January 17, 2024 • 36 mins
Chris and Rob tell us how much pressure is on Lamar Jackson heading into this weekend’s playoff showdown with CJ Stroud and the Houston Texans, react to the breaking news that the Dallas Cowboys will be keeping Mike McCarthy as their head coach for next season and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, Super Bowl champion and FOX Sports Radio NFL analyst Greg Jennings swings by to discuss Jordan Love’s jump to stardom, why he still doesn’t believe in the Kansas City Chiefs even after they pummeled the Miami Dolphins in the Wildcard round and much more!
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Speaker 4 (00:39):
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On the board, Mark, what happened?
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Updates, Brian Brian Finley, the loquacious one, and of course
on the social media are Man and Elijah Sabun all right,
Rob big weekend of football, obviously the divisional round of
the playoffs, and I think a ton of guys are
facing pressure. We're gonna talk about Josh Allen a little later,
(02:06):
but I think he's facing the pressure to finally get
over Patrick Mahomes and beat him and Brock Purty. I
think it's facing pressure because you know, they got four
All pros, first team All Pro players on that team.
A lot of people look at him, not me, but
a lot of people look at him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
As the weak link.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And if they lose to a Packers team that's the
youngest to make the playoffs in nearly fifty years, a
lot of people may jump on him if it's you know,
if he doesn't play, oh, if.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He doesn't play well and they lose, that game, Chris, Yeah,
you can. He will be abandoned.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
He will be abandoned if that's the case that they
lose and he doesn't play well.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I mean yeah, I mean, I don't know what saying
fran would do, but yeah, he would. He would get
Tartan feathered publicly.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And then Rob Lamar Lamar Jackson, who we all presume
is going to win his second MVP award. The only
question really seems to be Willie winning unanimously. But the
last time, of course, that he wonted unanimously. Rob, they
went out very meekly in the playoffs. They lost to
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the Tennessee Titans as the first seed, number one seed
had to buy and all of that and Lamar Jackson robbed.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The playoffs have not been kind to him, to say
the least.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He's one in three, but that doesn't really sum up,
just to keep it real, how bad he's been in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And so here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
He's won fifty eight games in the regular season, which
is more than any other quarterback his age. He's twenty seven, well,
he's twenty six, twenty six years old.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Let me check on his age before we first.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
He's twenty just turned twenty seven ten days ago, twenty
seven years old, one more regular season games than any
quarterback is age. That includes, of course, Patrick Mahomes, who
sat out his first year, and yet the only quarterback
to win more than fifty games in its first six
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seasons and have fewer postseason wins Robed than Lamar is
Andy Dalton. Lamar's won in three, Andy Dalton's zero to four.
And it's not just oh, you know, teams lose is
a team game. Lamar's thrown four touchdowns and or has
four total touchdowns, passing and running seven turnovers in those
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four playoff games. And in the regular season, Rob Lamar's
QBR sixty five, the seventh best in the NFL since
he joined the league in twenty eighteen. In the playoffs
is qbrs forty one point five, second worst among quarterbacks
with multiple playoffs starts over that span, and he's only
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ahead of Mitchell Trubisky.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And we all know what Trubisky is, So Rob, I
think Lamar.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Look, if he loses to say, Kansas City or maybe
even Buffalo in the conference championship but plays fairly well,
he doesn't even have to be spectacular. I don't know
that he'll get criticized, but if he loses this game
to a rookie quarterback the Houston Texas and CJ Stroud,
who's fantastic, Rob, He's going to get really criticized publicly.
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And for the time being, people will say, well, yeah,
he's great in the regular season, but whether they think
it's his style of play or whatever the reason, they
will say, we want to see it in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Until then, we're not impressed.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, we've heard that before, And there was a guy
that people talked about a wand up with two super
Bowls and couldn't win in the playoffs and he was
the best regular season quarterback and five MVPs and all that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So we have seen this before. This is not Peyton Manning.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Is that guy who people just and he finished his
postseason career, Chris, I believe I don't have it in
front of me, but a game under five hundred, I
want to say, like.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Peyton Manny Rob playoff record fourteen and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Okay, so one, he only got above five.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Hundred when he went to Denver, right, But I'm just
saying that was he was he was, That's what But
that's but that's what he said, what people said about
him as well in Denver. I'm just saying five in three,
so that means he was nine and ten when he
left Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Is probably what you were thinking about.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And Rob, let's keep it real. He's got two super Bowls.
The second one they won kind of inspired him.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, but he won won, but he won one.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
And that's that's ultimately like when you have when you're
such a talent, you want to believe that a guy
can win at least one Chickchampionship. I mean, not too
how hard it is the two does he?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
And the two and the two does? And he played
and remember he got benched that year and didn't play
that great. I don't think he had more than one
hundred yards or right at one hundred yards that game.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh, he was like the ten man. But but the
point is, I think this is by far, this is.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
That moment for Lamar that I'm looking at because I
picked him. I picked him before the year started, Chris
to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I like their team. I like Lamar.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I picked them to be MVP all those things, and
they checked all the boxes. They're beating all the good teams.
They've played well, so there's no excuses. They're healthy, they
got everything they need to do, and so this is
the year for me.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well I'll really.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Take a look and say, Okay, what kind of guy
is Lamar? And I'm confident going in the way that
they've played that game. And I know it was just
one game, but that game in San Francisco, to me
was one of those moments for me. And looking at it,
it wasn't a playoff game, Chris obviously, but it felt
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like there was something on the line. The MVP was
on the line, the way people look at the Ravens
was on the line, and Lamar flying cross country playing
a team that was on par with them, and some
people thought it was the best team in the NFL,
you know, like I thought that was a moment and
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he performed with Flying Colors in that moment, And that
is the confidence from that game I have about Lamar
going into the postseason.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Rob As great as he was or good as he
was in that game, he was spect His better game
was Miami Miami when they beat him fifty six nineteen.
Remember that game, if I remember correctly, wasn't that for
the number one seed or number one seed was on
the line.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, that was a great game.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Bushdowns in a perfect passer. But you San Francisco, I know,
but that was still a big game.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I just I just thought, I thought, I thought that's
where I thought that was the one where he got
the MVP.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Like people were like, okay, well, because it was a
combination of him playing well and Brock Purty really struggling.
