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September 25, 2025 39 mins

Rob and Kelvin debate whether it’s fair to call Matthew Stafford ‘one of the best to ever do it’ in NFL history. Plus, SEC Tea podcast host Cierra Clark swings by to discuss all the biggest SEC football headlines in this week’s edition of ‘College Kids’. Finally, the Odd Couple Crew debates transportation obligations in this week’s edition of Shop Talk.

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airport duty. What is this about?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I told Roger, you don't tell me I want to
be sprut it? Would you want to starry? We'll save that.
So we got that and much more. A lot to
do get to in this hour, rob G, I don't
like your tone. Already? What good? Oh? What what you're
about to get to? Oh? You already know? But rob G,

(02:17):
I'm just gonna say.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
The talk was about Matthew Stafford preview of the upcoming contest. Correct.
And as we know, sometimes you know, coach speak and
coaches go crazy and make kinds of all kinds of
crazy comments. And I think these were some crazy comments
about Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, very quietly, one of the most important and big
games of the weekend is this upcoming Rams Coats game.
Because the coach are three and oh the Rams are
two and one. They look like one of the best
teams in football for about three and a half quarters
and they blew it.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
There in Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, this game is very big long term for the
NFL season, And you mentioned Shane Snichen met with the
media earlier today. He was asked about Matthew Stafford and
how is it he's able to play at such a
high level at the ripe age of thirty seven. Take
a listen to this doozy.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
I think he's one of the best probably to ever
do it. And I think he has a physicality about him,
like he's tough as it gets. I mean, you see
him taking shots and he gets up and he ain't
coming out of the game, and that's respect there, you
know right away just seeing that. But I think he
can make all the throws, you know. I think he
does a great job of seeing it. I mean, like

(03:31):
I said, he makes a big plays with his arm.
And when you've got a guy that's done it at a
high level for a long time, He's seen a lot
of different looks and so getting them in out of
the right places.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
He's been doing that for a long time.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
But I mean, justmost respect for him.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Just once again, a total like what are these guys smoking?
These coaches and whatnot. I know, you want to give
the other guy some kind words or whatever. Stafford has
played a long time. I watched his very first game
in Detroit. I covered most of his career. Okay, so
I've watched him play, But to consider him as one

(04:07):
of the greatest who has ever done it, this reminds
me of these young kids who think Paul George is
their goat. Matthew Stafford is Paul George with a lucky
championship that he was able to get, you know, late
in his career. None of the numbers or anything you
talk about with Matthew Stafford add up. None of it.

(04:29):
There's a reason he was called stat Padford. In Detroit,
they were down twenty one to nothing, prevent defense. They
let you throw in front of him. You notice you
watched it, and he piled up numbers and whatnot, and
they lost, and they will lose all the time. And
I'm just saying, those are the numbers that Stafford has,
they weren't any. I don't know if Stafford played for real.
I'm not sure he played ten games that mattered in

(04:52):
his entire career in Detroit. And I'm talking about the
three playoff games and maybe a couple of seasons the
first game of the year, you know what I mean,
where where something was on the line. I'm dead serious, Like,
I'm not so sure he played ten games in his
career that mattered before he came to Los Angeles. Here's
the issue I have in this long career. Always a

(05:16):
Tier two quarterback, right, I only got to think one
time was he ever even considered a Tier one quarterback?
And I can't dispute that two time Pro bowler one time.
I know he was an alternate on the Pro Bowl.
Has a losing record as a starter ten one, fourteen
and one in the playoffs five and five and one

(05:40):
in five outside of that Super Bowl run, you know
what I mean. And let's not forget the Rams went
to the Super Bowl with Jared Goff. Before he got there,
they weren't like an also ran or downtry out an
organization and the Messiah showed up and got him there.
So None of this stuff makes any sense to me.
I get it. You fall in love with the arm

(06:01):
and some of the other attributes, which is fine to
say that he can sling the football and he does
a lot of things well or whatever. But one of
the greatest, one of the best, who ever did it?
I just think it's overblown and people just toss around
the idea of who's great. How could you even consider
him one of the greatest whoever done it? He has

(06:22):
a losing record two Pro Bowls.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'll ask you, Rob G can you look this up?
Has he ever gotten one vote for MVP? I'm serious,
in all these years he played in national football, I
don't think he's gotten actually one vote.

