September 9, 2025 • 32 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us why these anonymous NFL coaches are being way too critical of Aaron Rodgers coming off his four touchdown performance on Sunday. Plus, MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gambles helps break down all the biggest MLB headlines in this week’s edition of Foul or Fair.
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I'd like to have fun right there, that's right, Rob
g There was a lot of playing of the what
(01:31):
if game. I guess is that what I would call
it the what if game? And talking about Aaron Rodgers
performance against the Jets.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's right because yesterday, Rob Parker, you were celebrating Aaron
Rodgers performance like his name was Aaron Jedge.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean, twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Thirty two, four four touchdowns, no picks, nothing to sneeze
that in a win for the Pittsburgh Steelers against his
former team.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The New York judgepolitans, we'll get too saucy. I think
you'll get a little saw.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But one person who was not excited about what he
saw from Aaron Rodgers was of course an anonymous coach,
because you know, anytime they got some negative say.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It was always anonymous. Was that Robert Sola? Who it
might have been?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
There could have been but the athletics Mike Sandal, Friend
of the show, Friend of the show, Mike Sandal caught
up to a couple of anonymous coaches to get his
thoughts on the debut performances of several NFL quarterbacks making
their first appearance with a new franchise. So Gino Smith
obviously JJ McCarthy his first acted cala like goes down
the list. Aaron Rodgers, of course, though, is the biggest name,
(02:35):
so we got the biggest feature. And in the explanation,
an anonymous coach who came away less than impressed with Rogers,
had this to say about his performance. Quote, he cannot
get away from the rush anymore, but he can move
in the pocket and deliver those risk flicks accurately with
or without his feet on the ground. Rogers, of course,
took four sacks, three other hits, including a couple that
(02:57):
were really jar jarring hits. The coach continues, what he
has to watch out for, though, is those risk flicks
they turn in interceptions later in the year. The four
tds what everybody sees. Nobody pays attention to the two
dropped interceptions or the fact that just four or five
years ago he'd go five games without one of those
end quote.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, my only issue is we could play this what
if game for everybody. I mean, I just like to say,
uh dropped it, or like like this is football, This.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Happens to everybody. Rob G.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Who do we have on the show from Football Focus,
Sam Monson.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Who said this was the year? What was the year
that they went to the Super Bowl? Rob G?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And uh said Patrick two years ago, Patrick Mahomes had
the most interception worthy?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Is that what it was? Deemed like? Turnover worthy?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And there's some stat where you know, a guy should
have caught the ball and they look at it and
say that should have in an interception or whatever, And
I guess you could sit there and play that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well. There were the two people drop. I've just watched
too many big games.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Did you watch Tom Brady against the against the Kansas
City Chiefs where he threw a game losing pick and
d Ford lined up off side.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Does anybody go back and go, oh, Tom Brady shouldn't
have won that Super Bowl because you know he really
shouldn't have. He threw a pick and d Ford lined
up like that happened. How about Matthew Stafford where we
think differently of Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So something Tart from the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You remember that Tart? That's a name boy, I know,
but you haven't.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Heard from him.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Rob g Did he ever play again? He was out
of the league after that game.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He Kevin, Do you remember, Yeah? I mean Stafford threw
the ball right to him. You could have thrown that
ball one hundred times, and you would catch it a
hundred times or at least not and he missed it,
dropped it like if the reaction, and it of course
opened the door for them to win.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So I'm just.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Sure interceptions, it's just a part of the game. You
still have to make plays. Yes, people are gonna drop interceptions.
Sometimes people are gonna throw interceptions. Sometimes he's forty one. Yes,
do you expect him to be as agile as he
was before?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
No, and he did.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
He got sacked, was a three or four times. Four times.
You're gonna get sacked. He can't get He used to
be elusive. You remember, Oh my god, you better not
You better not rush on him, because he would he
would make you miss. I remember he made people miss
at the goal line. You know that used to do
a couple of moves and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But I don't know. I just think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
A the what if game in the NFL just doesn't
do anything for me. I just think there's too many
circumstances or scenarios.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That you could do that. I just talked about it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The kicker Santo, So if he kicks the field goal
and you know what I mean, that might have changed
the game, and you wouldn't be talking about JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
We could just go on and on and on.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
You're gonna be shocked to know that I actually agree
with your sentiment. Reason I say that is Aaron Rodgers,
if for nothing else, if one thing you could say
about his career, He's not a turnover machine. Aaron Rodgers
doesn't turn the ball over for call it twenty years now,
however long it's been officially, so I'm not overly worried
about him in the turnover machine. I mean last year,
(06:32):
I think he had eleven interceptions, which is high for
him given the history. Secondly, the man is forty one.
If there's gonna be a slight decline, it's gonna happen
to a forty one year old, so I don't expect
him to look like twenty eight, twenty seven thirty year
old Aaron Rodgers. So I'm okay with that, and you
gotta make plays to win.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
What I would be more interested in is the conversation
of what he started with. When you talk about the pressure,
and we saw it now Kayler Williams is nowhere near
the career of Aaron Rodgers. But what pressure does right pressure.
When you get to a quarterback, they give you an example,
Jared Goff. Jared Goff is the highest most efficient quarterback
when he's not pressure in the NFL the last couple
(07:13):
of years. When he's pressure rock he drops the twenty eighth.
So when you can get pressure on a quarterback, they change.
Some of the best can handle it, some of the
best can see it in advance. And so I will
be interested to see, as you mentioned, if they keeping
teams can get pressure on Aaron Rodgers. Say, Hey, to
your point, he's not. He used to be really mobile.
It's not as moub as he used to be. Still,
maybe trying to check that Achilles. I know it's been
(07:35):
a year plus. Let's get pressure on him. We'll see
how he handles that. Also, I'm looking at this. Can
the Steelers more than Aaron Rodgers? I think Aaron Rodgers
is gonna be efficient? Do I think he's gonna throw
four touchdowns every game?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Do I think he's gonna have horrid games?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I think Aaron Rodgers is going to be efficient. Can
they get a running game to support him? Because they
get a running game, they're gonna be in business. And
I worry about that because they didn't have a running
game last year and they had beggar backs, they had Harris,
they had, you know, ability to run.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's what we kind of had banked on the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
If they can't get a running game and you put
Aaron Rodgers in a position where you're down and he's
forced to pass, now here comes that that pressure because
pinning our ears back, we're going at him. We know
he has to pass. I don't think Aaron Rodgers can
go and win you games.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So why didn't that happen against the Jets Because because
they weren't running. The Steelers weren't running the ball, so
why couldn't they have because the Jets we talked about it.
