January 1, 2026 • 40 mins
Rob Parker and Martin Weiss (in for Kelvin Washington) open the show discussing the underwhelming quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff... With the games being mostly blowouts to this point, is the concept of expanding the CFP to MORE teams really a good idea? They also question whether Lamar Jackson will play this week in a must-win game vs. the Steelers. Plus, today's edition of Shekel City!
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Let me welcome with my calls. He is mister Martin
white purple hates all of my brain.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The lyric on that let me wait until I kiss
the sky not what most people thought to said.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Uh what are most people think?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I said, Rob waiting till I kiss this guy?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
People a woman? People don't know the lyrics.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Thank you for giving me a great drop by the.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Way, You're welcome, You know what I mean? Get you wait? Hey,
I'm not her every day, but it's not my first day. Okay,
it's ai. Why would you do that to me, Alex, I.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Can't wait to kiss that guy.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
I mean that was right there, seventy seven, right down
the middle.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I almost missed because it took.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
Too long to get to the plate. All right, what
did they say, Rob? You would do that to me
after all these years? Hey man, listen Alex, erase that.
We know, man, we don't need that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, I like that.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Four minutes into the new year, the first drop and
then the second drop.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Erase that.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
And you know what, Rob, I think we'll have to
do a best of last year of all the drops
up put together.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
My goodness, we'll do that. We got too many of them.
You know what, there's another song real quick, h secret
agent man?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Do you know that song? Can you find that? Yes?
Can you? Can you find that? Real quick?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Let me find it?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And people were singing the lyrics to song wrong forever?
Oh what did they say, Rob?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You gotta hear it first?
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You got it?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Weis's back up to bed heard anything after that grand
slam in the first Parker is laying it right, man.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But what people were singing was they called him secret
Asian man. So people will request the song you know
to DJ's can you play Secret?
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Can you play Secret Asian Man. I will say this banger,
but just listen to the lyrics lead the Life of Danger.
Now here it comes, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I will say it's pretty close.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
I will say he does not quite enunciate the ah
a git, so people would think with the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's why I brought up the Jimmy Hendricks lyrics because
people will get it wrong and they will be singing
it forever. Secret Asian Man. All right, it is the
Odd Cup on this New Year's Day. Let's welcome in
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behind the curtain.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Ian is our producer.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yay Monty Bolanos is at the anchor desk. She'll keep
us updated to off the program. Is Elijah working today?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Do you already know this? Robins the holiday? It's only
you and me?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay? No, Elijah with.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Rob G came in and produced this morning when I
did Colin Show, and then of course he could have
stuck around to do this show. No disrespect Ian, but
I'm just saying, you know, Rob G has any chance
to get off.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
He's off company man he is.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
You know right now the three here that are filling
in once he's not filling in. But everybody, this is
a Saturday right here, Saturday eight to eleven, five to
eight Pacific time.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Is it really?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
This is the brain trust right here, Martin Monts.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I went to you this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Let's get it.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Actually, the crew right now can't rob out of here.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
See it is your producer because I see him do
your social media videos.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So I'm what.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm not gonna say anything. I'm just asking. I'm good.
All right, here we go, Martin. You're a huge college
football fan. Okay, you went to Michigan the whole nine yards.
I said this from Jump Street and I'm gonna stick
by it. I didn't like when they expanded the college
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football playoffs because I didn't think there were enough teams
that really could vie for the national championship. We had
seen prior to that, blowout after blowout, all double digit losses,
all that saying are there really at that? This was
when they had four teams, like is there really enough?
We didn't see like the quality type of games I'd
like to see.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And here we are today New Year's Dame and We're.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Watching games, college football games that are terrible, just terrible.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It was. It was terrible in game one, what was that?
Twenty three nothing? The first game today Oregon be Test Tech,
twenty three.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Nothing, and today the score was twenty four to nothing.
The final was thirty eight to three.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Games. Actually, still it's still going on. I thought it
was over, I mean left, Okay, it's currently thirty eight
to three.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Okay, it's been over since about you know, thirty eight
to three seven.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And I'm I'm not sitting here.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I don't want to act like I'm sitting here and
I'm going to rearrange the sports world and make a change.
And everybody's going to say Rob is a genius and
all that, but I'm convinced more than ever that this
has been a mistake and for them to even expand
this field even further is going to be even more
of a mistake than just going back to trying to
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get the best four schools. Alabama lost three games, Okay,
you want to put them in the college football playoffs.
They get their butts kicked by Deiana. And when I
was doing local radio in Detroit, when Michigan lost its
second game of the year, Martin, college football talk stopped
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national championship, you know, conversation stopped because that was it.
Now it would turn to beating Ohio State at the
end of the year, right after you lose your second salvage,
right after you lose your second game. And now teams
with multiple losses too, three losses are making it in
because you need to fill these spots.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm against it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I think it's terrible for college football and Ian real quick.
And then Martin, you jump in reach some of the
scores from last year because we just we're getting started
here a bad day twenty eight twenty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Three to nothing and a thirty eight to three game.
Those are the two games we got. The losing teams
have three points.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Right, So if we go back to last year. In
last year's playoffs Clemson versus Texas, Texas won thirty eight
to twenty four, so to score win there. Ohio State
beat Tennessee forty two to seventeen, so complete blowout in
that one. Penn State beat SMU thirty eight to ten,
another blowout. Notre Dame beat Indiana twenty seven to seventeen,
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so double digit win there. And then in the second round,
Notre Dame beat Georgia twenty three to ten, Penn State
beat Boise State thirty one to fourteen, Ohio State beat
Oregon forty one to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm just Martin. I'm looking at the games.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
All of them were double digits, all of them like,
is that what we want to see for your to
determine who's going to be the national championship. I'm out
on this format. Too many teams, not enough quality football.
I think college football loses well.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
If you're out on this format, then you're out on
every playoff format that has ever existed. It doesn't take
much longer. Go back to one year ago. You read
all those double digit scores in the the same year
the Texans beat the Chargers by two scores first round,
Raven Steelers, Bills over the Broncos, right Rams over the Vikings,
and the Eagles beat the Packers. All of those games
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on Super Wildcard Weekend, all six five of them were
double digit victory.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You gave me wild Card Weekend, right, Okay, so hold
on give me.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
I'll give it to you because that's what this is
supposed that's what the first round of the playoffs is.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I get that they have teams that have buyed into this.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
But your point of can we get there's not enough
teams to compete for a national championship, so on and
so forth. There's not enough teams to compete for a
Super Bowl or an NBA finals run. Every single year
we fill out the playoffs. Why do we do it?
Because this is the only way to ensure the best
four teams have the opportunity to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, it's not because okay, go ahead, well how would
you figure it out?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm just saying, there aren't that many teams, and all
you do is you continue to water down. The NBA
is wrong, The National Hockey League is wrong, The NFL
is wrong when you put teams in that aren't even
barely five hundred, so you have water down the pool.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm not gonna get to this.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
So that's playoffs in general then, because that's ball.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wasn't there to where we don't have like like now,
we're getting to the point where just to me, with
smaller amounts, with more teams getting involved, how do you
win today? If you're a college football fan, I'm just
asking you. You watch two games on on on New
Year's Day, and neither one was competitive. I'm just saying
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this is the norm for me. There have been plenty
of exciting, unbelievable NFL playoff games. You could give me
this the little uh first round, which is the clue
of what we're doing here, But this is.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
The this is the last two years of the college football.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I could give you plenty of great NFL games, and
not all of them. Now I'm telling you, I agree
with you that there are too many teams because you're
you have a couple of scenarios where Tampa Bay has
lost seven of its last eight and can make the playoffs.