Speaker 6 (06:39):
I wouldn't be surprised if he got maybe one one
of those years where hers.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
But I'm if I was a betting man right now,
I say he's never gotten even one MV. That's possible.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
So so, Matthew Stafford is one of those guys that,
again we've talked about in other sports, Kyrie Irving. You
mentioned Paul George, but I'll go Kyrie Irving time champ.
But because of circumstances, it's gonna be hard to explain
his full story.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I give you another guy, but at least Kyrie had
like a big shot in a big moment, you know
what I mean. And we know Kyrie is Kyrie.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
But it's gonna be hard because you'll name so many
other guys you'll put above him that if you didn't
really see it, you'll be hard to explain. Now, Matthew Stafford,
I think why people love him, Why he's your favorite quarterbacks,
favorite quarterback or quarterbacks of the past.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
They drool over him.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Offensive coordinator Sean McVay while he was like, we're not
gonna ride with Jared Goff's young guy. He believes, like,
get out of here, we can get Matthew Stafford. The reason,
there's a couple of reasons why. And sometimes I think
in anything you want to go where it could be music,
it could be movies, there's an adoration that people have
for somebody. Part of it is their circumstances. And I
think there's a lot of people who look at Matthew Stafford,

(07:49):
you know, the people who study the game and know
the game. They say, man, if that guy was in
place X or had the same opportunities as Joe blow Man,
what would he do? He makes every throw and you
know this, he his arm angles and throws was ridiculous.
He can throw a ball up under, over, sideways, switch hand,
left hand, no looks. And he's big, he's strong. I mean,

(08:11):
he's his big arm, he's tough, he stays in games.
And I think there's a part of guys who watch
him and say, man, if he was only in a
Kyle Shanahan system for a decade, if he was.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Only with Andy Reid, Andy Reid.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Got Kevin Cobb, made Kevin Cobb look like a thing.
He brought Michael Vick from prison to the comeback Player
of the Year. Now that then mcnaf stayed in it,
and it's championship super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Who go to bad situations? Okay, Michael Jordan went to
the Chicago Bulls that had a terrible organization. Go look
it up before he showed up. Okay, really bad. They
hadn't won anything. Yeah, and Reggie Theas and all those guys.
And that's all I'm saying. There are plenty of guys.
Peyton Manning went to Indianapolis. I could go on and

(08:54):
on and on. Not the best situation, not the best circumstance.
You can't always use that forever. Body. There are people
who changed the organization. Joe Burrow. They could not win
a playoff game in Cincinnati, right, people were saying, don't
go to Cincinnati, Joe Burrow, you don't deserve that. You
deserve better. And what did he do with second year?

(09:15):
He too come to the super Bowl. That's what I'm
trying to say is that he's That's why. And Calvin
Johnson and Domak and Sue Nick fairly like they had
some players that are tough five defense to let the
year they lost to Dallas in the playoffs, go look
it up. You remember that year was throwing humans around,
Nick fair You remember that. But that year they had

(09:38):
a really good defense.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
So no, so the guys you named, I'm glad you
named them because Michael Jordan was just scoring a bunch
of pointless points until he got Phil Jackson. Peyton Manning
was just throwing a bunch of touchdowns till he got
Tony Dungee. And they created a team. And that's the point.
People who watched Matthew Stafford say, man if only he
had a situation that I'm just telling you why people

(10:01):
put him that he had no control of anything.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
But this is where I'm gonna push back. It ain't
the minute he got the team, because they had already
had successful, they had already gone to the Super Bowl.
And I'm gonna tell you this, and I want you
to go look it up. If the what's that kid's name,

(10:25):
Sequsskey Tart or whatever his name is, Jakusky Tart, if
he catches that interception and the and the Rams lose
that game, Matthew like his narrative about Matthew Stafford is
night and day because it was right on Q. Matthew

(10:47):
Stafford through a game winning touchdown in the Super Bowl
and didn't get the Super Bowl MVP. You know why
because he had two interceptions in that game as well.
And that's all I'm trying to tell you is that
he's one play away, one play from being garbage. But
one play we know we can one play it for

(11:08):
to death. We know that.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
I'm telling you going back to making the change. This
is why I disagree with you on this one. Matthew
Stafford came into an ow to sixteen team and he
didn't eli manning it. He didn't should do her. Maybe
I won't go play there. He didn't do any of that.
Matthew Stafford embrace. And I remember, obviously I'm watching his
fan I'm like, who are we gonna drive? And they
kept saying this kid out of Georgia, Kid out of Georgia,