In fact, it was one of the big points you
always brought up.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
The Jets defense ain't what we thought it would be
last year been been and so we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Did that like three years ago. Everybody thought, oh they
got a Super Bowl, the res Ryan was coming through
the door.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But they haven't been good for a couple of years.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
So that defense on paper, you're in the Jets and
you just think of defense. If that haven't been good,
they haven't been great. So Aaron Rodgers took full advantage
of that as he has he's capable of.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He's a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And also, if I'm the Steelers, I'm looking at this schedule,
Rob and I'm saying, listen, NFL game is hard.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't care who you're playing. But Daggett, we got a.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Decently favorable schedule. You got the Seahawks, you're hosting them.
They're not world beaters. Then you got the Patriots, again
not world beaters. And then you go to the Vikings.
I would expect that to be a difficult one, could
be a loss, but that's a tough game. Browns defensively,
they're gonna be solid, they're gonna be good, but you'd
say we got a chance. It's gonna be a divisional game.
(09:25):
Miles Garrett's gonna go crazy, but you feel like we
got a shot in that one. And then you got
the Bengals following that. So again, defense is not great.
You can pay me put up some points. Finally you
go to the Packers, then you go to the Colts.
My point is they've got a stretch where if they
can find a way to get a running game, defense,
(09:45):
defense can be what it's supposed to, because you're not
supposed to let Jordan Justin fields go crazy on you.
And that offense running the ball as well, almost four
hundred yards, they can have a decent start. So that's
how I would be viewing these things if I'm the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Again, they can't be behind, because I don't believe Aaron
Rodgers is built to come from behind it this stage
of his career.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, they behind in the Jets game. Actually don't remember,
they were down by two touchdowns. I don't think he
is built to google that for to sustained season. I
just don't think that's fair to ask of him at
forty one years old. But they were down two touchdowns
on the run, and I don't think you can see.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No running game.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
No, nobody's saying you cannot do that, but I don't
think anybody is.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
They got Yeah, they got the fumble kick return and
got the ball back for them.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That's called football, yeah, right. So what I'm saying is
it doesn't mean that you're going to get a touchdow.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
They have to be able to use the clock up
and again, I think he is going to be, at
best a really good game manager, which is perfectly fine
for how they view themselves.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Manager, he can still throw the football. Game manager means
you're just I.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Think it's exactly what he wants to me.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
No, no, no, game manager is you can make some plays
here there. I don't need you to go for three
eighty you know, four touchdowns regularly, game managers a buck
eighty two hundred and ten. We moved the ball, got
a third down here there. We obviously run the ball.
But did that's a just you don't hurt us, You
don't call turn the ball over a lot. I think
that's a that can be a compliment if their defense
(11:12):
is what they think it is and they get a
run game. His whole thing is have to hurt him.
Russell Wilson started off white hot. Then he started to
be a part of the issue, started to turn the
ball over, started to hurt them, started to make Aaron
Patson they couldn't run the ball. That's what I'm saying
all these things because you can't put it on Russell
Wilson at this point his life. I don't believe you
could put it on Aaron Rodgers as much where he
(11:33):
is his career. So that's what I'm saying. If they're
built to be him, to be a glorified game manager,
they can be all right, But I don't think. I
don't like their roster offensively right now. We'll have to
wait and see his Week one, but I don't know
if that if that roster is as good as they
would hope it is going to be as they go
down this season throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But Aaron Rodgers, I don't think he's turn. We have
a bet.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Don't be on their win total? Right we have at
remember what the bet is? Yeah, wasn't it? I said
that went over ten games? Ten games? I think that
was the number.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I don't we can find it. I'm down with that bet,
by the way, but I don't remember if exactly. Yeah,
Geordan's but we'll talk about one pair. Don't try to
sneak that on there. It was Rob g was Jordan putting? No,
Jordan's on that. You can put it on the Lions
one and I'll still give you the Jordan. No, you
didn't know, Look you do that now.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We could do that. We could do that.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But it's funny he didn't want he didn't want to
bet it before, and it's too late.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You're going to wait to suceedsons start to make a
bet on the Lions. Yeah, we already got a bet.
No I know, but you had a chance to make them. No, no, no, no,
I tried to do George, you wouldn't do it. No,
you did not know. We do. We have to know.
We did not. You want to microwave takes and one day?
Do you want to in a day? I did what.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I gotta gotta be a commercial break so you could
go in and tape it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do you want to in a day? Is that what
you're doing?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
That's the best part is all our stuff is on
YouTube too, so stuff is shout out to YouTube. By
the way, that stuff is already there. I wanted to
put some ORNs on that. Now I was confident about
the Lions making the postseason. I wanted to put some
jays on that. You wouldn't we made it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He made you anyway, gave you a Jordan's bet.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Let's make a Jordan bet on the uh on the
Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Why you said that you don't think they were emphatic
by Lions? No, but why won't you make that bet?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Because I'm emphatic about the Lions making the postseason?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, you are emphatic about them.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
No, but you said that they made a mistake sided
Aaron Rodgers that they don't have They can't run the.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Football, can't the defense. Why wouldn't you take that ten.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Night emphatic about that one? I'm emphatic about the Lions.
That's the one I want.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
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Speaker 1 (13:43):
Are these unanim anonymous coaches I should say being too
critical of Aaron Rodgers? Or is this just coach speak?
Or should we just accept it the what if game?
We'll continue that conversation next with you. Eight seven seven
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a few phone calls Aaron Rodgers are folks who critical?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Uh, people overreacting from his good game playing the what
if game?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Yeah, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Take some calls.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right, Chris in California, you're on the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
What's up, Chris?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Going on?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Fellas?
Speaker 8 (16:54):
How are you?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
I'm good? How are you guys doing excellent?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Are you kidding? All good?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
All good? Hey?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I had a question. I was just thinking about it.
I was driving home from work. Uh, I think he
had a great game. I think he was last season.
I want to see him go out, you know, with
with a good season. But I was just wondering, I
wonder how many guys are from that Jets team that
he was a part of on defense, because you know,
number one defense goes against number one offense. I wonder
(17:22):
how much she saw or kind of new tendencies of
some of these guys and maybe that helped him out
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I don't I don't know know what, Chris.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Somebody brought that up, and I can't remember who was saying.