Something's wrong with a system where a team can lose
that many games and yet win the division and make
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the playoffs. They shouldn't be in the playoffs, but they
could wind up if they went on Sunday. All I'm
saying is, as a college football fan, how does this
feel good? And are you cool with it that they're
gonna not only have twelve but expand this to even more.
The college basketball is the same thing. Sixty four. Let's
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go to sixty eight. Let's go to all these schools,
and yes, you'll have an occasional upset in the first
round or occasional upset, but.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's not most of the game. Most college football find.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Absolutely should be a fan of this individually for your team. Sure,
the viewing experience of the first round mimics the first
round of every other playoffs that we have in every
other sport, where the team go figure that has the
higher seed normally be the living hell out of the
team that's the lower seed, because that's how the regular
season drafted it out to be. That's why the regular
season exists for playoff seeding, so that it's.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Most of you. Did you en George out? Did you
enjoy it? As a college football fan?
Speaker 7 (13:13):
What I would want to have happened, not without any
question of a doubt, is my team that I feel
as a as a legitimate opportunity to win a national championship,
have an opportunity to do so, which was ripped from
all college football fans up until a eight twelve team
playoff question.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And I'm telling you you enjoyed this. I'm not telling
the as a college football I am an Indiana. I'm
not Indiana Indiana. Are you interested in here? But not
as not as an Indiana fan or not as.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
As a fan of any team that has an opportunity
to win a national champion would as I absolutely am
a fan of that's not I just want you to
answer my question as a college football fan. Yes, I
like the playoffs. Okay, so yeah, I've said it a
million different ways. No, I'll tell you why I like
it this way. If I'm an Indiana fan, I could
go twelve and zho for four years in a row.
They'll never put me in the BCS Championship Bowl. And like,
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if you lose the Big Ten Championship Game, Indiana would
be banished the same way that BYU was in years past.
They would have never have been in this position if
there were no playoffs A.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine to nine six sixty three sixty nine. Are
you like Martin Weiss? You loved New Year's Day college football?
How do we figure it out otherwise college football? I'm
just telling you what they have now doesn't work. So
what you I mean you want to go back to
I want to go back to four. I want to
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go back to four team. The best four teams play.
That's all I want. And if that's a blowout, then
we'll have to live with it, but I don't want
twelve teams and double digits and teams can't score. At
one point today it was forty seven to nothing in
the score of the two winning teams and the other
the two losing teams. That's the football we want to
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Speaker 5 (15:19):
What's that Rob?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Stick?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And stay because we know in the New Year everybody
gets a kiss.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Who was your first kiss?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Wait until I kiss this.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Guy in the US EVAK.
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It is the Odd Couple on a TV theme song Thursday.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Here on.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
New Year's Day, Odd Couple, Rob Parker, Martin weiss In
for Kelvin Washington eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Instead of calling this the first round of the college
football play let's just call it the blowout round of
college football football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Martin loved it. Martin loved the scores.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Love the game.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I just like the playoffs. This is what you get
in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I definitely think too many teams and it's only gonna get.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Worse as they continue.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Welcome to Fan eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox.
Let's do what we want to hear from you. Where
are you, mister college football fan? Mart We got some people.
Let's go to mic in Arizona. You're on the eye
Couple on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
What's up, my how you doing hey?
Speaker 12 (17:10):
I definitely love the playoffs.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
You know what, I'm fifty six years old, and I
remember when they were just bowl games and the talking
heads decided who the champ.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Was on the field, even even the lowest teams.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
You know, you guys don't make the Autumn mountainetic bits,
or they at least win eleven games.
Speaker 12 (17:30):
They don't just go in with seven. I love that
there's a playoffs.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You watched that. We watched both games. You enjoyed both
of them. I'm asking you, Mike, Mike, he just said
he did. Why you gotta why you gotta cross the jam?
I'm want to ask him, Mike, did you enjoy those
games today?
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (17:45):
I did?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
All right, Mike? Thank you? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Allen call him from blowout Arizona eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Allen in New Mexico. You're on the eye couple on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 14 (17:56):
Yes, I just want to see that.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
Well new year to first of all, but thank.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You Allen, You too, buddy.
Speaker 13 (18:03):
But yeah, I really love this playoff system. I mean,
if you got eleven or twelve one lost teams, who
are the big head is just gonna put in the
first four?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Alabama lost three games, right.
Speaker 13 (18:18):
And that's completely wrong. But I mean, if you get
enough one loss teams and you know, you get like
twelve teams with one lost, who are you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
But that's not what's going in there. Two and three
loss teams are getting in. Thanks for the call, Allan,
Thank you appreciate it. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
we want to hear from you college football playoff. I
think they should go back to four teams. Twelve too
many and expanding it more.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
You want to try you want to try it. Maybe
maybe if you call up the call, it'll he'll agree
with you.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, this is the odd couple. Cameron in Indiana, You're
on the odd couple. Fox Sports Radio, CA. I'm just
out here. I'm just I'm visiting, Cameron. You feel I
don't here every day?
Speaker 15 (19:05):
Oh I am going too. Hey, I got a lot
to say, so just tear me out on this.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Go for it.
Speaker 15 (19:10):
First off, I just want to say that signet's putting
all of college football unnoticed. We can get our first
swim since eighty eight against Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm going to stop you right here. Let me just
say this to you, and I'm gonna let you go cameraon,
So don't hang up, don't do anything. They have the
they were in the top ten and money spent on
the team right for players two million dollar quarterback, they're
coaching staff and coach make twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
What on notice?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
For what?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They spent a lot of money there in the top ten.
Why shouldn't they have a good football team Indiana, I
don't even understand it. What Why shouldn't they have a
good football team?
Speaker 15 (19:47):
Oh no, I'm calling out all the other coaches. I'm
welling there's time to stop underperforming and collecting huge checks
for doing nothing is over. That's why I'm gonna hate
Signetti because they get a free ride.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I don't hate them. I'm just saying I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't look at this as a little lingen who
could And this is not Indiana, the old Indiana.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
This is a different India.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
To notice that Signetty is putting on the rest of
the nation is to the point of this is not
the little Indiana that that couldn't, to your point, the
little train that couldn't. Now they can and now if
Indiana can do it, anybody can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Is the point that I think the point.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That Okay, so you think just just because you spend
a lot of money, anybody can win. Yeah, it doesn't
work like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Some of the highest payrolls in sports teams show they
don't win.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
And that's why the Pirates are competing for the division
every But that's why you're not spending.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You're not one. Okay, but come on. The Mets also
had the highest payroll last year spending guarantees one.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I'm saying, okay, show me the team that showed me,
the team that's saving money that's also winning.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The Arizona Diamondbacks went to the World Series. Go check
out where they were in payroll last two years.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So they've been in the World Series. What twice is
Randy Johnson? But they made the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
The Texas Rangers are mid majors, a mid market team
as well.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
They made it to the World I'm just saying it's
not automatic. The Rangers not automatic players to move.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But they made the World Series.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
But to the point, if you're not the last time
the Mets made the World Series, the Mets are just
recently have droven into this big spending opportunity.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I would say Yankees haven't won since since two thousand
and nine. They have the top three in payroll every year.