I think Party might have entered that game as the
number one guy as far as the odds for MVP.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But yeah, the bottom line is Lamar was great and Rob.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
They they beat They beat every good team you're placed
in front of them. They beat Miami, they beat the
Niners and they beat them soundly. They beat Cleveland. Uh,
they beat Houston, who they play this weekend, beat them
by sixteen points. Now granted that was opening weekend, so
that was Houston's first game, but you know, they did
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beat them. And Lamar said himself after that game he
was rusty.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They beat the Rams, they beat Jacksonville, they beat everybody
who right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
So all of that, though, speaks to why there's really
no reason for the Ravens not to at least win
this game. Now again it's Kansas City going to flip
the switch. I thought they played well against Miami. It
is what I expected. I wasn't overly like what they
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did and what Buffalo did. The Pittsburgh didn't change my
mind about either team. I expected them to beat those
two teams pretty solidly.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
But obviously those are good teams.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
And if Baltimore meets them in the conference championship.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And lose it, I'm with you, Rob.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I picked them to get to the Super Bowl, and
now I've picked them to win it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You picked them to win it in the preseason. I
like that team. I think they got everything Chriss that
you need. And they're healthy. I mean, what is not
to like. They have a good defense.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Part of the great eating this of Lamar this year, Rob,
and I think something that is indeed baked into his
MVP argument.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Is that they weren't healthy.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
He lost his two top running backs, starting with JK.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Dobbins.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
He lost his you know all pro or Pro Bowl
tight end Mark Andrews, his favorite target, it's security blanket.
They caught him and yet likely yeah, and he still
kept moving and they didn't miss a beat. And so
I think that's a big part of why he's also,
you know, looks like he's going to win the MVP Award.
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But yeah, it's big for him. He's got to go
out and get it done, and so it's a huge game.
And I'm with you. I think he will get it done,
but it's a lot on the line, and if he
doesn't get.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It done, he will likely be.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Though I agree with that, But Josh Allen, this this
is because that team in this window is closed if
they don't beat Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Really, they'll talk about that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
They will talk about that in an hour three I
don't want to play.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
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FDIC eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox We're talking
Lamar Jackson. Do you think he's going to live up
to his what we presume will be his second MVP
award in these playoffs? Or do you expect him to
struggle as he has thus far in his career in
the postseason?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Tim in Atlanta, Chili. Tim, you're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Tim?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What up?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
New?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
How you doing?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Man?
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh man, I'm good. Spending the weekend Jamaica with my
wife for her birthday.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And wow, man, what part did you make Jamaica? Wow?
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Yeah, we went to Mobay So oh.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I thought you took her to Jamaica. Queens Okay, I
got you.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
She is a Queen's girl.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
There you go, There you go from Queens, Chris, his
wife is she is from Queens?
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
What part of Queens? Far?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Rockaway, rockaway?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Okay? Yeah, my wife'm and you know what, you know what?
They called it?
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Far rockaway? Seriously, it's so far. It's so far, it
really is. I'm not even a getting you, Chris. It's
where Queens is. It's far, it really is.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I don't know the far rockaway. That's what you happened.
He probably got went through it going to Long Island.
Is it on the way to Long Island? It's like, uh, Oakland,
but it's far as far away? All right, go ahead him?
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Yeah, so happy birthday, by the way, around, your birthday
is what day it was?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
January tenth. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Hers is the eleven so okay eleven.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
So I don't know if he will, but I hope he.
I hope he does live up to it because he's
at that point, especially when's another yunanimous MVP. He's beat everybody,
all of the top teams. He beat my team really bad.
And I think if he doesn't, he has everything he
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needs to do it this year. If he does not,
you know, after sitting out for that, you know, with
the salary dispute, going through it, so I just think
he has to do it this year. I think this
has to be the year that he at least has
to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Maybe yeah, yeah, No, he don't have to win. I
agree with that. I agree, you guys agree. I gotta
get beat by somebody who plays better than him. I
don't win the Super I FORCT them to reach the
super Bowl and win it.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But I actually think if Kansas City or Buffalo was
great and Lamar played well but just lost, I don't
know that he gets killed for that.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
I agree he will either way, I think.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
So you think he's got to at least get to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
He's got to get to the super Bowl because I
mean if Lamar, I mean, if Mahomes gets there, then
everybody's going to say, well, you know, Mahon, we didn't
we kind of we knew he could do it even if.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
He had a bad year. But he has to get
to the super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Chris just listened. The super Bowl is a disappointment because.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
They got disappointed because they got everything, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What I mean criticism of him, but I agree it's
definitely a disappointed Anything less than winning it for them
will be a disappointment. If they play San Francisco and lose,
I mean they pummeled San Francisco, they got, they got
a squad. They disappointed if they don't win the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Definitely.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Andre I picked him from the start. Detroit to rob
two favorites left in the in the NFC, Ye, Andre
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Speaker 12 (17:36):
Yeah, thanks for taking a call. Listen if Lamar Jackson
has another no show in a big spot with the
Ravens are trending and looking to be super Bowl contenders
and favorite that I gotta think, you know, he's on
his way down that path that Jim Kelly went down,
uh some years ago in terms of the four falls
of Buffalo and them going to four straight Super Bowls
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and really having their best opportunity in the first Super
Bowl with a kicker unfortunately missed it. Uh and then uh,
specifically the ones to Dallas. We're not close, you know,
and it just you know, it was a great run.
We were pulling for him, but at the end of
the day, you know, you went oer for four and
Jim Kelly had a chance to be in that Terry
Bradshaw conversation, to be in that Joe Montana conversation, to
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be in.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
That wonderre and Chris, if if Scott Norwood makes that
field goal, would that have changed the fortunes of Buffalo? Like, like,
I really wonder about that. And Bill Parcells might not
be the guy, you know what I mean, Like he
because that was his first Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Right No, I mean plays like that are no doubt
huge and uh yeah, I mean so you're saying, not
just win that Super Bowl, rob but you know what,
what what.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
What could have happened? Do you know what I mean?
Like like that was.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Kelly ended up making the Hall of Fame as he
was a great quarterback, but they were all for yeah
he yeah, he didn't get that ring and we know
how that separates guys. All right, it's the odd couple,
Christian Rod. We got Greg Jennings around the corner.
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Greg Jennys, Greg Jenny's what up?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What's happening?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
On?