Is who says that he probably knows more about their
defensive scheme than probably most quarterbacks, you.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Know, in any situation. When you get a guy appreciate
the point, that's a great point. I mean, you get
to go in there, you know their schemes, they're they're
they're kind of the philosophy of the defense.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
That's why the Patriots cheated.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean, like like when people like you could say, oh,
Tom Brady didn't know. But if the coaches know what
the tendencies are on the defensive signals that there head up,
you're a head off on what plays you're going to call.
You don't go you're not stealing signed for no reason.
You're stealing because it can help you if you know
what's happening.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
If I can save my quarterback having to think, and
for Aaron Rodgers, maybe go, oh, I know that. For me, okay,
I know what they're doing there, That absolutely helps, without
a doubt, that would help it anything. And you have
the familiarity with the team, a player organization that can help.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Andre in Massachusetts, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
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Speaker 8 (18:24):
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Listen.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
In terms of Aaron Rodgers, if he can put in screeches,
you're gonna have to get him trained. But listen, he
had a good you know, I think we might have
a little bit of buyers remorse here with these owners
and the scouts. Excuse me, not the owners, but the scouts,
thinking about you could have got Aaron Rodgers had you
wanted to take a high risk, high reward bet. That's
what the Steelers did. And everyone always said it was
(18:47):
never about the talent. It was always about his ability
to buy in the team to stop worrying about his
podcast or his Q rating or you know, all of
the subliminal stuff, but just focus on football. And that's
what the Steelers appear to have created, that to situation
where he's bought in the team and he's doing what
he needs to do and not worrying about.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
All the extra stuff.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
And so if that's the case, then the Steelers can
be in the hunt in the AFC. Nobody's saying that
they're world beaters, no, but they're going to be a
tough team that can show well in that division and
possibly get a first round buyer home field advantage, and
then it's going to be, you know, it's going to
be nipping tuck with them going forward. So I don't
think that we need to have anything being critical right now.
(19:25):
I think that it should be more in terms of
what the Steelers' potential is and what they could possibly do.
That that needs to be the prevailing narrative. Thanks taking
the call.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thanks you appreciate that dog some puppy chow or something.
How about Ax in New York. You're on the couple
of Fox Like.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Oh my god, guys, I'm so mad. I am so
angry right now, guys. Aaron Judge to his three hundred
and fifty ninth home run the pass, you'll be there
for the fifth spot all time on the Yankees home
run list.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
The game was tied to to All of a sudden,
it's eleven to two.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
The Tigers are killing the Yanks. This is absolutely embarrassing.
I think I'm done, Rob, I think I'm done going
to the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Man, it's so bad, Alex, come on, it's just one game. Stop.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
I know you were gonna say, come.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
On, man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
We got eighteen left. We got eighteen games lest night.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
If you look at it, what you call the Blue
Jays are losing. I didn't lose any ground of that.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I want to Rob.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
You know, I went to my first World Series game
last year, and I want to go to another one.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And you know what does this have to do with
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
I'm moving face, Rob.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Please call on MLB Bros time hang hang in there, Alex,
hanging there.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I just saw of call. I didn't know that was
up there.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
You had them call from MLB bro phone. Was that
a batphone? Was that an MLB bro phone?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Not to know?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
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the diamond discuss all the biggest headlines in Major League Baseball.
In order to do so properly, we had to bring
in a real baseball expert, a guy who, surprisingly, Rob
has more love for than Aaron Judge, none other than
the man, the mitt, the legend himself, JR.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Gamble was that was?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
That's that bella?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I've only known JR since he was in college. Well,
I don't know, is he twenty twenty six or fifty six?
I don't know? How are you Jr?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Real quick rob who brings in more money to the
website Aaron Judge of j R.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Gamble? Oh wow, that's a gamble.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Let's go. Well.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Gamble is the glue, but I love it. He's the glue.
But Judge is the money maker. I love it. He's
the money maker. We love Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
All right, So it is mlbbros dot com JR. Gamble
here with the I Cup. I got three baseball topics
and because Jr. Is the star of the segment, against
the first crack at every single one.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So let's get to it, Jr.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
With injuries and general ineffectiveness derailing their pitching staff, the
Mets have decided to go with the sixth man rotation
down the stretch, including three rookies.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Here's an easy.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Question for you with the Mets currently sitting three games
up on the Giants coming into Tuesday night. Is if
foul or fair to say the Mets will not nt
make the postseason?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
I mean, I think the Mets have enough to hold on,
you know, and hold off the San Francisco Giants for
that final wild card spot. I think naturally a six
man rotation is not ideal, and you don't you know,
you don't know what you're going to get with the rookies.
But the Mets have, you know, a tendency are going
and using the same arms over and over again, even
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when they aren't pitching well like but nigh recently, So
it benefits them to have options, especially because those young
arms look like they have a lot of potential, so
you might grab lightning in the bottles from one to
two of them. I think at this point, Fellas, I'm wrong.
Every rotation from the Dodgers to the Yankees to the Tigers,
they have huge question marks when it comes to playoff performance.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm gonna say it's fair, it's a ball.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, I just like like they just got blow blowed
out against the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
They just throw out Yes, but they're eighteen games ago,
and you're asking rookie pitchers to pitching big games in
Sceptown Bruh and pitching in and Augainst. So your first
time up and the first time around is cool, and
you might be able to fool some people, but man,
they might make adjustments and you might wind up losing
with some of these kids. You can't bank on three
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kids getting you into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I say it's fair.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yeah, I'm going fair, And I'll tell you what I'm
just gonna add to. I'm well, j I'm gonna tell you.
I'm gonna add to everything that you guys were just saying.
But look, the issue is this For me, I'm looking
at the big series you have, right, It's one thing.
You got rookie pitchers, all right, we're playing in some
inferior competition. You got the Padres, we know they're fighting
for the playoff lives. You got the Phillies who have
obviously leading the division that have been have to have
really good.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Season, and then you got game lead over the Mets exactly.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Then you got the Cubs as well, who are right
there fighting and that the central there. So to me,
it's not just who's pitching who they're pitching against, and
they got some tough series coming up, so I think
it is fair, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Question number two?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Question number two Fouler fair Jr. Gamble with the odd
couple Jr. With eighteen games left to play coming into Tuesday.
The Big Dumper Cal Rawley the greatest nickname in sports,
currently just seven ding or short.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Of the Big Six.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
To oh, lest we forget, only six guys in baseball
history have ever hit at least sixty homers, and half
of them have been linked to the juice. So JayR
here's the question, foul or fair to say that if
Raleigh gets to sixty, he should automatically win the AL MVP.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Rob won't like this, but fair, It's a fair ball.