Haven't won anything since two thousand and nine? Are they
not there competitively? That's not about competitive. I'm just saying
about winning. I'm not talking about being competitive winning.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
You can't win the Pennant sitting outside of the postseason
where the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
All right, go ahead, Vincent.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
In California, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, Vincent.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Hap, Happy New Year man. We appreciate you.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
I object to the return to fourteen format because I
sure we end up what we had like a a
decade ago, when you know the team's predominant to Alabama, Clemson, Georgia,
and you know sometimes Ohio State and college football team
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very very regionalized and.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Helped the cut interest.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Okay, all right, you just want to let everybody in.
Why don't we just have one hundred teams in?
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Are they.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
All right? Phil? In Denver, you're on the couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Phil?
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Rob I'm kind of on your side, But the bottom
line is college football is trash.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
It is.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I'm with you. Go ahead, Phil, That's it.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
That's all I got no, I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
So just Peel is saying it's an immadalable product regardless.
But I think that you just can't engineer a result
like how many Super Bowls have we seen that have
been blowouts? Even in the fourteen playoffs. I remember that
Michigan TCU game that was down to the wire. Then
TCU walked in and lost sixty five.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
To seven to Georgia. Like, you just can't engineer the results.
You can only you have to play on the field,
in my opinion, to be able to determine how all this.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I just think there's also a fill the idea of
letting in schools like Alabama that lost three games like that.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
That is, the committee was wrong to let Alabama and
maybe should have been Notre Dame. But ultimately the process
is not the one that Thanksville.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, let's get an update with Monzi and then
we'll take more of your calls.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Hold on eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Manzi,
happy New Year, You're happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
How are we doing? How are you doing?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
You know, I'm doing just dandy.
Speaker 16 (23:51):
I'm doing almost as good as Indiana and their fans
almost as good because of their performance at the Rose
Bowl over Alabama. You know, Rob, you're not gonna get
those four game the four game playoff that you.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Want is never gonna come back. I said that at
the top. I'm not kidding myself.
Speaker 16 (24:09):
Yeah you're not, because you know it's gonna be like nineteen.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, you know it's gonna be. It's gonna go up.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's gonna go up to thirty two, and I'll be
out of the business long before.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't to worry about it.
Speaker 16 (24:19):
It's like we're going in the wrong direction, not in
the right direction.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (24:23):
But Indiana crushed Alabama at the Rolls Ball thirty eight
to three. Fernando Mendoza finished fourteen of sixteen for one
hundred and ninety two yards three touchdowns, while running back
Kaitlyn Black had fifteen carries for ninety nine yards and
a touchdown. Alabama's offense really struggled. They only had twenty
three rushing yards total compared to two hundred and fifteen
for the Hoosiers. Quarterback Ty Simpson, by the way for Alabama,
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he exited early in the second half because of an
apparent injury that he suffered earlier after being tackled. He
was replaced by back of Austin Mack.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The Hoosiers are.
Speaker 16 (24:55):
Gonna face Oregon in the Peach Bowl on Friday, January ninth.
The Aura Bowl or earlier today, is where Oregon shut
out Texas Tech twenty three zero. The Ducks had two interceptions,
seven tackles for loss, four sacks shutting down the Raider
the Red Raider offense, and Ducks running back Jordan Davison
had fifteen carries forty two yards and two touchdowns. Obviously
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still to come. It's Ole Miss in Georgia in the
Sugar Bowl, and that's going to kick off in about
thirty minutes. In NFL news, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is
expected to start Sunday Night football against the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Saints wide receiver Chris l Lave is going.
Speaker 16 (25:28):
To miss the final game of the season against the
Falcons due to a blood clot that was found in
one of his lungs, but he has no history of
blood clots. He's expected to recover within the next month.
Packers quarterback Jordan Love has cleared concussion protocol, but he
is going to sit out until the playoffs. Right now
in the NBA, Kevin durantce got twelve points. The Rockets
are extending their lead over the Nets seventy four to
(25:48):
forty nine halfway through the third quarter. Late in the
first quarter of the Pistons leading the Heat at home
twenty to nineteen.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Back to you guys, thanks, man Zzi, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It is the odd couple here on Fox Sports Radio,
Rob Parker Martin Weiss in for Kelvin Washington on this
New Year's Day. I hope you had a great New
Year's Eve, and I hope you're doing great on your
day off. Here on New Year's Day. Unbelievable twenty twenty
six is here. We're talking about the college football playoff.
If you enjoyed the games or you're cool with the
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format now twelve team gonna expand eventually to even more
eighteen and you're cool with it cool? I would love
for it to go backwards. I know it's not gonna happen,
but just uh, are you enjoying the football? The blowouts
bother you or not, or it just doesn't care, You
don't care. Basically, just as long as the system's in place,
they let as many schools get in, you're cool with
(26:43):
it regardless of the score.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
So if that's the pending of my argument, that's not
the case.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
I like the twelve team playoff because there's no argument
to my opinion, Like Notre Dame has no real place
to say we shouldn't have got in. Like you, if
you only lose one game in the college football season,
you will make the playoffs and have an opportunity to
compete for a national championship. And until there was a
twelve team playoff, that was not a guarantee, like you
(27:08):
can go undefeated and be Florida State and be completely
left out of the conversation, which to me is I'd
rather if both of those are completely wrong. But if
I have to pick one, I picked the one. We're
currently in, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox we got let's go to uh Roberto in California.
You're on the couple on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Roberto?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Happy New Year?
Speaker 17 (27:31):
Hey, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hey you guys doing doing great?
Speaker 14 (27:34):
You I'm good.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
I'm with Rob.
Speaker 17 (27:36):
I was really into it when they first announced the
talks teams, you know, but after seeing these games, they're terrible,
and we don't need them. I think we should go
back to six with two with the bye week. I'm
over here in San Diego. If the Astins went under seated,
they don't deserve to get in.
Speaker 15 (27:54):
They get killed and be horrible, right that, Well go
back to six.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, but right there, that's your the point as text,
even if they were twelve and oh they get in
and get destroyed.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, thank you, that's not fun. Who wants to watch that? Well, no,
no one is because there is no ass tech in here.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Like maybe last year if you want to talk about
the Boise State being the up and coming, but like, yeah,
they had the Heisman Trophy candidate.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
There is no ASTech here. I may maybe I'm just missing.
I don't see.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Like, if you win your division, you win your conference,
you should be awarded with an opportunity to go to
the postseason. It's going to Rocky in South Carolina. You're
on the a couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
What's up, Rocky?
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Happy New Year, Happy new.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
Year to all of you.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Rob.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
I've got a question for you, sure, and if you
can allow me to follow.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Up you absolutely we will not hang you up on
your Rocky. We'll hold on Okay, go ahead, got you.
Speaker 11 (28:52):
So if you want to go to four teams, what
is your formula system for determine and who's the top
four teams?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I think you should have to do some sort of
strength to schedule and then you pick the best four
teams based off the strength of schedule who they beat
to get them to be ranked, and that there has
to be some sort of consistent formula that you use,
you know, like uh points, you know, point differential strength
(29:20):
to schedule, like a couple things, because obviously you don't
play all the same schools, so you have to come
up with a formula to determine who's going to be
those four.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
All right, well, I want to respectfully disagree with you,
and I like the playoffs yet suck. We got two
blowout blowouts today and and even but I enjoy watching it.
I think if college football is for the fans, uh.
Speaker 11 (29:43):
And even if your own team's not in, if you
enjoy it, yeah, it.