Speaker 9 (19:40):
What's going on? Fellas?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
And look, man, thankfully you were a much better football player,
and you are a much better mister Universe bodybuilder. Then
you are a prognosticator of a Now what did you
do well?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
He did the same thing you did.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He was telling everybody that would listen that the Miami
Dolphins were gonna beat Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
What what? What?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm even gonna ask you what happens to dolphins because
I know they just a bunch of breakdances.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
You, what do you think? Does this change your view
of Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Like that forward?
Speaker 9 (20:19):
So absolutely like so what what was interesting was they
looked like a very competent I know that sounds like
a harsh word when you're talking about a Patrick Mahomes
that offense, but like they they looked like, Okay, they
have the ball, anything can happen. And I'm I'm talking
about even in those elements. So imagine if the weather's
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favorable or even just a little better, like they look like, okay,
they got some some type of uh unity and chemistry
going offensively. They obviously got Rashid Rice, who you know
I've been screaming, get him the ball, get him more
involved off season long they did that, they looked really good.
Patrick Mahomes looks good. They look better for sure, and
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I think we all understand what their defense has been.
I'm still not sold on than winning at all, but
I'm definitely from going to I give them no chance.
I'm giving them a chance.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Quickly. I was gonna say, I got Buffalo beating them.
You're going with the Chiefs or Buffalo?
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Come on, man, you know I'm not going with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't know that.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yes, I refuse to go with the Chiefs, primarily because
Nick has made it hard for me to even step
on that side of the line.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
True, all right, Oh yeah I was. I was just
gonna ask you on the.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Greg, I just feel like, if Buffalo can't beat this
Chiefs team in this moment at home, and the situation
that this window and that whole thing that they have
there is gonna close, like they went from that what
was it thirteen seconds when they should have beaten the Chiefs.
So whatever was in that game second thirteen seconds from
that moment to now this is like, this is it
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for the Bills as we know them? Am I old face?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
If we if we felt like the thirteen second like
defeat that they took when they played lights out, especially offensively,
Josh Allen, we felt like that was the mora living
losing to a Chiefs team at home when even I
understand all the injuries. But you are playing your best
(22:44):
ball right now right the Buffalo Bills Josh Allen is
he is just a difference maker with the ball in
his hands when he's able to, you know, just extend
plays with his legs, all the things. They have a
different way of beating you. Now it's your Buffalo. And
so if you faltered to the Chiefs this year, it's
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hard for me to believe that you will move forward
without shieling like that's that's mountain we could never climb.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So look, what do you make of that?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I mean, I know you went with Dallas and NFC
Tho kind of just to poke at me, but.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You I mean, what what do you make of that?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
That is unbelievable, even more surprising than Philly and the way.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
They got to beat that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Wow, I mean, what what do you does that? I
thought they chose. I really thought they choke.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Yeah, they chose. I mean you gotta think so. For one,
I gotta give credit to Green Bay because they played outstanding.
I think what changed the game, and before the game
even was played, was them taking the ball first because psychologically,
if they went down and scored, which they did, they
knew it put pressure on doubt, and it would be
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that oh, shoot, here we go again mentality, especially if
they didn't score on their first possession, which they didn't do,
and then Green Bay wars again, and now you're digging
yourself as a whole. Now you got the crowd kind of
looking like everybody's quiet, and now all the attention is
on what is that going to do? What is this
defense going to do? Are they going to do this again?
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And yes they did, Like you could see from the
first possession when you have Mike McCarthy going to the
sideline talking to CD Limb, I'm thinking to myself watching
the game, like, what are we arguing about? Well, what
is there an issue with it? You've only run five
to seven players Like it's that like there was they had.
(24:44):
They were at each other's throats from the jump. If
you looked at the game, if you watch the game,
there was no eye contact, There was no I got you.
There was games where I watched this weekend when quarterbacks
will go to their receivers and look. Even Mason Rudolph
didn't it where he went to George Pickens and he
looked at him after they had an incompletion and he
(25:05):
ran up to him, and he just wanted to get
on the same page, like, hey, did you see something?
What happened? And they shook them They both shook their
heads and walked up to the sideline. I didn't win
the game, but that's what you need when you when
you saw Dallas, there was no real eye contact. It
was more kind of a discussed look from Ceedee Lamb
to Dak Prescott. You look at the huddle, Nobody's looking
(25:25):
at each other in the huddle like you got it.
You just had a sense that everybody knew they were
up against it, and it was that here we go
again type of a body language that that the Packers
just feasted on.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I've been waiting for the Micah Parsons podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Does that come out? I wait, I'm waiting for the
podcast because he was.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Loud and proud all year and now there's no podcast
to be found. Unbelievable, And I'm gonna say this, Greg,
I'm done with Dak Prescott two and five in the postseason,
and and I'm dead serious, like I would rather go
and get something or somebody who I don't know for
sure what they're going to do, rather than keep doing
(26:09):
the same thing. With a guy I know, for him
to turn in that stinker coming off arguably his best
year or next to best year, whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
You want to call it. I didn't understand what happened there.
He was awful.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
He was awful, And I just feel like, if I'm
being honest, like watching just back and just the entire team,
I feel as though there's too much pressure on that
team in that franchise. And when I say that, that's
not a real thing, but they feel it. And a
(26:43):
lot of that stems from Jerry Jones. And so if
I'm Jerry Jones, I have to be different next year.
Like I'm not talking about Super Bowl. I'm not putting pressure.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
On my I'm not good luck with that good luck.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Exactly, Rob, exactly. But if you are unwilling to change
your your approach to things, how are your results? How
are the things that you are trying to execute differently
going to ever? The outcome is going to ever look different?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You make total sense, Greg, But you know that guy,
he won't do it.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
He won't if he says, he says he wants a
Super Bowl more than anything, but he doesn't want it
more than the spotlight exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You know, I mean that I agree. You know, I've
been saying that Greg for a while. With you, it won't.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Happen because this guy refuses to stand down.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
He just refuses.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
We gotta get your comments on Greg Jordan Love before
you go. I mean, his rookie year was better than
Aaron Rodgers' rookie year. I hate to even say, you know,
but it looks like they may have struck gold for
the third time, you know, and and and got another
quarterback who looks like he could be great. How how
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what do you foresee in the future for Jordan Love?