I mean, listen, it's hard to hit sixty homers and
not win the MVP Award. You said it yourself, Bons
McGuire so sug judged Maris Ruth and maybe the Big Dumper.
So if you can get over the fact that Aaron
Judges batting eighty points higher, slugging almost one hundred points higher,
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and has an OPS almost one hundred and seventy points higher,
then why not? I mean, home runs aren't the measure
of greatness. But Raley's a catcher, which enhances his accomplishment historically,
no doubt. And if he could get to sixty, then
that would be a feat. You know, that's hard to
get judged the MVP, even with all his accolades, It'll
be hard to overcome. Attach you with sixty homers. I
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think foul.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Sow ball.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I just I don't think that you could just off
of sixty home runs. There useduld be a player called
Dave Kingman who almost hit five hundred home runs, and
I'm convinced he would have hit five home runs. He
would have been the first player with five hundred home
runs not to make it to the Hall of Fame
because he batted two thirty five as a hitter, and
there's more to go with it. The Mariners are struggling
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to even make it into the postseason despite this year
he's had. The batting average is the war, it's the ops.
If you're this new baseball writer and you all these
numbers matter, then I don't know how you're gonna look
at that and then just say it's just the sixty
home runs.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's gotta be more than that. And if he was
batting decent, he's not bad.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He's not betting Aaron Dredge a bet one hundred almost
one hundred eighty points more than them.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That's a ton of.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna go. This is a tough one,
but I'm gonna go. It is foul.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Despite you look at the numbers, and to go back
to Riley's doing also the RBI, being the leader there
and playing obviously great defensively as a catcher as well.
But I just think with Aaron Judges, I think we're
gonna look at the run that he's on and you
just this six seven year run that he has been
on has been insane, and you expect to slump to happen.
It really hasn't. You expected to just become us just
as simply a slugger. That's not the case. He's batting
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for average as well. So I think when you're looking at,
especially in a sport that is so historical, I think
they're gonna put in the context while this man had
a not saying Barry Bonds, but I'm saying that kind
of run, and I think it'll be appreciating. Last point
what I argue about with rob in football and maybe
even basketball. Is not the case in baseball because I
think it's they have two different leagues, fatigue and an MVP.
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If this was NFL, I'd be like, yeah, they'd be
all right, man, And Aaron Judge has enough give to
somebody else. In baseball because you can separate and have
different leagues, I think Aaron Judge can still win, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
We said the best for last JR. Gamble here with
the odd couple Fouler fair Jr. With the Dodgers losing
no hit bids in the ninth twice in a span
of three days. Crazy, we are now dangerously close to
ending the MLB season without a no hitter for the
first time since two thousand and five. In fact, Jr.
The number of no knows has gone down in each
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of the last four seasons. So here it is foul
or fair to say the days of multiple no hitters
a year are officially over.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Fair, it's a fair ball. But naturally why would that
be the case. It's weird discussing things like no hitters
when nobody finish his games anymore. But I'll go into
the new question. I mean, it's surely not because guys
are hitting the ball more right that we won't see
no hitters because they're making less contact they ever have
and probably in history, have gone down because of the
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feat that's usually executed about one dominant pitcher who goes
nine innings so it completes the game. There's no fitting anymore.
So the pitcher who gets a no hitter is usually
an elite, elite pitcher who's among the best in the sport.
We have had a couple of no hitters by committee,
but who cares about those? Those aren't real, so they're
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even less likely now. You can't expect two or three
pitchers to be in no hit zone all at once.
That's not what a no hitter ever was, and that's
not what it will ever be. So no, you're not
going to see any no hitters anymore. As long as
we have started to pitch this pitch and left and
left and left innings. It's not that type of performance.
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It's for one pitcher to go nine.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, I say foul. That is a foul ball who
almost had to. I mean I was watching, you know,
like the home run that holiday hit.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I mean that that was as close as you can get,
and they allowed y'amamoto to stay in the whole game
right and throw the most pitches that he threw, and
I think managers will adjust on guys if you're pitching right,
not to take him out.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
He had a no hitter going.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It was the most pitches he had thrown since he
came to the United States, and they didn't balk at it.
And once he gave up the hit the home run, okay,
now you come out. But they lowed them to give
him a chance to get it. So I think there
will be no hitters.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I'm going fair. The reason I go fair, I mean,
it's just JR. Hit on so many different things. I
think what you're saying, Rob, I totally give it. I
just case so far in between. You have teams who
genuinely don't care. Like it used to be the gut instinct.
It used to be the love of the game. It
used to be that even managers wanted cool moments to happen, like, Hey,
I know this is a game, but this is a
cool moment.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Let's try to have X happen now.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Man, It's like nah, And it's not just them, obviously,
it's GM saying we don't even care. We're not even
looking at that. We're playing the long game, So I
don't think that happens. Priority changing sports all the time.
You can shoot, can be two for ten from three.
In the NBA, they say shoot another one, whereas that
would never be the case. Hey, how many strikeouts doesn't
matter as long as he hits a home run in baseball,
so priorities change. I don't think general managers and managers
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care about.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
No hitters anymore. That's valor fair. Appreciate you as always.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
How much young pitching talent there is in the big leagues.
I mean, it's unbelievable. Big You and I sit here
all the games. But don't you agree you and I
can talk about a little further here.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
J if anybody that could throw nineties, yeah you can
really pitch? How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It is about the heat?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
All right, thank you, appreciate it all right later, all right,
we got last call on the way eight seven, seven
ninety nine on five.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
If you want to go ahead and get off on
the kelvin and rip them, go ahead and last call.
They want to rip me just for your performance, man
was Washington.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Don't be mad because best don't Hey, don't be mad
because it was trash talking Rod third Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
It was like halfway, you know, like a sideways thumb.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I wish Monci was here because this is how to
hear you today. It's okay, man, I still listen. You
know it's funny. I still love you no matter what. Okay,
all right, okay, you about to call me? Please listen
all I love you got this spite. That's family, in
spite and despite, we still love you. Last call eight
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just you did know you literally did your Your blue.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Light was on, which mean the Michael was on? You
said your mic was on.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, my mic was off, Alex, there was a snaff
fool for you. Yeah, there was a snaff fool. Something
happened exactly. It's because we're on YouTube technical staff, Eliah.
You know, I wanted to get right to the football.
You know, it's football season. People care about football. That's
all that ship chatty and all.
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That's what it remember to blame someone you don't know.
I don't know who Lijah is exactly. Lines, you're taking shots.