Speaker 13 (29:47):
Kind of stink.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Did you get a blowout? And the type of and
whether it's twelve or my thought is and then I'll
hang up. I'd like to see the sixteen teams and
the certain noe bies and the top eight seeds. I'll
play at home for the first round and then you know,
so you got you got eight home games, big.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
Atmospheres like you know, like like it was in the
food swimom And I mean it's just.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
Good for the college football fans. Maybe your team's not in,
but you may.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
Be a fan of a conference or something like that,
and and that kind of thing.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I love watching the games
today and it and it kept me. But yeah, it
kind of stump.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, all right, Rothy, we appreciate it. Yeah, no problem,
thank you. I eight seven seven ninety nine on Fix.
If you wanted to.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Reform the playoff, the answer to me would be this,
you had the perfect setup with the Power five. But
now that that is now dead and you really are
now just dealing with the three of our four rather
of the SEC, the Big ten, ACC and the Big twelve.
What you should do at this point they should have
the split the Big the Big ten and split the
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SEC up into a East and a West like it
already is. If you win the SEC East, you win
the Big ten. East, you have an automatic qualifier. You
win the same thing in the West automatic qualify, You
win the acc automatic qualify, you win the Big twelve
automatic qualifier, that's five teams three at large to make
it eight, right, So then you could add in a
Notre Dame or your conference championship runner up, or are
(31:20):
Miami who doesn't make the conference championship game but feel
like that's your best conference, Like, that's the way to
rectify this whole situation.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
But I can't.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Winning in the regular season has to matter, which is
one of the reasons why I'm excited to see Miami
go on this run, because without them going on this run,
you'd sit there and be like, well, maybe if they're
in the schedule, this team or that team, No, go ahead,
beat the teams you play, make that matter head to
head and have that play out.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And we see it now playing out in the post.
Let's try to squeeze in one or two more. Here,
We've got Lee is Lee there. Let's go to Lee
in South Carolina. You're on the I couple. Ye New Year,
Happy New Year, Lee?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
How are you twelve of them?
Speaker 13 (32:03):
All?
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Because I've been enjoying this football, y'all. Y'all been playing.
I always want to. There's still some good football, you know,
and some of the guys. You never would get to
see him play until to the bowl game. At your quarterback, Mandamn,
I never watched him and he can play.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, Fernando's good man.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah he can play. And see that Neka difference because
you've got a quarterback that can play like he plays.
That upgrade the whole team. So in down to the
Big Way where they at, they got a good team.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'm not disputing Indiana or anything where they belong. But Lee,
thank you, Happy New year, real quick? All right, thank you?
Is this jivvy.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Jivvy?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And Minnesota will take this last one? You're the last
one up on this jivvy?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
What do you? What do you got to say? It's
the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 15 (32:50):
So I don't like to take that the only should
be the top four teams.
Speaker 12 (32:54):
The number one seed last year lost to the eight seeds.
We would not have had Ohio State as the national
championship last year if we only had the Big four.
And Ohio State was most definitely the best team in
college football last year, we can all agree. So I
would like to dispute the claim that it should only.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Be the top four teams Okay, that's fair. That's what
I think. I think less is more, But that's me.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I'd just rather if I could do the playoffs, I
would make them. Thanks for calling the regular season matter.
Only the teams that win their division stop with all
the wild cards.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And I do it.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They do it in all sports. They don't do it
for any other reason other than to make more money
and expand the playoff would make if you're to make
more money, If you want to say that, if you
wanted to go and eliminate and only conference.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Champions could get in, that's y. That's what I but that.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's where we are. And I'm just saying that. I'm
saying in all sports. I had a problem when baseball
did it. I had a problem with the NBA. Sixteen
of the thirty teams make the playoffs in the NBA,
So you're playing to eliminate a handful of teams.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Teams that have.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Bad records make the playoffs. Like, what is the purpose
of the regular season if everybody makes the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It is the odd couple On your New Year's Night,
Rob Parker Martin, why he's coming up next.
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm living on air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
WKRP, I'm packing. What ratings do you think WKRP got
what were they market leaders?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
What that station?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah? I never watched the show, so I won the
good show?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
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I did not watch it. But they have one of
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And I lived in Cincinnati and that was a.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Rob Parker fun fact.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
So it was a struggling AM radio station. Yes, got it.
W k r C. All right, Uh, it's time. Do
we have a player today?
Speaker 13 (35:36):
We do?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Time for the play of the day. Do we have one?
And we don't? We do? Okay? Yes we do. Are
we gonna play the player Blackness back in the lineup?
Here's a step back to Fernando hast Time rowing over
in the middle. He's got.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah trucks trolled by Fernando Fat goes up And what.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
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Speaker 7 (36:08):
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Speaker 1 (36:49):
All right, this being January first, New Year's Day, we're
gonna have a reset.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
The last reset I was one O two and ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
From here we go a fresh reset on Shekel City tonight.
I'm taking Philadelphia minus two and a half. They're in
Dallas to take on the Mavericks. I'm gonna take Boston
minus nine and a half. They're in Sacramento, better known
as NBA Siberia, taking on the Kings, and I'm gonna
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take the Clippers minus fourteen and a half.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
They're hosting the Utah Jazz fourteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
So again, Clippers minus fourteen and a half, Boston minus
nine and a half, and the seventy six ers minus
two and a half. And remember, Martin, I'm not telling
you who the bet on a hall. I'm telling you who.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
I double like the Jazz not playing five players at
a time today. For the Clippers to be fourteen point favorites.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
No, fourteen and a half, don't forget the half that's big.
Let's go here.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
You're not surprised that Lamar Jackson's gonna play against the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Are you? I mean, football players what they do, plain
and simple like people. So Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
On his podcast The Nightcap said that he would go
with Scoop Huntley instead of Lamar because Lamar hasn't been
the same since his injury, has scuffled and struggled, and
Huntley played well even though it was Derek Henry was
to start a game, obviously, but still in this game,
could you because I can't see any scenario other than
(38:37):
Lamar's really hurt, you know, with a bad back, a
back injury, and then of course I'm saying, don't play him.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
If he's hurt, he should not play.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Just like when Kevin Durant played in the NBA Finals,
everybody in their uncle.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Was like, he doesn't belong out there, and of course
he got serious.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
There's only one instance that I can remember that I've
been paying that close attention to covering this league in
which the starting quarterback name like the starting quarterback without
a doubt right.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Seemingly was healthy enough to play and didn't.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
Jared Goff Week seventeen against the Seattle Seahawks when he
was a Los Angeles Ram, he had a broken thumb
and it was a backup. I remember at the time,
I asked hibout who was on the staff? I said,
what's the deal here? They said the guy's name was
John Wolford, who was the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I remember that.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
I think John Wolford gives us a better chance to
move the ball. I remember that, right, And at that
point I was like, oh, it's over for Jared Golf
in Los Angeles if Lamar Jackson is healthy one point,
if I remember was awful, yeah, I mean he actually got.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Hurt in the first quarter and Golf came in and
finished the game and got the win.
Speaker 7 (39:37):
Okay, well I remember him not playing well. He ended
up getting hurt in the first quarter of that game.