Speaker 9 (28:03):
I see, I see them building on and stacking the
success that they just accomplished this week, this past weekend.
And when you look at Jordan Love, and I don't
know if you remember, like I understood like it was
going to be up and down. That's typically how it
goes for a rookie quarterback. We don't typically see the C. J.
(28:24):
Strouds where it's just a consistent climb like that just
does not happen. And with Jordan Love, he had some highs,
he had some lows, but he experienced it all. He
experienced being in the lineup where it was just him,
he was he was without Aaron Jones, he was with
Christian Watson. He was without Christian Watson. He had new
guys around him, he had he experienced almost every scenario
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you can possibly put a rookie slash four year guy in,
but first year starter in and then once the playoffs started,
it's like, Okay, I've been going through this my entire
the entire season. We fought through the last three weeks.
We're thriving. It doesn't matter who's out there on the field.
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I know I have to be great. And that's what
it looked like. He was going to execute. He was
going to play at a high level despite what he
had with him, and they just rolled with him, and
they I mean, George, I really like Jordan Love and he.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Could have he could have a stinker this week and
it might be good.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
He could like like I'm just saying, he could and
we might look back and realize how bad the Cowboys were.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But a stretch, he had a bad stretch with people question.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Here's the thing, here's the thing, because of him going
on the road beating the Dallas Cowboys, number two seed,
a team that we felt like we didn't give Green
Bay a chance to what the way he handled that
game and the way he executed. If he does go
to San Francisco and have a stinker, it's like, you
(29:58):
know what, he still have a great season.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Why, Yeah, I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
I don't just did things that we just did. We
didn't expect to see what we saw, especially last week.
We just didn't expect to see that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And all right, that's our mind. Jenning's heading back to
the weight room. We know that. Good stuff. Man, have
a good night, all right, all right? Peace?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Uh Jim Harbaugh strange did he wants some type of
clause in his contract in Michigan if he's gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We'll get into that next. A couple of Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (30:43):
All Right, it's The Odd Couple Chris and Rob live
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Speaker 5 (30:49):
And it's time for Shekel City. All right, here we
go Shekel City one and two. Last night, let's try
to get a three. And oh it's time for a
hat trick. It's been a minute with the basket ball,
but here we go. I got the Pelicans best bet
minus twelve and a half taking on the Hornets, Chris
and New Orleans. Tonight, I'm gonna go with the Mavericks
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plus three and a half in Los Angeles taking.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
On the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Lakers coming off a good win, Chris, and I'm gonna
take the Nets minus six and.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
A half their road favorites at the Blazers.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I think Portland's only won ten games so far this year,
so I'm gonna take the Nets minus six and a half.
The Mavericks on the road in LA against the Lakers
plus three and a half. And I'm gonna take the
Pelicans a lot of points twelve and a half. But
against the Hornets they're stinky. So there you go. And
remember I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm
telling you who I bet on. All right, we got
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some breaking.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
News, right with the breaking news news?
Speaker 10 (31:53):
All right, So here we go, guys. According to Adam
Schefter of ESPN, I don't know if the Dallas Cowboy
fans Chris and Robert gonna like this news, but it
appears that Mike McCarthy is going to be coming back
next season four Dallas. All the speculation about maybe he
would be gone after coaching a stinker against the Packers
(32:14):
in the postseason, But Chris and Rob Mike McCarthy isn't
going anywhere anytime soon in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Well, there you have a Rob. Let's let's let's uh.
I want to get to that the next hour.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I think that, Yeah, well we can talk a little bit,
but we got right my gut, my gut reaction Chris is, uh,
this is why the Cowboys don't win Like this is
this is why they don't win. They do the same
thing over and over. Dak will be the quarterback, same coach.
They'll act like nothing happened. This is how thirty years
(32:48):
go by, Chris, without anything happening. This is I can't
believe it's been sent in nineteen ninety five. Yes you can,
Yes you can.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I can't say I'm surprised. I mean mean, how long
did he keep Jason Garrett?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Ridiculous, Chris ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Mediocrity And I think the bottom line, Rob is Jerry
Jones would rather have a coach he maybe has a
great relationship with.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Obviously, you want to have relationship.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
But you know, kind of a coach you can control,
a coach you're gonna put up with your nonsense and
who you can control.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And that's that's it.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
And I've told you, Rob, if Jerry Jones does not
understand to his peril that if if he didn't say
a word all next season and they won the Super Bowl,
he would get credit a Clark hunt with the Chiefs.
(33:46):
We don't hear anything from them. You're the one's getting
handed the trophy.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
You're gonna get credit for it.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
And he knows despite winning those three super bowl you
should be happy, right, But he knows, deep down he
knows Chris Jimmy Johnson had a lot to do with that, yep,
And he didn't get he never felt like he got
the credit. And now he's taking over the team for
all these years and the cupboard is bare. I mean,
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just think about that, and this is what you and
then what are you gonna do? Sign Why don't you
sign Dak to a big four year extension.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
To while you're at it, Well that'll be next which
I'm with that. I'm out on Dak. I would meet and.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
We could talk that as well. Next at the top
of the next hour. But I would keep Dak because, Rob,
you know it, the Cowboys went years.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
It was several years now.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Tony Romo obviously emerged at a certain point.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
But how many quarterbacks they went through.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Let me count the ways one Quincy Carter, Chad Hutchinson,
then Quincy Carter, get Vinnie Testaverdi, Drew bled so all
before they got to Tony.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You can tell. Those were the Bill Parcells years.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
All those quarters Quincy, you know what I mean, Vinny Tester,
those are all Bill Parcelson exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
So it's tough when you don't have that quarterback.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
And we get the limitations of Dak, but I do
think you can win it with him.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I just think, you know, and here's.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
The other thing, Rob, this is why they have to
sign him or or trade him or something. He's like
a sixty million dollar cap hit next year fifty nine something,
and to have the room to you know, improve the
team the way they're gonna want to, they probably need
to sign him to that extension to get that cap
(35:37):
hit lower. I just I have no confidence in him
coming unless they think Trey Lance, you know, is going
to is special or has something in him but yeah,
I think they got to bring back Dak. Look, McCarthy's
done obviously good in the regular season kind of like that,
but he hasn't performed in the playoffs, and so we'll
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get to that in the top of the next hour.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
It is Chris and Rob the odd couple.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
We're gonna talk about Jim Harbaugh, but that'll have to wait.