(11:29):
Matthew Staford's a guy, kid out of Georgia. Matthew Staven's
a guy. I'm like, all right, And anytime they would
ask him, the Lions have been futrid, The Lions sucked,
the Lions aren't good. It's been a bad organization. Why
would you want to go there? Why would you want
to go there? He said, I want to be a
part of the change. And for the most part they
were a team you had to beat with him. They
made the postseason a few times with him. They wasn't

(11:50):
doing that before him. And you know that you were there.
What do you mean they weren't doing that? If there
was a long period where the Lions sucked and didn't
even make the postseason for a long time before Matthew
Stafford got there.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
But this's know what I'm saying. But they were bad
and they got a lot of great players, Calvin Johnson,
they had a first top pick for year after.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
Year after one of them is no longer winnings, Charles Rogers.
They were just picking people. Receiver after William, they're picking receiver.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Here's the other thing that doesn't bode well. Look at
the other guys. Matthew Stafford with the two Pro Bowls,
Derek Carr four, Andy Dalton three, Kirk Cousins four and
every person.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
You tell me if I'm wrong, you would take Matthew
Stafford out of everybody you just named.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
No, that list would take over and not at the
time when they played, because there were there's a lot
of bad Matthew Stafford that I was there every Sunday.
I was there every Sunday. No, No, you're doing it
after the feeder. It doesn't work know in real time. No,
it doesn't matter like Stafford. You're looking at Matthew Stafford

(12:55):
after Yes, you are, dude. Matthew Stafford has been he
has been your favorite.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
And now analyst and and Nalys says, break down quarterback
of the quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
The people love matt He threw a ton of big
interceptions again for us with the Lions. Are you kidding?
I was watching? He has come in one season ever?

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Yeah, because his teams were down because they weren't great,
and he found a way to get them back. Yeah,
eight comebacks and win. You howny players don't have that
in their tire fifteen.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
But the problem is there were situations where they could
have beat Green Bay. The last game of the season
at home, he has a terrible game. I could go
and document all these games. There's a reason that people
went along with that nickname stat Pafford because most of
his stats came late.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
They didn't come when the game was in flux. I
saw too many come back I watched all these games.
He won games they shouldn't have won. And that's why,
like when they called him the cardiac Cats, because they
knew how to come back.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Look Matthew Stafford again.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
I think the benefit he has is people say, if
you put him in a winning situation, what wi happened?
He got to one and he won. You make that
situation in the postseason. That's five and two in the
postseason with Sean McVay.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I know he's five and five is what he is
and running.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Fo and people saw him over right. He made a
horrible Futrioit franchise solid. They weren't great.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
He made them solid and competitive for so long and
then he goes to it. They weren't competitive to me?
I were they lost twenty three twenty three straight road
games when that's the.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Same Matthew Stafford that had them in the postseason haldful
of times, but I know a time. Never in the
years three times Matthew Stafford to go to the playoffs
all the time, Barry Sanders, Wayne Fons, they went every
other year.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
To the postseason.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
And that stopped at about ninety ninety eight, and we
ain't go back to about what twenty eleven, Literally, I
think that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven
nine nine, Eli over Stafford? Yes, are you kidding? All day?
Every day? Crazy, Matt Wow, every every day? Is Matthew
Stafford really wanted the best to ever do it in
the NFL? And would you take Stafford over Eli Manning.

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Speaker 7 (15:22):
Unless you're in this illusion that Matt Stafford is an
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Speaker 6 (17:38):
I don't even know how to phrase this essentially Matthew
Stafford a couple of different ways. You're taking him over Eli.
Is he one of the elite quarterbacks of all time?
We're taking your calls eight seven, seven ninety nine on
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
Got Drew and Tampa you're leading off, You're on they
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio? What's up Drew?

Speaker 9 (17:56):
What's going on? So my thought on Matthew Savage real seven,
there's times in the quarterback position where a quarterback makes
a wide receiver and a wide receiver makes a quarterback.
Matthew Stafford falls in that position where the wide receiver
makes the quarterback. Calvin Johnson made that man's career, just
like Randy Moss and Chris Carter made Dante Colpepper's career. Now,
when quarterbacks make the team great, they make wide receivers.