But if Lamar Jackson is healthy enough to play and
does it, it is the end of Lamar Jackson in Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Right, That's quite and simple. I agree, because it just
doesn't make sense. And he practiced on Wednesday, So to me,
he's ready to go, you know what I mean. If
he hadn't practiced all week, Martin Din, It's like, Okay,
he's not he can't play. He has the last few weeks.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
He's missed the day of practice every single week leading
up to it, and so like, no, I'm not surprised
to see him play. But I just think ultimately, if
they were gonna make that move, you might as well
just put him on the trade block now.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
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Speaker 6 (02:15):
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Speaker 2 (02:24):
Let me welcome with my calls. He is mister Martin
white purple hates all of my brain.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The lyric on that let me wait until I kiss
the sky not what most people thought to said.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Uh what are most people think?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I said, Rob waiting till I kiss this guy?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
People a woman? People don't know the lyrics.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Thank you for giving me a great drop by the.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Way, You're welcome, You know what I mean? Get you wait? Hey,
I'm not her every day, but it's not my first day. Okay,
it's ai. Why would you do that to me, Alex, I.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Can't wait to kiss that guy.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
I mean that was right there, seventy seven, right down
the middle.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I almost missed because it took.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
Too long to get to the plate. All right, what
did they say, Rob? You would do that to me
after all these years? Hey man, listen Alex, erase that.
We know, man, we don't need that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, I like that.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Four minutes into the new year, the first drop and
then the second drop.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Erase that.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
And you know what, Rob, I think we'll have to
do a best of last year of all the drops
up put together.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
My goodness, we'll do that. We got too many of them.
You know what, there's another song real quick, h secret
agent man?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Do you know that song? Can you find that? Yes?
Can you? Can you find that? Real quick?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Let me find it?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And people were singing the lyrics to song wrong forever?
Oh what did they say, Rob?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You gotta hear it first?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You got it?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Weis's back up to bed heard anything after that grand
slam in the first Parker is laying it right, man.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But what people were singing was they called him secret
Asian man. So people will request the song you know
to DJ's can you play Secret?
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Can you play Secret Asian Man. I will say this banger,
but just listen to the lyrics lead the Life of Danger.
Now here it comes, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I will say it's pretty close.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
I will say he does not quite enunciate the ah
a git, so people would think with the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's why I brought up the Jimmy Hendricks lyrics because
people will get it wrong and they will be singing
it forever. Secret Asian Man. All right, it is the
Odd Cup on this New Year's Day. Let's welcome in
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this five radio program without him. Alex is our engineer
behind the curtain.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Ian is our producer.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yay Monty Bolanos is at the anchor desk. She'll keep
us updated to off the program. Is Elijah working today?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Do you already know this? Robins the holiday? It's only
you and me?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay? No, Elijah with.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Rob G came in and produced this morning when I
did Colin Show, and then of course he could have
stuck around to do this show. No disrespect Ian, but
I'm just saying, you know, Rob G has any chance
to get off.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
He's off company man he is.
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You know right now the three here that are filling
in once he's not filling in. But everybody, this is
a Saturday right here, Saturday eight to eleven, five to
eight Pacific time.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Is it really?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
This is the brain trust right here, Martin Monts.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I went to you this weekend.
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Let's get it.
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Actually, the crew right now can't rob out of here.
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See it is your producer because I see him do
your social media videos.
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So I'm what.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm not gonna say anything. I'm just asking. I'm good.
All right, here we go, Martin. You're a huge college
football fan. Okay, you went to Michigan the whole nine yards.
I said this from Jump Street and I'm gonna stick
by it. I didn't like when they expanded the college
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football playoffs because I didn't think there were enough teams
that really could vie for the national championship. We had
seen prior to that, blowout after blowout, all double digit losses,
all that saying are there really at that? This was
when they had four teams, like is there really enough?
We didn't see like the quality type of games I'd
like to see.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And here we are today New Year's Dame and We're.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Watching games, college football games that are terrible, just terrible.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It was. It was terrible in game one, what was that?
Twenty three nothing? The first game today Oregon be Test Tech,
twenty three.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Nothing, and today the score was twenty four to nothing.
The final was thirty eight to three.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Games. Actually, still it's still going on. I thought it
was over, I mean left, Okay, it's currently thirty eight
to three.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Okay, it's been over since about you know, thirty eight
to three seven.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And I'm I'm not sitting here.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I don't want to act like I'm sitting here and
I'm going to rearrange the sports world and make a change.
And everybody's going to say Rob is a genius and
all that, but I'm convinced more than ever that this
has been a mistake and for them to even expand
this field even further is going to be even more
of a mistake than just going back to trying to
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get the best four schools. Alabama lost three games, Okay,
you want to put them in the college football playoffs.
They get their butts kicked by Deiana. And when I
was doing local radio in Detroit, when Michigan lost its
second game of the year, Martin, college football talk stopped
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national championship, you know, conversation stopped because that was it.
Now it would turn to beating Ohio State at the
end of the year, right after you lose your second salvage,
right after you lose your second game. And now teams
with multiple losses too, three losses are making it in
because you need to fill these spots.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm against it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I think it's terrible for college football and Ian real quick.
And then Martin, you jump in reach some of the
scores from last year because we just we're getting started
here a bad day twenty eight twenty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Three to nothing and a thirty eight to three game.
Those are the two games we got. The losing teams
have three points.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Right, So if we go back to last year. In
last year's playoffs Clemson versus Texas, Texas won thirty eight
to twenty four, so to score win there. Ohio State
beat Tennessee forty two to seventeen, so complete blowout in
that one. Penn State beat SMU thirty eight to ten,
another blowout. Notre Dame beat Indiana twenty seven to seventeen,
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so double digit win there. And then in the second round,
Notre Dame beat Georgia twenty three to ten, Penn State
beat Boise State thirty one to fourteen, Ohio State beat
Oregon forty one to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm just Martin. I'm looking at the games.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
All of them were double digits, all of them like,
is that what we want to see for your to
determine who's going to be the national championship. I'm out
on this format. Too many teams, not enough quality football.
I think college football loses well.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
If you're out on this format, then you're out on
every playoff format that has ever existed. It doesn't take
much longer. Go back to one year ago. You read
all those double digit scores in the the same year
the Texans beat the Chargers by two scores first round,
Raven Steelers, Bills over the Broncos, right Rams over the Vikings,
and the Eagles beat the Packers. All of those games
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on Super Wildcard Weekend, all six five of them were
double digit victory.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You gave me wild Card Weekend, right, Okay, so hold
on give me.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
I'll give it to you because that's what this is
supposed that's what the first round of the playoffs is.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I get that they have teams that have buyed into this.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
But your point of can we get there's not enough
teams to compete for a national championship, so on and
so forth. There's not enough teams to compete for a
Super Bowl or an NBA finals run. Every single year
we fill out the playoffs. Why do we do it?
Because this is the only way to ensure the best
four teams have the opportunity to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, it's not because okay, go ahead, well how would
you figure it out?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm just saying, there aren't that many teams, and all
you do is you continue to water down. The NBA
is wrong, The National Hockey League is wrong, The NFL
is wrong when you put teams in that aren't even
barely five hundred, so you have water down the pool.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm not gonna get to this.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
So that's playoffs in general then, because that's ball.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wasn't there to where we don't have like like now,
we're getting to the point where just to me, with
smaller amounts, with more teams getting involved, how do you
win today? If you're a college football fan, I'm just
asking you. You watch two games on on on New
Year's Day, and neither one was competitive. I'm just saying
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this is the norm for me. There have been plenty
of exciting, unbelievable NFL playoff games. You could give me
this the little uh first round, which is the clue
of what we're doing here, But this is.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
The this is the last two years of the college football.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I could give you plenty of great NFL games, and
not all of them. Now I'm telling you, I agree
with you that there are too many teams because you're
you have a couple of scenarios where Tampa Bay has
lost seven of its last eight and can make the playoffs.
