you that, Lord have mercy.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I looked at you and some of those we're in
the winter, you know, yeah, but you are pale.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
As can be. My god, I thought, wow, but no.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Chris Broussard, it was a historic day and a tremendous day,
one of the greatest feelings in.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
My life to be honest to you know, launch a
radio station. Chris.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, I've been talking to you about it. I've
been working at it for a long time. It's very,
very difficult, and so Sports Rap Radio was born today
at seven am in Detroit AM twelve seventy, which is
now an affiliate and we're on Chris right now in
Detroit on AM twelve seventy Sports Rap Radio and Detroit.
(02:43):
That's right seven to ten Monday through Friday. So it's great,
you know, the first all black sports talk radio station
in the country's never been done before. And Chris, it's
just about given opportunity. You know that we haven't always
had on the radio in a city like Detroit that's
more than eighty percent black. I just think there's a
(03:05):
time and a place for it, and I think this
is the right time.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
So we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's hard to get the station on the air, a
lot of bugs, a lot of things that we had
to overcome. But we did it today and we're looking
to move forward and put into work. And if we
do what we're supposed to do, Chris Brizard, there'll be
a sports Wrap radio network and we might be in
the top twenty five black cities all over the country.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
So that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Open up opportunities, Chris, for brothers and sisters who want
to talk sports on the radio who haven't gotten opportunities
years gone by.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
That's it, nah man. Look, I think it's fantastic. I'm
very proud of you and what you're doing. I am
one who believes firmly that we as African Americans need
to create our own businesses and institutions. Not to discriminate
(03:59):
it as anybody else, but because as you said, we
often aren't given opportunities, and even when we are given opportunities.
There's still masses of African Americans that aren't, and we
need to create institutions where we can hire black people
and make sure they have jobs and make sure they
(04:21):
have opportunities. And that's what you're doing. Man, So I
shout out to you. This is phenomenal. And it's so
many young African American people on your station that are
getting an opportunity that who knows when they would have
gotten elsewhere. So I think it's tremendous. So I'm very
proud of you, and this is this is wonderful. I
(04:45):
couldn't say praise you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Enough for this.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yes, all right, well let's introduce the Odd Couple crew.
Of course, the super producer Rob g is in the house.
DJ Alex Tyshert is here for the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
In more than a week.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Here because I'm on right, Alex.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
You're here.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's the only reason Ron right and Alex we would
hire you as.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Sports Thank you, Rob.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
We also, by Chris's pictures, I'm definitely darker than Chris,
so I.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Hope, I know, I mean that could be saying, but
Chris is so Chris is so white.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
He's pinking that picture. I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Brian Finley, the loquacious one who's getting married soon.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A couple of months, month, a little over a month.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, yes, and I'm going to be in your neck
of the woods, so looking forward to to seeing you together.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yes, Chris isn't coming coming, No, I can't.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I think I'll be on my family reunion, I told
Brian talking, but I'm gonna take him out.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah the week you might come check out first things
first or something.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, I'll be I'll be in the week before Chris.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So if you have time, I would love to connect
and do that.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
You will link up for sure, man, and uh rot rot.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'm telling you Rob, I'm not buying it, Brian. I'm
going to make I'm going to make the three hour
drive to come down.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Brian.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I think next Saturday you are the man. Rob.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And you know Rob invited though he was.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It was a sympathy and invite, you know what I mean.
And somebody told Brian that you know it's good luck
to have one black guy at your wedding.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Part geez, don't be the only brother now that I
can't make it, he's in the wedding, He's not see
see Rob you actually got a brother in your wedding. Yes,
there's gonna be a bridesmaid.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Who's gonna be Who's Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
See there you go.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Awesome?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
All right, we gott type and on the social media
man Elijah seb all right, Rob, let's get to it.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
C J.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Stroud, Now, I love c J. Stroud.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You know, I liked him, you know, at Ohio State.
I thought that Carolina should have drafted him first. I
didn't predict it. H Bryce Young would be bad and
maybe he won't, maybe he'll turn it around.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But I did like c J. Stroud better. I like
his gumption, Rob.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I like his the fact that he's not afraid to
say what he wants to say, whether you agree with
him or not. You know, I mean he did his
top five quarterbacks rob on a podcast and put himself
number three, So I mean, hey, I like the audacity
and when you do that, you got to go out
and improve it. And he certainly did that as a rookie.