We will talk Cowboys. Keeping Mike McCarthy around the break,
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Rob big weekend of football, obviously the divisional round of
the playoffs, and I think a ton of guys are
facing pressure. We're gonna talk about Josh Allen a little later,
(02:06):
but I think he's facing the pressure to finally get
over Patrick Mahomes and beat him and Brock Purty. I
think it's facing pressure because you know, they got four
All pros, first team All Pro players on that team.
A lot of people look at him, not me, but
a lot of people look at him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
As the weak link.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And if they lose to a Packers team that's the
youngest to make the playoffs in nearly fifty years, a
lot of people may jump on him if it's you know,
if he doesn't play, oh, if.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He doesn't play well and they lose, that game, Chris, Yeah,
you can. He will be abandoned.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
He will be abandoned if that's the case that they
lose and he doesn't play well.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I mean yeah, I mean, I don't know what saying
fran would do, but yeah, he would. He would get
Tartan feathered publicly.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And then Rob Lamar Lamar Jackson, who we all presume
is going to win his second MVP award. The only
question really seems to be Willie winning unanimously. But the
last time, of course, that he wonted unanimously. Rob, they
went out very meekly in the playoffs. They lost to
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the Tennessee Titans as the first seed, number one seed
had to buy and all of that and Lamar Jackson robbed.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The playoffs have not been kind to him, to say
the least.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He's one in three, but that doesn't really sum up,
just to keep it real, how bad he's been in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And so here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
He's won fifty eight games in the regular season, which
is more than any other quarterback his age. He's twenty seven, well,
he's twenty six, twenty six years old.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Let me check on his age before we first.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
He's twenty just turned twenty seven ten days ago, twenty
seven years old, one more regular season games than any
quarterback is age. That includes, of course, Patrick Mahomes, who
sat out his first year, and yet the only quarterback
to win more than fifty games in its first six
(04:17):
seasons and have fewer postseason wins Robed than Lamar is
Andy Dalton. Lamar's won in three, Andy Dalton's zero to four.
And it's not just oh, you know, teams lose is
a team game. Lamar's thrown four touchdowns and or has
four total touchdowns, passing and running seven turnovers in those
(04:42):
four playoff games. And in the regular season, Rob Lamar's
QBR sixty five, the seventh best in the NFL since
he joined the league in twenty eighteen. In the playoffs
is qbrs forty one point five, second worst among quarterbacks
with multiple playoffs starts over that span, and he's only
(05:06):
ahead of Mitchell Trubisky.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And we all know what Trubisky is, So Rob, I
think Lamar.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Look, if he loses to say, Kansas City or maybe
even Buffalo in the conference championship but plays fairly well,
he doesn't even have to be spectacular. I don't know
that he'll get criticized, but if he loses this game
to a rookie quarterback the Houston Texas and CJ Stroud,
who's fantastic, Rob, He's going to get really criticized publicly.
(05:40):
And for the time being, people will say, well, yeah,
he's great in the regular season, but whether they think
it's his style of play or whatever the reason, they
will say, we want to see it in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Until then, we're not impressed.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, we've heard that before, And there was a guy
that people talked about a wand up with two super
Bowls and couldn't win in the playoffs and he was
the best regular season quarterback and five MVPs and all that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So we have seen this before. This is not Peyton Manning.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Is that guy who people just and he finished his
postseason career, Chris, I believe I don't have it in
front of me, but a game under five hundred, I
want to say, like.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Peyton Manny Rob playoff record fourteen and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Okay, so one, he only got above five.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Hundred when he went to Denver, right, But I'm just
saying that was he was he was, That's what But
that's but that's what he said, what people said about
him as well in Denver. I'm just saying five in three,
so that means he was nine and ten when he
left Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Is probably what you were thinking about.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And Rob, let's keep it real. He's got two super Bowls.
The second one they won kind of inspired him.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, but he won won, but he won one.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
And that's that's ultimately like when you have when you're
such a talent, you want to believe that a guy
can win at least one Chickchampionship. I mean, not too
how hard it is the two does he?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
And the two and the two does? And he played
and remember he got benched that year and didn't play
that great. I don't think he had more than one
hundred yards or right at one hundred yards that game.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh, he was like the ten man. But but the
point is, I think this is by far, this is.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
That moment for Lamar that I'm looking at because I
picked him. I picked him before the year started, Chris
to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I like their team. I like Lamar.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I picked them to be MVP all those things, and
they checked all the boxes. They're beating all the good teams.
They've played well, so there's no excuses. They're healthy, they
got everything they need to do, and so this is
the year for me.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well I'll really.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Take a look and say, Okay, what kind of guy
is Lamar? And I'm confident going in the way that
they've played that game. And I know it was just
one game, but that game in San Francisco, to me
was one of those moments for me. And looking at it,
it wasn't a playoff game, Chris obviously, but it felt
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like there was something on the line. The MVP was
on the line, the way people look at the Ravens
was on the line, and Lamar flying cross country playing
a team that was on par with them, and some
people thought it was the best team in the NFL,
you know, like I thought that was a moment and
(08:26):
he performed with Flying Colors in that moment, And that
is the confidence from that game I have about Lamar
going into the postseason.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Rob As great as he was or good as he
was in that game, he was spect His better game
was Miami Miami when they beat him fifty six nineteen.
Remember that game, if I remember correctly, wasn't that for
the number one seed or number one seed was on
the line.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, that was a great game.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Bushdowns in a perfect passer. But you San Francisco, I know,
but that was still a big game.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I just I just thought, I thought, I thought that's
where I thought that was the one where he got
the MVP.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Like people were like, okay, well, because it was a
combination of him playing well and Brock Purty really struggling.