(18:20):
You look at the Tom Brady's Eli mannings. Who did
Eli have to throw to?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Would you say, go ahead? Go ahead?

Speaker 10 (18:32):
I'm just saying, when you do that, that's my opinion.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
You have wide receivers that can make quarterbacks. Alvin Johnson
made Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
That's how. That's how, despite never planning a big game
for Calvin another one who played that and wound up
quitting prematurely on the Lions. But my Tennessee is doing
that to people only disagree.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
What I have with you is like, all right, well,
then Peyton Manning is not a great quarterback because he
had Reggie, Wayne Stokely, Marvin Garrison and Dallas Clark and
Adrian James in the backfield.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, Lee, we're doing that. Ben in Seattle, you're on
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Ben?

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (19:12):
Rob?

Speaker 10 (19:13):
Yeah, I'm calling uh to descend Stafford because you guys
just sound like Detroit hitters.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Have to be a hater.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Don't time into the Detroit he I got a hat
right now to say.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Detroit hater because I'm not on board with you. What
everybody gotta, everybody's gonna be in lockstep. Is that what
you want in this world?

Speaker 10 (19:34):
No, Nora, Norah, because you make good points when you
talk about some of these quarterbacks that you don't like
and stuff like that, but you just go completely left
and just act like a hitter or something like that.
Let me limit Matthew Stafford is a Hall of Famer

(19:55):
because Juri Julian hits Lucus season remember how he got
hit and got injured on the play, but instead of
going out went touchdown. Uh, and so.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
He should go into the Hall of Fame for that?
Is that why he's in the Hall of Fame? Come on, really?

Speaker 10 (20:16):
No, because no, because he show that type of toughness.
You don't see him about play in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Okay, but you also see the interceptions that he's throwing,
the playoff interceptions, the games. There's a lot of bad
Matthew Stafford out there. Go look it up. There's a
reason his name was stad Padford in Detroit.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
If you don't stop saying no, no, here's a reason
you agree with it.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
But there's a reason that people didn't push back on
that or saying pushing right now, you know that that
was that was That was a moniker for I.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Saw Matthew Stafford make them boys compete and go and
win games they should want for year years.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Because they would be like, here we go, you're gonna
add a couple of touchdowns in the yard now with
prevent defense. Jim in Atlanta, you're on the odd couple.
Fox Sports Radio, what's up?

Speaker 11 (21:04):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Rob?

Speaker 9 (21:05):
What's up? Calvin? Hey?

Speaker 11 (21:07):
Rob? Let me get a few points out before you
started yelling, why do you want to.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Say that I thought of Yellow?

Speaker 12 (21:14):
I'm lover.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
You went too far.

Speaker 13 (21:16):
Now, I've been with you.

Speaker 11 (21:18):
I've been with you since the beginning to show I
know you. So so here you go. I won't say
this about I think he's a solid quarterback.

Speaker 9 (21:26):
Right.

Speaker 11 (21:27):
And here's why I say a couple of things. You
got to consider it. At the time, he was playing
the Division with Brad Farr, who had Sterling Sharp and
Red you Whiting those guys. So I mean he was
playing and a good Hall of Fame coach and might
hold him. So you know it was hard to win
the Vision number two. If you really look at Eli Man,
if you take out those those two Super Bowl runs,
he's a five hundred.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Take out the two super Let me.

Speaker 13 (21:51):
Finish, Let me, let me finish, rob please. So I'm
just saying this. You said to what is if that
that past hadn't stuck to David Tyree's helmet. He also
had a Hall of Fame defense You know some great
defense players. So my point is, I did Kelvin is right.
Sometimes the situation does matter.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
The Giants were bad. The Giants were bad, and let
me tell you this, this is why tim I don't
buy it because Eli, it wasn't That wasn't the game winner.
The Tyreek did the helmet catch, David, that wasn't a
game when he still had to throw the Plaxico to
win the game. Stop making it like he just threw
the ball up like blindly. But he also that throw