(07:27):
But he's gonna have to keep doing that. But he
was talking on the podcast with Gilly the Kid. It
is called a million dollars worth. I'm trying to find
million dollars worth of game and he was talking about,
(07:48):
you know, quarterbacks and winning championships and Rob here's one
of the things he.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Said, Stafford.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Hey, another one, Bro, he might be up there with
Brady and them. Bro, rae, that's great. I mean, let
me go back here. I'm a student of the game.
Stafford a doll, he is. No, you don't understand, bro,
you saying that. That's all I watch.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't watch nobody else.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I watched Mahomes at times because Mahomes did some stuff
that like, you can't coach Stafford dog, he will beat
you with the same thing every time. All that no
licked stuff. I got that from Bruh. Look, that's one
of my big like I'm a fan of his. Like
I be trying to find bro traders, I'll be trying
to like the way they're working on watch.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's hold on.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
If you give Matthew Stafford a chance like Aaronson, I
guarantee you might have had more rings for sure. I
think that yeah, oh yeah, he gave another ring problem. No,
I say he had like three four h wow.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Wow, that's all I got to say to that for now.
I know you want to I know you chomping at
the bit Rob Parker night, Chrischford, what a night to
start in.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So let's see what you got.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's typical that guys who can play don't.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Know anything about the game.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Wow, like that, That's what I would say. Has he
really watched Matthew Stafford? I, Chris. I watched him from
the start of his career.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I covered every.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Lions game home and rode as a columnist in Detroit. Okay,
stop with the hyperboleague. Stop with this whole idea. The
Lions when they lost to the Cowboys in the playoffs. Chris,
first of all, he had a Hall of Fame wide
receiving Calvin Johnson. He had a dominant sue all right,
(09:38):
an All Pro. He had Nick Fairley, who is another
really good player. That year they lost the Dallas. They
have number five defense.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Go look it up. They're tremendous.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And the Super Bowl that you're claiming he would have
had all these other super Bowls, he was fortunate to
get that one. He threw a pick. He threw a
pick in the game, Chris, that would have probably lost
it for the Rams, but it was dropped and that
dB is no longer the National Football League. That was
the punishment for dropping another one of Matthew Stafford's Aaron passes,
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and talk about all the yards that he put up.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Chris.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I covered the games, Lions down twenty one to nothing
after the first quarter, Stafford had throw the ball. You
can't throw it. They'll let you throw the ball in
front of him, in front of their defense, Chris all day.
So I'm not saying that Stafford is a terrible quarterback
(10:42):
and he can't play, but to try to rewrite history
and say that a guy won for Super four MVPs
a multiple pro bowler, right, Chris, You know how hard
it is to be a Pro Bowl only I don't
think Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Bowler, right? How many times when he was in Detroit?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, only only one time?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And that was all pro, all pro? I mean real difficult.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, the all Pro spot is hard to get
and those other situations. If he likes him, that's fine.
But to really sit there and say, oh, he would
have won three or four Super Bowls, I just don't.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And I think it's again, this sounds to me, Chris,
like when you ask these players and they say Paul
George is the goat. That's that's it's on that level
to me that Paul George.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Is the goat.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I just don't I don't even understand it. Look, Aaron
Rodgers has the highest quarterback rating of any quarterback in
the history of the NFL. Aaron Rodgers has the best
touchdown interception. Those are things I'm not making up. That's
not feelings, these are just facts. Stafford's not in any
of that. Chris, you said it one Pro Bowl. I
think it was an all term.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
His numbers are impressive, as you know. I mean, there
was talk about would he be a Hall of Fame now.
He's not even guaranteed to be in the Hall of
Fame now, but would remember the even in Detroit rod
because of the numbers, it was like, man, what do
we do with this guy? He doesn't win, but his
numbers are are crazy, particularly yards. Look, I don't like
(12:27):
First of all, I do think I disagree with you
on CJ.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Stroud not knowing football like I do.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
This is his opinion, and obviously an opinion can be
wildly wrong. I'm not saying that, but I think from
listening to him talk, obviously he's been out there this summer.