I think Party might have entered that game as the
number one guy as far as the odds for MVP.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But yeah, the bottom line is Lamar was great and Rob.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
They they beat They beat every good team you're placed
in front of them. They beat Miami, they beat the
Niners and they beat them soundly. They beat Cleveland. Uh,
they beat Houston, who they play this weekend, beat them
by sixteen points. Now granted that was opening weekend, so
that was Houston's first game, but you know, they did
(09:53):
beat them. And Lamar said himself after that game he
was rusty.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They beat the Rams, they beat Jacksonville, they beat everybody
who right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
So all of that, though, speaks to why there's really
no reason for the Ravens not to at least win
this game. Now again it's Kansas City going to flip
the switch. I thought they played well against Miami. It
is what I expected. I wasn't overly like what they
(10:22):
did and what Buffalo did. The Pittsburgh didn't change my
mind about either team. I expected them to beat those
two teams pretty solidly.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
But obviously those are good teams.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
And if Baltimore meets them in the conference championship.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And lose it, I'm with you, Rob.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I picked them to get to the Super Bowl, and
now I've picked them to win it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You picked them to win it in the preseason. I
like that team. I think they got everything Chriss that
you need. And they're healthy. I mean, what is not
to like. They have a good defense.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Part of the great eating this of Lamar this year, Rob,
and I think something that is indeed baked into his
MVP argument.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Is that they weren't healthy.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
He lost his two top running backs, starting with JK.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Dobbins.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
He lost his you know all pro or Pro Bowl
tight end Mark Andrews, his favorite target, it's security blanket.
They caught him and yet likely yeah, and he still
kept moving and they didn't miss a beat. And so
I think that's a big part of why he's also,
you know, looks like he's going to win the MVP Award.
(11:40):
But yeah, it's big for him. He's got to go
out and get it done, and so it's a huge game.
And I'm with you. I think he will get it done,
but it's a lot on the line, and if he
doesn't get.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It done, he will likely be.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Though I agree with that, But Josh Allen, this this
is because that team in this window is closed if
they don't beat Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Really, they'll talk about that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
They will talk about that in an hour three I
don't want to play.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
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FDIC eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox We're talking
Lamar Jackson. Do you think he's going to live up
to his what we presume will be his second MVP
award in these playoffs? Or do you expect him to
struggle as he has thus far in his career in
the postseason?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Tim in Atlanta, Chili. Tim, you're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Tim?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What up?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
New?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
How you doing?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Man?
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh man, I'm good. Spending the weekend Jamaica with my
wife for her birthday.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And wow, man, what part did you make Jamaica? Wow?
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Yeah, we went to Mobay So oh.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I thought you took her to Jamaica. Queens Okay, I
got you.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
She is a Queen's girl.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
There you go, There you go from Queens, Chris, his
wife is she is from Queens?
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
What part of Queens? Far?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Rockaway, rockaway?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Okay? Yeah, my wife'm and you know what, you know what?
They called it?
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Far rockaway? Seriously, it's so far. It's so far, it
really is. I'm not even a getting you, Chris. It's
where Queens is. It's far, it really is.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I don't know the far rockaway. That's what you happened.
He probably got went through it going to Long Island.
Is it on the way to Long Island? It's like, uh, Oakland,
but it's far as far away? All right, go ahead him?
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Yeah, so happy birthday, by the way, around, your birthday
is what day it was?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
January tenth. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Hers is the eleven so okay eleven.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
So I don't know if he will, but I hope he.
I hope he does live up to it because he's
at that point, especially when's another yunanimous MVP. He's beat everybody,
all of the top teams. He beat my team really bad.
And I think if he doesn't, he has everything he
(15:57):
needs to do it this year. If he does not,
you know, after sitting out for that, you know, with
the salary dispute, going through it, so I just think
he has to do it this year. I think this
has to be the year that he at least has
to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Maybe yeah, yeah, No, he don't have to win. I
agree with that. I agree, you guys agree. I gotta
get beat by somebody who plays better than him. I
don't win the Super I FORCT them to reach the
super Bowl and win it.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But I actually think if Kansas City or Buffalo was
great and Lamar played well but just lost, I don't
know that he gets killed for that.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
I agree he will either way, I think.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
So you think he's got to at least get to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
He's got to get to the super Bowl because I
mean if Lamar, I mean, if Mahomes gets there, then
everybody's going to say, well, you know, Mahon, we didn't
we kind of we knew he could do it even if.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
He had a bad year. But he has to get
to the super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Chris just listened. The super Bowl is a disappointment because.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
They got disappointed because they got everything, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What I mean criticism of him, but I agree it's
definitely a disappointed Anything less than winning it for them
will be a disappointment. If they play San Francisco and lose,
I mean they pummeled San Francisco, they got, they got
a squad. They disappointed if they don't win the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Definitely.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Andre I picked him from the start. Detroit to rob
two favorites left in the in the NFC, Ye, Andre
and Massachusetts. You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
Yeah, thanks for taking a call. Listen if Lamar Jackson
has another no show in a big spot with the
Ravens are trending and looking to be super Bowl contenders
and favorite that I gotta think, you know, he's on
his way down that path that Jim Kelly went down,
uh some years ago in terms of the four falls
of Buffalo and them going to four straight Super Bowls
(17:58):
and really having their best opportunity in the first Super
Bowl with a kicker unfortunately missed it. Uh and then uh,
specifically the ones to Dallas. We're not close, you know,
and it just you know, it was a great run.
We were pulling for him, but at the end of
the day, you know, you went oer for four and
Jim Kelly had a chance to be in that Terry
Bradshaw conversation, to be in that Joe Montana conversation, to
(18:19):
be in.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
That wonderre and Chris, if if Scott Norwood makes that
field goal, would that have changed the fortunes of Buffalo? Like, like,
I really wonder about that. And Bill Parcells might not
be the guy, you know what I mean, Like he
because that was his first Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Right No, I mean plays like that are no doubt
huge and uh yeah, I mean so you're saying, not
just win that Super Bowl, rob but you know what,
what what.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
What could have happened? Do you know what I mean?
Like like that was.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Kelly ended up making the Hall of Fame as he
was a great quarterback, but they were all for yeah
he yeah, he didn't get that ring and we know
how that separates guys. All right, it's the odd couple,
Christian Rod. We got Greg Jennings around the corner.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
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Speaker 4 (19:19):
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Our next guest got muscles. Oh he is a Super
Bowl champion. Fox Sports Radio NFL analyst Our man, mister
Greg Jennys, Greg Jenny's what up?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What's happening?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
On?
Speaker 9 (19:40):
What's going on? Fellas?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
And look, man, thankfully you were a much better football player,
and you are a much better mister Universe bodybuilder. Then
you are a prognosticator of a Now what did you
do well?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
He did the same thing you did.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He was telling everybody that would listen that the Miami
Dolphins were gonna beat Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
What what? What?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I'm even gonna ask you what happens to dolphins because
I know they just a bunch of breakdances.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
You, what do you think? Does this change your view
of Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Like that forward?