(22:31):
he makes some manningham up the sideline that the all
time big game. David Tyree the reason.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah, he threw it to Plexico, but he also threw
a fifty yard bomb to him that we ain't heard
from the David Tyree. We ain't her from before or after.
He made that amazing case, won the.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Game winner, and he beat the Patriots, and he's a Humanitian.
Single time all of those nineteen and O T shirts
went to time, a.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Defensive coordinator was like, yo, we got to worry about Eli, Manny.
There are several times where defensive coordinators were like, we
all are we gonna stop Matthews Teffert.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
What are you talking about? Eli's top ten in touchdowns
and and top ten and uh.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
You gotta stop top top ten. We gotta stop Tiki Barber,
stop it. What nobody thinking about no stopping Eli, did
you have something robbery? Oh, that was just a horrible throw.
Did you just see that interception there? Mantz is gonna
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Speaker 4 (24:27):
Now again, Sierra's got three very scintillating hot takes related
to SEC football. The guys are gonna tell us whether
or not her take is sophomoric or graduation worthy.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Let's get to it. Take number one.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Talking SEC football with Sierra Clark, Sierra says the SEC
they did the right thing going to this nine game
conference schedule and mandating one power forward team each year
as an oppony. It was controversial at the time, Sierra,
explain your case.

Speaker 12 (24:57):
Yeah, so for years and years there's been chatter on, well,
the SEC always plays these cupcake teams. Even within the conference.
There's a bit of a divide amongst fan bases on
certain teams playing easier schedules. You know, missoo they always
played Vanderbilt or well Miss got to play Vanderbilt in
Kentucky a lot of times, while Arkansas or Florida Texas

(25:19):
for example of this year, has an easy year. I
don't say easy. Easy your schedule than a lot of
the other teams. Dancy see, they played Utah and some
other schools in Texas that are smaller rather than schools
like Arkansas getting Notre Dame and they're out of comface schedule.
When there was divisions, they would constantly play Alabama and
the really tough divisions in the West. And I think

(25:40):
now every team gets a little bit of a taste
of those tough teams because everyone's gondy to play everyone now,
so there's no hiding from any team.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
Now, all right, Look, graduation worthy not alway. That's why
you've got your cap and gown. I'll tell you why.
Because you hit on a few things.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
I'm a wonder playing some tougher people to play in
them early. And here's a thing. If they add to this, Sierra,
They're were in a.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Situation where you might be able to lose three, you
might be able to lose four if you're losing, you know,
in the right games the right time the season, and
still make the college football playoffs if depending on who
you are. So it absolutely helps for you to be
playing tougher teams early, tougher especially SEC teams. It might
keep your you know, it won't hurt you as much
historically as it would. So why not schedule those tougher

(26:24):
games because it might actually bowl well in your favor.
I'm with you, and not to mention just us the viewers,
we had to see better games.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I call them law firms.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
Don't nobody want to see these schools playing law firms
Davison and Troy and and Sampson and Sampson.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'm gonna throw confetti on your head because you were
gonna graduate. That's right. And I think you're spot on.
There too many cupcakes. I mean, they had so many
cupcakes in the SEC. I used to have a toothache
watching those games. I mean it was just so your
best so right now. And your point that you may, Calvin,

(27:00):
which is the right one, is that before if you
lost two games, your season was over done, was done,
you had no shot, and now you can lose. So
playing a good team, especially early in the schedule, is
not a bad thing, even if you lose.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
College can't Sierra Clark with the I couple take number two.
I don't know if you guys know this, but in
college football, when a coach gets fired, all the players
on their team get a thirty day transfer portal window
so they can leave when he's out. And even still,
Sierra says, hey, I'm cool with it. I love when
coaches get fired midseason. Sierra tell us, why, well, of.

Speaker 12 (27:36):
Course, I don't want a coach to get fired.

Speaker 13 (27:39):
I fit.

Speaker 12 (27:39):
He doesn't deserve to get fired. But you know, there's
some situations where a coach they just got to let
him go. My matter as is an example. You were
SI Florida with Billy Naper and when Florida lost the
South for I digress. But the specific example of talking
about is with Oklahoma State. They fired their longtime head
coach Mike Gundy after Oklahoma State lost this whole And

(28:01):
but you said the players can follow with him, and
I say, good wridden. I say this mostly as a
fan because the previous coach recruited those guys relationships, and
those guys clearly were not working out well because the
team was not doing that good. So I say, good riddance.
Let's just clean house, get a new coach and start over.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well, you know what, you graduated, not as sophomore. Come
on back, listen.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
If the coach decided to leave for because you got
a new gig, I'd give you that. But if he
got fired, that's a whole different situation. Sitch butt down,
finish the season and talk to me at the end
of the season. They have so many opportunities to transfer
now and it doesn't hurt them like they used to
back in the day, so you can wait a handful
more weeks. When the season's over, get to transfer on in.
But Daggie, we had to fire him because assuming he