He's been talking a lot about the sport. I do
think he knows the game. I do believe he's a
student of the game, and I think that's part of
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his success. I think he's a smart quarterback. So I'm
not gonna agree that he don't know what he's talking
about as far as the game. But this, these exercises
kind of bothered me because, I mean, Rob, if we
want to shift dudes, and what if we I mean,
this's been played before.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, what if Rogers was with Belichick in New England?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
How many Super Bowls would he have won? What if
Marino was here or there? How many super Bowls will
he have? At the end of the day, I'm judging
you on what you did. And we have seen top
quarterbacks turn franchises around, and Matthew Stafford was unable to
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do that in Detroit. So I just think I can't
play the what if game. I'm going based on what
they did.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And look Aaron.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Rodgers, Rob, I have taken him to task for his
playoff failures. He I mean in NFC championship games he's
won in four, he's lost his last four. And for
a guy and you talked about his passer rating, his
claim to fame and rightly, so will be.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He don't throw interceptions, oh, except for in the NFC
title game, where he's got eight.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
In five games and he has nine touchdowns that his
TV the interception ratio is incrediblely the best ever. But
in those NFC championship games, he's not himself a rock.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Even in the one he won, you remember.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
This, he had two interceptions and no touchdown passes.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So and Stafford.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I'm not gonna sit here and cape for Stafford because
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He's as good as Aaron Rodgers, but.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He you know, in Detroit you talked about the one
year he had a good defense, because for he was
there for what twelve years, and only one time had
a defense in the top ten in terms of points allowed,
and that was probably the year you talked talking about
when they.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Lost to Dallas, they were third.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
But overall, I mean, look, it's some of it's on him.
Calvin Johnson wasn't throwing those balls to himself, So you
got to give Stafford some credit for that. But at
the end of the day, we do judge these quarterbacks
by your ability to win and elevate a team, and
quite plain and simple, he wasn't able to do that,
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and I'm just not here to play the what if game?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yep. And let me give you these quick stats.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Chris and eight of Rogers ten playoff losses, his defense
is either giving up thirty seven points five times, okay,
or he led the game time drive and then never
got the ball back.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
That happened three times and for conn.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Times in his in his playoff history.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, three times where he playoff losses eight of the
ten playoffs eleven and ten in playoffs, yeah, yeah, and
they can't be eight of the ten.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Yeah, the eight of the ten he to get.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
His defense either gave up thirty seven point I don't
want to go too far.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
That was fire.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Happened five times, right, either or or he led the
game time drive and never got the ball back. That
happened three times. And last thing, for context, Aaron Rodgers
defense has given up thirty seven plus points five of
the ten playoff losses. Just for comparison, Tom Brady's defense
Chris has given up thirty seven or more points ready,
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just eight times in three hundred and eighty one games.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Just eight times.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
That's where you could play the what if there, right,
But my point, I'm not buying there with Rogers because
we watched those games. I mean the last they lost
to San Francisco thirty seven to twenty, but they were
down twenty seven oh at halftime. I mean, so, yeah,
the defense was bad, but so was Rogers.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Can you score?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So, and then he come in.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
The second half and you know, his stats ended up
looking okay as they go prevent defense and all that,
And the same thing with Tampa Bay Rop. You remember
that they were down twenty eight ten early in the
third quarter and then he kind of rallied to make
it respectable. But yeah, those are games where it looks like, oh,
the defense gave up thirty plus points, but he didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Do anything offensively until it was over.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
So I mean, look, his numbers are what they are
in these NFC title games, and that's a that's a
mark on his resume. But yeah, I'm sorry, I can't
put Matthew Stafford ahead of it. I mean, it's just
no way in that, all right, eight seven.
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Matthew Stafford comparable to Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Your thoughts, Let's.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
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Speaker 10 (18:58):
How's it going fellas we go here?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And good to hear from you. Been a while, guys.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
I'm I'm gonna quote Rob real quick Sports has a
short list that wins and losses.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
And I think that.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
C J.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Stroud is a A is a gamer, and I think
game respects a game. And I've always loved Matthew Stafford's game.
I think he's a fearless player, and I think he's talented.
And I always thought if he wasn't at Detroit he would.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Be doing more.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
Would I say three or four? I'm not gonna say yes,
three or four. But would I say it's possible that
he wins the more championships playing with a good program.
I agree with that. And I also loved his answer,
and you I watched First Things First today and not
I know you didn't love his answer about Eli Manning
over Aaron Rodgers, but.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We're gonna talk about that later too.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Yeah, Chris, if you're if you're his coach, if you're CJ.