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Also Last Call. If it didn't get a chance to
get in, you can still get in on last Call. Uh,
I'd like to have fun right there, that's right, Rob
g There was a lot of playing of the what
(01:31):
if game. I guess is that what I would call
it the what if game? And talking about Aaron Rodgers
performance against the Jets.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's right because yesterday, Rob Parker, you were celebrating Aaron
Rodgers performance like his name was Aaron Jedge.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean, twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Thirty two, four four touchdowns, no picks, nothing to sneeze
that in a win for the Pittsburgh Steelers against his
former team.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The New York judgepolitans, we'll get too saucy. I think
you'll get a little saw.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But one person who was not excited about what he
saw from Aaron Rodgers was of course an anonymous coach,
because you know, anytime they got some negative say.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It was always anonymous. Was that Robert Sola? Who it
might have been?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
There could have been but the athletics Mike Sandal, Friend
of the show, Friend of the show, Mike Sandal caught
up to a couple of anonymous coaches to get his
thoughts on the debut performances of several NFL quarterbacks making
their first appearance with a new franchise. So Gino Smith
obviously JJ McCarthy his first acted cala like goes down
the list. Aaron Rodgers, of course, though, is the biggest name,
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so we got the biggest feature. And in the explanation,
an anonymous coach who came away less than impressed with Rogers,
had this to say about his performance. Quote, he cannot
get away from the rush anymore, but he can move
in the pocket and deliver those risk flicks accurately with
or without his feet on the ground. Rogers, of course,
took four sacks, three other hits, including a couple that
(02:57):
were really jar jarring hits. The coach continues, what he
has to watch out for, though, is those risk flicks
they turn in interceptions later in the year. The four
tds what everybody sees. Nobody pays attention to the two
dropped interceptions or the fact that just four or five
years ago he'd go five games without one of those
end quote.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, my only issue is we could play this what
if game for everybody. I mean, I just like to say,
uh dropped it, or like like this is football, This.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Happens to everybody. Rob G.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Who do we have on the show from Football Focus,
Sam Monson.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Who said this was the year? What was the year
that they went to the Super Bowl? Rob G?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And uh said Patrick two years ago, Patrick Mahomes had
the most interception worthy?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Is that what it was? Deemed like? Turnover worthy?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And there's some stat where you know, a guy should
have caught the ball and they look at it and
say that should have in an interception or whatever, And
I guess you could sit there and play that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well. There were the two people drop. I've just watched
too many big games.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Did you watch Tom Brady against the against the Kansas
City Chiefs where he threw a game losing pick and
d Ford lined up off side.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Does anybody go back and go, oh, Tom Brady shouldn't
have won that Super Bowl because you know he really
shouldn't have. He threw a pick and d Ford lined
up like that happened. How about Matthew Stafford where we
think differently of Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So something Tart from the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You remember that Tart? That's a name boy, I know,
but you haven't.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Heard from him.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Rob g Did he ever play again? He was out
of the league after that game.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He Kevin, Do you remember, Yeah? I mean Stafford threw
the ball right to him. You could have thrown that
ball one hundred times, and you would catch it a
hundred times or at least not and he missed it,
dropped it like if the reaction, and it of course
opened the door for them to win.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So I'm just.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Sure interceptions, it's just a part of the game. You
still have to make plays. Yes, people are gonna drop interceptions.
Sometimes people are gonna throw interceptions. Sometimes he's forty one. Yes,
do you expect him to be as agile as he
was before?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
No, and he did.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
He got sacked, was a three or four times. Four times.
You're gonna get sacked. He can't get He used to
be elusive. You remember, Oh my god, you better not
You better not rush on him, because he would he
would make you miss. I remember he made people miss
at the goal line. You know that used to do
a couple of moves and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But I don't know. I just think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
A the what if game in the NFL just doesn't
do anything for me. I just think there's too many
circumstances or scenarios.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That you could do that. I just talked about it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The kicker Santo, So if he kicks the field goal
and you know what I mean, that might have changed
the game, and you wouldn't be talking about JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
We could just go on and on and on.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
You're gonna be shocked to know that I actually agree
with your sentiment. Reason I say that is Aaron Rodgers,
if for nothing else, if one thing you could say
about his career, He's not a turnover machine. Aaron Rodgers
doesn't turn the ball over for call it twenty years now,
however long it's been officially, so I'm not overly worried
about him in the turnover machine. I mean last year,
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I think he had eleven interceptions, which is high for
him given the history. Secondly, the man is forty one.
If there's gonna be a slight decline, it's gonna happen
to a forty one year old, so I don't expect
him to look like twenty eight, twenty seven thirty year
old Aaron Rodgers. So I'm okay with that, and you
gotta make plays to win.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
What I would be more interested in is the conversation
of what he started with. When you talk about the pressure,
and we saw it now Kayler Williams is nowhere near
the career of Aaron Rodgers. But what pressure does right pressure.
When you get to a quarterback, they give you an example,
Jared Goff. Jared Goff is the highest most efficient quarterback
when he's not pressure in the NFL the last couple
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of years. When he's pressure rock he drops the twenty eighth.
So when you can get pressure on a quarterback, they change.
Some of the best can handle it, some of the
best can see it in advance. And so I will
be interested to see, as you mentioned, if they keeping
teams can get pressure on Aaron Rodgers. Say, Hey, to
your point, he's not. He used to be really mobile.
It's not as moub as he used to be. Still,
maybe trying to check that Achilles. I know it's been
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a year plus. Let's get pressure on him. We'll see
how he handles that. Also, I'm looking at this. Can
the Steelers more than Aaron Rodgers? I think Aaron Rodgers
is gonna be efficient? Do I think he's gonna throw
four touchdowns every game?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Do I think he's gonna have horrid games?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I think Aaron Rodgers is going to be efficient. Can
they get a running game to support him? Because they
get a running game, they're gonna be in business. And
I worry about that because they didn't have a running
game last year and they had beggar backs, they had Harris,
they had, you know, ability to run.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's what we kind of had banked on the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
If they can't get a running game and you put
Aaron Rodgers in a position where you're down and he's
forced to pass, now here comes that that pressure because
pinning our ears back, we're going at him. We know
he has to pass. I don't think Aaron Rodgers can
go and win you games.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So why didn't that happen against the Jets Because because
they weren't running. The Steelers weren't running the ball, so
why couldn't they have because the Jets we talked about it.