Something's wrong with a system where a team can lose
that many games and yet win the division and make
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the playoffs. They shouldn't be in the playoffs, but they
could wind up if they went on Sunday. All I'm
saying is, as a college football fan, how does this
feel good? And are you cool with it that they're
gonna not only have twelve but expand this to even more.
The college basketball is the same thing. Sixty four. Let's
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go to sixty eight. Let's go to all these schools,
and yes, you'll have an occasional upset in the first
round or occasional upset, but.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's not most of the game. Most college football find.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Absolutely should be a fan of this individually for your team. Sure,
the viewing experience of the first round mimics the first
round of every other playoffs that we have in every
other sport, where the team go figure that has the
higher seed normally be the living hell out of the
team that's the lower seed, because that's how the regular
season drafted it out to be. That's why the regular
season exists for playoff seeding, so that it's.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Most of you. Did you en George out? Did you
enjoy it? As a college football fan?
Speaker 7 (13:13):
What I would want to have happened, not without any
question of a doubt, is my team that I feel
as a as a legitimate opportunity to win a national championship,
have an opportunity to do so, which was ripped from
all college football fans up until a eight twelve team
playoff question.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And I'm telling you you enjoyed this. I'm not telling
the as a college football I am an Indiana. I'm
not Indiana Indiana. Are you interested in here? But not
as not as an Indiana fan or not as.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
As a fan of any team that has an opportunity
to win a national champion would as I absolutely am
a fan of that's not I just want you to
answer my question as a college football fan. Yes, I
like the playoffs. Okay, so yeah, I've said it a
million different ways. No, I'll tell you why I like
it this way. If I'm an Indiana fan, I could
go twelve and zho for four years in a row.
They'll never put me in the BCS Championship Bowl. And like,
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if you lose the Big Ten Championship Game, Indiana would
be banished the same way that BYU was in years past.
They would have never have been in this position if
there were no playoffs A.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine to nine six sixty three sixty nine. Are
you like Martin Weiss? You loved New Year's Day college football?
How do we figure it out otherwise college football? I'm
just telling you what they have now doesn't work. So
what you I mean you want to go back to
I want to go back to four. I want to
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go back to four team. The best four teams play.
That's all I want. And if that's a blowout, then
we'll have to live with it, but I don't want
twelve teams and double digits and teams can't score. At
one point today it was forty seven to nothing in
the score of the two winning teams and the other
the two losing teams. That's the football we want to
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Speaker 2 (16:23):
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
New Year's Day, Odd Couple, Rob Parker, Martin weiss In
for Kelvin Washington eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Instead of calling this the first round of the college
football play let's just call it the blowout round of
college football football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Martin loved it. Martin loved the scores.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Love the game.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I just like the playoffs. This is what you get
in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I definitely think too many teams and it's only gonna get.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Worse as they continue.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Welcome to Fan eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox.
Let's do what we want to hear from you. Where
are you, mister college football fan? Mart We got some people.
Let's go to mic in Arizona. You're on the eye
Couple on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
What's up, my how you doing hey?
Speaker 12 (17:10):
I definitely love the playoffs.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
You know what, I'm fifty six years old, and I
remember when they were just bowl games and the talking
heads decided who the champ.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Was on the field, even even the lowest teams.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
You know, you guys don't make the Autumn mountainetic bits,
or they at least win eleven games.
Speaker 12 (17:30):
They don't just go in with seven. I love that
there's a playoffs.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You watched that. We watched both games. You enjoyed both
of them. I'm asking you, Mike, Mike, he just said
he did. Why you gotta why you gotta cross the jam?
I'm want to ask him, Mike, did you enjoy those
games today?
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (17:45):
I did?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
All right, Mike? Thank you? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Allen call him from blowout Arizona eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Allen in New Mexico. You're on the eye couple on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 14 (17:56):
Yes, I just want to see that.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
Well new year to first of all, but thank.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You Allen, You too, buddy.
Speaker 13 (18:03):
But yeah, I really love this playoff system. I mean,
if you got eleven or twelve one lost teams, who
are the big head is just gonna put in the
first four?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Alabama lost three games, right.
Speaker 13 (18:18):
And that's completely wrong. But I mean, if you get
enough one loss teams and you know, you get like
twelve teams with one lost, who are you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
But that's not what's going in there. Two and three
loss teams are getting in. Thanks for the call, Allan,
Thank you appreciate it. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
we want to hear from you college football playoff. I
think they should go back to four teams. Twelve too
many and expanding it more.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
You want to try you want to try it. Maybe
maybe if you call up the call, it'll he'll agree
with you.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, this is the odd couple. Cameron in Indiana, You're
on the odd couple. Fox Sports Radio, CA. I'm just
out here. I'm just I'm visiting, Cameron. You feel I
don't here every day?
Speaker 15 (19:05):
Oh I am going too. Hey, I got a lot
to say, so just tear me out on this.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Go for it.
Speaker 15 (19:10):
First off, I just want to say that signet's putting
all of college football unnoticed. We can get our first
swim since eighty eight against Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm going to stop you right here. Let me just
say this to you, and I'm gonna let you go cameraon,
So don't hang up, don't do anything. They have the
they were in the top ten and money spent on
the team right for players two million dollar quarterback, they're
coaching staff and coach make twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
What on notice?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
For what?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They spent a lot of money there in the top ten.
Why shouldn't they have a good football team Indiana, I
don't even understand it. What Why shouldn't they have a
good football team?
Speaker 15 (19:47):
Oh no, I'm calling out all the other coaches. I'm
welling there's time to stop underperforming and collecting huge checks
for doing nothing is over. That's why I'm gonna hate
Signetti because they get a free ride.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I don't hate them. I'm just saying I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't look at this as a little lingen who
could And this is not Indiana, the old Indiana.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
This is a different India.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
To notice that Signetty is putting on the rest of
the nation is to the point of this is not
the little Indiana that that couldn't, to your point, the
little train that couldn't. Now they can and now if
Indiana can do it, anybody can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Is the point that I think the point.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That Okay, so you think just just because you spend
a lot of money, anybody can win. Yeah, it doesn't
work like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Some of the highest payrolls in sports teams show they
don't win.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
And that's why the Pirates are competing for the division
every But that's why you're not spending.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You're not one. Okay, but come on. The Mets also
had the highest payroll last year spending guarantees one.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I'm saying, okay, show me the team that showed me,
the team that's saving money that's also winning.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The Arizona Diamondbacks went to the World Series. Go check
out where they were in payroll last two years.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So they've been in the World Series. What twice is
Randy Johnson? But they made the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
The Texas Rangers are mid majors, a mid market team
as well.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
They made it to the World I'm just saying it's
not automatic. The Rangers not automatic players to move.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But they made the World Series.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
But to the point, if you're not the last time
the Mets made the World Series, the Mets are just
recently have droven into this big spending opportunity.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I would say Yankees haven't won since since two thousand
and nine. They have the top three in payroll every year.
Haven't won anything since two thousand and nine? Are they
not there competitively? That's not about competitive. I'm just saying
about winning. I'm not talking about being competitive winning.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
You can't win the Pennant sitting outside of the postseason
where the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
All right, go ahead, Vincent.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
In California, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, Vincent.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Hap, Happy New Year man. We appreciate you.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
I object to the return to fourteen format because I
sure we end up what we had like a a
decade ago, when you know the team's predominant to Alabama, Clemson, Georgia,
and you know sometimes Ohio State and college football team
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very very regionalized and.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Helped the cut interest.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Okay, all right, you just want to let everybody in.
Why don't we just have one hundred teams in?