(28:49):
sucked and he had to go have us he finished
the season.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Sierra, you just got your master's degree. I'm with you.
He's out. He brought me in. A new coach is
gonna come in and bring his own guys. I gotta
wait when there might be a job or situation you
know what I mean, or circumstance available to me right now.
Why do I need to wait around for that for

(29:13):
this guy to dump me once a new coach comes in.
I'm with you, Sierra. All right.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Last take of the night, college kids Sierra Clark from
the sec T podcast here with the odd couple. I
don't know if you guys know this. We had a
big game coming on Saturday. Number seventeen Alabama traveling to Athens.
Take on number five Georgia.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
What it going all the way across?

Speaker 4 (29:33):
That's right, seventeen hour flight rob and Sierra says, this
is the year that Georgia finally beats Bama in Athens.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Sierra tell us, why, yeah.

Speaker 12 (29:47):
Well, first off, Georgia hasn't beaten Alabama in the regular
season since Matt Stafford was the quarterback there, so it's
gonna off the coming. And they actually haven't beaten Alabama
and Accent since two thousand and three, so most of
these players weren't even born yet. But I think that
Georgia has this, especially after they played Tennessee a few
weeks ago. I think Georgia has showed that they can

(30:07):
play in a tough environment and now that they're back home,
they're going to have the crowd against him. It's a
night game, and their quarterback Gunner stoped him has creved
that he can do it. He threw for over three
hundred passing yards against Tennessee and had two touchdowns through
the air one on the ground, And I just think
Georgia is finally gonna get it dumb and done, and
they can also rely on the run game more than

(30:29):
Alabama can. Bama had seventy five rushing yards against Wisconsin,
who is not a good football team. Georgia ran the
ball for nearly two hundred yards at Tennessee. So I
just think Georgia is finally getting it together, and I
think that head coach Kirby smart is finally going to
take that throne of the king of the sec especially
now that Nick Saban's gone.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
Uh you got your massive PhD.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, Georgia.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
I think Georgia definitely has a number. Not to mention,
we talked about this is not the Alabama vold this season.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
They're not.

Speaker 6 (30:59):
They look like they did previously, and they don't even
look like last year they didn't look that great as well.
I think Georgia's on a roll. And also you mentioned
something Alabama historically. We were talking about Dereck Henry. The
last couple of days, we've talked about so many running
backs that they've had come out of there.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
This isn't They're not that right now.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
They're not dominant, they're not the most you know, usually
on the offensive line, defensive line, that's where you feel
at Alabama's presence. It doesn't feel like that right now,
and it feels like Georgia, especially they escaped early.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
They were fortunate getting out of Tennessee.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
You could argue they maybe should have lost that game,
but you take that momentum, you ride it in and
I feel you I'm agreeing with you on this one.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Congratulations. I think we're sending you to community college after this,
back to cool, back to it. I'm just saying nothing
that there's anything wrong with community college. But there are
schools that have something over other schools, Sierra, no matter what,
no matter what year, you know what I mean, forever.
And I think that's the case with Alabama, uh and Georgia.

(31:57):
I still think Alabama, despite not being your daddy's Alabama,
I still think that they hold some magic over Georgia.
Nick Saban ain't walking through that door.

Speaker 7 (32:06):
You know that?

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Right there you go, And that's college kids with Sierra Clark.
Thanks to you. I appreciate it. Thank you guys much,
good job.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
No don great stuff. All right, Rob GE's got something
cooking for us. Shot talk is coming up. It's the
Odd Couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington. TV Themes song Thursday,
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Speaker 1 (33:31):
Ain't nobody's stamping the bomb shop?

Speaker 2 (33:33):
You know that?

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Ain't nobody you were talking about? Whoever, whatever, whatever you want?
You in the boss up, you know it's shop talking
type pans. Thank you, Robin, Yes, It is shop talk
here on the couple Fox Boys tight pants for tighter
pans and tighter pans, shorter shorts, going on, who is this?
What is this? Whoa? This is this? What you was

(33:54):
doing on the cruise?