In fact, it was one of the big points you
always brought up.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
The Jets defense ain't what we thought it would be
last year been been and so we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Did that like three years ago. Everybody thought, oh they
got a Super Bowl, the res Ryan was coming through
the door.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But they haven't been good for a couple of years.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
So that defense on paper, you're in the Jets and
you just think of defense. If that haven't been good,
they haven't been great. So Aaron Rodgers took full advantage
of that as he has he's capable of.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He's a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And also, if I'm the Steelers, I'm looking at this schedule,
Rob and I'm saying, listen, NFL game is hard.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't care who you're playing. But Daggett, we got a.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Decently favorable schedule. You got the Seahawks, you're hosting them.
They're not world beaters. Then you got the Patriots, again
not world beaters. And then you go to the Vikings.
I would expect that to be a difficult one, could
be a loss, but that's a tough game. Browns defensively,
they're gonna be solid, they're gonna be good, but you'd
say we got a chance. It's gonna be a divisional game.
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Miles Garrett's gonna go crazy, but you feel like we
got a shot in that one. And then you got
the Bengals following that. So again, defense is not great.
You can pay me put up some points. Finally you
go to the Packers, then you go to the Colts.
My point is they've got a stretch where if they
can find a way to get a running game, defense,
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defense can be what it's supposed to, because you're not
supposed to let Jordan Justin fields go crazy on you.
And that offense running the ball as well, almost four
hundred yards, they can have a decent start. So that's
how I would be viewing these things if I'm the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Again, they can't be behind, because I don't believe Aaron
Rodgers is built to come from behind it this stage
of his career.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, they behind in the Jets game. Actually don't remember,
they were down by two touchdowns. I don't think he
is built to google that for to sustained season. I
just don't think that's fair to ask of him at
forty one years old. But they were down two touchdowns
on the run, and I don't think you can see.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No running game.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
No, nobody's saying you cannot do that, but I don't
think anybody is.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
They got Yeah, they got the fumble kick return and
got the ball back for them.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That's called football, yeah, right. So what I'm saying is
it doesn't mean that you're going to get a touchdow.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
They have to be able to use the clock up
and again, I think he is going to be, at
best a really good game manager, which is perfectly fine
for how they view themselves.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Manager, he can still throw the football. Game manager means
you're just I.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Think it's exactly what he wants to me.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
No, no, no, game manager is you can make some plays
here there. I don't need you to go for three
eighty you know, four touchdowns regularly, game managers a buck
eighty two hundred and ten. We moved the ball, got
a third down here there. We obviously run the ball.
But did that's a just you don't hurt us, You
don't call turn the ball over a lot. I think
that's a that can be a compliment if their defense
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is what they think it is and they get a
run game. His whole thing is have to hurt him.
Russell Wilson started off white hot. Then he started to
be a part of the issue, started to turn the
ball over, started to hurt them, started to make Aaron
Patson they couldn't run the ball. That's what I'm saying
all these things because you can't put it on Russell
Wilson at this point his life. I don't believe you
could put it on Aaron Rodgers as much where he
(11:33):
is his career. So that's what I'm saying. If they're
built to be him, to be a glorified game manager,
they can be all right, But I don't think. I
don't like their roster offensively right now. We'll have to
wait and see his Week one, but I don't know
if that if that roster is as good as they
would hope it is going to be as they go
down this season throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But Aaron Rodgers, I don't think he's turn. We have
a bet.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Don't be on their win total? Right we have at
remember what the bet is? Yeah, wasn't it? I said
that went over ten games? Ten games? I think that
was the number.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I don't we can find it. I'm down with that bet,
by the way, but I don't remember if exactly. Yeah,
Geordan's but we'll talk about one pair. Don't try to
sneak that on there. It was Rob g was Jordan putting? No,
Jordan's on that. You can put it on the Lions
one and I'll still give you the Jordan. No, you
didn't know, Look you do that now.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We could do that. We could do that.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But it's funny he didn't want he didn't want to
bet it before, and it's too late.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You're going to wait to suceedsons start to make a
bet on the Lions. Yeah, we already got a bet.
No I know, but you had a chance to make them. No, no, no, no,
I tried to do George, you wouldn't do it. No,
you did not know. We do. We have to know.
We did not. You want to microwave takes and one day?
Do you want to in a day? I did what.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I gotta gotta be a commercial break so you could
go in and tape it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do you want to in a day? Is that what
you're doing?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
That's the best part is all our stuff is on
YouTube too, so stuff is shout out to YouTube. By
the way, that stuff is already there. I wanted to
put some ORNs on that. Now I was confident about
the Lions making the postseason. I wanted to put some
jays on that. You wouldn't we made it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He made you anyway, gave you a Jordan's bet.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Let's make a Jordan bet on the uh on the
Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Why you said that you don't think they were emphatic
by Lions? No, but why won't you make that bet?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Because I'm emphatic about the Lions making the postseason?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, you are emphatic about them.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
No, but you said that they made a mistake sided
Aaron Rodgers that they don't have They can't run the.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Football, can't the defense. Why wouldn't you take that ten.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Night emphatic about that one? I'm emphatic about the Lions.
That's the one I want.
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at about six or minutes or so. Robin I taking
a few phone calls Aaron Rodgers are folks who critical?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Uh, people overreacting from his good game playing the what
if game?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Yeah, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Take some calls.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right, Chris in California, you're on the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
What's up, Chris?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Going on?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Fellas?
Speaker 8 (16:54):
How are you?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
I'm good? How are you guys doing excellent?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Are you kidding? All good?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
All good? Hey?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I had a question. I was just thinking about it.
I was driving home from work. Uh, I think he
had a great game. I think he was last season.
I want to see him go out, you know, with
with a good season. But I was just wondering, I
wonder how many guys are from that Jets team that
he was a part of on defense, because you know,
number one defense goes against number one offense. I wonder
(17:22):
how much she saw or kind of new tendencies of
some of these guys and maybe that helped him out
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I don't I don't know know what, Chris.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Somebody brought that up, and I can't remember who was saying.
Is who says that he probably knows more about their
defensive scheme than probably most quarterbacks, you.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Know, in any situation. When you get a guy appreciate
the point, that's a great point. I mean, you get
to go in there, you know their schemes, they're they're
they're kind of the philosophy of the defense.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
That's why the Patriots cheated.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean, like like when people like you could say, oh,
Tom Brady didn't know. But if the coaches know what
the tendencies are on the defensive signals that there head up,
you're a head off on what plays you're going to call.
You don't go you're not stealing signed for no reason.