Stroud's coach and you're coaching his team, which guy would
you want him to pick? The guy that wanted to
rings or the guy that had all the personal accolades.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Ah, that's a good cut.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
As a coach, you probably I think you probably prefer
Oh wow, he picked the Rings. But you would be
able to understand if he said Rogers, because every everybody
wants to be great individually and win.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But I feel you probably say the Rings. That's fair,
that's fair.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
All right, there you go, Marty Will saying he agrees
with CJ.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Yeah, all right, Marty, that sounds with you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Well, let's see what he does with the Rams.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
They got a good team this year, and they're not
they're not out of you know, they're one of those
teams that people think could make some noise. So we'll
see if he you know, if he if he makes
the most out of his few years in LA, then
maybe you got an argument where if he wins another ring.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Certainly, Shaq and Richmond, Virginia, you're on the eye couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Brothers?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Oh is you buddy?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
I'm doing pretty good?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Man? H CJ.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Star Man no, and Stafford. They're not in Aaron Rodiers league. Man,
That's that's actually laughable. And like just because you go
on two little fluky runs and strike, you know, while
Iron is hot two runs out of sixteen years, but
you're mediocre the rest of your career in the same Well,
you're talking about Stafford last Stafford only did at one pot.
(21:25):
You know what I'm saying that he had I.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Think I think the argument I hear you.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I'm not giving him a pass for Detroit, but I
think people that want to support him would just.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Say, hey, he got out of Detroit and look what
he did. He got with a great off.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That team went to the super Bowl without Matthew Stafford
just two years before. Yeah, and you know what I mean,
Like people don't even think about that, but they had
already gone to the super Bowl. It was already that
caliber team like that.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
That's the part that people are talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's fair, Like, come on that that that team was
loaded when.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Stafford had a great number is that year though, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
But he still was still loaded. That was all I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, no, I.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Was all right.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Uh we have from Salam who filled in for Rob yesterday,
joining us.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
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I'm on.
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Our next guest, as we are sitting here live in
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Former NFL offensive lineman Fox Sports Radio Weekend superstar, our
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Speaker 7 (22:43):
What up?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Brother?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
What's up? How y'all doing you? We're good, I'm good man.
That that seat you hot in? Uh? Robed? The thing down?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You know I'm gonna let you have your fun. You know,
we all know that's cute. That's cute.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
No, let's start with you know, we usually been talking
basketball with you, and maybe we'll get there, but.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I want to ask you a football question.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
We see Christian McCaffrey right, the two year, thirty eight
million dollar extension nineteen million a year.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I'm gonna be honest, look, and I think if you.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Want to call him the best running back, I'm fine
with they certainly was last year. I'm fine with saying
he's the best running back in the league. But look,
I know, brothers are looking at this like what we
were struggling to get in the double you know, ten
million dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Kwon Barkley must have had an ordinary Yet I.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Mean Ephraim and my tripping, like, I mean, they gotta
be looking at this.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Like whoa they are. But the reality of the situation
is Christian mccafson is not running back, and anybody who
says he's just a running back not paying attention. Christian
McCaffrey is one of the best all purpose football players
in the world. Yeah, you can hand the ball off
to him twenty two times a game, but you can
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also throw it to him fifteen times a game. Right.
You can all put him in situations where he is
just not okay, you know, two downs and you bring
the other running back, and no, he is in a
world where you get very few every down running backs,
he is at the top of the list. He's explosive,
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he can carry the load. People used to worry about
his injuries coming out of Carolina when he was banged
up a little bit. Yeah, but he's proved that he's durable,
and the fact that he puts so much pressure on
the opposing defense when you motion him out of the backfield,
then it creates issues no other running tell me, well.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I would give you this. This supports your point.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
The second mode highest paid at least is per year
is Alvin Kamar at fifteen.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
He got that deal. He obviously was similar.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
He was a guy that you pass I.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Would he just never he just he's never been in
the type of offense where you he was able to
to show that and and and and give that extra
added you know, skill set coming out of the coming
out of the backfield like he was. The Giants were
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just handing them the ball, getting out of the way,
and so on and so forth. You got to use
these type of generational talents to really really make a
defense feel like whatever they guess, they're gonna get wrong.