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Are they.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
All right? Phil? In Denver, you're on the couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Phil?
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Rob I'm kind of on your side, But the bottom
line is college football is trash.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
It is.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I'm with you. Go ahead, Phil, That's it.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
That's all I got no, I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
So just Peel is saying it's an immadalable product regardless.
But I think that you just can't engineer a result
like how many Super Bowls have we seen that have
been blowouts? Even in the fourteen playoffs. I remember that
Michigan TCU game that was down to the wire. Then
TCU walked in and lost sixty five.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
To seven to Georgia. Like, you just can't engineer the results.
You can only you have to play on the field,
in my opinion, to be able to determine how all this.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I just think there's also a fill the idea of
letting in schools like Alabama that lost three games like that.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
That is, the committee was wrong to let Alabama and
maybe should have been Notre Dame. But ultimately the process
is not the one that Thanksville.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, let's get an update with Monzi and then
we'll take more of your calls.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Hold on eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Manzi,
happy New Year, You're happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
How are we doing? How are you doing?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
You know, I'm doing just dandy.
Speaker 16 (23:51):
I'm doing almost as good as Indiana and their fans
almost as good because of their performance at the Rose
Bowl over Alabama. You know, Rob, you're not gonna get
those four game the four game playoff that you.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Want is never gonna come back. I said that at
the top. I'm not kidding myself.
Speaker 16 (24:09):
Yeah you're not, because you know it's gonna be like nineteen.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, you know it's gonna be. It's gonna go up.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's gonna go up to thirty two, and I'll be
out of the business long before.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't to worry about it.
Speaker 16 (24:19):
It's like we're going in the wrong direction, not in
the right direction.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (24:23):
But Indiana crushed Alabama at the Rolls Ball thirty eight
to three. Fernando Mendoza finished fourteen of sixteen for one
hundred and ninety two yards three touchdowns, while running back
Kaitlyn Black had fifteen carries for ninety nine yards and
a touchdown. Alabama's offense really struggled. They only had twenty
three rushing yards total compared to two hundred and fifteen
for the Hoosiers. Quarterback Ty Simpson, by the way for Alabama,
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he exited early in the second half because of an
apparent injury that he suffered earlier after being tackled. He
was replaced by back of Austin Mack.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The Hoosiers are.
Speaker 16 (24:55):
Gonna face Oregon in the Peach Bowl on Friday, January ninth.
The Aura Bowl or earlier today, is where Oregon shut
out Texas Tech twenty three zero. The Ducks had two interceptions,
seven tackles for loss, four sacks shutting down the Raider
the Red Raider offense, and Ducks running back Jordan Davison
had fifteen carries forty two yards and two touchdowns. Obviously
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still to come. It's Ole Miss in Georgia in the
Sugar Bowl, and that's going to kick off in about
thirty minutes. In NFL news, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is
expected to start Sunday Night football against the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Saints wide receiver Chris l Lave is going.
Speaker 16 (25:28):
To miss the final game of the season against the
Falcons due to a blood clot that was found in
one of his lungs, but he has no history of
blood clots. He's expected to recover within the next month.
Packers quarterback Jordan Love has cleared concussion protocol, but he
is going to sit out until the playoffs. Right now
in the NBA, Kevin durantce got twelve points. The Rockets
are extending their lead over the Nets seventy four to
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forty nine halfway through the third quarter. Late in the
first quarter of the Pistons leading the Heat at home
twenty to nineteen.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Back to you guys, thanks, man Zzi, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It is the odd couple here on Fox Sports Radio,
Rob Parker Martin Weiss in for Kelvin Washington on this
New Year's Day. I hope you had a great New
Year's Eve, and I hope you're doing great on your
day off. Here on New Year's Day. Unbelievable twenty twenty
six is here. We're talking about the college football playoff.
If you enjoyed the games or you're cool with the
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format now twelve team gonna expand eventually to even more
eighteen and you're cool with it cool? I would love
for it to go backwards. I know it's not gonna happen,
but just uh, are you enjoying the football? The blowouts
bother you or not, or it just doesn't care, You
don't care. Basically, just as long as the system's in place,
they let as many schools get in, you're cool with
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it regardless of the score.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
So if that's the pending of my argument, that's not
the case.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
I like the twelve team playoff because there's no argument
to my opinion, Like Notre Dame has no real place
to say we shouldn't have got in. Like you, if
you only lose one game in the college football season,
you will make the playoffs and have an opportunity to
compete for a national championship. And until there was a
twelve team playoff, that was not a guarantee, like you
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can go undefeated and be Florida State and be completely
left out of the conversation, which to me is I'd
rather if both of those are completely wrong. But if
I have to pick one, I picked the one. We're
currently in, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox we got let's go to uh Roberto in California.
You're on the couple on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Roberto?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Happy New Year?
Speaker 17 (27:31):
Hey, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hey you guys doing doing great?
Speaker 14 (27:34):
You I'm good.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
I'm with Rob.
Speaker 17 (27:36):
I was really into it when they first announced the
talks teams, you know, but after seeing these games, they're terrible,
and we don't need them. I think we should go
back to six with two with the bye week. I'm
over here in San Diego. If the Astins went under seated,
they don't deserve to get in.
Speaker 15 (27:54):
They get killed and be horrible, right that, Well go
back to six.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, but right there, that's your the point as text,
even if they were twelve and oh they get in
and get destroyed.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, thank you, that's not fun. Who wants to watch that? Well, no,
no one is because there is no ass tech in here.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Like maybe last year if you want to talk about
the Boise State being the up and coming, but like, yeah,
they had the Heisman Trophy candidate.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
There is no ASTech here. I may maybe I'm just missing.
I don't see.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Like, if you win your division, you win your conference,
you should be awarded with an opportunity to go to
the postseason. It's going to Rocky in South Carolina. You're
on the a couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
What's up, Rocky?
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Happy New Year, Happy new.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
Year to all of you.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Rob.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
I've got a question for you, sure, and if you
can allow me to follow.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Up you absolutely we will not hang you up on
your Rocky. We'll hold on Okay, go ahead, got you.
Speaker 11 (28:52):
So if you want to go to four teams, what
is your formula system for determine and who's the top
four teams?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I think you should have to do some sort of
strength to schedule and then you pick the best four
teams based off the strength of schedule who they beat
to get them to be ranked, and that there has
to be some sort of consistent formula that you use,
you know, like uh points, you know, point differential strength
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to schedule, like a couple things, because obviously you don't
play all the same schools, so you have to come
up with a formula to determine who's going to be
those four.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
All right, well, I want to respectfully disagree with you,
and I like the playoffs yet suck. We got two
blowout blowouts today and and even but I enjoy watching it.
I think if college football is for the fans, uh.
Speaker 11 (29:43):
And even if your own team's not in, if you
enjoy it, yeah, it.
Speaker 13 (29:47):
Kind of stink.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Did you get a blowout? And the type of and
whether it's twelve or my thought is and then I'll
hang up. I'd like to see the sixteen teams and
the certain noe bies and the top eight seeds. I'll
play at home for the first round and then you know,
so you got you got eight home games, big.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
Atmospheres like you know, like like it was in the
food swimom And I mean it's just.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
Good for the college football fans. Maybe your team's not in,
but you may.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
Be a fan of a conference or something like that,
and and that kind of thing.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I love watching the games
today and it and it kept me. But yeah, it
kind of stump.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, all right, Rothy, we appreciate it. Yeah, no problem,
thank you. I eight seven seven ninety nine on Fix.