You're stealing because it can help you if you know
what's happening.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
If I can save my quarterback having to think, and
for Aaron Rodgers, maybe go, oh, I know that. For me, okay,
I know what they're doing there, That absolutely helps, without
a doubt, that would help it anything. And you have
the familiarity with the team, a player organization that can help.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Andre in Massachusetts, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What's up, Dray, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Listen.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
In terms of Aaron Rodgers, if he can put in screeches,
you're gonna have to get him trained. But listen, he
had a good you know, I think we might have
a little bit of buyers remorse here with these owners
and the scouts. Excuse me, not the owners, but the scouts,
thinking about you could have got Aaron Rodgers had you
wanted to take a high risk, high reward bet. That's
what the Steelers did. And everyone always said it was
(18:47):
never about the talent. It was always about his ability
to buy in the team to stop worrying about his
podcast or his Q rating or you know, all of
the subliminal stuff, but just focus on football. And that's
what the Steelers appear to have created, that to situation
where he's bought in the team and he's doing what
he needs to do and not worrying about.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
All the extra stuff.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
And so if that's the case, then the Steelers can
be in the hunt in the AFC. Nobody's saying that
they're world beaters, no, but they're going to be a
tough team that can show well in that division and
possibly get a first round buyer home field advantage, and
then it's going to be, you know, it's going to
be nipping tuck with them going forward. So I don't
think that we need to have anything being critical right now.
(19:25):
I think that it should be more in terms of
what the Steelers' potential is and what they could possibly do.
That that needs to be the prevailing narrative. Thanks taking
the call.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thanks you appreciate that dog some puppy chow or something.
How about Ax in New York. You're on the couple
of Fox Like.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Oh my god, guys, I'm so mad. I am so
angry right now, guys. Aaron Judge to his three hundred
and fifty ninth home run the pass, you'll be there
for the fifth spot all time on the Yankees home
run list.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
The game was tied to to All of a sudden,
it's eleven to two.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
The Tigers are killing the Yanks. This is absolutely embarrassing.
I think I'm done, Rob, I think I'm done going
to the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Man, it's so bad, Alex, come on, it's just one game. Stop.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
I know you were gonna say, come.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
On, man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
We got eighteen left. We got eighteen games lest night.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
If you look at it, what you call the Blue
Jays are losing. I didn't lose any ground of that.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I want to Rob.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
You know, I went to my first World Series game
last year, and I want to go to another one.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And you know what does this have to do with
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
I'm moving face, Rob.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Please call on MLB Bros time hang hang in there, Alex,
hanging there.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I just saw of call. I didn't know that was
up there.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
You had them call from MLB bro phone. Was that
a batphone? Was that an MLB bro phone?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Not to know?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Hey, shot out to you. Thank you for the calls.
We appreciate it. File affair with j R. Gamble coming
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Speaker 3 (20:56):
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That ball is it was a big week in the
big leagues.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Who's a Who's a five? Believe?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Is it foul? Or is it fair? And now from
mlbdbro dot com here's JR. Gamble.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
That's right, it is Fowler fair. Here on the a
couple of Fox Sports Radio. Second, when we go around
the diamond discuss all the biggest headlines in Major League Baseball.
In order to do so properly, we had to bring
in a real baseball expert, a guy who, surprisingly, Rob
has more love for than Aaron Judge, none other than
the man, the mitt, the legend himself, JR.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Gamble was that was?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
That's that bella?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I've only known JR since he was in college. Well,
I don't know, is he twenty twenty six or fifty six?
I don't know? How are you Jr?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Real quick rob who brings in more money to the
website Aaron Judge of j R.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Gamble? Oh wow, that's a gamble.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Let's go. Well.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Gamble is the glue, but I love it. He's the glue.
But Judge is the money maker. I love it. He's
the money maker. We love Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
All right, So it is mlbbros dot com JR. Gamble
here with the I Cup. I got three baseball topics
and because Jr. Is the star of the segment, against
the first crack at every single one.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So let's get to it, Jr.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
With injuries and general ineffectiveness derailing their pitching staff, the
Mets have decided to go with the sixth man rotation
down the stretch, including three rookies.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Here's an easy.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Question for you with the Mets currently sitting three games
up on the Giants coming into Tuesday night. Is if
foul or fair to say the Mets will not nt
make the postseason?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
I mean, I think the Mets have enough to hold on,
you know, and hold off the San Francisco Giants for
that final wild card spot. I think naturally a six
man rotation is not ideal, and you don't you know,
you don't know what you're going to get with the rookies.
But the Mets have, you know, a tendency are going
and using the same arms over and over again, even
(23:22):
when they aren't pitching well like but nigh recently, So
it benefits them to have options, especially because those young
arms look like they have a lot of potential, so
you might grab lightning in the bottles from one to
two of them. I think at this point, Fellas, I'm wrong.
Every rotation from the Dodgers to the Yankees to the Tigers,
they have huge question marks when it comes to playoff performance.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm gonna say it's fair, it's a ball.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, I just like like they just got blow blowed
out against the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
They just throw out Yes, but they're eighteen games ago,
and you're asking rookie pitchers to pitching big games in
Sceptown Bruh and pitching in and Augainst. So your first
time up and the first time around is cool, and
you might be able to fool some people, but man,
they might make adjustments and you might wind up losing
with some of these kids. You can't bank on three
(24:13):
kids getting you into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I say it's fair.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yeah, I'm going fair, And I'll tell you what I'm
just gonna add to. I'm well, j I'm gonna tell you.
I'm gonna add to everything that you guys were just saying.
But look, the issue is this For me, I'm looking
at the big series you have, right, It's one thing.
You got rookie pitchers, all right, we're playing in some
inferior competition. You got the Padres, we know they're fighting
for the playoff lives. You got the Phillies who have
obviously leading the division that have been have to have
really good.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Season, and then you got game lead over the Mets exactly.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Then you got the Cubs as well, who are right
there fighting and that the central there. So to me,
it's not just who's pitching who they're pitching against, and
they got some tough series coming up, so I think
it is fair, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Question number two?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Question number two Fouler fair Jr. Gamble with the odd
couple Jr. With eighteen games left to play coming into Tuesday.
The Big Dumper Cal Rawley the greatest nickname in sports,
currently just seven ding or short.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Of the Big Six.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
To oh, lest we forget, only six guys in baseball
history have ever hit at least sixty homers, and half
of them have been linked to the juice. So JayR
here's the question, foul or fair to say that if
Raleigh gets to sixty, he should automatically win the AL MVP.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Rob won't like this, but fair, It's a fair ball.
I mean, listen, it's hard to hit sixty homers and
not win the MVP Award. You said it yourself, Bons
McGuire so sug judged Maris Ruth and maybe the Big Dumper.