And Christian McCaffrey is one of those players.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Wide receivers keep getting paid. Jefferson, I know you probably
what do you make of that? And and where the
wide receiver market is.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
So the market is high right now. But we talked
about this a little bit yesterday, like when when when
does that change? When does that market change? And and
for me is if you take a team like the
Houston Texans, or you take the team like the Baltimore
Ravens uh and and they lead the league in rushing,
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and when the Super Bowl, you'll see the change in
the market in terms of receiver worse because right now
nobody thinks you even really needed But I mean, Patrick
mahomes and and Tom Brady have been convincing people that
you know, you don't need a running.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
As Damn Marino if he needed a running back now.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Right, you know what I mean. So it's like when
when when the shift happens when a team focuses on
the running game and gets to that pinnacle and and
whins it because now people start to remember when seanay
and and and the Rams won and he didn't play
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anybody in preseason, no starters, no preseason game. Before then
it was guys, come out, play a series. The next
play two, third game they played three, you know, three quarters,
and then the fourth they didn't play any He was like,
I'm not playing nobody. They win the Super Bowl, nobody
playing starters?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Right, Well, could it also happen as far as the
receiver market if now Mahomes is different.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
He obviously won without one.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
He won one to one.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
But right, but I'm saying, if another team, if some
of these rookies, and we know how highly coveted these
rookie receivers were, or at least the guys in the draft, right,
so if a quarterback wins with a rookie receiver being
this number one guy, Like there was talk that Minnesota
was going to try to trade up and get Molik
(27:57):
Neighbors and maybe trade Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, couldn't you see that happening too?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
If if it's like, Yo, we can get a dude
out of college. These guys are coming in ready to play,
and we got.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
A high priced quarterback.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
So let's get one of these receivers on their rookie
deal and see what we can do.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
You know what I'm saying, Well, yeah, because just think
about it. Justin Jefferson was that receiver.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Our case was that receiver?
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Uh, they're not. They came into the league with that
level of Tarik Hill. All of those guys came into
the league with that same notion you're talking about. They're
getting a big bag. Now, it's because they kept it going, right,
They came in with that, that fanfare and those spectacular numbers.
(28:46):
You look at justin Jefferson numbers and four years what
he was able to do. He's like, well, damn right,
so that's already happening. It's already happening right now. Well
that deterred teams from signing receivers to big contracts. No,
it's actually just going to enforce it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Let me ask you this before you go.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
CJ.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Stroud was on the podcast Million Dollars Worth of Game.
I don't know if you heard it yet, but he
said if Matthew Stafford had been in Green Bay, basically
had been in the situation Aaron Rodgers was in, he'd
have three or four Super Bowls.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I would agree with that. Wow, Matthew Stafford was a
bad man, like he just was stuck in the I
don't know, I mean the sunken place. Look, Detroit struggles
and they're drafting and it's all storyes. I'm not making
anything up. I played there for a year. I know
what it was like in the organization. Dan Campbell has
(29:46):
come in and did a phenomenal job and turning the whole,
you know, franchise around in terms of the culture that
was there. But Matthew Stafford has always been a gun sling.
He came into the league's rookie year and you can
tail right up. I'm in practice with him. I'm like, oh,
he got it. He just didn't have any infrastructure around
him whatsoever for a years, over a decade, and it
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just it happens. It really happens. If you put.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Matthew dude, you let you let Matthew Stafford off the hook.
You didn't watch him play. I covered every single game
of his career until I left. I'm talking about I
watched every single game from day one. And the idea
and the notion that that he it was all everybody
else and not Matthew Stafford is nonsense.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
What happened.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
That is ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Happens when you're in a situation where the culture itself,
and the team itself and even manager.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Did you see the picky through to the forty nine
ers that would have lost the Did you see that
that was Matthew Stafford on Q it was dropped.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
You're taking a play, right, what did you see it?
Tell you go watch.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It again on go go YouTube it to throw right
to the defense the super.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Right now he of course behind him cheer anymore.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Thanks he from Thank you, thank you for your knowledge.