If you wanted to.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Reform the playoff, the answer to me would be this,
you had the perfect setup with the Power five. But
now that that is now dead and you really are
now just dealing with the three of our four rather
of the SEC, the Big ten, ACC and the Big twelve.
What you should do at this point they should have
the split the Big the Big ten and split the
(30:59):
SEC up into a East and a West like it
already is. If you win the SEC East, you win
the Big ten. East, you have an automatic qualifier. You
win the same thing in the West automatic qualify, You
win the acc automatic qualify, you win the Big twelve
automatic qualifier, that's five teams three at large to make
it eight, right, So then you could add in a
Notre Dame or your conference championship runner up, or are
(31:20):
Miami who doesn't make the conference championship game but feel
like that's your best conference, Like, that's the way to
rectify this whole situation.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
But I can't.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Winning in the regular season has to matter, which is
one of the reasons why I'm excited to see Miami
go on this run, because without them going on this run,
you'd sit there and be like, well, maybe if they're
in the schedule, this team or that team, No, go ahead,
beat the teams you play, make that matter head to
head and have that play out.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And we see it now playing out in the post.
Let's try to squeeze in one or two more. Here,
We've got Lee is Lee there. Let's go to Lee
in South Carolina. You're on the I couple. Ye New Year,
Happy New Year, Lee?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
How are you twelve of them?
Speaker 13 (32:03):
All?
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Because I've been enjoying this football, y'all. Y'all been playing.
I always want to. There's still some good football, you know,
and some of the guys. You never would get to
see him play until to the bowl game. At your quarterback, Mandamn,
I never watched him and he can play.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, Fernando's good man.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah he can play. And see that Neka difference because
you've got a quarterback that can play like he plays.
That upgrade the whole team. So in down to the
Big Way where they at, they got a good team.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'm not disputing Indiana or anything where they belong. But Lee,
thank you, Happy New year, real quick? All right, thank you?
Is this jivvy.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Jivvy?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And Minnesota will take this last one? You're the last
one up on this jivvy?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
What do you? What do you got to say? It's
the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 15 (32:50):
So I don't like to take that the only should
be the top four teams.
Speaker 12 (32:54):
The number one seed last year lost to the eight seeds.
We would not have had Ohio State as the national
championship last year if we only had the Big four.
And Ohio State was most definitely the best team in
college football last year, we can all agree. So I
would like to dispute the claim that it should only.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Be the top four teams Okay, that's fair. That's what
I think. I think less is more, But that's me.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I'd just rather if I could do the playoffs, I
would make them. Thanks for calling the regular season matter.
Only the teams that win their division stop with all
the wild cards.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And I do it.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They do it in all sports. They don't do it
for any other reason other than to make more money
and expand the playoff would make if you're to make
more money, If you want to say that, if you
wanted to go and eliminate and only conference.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Champions could get in, that's y. That's what I but that.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's where we are. And I'm just saying that. I'm
saying in all sports. I had a problem when baseball
did it. I had a problem with the NBA. Sixteen
of the thirty teams make the playoffs in the NBA,
So you're playing to eliminate a handful of teams.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Teams that have.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Bad records make the playoffs. Like, what is the purpose
of the regular season if everybody makes the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It is the odd couple On your New Year's Night,
Rob Parker Martin, why he's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We'll have a little Shekel City.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
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in the US of area.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
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Speaker 2 (34:30):
If you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm living on air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
WKRP, I'm packing. What ratings do you think WKRP got
what were they market leaders?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
What that station?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah? I never watched the show, so I won the
good show?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Here we go, Ah, Matt, w u k R and
since naty it's a real stations w k r C,
and they changed it to P for the TV show Wow,
and I'm with you Martin. It was not a good show.
I did not watch it. But they have one of
(35:19):
the best theme songs. It's just out of the theme song.
And I lived in Cincinnati and that was a.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Rob Parker fun fact.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
So it was a struggling AM radio station. Yes, got it.
W k r C. All right, Uh, it's time. Do
we have a player today?
Speaker 13 (35:36):
We do?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Time for the play of the day. Do we have one?
And we don't? We do? Okay? Yes we do. Are
we gonna play the player Blackness back in the lineup?
Here's a step back to Fernando hast Time rowing over
in the middle. He's got.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah trucks trolled by Fernando Fat goes up And what.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
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Speaker 3 (36:38):
Welcome to Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's
day dicks against the scrap pall Hall.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
All right, this being January first, New Year's Day, we're
gonna have a reset.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
The last reset I was one O two and ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
From here we go a fresh reset on Shekel City tonight.
I'm taking Philadelphia minus two and a half. They're in
Dallas to take on the Mavericks. I'm gonna take Boston
minus nine and a half. They're in Sacramento, better known
as NBA Siberia, taking on the Kings, and I'm gonna
(37:23):
take the Clippers minus fourteen and a half.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
They're hosting the Utah Jazz fourteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
So again, Clippers minus fourteen and a half, Boston minus
nine and a half, and the seventy six ers minus
two and a half. And remember, Martin, I'm not telling
you who the bet on a hall. I'm telling you who.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
I double like the Jazz not playing five players at
a time today. For the Clippers to be fourteen point favorites.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
No, fourteen and a half, don't forget the half that's big.
Let's go here.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
You're not surprised that Lamar Jackson's gonna play against the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Are you? I mean, football players what they do, plain
and simple like people. So Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
On his podcast The Nightcap said that he would go
with Scoop Huntley instead of Lamar because Lamar hasn't been
the same since his injury, has scuffled and struggled, and
Huntley played well even though it was Derek Henry was
to start a game, obviously, but still in this game,
could you because I can't see any scenario other than
(38:37):
Lamar's really hurt, you know, with a bad back, a
back injury, and then of course I'm saying, don't play him.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
If he's hurt, he should not play.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Just like when Kevin Durant played in the NBA Finals,
everybody in their uncle.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Was like, he doesn't belong out there, and of course
he got serious.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
There's only one instance that I can remember that I've
been paying that close attention to covering this league in
which the starting quarterback name like the starting quarterback without
a doubt right.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Seemingly was healthy enough to play and didn't.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
Jared Goff Week seventeen against the Seattle Seahawks when he
was a Los Angeles Ram, he had a broken thumb
and it was a backup. I remember at the time,
I asked hibout who was on the staff? I said,
what's the deal here? They said the guy's name was
John Wolford, who was the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I remember that.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
I think John Wolford gives us a better chance to
move the ball. I remember that, right, And at that
point I was like, oh, it's over for Jared Golf
in Los Angeles if Lamar Jackson is healthy one point,
if I remember was awful, yeah, I mean he actually got.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Hurt in the first quarter and Golf came in and
finished the game and got the win.
Speaker 7 (39:37):
Okay, well I remember him not playing well. He ended
up getting hurt in the first quarter of that game.
But if Lamar Jackson is healthy enough to play and
does it, it is the end of Lamar Jackson in Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Right, That's quite and simple. I agree, because it just
doesn't make sense. And he practiced on Wednesday, So to me,
he's ready to go, you know what I mean. If
he hadn't practiced all week, Martin Din, It's like, Okay,
he's not he can't play. He has the last few weeks.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
He's missed the day of practice every single week leading
up to it, and so like, no, I'm not surprised
to see him play. But I just think ultimately, if
they were gonna make that move, you might as well
just put him on the trade block now.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
All Right, our number two coming up here on the
odd couple, and you don't want to miss it. We're
gonna do a little turn off your Micah Parsons, stick
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