So if you can get over the fact that Aaron
Judges batting eighty points higher, slugging almost one hundred points higher,
(25:48):
and has an OPS almost one hundred and seventy points higher,
then why not? I mean, home runs aren't the measure
of greatness. But Raley's a catcher, which enhances his accomplishment historically,
no doubt. And if he could get to sixty, then
that would be a feat. You know, that's hard to
get judged the MVP, even with all his accolades, It'll
be hard to overcome. Attach you with sixty homers. I
(26:11):
think foul.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Sow ball.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I just I don't think that you could just off
of sixty home runs. There useduld be a player called
Dave Kingman who almost hit five hundred home runs, and
I'm convinced he would have hit five home runs. He
would have been the first player with five hundred home
runs not to make it to the Hall of Fame
because he batted two thirty five as a hitter, and
there's more to go with it. The Mariners are struggling
(26:40):
to even make it into the postseason despite this year
he's had. The batting average is the war, it's the ops.
If you're this new baseball writer and you all these
numbers matter, then I don't know how you're gonna look
at that and then just say it's just the sixty
home runs.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's gotta be more than that. And if he was
batting decent, he's not bad.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He's not betting Aaron Dredge a bet one hundred almost
one hundred eighty points more than them.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That's a ton of.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna go. This is a tough one,
but I'm gonna go. It is foul.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That is a foul ball.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Despite you look at the numbers, and to go back
to Riley's doing also the RBI, being the leader there
and playing obviously great defensively as a catcher as well.
But I just think with Aaron Judges, I think we're
gonna look at the run that he's on and you
just this six seven year run that he has been
on has been insane, and you expect to slump to happen.
It really hasn't. You expected to just become us just
as simply a slugger. That's not the case. He's batting
(27:36):
for average as well. So I think when you're looking at,
especially in a sport that is so historical, I think
they're gonna put in the context while this man had
a not saying Barry Bonds, but I'm saying that kind
of run, and I think it'll be appreciating. Last point
what I argue about with rob in football and maybe
even basketball. Is not the case in baseball because I
think it's they have two different leagues, fatigue and an MVP.
(27:57):
If this was NFL, I'd be like, yeah, they'd be
all right, man, And Aaron Judge has enough give to
somebody else. In baseball because you can separate and have
different leagues, I think Aaron Judge can still win, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
We said the best for last JR. Gamble here with
the odd couple Fouler fair Jr. With the Dodgers losing
no hit bids in the ninth twice in a span
of three days. Crazy, we are now dangerously close to
ending the MLB season without a no hitter for the
first time since two thousand and five. In fact, Jr.
The number of no knows has gone down in each
(28:28):
of the last four seasons. So here it is foul
or fair to say the days of multiple no hitters
a year are officially over.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Fair, it's a fair ball. But naturally why would that
be the case. It's weird discussing things like no hitters
when nobody finish his games anymore. But I'll go into
the new question. I mean, it's surely not because guys
are hitting the ball more right that we won't see
no hitters because they're making less contact they ever have
and probably in history, have gone down because of the
(29:01):
feat that's usually executed about one dominant pitcher who goes
nine innings so it completes the game. There's no fitting anymore.
So the pitcher who gets a no hitter is usually
an elite, elite pitcher who's among the best in the sport.
We have had a couple of no hitters by committee,
but who cares about those? Those aren't real, so they're
(29:22):
even less likely now. You can't expect two or three
pitchers to be in no hit zone all at once.
That's not what a no hitter ever was, and that's
not what it will ever be. So no, you're not
going to see any no hitters anymore. As long as
we have started to pitch this pitch and left and
left and left innings. It's not that type of performance.
(29:45):
It's for one pitcher to go nine.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, I say foul. That is a foul ball who
almost had to. I mean I was watching, you know,
like the home run that holiday hit.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I mean that that was as close as you can get,
and they allowed y'amamoto to stay in the whole game
right and throw the most pitches that he threw, and
I think managers will adjust on guys if you're pitching right,
not to take him out.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
He had a no hitter going.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It was the most pitches he had thrown since he
came to the United States, and they didn't balk at it.
And once he gave up the hit the home run, okay,
now you come out. But they lowed them to give
him a chance to get it. So I think there
will be no hitters.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I'm going fair. The reason I go fair, I mean,
it's just JR. Hit on so many different things. I
think what you're saying, Rob, I totally give it. I
just case so far in between. You have teams who
genuinely don't care. Like it used to be the gut instinct.
It used to be the love of the game. It
used to be that even managers wanted cool moments to happen, like, Hey,
I know this is a game, but this is a
cool moment.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Let's try to have X happen now.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Man, It's like nah, And it's not just them, obviously,
it's GM saying we don't even care. We're not even
looking at that. We're playing the long game, So I
don't think that happens. Priority changing sports all the time.
You can shoot, can be two for ten from three.
In the NBA, they say shoot another one, whereas that
would never be the case. Hey, how many strikeouts doesn't
matter as long as he hits a home run in baseball,
so priorities change. I don't think general managers and managers
(31:06):
care about.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
No hitters anymore. That's valor fair. Appreciate you as always.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
How much young pitching talent there is in the big leagues.
I mean, it's unbelievable. Big You and I sit here
all the games. But don't you agree you and I
can talk about a little further here.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
J if anybody that could throw nineties, yeah you can
really pitch? How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It is about the heat?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
All right, thank you, appreciate it all right later, all right,
we got last call on the way eight seven, seven
ninety nine on five.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
If you want to go ahead and get off on
the kelvin and rip them, go ahead and last call.
They want to rip me just for your performance, man
was Washington.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Don't be mad because best don't Hey, don't be mad
because it was trash talking Rod third Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
It was like halfway, you know, like a sideways thumb.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I wish Monci was here because this is how to
hear you today. It's okay, man, I still listen. You
know it's funny. I still love you no matter what. Okay,
all right, okay, you about to call me? Please listen
all I love you got this spite. That's family, in
spite and despite, we still love you. Last call eight
seven seven seven, I threw up in my mouth. I'm
(32:19):
just you did know you literally did your Your blue.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Light was on, which mean the Michael was on? You
said your mic was on.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, my mic was off, Alex, there was a snaff
fool for you. Yeah, there was a snaff fool. Something
happened exactly. It's because we're on YouTube technical staff, Eliah.
You know, I wanted to get right to the football.
You know, it's football season. People care about football. That's
all that ship chatty and all.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
That's what it remember to blame someone you don't know.
I don't know who Lijah is exactly. Lines, you're taking shots.
You're doing a great job on
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