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Yeah, he was reading the checklist for the cruise type pans,
tighter pans, pat wait till I get wait till Christmas
comes with us. All I know it is shop talking
from I don't even know what this is from. We
talk about something that happened outside of the world. It
should have been the cruise. To be honest with you,
but I.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Know that right there. All you gotta do is replay
that segment. There's a shop talking.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
It feels like the internet was listening to that whole
Mansy Breeze segment.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
We had a couple of weeks ago. Oh the airport joint.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah, because there is a question that has people freaking
out on Instagram so much so they did a segment
about it on the Today Show. And the question is
very simple, excuse me, Rob, send me that negativity towards me. Yeah,
I got you, gotta Rob g Voodoo.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Do I want you to know nice? Is it skinny? No,
it's a album because I need a lot of cushion
to be Wow. Okay, here's the question.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Oh, if you have a close friend or family member
that is not busy, are they obligated to either pick
you up or take you to the airport if you
need it.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
They're not obligating to do anything. Come on now, obligated
that is, even if they're not busy, they're not obligated to.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
I just don't even bother my fan. I got some
fan my sister. Yes, but give on me, dovey. I'm
calling you out right now. My sister for years now.
It's not like she's twenty years younger. She ain't twenty
years older. Well she or not four years my sister
act like uber and lifted not exists?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Brother? Can you pick me up? Can you ever? Time
you get in twelve forty five in the morning? Whoa
you not? Got kids and work and school?

Speaker 9 (35:39):
Please?

Speaker 1 (35:41):
But you know what I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna
give a shout out to my older sister, Marianne. Shout
to Marianne, because Marianne.

Speaker 14 (35:48):
At least if she doesn't want to pick her brother up,
guess what someone she'll say, I'll pay for your lift
or Uber because I'm not not gonna come get you.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
And I'm like, okay, now that now to me, you
take your sister money. Of course, now we got a
whole new segment.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Stop starting over, start shop talk over. Now we got
isn't that MONSI isn't that shot over?

Speaker 13 (36:17):
Right?

Speaker 6 (36:17):
Now?

Speaker 9 (36:21):
Shop?

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Let me let me preface. This is pan tighter pants,
this is Marianne. That's Ai. That's Ai. That ain't me,
that is.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
First of Marne. Let me look at you and say,
I don't know. My assumption is you do you you
make more than her?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
I don't know. Mary ain't n be balling, but I
know the conversation.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
We were just having her to break this sister answer
the question, sir, you're honor please have the witness.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Answer the question. I make more money than you. You
can't be taking her money.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
No.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
She looks at it, and that goes back to the
offer thing like I'm an offer to accept it.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
She looks at it like I should come pick my
brother up. He lives in Los Angeles, he's flying in.
I have a car. I should come get him. But
I don't want to get up or I don't want
to you know what I mean. I'd rather not. But
I'm not going to leave you out.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
There because you so that means the uber's like are
you Marianne, yes, and getting it so to be.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Like, just get a car and I'll take care of it.
I don't. I don't do it all. I don't take
the money all the time. But once in a while,
if I want to take somebody else to lunch, I'll
use her use your sister's money, Maryanne when I come,
and don't even worry about it.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Alex, I'm just ridiculous, Rob. This might be the one
time I don't agree with you.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
I'm just saying, seven years younger than me, she makes
more money than me. I've never let her pay for anything,
what never once. That's my sister.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay. Can I say this and I'm not I'm not
trying to being honest. Okay. I bought my sister a car,
and I bought two of her daughters their first cars.
All right, so he can take, he can take. And
I'm not trying to what you call it, but who

(38:17):
who are here brought their sister a car? That's really
I bought a car, new car, a brand new car
for her, and two cars for the two youngest daughters.
I mean, wow, their first cars. And that's all I'm saying.
I'm not trying to get any brownie points. Elijah put
the camera on me, Marianne.

Speaker 6 (38:37):
Never pay for it, Uber, get that list, get that lift,
go ahead, get that Uber says, I.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Take it back. See, I'm a man who can say
I'm sorry. I didn't know.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
I'm just I did know you would getting pink slips
and buying cars here in these streets.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
I take you back.

Speaker 10 (38:51):
Sure, I'm doing a Rod Parker imitation in case my
audience doesn't know.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
Yeah, I'm doing the Steven a I pressing in case
you didn't know. That's Boston right there. A matter of fact,
don't have reflex on us like that.

Speaker 10 (39:02):
Again.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Sorry,
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