Speaker 9 (20:19):
So absolutely like so what what was interesting was they
looked like a very competent I know that sounds like
a harsh word when you're talking about a Patrick Mahomes
that offense, but like they they looked like, Okay, they
have the ball, anything can happen. And I'm I'm talking
about even in those elements. So imagine if the weather's
(20:42):
favorable or even just a little better, like they look like, okay,
they got some some type of uh unity and chemistry
going offensively. They obviously got Rashid Rice, who you know
I've been screaming, get him the ball, get him more
involved off season long they did that, they looked really good.
Patrick Mahomes looks good. They look better for sure, and
(21:06):
I think we all understand what their defense has been.
I'm still not sold on than winning at all, but
I'm definitely from going to I give them no chance.
I'm giving them a chance.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Quickly. I was gonna say, I got Buffalo beating them.
You're going with the Chiefs or Buffalo?
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Come on, man, you know I'm not going with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't know that.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yes, I refuse to go with the Chiefs, primarily because
Nick has made it hard for me to even step
on that side of the line.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
True, all right, Oh yeah I was. I was just
gonna ask you on the.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Greg, I just feel like, if Buffalo can't beat this
Chiefs team in this moment at home, and the situation
that this window and that whole thing that they have
there is gonna close, like they went from that what
was it thirteen seconds when they should have beaten the Chiefs.
So whatever was in that game second thirteen seconds from
that moment to now this is like, this is it
(22:18):
for the Bills as we know them? Am I old face?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
If we if we felt like the thirteen second like
defeat that they took when they played lights out, especially offensively,
Josh Allen, we felt like that was the mora living
losing to a Chiefs team at home when even I
understand all the injuries. But you are playing your best
(22:44):
ball right now right the Buffalo Bills Josh Allen is
he is just a difference maker with the ball in
his hands when he's able to, you know, just extend
plays with his legs, all the things. They have a
different way of beating you. Now it's your Buffalo. And
so if you faltered to the Chiefs this year, it's
(23:06):
hard for me to believe that you will move forward
without shieling like that's that's mountain we could never climb.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So look, what do you make of that?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I mean, I know you went with Dallas and NFC
Tho kind of just to poke at me, but.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You I mean, what what do you make of that?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
That is unbelievable, even more surprising than Philly and the way.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
They got to beat that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Wow, I mean, what what do you does that? I
thought they chose. I really thought they choke.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Yeah, they chose. I mean you gotta think so. For one,
I gotta give credit to Green Bay because they played outstanding.
I think what changed the game, and before the game
even was played, was them taking the ball first because psychologically,
if they went down and scored, which they did, they
knew it put pressure on doubt, and it would be
(24:02):
that oh, shoot, here we go again mentality, especially if
they didn't score on their first possession, which they didn't do,
and then Green Bay wars again, and now you're digging
yourself as a whole. Now you got the crowd kind of
looking like everybody's quiet, and now all the attention is
on what is that going to do? What is this
defense going to do? Are they going to do this again?
(24:23):
And yes they did, Like you could see from the
first possession when you have Mike McCarthy going to the
sideline talking to CD Limb, I'm thinking to myself watching
the game, like, what are we arguing about? Well, what
is there an issue with it? You've only run five
to seven players Like it's that like there was they had.
(24:44):
They were at each other's throats from the jump. If
you looked at the game, if you watch the game,
there was no eye contact, There was no I got you.
There was games where I watched this weekend when quarterbacks
will go to their receivers and look. Even Mason Rudolph
didn't it where he went to George Pickens and he
looked at him after they had an incompletion and he
(25:05):
ran up to him, and he just wanted to get
on the same page, like, hey, did you see something?
What happened? And they shook them They both shook their
heads and walked up to the sideline. I didn't win
the game, but that's what you need when you when
you saw Dallas, there was no real eye contact. It
was more kind of a discussed look from Ceedee Lamb
to Dak Prescott. You look at the huddle, Nobody's looking
(25:25):
at each other in the huddle like you got it.
You just had a sense that everybody knew they were
up against it, and it was that here we go
again type of a body language that that the Packers
just feasted on.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I've been waiting for the Micah Parsons podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Does that come out? I wait, I'm waiting for the
podcast because he was.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Loud and proud all year and now there's no podcast
to be found. Unbelievable, And I'm gonna say this, Greg,
I'm done with Dak Prescott two and five in the postseason,
and and I'm dead serious, like I would rather go
and get something or somebody who I don't know for
sure what they're going to do, rather than keep doing
(26:09):
the same thing. With a guy I know, for him
to turn in that stinker coming off arguably his best
year or next to best year, whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
You want to call it. I didn't understand what happened there.
He was awful.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
He was awful, And I just feel like, if I'm
being honest, like watching just back and just the entire team,
I feel as though there's too much pressure on that
team in that franchise. And when I say that, that's
not a real thing, but they feel it. And a
(26:43):
lot of that stems from Jerry Jones. And so if
I'm Jerry Jones, I have to be different next year.
Like I'm not talking about Super Bowl. I'm not putting pressure.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
On my I'm not good luck with that good luck.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Exactly, Rob, exactly. But if you are unwilling to change
your your approach to things, how are your results? How
are the things that you are trying to execute differently
going to ever? The outcome is going to ever look different?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You make total sense, Greg, But you know that guy,
he won't do it.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
He won't if he says, he says he wants a
Super Bowl more than anything, but he doesn't want it
more than the spotlight exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You know, I mean that I agree. You know, I've
been saying that Greg for a while. With you, it won't.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Happen because this guy refuses to stand down.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
He just refuses.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
We gotta get your comments on Greg Jordan Love before
you go. I mean, his rookie year was better than
Aaron Rodgers' rookie year. I hate to even say, you know,
but it looks like they may have struck gold for
the third time, you know, and and and got another
quarterback who looks like he could be great. How how
(27:58):
what do you foresee in the future for Jordan Love?
Speaker 9 (28:03):
I see, I see them building on and stacking the
success that they just accomplished this week, this past weekend.
And when you look at Jordan Love, and I don't
know if you remember, like I understood like it was
going to be up and down. That's typically how it
goes for a rookie quarterback. We don't typically see the C. J.