We appreciate it, all right, brother, love you too. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Sheckl City is next.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
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Is time for Shekel City.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
daily dix against the spread.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Bight A little Shekel City on this uh trash talking Tuesday,
isn't it today?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Tuesday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah it ish it is here we go.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I took the Yankees minus one and a half runs
Chris hosting the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
That's the best bet.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Also the Red Sox plus two and a half runs
taking on the Atlanta Braves, and the third game the
Dodgers minus one and a half runs in Pittsburgh taking
on the Pirates. So the Red High Yankees minus one
and a half runs, hosting the Twins, we got the
Boston Red Sox plus two and a half runs against
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the Atlanta Braves, and bringing up the rear of the
Dodgers minus one and a half runs. In Pittsburgh at
that beautiful stadium there in Pittsburgh, Chris, PNC Park.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Have you been there yet? Not you? What a beautiful
park with the beautiful view of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
In the background, just tremendous, really great intimate.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Thirty eight thousand seats is as good as it gets you.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Eight thirty eight thousand, Chris, not a bad seat. The
house is beautiful ballpark, like one of the best in baseball.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
But remember, I'm not telling you who to bet on.
I'm telling you who I bet on.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
All right, Rob, Chris Staffs forward zingis.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
We know he got injured earlier in the playoffs, and
he's had a lot of time off, and the assumption
has been that he's going to play in this series,
and all indications are.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
That he will.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
The question, Rob, is how effective or how healthy will
he be? And he was asked at today and was
that today, Rob g or yesterday today? And here's what
he said, Rob, Are you running pain free this point? Yes,
(33:57):
a lot of smiling he was doing too, Rob, You
think that should be concerning for Celtics fans.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
No, I just think he's not gonna be right. He's
not gonna be one hundred percent, and they just need
to get something out of him, that's all. I don't
think that he has to be the star. He's not
like the startup was missing. Oh my god, what are
you gonna do without him? And I'm not trying to
discount him, chrisal pooh pooh them. No, they can win
with or without him, and if he can give them something,
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it'll be even better.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I totally disagree.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
That's that's got to be concerning for anybody that picked
the Celtics, and I know you did, but she.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
My microphone stance just fell apart.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
But anyway, is it is that? What happened? What happened?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It literally it.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Was, you know, it's locked onto my desk and it
fell apart. I don't know what you're talking about. I
don't be bringing him dirty jokes.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Here, what jokes?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I don't know what it was. I don't know what
it even meant.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
But I mean say like it was like teenage gizzle,
teenage giggle, You did go ahead?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Rob, Yeah, I look, I think this is big.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
This ain't the Indiana freaking Pacers without Tyrese Halliburton. This
isn't the Miami Heat without Jimmy Butler or who what
what beat up team did they beat in the second round.
I forgot already Cleveland without Donovan Mitchell and Jared Allen.
I mean, look, I got Dallas winning it anyway with
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war zing As healthy.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But I do think this is a concern for.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Them because Dallas is tough inside. Now, they don't have
huge scores, you know, they get guys that play tough defense,
guys that catch lives and finish and you know in
traffic and things like that. But I know they've looked
they've played well without him, but again, the competition hasn't
(35:59):
been so it'll be interesting to see where he's at
Game one. I expect him to kind of be working
his way back anyway, so who knows what that'll look like.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
But yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Think this is something for Celtics fans to be concerned about.
And Rob, this is really when you look at Chris
Stavs Worzingis, this has been the only problem with his
whole career. I mean, this dude is a good player.
You know, he's basically a twenty.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And nine guy for his career. That's actually what he is.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Nineteen point seven points, seven point nine rebounds, and almost
two blocks, and he's you know, can shoot the three obviously,
but he just hasn't been able.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
To stay healthy.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
And you know, they run to this historic you know,
season with him in the fold for the most part.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
So I do think I think this is a big deal.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
If indeed, if his answer was indicative of how he
really feels.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I just don't think he's been out. He's not gonna
be without pain, you know, like that's he was injured,
so he has pain. So I think he gave a
good enough answer for you know, and the reaction that
he got by just staying silent like that, I think
that just he's not gonna be healthy, like completely healthy.
He knows that, they know that, his team knows that
(37:20):
if he can be out there and be a decoy
or help out or put up anything, that's all they're
looking for is they'd rather have him out there.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Chris do it a little something than nothing. In the
NBA Finals, That's how I look at it.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
The book quit and we only got you know, we're
fading thirty seconds. Boston Globe said, if this team wins
the championship, it will have an argument to be one
of the greatest teams ever. Your thoughts, Oh, no, I
think it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I don't care if they sweep Dallas.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Not an all time There's one way this team, Rob
could to me be viewed as all time great is
if they go on a run, maybe win three of
the next five or six titles or something like that.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
But no, this year.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
No, keep it locked.
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