(28:24):
Strouds where it's just a consistent climb like that just
does not happen. And with Jordan Love, he had some highs,
he had some lows, but he experienced it all. He
experienced being in the lineup where it was just him,
he was he was without Aaron Jones, he was with
Christian Watson. He was without Christian Watson. He had new
guys around him, he had he experienced almost every scenario
(28:47):
you can possibly put a rookie slash four year guy in,
but first year starter in and then once the playoffs started,
it's like, Okay, I've been going through this my entire
the entire season. We fought through the last three weeks.
We're thriving. It doesn't matter who's out there on the field.
(29:08):
I know I have to be great. And that's what
it looked like. He was going to execute. He was
going to play at a high level despite what he
had with him, and they just rolled with him, and
they I mean, George, I really like Jordan Love and he.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Could have he could have a stinker this week and
it might be good.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
He could like like I'm just saying, he could and
we might look back and realize how bad the Cowboys were.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But a stretch, he had a bad stretch with people question.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Here's the thing, here's the thing, because of him going
on the road beating the Dallas Cowboys, number two seed,
a team that we felt like we didn't give Green
Bay a chance to what the way he handled that
game and the way he executed. If he does go
to San Francisco and have a stinker, it's like, you
(29:58):
know what, he still have a great season.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Why, Yeah, I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
I don't just did things that we just did. We
didn't expect to see what we saw, especially last week.
We just didn't expect to see that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And all right, that's our mind. Jenning's heading back to
the weight room. We know that. Good stuff. Man, have
a good night, all right, all right? Peace?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Uh Jim Harbaugh strange did he wants some type of
clause in his contract in Michigan if he's gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We'll get into that next. A couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm
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Speaker 4 (30:43):
All Right, it's The Odd Couple Chris and Rob live
from the tire Rack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
And it's time for Shekel City. All right, here we
go Shekel City one and two. Last night, let's try
to get a three. And oh it's time for a
hat trick. It's been a minute with the basket ball,
but here we go. I got the Pelicans best bet
minus twelve and a half taking on the Hornets, Chris
and New Orleans. Tonight, I'm gonna go with the Mavericks
(31:10):
plus three and a half in Los Angeles taking.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
On the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Lakers coming off a good win, Chris, and I'm gonna
take the Nets minus six and.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
A half their road favorites at the Blazers.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I think Portland's only won ten games so far this year,
so I'm gonna take the Nets minus six and a half.
The Mavericks on the road in LA against the Lakers
plus three and a half. And I'm gonna take the
Pelicans a lot of points twelve and a half. But
against the Hornets they're stinky. So there you go. And
remember I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm
telling you who I bet on. All right, we got
(31:45):
some breaking.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
News, right with the breaking news news?
Speaker 10 (31:53):
All right, So here we go, guys. According to Adam
Schefter of ESPN, I don't know if the Dallas Cowboy
fans Chris and Robert gonna like this news, but it
appears that Mike McCarthy is going to be coming back
next season four Dallas. All the speculation about maybe he
would be gone after coaching a stinker against the Packers
(32:14):
in the postseason, But Chris and Rob Mike McCarthy isn't
going anywhere anytime soon in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Well, there you have a Rob. Let's let's let's uh.
I want to get to that the next hour.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I think that, Yeah, well we can talk a little bit,
but we got right my gut, my gut reaction Chris is, uh,
this is why the Cowboys don't win Like this is
this is why they don't win. They do the same
thing over and over. Dak will be the quarterback, same coach.
They'll act like nothing happened. This is how thirty years
(32:48):
go by, Chris, without anything happening. This is I can't
believe it's been sent in nineteen ninety five. Yes you can,
Yes you can.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I can't say I'm surprised. I mean mean, how long
did he keep Jason Garrett?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Ridiculous, Chris ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Mediocrity And I think the bottom line, Rob is Jerry
Jones would rather have a coach he maybe has a
great relationship with.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Obviously, you want to have relationship.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
But you know, kind of a coach you can control,
a coach you're gonna put up with your nonsense and
who you can control.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And that's that's it.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
And I've told you, Rob, if Jerry Jones does not
understand to his peril that if if he didn't say
a word all next season and they won the Super Bowl,
he would get credit a Clark hunt with the Chiefs.
(33:46):
We don't hear anything from them. You're the one's getting
handed the trophy.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
You're gonna get credit for it.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
And he knows despite winning those three super bowl you
should be happy, right, But he knows, deep down he
knows Chris Jimmy Johnson had a lot to do with that, yep,
And he didn't get he never felt like he got
the credit. And now he's taking over the team for
all these years and the cupboard is bare. I mean,
(34:13):
just think about that, and this is what you and
then what are you gonna do? Sign Why don't you
sign Dak to a big four year extension.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
To while you're at it, Well that'll be next which
I'm with that. I'm out on Dak. I would meet and.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
We could talk that as well. Next at the top
of the next hour. But I would keep Dak because, Rob,
you know it, the Cowboys went years.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
It was several years now.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Tony Romo obviously emerged at a certain point.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
But how many quarterbacks they went through.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Let me count the ways one Quincy Carter, Chad Hutchinson,
then Quincy Carter, get Vinnie Testaverdi, Drew bled so all
before they got to Tony.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You can tell. Those were the Bill Parcells years.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
All those quarters Quincy, you know what I mean, Vinny Tester,
those are all Bill Parcelson exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
So it's tough when you don't have that quarterback.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
And we get the limitations of Dak, but I do
think you can win it with him.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I just think, you know, and here's.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
The other thing, Rob, this is why they have to
sign him or or trade him or something. He's like
a sixty million dollar cap hit next year fifty nine something,
and to have the room to you know, improve the
team the way they're gonna want to, they probably need
to sign him to that extension to get that cap
(35:37):
hit lower. I just I have no confidence in him
coming unless they think Trey Lance, you know, is going
to is special or has something in him but yeah,
I think they got to bring back Dak. Look, McCarthy's
done obviously good in the regular season kind of like that,
but he hasn't performed in the playoffs, and so we'll
(35:58):
get to that in the top of the next hour.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
It is Chris and Rob the odd couple.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
We're gonna talk about Jim Harbaugh, but that'll have to wait.
We will talk Cowboys. Keeping Mike McCarthy around the break,
keep it locked a couple
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